Brown and White Vol. 125 no. 4

              Vol. 125 No. 4
Friday, September 20, 2013
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LIFESTYLE
Pulitzer Prize winner discusses life passion
By SARAH SIEGEL
José Galvez, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning photographer, gave a lecture on his photo exhibit “Doc­umenting Latino Life in America” in Packard Hall on Monday.
His lecture was a kick-off event hosted by the student-led organization Dream and Act LU, a group advocating for immigra­tion reform. During the speech, his photographs were displayed behind him on a projector.
“My whole life has been in­fluenced by what I’m doing,” he said.
Galvez is a Mexican-Ameri­can, originally hailing from Tucson, Ariz., where he grew up surrounded by families of a simi­lar social background. He said the only non-Mexicans at his school were the teachers.
“There was no such thing as bi­lingual education at the time,” he said. “If you were caught speaking Spanish in school, you got hit.”
A self-proclaimed hustler, Galvez began earning a living by selling newspapers and shining shoes. One day, he was called to shine shoes at a local newspaper company.
He fell in love with the news­paper industry and knew right away he wanted to be part of it. He was able to shadow a Mexi­can-American reporter, who men­tored him while working at the paper. At 16, Galvez was hired at the paper as a copy editor.
Galvez continued to shine shoes on the side while he worked at the paper. One day a customer said something to him that struck a chord. “You poor Mexican boy,” the customer said.
Galvez had never realized he was poor. He grew up with peo­ple that shared similar economic struggles, but didn’t realize that made him poor.
“I thought to myself from that point on, ‘I may be poor, but I’m going to make something out of myself,’” he said.
Galvez overcame substantial adversity while trying to become a journalist. His high school advis­ers told him in order to become a journalist, he’d have to go to college, which meant he’d have to perfect his English. Not willing to set him up for failure, his advisers told him not to pursue a career in journalism, and instead explore a print shop.
At the print shop, Galvez learned about photography and taking pictures for a newspaper. He purchased his first camera from a pawnshop and started tak­ing photographs of his family.
“Photography for me is not a project. It became my life pas­sion,” he said.
The following year, Galvez indeed attended college, becom­ing the first person on either side of his family to do so. He focused on his photography and started photographing the Chicano movement.
“It’s important to photograph what you know,” he said.
His photography gave him the opportunity to right a wrong in
Students march, hope to end sexual assault
B&W photo by KIT LANDRY
Signs with statistics about sexual assault were held along the path of the Take Back the Night march with the intent of educating students about gender violence.
By DOUGLAS BAJAN
Droves of students attended Lehigh’s annual Take Back the Night event Monday on the Uni­versity Center front lawn.
The event contained a march, organized by Break the Silence, which began on the grounds of Centennial II and culminated on the Front Lawn with a series of faculty speeches and student speak-outs.
“I’m hoping this will be a real­ly great opportunity for the Break the Silence club to really educate the campus, and since it’s being held in Lower Cents, probably a lot of freshmen too,” said Marc Greenspan, ’16. “[We want to] just get them involved and help them understand some serious issues.”
The march, which began with opening statements by members of Break the Silence, led the con­gregation through lower campus; along the way, students held up signs citing statistics concerning sexual assault.
“We want to spread awareness about this topic, because it is a real problem, and it is growing,” said Traci Mindler, office coor­dinator of the Women’s Center. “The more aware we can make people, the better we’ll be as a community.”
Take Back the Night began as a memorial to Lehigh student Jeanne Cleary, who was raped and murdered in her dorm by another student April 5, 1986. Over 25 years later, the students of Lehigh continue to work dili­gently to encourage remembrance and education.
“We started planning the march back in the spring, and then wrote the speeches and started contacting people over the summer,” said Amanda Derby,’16, a member of Break the Silence who co-opened the event with a speech. “We did a majority of the work over the past couple of weeks.”
After marching through Me­morial Walkway, the students took seats before a candle-lit stage on the University Center front lawn, where the speak-out portion of the event occurred.
Representatives of the Wom­en’s Center, the Office of the
Bar brawl leads to jailing, suspensions
B&W photo by CHRISTINA CAVANAUGH
The incident occured outside Leon’s bar and restaurant, a nighttime hub for students.
By CHRISTINA CAVANAUGH
In the aftermath of an off-campus altercation early Wednesday morning, one Lehigh student was hospitalized, another was jailed, and a total of four were suspended from the football team indefinitely.
A fight broke out among several parties following a heated exchange of words near the intersection of Fillmore and E. Fifth streets at approximately 12:45 a.m. on Wednesday police said.
Paul Graham, 22, was assaulted out­side local Leon’s bar, sustaining injuries that resulted in his transport via ambu­lance to St. Luke’s University Hospital shortly thereafter.
Graham, a senior marketing student at Lehigh University and a member of Phi Kappa Theta fraternity, sustained multiple facial fractures resultant of being kicked in the face, the blotter said.
Graham’s jaw was broken in two places and he sustained a concussion; he needed stitches and will have to have his jaw wired shut.
The Bethlehem police blotter stated that a 19-year-old male, who it identified as Lehigh sophomore football player Russhon Phillips, was apprehended and charged with aggravated assault for kick­ing Graham while he was on the ground.
The police blotter said Phillips was apprehended and charged with aggravat­ed assault at the time; another member of the group involved in the altercation was cited for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness for initiating the fight.
Phillips was arraigned at approxi­mately 5:30 a.m. Wednesday in the pres­ence of District Judge Jacqueline Tasch­ner. As of press time Wednesday, Phil­lips remained in Northampton County jail in lieu of 10% of $75,000 bail.
Phillips has subsequently been
n Off-campus conflict sends one to hospital, removes four from football roster.
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