Brown and White Vol. 117 no. 11

              Professor to research treatment for ADHD
By ANYA BINGLER
In hopes of finding treatment options for college students diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Lehigh has partnered with the University of Rhode Island to conduct the first-ever controlled pharmacological study of col­lege students.
The study is being run by George DuPaul, professor of school psychology and chair of Lehigh’s department of educa­tion and human services, and Lisa Weyandt, associate profes­sor of psychology at the Univer­sity of Rhode Island.
Researchers in this double-blind placebo study will test the effectiveness of Vyvanse™ for treatment of ADHD in college students.
Vyvanse is a medication marketed by Shire Develop­ment Inc., which is the com­pany financially supporting the study.
During the five-week study, participants will receive either no medication, a placebo or three dosages of Vyvanse, with­out knowing the exact dosage amount.
After each week, students will complete briefings and sev­eral attention and memory tests to track any effects, and will be examined by a physician at the health center for side effects
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Vol. 117 No. 11
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
‘All the Lehigh News First’
SPORTS
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LIFESTYLE
By ALEX KADIS
Students want to get a job, find a calling and gain the skills to live the life of their dreams. It is why they want to go to col­lege. But now there is a new problem that all students face: the economy.
In a press release by the National Association of Col­leges and Employers (NACE), employers surveyed expect to hire 7 percent fewer graduates from the class of 2010 than from 2009.
The purpose of a university is to send students out into the world with hirable skills and in a mindset ready for their futures. Yet, with companies making fewer hires this year, the competition for jobs will be that much higher.
Seeing the difficulties in the job market, some students have chosen to further their educa­tion by applying to graduate schools. Others have chosen to brave the storm and send out countless resumes, and still more hedged their bets looking at educational and professional opportunities.
Career Services director Donna Goldfeder believes that despite the poor economy, Lehigh students are better pre­pared for the job search than students at peer colleges.
“We contacted all of our alumni for help,” Goldfeder
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Survey forecasts fewer hires in 2010
Former baseball player speaks against hazing
By GEOFF BAIRD
Hank Nuwer, one of the nation’s premier educators on hazing, spoke at Packard Audi­torium on Sept. 30.
The lecture was part of the university’s first Hazing Prevention Week, and it fo­cused on hazing prevention on sports teams and in the Greek community.
“We not only need to teach about prevention,” Nuwer said, “but confrontation as well.”
The most important part, Nuwer said, is that fraterni­ties, sororities and sports teams come clean and tell the truth when an incident occurs rather than try to hide what hap­pened. He said it is because of this that “fraternities get called killers.”
While fraternities often get the immediate attention when it comes to hazing, Nuwer said that until 1930, most hazing-related deaths were those of freshmen and sophomores in­volved in class-wide hazing ac­tivities. Fraternity deaths were only occasional.
However, since 1930, frater­nities have been responsible for the most hazing-related deaths.
Nuwer also said that while in recent years the trends in hazing have seemed to show improvement, just last year there were six deaths as a re­sult of hazing in the U.S. Since 1970, there has been a hazing-related death every year in the U.S.
A lot of the recent deaths have been a result of forced consumption of alcohol, Nu­wer said. While hazing deaths used to be largely the result of dangerous physical situa­tions, they are now most often alcohol-related.
However, students at Lehigh have not noticed any of the
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B&W photo by MATTHEW BLAIR
Hank Nuwer speaks at Packard Auditorium on Sept. 30. His lecture focused on hazing among fraternities, sororities and sports teams and was a part of Lehigh’s first Hazing Prevention Week.
By JOHN GILPATRICK
Laura Banos, ’10, knows firsthand how much of a problem hunger and homelessness is in Washington, D.C., because she lived and worked in the area last summer.
Every morning on her daily run, she would see dozens of homeless people on the streets. She would stop at Starbucks and see groups of homeless people congregating out front.
“I felt so bad for them,” Banos said. “I wanted to ask them if they wanted some coffee or something.”
When Banos heard that Lehigh’s Community Service Office would be running a hunger and homelessness SERVE trip to Washington, D.C., over pacing break, she knew she had to go.
Banos had been on a SERVE trip before. She went last May to Charlot­tesville, Va., on a Habitat for Human­ity trip. Banos said the trip was eye opening.
“You can research problems like this, but the only way you can really understand it is if you live it,” she said.
Mike Chu, ’10, student site leader for the Community Service Office, agreed. He is in charge of planning and organizing the SERVE trips and said by going on SERVE trips, students are able to see what a difference they are making.
“You learn a lot about yourself on these trips,” he said. “It’s hard to just go back to studying when you are out there making a difference.”
At the National Coalition for the Homeless, the students listened to sto­ries from homeless people about how they got into their situation and what they could have done to avoid it.
“I’ve been to events like that be­fore,” Banos said, “but this one was really eye opening because the speak­ers were people who had jobs and were educated.”
The students on the trip worked with two soup kitchens during their time in Washington, D.C. They served approximately 250 people over the course of a morning with the organi­zation So Others Might Eat, SOME, Banos said.
With another organization, Martha’s Table, the students helped make soup and deliver it in vans to needy people
Students travel to D.C. to serve during break
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