Brown and White Vol. 100 no. 35

              a calm and calculated gerald graff and a fiery and controversial dinesh d'souza de bated midticulturalism feminism sexism and racism in packard lab auditorium on tuesday graff opened by saying that we needed to move toward constructive reform in edu cation he accused d souza of using scapegoats b&w photo by ken hoexter gerald graff and dinesh d'souza see debate page 6 withmodemthoughtandculture graff spoke of reknowned writers such as james joyce that were not valued in their time and only gained acceptance later norms and standards are determined by humans not divine or natural law graff said it doesn't follow then that all stan dards are bunk rather they are debatable because they are formed through struggle see chemistry page 5 ting our hands up for the students the average size of the classes in this 30-credit program are 10 to 30 students the same as the class size normally the difference is that there are 17 individual sites where stu dents in the same class are located there is a site coordinator for each of these separate sites who is in charge of materials and proctors the exams through modem technology the distance students and the students at lehigh have started to interact with each other in their abnormal class environment in a few years this type of arrangement will not be so rare the technology is constandy growing and expanding motter said we're exploring and expanding the interaction between the class room at lehigh and the distance stu dents motter said microphones in the classroom allow distance students in the corpo rate room to hear the questions stu dents at lehigh ask a sophisticated television studio with advanced cam eras and graphics magnifies images by amy mizoras news writer every monday at 4 pjn em ployees at companies such as 3m exxon corp kodak general electric co and alcoa leave their laboratories and sit in front of the television no they aren't watching oprah they are distance stu dents earning a master's degree in chemistry from lehigh these stu dents are part of the lehigh com munity on paper however they are separated from the campus in many ways as a simultaneous broadcast of the class as it is being taught at lehigh reaches the students in locations such as arkansas loui siana and colorado a tollfree num ber is flashed on the screen distance students who have questions during class call this number when they do they reach george motter a distance learn ing technician he screens the call to make sure it isn ' t a wrong number or apizza order and then notifies the professor motter said it s like put distance students study chemistry at lehigh see sporting page 5 the renovations of bethlehem sporting goods on fourth street by christine stackpole news writer bethlehem sporting goods on fourth street is undergoing expansion and reno vation during these precarious economic times business is growing and this is part of a plan of continuing growth said george kline store owner . kline offered hard work not good luck as the reason for the success that has led to this expansion kline said he will put a team conference room a trophy room and merchandise sample rooms on the second floor of the store the store is currently located on the first floor of 21 3 w fourth st and the second floor is presently empty the extension of bethlehem sporting goods will separate the team from retail business to focus more on retail kline said with the removal of counters from the retah part of the store kline said the expansion will also amount to more mer chandise a future project to computerize the entire business also involves use of sec ond-floor space the screen printing trustee emeritus dies at 80 courtesy of office of media relations ivor sims see sims page 6 by kevin kniffin assistant news editor lehigh corporate trustee emeritus ivor sims 33 died in his bethlehem residence on march 1 at the age of 80 sims used his bachelor of science degree in business administration to get a job for the bethlehem steel corp he began as a general clerk and junior buyer but retired after 40 years of employment in 1973 as executive vice president in 1959 he was made an honorary mem ber of beta gamma sigma lehigh s honor ary business fraternity sims was elected to lehigh's board of trustees in 1964 as a corporate trustee he served in this position until 1975 in 1970 lehigh awarded sims with an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1990 lehigh presented sims with the eugene g grace award for distinguished service and continuing support of the university sims received the decoration of knight commander of the liberian humane order of african redemption from the liberian government in 1965 he received an honor ary doctor of laws degree from the univer sity of liberia in 1967 he was director of the international brown and white lehigh university vol 100 no 35 friday march 12 1993 multicultural education questioned in his book illiberal education which ar gues that admissions policies based on ethnic representation and a curriculum and faculty formed by race and gender categories weaken educational standards graff said it was time to move beyond the name calling d'souza's blame game at best pro voked a needed debate said graff who is the head of the english and education de partment at the university of chicago graff said d'souza's real quarrel was by lydia randolph news writer students explore unusual activities for spring break page 7