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              please see scholars page 6 ing the panhellenic and the interfra ternity councils said,"l think that more people should get involved in this election it costs 100 but it is really very important the walk began at the top of the hill at the pi lambda phi fraternity the students congregated wearing the official black and gold sth an nual good scholar sweat shirt the walk proceeded to the bottom of the hill past the sororities and then to pete's arena for free pizza and soda b&w photo by david j uaker many students participated in the good scholars walk sunday which raised funds for the american cancer society by akb asia khan news writer please see elevator page 6 said in between the fifth and sixth floor the elevator jerked up jerked down and then it came to a com "/ kept on having flashbacks of how close i landed to the edge of the shaft " brent lynch 97 plete stop instead of waiting patiently in the elevator to be rescued highleyman and lynch assisted each other in getting out the inner door opened to ex a recent malfunction of the brodhead house elevator has many residents concerned about their safety on the night of oct 25 two students became trapped inside the elevator when a malfunction caused it to stop in between floors the two students forced their way out of the elevator doors called for aid and then leaped to safety brent lynch 97 and locke highleyman 97 both brodhead residents were in the elevator when it stopped we were taking the elevator from the first to the sixth floor after waiting a while for it highleyman pose a wall of concrete we could see people under the crack of the sixth floor door so then we started yelling to get their attention to help us out he said two witnesses who wished to remain anonymous found the in cident to be amusing at first not understanding the seriousness of the situation at first they be lieved someone was making a practical joke but soon realized people were in trouble lynch said we saw a latch to the fi fth floor so we opened the outer door manually and locke slid out first while i held the door open then i got out after we got out we realized that there was a the brown and white all the lehigh news first lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 tuesday november 8 1994 student skill decreasing lehigh grades inflating vol 102 no 16 by mac lean guthree news writer lehigh students may feel a little cheated some of their high school friends may attend colleges that have abolished d's and f's from their grading systems or they may have drop add periods that last an entire semester but lehigh students can take comfort in the fact that grade inflation has permeated lehigh's grading system • • • no need to panic it's not rampant enough to cause faculty and administration to toughen up and issue 100 a's a semester for each of lehigh's three colleges some professors indeed feel they have re laxed their grading standards to fit today's lehigh students according to some professors this genera tion of collegians is not as high a caliber as students who graduated from the university two decades ago please see inflated page 3 donald davis chairman of the department of mathematics said there are many profes sors in the math department who think lehigh students are not quite as well prepared as they used to be this alleged decline in incoming students skills has led many professors throughout the university to make their grading policies more lenient say we give 20 percent a's in a calculus class now and we gave 20 percent a s 1 5 years ago davis said then that means we are giving an a for a slightly less degree of knowl edge than what was required 15 years ago some math professors would like to main tain the grading standards that once existed i'm afraid if we did it completely that way we would not be getting very many a's and we'd be getting a lot of d's and f's davis said keith schray professor of chemistry agreed bsi w photo by da vi d j ha ker dave udell 95 watches as suzanne tullo 95 weaves through the cones during late night at lehigh's roller blading fun saturday night good scholar election sponsors walk contestants raise funds for cancer research by randi fleishman news writer students who do well in school have more to look forward to than happy parents good jobs and high self-esteem they can also work to wards winning the good scholar election the good scholar election spon sored by zeta psi fraternity offi cially began sunday as those partici pating took part in the good scholar election campus walk the primary goal of the walk was to raise addi tional funds for the competition all proceeds from the walk and the good scholar election will be donated to the american cancer so ciety through the lehigh valley unit cancer society which is committed to cancer research each student must have a 3.5 grade point average in order to participate most of the students participating represent specific organizations on campus more than 50 organizations had representatives at the walk although there was a 100 en trance fee it did not appear to thwart participation in the event christine massey 95 represent students trapped inside elevator news 1-8 j world news briefs 2 u tj^c .*\ r hr *""*,&' midnight breakfast 7 f fasf '' *" a v fme network security breach 8 l . \ v scienceßriefs 10 j **; ■ « field hockey wins title 20 - ■— women's basketball 19 football lehigh beaten by delaware 45-29 see sports page 20