Brown and White Vol. 105 no. 17

              the brown and white lehigh university s student newspaper founded m 1894 all the lehigh news first friday november 7 1997 vol 105 no 17 civil war historian reflects on the past by elizabeth burnham news writer gary w gallagher one of the country's leading historians of the civil war spoke to students and faculty m whitaker lab auditorium tuesday a professor at pennsylvania state university gallagher emphasized that one should use the actual words of the people who experienced the civil war to truly understand the motives behind the war and the thoughts of the soldiers if you want to understand the people of the mid 19th century go to their writings their diaries he said gallagher also spoke about the fascina tion that people of the 20th century have with the civil war the reasons we are fascinated with this era are many and serious he said at no other time m our past have more important issues been on the table gallagher told the audience that there are two main misconceptions that people have about the civil war one misconception is about the northern union and emancipation and the other about the southern confederacy and guerilla warfare modern americans are much more ready to grasp emancipation of the slaves as a goal for war than maintaining the union gallagher said he stated that emancipation was added to the list of goals for the union later m the progress of the war gallagher also said that most northerners if asked would have ranked restoring the union more important than emancipation many union soldiers did not agree with emancipation at first he said they later accepted emancipation because it was a way to weaken the south by taking away their workforce gallagher also said the union soldiers eventually agreed with emancipation because their armies would be strength ened by the enlistment of thousands of freed slaves halfway through his lecture gallagher shifted his focus to the south and the mis conception many 20th-century thinkers held that guerilla warfare could have allowed for a confederate victory the only way the south could have won the war would have been to convince the north that the war was not worth the millions of deaths and the thousands of sup plies necessary gallagher said gallagher believed that if the south had staged a guerilla attack sabotaging the union's transportation and communication faculty makes music by alison reemer news writer a faculty recital was held sunday nov 2 m baker hall m the zoellner arts center featuring as its main performers martin webster horn emily kethler piano and heeyoun kirn piano webster is a horn instructor at lehigh and moravian college m addition to being a part of the philadelphia brass ensemble and the northeastern pennsylvania philharmonic he played the french horn at the recital kethler an adjunct professor of voice performed as well kethler teaches music theory voice and choir at the recital kethler sang a soprano piece accompanied by kirn on the piano kirn teaches piano lessons and coaches chamber music the faculty recital was held so that stu dents could see a professional performance given by their own teachers nadine sine chair of the music department said according to sine it is important for stu dents to have the opportunity to see their teachers and professors perform there will be another performance this sunday nov 9 which will entail the photo courtesy of matt utesch the men's cross country team placed 5th at the patriot league championship at colgate university last weekend see page 22 bethlehem elects new democratic mayor by jennifer everett associate editor the results are m election day yielded a positive outcome for 3 1 year-old democrat don cunningham who will become the youngest mayor m bethlehem's history this victory tonight is not for me it's a victory for you people cunningham a west bethlehem resident said m wednesday's morning call a victory for the working class people of this city who got out and voted on jan 5 a son of a steelworker becomes mayor of bethlehem cunningham a communications spe cialist at pennsylvania power and light inc appeared on the political scene m 1994 when he began his campaign for bethlehem city council he was elected to the council m 1995 triumphing over veteran republican councilman otto ehrsam jr cunningham received 6,336 votes m comparison to to i the call i 62 i vote v the i victo i bethlehem i former mayor ken smith a republican resigned last month to become the vice president of public 1 1 ii thi i rksiiiirsh affairs at lehigh a bethlehem ordinance prohibited smith from seeking a third four year term according to smith the election results were somewhat predictable although he did not expect cunningham to win by such ■ a large margin i heard from close mutual friends that mr cunningham expected as large as a 500 vote victo ry but it turned out to be something like a 3,000 vote victory he told the brown and white it was quite a win for a man who was not very well known m the community five years ago smith added that he sent a note of con gratulations to cunningham and offered to work with him while he is getting started m the new position ehrsam was one of the few republicans to be on council during his five terms his term is up at the end of this year the democrats swept the local elections tuesday capturing all five available northampton county council seats cunningham's victory means the bethlehem council will have one seat open and has 30 days to fill that void with a replacement smith plans to work with cunningham to integrate the university and the community he cited the zoellner arts center as an exam see election page 7 see recital page 7 see gallagher page 7 aißßwwgiß quick i ; , jj _ 1 men's soccer team architecture lecture many freshmen gain i bki^a i beats perm 2-0 m discusses post-soviet weight adjusting to jliii r regular-season finale russia college food sfote'aartof l %» wfmt w wm n o ~ r daily tor tne game ot j see page 24 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