Brown and White Vol. 112 No. 8

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 all the lehigh news first vol 112 no 8 friday september 24 2004 provost's office to be split in half by john misinco editor in chief provost ron yoshida is never too shy to admit how much he loves telling the lehigh story in his new position yoshida will do exactly that as he sells lehigh to potential financial con tributors and prospective stu dents yoshida was named senior vice president for external rela tions and campus life tuesday afternoon all part of a move designed to split the duties of the provost's office - a position that currently oversees a broad port folio including academic affairs the registrar admissions finan cial aid and student life the changes were announced by president gregory farrington during his state of the university address at zoellner arts center ron is a natural with stu dents and alumni - and obvious ly he has a broad understanding of lehigh's academic and cam pus life farrington said during his address yoshida said one of his major responsibilities will be raising money for lehigh's upcoming 500 million capital campaign set to begin in october and last five years dubbed shine forever the campaign is designed to raise money for endowed professors endowed scholarships and major building projects including the 17.5 mil lion linderman library renova tion half of my time will be spent out fund-raising and i love to do that yoshida said you know how i love to tell the lehigh story farrington currently serves as the university's primary fund-raiser but yoshida said the capital cam paign which administrators hope will yield 3,500 potentially significant donors requires more manpower for greg to do that all alone is difficult yoshida said in addition to serving with farrington as university fund raisers-in-chief yoshida will con tinue to oversee admissions financial aid and institutional research in the realm of student life he will help implement pro posals made by the greek life task force last year i've been in charge of the greek life report for the past year and greg wants me to take a * more personal role yoshida said as for non-greeks we'll look at what will become of vari ous social options that we want to create to make lehigh distinc tive the announcement of yoshida's new position was not entirely unexpected the brown and white previously reported that yoshida announced at a march faculty meeting that farrington had suggested such a division of the provost's office this decision was apparently in response to the handling of the search process for a new dean of the college of arts and sciences b&w photo by bj shepard the cas faculty voted march 31 to censure yoshida along with farrington for appointing anne meltzer to the position without properly consulting the faculty personnel committee following the second search process for a cas dean one of president gregory farrington announced major administrative changes during his state of the university address tuesday band out of tune over facilities by nora mattern news writer members of the marching 97 have recently voiced dissatisfac tion concerning their practice conditions on campus the band holds rehearsals in the loft of rauch field house on goodman campus the site of the indoor track facilities the field house also houses the members instruments and uniforms marching practices are held in a section of the parking lot marked by field lines certain aspects of the prac tice facility are considered inade quate by a number of the band's members improvements to the facility have been a topic of dis cussion for years lehigh alumnus david guzas 01 an architecture major and former member of the marching 97 designed plans for a new facility for the marching band three years ago to com plete both his honors thesis and senior project for the roy eckhardt college scholar program guzas said his plans involved building a new field house on goodman campus adjacent to rauch field house guzas said this was ultimately a paper project and no real pur suit for funding from the univer sity was made members said they hope the university will someday consider guzas detailed designs and regard them as a solution to the conditions that some members find disagreeable band members have addressed a number of prob lems regarding the use of the loft space for music practices among those discussed is a lack of space available to meet the band's growing needs in recent years the number of marching band members has been between 65 and 75 with the rate of membership growing and expected to rise the lack of room in the loft is an issue of concern the loft is crowded as it is and if we were to have 97 mem bers or anywhere near that many it would be impossible to run a band with that space said matt casey 05 band manager uniform and instrument stor age in the loft area has also been an issue of concern for the band drum major mike kowalski 05 said it is difficult to find space where the instruments can be stored he said the overall environmental conditions of the loft pose a problem the heat and humidity in the field house erode instruments and cause uniforms to pick up mold over time casey also said the poor acoustics in the field house pre vent practices from being as effective as possible casey and kowalski agreed that the lighting in the loft has posed difficulties as well later in the year with day light savings it becomes increas ingly difficult to practice in an under-lit area forcing some marchers to bring flashlights as practices run late " kowalski said some members cited the fact that other events held at the field house interfere with the band's practices the band has had to cancel rehearsals due to the career fair and other events that conflict with their practice time although this does not hap pen often it would be nice not having to be concerned with interference emily byers 07 said not all band members feel inconvenienced by this problem but still recognize that there is an issue amy vanden broek 07 said she is ultimately satisfied with the current practice location but understands why there has been discussion about the need for improvements it would be nice to have a place of our own so we could have more space to spread out and a spot to practice at when it rains broek said since tem peratures in the loft are at times very high practices are often moved outside the band fre quently struggles with undesir able weather conditions as a result although band members have these concerns there are no indications of measures being taken by the university in the near future neither anthony corallo associate vice president for facili ties services and campus plan ning or patricia chase director of facilities planning were aware of any discussion concerning plans for a new facility see provost page 4 pwhi^hhjhji mttt(*tk'""^tt rmani ll bmbpi \, ml twin brothers add an extra kick to the soc cer team see story page 16 sports 14-16 crosscountry 14 women's soccer 16 political groups pre pare for upcoming election see story page 3 news 1-4 lamberton diner 2 students discuss how religion influences the media see story page 5 lifestyle 5-11 in tune 7 matter of opinion 8 tv review joey leaves his new york friends and takes on california alone bw.lehigh.edu quick fact on average americans move to a new place 11 times in their lifetime source www.amusingfacts.com