Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 45

              herz chairwoman of the modern for eign languange department in 1986 the culture option was drop ped requiring all students to com plete either an intermediate level of a language in high school or a first-year level at the university in the lehigh plan on progress and priorities in 1986 and 1987 university president peter likins cited the mod ern foreign language department as a priority in 1988 the plan said see language page 5 in 1985 students were given the option of studying two courses in either a foreign language or culture to fulfill the requirement some faculty members objected to this option because they felt study of foreign culture although academical ly stimulating was not a viable alterna tive to the knowledge of a foreign language a student should really know how to communicate with the rest of the world in order to have insight into other cultures said anna pirescenok dents taking elementary-level lan guange classes also because much of the money allocated to the department went to pay extra teachers the upper-level classes were suffering gatewood said the motion was an attempt to curb the demand and focus attention on the quality of the department rather than the quantity of students it serves he said the language department has faced changes and problems for several years by jerome murphy brown and white news writer and kristen kuck brown and white asst news editor in march the lehigh faculty voted to drop the two-semester modern foreign language requirement for all students in the arts and science college according to the associate dean of the college of arts and sciences john gatewood the university did not have the money to fund the many professors required by the large number of stu b&w staff photo the sunshine and warm temperatures were the perfect conditions to attract students to the band party held on the university center lawn as part of the greek week celebration south side attracts new businesses to rebuild bethlehem see development page 2 by meussa campinell brown and white news writer many companies have recently purchased land located on the south side of bethlehem with the hopes of redeveloping the area said john rohal executive director of the redev elopment authority rohal said that two companies in particular liquid carbonic industrial-medical corpora tion and polymer dynamics inc have begun projects polymer dynamics intentionally chose an area in proximity to lehigh university to create a possibility to work closely with the ben franklin partnership rohal said the company recently purchased from beth lehem steel the barron land on the south bank of the lehigh river just east of the fahy new street bridge lu students receive academic honors gunton of arts and sciences richard barsness of business and economics and alan pense of engineering and applied science thomas stoneback a 1972 graduate of lehigh vice presi dent of rodale press deliver ed the honors convocation address using the theme do well and do good stoneback told the juniors and seniors present that it is their responsibility to not only do well in the future but to do good in society he said recycling research is an area that allows the researcher to be both successful and char itable to future generations senior or graduate class and must show leadership in extr acurricular activities and in the classroom they also must show highest standards of integrity and breadth of inter est both inside and outside of engineering almost 30 students received induction into beta gamma sigma the highest scholastic honor in business administra tion and is the only honorary society recognized by the american assembly of colleg iate schools of business speakers at the convoca tion included lehigh presi dent peter likins the deans of the three colleges james by kristen kuck brown and white asst news editor about 200 lehigh students were honored sunday for their outstanking academic achievements during the 11th annual honors convocation in packer memorial church among those who received special recognition for thier accomplishments were juni ors and seniors who attained a cummulative grade average of 3.5 or better and recipients of various academic awards about 40 students from the three colleges were inducted into phi beta kappa honorary society phi beta kappa is the oldest national honorary soc i ety and recognized high acad emic achievement in the liber al arts and sciences induc tion into the society is held to indicate the potential of fut ure distintion induction into the tau beta pi national engineering hon orary society was awarded to about 60 students tau beta pi was founded in 1885 at lehigh university by dr edward williams and is commemorated by the bronze bent in front of williams hall new members are elected into the society by present members and must be in the top eighth of their junior class the top fifth of their the brown and white vol 97 no 45 lehigh university tuesday may 1 1990 foreign language requirement dropped inside news students and administration speak about campus race relations page 3 news ncaa drug testing rules may affect lehigh sports page 5 sports men's lacrosse team comes up with a win against drexel ending losing streak page 20 > life style-rape at lehigh starting page 1 1