Brown and White Vol. 102 no. 22

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 102 no 22 tuesday december 6 1994 all the lehigh news first aids day supported with ribbons and information by jonathan rosenfeld news writer red ribbons dotting lapels were a common sight thursday as many individuals on the lehigh campus showed their support of world aids day 1994 for the first time lehigh joined the interna tionally recognized day a variety of activities were held around the campus all supporting aids awareness the main point for world aids day at lehigh was to help educate people about aids we just want lehigh students to learn about what's going on when they learn they can make good decisions heather fischer 98 said katie kullman 97 said we are here to bring awareness to the issue we want the campus to become more aware of aids and how it's spread information booths were set up in the red lounge of the university center and the ulrich student center passing out aids-related lit erature condoms could also be purchased with the proceeds going to support a local aids outreach center sponsors of the event went with a multi media approach having vcrs showing and the band played on a movie on the devasta tion caused by aids as students looked over the information at the booths tori bronaugh event organizer and psy chological counselor for counseling services said lehigh has to recognize the issues we have to get more people aware of what s going on hopefully lehigh will become a forerun ner in the area diverse sponsorship made aids day a unique event we have a lot of different components combining together to bring at tention to the issues said kathy calabrese director of the women's center sponsors included the university counsel ing service women's center health center department of art and architecture adjunct assistant professor of sociology and anthro pology ernie green arts house lesßigay university counseling services peer educa tors in addition to sponsoring the event spon sors worked at the tables a day without art was another focusof the day sponsors wanted to draw attention to the fact that much of the art people take for granted is created from communities stricken with aids paintings in the university center and sculp tures throughout campus were covered with red ribbons reminding people of how the ail community has been crippled by aids lights in art galleries at lehigh were also dimmed as a symbol of observance a candlelight vigil was held at night spon sored by latino aids outreach sponsors of the event felt their time was well spent and said their message got across artist's graffiti remembered by annabel lukins news writer keith haring s graffiti art both un derground in the subways of manhat tan and across 320 feet of the west side of the berlin wall left a message from the 1980s.thedeceasedartisthadh()ped art could function to improve civiliza tion and provide inspiration brendan d strasser of the en glish department at lehigh carbon community college provided many with the opportunity to learn more about haring s work and life while giving background on the radical his tory of art in a colloquium on thurs day in maginnes hall the colloquium was sponsored by lehigh s science technology and society program university art gal leries and the department of art and architecture it was interesting to see how revealing of a way graffiti artists profession and work reflects on the role of technology and society stephen h cutcliffe associate pro haring said that if l he could of lived long j enough he would have i painted every wall all s over the world » brendan d strasser l english department of lehigh carbon community college t fessor of sts said in the 1960s and 19705 graffiti 1 art was prominent artists referred to i themselves as expressionists by plac-r^^h ing their personal name tag or sig-h nature on public space most of thixh type of graffiti was by males his-m panics and latinos h it was an attempt to give voice to i concerns that which has been si 1 lenced strasser said they wanth people to know that they too exist i strasser showed the audience h many slides of controversial gral fi 1 1 . 1 i fyour hack is up against a wall turn m around and write on it was what i one person felt should be written nl the side of a building in manhattan sh lower east side h another message to the world i was we are the sons of the ghetto i and we will survive showing ethnic cries of power yet another cry for expression was to the boys in blue catch me if you can this statement was a challenge to new york city police officers but in 1982 mayor ed koch i put a stop to this public expres sion by initiating an anti-graffiti campaign which entailed man datory jail terms fines and use of strong chemicals to remove the graffiti from buildings and walls for haring this attempt to stop expression only encouraged him to impact people's lives more through his abstract ait v strasser said haring encoun tered many other artists who in fluenced his work in particular american writer william burroughs but also picasso walt disney and andy warhol warhol's famous campbell's soup piece showed the world that even modern consumer products are worth bei ng put on canvas addition ally picasso left the world with biomorphic images and a vocabulary based on icons and symbolic mes sages strasser said after leaving his hometown of kutztown pa haring attended the b aw photo by meve imipe brendan d strasser of the english department at lehigh carbon community college gave a lecture thursday on the life and work of graffiti artist keith haring antiquated fire detectors replaced in historic buildings by kimberly haas news writer new fire alarms have replaced the old alarm systems in the alumni memorial building and linderman library during installation some tables which blocked stairwells had to be moved dan beuttenmuller assistant di rector of building maintenance said the installations were completed by the beginning of the fall semester those buildings had antiquated systems which were difficult to buy parts for he said they were some of the first installed in the nation but it was time we upgraded for safety reasons beuttenmuller said the new sys tems are on an annunciator panel so that a firefighter can quickly identify "/ wouldn't say the old system didn't work but it was very very old " susan cady associate director of university libraries the location of the problem this is a feature that all newer systems have and it was installed in taylor gym during the renovations last year lie fire inspections that were part : installation process called for ibles in linderman to be moved two tables in the basement stack areas and two tables in the second and third-floor ro tunda landings have been moved to other areas because they blocked the stairways and would make exit difficult in an emergency situation beuttenmuller said during the inspection the fire marshal decided the tables would im pede the flow of traffic they took up too much room and he had to edge please see aids page 6 pteas^^e^^^^^page6 please see library page 6 news 1-6 / sleeping habits 7 j jfc ' bridge building 9 ty sports 13-16 mi wrestler john mccumber 15 ** m ■ ■ men's basketball 16 wrestling lehigh claims sixth sheridan team title see sports page 16