Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 3

              by john fleming the long-awaited statement reveal ing the results of tests for excessive radon concentrations will be issued by end of the week according to pat chase of facilities services the study which has been under way since april 1985 includes results from 121 buildings and three separate rounds of testing in south mountain and murray h goodman campuses although the university's location at the southern end of the radon-plagued reading prong and the geological composition of south mountain make it a logical candidate for high radon concentrations no such excessive lev els have been found in any university building it appears that lehigh university does not have a serious radon concen tration in any of its buildings consul tant anthony lamastra of health physics associates stated in an april memorandum dean of students john smeaton echoed this position on wednesday when he said according to the data we've seen so far there is no danger in any of the university's buildings trustees to discuss athletic scholarships in oct paign participation ever 67 percent corporations contributed 6.9 million last year indicat ing in fulton's words lehigh's growing relation ship with government and industry the ben franklin technology center and homer labs being two exam ples of this new partner ship the president responded to written comments he receiv ed from an anonymous profes sor regarding homer's use to lehigh various evaluations were made of the laboratories at the south mountain site from which a preliminary tentative use plan was com the report is the result of 18 months of deliberation by seven individual subcommit tees since jan 1985 lehigh has been offering for a trial period partial wrestling scho larships above need by doing so the university was really just buying time in order to debate the issue vice presi dent for student affairs mar sha duncan told the brown & white last april in october the 70-page draft of proposals will go before the board for discus sion according to likins not until jan 1987 will it come to a vote before the trustees in other business john ful ton of the university develop ment office summarized lehigh's progress during the last fiscal year alumni con tributed 11.5 million up 1 million from the year before thereby reaching a goal set by alumni six years ago of 60 per cent alumni gift participation the national average for alumni contributions is 18 per cent participation lehigh has just surpassed princeton uni versity's 58.4 percent and is edging closer to the national leader dartmouth university with 64 percent according to fulton lehigh's a good invest ment fulton commented last year's graduating class had the highest class gift cam posed from these it was determined according to lik ins that the facilities are not usable by the college of busi ness nor are they transfor mable into a performing art center in short homer labs will persist in a laboratory capa city for research and possibly undergradute work how ever it is possible likins said that the entire college of education will be moved to the site according to likins the anonymous professor also commented it's too bad we can't get into the ivy league it's where we belong both in . see faculty page 5 dancers hijacked by elizabeth varga news editor president likins report concerning scholarships for intercollegiate athletes will not become public knowledge until october he announced monday at the first faculty meeting of the semester this report includes the issue of awarding non-need-based wrestling scholarships only select members of the faculty the faculty steering committee and members of the board of trustees will have access to a draft of the recommendations in final anaylsis form before the board meets oct 10 likins said by nick janulis the hijackers of the pan am world airways jumbo jet in karachi pakistan killed one the indian dancers and their choreographers who were scheduled to perform at lehigh and injured six other dancers according to their sponsor aksay shah the 21 dancers known as aavishkar from ahmedabad india had received a visa about two weeks ago and were very excited about coming to this country according to shah aavishkar planned to make their first stop at whitaker lab auditorium as part of their two-month tour which included stops in baltimore washington dc chicago florida los angeles and san francisco the tour maybe rescheduled however shah said the two who died were literally sprayed with bullets and their bodies were practically unidentifiable shah an allentown resident and a physicist at at&t's bell laboratories said the two who died were the manager choreographer trupti dalai 35 and the dancer rupal desai 20 he said dalai was covering up her 10-year-old son when she was sprayed with bullets one of the six dancers injured had received three bullet wounds but she and the other five are now in stable condi tion the sponsor continued they were flown back to india monday night to join the uninjured dancers when the dancers boarded the plane in bombay they entertined the passengers by dancing shah said it was quite a show on board but in two hours everything changed conflict with his son's graduation from prep school one other important factor was involved a lehigh trustee bill clayton met cosby while both were working for e.f hutton according to likins cosby wore a lehigh sweatshirt when the two first met which was his way of telling clayton he was aware of the university so clayton was the catalyst all of likins requests went through the trustee who now had an important relationship with cosby likins said in the five years that he's been here relationships have always played a part in getting the graduation speaker it was the same way two years ago when clayton helped land malcolm forbes to speak because the two had a personal association the same held true for lee lacocca william scranton and john irving the irving situation was unique likins asked the author to speak in 1984 and was rejected because of another engagement irv ing however did say he could speak at the 1985 commencement when it came time to select the 85 speaker the president was aware of this verbal com mitment the senior class chose irving as number nine among the preferable speakers see cosby page 4 lehigh trustee helps to get cosby by rich kleban editorial page editor the bill cosby announcement has created a stir among the lehigh community the likes of which have not been seen for quite a while but the university's statement of the gradua tion speaker was just one small step in a long and arduous process the main speaker at lehigh's commence ment is chosen by the students members of the class are given a list towards the end of their junior year of anywhere from 50 to 100 names of possible speakers the class of 1987's possi ble choices included nancy reagan walter cronkite and bill cosby a total of 33 percent of this year's senior class participated in the process and over whelmingly chose cosby according to class president lou bunnick the class officers then present president likins with the results and he attempts to get cosby to speak it's been going on this way for the past three years likins said because every class seems to want the same speaker the class of 1986 chose bill cosby but he had a prior engagment on their commencement day however as the end of the spring semes ter approached without a speaker cosby was asked again he then politely refused but ver bally agreed to speak in 1987 if the date didn't the brown and white v01.98 n0.4 lehigh university friday september 12 1986 bethlehem pennsylvania 215)758-4181 radon outcome tba b&w photo by young hong three shady lookin chicks flash a smile as they soak in the sun dur ing saturday's soccer game enjoy the tank and sunglass weather while you can it won't be around much longer