Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 25

              see kuwait page 3 by alan calderon brown and white news writer most people around the world heard about iraq's invasion of kuwait on aug 2 by televi sion or over the radio but georges ibrahim 91 resident of kuwait for the past 20 years and his sister were right in the middle of the history-making invasion their father woke them up in the middle of the night shortly after he heard the first sounds of war the invasion began shortly before ibrahim returned to lehigh in august when the invasion first began ibrahim and his family could not see the actual fighting taking place but because they do not live far from the iraq-kuwait border they could hear much of it as the war went on there were more signs of fighting in his country every day recalling a dogfight he observed from his rooftop ibrahim said there was one iraqi plane and one kuwaiti plane in a dogfight there was a chase but no firing they were at such low altitudes that they almost hit anten nas of buildings georges ibrahim lehigh university tuesday january 29 1991 the brown and white vol 98 no 25 martin luther king iii urges crowd to reject violence in gulf war by meredith shannon brown and white desk editor martin luther king 111 delivered an emotionally-charg ed speech on topics ranging from the war in the gulf to his father's ministry and education to a full house at st peter's lutheran church wednesday night king's speech held in honor of martin luther king jr day also featured speakers and choirs from lehigh and st peter's as a member of the board of directors of the martin luther king jr center for nonviolent social change king toured african nations and helped develop the africa initiative a group which is trying to find long-term solutions to african starvation as commissioner of fulton county ga king began a summer youth employment program in atlanta he also advocates the purification of natural water resources and the proper disposal of hazardous waste during his speech king urged the crowd to reject see king page 6 £ i s s learn about the disappearance of frogs in the brown and white's new science section page 8 lu student tells of iraqi invasion by erin byron brown and white news writer despite initial confusion and sched ule changes this past week's sorority rush ran very close to normal for lehigh's eight sororities all involved see rush page 5 members of other sororities and rushees said hoefler said the ini tial shock of the war changes in the schedule and initial confusion affec ted us but once things began to fall into place we ended up doing really well jennifer squier 92 a sister of delta gamma sorority agreed rush went are happy with the turn out and extremely optimistic and enthusiastic about their new pledge classes des pite some charges of improper rush procedures although formal rush scheduled to begin wed jan 16 and end on bid problematic sorority rush ends day fri , jan 25 was initially postpon ed a day due to war in the middle east the sororities proceeded with rush most meeting the quota of 27 new pledges by the end kappa alpha theta sorority's chap ter rush chairman debra hoefler 91 said it was difficult having to deal with rush when so much was going on with the war consistent with what planes such as the mirage that was in the dogfight t-72 army tanks rocket launchers cannons and other weapons became common sights near his home in safat he said when describing how iraq seized control of kuwait ibrahim said iraq just took over within four hours of crossing the border they were in the capital which ibrahim can see from his rooftop the border guards were easily overtaken most resistance was by the guards of the presidential palace the first real target the guards skirmished with the iraqi invaders for a little while another reminder of war was that the schools were turned into iraqi military camps people living in kuwait who the iraqis did not trust were sent to the camps to be questioned so they could not escape some westerners and iraqi citizens who lived in kuwait were sent to these prisons the invasion by iraq was not a total surprise to the ibrahim family the northern part of kuwait has been claimed by iraq for over 30 d 2 i | 1 what's inside news page 2 former lehigh professor receives praise for his book on prejudice news page 3 students and residents offer insight into off campus housing problems opinion pagelo read more on the lehigh community's reaction to the persian gulf war sports page 15 junior forward bob krizansky reaches his 1 000-point milestone