Brown and White Vol. 86 no. 46

              lehigh university brown and white mum •■:•.■■:: . ■:■'.■:■:'■■• : ■■■ vol m — no m mmwrn bethlehem pa tuesday april 8 1f75 nine-week drop period passed at faculty meeting by jo fineman the faculty passed a motion creating a nine-week uniform time period for course withdrawal by freshmen and up perclassmen at yesterday's faculty meeting the period for dropping courses is thus extended from seven to nine weeks for upperclassmen and shortened from 12 to nine weeks for freshmen the original motion presented by forum chairman george krauss and chaplain hugh flesher forum trustee representative changed the drop period for upperclassmen only it was amended to include freshmen the intent is to provide more time for the evaluation of student performance before a decision has to be made on withdrawal krauss said the seven-week period for upperclassmen has created ' difficulties since some students have not received any type of evaluation of their performance by the end of that time he added i feel the student has every right to get input on making a decision about dropping a course krauss said ralph lindgren head of the division of philosophy asked is there any hard evidence showing what william e stanford arts majors facing tough job market by sally velthaus it is predicted that the number of liberal arts graduates nationwide will exceed one million by 1980 up from 368,000 in 1960 despite a shrinking job market for liberal arts majors according to eugene seeloff of the university placement office the job market is not good for arts majors according to seeloff who along with richard fisher of bethlehem steel and james e cassidy of sears roebuck & co addressed approximately 25 people at a panel discussion on career op portunities for liberal arts majors held april 3 seeloff who tagged himself the bearer of less than good news called the aid applicant total highest ever by lew goldstein the number of upperclassmen applying for financial assistance for the 1975-76 school year is the largest in the univer sity's history according to william e stanford director of financial aid stanford attributed the increased cost of attending the university a revision of the college scholarship service standards for parental contributions to college costs and the current economic situation as factors which have caused the substantial in crease in the need for financial aid the approved tuition increase of 250 coupled with a room and board increase of 50 per student pushes the comprehensive resident cost for 1975-76 to 5,350 ac cording to stanford the result has been in the last two semesters krauss replied there is no hard evidence i speak for a general concern coming from the forum the committee on the standing of students the reigistrar and students robert mills chairman of the ac counting department asked the faculty to vote against the motion because we don't really have hard evidence that the present rule is a serious disadvantage to faculty or students the original motion was while the board of trustees have appropriated a substantial increase in grant funds from operating income stanford said these will be offset by higher needs more applications decreases in corporate and foundation support and a reduction in federal aid stanford said that the majority of students now receiving financial aid will be asked by the committee on un dergraduate financial aid to work during the 75-76 year to supplement the aid they are receiving when asked whether working would take away necessary studying time stanford indicated that studies done at indiana and michigan state have shown that students have at least 8-12 hours of free time per week in no way would working to sup plement a student's aid have a negative effect upon his or her's studying con ditions he said stanford said he sent a letter to all department heads on march 10 asking for an expansion in the number of campus jobs available for needy students the academic deans are acquainted with the situation and have expressed a concern to make opportunities available for students by the april 25 response date he said however stanford noted that he would not know whether additional campus jobs would be made available to students until all responses are in we expect to get an increase in job offerings for next year said stanford which hopefully will make up the dif ference for students receiving propor tionately less aid with more and more major industries laying off full time help the situation for summer employment in the bethlehem area for summer school students doesn't look encouraging according to stanford it looks like we might have to create jobs on campus to meet the current demand some of the summer jobs available to students are working in the cafeteria taylor gymnasium linderman library the civil engineering laboratory the marine geotech laboratory and the ad missions office stanford said that an idea which he termed discriminatory was proposed to the financial aid committee the proposal asked that all students not receiving financial assistance should not be allowed to work for extra money on campus jobs the economic situation is not so deep that we would resort to this idea as a means of curing our financial aid situation stanford said berman talks to commence this thursday dr marina v.n whitman former member of the council of economic ad visers will speak here thursday and friday as this year's berman lecturer in economics on thursday she will present a public address entitled economics and the new realities at home and abroad at 8:30 p.m in packard auditorium she will also hold a press conference at 10:00 a.m in the studios of channel 39 this conference will be aired by wlvt-tv at 10:00 p.m on monday april 14 dr whitman is distinguished public service professor of economics at the university of pittsburgh where she has been a member of the faculty since 1902 she was a member of the council of economic advisers from march 1972 until august 1973 the only woman to have served in this capacity during her stay here she will also conduct a technical seminar open to the marina v n whitman fall 74 housing shortage worsened by rh 1 1 delay by effie combias this is the second in a series on rh-11 and rh-12 the fall of 1974 brought with it a problem for the university — not enough space to house all the students the residence halls office was forced to solve a major dilemma one important reason for the housing shortage was that the three units of residence hall 11 rh-11 were not ready for occupancy by the start of school unexpected difficulties caused the delay but james tiefenbrunn assistant director of residence halls said earlier that he had not been made aware of the situation until after july in addition 1,040 freshmen were ac cepted for the fall about 50 more students than the admissions office had expected to matriculate at the university of these freshmen 980 were non-commuting students about 80 more than the university had rooms for the admissions office uses a per centage system in estimating how many students accepted by the university will acutally enroll but the system proved innaccurate in 1974 room had to be made for the extra freshmen because the university guarantees a residence to any freshman who want one the students who were the last to notify the university of their decision to matriculate were the most seriously inconvenienced said peter shurtleff assistant dean of residence for example three of them were assigned to smags units in saucon valley until room could be found for them on campus this posed a transportation problem until the students were relocated in converted study rooms that were ready by sept 6 foreign and transfer students found it impossible to get into university housing tiefenbrunn said this situation created a special problem for the foreign students who were unfamiliar with the area and did not know where or how to find housing in town he added several foreign and transfer students who arrived late were placed in bethlehem's ymca according to preston parr vice president for student affairs until housing on campus or in town could be found the residence halls office anticipated that some of these students eventually would be placed in campus housing which usually becomes available when some of the students assigned to dormitory rooms do not show up however a greater per centage of students than usual checked in and this worsened matters in addition space had to be found for 80 out of the 88 students who had signed up for the uncompleted rh-11 and who had requested temporary housing in residence halls six of the other students moved into see arts page 5 see shortage page 9 see faculty page 10 see marina page 5