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              sen 91 brooks faure 94 and beth anne guthrie 94 joined students from the university of massachusetts at amherst smith college penn state rutgers and the university of virginia at the protest the rally organized by now oppos ed souter's stance on privacy issues such as the right to abortion and birth control other issues addressed at the rally included souter's positions on affir mative action civil rights separation of church and state violence against women lesbian and gay rights as well as souter's overall judicial phil osophy speakers from among the 38 nation al organizations opposed to souter's tep organizes cancer research contest that we can participate which is how he came up with this unique idea for a fundraiser the fraternity became inter ested in cancer research in part because their twelve year faculty advisor econ omics professor alvin cohen is a cancer survivor himself teople when they think of cancer think of a fatal dis ease and it is not that is hopefully one of the things that we'll be going to try to get across during the campaign that cancer if it's caught early enough is treatable said spatz by amy mulligan brown and white news writer tau epsilon phi fraternity will kick off its first annual fundraiser for cancer research on sunday oct 21 with a parade led by the marching 97 from the top of the hill to the bottom along the way ballot boxes to be used in the fundraiser will be left at each fraternity sorority and dormitory everyone on campus has a chance to be involved with the fundraiser according to sterl ing spatz tep president each organization for a 100 entry fee can enter a candid ate who has at least a 3.25 gpa as an example of an outstand ing scholar from the organiza tion said spatz students will then cast votes to both raise money for the charity and help their candidate win each vote costs 1 and the proceeds of the fundraiser will go to the lehigh valley chapter of the american cancer society a poster in the university center from oct 22 to nov 3 will show each candidate's progress those who do not wish to vote for a specific person but would like to make a contribution may label their ballot envelope indepen dent the first place finisher will receive 1,000 second place 500 and third place 250 in the case that the independent category wins the prize money will go directly to can cer research the closing cer emony and presentation of a check to the american cancer society will take place on nov 4 at 7 p.m in packer lab auditorium according to rob sussman tep public relations chairm an the fraternity needed a way to pull the entire campus together and have everybody the brown and white tuesday october 2 1990 lehigh university vol 98 no 8 professor writes book on japan us relationship seewyuepage3 by therese russell brown and white news writer the relationship between the unit ed states and japan is the most import ant in the world said raymond f wylie quoting mike mansfield form er u.s ambassador to japan wylie an international relations professor is also the author of a new book destinies shared u.s japanese relations wylie's book includes such topics as security military trade and science and technology cooperation between the united states and japan because of the situation in kuwait u.s.-japanese conversations are com ing out into the open according to wylie since world war 11 japan has neglected politics and military and has focused on economics japan's b&w photo by sponge got some things to talk about here beside the rising tide jug hollow road performed creekside at the farmhouse saturday national women's political caucus said we currently have a supreme court nominee who says he cannot remember having an opinion on roe v wade the 1973 supreme court decision which legalized abortion either when the landmark decision was handed down or in the interven ing years he refuses to discuss major areas related to women's rights from protecting discrimination in the workplace to the fundamental right to privacy including the right to choose abortion and contraception we can not confirm a nominee who fails to articulate clearly his committment to protect and promote basic individual rights tim mcfeeley executive director of the human rights campaign fund see souter page 5 nomination gave heart-felt speeches and released statements to the press justifying their positions against the nomination sharon rodine president of the we currently have a supreme court nominee who says he cannot remember having an opinion on roe v wade sharon rodine president national women's political caucus students protest souter's nomination by beth-anne guthrie brown and white a&l writer the public is beginning to under stand that supreme court nominee david souter's nomination is a direct threat to women's lives with only a week's notice college students from half a dozen states will have traveled in buses vans and car pools to partic ipate in our do or die lobby day said national organization for women now president molly yard last tuesday at a washington d.c rally five lehigh women attended the rally to protest souter's nomination to the supreme court progressive stu dent alliance members sandee pyne 91 shannon flam 91 cordelia per inside news sperm cells carry more x chromosomes than y chronmosomes lu researchers say page 4 arts & leisure introducing the master of lehigh's locks page 1 1 sports with neither coach nor equipment nor place to practice thesailing club competes competitively page 14