Brown and White Vol. 104 no. 6

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 1 04 no 6 tuesday september 24 1 996 all the lehigh news first female politician speaks her mind by natalie cantor and kathy calogredes news writers former u.s congresswoman marjorie margolis-mezvinsky conveyed her experiences and challenges as a woman in the political arena in a speech friday at mountaintop campus margolis-mezvinsky said when she was younger she never really had a female politician as a role model when i was growing up there were virtually no women who were members of congress who i could point to and say i'd really like to live her kind of life that's not true any more margolis mezvinsky said margolis-mezvinsky told the audience that her family has influenced her as a politician in addition to their own chil dren she and her husband have adopted children and taken in refugees they have taken care of up to 25 children with 11 cur rently in their care it having so many children is the part of my life that influ enced me most with regard to politics she said margolis-mezvinsky was the first woman to be elected to the house of representatives from pennsylvania other women had filled seats for husbands who had died in office but margolis-mezvinsky was the first to be elected to the job based on her merits as a child margolis mezvinsky said she had two ambitions one was to make a difference in peoples lives and the other was to run away and join the circus i did both of them in 1992 when i was elected to congress she said before joining congress margolis-mezvinsky worked as a correspondent for nbc she was one of the first female correspondents in vietnam win ning five emmy awards margolis-mezvinsky discussed her reasons for leaving journalism b aw photo by julie kracower marjorie margolis-mezvinsky spoke to undergraduate women interested in politics last friday night volunteer day recognizes service by mark filipps news writer more than 1,000 people gath ered on the rauch field house lawn saturday morning for the 17th annual volunteer day the day was arranged to thank all the people who give their time and donations through out the year one day of the year is the least we can do said nancy westwood development rela tions associate volunteer day brought togeth er alumni from various groups including the volunteer desks advisory councils alumni associ ations athletics commissions and alumni who have supported the university through donations westwood said at least 50 dif ferent volunteer groups were invited to attend more than 7,000 alumni and friends are invited to volunteer day each year with about 2,000 turning out westwood said they were expecting about 1,350 to attend and was happy the weath er was nice this year the day had an olympic theme with the assis tant coach of the olympic wrestling team giving a short speech in the morning the theme was evident in the decor of stars and olympic rings on the various food tables around the lawn the alumni who came to volunteer day were treated to a free lunch they also received b w photo by ashley merlin anupama mahale provides vocal entertainment as part of an indian music seminar last saturday conference boards aid curricula by christine karkazis news writer a growing educational trend at lehigh is the use of conference boards on the network server to extend class discussion and partici pation outside the classroom conference boards were established five years ago by computer services to provide students and faculty with an organized way to discuss and review ideas this year there has been increased use of the conference boards most boards are a classroom tool incorpo rated by professors to enhance their curricula english professor edward gallagher was one of the first professors to use conference boards for his courses i felt it could answer some needs in my classes he said i always felt there was dead time between classes and conferences bridge that gap they keep the thinking going between classes to access an existing conference board a person needs to type courses at the network server main menu and view all the existing boards or type the course number such as engl 191 declarations of independence women in power in america to go to one specific board tim foley director of computer services said scrolling through the 75 different confer ence and bulletin boards reveals many topics anyone can view the conference boards ranging in topics from biology to english to philosophy even if the student is not part of a course that uses a board robert e rosenwein professor of sociol ogy explained to his human communication class why he uses conference boards and what makes them so useful see politics page 6 see volunteer page 6 see conference page 6 j**jr<v m\w mmwmk " , v'-hm • *■**■* j the women's cross country team finished third at the spiked shoe invitational see page 16 sports 12-16 brian hill 13 sports briefs 13 women's soccer 15 football 16 a piano recital featuring eugene albulescu entertained lamberton hall see page 5 news 1-6 world news briefs 2 bike patrol 3 lacocca scholars 4 art exhibit 4 scientists argue that a specific gene is responsible for risk-taking behavior see page 7 science 7-9 science briefs 9 impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the united states source 2001 fascinating facts david louis