LehighWeek Volume 03, Issue 13

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Wrestling
Matt Ruppel wins 190-lb. title;
Lehigh places 10th in Las Vegas
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Basketball
Lehigh men defeat SMU, 69 - 49, to take 3rd place
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Vol.3, Issue 13
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
December 5,1989
Happy Holidays!
This is the last issue of
LehighWeek and the South
Mountaineer for the fall
semester. The next issue
will be published on January
9; 1990. The deadline for
submissions for the issue is
Thursday, Jan. 4
Campus Life
The office of international
students and scholars
helps 633 foreign
students from 55 lands
adjust to academic life
and American culture.
Enrichment
For George Shortess, the
merging of art and
psychology in an
interactive computer
"book" that allows
readers to define their
own story fulfills a long
quest.
Perspective
How can school districts
fund equipment and
programs that are
beyond the reach of their
budget? Education
professor George White
has an answer: form a
foundation.
Young Hong
"Science is a contact sport," explorer Robert Ballard told middle school students meeting at Lehigh.
Explorer Visits Lehigh
To Spread Love Of Science
By Lesa Ayers
If America is to regain its lead in the development of
new technology, students in the middle school grades
must become inspired to pursue careers in science and
engineering. Lehigh brought one of the nation's leading
scientific explorers to campus last week to deliver that
message to the valley and to local school children.
"There's something going wrong," declared Robert
Ballard, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceano-
graphic Institution.  "American kids who like subjects
like mathematics in the fourth grade say it's they're their
least favorite subject by the 10th grade. We're losing
them!"
Ballard, perhaps best known as the underwater
explorer who discovered the site of the sunken Titanic in
1985, spread his own brand of enthusiasm for science
during his two-day stay at Lehigh.
Sponsored by the Furst Lecture Series and the
College of Engineering and Applied Science, Ballard
delivered his message at a press conference and a public
lecture Thursday and during a special program Friday
morning in Sinclair Auditorium.
There, 130 students from nine local middle schools
"Your generation is going to be doing
the most exciting exploration ever
undertaken...I'll bet that we have a future
Marco Polo in this room today."
Robert Ballard
listened as Ballard described science as "fun," "exciting." and "an adventure."
Perhaps no one was as excited as Judith Bazler,
Lehigh's science education research specialist in the
College of Education. Bazler's efforts to rekindle local
teachers' love of science dovetailed with the purpose of
Ballard's visit.
"I think we brought in a person who just exudes
everything Lehigh philosophically stands behind," said
Bazler. "Hands-on science — that's where Lehigh is
headed.  Ballard was a shot in the arm for Lehigh."
Hired just last year, Bazler is in the midst of developing a science resource center to help local science
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