Brown and White Vol. 132 no. 18

              The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 18
Friday, April 14, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Tap ID system to replace swipe access
By CATHERINE MANTHORP
Associate Sports Editor
Lehigh is replacing the swipe
access readers used to enter univer-sity
buildings with newer tap access
readers.
The IDs, Electronic Access and
Locksmith — or IDEAL — Office
is where students go for any issues
regarding building access. The
IDEAL Office manager, Will Hlay,
said tap-access readers will allow
students, staff and faculty to tap
their ID cards on proximity readers
to gain entry to buildings or rooms
on campus.
Hlay said the older swipe-access
system was outdated and needed
upgrading, so the school moved
forward with the newer tap-access
readers to help increase security on
campus. He said updating all the
buildings across campus is part of a
five-year project that began in spring
2015 and that all buildings will hope-fully
be completed by 2019.
Hlay said the IDEAL Office started
printing new ID cards prior to build-ings
going online, so the majority of
student, staff and faculty IDs have
been updated. He said all new incom-ing
students will receive updated IDs
as well. Those who have ID cards
that haven’t been updated, namely
a small portion of upperclassmen,
can exchange their current card for
a new one at the IDEAL Office free
of charge.
Residential Services director Ozzie
Breiner said swipe access is an older
technology that is falling behind in
terms of support.
“We don’t really gain a whole lot by
moving to this technology,” Breiner
said. “The support for the older tech-nology
was no longer there, so we
had to change it.”
Breiner said many schools have
implemented this updated technolo-gy.
He said Lehigh was one of the first
schools to implement swipe access
back in the mid-1980s. Other schools
skipped right over swipe access tech-nology
and started implementing tap
access technology later on.
Sculpture
vandalized in
Zoellner Art
Gallery
By MARIA ROONEY
B&W Staff
For eight days, Zoellner Arts
Center was filled with sound and
color as artist Scott Sherk’s inter-active
SonanceZOELLNER sculp-ture
greeted guests and passers-by.
On the ninth day, the sculp-ture
fell silent, its power cord cut
by an unknown vandal.
The sculptures are sound
machines placed throughout the
building that reinvent recorded
sounds from six different interior
and exterior locations. The cord
was found to be cut on March 28,
disabling the sculpture and pre-venting
it from producing sound.
“I’m really pretty surprised
and kind of disappointed that
this would happen on a univer-sity
campus,” Sherk said. “It is
supposed to be a community that
fosters the exchange of ideas and
disagreement is an important part
of the free exchange of ideas.”
Mark Wonsidler, the curatori-al
associate for exhibitions and
collections at Zoellner, called the
police to report the crime.
Wonsidler said the sculpture
was fixed almost immediately and
is now back in its working form.
The Lehigh University Art Gallery
released a statement condemning
the vandalism.
“Such an act is unacceptable in
Committee proposes ‘Faculty Senate’
New system would expand faculty voice on campus
Jane Henderson/B&W Staff
Professor Douglas Mahony is the chair of the Faculty Governance and Engagement Committee, which is looking to make its Faculty Senate proposal
public. Mahony is an associate professor of management.
By SAM BENCHEGHIB
B&W Staff
The Governance and Engagement
Committee has proposed the forma-tion
of a Faculty Senate.
Last spring Lehigh’s Faculty
Steering Committee determined
that a new committee should be
established to conduct a comprehen-sive
review of faculty governance
and engagement. The committee
consists of 16 members of the Lehigh
faculty and President John Simon.
Eight faculty members from
Lehigh’s four colleges were elect-ed
by the entire faculty body to
form the Faculty Governance and
Engagement Committee. The com-mittee
regularly meets and discuss-es
plans to create an effective faculty
governance system. By February,
the committee had drafted a Faculty
Senate proposal.
The proposed Faculty Senate
would include 8 percent of the voting
faculty proportional to the size of the
colleges. In addition to the elected
senators, there will also be a number
of non-voting members. The Faculty
Senate would also include Simon,
Provost Pat Farrell, the university
secretary, college deans and two stu-dent
representatives. The student
Nan He/B&W Staff
In this April 20, 2015, file, photo, Huiwen Mao, ’16, taps into Packard Laboratory. The IDEAL
office will update access for campus buildings, requiring students to get a new Lehigh ID card.
See TAP ID Page 4
See VANDALISM Page 2 See SENATE Page 2