Brown and White Vol. 94 no. 36

              lehigh university brown and white 215 861-4184 vol 94 — no 36 bethlehem pa friday march 4 1983 state approves university's tech-center bid by louis gombocz the university's bid for a ben frank lin high technology center for the lehigh valley/northeastern pennsyl vania area was approved monday the bid was one of two approved by the ben franklin partnership board in har risburg the other was given to a consor tium led by pittsburgh and carnegie mellon universities university president peter likins announced the university received an initial grant of 250,000 from the commonwealth of pennsylvania he also noted that michael bolton will become assistant to the president and executive director of the ben franklin northeast tier consortium and technol ogy center the lehigh consortium includes 19 colleges and universities including lafayette and muhlenberg colleges and bucknell university the centers are being created follow ing the signing of a bill last year by gov dick thornburgh creating the ben franklin board the technology centers are designed to create a partnership among academic governmental busi ness industry labor and financial resources to support new enterprises modernize established industries and expand the scope of traditional industries the university's bid was submitted last december likins bolton joseph goldstein acting vice president for research and donald bolle dean of the college of engineering and physical science made a presentation feb 10 in harrisburg in which they favored a university-industry research complex in bethlehem this they said would pro vide new jobs assist local firms in expanding their activities encourage development of small high-tech firms and increase the tax base for local government under guidelines for the program the state will match the amount of funds that each selected technology center is able to raise on its own from private sources other tech centers are expected to be approved at the pennsylvania state uni versity and a philadelphia consortium of schools including the university of pennsylvania and temple university the statewide first-year appropriation for the tech centers is 1 million of which the university receives 250,000 and thornburgh is asking for 10 million for the program's second year if approved the university will have to match from 2 to 3 million in state funds so far the university has gained 54 funding partners including corpora tions banks and educational institu tions which have pledged about 370,000 in cash towards the university's 500,000 1983 goal bolton said another 415,000 has been pledged for in kind non-cash contributions in 1983 for example bethlehem steel has offered to house the center's laboratory at the company's homer research lab bolton added that at present no final decision has been made as to the precise location for the new tech center however he said the 250,000 state grant the university will receive will be used for research and development training and education at the public and private schools in the university consor tium and for technical assistance and entrepeneurial activities social-regulation change approved by subcommittee by lisa paparone amendments to the social regula tions including abandoning the requirement for food at open parties and changing the thursday pubnighl time limit passed through a subcom mittee of forum xiii last week if the proposal passes through the campus life committee on mar 17 it will be voted upon by forum xiii ii the forum approves the changes the recommendation will be reviewed by the board of trustees for a final decision the social regulations subcommit tee of the campus life committee of forum xiii centered its discussion on the proposal to allow thursday pub nights to serve alcohol for three hours and to terminate no later than 2 a.m bob fioretti 84 felt that by hav ing parties until 2 a.m people would be studying until 11 p.m attendance in friday morning classes was of concern to several committee members dean of stu dents william quay said thursday night parties were almost indistingui shable from friday night parties until 1981 the impact of that was tremend ous in the classroom while quay noted that he had not heard teachers complaining about poor friday morning attendance as much with the midnight closing of pubnights there was some uncer tainty among committee members as to the results of this restriction i don't think the university should presuppose to make the decision for students john compton 84 remarked concerning the use of social regulations to enforce class attendance hubert flesher university cha plain observed there are an awful lot of students who need a kind of pat terning stephen buell assistant professor of finance said i think that the pur pose of the university is to prepare students for society and in society you can drink until 2 in the morning tough drunk driving law will deliver strong impact by anthony coppola on jan 14 a new drunk driving law was put into effect in the common wealth of pennsylvania which will have a strong impact on anyone oper ating a motor vehicle while under the infleunce of alcohol the law is not a crackdown on university students or teenagers in general according to district magistrate john gombosi however it is much tougher than the previous law due to several changes a major modification in the law is that district justices have been removed from the process of dealing with drunkdrivers before things could be disposed of in the office if there were no injuries and there was less than 500 in damages according to gombosi now all cases go to the county courts and are dealt with there because the penalty has been upped from a misdemeanor three to a mis demeanor two gombosi said under the new law anyone con victed of driving under the influence must pay a minimum fine of 300 in addition to serving a minimum 48 hours in prison under the influence is defined as having a blood-alcohol content of 10 percent or greater however first-time offenders have the option of entering an accelerated rehabilitation program in lieu of the prison term in addition arrests will sac publicity of nominees viewed as against the rules by rhonda m stone there will be no signs put up by the student activities council sac to advertise the students sac has nomi nated for their annual elections accord ing to jeff aronson 83 sac publicity chairman last year hanging a sac poster near the ballot advertising certain candidates was against the rules roger watkins assistant dean of students and sac advi sor said last year's group may have been a little unclear in the beginning about what they could or could not do in relation to the election rules watkins said this year however sac will post no signs or advertisements and the only way that the student body will know who has been nominated is by those students who are themselves nominated aronson said the nomination is a reward for peo ple who have worked hard and done a good job for sac aronson said we sac won't be nominating a person pub licly this year we will let that person know he has been nominated and then it is up to him to advertise that nomina tion he continued i don't think that the nomination is an advantage for the candidate it's only an endorsement it's up to the voters dis cretion to choose the best candidate watkins said aronson agreed saying there is just as much chance that a person who is not nominated will win and there is a chance that someone who is nominated will dave dender 83 sac president explained that all the nomination does for the individual is to relieve him from having to obtain signatures for a petition to run for office he is automatically put on the voting ballot however aronson admitted i think that a nominee does have an advantage in that he can use the nomination as a part of his campaign whereas someone without a nomination can't but the nomi nation is only an endorsement for a job well done nothing more he added however dender noted that not eve ryone who has been on sac and run for re-election has gotten a nomination it nationwide drunk-driving arrests see sac page 7 see new page 6