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              vol 97 no 19 krishnan treasurer some of the elected officers also said the election had problems which contributed to poor voter participa tion lamendola said the process moved too quickly for the students to get to know the candidates senior class president rich verma explained that the prospective candid ates obtain a petition and must get 40 signatures to qualify to run for office next the candidates develop a plat form and have the opportunity to poster and campaign the office of the dean of students provides funding for the candidates so that every candidate has an equal budget verma said there is approx imately a two-week period for the whole process from petitioning to voting volchko said that this year's elec tion was not any less publicized than in previous years she said the senior class officers who are in charge of the freshmen election publicized the event equally see election page 5 freshmen say lack of publicity caused problems for election by robyn suriano brown and white news editor the freshmen election forclass offic ers on wednesday did not attract many voters because it was not public ized enough and the candidates were unknown to many of the students according to some freshmen approximately 150 freshmen out of a class of 1,114 voted in the election jennifer volchko associate dean of students said volchko explained that this number is not unusual in compar ison with other years the newly elected officers include jennifer gentile class president shannon swallow vice-president all ison lamendola secretary and ravi lehigh-lafayette sells out stadium alumnus reflects on new era for lehigh a much larger number of people looking to buy them than in the past many procedural changes have also been made to accom odate this excessively large crowd for example tempor ary fences have been put up around the field to ensure the safety of the players in addition the north entr ance gate to the stadium will not be open for spectator use due to the presence of the temporary bleachers players and officials will be the only see tickets page 6 first game between the two rivals in goodman stadium everyone wants to see this game said sterrett with the increase in season ticket sales obviously there is a smaller number of up-front tickets available lafayette has only receiv ed their standard ticket allot ment of 5,000 n0 more there are actually more tick ets available to lehigh stu dents for the game than ever before sterrett explained the problem of finding tick ets lies in the fact that there is by ted sabarese brown and white sports writer tomorrow marks the 125 th time lehigh's engineers will battle the leopards of lafayet te it will also be the first time the teams play in lehigh's murray h goodman stadium to many alumni this sold out match between the two long-time adversaries is a momentous event it marks the beginning of a new tradition remarked jos eph posillico 61 a former engineer linebacker and offensive guard posillico was also a major contributor to murray h goodman stadium and responsible for the build ing of the men's locker room at the stadium this will be a new and different experience for me i have many memories from taylor stadium when taylor stadium was knocked down an era ended but this game marks the beginning of a new era i am excited about it posillico said this game is expected to be the largest attended football match-up in the history of goodman stadium as well as the history of lehigh univers ity according to greg schul ze assistant director of athlet ics the stadium normally holds 15,371 people but the lehigh ticket office has added 2,000 tickets for temporary bleacher seats in addition to 1,000 standing-room-only tick ets the availability of these precious tickets has seemed to decrease even with the extra 3,000 added athletic director joseph sterrett attributed this to high er season ticket sales and the attractiveness of viewing the r n m i t • b&w photo by jason stanford during parents weekend a record-breaking crowd filled murray h goodman stadium the brown and white lehigh university friday november 17 1989 b&w photo by wes schwandt lehigh-lafayette pullout section pages 1 1 14 — ■ — — , ■ .. .