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              the lehigh community celebrated the installation of rev lloyd steffen as the new chaplain sunday in packer memorial church administrators students and mem bers of the religious community spoke in honor of steffen at the ceremony steffan was a professor of phil osophy and religion and served as the campus minister at northland college in ashland wise for eight years bef ore he accepted the chaplain position at lehigh last september when describing his duties at leh igh steffen said i help nurture the students spiritually and continue to omr photo chaplain lloyd h steffen see chisholm page 5 and her fellow feminists were not anti-male but their struggle was about being free in body and spirit chisholm's main concern about feminists of today is the apparent apathy of today's women this may be because women now take for granted the fact that they enter into certain job roles that were once closed to them simply due to their gender she said the opportunity for men and women to obtain the same jobs was a product of the former congresswoman says gains in women's rights eroded in the 1 980s by heather reiuly brown and white news writer women of today need to take a more active role in the issues that confront today's society said former congresswoman and civil rights advocate shirley chisholm in a lecture on women's rights last wednesday there is an erosion of the gains made by the women of the 60s and 70s by the women of today she said to an audience of about 200 chisholm who was active with the feminist movement in the 60s and 70s explained she see iraq page 5 very difficult and unlikely for shi'ites and kurds to topple hussein or break away from iraq even if hussein doesn't remain in power the sunni generals would be in control he added ordering american troops into action against hussein to oust him from power would be very difficult for bush to do because the pentagon oppo ses that plan smolansky said according to united nat ions resolutions force should be used only to remove iraqi forces from kuwait it says nothing about removing hus sein from power smolansky clarified smolansky said other oppo sition to this plan stems from concern that the united states might become the mid dle east's hired police force and troops there would be exposed to guerrilla warfare and terrorism now that iraq is a weaken ed country there are new regional implications smol ansky said the regional balance revol ved around iraq and iran even after their eight-year destruction of iraqi military won't cause government's collapse says lehigh professor by carolyn milhiser brown and white news writer although 60 percent of iraqi leader saddam hussein's troops were destroyed by alli ed forces during operation desert storm uprisings by ethnic and religious groups will not be able to overpower the regime international relations professor oles smolansky says iraq's population is divided among three major groups leading to division along eth nic and religious lines smol ansky said kurds who make up one quarter of the popula tion have fought for genera tions for autonomy and inde pendence from arabs turks and iranians now that the arabs are weak the kurds are trying to fight once more the other three quarters of the population is divided among two arab groups sixty percent of these are shi'ite moslems who along with the kurds are ruled by the remaining 40 percent the sunni moslems headed by saddam hussein smolansky said as long as hussein is supported by his troops the 40 percent who survived the war it will be the brown and white tuesday march 19 1991 vol 98 no 37 lehigh university dents become more involved in the community around them he said there is a lot of energy and commit ment that can be focused a little better the ceremony began with a wel come by marsha duncan vice presi dent of student affairs she described the chaplaincy as a challenging and non-traditional ministry where the community of faith and scholarship intersect she said there is a need for a place for religion in higher educa tion father john mraz 71 the catholic chaplain and advisor to the newman center led a worship service and rev john thomas a pastor from the first see steffen page 5 the role of the chaplain is increasingly growing in importance lloyd steffen is the gentle activist needed as chaplain peter likins lehigh university president explore the avenues of deeper issues the best part of being chaplain is when i am able to help somebody steffen said it is the part nobody hears about things that are not public ly recognized steffen said he wants to help stu chaplain installed at sunday service by alan calderon brown and white news writer b&w photo by jason stanford ross bell 93 shows his affection for a snow man during last thursday's snowfall the snowman like the snow disappeared a few days later as the temperature increased science sun exposure and cancer page 6