Brown and White Vol. 93 no. 10

              lehigh university brown and white vol 93 - no 10 215 861-4184 *:.:....â–  y..yzy-y^y'y^.y^<m bethlehem pa friday october 2 1981 y-4 : : .::':\ .:*..: _;*_":-:=::;-_:_--;-: f -_-'->_:_:_:â–  r ' e : - _-_:-::--: . t r t v _ r^i?r+yzy : ryr.yzy-y y,4';::r stage band to kick off today's coed celebration by bruce flynn everyone m the university community has lent a helping hand to make all-university day a reality according to assistant dean of students roger watkins residence halls council rhc president rose torielli 83 said that it will be great for the faculty and administration to get together with the students m a more relaxing and enjoyable atmosphere watkins added that he hopes the celebration of the tenth anniversary of coeducation at the university will bring the lehigh community together m a festive spirit and become a regular event at the university the university stage band will sta rt things off at 3 30 p.m and play until 4 30 from sto6p.m a renaissance band will play m front of packer chapel steps the band will play medieval and renaissance music and will also provide the setting for the blessing of the hounds from 8-8:30 p.m the augmented seven singing group will perform followed by the american chord exchange barbershop quartet which will perform from 8 30 to 9 p.m finishing off the evening from 9 p.m to 1 a.m will be a street dance on the uc green sponsored by women and the women's task force featuring steppin out all-university day will also provide myriad types of entertainment m the form of games and booths group games of tug-of-war and anything goes relays will be held m front of maginnes hall between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m twenty-seven booths and games ranging from a dunking cage to a breakfast m bed booth will be open from 5 to 9 p.m along library drive clowns and magicians will also perform during the lan sunshine the clown will makefaces smilebetween 5 and 7 p.m while dapper dan the magic clown will put on a magic show from 6 to 9 juggler bob good the master of bounce will entertain the crowds from 7 30 to 8 30 p.m the blessing of the hounds will begin at 5 30 p.m on the chapel steps the ceremony will be based on a medieval tradition blessing all the local dogs on st hubert's day as a symbol of renewal and a symbol of fraternity with people whitcomb said chaplain hugh flesher will perform the ceremony with the help of the renaissance band all fraternity and other dog owners are encouraged to participate and dog biscuits and medals will be given to all participants whitcomb added the mustard and cheese theatre group of the university will do improvisations m the form of a street theatre starting at 4 30 p.m university day is being sponsored by the sac rhc ifc panhellenic council forum provost's office dean of students office women and the women's task force proposed rare book sale draws faculty outcry by scott cagan while the proposed selling of the uni versity s rare book collection has trig gered reactions from members of the university community vice president uul provost arthur humphrey says ihat much ol lhe current reaction is unwarranted i'm flabbergasted that this has become an issue humphrey said this has become an issue belore it's an issue . the university is considering selling a portion oi its rare book collection to finance a planned addition to mart library vice president of planning erik ottervik m an address to forum xii sept 23 said the administration cur rently does not see any alternative to the sale of some portion of the rare book collection but he said that if any por tion of the collection is sold the items will not be among those important to the university's academic or research pro grams or that have some unique rela tionship to the school's or region's history humphrey stated that the university has made no definite plans to sell a por tion of the rare book collection and added that the faculty and rare book committee will absolutely be con sulted before any portion of the collec tion is sold he noted that david stam of new york's public library and other experts are being consulted on both the sale and m determining the value of the collection according to humphrey the only agreement that has been made so far was the decision to ask the board of trus tees for 50,000 to study possible design changes m the library addition plan humphrey said the addition currently will require 115 million to fund if the i'niversity decides not to sell rare books to finance the addition its cost would have to be cut to 8.5 million humphrey said this would necessitate a reduction m the library addition's size humphrey said humphrey said that one estimate ot the value of the collection was 12 mil lion which humphrey called just a wild guess anything said now is just spec ulation he said while humphrey says that there is no issue as of yet norman giradot depart ment chairman of religion studies said it's a problem of information and facts this is a procedural issue since appar ently the decision to propose the selling of the rare books was made without the consultation of the faculty " girudot added we are dealing with issues of governance and decision making at lehigh according to giradot the prop osal to sell the rare books will be pres ented to the board of trustees on oct 9 ross yates government professor and the chairman of the rare books commit tee earlier sent out drafts of a letter of objection to the sale of the rare books to the four other members of the commit tee asking for their comments and sug gestions according to edward gallagher associate professor of eng lish and a rare book committee member a final letter of objection was sent to university president deming lewis gallagher said according to humphrey yates letter to the president contained inaccuracies unfortunately he wrote that without knowing the facts it has misinformation m it " humphrey said when told what humphrey had said yates replied he'll have to do the explaining i don t know what he means " yates said that his feelings concerned the selling of the rare books were expressed m his letter to the editor reflects what he has said m his letter to lewis david lewis the department chair man of modern language said that the selling of the rare books is an issue of public image according to i_ewis there is a second issue involved that of the poor faculty-administration com munication the university can only function on a basis of partnership lewis commented another rare book committee member anna herz professor of mod ern language said that once it's done the selling of the rare books , it's done not everyone m the university com munity is upset with the selling of the rare books according to john tarduno 83 a student representative to the board of trustees there are two reasons why the rare books should be sold it will not only pay for the building but it will set up an endowment fund which will be used to purchase new books tarduno said if the selling of the rare hooks is the only way of funding it the building then i'm m favor of it very few people use the books or are aware of their existence he said deadheads bring first sell out show to stabler arena by all ysa scott things were a little tense for a while said richard fritz director of events at stabler arena about the grate ful dead audience last friday night with 6,500 fans appearing and no tickets available there is bound to be lots of loitering in the past fritz continued we have almost sold out a number of shows including journey and yes but we never actually sold out a show these people did anything they could to get into the concert fritz said they were showing up with tickets from grateful dead shows m buffalo new york two years ago people had to be ejected for presenting xeroxed tickets untorn rolling stones tickets and mcdonald's coupons they tried to pass anything alumni charged in phone fraud computer theft by nicholas king a university graduate was among five persons named by a statewide grand jury last tuesday m connection with a telephone fraud and computer theft scheme the grand jury recommended that charges be brought against david lab lon 80 for theft of services theft by deception theft by unlawful taking theft by receiving stolen property conspi racy and possession of intercepting devices according to patrick boyle press secretary to the state attorney general these combined charges could carry a maximum penalty of 28-year pri son terms and fines as high as 60,000 he added boyle said that from the test imony the grand jury heard joblan stands accused of receiving one corn ai though you may not be able to read this text without the aid of a lantfiage t?vl a valuable piece m the university's now controversy rare book collection see dead page 7 see 1980 page 7