Brown and White Vol. 90 no. 36

              lehigh university brown and white lift-aimtt m vol 90 - nom bethlehem pa . tuesday march «. 1979 applications for steel posts placed by allied employees by ed fiedler thee are reports that at least 40 percent of the allied maintenance employees on campus applied for entry-level positions at the local bethlehem steel plant the steel company announced last month that it would be hiring about 200 people for entry-level laborer positions at a starting salary of nearly 8 an hour it's not serious enough to panic about william wood allied project manager said we are prepared in case anything would happen he said even if we lost the whole crew we would have a skeleton crew of replacements here within two days wood said those crews would come from other allied operations until the posts could be filled with new personnel wood said there is always a backlog of people who want the jobs considering the high starting salary and benefits package being offered by bethlehem steel wood said it isn't sur prising so many people from his crew applied for the jobs allied crew members earn between 3.80 and 18 an hour depending on position and length of service wood said the em ployees do get blue cross blue shield and sick pay but have no retirement plan he said that wiu come up during contract negotiations next year he added we don't pay below what anyone else is paying in the valley aside from the steel of course there's no way we could afford to pay the kind of wages they're offering wood said the chances of getting one of those bethlehem steel jobs are not too good a company spokesman told the brown and white more than 9,600 applications were handed out for the 200 positions while not all of the applications wiu be returned the spokesman said the proportion that wiu is expected to be high these were the first applications ac cepted for jobs at the bethlehem plant since 1973 and the first applications ac cepted for any employment at bethlehem steel since 1977 the spokesman said the applications will be computerized and applicants will be chosen from the list according to the company's needs the spokesman said interviews with chosen candidates are expected to begin in about two weeks report discloses women's ratio set by trustee policy although the university no longer has a formalized quota for women it is not clear that admission policies are free from restraint according to a report by the forum admissions subcommittee the report which was released friday said that one of the restraints is physical that there is not enough space in residence halls on campus to accommodate more women some of these constraints may also reflect policy preference for maintaining i t-high as the institution it has been in the pest with a largely male student population as such the subcommittee takes issue with the educational policy committee edpoi recommendation that the university develop new markets to increase ratio of men to women the report said there are very real constraints in having women in the university samuel missimer dierctor of admissions pointed out housing is a very real problem the committee can't overlook larry weitzner 79 chairman of the forum academic environment com mittee said that the committee hoped that current construction in the residence system could relieve some of the physical constraints missimer said although there are no formal constraints on admitting women to hard-ly working these workmen should be installing the phone lines next to maginnes hall in stead they seem more interested in hamming it up for the camera the sac is * looking into the possibility of inviting these men for a concert in grace hall far may flood of resolutions to face forum by steve samuelson at least seven resolutions will be proposed at the final meeting of forum ix tomorrow because of the large amount of business to be handled it is guaranteed that the meeting wiil be a two iay session finishing on thursday according to mike silverman forum vice chairman forum elections and the organizational meeting of forum x wiu be held in april silverman a graduate student said unlike other years we'u have a lot of business at the first meeting of forum x citing carryover from the committee work of forum ix of the many resolutions to be presented at tomorrow's meeting three could be controversial according to silverman major resolutions include a rec ommendation that the faculty defeat the proposal which would create six o'clock quizzes a separate resolution advising the faculty to re-evaluate the policy for the regulation of four o'clock quizzes in view of possible abuses of the system ; and a proposal to raise the fines for campus parking violations see story page 4 a resolution suggesting that the university hire a full-time equal oppor tunity officer may be presented to the forum tomorrow although it has not been passed by the student life committee or any of the forum's four standing com mittees according to donna wolchok 79 chairman of the student life committee silverman explained that if a resolution was defeated by a standing committee it can go around that com mittee to tbe forum within a certain time period according to a new change in the forum's by-laws four resolutions will be proposed by the student life committee wolchok ex plained that the committee is proposing two separate resolutions concerning four o'clock exams because members felt that there were two separate concerns to be addressed the committee is recommending that the facu!t v defeat the educational policy committee's edpol's proposal to add six o'clock exams on two days during the sixth and eleventh weeks of tbe semester according to wolchok edpol's proposal is ik c feasible because of possible conflicts with seven o'clock classes problems with the meal service handling students with two exams increased chances of having more than one major exam in one day and the fact that professors administering six o'clock exams would be required to work straight through the dinner hour the second resolution which advises the faculty to re-evaluate the regulation of four o'clock quizzes stems from academic advisor system criticized at edpol meeting by jane schwartz larry weitzner chairman of the forum academic environment committee recently criticized the university's academic advisory system ai a meeting of the faculty educational policy com mittee edpol the students advisor doesn't really advise he later said according to weitzner students take their required courses and choose their electives after talking to friends he added that there wouldn't be as many add-drops if advisors knew the courses which they usually don't two years earlier in may of 1977 edpol leveled similar criticism spurred by a request from preston parr vice president and dean of student affairs a sub committee of edpol was formed to review the academic advisory system the subcommittee found that academic advising throughout the university appears to be anything but a success because of a lack of interest on the part of students and a loss of interest on the part of the faculty in the area of major advising there are cases where students do not complete graduation requirements and hold ihe university and their advisors liable there is also the problem that the academic advisor is viewed primarily as an academic bookkeeper both by himself and the student and therefore does no effective counselling the report also noted that many ad visors view the advising effort as having very low priority with respect to other academic demands on their time one of the proposals the subcommittee came up with was that the forum should study the question of student attitudes toward advising and recommend con structive changes in the relationships between advisors and students mark ellis associate dean of the college of arts and science who served on the subcommittee said the forum has done nothing in the two years since the report came out he stressed the need for the forum to conduct some sort of student poll to see how many students have grievances inside physicists reviewed p 6 college picks surveyed p 9 record setter profiled p 12 see women's page s see forum page if «.'_-. mill aa~~m •_»