Brown and White Vol. 109 No. 26

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 109 no 26 tuesday january 29 2002 all the lehigh news first freshman killed in accident honored by nora linscheid and nathan yip remembered by friends university at memorial service thursday news editor brian tomlinson news writer a memorial service held thursday celebrated the life of nathan hawlin yip 05 in packer memorial church yip was killed in denver colo early in the morning on sun dec 30 when the vehicle in which he was traveling flipped while negotiating a tight curve yip was remembered by friends as they shared words about his life rev dr lloyd steffen university chaplain led the audience in prayer steffen encouraged the group to remember yip's achievements he gave of himself in fundraising work adventures and in travel steffen said we remember his love of life and the depth of his love of family and friends andrew shapiro 05 remembered the fun times he shared with yip b&w photo courtesy of freshman register steffen commented on the number of people whose lives were affected by yip we mourn the death of nathan yip as a community steffen said we pray that his life that touched so many of us will continue to be a part of us steffen said yip's parents were stunned that 400 people showed up for the memorial service he was a person who touched many others steffen said provost ron yoshida agreed that yip was important to many people he was only here for one semester and the number of students that came to this service shows that he made a very positive difference in many people's lives yoshida said he certainly touched a lot of people's hearts matthew mann 05 shared the advice given to him by yip's mother nate would not want us sulking but celebrating the times we had with him mann said shapiro agreed with the sen timent but shared that dealing with the accident has been rough when it hurts i look back on him as someone who cared shapiro said yip was planning on major ing in business he spoke mandarin and cantonese and studied chinese at lehigh he was planning to pledge alpha sigma phi fraternity mann thanked his friends in the audience for comforting and supporting him through the ordeal he really cared about all the brothers and friends he had here mann said the son of james and linda yip was a graduate of kent high school in englewood colo he enjoyed lacrosse soccer horseback riding and skiing and had studied martial arts and fencing he liked to travel and had taken a summer job with relatives in hong kong steffen said yip will be remembered for being fun loving and for having a unique personality and a gift of grace lehigh was something that he loved steffen said yoshida expressed sorrow for yip's family i don't have children and i think of lehigh kids as my own nathan yip 05 was killed in denver colo in a car acci dent dec 30 no pacing easter breaks in 2003 by christine donnelly news writer most students have probably heard word of lehigh eliminat ing the pacing and easter/passover breaks of spring semester starting next academic year while we have heard news of the calendar change relatively recently a change of some kind has been wanted for some time in april 1996 the board of trustees assigned to the provost the responsibility of setting the university calendar based upon the recommendations of the calendar committee the calendar committee was comprised of representatives from student life graduate students council faculty residential services athletics zoellner the registrar chaplain and student senate in the fall of 2001 provost ron yoshida accepted the committee's changes and put them in place for a term of fall 2002 through spring 2006 according to an e-mail sent by provost yoshida there were five accepted changes the first change is to elimi nate the monday registration day before the first day of classes in each semester freshmen orien tation therefore would begin on a friday and classes would start the following monday the second change is to merely accept that the fall semes ter must have a pacing break as well as a thanksgiving break the third change states that the only break during spring semester will be spring break the spring semester should have one break that is one week long and falls near the middle of the semester i.e week seven or eight classes will then resume for either six or seven weeks for a total of 14 weeks in the semes ter the email said the fourth change is to be aware of the religious policy students may obtain an excused absence if they choose to be home for a religious holiday the university's religious policy can be viewed on the website any student who feels the need to take part in a religious observance that conflicts with the academic calendar can go to the dean of students office and get an excuse the provost's office always issues a reminder to faculty to be lenient to accom modate students religious needs professor rick weisman said the fifth change is to make graduation occur earlier than it has in the past and allot a shorter time between the end of finals and graduation eliminating the breaks makes sense in the fact that graduation will be earlier but it's also nice to have the vacations charlotte parker 05 said commencement will now take place on the second monday after the end of final exams in spring 2003 for example classes will end by april 29 and graduation will tbe may 19 the changes were made because it was felt that the spring semester is too long and that it is unfair to have a christian holiday off and not other religious holi days weisman said most of our peer schools do not have a speaker talks to psychology dept by blair tapper news writer laura gonnerman of the university of southern california who has focused her life studies to lexical structure presented her findings on morphology in the mental lexicon at the psycholo gy department's colloquium thursday gonnerman's presentation if teachers teach and bakers bake what do grocers do served to present the conclusions of her experiments in regard to the understanding how humans process complex words after completing a series of several experiments with under graduate students gonnerman was able to conclude that she believes that morphology which webster's dictionary defines as the patterns of word formation in a language structures and see memorial page 3 see psychology page 3 see breaks page 3 vfe wrestling team beats navy 25-10 see page 16 sports 13-16 women's basketball 14 track 16 men's basketball 16 former bethlehem resident sentenced for rape of minor see page 4 news 1-4 college news briefs 2 bethlehem briefs 4 aids vaccine goes into human trials see page 9 science 7-9 national ids 7 deaf people have safer driving records on average than non-deaf people in the u.s.a source:http://www.uselessf acts.net