Brown and White Vol. 124 no. 6

              Vol. 124 No. 6
Friday, February 8, 2013
‘All the Lehigh News First’
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LIFESTYLE
By ABBY SMITH
“It’s not easy to put the words peace and Middle East in the same sentence,” said Massachusetts Institute of Technolo­gy Professor Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and political critic, as he addressed the Lehigh community that gathered in Packard Lab for a lecture Tuesday night.
Chomsky addressed the crowded au­ditorium regarding prospects for peace in the Middle East and focused on the two countries mentioned the most in the pres­idential foreign policy debates: Israel and Iran. Of the pair, one nation is commonly accepted as America’s Middle Eastern ally, while the other is characterized as a destabilizing threat to U.S. security and foreign interests.
Chomsky said that the national media portrayed Iran as America’s “largest se­curity threat” and the “greatest threat to world peace.” However, he stressed that this was simply an American view.
“People in the Arab world don’t like Iran, but they don’t perceive it as a threat,” he said. He continued, saying that the U.S. administration only listened to the Arab dictators’ points of view (who do think Iran is a threat), instead of conferring with the views of the nation’s citizens.
Chomsky said that the Iranian threat to the U.S. is one of deterrence and of­fered three possible solutions: go to war; renew a 2010 agreement reached by
Chomsky: 3 choices for Israel-Mid East peace chances
By KERRY MALLET
Former Secretary of State Made­line Albright will visit Lehigh Univer­sity on Tuesday as part of the Kenner Lecture Series.
Albright, who was secretary of state under President Clinton in his second term, is a native of Czechoslo­vakia, where she had to flee with her parents when the Nazis invaded dur­ing World War II and again when the Soviets invaded her homeland after the war.
She became a U.S. citizen while at­tending Wellesley College, where she graduated with honors and a degree in political science.
Albright was pivotal in American policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the Middle East during her time as secretary of state.
Since leaving office, she has been a professor in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.
In May 2012, President Obama awarded Albright the U.S. Medal of Freedom, which is the highest honor a civilian can receive.
The Kenner Lecture Series is spon­sored by alumnus Jeffrey Kenner, ’65. Kenner established this Cultural Understanding and Tolerance series in 1997.
The Lehigh community is very excited to host such a storied figure. Political science major Erin Pamucku, ’15, was one of the students chosen to participate in a question and answer session before Albright’s speech.
B&W photo by CHRIS BARRY
World-renowned professor, linguist and political critic, Noam Chomsky spoke at Lehigh on Tuesday. He answered student’s questions during the day and addressed a larger audience at night, focusing on peace in the Middle East.
B&W photo courtesy of LehighU Live
The LehighU Live application for smartphones lets students track the bus schedule and see where the bus is at any given time.
By LAURA MELONE
Through the free and newly updated smartphone application LehighU Live, vital information for students, faculty, staff, and visitors is a little easier to access in the palm of your own hand.
With the click of a button, whether on campus or thousands of miles away, anyone who downloads the application has access to important and useful information about Lehigh such as bus schedules, alert bulletins and cancellation notices. New updates, such as the addition of the MyAdvisor and My­Gryphon features, the GoldPlus feature, the updated buses feature and many more, life at Lehigh has become more organized.
The MyGryphon and MyAdvisor fea­tures of the app allow students to look up important information about their residence hall advisor and their academic advisor. Using a smartphone, any student also has the ability to look up their GoldPlus bal­ance and the bargains offered on the Sale Board. In addition, the new buses function allows students, faculty, and staff to track where the closest bus is currently located for Goodman Campus, Mountaintop Cam­pus and Saucon Village. The feature also details the respective bus’s arrival and de­parture time and where to catch a ride from TRACS (Take a Ride Around Campus Safely).
Day or night, a student now has the abil­ity to carefully map where the bus for their
LehighU app updated, tracking features added
See APP Page 4
Brazil, Turkey and Iran, which U.S. officials harshly criticized; or move to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East region. Chomsky de­tailed the third option as one that most of the world favored, with the exception of the U.S. Obama is open to the idea, but wants to wait for regional peace and to ensure that Israel is excluded from the zone, Chomsky said.
When speaking of Israel, Chomsky recounted some of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, focusing specifically on the agreements that have been attempted in the past. Today there is an overwhelming international con­sensus on a settlement between Israel and Palestine, having the approval of every major country except the United States and Israel, he said.
Chomsky described an agreement of­fered to Israel by the president of Egypt in 1971. In this proposal, the Egyptian president offered Israel a full treaty in exchange for the return of any disputed territories, mentioning the Palestinians only as refugees.
“Israel had a choice between security and expansion,” Chomsky said. Israel
See ALBRIGHT Page 4
See CHOMSKY Page 3
Former secretary of state Albright to visit Tuesday