Brown and White Vol. 99 no. 39

              already decided to contribute to wil liam and mary college franz had to use his fast method and improvise to change this man's mind first i said that william and mary is a co-educational school he asked if that was bad i continued to state that the males and the females matriculate new officers elected byadriennetsang brown and white news writer vice president for development and university relations paul franz jr spoke on the importance of change last wednesday as guest speaker at the forum xix convocation franz cited various changes at lehigh including those in the fundraising program and forum franz first addressed the physical changes at lehigh in the early 40s lehigh had 189 acres of land less than half of the current buildings 300 stu dents and 50 faculty members franz explained this was a result of the world war 11 and when veterans returned in the late 1940s enrollment increased to 3,000 undergraduates in reference to lehigh's fund-rais ing programs franz explained one change has been how young people have increasingly been adding shots of vitality keeping our program in the forefront he said there used to be two steps to successful fund raising to pay a per sonal visit and then to ask for a specific amount now lehigh has phone-a thons with participation from both alumni and undergraduates fur thermore lehigh also has a class reunion gift program he then discussed two types of change in fund-raising techniques first there is fast fund raising which is when one has to improvise with spur of the moment conversation the second technique is slow fund raising which is studied and well planned franz related a fund-raising story saying he was asked to approach a man to convince him to give money to lehigh he said this man claimed he something that will have lots of invol vement and participation we need to bond the senior class to promote unity according to kathy plaia vice president of the class of bb the voter turnout was comparable if not better than last year more than 760 students voted in wednesday's elections including 268 rising seniors 250 juniors and 226 sophomores the class of 90 representatives are michelle kaskel as president kirn schwartz as vice-president debra klinek as treasurer and amy feinste in as secretary klinek was re-elected to a second year in office the class of 91 representatives are doug devincens as president stacy levine as vice-president mary d'agostino as secretary and todd grimsrud as treasurer devincens levine and d'agostino were all elec ted to a second term bydinaalcure brown and white desk editor mark lesnik was elected president of the class of 89 and judy bernstein the new vice president in elections for class representatives held wednes day afternoon in the university center cynthia belle was re-elected to a second term as class of 89 treasurer and beth-ann malinowski will be secretary i am very excited about the posi tion lesnik said adding lesnik said he has already begun thinking of plans for next semester we have to start thinking about a speaker for graduation early in the year he said i hope we can also get some kind of fundraisers organized early like the chinese auction my main goal however is to get the whole senior class involved during the year either through the gift campaign or a barbeque lesnik said we need the brown and white 215 758-4161 bethlehem pennsylvania friday april 15 1988 lehigh university board entrusts greeks v 01.99 n0.39 outside community he said what if someth ing were to happen by the end of the year it would not take more than something that looked like a disaster to raise a lot of questions among the outside community about our polic ies we the administration are out on a limb because of you we want to keep this good relationship with you the students so we trust you will act like responsible human beings during greek week pennsylvania seems to be a very tense area in that the enforcement of drinking laws varies from region to region which causes the admin istration to be very nervous the administra tion is going to focus on the safety of the students rather than on the enforcement of the 21-year drinking age this does not mean that we are sanctioning violation of any law but when we are faced with this difficult problem of many students drinking underage-we will focus on your safety not age the administration is trusting you the students to act as responsible adults don't flaunt it just be sensible be sober don't be stupid likins explained likins said at no time is alcohol allowed on lower campus and that he does not want academics to be affected during the festival ifc president jeff eichman 89 said they put a lot of trust in us and i hope we can show them we are responsible adults by jim stanley brown and white news writer lehigh president peter li kins told interfrat ernity and panhellenic council members tues day that students actions during greek week festivities will be closely scrutinized by the administration board of trustees and the outside community included among observers will be members of the middle states association who will be visiting from sunday until wednesday to view the administration and campus activities and to re-accredit the university said linda seeloff director of institutional studies the association which visits once every 10 years will study the administration's methods used to run the school seeloff said if something were to explode this week on campus they might come back and take a closer look to see if we really should be accredited although the administration's primary con cern is the students safety likins also stress ed the importance of responsible drinking preservation of the academic atmosphere and cleanliness of the campus the university has already acknowledged that some of the current practices are unsafe as seen in the recent changes in the social policy but these changes are not effective until next semester likins said we must wonder how this looks to the tibetan clash discussed americans recount riots b&w photo by jon turner blake kerr who visited tibet during its riots with china in october spoke monday about his experience byannedontzin brown and white news writer i soon realized that machine gun bullets were my biggest worries said blake kerr one of two young americans who on a visit to tibet in october 1987 to study its culture found themselves caught in the midst of several riots kerr and his partner john ackerly told the audience in whitaker laboratory monday night about some of the bloodiest riots which occurred during their visit to that region kerr who had just completed medical school deferred his residency for a year to organize a joint u.s.-tibetan medical project in northern india it was at this time he asked see riots page 4 franz speaks of change at forum induction vice president for development and university relations paul franz jr who will retire july 1 spoke at forum convocation wednesday see franz page 6 together and this convinced him to give to lehigh-all that i had to do was improvise he explained franz finally stated the forum xviii has changed the history of leh igh with the formation of the student senate he said it-takes courage to try