Brown And White Vol. 114 No. 36

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 114 no 36 friday march 2 2007 all the lehigh news first medical amnesty policy approved ■ administrators adopt good samaritan policy to encourage students to seek help for dangerously intoxicated students by charlie gimber news writer the office of student conduct has established its own good samaritan policy to be put into action immediately after spring break said chris mulvihill assistant dean of stu dents at a senate meeting on tuesday the policy known as the medical amnesty policy protects intoxicated students from being held accountable for violating the university code of conduct if they call the police when a friend needs medical assistance the policy also protects students from code of conduct violations when calling help for themselves or for social organizations who have someone in need of assistance at their place of residence mulvihill said mulvihill said the policy is a huge step forward for lehigh's student body i think it's going to have a great impact on the students mulvihill said it's a large step towards student safety on campus which is our main concern previously if students called for help there was the possi bility they would receive a parental notification disciplinary probation or even suspension these potential consequences for violating the code of conduct could deter students from seeking medical assistance students risking getting where policy is applicable • intoxicated students in need of medical attention who call for help will not face a code of conduct violation • intoxicated students requesting help for another intoxicated student will not face code of conduct violations • social organizations such as fraternities will not face social probation if they call for medical help for intoxicated students in their house student wastefulness limits energy efficiency panel says by blake cote news writer lehigh students need to stop their wasteful ways before alternative fuels should be considered a panel on green energy said monday the discussion sponsored by stu dents for sustainable development and the global union was advertised as a talk on alternative fuels but mostly focused on how to prevent inefficient energy use by students the main problem is an organiza tion and institutional rule based prob lem rather than a technological one said al wurth associate professor of political science wurth said students often do not make more environmentally-friendly choices because they do not have the incentive for example on-campus stu dents may not turn off their computers at night because they are not directly paying for utilities gary falasca director of facility services said students could start be ing more environmentally friendly by reducing waste he said greek houses use disposable dishes more than they have in the past which has significant ly increased the cost and energy used for trash removal b&w photo by jessica bandy it's really an odd and overwhelm ing thing falasca said questions about the technology used for alternative fuels were mostly directed at dave dunham 03 by about 40 students in attendance dun ham converted his car to run on waste vegetable oil to reduce commute costs and now runs a company that converts cars and sells processed waste veg etable oil waste vegetable oil is more envi ronmentally friendly to burn because it comes from plants which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere professor al wurth speaks in a panel addressing green energy at lehigh and what students can do to prevent inefficient energy use the discussion was sponsored by students for sustainable development nuclear threats cause sanctions un official says by leann austin news writer a group of students traveled to the united na tions national headquarters in new york city on monday to participate in a private briefing focused on nuclear non-proliferation the trip put together by international relations professor janice bially mattern was to help ir stu dents to learn about topics they discussed over the semester and heavily debated issues about nuclear technology bially mattern said tracy brown public information officer for the international atomic energy agency was the dis cussion leader and helped the students understand the reality of nuclear issues brown is a part of the laea which is an independent intergovernmental organization within the united nations composed of 143 member states the group is a collective inter national cooperation focused on the development of peaceful applications to nuclear technology brown said the laea is currently dealing with iran's lack of compliance with the non-proliferation treaty safeguards agreement iran has been lying to us the laea about what nuclear materials they have and their uses for many years now almost 20 which have led to a breach of trust brown said they have been telling us since the first gulf war that they do not have a nuclear weapons program and it turns out that they had an extensive clandestine nuclear weapons program off site and underground within the country which was hidden to our inspectors by 1998 we were pretty sure about what they were doing so how can you trust someone who's been lying to you iran's negligence to provide transparency to the laea has resulted in the suspension of 22 of its 55 technical aid programs to iran as of feb 10 accord ing to an laea briefing report given to the students prior to the trip although the laea does not have the power to see conserve page 3 see briefing page 4 see amnesty page 2 professor brings magic to classroom page 5 men's hoops team season ends \ at buzzer 47-46 page 12 johnny's bagels coming to campus square bw.lehigh.edu