Brown and White Vol. 91 no. 28

              lehigh university brown and white 215-661-4164 vol 91 — no 28 bethlehem pa tuesday january 22 1980 tuition hiked 580 total cost raised to 7,200 by ed white tuition will increase by sbo for the 1980 81 academic year according to john woltjen vice president and treasurer the 12.7 percent increase bringing the total tuition charge to 6,190 annually was adopted at friday's meeting of the board of trustees residence hall fees will increase by 80 90 or 120 per year depending upon the living unit involved in addition dining service charges will increase by 90 an nually the total increases will bring the annual charges for most resident students to 7,200 for the next academic year the university began the budgeting process for the 1980-81 academic year during the first week of last month at that time woltjen said tuition would increase by at least 420 citing increased costs as a main reason for the projected increase one certainly realizes the increased costs that one must bear because of inflation woltjen said in a letter being mailed to parents of students president deming lewis cited inflation and rising energy costs as two of the major reasons for the increase in annual tuition and other fees lewis closed the letter stating we recognize that lehigh and all colleges and universities committed to high quality will be facing a challenging period during the eighties lehigh must maintain a strong position within higher education we intend to strengthen our role during the decade before us and know a high quality educational experience is essential for the excellent students attending lehigh university we're certainly trying to improve and maintain the quality of the university woltjen said we've done some significant things in terms of putting ourselves in a more competitive position with other universities in terms of salaries as well greater expenditures related to energy and a desire to maintain the university's libraries in as strong a position as possible ' also contributed to the increase he said the tuition affects the educational general unrestricted portion of the university's budget woltjen explained this money is used for academic and administrative expenses he added the increase in tuition is not as high as the average of 16 schools with which die university actively competes for students woltjen said the gap is widening between the university and the average increase of those schools he said for 1976-77 the university was 156 below the average increase for 197940 the difference was 279 he added we feel the spread may be maintained if not increased for 196041 woltjen said we purposely have been more con servative with the board rate hi the last few years woltjen said the last two yean it was not much greater than e three percent increase he added rivlin's salary tops in 77 lewis second with 74,000 by jim morrison ronald rivlin director of the center for applied mathematics was the highest paid university employee for the fiscal year 1977 according to internal revenue ser vice figures obtained by the brown and white rivlin received 75,076.63 in com pensation from the university and listed 5,868.67 in expenses his salary topped that of university president deming lewis who was paid 74,000.04 for the 1977 fiscal year however lewis listed 12,473.40 in expenses not including allowances for his house and automobile salaries revealed the salaries of the five most highly paid employees are reported annually to the irs by the university on form 990 return of organization exempt from income tax the return for fiscal year 1977 was requested by the brown and white under the provisions of the freedom of information act under this act such records are available for public in spection the 1977 figures show a change in the university's highest paid employee for the five fiscal years beginning july l 1970 and ending june 30 1975 the last times the brown and white obtained the irs reports lewis was the highest paid employee each year for the fiscal year 1974 he received 66,250.06 in compensation while rivlin received 63,732.22 rivlin was the second highest paid employee in each of those years after rivlin and lewis the next three highest paid employees are unchanged from the 1974 fiscal year return in 1977 albert zettlemoyer vice president and provost received 68,550.06 up from 58,250.00 in fiscal year 1974 elmer glick former vice president and treasurer received 59,022.77 in 1977 a substantial increase from his 1974 salary of 44,000.06 vice president for development paul franz was the fifth highest paid employee in 1977 receiving 51,000 up from his 1974 salary of 41,250.08 87 over 30,000 the 1977 irs form also revealed that 87 employees received more than 30,000 a year in salary from the university m fiscal year 1974 31 employees received more than 30,000 three firms received more than 30,000 for professional services to the university in fiscal year 1977 the firm of warner burns toan and lunde architects of new york city received 121,981.67 drinker biddle and ream attorneys at law of philadelphia received 39,491.98 and film maker robin miller of bethlehem received 34,178.20 miller made the film a little of asa packer for the university decisions . . . biw photo by shari komarow some students were faced with a decision that could prove tougher than picking a major — choosing a print to cover that empty wall or closet door the annual print sale was held in neville lounge last week new provost trades sun for snow v by jennifer wilson the running of a university is no turkey trot . its leaders must be of a certain sort — decisive yet open-minded firm in con viction yet adaptable for donald sawyer newly appointed successor to albert zettlemoyer the position of vice president and provost means being adaptable in his personal life as well as in his professional life after all sawyer has never partaken of one of those delectable delicacies of our little town of bethlehem — affectionately called greekers — but he said he is willing to try them he also said he's looking forward to the move east even if it means a few adjustments in his family's lifestyle including greekers in their daily diet won't be the only such adjustment for sawyer and his wife as a native californian sawyer said the heavy snow falls and cold winters will take some getting used to so far the only encounter the family has had with true-blue winter weather was during one of sawyer's sabbaticals in england during the academic year of 1962-63 sawyer was awarded a john s guggenheim fellowship for study at the university of cambridge in england that same year he explained england ex perienced its worst winter in 200 years also he said we don't have indians in the trees but it is the west out here california we have much less in the way of trees and hills — it really is the desert sawyer is currently a faculty member in the department of chemistry at the university of california at riverside where he served as both department chairman and dean of the college of physical sciences at first sawyer said i wasn't ac tually seeking a return to academic ad ministration i was content with my position as faculty member sawyer said he didn't actually apply for the position but rather was nominated by a former student of his james bahr , of easton bahr attends the same church as carey joynt professor of international relations who headed the provost search committee however after receiving a recom mendation for the position sawyer said he began thinking of the old aphorism nothing ventured nothing gained and began serious consideration of the idea i really didn't know much about lehigh sawyer admitted but after my first venture to the university i was tremendously impressed as to similarities between the two schools sawyer called the university and ucr surprisingly similar institutions by way of programs standards and even problems ucr's undergraduate student population of 4600 is very nearly equal to the university's as is the 25-30 percent graduate student population this smaller size is one aspect that sawyer said he finds beneficial in dealing with common problems both institutions have considerable strength in the sciences sawyer said and both project the quality of academic excellence sawyer said he is looking forward to the opportunity of having an effect on lehigh as well as being able to provide academic leadership with his installation as vice president and provost sawyer will become an in tegral part of the university — but he won't become a full-fledged engineer until he stumbles into broadway lunch for greekers at 1 a.m and learns to love wrestling see extra page 7 inside oraasnaw hhtm #* . - . trackmen p f 0