LehighWeek Volume 09, Issue 22

              LEHIGHWEEK
Volume 9, Issue 22
with South Mountaineer
Lehigh University Campus Weekly
March 13,1996
INSIDE
News
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THIS    WEEK
Look for our next
issue on March 27
Price Waterhouse
vice president
speaks to account
ing students
page
2
EIWA Round-up;
Men's/Women's
Lacrosse Previews;
Baseball, Softball
Previews
South
Mountaineer
pages
5-8
Campus television channel now on the air
New way to communicate with students
by Rita T. Malone
Have an event you want to
promote? Want to know what
is happening at Lehigh this
week? Tune in to channel 2
from any television on
campus to see around-the-
clock advertisements of
events and reminders of
important deadlines for
students. The new information channel is similar to
what you might see at any
hotel in a resort destination.
Channel 2 is also broadcast
continually on two televisions
in the Ulrich Student Center.
"Everyone likes it," said
Doug Herman '98, the
Student Senate liaison to the
campus channel. "They turn
on their TV in their room to
see what's happening. I hear
nothing but good comments.
Our goal is to get more TVs
at public sites like the
cafeterias, Maginnes Lobby
and Rauch so everyone sees it
all the time, including off-
campus students.
"There are so many
programs that Lehigh sets up,
but no one knows about
them," said Herman.  "People
complain about tuition and
paying so much money to
come here, but they should
take advantage of the programs that are offered.  This
makes it easier to know what
events are happening by just
turning on your TV."
Doug
Herman '98,
the Student
Senate liaison
to the TV
campus
channel,
monitors the
station from
his room in
Phi Kappa
Theta.
Channel 2 is one of three
campus channels that made
their debuts this year after
several years of planning and
See TV page 2
First Amendment is doing
well says Pulitzer Prize
winner Anthony Lewis
"The First Amendment is
doing well and the country is
freer than ever," said Pulitzer
Prize winner Anthony Lewis
in a talk with members of the
student chapter of the Society
of Professional Journalists and
College Scholars, prior to the
Tresolini Lecture on March 5.
"The quality and strength
of journalism is good," Lewis
said. "The writing in today's
papers is better than in the
past because the press is more
skeptical." Lewis cautioned,
however, that the press
should not go mainly for
sensationalism or to create
antagonism.
In his Tresolini lecture,
Lewis spoke about freedom of
speech. He credited Supreme
Court Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes with doing the most to
defend and strengthen the
First Amendment. The title of
his talk, "The Thought That
We Hate," comes directly
from a 1929 Holmes opinion.
The pivotal free speech
case, Lewis said, was the
1964 New York Times vs.
Sullivan case in which the
Supreme Court overturned a
lower court decision in favor
of a southern politician who
sued The Times for inadvertently publishing factual
errors.  It produced sweeping
protection for innocent
mistakes, he said.
Lewis said free speech
attacks historically have come
from the right, but in recent
years "political correctness,"
espoused by liberals, has also
threatened free speech. He
argued that hate speech codes
at universities have actually
undermined the very minori-
Young Hong
In a discussion with members of the student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
and College Scholars, Andrea McCioud '96 questions New York Times columnist and Pulitzer
Prize winner Anthony Lewis about his role as a foreign coorespondent.  Lewis was on campus
March 5 to deliver the annual Tresolini Lecture in Law.
ties such codes were designed
to protect.
Lewis said Justice William
Brennan summed up the
freedom of speech issue in
one of the flag-burning cases:
"Punishing the desecration of
the flag," Brennan wrote,
"dilutes the very freedom that
makes this emblem so
revered and worth revering."
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