Brown and White Vol. 133 no. 24

              The Brown and White Vol. 133 No. 24
Friday, December 8, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Professor Liu
recognized by
national engi-neering
society
By MARISSA MCCLOY
Designer
Tucked away in a row of lab-oratories
on the third floor of
Sinclair Lab, Yaling Liu, a pro-fessor
of bioengineering and
mechanical engineering, and his
team are developing a “lab-on-a-chip”
device with cancer detection
and drug screening applications.
Liu said his team has been
working on the device for the past
four years, but it wasn’t until
about a year ago that the project
significantly materialized.
In November, Liu was named an
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers Fellow. The society, a
not-for-profit membership orga-nization,
has more than 130,000
See LIU Page 3
Expansion plan raises acclimation concerns
By KATIE MORRIS
Special to the B&W
About a quarter of Lehigh’s 5,075
undergraduate students are from
Pennsylvania. Another quarter are
from New Jersey, within a couple
hours from campus.
However, students who live fur-ther
away from the university some-times
encounter a series of challeng-es
when making the trip home.
“I have to Uber down to the bus
stop, take the bus for two hours, get
to Newark airport and then wait
another three hours for a flight, fly
a six-hour flight and then there’s a
time difference, so you lose the whole
day traveling,” Esther Park, ’20, said.
Park is among a small but grow-ing
group of Lehigh students who
call California home. According to
the Office of Institutional Research,
students from California make up
approximately three percent of the
total student body, and this number
is expected to rise in the next several
years.
President John Simon’s Path to
Prominence expansion plan consists
of a number of goals, one of which is
to grow Lehigh’s undergraduate stu-dent
body by 1,000 students. Simon
intends to increase the student body
by recruiting students from new mar-kets,
including California.
“(Lehigh) is a highly national-ly-
ranked university, but it doesn’t
have a national student body, and
part of the goal is to make it more
national,” Simon said.
Sara Boyd/B&W Staff
President Simon’s Path to Prominence plan will push to attract students from across the country and world. The plan aims to expand
Lehigh’s undergraduate student body by 1,000 students.
As Lehigh adds new students, it
will also admit students of differ-ent
socioeconomic and racial back-grounds.
This has raised concerns
about how the university will finan-cially
assist a growing student body
and how it will support the needs
of students who might struggle to
adjust to college life.
Simon said he is not trying to
change the university, but rather
make it more visible to a wider audi-ence
and attract students from across
the country and world.
“It’s exciting for Lehigh to really
begin to embrace its national uni-versity
label, as opposed to being
a great school within the Middle
Atlantic and the Northeast,” said
Bruce Bunnick, the interim vice pro-vost
of admissions and financial aid.
“We want it to be a great institution
globally.”
Simon said one of the initiatives
used to grow the student body is
a new connection with the POSSE
Foundation, a college access and
youth leadership program. POSSE
can help identify underrepresented
and high-achieving students from
the San Francisco Bay Area who
might not have considered applying
to Lehigh.
Students applying through POSSE
See FUNDING Page 4
Intimate partner violence affects Lehigh
By CASEY FARMER
Lifestyle Editor
The gender-based violence spot-light
often shines on sexual assault
and rape, but in the background lurk
other traumatic forms of abuse.
Obsessively checking a partner’s
texts and emails each time they leave
the room.
A drunken fight turned physical
one night, but only one partner wakes
up with bruises the next morning.
Threatening to kill the other if they
leave the relationship after they said
they’ve had enough.
Feeling like the beatings are
deserved. Excusing it, because he
said it would be the last time. Again.
From physical to emotional, acute
to chronic, domestic violence isn’t lim-ited
to relationships with two part-ners
living together.
Domestic and dating violence —
now often referred to as intimate
partner violence to encompass all
relationships, be it casual or seri-ous
— happens on college campuses
across the country.
It happens at Lehigh.
Brooke DeSipio, the director of the
Office of Gender Violence Education
and Support, defined intimate part-ner
violence as abuse by a current or
See VIOLENCE Page 4