Brown and White Vol. 89 no. 38

              lehigh university brown and white 21mm44331 vol m notm ■'■' bethlehem pa , friday march 10 lf7s newly adopted calendars conflict with sports rosters by eric hokenson the recently adopted academic calendars should be readjusted to conform to the present calendar in order to avoid conflicts with the university's inter collegiate and intramural athletic programs according to william leckonby director of athletics in a memorandum to george kane chairman of the industrial engineering department and chairman of the forum academic calendar committee leckonby outlined the expected conflicts with the 1979-1980 and 1980-1981 academic calen dars the new calendars would move the end of the semester break back to jan 14 from jan 18 on the present calendar this change would allow classes to finish april 28 and finals to be completed by may 14 spring recess in both new calendars will fall in april when the spring sports schedule is in full operation as many as eight teams could have to remain on campus for practice and competition under these calendars members of the men's and women's tennis lacrosse baseball golf track and possibly softball teams would be required to forfeit their spring vacation the calendar change also would limit the spring teams preparation for the already-shortened season southern trips might be eliminated because of the shortened break baseball playoffs and track champion ships of the east coast conference are held during the first week of may also the time cf final examinations at the university head track coach john covert stated in the memorandum he feels the new finals schedule would probably cause us to drop our spring trad program the intramural softball program probably would have to be eliminated under the calendars according to tommy thompson assistant to the director of intramurals we're not even sure that we'll complete the program this year because of the snow how can we expect to complete it on a shortened schedule thompson asked birkel estate homes not feasible for housing solution ottervik says byedbogucz a plan to house students in the birkel estates would not solve the university's immediate need for new residence space eric ottervik vice president for planning said wednesday he added that the proposed plaza highrise is the only viable plan to provide 200 new spaces to the overcrowded residence system by fall 1979 the administration would not evict the current tenants of the birkel estates if the university bought the 18 double homes along birkel avenue for student housing ottervik said rather the houses would be renovated in small groups as families left due to natural attrition he explained using this process it could take 10 to 20 years before all the homes were renovated for student use ottervik said all along we have been working under the assumption that we have to provide 200 new beds by fall 1979 ottervik said there is no conceivable way that birkel would have an impact on the residence system by that time last week the seven student members of the plaza review board urged the administration to consider housing students in the birkel homes instead of the proposed 4th street highrise "•:; a letter to the administration the student review board members cited student interest in birkel as one of their arguments for the project we do not see any enthusiasm from our fellow students for the proposed plaza highrise their letter stated another argument the students offered was city hall's change in attitude con cerning a possible birkel project two weeks ago paul marcincin bethlehem mayor since january told the brown and white that city officials would be willing to reconsider a university plan to house students in the birkel homes marcincin's opinion is in sharp contra diction to the policy of the previous mayor gordon mowrer three years ago pressure from mowrer and other city officials forced the university to abandon a plan which would have housed 216 students in the birkel estates although the city now would be willing to consider any plan for university housing marcincin stressed in an in terview with the brown and white tuesday that a birkel plan most likely would meet strong city council opposition he explained that the major objections to a university plan to house students in the birkel estates center around a loss of city tax dollars on the properties and the problems of displacing 36 families for what is currently low-income housing . i'd have to see the plans for any housing project before i could decide whether to support it marcincin added in addition the plans would have to be approved by the city council he said marcincin said the university has not eric ottervik registrar begins new procedure for scheduling by michele macdonald the preregistration scheduling process has been changed for this semester because of problems in the registrar's office according to registrar james wagner under the new system which wagner said will be used only this semester class times will not be announced during preregistration students must pick the classes they desire without knowing what times the classes will be offered wagner said the decision to change the preregistration process was reached feb 21 at a deans meeting after he realized he would not be able to get a regular schedule completed in time we were behind here and we ran into many difficulties he explained there were problems with our information we had weather problems and we had trouble getting final rosters to clear seniors for graduation we also are short on per sonnel when it got to the point where i would have had to work around the clock to develop a new schedule i said no he said also preparing for the seniors graduation took top priority over scheduling wagner said clearing seniors records for graduation is a bigger task than ever holey business bb.w photo by henry as the snow melts workers have been busily repairing the holes in some trembley parfc roofs here they dispose of old shingles after new ones were installed lafayette dormitory costs twice likely price of plaza by linda pickens construction costs of a new dormitory nearing compeltion at lafayette college are double the expected costs for the proposed plaza highrise according to figures compiled by jerome barney executive consultant for planning at the university and doug macewan lafayette's assistant dean of students and director of student housing lafayette is spending approximately 1 million for the new dormitory which will house 62 students at 16,000 per bed plans for the proposed plaza highrise call for a 1.8-million building housing 200 students at an 8,000-per-bed construction cost lafayette's building will contain 40 singles and 11 doubles according to richard blake project construction supervisor the single rooms are nine by 14 feet or 126 square feet in comparison the most recent design of plaza called for singles to be five by 16 feet or 85 square feet student representatives on the plaza review board have recommended that individual bedrooms be at least 95 square feet as one of the specifications to be met in the plaza project other constraints include a minimum of 175 square feet per student natural lighting in all lounges and bedrooms one bath per suite a multi-purpose din ing lounge facility on the first floor and 50 parking spaces for student occupants if these constraints are not met to a reasonable extent the students insist that the project be scrapped according to a letter written by the group the lafayette dormitory will be 15,900 gross square feet or 256 gross square feet per student the plaza calls for 8,100 gross see lafayette page 5 see plaza page 6 see scheduling pafct 12 inside : penn sit-in p 4 rape precautions p 9 boxers win p 16