Brown and White Vol. 102 no. 32

              li a w photo by daphnie sicre alen st pierre left and robert stutman stated their views on the legalization of marijuana willing to wait maybe a maximum of two hours if they knew they could gel a ride to campus she said ben fradkin 96 said this is a good idea because other means of transportation offered at the airport can be too expensive or too hard to find the taxis at the airport are a rip-off fradkin said they are about 8 to 10 per person it's the only place i've ever heard that charges by the person even though residence hal is close on march 10 vollman said the shuttle would also run on march 1 1 th we thought that there may be students who would not be able to depart from lvi until saturday so we wanted to make it available for those students as well return shuttles will run on march 19 students must sign up by march 6 at the main desk if they need a shuttle ride hopefully this will work well and if it does i would envision us doing it again probably for easter break and then perhaps at the end of the school semester vollman said lehigh s transportation services is running a free shuttle service to and from lehigh valley international airport formerly a-b-e at the be ginning and end of spring break for any lehigh student who is need of transportation gail vollman coordinator of transportation services said this is the first time such a service is being offered the lehigh-airport shuttle was proposed by students vollman met with two members of student senate's parking and transportation committee bernie stabinski 97 and mike kuenne 97 most of the people apparently have a hard time m getting to or from the airport stabinski said they like this idea a lot i haven't heard anything negative about this yet vollman devised the schedule for the airport shuttleand thought it would be more efficient if the shuttle didn't run every hour we thought that at the very most someone would be by molly maginn news writer please see debate page 6 ety legalizing marijuana would lead to more acci dents on the job accidents at home child abuse spousal abuse and violent crime stutman said st pierre and stutman both focused on the medici nal uses of pot a doctor m this country should be able to prescribe marijuana to a patient if that patient has not responded to conventional treatments st pierre said in stutman s rebuttal he said anyone promoting pot for medicinal purposes was perpetuating a hoax regular pot use does lessen the pressure on the optic nerves but according to the american glaucoma society it is not enough to help someone suffering from glaucoma stutman said a question from the audience prompted an argu ment of the pros and cons of regular marijuana use the psychoactive element m cannabis seems to be the most appealing factor to most people music sex and relaxation can be highly stimulated when smoking pot st pierre said stutman responded the most negative effect of smoking pot would be what the new england journal of medicine defines as the amotivational attitude to smoke or not to smoke ... legally that is that was the question debated wednesday m the ulrich student center to a standing-room-only audience the presentation pot luck featured robert stutman a former drug enforcement agency agent and alen st pierre deputy national director for the national organization for the reformation of mari juana laws the debate was moderated by james jackson a research scientist m the psychology depart ment st pierre opened the debate by stating he advocated the legalization of cannabis m the united states everyone is a free autonomous being and there fore everybody should have the right to do what they choose this is what i will be focusing on tonight because it seems to be the main concern for the indi viduals m this room st pierre said stutman began his opening remarks by mentioning the negative aspects of legalization if we were to legalize marijuana tomorrow there would be a significant increase m the number of users bringing about severe negative consequences to soci the brown and whit lehigh university's student newspaper founded m 1894 vol 102 no 32 friday march 3 1995 all the lehigh news first governor signs clery killer's execution order by andrew j.cooke editorial page editor please see henry page 6 throat had been slashed with broken glass henry a sophomore who lived off campus was arrested the follow ing monday henry was convicted and sen tenced to death or life imprisonment one year later on april 25 1987 he pleaded not guilty by reason of in sanity he has yet to file a habeas corpus petition with the state and federal courts to stay his execution pennsylvania has not executed anyone m 33 years in an attempt to force the casey administration into signing henry's airport transportation offered for spring break b&w photo file jeanne clery was raped and murdered nine years ago when pennsylvania gov tom ridge fulfilled his campaign promise bysigningthreedeath warrants tues day it was the beginning to the end of a horrific lehigh story josoph henry was convicted for the 1986 murder of freshman jeanne anne clery he has been scheduled for execution by lethal injection on april 16 nine years and nine days after clery was murdered the warrants were signed by the new governor who had stated during his campaign that he would order executions with a regularity that had not been seen under his predeccesor with that pig on top of her biting her and choking her he said it's not completely over it's over when he s dead but at least he's on his way after their daughter's death the clerys formed security on campus inc a national non-profit organiza tion for the prevention of college crime this organization was instru mental m the passage of a state law which requires colleges and univer sities to release crime statistics to students and their families henry awakened 19-year-old clery m her third floor stoughton house dormitory room on a friday night the coroner's report showed signs of physical and sexual abuse as well as manual strangulation her robert p casey in an article appearing m wednesday's edition of the morn ing call on ridge s decision howard clery the father of jeanne said i hope this type of decision by the governor gives some closure to us we feel that jeanne's murderer will now begin to think about death the same way jeanne did while he was strangling beating and raping her clery said clery said he hoped henry's ap peals would be short and swift say ing it would be appropriate for henry to die m april the same month he killed jeanne to go out of the world under the conditions jeanne did are horrifying by marty mcguire news writer tot luck weeds out opinions news 1-6 men's patriot league 20 uncle vanya a play preview m the lifestyle section see page 11