Brown and White Vol. 112 No. 1

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 112 no 1 tuesday august 31 2004 all the lehigh news first wawa to close its doors pantry one seeks site by julie orchier assistant news editor the wawa food market on east morton street is expected to close in the near future and will be replaced by a similar convenience store according to lori bruce public relations manager for wawa's corporate division the east morton street wawa will be closed because it doesn't meet new requirements for wawa food markets the company's new goals include opening stores with gas stations and relocating or reno vating older ones we love the area and we want to continue being part of the community but we need to eval uate situations on a store-to-store basis bruce said if there is lim ited space and parking it's hard to modify the store our associ ates and more importantly our customers recognize this lack of space and limitation on expan sion closing wawa has not been an easy decision tony hanna bethlehem's director of community and eco nomic development said that baw photo by blake neiman this wawa does not fit in with the type of stores that wawa wants to operate and own wawa was a niche in our neighborhood hanna said we'll be sad to see it go the city is involved with a number of new developments and is speculating about a 24 hour diner and convenience store but hanna said he has been led to believe that wawa's replacement would be open 24 hours a day pantry one food mart is after 25 years in south side bethlehem the east morton street wawa will soon close pantry one a con venience store similar to wawa with coffee and a sandwich station is expected to replace it u.n grants lehigh ngo status by kathleen mcloughun assistant news editor lehigh has become the sixth university in the world to be recognized as a nongovernmen tal organization by the united nations a distinction that will provide several new opportuni ties for students ngo recognition expands on what students are getting in the classroom said bill hunter director of the global union and director of the office of international students and scholars students are going to learn about the global issues in class and then they're going to dis cuss those issues hunter plans to build upon in-class education through the access that the global union and other university groups now have to u.n officials ngo status will give us access to u.n officials diplo mats and other ngos said graduate student patrick schmid president of the global union this means lehigh stu dents should expect to see many u.n.-affiliated events on campus ngo status also provides lehigh students with network ing opportunities with more than 1,500 ngos our students could poten tially hold internships with other ngos hunter said we are initially going to try to get internships for students in the global citizenship pro gram the global citizenship pro gram was introduced this fall to the incoming freshman class students in the program will take classes designed to introduce them to different cultures although the establishment of the global citizenship pro gram and lehigh's ngo recog nition took shape at the same time the timing is coincidental hunter said it dove-tailed together hunter said it was a natural freshman arrested on drug charges by jessica glowinski news editor a first-year lehigh student was arrested and charged on aug 22 with drug possession and intent to deliver after lehigh police found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in her drinker dorm room the student katharine swift was later released on 5,000 bail further legal pro ceedings are pending police chief edward shupp explained that police were alerted to the problem through a series of interviews with other people involved he would not specify how much marijuana was found in swift's room police records only said a small amount was discovered shupp said the police determined that swift intended to sell the drugs through evidence found in her room and statements swift could not be reached for comment shupp said he thought she was no longer affiliated with the university shupp also said typical punishments for possession and distribution charges could include a fine and jail time as for punishment through the university assistant dean of students chris mulvihill said he had not yet dealt with this specific case but typically stu dents face probation or even suspension in drug-related cases there is no written policy he said we look at everything on a case-by-case basis but the distribution or selling of drugs tends to be the most serious as far as sanctions go he also said that while drug use was a serious problem on campus his office had not seen a significant increase in drug related cases in the past few years mulvihill said that last year his office handled approximate ly 25 drug-related cases com pared to 318 alcohol-related cases alcohol by far is the drug of choice at lehigh he said still shupp said the fact that the issue had come up so early in the semester hadn't sur prised him i'm the police chief he said nothing surprises me see wawa page 2 see ngo page 2 mil v l 9 m \ aft h .â–  i [ ie â„¢ i men's soccer team eyes patriot league championship see story page 12 sports 11-12 field hockey 11 men's soccer 12 frisch gets fresh 12 umoja house strug gles to attract resi dents in its second year on the hill see story page 3 news 1-3 students face compat ibility problems with windows sp2 see story page 5 science 5-7 atkins diet 5 ipd program 7 aopi celebrates move to new loca tion on hill after house undergoes complete renovation bw.lehigh.edu quick fact in 1980 saddam hussein was given the key to the city of detroit source www.amusingfacts.com