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              it's not a major decline and we're not really concerned the most important part of the application is the quality of the high school transcript and the type of courses taken said hanks according to hanks since the essays are optional the student is not harmed by failing to answer them because so many students who apply to lehigh have similar scholastic records hanks said the admissions board looks to activities leadership qualities achievement test scores and recommenda tions before making a decision hanks explained while sat scores can be a determining factor between students with equally strong transcripts she said we look at so many things that in very few cases is it just that hanks said lehigh is following a national trend by having a decreasing amount of applicants for the engineering program she said most apply to the college of arts and science then to the college of engineering and applied science and finally to the college of business and economics wilson fellows discuss public broadcasting dean when i first got out of col lege i was in the army i used to play in an army band which had as one of its responsibilities the development of a television program then in my first teaching position i had a weekly classi cal music program i spent a number of years in education where broadcast ing was secondary when i was at the peabody conserveratory we had a television program for students and then public radio and television really took off ellen i gradually started doing more and more of the research type and although i still kept playing i got more interested in writing i had done some writing of proposals for funding and then started working in develop ment and so we ended up working in the same place which we had done before because we worked in the same college b&w what is the likelihood that college students will land in the care er they're preparing for dean the fact is life will change and you'll change with it one day you'll look at it and say i don't know how i ever got here but there will be some development particularly in media many of the things you're see boal page 4 complement of nationally distributed radio programs in concert music jazz folk music and drama ellen boal has a doctorate from washington university in missouri a cellist she performs professionally with the washington bach consort the washington camerata and musica antigua of washington and she has written two books with her husband on piano concepts and skills the following is part of a brown and white interview yesterday with the husband-and-wife team b&w since your interests were primarily in music how did you land in a career in broadcasting by kristin upani brown and white news editor dean boal director of arts and performance programs for national public radio and his wife ellen tesel le boal development associate for npr will meet with various groups throughout the week as this year's woodrow wilson visiting fellows they will speak on engineering the arts the value in today's society tomorrow night at 8 p.m in university center room 303 and will also speak in music government sociology and journalism classes during the week dean boal is currently responsible for organizing and implementing a full the brown and white 215 758-4101 bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday march 8 1988 lehigh university forum wants divestment vol.98 no.33 take direct action right away he said since that's not the way of lehigh and selective divestment is a more likely starting point leight said the committee was formed last semester to work on the issues of divestment and a scholarship for black south africans he said the committee's most notable achieve ment was the panel discussion held jan 28 now that forum has voted for selective divest ment leight said the committee will focus its attention on the scholarship for south africans forum also voted on the calendar for the spring of 1990 turning down a proposed compromise calendar supported by chaplain hugh flesher the substitute calendar would have included spring break in the second week of april flesher spoke for this version because it managed to include both passover and easter athletic department business manager craig anderson spoke against the proposed calendar he said it is much better for students involved in spring sports to have a week-long break in march so as not to interfere with spring sports schedules the motion for the compromise calendar was defeated and the officers voted to keep the original calendar proposal by robyn suriano brown and white news writer forum officers voted thursday to recomm end a policy of selective divestment to the lehigh board of trustees only by acting as a collective can something be done said graduate student david leight chairman of the south african investments committee leight asked forum officers to consider divestment as an important issue which will affect not only lehigh but possibly the millions in south africa leight also acknowledged the limited power of forum's decision he said while forum will be making a recommendation it is not a formal one it's in a sense a suggestion but a backhanded suggestion he explained he said the committee is not proposing an actual system for the board to follow as it is strictly the board's decision to choose any policy on divestment leight asked forum officers to take the first step and establish a position for the student government he said although the committee is very divided on this issue selective divest ment may be the appropriate compromise it is unlikely that the board of trustees will want to no changes in admissions b&w photo by arlene helminski mike polaha leads lu into tonight's ecc final vs tsu the game will be on espn at 7:30 p.m see page 12 more information from the applicants hanks explained in previous years several stu dents answered the optional essay questions even though there was no space provided on the applica tion for them however while the essays are still optional most students are answering them since there is space for their responses on the application itself she said in addition hanks said lehigh expanded the application because most schools lehigh competes with have an essay we didn't want students to feel lehigh was any less competitive because we didn't have one she added in the past hanks said some students applied to lehigh because of the simple application with the revised application the number of applicants has dropped this year to about 6,200 while last year about 6,600 students applied hanks said the admissions departmentwas expecting a slight drop butshe said by robyn suriano brown and white news writer lehigh will not decrease the size of the incoming freshman class despite the increased size of the class this year according to associate admissions director susan hanks the size of the freshman class this year will be roughly the size that we intended last year's class to be explained hanks lehigh will not tighten admissions standards in order to have a smaller freshman class next year she said hanks said the university will accept 1,070 applic ants this year as opposed to the approximately 1,300 students that were accepted last year she said it is part of the university's ongoing 10-year plan to take about 1,070 new students each year lehigh revised their application for next year's incoming class to include space for essays and short answers hanks said our intent was to get a little