Brown and White Vol. 90 no. 3

              lehigh university brown and white zis-bsb-0331 vol m - ne 3 bethlehem pa friday september 8 i§7l hahnemann program re-evaluated by linda pickens the lehigh hahnemann joint medical program is currently being re evaluated and there will be no recruiting for an incoming class according to nancy fulford health professions coordinator the university is essentially placing a stall on the program until the hahnemann faculty decides in september whether to extend the current six-year program of study to seven years nan van gieson assistant provost said there-evaluation is precipitated by the events of last june when hahnemann's selection committee rejected four of seven candidates from the university the students had been strongly recommended for admission by a . joint lehigh hahnemann selection committee ac cording to fulford the medical program students attend the university for two years including summers and then apply to hahnemann at the end of their sophomore year the hahnemann faculty has been dis satisfied with the six-year people van gieson said and has therefore decided to place more emphasis on cognitive selection factors these include grade point averages and medical college admissions tests medcat scores the question is whether or not it's fair to students to change the criteria we're unhappy to the extent that we think our students got a raw deal van gieson added all three students accepted by hahnemann from the university are male while the four who were rejected are female according to fulford we questioned whether sex dis crimination was involved van gieson said and they assured us that it wasn't i have to accept that however savita chaudhry 79 one of the four women not accepted said when you examine it why did the three men get accepted and the four women didn't i feel i was just as qualified if not more so than all three of the guys according to beatrice pisano 79 another of the four women applicants the possibility of taking legal action has been discouraged very openly the group approached university legal represen tatives about the case and was told there was no place to go with it pisano added in the past ten students per year have been admitted to the philadelphia's medical school but as a group this year's class was academically weaker than in past years fulford said we project that ten students will be selected from this year's class she added each applicant is interviewed by two committees : one at the university and one at hahnemann they are considered or thc basis of grade point average medea t scores non-cognitive factors such as personality motivation and maturity and regionally willingness to practice medicine in an underserved area of pennsylvania in past years i felt that the hahnemann committee followed our recommendations this year was an • exception fulford said the lehigh hahnemann joint medical program has been operating for five years it is difficult to monitor the progress of former university students at the medical school because grades are confidential fulford said at the moment everybody is doing just fine she commented according to fulford two other schools result of student misuse most of the damage costs were estimated by the maintenance staff who did the repairs lee said he noted that it nan van gieson program affirmed by bakke ruling by peg pfenninger while the united states supreme court was deliberating the case of a 38-year-old white med-schoo candidate uing a california university for admissions dis crimination college administrators waited anxiously for what they believed would he a landmark decision a supreme court decision to deny allan bakke admission to the medical school at the university of california at davis could have provoked deadly anti-affirmative action sentiment amongst whites a decision to accept bakke might have set affirmative action concepts back ten years or possibly abolish them all together but neither of those things happened students pay damage fees for residence hall repairs by cheryl winters between 15,000 and 25,000 was spent on repairs due to student vandalism in residence halls last year according to david lee director of residence operations lee said the money went for repairs such as re-painting re-tiling ceilings repair of fire alarm systems and replacement of fire extinguishers lee emphasized that the repairs figure is a rough estimate since all repairs have not been completed the residence office is still in the process of determining the amount of actual money collected through student billing he said students were billed for damage done to their own rooms in addition to paying a pro-rated share ot common area damages the common fee was 11.50 which helped pay for damages in hallways and lounges and general wear and tear lee said aii residents in taylor hall were billed for damages including the gryphon on each floor while some students were charged only for the common fee others were billed for damage done to their rooms some former residents however said they felt the bills they received were not accurate reflections of the damage one student claimed that he was charged the cost of re-painting because he had tape marks on his wall all the students in terviewed asked not to be identified the general provisions for student occupancy as spelled out in the student handbook and in a handout from the residence halls office states that tacks naiis tape may not be used on residence halls property former taylor residents also said they were charged fcr damages that were due to the age and condition of the building one gryphon there claimed the residence hall was not in good condition when they moved in he said that making taylor an all-freshman building made matters worse since the freshmen tend to let loose more than upperclassmen the gryphon also claimed that last year someone hit his door causing it to fall off the hinges the only solution is to im prove the building he said fining people doesn't solve the problem bring it taylor up to the standard of the other dorms and things won't fall apart he said according to lee approximately 45,000 was spent on re-painting and repairing taylor a year ago just before last year's freshmen moved in the building was in the best condition it's been in in years he said lee said the entire building was painted and damages incurred were the inside velodrome p 7 weekender p 9 season opener p 12 recruits ißaw photo by morrisoi freshmen and upperclassmen clogged the university center haus wednesday evening as they perused tha offering mt campu organizations the annual activities night covered it all fran politics te religkn te radio estate dispute may be settled in private talks an out-of-court agreement which would require an estimated 100,000 in im provements in university-owned south side properties has been considered in the brodhead will dispute according to the june 14 bethlehem globe times the university's legal representatives were unavailable for comment on the current status of the negotiations negotiations between the city of bethlehem and the university began in the wake of the university's successful petition to break the will of albert brodhead who bequeathed 51 properties to the university in 1938 brodhead an 1888 graduate of the university stipulated that uit saie of any must be used to upgrade remaining properties acquired from the estate according to the globe-times terms of the agreement could include facade restoration of a trust property at 554-558 main st whose occupants in clude ference cheese shoppe with work done in conformity with plans prepared by a city consultant improvements and code work on university-owned trust properties in the triangular block bounded by brodhead avenue fourth street and broadway improvements including land scaping to a gravel parking lot at packer and brodhead avenues opposite broughal junior high school any agreement must be voted on by the austin 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