Brown and White Vol. 120 no. 1

              In an era of mass media, who can be blamed in Ariz. shooting?
By MELISSA COLLINS
Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) along with six others, includ­ing Chief Judge John M. Roll of the U. S. District Court in Arizona and a 9-year-old girl, were killed during open gunfire on Jan. 8 in Tucson, Ariz.
Thirteen others were injured when Jared Lee Loughner, 22, allegedly tar­geted Giffords, 40, in the attempted as­sassination. Giffords suffered a gunshot wound to the head, but she survived and remained in critical condition for several days.
On Friday, Giffords was able to stand with the help of others and was moved to a rehabilitation center. While two other survivors remain in the hospital in good condition, the oth­ers have all been released.
According to The New York Times, Loughner had displayed unusual be­havior over the past few months and had been posting “ominous” updates on his MySpace page and YouTube channel. It also reported that Lough­ner experienced disciplinary conse­quences for disorderly conduct at Pima Community College, where he with­drew from this past October.
Although Loughner is the suspected gunman, there has been an ongoing discussion throughout the media of whether he can fully be blamed for the violent event that broke out. The presence of violence in political rheto­ric has frequently surfaced as a cause of the violence that surmounted that morning.
A blog post, written by Jeremy Littau, assistant professor in the De­partment of Journalism and Com­munication, raised a few questions about whether Loughner should, or even can, be held to blame for the shootings. Littau said society is con­stantly bombarded with violence that exists not only through social media
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Vol. 120 No. 1
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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Lehigh students pose for a photo during their study abroad trip to Spain during the winter break. For more information about study abroad, visit the Office of International Affairs or go to www.lehigh.edu/~incis/.
By KRISTINA PARK
The “LehighU Live” application for iPhone recently won the gold award in the 2011 Council for Advance­ment and Support of Education District II Accolades Awards Podcast category.
Released in November 2009, the app provides up-to-date information about events, members and news in the Lehigh community for students and faculty using the iPhone and iPod touch.
“A little over a year ago, Lehigh launched ‘LehighU­Live’ as the institution’s first official app designed for the iPhone and iPod touch to provide up-to-the-minute information about what’s happening on Lehigh Univer­sity’s campus,” said Steve Oblas, executive director of Internet Services and New Media. “Since then, the app has undergone a few updates, chiefly to take advantage of the larger format and additional features of Apple’s extremely popular iPad device.”
Not only does the app provide information about on­going events at Lehigh, but it also keeps users informed with headlines from The Brown and White and the latest sports updates from Lehigh’s varsity teams. The app also allows users to search for members of the commu­nity and provide them with information, such as their e-mail address and phone number.
“We’ve also included some extras within the ‘Lehi­ghULive’ app that are designed to work in conjunction with Lehigh’s full website,” Oblas said. “These mobile web apps are viewed instantly over the Internet and don’t require an additional download from the app store. The community can easily connect with Lehigh on Facebook, follow breaking news on Twitter, listen to WLVR-FM broadcasts and watch videos from the university’s YouTube channel.”
“Visitors can access a location-aware Google map of Lehigh’s three campuses, which lets them zoom in on satellite images, search locations, view photos and de­scriptions, find their own physical location on the map, change map styles, and drop pins to mark a location,” Oblas said.
“The fact that Lehigh has earned a Gold Medal for the ‘LehighU Live’ app in the 2011 CASE competition is significant for several reasons,” Oblas said. “CASE is an international professional association serving educa­tional institutions and their advancement, communica­tions and marketing professionals, and it is a high honor
“LehighU Live” application receives high praise
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By MEGAN HANKS
“Over semester break, 120 off-campus resi­dences registered their houses with the Lehigh University Police Department so that they would be checked on and monitored while the students were away,” said Chief of Lehigh Police, Edward Shupp. The registration form included space for a point of contact for each house, as well as infor­mation to contact the landlord of the houses in case officers found signs of forced entry.
“Before winter break in 2009, only 30 houses were registered with LUPD, so the number of registered houses is up significantly,” he said. “However, some houses that were registered with LUPD, as well as some houses that were not regis­tered, were burglarized.”
Beth Couillard, ’11, lives off campus, and said she and her roommates received the e-mail from Lehigh police advising students to register their off campus houses to be checked over break. Couillard said after they got the e-mail, she and her roommates registered their house online.
Rosie Roessel, ’13, is going to live off campus next year and said before the burglaries that took place over break, she wasn’t really worried about living off campus.
Roessel said she knew she would have to be smart and use common sense to keep herself safe, but after these burglaries, she is more nervous about living off campus. Roessel also said she and her future roommates will probably register their house with LUPD over winter break to take ad­vantage of what is offered to students. “Why not? It’s free,” she said.
On Dec. 31, a house on the 400 block of Birkel Ave. was burglarized. According to an article on the WFMZ-TV website, the burglar entered the house through an unlocked exterior door. Once inside the house, the burglar kicked in the doors of six individual rooms and took electronics, in­cluding televisions and video gaming systems.
“We didn’t leave anything valuable in our
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Burglaries spark additional safety measures off campus
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