Brown and White Vol. 109 No. 41

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 109 no 41 friday april 19 2002 all the lehigh news first benazir bhutto addresses students by tracey lomrantz 1 benazir bhutto the exiled former prime minister of pakistan spoke monday in baker hall of the zoellner arts center urging the audience to promote democracy bhutto the first female leader in an islamic state spoke as part of lehigh's on human rights series celebrating 30 years of women at lehigh she has served as pakistan's prime minister twice and has since been deposed according to the morning call one of her primary agendas in speaking was to enforce the notion that islam is a primarily peaceful religion and that fundamentalists have removed the peace equality and tolerance that her religion strives to promote those who kill in the name of islam are hypocrites she said those who kill innocents are criminals bhutto also discussed the threatening position her government now faces in challenging fundamentalists like osama bin laden and exiling terrorists bhutto has been living in self imposed exile since 1999 according to the morning call when gen pervez musharraf ousted then prime minister nawaz sharif musharraf has threatened bhutto with arrest if she returns however she has been speaking about going back to challenge musharraf in an election bhutto said americans have gambled for decades that dictatorships would create stability but dictatorships have always come back to haunt us democracies don't support and protect terrorists news editor i b&w photo by samfalzone former palestinian prime minister benazir bhutto speaks to students monday after noon in zoellner's baker hall bhutto addressed terrorism and the islam religion the event free to the public was part of lehigh's on human rights lecture series week acknowledges sexual assaults by caroline zimmerman self-defense workshop sexual assault discussion over lunch started week news writer are at the highest risk for sexual assault between the first day of school through thanksgiving break these females are usually at more risk because they are not familiar with their new setting friendships have not become solidified and for many alcohol is a new addi tion to the social scene ninety percent of sexual assault cases on college campuses are alcohol related the rule is that if a person has a blood alcohol level of 10 or more consent cannot be given to sex since this rule is hard to enforce stu dents were advised to think about plans for the night while sober in order to hinder bad judgment calls while drunk having friends that will look out for you also helps the idea that most victims know their offender was sadden ing to many attackers are not usually bad guys in the eyes of awareness was the main purpose of the sexual assault brown bag lunch monday in the women's center the discussion was led by counselors laurie gunther and jason shestock from the crime victims council of the lehigh valley the small group allowed for intimate conversation about sexual assault the counselors began by naming the most common date rape drugs ghb rohypnol roofies ketamine special x and ecstasy can all be used to facilitate date rape by preventing victims from resist ing sexual assault the counselors then defined the terms rape sexual assault and sexual harassment according to gunther and shestock rape is defined as sex with force or threat sexual assault is an umbrella term used to address sexual intercourse with com plaint and without consent it was made clear that the exact definition of these terms is hard b&w photo by jane berman to pinpoint because every situa tion differs according to gunther and shestock female college freshmen self-defense workshop facilitator erin weed executes a move female students can use to defend themselves against attack see assault page 4 '^ wm__i i r h__i_________»________i h-k _____ * " wt n&pbki - a_s_____«_^_ri r _■__' i_________-l 1 shpft fll_^^*^^^____b _. br 1 v jx jbsr < i the women's lacrosse team lost 19-5 to lafayette see page 20 sports 17-20 women's tennis 18 men's baseball 19 basketball 20 students now able to use gold plus with some south side merchants see page 3 news 1-4 world news briefs 2 police reports 4 students speak out about conflict in the mideast see page 5 lifestyle 5-12 first person 6 face in the crowd 11 freshman/senior 12 on the back of the 5 bill all 50 states are listed across the top of the lincoln memorial source www.uselessfacts.net