LehighWeek Volume 13, Issue 05

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Volume 13, Issue 5
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South Mountaineer
Columbia victimized;
football stilll perfect
See page 8
October 5,1999
Photo by Elizabeth Keegin Colley
Hrvoje Benko '01 of Croatia
and Sanda Lukic '02 of the
former Yugoslavia take part in
the discussion of Yugoslavia.
NATO officials
defend
Yugoslavia
actions
Two NATO representatives defended NATO's
actions in Kosovo and
Serbia at a panel discussion in Sinclair Auditorium on Tuesday, Sept.
28.
Lt. Col. Peter W. Reynolds,
of the British Army, and Capt.
John Karson Eldridge, of the
U.S. Navy, told 100 students, faculty and community members
that NATO was not a global police force but an organization that
acted in accordance with the beliefs of all of its members.
Reynolds, the chief of NATO's
Public Service Section and Public Information Office of the Allied Command Europe, said
NATO could not take military
action without support from all
its members, and stressed that
unanimous agreement was difficult to achieve.
"There is no majority or half
plus rule," Reynolds said.
Students outside the auditorium handed out anti-NATO information, and some audience
members expressed negative
viewpoints. Questions were
raised about the errant bombings of the Chinese embassy and
other sites.
When challenged to tell how
many people had died in failed
attempts, Reynolds said he was
unsure but then asked, "Did you
see one single Kosovar refugee on
CNN complaining about NATO's
involvement?"
The discussion was organized
by Global Union director Bill
Hunter. Selected students were
invited to a dinner with the NATO
representatives. In addition, 14
students from the ROTC program and the Global Union have
been invited to visit NATO headquarters in Norfolk, Va., next
week. This is the first time that
American students have been
asked to the headquarters.
-Amy Walts '00
Did you ever see...
Photo by Elizabeth Keegin Colley
...a guitar that doesn't, like, plug in? Members of Lehigh's Class of 20xx, a.k.a. the Saucon
Valley 105-pound football team, are awed at the acoustic antics of Dave Frey '73 during
Homecoming / Morning Call Youth Activity Day at Goodman Fields. Frey, the Fourth
Street Troubadour, performed before the football game with Columbia, taking subjects
from the audience arid improvising-'thenr into-the lyrics of his^songs.
Measuring the effect of UVR on lakes:
A job for very patient detectives
While glacial lakes offer
breathtaking scenery
to tourists, they pose
problems of intractable complexity to environmental scientists.
As the ozone layer thins in
portions of the earth's atmosphere, more of the potentially
harmful ultraviolet light radiation (UVR) is penetrating the
fresh waters of lakes in the mountains of North and South
America.
How well these waters absorb
UVR, and what effect UVR is
having on the lakes' ecosystems
are of special concern to faculty
and students in the department
of earth and environmental science (EES).
Chris Osburn, a Ph.D. candidate in EES, chose to study at
Lehigh in part because of the
university's Pocono Comparative
Lakes Program, which has drawn
students and scientists from
around the world to study the
glacial lakes of northeastern
Pennsylvania.
In his four years at Lehigh,
Osburn has also spent several
months in Argentina and Chile,
where EES professors have a
Photo by Bob Upton
EES Ph.D. candidate Chris Osburn at work in the lab.
grant from the National Science
Foundation to collaborate with
Latin American scientists to
study the effects of UVR on the
glacial lakes in the Andes foothills. In order to make a balanced
assessment of the region, the re
searchers are studying all the
lakes, streams and rivers of the
Rio Limay and Rio Negro watersheds, from their headwaters to
the point at which the Rio Negro
Please see LAKES, Page 3
Gorney
named
top educator
Carole M. Gorney, professor of journalism and
communication, has been
named the Outstanding
Educator of the Year by
the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
The award, for which
Gorney was nominated
by P.R. practitioners, is
one of the
society's top
individual
awards.
Gorney will
receive the
award Oct.
25 at PRSA's
International Con-
Gorney
ference in Anaheim, Calif.
In announcing the award,
PRSA said, "Through her innovative teaching methods Gorney
has single-handedly built public
relations at Lehigh to a nationally prominent program. She has
also completed research in some
of the public relation's field most
intriguing and controversial areas, with major networks and
distinguished institutions seeking her learned and lively inputs
for articles, speeches and demonstration programs." The
award is based on excellence in
teaching, research and writing,
involvement with students, and
involvement in the profession.
Gorney directs Lehigh's pub-
he relations concentration, which
she started 15 years ago. The
program has grown to 54 students. She also advises Lehigh's
chapter of the Public Relations
Student Society of America
(PRSSA) which has won several
national and regional awards.
"This award brings recognition
not only to me personally but also
to Lehigh and the many fine students who have studied in the pub-
he relations program and contributed time to PRSSA," said Gorney.
She is an internationally recognized expert in media relations
and crisis communication. She
coined the term "litigation journalism" to describe the practice
in which trial lawyers use the
news media to create favorable
publicity for their clients' claims,
often resulting in settlements out
of court. Her articles on this topic
have been run by The New York
Times, Forces Media Critic, New
York State Bar Journal and USA
Today Magazine.
A member of Lehigh's faculty
since 1982, she has received two
Fulbright Awards to teach in
China and was the first foreigner
to teach a full-semester public relations course in Shanghai.
She was elected a fellow of
PRSA in 1994 and is a past president of the Philadelphia chapter.
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