LehighWeek Volume 14, Issue 9

              Touching all bases
Ripa and students join
forces with local theatre
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Volume 14, Issue 9
LehighWee/c
The campus digest for innovation, news and events
Behind the 8-bail
Football still perfect
after 21-6 victory over
Holy Cross
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November 1, 2000
Alpha Phi sorority invites kids
to "Halloween 2000" party
Courtesy of Richard A. Epstein
Richard A. Epstein
Prominent legal
scholar to give
Tresolini Lecture
Richard A. Epstein, the James
Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, will speak on
"Old Sins for a New Millennium:
Guns, Alcohol, and Tobacco" at
the annual Tresolini Law Lecture.
The free public lecture begins
at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in
Perella Auditorium in Rauch
Business Center.
One of the most prolific and
influential legal thinkers of the
past 30 years, Epstein will discuss the trend toward tightening
regulations of guns, alcohol and
tobacco in the interest of advancing public health. He will assess
these developments and will propose a way to advance public
health without interfering unduly with individual liberties.
Epstein has written on a broad
range of legal, economic, historical and philosophical subjects.
His books include Principles for
a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common
Good (1998), Mortal Peril: Our
Inalienable Right to Health Care?
(with Henning Gutmann, 1997),
Simple Rules for a Complex
World (1995), Bargaining with the
State (1993), Forbidden Grounds:
The Case Against Employment
Discrimination Laws (1992),
Takings: Private Property and the
Power of Eminent Domain
(1985), and Modern Products Liability Law (1980), as well as a
leading law-school casebook,
Torts, which is in its seventh edition.
In addition to his books,
Epstein is the author of over 100
articles, many of which have appeared in national magazines
and newspapers such as The
Wall Street Journal and the The
New York Times.
A member of the Chicago faculty since 1973, Epstein has
taught courses in contracts,
property and torts; in criminal
law, health law, and employment
Please See TRESOLINI Page 3
T|rick or treat, smell my feet;
give me something good to
eat!
Sound familiar? In the spirit
of Halloween, the sisters of Alpha Phi sorority relived their
childhood Halloween memories
by inviting children from Lehigh's
Child Care Center to their house
Thursday afternoon (Oct. 26) for
a Halloween party. The program
"Alpha Phi-Halloween 2000" included trick-or-treating and
pumpkin decorating.
"The sisters of Alpha Phi are
very special and have made a lot
of children happy," said Kathy
Calabrese, director of the Child
Care Center. "It's all about sharing and working together which
completes the circle of the university."
The parents, many of whom
are Lehigh faculty, staff and
graduate students, were also invited for cookies and cider. Tom
Dubreuil, associate dean of students and his wife, Lisa
Dubreuil, senior assistant director of admissions, brought
their son, Jack, to the party to
enjoy the festivities.
"It's a nice initiative," says
Tom Dubreuil. "For parents who
aren't affiliated with Lehigh, it
gives them a nice sense of some
of the wonderful things they do.
And for those people who do work
here, it gives the sorority girls a
different view of us as parents."
Dressed in costumes as princesses, spidermen, bears, bees,
and pumpkins, each child was
greeted by a sorority sister
dressed in an orange t-shirt and
was led into the house to trick-
or-treat down the halls and then
paint pumpkins.
"I think it's nice to get interaction between students, faculty
and staff," said Lisa Dubreuil.
"You wouldn't be able to get this
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Rachel Meshonek '03 works
Bumble Bee.
at any other daycare center."
Marissa Brooks, community service chair for Alpha Phi
says the program helped create
house unity.
"We were genuinely excited
for this event and hope to make
Photo by Rob Upton
on a pumpkin with Billy the
it an annual addition to our programs," said Brooks. "We love
doing things with kids and we're
trying to get more involved with
the daycare center."
Alpha Phi takes pride in its
programs both on and off campus. They ranked first last semester in the campus Residential Environment Report scoring
system, which sets criteria and
standards to improve the residential experience for undergraduates and promote long-
term success of the Greek system.
As in past years, the Alpha
Phi sisters will serve Thanksgiving dinner Nov. 14 at the Boys
and Girls Club in Allentown,
where they will spend a few
hours with kids and their families.
"We especially enjoy giving
back to children less fortunate
than ourselves," says Brooks.
-Carolyn Crew
Photo by Rob Upton
Courtney Stein '02 greets Stephanie the Ladybug, age 3, at
the Alpha Phi Halloween party.
LehighWeek to
evolve into
LehighNow
Later this month, LehighWeek
will transition into a new format,
with a new look and a new name
as the publication becomes more
concise, easier to read and better integrates online content
found on the university's web site
at www.lehigh.edu.
LehighNow will continue to
feature important university
news and will be published biweekly in a more compact format
that features a fresh design. It
will also be published in an electronic version for convenient,
timely access to featured information.
In addition, many LehighNow
articles will include web addresses where readers can find
additional information located
on Lehigh's web site.
Brad Drexler, vice president
for university relations, said
LehighNow would continue to
provide faculty and staff with the
information they need about the
university while taking advantage of the technology offered
online through Lehigh's web site.
"LehighNow is an evolutionary step that will begin to integrate how we provide print and
electronic information to our faculty and staff. It's an exciting
format and one that provides
many benefits that readers will
find valuable and interesting,"
said Drexler.
LehighNow will debut Nov. 8.
Alumni, Andersen
fund scholarships
Alumni at Andersen Consulting
will join with the Andersen Consulting Foundation to give ap-
proximatevy $400,000 over five
years to fund scholarships and
an innovative summer web-
based program for students in
Lehigh's Integrated Business
and Engineering (IBE) program.
Beginning next summer, IBE
students will be able to take
courses over the Internet, then
come to campus a few days before
the fall semester begins to work
with faculty members. "IBE e-
Summer College" courses will give
students the chance to immerse
themselves in scholarly subjects
not normally available in the technologically intense curriculum.
"We feel the IBE program is a
model for higher education," said
Jeff Luker '76, a partner with
Andersen Consulting. "We need
more programs in which students learn outside their discipline and get a taste of the real
world before graduating."
IBE is a selective four-year
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