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              the charges of sexual harassment against new supreme court justice clar ence thomas did little to sway senators opinions during the senate confirmation hearings said howard whitcomb pro harassment charges only three senators who had previously favored thomas nomination changed their votes before hill's accusations of sexual harassment were made public though there was a clear majority in the senate favoring thomas whitcomb said fessor of government the best choice was to defer the vote and permit university of oklahoma professor anita hill's charges to be examined more fully whitcomb said whitcomb said even after the week long testimony concerning the sexual class promotes organ donation see donor page 5 by usa rigazio brown and white news writer a lehigh professor attempting to dispel the myths about organ dona tion has designed his class to create a marketing scheme that will encourage people to get organ donor cards raymond horton professor of mar keting discovered that many people although unsure of their faith's posi tion on the subject cite religious be liefs as a reason for their apprehen sion about signing an organ donor card more than one third of the people in the united states who need an organ transplant die before they ever re ceive one yet enough people with usable organs to fill this demand die each year this semester horton's marketing 312 class is researching this problem by studying the role that religious beliefs play in organ donation decisions it's definitely the most unique mar keting class i've had said jennifer blackmail 92 we're dealing with a real life situation and we're talking to real people horton's class will survey priests rabbis and other religious leaders from around the country study their ethi cal and religious convictions and design a marketing scheme that horton hopes will encourage more people to carry organ donor cards the class has already been visited by representatives of the protestant catholic and jewish faiths students were surprised to discover that most western religions not only support organ donation but encour age it steven pik-nathan a rabbinical stu dent and advisor to lehigh's chapter of the hillel foundation said he dis covered that many jews think their religion is against organ donation because of jewish laws demanding reverence for the deceased however except for a few orthodox jews organ donation is accepted when a life can be saved founder's day speaker stresses u.s ascendancy by mitchell drake brown and white news editor america must use it's influence and position in the world community or fall into the heap of mediocrity warned carey joynt speaker at the lehigh's 113 th founder's day ceremony oct 13 at the ceremony the university conferred 211 undergraduate and advanced degrees upon students who completed their pro grams requirements during the summer joynt said for the past 40 years the united states has been in a struggle for supremacy the result of all this is what i call the american ascendancy he said joynt told the crowd in packard church other states have reached this ascendancy only to lose it in a very short time and with little to show for it he warned this could happen to us according to joynt monroe rathbone professor emeritus of international rela tions the united states must lead the way in this new era of cooperation between nations having seen where we are we are in a better position to know what to do he said it is not an option for a country to use war as a means to expand it's borders any longer the great powers of the world hold this belief no longer joynt said the u s has to face many challenges he said our choices are act ing alone acting in a coalition developing a concert of great powers perhaps with a shared security force or a return to isola tion a sure recipe for disaster he said he favored acting in coalition with other nations to share the burden of creating a new world order but stressed we must address many of the problems at home before we begin solving the problems of the world you and 1 as americans will have cru cial decisions to make joynt said pointing out the country's 3.5 trillion deficit to say that the business of our nation has been mismanaged on a national scale is an understatement he said we must stim see founder's day page 17 g i i gary facchiano cuts the new grates being installed on the drop windows in front uf the u.c the brown and white vol 99n0.12 tuesday october 22 1991 thomas confirmation questions linger lehigh university see thomas page 1 9 following the accusations and testi mony the final vote was much closer than originally anticipated in fact tho mas was confirmed last tuesday by the full senate by an extremely narrow mar by amy mulligan brown and white news writer gloria m bower kk l^i?5 ity libraries fairchild/martinoale libr no.ooba fun with fractals see page 9