Brown and White Vol. 126 no. 24

              Vol. 126 No. 24
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
‘All the Lehigh News First’
THE BROWN AND WHITE
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LIFESTYLE
In July, Lehigh President Alice Gast will take up her new post as president of Imperial College London. The Brown and White’s Kerry Mallett sat down with President Gast to discuss her time at Lehigh.
KM: What initially at­tracted you to Lehigh?
AG: The focus on students. Really recognizing how fac­ulty, staff and the student body itself are very much engaged in making the very best student experience. It really is special here.
KM: Part of your presi­dency was during the Reces­sion of 2008. How did you and the university respond to the financial difficulties during that time and in the wake of the recession?
AG: One bright spot was that we were able to keep hir­ing faculty through the reces­sion. A lot of schools had hir­ing freezes that allowed us to attract absolutely terrific facul­ty because there was less com­petition from other schools.
We prepared for and set aside a reserve for financial aid. We were concerned that we would have more needy students and they would be needier. The financial aid bud­By
CAROLINE HAYNIE
The Community Service Of­fice will begin its annual move-out collection drive today, which will run until a week before the Great South Side Sale on Satur­day, June 7.
Anyone on campus who wants to donate unwanted items is encouraged to participate in the move-out collection.
Donations should be dropped off at marked locations in the different dorms. Off-campus stu­dents as well as faculty and staff are directed to drop their dona­tions off during the day at Wind­ish Hall, across from Rauch Business Center, where the drive is based.
Donations should be items in fair to new condition, such as clothing, kitchenware, furniture, electronics, shoes, school sup­plies, books, toys, unopened food, unused toiletries, linens, iPods or phones.
TVs, computer monitors, mattresses or mattress pads will
By RAPHAEL KHALLOUQI
South Bethlehem hosted the 19th annual “Spring on Fourth! What’s on Third?” com­munity festival and chili cook-off Saturday.
The warm and sunny weather helped pro­duce a large turnout. Many attendees sported shorts and T-shirts and walked from restau­rant to restaurant to sample different types of chili and beer.
Up to 30 venues located on Third and Fourth streets participated in the event, in­cluding Molly’s Irish Grille, Full of Crepe, JP MacGrady’s Pub, Déjà Brew and several others.
Participants were able to buy a “Chili Tasting Passport” for $5, allowing them to eat all the chili they desired at up to ten of the venues. The passports sold out quickly, as Lehigh students and Bethlehem residents alike said they had looked forward to the event for weeks.
Festival goers were also provided with a scorecard to rate the different varieties of chili, with the promise that the day’s winner would be announced at the end.
QUEST attracts more than 1,000
CSO’s annual move-out drive proceeds will benefit ‘America Reads, America Counts’ effort
Restaurant competition heats up in chili cook-off
B&W photos by CHRIS BARRY
Students dance as Flosstradamus, Brillz and student deejays perform at Thursday’s QUEST concert at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks, which attracted a crowd of more than 1,000.
By KELLY McCOY
The University Productions crew never stopped moving during Thursday’s Brillz and Flosstradamus concert, an event collectively known as QUEST. The event was held at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks.
A revamped version of Sundaze, Lehigh’s traditional spring concert event, QUEST has had University Productions hard at work with planning since last semester.
“Sundaze has been losing steam, and we decided to revamp and put more en­ergy into it,” said Isaac Wellish, ’17, of University Productions. “ArtsQuest has been trying to get us to use their venues. This is the first time we’ve actually col­laborated and made it happen.”
Bass beats rattled the ArtsQuest cen­ter from within as cheers, laughter and muffled music flowed out the venue’s door. The lights illuminating SteelStacks changed colors in the background.
Minni Kim, ’16, one of the coordina­tors of large events for University Pro­ductions, was one of two student deejays who opened for Brillz and Flosstradamus. Ross Camiel, ’16, the second student DJ, also played a large role in coordinating QUEST.
Kim also performed with two sopho­more rappers, Miles Davis and Kevin Stripling, the latter of which goes by the stage name Samuraimayyne.
Kim spins under the name “Minnit,” while Camiel is known as “Cola.”
“We considered various popular genres at the time (planning began) and tried to head in a new direction,” Kim said. “Lehigh-Laf was a success, and we wanted to see more electronic artists be­cause of the potential the genre brings for various production ideas. We also went with Brillz and Flosstradamus because of their integration of hip-hop in their mu­sic, which would appeal to fans of varying genres.”
Kim added that the move to ArtsQuest as a venue opened up many more plan­ning options.
See CHILI Page 3
See CSO Page 2
Alice Gast reflects on her Lehigh experience
See QUEST Page 2
See GAST Page 4
n Participants and official judges ranked their favorite chili dishes and explored Southside in an
outdoor festival Saturday.