Brown and White Vol. 100 no. 17

              by kevin kniffin news writer robert phillips chief scientific officer for nasa presented slides showing the details of the future interna tionally-sponsored space station freedom to be finished by the year 2000 thursday at neville hall for about 100 students and faculty the station will contain united states european and japanese research labs phillips said he said there will be a cooperative atmosphere among the scientists of free dom analogous to a common house not a condominium phillips described the timetable for the assembly of freedom the first component of the station will be sent up with the space shuttle in 1995 so in 1996 people will be able to live and work in the station phillips said the staff will be mainly concerned with basic research as technology is a follower not a leader freedom will also lead to innovations in telescience phillips said four members of the 200-year-old new york stock exchange said the exchange is an ethical market based on the accumulation of capital not money thursday in rauch business center don dinsmore partner at stokes hoyt said we're a very capital-intensive business we don't mind losing money but we mindlosing capital according to dinsmore capital is not only money but goods and services as well dinsmore talked about an important feature of the stock market called the catalyst function it enables everyone to know who the buyers and sellers are he said when there are more sellers we are more aggressive and when there are more buyers we can work slowly and feel out the market he said dinsmore mentioned the auction function which supplies information to people on their stock situations he said the function of an auctioneer is to reflect new bids and offers while keeping an orderly market where every body is informed by sonia rehani news writer the brown and white tuesday november 10 1992 vol 100 no 17 lehigh university norman girardot professor of religion studies was offered 250,000 in grants for a two-year study of missionary scholar james legge at england ' s oxford university and in hong kong in collaboration with scholar lauren pfister girardot plans to study the 19th century ideas of the chinese tradition their focus will be on legge s accomplishments among them translating the chinese clas by annabel lukins news writer dowment for the humanities additional funds were provided by the american coun cil of learned societies chiang ching-kuo of the foundation for international exchange a u.s funding agency and a writing grant from the taiwan-based pacific cultural foundation it is absolutely extraordinary for a pro fessor of humanities to receive a grant of that magnitude whitcomb said girardot said he will be leaving in janu ary 1993 and returning in spring 1995 different culture it is difficult to understand japan because we just don't have the knowl edge girardot said girardot will spend the first year in ox ford and scotland to study archives he will spend the second year with pfister in hong kong completing a book tentatively titled james legge and the victorian encounter with china according to howard whitcomb associ ate dean of the college of arts and science 187,000 was offered by the national en religion professor receives 250,000 in grants sics and sacred books of china he later became the first chinese professor at oxford university we are planning to write an intellectual biography attempting to deal with intercultural communication and under standing girardot said through his first book toaism it be came clear to girardot that one of the prob lems americans have is difficulty under standing countries such as china another example is japan it is a very admissions holds open house open house with today being the new jersey teacher's convention we felt it was well worth ourwhile informational sessions enlight ened visitors about student life fi nancial aid and admissions people also had the opportunity to sit in on classes visit departments and talk to coaches and teachers we tried to tailor their visits to what their questions are this is a nice opportunity to get a feel for what lehigh is like hanks said richard smotkin a high school senior from north vale n.j said any question that i've had has been answered i think that i have gotten a pretty good feel for what lehigh is about and i like it hanks said people on campus have been very helpful hanks attributed the success of the day to the joint effort by all involved ranging from students giving directions to the faculty speaking with visitors peter dietz admissions coun selor said we knew that a lot of people from new jersey were com ing however we are pleasantly surprised that there is a pretty good mix between new york pennsyl vania and new jersey anne evans whose son is a prospective student said the open house was valuable everything was made so easy and clear for us she said the people at this school really seem to be on the ball the admis sions process has been so accom modating evans said nasa chief speaks on space station almost4oo high school students from new york new jersey and pennsylvania attended the first-ever lehigh office of admissions open house friday exceeding the admis sions office expectations by about 100 students new jersey schools were closed on friday because of the annual new jersey teacher's convention because of this lehigh expected many prospective students from new jersey to take this opportunity to visit the campus we did this in order to have capacity for people visiting on one of the busiest days of the year said susan hanks associate director of admissions and the planner of the by david mederrick news writer b4w photo by michael york kirn evans 96 donates blood at the beta alpha psi accounting club blood drive in upper grace hall thursday drop by drop ... wall street wizards explain ny exchange see stock page 4 donald gruhn,'49 of benjamin jacobson and sons said ninety-five percent of sales take place at the last sale norman merksamer an independent broker explained the role of a 2 broker when a company wants shares the floor broker checks the floor and situation and gives his opinion on what is going on he said a movie on the 63 billion worth of stocks traded each day at the nyse was shown concerning the overview of the stock market on an average day in which the buyers and sellers in the crowd are presided over by the specialist the b&w photo by robert gutm an market members discuss the stock exchange see space page 4 gloria m bower university libraries rm.522a fairchild/martindale libr no.ooba x ffi till * t fi