Brown and White Vol. 100 no. 11

              assistant news editor before a crowd of more than 250 supporters lynn yeakel pennsylvania democratic candidate for the u.s senate made her final allentown area appear ance on friday before the election on nov 3 people keep calling this the year of the woman yeakel said in her speech at van bittner hall in bethlehem and i say it's about time we need a shift in government from the predict able to the possible she said paul mchale democratic candidate for state leg yeakelvania rides into bethlehem see walk page 6 it would be wonderful if the students at lehigh could take part in organizing this event said marie cristy health educator at the lehigh student health center the walk is sponsored by the group fight ing aids continuously together in march 1986 a small group of lehigh valley resi dents and business people responded to the aids epidemic by creating fact a grass roots organization committed to raising funds to support services for those infected or af fected by the aids virus today fact has more than 600 mem bers and a governing board of directors a non-profit organization fact has raised and contributed more than 350,000 for indi viduals in local aids-related programs prizes will be awarded for individual ac complishment including a chance to win a by danielle bergamo news writer aidswalk a 10-kilometerfundraising walk will take place on sunday oct 25 funds raised will benefit one of three non profit aids service organizations aids outreach aids services center or latino aids outreach mario alverez of latino aids outreach said holding such events are increasingly important for the people affected in the soci ety as a whole the walking route begins and ends at allentown's west end park 16th and turner streets an alternate five-kilometer route is an option for those who wish to participate in the walk but are unable to complete the entire 10k route volunteers will be placed at all busy intersections to assist with street cross ing aidswalk fund raiser to benefit aids centers b&w photo by jon siqler thursdays at drown carol ann everest from university of alberta canada discussed sexual imagery in early british literature last week lehigh university the brown and white vol 100 no 11 tuesday october 20 1992 deficit of 2.1 million estimated for 92-'93 see budget page 6 by eric kirchberger news writer lehigh has accumulated a deficit of just over 2 million for the 1992-93 fiscal year almost half of which has been attributed to an overestimation of graduate student credit hours according to the james tiefenbrunn director of the budget office the lower number of graduate student credit hours accounts for about 1.2 million of the 2 1 million dollar shortfall lehigh s total budget for the year is 1 82 million the number of credit hours taken by graduate students is down and as a result the revenue to the university is down tiefenbrunn said part of the shortfall is also attributed to a lack of outside funds which adds more than 350,000 to the deficit we have in the budget a need of gifts for financial aid tiefenbrunn said we did not receive as many cash gifts as we had hoped for orplanned on a group called the president's council consisting of vice presidents and deans has been formed to try to solve the budgetary problem the council will be cutting funds to other areas in order to solve the graduate student shortfall we must end the fiscal year in balance so that by june 30 it will be settled tiefenbrunn said tiefenbrunn said these actions are merely short-term answers to the problem he said the long-term answer will be better planning on lehigh'spart because low graduate student enrollment could be a problem in future years we have to be planning for the possibility of low enrollment in future years tiefenbrunn said if it takes several years to see an increase in credit hours taken by graduate students then it won't be just one-time cutbacks an exponential increase in the deficit as a result of the graduate student enrollment is tiefenbrunn s main worry in 1991-92 the graduate student enrollment was down a little over 400,000 tiefenbrunn said we adjusted for that but it just got bigger see yeakel page 5 tslafure and lehigh graduate warmed up the crowd before the yeakel entourage arrived the campaign greyhound was double parked in front of van bittner hall with a yeakel vania tarp draped across its side john reck head of the united steelworkers of america whipped ihc socially and economically di verse crowd in a frenzy before introducing yeakel it's clear without hesitation reck said who represents the needs of pennsylvania's workers and b&w photo by robert gutman democratic senatorial candidate lynn yeakel addressed supporters in the lehlgh valley by brett mcpeak i y * " ■ •■■•■••■•■' : ■•■ ••■