Brown and White Vol. 104 no. 13

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded m 1894 vol 104 no 13 friday october 25 1996 all the lehigh news first aids quilt recognizes lu deceased by heather gardiner news writer lehigh students visited washington d.c on oct 13 to view the aids quilt created m remembrance of people who have died from the disease the event planned by janice tessier 97 a gryphon m warren square originally invited only members of the gryphon society but then offered the trip to anyone who lives m residence halls the quilt was displayed from oct 11-13 m washington d.c at the national mall it bears the names of more than 70,000 people who have died from aids includ ing lehigh alumni displayed on the lehigh panel was the symbol that reads homo minister et interpres naturae and m the school colors honored lehigh university alumni who have lost their lives to aids tessier a social psychology major took the aids and society class which made her more aware of the disease i wanted to go there and see the quilt and see something i haven't seen before tessier said ruth dubinsky 00 one of the eight students on the trip said she was more touched by the quilt than she had expected she would be some of the panels were real ly personal to the people that died dubinsky said the aids quilt is 4,000 feet long and 400 feet wide with the walkways m between the quilt covers 19 football fields and weighs 38 tons ten railroad cars were used to transport the quilt to washington d.c tessier said that m five hours she only got to see about one eighth of the quilt carol snaith 99 said she was amazed at the size of the quilt you don't realize how big it is until you get there snaith said the ideas for the aids quilt came from gay rights activist cleve jones the idea came to him after a march m 1985 where he asked people to write down the names of love ones who died of the aids epidemic the names were then taped to the walls of the san francisco federal building this reminded jones of a patchwork quilt in october of 1987 the first 1,920 panels of the quilt were dis played m washington d.c today jones travels around the country speaking and goes to b&w photo by brian schneider ralph nader green party presidential candidate signed copies of his book no contest monday at the lehigh bookstore nader shares his vision by natalie cantor news writer green party presidential candidate ralph nader spoke monday night m packard laboratory auditorium nader's speech delivered to a standing room-only crowd comprised of both stu dents and local citizens focused primarily on his and the green party's visions for the united states these visions rest mainly on environmental reform consumer rights and fighting the increasing corporate power nader expressed his dislike for such programs as gatt general agreement on tariffs and trade and nafta north american free trade agreement he criti cized media coverage of these agreements by claiming the press often acquiesces to government demands without really look ing into the issues i have yet to meet the first reporter who is covering trade who has ever read the 500-page gatt agreement nader said i have also only met one member of congress who read the agreement before they voted on it to prove his point nader offered 10,000 to the favorite charity of any mem ber of congress who would get up publicly and answer 10 questions about gatt nader received only one response to this offer from senator hank brown who answered 12 questions correctly but refused the charity money brown then voted against gatt which nader believes all congress members would do if they knew what it was about nader's speech contained many criti cisms of corporate america and the strong position it holds m american government government is now more indentured to corporations than ever nader said it's hard to tell the difference between big busi ness and big government to support this point nader brought up instances such as the tongas national forest m oregon this natural area he said was handed over to japanese and american timber companies to be destroyed he said today's generation has grown up corporate with a strong emphasis on mak ing money and getting ahead nader said this mind-set is dangerous to the future of the country he drove his point home by using a tongue-in-cheek analogy about the lehigh community basically the problem stems from us campus pub plans take off by michelle katz news writer administrative and student senate committees met monday to begin planning for a campus pub dawn fuchs 97 chairwoman of the campus pub committee said ideas for the pub surfaced last year with the talks of the residential environmental report it was decided that a committee should be formed to discuss the idea of a campus pub fuchs said when it was initially formed the committee was passive but it is now beginning to take action the meeting was open to all and a mixture of staff and students attended according to fuchs the purpose of the meeting was to gather ideas and get some feedback about the pub's basic focus at this meeting everything is preliminary fuchs said there has been no programming yet just initial planning the pub's focus is to create a positive social environment for all students faculty and staff alcohol will be available for those 21 years of age and older tim shotmeyer 00 freshman representative for the student senate and mcclintock-marshall house president is involved m the creation of the pub and wants to use mainly student input for the planning right now we're getting ideas by sending out a survey asking for suggestions and ideas about what type of pub lehigh students want shotmeyer said along with the administrative and senate com mittees now working on the project a design committee will help create the pub's atmosphere we don't want alcohol to be the main aspect of the pub shotmeyer said the type of atmosphere we want m the pub is one m which people from dif ferent groups can come together fuchs said the main obstacle now is deciding on the location of the pub nothing's definite fuchs said possibly the pub will be m lamberton as soon as the zoellner arts center opens and the music department moves lamberton will hopefully become the pub it's a long process but worth working on m order to create something successful like a campus pub melissa lerner 98 heard about the campus pub plans and is excited at the prospect she said it is something that this campus needs a social atmosphere that is a nice change from the norm of lehigh's activities see aids page 6 see nader page 6 1 "* \ b ** i women's soccer lost 3-0 to perm tuesday on goodman campus see page 20 sports 15 18-20 rotc challenge 15 volleyball 18 sports briefs 18 field hockey 20 students show their support of sexual assault awareness week by attending lectures and decorating t-shirts see page 3 news 1-6 world news briefs 2 parking services 4 brad taylor plaque 5 plans to integrate the hill cause unrest among students see page 7 lifestyle 7-14 horoscope 9 miniversity 1 1 not just a face 1 3 q¥k a sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles an hour source 2201 fascinating facts by david louis