Brown and White Vol. 93 no. 38

              school the academic emphasis is on things technical . despite its new veneer the admission of women lehigh is not looking to change the university is one of 265 of the 2,000 four-year colleges in the united states to be included in the guide and while the author maintains that his effort is essentially a journalistic effort based on the same kind of reporting that goes into the creation of the new york times newspaper students faculty and administration not only of lehigh but of schools across the nation are visibly upset with their reviews i'm extremely disappointed in the review arthur humphrey vice presi dent and provost said the beer see review pag 1 swilling jock school image in the first paragraph is simply not true the author has not dug deep enough under the sur face to recognize the complete change lehigh university is in the process of making an article appeared in the tufts observer of tufts university medford massachusetts calling the guide a lot of malarky a representative of colby college in waterville maine met personally with p'iske the meeting resulted in a com plete rewrite of colby's review according to fiske the guide is designed to help prospective freshmen and their parents become more intelli provost's assistant leaves accepts faculty post in lowa some had things there's a sense of har mony here at miu that i could not have found at lehigh the people here are functioning at a more coherent state it's really nice i left tojointhefacultj hereatmlu 1 he continued i am a member of the education department now they have a master's degree program in higher education administration here his spe cialty he said adding that as of now he is a visiting professor but has plans to become co-director of the program bargerstock explained his affiliation with the philosophy of transcendental meditation tm i started tm when i was in law school see bar(;kkst(h:k t page 3 popcorny b&w photo by raul dalaguardia the bookstore's new ticket counter was opened feb 15 a hotline number for ticket sales has been arranged the number is 861-4555 also found at the ticket counter is a photo renter and popcorn by georgk gabi zda a member of the provost's office has left the university to accept a faculty appointment at the maharishi interna tional university mil in fairfield lowa a school founded on the teachings of maharishi mahesh yogi former assistant to the provost cha rles bargerstock already the holder of a law degree received his doctorate in higher education administration from the school of education this past janu ary enabling him to seek a full-time faculty job bargerstock made it clear that he enjoys his new posit icn and still has good feelings about the university lehigh's a great place i was around four years and there were some good things and lehigh university brown and white vol 93 — no 38 bethlkhkm pa friday march 5 1982 opi aide elects to take resignation 215)861-4184 arthur h mann former asso ciate dean of students died early thursday in st luke's hospital fountain hill dean mann 62 retired from lehigh in 1979 prior to assuming his position as associate dean he had been headmaster of shadyside academy pittsburgh and castle heights military academy lebanon tenn he also served as ; assistant headmaster of st andrews school sewanee tenn a memorial service will be held j at 4 p.m sunday in packer memor : ial church chaplain hugh flesher i will conduct the service mann dies months ago however foster claims that his choice to resign was not fair my mistakes are far less excessive than others in the office " foster stated foster had held the position of assist ant director which required day-to-day press relations with the local news media including the brown and white he added that his job consisted primar ily of the writing and dissemination of research going on at the university and also of national news media foster said he dealt with news within the universi ty's engineering and arts colleges while a co-worker vicki steedle public inlor see official page 6 given the choice to resign or be fired a member of the office of public information opi submitted his letter of resignation on feb 22 roy foster former assistant director of opi said he was given the choice at a meeting with samuel connor director of opi and robert holcombe assistant vice president of development the morn ing of his resignation he was given the option to resign for his own future benefit connor said while holcombe refused to confirm whether foster was given the choice to resign or be fired if roy said that fine he made the statement not me by scott cagan use of flash powder in theater unauthorized holcombe stated foster explained that at 10 a.m on monday feb 22 he was told by hol combe to write a letter of resignation by noon of that same day or else he would be fired i don't know why they did this fos ter said via telephone from his home i was told by connor and holcombe that i made a lot of mistakes foster pointed out that he was not given specific reasons at the meeting as to why he had been given the choice foster who had been working for opi for 14 years said connor had first informed him of his mistakes two life safety code which is a bethlehem ordinance as fire marshal reinhard is authorized to issue permits for the use of such materials in addition he sard users have to be licensed i don't give permits to use it if the person is licensed i still don't like it in an enclosed building the powder which was to be used dur ing this weeks performance of canterbury tales is a flash powder which is used extensively in the theater according to jeffrey milet head of the speech and theater division he said he has decided not to use it again in this production by jeff eichenfield the use of a chemical flash powder which exploded in the wilbur drama workshop and injured two people sun day was not authorized by the bethlehem fire department according to bethle hem fire marshal william reinhard it was not checked out with me reinhard said if they called me i'd say not they couldn't use it that stuff is worse than using tnt or dynamite if you fool around someone is going to get hurt reinhard said the rules for the use of explosive materials is governed by the because of the danger involved but added that he can't guarantee it will never be used again he did note that his students were not licensed of reinhard's statements milet said the bethlehem fire department doesn't know everything about every thing he cited the example of a fire inspector last year who was unfamiliar with the fire-code rules for the use of extension cords in theaters the accident occurred late sunday afternoon during a rehearsal of canter bury tales jim ancel 84 was watching the rehearsal for a theater class and gave this account they were doing a prop he said he had a candle inside a big pot he was supposed to dip a metal rod in glycerin then into gun powder then hit the candle lor smoke he did that a couple of times for small puffs then he wanted a big one but he couldn't get it to go he kept doing it pretty quick about five times then he got another candle and did it live more times i guess he got confused he just stuck the hot metal rod into the powder see powdkh page 5 college review is considered inaccurate and disenchanting by allysa scott j.r aronson a well-known professor began an economics lecture last week with an announcement concerning a pro gram for studying abroad perhaps he said there are other beer-swilling jock schools over there in england i'm referring of course tothe new york times college review of lehigh univer sity he continued after they got that off their chests the rest is pretty accu rate the first paragraph is nonsensical - irritating is a better word the new york times selective guide to colleges 1982-83 written by edward fiske education editor of the new york times newspaper describes the univer sity as still a beer-swilling jock