Brown and White Vol. 112 No. 14

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 112 no 14 friday october 22 2004 all the lehigh news first lehigh withholds releases sketch by john misinco editor in chief for three weeks lehigh police had a composite sketch of a sus pected prowler who targeted female students in off-campus homes but the department did not release the sketch to the cam pus until tuesday one day after an nbc 10 news story drew widespread attention to the case in a sept 1 article the brown and white first reported on the prowler who has entered female students homes at night and sometimes touched the women while watching them sleep at least six such incidents were reported since august now questions are being raised as to why the administra tion did not notify the campus about the sketch when it was first released by bethlehem police in a joint interview wednesday john smeaton vice provost for student affairs and police chief edward shupp defended lehigh's handling of the case saying that because the investigation is still open and being handled by bethlehem police the university is not allowed to comment on it one thing we can never do is provide information on a city investigation or even our own investigation shupp said if we have something that doesn't jeop ardize our case of course we would release that however the sketch had already appeared in the morning call on sept 28 - about the same time lehigh police received the sketch - at the request of bethlehem police it later reappeared in sunday's issue before being shown in the nbc 10 report monday shupp said the university felt no need to inform students about the sketch since bethlehem police had canvassed off-campus neigh borhoods and showed it to resi dents and victims he went on to say that no incidents were report ed since mid-september when he said bethlehem police held a line up to identify possible suspects although none of the victims was able to verify the identity of bethlehem police provided this sketch of the prowler police said the man who's been reported breaking into at least six off-campus houses since august is in his 30s or 40s weighs about 200 pounds and has a european accent birds takes flight at zoellner b&w photo by chris morgan the birds a comedy written by aristophanes is being performed oct 22-24 and oct 27-30 at zoellner art center's diamond theater the play tells the story of two athenians who try to establish a utopia in the sky campus lacks flu vaccine by usmaan sleemi news writer due to a national supply shortage lehigh students are unable to receive flu vaccines on campus this year in the past lehigh's health and wellness center in conjunc tion with maxim health spon sored an immunization drive to facilitate vaccinations against influenza as well as meningococ cal meningitis each fall students faculty and staff were able to receive the vaccine at the campus flu shot clinic however there are no statistics available on how many students generally take advantage of the clinic this year due to a shortage of the flu vaccine maxim health has been forced to cancel all col lege-sponsored flu clinics the problem as far as stu dents are concerned is that stu dents who have certain chronic medical problems such as dia betes or asthma are more likely to get sicker if they do contract the flu said dr susan kitei director of the health center according to kitei half of the nation's flu vaccine supply was planned to be produced in great britain but due to a company production problem a shortage of the vaccine has occurred only people considered to be at high risk will be eligible to receive the shot high-risk candidates as defined by the bethlehem health bureau and the centers for disease control and prevention are those 6.5 years and older infants of 6-23 months people aged 2-64 years with underlying chronic medical conditions all women who will be pregnant during the influenza season residents of nursing homes and long-term care facili ties children aged 6 months to 18 years on chronic aspirin ther apy health-care workers involved in direct patient care out-of home caregivers and police investigate student attack by patrick fulton senior news writer police are investigating a vio lent attack that occurred early saturday morning on the 400 block of east packer avenue and left a bethlehem man hos pitalized in critical condition police said someone from lehigh may be linked to the attack some people involved are related to the university said detective jeff herzog of the bethlehem police department but whether they are students past students staff i cannot say at this point in the investigation the victim 21 year-old shippensburg university stu dent adam demilio was struck twice in the head from behind by a male assailant leaving him with a fractured skull and bleeding of the brain demilio had just left leon's bar on east fifth street with his cousin ryan mccauley and a friend of mccauley's when he was attacked on packer avenue according to a televised report by nbc 10 on wednesday night police said the attack happened after die uhree men were asked to leave a party at a house on the 500 block of hillside avenue a fight ensued and accord ing to mccauley demilio was hit at least twice in the head see prowler page 3 see attack page 2 see flu shot page 2 jon trenge returns to the hawks in quest for national title see story page 20 sports 16-20 dean of athletics 18 10 burning questions 19 football preview 20 global union offers week of educational islamic events see story page 4 news 1-4 tarence smith over comes poverty dis crimination see story page 5 lifestyle 5-12 g-time's gripes 7 a broad abroad 9 internship quiz 12 three new coordina tors added to greek life office bw.lehigh.edu quick fact people in ancient china believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache source www.amusingfacts.com