Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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A UNIVERSITY IN TRANSITION An Editor ' s Guide to Like faded snapshots from an old picture album, the photographs of traditional Lehigh appearing on the preceding pages are faint re- minders of a distant past. The activities represented in the pictures, however, such things as athletics, Mustard and Cheese and band, and the things portrayed, professors, students, trees and dogs, are still cen- tral to the Lehigh of 1973. Lehigh in 1973 is a university in transition. An all-male tradition has been rejected as archaic; beautiful, old buildings have become out- moded facilities; an obsessive concern with engineering has been rec- ognized as unbalanced. Yet, the basic concerns of administrators, fac- ulty and students have changed very little over the years. While the late 1%0 ' s saw the University ' s first massive, modern building program, the 1970 ' s will see an even more massive program at a time when space in the Univeristy ' s central campus is dwindling. While the late 1%0 ' s required the University to react to changing polit- ical demands in the country and world, the 1970 ' s will require the Uni- versity to react to ongoing educational, technological, and social up- heavals—upheavals that may have infinitely more impact on Lehigh than have earlier ones. How or even whether the University can retain its positive traditional aspects in the face of rapid change will be an imminent concern. The 1973 Epitome both reflects and reflects on the notion of a uni- versity in transition. While recognizing the traditional role of the year- book, the Epitome staff believed that no record of the year at Lehigh would be meaningful without an attempt to explain just where we were in that year. In other words, we tried to make the 1973 Epitome a yearbook and not just a year catalogue of names and faces, with- out sacrificing the names and faces. TRADITION Accordingly, the theme of a university in transition runs throughout the book. The traditional Lehigh aside from its indirect influence on the present Lehigh is given specific attention in the photo essay on page 1- 17 and in a special 16-page section on the Linderman Library beginning on page 154. Both sections were photographed by associate editor Goodloe Suttler, and supplemented by old pictures from library files. LEHIGH IN 2000 At the other end of the time line, future editor Steve Glickstein has put together a section on Lehigh in the year 2000 (p. 314) Admittedly speculative, the section was put together by Steve after extensive pri-