Brown and White Vol. 94 no. 45

              lehigh university brown and white lm-n0.45 bethlehem pa tuesday april 19 1983 215 861-41x1 business students request rescheduled finals by teresa kilcullen j letter describing the coming finals nedule as unacceptable and request ijachange was signed by juniors in the allege of business and economics and psented to registrar james wagner it week lie letter explained the four core arses for juniors in the business col ipare having their finals in the span of ihours management 269 and econom ic are thurs may 19 at 9 a.m and 1 j respectively and finance 225 and larketing 211 are fri may 20 at 9 a.m i lp.m respectively the university college of business t economics recommends that jun rbusiness students take economics 229 and management 269 together and that finance 225 and marketing 211 also be taken together thus it is highly proba ble that at least two if not more of these courses will be taken together in consid eration of this fact the present finals schedule is inexcusable and unaccept ble to expect students to perform to the best of their ability under these condi tions is absurd the letter reads the letter was submitted to the brown and whit and appears on page 7 eighty signatures were obtained from students who have at least two of the four exams said pete bayer 84 author of the letter i feel that this is an issue that needs to be addressed he said it's something that i feel strongly about that shouldn't occur we are here to learn a schedule like this is definitely detrimen tal to performing to our highest capabilities i'm not trying to be a radical bayer continued i understand there are cer tain restraints in scheduling and that the registrar cannot perform miracles but this is an unjustified group of exams i think we have a legitimate cause for concern wagner explained that once the finals schedule is published it is difficult to change because there are students that make airline reservations upon looking into the problem of the four business core courses being sche duled together wagner said it was found that there are only five students that have all four exams and that it is possible for these people to petition for make up however he stated that having two exams back-to-back is not considered out of line it's not an ideal situation but it faces everyone even three exams in a^two-day period is not considered out of line wagner said when the finals period was only eight days long there were evening exams and then students having three finals in a 24-hour time span would get an automatic make-up in one of the courses wagner explained however when the final period was expanded to 12 days and evening exams for undergraduate stu dents were eliminated there no longer forum oks sorority move reactions to plan favorable by michele levin hopeful we proposal opening saucon married students smags apart - to undergraduate students as a ing option and moving the three sor bites currently housed there to upper fatennials has received favorable factions from all involved bonniesolt 85 residence halls coun sißhc president said considering w a strictly administrative decision w have been passed down on this | s *. it the proposal is to the advan of residence hall students because 7 get to decide whether or not the sor ites move over she continued say s although the rhc would preferto put * sororities on the hill it is the stu nts choice and so it is fair wt said she believes that there will be ms who opt to move to smags specially tho.se thinking of moving off pus because smags is safer espe "% or women ** am quay dean of students p that the plan could be successful if we really promote smags as the great new opportunity that it is for undergraduate students the plan will work quay continued the program could be a great advantage to both sides undergraduate students get a new hous ing option and the sororities get to move over susy eckert 84 panhel president is also in favor of the plan i think having sororities on that side of campus will be a great asset to lehigh she said mimi judlowe 84 president of alpha phi agreed i am very pleased with this out come since it will not only help the sorori ties but also the lehigh community as a whole because it will promote interac tion she said eckert added now all we have to do is promote smags and show that the reason we want to move is not because we do not like it here but we feel we have to move in order to expand so that sorori ties will not have to continue having a high rejection rate and all girls will get what they want biw photo by 808 aetsstuchi bob hope performed before a near-capacity crowd at stabler arena on sunday night the concert proved a fitting conclusion to the inauguration week festivities and was a highlight of the . four-year-old arena medallion university mace presented to likins sunday by teresa kilcullen the presidential medallion and the university mace were presented to peter likins in his official inauguration as the eleventh university president on saturday harold mohler president of the board of trustees and chairman of the board of hershey foods corp conducted the ceremony of inauguration the medal lion presented by the,class of 1979 was hand-crafted in holland and had never been used before in the ceremony of inauguration the university mace the formal sym bol of authority and a gift from the class of 1966 was the second of the two official marks of office that likins received before a crowd of about 1.500 guests only ten men have guided the univer sity through its history of 116 years mohler said and all the presidents have had two apparent characteristics in common . . an unshaking belief in the value of education especially a lehigh education and a vision for the university likins mohler continued is a person with these same clear beliefs he is faced with the exciting new opportunity yet he fully understands the value of tradition he is acquainted with the new technol ogy yet he believes in the inherent worth of the individual he sees the new fronti ers of the knowledge explosion still to come yet knows that basics must be mastered before excellence can truly be achieved the presidential search committee headed by george kane professor of industrial engineering recommended likins as their first choice from a pool of 300 mohler said b4w pnolo of steve khess miiam mcgill president emeritus of columbia university delivered the rjugural address at ceremonies honoring university president peter likins uuns served as provost at columbia before assuming the university presidency applicants see likins page 4 see exam page 4