Brown and White Vol. 119 no. 18

              Gast reappointed to
another term until 2016
By Anya Bingler
The Board of Trustees has recently voted to reappoint President Alice P. Gast to serve another five-year term, putting her in office until 2016.
When the final year of a president’s contract approaches, the Board of Trustees must begin to discuss the uni­versity’s objectives and the president’s role.
“I am very excited about this reap­pointment,” Gast said. “It means a lot because it is a vote of confidence for all the work that my team and I have done thus far, and I think it is a vote of confidence in the momentum and trajectory we have at Lehigh.”
Gast already has made significant changes around the Lehigh campus and community in her previous four years of presidency.
“One of the things I’ve really en­joyed in my first four years here is getting to know the students really well — understanding what they do, how they do it and how their leader­ship skills are developed,” she said. “And how they learn things inside and outside the classroom and develop life­long bonds with each other and with the institution.”
Gast launched a long-range stra­tegic plan for Lehigh with four com­prehensive components, including addressing grand challenges and na­tional needs in strategic areas of focus, investing in faculty and staff, providing a best-in-class student experience and partnering in the revival of the local community.
“Much has been achieved since President Gast came to Lehigh, and we are excited to continue that progress,” said Jennifer Tucker, as­sistant vice president of University
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Two chapters were recognized for their successful risk management programs and policies at the 2009-2010 Greek Gala. Kappa Alpha Theta sorority won the Panhellenic Council Risk Management Award and Psi Upsilon frater­nity won the Interfraternity Council Risk Management Award.
Members of the accreditation panel looked at all sorority and fraternity risk management programs and determined which chapters have made the greatest impact on their own chapter with special regard to these programs.
According to Lauren Koenig, ’11, Panhellenic president, Kappa Alpha Theta partnered with the Women’s Center to talk about the hook-up culture on college campuses. The sisters also included a proactive approach by adding additional chapter policies such as event monitors at every social event to manage risk.
Psi Upsilon presented itself as a good candidate for the award, especially because it has a strong new member edu­cation program, according to the accreditation report.
“When new members are joining Psi Upsilon, the vice president and president explain things to them and get them to take pride in our house,” said Bill Mistretta, ’11, Psi Upsilon’s president. “We want them to know that this house is as much theirs as it is ours. They should feel a part of our fraternity before being initiated.”
The accreditation report website echoed Mistretta’s thought, stating Psi Upsilon’s new member education pro­gram as one of the best in terms of valuing the new member experience and taking opinions of new members seriously.
The report also recognized Kappa Alpha Theta for its
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By CHRIRISTINEINEINE McLARENRENREN
As part of International Week, students were exposed to sustainable fashion and modeled their own T-shirt designs to support refugees at the Fair Trade Fashion Show Sunday night in Lamberton Hall.
Students volunteered to model clothing from the Ghana-based sustainable fashion company Of Rags, which returns 40 percent of profits to public health and education initiatives in com­munities of refugees.
Of Rags is devoted to creating jobs in im­poverished communities and using recyclable materials in producing their clothing.
“The premise of Of Rags is to employ peo­ple as a social mission and to use market forces to benefit people,” said J. Branson Skinner, Of Rags co-founder and managing partner.
Greed has created inequalities in the world, Skinner said.
“We have been given an opportunity,” he said. “It is our responsibility to make this right.”
After eight students modeled Of Rags cloth­ing from graphic T-shirts to patterned dresses, attendees could browse through available clothing and make purchases.
“This is about building support from com­passionate individuals who can impact the situ­ation,” he said. “It’s more than just buying our clothes. It’s hard to build a movement out of buying something.”
To encourage students to become involved, the Global Union Cultural Programming Com­mittee and the Microfinance Club challenged students to design T-shirts with the message “Lehigh supports refugees in Ghana.”
“The idea was to bring awareness and show what other students are doing to help,” said Kara Beck, ’12, member of the GU Cultural Programming Committee.
Over the summer, Beck traveled to Ghana, where she met Skinner and learned of his work.
“It opened my eyes to what it means to be a refugee and how debilitating that is,” she said. “It’s not something widely understood, and I wanted to bring my experiences to Lehigh.”
Skinner stressed that consumers have the power to impact the situation. To raise aware­ness about refugee situations, Of Rags and the band Keeping Riley are on a college tour.
“The whole idea is trying to build a move­ment – a growing consciousness of people thinking along these lines to get more people involved on a more committed level,” Skinner said.
“I had a lot of fun,” said Sarah Glickstein, ’14. “It was an interesting way to promote a cause.”
In between the fashion show and the band’s performance, six student teams modeled their
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Students team up with fashion for a cause
B&W photo by SARAH FREEMAN
Susan J. Douglas talked to a crowd of about 50 Bethlehem residents, students and faculty about the incorrect and inaccurate portrayals of women in the media at Packard Laboratory on Saturday. Story on page 4.
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