Brown and White Vol. 99 no. 11

              lehigh along with other major colleges will participate this week in the fourth annual national collegiate alcohol awareness week the main purpose of the event is to make students aware of problems associated with alcohol assisant dean of students janet walbert is leading the programs at lehigh among her many contributions to the school is her development of an educational program on substance abuse walbert said she feels students need to recognize the problems directly connected with alcohol also they must understand that alcohol may be a part of our society but only if it is used correctly lehigh needs to do things throughout the year not just one week as a result students can expect programs at key times during the year such as lehigh-lafayette weekend walbert said there are also a number of programs going on now she added kevin siddons is filling the new position of drug and alcohol counselor in addition there are a number of choices and decisions electives available for freshman during which walbert and siddons will give a lecture on alcohol awareness during the week there will be at least three general events a poster contest going on now a program tonight at 8 p.m in uc room 308 dealing with how alcohol affects athletics and a number of informational giveaways to enlighten students walbert is also pushing peer group awareness for these problems she is trying to funnel programs into fraternities and sororities the base of lehigh's social system she said students get more out of a program that is specific to their pcergroup living group etc she said her programs are not pushing for a dry rush or no pubnites but are looking for responsible drinking if there were not so many problems fights drunken driving incidents and cases of alcohol addiction the administration really wouldn't be so upset she said these problems however are still evident and the university is therefore responsible for legal matters addiction problems and alcohol related injuries she added deaths a year kilbourne said that more than 30 percent of fourth graders admitted to peer pressure to drink and there are more than 3.3 million teens in the united states who are alcoholics such companies like miller and budweiser target heavily toward college students since the college market translates into big business kilbourne said during that age we tend to form habits those companies aim to create big americans have a different attitude than europeans here the idea of intoxication is sophisticated this attitude is unhealthy " jean kilbourne drinkers and loyal customers she said one out of 10 americans is an alcoholic which equates to more than 10 million people americans have a different attitude than europeans here the idea of intoxication is sophisticated this attitude is unhealthy kilbourne's solution to cease the problem of alcoholism is to have counter-advertisements warning labels on all bottles and a higher tax to discourage sales since our lives are at stake she has lectured world-wide and was the creator of two slide presentations and two award winning films entitled calling the shots and killing us softly she will be releasing a book later this year and has received many prestigious awards including the woman of the year award from the boston chapter of the national organization for women kilbourne is an associate of the stone center for developmental studies at wellesley col lege she is on the board of directors of the national council on alcoholism and the nat ional advisory committee of the junior league's woman to woman project artist explains role of arts in polish politics by therese russell brown and white news writer art cannot escape political involve ment the political situation in pol and causes the artists to take sides to make choices said maciej kar pinski the pulaski foundation artist in residence karpinski gave a public lecture oct 15 on arts and politics in contemporary poland a close relationship exists between polish politics culture and arts kar pinski said the artists whether they be playwrights or authors must decide if what they do supports the political leaders or goes against them if they do not support the political system they understand there are consequences karpinski said he said poland survived through all of its rough times by clinging to its culture and church the places the polish language was allowed to be spoken was in the church and theater has published a polish and english version of the theatre of andrzej wajda in 1980-81 after karpinski directed many theatrical and para-theatrical events for solidarity the actors of the wybrzeze theater in gdansk elected him artistic director when the polish government overruled his election joseph papp director of new york's public theater and the new york shakespeare festival invited him to come to the united states to work as director and writer in residence karpinski also lectured widely at the time upon his return to poland in 1984 he wrote the life and death on broadway which is soon to be published karpinski has twice return ed as artist in residence at southern methodist university's meadows school of the arts his articles have appeared in the new york times op ed page and the book reviews section would come to power and there would be hopes of improvement but once again the government would disap point the people and they would revolt again in spite of this pattern karpinski said every revolt in poland has taken them one more step toward their goal as an example he said even though solidarity was overcome by martial law it made one more important step toward the dream of all polish people it gave the polish people a taste of the freedom they want and an incentive to revolt again karpinski said the dream of the polish people is normal ity which he defined as freedom karpinski is a polish playwright novelist director and the author of more than 1,000 articles essays and reviews published in leading cultural publications for more than a decade he has worked in collaboration with polish director andrzej wajda and art in poland is not seen as entertain ment the artists have something important to say they are obligated to lead to teach and to bring a message of concern to everyone he said in communist poland the cultural arts had to follow one specific theme karpinski added during the period of solidarity polish people were allowed to read books which had been banned by the former regime and enjoy other former ly prohibited works of art such as many plays karpinski said he did poetry readings in churches and other public buildings as well the presses were too slow and the people had waited so long to have this freedom they did not want to wait any longer polish history can be looked upon as a cycle karpinski explained one government would become oppres sive and the people would revolt in some way then a new government t he brown and white lehigh university v 01.98 no.ll tuesday october 20 1987 bethlehem pennsylvania alcohol in ads addressed 215 758-4181 by kimberly minarovich brown and white news writer jean kilbourne an internationally known authority on the media alcohol and sex roles showed the link between advertising and heavy alcohol use in her lecture under the influence-the pushing of alcohol via adver tising on oct 14 the discussion was sponsored by lehigh's panhellenic council the women's alliance and the dean of students office kilboume's presentation consisted of dis playing slides of liquor advertisements having appeared in the media throughout the years and explaining how they affect society's attit udes she said she did not want to prevent people from drinking but she encouraged moderation there's a world of difference between moderate use and abuse abuse causes enorm ous trouble to an individual and to society she said in her presentation she integrated the there's a world of difference between moderate use and abuse 5 trouble to an individual and society " jtelrt kilbourra mythology of liquor advertisements with the truthful statistics of how alcohol destroys lives she said the advertisements take reality and turn it around liquor advertisements entice consumers by using sex adventure romance and power to market their products alcohol advertisements have a tremendous stake in not telling us the truth she said the industry fails to inform the user that one-third of all suicides are alcohol related and more than 400 people die in automobile accidents due to drunk driving totaling more than 25,000 alcohol awareness week kicks off across nation by mark rothenberg brown and white news writer