Brown and White Vol. 130 no. 16

              The Brown and White Vol. 130 No. 16
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Proposed renovations to modernize FML
Courtesy of CannonDesigns
A digital rendering of the potential facade of E. W. Fairchild-Martindale Library shows a new design for the facility. The multi-million dollar
EWFM 2020 project will focus on the developing use of technology, collaboration and creativity in education.
By DANIELLE CAMPBELL
Assistant Visuals Editor
As technology becomes the cen-ter
of education across college
campuses, those in Library and
Technology Services at Lehigh
have recognized the need for
an upgrade of E.W. Fairchild-
Martindale Library to make it “a
library of the future,” according
to Bruce Taggart, the vice pro-vost
for Library and Technology
Services.
A multi-million dollar project
called EWFM 2020, has been pro-posed
to update the library. The
plan focuses on the developing use
of technology, collaboration and
creativity in education.
“There are a lot of courses at
Lehigh that are mainly group
work courses and there aren’t a lot
of places in Fairchild-Martindale .
. . for students to come and talk,
so it makes it hard when you have
a group project and you want to
be able to collaborate with them
but you don’t know where to go,”
TRAC fellow Amanda Donohue,
’17, said. “Even if people are doing
their own individual work but
they want to do it together, I
think that it’s a much more invit-ing,
productive way of doing work
than just sitting in a little cubicle
by yourself.”
To accommodate the needs of
students, faculty and staff over
the past years, Library and
Technology Services has conduct-ed
several smaller projects, such
as turning the basement floor
into a cafe area with the Center
for Innovation in Teaching and
Learning and deaccessioning
stacks of government documents
from the fifth floor. They now
hope to organize the larger project
and focus on improving the entire
library instead of individual sec-tions.
Nine years ago, Linderman
Library was renovated to upgrade
the technology and introduce
space for collaboration in the
previously outdated building.
Taggart said those involved with
the renovation from Library and
Technology Services were deter-mined
to preserve the historic
characteristic of the building.
With EWFM, however, they have
more room for development in the
ways they want because they do
not have to focus on preserving
the history of the building, which
was built in 1969 and renovated
in 1985.
The tagline for Linderman’s
renovation was “Renovation,
Preservation, Transformation.”
For Fairchild-Martindale, it is
“Connect, Collaborate, Create.”
“Finally we thought that maybe
there was a holistic way we could
look at this, just as we did with
Linderman,” Taggart said. “Once
Unsafe driving practices on the rise in PA
Students reflect on what
it’s like to be in commit-ted
relationships at Lehigh.
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Inside Lifestyle
By DANIELLE BETTERMANN
Associate News Editor
While driving to class, a student’s
phone on the seat next to the driver
dings with a text message. Out of
habit, the driver reaches to answer
the text. For a minute, or even just a
few seconds, the driver’s eyes are on
the phone instead of the road. This
behavior — called distracted driv-ing
— is a dangerous, nationwide
problem.
According to a report from
the Administrative Office of
Pennsylvania Courts, citations given
out because of distracted driving in
Pennsylvania have increased by 43
percent in the past year. These cita-tions
are mainly because of texting
while driving. Over 400,000 people
were injured in a motor vehicle
crash because of distracted driv-ing
in 2013, which is a 10 percent
increase from 2012, according to
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
In the United States, over eight
people are killed and over 1,000 are
injured in crashes that involve a dis-tracted
driver each day, according to
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
“It is illegal in Pennsylvania to
use your cell phone while driving
to send or receive texts, emails or
messages of any kind,” according to
the safety laws in Pennsylvania on
the Department of Motor Vehicles
website. “If you are caught using
your mobile device for any of the
above purposes, the PA Department
of Transportation will issue you a
$50 fine.”
A study done by the Center for
Disease Control showed that 31 per-cent
of drivers in the U.S. ages 18-64
reported texting while driving in the
month before the survey was issued.
Edward Shupp, the Lehigh chief
of police, believes the biggest prob-lem
on campus is not texting and
See FML Page 3
See DRIVING Page 4