Brown and White Vol. 103 no. 17

              • dui checkpoints will be in place before and after football games bethlehem police along with departments from hellertown freemansburg and lower saucon township will set up sobriety check points on roads leading to goodman stadium for tomorrow's football game against holy cross university and next satuday's game against lafayette college bethlehem police said multiple check points will be m place before and after the game at different locations officers will be alert for drivers under the influence and un derage drinkers though lehigh police will not be in volved m the checkpoints we support the effort to minimize drinking and driving said john smeaton assistant vice president of student affairs in addition to checkpoints police patrols will monitor back roads leading to goodman stadium parking lots and will enforce alco hol-related laws the sobriety checkpoints and patrols are funded by a pennsylvania department of transportation highway safety grant press release the english department has completely re vised its curriculumfor its majors making courses more in-depth starting m the fall of 19 courses above the 100 level will be worth four credits while the lower-level courses including freshman english will remain three credits the writing-intensive course which is taken m the junior year will be combined into a newly designed four-credit class called senior seminar which will be taken the senior year the senior seminar will be limited to 15 students it will incorporate class discussion individual research and group effort the change m credit hours is an attempt to allow time for classes to offer a more in-depth concentration on the material students are en couraged to work harder m these classes since fewer need be taken i hope to have more satisfaction from the students since they will be given a chance to do their best and accomplish more things said edward gallagher professor of english brian slocum 97 who is triple majoring m english history and theater has mixed opinions about the credit hour change i feel that this will affect students who have more than one major because it will limit the number of courses that can be taken since the classes will be more demanding he said barbara traister english department chair woman wants students to take ideas from previ ous classes and apply them to the seminar we hope to make this a special experience for the seniors one m which they can use all of the skills they have learned m the past couple of years m a real seminar experience traister said english majors are also offered the opportu nity to participate m externships giving them the chance to experience field work although the externship program was started this semester the department still working out the details gallagher said it's still a growing aspect m the new english department that will continue to encourage students to strive for excellence by david butler news writer baw photo by trae patton students lit approximately 75 candles m memory of israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin monday m maginnes hall please see rabin page 5 president of the israeli culture club read a list of rabin's accomplish ments laurence silberstein direc tor of the philip and muriel berman center for jewish studies and ilai alon berman visiting scholar from tel aviv reflected on rabin's influ ence and the necessity for the peace process to carry on rabin came to be known as a warrior of peace silberstein said only he was capable of bringing peace into action although rabin sdeath could be detrimental to the peace process silberstein believes there is still rea son for hope i'd like to believe the process millions of people around the world came together this week to pay tribute to israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin 73 who was assas sinated at a peace rally saturday m tel aviv israel members of the lehigh commu nity also mourned rabin's death at a memorial service held monday m maginnes hall the jewish student center also invited students to light a candle and bring a stone to place m rabin's memory during the day approximately 75 candles were lit at the memorial service belinda lasky 96 president of the hi lid society and jason lizzack 97 students donate thousands of cans vol 103 no 17 the brown and white friday november 10 1995 lehigh university's student newspaper founded m 1894 all the lehigh news first campus remembers israeli prime minister by shari budman news writer the outcome was larger than skladany had expected enough cans were collected by skladany and his crew that the center donated a portion of them to another shelter skladany began planning this event more than three months ago after realizing lehigh students had the potential to do something to ben efit those m the community i got m touch with the commu nity relations office and they sup plied all the money necessary to make copies of the fliers skladany said i then mapped out the com munities that i wanted to target i focused on easily accessible long roads and upper to middle class neighborhoods skladany who is a member of the save volunteer group and al pha phi omega national service fra ternity had originally intended the canned food drive to take place on halloween evening i wanted to distinguish college students from trick-or-treaters and ask for cans instead of candy skladany said instead we decided it would be easier to collect a couple days before halloween because it would be less hectic regardless we were able to donate cans away from the rush of the holiday season when everyone is collecting food terry auspitz 97 also lent a lot of his time to the canned food drive next year i'd like to put m even more time and effort auspitz said it's nice to fight the image that lehigh students are only party ani mals that like to spend their parents money martin did a great job orga nizing it was something that made me feel like i had actually helped people who needed it justin kuck 99 another volun teer said the canned food drive had a positive impact on the students and the community it's really important that stu dents are involved m the commu nity i hope that this activity can be continued m the future he said skladany wants to expand the volunteer size and cover more of the lehigh community next year more than 3,000 cans were col lected and donated to the center city ministry transitional care center by student volunteers last monday martin skladany 99 organized a canned food drive collecting cans frompeople m the allentown easton and bethlehem communities on wednesday and thursday of the week preceding halloween skladany and 25 other students mostly from taylor college dis persed thousands of fliers asking for canned food items to be picked up on oct 29 english curriculum changes by glenda trujillo news writer willie davis previews the football team's upcoming game against holy cross college see page 20 sports 18-20 carly lynch 1 9 volleyball 20 swimming diving 20 the house of representatives voted to ban a fetal removal method sometimes used m third trimester abortion see page 3 news 1-5 world news briefs 2 construction 4 studies show caffeine increases alertness and helps people perform tasks more efficiently see page 7 lifestyle 7-14 taylor college 8 culture corner 11 martin mushrush 1 3 events guide 14 financial aid is allotted to 50.3 percent of lehigh students totalling 34 million source lehigh homepage