Brown and White Vol. 91 no. 45

              lehigh university brown and white 215-ml-4im vei.ii-^dj4fer bethlehem pa friday april 11 lftf miioiiiaiii > aitrti mil i -■-..--.•,■.■-■■■-,■• — ..^ ttnt1(w|)iagr prof essors retirement age may jump to 68 next year university president deming lewis will present a resolution at the april 17 board of trustees meeting that will raise the retirement age for tenured faculty from 65 to 68 for the period july 1 1980 to july 1 1982 the resolution says that faculty who reach age 65 during the next two years shall be continued on a full or part-time basis until july 1 after their 68th birthday providing he or she requests continuance and the voting members of his department recommend him or her nine months before « the person is scheduled to retire austin gavin executive consultant to the president said that continuance was not extended to people who will retire this year because their replacements have already been hired lewis's decision is a compromise from an earlier administration stand which would have left the retirement age at 65 several faculty members complained that the university decision to leave the retire ment age at 65 was unfair since the retirement age for all other employees in the country was raised to 70 in 1979 a special provision in the law excepted tenured faculty until july 1 1982 after that date the retirement age will be raised to 70 the proposal to raise the retirement age was drafted by the faculty personnel committee the personnel committee had been asked to look into the retirement issue after several faculty members brought it to the floor of a faculty meeting in december the personnel committee was supposed to report back to the faculty in february however at the february meeting the committee announced that it had brought a proposal to the administration the proposal it took to the adminis tration was to raise the retirement age to 68 it was this proposal lewis eventually accepted gavin said lewis accepted the proposal because it was a way of settling the dispute between the faculty and administration over the retirement policy in january a brown and white survey of professors retiring between now and july 1 1982 indicated that four professors john haight professor of history chuan hsiung professor of mathematics john van erde professor of modern foreign languages and robert williamson professor of social relations would be alex matturri sac to present frank zappa at stabler acc the first concert to be held in the stabler athletic and convocation center is scheduled for april 27 when the student activities council sac in cooperation with new jersey promoter richard cohen will present frank zappa cohen will have all financial respon sibility for the show john nersesian 80 sac concert chairman said if the show loses money it's his loss — if it makes money it's his gain nersesian said he sees the use of a promoter as the only solution to the sac's booking woes when it comes to ex pensive shows like zappa we just don't have the money to buy this kind of show he said the entire sac has 12,000 for the whole year that's horseshit nersesian said the total cost for the concert would probably run about 34,000 20,000 for the group and the rest going for various expenses such as lights and sound and a flat fee tickets are 9.50 and 10 but nersesian said he didn't know the exact reason for the two prices all seats are reserved and sales are going pretty well he added nersesian said the one thing that bothered him about the concert was that the stabler center staff who printed and distributed the tickets for cohen put the stabler not part of candidates plans by andy i eur kn the three candidates for the republican presidential nomination do not plan to attend the mock republican national convention to be held on april 19 in the stabler arena contrary to what was an nounced by the lehigh college republicans representatives for john anderson and george bush said their candidates will not attend marc holtzman pennsylvania general coordinator for the reagan com mittee said the former california governor plans to leave the state on april 16 but you can't rule out the possibility of him being there holtzman 82 is on leave from the university to serve on the reagan com mittee and is a member of the lehigh college republicans a spokesperson for the anderson campaign said she knew nothing of the convention stating the iiiinois representative will not be in the bethlehem area before the primary elections george bush will be in philadelphia and definitely will not attend the mock convention said kathleen dolan local scheduling coordinator for the bush campaign a surrogate speaker u.s representative james leach r-iowa will speak on mr bush's behalf she said pennsylvania governor richard thornburg also will not be attending the convention and neither will u.s senator richard s schweiker r-pa according to their respective representatives both were announced as guest speakers by the lehigh college republicans kim per rone 82 organizer of the mock convention said i've been under the assumption that the candidates will at tend and added that their schedules change up until the last minute i won't know who will be here until the day before the convention she said the purpose of the convention was to get lehigh some reputation let's face it lehigh is not a politically active school ,^ i alex matturri 80 president of the college republicans said they told us they would be here but that's the way politics goes u.s rep donald ritter r-pa will attend according to his washington office and will be the moderator of the con vention us rep robert walker r-pa will also attend according to his spokesperson clara terry terry said walker will be reagan's surrogate speaker walker will not be the key reagan speaker holtzman elaborated if reagan will not attend his wife nancy who is from the lehigh valley may speak flexibility is the name of the game holtzman said i'd lay there's a chance reagan may show up " candy chimple assistant to the state coordinator for reagan said at the moment reagan will be in los angeles on the 19th " in response to the publicity gives by the college republicans perrone said i did city man charged with the assaults of three students by linda pickens francisco ojeda 18 of 541 jackson st bethlehem was arrested by bethlehem police march 26 in connection with three assaults on university women according to eugene dax chief of campus police ojeda is currently being held in north ampton county prison in default of 10,000 bail charges against him include three accounts of indecent assault and one of robbery campus police are currently investi gating other assaults of women on cam pus dax said campus patrolman charles fosburg is handling the investigation and did much of the work leading to ojeda s arrest — however not all the women who were assaulted are willing to cooperate with the investigation dax said on march 24 fosburg and a student security staff member observed ojeda walking near lehigh pizza on broadway the student followed ojeda onto campus where he proceeded east to williams celestial seating inspired by a solemn atmosphere and two sodas this student gets some homework done in the university center mack bar installation of the spring o ea . see tickets page 8 see compromise page 8 see suspect page 8 see candidates page 10 inside little talent on tour p 5 non-book learning p 7 strike seven p 12