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              exciting period it is also a difficult time and they need support 1 erlckson said the student life staff gen erated an open and insightful discussion that alleviated some parents questions and concerns freshmen learned about the dangers of partying from a skit performed by fictitious characters such as patty party"and"freddyfrlendly erickson sought to portray to parents the many choices faced by freshmen at lehigh the student life staff pre sented skits to the parents to reflect the many person alities and temptations at lehigh the results of the skit were effective in raising some of the issues that freshmenaregolngthrough see freshman page 4 sinking university center tower rescued from deterioration students were given the opportunity to fulfill their wildest dreams through videotape in the grace lounge this weekend courtesy of late night at lehigh students videotape their adventures see tower page 6 put together a team of engineers historians geologists and masonry experts benner said a report conducted in the summer by members of the lehigh university office of physical planning noted problems such as the cracking of the building's stone and mortar joints iron oxide staining and dete rioration of the decorative sandstone trim in order to further investigate the prob lem the university contracted engineers from barry isset associates restoration special ists representing clio group inc and brick masonry inc aided by large cranes they spent the summer mapping out the entire interior and exterior of the building from top to bottom lehigh is planning the restoration of the deteriorating exteriorof the university center tower and will begin reconstruction as soon as all of the necessary tests on the structure have been completed extensive deterioration was found dur ing a maintenance survey raising concern among university officials about the tower built in 1867 richard benner manager of capital projects said what we suspect is the soil bearing is improper for the weight of the tower but that's just a suspicion at this point and we have nothing to substantiate it except that the tower is slowly sinking in considering the age of the building and how important it is to the campus we ye by holly jackson news writer vol 100 no 15 the bro wn and white lehigh university tuesday november 3 1992 gays need support understanding speaker says see cullen page 4 were considered criminals and were left in the camps to serve out the rest of their sentences cullen said even now people are killing each other why because we can't manage our differences cullen said cullen a multiculluralism and leadership educational consultant is not always sure when to tell people she is homosexual she does not want to make anybody feel un comfortable and she believes that people might judge her even before she begins speaking cullen began the speech with a slide show which focused on such issues as racism anti-semitism education aids abortion rape poverty and other subjects there is a world where differ ence is bad and people will see you as a stereotype cullen said according to cullen most things in life arc multidimensional she said people prejudge others and as soon as one hears about another for the first time an image jumps to mind as to what the person looks like but what you see isn't always what you get she said cullen said prejudice is arhythm by annabel lukins news writer support and understanding are essential attitudes that must be ex pressed toward gays and lesbians according maura cullen a doc toral student studying social justice and diversity at the university of massachusetts at amherst wednesday in neville hall statistics show that one in 10 people are homosexual cullen said cullen said the highest number of adolescent suicides occur among gays and lesbians they don't believe they be long she said cullen a lesbian experienced prejudicialencounters at amherst one male wrote dike on a memo board outside her door cullen joked,"lt'sdyke soon to be dr dyke to you cullen also received death threats in the mail signed the real s.sr cullen mentioned similar sen timents the world expressed to ward gays during world warn in germany approximately 240,000 people were believed to be ho mosexuals any homosexuals still alive when the allied forces arrived the need for parents to support their children in seeking out a variety of lifestyles offered to the le high student was stressed by mark erlckson director of student life saturday in a parents weekend program in the physics building your sons and daugh ters aregoing through a very by david mederrick wmmzi new : writer mimmi : ■' ■•;■■•;' ■ :: '■■■■■■'■■"■ ' " ' r v ",-."■ '"■ ■: y ■ -■. ' \\ •::; : : b&w phota by lesue sat;n director of student life mark erlckson right talks with ken hoexter 93 andy twlggar 94 and other students at a freshman parents weekend presentation in the physics building saturday freshmen parents concerns addressed by student life staff b4w photo by jon sigler computers bring imaginary world within our grasp page 7