LehighWeek Volume 02, Issue 04

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INSIDE QUOTES:
••Architectural components
work together to create a
festive atmosphere for intercollegiate sports. #
—Anthony L. Corallo /^
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Goodman Stadium, Page
The picnic was a big success
in breaking down
stereotypes about faculty. V
--CSEE professor Donald J. Talhelm a
Breaking Down Barriers, Page
ii
This is a college town, and
we have to live together and
work together."
-South Side merchant Tom Mohr
Survey, Page
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LehighWeek
Volume Two, Issue Four
September 28,1988
Student organizers of South Side Alive! (top, left to
right) Steve Lyon '89, Jeff Eichman '89, Linda Emery
'90, and Danielle LaTourette '89, with merchant John
Saraceno. The festival provided entertainment for
community residents and Lehigh students and staff.
PHOTOGRAPHS by BERNHARD J. SUESS
Festival Brings
South Side Alive!
By Rita Plotnicki
Lehigh University Writers' Group
"A complete success" is how John Saraceno, vice president of the South Side Merchants Association and project
coordinator for South Side Alive '88, described last weekend's three-day festival.
"It did what we wanted it to do—pull the communities
together. A lot of people were very pleased and surprised
since we only had two months to put it together," he said.
Lehigh's Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils and
Twilight Entertainment Committee co-sponsored the event
with the Merchants Association. The carnival was held at
the Broughal Middle School athletic field on Morton St.
between Brodhead Ave and Vine St.
The festival featured twenty-five booths sponsored by
local non-profit organizations along with food, rides and
games for children and adults.
Carnival-goers could see the Southside of long ago at the
South Bethlehem Historical Society booth, meet U.S. Rep.
Don Ritter, R-Lehigh and Northampton counties, and his
Democratic challenger Ed Reibman, or just stroll and eat.
One of the attractions was a dunking booth that featured
"dunkees" from both the Southside merchants and the
university community.
"I'm a senior, and in my four years at Lehigh, there
hasn't been anything like this" said Steve Lyons '89, a
member of Zeta Psi fraternity and, with Linda Emery '90
of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, a co-director of the festival.
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NEH Funds Improvements
In Chinese, Russian Studies
Lehigh's modern foreign language department has
been awarded a three-year, $ 180,000 grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities to improve
programs in Russian and Chinese.
The award, one of the largest made by NEH's Higher
Education Program this year, was announced by David A.
Sanchez, vice president and provost.
Lehigh was funded for a project designed to improve
and promote programs in Chinese and Russian culture, literature and language. The grant will support the hiring of
two new faculty members — one each in Chinese and
Russian — as well as development of new courses and programs taught by the existing faculty and summer study in
the USSR and the Peoples Republic of China.
NEH offered the grant specifically for the promotion
of Chinese and Russian among the many foreign languages
Lehigh offers because both lag behind traditional language
offerings and because of the significance of the languages
to the nation's politics and economy.Lehigh's Chinese and
Russian programs are closely linked to the area studies
programs in East Asian Studies and Russian Studies
offered in the College of Arts and Science.
Secretary Gilhool To Keynote
Education College Alumni Day
Thomas K. Gilhool, Pennsylvania secretary of education, will be the keynote speaker at the 11 th annual
College of Education Alumni Day on Saturday, October l.
The program will begin at 9 a.m. in
the main dining room in Building A on
the Mountaintop Campus. Following
welcoming remarks by Dean Alden J.
Moe and George Anderson, chairman
of the college's Alumni Council,
awards will be presented for outstanding service to the college and the field
of education.
A I960 Lehigh graduate, Gilhool
earned a law degree from Yale Law
School in 1964 where he was editor of the Yale Law
Journal. He also studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the
London School of Economics and Political Science.
While at Lehigh he served as class president, was a
member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received the Bosey Reiter
Leadership Cup and the Dean's Service Award.
Prior to his appointment as Secretary of Education,
Gilhool served as chief counsel for the Public Interest Law
Center of Philadelphia and as associate professor of law at
the University of Southern California. He specializes in
law and education, particularly the education of mentally
retarded students.
He has written more than 20 articles on legal aspects
of education, including articles on educating handicapped
children and individualized education.
Gilhool