Brown and White Vol. 112 No. 22

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 112 no 22 friday november 19 2004 all the lehigh news first arrest pending for hillside attack by olivier lewis news writer bethlehem police are await ing approval from the district attorney's office to press charges against a suspect in the attack on adam demilio in october bethlehem police lt stuart bedics of said the investiga tion is continuing bedics would not say if the suspect was a lehigh student however previous statements from the police said that someone from lehigh may be linked to the attack bedics said he didn't know how long it would take the district attorney's office to decide if there is probable cause for arrest when asked how demilio's family is handling the situa tion bedics said they want to see somebody brought to justice bryan jones 05 president of delta phi fraternity and a lifelong friend of demilio said demilio's health was improv ing jones said that demilio has awoken after several weeks of unconsciousness he said he is optimistic about his friend's recovery jones visits him on a regu lar basis he has been moved from intensive care jones said he is conscious now he is writing and he is trying to talk jones said that demilio was going to be transferred to the good shepherd rehabilitation hospital in bethlehem for therapy during his rehabilitation demilio will relearn basic acts such as swallowing and talk ing the 21-year-old shippensburg university stu dent was struck twice in the head from behind by a male assailant leaving him with a fractured skull and internal bleeding the attack occurred oct 16 on packer avenue after demilio his cousin ryan mccauley and a friend of mccauley's left leon's bar & restaurant on east fifth street demilio was taken to st luke's hospital later in the night where he received med ical attention and underwent an operation to drain blood from his brain bedics described the attack as potentially life-threatening according to st luke's hospital his condition on arrival was extremely critical bethlehem police said they have been working together with campus police in ques tioning a number of witnesses over the past month take lehigh men home with you b&w photo by blake neiman sorority members sold men of lehigh postcards in an effort to raise money to support a family friend of their sorority cook who was paralyzed in a car accident and is now paraplegic see story page 3 international conflict discussed by michelle brinker intellectual explores israeli-palestinian conflict resolution news writer students gathered in maginnes hall tuesday to hear the views of hannan hever a leading israeli intellectual hever explored the different perspectives on the israeli palestinian conflict in his lec ture no easy answers the impossible plight of the intellectual in today's israel the lecture focused on the dilemma intellectuals encounter when analyzing the conflict sur rounding the israeli-palestinian conflict hever pointed out the differ ences between the universalist values and the values of diose committed to israel there is a long way to go with universalism in israeli soci ety hever said hever's remedy for defus ing the israeli-palestinian con flict asks intellectuals to free themselves from bondage of the concept of occupation they must engage in criti cism continue to be proactive and conduct diagnosis only when not persuaded by nationality he said intellectuals must present the facts because the israeli palestinian conflict influences all parts of israeli society hever said hever provided excerpts from the works of israeli jour nalist gidon levi and novelist j.m coetzee in addition to his own writings these excerpts provided the audience with an understanding of the conse quences that result from the israeli occupation of the west bank and gaza strip some listeners however did not find merit in hever's liter campus program supports families by davina attar news writer lehigh's athletes are prepar ing to exercise their altruistic sides for the sixth annual adopt-a-family program through the adopt-a-family project each sports team is given a disadvantaged family from the south side to adopt and provide with christmas presents the gifts are presented dur ing a formal ceremony dec 2 in taylor gym where food music and santa await the fami lies community outreach by athletes who care about helping is the organization that sponsors the adopt-a-family program the organization is run by student-athletes committed to community service we do different projects but adopt-a-family is one of our biggest said mike mcconnell 05 a member of the lacrosse team roseann corsi public rela tions coordinator for the athlet ics department explained how adopt-a-family has always had a special meaning to her the combination of the fami lies reactions along with the feel ing of generosity motivates corsi to make sure the program reach es its full potential every year see adopt page 2 see conflict page 2 w m__________m troy letters com petes for his second national title see story page 16 sports 15-16 volleyball 16 gamma phi beta sorority sells postcards to help local family see story page 3 news 1-3 alumnus les whitten recalls career with the washington post see story page 5 lifestyles 5-8 bob dylan 7 tap this 8 see more coverage about the lehigh lafayette game com ing this weekend online bw.lehigh.edu quick fact a jiffy is a real unit of time for 1/100 th of a second thus the saying i will be there in a jiffy source www.amusingfacts.com