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Volume 11, Issue 17
Lehigh University Campus Weekly
January 21,1998
Salary parameters announced at budget meeting
Stabler contest
no trivial pursuit
■ Darius Dunn, operations and
events coordinator at Stabler
Athletic and Convocation Center,
was looking for a way to show
students what Stabler is all about.
"Being on the Goodman Campus," said Dunn, "we don't get the
daily interaction with students
that other departments have."
Dunn and Terry Csaszar,
secretary/assistant at Stabler,
decided to host a trivia contest on
Lehigh's network server. The
arena's information board is one of
the most highly accessed on the
server. Dunn and Csaszar both felt
the contest would be a way to keep
visitors coming back and to inspire
newcomers to check out the board.
"We thought 'what is a way we
could better connect with students
and, at the same time, teach them
what Stabler does?'" said Dunn.
"What better way than trivia!"
The contest was open to all
students and ran for 10 weeks,
concluding the first week in
December. Questions were drawn
from past Stabler events, both
musical and athletic, as well as
from general entertainment trivia,
and were posted weekly during
"normal Stabler working hours."
These hours ranged from 6:30 a.m.
to 11 p.m. depending on the event
being hosted.
The first five respondents to
Joe Ryan
Thad Knouse '99, David Bellows '98 and Shawn Leichliter '98 receive
their contes.t prizes from Darius Dunn and Richard Fritz.
answer each question correctly
entered in the semester-end prize
drawing. Three winners were
chosen during the last week of
classes.
Thad Knouse '99, Shawn
Leichliter '98, and David
Bellows '98 won first, second and
third prizes respectively. Knouse
will receive two free tickets to a
Stabler event of his choice during
1998. Leichliter's second prize was
a framed collage of backstage
passes from past Stabler concerts.
Bellows obtained a $30 food
voucher to be used at any Stabler
event.
"But what's special about that
is that David will receive a menu
in his seat and be able to order
what he wants that way," said
Dunn. "Richard Fritz, the
director of the building [Stabler],
will serve him his food. It's kind
of an interesting twist."
Bellows didn't expect anything
to come of the contest. "I didn't
think I would win anything," he
said. "I just read the contest
question each week, and if I
happened to know the answer, I
e-mailed it in and hoped for the
Please see STABLER on page 2
New residence
halls on schedule
Work continues on the new
undergraduate housing
units, located on the Hill.
The complex includes 149
spaces, each with its own
kitchen and bath.There will
be three and four-person
units as well as one-person,
but all bedrooms will be
singles. The apartments are
slated to be available for the
fall 1998 semester.
Joe Ryan
The annual campus-wide budget
meeting was held Jan. 12 to preview
the parameters for Lehigh's budget
for next year. The Board of Trustee
approved the parameters at its
meeting on Jan. 9.
The parameters were developed by
the Planning and Budgeting Working
Group, a team of 12 people which
included all the deans, vice presidents, two faculty representatives,
and the president. The group solicited input from the campus about
budget priorities as it developed the
budget during the fall.
"The primary concerns we heard
from the campus were the need to
improve faculty and staff salaries,
increase academic department
budgets, and take a close look at our
ancillary activities (such as Ben
Franklin, MRC, and the Discovery
Center)," said Interim President Bill
Hittinger. The team focused on the
first two issues, and will take a closer
look at the ancillary operations
during the spring.
All salary raises will continue to
be based on merit. The salary line
was increased by 3.5 percent, but
that will NOT be the average raise in
every department, as all deans and
vice presidents are withholding some
of that amount for merit raises across
department lines. (By comparison,
last year the salary budget increased
by only 3 percent.)
On the faculty side, the provost
will hold 0.5 percent for promotions,
equity and merit adjustments, and
the deans will hold 1 percent for a
merit pool. Faculty department
chairs therefore will have a 2 percent
increase to allocate for merit.
"(Provost) Nelson Markley would
like to see the top 20 percent of the
faculty get raises in the 5-8 percent
range," said Associate Provost Patti
Ota, filling in for Markley at the
meeting. "That is only possible if the
deans have a pool of money to
allocate. Otherwise departments with
many outstanding faculty can only
give each a small increase."
On the staff side, each vice president will hold 0.4 percent for an
interdepartmental merit pool and an
additional 0.35 percent will be held
for equity adjustments. Therefore
department chairs will have 2.75
percent to allocate in raises.
"Salary increments were one of our
highest priorities," said Vice President Rhonda Gross. She mentioned
the annual inflation rate, which the
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