Brown and White Vol. 102 no. 17

              ulrich student center debuts in grace hall by rebecca russell news writer hiv invades college campuses please see ulrich page 4 baw photo by david j baker makk lawrence 95 enjoys a sub sandwich at the new ulrich student center students explored new territory monday wandering the new ulrich student center in search of their new private mailboxes and an alternative to regular campus food the student center located in upper grace hall offers a wide range of activities and facilities including the new post office stu dent mailboxes a sub shop a gourmet coffee bar a dunkin donuts stand an arcade and pool tables the center also houses the student activi ties council office a mac machine will be added in about two weeks ulrich offers a place for students to relax and study jennifer volchko assistant dean of student life said there was no real living room for the campus volchko said the idea for a living room on campus arose about 1 0 years ago volchko said when different groups expressed an interest in a please see museum page 4 to honor and remember the 11 million victims of one of the most horrific periods in history approximately 90 students and faculty visited the u.s holocaust memorial museum in washington d.c on sunday the trip to the museum was sponsored by the jewish student center jewish studies religion studies and the chaplain's office claudia schippert adjunct instructor of re ligion studies teaches a class called holo caust history and meaning resistance and response she said the holocaust was a term developed between the years 1933 and 1945 in germany it talks about the extermina tion of 1 1 million people six million of the 11 million that were exterminated by the nazi party which was lead by hitler were jews schippert said the museum displays include photographs of people who lived in towns that were wiped out by the holocaust actual shoes of victims murdered by the nazis and films about survi vors recounting personal experiences in con centration camps students of diverse religious backgrounds attended the four-hour bus trip to the museum for different reasons alizastern 98 became interested in learn ing more about the holocaust after being ex posed to the history of it almost all her life i have a very close connection to the holo caust because my grandfather was a survivor and my middle name comes from my great aunt who was murdered in the holocaust stem said schippert believes this is the most impor tant museum in the united states she said people should visit to learn about the holocaust because of the incredible amount of material collected there the museum in washington is fairly re cent and it was constructed solely for the purpose of remembering the holocaust schippert said sara zuckerman 98 found the experience just as meaningful on her second trip to the holocaust museum * names imve been changed to protect anonymity i told the nurse that i was here for my results she brought me back to the room where the doctor was the guy looked at my stuff and gave me the sheet he circled the results and said this means you're positive 1 said oh and then i said positive as in a bad thing and he went uh huh it has been almost one year since chris a lehigh student found out that he was hiv positive it didn't really hit me the week end i found out i was hiv positive please see hiv page 3 never informed me i had to end up finding out through various methods he said like so many college students infected with hiv chris needed to confront issues he never had to deal with before he realized that although he was educated about hiv and aids he felt he should learn more about it since he was now hiv positive many questions arose now as to what he should do i was thinking maybe i should take time off he said maybe i chris said it didn't hit me until the next monday in lab i hadn't slept most of that weekend but that mon day in lab - 1 was in chem lab i dropped something and cut my arm i cut my arm and i was scared by my blood he said and i knew that no one was in danger but the poten tial scared me the self-restrictions in my life came into my mind then chris contracted the virus some time between his freshman and sophomore years he got the virus by having unprotected sex with a home town friend whom he had been dat ing for a while it was a friend of mine and she brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 friday november 1 1 1994 a&s college passes four-four plan vol 102 no 17 all the lehigh news first trip to museum honors victims of holocaust by andrew j cooke news editor by abbasia khan news writer please see plan page 4 education nor provide any scheduling difficul ties for students as the plan is implemented in the upcoming years i want to stress this is not a four-four plan but rather a plan which encourages a mix of three and four credit courses cutcliffe said no department should do anything that will penalize the student cutcliffe said the discussion on the imple mentation of the new plan will most likely take up a good deal of time so he believes the plan will not be implemented until the 19 fall semester w beall fowler interim dean for the a&s college said the new program will not heavily the opportunities for college of arts and sci ences students to carry a normal semester course load of four courses the mixed-credit amend ment reads to this end the faculty endorses the increase in four-credit courses and related changes anticipated in departmental reports submitted to the policy committee and encour ages departments to proceed with implementa tion of plans to the degree that it is possible stephen cutcliffe associate professor of science technology and society chairs the a&s college policy committee primarily it was a grassroots bottoms-up movement to provide students with a more in-depth curricu lum he said allaying public suspicion cutcliffe assured the plan was not going to reduce the quality of heated debate for over two hours filled the college of arts and sciences faculty meeting monday before a modified version of the four four academic plan was passed the faculty rejected a hard model four-four plan which required departments to change classes from three credits to more in-depth courses worth four credits with this plan a regular semester would be four classes at four credits instead of five classes at three credits instead the faculty went on to debate and pass the a&s college policy committee pro posed mixed-credit model of change the college faculty supports increasing ggflftffffrwtnflwrlt ii 3*v » ■ n ima xi mikixhxixniuiim jujmjz r i s hm former dean dead 5 -*■-" alcoholism 7 l t____rit im a^^mmmmmm l_______i_c_b_b i football preview 19 swimming preview 20 wrestle-off wrestlers compete for starting line-up see sports page 20