Brown and White Vol. 90 no. 1

              lehigh university brown and white vol m _ no i ■ #■« i il i'l/ii e#»*x ■^»»« f • "•"•• • • * j "* rf " • ««•*•» uut a * w w 2 1 5~90^433 1 university not employing full-time opportunity officer by linda pick ens a full-time equal opportunity officer will not be hired by the university according to almemo distributed on aug 25 to all faculty and staff by dem ing lewis university president instead three equal opportunity officers have been appointed for students professional and support staffs and for the faculty in addition four equal opportunity iiaison officers have been appointed for each college as well as for the school of education i have concluded that we should not have one full-time equal opportunity of ficer but rather should have some decentralization of the responsibility for the equal opportunity program lewis said in the memo the university has not had a full-time affirmative action officer since last december when lora liss resigned preston parr vice president of student affairs has been appointed equal oppor tunity officer for students richard spriggs vice president for administration will fill the same post for the professional and support staff and austin gavin executive consultant to the president will serve as equal opportunity officer for the faculty in addition norman melchert dean 01 the college of arts and science curtis lump dean of the college of engineering and physical science brian brock way former dean of the college of business and economics and perry zirkel dean of the school of education will serve as equal opportunity liaison officers and will work with gavin parr spriggs and gavin will then report to the president according to the memo i recognize that i as president have the final responsibility lewis stated in the memo an equal opportunity advisory com mittee will also be elected according to the memo it will consist of one faculty member from each college and the school of education three forum repre sentatives three representatives from the supporting staff and two representatives deming lewis extra freshmen glut dorms acceptance ratio above average hvikkwmisardi tne best-laid plans of the admissico office backfired again this year with approximately 30 extra freshmen as the result although the office took extra measures to avoid a repeat of last year's freshman boom admissions trends were defied with an unusually high percentage of ac ceptances last year the freshman class was 95 students larger than originally planned the extra freshmen placed an added burden on the university's already crowded residence system they were housed in the system's few vacancies study lounges and residence hall libraries ( see story page 1 . ) the residence system now is at 112 per cent capacity the admissions office has little control over the acceptance yield or number of students who accept offers of admission director of admissions samuel missimer explained each year the office obtains from various deans and administrators the desirable size and distribution of the next year's freshman class the office then offers admission according to an ac ceptance ratio based on ptist experience for the 1978-79 school year 2.965 offers of admission were made to ottain a 1,050 member class because of last year's unexpected glut of students the admissions office gave 300 less offers this year than it would under normal circumstances however by april 28 just a few days short of the may 1 acceptance deadline only 842 ac ceptances had been received if the number of acceptances the university receives falls short of the desired class size or if withdrawals from the incoming class drop the class size below the planned level the admissions office refers to the waiting list at the end of apri the office made 130 offers to people on the waiting list past experience indicated a 50 per cent acceptance yield from waiting list offers of admission this year 105 waiting list applicants sent in acceptances if the office had not gone to the waiting list the university would not have achieved the planned for ioso-member class missimer said if we wut until after may 1 to refer to the waiting list the list begins to disappear and we get fourth samuel missimer residence halls filled past capacity thirty nine freshmen males had to be housed in temporary quarters because of an unexpectedly large freshman class and a low number of freshman commuters according to barbara kreppel assistant director of residence operations of the 39 33 were placed in upperclass sections or study lounges 4 in a dravo house library and 2 in the stoughton house library the residence system is now at 112 per cent capacity unpredictable admissions trends resulted in approximately 31 extra fresh man according to director of admissions samuel missimer see story p 1 the admissions office expected 10 per cent of the 1081-member clas r . to commute he explained instead only 69 members of the class will not live on campus ail freshman are guaranteed housing if they do not commute at the beginning of may the 31 extra students in the class and the 09 who were expected to commute presented the residence staff with the problem of where to house 100 freshman males by mid-july cheers biw photo by glscicman well it's not the old silver goblet but the class of 82 gets into the swing of things tuesday night at the annual freshman pep rally steck had the crowd on its feet all night true blue 82 . . zoning board gives okay to warren square housing by jerry miller the university has been granted a temporary exception from the city's zoning regulations to house students in the warren square complex two days before residents arrived but only after making several concessions to local residents the exception which expires at the end of the academic year was approved last wednesday at a meeting of the bethlehem zoning hearing board in bethlehem city council chambers a zoning variance obtained last summer expired in july the variance changed the complex listing from residential to in stitutional more than 50 freshmen are being housed in the buildings which the university was forced to renovate for housing last sum mer when 95 extra students swelled the class of 81 a variance was granted at the time becl jse the buildings are located in a residential area the university had planned seeking a permanent change in the zoning but was informed late this spring that a permanent exception to the zoning ordinance would be necessary instead according to a letter to the zoning hearing board from eric ot tervik vice president for planning in executive session assistant city solicitor lawrence fox told the board the university could go to court if the board ruled against the exception we would have gone to court to seek an injunction if we had been turned down william quay dean of students said wednesday he said the university would have been forced to house students in lounges and other areas not designed as beds pace the request for an exception from the zoring ordinance had been tabled at the july meeting of the board to enable the city to do legal research into the matter a number of homeowners in the warren square area were present at both meetings most but not all were against see no page 14 ret resident page ii see rop vein page 6 set high page 13 join the b&w there will be a manadatory meeting for all those interested in joining the b&w on tuesday sept 5 at 4:30 in uc3o3 inside bookstore registers p 4 minority enrollment p 6 freshmen focus p 7 now coach p 16