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              closed as quickly as possible which certainly wasn't the case with the keys decker said the system's capabilities go beyond the blaring alarms said don o'shall access control and inventory coordinator it allows us to control who can go where he said and who can go where when every time a card is used a signal flashes on a computer screen at residence life missing cards are cancelled swiftly via computer after the office is notified o'shall said cards also can be tracked for instance if someone tries to use a dravo card to enter drinker the system will indicate it tracking people with the cards is only done in serious circum stances such as a crime when people who were in a specific area at a specific time need to be found lori hood 94 and bradley peterson 94 use key cards at drinker house by matt young brown and white news writer the days of the doorknob are over high-tech high-secu rity hardware installed on campus this summer is earning high marks from the lehigh community the use of the key card access system was expanded last spring the system has existed since 1989 in centennial ii and since 1990 in centennial i the computer-driven locks were installed on 23 doors in dravo drinker richards and brod head houses at a total cost of 230,000 nearly 1,400 students now use the key-card access system john decker hall director for richards said the new system eliminates the security risk of exterior doors being propped open when the door is held open for more than 20 seconds an alarm sounds the students made a conscious effort to get the doors the brown and white vol 99 no 3 friday september 13 1991 lehigh university b&w photo by jason stanford satellite dish on top of maginnes will receive transmissions from all over the world center allows students to tune in to world by wendy elias brown and white news writer construction of a new 300,000 lan guage lab and international media center in maginnes hall will allow students to tune into live french news broadcasts read german magazines and watch japa nese talk shows the international multimedia re source center opening this spring is a center for faculty and students interested in international studies such as audio video interactive comput ers and foreign language television ra dio magazines and newspapers the center also will enable faculty to easily incorpo rate audio and video materials into their courses a separate faculty room with two work stations will enable faculty members to organize course materials and preview instructional materials for lectures see satellite page 3 see aid page 2 freshmen receive benefits from new financial program by thomas wolfe brown and white news writer the class of 95 is benefiting from a new financial aid program which is aimed at providing full financial assistance for every accepted high school student lehigh has been competing with schools who have been meeting the full need of all of their students said patri cia boig director of admissions we never had enough money it was a high enough priority that we needed to ad dress the issue the lehigh university board of trus tees plans to raise 115 million for the program by 1997 according to financial aid officers william stanford director of finan cial aid said without some financial aid program we might see a significant drop in enrollment stanford said 1,246 students from the class of 93 were offered admission but lehigh was unable to ofer financial aid to 364 of them of these 364 only 58 en rolled lehigh has been admitting stu dents but denying financial aid to about 350 applicants per year both stanford and boig acknowledged that this admit-deny pattern was creat ing an unattractive situation the question was how much do we need to take care of that admit-deny group stanford said the answer was 1.2 million in additional aid for this year according to stanford administrators asked the trustees to address the problem and they came up with a scholarship endowment plan a goal of 115 million was set the funds david pankenier foreign language chair said once faculty learn how to exploit the instructional potential of multimedia the availability of this new resource is likely to transform the way we teach foreign languages as well as other disciplines the center will be a four-room com plex on the fourth floor of maginnes and will be available to students and faculty it will be equipped with a variety of instructional technology and materials new card system is right on key see cards page 2 < a hi a vi u 2 a i gltikia mm ocwtr university libraries fairchilo/mafitinjalc llefi ng.ooba things that make you go hmmm page 7