Brown and White Vol. 105 no. 37

              the brown and white lehigh university s student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 105 no 37 friday march 27 1998 all the lehigh news first alternative break benefits needy by alex olbrecht sports editor while the rest of the lehigh community was away enjoying the warm sun of a tropical par adise or just a week-long break from schoolwork four groups of students took part in the habitat for humanity collegiate challenge the project allowed students to help build homes in the com munities of marion s.c morehead city n.c tazwell tenn and mccarr ky the homes were built to house needy people who are not on welfare if accepted to the pro gram future homeowners would pay a small mortgage and be required to work 500 hours building homes either their own or those of others ginger de bias wellness program coordinator led a group to morehead city in a program nicknamed blitz week when the group arrived there was only a foundation for a house by the end of the week the whole exterior of the house had been completed i loved it i loved meeting new people different cultures and helping the unfortunate deßias said you go thinking you're going to give to the com munity but you receive so much we stayed at a church and the people there loved us so much the morehead city group joined a group from allegheny college they worked on the house all day and relaxed when they returned from work around 5 p.m daily one night we went roller skating de bias said an alumnus ed leidheiser 52 took us out to dinner he drove 80 miles julie de motte student life community service program coordinator advised the group that went to mccarr lehigh stu dents teamed up with students from the university of new hampshire and the university of scranton to cut wood into boards for building homes the group also designed a ventila tion fan for a warehouse a drainage ditch built window frames moved in supplies and built a fence although their main duties involved heavy physical labor de motte described the trip as a cultural experience one night we went to see what a coal miner's life was like she said it was a shocker for the kids there are still americans living in third world conditions mary washington assistant professor of sociology and anthropology led the group that traveled to tazwell during their stay the group of 1 0 was able to build a house working mainly on the roof for andrew martin 00 the trip was very fulfilling i liked it a lot it was a rewarding experience to help out people in need martin 00 said we also went sightseeing to the smokey mountains we went country line dancing in knoxville and visited cumber land gap national park martin had attended the pro gram last year in neon ky because of his interest in carpen try last summer he had worked for a contracting business aaron oliver 00 and goddony normil 99 were part of the delegation that traveled to marion their duties included reading books to elementary school children in front of a camera that broadcast to the rest of the school i read from here here are my hands " normil said the author had come down to the school previously oliver showed the kids other books that were available in the school's library to some of the youngsters oliver's time on television photo courtesy of suzanne barnak lida mora 99 helps assemble a frame one plank at a time photo courtesy of suzanne barnak the group in marion s.c performed work on houses in various stages of completion lecture examines capitalism by patrick doherty managing editor author and political scientist michael parenti discussed corporate imperialism tuesday in packard laboratory auditorium in a speech entitled the hidden costs of the u.s at home and abroad parenti began his speech by saying that the comfortable lifestyles of the wealthy inhabitants of first world nations depends on exploiting the rest of the world poverty creates wealth and wealth creates poverty parenti said he said humanity could be divided into three groups which he labeled a b and c group a consists of one third of one percent of the world's population which lives off the interest from invest ments the vast majority of the world falls into group b which lives off income from employment group c consists of hun dreds of millions of people who jive in complete poverty and play no role in the global economy parenti said the wage earners in group b support not only them selves but those living in extreme wealth or extreme poverty the people in group a and group c live off the labor of group b he said he also said despite the poverty of the inhabitants of the third world many of the regions which fall under this designa tion are rich in natural resources parenti ridiculed the notion that coun tries were poor because of their climates when i was young we were told that third world countries were poor because it was very hot there and people just lay around all day he said he claimed that poor countries are poor because for centuries they have been exploited by europe and later by the united states he feels the third world is not simply behind the first world and slowly catching up rather it is being pushed further and further down by the first world i hate the term developing coun tries " parenti said this claims that they are actually developing i call them see break page a7 see parenti page a7 mhhhhkkhhhhhi hhml'il hh mkbsm^m quicl wrestling team the newman campus organizations f i travels to ncaa foundation offers a for gays and bisexuals championships scholarship to worthy work for enlightenment ' ne avera 9 e person . % see page al 6 students see page a5 see page 81 . as approximately 1 460 ljt 3 sports alo-al6 news al-a7 lifestyle 81-812 m z^fk , i softball al2 sleep lecture a3 matchbox 20 b3 men's tennis al4 panhel a4 pizza professors b9 rjs r a^^-r-i-i „-.- • r^j source strange but true web page hk — jisas baseball al3 teaching luncheon a5 face in the crowd 811 htt p sbt.bhmedia/com