Brown and White Vol. 112 No. 16

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 112 no 16 friday october 29 2004 all the lehigh news first n korea must disarm kim says by jessica glowinski news editor the south korean ambassa dor to the united nations pre sented an optimistic but firm stance on the issue of north korea's nuclear weapons pro gram to a full crowd at sinclair auditorium tuesday north korea must commit to a complete verifiable and irreversible dismanding of its nuclear program sam-hoon kim said adding that he was confident a peaceful solution would be found through inter national negotiations while the question of north korea developing nuclear weapons has been a concern since the 1980s it returned to the spotlight in 2002 when north korea left the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and refused to allow nuclear weapons inspectors into the country kim explained that this move by north korea came after a highly enriched uranium program was discovered in the country a north korean offi cial originally admitted that the country was developing enriched uranium in response to hostile u.s policies later on however north korea denied the existence of the pro gram saying the official had been misquoted since that time kim said north korea has demanded bilateral talks with the united states the bush administration has refused this request howev er saying it would prefer multi lateral talks that include other nations in southeast asia in september 2003 six nations — the united states china japan russia north korea and south korea — began negotiations to dismantle north korea's nuclear weapons program they also met in february and june this year but kim said north korea is now refusing to continue nego tiations until after the u.s pres idential election kim said the north korean government was waiting on the election results because they expect john kerry to be more open to bilateral talks between the united states and north korea but he said there is less of a difference between the two candidates than the north korean government realizes what is most important for north korea to recognize and know is that there are no significant differences between the two candidates kim said both agree the north korea issue must be solved com pletely when negotiations resume which kim expects to happen before the end of the year both wall collapses in chandler-ullmann bv jessica glowinski news editor part of a wall in a chandler ullmann lecture hall collapsed monday morning covering stu dents with plaster but not seri ously injuring anyone mathematics professor bennett eisenberg was lecturing to his math 21 class in the lec ture hall room 248 when he heard a loud crash and turned away from the blackboard to see that part of a wall had crumbled he said i turned around and i saw that the wall was no longer white but gravelly looking he said eisenberg estimated that a 4 by-6 foot piece of the wall had fallen off about four or five stu dents had been hit with debris and eisenberg said that one semih demirbag 08 was almost completely covered in chunks of plaster eisenberg was afraid demirbag was seriously hurt but said he simply stood up and said he was ok it's nothing to make a fuss about demirbag said later adding that although about 20 pounds of plaster fell on his back and shoulders he felt fine my shoulder hurts a little bit but that's normal while one of tlie other stu dents who were hit had scrapes on her arm demirbag said no one was seriously injured from the falling wall demirbag said he and other students had heard cracking noises from the wall during the lecture and that they had gotten louder just before it collapsed the sound was getting heavier and louder but we did n't think something like that would happen he said david kasten assistant director of facilities services said the university will conduct an investigation to find out what went wrong with the wall and how best to fix it he said the area of the building an b&w photo by biakt ntima students received minor injuries when part of a wall collapsed in chandler-ullmann during their calculus class monday morning ex-ms editor calls women to action by aliza zelin news writer several issues in the presiden tial election are critical for women but women are not using the power they have to influence its outcome the former editor in chief of essence and ms magazines said monday where we're going is up for grabs marcia ann gillespie said our basic rights are up for grabs and it's up to us to take them gillespie said terrorism against women is a major issue in the united states why are the candidates act ing like terrorism is something new gillespie said as an african american woman i know it's been around for cen turies and every day i could be subject to it as a woman in this country terrorism is something that people think involves guns and bombs but it actually involves the oppression of women in this country through restricting access to such necessities as adequate health care she said in addition the issue of abortion is also crucial gillespie said the ability of women to con trol their bodies is an inherent right and by being able to termi nate a pregnancy women can be seen as more important and exercising this right to its fullest potential she said gillespie said republicans push abstinence as an alterna tive to abortion and birth con trol based on the assumption that it is easy for women to say no to sexual activity but she said denying women the right to birth con trol leads to the spread of hiv which consequendy leads to children without parents who turn to sex work to survive gillespie used the spread of aids as evidence of the gov ernment not taking action to help women in 1990 the government knew the aids epidemic was going to spread and african american women would be par ticularly vulnerable she said but instead of accepting that there were populations that were vulnerable and educating these populations the government allowed the epidemic to spread the refusal to empower see wall page 4 see gillespie page 4 see ambassador page 3 * will fm ****' 4jvt»!*l if men's basketball team looks to defend patriot league cham pionship see story page 20 sports 17-20 sports updates 18 football preview 20 news 1-4 college news briefs 2 campus remains divided over presidential election see story page 5 lifestyle 5-12 the birds 7 a face in the crowd 8 matter of opinion 9 crossword 10 team america 12 update on student attacked on hills'rde avenue last week bw.lehigh.edu quick fact in finland the fine of a speeding ticket is based on how much income the person earns source www.amusingfacts.com