Brown and White Vol. 122 no. 4

              Vol. 122 No. 4
Friday, February 3, 2012
‘All the Lehigh News First’
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LIFESTYLE
By AIMEE JOHNSON
Lehigh’s Committee of Un­dergraduate Awards and Prizes is currently gathering nominations for both the Undergrad Student Awards and the Student Life Leadership Awards for the 2011-2012 school year.
Students who are nominated are not only chosen for their ef­fort to contribute to the Lehigh community, but also for their contribution locally and globally.
Staff, faculty and fellow stu­dents send in nominations for these prestigious awards.
According to associate vice provost and dean of students, Sharon Basso, the committee received over 300 nominations for the various awards last year.
There are five Undergraduate Student Awards, 11 Student Life Leadership Awards and various other awards, some categories allow the possibility of multiple winners, awarded each year to Lehigh students.
Although some students share the title of an award with their peers, a few of them are given more than one of these exem­plary awards.
Joshua Didio, ’13, undergrad­uate finance major, won both the Contribution to Student Life and also the Greek Emerging Leader Award.
“I won the awards based on my service as fraternity president of Lambda Chi Alpha,” Didio said. “There was a ceremony where everyone was called up based on awards to receive their plaques, and received a short saying on their involvement on campus.” According to Lehigh’s Awards and Prizes web page, students awarded the Contribution to Student Life award, like Didio, have bettered and contributed to student life while attending Lehigh.
The majority of the awards given have a specific set of cri­teria that needs to be met to be given the award.
After being chosen, the re­cipients receive an email regard­ing their award, which is not specified.
The parents of each individ­ual winner also receive a formal invite to the ceremony to cel­ebrate with their son or daughter.
Aside from receiving her award Carly Potock, ’11, said the ceremony in itself was extremely emotional.
“When sitting at the awards ceremony, I honestly just sat feel­By
ALISON MANGO
ArtsLehigh and The Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship partnered together to hold a panel discussion focused on art entrepreneurship Tuesday night.
This event was called iDex: Art Entrepreneurship and was a follow-up to an event held last year, iDex: Creativity.
The organizations brought in five local artist-entrepreneurs to sit on a panel in Sinclair Audi­torium and discuss their stories of success in the commercial art world with Lehigh students.
The panel members in­cluded Moe Jerant, a drummer; Sarah Carlson, a dancer; Vir­ginia Abbot, a sculptor; Barry Glassman, an administrator for community theater, and Ryan Hill, a comic.
All have led entrepreneur­ship efforts in their respective fields after realizing their indi­vidual artistic visions. Each had a vision in his or her mind, and effectively brought the vision into existence to express him or herself and bring enjoyment to others.
The director of ArtsLehigh, Silagh White, moderated the event. She said that students would help students learn how to realize their visions effective­ly and then to carry them out.
White began the discussion by presenting something called “The Dynamic Triangle.”
The triangle consisted of three points; the artist, the producer and the audience. At different points in the creative-commercial process, White said, one of these points is the leading force behind artistic entrepreneurship.
Each of these artists are en­trepreneurs for the simple fact
Antiguan ambassador visits Lehigh
By KO YAZAKI
The ambassador of Anti­gua and Barbuda to the U.S., Deborah Mae Lovell, visited Lehigh on Tuesday to final­ize the plans and conduct an information session for the university-sponsored Sum­merSERVE trip to Antigua taking place this summer.
Lovell boasted an im­pressive resume. Before becoming the ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States in 2005, she held various positions includ­ing Minister Counselor and Acting High Commissioner of the Antigua and Barbuda embassies in the U.S. and Canada. Her 25 years of ex­perience in the Antigua and Barbuda foreign service al­lowed her to become accred­ited as both the Ambassador to the U.S. and as Permanent Representative to the Organi­zation of American States.
As part of her commitment to foster a stronger relation­ship between Antigua-Bar­buda and the U.S., she began to spread her passion for ex­posing the youth of America to the unique culture of her
See IDEX Page 4
See AWARDS Page 5
See ANTIGUA Page 6
B&W photo by KO YAZAKI
Lehigh students enjoy a dinner with Antiguan ambassador Deborah Mae Lovell on Tuesday, Jan 31.
n SummerSERVE opportunity in Antigua awaits students this summer.
B&W photo by JOANNE CHOU
Students attended a panel discussion about art entrepreneurship called iDex on Tuesday night. Artists in various media from the Lehigh Valley arts scene shared tips on how they sell their work and their personal brands.
Artists acquire business skills at panel discussion
Student life awards honor worthy peers