LehighWeek Volume 13, Issue 11

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Alum's short film
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Volume 13, Issue 11
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South Mountaineer
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November 16,1999
Correll
Lehigh confirms
leadership
alignment
Cornell to take charge
full-time of LEWIS team
Bruce Correll has agreed to relinquish his duties as university
registrar for
the next
nine months
in order to
take on a
special assignment as
full-time
director of
the Student
Project
Team with
LEWIS — Lehigh's Enterprise-
Wide Information System.
In making the announcement
last week, Provost Nelson
Markley also named Emil A.
Gnasso, associate registrar, as
acting registrar and said the university would launch an immediate search for an assistant registrar for research and systems.
During the interim period,
Markley said, Correll will move
his primary office to Christmas-
Saucon Hall, where the rest of the
LEWIS team is working.
"To assist in running the new
student registration and records
system during the interim period," Markley said,-"we will begin an immediate search for an
assistant registrar for research
and systems."
The goal of the LEWIS project
is to install and implement a new
campus computer information
system over the next two years.
New software for student services, including records, billing,
transcripts, financial aid, course
scheduling and admissions, is
LEWIS'S first priority
Correll has said the LEWIS
team hopes to have most of the
new system's capabilities up and
running by the fall of 2000.
Chen to remain as CEAS
dean through 2001
Five months after his appointment as dean for an interim period of the
P.C. Rossin
College of
Engineering
and Applied
Science,
John C.
Chen has
agreed to
serve in the
position
through the
academic year 2000-2001.
Lehigh Provost Nelson Markley,
who made the announcement
last week, said he and President
Gregory Farrington asked
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Chen
The
greater
glory
Tim Starkey
'00 stands
beside a
plaque
erected by
his greatgrandfather,
William Paul
Starkey,
Class of 1900,
near the
pulpit in
Packer
Memorial
Church.
A family tradition serves as
bookends to a century
When Tim Starkey graduates
this June with a degree in finance, he'll be carrying on a family tradition that began with his
great-grandfather, William Paul
Starkey, who graduated exactly
100 years earlier.
The younger Starkey didn't
discover the Lehigh association
with his great-grandfather until
after he had selected Lehigh as
his college. After visiting several
schools — including his father's
alma mater, Princeton —
Starkey learned about Lehigh
through his Peddie prep school
guidance counselor, who spoke
favorably of Lehigh's business
programs.
"I visited the campus to see a
friend here, and I just felt very
comfortable with the people and
the setting," says Starkey. "It felt
right."
Only then, in a conversation
with his grandmother, Elizabeth
Starkey. Cook, did he learn that
Cook's former father-in-law was
a proud Lehigh grad and active
alum, and that his great-uncle,
W. Paul Starkey Jr. '28, also
came to Lehigh. To learn more,
Tim Starkey approached Al
Pedrick '43, the adviser to
Starkey's Theta Xi fraternity.
Pedrick, archivist for the
Lehigh Univeristy Alumni Association, conferred with the
association's editorial assistant
Joan Andrews and met with
Lehigh special collections assistant Marie Boltz. Both women
helped him unearth a thick folder
of letters, clippings and mementos that recounted William
Starkey's long history of involvement with Lehigh, both as a
graduate and as a loyal alum.
In addition to being a member of the Lehigh chess team, the
General Engineering Society, the
Economic Society and the varsity
lacrosse team, William Paul
Starkey also served as secretary
to the Christian Association, as
an associate editor of The
Epitome yearbook and as a member of the board of The Brown
and White student newspaper.
As an alum, Starkey contrib-
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Town Hall
goes
online
Bethlehem Mayor Don Cunningham visited the Rauch Business Center last week to take part
in the Democratic Leadership Council's On-line Town Hall with President Clinton, who logged
on at George Washington University. Democratic, officials said it was the first-ever online
town meeting held with a U.S. president.
New council to
deal with
infotech issues
In an effort to streamline the
university's policies and priorities on information technology,
particularly in the area of electronic information processing,
Provost Nelson Markley has
established an Advisory Council
for Information Services (ACIS)
In a memo to campus last
week, Markley cited the "absence
of written campus policies on a
range of information technology
issues" and an insufficient " understanding about information
teehnology responsibilities
across campus."
He said Lehigh's most significant challenge was in the area of
electronic information processing, including electronic classrooms; desk top computers, help
desk services, software licensure
for PCs and workstations and
short courses for users.
Mohamed El-Aasser, chairman of the chemical engineering
department, will chair the new
council, Markley said. Other
members are Denise Blew, university treasurer; George
DuPaul, professor of education;
Jason Honsel, associate director of admissions; Rosemary
Mundhenk, professor of English, and Susan Sherer, associate professor of business.
Don Bolle, interim vice provost for information resources,
will serve as an ex-officio member of ACIS, Markley said, and
will develop one-page draft policies in such areas as acquisition
and support of personal computers and workstations; acquisition and support of desk top software; design, support, and maintenance of electronic classrooms;
interface between the campus web
environment and unit web sites;
selection, implementation and
support of instructional technology;
and identification and management of charge-back services.
Markley cited three other areas besides electronic information processing that pose challenges: information repositories
(library collections and services,
electronic journals, data bases,
campus data warehouse); campus transaction and data processing (enterprise wide information systems including LEWIS,
hardware and software maintenance for administrative functions, user training), and electronic
communications (telephone, fax,
networking and internet operations, internet connectivity, distance education support, cabling).
The area of most concern, he
said, is electronic information
processing.
"[This area] is where most of
the interfaces occur between In-
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