Brown and White Vol. 132 no. 7

              The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 7
Friday, February 24, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
LUPD presence increases after hazing reports
By EMILY WARD
News Editor
The Lehigh University Police
Department increased the number
of officers on duty this weekend in
response to nine anonymous reports
of hazing within the Greek commu-nity.
LUPD chief Edward Shupp said
officers were not ordered to purpose-fully
bust fraternity houses. Instead,
he said LUPD received orders to be a
visible presence on campus to deter
crime.
Nine reports of hazing is high
for this time of year, Shupp said.
Since the reports are anonymous, it
provides a challenge for LUPD. An
anonymous report on one fraternity
must be treated as a possible report
on every fraternity.
“We’re not miracle workers,”
Shupp said. “I can’t do anything if I
don’t know what house you’re talking
about. I don’t want to go into 22
different houses and accuse people
because I don’t have probable cause
to do so.”
In an email sent out to the univer-sity
Tuesday night, provost and vice
provost of Student Affairs Pat Farrell
and Ian Birky said “reports that
Greek chapters are being ‘raided,’
or that students are being ‘lined up
and forced to submit to breathalyzer
tests’ are also not true.”
Shupp said many of these reports
came from a Lehigh parents’ page on
Facebook.
“What bothers me are the rumors,”
Shupp said. “When I’m looking at this
parents’ page, I don’t know how their
sons or daughters could even tell
their parents some of these things.”
Shupp said one post on the page
claimed LUPD officers were standing
outside residence halls and lining up
40 students to perform preliminary
breath tests, or PBTs. Shupp said
the 150 cameras, as well as the body
cameras each LUPD officer wears,
can discredit the legitimacy of these
statements.
On two occasions this weekend,
Shupp said LUPD swiped into frater-nity
houses. He said the officers had
probable cause for both entrances.
In one case, Shupp said a securi-ty
guard observed fraternity mem-bers
playing drinking games inside
their chapter house, which is against
university policy. No citations were
issued.
In the case of Kappa Alpha, Shupp
said members were throwing glass
beer bottles off the second floor of
their house. When LUPD responded,
the men fled into the house, giving
the officers probable cause to enter
in after them.
Four members of Kappa Alpha
involved in the incident were breath-alyzed.
Only one was issued a cita-tion
for disorderly conduct, according
to the Lehigh crime log.
Similar to swiping into Greek hous-es,
Shupp said officers only breatha-lyze
students if they have probable
cause to do so, which can range from
students stumbling down the street
to an odor on their breath. Refusing
to take a PBT will result in a citation.
Shupp said in many cases, stu-dents
can benefit from a PBT “as long
as it’s a low reading and the person is
not a danger to themselves or oth-ers.”
He said if the test reads around
.02 or .03, the student won’t receive
a citation. If students refuse to take
A ‘nightingale’ to remember
Puppeteer debuts new production at Zoellner
OurBus offers
cheap but
limited trips home
for students
By MADISON HITE
B&W Staff
For students without cars on cam-pus,
getting home or taking a day
trip might require some additional
planning. Local bus lines serve as
one alternative for travelers, but
between oversold trips and difficult
hours, the journey home can be far
from a smooth ride.
Lehigh’s website provides numer-ous
transportation resources for
families and students. Bob Bruneio,
the manager of the university’s
Office of Transportation, said the
two main bus lines students use
when traveling home or taking a
trip to the city are the Carl R.
Bieber Tourways and Trans-Bridge
Bus Lines.
Bieber buses provide transporta-tion
to both Philadelphia and New
York City, while Trans-Bridge only
travels to New York City. Both
Bieber and Trans-Bridge bus-ing
provide comparable pricing,
Bruneio said, though they’re both
more expensive than new competi-tor
OurBus.
A round trip to Philadelphia
using Bieber costs $28 and takes
anywhere between an hour and
a half to two and a half hours,
while a round trip to New York
City costs $49 and takes about the
same amount of time. Using Trans-
Bridge, a round trip to New York
City costs $54.80 and takes about
the same amount of time as the
By ERIK THOMAS
Deputy Photo Editor
When thinking of a play set in
17th century Germany, one usu-ally
doesn’t expect the actors to be
puppets.
The Mock Turtle Marionette
Theater is working in conjunc-tion
with the Bach Choir and the
Bach Festival Orchestra to bring
life to Hans Christian Andersen’s
“The Nightingale” in Baker Hall
on Sunday at 3 p.m.
“The Nightingale” is about an
emperor who learns that the most
beautiful thing in his empire is the
song of the nightingale. He orders
that the nightingale be caught and
brought to his court so he can hear
its music but is then given a bejew-eled,
mechanical bird that steals
his interest. When the emper-or
falls deathly ill, only the real
nightingale’s song can save him.
In this adaptation of the play,
the characters are acted out by
puppets that Mock Turtle founder
Doug Roysdon built specifically for
each role. The puppets require two
people to operate — one working
the mouth and the other moving
the arms.
Roysdon said he thinks he
might have invented a new type
of puppet, calling them Bunrodku.
Roysdon’s puppets are a combi-nation
of Japanese puppet style
called Bunraku, which requires
three people to operate, and a rod
puppet, which is a one-person pup-pet
controlled by a rod.
To bring his ideas to life, Roysdon
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Sonia Hennet, left, and Anna Russell practice with their puppet, The Storyteller, on Feb. 17 at the Ice House in North Bethlehem. Hennet and Russell
are part of an upcoming play entitled “The Nightingale.”