Brown and White Vol. 106 no. 42

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 106 no 42 all the lehigh news first tuesday april 20 1999 scientist presents mexican research by liza uva news writer visiting research scientist jeffrey blomster spoke about the social development of mexico and presented research on the mixteca alta culture during a colloquium entitled the emergence of social complexity in mesoamerica a view from oaxaca mexico april 14 blomster discussed how his research in mexico proved wrong the common theory that the mixteca alta a moun tainous area northwest of the valley of oaxaca in mexico primarily studied for the middle cruz phase around 1200 to 800 8.c is lagging behind the valley of oaxaca the mixteca alta was considered to be behind in its cultural developments during the middle cruz phase blomster presented facts and extensive research that prove the mixteca alta was not socially behind during the middle cruz time period my research shows that this is not the case in fact the early villagers at the site of etlatongo may have pursued contacts beyond those that the villagers of the valley of oaxaca were involved in blomster said blomster used many different methods of research to prove that people of the mixteca alta were more advanced b w photo by dan handerhan two members of the women's volleyball team served pancakes at a brunch to benefit david biddle 00 the event took place sunday from 12 to 3 p.m in rathbome hall all proceeds from the breakfast go toward bid die's medical expenses all lehigh students were invited to attend the event see page 4 special feature story by patrick doherty editorial editor training to lead rotc prepares cadets for army service staying low to avoid being spotted amy walts 00 lead her squad of nine cadets through the last 50 meters of woods toward their objective she knew the position they were moving toward was held by a machine gunner but the trick was getting close enough to see him and then moving in without getting shot down this was her first time leading a squad exercise and it was important to get everything right about 20 meters from the machine gun nest she brought her squad to a halt the cadets dropped to the prone position while walts prepared her next step she sent a cadet out to do a reconnassaince on the position when he returned he quickly detailed the position of the gunner he started to say something else but walts cut him off he can see us right now she said in a tense whisper walts began giving orders alpha team we're moving in to take the position she said bravo team set up suppressing fire walts moved in with the four cadets in alpha team as they crossed the tree line bravo team and the machine gunner opened fire at about the same time the cadets in alpha team rushed in hurrying from one concealed position to the next in three to five second rushes and taking pot shots at the gunner it was over in less than a minute see blomster page 10 see cadets page 6 b&w photo by patrick doherty brian dalton 00 runs through tires on an obstacle training course at fort dix n.j recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch tv for three hours source www.sbt.bhmedia.com genetically engineered food raises questions about human health see page 13 science 13-15 science briefs 1 5 fraternity kappa sigma will hold a date auction see page 1 1 . news 1-12 market reform 3 pancake breakfast 4 ees seminar 5 i the baseball team played two games against lafayette college see page 24 h^ehpfljfl sports 19-24 i track and field 1 9 i women's lacrosse 20 i women's tennis 23