Brown and White Vol. 118 no. 18

              Global village seeking student participants
By JENNIFER McCUSKER
Iacocca Institute’s Global Village for Future Leaders of Business and Industry is look­ing for more students to apply to its program this summer.
The program will take place at Lehigh from June 20 to August 7.
Last year, 107 students from 54 different countries participated, according to The Village’s candidate manager Mary Frances Schurtz-Leon.
This year, very few Lehigh students applied for the pro­gram, and Schurtz-Leon said she would like to see more Lehigh applicants.
The Village is extending its application deadline exclu­sively for Lehigh students to April 15.
Anais Concepcion, ’10, participated in the program in 2007 after learning about it from a presentation. She thought the program would help her in her career because of its international networking opportunities.
“The greatest and longest lasting benefit from the pro­gram is the contacts that I made both in my fellow Glob­al Village interns and in the executives and directors who visited the program,” Concep­cion said.
The program “is an ap­plied leadership, cross-cultural training program designed for young professionals and ex­perienced students who share the dream of building a lead­ership career in business and industry, who want to make a positive change in life and who want to form an active and lasting global network,” according to the program’s 2010 pamphlet.
Evgeniya Kirillova, ’09, Lehigh MBA graduate and former undergraduate student, also participated in the pro­gram in 2007.
“When I learned about GV, I thought that I could not miss this program,” Kirillova said. “It felt like it was a once in a lifetime chance to meet ener­getic, passionate and highly diverse people from all over the world.”
Students are paired with roommates from other coun­tries and live in Smiley, Thornburg and McConn dormitories, according to Schurtz-Leon.
They cook meals together and experience different in­ternational foods, languages, music and other cultural activities.
Schurtz-Leon spoke of two students, an Israeli and a Sau­di Arabian, who participated in the program last year and are now best friends.
Since the end of the pro­gram, they have visited each other in four countries.
The program features semi­nar-style courses, interactions with more than 60 executives from various businesses and corporations, presentations on every country represented in the program and business con­See
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Wireless Internet to be installed in dorm rooms
By ERIC SCHMIDT
Library and Technology Services (LTS) has begun to update the wireless capabilities of residence halls.
The changes will bring reliable wireless connectivity to rooms, as opposed to just common room areas, which is where the current wireless net­works are hosted.
Phase I of the update will hopefully be completed during the fall 2010 semester. Build­ings directly affected by the revision are Campus Square, Drinker Hall, Sayre Park Village, Taylor College and Trembley Park.
The director of Technology Management, Roy Gruver, is one of the head organizers of the project.
“The plan calls for replac­ing the network cable plant in most buildings and a campus-wide expansion of wireless,” Gruver said. “The new wire­less system that we are install­ing uses a standard known as ‘802.11n,’ which is a much higher bandwidth wireless technology than anything we installed previously.”
The 802.11n upgrade will make wireless much faster as well as more accessible to stu­dents living in dormitories.
“Depending on several fac­tors, the bandwidth on 802.11n networks is generally at least 100 megabits and could be double that in the right situation,” Gruver said. “The coverage in a building will vary depending on the thick­ness of walls, materials in the walls, ceilings and floors and how many access points you install.”
Most students in the af­fected areas have received the project rather positively.
When asked to rate his room’s current wireless ability, Craig Brower, ’12, a resident of Drinker, said, “It’s about a two out of five. It’s workable, but you sit there and have to refresh the page a bunch of times when something’s loading.”
Brower’s roommate, Asher
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Worker caught in Cort conveyor belt
By EMILY SETTLE
A Dining Services employee was caught in a dumbwaiter in Cort Dining Hall in Lower U.C. around noon last Friday, forcing the facility to close down and illicit a response from multiple emergency personnel.
Taha Haque, ’10, was one of the first people to reach the trapped man.
“I was sitting in Lower with a couple of friends,” Haque said. “As I was walk­ing out, I heard a lady scream. She was saying, ‘Call for help.’”
Haque, head Gryphon of the ROTC house, said he rushed over to the tray depository in response to the scream.
He saw a female employee holding onto another employee’s legs, which were protruding from the dumbwaiter.
Haque said he asked her if she wanted to switch places with him, so she could call the police.
“I switched off with her,” Haque said. “At that point we were just trying to keep him calm.”
According to Haque, emergency re­sponders, including Lehigh University Police and Lehigh’s own student-oper­ated emergency medical services quick-response squad, arrived 10 minutes later and immediately began working to free the man.
Students were temporarily evacuated from the dining hall to make way for emergency responders.
Firefighters came up with a plan to push apart the walls of the dumbwaiter, using a vice-like extrication tool, in an effort to free the man, Haque said.
Haque was then asked to leave the scene.
“I left around 1:30 [p.m.],” he said. “A text 30 minutes later told me he was okay.”
The employee, whose name was not disclosed, was successfully removed from the dumbwaiter after approxi­mately two hours and was taken to the hospital.
Lehigh police did not return phone calls in regards to the incident.
n Firefighters worked for two hours before finally freeing the trapped man.
Sandwiches for SERVE
B&W photo by RYAN NORKETT
Jessica Fromm, ’12, prepares a sandwich at the Goosey Gander Wednesday during a fundraiser for the Atlanta SpringSERVE trip. The Goose was open from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. for a rare dinner treat.