Selected Media Coverage: December 9, 2003

**Lehigh in the News** {online press clippings from other news sources}
The New York Times (Circulation: 1,130,740)

Lehigh's men's basketball (4-3) held on for a 60-57 win last night against the Columbia Lions (1-3).
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BBC
Rajan Menon, professor of international relations at Lehigh, was interviewed on BBC World Televsion News live at 8 p.m. last night regarding the Russian elections. The interview aired in the United States on PBS last night at 11 p.m.
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Science Daily
Homegrown Relief for Victims of Arsenic Poisoning In South Asia

Arup SenGupta, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Lehigh University, says he has developed such a solution in the form of an inexpensive, simple well-head unit that removes arsenic from water wells. We do not know how long the arsenic has been in the groundwater, says SenGupta. We do not know why we find it in one township and not the next, and why we sometimes find it in one well but not in another well located just 100 meters away.
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Harvard University Athletics News
Following an 88-79 loss to Lehigh in Bethlehem, the Crimson men's basketball team enters Tuesday's game against Boston University with an 0-5 record.
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The Morning Call (Circulation 130,360)
Wireless Networking Means Looking for Teammates

For Lehigh University professors and students involved in wireless research, the goal is connecting to the private companies and public agencies that make wireless products. It enables them to stay abreast of developments, use special equipment, test research in the real world and identify relevant research topics. ''We need teammates,'' said Rick Blum, professor of electrical engineering and computer science who heads a communications lab at Lehigh.
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The Morning Call (Circulation 130,360)
Zoellner Appoints New Lighting Coordinator

Jennifer Corman has been appointed assistant lighting coordinator of Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University. A 2003 graduate of Muhlenberg College with a degree in theater, she has served in lighting and electrician positions for various productions.
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**News of Interest
USA Today
Pressure is on Early Admissions

Although the annual frenzy over early admissions is winding down, the controversy surrounding it is picking up as the number of students applying under early admissions plans is steadily rising. Educators have long debated early-admissions policies--particularly those binding plans known as early decision, in which students who apply in the fall of their senior year find out by December whether they're admitted. If they are, they must promise to enroll.
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