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The Brown and White Vol. 129 No. 24 Friday, December 4, 2015 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Simon said. “Why is this proposal on the table, and how does it lead to actually solving some of the issues that CORE was asked to address?” While the 148-page report focused on strengthening the bonds between members of the Lehigh community as a whole, it also addressed the divide between Greek and non-Greek mem-bers of the campus community. According to the CORE report, between 38 percent and 45 percent of male students are involved in a Greek organization at Lehigh, and nearly half of female students are involved in a Greek organization. Such a high percentage of a sub-pop-ulation has the ability to “significant-ly influence a community,” according to the report. In an online survey available to colleges and universities that receive federal funding are required to alert students about certain crimes that occur on campus and “on public property within and immediately adjacent to campus,” pertaining to murder, negligent manslaugh-ter, sex offenses (forcible and non), robbery, aggravated assault, bur-glary, motor vehicle theft and arson. Lehigh complies with these laws by sending email alerts and making the crime statistics available online. In comparing the amount of email alerts students receive about crimes affecting students living off-cam-pus with the extremely low rates of crime listed in the non-campus section of the online crime reports, Lehigh tends to compile statistics for the blocks immediately touching campus, but not the wider South Side area. By not including all stu-dents living off-campus in their crime reports, Lehigh is portraying only a small portion of the crimes in an area where a large percentage of students live. The Commission on Residential Environment report, which was pre-sented to the Lehigh community in July, addressed social issues on Lehigh’s campus and proposed solu-tions to those issues. The goal of the report was to address and find solu-tions to issues on campus and start conversations about creating a more inclusive environment. To fix the perceived problems, both large- and small-scale recommendations were proposed in the report. “The conversations I’m interested in having with students are more along the lines of, in a simplistic way, ‘Why do you think that suggestion was made?’” Lehigh President John Thirty-three percent of Lehigh’s undergraduate population lives off-campus as of Fall 2015, accord-ing to Lehigh Residential Services. The university, however, does not have the crime statistics for the majority of its students living in the off-campus region readily available. Housing is only guaranteed to first- and second-year students, and the Bethlehem police force, rather than the Lehigh police, has juris-diction over all crimes occurring on the South Side, including those per-taining to Lehigh students who live in the South Bethlehem community. While the Lehigh police receive the data and reports regarding crimes affecting the roughly 1,661 students who reside off campus from the City of Bethlehem, they do not maintain an aggregated list of these crimes or have them accessi-ble to the general public. In compliance with federal law, all all undergraduate students, 101 of 106 respondents — or 95 percent of students who took the survey — said there was a divide between Greek and non-Greek students at Lehigh. Seventy students who took the sur-vey were in a Greek house or planned to join one, and 36 students were not affiliated with a Greek organization and had no plans to join one. Students are often divided along Greek or non-Greek lines, according to Interfraternity Council President Matthew Bay, ’18. “There are some positives and there are some negatives to it, but there’s definitely a difference in the two groups of students because (Greek students) are organized under an umbrella, and the rest of the campus usually isn’t,” Bay said. The Panhellenic Council, Interfraternity Council and Multicultural Greek Council repre-sent students who are involved in Greek life. These three organizations work together to represent the inter-ests of the Greek community as a whole, Bay said. There is no group, however, to represent the voices of those who are not affiliated with Greek life, and the lack of this sort of organization can create a silent majority. Simon and Vice President for Academic Affairs Pat V. Farrell have spoken with the leaders of Greek groups about the CORE report and the social divisions that exist on campus. Because there is no central Safety in South Bethlehem Despite the semi-frequent emails students receive from Lehigh Police Chief Edward Shupp alerting them about crimes affecting students off campus, Lehigh’s crime statis-tics for a “Non Campus Building or Property,” state that there was only one robbery reported in 2014 and none reported in 2013 or 2012. There were no reported burglaries from 2012 to 2014. According to reports from the city of Bethlehem taken over the course of 2010 to 2015, there were 114 reported cases of theft, 70 reported cases of burglaries and 18 reported cases of robberies on East Fifth Street alone – an area highly pop-ulated with students. While these reports contain the data for all res-idents living on East Fifth, and not just Lehigh students, and cover a slightly longer time period, it gives a more comprehensive depiction of potential risks students may face when living off-campus. Crimes committed in off-cam-pus houses are reported to the Bethlehem police even if the house is occupied by a student because the Bethlehem police have jurisdiction over the South Side, according to Shupp. Shupp said he receives reports of incidents pertaining to Lehigh students from the Bethlehem police, but he doesn’t have the exact num-bers of how many students are affected by robberies, burglaries and theft. “That’s not something that’s an easy thing for me to do,” Shupp said. “I don’t have the numbers without pulling reports.” Wade Heubert, an adjunct pro-fessor of political science at Lehigh and a police officer for the city of Bethlehem, said that parts of South Bethlehem are safe, but students need to realize they are cohabiting in a neighborhood that is, for the most part, economically depressed. He said while there are some very Interpretation varies for Clery Act reporting By EMMA FRIED Associate News Editor By EMILY OKREPKIE Associate News Editor CORE report addresses social divide See CORE Page 2 See SAFETY Page 4 Illustrated by Kelly McCoy
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FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 129 No. 24 Friday, December 4, 2015 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Simon said. “Why is this proposal on the table, and how does it lead to actually solving some of the issues that CORE was asked to address?” While the 148-page report focused on strengthening the bonds between members of the Lehigh community as a whole, it also addressed the divide between Greek and non-Greek mem-bers of the campus community. According to the CORE report, between 38 percent and 45 percent of male students are involved in a Greek organization at Lehigh, and nearly half of female students are involved in a Greek organization. Such a high percentage of a sub-pop-ulation has the ability to “significant-ly influence a community,” according to the report. In an online survey available to colleges and universities that receive federal funding are required to alert students about certain crimes that occur on campus and “on public property within and immediately adjacent to campus,” pertaining to murder, negligent manslaugh-ter, sex offenses (forcible and non), robbery, aggravated assault, bur-glary, motor vehicle theft and arson. Lehigh complies with these laws by sending email alerts and making the crime statistics available online. In comparing the amount of email alerts students receive about crimes affecting students living off-cam-pus with the extremely low rates of crime listed in the non-campus section of the online crime reports, Lehigh tends to compile statistics for the blocks immediately touching campus, but not the wider South Side area. By not including all stu-dents living off-campus in their crime reports, Lehigh is portraying only a small portion of the crimes in an area where a large percentage of students live. The Commission on Residential Environment report, which was pre-sented to the Lehigh community in July, addressed social issues on Lehigh’s campus and proposed solu-tions to those issues. The goal of the report was to address and find solu-tions to issues on campus and start conversations about creating a more inclusive environment. To fix the perceived problems, both large- and small-scale recommendations were proposed in the report. “The conversations I’m interested in having with students are more along the lines of, in a simplistic way, ‘Why do you think that suggestion was made?’” Lehigh President John Thirty-three percent of Lehigh’s undergraduate population lives off-campus as of Fall 2015, accord-ing to Lehigh Residential Services. The university, however, does not have the crime statistics for the majority of its students living in the off-campus region readily available. Housing is only guaranteed to first- and second-year students, and the Bethlehem police force, rather than the Lehigh police, has juris-diction over all crimes occurring on the South Side, including those per-taining to Lehigh students who live in the South Bethlehem community. While the Lehigh police receive the data and reports regarding crimes affecting the roughly 1,661 students who reside off campus from the City of Bethlehem, they do not maintain an aggregated list of these crimes or have them accessi-ble to the general public. In compliance with federal law, all all undergraduate students, 101 of 106 respondents — or 95 percent of students who took the survey — said there was a divide between Greek and non-Greek students at Lehigh. Seventy students who took the sur-vey were in a Greek house or planned to join one, and 36 students were not affiliated with a Greek organization and had no plans to join one. Students are often divided along Greek or non-Greek lines, according to Interfraternity Council President Matthew Bay, ’18. “There are some positives and there are some negatives to it, but there’s definitely a difference in the two groups of students because (Greek students) are organized under an umbrella, and the rest of the campus usually isn’t,” Bay said. The Panhellenic Council, Interfraternity Council and Multicultural Greek Council repre-sent students who are involved in Greek life. These three organizations work together to represent the inter-ests of the Greek community as a whole, Bay said. There is no group, however, to represent the voices of those who are not affiliated with Greek life, and the lack of this sort of organization can create a silent majority. Simon and Vice President for Academic Affairs Pat V. Farrell have spoken with the leaders of Greek groups about the CORE report and the social divisions that exist on campus. Because there is no central Safety in South Bethlehem Despite the semi-frequent emails students receive from Lehigh Police Chief Edward Shupp alerting them about crimes affecting students off campus, Lehigh’s crime statis-tics for a “Non Campus Building or Property,” state that there was only one robbery reported in 2014 and none reported in 2013 or 2012. There were no reported burglaries from 2012 to 2014. According to reports from the city of Bethlehem taken over the course of 2010 to 2015, there were 114 reported cases of theft, 70 reported cases of burglaries and 18 reported cases of robberies on East Fifth Street alone – an area highly pop-ulated with students. While these reports contain the data for all res-idents living on East Fifth, and not just Lehigh students, and cover a slightly longer time period, it gives a more comprehensive depiction of potential risks students may face when living off-campus. Crimes committed in off-cam-pus houses are reported to the Bethlehem police even if the house is occupied by a student because the Bethlehem police have jurisdiction over the South Side, according to Shupp. Shupp said he receives reports of incidents pertaining to Lehigh students from the Bethlehem police, but he doesn’t have the exact num-bers of how many students are affected by robberies, burglaries and theft. “That’s not something that’s an easy thing for me to do,” Shupp said. “I don’t have the numbers without pulling reports.” Wade Heubert, an adjunct pro-fessor of political science at Lehigh and a police officer for the city of Bethlehem, said that parts of South Bethlehem are safe, but students need to realize they are cohabiting in a neighborhood that is, for the most part, economically depressed. He said while there are some very Interpretation varies for Clery Act reporting By EMMA FRIED Associate News Editor By EMILY OKREPKIE Associate News Editor CORE report addresses social divide See CORE Page 2 See SAFETY Page 4 Illustrated by Kelly McCoy |
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