Brown and White Vol. 101 no. 11

              please see parking page 6 vices came up with was to have each fraternity's insignia on their parking stickers this would help members regulate who is in their lot but this system was dumped in favor of the present system due to expense it was decided that each fraternity would be given a certain series of numbers for the amount of spaces they have kovacs said house presidents were required to send in a list of their members who needed parking stickers so their per cannot indefinitely defy the desires of their own people as well as the will of the international community clinton said that path holds only suffering for their nation and international iso lation for them selves with the recent deaths of u.s soldiers in somalia congress is getting more involved in the crisis in haiti and clinton's han dling of it senate minority leader bob dole said the situation in haiti is not worth the use of force like in somalia i wouldn't risk any american lives to put aristide back in power by robert delljnger news writer amid the turmoil in somalia new for eign policy problems in haiti have grown to become another thorn in president clinton s side culminating in his ordering of sixu.s warships to patrol the waters off the coast last friday these actions were taken by clinton following a two-year power struggle that saw ousted haiti presi dent jean-bertrand aristide over thrown by the military in 1 99 1 . this past july under extreme pressure from the united states and the inter national community haiti's mili tary commander lt gen raoul cedras said he would resign and relinquish his power to aristide since then he has backed down from that position and has taken violent steps against democracy in haiti including the assassination of pro democracy justice minister malary in a statement released last fri day clinton said that u.s interests in haiti include the protection of over 1,000 americans living and working there the promotion of de mocracy in this hemisphere and sta bilizing the domestic situation in haiti thereby alleviating past prob lems of haitian refugees fleeing to the united states the military authorities in haiti simply must understand that they and try to force democracy on haiti where there's no real record of de mocracy in the past dole said dole announced on monday that he would introduce legislation to keep clinton from committing u.s forces for use in haiti without congressional approval the possibility of the use of american forces against haiti s mili tary dictatorship has brought many questions to light about america's role in the political problems of other nations chaim kaufrnann assistant professor of international relations noted several problems with u.s military intervention this kind of internal conflict is please see haiti page 6 ay president clinton sends military to patrol the country's coast professor says that the us involvement in haiti might be a mistake haitian crisis tops clinton agenda the brown and white all the lehigh news first lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 friday october 22 1993 vol 101 no 1 1 by lindsey ellison news writer lehigh president peter likins met with residents of palmer house in order to address their concerns re garding several areas of his pro posed strategic plan on tuesday likins aware that there are various rumors concerning his plan that are circulating throughout campus wanted to straighten out the facts from fiction he made this clear immedi ately as he began the dis cussion what are you hearing on the rumor network likins asked the most talked about issue con cerned the college of engineering and applied science likins proposes in his plan to change the name of the engineering college to the school of engineering while maintaining the college name for the arts and sci ence school itiis idea outraged some faculty staff and students of the engineering school many felt as though likins was trying to downgrade the college or worse yet abolish it many people believe that rewording the name of the school is an impor tant decision thor norgaard 97 an engineering major said changing the word college to the word school is like changing lehigh university to lehigh college the word makes a difference likins a former engineering stu dent said he was trying to do the exact opposite from his engineer ing background he saw that the en gineering schools were called schools of engineering and felt that it would be more appropriate and professional to call the college of engineering the school of engi neering he denied claims of having in tentions to downgrade the engineer ing college he did say that it is important to be efficient yet still give the best education possible we have to decrease the costs while at the same time increase the learning likins said there has been a slowdown in funding of edu please see likins page 6 b&w photo by shideh hashemi heather blackburn 97 listens to likins at palmer house president confronts criticisms from engineers about name change while trying to differentiate facts from fiction in his strategic plan likins defends lehigh plan new sticker policy tries to alleviate hill parking problem baw photo by david baker sigma nu is one of the many fraternities that the new parking policy should help by jen lev news writer a new parking policy has been implemented to help alleviate the problem of inefficient parking for fra ternities last year fraternities complained to parking services about not having enough spaces because stray cars from other houses and freshmen parked in their lots to help remedy this ticketers would be sent to the hill lots to ticket unregistered cars said patricia kovacs manager ofparking services the first idea that parking ser news news 1-7 football preview 24 women's soccer full coverage in sports see story on page 24