Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 43

              by carolyn milhiser brown and white news writer after 19 years of service and approx imately 400 wedding ceremonies for lehigh graduates university chapla in hugh flesher has accepted a posi tion as dean of the chapel at smith college mass beginning august 1990 in his announcement of flesher's departure lehigh president peter likins said flesher has touched the lives of many members of the lehigh family including my own fami ly as well as generations of students faculty and staff he said i will miss his advice and experience but i understand his desire for new beginnings and wish him all the best in his new position although flesher regrets leaving he said he looks forward to a larger amount of resources with which to work at smith smith has four times the budget as lehigh and three assoc iate chaplains he said flesher said he will miss the lehigh students the most they are good kids he said there is nothing like seeing an 18-year-old trying to discov er a whole new world marsha duncan vice president for student affairs said we plan to continue some of the wonderful things hugh brought to lehigh such as the chaplains's film series and his invol vement with student groups we will begin a search for a new chaplain immediately flesher who is the longest-serving chaplain in the university's history is also a full professor in the department of religion studies flesher teaches two courses each semester on aspects of world relig ions the old and new testaments and religion in the arts norman girardot professor of relig ion studies and former chairman of the department said hugh is truly someone who embodied in very spe cial and unique ways the ideal of a university as a place that strives to unite spiritual intellectual and cultur al values his presence will be sorely missed in the department and throughout this university during flesher's career at lehigh he became involved in student groups such as the forum and the human see flesher page 3 the brown and white vol 97 no 43 tuesday april 24 1 990 lehigh university greek week loses traditional events by danielle levison brown and white news writer traditionally the end of the spring semester is marked by the excitement of greek week which began saturday the traditional bed races chug-off and greeker-eating contest have been modified eliminated or substituted however the bed races which were moved last year from the hill to the murray goodman campus have been temporarily removed this year the first move was made because of the danger that existed particularly in allowing the race to be run around dead man's curve on the hill the latter change has been implemented primarily due to the lack of student participation when the race was held in saucon valley according to bob robeson dean of greek affairs robeson said there was no real intent to take them away only to have them in a safe and controlled way jeff goldberg 92 submitted a proposal to hold the bed races next year on this side of campus but not on the hill the proposal has been approved and as long as the other remaining factors go as planned the class of 1994 will see the return of a long-time tradition another abolished event is the chug-off competition see greek week page 4 bethlehem celebrates earth day b&w photo by sponge the annual farmhouse bash heralded the coming of spring all day saturday happy tree climbers get a better view of the festivities 65 stands that offered informa tion sold goods and showed videos about saving the rain forests recycling pollution alternate energy sources and other environmental issues in addition to volunteers trying to raise public aware ness business representa tives presented booths to sell and advertise environmental ly safe products such as wood waste in 1982 to 50,000 cubic yards in 1989 kreichelt also explained the recyclable nature of steel each year only one-fifth of steel cans are recycled also it is very easy to separate steel out of the solid waste stream because of it's magnetic pro perties he said trees were planted around sand island as part of the earth day activities there were also several activities for children to enjoy including see earth day page 5 tion it would be closed for the day representing bethlehem steel tom kreichelt answer ed questions and announced steps the company is taking to decrease waste production he said the amount of residual waste placed in beth lehem steel's landfill has dec reased sharply from more than 300,000 cubic yards of chaplain flesher to leave lu in fall burning stoves and deter gents one booth demonstrated the difference between tap and filtered water when a certain solution was added to show the amount of chlorine in bethlehem water the color was dark yellow the booth attendant said if a swim ming pool turns this color after the addition of the solu by naci korzay brown and white news writer sunday's sunshine and warm temperatures graced the 20th earth day celebra tion on sand island attended by thousands of city residents bethlehem and local organ izarions had been preparing for the event for the past four months there were approximately life style nutrition section starting page 9 inside news three generations of holocaust survivors share their experiences as part of yom hashoah page 2 news a cedar crest professor lectures on the history of the ku klux wan page 3 sports men's lacrosse team loses to bucknell's bison extending losing streak page 16