Brown and White Vol. 124 no. 5

              Vol. 124 No. 5
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
‘All the Lehigh News First’
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LIFESTYLE
By ELIZABETH HALLER
Lehigh University students can now have their designs come to life with the help of 3D printing.
The CREATE club along with Baker Institution for Entrepreneurship held a 3D printing workshop Thursday at Wilbur Powerhouse. The workshop entailed back­ground information on 3D printing along with a live demonstration of how a 3D printer works.
“3D printing is really revolutionary,” said Brian Friedman, ‘14, president of the CREATE club. “It is a huge new trend. The big thing is a lot of students have prod­ucts they want to make but it is really ex­pensive and they don’t know how to make it. With the CREATE club they can actu­ally team up and make their own product.”
A 3D printer is a printer that can create a 3D object from a computer model. There are four different technologies used for 3D printing in order to make the design. FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) involves plas­tic melting down and being extruded. With powder (selective laser sintering), a bed powder is placed on the printer and a laser heats up the powder. Resin based (stereo lithography) consists of a layer of resin be­ing exposed to light with the light harden­ing the resin in order to make the design. The final technology is Inkjet (powder and binder) where a layer of powder is placed onto the printer and then ink goes over the powder. With the help of these technolo­gies it is possible to bring a design to life.
There are many different options when it comes to 3D printing. One of the options that the CREATE club encourages is to make your own printer with open source designs from the website RepRap.com. The parts that are used for building the printer can be bought or made from another 3D printer, and the most popular printers that are made are the Prusa Mendel, Huxley and the Wallace. These printers can be made for around $200.
“I think 3D printing is a great aspect to the future,” said Nathan Goodman, ‘14, CREATE club treasurer. “I think it will help a lot with prototyping. I think it can definitely help students that want to make
By JADA GREEN
A campus group raised awareness about human trafficking through a screening of the documentary “Very Young Girls” Wednesday night.
Mary Grace Doyle, ’13, helped orga­nize the event and stressed that the issue of trafficking is a local problem, as well a domestic and international concern.
“I feel that the Lehigh community doesn’t have a real grasp of this issue, and if they do have some exposure, I feel as though its main correlation is to Africa and not the United States,” Doyle said. “Our goal right now is to create some knowledge of the subject and then continue to build from there.”
According to the International Crisis Aid in the United States, about 1.2 mil­lion young men and women are being trafficked every year. The documentary focused on domestic women’s sex traf­ficking in New York City, emphasiz­ing the fact that those being trafficked are, on average, 13 years old. The film showed girls as young as 12 sharing sto­ries of being kidnapped, raped, beaten and forced into what they called ‘the life’.”
The film also featured footage con­fiscated by the police of two New York City pimps recording their activities in hopes of starting a reality show. The men followed young girls around and coerced them into joining a “family” of prostitutes.
Some of the footage showed girls being forced to hit each other or being threatened by the men for wanting to quit prostitution. One girl described how she was forced to have sex with up to 15 men at a time when she was 13 years old, and how she was led to believe that prostitution was her life’s purpose.
“I liked how it showed personal sto­ries in a casual manner that really let the victims express how they felt about it,” said Kristen Goodman, ’15. “It was sad to see how brainwashed they were and how scared they were to talk to authorities.”
The film was produced by a New York City nonprofit, Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS). GEMS offers trafficked girls who are arrested for prostitution an alternative to incarcera­tion by giving them support and counsel
Sex trafficking event highlights local issue
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B&W photo by ELIZABETH HALLER
The CREATE club poses at the 3D printing event. The club was founded last year by Brian Friedman, ’14, and Marshall Nill, ’14, with the intention of forging a spirit to create in Lehigh students.
Lehigh’s CREATE club brings 3D printing, creativity to life
By KRISTEN WILHOUSKI
Lehigh’s Student Senate held its spring semester retreat this month, during which they re-organized and planned for the upcoming semester.
“This semester Student Senate is really focusing on bringing Greeks, non-Greeks, residential, off-campus and international students together,” said Student Senate President Sarah Thomson, ’13.
The Student Senate is in the final plan­ning stages of their first-ever Fire and Ice Ball to be held on Feb. 15.
“This event will be open to all stu­dents, and we’re partnering with ASA, Lehigh After Dark and Dean of Students Office to provide the free opportunity for students to come together and socialize in an atmosphere that traditionally has been reserved for Greek organizations,” Thom­son said.
“The Fire and Ice Ball is going to be a blast—all students are welcome and it’s free, at Wood Dining Hall,” Public Rela­tions Chair Cristina DeScisciolo, ’15, said. “There will be a photo booth, DJ, deli­cious food, door prizes and much more.”
Other goals of the Student Senate in­clude bringing students together to reach out to the Bethlehem community. With that goal in mind, Senate’s Community Outreach Committee is working on a Lehigh Restaurant Week to bring local restaurants onto Lehigh’s campus with specials for students.
In addition, the senate is working on increasing lighting around the off-campus areas to help with some of the safety is­sues that face students.
The student resources committee
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Student Senate organizes for semester at spring retreat
See TRAFFICKING Page 2