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Lion Ambassadors dedicate Peace Tree
Yellow ribbons honor service men and women in Middle East
b Len Gotcb
The Collegian
The holiday season
traditionally brings out calls for
peace from world leaders and
organizations. more noticed this
year with the constantly-changing
situation in Saudi Arabia.
Behrend's Lion Ambassadors
have joined the call with
yesterday's dedication of the Peace
Tree outside the west end of the
"This
have
year we
yellow
bows
those
trying
peace
in honor
who are
to keep
in the
Middle East."
- Melissa Pavlok
Lion Ambassador
President
Reed Union Building. Yellow and
red ribbons were hung on the tree
to to symbolize hopes for world
peace and an end to.hostilities in
the Gulf, according to Lynn
Weber, associate director of
University Relations and an
advisor to the Lion Ambassadors.
"ft gives a chance for students
and staff to show their caring
about world peace by placing a
ribbon on the true ."
In a speech in front of the tree
yesterday, Melissa Pavlok,
Public opinion
against war
Survey shows an overwhelming
majority of Erie residents are against
military action in Middle East
A recent survey compiled by
Behrend students shows that over
half of Erie Countians believe
that American policy in the Gulf
is wrong and that the deaths of
U.S. soldiers in the effort to free
Kuwait would be met with
disapproval.
Students in the Public
Opinion 404 class, headed by Dr.
John Gamble, professor of
political science at Behread, spent
much of November conducting
random-sample telephone
interviews of Erie Countians,
measuring opinion on Saudi
Arabia as well as the federal
deficit.
president of the Lion
Ambassadors. said the yellow
ribbons are a new addition this
year to the annual event.
"In past years we have asked
for people to place red bows in
honor of the holidays. This year
Min
Of the 300 respondents
interviewed in late November
about their opinions on the
Middle East crisis, 61 percent
said that the loss of even one
American life to liberate Kuwait
is not acceptable. The survey's
margin of error was 6 percent.
Gamble said he assumed that
the percentage of people favoring
negotiation with Hussein would
have been lower.
"This is a pretty conservative
part of the country and I would
have suspected that people around
here would have wanted to hang
tougher," Gamble said.
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we have yellow bows in honor of
those who are trying to keep
peace in the middle east," said
Pavlok.
She added that if world peace
is to become reality, nations of
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