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              gunter added that saudi arabia's biggest fear is that the price of oil will go too high causing a search for a technological breakthrough that will make the world much less dependent on oil saudi arabia is the world's low-cost producer of oil he said they make money even when the price of oil is 5 gunter said although the gross national product a measure of the u.s econo my's growth is increasing at only an annual rate of 1.2 percent it is too soon to say we are in a recession we are currently in the see economy page 4 longest peacetime prosperity ever in u.s history and i have trouble believing it is going to end in the near future he said colleen callahan assistant professor of economics had similar views about the future of the u.s economy there is enough evidence to show the economy is weakening she said i would be reluctant to say that a recession is imminent the jury is still out after eight years of not having a reces sion oil adjusted for inflation gunter said two factors will prevent oil prices from con tinuing to increase dramati cally first venezuela and saudi arabia have increased production he said he explained the united states has not tapped their strategic oil reserves which contain more than one billion barrels of oil the reserves were created in the 1970s in response to the arab oil embargo corporations know the reserves are there and are pressuring the president to tap them he said by joshua feloman brown and white asst news editor if we have a recession it will be short and shallow said assistant professor of economics frank gunter in an interview regarding the middle east crisis there are differences bet ween this crisis and the oil crises of 1972 to 1979 he said the world has adapted and is less dependent on oil he added that the price of oil would have to increase to more than 40 a barrel to have the same financial impact as in 1980 the real price is the price of gunter oil crisis is exaggerated vol 98 no 2 the brown and white lehigh university lu libraries prohibit smoking tuesday september 11,1990 see smoking page 4 university recognizes that smoking poses a significant risk to the health of the smokers as well as the non-smokers decision of smoking on the premises have been deligated to the manager of each department or building dr stanley yellin director of the health center said that he is behind this decision banning smoking is good in that non-smokers might go down there and enjoy relaxing in a smoke-free environment john arslanian 91 because there is some evidence coming out that proves the harms of second hand smoking it also aggrevates allergies richards also said that every effort has been made to find smokers a designated place within the libraries but it just was not possible when facility services was contac in an effort to create a healthy smoke-free lehigh environment both linderman and e.w fairchild-martindale libraries have joined other offices throughout lehigh in banning smoking in all areas according to university libraries director berry richards the main reason we changed our policy is that over the years we had many many complaints from the students faculty and staff richards also pointed out that in the past few years more and more attention has been paid to passive smoking and its harms to people we had so many written and verbal com plaints from the library users that we felt obliged to change things around for the best interest of the majority starting from this year there would be no more smoking permitted in any of the libraries added richards according to the human resources office lehigh's policy regarding smoking is that the by naci korzay brown and white news writer b&w photo by brock webster smoking students forced to take their butts elsewhere lehigh volunteers day honors alumni involved in fund raisers by jonathan schuppe brown and white news writer the lehigh alumni fund which surpassed its 1989-90 annual fund raising goal of 4.4 million by more than 67,000 celebrated its over whelming success by honoring volun teers on the seventh annual volunte er's day at a reception saturday follow ing the football game vice president for development and university relations michael bol ton 65 called the 1989-90 season the most successful alumni fund season yet the alumni fund provided over 25 percent of 1989-90 undergraduate financial aid the alumni fund presented awards to members who contributed the most b&w photo by jason stanford alumni honored on volunteer's day with reception after saturday's game time in involvement drew the most alumni gifts through phon-a-thons and who recruited the most alumni for phon-a-thons and other alumni-relat ed activities the reception featured an introduc tion by university president peter likins and award presentations by bolton i marvel at the loyalty and dedica tion and good plain hard work the volunteers made towards this institu tion president likins said volunteer participation in the alum ni fund spanned the classes of 1937 1988 all of whom were invited during volunteer day to see the rauch busi ness center and attend a luncheon and the engineers-fordham game inside news eight fraternities start the semester off dry page 5 arts & leisure branford marsalis 1 saturday evening performance proves to be nothing short of excellent page 1 1 sports men's soccer team drops two in d.c with losses to american u and george washington u page 1 9