Brown and White Vol. 86 no. 12

              lehigh university brown and white . bethlehem pa tuesday october is 1974 fmmmz^^mmmm vol m — no 12 glick informs board of trustees arena construction to be delayed byeffiecombias construction of an arena in saucon valley will be postponed until more pledges are collected elmer glick university treasurer told fridays board of trustees meeting according to rich boig 76 forum representative to the board of trustees in other business the trustees discussed tuition the trustees made it clear that they understand and are extremely concerned about the problems involved with tuition increases boig said because of the 250 annual increases in tuition the character of university students is changing and the middle class students are being squeezed out according to lorna velardi 75 forum represen tative to the board of trustees hie trustees are aware that only rich students and students of scholarships will be able to attend the university she said to alleviate this problem the university will have to look into financial aid for the middle class stop having tuition in creases or look into other sources of in come i.e endowments " boig said w deming lewis university president said that the new century fund drive includes money to be used for en dowments according to velardi it was also noted that students are beginning to question the worth of a private school over a cheaper state school valardi said lewis said he is striving for a uniqueness at the university she said lewis said that 60 per cent of the money to run the university comes from tuition so the rising costs have resulted in the increases velardi said the trustees also learned that rh-n will be completed by jan 15,1975 and the contractors are no longer working on the basis of only getting part of it finished boig said the seeley g mudd building's com pletion date is september 1975 and con struction on the attached chemistry ii building is under way velardi said it was reported that construction on the field house is going according to business squeeze blamed on inter-college transfer by george now ack the current overcrowding in the business college is partially due to transfer students from the engineering and arts colleges and not due to the overenrollment of freshmen according to brian brock way dean of the business college last year there were 852 students enrolled in the business college and this year there are 926 however of 760 fresh men applicants only 100 were accepted the university has committed itself to 800 business majors and no more any additions are due to students from the other colleges changing their major brockway said the university is making attempts to alleviate the overcrowding he said last week the educational policy committee ( edpol passed a motion to limit business college class size which requires faculty approval before implementation brock way pointed out that maximum class size is 44 students for the undergraduates with an average class size between 20 and 30 in graduate courses 33 would be the average brockway said that students who need a course will have priority over other students i don't know how it will work he said adding it will be a lot easier for graduate students due to the difference in class size the current enrollment in the graduate school is 396 in addition to limiting class size there is a proposal for adding a wing to drown hall but not until 1980 or 1985 currently the business college has 36 faculty members this includes part-time teachers who are counted as a third of a teacher the teacher-student ratio is very deceptive brockway said he ex plained that the business college does not teach 100 per cent of university un dergraduates and in assessing teacher student ratio it should be for the entire university role evaluated for south side renewal by scott pennim an south side 76 a volunteer citizen group for south side bethlehem development has included the university in many of its redevelopment plans william r wallace chairman of south side 76 said last week that the university can play a vital role in the renewal of the south side wallace said the university could support the central business district through construction of multipurpose buildings these buildings wallace said could have academic offices in the upper ; levels and the university could rent the lower levels to south side businesses for too long wallace said the university community has stayed away from the south side by building in the central business district he said the university would be improving the ap pearance of fourth street and giving the south side more of the university corn carl rowan commentator to talk oct 17 distinguished journalist and govern ment official carl t rowan will speak in packard lab auditorium thursday oct 17 at 8 p.m the public is invited free of charge during almost 13 years as a correspondent for the minneapolis tribune rowan won numerous j ournalism award he is the only newspaperman to have won the coveted sigma delta chi medallion for three successive years once for reporting of national affairs and twice for foreign correspondence sigma delta chi is a national honor society for jour nalists rowan joined the kennedy ad ministration in 1981 as deputy assistant secretary of state kennedy appointed him to the united states delegation to the united nations and later named him ambassador to finland where he served as the youngest u.s envoy in the world with the coming of the johnson ad ministration rowan returned from finland to replace edward r murrow as director of the united states information agency after f our-and-one-half years in public service rowan returned to journalism in 1985 as a syndicated columnist for the chicago daily news the column is also carried by other american and foreign carl t.rowan mohier says new dorm unlikely harold mohier chairman of the university board of trustees indicated friday that prospects are dim for the construction of another residence hall complex and a scaled-down law school the board of trustees would probably not accede to any new demands for funds in terms of buildings mohier said in an interview between a series of trustee meetings mohier called the delays in the con struction of rh-11 disappointing but said he did not know why the project has moved at such a slow pace as for the construction of rh-12 to accommodate projected increases in undergraduate enrollment to 4,000 he said i do not think that's in the near-term plans mohier said he has heard about the overcrowded residence situation but added he did not know enough to judge whether another residence hall is needed or whether enrollment should be restricted in accordance with residence capacity i'm not in a real good position to comment on that mohier said don't get me wrong i'm not insensitive at all all i'm saying is that i don't have the background to say i am in favor or no i'm not mohier said he was not sure what a scaled-down law school would be like and doubted whether the trustees would spend the money for the law school any time soon in anticipation of the announcement to the trustees that the arena for the athletic and convocation center would be delayed mohier said i would guess that one of the problems are the dollars and i don't think any of us are going to gain very much ... if we lose our liquidity mohier said the trustees are pleased that the university is in an excellent stable condition he added i think we're all interested in keeping it that way and that means we don't over-commit asked why tuition must still increase in light of the university's 483,000 surplus last year mohier said next year it may be the opposite the budget approach is a planning tool and one thing you can be sure it's never going to be on the button mohier said when we look at patterns of tuition we look down the road and then we look at next year too mohier said the trustees are very harold 8 mohler see urban page 7 see brockway page 5 see writer page 5 see chances page f see trustees page 6