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Volume 12, Issue 19
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February 3,1999
Inaugural set for April 9th
The inauguration of Gregory
Farrington as the 12th president of Lehigh is scheduled to
take place on Friday,
April 9, at 10 a.m. at
Stabler Arena. A campus-wide celebration is
expected, says Ray
Bell, chair of the inaugural committee.
The entire campus
will be invited to the official inaugural ceremony, which will be followed by a lunch for
everyone on the University Center lawn. An exciting evening is planned with
a musical smorgasbord slated
for multiple venues on the main
campus. More details on inaugural activities will be distributed soon by the committee and
made available on the Web.
At Monday's faculty meeting,
the faculty voted that a half day
of classes scheduled for April 9
be rescheduled (at a time convenient to all) to support activities scheduled as part of the inauguration. The inaugural committee recommended that morning classes be cancelled. Provost
Nelson Markley later issued a
subsequent announcement to
that effect.
Education college touts
new combined degree
The College of Education will
hold a meeting Feb. 25 for undergraduates interested in its
new five-year bachelor's and
master's combined-degree program.
The meeting will be
held at 4 p.m. in Neville
III auditorium.
The meeting is part of
the college's effort to
publicize the program,
which will officially begin during the fall semester.
There is a March 15
deadline to apply for admission.
About 45 undergraduates attended a similar meeting sponsored by the education college in
November.
"We're looking for students interested in teaching who have a
high level of commitment to children, as demonstrated by their
experiences in academic or community settings," said Lynn
Columba, associate professor of
education and human services.
"The meeting will provide an
overview of the program and will
give students the chance to meet
some of our faculty."
The five-year combined-degree program allows students to
earn both a bachelor's and a
master's degree in five years.
Similar programs at most other
Please see Degree on page 6
Tragedy becomes a learning tool
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Graphic by Ken Raniere
This seismogram (above) indicates a 5.8
magnitude earthquake in Armenia, 200 km
west of Bogota, Colombia, at about 6:20 p.m.
Jan. 25. Lehigh's seismographic station on
South Mountain sends data to the EES lab.
Anne Meltzer, associate
professor of earth and en
vironmental   sciences
(EES), and Golam Sarker, a
post-doctoral researcher, went
into the lab last week knowing
they would see phenomenal
data.
Sarker had heard on television that a massive earthquake
had struck western Colombia,
nearly 4,000 miles away from
the site of a seismic station at
Lehigh that he, several undergraduate students and a technician had helped Meltzer to install.
The station, which rests on
bedrock, contains a sensor that
detects ground motion. Protected
inside an underground vault
that shields it from noise and insulates it thermally, the sensor
records data continuously, making it easy for Sarker to search
the records and find the event.
"It was a pretty unique experience - being able to see the
data from an instrument that I
had helped to install," he said.
Lehigh, says Meltzer, is one
of only two universities in Pennsylvania, the other being Penn
State, that have seismic stations. Lehigh's station is part of
the Northeast Regional Seismic
Network and the National Seismic Network, organizations that
study seismic hazards throughout the the world.
The Lehigh station contributes data to these networks.
Both students and faculty are
studying Lehigh's recording of
the Colombia earthquake.
Meltzer will use the data in her
introductory seismology course.
Ed Evenson, professor of EES,
is using it in an introduction to
environmental geology class.
"This really helps makes
things a lot less abstract for the
students," Meltzer said. "They
are working with real data, on a
real project. They're also learning what it is like to be part of a
real organization. And they're
able to study something that is
being studied from many points
of the earth."
Meltzer said the data helps
them learn about the earthquake rupture process and
about the structure of the earth.
"While earthquake prediction is a long way off, learning
about these two aspects can help
us mitigate the risk associated
with earthquakes," she said.
The Lehigh's seismic station
is part of the Lehigh Earth Observatory program, which is operated largely by undergraduate.
students and has a broad charge
to monitor and study earth and
environmental systems and the
ways in which these systems interact with human society.
Meltzer said that in about a
month they will be able to have
data recorded by the seismometer posted in near real time on
the project's web page. The recordings of the earthquake in
Colombia will be posted on the
project's web page at www.
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Technology in teaching
The College of Education has been playing a role
in Gov. Tom Ridge's effort to boost technology in
public schools.
For 18 months, Lehigh has been one of 15
"test" sites in Ridge's Link-to-Learn program, a
three-year, $132-million initiative to bring more
technology to classrooms, including new computers and technology training for teachers. The program also promotes community partnerships and
economic growth.
The state awarded more than $4 million to the
test sites approved for the project's first year.
Lehigh and the other sites - mostly schools and
community groups - have each developed a
project to meet Link-to-Learn's goals.
Lehigh's project - "Integration of Narrowband
(Internet) and Broadband (TV) Satellite Technologies for Teaching and Learning" - was developed by Leroy Tuscher, coordinator of the
educational technology program.
"The purpose," Tuscher said, "is to create a
hybrid information delivery system that integrates the broadband capabilities of direct
broadcast satellite and the peer-to-peer attributes of narrowband Internet technologies."
An information infrastructure integrates the
different technologies - networked, broadcast,
digital, interactive and multimedia - and delivers instructional media to them via "convergent technologies systems" which include a 36-
inch monitor to students in kindergarten
through 12lh grade classrooms, and to other users.
A networked version of the convergent systems was configured and tested with the mobile
spacebus developed by the Parkland School District. The spacebus - a multimillion dollar venture supported by area corporations and busi-
History: A field of dreams
He was drafted in high school by
a major league baseball team,
but Eric Clement '99 thought
college was a "better bet."
So rather than scoop up
grounders for an Anaheim Angels farm team,
Clement studies history
at Lehigh.
"The value of education was something my ■
parents instilled in me,"
said Clement, who
hopes to go to law or
grad school. "You can't
play baseball forever."
An infielder, Clement was drafted by the
Angels for the offensive
numbers he posted with
the New Rochelle High
School team. He also
was scouted by the
Braves, the Yankees
and the Mets.
After graduating from high
school, Clement began attending college near New York City.
"I started thinking about
transferring, and a friend told
me about Lehigh," he said. "We
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Rob Upton
Eric Clement '99 works out at
spring training.
visited here, and I fell in love
with the school. I love the traditional look of the campus - the
green areas, the trees and the
gothic-style buildings."
He also was impressed with
the baseball program.
"I wanted to stay in Division
I, and go to a better school close
to home so my parents could
watch me play."
Clement got to know some of
his classmates in a rather unusual place - the treetops. Last
semester, Clement took part in
a high ropes course in an English class on short-story writing. Each student, wearing a
hardhat and safety gear, negotiated the course with ropes and
pulleys. Two classmates on the
ground assisted.
"It was a teamwork project,"
he said. 'You're up there in the
trees, and you have to put your
trust in your classmates. It
brought us closer."
-Rich Harry
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