Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 19

              the brown and white vol 98 no 19 friday november 16 1990 lehigh university security added for 1 26th game by alicia adiutori brown and whke news writer lafayette college is taking extra precautions to prevent a repeat of last year's post-game riot the traditional goal post rush has led in the past to fights beatings and overall conflict we will use the same strategy we used two years ago said hugh harris director of security and safety at lafayette it will be a combination of the burns international security service who has worked the meadowlands and the easton police the two groups will work the sidelines and contain the crowd to the stands until the last five or six seconds of the game for the first time this year lafayette will have the easton police patrolling at the game when harris was asked if any problems are anticipated he replied you never know anything can happen replied you never know anything can happen eugene j dax lehigh's chief of police also agreed that problems may arise we have had security in effect since b&w photo by jason stanford runners took off from maginnes lawn racing up the hill and back during the annual turkey trot yesterday skip mcveigh was the overall winner of the trot with kerry kirkendall 92 taking first place for women mike bevan for freshmen and pat mccalley for upperclassmen zetes won first place over the fraternities congradulations to all who participated media experts criticize business news coverage by amy silver brown and whke desk edkor a panel of four media and business experts chronicled the changes in busi ness journalism throughout the 1980s at a business makes news symposium yesterday sponsored by the department of journalism the martindale center and the morning call the session featured martin baron 76 assistant managing editor of the los angeles times chris harper investigative producer of abc's 20/20 james tolley president of the james tolley public relations firm and craig stock business editor of the philadel phia inquirer although the three addresses were quite different stock said it seems all the panelists agree the media are covering news better but there is still more they could be doing baron discussed the growth of busi ness reporting in the last ten years people have begun to realize we have far more contact with business than we do with government said baron business news affects us as consum ers as savers and investors as employees and as members of a community said nobody would read a business story if it were written like a business textbook m«hin baron assl managing editor los angeles times baron this is the prism through which we view business baron said for the first time in the 1980s people and journalists acknowl edged that what was going on across the world was affecting people here baron said the proliferation of news paper business sections in the 1980s was a result of this new mentality baron suggested the decade-old field of business reporting needs journalists who are knowledgeable about account ing and finance and people who can write about business in a non-technical way likewise nobody would read a busi ness story if it were written like a business textbook baron told journalism stu dents earlier in the day 20/20's harper presented his account of the media's treatment of business in formation . moore advocates economic democracy by lara cohn brown & white news wrker the director of the contro versial film roger and me michael moore told lehigh fac ulty members and students on tuesday night that the gen eral motors and roger smith's shouldn't be blamed for the country's economic sys tem as the problem lies in capi talism itself moore said his answer to the problem was a three-year quest to find roger smith ceo of general motors co inc and to show him what was happen ing at his home town of flint mich his quest was the topic of his documentary roger and me in the serious economic situ ation that we are facing moore said there really is no better time to try to get the people together to fight the enemy not the real enemy the enemy poli ticians concoct for us moore said there are many dying industrial towns just like flint in making his documen tary he wanted people to have a real sense of what is happening if we let them laugh a bit for an hour and a half and leave there feeling somewhat angry moore said i felt that was the healthy therapudic thing to give people who are possibly losing jobs themselves moore also finds irony in time/warner's distribution of roger and me i think it's one of the won derful ironies of capitalism moore said where the largest media corporation in the world would distribute an anti-corpo rate film simply because they believed they would make money at it moore's movie was made for the sole purpose of trying to point out that things are wrong in this omr photo michael moore see security page 5 see moore page 5 see media page 5 lehigh-lafayette preview pages 10-11 inside news wlvr is back on the air after fcc license violation page 2 arts and leisure the traditional lehigh lafayette bonfire makes a comeback page 1 3 sports the men's basketball team is ready for the new season page 18