Brown and White Vol. 86 no. 39

              lehigh university brown and white 866-0331 vol 86 — no 39 bethlehem tpa.ttoesdayi march 4 1975 matmen sweep easterns seven champs 9 placewinners lead to romp by doug henning in one of the most incredible per formances in lehigh wrestling history the engineer matmen made a shambles of the eiwa tournament by winning seven in dividual titles and routing the runner-up host team navy by 62 points to win the team title for the first time since 1967 with one second and one third the engineers qualified nine to the ncaa's next week trailing navy by six points going into the semi-finals the solid seven plus marty lynn all advanced to the finals while navy could only win three of nine from there it was just icing on the cake as the team race was wrapped up in the consolations following the semi-finals there were many firsts in this tour nament the biggest of which was the engineers 172 point total which smashed last year's navy total of 134 the seven champions was another record breaking the old one of six held by lehigh in 1962 and navy in 1970 the winning margin was also the largest in history terry destito became the first double winner of the fletcher award for most eiwa points in a career and mark lieberman became the first lehigh wrestler to win the sheridan trophy for pinning mike frick capped a clean sweep of awards by winning the outstanding wrestler award for the second time the close to 3,000 lehigh fans in the crowd of 4,354 at the finals had something to cheer about right off the bat as lance leonhardt lynn frick pat sculley mark and mike lieberman don mc b&w photo by heck upset victory don mccorkets 7-4 upset of jeff simons in the 190 finals ruined the hopes of navy to salvage an individual championship team effort tops in the east — thad turner holds the team trophy after his team had won lehigh's 20th eiwa team cham pionship and the first since 1967 surrounding turner are the record setting seven champions that led the engineers to a 62 point romp over the runner-up team navy b&w photo by heck dinsmore opposes no-need aid by effie combias i don't think lehigh will ever go to no need scholarships because they will destroy the whole premise of our financial aid program said george dinsmore associate professor of civil engineering dinsmore was chairman of forum 111 which narrowly defeated a motion for no need scholarships if no-need scholarships were adopted they would have to be for all sports and academics according to dinsmore and not only for wrestlers lehigh's reputation isn't based on wrestling it's based on academic quality he said dinsmore said that the university is primarily concerned with academics and the quality of academic students if no need scholarships are ever adopted they should be used to attract top academic candidates he added but then we go into direct conflict with every other university he said adding that universities have agreed to give academic scholarships only on a need basis it would take us back to the shambles of earlier days if we have competitive bidding for scholars dinsmore said dinsmore said that he voted against no need scholarships and so did the faculty and students on forum 111 by and large the administration voted as a block in favor of no-need largely reflecting alumni pressure i presume dinsmore said however forum 111 agreed to set up a committee to examine the area of finan cial aid he added there should be a wider defeat of no need scholarships in the forum if they are brought up this year because problems with the issue have been clarified by time dinsmore said i understand their the wrestling department's problem but i can't buy their solution he said furthermore dinsmore said we've done so ex traordinarily well in wrestling this year that it may have undercut their argument the arguments for no-need scholarships may have made a better case for basketball this year he added two forum veterans departing in frustration by david arnesen two forum leaders have decided not to seek re-election the forum this semester has been largely a waste of time except for the work of three of its subcommittees according to richard boig 76 forum representative to the board of trustees terming forum v an awfully frustrating experience boig said he will not run for election to forum vi he said he intends to remain active but hot as a forum member the forum's lack of results is especially due to its inept leadership said boig in an interview with the brown and white friday boig said that much of the problem lies in the way students are elected to the forum forum student members are either elected by their respective college at large or from the graduate school often representatives do not think they are responsible to anyone boig said adding they have not been interested in meeting with students to discuss student concerns too many reps say they have no time he added boig supported senior class president thorn hirsch's proposal to the forum two weeks ago that forum representatives be elected by class rather than by college the proposal according to hirsch would increase forum representatives ac countability to their constituency the class because they would report to its representatives and officers several forum members have criticized the proposal of the forum self evaluation poll recently taken boig said he does not foresee that forum leaders will sit down and really assess their work and what they plan to do the forum isn't evaluating itself seriously he said because the body has not done anything this past year and does not now have any issues ahead of it with which it must deal richard petigrow 76 said he will not stand for re-election to the forum the course evaluation subcommittee should have been disbanded in september owing to a lack of student support said see boig page 8 see frick page 12