Brown and White Vol. 126 no. 2

              Tuesday, January 28, 2014
‘All the Lehigh News First’
SPORTS
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LIFESTYLE
Michele Norris of NPR to speak as part of Kenner Lecture Series
OSA hosts ‘Make and Take’ scratch art event
By ELIZABETH HALLER
Students created scratch art designs during the Office of Stu­dent Activities’ weekly “Make and Take” event Friday in Lamberton Hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The music-filled hall provided a warm, relaxing environment where students were able to escape the frigid temperatures, take a break from their classes and catch up with friends while creating their own mini art pieces.
The concept of scratch art focus­es on the aspects of negative space; artists are able to use small wooden pencil picks to scratch away the covering on pieces of paper. Af­ter removing the covering, colors from the paper underneath show through to create a design.
“This semester I had finally had the time in my schedule that allows me to participate, so why not take advantage of it?” Rachel Weckselb­latt, ’17, said.
Upon arriving at the event, stu­dents picked up a special colored paper with a black covering. Using a pencil pick, students then were able to scratch a design of their choice onto the paper. Underneath the black was a multi-colored background, so the student’s de­signs were given another level of complexity.
“This is when I get to see my friends that I normally do not get to see on a regular basis, and talk to them,” Haley Maruschak, ’15, said. “I have been coming to Make and Take since my freshman year,
‘Weekends at Lamberton’ features palm, tarot readings
By LISA KOCAY
The newest installment of “Weekends at Lamberton” brought a group of psychics and artists to campus who performed tarot card and palm readings, in addition to drawing caricatures, respectively. The event took place on the evening of Jan. 24 between the hours of 8 and 11 p.m.
Cheryl Lynn, a self-dubbed “natural-born psychic,” per­formed the evening’s tarot card readings. Lynn performed read­ings — that lasted about five min­utes each — throughout the event.
As she began each reading, Lynn would ask her chosen par­ticipant for his or her name, age and astrological sign. She would then tell the person what his or her astrological sign meant.
Lynn gave what she called a “brief 2014” reading, which told each participant what his or her life would be like in 2014. She removed tarot cards one by one from the deck in her hand and told each participant how some of the cards related to what would happen in his or her life.
“The tarot cards open the door to my psychic ability,” she
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By ELIZABETH HICKEY
Special correspondent and National Public Radio host Michele Norris will be speak­ing Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. in Zoell­ner Arts Center’s Baker Hall as part of the Kenner Lecture Series.
The talk is entitled “NPR Presents: The Race Card Proj­ect with Michele Norris” and is part of an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America, according to NPR.
Norris spent a decade co-hosting NPR’s evening news program, “All Things Con­sidered,” which she began in 2002.
She has interviewed many dignitaries, ranging from American presidents to Acad­emy Award winners.
Norris took on the issue of race during the 2008 presiden­tial election by conducting a series of interviews with politi­cal leaders, in addition to aver­age American voters.
She and NPR’s Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep hosted a series of dialogues
B&W photo courtesy of LEHIGH.EDU
Norris, a special correspondent and host for NPR, will address the Lehigh community Thursday. Her talk is part of an intitiative to spark increased conversation about race in America.
with the voters about race in the election.
This series earned Norris and Inskeep both the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Univer­sity Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.
Norris also co-hosted NPR’s Democratic presidential can­didate debate in 2008. She covered both the Democratic and Republican National Con­ventions, as well as anchoring multi-hour coverage of Elec­tion Day and Inauguration Day.
B&W photo by DAVE CANFIELD
Students take a break from classes to participate in creating scratch art designs at the Office of Student Activities’ weekly crafting event at Lamberton Hall.
In 2009, she was awarded “Journalist of the Year” by the National Association of Black Journalists for her overall body of work, specifically her cover­age of the 2008 presidential election.
Norris’s long list of creden­tials spans her decades of rig­orous journalism.
After attending the Univer­sity of Wisconsin with a major in electrical engineering, Nor­ris moved to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she graduated with a degree in journalism.
She ultimately received the University of Minnesota’s Out­standing Achievement Award for her hard-hitting journalism.
Prior to joining NPR, Norris worked as a writer at the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Post.
She was also a staff writer for the Washington Post before she became a reporter for ABC News in its Washington D.C. bureau.
In 2001, Norris received both a Peabody and an Emmy for her work on ABC’s cover­age of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that year.
In 2006, following her cov­erage of Hurricane Katrina for NPR, Norris received a Salute
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n The former “All Things Considered” host will address the Lehigh community Thursday.