Brown and White Vol. 118 no. 15

              By ERIC FEATHER
The Gambling Awareness Panel discussed how the intro­duction of table games at the Bethlehem Sands Casino Re­sort will affect colleges around the area and students with compulsive gambling problems Tuesday at Lamberton Hall.
Dale Kochard, Lehigh’s as­sistant vice president for Com­munity and Regional Affairs, stood as the program’s mod­erator, as four panelists gave a 10-minute presentation on the advent of table games at the Sands Casino and at casinos in general.
Tom Hyclak, professor of economics, discussed the find­ings from the South Bethlehem Development Study Group re­port, a study conducted by the university, in order to give a sense of the experiences other colleges and universities locat­ed close to casinos have had.
“People are concerned about the side effects of gam­bling, but the creation of 1,600 jobs is a positive attraction,” Hyclak said.
He focused on the social costs that come with gambling and the major issues of higher crime, gambling addiction, family bankruptcy rates and impact on the community.
“The key question is wheth­er there is a price to pay for opening casinos,” Hyclak said. “Is the price too high?”
The study group report found no schools had the sense that being a neighbor to a ca­sino brought negative attention to their campuses. Statistics show there is a slight increase in crime near areas with casi­nos, but there is no evidence that shows an increase in crime on college campuses.
The major concern for col­leges and universities is not the increased crime rates a casino may bring, but instead student gambling.
Carl Robertson, program manager of the Council on Compulsive Gambling, spoke about compulsive gambling with an emphasis on the attrac­tion of table games.
“We live in a gambling soci­ety,” Robertson said.
One to 3 percent of the people in the United States are said to be compulsive gam­blers, which means 300,000 people in Pennsylvania have gambling problems. Four to 8 percent of the U.S. population has problems with gambling, Robertson said.
“There is a specific type of crowd that is only attracted to table games,” he said.
It is the ability to participate and be active within the game that attracts people to table games, Robertson said. People feel a sense of control in the game as compared to slots, where there are no decisions to be made or skill sets that can help one win.
“No one will go to the ca­sino for electronic gambling if
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Panel fears student gambling addiction
By CALLIE BURROWS
Award-winning filmmaker and writer, Byron Hurt, spoke Monday on his documentary “Hip-Hop: Beyond the Beats and Rhymes,” a film that premiered in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
He talked about the increase in sexual assault and violence toward women and the need for not only women, but also men in particular, to take action and push for a change.
“Abuse in all its forms, wheth­er physical or verbal, does occur at Lehigh, and we have to rec­ognize it in order to show these women that their voices are being heard, and their stories aren’t be­ing ignored,” said Kester Barrow, president of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.
This was the primary reason Hurt was invited to speak.
It is the way men are raised and the things they are taught as children that shape them into the egotistical and violent people they often grow up to be, Hurt said.
“It’s striking and powerful and revealing that so many young boys and men have been raised in very similar ways,” Hurt added.
Since men of all cultures and backgrounds are raised the same way, manhood can be viewed only narrowly and in limited ways, he said.
“In order for you to be a man, you have to be tough, you have to be hard, you have to be a pro­vider, you have to have money, women, material things, power,” he said. “Men learn it early on
Filmmaker links hip-hop videos to sexual violence
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Vol. 118 No. 15
Friday, March 26, 2010
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Employee arrested in campus thefts
By LIZ MARTINEZ
Lehigh police have apprehended the suspect behind several alleged on-campus burglaries involving laptops, iPods, jew­elry and cash, charging him for numerous counts of burglary, theft and criminal trespassing, according to court records filed March 19.
The defendant, Jorge Dandrade, 39, of 428 Hayes St., was an employee of American Building Maintenance and had access to many buildings on campus, ac­cording to Chief of Lehigh Police Edward Shupp.
Court records state Lehigh police were able to identify Dandrade as a sus­pect through building card readers and that “after comparing this information it showed that one person had entered all locations on or about the time of each incident.” Most of the evidence pointed to Dandrade.
Shupp said police, particularly in­vestigators Sgt. Chris Houtz and Cpl. James Connell, have been investigating what seemed like isolated burglary and theft incidents since December. Though the police report lists a number of items reported as stolen (probable cause), only some were able to be traced back to Dan­drade. What gave Dandrade away was “too many similarities” as well as “incon­sistencies,” Shupp said.
The defendant is charged with nine counts of burglary after entering Campus Square, Taylor College, Drinker Hall, Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Gamma Delta sororities and allegedly removing property and belongings from 13 victims, amounting to $17,961.76, according to records.
The records also show Dandrade is charged with two counts of theft for tak­ing a Macbook Pro valued at $2,000 from a Kappa Alpha Theta sister on Feb. 14 and for taking an iPod valued at $300 and a Macbook valued at $2,000 from a Alpha Phi sister between Feb. 11 and Feb. 12.
Dandrade is charged with seven counts of theft by unlawful taking for removing property from Phi Beta Phi sorority, Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, Mc­Clintic-Marshall dormitory, Gamma Phi and Taylor Gymnasium, totaling $6,682, according to police reports.
Dandrade is charged with 18 counts of criminal trespass. The report states the defendant was “not assigned to enter” all of the aforementioned locations at the times of the incidents. He is also charged with nine counts of receiving stolen property.
On March 16, the defendant “denied
n Lehigh police named jani­tor Jorge Dandrade the prime suspect in recent burglaries.
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Not OK to go green
B&W photo by RYAN NORKETT
The outdoor sculpture, “Woman on Park Bench” by George Segal, was covered in green graffiti on St. Patrick’s Day last Wednesday. Lehigh University Art Galleries filed a police report.