Brown and White Vol. 126 no. 23

              Vol. 126 No. 23
Friday, April 25, 2014
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Community service project aims to aid local food pantries
By CEARA TOMAINO
Lehigh University’s “Swipe to Wipe out Hunger” program and community service event aims to make an enormous differ­ence in the greater Lehigh and Bethlehem communities.
Starting today and ending Wednesday, May 7, donations of food and drinks pur­chased with leftover meal swipes will aid lo­cal homework clubs and food pantries.
Genevieve Shafer, ’17, who has planned and organized the event through Lehigh’s Community Service Office, has been working hard to make this event a success.
Shafer and Sarah Dudney, ’17, came up with the idea for the event together.
“Basically, (we) just had this idea, and (Sar­ah) contacted the CSO and Women’s Center about it,” Shafer said. “From there, it has gone a long way. The Women’s Center was more than happy to help and see that there were first-year students who were so willing to be involved and help their community.”
Dudney pictures the program as a way for Lehigh students to give back.
“I live by the motto ‘to whom much is given, much is required,’” Dudney said. “We have been given much as Lehigh students, so giving back this way is the least we can do. It is especially easy to give back in this way be­cause it doesn’t require a lot of time and you don’t have to spend any extra money.”
The Women’s Center is not the only office that has played a big role in the event so far.
The Community Service Office has also sought locations for the donated food to be sent.
The homework clubs in Bethlehem’s middle schools, Broughal and Donegan, and the local food pantries are where the majority
Egg drop competition tests innovation, design aptitude
B&W photos by KO YAZAKI
Students create and prepare to drop devices designed to keep chicken eggs intact in the egg drop competition
By LAURYN RAGONE
The National Society for Black Engineers, Society of Hispanic Engineers and Society of Women Engineers planned an egg drop com­petition at Rauch Business Center on April 18 to bring the Lehigh commu­nity together with a fun activity.
The prize for the first-place team was $250 and $100 for the second-place team. About 35 teams partici­pated in the event.
All competitors were asked to build a device to keep a chicken egg intact when dropped from three dif­ferent heights using materials provid­ed by the hosting organizations.
To make the task more challeng­ing, each team was required to use an imaginary maximum budget of $14.
The teams were provided with dif­ferent priced building items to make their design.
The material options included plastic cups, newspaper sheets, sand­wich bags, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, string, cotton balls, marshmal­lows and masking tape.
“This is the first egg drop compe­tition opened to the campus,” said Geordan Johnson, ’15, the president of the National Society for Black Engineers.
“[The Society of Women Engi­neers] does an egg drop competition for middle school students, and ideas were taken from their competition,” he said. “The egg drop competition is a fun experience in bringing the school closer together.”
B&W photo by ANDREW LAW
Student Senate members listen to speakers during Tuesday’s meeting. Senate recently created a committee in the hope of making Lehigh a more inclusive community through redesigned curricula.
By GABY MORERA
Student Senate XXVI has created an inclusiveness excellence committee whose purpose is to draft a document that will ad­dress institutional changes aimed to make Lehigh’s campus more inclusive.
Student Senate XXVI president Andrew Callahan, ’14, said the main purpose of this proposal will be to change undergradu­ate course requirements so students learn about diversity, culture and social justice before graduating from Lehigh. The com­mittee is in charge of drafting a document that outlines the proposed changes to be made in the academic curriculum.
The proposal is also looking to change pre-existing class curricula to include more themes of diversity and inclusiveness in the classroom.
The document must be reviewed and endorsed by the appropriate faculty com­mittees, each college’s curriculum commit­tee, the Student Senate inclusive excellence committee, the Student Senate, the aca­demic deans and university leadership be­fore it can be put into effect. It is expected to be proposed in the fall.
“I think a lot of what our community is focused on right now is that students can graduate without really learning anything about diversity or social justice or culture or other parts of the world, and we feel that really detracts from a Lehigh University degree and are looking to change that,” Callahan said.
The students in the committee have met with faculty and staff from all three under­graduate colleges, who have given their
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n The winners of the contest created a device that included cotton balls, marshmallows, a cup and a zip-lock bag.
Committee to restructure course curricula