Brown and White Vol. 123 no. 7

              Vol. 123 No. 7
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
‘All the Lehigh News First’
THE BROWN AND WHITE
Lehigh University’s Student Newspaper Founded in 1894
SPORTS
Football team improves to 5-0
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LIFESTYLE
Lehigh staff supports non-profit agencies
B&W photo by ASHLEY YANCY
Parents of Lehigh students cheer on the football team during its 34-31 victory over Fordham University at Goodman Stadium Saturday. Check our website for more photos from family weekend events
By JASMINE AMEERALLY
Lehigh University hosted the Fac­ulty/Staff Day of Caring Sept. 27, a program held each semester that gives faculty and staff participants the op­portunity to help out local non-profit agencies for the day.
Last week, participants from many different organizations across the Le­high Valley participated in the event. Anne Noon-Scaggs, a contact person for the program, said Lehigh has been a participant from the first Day of Caring.
“This is such a popular program that Lehigh University added a second Day of Caring for their employees several years ago,” Noon-Scaggs said.“This second Day of Caring is held in the spring as an opportunity for those who cannot participate in the fall.”
The program was initially created 20 years ago as a campaign kick-off event to The United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, a community organiza­tion in Pennsylvania that raises funds to help local programs and agencies. Noon-Scaggs said the main goals of the program were to provide both exposures to the organizations that benefited from United Way funding, and to the types of services that exist for Lehigh Valley residents who are in need.
Kurt Pfitzer, an editor for the Office of University Communications, was part of the staff for this year’s program and plans on participating in program once again in the spring. He discussed the Lehigh community’s interaction with the program.
“There are a lot more Lehigh stu­dents coming to help,” Pfitzer said. “I met a couple of Lehigh students when I was there actually, and they said they appreciate the help they get from us.”
Noon-Scaggs said she hoped the employees would have a good experi­ence and encourage other co-workers to participate in future Days of Caring, as well as receive a sense of satisfaction giving service to the non-profit agency.
By SAM ORLAN
This past Friday marked the start of Lehigh’s Family Weekend festivi­ties. It also happened to fall on the same weekend as the Young Alumni Reunion, so the campus was swarm­ing with Lehigh spirit this weekend.
Parents went to classes with stu­dents Friday, attended Saturday’s football game and some stayed even remained on campus through Sunday.
“We have put together a great schedule that touches on so many different aspects of life at Lehigh,” said Caroline Clifford, director of university events. “There’s some­thing for everyone, including aca­demic and cultural activities, athlet­ics events, historical tours, shows and more.”
The schedule consisted of much more than the aforementioned items, parents could go to Career Services, Study Abroad office open houses or attend Bethlehem’s Celtic Classic Friday.
There were numerous college presentations and local tours in ad­dition to the thrilling, close-scoring football game Saturday. Alumni and family packed the parking lots and stands to watch Lehigh close out a last-second victory over Patriot League rival Fordham.
Lehigh welcomes families for eventful weekend
By CONNOR TAIT
Electro-pop duo Timeflies will be playing at the end of the Lehigh-Laf-A-Palooza pep rally Nov. 15 in Grace Hall.
Timeflies consists of vocalist Cal Shapiro and producer Rob Resnick. They formed in 2010 and have built a fan following from college tours and their popular “Timeflies Tuesday” videos, which have garnered over 33 million YouTube views.
Sam Karpman, ’13, and Nevin Sack­son,’14, co-music-directors of University Productions helped bring Timeflies to Lehigh.
“We want to create an exciting concert in order to get people ready for the Lehigh-Laf football,” Sackson said. “People keep already asking me who won the survey, so I know people are interested about the con­cert and hopefully will be happy with the choice.”
Out of 400 students who responded to the survey, the most students preferred Timeflies to come rather than Shwayze, New Boyz, Second Hand Serenade and Carolina Liar.
After receiving the results of the sur­vey, University Productions contacted Timeflies to see if they were able to play at Lehigh. Timeflies happened to be tour­ing nearby during the same week as the pep rally and accepted the offer to headline Lehigh-Laf-A-Palooza.
“We want students to go out and support the team at the pep rally and then stay for the concert,” Karpman said.
In past years, Reel Big Fish, Cata­racs and Girl Talk have headlined Lehigh-Laf-A-Palooza.
The pep rally will take place in Grace Hall Nov. 15.
Timeflies duo to headline Lehigh-Laf
pregame rally
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