Brown and White Vol. 100 no. 9

              b&w photo courtesy of the office of media relations david green religion professor dies of cancer see republicans page 6 he encouraged the participation of the lehigh college republicans to greet voters outside the polls persuading them to vote for him on election day strouse said we are taking our posi tions seriously and we are going to work to the best of our ability the club has many plans for the future but the main goal is campaigning for the republicans until election day nov 3 the club is going to be very energetic and enthusiastic this year about our beliefs and we will build upon them progressively in the years to come strouse said strouse and adams hope to keep the club going until they graduate from lehigh so they can look back upon it with accomplish ment we are trying to encourage people re gardless of their political views or affiliation to get involved and talk about politics adams said the club is planning to do this by holding political debates or talk shows on the radio so that students may call in and voice their opinions they would also like to have a column in the brown and white for political questions and opinions they want to re-introduce the elephant's ear the defunct newslet ter of the club by roswitha graser news writer the reformed lehigh college republican club kicked off the year by campaigning for local politician david dye state representative of the 133 rd district kids like you can have a tremendous im pact dye said you are the future of the country the college republicans are also supporting arlen specter don ritter and president bush and vice president dan quayle campaigning for all republican candidates is the focus of the club the club is being revitalized and re-estab lished this year with all new officers resigna tions resulted from differences in views by many of last year's members the four new officers are freshmen ryan adams and jeff strouse co-chairmen patty matysczak vice-chair and elizabethflanagan secretary/treasurer dye stressed how important it is to vote in the upcoming election he said the republicans are definitely leading the nation in the right direction although the seat dye is running for has a democratic majority he is very confident about winning the election sixty percent of the voters don't know who they will vote for when they get to the polls dye said he said this is why he can win he graduated from southwestern as semblies of god college in 1961 and received a bachelor of divinity degree from gordon-conwell theological seminary in 1964 he earned his bachelor of arts degree in religion from the university of lowa in 1965 according to the morning call he was ordained an elder of the united meth odist church in 1969 his wife susan is assistant director of the lehigh university bookstore terry has taught at allentown lafayette lowa wesleyan and south eastern community colleges as well as the college of st francis steffen said he was a student favorite at lehigh he was incredibly popular with stu dents steffen said during office hours students were lined up outside his door he really cared for his students the rev delbert terry adjunct pro fessor of religion studies died monday in st luke s hospital after a two-year battle with cancer he was 53 years old chaplain lloyd steffen terry s friend and co-worker praised his colleague he was a true gentleman and a won derful teacher he said the last course taught by terry was a philosophy course in spring 1991 ac cording to steffen he was scheduled to cover for benjamin wright assistant pro fessor for religion studies this semester but surgery in june prevented him from doing so he was deeply hurt and disappointed to not be teaching here this year steffen said terry received a master of arts in reli gion at the university of lowa in 1986 by thomas wolfe news editor the brown and white lehigh university vol 100 no 9 friday october 9 1992 languages make operas international bridging the gap students and faculty learn some secrets behind bridge building in chandler ullmann hall monday b&w photo by jacob higginbottom republican club starts campaigning see green page 6 preference of language use has led to conflicts over nationalism egotism and other facets of culture he said that many opera-goers simply consider the use of foreign languages a cultural experience i usually can't understand most of what is being said when the opera is in my native language of english green said the international vocalists whose per formances were used during the lecture ranged from the very familiar such as placido domingo to the less famous like claude pascal a soprano in a schubert trio all of the selections were well-known to the audience who appeared to enjoy favorite tunes sung in foreign dialects among the most popular were two pieces by georges bizet a french opera composer one was a duet sung by two east indian pearl fisherman who were reminiscing about a girl performed in danish the other was from a version of the opera carmen in which the lead vocal was sung in swedish while the rest of the corps performed in french green also played a selection from schubert which was written in german and performed in french he played a piece from the first act of tosca a russian stalinist-era opera and a czechoslovakian piece called the aria by maclean guthrie news writer in a lecture titled the tower of ba bel after the biblical myth of the at tempted construction of a tower that reached heaven retired faculty member david green used recordings of over thirteen different operatic selections from his own collection to demonstrate the variance in languages used to perform pieces from a different nation in europe every major city has a sizable opera company green said explaining why a piece by a french com poser could be sung in swedish gay and lesbian studies making way intoacademia page 7