Brown and White Vol. 110 No. 38

              the bworn white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 110 no 38 all the lehigh news first tuesday march 25 2003 arrested students charged released by nancy kanetsky news writer the three students who were arrested march 4 are believed to have posted bail and have been released from northampton county prison according to university police chief edward shupp stephen dominguez 03 and daniel brosk 03 are being charged with criminal conspiracy possession of mari juana delivery of marijuana and possession of drug para phernalia they were sent to prison under 40,000 and 50,000 bail respectively the third student michael c german 04 is charged with possessing a small amount of marijuana delivering marijuana and possessing drug parapher nalia he was sent to prison under 25,000 bail according to the morning call all three students have been suspended from the university the investigation and arrests were conducted through the northampton county drug task force which included the cam pus police and police officers from other parts of the county said shupp shupp would not confirm how the arrests happened but a neighbor of dominguez and brosk both of 448 birkel ave said that she remembers seeing police cars on the morning of the arrests i remember leaving my house for class and seeing a police car behind their house and one out front on birkel kelly searfoss 04 said then when i was coming home someone said that there had been a drug bust at their house the investigations lasted for a few months shupp said but he would not give specific details on how they began all i will say is that we will respond to an informant by con ducting an investigation shupp said the police report said that dominguez and brosk sold around 3,000 of marijuana to professors hold forum on war by tucker hottes assistant news editor students and professors engaged in an open discussion forum on the war in iraq on thursday to inform and answer questions and concerns about the war professors john pettegrew chaim kaufmann stephen cohen and larry silberstein spoke with approximately 30 stu dents and faculty in packard auditorium kaufman organized the event to give students and faculty an opportunity to discuss their feel ings about the current events in a non-threatening environment kaufman took an anti-war stance and said the u.s.'s attack on iraq violates the most basic law of international affairs the doc trine of pre-emptive attack what's going on here is a preventive war he said we're attacking iraq not because it is preparing to attack us we claim it may be develop ing capabilities that it may use against us in the future in inter national law this is simply called aggression pettegrew said he thinks the war is about the oil and political benefits as well george w bush realizes that this country tends to come together over war he said students expressed concerns about the availability of accurate information seth moglen assistant profes sor of english pointed out that it is easy to get information from around the world through the internet cohen said however the information isn't nearly as important as the context if you want to make a judg ment about how you feel about this whole process you need a broader context he said i would strongly urge you to put b&w photo by tom steele a student takes a nap sunday afternoon on the university center front lawn many students have taken the opportunity to enjoy the spring weather on campus lecture highlights female artists by risha moskalewicz news writer professor lucy gans of the department of art and architec ture highlighted the issues addressed in the works of con temporary female artists in a lec ture thursday afternoon during a lecture entitled over the edge recent trends in women's art professor gans showed her expertise and passion for women's art as she presented a series of slides of some of her favorite female artists to a group at the women's center eight female artists whose works deal with feminist issues in modern society were elabo rated upon in the lecture the first of these artists was janine anton a woman born in the bahamas in 1964 who now lives and works out of new york her piece titled gnaw sought to make a bold statement on the issue of society's obsession with outward appearance to create the piece anton cast two large blocks of lard and chocolate approxi mately 500 pounds each and then literally gnawed away pieces the artist regurgitated the lard and chocolate she had gnawed off and formed smaller sculptures of candy boxes and lipstick gans said the fixation with looks that our society holds drive many women to self-destructive behav iors like binging and purging and this piece of art is a symbolic rep resentation of that because anton uses every day themes in her work viewers are forced to feel a connection with her we all eat sleep and bathe and therefore we cannot distance ourselves from art that depicts such things gans said another artist jenny sevile born in edinburgh scotland also seemed to make a statement about the image of a beautiful female figure in her paintings in all of her works the female body is dis torted to seem gigantically huge if the erotic appears at all in saville's works it is in the render ing of the surface rather than in the subject matter gans said like janine anton kiki smith and louise borgeois used a vari ety of materials to artistically express modem themes of sexual ity individuality and gender smith's blood bone is a sculpture of a female body in the fetal position with the spinal cord protruding the skin and the whole body covered in what looks like blood images that are unsettling are very good in visual art because it makes us talk about them gans said many of the other artists see forum page 3 see art page 3 see arrests page 3 wrestling team places fourth at ncaas trenge letters each place second see story on page 16 sports 13-16 sports column 13 lacrosse 14 baseball 16 professor recognized by local magazine for involvement in south bethlehem community see page 4 news 1-5 college news briefs 2 teddy bear drive 5 history and develop ment of dna explored as 50th anniversary of discovery is celebrat ed see story on page 7 science 7-9 pharmaceuticals 7 polar ice caps 9 quick socrates committed suicide by drinking poison hemlock source www.amusingfacts.com