Brown and White Vol. 130 no. 3

              The Brown and White Vol. 130 No. 3
Friday, February 12, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Residential experience altered to foster inclusivity
By FANNY CHEN
Assistant News Editor
When students told Courtney
Stephens, the associate director of
the Office of Residence Life, that
they did not feel like they belonged
at Lehigh and that they felt more
alone as their college career pro-gressed,
she knew she needed to
work to enhance on-campus living
and make Lehigh a home for all
students.
To promote inclusivity in
Lehigh’s residential environment,
the Office of Residence Life has
developed a new model in which
all students living in on-campus
residence halls will be considered
Live Lehigh residences.
Traditionally, Live Lehigh is
a term associated with themed
See HOUSING Page 2
Yasemin Gulerman/B&W Staff
The Richards dorm is one housing option available to first-year students. The Office of Residence Life is
proposing multiple changes for the upcoming school year.
Proposed foot bridge to link North, South sides
By PAIGE PAGAN
B&W Staff
One narrow lane on the busy
Philip J. Fahy Memorial Bridge is
the only option to get from South
Bethlehem to North Bethlehem by
foot, and cars whiz by as pedestri-ans
attempt to navigate their way
across the bridge.
Area residents attended an
open forum on Feb. 3 to dis-cuss
the building of a pedestrian
bridge from North to South Side.
The South Side Initiative and
the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the
Sierra Club sponsored the meet-ing
for community members to
express their opinions about the
benefits and drawbacks of the
bridge.
Bethlehem is “somewhat walk-
Tanner Buss/B&W Staff
South Side Bethlehem resident Gabriell Albin walks across the Philip J. Fahy Memorial Bridge on Monday. An open forum took place on Feb. 3
to discuss a pedestrian bridge connecting the North and South sides of Bethlehem.
able,” according to Walk Score,
and the construction of a pedes-trian
bridge connecting North and
South Bethlehem would increase
pedestrian safety and ease of
commuting on foot or bicycle.
Nicole Reisert, ’19, said the
bridge would increase accessibil-ity
to the North Side for Lehigh
students.
“A pedestrian bridge would
increase safety, accessibility, and
traffic flow while also decreas-ing
the environmental impact of
using cars to travel that short
distance,” Reisert said.
In addition to increased acces-sibility,
the bridge would have
environmental benefits, according
to Breena Holland, chairwoman
“A more walkable city
is a city in which
people are more active,
and this generally
means more healthy.”
- Breena Holland
See BRIDGE Page 3