Brown and White Vol. 134 no. 4

              The Brown and White Vol. 134 No. 4
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
By DANIELLE BETTERMANN
Lifestyle Editor
Kate Morrell/B&W Staff
Mary Robinson poses on Feb. 6 in Williams Hall. She served as the president of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights before becoming an activist for climate justice.
As UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights from 1997 to 2002,
Mary Robinson focused on dealing
with human rights issues — gen-der,
women’s empowerment and
education, to name a few. Climate
change never crossed her mind as
a pressing human rights issue.
That is, until she spoke with
those most affected.
When she visited African coun-tries
such as Rwanda, Liberia and
Malawi, women told Robinson
that “things were so much worse”
because the seasons had changed.
They couldn’t predict when the
rainy seasons would come, or for
how long. They didn’t know when
to sow. They didn’t know when to
harvest.
Entire livelihoods are forced
to adapt to a less predictable
environment because of climate
change.
“It was an absolute eye opener,
and I realized I had complete-ly
missed it,” Robinson told The
Brown and White. “I then under-stood,
when I read the science,
that it was something that would
become an existential threat in a
way that was really serious, and See KENNER Page 2
MARY ROBINSON GIVES KENNER LECTURE
Former Irish president advocates for climate justice
Grille 3501 to open location on South Side
By LAURYN RAGONE
Deputy News Editor
John Trapani was hoping to
find the perfect fit.
Over the span of 17 years, the
owner of the Allentown restau-rant
Grille 3501 was asked four
different times to open a new
restaurant location.
When Gateway Building devel-oper
Dennis Benner asked him in
December 2017 to consider open-ing
a new restaurant on Third
and New streets, Trapani finally
felt this was the right opportu-nity.
“It’s perfect,” Trapani said. “It’s
15 miles (from the Allentown loca-tion),
and we are now a part of the
resurgence of the South Side.”
His second restaurant will
be located on the sixth floor of
the new development called The
Gateway Building and will have
two balconies — one facing the
Steel Stacks and another facing
the North Side and Fountain Hill.
While the South Bethlehem
location will share some similar-ities
with the Allentown location,
Kate Morrell/B&W Staff
Grille 3501 will open later this year on the sixth floor of The Gateway Building,
located on the intersection of Third and New streets. The owner of the restaurant
hopes to contribute to the revitalization of South Bethlehem.
Trapani said the new restaurant
will not be an exact mirror of
Grille 3501 and will find its own
identity.
The South Bethlehem location
will seat about 275 guests, where-as
the Allentown restaurant seats
about 210.
Trapani said the executive chef,
John Pukanecz, will introduce
New American cuisine but also
keep “fan favorites” on the menu.
With Lehigh in close proximity,
Trapani said he hopes to attract
faculty, students, their families
and the community.
“My son just graduated from
Lehigh in December, so we are
pretty invested in Lehigh and we
hope to carry that as tradition,”
Trapani said.
The restaurant is one of many
businesses playing a part in the
revitalization of South Bethlehem.
Sarah Fouts, a postdoctor-al
fellow in Latin American and
Latino studies, conducts foodways
research, which is focused on how
foods can be social, cultural, polit-
See GRILLE Page 3
that we needed to get on top of
it because, otherwise, it would
continue to affect those most vul-nerable
and least responsible (for
it).”
Robinson came to Lehigh on
Feb. 6 as the 21st Kenner Lecture
speaker. She spoke to Lehigh and
Bethlehem community members
about her experiences as the first
female president of Ireland, the
former UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights and an activ-