Brown and White Vol. 107 no. 21

              the brown and white jgoy c • schmell • 1-ai-vchilu/martil.oal lic hj.o-'tia lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 107 no 21 all the lehigh news first friday december 3 1999 performance artist discusses gender roles by bevin milavsky news writer performance artist diane torr lectured on the politics and practices of female to male cross-dressing at zoellner arts center nov 20 torr is the owner of drag king workshops which allows women to play the role of men for a day she explained the details of the workshop the workshop enables women to inter cept their normal behavior as women and allows them the opportunity to discover dif ferent responses and to act in a different way from their everyday behavior torr said torr has been leading these workshops for the past six years and has helped hun dreds of women with the cross-dressing experience she said the intention in assuming a male identity is not just to pass for a man but to question an accepted idea for the most part the participants of the drag king workshop are women who want to try out another gender torr said she also said some women want to use the disguise to their advantage as when buy ing a car gaining access to male-dominated domains or travelling alone in countries where it is dangerous for females to do so torr said cross-dressing allows women to expand their repertoire of performing gender gender is not immutable torr said and through the course of constructing the masculine women learn other possibil ities of being torr spoke of the history of cross-dress ing jazz saxophonist billy tipton lived as a man and was only discovered to be female after her death in 1989 dr james miranda barry is another example she cross-dressed so she could graduate from edinburgh medical school in 1812 torr was bom in scotland and attended art school in the south of england she came to new yoric in 1976 to explore a career as a dancer her dances based heavily on improvisation were performed in lofts in new york city torr said her dancing experience allowed bethany brown herman spoke wednesday night at packard lab as part of lehigh's participation in world aids day herman spoke of her experiences with hiv during a lecture entitled living is learning and growing the life of a woman living with aids there was also a table set up in the ulrich student center and the university center selling t-shirts and ribbons according to its press release each year the order of omega sponsors world aids day at lehigh to create an awareness of the seriousness of the disease and promote prevention also participating in the event was the women's center and forward locally the latino aids outreach program held a candlelight vigil and service wednesday evening b&w photo by amanda strickler good scholar awards given to top finishers by elisabeth austin-page news writer the zeta psi good scholar election raised 59,000 this year for the american cancer society and gave awards to the top four organizational fundraisers monday at 7 p.m in neville hall this year lehigh's 10th participating in the good scholar election was dedicated to the memory of s arthur schachter an adjunct professor of the center for business communications who recently died of cancer students with a cumulative gpa of 3.25 or above are elect ed to represent their fraternities sororities or clubs on campus b&w photo by wring day master of ceremonies jeremy corkhill 00 watches president of the international careers club jason allora 00 pick the raffle winner alex s trickier 01 won his choice of 100 in cash or pennsylvania lottery tickets see scholar page 7 see torr page 8 many cottages in ireland have a built in fairy path front and back doors are left ajar to allow fairies free passage source : www kids . inf oplease . com ipka/a0768958.html good scholar election raises money for cancer research and funding see page 9 lifestyle 9-16 culture corner 9 astral signs 11 face in the crowd 1 5 alpha phi sorority lends a hand to community projects see page 3 news 1-8 world news briefs 2 lu movie casting 3 police reports 4