Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 38

              the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pennsylvania v01.97-n0.38 tuesday march 18,1986 215)861-4181 divestment issue left unsettled bydaveleight editorial paoe editor editor's note tws is the last of a two-part arks on leugk's policy toward investment la companies dealing wit south africa when the 1979 forum subcommittee on university investment policy and south africa recommended that lehigh follow the sullivan principles which support racial equality as a means to a gradual shift away from apartheid the recommendation was passed almost unanimously almost ted morgan associate professor of government disagreed with the subcommittee's opinion that gradual change is inevitable he said the big question is whether the south african government can move fast enough to avoid a bloodbath which i think they're headed toward i think if economically threatened with collapse you'd see a lot of movement morgan said i think it is clear that the government will not change unless it has to change morgan conceded that there is more urbanization in south africa but denied that there is a rising middle class as long as they have our country's support then i don't think you're going to see much change morgan added although the see lehiqh page 5 mw hwto br jon twine pete pawlenko 89 of chi psl fraternity and tamara mohuchy 89 of delta gamma sorority dance about the low diving board in taylor gymnasium's jacobs pool during dg's anchor splash on saturday the benefit ralaed 1200 for sight conservation and am for the mind arts college proposes new distribution policy by dan ryan managing editor the college of arts and science policy committee last tuesday approved two separate proposals calling for a change in the college's distribution system and an increase in the minimum hours required for a bachelor of arts degree according to a memorandum distributed to the arts college faculty the first proposal will change the current distribution system in several ways first the new system establishes a general skills requirement tinder which students will have to take six hours of english com position six to eight hours of mathematics and six to eight hours of foreign language under the math requirement one course has to be pure mathematics while the other may be logic or computer progamming however under the language requirement culture courses will no longer count as substitutes secondly the proposed system would expand the distribution requirements from three broad categories to five more specific ones natural science would be divided into physical sciences and life sciences while the humanities would be separated into a straight humanities category and a performing and studio arts category the social sciences category would remain intact completing the distribution requirements would require taking six to 10 hours of physical sciences three to four hours of life sciences 12 to 13 hours of social sciences 12 hours of humanities and three hours of performing and studio arts the outline of the proposed system calls for students to complete the distribution requirements by the end of the junior year prior to this one hour of choices and decisions labeled an arts college requirement must be completed by the end of the freshman year the general skills requirements would be completed by the end of the sophomore year finally the new distribution system would no longer distinguish between preliminary and upperclass distribution and would eliminate current distribution subcategories by assigning virtually every course to one of the five main categories according to the memo this will allow students to take a wider variety of courses than is presently required while allowing them to take sequences of courses within a discipline for distribution credit also courses taken to fulfill majors would also count for distribution requirements since these courses would be assigned to one of the five distribution categories the second proposal calls for increasing the minimum number of credit hours required for a bachelor of arts see arts page 4 centennial school assists the emotionally disturbed 7 by brian cooke twenty-five years ago a few lehigh graduate students in the department of education gathered together in a garage behind the education buildings to help students with reading problems since then the program has grown to a state recognized school with a 51 5 million annual budget employing a staff of 55 to teach 140 socially and emotionally disturbed individuals located in a former elementary school about three miles west of downtown bethlehem the centennial school teaches elementary and secondary classes to students from age 5 to 21 students are referred to the school because they failed to perform properly in public school programs the student body comes from bethlehem and neighboring school districts and includes blind paraplegic and epileptic students the school's main goal is to prepare its students for return to public schools in doing so it provides quality education and mental health services to students and conducts research to find the most effective methods of teaching centennial also organizes a job training program for secondary students finding apprentice positions near the school and at lehigh it's an excellent program for the students we refer there it's been highly successful in preparing students to return to public schools which is what the aim of any private school of its kind should be joseph lantzer bethlehem school district's coor dinator of special education said most of the school's teachers are graduate students in the college of education which calls the school a laboratory facility it's similar to fritz laboratories in the college of engineering — the place to train engineers is in the laboratory and the place to train teachers is in the classroom centennial school director fred west said he also explained that plans for a satellite program are being negotiated since the school has reached its capacity of students and some neighboring school districts have expressed interest in starting similar programs inside counseling services what's available page 3 faculty quizzed on student quality