Brown and White Vol. 134 no. 13

              The Brown and White Vol. 134 No. 13
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Alumni talk Path to Prominence Students
weigh in
on JUULs
By MASSIEL CHECO
B&W Staff
Lehigh’s Path to Prominence
aims to reshape the student expe-rience.
With a multitude of chang-es
to the student body, curriculum
and physical campus, the Lehigh
experience of future students will
look much different from that of
alumni.
See JUUL Page 4
Photo courtesy of Bruce Stringfellow
Lehigh’s Path to Prominence includes several initiatives ranging from financial aid efforts to building new residences like Southside
Commons. Alumni have voiced concerns about the implications of expanding into the Bethlehem community.
On top of a financial aid ini-tiative
that meets 100 percent
of every student’s demonstrat-ed
financial need, the expansion
plan includes building a college
of health, hiring 100 new fac-ulty
members, increasing the
undergraduate and graduate stu-dent
population by 20 percent,
and building new dormitories to
accommodate the larger student
population.
Although the plan aims to cre-ate
a more “dynamic, impactful
university,” alumni have mixed
opinions about the changes.
Kristen Mejia, ’17, was
involved with critiquing the Path
to Prominence when she was a
member of the Council of Student
See ALUMNI Page 3
PROTESTERS RALLY FOR STRICTER GUN LAWS
Cadence Tam/B&W Staff
Protesters raise their signs on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest as part of the March For Our Lives on Saturday. Organizers estimated the march in Washington D.C. alone attracted a crowd
of over 800,000 people, some of whom were Lehigh students from various clubs and organizations across campus.
By EMMA SATIN
Assistant News Editor
A hazy mango-scented smoke
fills the library on a Tuesday eve-ning.
The same smell lingers at
an off-campus party on Saturday
night.
The eerily familiar scent follows
students because JUULs are one
of the few items commonly found
in both Linderman Library and
off-campus parties
A JUUL, which resembles the
shape of a flat USB drive, is a
vaper-system that can be filled
with nicotine pods, with flavors
such as mango, mint or cucumber.
JUUL users must be 21 to pur-chase
the smoking device.
According to the JUUL Labs
website, the founders’ goal was to
create an alternative experience
to cigarettes. The website reads
that each “JUUL uses a tempera-ture
regulation system to heat
nicotine-based liquid to an ideal
level and is designed to avoid
burning.”
Each JUUL pod contains 0.7
ML with 5 percent nicotine, which
is equal to about 200 puffs, or one
cigarette.
This new trend was started by