Brown and White Vol. 109 No. 45

              the brown and white lehigh 1 vol 109 no 45 "~ jody e hijazi btt - fairchild/hartindale lib ltg info management all the lehigh news first campus square vendors announced byjohnmisinco italian restaurant coffeehouse to join two-story bookstore in new development assistant news editor an italian restaurant and a coffeehouse will occupy the two remaining retail spaces in the new campus square complex the university announced wednesday pastaficio an italian restau rant on hamilton street in allentown will open its second restaurant in the back of the complex jazzman's a coffeehouse operated by the wood company will occupy the space in front of it the two venues will join the bethlehem dairy store which signed a lease last month in campus square the ice cream shop will be in the front corner of the complex along morton street all of the restaurants are on the ground level on the west side of campus square adjacent to the parking garage the new two-story barnes and noble bookstore will be on the other side of the complex bill johnson director of media relations said the busi nesses should be open by late summer they're all anxious to be open johnson said obviously the facility will be ready by then barry gaal associate vice president for business services was in charge of selecting which businesses would occupy the retail space a process that took more than a year to com plete gaal said the university con tacted several restaurant chains but most of them pre ferred to have locations in sub urban areas near shopping centers and malls the waters were tested there but it didn't work out he said president gregory farrington and bethlehem mayor don cunningham also announced at a press conference wednesday that the university will fund a new south side beautification project in the areas adjacent to campus square the plan could include improvements such as weed control flower planting tree maintenance and litter removal once something is beauti ful it is likely to stay that way farrington said even i human rights activist speaks byjaye kinnard news writer lawyer and human rights activist halima addou spoke monday as the final speaker in a series of lecturers celebrating 30 years of women at lehigh there is fear every day terror every minute - it's part of daily life addou said of her native homeland algeria addou was targeted by both islamic fundamentalist extremists and the repressive military gov ernment because she used her algerian television talk show to expose abuses of human and civil rights she focused especially on the condemnation of women i left my country because i didn't want to be a number addou said addou along with many of her friends fled the country to save her life because she was consid ered a political threat we get arrested we might get killed - but we'll get killed either way so we protest in the streets she said addou said civilians were slaughtered in gruesome ways extremists wear police cos tumes she said you don't know who is going to kill you - they kill everyone addou told the audience that it is not a war when babies are killed in microwaves and young girls are sold for sex slaves and then killed addou said she blames the murders on islamic fundamental ist extremists who brainwash the young people for terrorism she suggested that there is no actual political party but that the country is moving backward centuries to illustrate this she described a thief having his hands cut off the terrorists focus on behav ior - what you eat how you dress no music - or they kill you she said one member of the audience asked addou if she felt there was any hope for women of third world countries it will take a fight addou answered sarah zurat 02 was ll&wpkotoby samfai.zohe impressed with addou's speech zurat said addou is extreme ly passionate about the atrocities of her country and the oppression of women across the world she's an inspiration activist halima addou answers questions about the human rights abuses that occur in her home country of algeria student proposes pedestrian campus by randigreenberg news writer yesterday marked the culmi nation of a semester-long inves tigation concerning the impact of a pedestrian only campus at lehigh in january irene laßarca 03 enrolled in a three-credit independent study for the department of civil and environ mental engineering under the advisement of gerry lennon laßarca's project investigates and proposes a way to efficient ly make lehigh a pedestrian only campus laßarca proposes removing the internal roads thus making the campus interior vehicle free the boundaries for this project would include packer avenue brodhead avenue university drive and taylor street this new roadway system includes the creation of a main circular route around campus comprised of the four boundary streets laßarca said i'm hoping this would make our campus safer for pedestrians jeff samuels 05 thinks there are pros and cons to laßarca's project implementation while i sometimes feel people drive around campus too haphazardly i think there are other options to increase the safety level of pedestrians samuels said as a freshman i am required to walk everywhere and am looking forward to being able to bring my car next year i would be disappointed if this project was executed in the fall currently the campus speed limit is documented to be 15 miles per hour according to laßarca the speed limit has not been enforced properly people cruise around campus going thirty rniles-per-hour said laßarca this is just not safe amy spaisman 05 agreed with laßarca's concern over the speed limit spaisman said some people drive through campus too fast speed bumps are used for a reason and cars should not be swerving around them especially when there are many students trying to cross the street see vendor page 3 i ' "■■■■.■■< v *. .... i '**»*. ■■"&'*• golf team placed second at the scotty duncan memorial tournament see page 20 sports 18-20 sports spotlight 19 crew 20 progressive student alliance encourages safe working conditions see page 3 news 1-4 world news briefs 2 police reports 4 greek week has changed throughout the years see page 7 lifestyles 7-14 look who's talking 11 face in the crowd 13 jell-0 flavors that flopped celery coffee cola apple and chocolate source:http://www.uselessfacts.net