Brown and White Vol. 86 no. 37

              lehigh university brown and white vol h6 - no 37 ....•...■. _■■___■ :■••:■ .•:■■ ■■■•.•■•■••■• ■ ■ ■ ■■■.■■ bethlehem pa tuesday february 25 ifis ■ :■:■: , „ •■■■:■:■■ : ■:■,.• .■■■■•■■ ,/ ___#■ motion calling for acc delay is recommitted by ed bogucz a motion asking the administration to postpone the construction of the con vocation center until the university's financial priorities are reviewed was recommitted for further study by the forum yesterday according to the motion presented by bill rankin 75 chairman of the budget subcommittee it is felt that in view of the current financial difficulties . . . any use of unrestricted funds for the construction of the convocation center should be justified anew in the face of other emerging priorities therefore the motion continues con struction of the center should be delayed until a review of the ordering of the university priorities has been conducted the motion was signed by rankin and nine members of the forum steering committee the convocation center is part of phase i of the university's new century fund an on-going 10-year development cam paign e verett teal need for more policemen refuted by peter hauser the campus police department cpd does an adequate job and there is no compelling need to hire additional of ficers or to purchase more police vehicles according to eric ottervik vice president for planning the cpd ottervik explained is no different than any other university department adding that most can make a case that they are understaffed robert reeves assistant dean of students has said that since 1961 the university's inhabited land has grown by geometric proportion and the number of students and buildings has doubled while there has been only one policeman added to the cpd ottervik said that the same argument has been given regarding other depart ments in the past he said the question is whether or not the cpd was overstaffed in 1961 adding that this is only theoretical regarding the cpd planning officials ottervik said give top priority to academic concerns compelling arguments would be for example if students were getting short changed academically or in the case of the cpd if captain eugene dax and his men were unable to handle the load ot tervik said ottervik reported that the university has hired three students who are in the work-study program to ticket vehicles parked illegally this he added helps ease the patrolmen's load he said that the term campus police is somewhat of a misnomer in that their jobs entail many other functions including courier and inspection work for the buildings and grounds department in response to dax's requests for higher salaries ottervik replied that campus policemen are underpaid and said that he hopes to increase their salaries by several hundred dollars next year the problem with fund allocation ot tervik said is that there are many com peting needs and almost no money available university officials are currently requesting that each department decide how they might cut 10 per cent of their budget ottervik said he said that obviously not every department will have to make the cut and that the cpd for example cannot reeves also stated last week that the disrespect students have for the cpd is due in part to their inability to deal with students in an intellectual community like the university ottervik stated that he has been at three similar institutions and in each one there was a stigma which forced a natural distance between students and the campus police reeves suggested that a course designed to instruct officers in the ways to deal with students would be useful in eliminating that distance the only courses available are ones teaching criminal proceedure and civil actions ottervik said adding that the idea of such a course is a very good one placement director foresees no major employment problem by linda bondemore in other recessions we've had no mass unemployment of lehigh graduates nor do i foresee it here said everett teal director of placement and personnel services teal speaking of the current job situation said i feel rather confident that most engineers and accountants will have offers before graduation he added that students in other fields should find more encouragement during the months of march and april than they have received so far according to teal the fields rated good to excellent are chemical metallurgical mechanical and industrial engineering and accounting chemistry and electrical and civil engineering fall into the category of fair to good with physics liberal arts and business majors economics finance and management listed as fair salaries especially in those fields listed as good are up five to eight per cent he added teal was optimistic in his interpretation of those fields falling under the fair category to date employers have shown considerable interest in our students he said he added that many students in the fair areas are presently awaiting in vitations for plant visits or job offers to date students have taken 6,527 job interviews as compared with 6,511 a year ago however this year there seems to be some hesitation on the part of some employers to make offers for plant visits or job offers teal said the recession has had a definite effect on job recruiters he added this recession came on very rapidly no one forecast such a sharp drop in our economy he said adding with the improvement of the stock market we anticipate more activity from the financial community the job market is tough for liberal arts students teal said especially in the field of biology where the market is saturated because of recent environmental concern however teal said that a liberal arts background need not be a handicap in attaining jobs liberal arts students need to analyze what they can do with their education he said he added that a student cannot narrow his job choices down to the specifics in which he majored but must apply what he has learned to a variety of areas according to teal one of the primary reasons for the transfer from the arts to the business college is that most liberal arts students do not investigate what they can do with their majors students graduating from the business school are better able to identify types of jobs for which they will be best suited he said the placement service is a tool through which students can find jobs but it is the individual who gets the job teal said the recruiters are interested in people who are interested in them he continues new fma head selected after 4-month search by marsha marson after a four-month search richard jones has been selected as the new director of the fraternity managmeent association fma jones assumed his position last monday filling the vacancy left by c merris keen jr who resigned in october for health reasons paul leitner 76 chairman of the fma board of directors headed the search for the new director the main criteria used in selecting the director was for him to have a college graduate degree in accounting with three to five years working ex perience in accounting and finance management leitner said he added that this was the bare minimum criteria the board also wanted the new director to have had some type of an af filiation with fraternities and to have had experience working with students the board chose to expose the can didates to as many people as possible to receive feedback on them leitner said the board made the final decision in selecting the new director but they were guided by the responses from the fraternities and other individuals con nected with the fma he stated jones said his goals as director are to run an efficient operation the fraternity system at the university is the best he has ever seen he said i want to harness the power that 1,100 men can generate as a unit as opposed to 31 different frater nities jones said he added that the potential of the fraternity system at the university has not yet reached the sur face jones is originally from livingston new jersey he attended st francis college in loretta pa where he majored in ac counting he was active in fraternity af fairs being treasurer of his fraternity as well as president of the interfraternity council eric ottervik see acc page 5 see ottervik page 4 early issue the next issue of the brown and white will be distributed thursday instead of friday and will include a special eiwa wrestling preview advertisements should be submitted today by 4 p.m