Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 42

              the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pennsylvania v01.97-n0.42 tuesday april 15 1986 215)861-4181 sac election invalidated due to ballot fixing by rich kleban new editor the results of last week's students activities council elections have been invalidated by the council's election rule committee according to joe cassidy , student activities coordinator there was a discrepancy in our figures between the number of ballots and the number of people voting cassidy said new elections for every sac position will take place next monday and tuesday according to senior alan blues tine acting chairman of the erc while chairman jon opert is out of town the committee is meeting this week to work on preventive measures in order to guarantee a fair election this time if it's not fair we'll run it again until it is he said sac president stu seltzer explained that a total of approximately 1,400 ballots were cast during wednesday's and thursday's elections but the corresponding list of students who registered to vote did not contain this many names it was a large enough percent to affect some of the elections seltzer said adding that four of the races were very close the votes were tabulated late thursday night and seltzer said sac received complaints friday morning regarding the slim margin of victory in these races he also explained that cassidy reported some people had come forward and said they had seen the ballot box being stuffed friday's posted results were then double-checked and the discrepancy was discovered as a group we decided that it just wasn't a fair election bluestine said he added that the erc received no pressure from the dean of student's office to invalidate the results cassidy said it was to the credit of the erc for finding the discrepancy and taking the measures which they did along with opert and bluestine mwpttotobybeneechan dan kohn 86 and joan stanescu 87 enjoy a twirl around the dance floor at the third annual presidential ball forum representatives elected by alicia orr desk editor a total of 1,331 students turned out to vote in last week's forum xvii elections twenty nine students were elected to represent residence halls fraternities sororities and off campus residents each living group was apportioned a number of seats based on the percentage of the student body residing in that living group in addition . there are nine seats open to students from any living group . the nine students elected to open seats were juniors diane barone tom broder andrew conway marc falato donna kuver and perry smith sophomores marina longenecker and janet pickens and freshman julie shapiro the nine students elected to represent residence halls were juniors edward bryan alan paskof f and barry sussman sophomores ken d andrea timothy mayer and katie zilligen and freshmen jorge segovia len kern and violetta talandis five fraternity representatives were elected including juniors john dignazio todd guenther chris palmed and jay trbutman and sophomore sean kelly v the four students elected to represent off - campus residents were juniors nuriye uygur and andrea worth and sophomores lisa palazzi and robin paoli the two sorority representatives elected are juniors karen thompson and linda garibaldi a graduate student representative has not been elected yet if no one is named the 30th seat will become an open seat according to forum administrative secretary bea brown in other forum business forum xvi held its last full meeting thursday a resolution by the parking and transportation subcommittee was passed to stop off-campus students from parking in commuter spaces by issuing them two different parking stickers currently off campus and commuter students receive the research projects provide funding for grad students t — - by jennifer silverman the active funding research projects replenish the educational quality of the university according to vice president of research matthew reilly the projects which consist of . various scholastic undertakings in each of the three colleges provide financial assistance for graduate students in their particular fields each individual project is conducted by one or more professors usually with the assistance of a group of graduate students projects vary from analyses of bridge structures to the psychological effects of pregnancy loss to discovering how deep sea sediments are lithified the wide scope of projects con ducted by faculty graduate students and a professional staff of researchers yield several major benefits to the university reilly said first they provide funding for graduate students and broaden their knowledge in their own fields of study grad students are able to pay for their tuition through the salaries they receive from research work second they improve lehigh's reputation as a prime institution because of their achievements and awards in research activities according to reilly a good reputation will attract more quality students and faculty to lehigh and will also en courage the alumni to support an alma mater that they feel is a worthy in stitution he said the innovative atmosphere generated from these projects creates the right kind of setting for the faculty to do new things in whatever area they're working — in the arts social sciences engineering et cetera what we want is for faculty and students to keep on asking questions and look at old things in new ways reilly said in addition to its function as a direct financial beneficiary to graduate students reilly explained that un dergraduates benefit indirectly from research through their professors because the faculty are constantly learning new things they are able to impart these findings to their students lastly the projects produce a source of income and equipment to the university through grants made by external sponsors the access to equipment used in the projects acts as . another indirect benefit to un dergraduates reilly said since the students are able to attain hands-on what we want is for faculty and students to keep on asking questions and look at old things in new ways matthew reilly vice president for research experience with research apparatus the average cost for an individual project he explained usually is in the neighborhood of about 60,000 to 100,000 a year total research expenditures for the fiscal 1984-85 year amounted to in thousands 18,393.4 a 3,000 increase from the year before the sources of funds provided by external sponsors added up to 12,105.4 with the federal government claiming 53 percent of the subtotal the ben franklin partnership followed second at 24 percent industries and foundations at 21 percent and state and local governments at 2 percent other sponsored activities sub totaled 3,499.4 or 19 percent of the total funds whereas lehigh university expenditures amounted to 15.2 per cent or 2,788.6 monetary dividends concerning the research projects are determined by a direct and indirect cost system ac cording to reilly direct costs may include salaries wages equipment personnel benefits and computer use indirect costs which are used as a form of reimbursement of expenses in conducting research often involve general administration and expenses plant operation student ad ministration and services or library expenses at the end of each year he said the federal government adds up costs that were not directly related to the research projects or indirect costs see sac page 7 , see forum page 5 see externally page 9 inside faculty research urged page 4 pi lam aids starving children page 11