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the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 jjjo4 no 37 friday april 4 1997 all the lehigh news first diplomat looks to russia's future by patrick doherty news editor former russian foreign minister dr andrei kozyrev described the difficulties and opportunities facing russia as it attempts to adjust to the demands of the market economy in the zoellner arts center's baker hall tuesday night kozyrev who was the russian foreign minister after the demise of the soviet union and now serves in the russian parliament was the speaker at the annual cohen international relations lecture series kozyrev said despite recent setbacks the russian people and government are firmly committed to economic reform he admitted that nearly half of the delegates elected to the parliament in the 1996 russian elections were communists however kozyrev said this represented voter frus tration with the pace of reform not a desire by the people to return to communism this is the angry vote most ly prompted by the slowness of reform kozyrev said when people seriously faced the option of having a communist in power in the kremlin they immediately stepped back kozyrev illustrated the disgust of the russian people by telling a joke that had been in circulation during the soviet era the joke described the late soviet general secretary leonid brezhnev at the gates of heaven brezhnev is told that he is going to hell but he can choose between the social ist hell and the capitalist hell brezhnev insists on being sent to the socialist hell when asked why he pre ferred the socialist hell brezhnev answered because i know for sure there will always be a fuel shortage there " kozyrev said kozyrev said the removal of communist institutions and the transfer of industrial property into private hands will allow the russian economy to take full advantage of the country's vast natural resources what russia needs most kozyrev said is investment capital and technical assistance necessary for the econ omy to reach its full potential kozyrev praised reformers in the russian government for hav ing the courage and the initiative to take russia down a new path of political and economic develop ment he said 12 years is a rela tively brief time and the reform accomplished by the former soviet union and then russia that period has been impressive however kozyrev admitted that reform has been less than sculptures donated for sites on campus by killian o'connor news writer last week saw the installation of four new sculptures around lower asa packer campus all of which were donated by philip and muriel berman and their daughter nancy a piece by world-renowned english artist henry moore titled large totem head was placed in front of the zoellner arts center the 8-foot-high 2,000-pound bronze which was cast in 1968 is worth an estimated 1.5 million muriel berman said the moore sculpture is a dramatic anchor piece for a packer avenue dedicated to the arts which she hopes will enhance the many economic initiatives now being taken in south side bethlehem also installed around maginnes hall and fairchild-martindale library last week were three sculptures by three different american artists a 1995 vermont marble carving titled franz joseph by harry h gordon a 1993 printed steel work by peter hide and a 1993 work by shaun cassidy titled organ car a few sculptures around campus were donated by others like knowledge ascending located out side of fairchild-martindale library donated by jay dugan the majority though nearly 60 pieces all together are from the berman family's art col lection a number of these works make up the phil and muriel berman sculpture gardens which is national ly recognized in a guide to the sculpture parks and gardens of america ricardo viera professor of art and design and director/curator of lehigh b&w photo by shane marquess sculptures donated by the berman family now grace much of the lower campus columnist speaks on gender roles by patrick doherty news editor pulitzer prize-winning columnist ellen goodman discussed the need to re-evaluate gender roles in the contemporary economy and society in a lecture at peralla auditorium in rauch business center goodman said the question of what the appropriate gender roles are in modern soci ety can be characterized by the mommy debate over whether and how women can balance career and family she said this debate is the end result of decades of the evo lution of myths regarding the role of women in society we went from the 1950s myth of the supermom to the 1980s myth of the super woman goodman said goodman said the supermom myth of the 1950s depicted women as perfect wives and perfect mothers who had very limited lives outside the home she was the idea of women that our gen eration carried around just for the guilt of it goodman said by the 1980s however women had to be all this and more women were expected to care for their children while also having a job making 80,000 a year after working an eight-hour day a woman would also be expected to cook and perform household chores in this hectic schedule the children had to be penciled in like everyone else she spends an hour of time interacting with her children because haven't we been told that it's not the quantity of time but the quality that matters goodman said goodman said as the 1990s progressed women found that they couldn't do it all and that limits had to be accepted however she said progress has been slow because of the inequality of burden sharing while women have taken on the added responsibility of pur suing careers men have not taken on enough of responsibility for raising families change has been lopsided because we have been unable lo convince men of the intrinsic joy of housework goodman said goodman said useful social advances are now being made but she tempered her opti mism with caution real deep social change comes only very slowly goodman said see kozyrev page a7 see sculpture page a7 m\\t t ww w.\j__y_wjfu h'ki h the men's lacrosse team dominated layfayette winning 20 i.see page 14 sports al3-a2o golf al3 faculty coaches al5 softball alb baseball al9 women's lacrosse a2o russian professor speaks on democracy see page 3 news al-a7 world news briefs a2 family values a4 drunk driving a5 news analysis a6 survivors of child abuse find strength see page 1 1 . lifestyle 81-b8 culture corner b2 horoscope b3 crossword b6 not just a face b7 most accurate air temperature reading is found six inches above foe ground
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FullText | the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 jjjo4 no 37 friday april 4 1997 all the lehigh news first diplomat looks to russia's future by patrick doherty news editor former russian foreign minister dr andrei kozyrev described the difficulties and opportunities facing russia as it attempts to adjust to the demands of the market economy in the zoellner arts center's baker hall tuesday night kozyrev who was the russian foreign minister after the demise of the soviet union and now serves in the russian parliament was the speaker at the annual cohen international relations lecture series kozyrev said despite recent setbacks the russian people and government are firmly committed to economic reform he admitted that nearly half of the delegates elected to the parliament in the 1996 russian elections were communists however kozyrev said this represented voter frus tration with the pace of reform not a desire by the people to return to communism this is the angry vote most ly prompted by the slowness of reform kozyrev said when people seriously faced the option of having a communist in power in the kremlin they immediately stepped back kozyrev illustrated the disgust of the russian people by telling a joke that had been in circulation during the soviet era the joke described the late soviet general secretary leonid brezhnev at the gates of heaven brezhnev is told that he is going to hell but he can choose between the social ist hell and the capitalist hell brezhnev insists on being sent to the socialist hell when asked why he pre ferred the socialist hell brezhnev answered because i know for sure there will always be a fuel shortage there " kozyrev said kozyrev said the removal of communist institutions and the transfer of industrial property into private hands will allow the russian economy to take full advantage of the country's vast natural resources what russia needs most kozyrev said is investment capital and technical assistance necessary for the econ omy to reach its full potential kozyrev praised reformers in the russian government for hav ing the courage and the initiative to take russia down a new path of political and economic develop ment he said 12 years is a rela tively brief time and the reform accomplished by the former soviet union and then russia that period has been impressive however kozyrev admitted that reform has been less than sculptures donated for sites on campus by killian o'connor news writer last week saw the installation of four new sculptures around lower asa packer campus all of which were donated by philip and muriel berman and their daughter nancy a piece by world-renowned english artist henry moore titled large totem head was placed in front of the zoellner arts center the 8-foot-high 2,000-pound bronze which was cast in 1968 is worth an estimated 1.5 million muriel berman said the moore sculpture is a dramatic anchor piece for a packer avenue dedicated to the arts which she hopes will enhance the many economic initiatives now being taken in south side bethlehem also installed around maginnes hall and fairchild-martindale library last week were three sculptures by three different american artists a 1995 vermont marble carving titled franz joseph by harry h gordon a 1993 printed steel work by peter hide and a 1993 work by shaun cassidy titled organ car a few sculptures around campus were donated by others like knowledge ascending located out side of fairchild-martindale library donated by jay dugan the majority though nearly 60 pieces all together are from the berman family's art col lection a number of these works make up the phil and muriel berman sculpture gardens which is national ly recognized in a guide to the sculpture parks and gardens of america ricardo viera professor of art and design and director/curator of lehigh b&w photo by shane marquess sculptures donated by the berman family now grace much of the lower campus columnist speaks on gender roles by patrick doherty news editor pulitzer prize-winning columnist ellen goodman discussed the need to re-evaluate gender roles in the contemporary economy and society in a lecture at peralla auditorium in rauch business center goodman said the question of what the appropriate gender roles are in modern soci ety can be characterized by the mommy debate over whether and how women can balance career and family she said this debate is the end result of decades of the evo lution of myths regarding the role of women in society we went from the 1950s myth of the supermom to the 1980s myth of the super woman goodman said goodman said the supermom myth of the 1950s depicted women as perfect wives and perfect mothers who had very limited lives outside the home she was the idea of women that our gen eration carried around just for the guilt of it goodman said by the 1980s however women had to be all this and more women were expected to care for their children while also having a job making 80,000 a year after working an eight-hour day a woman would also be expected to cook and perform household chores in this hectic schedule the children had to be penciled in like everyone else she spends an hour of time interacting with her children because haven't we been told that it's not the quantity of time but the quality that matters goodman said goodman said as the 1990s progressed women found that they couldn't do it all and that limits had to be accepted however she said progress has been slow because of the inequality of burden sharing while women have taken on the added responsibility of pur suing careers men have not taken on enough of responsibility for raising families change has been lopsided because we have been unable lo convince men of the intrinsic joy of housework goodman said goodman said useful social advances are now being made but she tempered her opti mism with caution real deep social change comes only very slowly goodman said see kozyrev page a7 see sculpture page a7 m\\t t ww w.\j__y_wjfu h'ki h the men's lacrosse team dominated layfayette winning 20 i.see page 14 sports al3-a2o golf al3 faculty coaches al5 softball alb baseball al9 women's lacrosse a2o russian professor speaks on democracy see page 3 news al-a7 world news briefs a2 family values a4 drunk driving a5 news analysis a6 survivors of child abuse find strength see page 1 1 . lifestyle 81-b8 culture corner b2 horoscope b3 crossword b6 not just a face b7 most accurate air temperature reading is found six inches above foe ground |
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