Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 21

              brown and white vol 98 no 21 friday november 30 1990 lehigh university students march against apartheid by kristen kuck brown & white news editor playing traditional south african music and carrying candles approx imately 50 students marched through lehigh's campus tuesday to protest south africa's racist apartheid system and lehigh's refusal to divest its hold ings m south africa the vigil was organized by the pro gressive students alliance and the black student union to raise aware ness of apartheid and of lehigh's massive stock holdings m companies doing business m south africa mike gildenberg 91 a co-chair of the psa said that they wanted to hold the vigil now to bring the issue back into everybody's mind that there are still atrocities going on m south africa even though media attention is focused on the crisis m the middle east gildenberg and katrina young 91 president of the bsu co-organized the event the vigil began at the university center flagpole where each marcher received a candle to symbolize the candle of hope and the fire of the international struggle against the south african government government professor edward morgan called the struggle against apartheid one of the greatest libera tion fronts m the world although many changes worth celebrating have occurred m south africa he said now is the time to keep the pressure on...keep congress and the president aware that sanctions should remain m place from the flagpole the group march ed through the grounds of some of the residence halls stopping at each along the way for a short speech or poetry reading at one of the freshman dormitories the group encountered comments and shouts of go home and xxx from some of the residents the shouting didn't surprise me it's so common on this campus it is a closed-minded and hostile attitude that is so prevalent among lehigh students said steven ragland 91 psa co-chair gildenberg who spoke when the group stopped m the lower centenni al quad expressed a sentiment shar ed by many m the group apartheid gets me very frustrated and angry b&w photo by jim luchsinger professor edward morgan delivers a speech during the vigil tuesday aronson's scorecard goes national byjohnleroy brown & white news writer the man who made eco 1 famous at lehigh professor richard aronson has created a computerized tool for tracking commodity prices which will be marketed at universities around the nation fashioned after a baseball statistics sheet the scorecard appeared as a book m 1979 aronson said it took it several years for him to realize that obviously scorecard ought to be computerized what exactly is the scorecard orig inally it was a way m book form to keep track of the performance of various economic indicators it allow ed the user to record the price of several key commodities the gross national product and other items the concept for the original scor ecard emerged from aronson's love of baseball and his tracking of the vari ous teams he saw a correlation bet ween team standings and tracking commodity prices ali erkan 91 one of aronson's students computerized the book and aronson decided to offer the package to his students he said dryden press owns the scorecard and has decided to distribute aron son's brainchild throughout the unit ed states the national version of the comput erized scorecard is being distributed to professors at several schools around the country these professors are sampling the package and deter mining if they want to order it for their classes aronson is particularly enthusiastic about this new project and said it is unique that a student m class becomes intimately involved m a project that goes beyond our campus lehigh is still a place to work with students b&w photo by dan armento see article on lehigh's new day care facility on page 3 2 soviets cheer lu by erin byron brown & white news writer for two soviet exchange students lehigh is not only a place to learn but a place to experience m person what they have learned about america yevgeniy tkachenko and natalia itol'naya are enthusiastic about their lehigh experience which will continue until the end of next semester tkachenko said lehigh is great the libraries are great the people are friendly and it's a good place to study an electrical engineering major tkachenko came to lehigh as a participant m an internation al exchange program out of the 35 american colleges involved m the program tkachenko said he choose lehigh because of its good reputation see soviets page 5 see vigil page 6 life style gender relations inside news senate votes down safe proposal to drop mfl grades page 2 news a hands-on manage ment course consults with local businesses pages opinion students retract false rape statements page 18 a day without art 3lj by usa borneman -« j brown fc white news writer in response to the increasing awareness and concern for those victimized by aids lehigh will participate m a nation-wide callfor a day without art and close the university art galleries friday nov 30 m memory of those who have died from the disease the organization that created this national appeal did so on the philosophi cal pretext that art is a reflection of humanity the anticipated impact therefore is that the suspension of art should direct attention toward not only deceased members of the art community but all those infected with aids ricardo vierra curator of the galleries said participation is a matter of consciousness it represents a kind of togetherness as well as displaying the profound respect and concern the art community has for those who have died of aids it is hoped that the day without art will draw focus from those both inside the art world as well as outside to expose everyone to the sobering of this disease which is claiming hundreds of thousands of lives pages 10-16