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the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 112 no 40 friday april 1 2005 all the lehigh news first robber slashes junior on east fourth street by kate mcloughlin news editor a 21-year-old lehigh junior was cut on his leg and robbed early monday morning in an encounter with two men at the intersection of east fourth and adams streets according to bethlehem police matthew cassidy a resi dent of east morton street said one of the men stole his 250 camera phone and cut him on his upper right thigh with a double-edged straight fixed blade at about 2 a.m monday the man who had the knife and cut the student was also the one who stole his cell phone cassidy told police he said this man was about 5-feet-8-inches to 5-feet 10-inch - es and hispanic but that he couldn't identify the man's clothing according to the police report the other man was about 6-foot-2 black and was wearing a puffy coat cassidy told police after being wounded cassidy went to his house and changed his clothes he told police about 20 minutes later he returned to the street and flagged down a police officer who was driving by he told the officer that he did not want medical treat ment but wanted a police report filed for insurance rea sons cassidy said he did not know the men but would rec ognize them if he saw them again lehigh was notified of the incident according to the police report which was dated monday march 27 edward shupp chief of the lehigh police sent out a cam pus safety bulletin via e-mail about the robbery on wednesday afternoon more than two days after the event was reported to the bethlehem police this morning the bethlehem police department notified my office that on sunday morning at approxi mately 2 a.m an armed rob bery with a knife occurred at the corner of 4th and adams streets he said in the e-mail the bulletin also included information about the march 18 off-campus home intrusion on east fifth street and the recent thefts from and damage done to cars parked in brodhead lot and the campus square parking garage the cases are under investi gation shupp could not be reached for further comment wednesday according to crime statistics provided by the state police the number of aggravated assaults committed in bethlehem was up from 61 in 2003 to 98 in 2004 an increase of more than 60 percent the express times reported theft pervades campus parking by olivier lewis assistant news editor a wave of theft has struck campus parking lots since march 24 causing hundreds of dollars of damage to students vehicles edward shupp chief of lehigh police sent a campus wide safety bulletin on wednesday afternoon in order to alert students about the situa tion in recent weeks a number of cars have been broken into on campus in the downtown b&w photo by blake neiman area and throughout the lehigh valley shupp wrote according to police reports at least eight vehicles were broken into in the campus square garage and in the brodhead lot in some cases the cars were only damaged in other cases property from vehicles was removed with estimated losses ranging from 160 to 2,050 several of these attacks were student vehicles since march 24 several cars parked in campus square parking deck and brodhead lot have been broken into some have had items stolen horowitz denounces academic bias by gabe west news writer students can't get good edu cations if teachers only tell one side of the story said david horowitz a well-known author and speaker in his lecture on bias in academia on march 23 in sinclair auditorium lehigh has only one conser vative professor he said how are students supposed to make judgments on complex issues if they only hear one side horowitz argued that conser vatives can take either side of just about any issue he said he sees the conservative spectrum spanning from libertarians who want to legalize marijuana to religious authoritarians it's not an education when the freshman class is required to read the socialist tract nickled and dimed he said referring to the book by barbara ehrenreich the class of 2007 was required to read before coming to lehigh if they have to read one book with left-leaning politics he said they should read a sec ond book that leans right horowitz said he considers political cartoons posted on the walls of academic departments to be violations of students aca demic freedom horowitz also claimed that michael moore's appearance last semester as well as the presence of moveon.org was illegal and a violation of on campus irs tax code entertainers should sell tickets not take money from student funds he said horowitz said he also has a problem with professors whose biases lean toward the right he is currently prosecut ing a case against a right-wing professor at foothill college in california who told a liber al student that women who have abortions are no differ ent than andrea yates a texas woman who drowned her five children in 2001 proftssors have a duty to teach students how to think not wh t o think horowitz said professors who reveal their politi cal biases in class are betraying students who disagree and also students who agree he said if the goal of education is to be challenged he said conserva tives are getting a better educa tion because they have to con front left-wing biases every day students on the left don't have to think he said horowitz referred to biased professors as tenured radicals and said that liberal academia is an intellectual lynch mob though students seemed to enjoy the lecture some students said they found flaws in horowitz's argument or simply disagreed with his assertions alto gether he said that there is only one openly conservative profes sor at lehigh but his whole see parking page 6 see horowitz page 3 baseball team prepares to host powerhouse army see story page 24 sports 20-24 women's lacrosse 20 men's lacrosse 21 athlete attrition 22 depalo feature 24 cake and virgin mega tour to head line sundaze see story page 2 news 1-8 eu environment 4 take back the night 5 holocaust survivor 7 world state 8 rotc seniors reflect on their lives after graduation see story page 9 lifestyle 9-16 hobo week preview 15 fashion 4 a cure 16 pandinis will host the first lehigh idol competition tonight which will showcase students singing talent bw.lehigh.edu quick fact this issue of the brown and white has an april fool's joke hidden within its pages
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FullText | the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 112 no 40 friday april 1 2005 all the lehigh news first robber slashes junior on east fourth street by kate mcloughlin news editor a 21-year-old lehigh junior was cut on his leg and robbed early monday morning in an encounter with two men at the intersection of east fourth and adams streets according to bethlehem police matthew cassidy a resi dent of east morton street said one of the men stole his 250 camera phone and cut him on his upper right thigh with a double-edged straight fixed blade at about 2 a.m monday the man who had the knife and cut the student was also the one who stole his cell phone cassidy told police he said this man was about 5-feet-8-inches to 5-feet 10-inch - es and hispanic but that he couldn't identify the man's clothing according to the police report the other man was about 6-foot-2 black and was wearing a puffy coat cassidy told police after being wounded cassidy went to his house and changed his clothes he told police about 20 minutes later he returned to the street and flagged down a police officer who was driving by he told the officer that he did not want medical treat ment but wanted a police report filed for insurance rea sons cassidy said he did not know the men but would rec ognize them if he saw them again lehigh was notified of the incident according to the police report which was dated monday march 27 edward shupp chief of the lehigh police sent out a cam pus safety bulletin via e-mail about the robbery on wednesday afternoon more than two days after the event was reported to the bethlehem police this morning the bethlehem police department notified my office that on sunday morning at approxi mately 2 a.m an armed rob bery with a knife occurred at the corner of 4th and adams streets he said in the e-mail the bulletin also included information about the march 18 off-campus home intrusion on east fifth street and the recent thefts from and damage done to cars parked in brodhead lot and the campus square parking garage the cases are under investi gation shupp could not be reached for further comment wednesday according to crime statistics provided by the state police the number of aggravated assaults committed in bethlehem was up from 61 in 2003 to 98 in 2004 an increase of more than 60 percent the express times reported theft pervades campus parking by olivier lewis assistant news editor a wave of theft has struck campus parking lots since march 24 causing hundreds of dollars of damage to students vehicles edward shupp chief of lehigh police sent a campus wide safety bulletin on wednesday afternoon in order to alert students about the situa tion in recent weeks a number of cars have been broken into on campus in the downtown b&w photo by blake neiman area and throughout the lehigh valley shupp wrote according to police reports at least eight vehicles were broken into in the campus square garage and in the brodhead lot in some cases the cars were only damaged in other cases property from vehicles was removed with estimated losses ranging from 160 to 2,050 several of these attacks were student vehicles since march 24 several cars parked in campus square parking deck and brodhead lot have been broken into some have had items stolen horowitz denounces academic bias by gabe west news writer students can't get good edu cations if teachers only tell one side of the story said david horowitz a well-known author and speaker in his lecture on bias in academia on march 23 in sinclair auditorium lehigh has only one conser vative professor he said how are students supposed to make judgments on complex issues if they only hear one side horowitz argued that conser vatives can take either side of just about any issue he said he sees the conservative spectrum spanning from libertarians who want to legalize marijuana to religious authoritarians it's not an education when the freshman class is required to read the socialist tract nickled and dimed he said referring to the book by barbara ehrenreich the class of 2007 was required to read before coming to lehigh if they have to read one book with left-leaning politics he said they should read a sec ond book that leans right horowitz said he considers political cartoons posted on the walls of academic departments to be violations of students aca demic freedom horowitz also claimed that michael moore's appearance last semester as well as the presence of moveon.org was illegal and a violation of on campus irs tax code entertainers should sell tickets not take money from student funds he said horowitz said he also has a problem with professors whose biases lean toward the right he is currently prosecut ing a case against a right-wing professor at foothill college in california who told a liber al student that women who have abortions are no differ ent than andrea yates a texas woman who drowned her five children in 2001 proftssors have a duty to teach students how to think not wh t o think horowitz said professors who reveal their politi cal biases in class are betraying students who disagree and also students who agree he said if the goal of education is to be challenged he said conserva tives are getting a better educa tion because they have to con front left-wing biases every day students on the left don't have to think he said horowitz referred to biased professors as tenured radicals and said that liberal academia is an intellectual lynch mob though students seemed to enjoy the lecture some students said they found flaws in horowitz's argument or simply disagreed with his assertions alto gether he said that there is only one openly conservative profes sor at lehigh but his whole see parking page 6 see horowitz page 3 baseball team prepares to host powerhouse army see story page 24 sports 20-24 women's lacrosse 20 men's lacrosse 21 athlete attrition 22 depalo feature 24 cake and virgin mega tour to head line sundaze see story page 2 news 1-8 eu environment 4 take back the night 5 holocaust survivor 7 world state 8 rotc seniors reflect on their lives after graduation see story page 9 lifestyle 9-16 hobo week preview 15 fashion 4 a cure 16 pandinis will host the first lehigh idol competition tonight which will showcase students singing talent bw.lehigh.edu quick fact this issue of the brown and white has an april fool's joke hidden within its pages |
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