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Attention. Hav Fever Sufferers!
Biologist's Study Is
Nothing To Sneeze At
By William J. Johnson
During this time of year, ragweed is nothing to sneeze at
for the thousands of hay fever sufferers in the Lehigh Valley.
Ambrosia.as botanists know ragweek, is responsible for
about 90 percent of all allergic reactions to grass and weed
pollens. It can cause not only minor sneezing, congestion,
itching of the eyes and ears and breathing difficulties, but
also more serious sinus and ear infections, nasal growths and
lung and heart diseases.
As part of its effort to control ragweed in Pennsylvania,
the state Department of Environmental Resources has asked
Lehigh biology professor Hayden Pritchard to take daily
pollen counts during the ragweed season.
Pritchard agreed to set up a monitoring station, which sits
atop Lehigh's Williams Hall. It is one of 26 stations around
the state, and the only one in the Lehigh Valley. DER had no
monitoring station in the valley last year, and in previous
years had a station atat Allentown State Hospital.
Pritchard's measurements reveal that from Aug. I-20,
there were no days with a pollen count index above seven.
Hay fever sufferers tend to feel the effects of ragweed with
counts above seven, he said.
A pollen count index of seven means a sample hjis sgven
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Continued On Page 5>     Pritchard at monitoring station atop Williams Hall.
Septembers, 1989
Coaching, Staff Changes
Kick Off Fall Season
The summer of 1989 was an active one in Lehigh's
department of athletics.
Joe Sterrett, a 1976 Lehigh grad. look over as director of
athletics/assistant vice president for student affairs on July I.
Sterrett oversaw the hiring of several new coaches, while others
were shifted into new positions. Staff changes include:
• Karen Adams, associate director of athletics, will give up her
duties as women's tennis coach to devote full-time to administration.
• Bruce Gardiner, former aquatics director and swimming
coach, has been named a student recruitment officer in the
office of admission.
• Chris V. Marshall, a 1988 Lehigh grad. will replace Gardiner
as men's swimming coach.
• Jocelyn Beck has been named head women's basketball
coach.
• Jackie Kecley will conch field hockey and women's lacrosse.
• On the football staff. Greg Gigantino has been named
linebacker coach and Fred Mariani has been named recruiting
director.
Sterrett. Lehigh's seventh athletic director since I9l I.
moved to the athletic department from his position as assistant
vice president of student affairs, where he oversaw the university's enrollment functions—the office of admissions, financial
aid. registrar and career services.
Adams had been at the helm of a highly successful
women's tennis team since 1980, racking up a record of 134-
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Business Begins Exchange With French University
By Roger Clow
The College of Business and Economics
and L'Ecole Superieure de Commerce et
d'Administration des Entreprises of Poitiers.
France (Sup de Co — Poitiers), will begin a
student exchange program in the 1989-90
academic year. (
Established in l96l.SupdeCo — Poitiers
is a member of the prestigious "Sup de Co"
system of independent, highly competitive
French schools of business administration.
Up to five Lehigh undergraduate business
students are expected to study at Sup de Co,
and a similar number of French students will
attend Lehigh, for one or two semesters. The
students will take a variety of courses, for
which they will receive credit from their home
institution.
The agreement between the two schools
also provides for faculty exchanges, varying in
length from two weeks to one semester.
The initiative was led by the College of
Business and Economics, in cooperation with
Lehigh's department of modern foreign
languages and literature and the Center for
International Studies.
Richard W. Barsness, dean of the college,
said, "The exchange program with Sup de Co
represents another important step in the
internationalization of the college's undergraduate business program and is consistent
with other high-quality study-abroad opportunities offered at Lehigh."
Lehigh also has exchange programs in the
United Kingdom with the London School of
Economics, London's University College, the
University of Manchester Institute of Science
and Technology, and the universities of
Buckingham, Edinbureh, Kent and York.
In The South Mountaineer
•1989 Football Preview
•Fall Sports Outlook
INSIDE LEHIGHWEEK:
Freshmen Arrive 3
Perspective: Third-World
Poverty 4
Voyager Visit 5
Art Of India 6
Job Opportunities 7
Calendar Of Events 8
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