Brown and White Vol. 133 no. 3

              The Brown and White Vol. 133 No. 3
Friday, September 15, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Fitness center closed until end of September
By CASEY FARMER
Lifestyle Editor
Following the sanitary sewer leak
on the first floor of Taylor Gym Sept.
2, the fitness center and racquet
court complex were closed for repairs
Sept. 13, according to an email
sent by the Athletics, Facilities and
Environmental Health and Safety
departments.
The target reopening date is Sept.
25. Until then, both floors of the fit-ness
center will remain closed. The
fifth floor and group exercise class-es
will remain available during this
time.
Additionally, a number of elliptical
and cycle machines have been moved
to the lobby and Hall of Fame for use,
according to the email sent on Sept.
13. The third floor spin studio will
also be open for use when not occu-pied
by scheduled programs.
The basketball court and locker
rooms remain open. Jacobs Pool will
continue to follow its normal recre-ation
swim hours.
While closed, the damage will be
assessed “by professionals in envi-ronmental
health and safety, risk
management, facilities services and
by the university’s insurance carrier”
to determine the best solution for the
issue, the email read.
The fitness center staff is research-ing
alternative options that may be
available during the closing. Any
arrangements made by the fitness
center staff will be announced on
Taylor Gym’s website and social
media.
Casey Farmer/B&W Staff
The fitness center and racquet court complex inside Taylor Gym will be closed for repairs
beginning Sept. 13 until Sept. 25. The first floor of the gym flooded due to a sewage leak.
Students speak out
Cultural Greek Council hosts DACA rally
Sam Henry/B&W Staff
Ruben Rosas, ’20, speaks to the attendees of the DACA rally on Sept. 7 on the UC front lawn. The Cultural Greek Council held the rally in response to President Trump’s call to repeal
DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
By CATE PETERSON
News Editor
President Trump called for the
repeal of the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals on Sept. 5, sig-naling
an end to the legal protections
of approximately 800,000 people in
the United States. Two days later,
Lehigh’s Cultural Greek Council held
a rally in support of DACA on the
front lawn.
A number of students, faculty and
administrators gathered to share
support, hope and encouragement for
undocumented students. After short
speeches from members of the coun-cil
and professor Marilisa Jiménez
García, people in the crowd were See DACA Page 4
invited to speak.
Ruben Rosas, ’20, delivered a pas-sionate
speech about growing up in
a largely undocumented community
and vowed to do all he could to pro-tect
those with DACA status.
“I just spoke from the heart,” Rosas
told The Brown and White. “When
you speak from the heart, you don’t
have to rehearse, and that’s why the
message resonated with so many peo-ple
— because it was from the heart,
there was emotion and history tied to
that message.”
Rosas said he felt it was crucial
to attend the rally, not only to sup-port
students at Lehigh but also to
support his hometown community in
Denver.
“Where I come from, it’s sort of
dominantly Hispanic, so it was rare
for me to know anybody who wasn’t
under DACA,” Rosas said. “It was
rare for me to know people who were
documented because the majority of
my community is undocumented.”
The president of the Cultural
Greek Council, Djenne Dickens, ’18,
said DACA is important to the coun-cil
because one of their members,
Julius Wibisono, is a recipient.
Wibisono, ’20, came to the U.S.
when he was 8 years old. His family
was visiting the country on vacation
from Indonesia when they decided to
permanently stay.
“Because my family and I had the
intentions of just traveling, we did
not need a green card (because) we
did not know we would end up stay-ing
here,” Wibisono said.
DACA is specifically for people like
Wibisono, who were brought to the
U.S. by their undocumented parents.
The act allows individuals to
receive a social security number,
work authorization and the ability
to get a driver’s license. DACA recip-ients
cannot have a criminal record.
They must either be enrolled in high
school or college, or have a diploma
or honorable discharge from the U.S.
military. It does not provide lawful
immigration status.