Brown and White Vol. 96 no. 31

              t he brown and white bethlehem pennsylvania lehigh university 215 861-4181 vol 96 — no 31 friday februay 8 1985 faculty wrestles over scholarship decision by chris palmeri several professors reacted negatively at monday's faculty meeting to president peter likins decision not to consult the faculty prior to seeking trustee executive committee approval for the awarding of athletic scholarships to wrestlers in his address to the faculty likins said he had put his ear to the ground and heard little rumblings that suggested we ought to have a conversation he then opened the floor to comment philosophy professor robert barnes said he wished there had been explicit faculty discussion or a resolution on the matter and said he thought the 18-month study of lehigh's financial aid policies for athletes was a task more than we can handle likins assured the audience there will be months of discus sion and there will be as much opportunity for faculty discus sion that anyone could ask for it is premature to have concern about substance of the study he said implying that the faculty should be concerned about the process of how the study will be carried out instead government chairman howard whitcomb reminded likins that the faculty needs to be heard....we need to play a role expressing disappointment m the way the matter was handled he said we were led to believe there was resolve to resist the decision we were caught by surprise industrial engineering professor wallace richardson con curred adding that the problem is i had to hear it from the local newspaper likins defended the decision stating that both the tradition of lehigh's wrestling program and the tradition of not giving grants to athletes could not coexist ' one tradition had to go " likins said likins argued that three more failed wrestling seasons would destroy the program for good something had to be done immediately likins said refer ring to the fact that the wrestling recruiting season was coming to an end he said that not deciding immediately would result m a de facto decision that might have destroyed the program likins said there was no chance for open discussion with faculty before his meeting with the board's executive commit tee acknowledging the sensitivity of the issue likins referred to an analogy made by one of the trustees which compared his decision to deciding to abandon chastity for a time likins pointed out that there will be no change m the wres tling budget either way and that no athlete offered a scholar ship as a freshman would lose the money if the decision were reversed computer center functional by stuart m silberman all of our systems are up and functioning director of the lehigh university computing center lucc gary lutz said lucc has been relocated m the recently constructed fairchild martindale library and computing center super mart lutz commented that all machines got up and running very quickly ahead of schedule and 100 percent he commended all of the people within the computer center staff for their assitance during the move lutz said that except for some cos metic details the computer center is fully operational the move involved the relocation of three of the university's primary main-frame computers including the cyber 730 dec-20 and the ibm the latter used for administrative purposes these machines which were housed m packard lab are now located across the street m the mart libary extension he explained the administrative offices which used to be located on brodhead aye apart from the rest of the computer center are now also m the new building lutz said it was really a pain operat ing that way it was really inconvenient very inefficient and very awkward he said that the new facilities are a very nice working environment 57 percent gives 3.5 million in addition to new administrative offices more terminals and a microcomputer laboratory have been added m the new building the terminals are for the dec and cyber and the micro lab will house 14 zenith microcomputers and will boast an overhead video projection system when finished he added the lab now contains 10 units and is available to the public when no classes are scheduled a library room has been incorporated to allow easy access to computer manuals and the consul tants have been set up m rooms which provide a much better atmosphere for working lutz said he added that the center is considering upgrad ing with the purchase of a new cyber computer system one m the 800 series he commented that the new system might be operational by this summer the new machine will have a signifi cant amount of more real memory and will be twice as fast as the current cyber eric thompson chairman of the computer science and electrical engineering department commented on the use of the space which was vacated by the move one room on the first floor of packard lab used to house the computer integated manufacturing laboratory which is now located m the 200 west packer aye building zuckerman reveals post-nuclear war resolutions by lynne anne miller sleeping arrangements designed to discourage illicit sex emergency change of address cards and arts and crafts classes m fallout shelters are among the civil defense plans the united states government has m the event of a nuclear war author edward zuckerman told a packard lab audience tuesday night the issuance of post-emergency change of address cards plans to burn stamps to prevent them from falling into enemy hands and a ban on postal money orders payable m the enemy's country are all contained m the u.s postal servi ce's emergency planning manual zuckerman revealed if you're like most people the author continued you assume that nuclear war would be the end of the world and that for the survivors society as we know it would be destroyed and no one would worry about getting mail for warded this is a reasonable way to think about war but it's not the way the u.s government thinks about it in the course of an hour zuckerman explained what his civil defense research uncovered about american plans for preserving society m the event of nuclear war claiming to have been lucky zuckerman met with civil defense officials five years ago while researching an article about civil defense he said the officials explained their projects to him m great detail because they felt their work was underappreciated zuckerman also met with coopera tive air force officials who allowed him to tour bases and testing centers navy representatives however responded m writing to only five of his questions the journalist said the impressions and information he garnered from these meetings form the basis of zuckerman's recent book the day alter world war 111 according to zuckerman one of the government's main objectives m the event of a nuclear war is to convince the public that they could survive the war this is what you'll be reading m the days before a nuclear war zuckerman said as he showed a slide of an article entitled would survivors of a nuclear war envy the dead experts say no civil defense authorities are instructed to release this article to the press upon receipt of government authorization he added citizens would be urged to evacuate the metropolitan nuclear risk areas and public buses would make the opera tion go more smoothly zuckerman said but some of those bus drivers he added would be travelling one way only once they had arrived at the desig nated areas the evacuees would pile dirt against the outside walls of the fallout shelters zuckerman explained he said that officials of the federal emergency management administration who over see civil defense plans maintain that b&w photo by sue knippenberg author edward zuckerman alumni donations set record by alicia orr lehigh recorded its highest participation ever m alumni donations during the 1983-84 fis cal year with 57 percent of alumni giving according to laurence hunter assistant director of development services as m the previous year that figure ranked lehigh third after dartmouth and princeton m thc percent of alumni supporters hunter said the national aver age is 18 percent lehigh's alumni alone gave 3.5 million m 1983-84 in 1982-83 lehigh was ranked 13th m alumni dollar support m a sur vey by the council for financial aid to education according to patricia boig director of annual giving harvard had the greatest dollar support with alumni giving 45.7 million that year the other top ranking schools include princeton yale stanford columbia cor nell dartmouth mit notre dame brown northwestern and university of chicago lehigh was also third m 1982 83 m dollars per alumnus given it isn't the dollar amount alone that's important corporations looking to invest see strong alumni support as a measure ment of the school hunter said the office of development has set a goal of 3.8 million for the present year private uni versities like lehigh need the support to survive hunter said see author page 5 see new page 5