Brown and White Vol. 113 No. 48

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 all the lehigh news first vol 113 no 48 friday april 28 2006 saying farewell to farrington by kate mcloughlin president innovated academics greek life editor in chief on june 30 his last official day as pres ident president gregory farrington expects to see a campus almost emptied by summer vacation although he may not spend the whole day at lehigh farrington plans to set aside part of it to share a glass of champagne with his coworkers last fall after nearly eight years as president of lehigh farrington announced his june resignation during his annual and final state of the university address saying he felt it was time to move on farrington said the decision wasn't sudden - he had been contemplating the idea of repotting as he calls it since the summer he expressed the same idea dur ing has resignation announcement eight years is the longest span of time farrington b&w photo by doug moquet has spent at any job and he felt rea'dy to spend time elsewhere i knew i had about eight years left before i retire said farrington who will turn 60 this august come july farrington will assume the role of distinguished university professor where he plans to make international issues a bigger part of lehigh education i believe my major focus is going to be on international issues global lehigh i call it farrington said although farrington said he thinks the most-pressing campus issue right now is finding a new president he also said lehigh should be trying to increase diver sity as faculty members students and graduate students can all contribute to campus diversity in the past farrington has said that he would like to see a female president but farrington couldn't say how likely it is that a woman will be the 13th president of lehigh because he doesn't have anything to do with the decision that's the way the system works he said expectations and academics farrington who came to lehigh after spending eight years as the dean of the school of engineering and applied science at the university of pennsylvania is originally from bronxville n.y he earned his ph.d in chemistry from harvard university in 1972 in a brown and white interview from after eight years as lehigh's president farrington says it's time to move on farrington's departure brings mixed reactions by david webster news writer students have voiced mixed feelings about the impending retirement of president gregory farrington students commented on many of the changes made during farrington's presidency including the construction of campus square campus square is one of farrington's greatest accomplish ments erika taylor 09 said all i know about him are the few great ftsu phot ok doug m i things he did for lehigh's campus like the construction of campus square scott wojciechowski the president of the class of 2009 said the building of campus square was positive because it created a closer connection between south bethlehem and the lehigh community campus square really acts as a bridge between the bethlehem com munity and the lehigh campus the addition of adirondack chairs to the university center front lawn was parrington's first move as president farrington is resigning this spring after eight years at lehigh recycling program tries to decrease wasted paper by aliza zelin news writer the paper group an organization that started as a class project is in the process of implementing a printing quota for all students and faculty the group has four main objectives in its attempt to reduce the amount of paper wasted at lehigh these include ensuring placement of recycling bins for office paper and newspaper at every printer implementing the use of 100 percent post-consumer content paper through out campus employing online printing quotas to reduce overprinting and initiating an end-of-semester notebook recycling program the group began as a project for politics of the environment a political science course taught by professor al wurth wurth assigned the students to come up with an idea to change something on campus each of the students in the group shared similar concerns about the amount of paper wasted at lehigh now this group has gotten support from student senate college democrats college republicans and green action now the group will meet with dean of students sharon basso to ask for university approval of the project the printing quota is the objective that would most direcdy affect students the quota would be linked to stu dents usernames and each username would keep track of how many pages have been printed students would be able to check their status much like they can check their mail quotas although the logistics are still being configured the group thinks library and technology services will be help ful in determining the best way to implement the quota caidin shenk 08 a founder of the paper group said she doesn't think this quota will be a burden to students we're not looking to deprive students of printing capabilities shenk said we're hoping that a print quota will make students aware of what they need to print and what they don't and will cut down on the amount of paper wasted due to careless duplicate and unnecessary printing the paper group hopes to also extend its quota to pro fessors and departments as well oliver josephs 06 another founder of the paper group said professors who assign things that need to be printed for a class can get the printing counted for the quota of the department this program wouldn't target individuals josephs said it would be for the whole campus and only penalize those who abuse the privilege the penalty for abusing the quota could be suspension of printing privileges see farrington page 3 see changes page 2 johnny's bagels lewandowski and few opponents opening on third in calabrese to play attend movement's street bp_s lfi or nort^am p ton pen orum