Brown and White Vol. 130 no. 2

              The Brown and White Vol. 130 No. 1
Friday, February 5, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Jonas hits lehigh
Kelly McCoy/B&W Staff
Members of the Lehigh rowing team attack a fellow rower with snowballs Jan. 23. Winter storm Jonas
covered Lehigh’s campus in more than two feet of snow. For more about the storm cleanup, see page 3.
Q&A: Bill
Bradley on
how to ‘be
better’
By EM OKREPKIE
News Editor
Bill Bradley discussed ideas from
his book We Can All Do Better
as he delivered the 18th Kenner
Lecture on Cultural Understanding
and Tolerance on Tuesday. Bradley
is a former senator, Olympian and
NBA Hall of Famer, according to
his website.
Q: The Kenner Lecture on Cultural
Understanding and Tolerance
invites speakers to share their mes-sages
with the Lehigh communi-ty,
and your message is one that
encourages people “to care about
each other” and “reclaim the legacy
that reflects our best self.” Why do
you see these things as necessary
for America to prosper, and how
can these ideals be used to promote
prosperity on a college campus such
as Lehigh?
Bill Bradley: I think the stron-gest
community is the community
that has the most respect for its
members, and the members for each
other. I think America is lucky.
We’re a very diverse society, and we
are a country of immigrants. We’ve
overcome a lot of dark chapters in
our lives to be a country that has a
deep optimism about our capacities
and our ultimate values.
Q: Lehigh political science pro-fessor
Ted Morgan once noted that
the “corporate conservative” atmo-sphere
on campus discourages polit-ical
activism. In your book “We Can
All Do Better,” you encourage indi-viduals
to actively work to better the
state of the country. How would you
Spring admit orientation altered
By CATE PETERSON
Associate News Editor
Hundreds of first-year students
move to South Mountain and start
a week-long orientation process
every August. Another group of
students, known as “special popu-lation”
students, experience a sim-ilar
orientation in January.
The special population stu-dents
include transfers, commut-ers,
international students and
January-admits, who are students
who are accepted for the spring
semester as opposed to the fall
semester.
Lehigh has changed the orien-tation
process over the past few
years for these special populations
for the program to better fit their
needs.
In the fall of 2015, the trans-fer
orientation process was not
well-received, according to Julie
Metkus, a Fall 2015 transfer stu-dent.
“It was kind of a mess to be hon-est,”
Metkus said.
Chris Barry/B&W Staff
Lehigh’s admission building is covered in the snow after winter
storm Jonas on Jan. 31. The orientation process for spring admits
was changed from previous years.
See SPRING Page 2
See BRADLEY Page 2
Orientation for Lehigh’s
“special populations” was
lengthened from a single day
to two after previous year’s
programs fell short
Lehigh Staples: Saxbys coffee
shop provides members of the
campus community with a spot
for company and a cappuccino.
See Page 5
Inside Lifestyle