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              they used controlled sub stances in the last year in 1985 the number of all college students who had ex perimented with alcohol rose one percent from 91 percent five years earlier between 1980 and 85 the percentage of students who smoked marijuana rose from 42 to 51 but the number of students who experimented with stimulants dropped from 22 percent in 1980 to 12 percent in 1985 these figures though in dicative of a national increase in alcohol use and a decline in bydinaalcure brit wn ami h'hitc nvw writer according to the national institute on drug abuse the proportion of individuals in the 18-25 age-bracket who have tried marijuana has risen from 4 to 68 percent since 1964 most college students fall into this age bracket and lehigh is no exception to the rule a july survey by the national institute compared social habits among college students and reported per centages of those who said prof urges beirut pull-out a sentimental balloon floats above dozens of re-d r oses waiting to be picked up from the sac desk before valentine's day bysambelin brown and white news writer * there is no longer an atmosphere of crisis surrounding the american hostage situation in lebanon because the kidnappers have with drawn their threat to kill the hostages im mediately a middle east expert said in a lecture thursday afternoon in neville hall yasir olmert a tel aviv university professor and expert on middle east relations and history lectured and led a discussion which focused on the current situation in lebanon olmert thinks that the u s government should order all american citizens remaining in lebanon to flee and commented that those who remain are betraying their country olmert said that while things were going smoothly in lebanon two or three years ago everything is falling apart today olmert a tel aviv resident explained that his nation is trying to maintain a low profile in the situation most of the fighting is in beirut — quite a distance from the israeli border olmert said that as long as it stays there israel will not intervene olmert said that the palestine liberation organization and syria have a lot of interest in the outcome of the lebanese war he said the plo must come back to lebanon to be close to palestine but despite press accounts olmert said that he does not believe the plo has re-entered lebanon yet syria olmert said must control lebanon to protect itself and its crumbling economy he called syria the weapons arsenal of the world and cited statistics showing that the tiny nation has nearly as many tanks as the united states olmert also said iran has less to do with the present conflict than most people are led to believe olmert who arrived in the country hours before his lecture earned his master's degree in the history of moslem countries in 1 978 from hebrew university of jerusalem and his doctorate in 1984 from the university oi london london school of economics the brown and white 215)758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday february 17 1987 engineers favored in poll hat they think a change is needed but uniii an appropriate alternative ii found the name should stay the linginecrs engineers is not perfect but nothing else has hit me ai n ' suitable ( iovei iiinent profeflol donald man y aid i feel a change would help improve the overall view of the ichool associate professor of history michael mayloi laid a change i llx maicol name would bc wcliuinc especially wild ihe new image i he school || trying lo put forward but i'm nol 100 happy with the suggestions so far i feel the best name r lill lo come about half ihe students and faculty polled for this article were stopped on the street and asked for their views ihe other half were interviewed over he telephone with names chosen at random from the campus telephone directory faculty from different departments and students with dif ferent majors were interviewed in order to net an even sampling of the lehigh community btw photo by craiq hopbebb pat metheny performs old and new tunes for three straight hours to a standing-room-only crowd in qrace hall saturday the group plans to release a new album soon see review page 5 pressure makes lu high risk for drug abuse byjoedevito brown and white news writer a browfl and while survey of lehlgh itudents and faculty last week revealed that moil w.uii to retain the traditional mascot name of the engineers about 74 percent of the x people interviewed laid that changing the numc i'jigincers lo one ol the suggested altcrmil ives south mountaineers packers 01 drowns would not be appropriate many of those people however said that they believe a change will eventually be needed but i he best choice has not been discovered in a distant second south moun taineers followed engineers with i5.v percent of the vole packers was third with k.7 percent and browni was fourth with 1 4 pencil i according to senior sandy smolansky we are the iwigincer.s everybody knows us as the knginecrs why should we change it there'l a tradition behind the name most of the faculty interviewed said use of cocaine due to dangers of the drug at villanova the most popular drugs arc cocaine and marijuana although stimulants are popular during exam time both students interviewed said drug use on their campuses is relatively visible and related drug use to relieving pressure and for recreation drug use to some lehigh students is more than just fun — it is a type of rebellion and experimentation ac cording to a sophomore drug see drugs page 3 while found ihe mo§l popular drugs on campus lo be cocaine and marijuana although many students are trying hallucinogenic mushrooms hash oil stimulants and mcscaline last year the drug novelty was ecstasy better known as x drug use at lehigh can be compared to drug use at the university of pennsylvania and villanova university according to a fraternity social chairman at penn the most widely used drugs there are marijuana and mushrooms with declining drug use do not disprove the predominance of drug use on college campuses across ihe nation during christmas break > auxiliary services confiscated 12 bong smoking devices in 1 various residence buildings walter keiper fraternity services manager of auxiliary services said keiper con ducted the routine fire and safety inspection of all dor mitories fraternities and sororities that turned up the devices through anonymous in terviews the brown and crsity v01.98 n0.33