Brown and White Vol. 100 no. 27

              lehigh hosted the national wrestling collegiate association ah-star classic which featured top wrestlers from around the nation niimber one troy stelrter of lowa isjrt control of his match with shannyn gillesple of lock haven at 142 pounds stelner won the match 9-4 before a stabler center crowd of more than 3,000 see related article page a2o b&w photo by datm smfw tuition price is set in consid eration of all things tiefenbrunn said he also said all of the revenue is reviewed along with the cost of maintaining the buildings and pay ing the salaries of the people neces sary to keep lehigh running during the last three fiscal years lehigh has eliminated 5 1 million by reducing the number of pro grams and personnel tiefenbrunn said each vice president was re quired to make cuts in his own department either by laying off personnel cancelling programs or ridding the department of obsolete or unfilled positions the money was then reallocated to other pro grams to offset rising costs tiefenbrunn said another 1.4 million in cuts are expected for next year's budget there are many people work ing here who have been given no tice that as of july 1 they will not have ajob,"hesaid in addition there will be very faculty discusses pass-fail options see tuition page al l see pass-fail page al l one to 99 pass-fail this is what i feel will be brought to the faculty meeting said ken hoexter 93 president of the student senate another option is for pass-fail deans assistant professors and the registrar sets all bearings for lehigh s academics next semester all classes will be renumtered and the faculty is se riously considering prohibiting ei ther all students or only seniors from taking any course numbered by kristin cuscela assistant news editor two options were devised tuesday night at the education policy committee meeting held to discuss the pass-fail contro versy the committee which is made up off all of the college by mark filipps news writer lehigh s tuition will increase 1,050 next year a jump of 6.3 percent over last year's tuition lehigh s annual tuition increase has been dropping in percentage for the last several years according to james tiefenbrunn director of the budget office although the percentage in crease has steadily decreased over the past few years the absolute change has remained constant at 1,050 per year the tuition increase has been constantly decreasing ever so slightly for the past several years tiefenbrunn said next year's 1993-94 6.3 per cent increase in tuition will equal 1,050 raising costs to 17,750 the cost for room and board will increase 260 or 4.9 percent to 5,500 the raises bring the total amount for tuition room and board for the 1993-94 year to 23,250 an in crease of 6 percent tuition rises 1 050 jumps 6.3 percent blacks at lehigh grapple with racism ignorance by court harson news editor ryshan rispress 95 walked down a street near lehigh s campus when another see blacks page alo competition for qualified african american students is incredibly tough said bruce gardiner associate director of admis sions at lehigh there are more and more colleges competing for students gardiner said the competition for stu dents is one reason why lehigh s black population is comparatively small we can't just admit a whole bunch of kids not able to cut it academically he said student approached her when he looked up and saw rispress a few paces in front of him he cut across the street and continued walk ing on the other sidewalk rispress passed and the man crossed back the alienation that we feel on this cam pus is very real she later said rispress is a black student at a university where almost all of the student body is white at a time when colleges and universities are emphasizing diversity and competing for a small number of qualified minority stu dents lehigh is faced with the task of entic ing black students to a campus whose few blacks grapple with ignorance disrespect and racism black students constitute 2 percent of the student body at lehigh the picture is slightly better at comparable private institutions lafayette college's black population is 3 percent muhlenberg college 3 percent colgate university 5 percent and the uni versity of pennsylvania 7 percent gloria m bower university libraries rm 522 a fairchild/martindale libr no.ooba the brown and white vol 100 no 27 friday february 5 1993 electricity outage leaves lehigh in the dark lehigh university see dark page al l out any losses john ellis professor of history was showing a video to his class of about 30 students in maginnes before the power was lost ellis said it shows how dependent we are on technology he had to cancel class about 20 minutes early since he could not show the video ellis said that power was out for about 25 minutes in maginnes before phone service was not widely affected according to falasca he said that the phones have a battery backup which protects the phone's power for about one hour falasca said they needed to reset equipment though the response was varied across campus students in packard laboratory attended class on their normal schedule while at least one class in maginnes hall had to be cancelled the computer networks including the lan shut down but resumed service with by kevin kniffin assistant news editor asa packer and mountaintop campuses lost power for about one hour on wednesday afternoon disrupting some classes gary falasca director of physical plant said that the outage resulted from an accident during routine maintenance at the 69,000 volt sub-station on mountaintop some thing happened during maintenance on the relay falasca said but we're not sure whether or not it was bad equipment or the human factor falasca was at a meeting during the out age but said the power was out from about 2:30 p.m to 3:30 p.m on the lower campus he plans to place a full explanation on the computer network falasca said that some buildings such as the university center have 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