Brown and White Vol. 106 no. 39

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 106 no 39 tuesday march 30 1999 all the lehigh news first visiting professor delivers lecture before returning home by deanna dutkus news writer the latin american studies program and the international center for democracy and social change presented the lake of stone the geopolitics of the colonial caribbean a lecture by rodolfo segovia thursday afternoon segovia is a visiting professor of management and economics for this semester he teaches two courses management 301 business strategy focused on emerging markets and geco 492 seminar on the world oil industry he is not a stranger to speaking at lehigh he has been giving guest lectures since 1989 segovia said he enjoyed this opportunity to speak on the topic of his real love history he not only lectured about the history of the caribbean but he also had slide pictures of many dif ferent countries he showed a diagram of the route that merchant ships took in the caribbean during the colonial time period and pictures of many of the old forts and towns although segovia finds lehigh to be a nice change from his normal duties he looks forward to going back home to colombia segovia has been president of petco s.a and propilco s a two of colombia's most important petro chemical companies he is also the former president of the national oil company ecopetrol and was colombia's minister of public works of transportation segovia was elected to the house of representatives and the senate of the republic of colombia and is also a member of the board of trustees of the university of los andes and of the lehigh university global council he is a corresponding member of the academies of history of colombia and cartagena a city from which he has received a civic medal segovia is a frequent contributor of articles to the associated press on oil economies and politics and has published several historical monographs these include the battle for the galleon san jose in 1708 and the fortifications of cartagena de indias strategy and history the latin american studies program at lehigh sponsors at least one lecture a semester to help publicize the latin american minor past lectures have included cuba surviv ing revolution and women and change in latin america past speakers have included jaime serra-puche mexico's ex-secretary of trade and industry and chief b&w photo by meussa brown rodolfo segovia visiting professor of management and economics gave a presentation thursday on the geopolitical history of the caribbean speaker points the finger at ex-hippies for binge drinking by erik a berg news writer college students can blame their ex-hippie parents for the recent nationwide crackdown on college drinking according to james mcintosh professor of soci ology and anthropology the mass media's current pre occupation with national studies on college drinking has prompted u.s politicians and university officials to crack down on this perceived problem mcintosh said in a march 24 colloquium entitled thongs status politics and college drinking according to mcintosh howev er these studies cannot truly prove that colleges are experiencing widespread binge drinking mcintosh's theory based on status politics explains why the new fuss over college drinking has emerged national studies on college drinking which are a fairly new phenomenon have caught the media's attention in the past few years newspaper headlines scream the studies findings while maga zine covers gossip about the col lege drinking crisis mcintosh said you can't go several days without hearing about college drinking in the mass media mcintosh said first conducted in 1993 by henry wechsler lecturer in the department of health and social behavior at harvard university the college health alcohol study is the preeminent of these studies on college alcohol use based on anonymous surveys of college stu dents from 116 colleges in 39 states the study coined the term binge drinking wechsler defines binge drink ing as the consumption of five drinks in a row for men and four drinks in a row for women mcintosh said in 1997 wechsler conducted a follow-up study to his 1993 study and was disappointed to find that the results showed almost no change in college students drink ing habits students were still binge drinking to get drunk there are traditions and insti tutions of drinking on our campus b&w photo by cori zacharius a plaster and plush sculpture by julia buonanno 99 is displayed with other student work in the girdler gallery see segovia page 6 see drinking page 6 bmmmhmi i i i iwhimi.iim —> f _ "_ 1 1 1 1 1 m _— m_____welw_m quick mmmmgm men's lacrosse beat panel discusses the new technology ilpm bucknell 8-3 in its first role of feminism in determines the future " j£3 mt patriot league game our society of video games j.p mcgillicuddy's pub tt see p a 9 e 20 - see p a g e 4 - see page 9 j™j j pk sports 15-20 news 1-7 science 9-11 which are yuengling lager r^sp women's lacrosse 15 world news briefs 2 science briefs 11 on a tuesday night t : l m softbali 19 mar io hara 5 ii__.--_*.s iii tfi mim baseball 20 midori 7 source jim casey manager