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              mascot question to the student body last week as the question of the week i ran this question for two hours from 1 1 a.m to 1 p.m in the red lounge and because it was greek week we didn't get a very good turnout cooper said the question asked students to choose between two different sketches for potential mascots of the 107 students who voted 72 liked the different sketches most of them agreed that there was a definite need for a mascot cooper said the senate will look into the pos sibility of forming a mascot possibly through the formation of an ad-hoc committee this committee might establish a contest among the student body to promote ideas for a mascot before the lehigh-lafayette game next semester we're definitely going to keep our nickname ticho said the mascot will have to correlate with the nickname ticho suggested the panel of judges who oversee such a contest would include student athletes who would make sure the new mascot would represent the athletes as well as the school the senate went on to discuss their plans for continuing the book swap next semester cristina crane ' 95 , suggested the book swap project continue with the active participa tion of most of the senate the senate approved the selec tion of student representatives for the forum they also passed the first annual senate club awards giving please see nixon page a9 richard m nixon one of the most intriguing u.s presidents died april 22 at the age of 8 1 after suffer ing a stroke several days earlier and was buried wednesday at times he has been thought to be one of the best presidents in ameri can history while at other times he has been thought to be one of the worst according to edward mor gan professor of government opin ions seem to depend on the emphasis that is placed on nixon's four most significant dealings the four most significant occur rences during nixon's presidency include his treatment of the viet nam conflict his negotiations with the soviet union and china his relatively progres sive domestic policies and the watergate scandal during his presidency nixon escalated the u.s in volvement in indochina preaching his anti-communist rhetoric finally and slowly nixon eventually decreased the military activity in viet nam by signing a settlement morgan felt that even though nixon did finally re move american involvement nixon's treatment of the vietnam situation was despicable i think his role in indochina was reprehensible morgan said he expanded destruction was consis tently deceitful to americans and put american soldiers in an impos sible situation he said in his trip to china in 1972 nixon proved to be effective when he nego tiated with mao tse-tung and chou . en-lai to open up china this was an ironic occurrence considering that nixon was in effect legitimizing the regime of the chinese commu nist government despite his previ by held anti-communist senti in another positive move.nixon traveled to the soviet union and signed the strategic arms limita tion talks agreement which solidi fied detente relations with the so viet union nixon further made ar rangements for the soviet union to purchase american grain morgan explained the positive im pact of this trip to the soviet union nixon's big foreign policy and achieving detente with the soviet union reduced tension increased the cultural exchange and reduced the nuclear arms race he said nixon's domestic policy reflected his rather progressive views nixon '■■■' ..■'■■:■■ ■ :■:■■■: : ■■■;■: ■:■ ■„■■, it's a sad chapter in american history a leader with extraordinary talents deceived the american people and it eventually ended the administration howard whitcomb professor of government froze wages and prices in 1 97 1 and severed american ties to the gold standard by destroying the bretton woods monetary order on august 15 1971 nixon introduced measures to re form the health care system welfare systems and began sharing federal revenues with the states in his second term nixon had hoped to reorganize government health insurance for everyone ex pand the student loan program envi by marc j goldstein contributing editor lehigh administrators are cooperating with beth lehem police and the northampton coroner to help identify a body found tuesday in the lehigh river in easton a lehigh admin istrator said wednesday john smeaton assistant vice president for student affairs did not want to speculate on a possible con nection between the body in easton and the disappear ance of lehigh graduate stu dent ramesh warrier who has been missing since he walked out of a final exam dec 20 1993 we have been in touch with the police and the county coroner smeaton said and are cooperating in their investigation to determine the identity of the person found the body discovered tuesday night by three boys fishing in the lehigh river was so decomposed that officials were unable to determine its age race weight or height northampton county coroner zachary ly sek said it could be several weeks before the body is identified lt alex harvey of the bethlehem police said bodies are usually identified using dental records if they don t have them it is a long drawn out proceeding he said smeaton would not say whether lehigh had pro vided the coroner with warner's lehigh medical infor mation members of the indian students association placed advertisements in the morning call in february with warner's picture and description although the indian students association has not given up hope they did postpone a search of the lehigh river they had planned with bethlehem police for yesterday said anand ramesh a spokesman for the association we are keeping our fingers crossed ramesh said the group continues to send out fliers to schools in the northeast and had ramesh s disappearance covered on an indian television station in new york lehigh assists in body identification unidentified body in easton raises questions about missing lehigh student the brown and white friday april 29 1994 mascot debate hits student senate vol 101 no 45 all the lehigh news first nixon's legacy remembered by lee sperling news writer by andrew j cooke assistant news editor the cartoon versions of a choo choo man and an robust engineer addressed the student senate tues day when ron ticho associate di rector of athletics spoke to senate to discuss the establishment of a le high mascot ticho addressed the senate with the old dilemma of forming a lehigh athletics mascot he felt the timing was appropriate to bring the ques tion before the student senate after the recent senator elections this might not be a bad time to propose the potential for a mascot to promote enthusiasm and spirit for the school and the community who look up to our athletes as role mod els ticho said joy cooper 97 senate publicity committee chairwoman posed the please see senate page a9 the service fraternity alpha phi omega the crew team the eques trian team and the ice hockey a-team up to 1,000 each the asian cul tural society was awarded the grand prize of 1,500 on the recommendation of kerim kotan 95 senate assignments and recognition committee chairman the senate decided to recognize and fund a perspective student club the le high university student chapter of the american water resources as sociation jason euculano 96 senate trea surer attempted to pass various real locations and supplements of for vari ous clubs and their budgets some senators debated when euculano at tempted to absolve the crew team of a 3,000 loan which the team had requested to purchase a boat which had been used in the 1 992 olympics despite the opposition the repre sentatives of the allocations commit tee informed the senate of the team had taken on more than half the pay graduate student ramesh warner has been missing since december hmkhu news al-a8 world news briefs a2 king missile a3 e^p greek service awards a5 lifestyle 81-b8 m sayre mansion inn bl editorial pages alo-all jl l sports al3-a2o "" h t j women's 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