Brown and White Vol. 135 no. 15

              The Brown and White Vol. 135 No. 15
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Go: Lehigh launches fundraising campaign
Sam Henry/B&W Staff
Lehigh’s $1 billion fundraising initiative launched on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, on the UC Front Lawn. The launch included
performances from student groups, Lehigh Idol winners and Grammy-nominated singer Halsey.
Lehigh launched the public
phase of Go: The Campaign for
Lehigh, a five-year fundraising
campaign, on the UC Front Lawn
with headlining performer Halsey
Thursday, Oct. 25.
Chairman of the board of trust-ees
Kevin Clayton, ‘84, ’13P,
signed the resolution unanimous-ly
adopted by the board to go
public with the campaign, which
aims to fund university growth
and impact.
The launch included three
feature speakers, Daniel
Amankwatia, ’19, Nadine Elsayed,
‘18, and Vassie Ware, a professor
of bioscience. Joseph Buck, the
vice president of Development
and Alumni Relations, said plan-ners
wanted to feature a student,
an alumnus and a faculty mem-ber.
Campaign launch events were
also held in Manhattan and San
Francisco on Oct. 26 and 27,
respectively.
President John Simon compared
the campaign to a marathon. He
said there will be events all over
the world for several years and
the university is about to take the
campaign to China next weekend.
“We are organizing a campaign
road trip,” Buck said. “Not every-one
is here (at Lehigh), in New
York or in San Francisco, so you
take Lehigh to (them). You have
to meet people where they are, lit-erally
— you have to go to them.”
Simon said in addition to China,
the campaign will travel to India,
London, Texas, Florida and other
locations.
Leaders chose to host the first
campaign launch on campus,
however.
“This is what it’s about, is here,”
Simon said. “The whole campaign
is to support the mission of what
By MARISSA McCLOY
News Editor
we do — and what we do is here.”
Buck said the money to pay for
the launch events this weekend
came from of his office’s oper-ating
budget. Buck said it will
be important to receive invest-ments
for upcoming campaigns
to continue to build and feed the
momentum of the initiative.
To date, $550 million of the $1
billion-plus fundraising goal has
been raised.
Buck said the $550 million was
raised primarily from 2013 to
2017, but some gifts date back to
2012. He said the gifts donated
prior to 2018 were part of the
private phase of the campaign,
during which the objective was to
raise half of the current fundrais-ing
goal.
At the launch event, the univer-sity
announced a $20 million gift
from Clayton and Lisa Clayton,
’13P, that will specifically sup-port
renovations to the University
Center.
The campaign prioritizes stu-dent
access and opportunity, the
impact of the new college of health
and the expansion of research
efforts and facilities, in addition
to other initiatives across the uni-versity.
The campaign is chaired by
alumni Maria Chrin, ’87, ’10P,
Jordan Hitch, ’88, ’20P, ’21P,
James Maida, ’85, ’17P, ’19P, and
Mark Yeager ’81. There are also
four honorary chair members for
the campaign, including Murray
Goodman, ’48, Lee Iacocca, ’45,
Joseph Perella, ’64, and Daniel
Smith Jr., ’71.
In addition to Halsey, the
launch featured performers from
Lehigh Idol, the Marching ‘97
and the Lehigh cheerleaders and
student dance groups, such as LU
Bhangra.
The launch offered free food
catered primarily by Lehigh
See GO Page 3
The midterm elections, explained
Citizens will vote for midterm
election candidates on Tuesday,
Nov. 6. Some Lehigh students
are unsure of who exactly is run-ning
in this election and why the
election matters. The Brown and
White compiled a guide to voting in
Bethlehem this year.
What are midterm elections?
While presidential elections occur
every four years, U.S. citizens have
the chance to vote every two years
for every member of the U.S. House,
as well as certain members of the
U.S. Senate, state officials and local
council or school board members.
By DELANEY MCCAFFREY
Multimedia Editor
Since the 2018 election is halfway
through the presidential term, it is
known as a midterm election.
There has been significant empha-sis
placed on this year’s midterms,
and many races across the country
are very close. The outcomes of
the election will determine party
majorities in the Senate and House
of Representative in Congress, both
of which are currently held by the
Republican party.
Who’s on the ballot?
The ballot includes elections
to determine both the Senate
and House of Representatives in
Congress, along with a handful
of statewide elections. Local posi-
See ELECTION Page 3