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              friday december 7 1990 faculty approve new committee tenure policy lehigh university vol 98 no 23 favor of hiring exceptional associate profess ors with tenure at other institutions additionally alvin cohen professor of econ omics representing the personnel committee made a motion to give an associate professor who has tenure at another university tenure at lehigh we have to realistically face up to the market place cohen said cohen said lehigh upon first hiring faculty members is unwilling to grant the rank of full professor but by granting new faculty tenure lehigh will make itself a more attractive employer he said david curtis amidon jr director of urban studies felt this was a very eloquent debate both sides made very valid points he said it was a clear-cut confrontation most of those against the motion believed tenure should be earned while serving at lehigh harvey stenger jr associate professor and co-chairman of chemical engineering gave the strongest arguments against the motion saying tenure should be something which is difficult to achieve a problem will arise if we start making exceptions he added bylaracohn brown and white news writer lehigh professors unanimously passed a motion to create an ad hoc committee to consider issues related to faculty governance and debated granting tenure to associate professors during a faculty meeting last mon day accounting professor robert mills proposed the faculty steering committee appoint an ad both sides made very valid points it was a clear-cut confrontation david curtis aniidon jr director of urban studies hoc commitee with representatives from the four colleges to study and report back to the faculty no later than the fall 1991 mills added issues to be addressed by the committee are the poor faculty attendance at faculty meetings changes in the committee structure and the role of the forum a motion was also passed by a close vote in b&w photo by brian fucker professor j richard aronson speaks out at monday's faculty meeting lu parking policy analyzed criticized by jennifer gotljn special to the brown & white in 1986 wendy fried 91 a high school junior at the time visited lehigh for an interview and a tour her mother pulled into the parking lot of the admissions building and parked in a space marked visitors parking much to her surprise when mrs fried left the building two hours later her car had been given a ticket for parking in a visitors space without a permit what permit she wondered and dismiss ed the incident as a mistake more than a year later fried entered lehigh as a freshman and was shocked to find a parking fine waiting for her there was no mistake and lehigh fully intended to collect the money owed to it from 1986 unbelievable as it seems first-time visitors to the school are required to have full see parking page 5 o little town of bethlehem b&w photo by jason stanford important there are a lot of empty beds that the university has to fill well have to come up with a policy to fill them because the expenses are climbing for individual mem bers living in the fraternit ies he said according to bob robeson assistant dean of student life all five officers are extreme ly commited enthusiastic and task-oriented goldberg elected ifc president ley 92 from phi kappa theta fraternity we will certainly have to make some tough decisions during the upcoming calen dar year said goldberg he said the future of the closed party situation will be the council's first concern the bed situation is also by jennifer provda brown & white asst news editor jeff goldberg 92 was elec ted president of the interfrat ernity council ifc for the 1991 term last tuesday goldberg is a member of beta theta pi fraternity phil volpicelli 92 from delta sigma phi fraternity was elected vice president of administrative affairs and david weiss 92 from lambda chi alpha fraternity will become vice president of judicial affairs james mirenda 93 from phi gamma delta fraternity was elected secretary and the treasurer is now james buck the brown and white inside news robyn suriano 91 will be the editor in chief of the brown and white next semester she will be the 1 0th female editor in chief in 97 years _ page 5 pages 10-15 life style greek life