Brown and White Vol. 117 no. 5

              Vol. 117 No. 5
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
‘All the Lehigh News First’
THE BROWN AND WHITE
Lehigh University’s Student Newspaper Founded in 1894
SPORTS
Get to know “Mama Mo”
Page 17
ONLINE
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for breaking news
www.thebrownandwhite.com
Dining options
get healthier
Page 9
LIFESTYLE
By MOLLY O’NEILL
The Lehigh University Technology in Soci­ety (LUTIS) community — commonly known around campus as the “Tech House” – opened this fall in the former Sigma Alpha Mu frater­nity house.
According to Jenn Scaia, director of resi­dence life, LUTIS is the newest addition to the Live Lehigh! Program, a program designed for upperclassmen students with common interests to live together in residential communities.
Seth Blumenthal, ’12, got LUTIS off the ground.
“When I got to Lehigh, I made a lot of friends,” he said. “We weren’t the jock type but we all shared the same interest – technology. But there was nowhere for us to hang out,” he said.
He said after considering where to live after his freshman year in Dravo House, he felt his choices were limited.
“There seemed to only be two options – Greek life and residence halls,” Blumenthal said.
Instead of settling, Blumenthal gathered together a bunch of friends and petitioned the office of residence life to establish this program.
Terry Hart, a mechanical engineering pro­fessor, agreed to be the adviser for the group.
He said he already had known some of the students involved when they came to him because of their involvement in IDEAS – the Integrated Degree in Engineering, Arts and Sci­ences program.
“Seth Blumenthal was a freshman in the IDEAS program,” Hart said. “He and four or five other IDEAS students decided they wanted to do this and came to me.”
He said the students started working on
See TECH Page 2
Students live, work together in Tech House
Image from the Brown and White digital archive
The first issue was published on Jan. 18, 1894.
Harvesting a community
B&W photo by CHRIS CHEW
A community cleanup was held Friday at the community garden on Third Street. For complete story, see Page 5.
Health Center confirms first case of swine flu
By JOHN GILPATRICK
Dr. Susan Kitei, director of the Health and Wellness Center, an­nounced in an e-mail to the university Saturday evening that the first case of the H1N1 virus has been confirmed on campus.
The student who was infected has fully recovered from the symptoms.
According to the e-mail, staff from the Health and Wellness Center and Dean of Students Office have been on campus advising those who live with the infected student. No other students appear to be infected.
In the e-mail, Kitei encourages ev­eryone to continue to take precautions to prevent the spread of the flu, includ­ing washing your hands with soap and water and using hand cleansers.
Kitei also said beginning next week, a form will be available online that will allow students to report their ill­ness. The form, which will be found on the Health Center’s Web site, will also allow students to request meal delivery in the event they are isolated on campus.
Julia Mauk, ’10, said she is not surprised the virus has made its way to Lehigh.
“I expected it because I know some people who thought they had it but never got checked,” she said.
But Mauk said she is not very con­cerned about the virus being on campus.
“I might be sick for a few days, but I don’t think it will kill me,” she said.
Health officials at Lehigh will contin­ue to closely monitor the situation and will be updating the university’s H1N1 site regularly. Members of the commu­nity are encouraged to check the site for additional resources.
By ADRIENNE SMITH
Have you ever wondered when Lehigh is­sued its first underage drinking citation or in what year Lehigh won the national football championship in its division? Now you can find out.
Anyone can search through nearly every is­sue of The Brown and White published from the paper’s beginning on Jan. 16, 1894, through 2000.
After three years of planning, compiling and outsourcing, Lehigh’s Library and Technology Services, LTS, has launched The Brown and White’s digital archive. The archive, which con­sists of a total of 45,561 pages and 5,554 issues, is LTS’ twelfth and largest site at 1.3 terabytes.
LTS hosted an event Thursday at Linderman Library to formally launch the archive. Ilhan Citak, Lehigh’s special collections librarian, explained the archiving process and introduced the audience to the archive’s fundamentals.
“The Brown and White, of course, is a stu­dent newspaper,” Citak said. “It is prepared and edited by students, published by students. It shows really professional journalism.”
Citak said LTS’ appreciation of The Brown and White and the increasingly deteriorating quality of the hard copies, which had been bound in books since 1894, brought a problem to the spotlight.
“If you have only one original [of The Brown and White] you have a responsibility to pre­serve it,” he said. “That was one of the reasons
Brown and White archives reveal history
See ARCHIVES Page 5