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The Brown and White Vol. 133 No. 8 Tuesday, October 3, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Architecture class designs pedestrian bridge By CHRISTOPHER D’AGOSTINO B&W Staff Architecture professor Anthony Viscardi and his class have start-ed conceptualizing the design of a pedestrian bridge that will connect North and South Bethlehem. The idea, which is still in its preliminary stages, stemmed from a partnership between Lehigh’s South Side Initiative and the Lehigh Valley Sierra Club, a local organiza-tion that promotes environmental initiatives. Over the past year, the South Side Initiative and Sierra Club sponsored five public meetings where sever-al community groups discussed the project. Through the meetings, they generated public interest and pre-pared a document to present to the state of Pennsylvania. This document, called the “Bridge Package,” includes a vision state-ment that defines the purpose of the bridge. According to the document, the Courtesy of Anthony Viscardi Architecture professor Anthony Viscardi and his class discuss ideas for the design plan of a new pedestrian bridge in Bethlehem. Viscardi’s class has partnered up with Lehigh’s South Side Initiative and the Lehigh Valley Sierra Club to construct a pedestrian bridge that will connect North and South Bethlehem. community groups envision “a bridge that allows safe passage for all community members, including walkers, bikers and runners, and unites North and South Bethlehem’s neighborhoods and businesses, allowing them to flourish as one.” The document also states that an “architecturally beautiful bridge that promotes recreational enjoy-ment of the river is essential for Bethlehem to become a true walking city.” With this vision statement in mind, Viscardi created a course ded-icated to conceptualizing the bridge. Now, several civil engineering, architecture, and earth and envi-ronmental studies students are col-laborating on a design and “look” for the bridge. “The first thing we did was walk,” Viscardi said. He took his students on an explor-atory tour of the community, to parts that are seemingly unknown to most of the Lehigh student body. Viscardi said the students looked shocked as they walked to destina-tions like ArtsQuest, Sand Island Park and the North Side. Andy Lachler, ’18, an architecture major, and Quinn Boothe, ’18, a product design major, are enrolled in Viscardi’s course. They share the goal of involving the Lehigh student body to make the bridge a possibil-ity. “The community wants to know what the bridge is going to look like,” Lachler said. “Our job is to cre-ate a model of the bridge and show See BRIDGE Page 3 Registered on-campus parties, explained By MARISSA MCCLOY Designer This past weekend there were eight registered fraternity par-ties. In a possible shift in social culture, parties that are often held off campus could be moving back on the Hill. The 2017-18 Student Senate survey of Lehigh students found campus unity was ranked the third most prominent issue on campus. “We do have some work to be done with regard to our sense of community,” said Ricardo Hall, the vice provost for Student Affairs. “Parties aren’t the end all, but parties are a part of it.” Registered parties are consid-ered open events and are held in buildings that can accommodate large numbers of students. Student Senate president Matt Rothberg, ’18, said Senate found the Experimental Party Weekends last year to be inclusive. These weekends, also called “Epic Party Weekends,” were Fridays and Saturdays when several fraterni-ties hosted open, registered par-ties on the Hill. “I think inherent in the nature of the facilities, on-campus events have the opportunity to be much larger and thus can afford to enable more students to attend,” Rothberg said. Mark Shterk, ’18, the vice pres-ident of campus relations for the Interfraternity Council, said if students are turned away from registered parties, it’s because the party is over capacity, which has been a problem at some events. Shterk said it falls on each fra-ternity to make inclusion count, and the council is pushing the individual organizations to pro-mote inclusivity. “Definitely registered parties are promoting unity within the Greek community, hands down,” Shterk said. “Within the school, IFC is starting to try to engage more and more of the different groups and organizations on cam-pus to get more than just people in the Greek community to come out to registered events.” Senate and the Office of Student Affairs are also working to engage other student organizations by promoting different evening options for students. Rothberg said registered events do not have to be exclusively host-ed by Greek organizations. “It’s not just a Greek issue,” Rothberg said. “Everyone puts on events, and not everyone has the facilities such as those on the Hill. That’s where Senate comes in: to help the 60 percent non-Greek students to feel like they have a place to socialize on campus.” Rothberg said Senate-recognized organizations holding events on campus with alcohol is a relatively new initiative. He said Senate is working to compile a list of locations for events and create guidelines on how to host and fund these events. Senate plans to send this information out to organizations this week. Hall said allowing other organi-zations to host parties in campus facilities will lighten the burden on fraternities. “The weight of party planning See PARTIES Page 3 Photo Illustration by Roshan Giyanani
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 133 no. 8 |
Date | 2017-10-03 |
Month | 10 |
Day | 03 |
Year | 2017 |
Volume | 133 |
Issue | 8 |
Type | Newspaper |
Source Repository | Lehigh University |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Lehigh, South Bethlehem |
LCCN | 7019854 |
Source Repository Code | LYU |
Digital Responsible Institution | Lehigh University |
Digital Responsible Institution Code | LYU |
Issue/Edition Pattern | Semiweekly |
Title Essay | Published twice a week during the college year by the students of Lehigh University |
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Date | 2017-10-03 |
FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 133 No. 8 Tuesday, October 3, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Architecture class designs pedestrian bridge By CHRISTOPHER D’AGOSTINO B&W Staff Architecture professor Anthony Viscardi and his class have start-ed conceptualizing the design of a pedestrian bridge that will connect North and South Bethlehem. The idea, which is still in its preliminary stages, stemmed from a partnership between Lehigh’s South Side Initiative and the Lehigh Valley Sierra Club, a local organiza-tion that promotes environmental initiatives. Over the past year, the South Side Initiative and Sierra Club sponsored five public meetings where sever-al community groups discussed the project. Through the meetings, they generated public interest and pre-pared a document to present to the state of Pennsylvania. This document, called the “Bridge Package,” includes a vision state-ment that defines the purpose of the bridge. According to the document, the Courtesy of Anthony Viscardi Architecture professor Anthony Viscardi and his class discuss ideas for the design plan of a new pedestrian bridge in Bethlehem. Viscardi’s class has partnered up with Lehigh’s South Side Initiative and the Lehigh Valley Sierra Club to construct a pedestrian bridge that will connect North and South Bethlehem. community groups envision “a bridge that allows safe passage for all community members, including walkers, bikers and runners, and unites North and South Bethlehem’s neighborhoods and businesses, allowing them to flourish as one.” The document also states that an “architecturally beautiful bridge that promotes recreational enjoy-ment of the river is essential for Bethlehem to become a true walking city.” With this vision statement in mind, Viscardi created a course ded-icated to conceptualizing the bridge. Now, several civil engineering, architecture, and earth and envi-ronmental studies students are col-laborating on a design and “look” for the bridge. “The first thing we did was walk,” Viscardi said. He took his students on an explor-atory tour of the community, to parts that are seemingly unknown to most of the Lehigh student body. Viscardi said the students looked shocked as they walked to destina-tions like ArtsQuest, Sand Island Park and the North Side. Andy Lachler, ’18, an architecture major, and Quinn Boothe, ’18, a product design major, are enrolled in Viscardi’s course. They share the goal of involving the Lehigh student body to make the bridge a possibil-ity. “The community wants to know what the bridge is going to look like,” Lachler said. “Our job is to cre-ate a model of the bridge and show See BRIDGE Page 3 Registered on-campus parties, explained By MARISSA MCCLOY Designer This past weekend there were eight registered fraternity par-ties. In a possible shift in social culture, parties that are often held off campus could be moving back on the Hill. The 2017-18 Student Senate survey of Lehigh students found campus unity was ranked the third most prominent issue on campus. “We do have some work to be done with regard to our sense of community,” said Ricardo Hall, the vice provost for Student Affairs. “Parties aren’t the end all, but parties are a part of it.” Registered parties are consid-ered open events and are held in buildings that can accommodate large numbers of students. Student Senate president Matt Rothberg, ’18, said Senate found the Experimental Party Weekends last year to be inclusive. These weekends, also called “Epic Party Weekends,” were Fridays and Saturdays when several fraterni-ties hosted open, registered par-ties on the Hill. “I think inherent in the nature of the facilities, on-campus events have the opportunity to be much larger and thus can afford to enable more students to attend,” Rothberg said. Mark Shterk, ’18, the vice pres-ident of campus relations for the Interfraternity Council, said if students are turned away from registered parties, it’s because the party is over capacity, which has been a problem at some events. Shterk said it falls on each fra-ternity to make inclusion count, and the council is pushing the individual organizations to pro-mote inclusivity. “Definitely registered parties are promoting unity within the Greek community, hands down,” Shterk said. “Within the school, IFC is starting to try to engage more and more of the different groups and organizations on cam-pus to get more than just people in the Greek community to come out to registered events.” Senate and the Office of Student Affairs are also working to engage other student organizations by promoting different evening options for students. Rothberg said registered events do not have to be exclusively host-ed by Greek organizations. “It’s not just a Greek issue,” Rothberg said. “Everyone puts on events, and not everyone has the facilities such as those on the Hill. That’s where Senate comes in: to help the 60 percent non-Greek students to feel like they have a place to socialize on campus.” Rothberg said Senate-recognized organizations holding events on campus with alcohol is a relatively new initiative. He said Senate is working to compile a list of locations for events and create guidelines on how to host and fund these events. Senate plans to send this information out to organizations this week. Hall said allowing other organi-zations to host parties in campus facilities will lighten the burden on fraternities. “The weight of party planning See PARTIES Page 3 Photo Illustration by Roshan Giyanani |
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