Brown and White Vol. 114 No. 20

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 114 no 20 friday november 17 2006 all the lehigh news first additional info surfaces about weekend events â–  skull thrown at umoja had been at tailgates wine police destroyed permissible by nicole nigro assistant news editor the skinned animal skull left outside of the umoja house on sunday umoja upset over po tential hate crime nov 14 was probably taken from a lamb roast at tailgates said adjunct professor of business robert gustafson gustafson said he and friends grilled a lamb symbolic of the fordham university ram mas cot at tailgates saturday he said someone took the head while he was at the game gustafson said he thinks the head was taken for fun i'm very doubtful of anything sinister gustafson said my ex perience with our students is too positive for me to imagine any of them consciously doing anything bad shaun redwood 07 umoja house resident still wonders why the skull ended up in front of the only minority house on campus knowing that the animal's head was at tailgates in no way an swers for the gross disrespect that was executed upon the umoja house residents redwood said also in the last issue of the brown and white police cite 41 people at phi kap chief of police edward shupp said bags of wine were destroyed at tailgates because wine is not allowed at tail gates but wine is permitted at all lehigh tailgate parties according to tailgate party registration sheets from nov 11 the forms state students over 21 may have wine boxes know rights with police off campus by christin fernandez news writer it is imperative college students understand their civil rights and civil liberties when stopped by the police said steve silverman a mem ber of the flex your rights foundation silverman said the fact stu dents don't know their rights often leads to arrests a casual conversation with a police officer will usu ally result in the detaining of a student silverman said because they believe they are under arrest and may reveal incriminating information there is no need to reveal guilt or admit to any wrongdo ing silverman said silverman said in most cases it is often the student's own ignorance of the law that gets them in trouble when students are deal ing with an unexpected police encounter they get nervous silverman said police officers have every right to stop stu dents and talk to them they should remember to always be polite and refuse to answer any question that may be self-in criminating but it is up to stu dents to be smart know their rights while always respecting the law according to the american civil liberties union the po lice are only allowed to detain a citizen when there is prob able cause police cannot stop someone merely based on suspicion of underage drinking there must be some form of proof according to flexyourrights org if you are stopped by police you have the right to remain silent courts have ruled indi viduals are only obligated to respond to police officer's questions if there is a stop and identify statute in that particular state there is no stop and iden tify statute in pennsylvania this means individuals have the right to refuse to answer polices questions and to refuse to show identification if an officer asks a student if they have been drinking they can refuse to answer and ask if they are free to go silverman said if there has been no suspicious behavior conducted by the student the officer must let you go but if a person is walking around with an open container of alcohol even if they are of age it gives police probable cause to stop detain and is sue them a citation according to flexyourrights students contract toxic shock syndrome by leigh gilsenan senior news writer there have been two confirmed and one potential incident of the rare condition toxic shock syn drome on campus this semester according to susan kitei director of the health and wellness center tss is a type of blood poison ing usually caused by the staphylococcus bacteria that can make a person very ill very quickly it is usually found after prolonged tampon use or surgery the occurrences were in two female students and one male student the male had recently undergone minor surgery the two female students were hospitalized for a few days but have made a full recovery kitei said kitei said tss is rare but person can get it several ways according to kitei there are no lasting effects or repercussions from the infection if it is treated tss is not a very common infection and kitei said it's unusual to see one on campus the health cen ter doesn't normally see one during a semester in the u.s annual incidence is one to two per 100,000 women 15-44 years of age according to the center for disease control's web site kitei said the last active surveillance was done in 1987 symptoms of tss usually include high fever chills nausea or vomiting diarrhea muscle aches light-headedness or dizziness fatigue confusion and a rash that resembles sunburn kitei said although the infection is rare she wanted to use this opportunity to educate students especially women about proper tampon use and the risks involved kitei said the best way to protect oneself from tss is to change tampons every four to eight hours or alternate with pads and to use the lowest absor bency necessary hands should be washed before and after insert ing tampons because the staph bacteria can live on hands b&w photo by john conner sophomore midfielder adam gazda scored the game-tying goal to force the game into overtime the hawks went on to win 5-4 in penalty kicks see rights page 2 hawks advance to sweet 16 see story page 16 student attitudes n^sfejhp^l le'ii9'l ta'(es on riva la^ayette toward l ref or patriot league title the rivalry ," - anc lert'l nto p'ayo"s