LehighWeek Volume 12, Issue 10

              Financial crisis
Global, Russian
perspectives aired
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Volume 12, Issue 10
LehighWeek
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November 3,1998
Km
Project has IMPACT
on English class
Forty-two freshmen are learning about high-risk drinking
while sharpening their
writing skills.
The students hope to
produce a paper compelling enough to be
published in a campus
paper like The Brown
and White and to help
organizers of Project
IMPACT, Lehigh's effort - funded by the
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation - to curb
high-risk drinking by
students.
"The hope is to have
students in the class
come to their own conclusions on this issue,"
said Greg Skutches '99G of
the English department. "The
students are really interested in
the assignment, because the issue is something that they have
a stake in at Lehigh."
Skutches is teaching two sessions of English composition
and literature to a total of 42
students. In each session, students are grouped into teams.
One team interviews students;
a second, Lehigh administrators; and a third, parents and
alumni. The fourth team studies binge drinking at other colleges.
The teams share their information. Each student writes
and presents a paper. A group
of upperclassmen selected by
Skutches will help pick the best
paper from each session. The
students will revise the papers
and submit them to a campus
publication and to Project IMPACT. Skutches and other English instructors will renew the
project next semester.
Paul Wisor '02, a political
science major, said he found
that high-risk drinking at
Lehigh is more of a problem
than he thought. "There's a feeling that drinking is a Lehigh
tradition, and students don't
want to be thought of as the
class that kicked it out the
door."
Shea-Marie Roth '02 said
she enjoyed doing the assignment but will not be disappointed if her paper is not selected for possible publication.
"The whole purpose of the assignment is to make people
think, and if another paper does
that, that's fine."
- Rich Harry
John Kish IV
Unbeatable sums up Family Weekend events
Lehigh's victory over Wofford, with 12,000 plus football fans attending, capped off three
days of events during Family Weekend.
At the crossroads
The Iacocca Scholars from the
Class of 1999 gave 574 students the chance last week to
meet and network with 60
leaders of business and industry at a Crossroads of Knowledge.
"The Iacocca Scholars program is something only 13
people get to take advantage
of," said Shelby Greenberg
'99. "We wanted to reach out
to the Lehigh community and
share the wonderful experiences we have."
Professionals at the conference included former astronaut Terry Hart '68, engineers, stock brokers, consultants, entrepreneurs and others, including executives from
Canada and Honduras.
The event celebrated the
10th anniversary of the
Iacocca Institute, and allowed
students to attend sessions
and town meetings with the
executives.
Hans Baer '47, H'97,
chairman of Lehigh's Global
Council and honorary chairman of the Julius Baer Holding Company of Switzerland,
was keynote speaker.
Lee Iacocca '45, co-
founder of the institute, said
the scholars' work captured
the spirit of the institute.
Lehigh President Gregory
Farrington said the students
had helped raise Lehigh's
awareness of global competitiveness.
Founded in 1995, the
Scholars program selects 12 or
13 students of all majors to
learn about competitiveness.
New members from the
Class of 2000 were inducted as
scholars last week. They are
Christina Eberhart (accounting), Ryan Johnson (mechanical engineering), Emily
Kessler (finance), Ritu
Malhorta (molecular biology),
Megan Miller (industrial
erngineering), Michelle
Murad (mechanical engineering and marketing), Carl
O'Malia Brundage (computer
engineering), Kate PifkoXelec-
trical engineering), Danielle
Pucetta (English), Kevin
Schmelzer (accounting), Mark
Snyder (chemical engineering)
and Sarah Swindle (international relations and political
science).
-Dennis Zehner '99
Pam Shealey
Hans Baer '47 talks with students interested in finance, banking and international
management at last week's Crossroads of Knowledge networking conference.
Clinton topic of discussion
Congress' investigation of
President Clinton's affair with
Monica Lewinsky represents "a public prosecution" the likes of
which have not been
seen before in American
history, Lloyd Steffen, ■
University chaplain,
said last week.
But Clinton's public-
relations strategy has
helped him keep public-
approval ratings up despite his admission that
he lied to the people,
said Carole Gorney,
professor of journalism.
Steffen and Gorney
joined Frank Colon,
professor of political
science, and Robert Jones, a
Lehigh parent and researcher
on the Clinton matter, at a
panel discussion titled " Four
Faces of a Crisis" here last
week.
Gorney said the White
House's PR. strategy — "keep
working, keep visible and show
progress" — helped allay fears
that the crisis would hurt
Clinton's ability to lead.
Steffen said Clinton's greatest moral wrong "was his lack
of loyalty to his friends, whom
he lied to and then left out to
dry." He said it was difficult to
evaluate the morality of the issue because of the lack of details.
"If Bill and Hillary have an
arrangement in their marriage, and if the President and
Monica were both acting con-
sensually, it is-hard to determine where the moral wrong in
all this is," he added.
Colon, who recently analyzed the upcoming elections
on CNN, questioned whether,
if Clinton was found guilty of
perjury, this would represent a
high crime or misdemeanor.
Jones cited what he called
illegalities in Starr's
prosecutorial efforts and a disconnect between the media and
Washington elites, and ordinary Americans.
"Clinton passed a bill called
the Family Medical Leave Act,
which has benefited many ordinary Americans. The elites
don't understand how important Clinton has been in these
ordinary peoples' lives and
therefore they can't understand why these same people
are standing behind him now,"
said Jones.
An audience member questioned Clinton's manhood because of the "way he humiliated his daughter Chelsea."
Others said that they felt
Clinton was not as impressive
a leader as Presidents Reagan
and Bush.
-Phil Repash '97
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