Brown and White Vol. 94 no. 27

              financial aid budget hike of 250,000 set for 1 983-84 by teresa kilcullen the concerns of sustaining enrol lment in a declining student market and of maintaining a high quality stu dent body have prompted a 250,000 increase in the financial aid budget for the 1983-84 academic year stated william stanford director of finan cial aid the increase is over and above the percentage increase in the budget that parallels the 11.1 percent increase in tuition stanford explained the measure was taken he elaborated in an effort to catch up with aid programs of other schools and to put us in a more com petitive position with the incoming freshman class university officials conducted a survey of competing institutions to determine how the university stood as far as the size of its aid program and the percentage of students on financial aid stanford stated the results he continued indicated that although the amounts of the universi jan 19 but was postponed because the board had not been selected at that time bolton said the board should make its decision by the end of february or the beginning of march if all goes well he said the state government can move very slowly at times bolton said if the bid is approved the center would involve universities and industries in 15 counties in the northeast tier " bolton said he said the boundaries are fuzzy " and organizations from outside the geographic boundaries have joined the group bolton said offices for the center would be housed near campus bethlehem steel has said it is willing to donate space he said the university's centennial school which is currently being used for storage is also among the options being considered for housing the center bolton said his office is still talking to people about providing matching funds for the center the university now has 53 funding partners and 367,810 pledged toward the project by tom dipiazza administrators are optimistic that the university's bid for a ben franklin technology center for the lehigh valley northeastern pennsylvania area will be approved according to michael bolton director of development i think our chances are very good bolton said the reaction we have had from people in harrisburg and in indus try has been very good the centers are being created follow ing the signing of a bill last year by gov dick thornburgh creating the ben franklin partnership board they are designed to create a partnership among academic governmental business industry labor and financial resources to support new enterprises modernize established industries and expand the scope of traditional industries the university's bid was submitted in december bolton joseph goldstein acting vice president for research and university president peter likins expect to make a presentation in harris burg feb 10 before the partnership board that presentation was to be made by peter trumbore response to sorority rush looks bigger than ever even with the addi tion of a four-dollar registration fee according to assistant to the dean of stu dents larry philippi approximately 350 sorority women and rushees attended the panhellenic informational meeting held wednesday to kick-off formal sorority rush this was an increase from the 301 women who participated in rush last year according to philippi seventy-eight bids were issued and 77 accepted last year he added philippi said that he expects more women to receive and accept bids this year according to karen lindquist 83 president of alpha gamma delta response at open houses has gone down since last year there were probably 60 to 80 girls less this year than last she said the addition of the registration fee might have something to do with the decline she indicated i assume that it may have driven some girls away she said philippi however stated that the fee was necessary to cover the costs of trans portation to the four sororities three of which are in saucon valley in the past the sororities were paying as much as 1,000 for transportation now the regis tration fee will take some of the burden off the houses philipp said one thing that has irked a few rushees however is the fact that the men have no registration fee to pay when they rush a fraternity i sort of think it's not fair as the guys don't have to pay one said rushee kel ley mitchell 86 she went on to say that she feels that either the sororities should pick up the cost or it should be absorbed by the university rushee darlene archie 86 however said she does not mind the fee it's worth it for the transportation after all it's not like they're keeping it for them selves she said see open page 6 b&w photo by john trbchlepfi kim miser 83 left and laura rothfeld 83 of alpha phi welcome prospective rushees to the panhellenic informational meeting held on wednesday the event marked the start of the formal sorority rush period see mohler page 5 competition in the job market because of this competition the university must compare itself objectively to other colleges you can get subjective and say well we don't care what lafayette bucknell or colgate or anybody else is doing i think that's completely wrong i think we have to be very sensitive mohler said i think all colleges and universities try to assess as objectively as they can the competitive situation this assessment includes a bottom line approach to knowing the competi tion and comparing your offerings objectively to theirs mohler said i don't know exactly how else you can do position in the marketplace he said the university is particularly attractive to the student concerned with finding a job upon graduation if you're fortunate enough that you don't need to worry about earning a live lihood tha.t's wonderful but you'd have to admit you'd be the exception and not the rule mohler said in the competi tive aspects of higher education i think lehigh ranks very well this rank is important to the univer sity according to mohler because it competes in many ways with other schools whether you like it or not he said we're in competition for funds we're in competition for students and the university through its students is in lehigh education ranks very well in marketplace mohler reports editor's note this is the second of a two part interview with harold mohler 48 chair man of the board of hershey foods corporation and president of the university board of trustees by tom dipiazza the university offers the type of edu cation that allows it to rank very well against other schools particularly dur ing difficult economic times according to harold mohler president of the uni versity's board of trustees mohler in an interview jan 14 preced ing a meeting of the trustees com mented on the integration of women at the university minority recruiting and new university president peter likins as well as the university's competitive lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday january 25 1983 215 861-4184 approval of bid expected for tech center at university vol 94 — no 27 formal panhel rush starts response good despite fee ty's aid packages were comparable to those of the other institutions the number of university awards given was below the number given by the competing schools every year the tuition increases the question arises of whether there will be adequate financial aid availa ble " stanford aid in the past the economizing has been primarily at the expense of the new freshman class in that if the amount of financial aid money available won't stretch far enough to reasonably cover the needs of the returning students we cut back on the number of entering freshmen to be offered aid he added that one of the problems of the past two years has been that the percentage of freshmen aided in the classes of 85 and 86 has been lower than in the prior 10 years however he noted that with the increase in the budget he expects 30 percent of the class of 87 to enroll with some amount of scholarship aid an see 250,000 page 4