Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 32

              the brown and white vol 98 no 32 friday march 1 1991 lehigh university congressman says saddam forced conflict by wendy demarco brown and white news writer iraq's saddam hussein left the allied forces no option but to stop him militarily said new jersey congressman robert torricelli d 9th district people are saying that this war was a difficult choice in truth there was no choice he said monday in a speech sponsored by lehigh's hillel and the united jewish appeal at the rauch business center appeasing the aggressor making believe their character will change has no founda tion said torricelli he said the only way to stop people like hussein is to deny them their means of mass destruction some people say that sanctions could have been met but seeing saddam sending up scuds no one can say that they can believe saddam was going to change his actions he said iraq is a fertile nation if we could bring them to their knees by economic sanc tions we would have done so but we could not we had to do it by military actions it is not what anyone wanted to do had the u.s and allies not stopped hussein he would have raised a nation with the largest financial reserves in the world said torricelli hussein had the fourth largest world force b&w photo by sean mcgowan u.s congressman robert torricelli kappa sigma intruder charged with assault by mitchell drake brown and white asst . news editor a bethlehem man who ent ered a private room in kappa sigma fraternity was taken to northampton county prison yesterday after he was arraig ned for aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person according to bethlehem police envil pollard 21 assaulted junior eric christman a kap pa sig fraternity member when christman found him stealing from a room in the house at 1:40 a.m on feb 2 according to police christm an later identified pollard from a line up as the person who assaulted him christman suffered a broken nose and was taken to st luke's hospital where he was treated and released pollard is being held on 25,000 bail for these charges combined with 25,000 bail for a separate charge of simple assault police said his preliminary hearing date for these charges is to be held march 7 for separate charges filed by lehigh police pollard waived his right to a prelimi nary hearing yesterday he was charged with aggravated assualt simple assault crim inal trespass theft receiving stolen property defiant trespass and criminal trespass pollard's case now will go directly to a county court war demonstrators protest civilian deaths by amy silver brown and white editorial page editor one day before the ceasef ire more than 50 members of the lehigh community gather ed in mart plaza to protest the action of american military forces in the persian gulf students and professors spoke out in anger and sad ness at the killing of all inno cent people in the war includ ing iraqi and kuwaiti citizens they voiced concern about the continuing attacks on iraqi soldiers even after iraqi president saddam hussein announced on the radio that his troops would withdraw from kuwait on feb 26 al wurth assistant govern ment professor used a sports analogy to describe current events it's the fourth quart er we're winning 1000-0 and we still have the first string in there he said i believe that says something about the coach steven ragland 91 co chairperson of the progres sive student alliance and an organizer of the event said the true motives of this war are showing through we keep killing now we're shooting them in the back as they leave michael gildenberg 91 voiced his concern about the public's disapproval of the anti-war movement it seems weird to me that in a country built on questioning authority that there are so few people out here professor ted morgan of the government department discussed the suppression of information in the american news media and likened the situation to that portrayed in george orwell's book 1984 there's a lot that we're not hearing about like the vast devastation of residential areas in kuwait we know relatively little about what our forces are doing in our name said morgan ragland said this war is being fought in our name it is our country we have to take responsibility because this is our government and the bur den falls on us if we are not part of the solution then we are part of the problem we have to snow tnie sup port for the troops peaceful support he said mike gildenberg speaks about the anti-war movement reverend ingle attacks morality of death penalty by marc j goldstein brown and white news writer rev joseph b ingle an ordained minister in the united church of christ and an outspoken opponent of the death penalty said the system that sentences murderers to their death discriminates against class and race in a lecture monday nine out of 10 people on death row are victims of a system that is class discriminatory because they could not afford a lawyer at trial ingle said lawyers appointed by the court do not have the expertise necessary for a death penalty case he explained imagine a runnel and at the top of the funnel are the 20,000 murders each year as the runnel gets narrow er the people that drip out of the bottom are those who go to death row about 200 to 250 people a year said ingle who is currently a merrill fel low at harvard university ingle said those on death row are not the worst murderers as some people think he added that the two factors that send a murderer to death row are killing a white person or someone in his class see war page 13 see court page 3 see speaker page 3 lifestyle towpath history page 9