Brown and White Vol. 104 no. 20

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 104 no 20 tuesday november 1 9 1 996 all the lehigh news first mascot celebrates first birthday by kathy calogredes news writer the mountain hawk lehigh's mas cot celebrated its one-year anniversary last week until exactly one-year ago we've always had the engineers as a nickname said joe sterrett assistant vice president and director of athletics sterrett explained that prior to the adoption of the mountain hawk as the mascot last year a person would some times dress as a train engineer and make public appearances as a physical repre sentation of lehigh's nickname this has served the function for us as creating a three-dimensional thing moti vated by wanting to make the atmosphere fun sterrett said for the most part the mountain hawk has done that sterrett said the mountain hawk is not gender-specific though the identity of the mountain hawk should remain a secret sterrett revealed that both men and women have worn the mountain hawk costume sterrett said the mountain hawk serves an important purpose for the stu dent-athletes my responsibility is to make sure that our student-athletes feel good sterrett said i think that's what it does based on the responses he hears from student-athletes sterrett said they like the mountain hawk as part of their team sterrett attributes the connection athletes have with their mascot to the fact that a picture of the mountain hawk is now on their uniforms we use the logo as a part of our uni forms sterrett said therefore it becomes a part of our overall identity seka edwards 98 played football for one year before lehigh had a mascot the mountain hawk keeps the crowd in the game edwards said it hypes the crowd which makes the players play harder because then they feel like they b&w photo by mark rubins lehigh's mascot the mountain hawk celebrated its first birthday last week abroad officer receives honor by natalie cantor news writer casimer sowa lehigh abroad coordinator has been selected to be a section representative for nafsa the association of international educators nafsa is a national organization that sowa works with through his job at lehigh for nafsa sowa will be a representative for section on united states students abroad secussa region vii secussa is the section of nafsa that deals exclu sively with students traveling abroad sowa's new position will last two years as a secussa representative he will organize region al conference activities as well as workshops for other professionals who work within the study b w photo by chris faile dan horn comedian and ventriloquist performs for students saturday night in the ulrich student center he was sponsored by university productions lecture investigates gender issues by andrew braham news writer leslie orysh 78 assistant director of counseling services and student development at the university of delaware spoke about gender relations to students thursday evening in kenner theatre the event sponsored by alpha sigma phi fraternity gamma phi beta sorority and alpha phi sorority wrapped up a week-long celebration of lehigh women orysh addressed questions concerning com munication between men and women and their problems with communication she used the example of a pick-up basket ball game to explain the distinct differences between how men and women communicate men know the rules women don't orysh said men are driven by three things competition self-sufficiency and invulnera bility where women have other priorities like socializing and cooperation orysh explained how boys learn the rules of pick-up basketball by just playing while women would go about it differently women will talk first not play orysh said it is not their priority to play the game first but to socialize and get know each other on a personal level suppose a woman gets knocked down in the game orysh said what are the women playing going to do around her keep play ing no they will stop and make sure she's ok and comfort her where as men would just keep playing through the pain and be too con cerned with how they appear to others orysh claims these communication ideas reflect how people attract a spouse the desire for intimacy is a new thing orysh said one hundred years ago people didn't get married for the relationship but to procreate according to orysh the roles of the seek er and the sought are often reversed because of the increasing complexity of today's world women often times take over the role of the seeker and men are no longer the sought students applied the communication tools they learned in an open forum discussion at the end of orysh's lecture the open discussion at the end allowed students to ask questions that they otherwise probably wouldn't ask elizabeth brodbeck 98 said i think people learned a lot more about the way males and females carry them selves around each other at lehigh see hawk page 5 see sowa page 5 2pm emotionally disturbed boys outnumber girls four to one learning disabled boys . outnumber girls two to one source usa today mmlp m the football team was knocked out of the patriot league title race when they lost to colgate university 30-23 saturday see page 16 sports 13-16 joseph mcveigh 14 swimming 16 diving 16 students and alumni performed at sounds of the students pre sented by university productions coffeehouse series see page 3 news 1-5 world news briefs 2 rowell speech 4 fossil fuels are not the only option when looking for future energy sources see page 7 science 7-9 scienceßriefs 9