Brown and White Vol. 93 no. 44

              lehigh university brow n and white vol 93 - no 44 bethlehem pa friday april 16 1982 215)861-4184 higher literacy standards proposed for foreign tas by mahvi-kth kdklen a proposal calling fora higher english literacy standard for graduate students who speak knglish as a second language has been sent lo the faculty graduate committee for consideration by arthur humphrey vice president and provost the proposed standard sets a university-wide requirement of a 550 score on the test of english as a foreign language toefl for admission to the graduate school in addition the pros pective student must have recently com pteted two years in an knglish medium school courses taught in knglish . or present evidence of his ability to perform in such a school secondly graduate students will receive teaching assistantships tas only if they score 600 on the toefl and have either fulfilled the above knglish medium school requirement or demon strated their conversational proficiency in english finally graduate students seeking ta positions who score between 550 and 800 on the toefl must satisfactorily com plete a six-week 25-hours-per-week kng lish course given by thc i'niversity the summer prior to their matriculation at the university the toefl is the equivalent of the knglish scholastic aptitude test sat and is the internationally accepted standard for admission to american universities these guidelines developed out of a presentation made to the foreign stu dent/visitor coordinating committee by kathy llean who is in charge of gradu ate admissions for foreign students and bill sypher director of the learning center in this presentation dean and sypher expressed concern over the uni versity s policy toward foreign graduate 70 in the shade l_w photo .-. katm mi un after a winter hat no one thought would end a breath of spring was refreshing for these uni versity students sunbathing on the lawn out side kiehards house after a deprcssingly snowbound faster spring may just he here to slay forum sac rhc report election results sac flections an almost unprecedented turnout of 1.105 voted in the student activities council sac elections april 5 accord ing to outgoing president dan butler 82 he added that this election and the sim ilarly good turnout for class officer elec tions the week before may be a sign that students arc getting interested and that apathy may be dying the results of thc sac election are as follows president david dender 83 vice president steve aronson 84 treas urer pete demaria 84 secretary bill brennan 84 concert chairman jon lewis 84 concert vice chairman steve cordon 84 film chairman karen shi hadeh 83 publicity chairman jefl aronson 83 public relations chairman sue pressor 83 lecture chairman kevin murphy 84 hourglass chairman michele small 84 hourglass vice chair man lisa broder 85 independent representative pete mistretta 83 rhc epresentative irene math 84 ifc i-^vi-t-.h.-n v ori-i i'ni'lnoy '«*»: i'iill hi'lhtne-trpresi'iitjtive nina kantfc 4 visiting lectures committee members from thc arts college mary beth cooleen 84 and cheryl relies 84 business college members daniel borten 83 and cheryl miller hit engi neering college members chris ansoff 85 and jess rosenthal 84 forum elections we're very ple__m-d witli tht turnout uf lhe korum xiii representative elec tions held april 5 and 6 said this year's forum chairperson lisa fisher 83 she said that she hopes the large response helps interest in the forum to grow . " flections for forum xiii officers will be conducted wednesday in the uc yes social survey indicates need for alternative programming by diana wali students are generally dissatisfied with the social life at the university according to a survey taken by the social and cultural alternatives committee ninety-one percent of the students sur veyed said there is a need for social and cultural alternatives at the university according to a report by the committee at last monday's final forum xii meet ing upperclassmen indicated thc strongest desire for alternatives and of the 77 percent who said there was not enough variety in social and cultural alternatives upperclassmen again were the most dissatisfied the spring carnival rock concerts and comedians were the students favorite activities while faculty members favored the international festival dance troupes and jazz concerts opera was fourth on the faculty list but last on the student list sixty six of those surveyed said they would attend six-week non credit courses if they were offered wilh upper classmen the most enthusiastic and faculty members the least enthusiastic the survey revealed freshmen as the most frequent users of the facilities at the field house and the swimming pools and faculty members as the least likely to attend events at stabler arena also at the meeting final reports were heard from thc education policy cam pus life academic environment and administration committees and the forum adopted the calendar forthe 198 84 and 1984-85 academic years springfield concert floor seats sold over break by kathy goldstein students didn't get the good seats that they usually get " for the rick springfield concert according to lon lewis sac concert chairman who said tickets were put on sale without the sac's knowledge during the week of march 15 when students were on break according to richard fritz director ol events at stabler arena it is not possible for stabler to close up operations and business while students are on vacation fritz said that on feb 2 the promoters asked that four dates be held as potential concert dates they were mar 16 18 25 and maj 22 during the faster vacation the promoter chose mar 25 he said and thc tickets had to go on sale we are dealing with a participation equation between promoters students and the facility he explained rock concerts comc about quickly he added and since the arena does not put out money but instead leases the facility we are not in as much control " we held the best seats that wc possi hly could but it must be admitted that the floor seats were probably gone ' fritz explained although sales began prior to the students return tn campus tickets were not denied to any student who wished to purchase them he con tinued the arena and the university set aside and reserved approximately 1,000 tickets lor students to he sold after break but a high demand before stu dents return forced some ol these to be offered for the university as a whole lo real ize thc success of a concert requires ( nc per ition with promoters fritz con tinued this cooperation includes having tickets on sale weeks before the concert is to lake place he said normally concert tickets are put on sale a day in advance to university stu dents allowing them first chance at the better seats according to lewis sinct stabler did not contact lewis overbreak he was not aw ire until after he returned that the tickets had been put on sale i had been working on getting rick springfield with one promoter electric factory , but another promoter tom makoul got it instead he said fritz emphasized that the students are kept in mind for tickets for every con cert every effort is made on every con cert for tickets to be available to students a day in advance but we could not do that in this particular situation he said he also mentioned that an explanation was offered to lewis dan butler sac president und roger watkins assistant dean of students and was accepted by them according to fritz stabler along with the sac has put on a record number of concerts this year 11 in nine months students share in the revenues of these concerts up to a point of 5,000 for the school year he said adding this amount has already been obtained by sac we have never had as much cooperation as we have had with lon lewis dan butler and this year's sac he concluded see voter page 3 see competing page 8 inside national cancer week special report