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              see faculty page 4 the faculty will vote may 4 whether to raise the grade point average gpa graduation requirement to 2.0 effective with the 1988 freshman class the educational policy committee edpol proposal was put forward at monday's faculty meeting as well as a motion on student and self-evaluations of professors from the committee on student appraisal of in struction both motions were tabled until the may meeting the proposed requirements for good standing ac cording to a march 10 faculty memorandum for freshman through senior classes respectively are 1.7 1.8 2.0 and 2.0 the current gpa gradation is 1.5 1.6 1.7 and 1.7 for the four classes respectively edpol called the increase a major change in university rules tabling the motion allows the university community ample time to react to the idea said edpol chairman forbes brown mechanical engineering and gorbachev playing politics editor says military troops were bogged down in afghanistan a fortune was being spent on questionable allies and relations with both the united states and china were strained who would want that job i'm beginning to think he is the dumbest man in the soviet union gallagher continued gorbachev started his term with a declaration of openness a policy known as glasnost however according to gallagher the declaration does not mean implementation we're starting to see criticisms of stalin in books and movies and people in this country the soviet union are cheering openness but stalin died in 1953 it's like us just now being open about roosevelt or truman see gallagher page 5 soviet agriculture western reporters jokingly called gorbachev the dumbest guy in the soviet union for taking the post but it became a clever skillful political manuever gallagher said soon after his appointment elderly party leaders began to die or become incapacitated leaving many vacancies including konstantin chernenko's position as party head according to gallagher gorbachev emerged as party leader because the other contender was too tough and too intimidating members of the politburo a 13-member body con trolling the party machinery wanted a different political profile one more appealing to the outside world entering the office gorbachev faced several large political dilemmas by karen schoonover brown and while news writer mikhail gorbachev is playing politics with the same set of rules as everyone else with the same ob jective:...sustain power until the day one dies james gallagher the woodrow wilson visiting fellow said tuesday night gallagher who was selected to replace journalist kevin klose spoke to more than 100 people on what's going on in gorbachev's soviet union in the physics building gallagher currently science and education editor of the chicago tribune was a soviet news correspondent and has traveled ex tensively throughout the soviet union gallagher said gorbachev first came to moscow in 1978 as the head of b*w photo by mary ralston james gallagher the brown and white 215)758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania friday march 27 1987 lehigh university atlss to hold up its own v 01.98 n0.40 >: . : .,,. : .:. : . : ,,,.:. : .:...:....., b w photo by gil mancuso clown prince twiggy sanders of the harlem globetrotters clowns around with the washington generals in monday's show at stabler arena see story page 8 faculty tables gpa boost by elizabeth varga brown anil white manaaiiiit editor by brian cooke brown and while news editor editor's note this is the first of a two-part series dealing with the atlss research center construction began monday of the engineering research center for advanced technology for large structural systems atlss a research facility in building h of the mountaintop campus according to john bower deputy director of the atlss program this multi-million dollar facility will conduct three-dimensional stress tests on structures such as skyscrapers bridges and offshore oil rigs prestigious institutions across the nation competed to be the center's site with the support of industry and the north east tier ben franklin ad vanced technology center lehigh was chosen by the national science foundation nsf march 26 1986 a year ago yesterday lehigh's center is one of 11 similar nsf-sponsored engineering research facilities established since 1985 we believe this facility will put lehigh on the map even more so than it is now civil engineering professor john fisher atlss program director said the existing building will be rebuilt to accomodate a multidirectional test bed and loading facility to allow ex perimentation on actual structures as the only such facility in the united states fisher said it will be a national research center which will affect the entire american construction industry the bottom line is to improve the competitive position of the american construction industry in both the national and international markets fisher said the u.s construction industry faces an increasing technological challenge from foreign countries losing shares of in ternational and domestic markets to foreign competitors he said there's a lot at stake the u.s currently has the number one construction market in the world it's about a 400 billion-dollar in dustry—that's about 10 percent of the gross national product a partnership with industry has been sought since the program's inception fisher and other project coordinators have encouraged structures-related companies to become research and financial partners in the enterprise sharing in the research processes research results data access to facilities and royalty patent benefits suggested annual membership fees range from 2,000 for companies with fewer than see atlss page 3 kelsey regains consciousness elbow neck wound and minor abrasions according to hospital reports the car a 1978 saab was being driven by sophomore allison camp campus police said officer mario deleon of the bethlehem police department is handling investigation of the accident no conclusive information will be available until police can obtain a statement from kelsey deleon said he'll be out of touch for the next couple of weeks deleon predicted yesterday deleon said anyone with information with information pertaining to the accident should contact bethlehem police at 865-7187 or 865 7153 by brian cooke brown and while news editor junior patrick kelsey victim of a bicycle automobile collision on packer avenue march 17 was conscious and responding well to treatment at st luke's hospital as of wednesday according to associate dean of students mark erickson they were expecting him to get out of bed thursday erickson said it looks very positve after being unconscious for about a week kelsey still was listed in guarded condition according to a hospital spokesperson he suffers from a severe concussion fractured mechanics professor philosophy professor norman melchert delivered the report of the edpol subcommittee on graduation requirements the sub committee surveyed in stitutions with standards comparative to lehigh's of which four fifths had a graduation requirement of 2.0 and 11 out of the 20 required 2.0 for satisfactory standing in every class lehigh held the lowest standard requirement we are seriously out of line with our competition melchert said the average for seniors in 1986 was 2.9 sos higher than the 2.948 average of comparable schools the subcommittee also surveyed relevant lehigh officials on the effects of the current standards and con cluded in melchert's words overall it is embarassing to have such low standards assistant director of career planning and placement larry