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              outdoors last year said likins had told him that graduation would never again be held in goodman stadium i think in the past likins had poster children entertain crowd at the stage door by deana di dio senior news editor study any kind of moral implications of an invention valentin said the band loves touring because of the interaction with people if you and touring get along well to gether it's something hard to get out of your system they are continuously touring universities and clubs such as cbgb's performing songs off of their past records flower plower daisy chain reaction and tool of the man the band members also include j.e valentin on guitar and h.a kantoff on drums b w photo b\da vid j ba ker poster children play thursday night for a packed house at the stage door our time for money i we're giv i up our hours i to get paid and i then waste on i to keep us i occupied during the i of the time that i we're not working i marshack we to i have jobs our i social connections i are people us i who don't have pre i conceived notions we know their values marshack said the band spends a lot of time with each other and discusses issues such as the state of our society we seem to be locked in a mindset where any kind of adventure is good any new development is good and they don't the members who align them selves with the twentysomething gen eration signed to sire records after being on many indie labels accord ing to marshack sire records is more open to suggestions and gives the band more freedom than other labels they have been on it s very frustrat ing to make something and have someone alter it marshack said their new ep just like you will be out in a few weeks and in february their full length album jun ior citizen will be released their forthcoming albums reflect the free dom they have gained by signing with sire these new recordings that we have coming out are the closest we've got to getting what we want valentin said marshack said if you are happy with what you are doing you are always winning we're not trading the illinois-based poster chil dren arrived thursday night to per form original music to a packed audi ence at the stage door the band describes their music as post wave with no particular scene orsound r.n valentin guitar player and singer said the influences are so varied you have a disco song you have a cowboy song you have a metal song it's all over the place r.g marshack bass player said one of the purposes of post wave music is to confuse and create our audiences leave the building very confused but happy she said they come up to us and they have a quiz zical look on their faces and say wow and they have a big question mark over their heads retired professor emeritus dies by emily busch news writer please see professor page 5 from johns hopkins university in 1948 and became a geologist for the united geological survey at grand junction colo later the same year in 1952 ryan received his doctor ate from johns hopkins during ryan's tenure as chair man of the geological sciences de partment he witnessed and helped to institutionalize many changes in the geology department he had unbounded loyalty to the institution and the students said retired professor emeritus of geo photo courtesy of office of media relations j donald ryan 43 retired professor emeritus of geological sciences j donald ryan lehigh alumnus and retired professor emeritus of geo logical sciences died last tuesday at the age of 73 in his hellertown home ryan graduated from lehigh in 1943 with a bachelor's degree in geology he began his teaching ca reer as a graduate assistant in 1952 and eventually became chairman of the geological sciences department in 1961 he retired in 1984 after 32 years on the lehigh faculty ryan received a master's degree the brown and white tuesday september 27 1994 the sun will shine on class of 1995 all the lehigh news first vol 102 no 6 lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 by garth poorman associate editor please see grad page 5 and likins about where it would be held he just said this is how it's going to be likins is going to say he did this for the good of the students and come out of this looking like he is the good guy mautz said when in reality he should have done this a long time ago gayle said that likins decision put him in a difficult position it puts him between a rock and a hard place because the faculty and administration aren't interested in an outdoor ceremony because they have been less than successful in the past gayle said but it's our graduation not the faculty's so we should be able to have it where we want to patti ota vice provost and associ wishes of their classmates we were very persistent gayle said we came in with the mind set that we wanted an outdoor ceremony based on the suggestions we received from students and parents we tried to accommodate everyone because we are the only medium between the students and the administration gayle prepared a questionnaire last may that was sent to seniors over the summer asking their opinions on the site of graduation and the choice of a commencement speaker exact results were not available but gayle was told that opinions of seniors and their parents ran four to one in favor of an outdoor ceremony one of the main reasons both parents and students preferred an outdoor graduation is there will be no limit to the number of people each student for the first time in three years spring commencement ceremonies will be held outdoors julie gayle 95 president of the senior class announced this week end that a decision was reached be tween class officers and lehigh presi dent peter likins to hold the 1995 commencement ceremonies at mur ray h goodman stadium on may 28 last year graduation was held indoors at stabler arena and convo cation center angering many stu dents who disagreed with the deci sion and felt as though they had no say in the process gayle said this year's officers were determined to represent the insisted on an indoor graduation be cause it was the easiest thing to do mautz said from my understand ing last year there was really no dis cussion between the class officers it's our graduation not the faculty's so we should be able to have it where we want to julie gayle 95 president of the senior class vx : k:i : : ; : :^ ; â–  â– â–  can invite in the past likins had been reluc tant to entertain the idea of holding graduation outside the only out door graduation in the past 25 | years was in 1991 likins said i that decision was based on the i fact that it was the largest gradu i ating class in lehigh history likins was quoted in the i march 15 issue of the brown i and white as saying i de i cided then and there that i'm i not going to do this again likins was away at a con ference and was unavailable ol comment on why he is allow ing another outdoor graduation in 1995 chris mautz 94 one of the stu dents who unsuccessfully cam paigned to have 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