Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 6

              by robyn suriano brown and white managing editor lehigh's new chaplain lloyd stef fen said he will try to create an attitude of openness among the diver se religions at lehigh in an interview last week steffen said he wants to build an atmosphere of civility where different faiths can coexist and no one will be offended by diversity the chaplain's office will provide opportunities for spiritual expression of all religions he said steffen replaced hugh flesher who left lehigh this summer after 19 years to become dean of the chapel at smith college in massachusetts galleries unsafe for precious art see art page 3 lection stamp exhibits and more however viera said that lehigh's own galleries are not always appropriate or safe for displaying its art collections for example the alumni building is very open and exposed to pollution there are also problems of security in the galleries because people constantly walk through the halls and climate control for fragile works is not shown in los angeles this is only an example of the many peices belonging to lehigh's art collection viera said we have many paint ings traveling around the world he said lehigh also owns paintings by renoir matisse and many other important painters as well as the philip and muriel berman collection of con temporary sculpture the leh igh univeristy photography collection the philatelies col by jessica brenner brown and white news writer lehigh's art gallery owns a substantial and varied art col lection worth several million dollars according to ricardo viera director and curator of lehigh's art galleries several of lehigh's pieces are currently touring the world in traveling exhibits placing a specific dollar value on the collection could only be speculative due to the nature of the art industry's changing market values viera said the collection contains sev eral prominent pieces by pen dergast which are now on loan to a traveling exhibit of contemporary american art the pieces were recently at whitney museum of contemp orary american art in new york and will soon be on exhibit at william college museum of art in williams town mass from oct 6 to dec 16 after this show they will be vol 98 no 6 the brown and white tuesday september 25 1 990 lehigh university new chaplain strives to create openness on campus festival unites lu students community last weekend marked the 1990 south side alive festival at broughal middle school athletic field the carnival was sponsored by the southside merchants association and lehigh's interfraternity and pan hellenic councils in order to bring the school and community closer together students help staff the various booths and work on year-round plan ning with other community groups featured this year were rides games ethnic foods and other attrac tions such as a kissing booth face painting and a dunking booth it took us three years to get togeth er said city councilman tom mohr the event is good but we would like to get more community involvement to put more of the south side commun ity on display information for this article was com piled from an article in the morning call b&w photo by brian ricker bethlehem's south side community joins in the festivities this weekend to help raise money for local charities see chaplain page 3 northland students are mainly inter ested in an outdoor education and are looking for a spirituality in nature he added now steffen wonders can people find any kind of a spirituality in engineering he said he will search for the answer to that question as his first year progresses the religious environments of the two schools differ because northland had a native american population and was influenced by the spiritual mystical component of their fatih at lehigh steffen said the catholic presence is much more active devout omr photo lloyd steffen steffen comes to lehigh from northland college in ashland wis where he served as the college chapla in and an associate professor of phil osophy and religion he began his duties at lehigh sept 17 can people find any kind of a spirituality in engineering lloyd steften lehigh unversity chaplain his previous post steffen explain ed is a liberal arts college with an emphasis on environmental studies inside news senior bill prestia leads lehigh's recycling revolution page 2 arts & leisure daycare center for toddlers at lehigh opens in saucon village page 8 sports the women's tennis team defeats bucknell 5-4 / page 15