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The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 19 Tuesday, November 15, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Professor under fire for alleged racist comments By KLAUDIA JAZWINSKA News Editor An adjunct professor is under investigation for making discriminatory comments to students Editor’s note: The names of students in this story have been changed to protect their security while the investigation is ongoing. Daniel Bayak, an adjunct accounting professor in the College of Business and Economics, was accused of allegedly making inap-propriate comments regarding a student’s ethnic heritage in a class Wednesday. John, an Intermediate Accounting II student whom The Brown and White has chosen not to name to protect his securi-ty, filed a complaint to Lehigh’s Equal Opportunity Compliance Coordinator and the university initiated an investigation into the matter. John said Bayak bragged at the start of class Wednesday that he won $10,000 from a bet he made that Donald Trump would win the election, and made various discrim-inatory comments to non-white stu-dents about the election. For example, John said, Bayak asked one Indian-American stu-dent how late he stayed up the night before watching the election, because his eyes “looked like slits.” Moments later, Bayak, who knew John was an American with Mexican heritage, allegedly asked him, “What about you? Are you staying or are you going back to your country?” When John, who was in disbelief, asked, “Excuse me?” Bayak repeat-ed his question. John said he told Bayak he thought the question was inappro-priate, especially given the circum-stances of the election. Maria, another student in the class, said Bayak had made com-ments to John about his heritage on several other occasions. She said though John’s responses to the pro-fessor were respectful, it was clear he was visibly upset by the com-ment. “Then professor Bayak said some-thing along the lines of, ‘I’ve been teaching for x amount of years, I ask these questions all the time, no one’s ever had a problem before,’” she said. John said he was shaken and angry, because he felt the language Bayak was using was threatening to his grade. As he began to pack his things to leave the classroom, Bayak said, “‘Oh my God, you’re not going to throw a temper tantrum now, are you?’” Maria said the rest of the stu-dents sat in stunned silence after John left, and the professor contin-ued to teach the class. “I think a lot of people wish that they had done something, but every-one was just so shocked and no one really said anything,” she said. Anna, a third student in the accounting class, said she was glad someone said something and stood up to the professor, “instead of let- Initial plans set for business school expansion Post-election silent rally draws hundreds By CATHERINE MANTHORP Assistant News Editor Lehigh’s business program, pres-ently housed in Rauch Business Center, is in the process of plan-ning to build a new facility to accommodate the university’s No. 32 ranked undergraduate business school. In early October, with the support of the university’s board of trustees, President John Simon announced plans to expand Lehigh and allow it to become more competitive among higher education institutions. This expansion, known as the “Path to Prominence,” will bring about changes throughout the university. “The ‘Path to Prominence’ is everybody and we all contribute to it in different ways,” said Georgette Phillips, the dean of the College of Business and Economics. Phillips said an architect hasn’t been hired yet, but a walk-through of Rauch Business Center has been scheduled for the end of November for those who are interested in submitting proposals. She said the process will take at least two years. Once proposals have been sub-mitted, a faculty committee, among others, will meet in January to choose the architect who will do the study drawing over the next few months. Phillips said the location of the new building has yet to be deter-mined, but it will be on Asa Packer Campus. She said the building may be an expansion on the current building or it may be an entirely Roshan Giyanani, Annie Henry/B&W Staff TOP: Members of the Lehigh community gather in a circle for a silent rally Thursday in front of the UC Front Lawn. Many people held up signs regarding issues in the United States, such as sexual assault, women’s rights and xenophobia. BOTTOM LEFT: A Lehigh student holds up a sign titled “Lehigh denounces xenophobia” at a silent rally Thursday on the UC Front Lawn. The rally first gathered on the front lawn before walking throughout campus, including into Fairchild-Martindale Library. BOTTOM RIGHT: A participant in the silent rally holds up a sign Thursday in front of the UC Front Lawn. People held a variety of signs during the rally, which See EXPANSION Page 3 was held as a response to the recent presidential election. See BAYAK Page 4
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 131 no. 19 |
Date | 2016-11-15 |
Month | 11 |
Day | 15 |
Year | 2016 |
Volume | 131 |
Issue | 19 |
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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FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 19 Tuesday, November 15, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Professor under fire for alleged racist comments By KLAUDIA JAZWINSKA News Editor An adjunct professor is under investigation for making discriminatory comments to students Editor’s note: The names of students in this story have been changed to protect their security while the investigation is ongoing. Daniel Bayak, an adjunct accounting professor in the College of Business and Economics, was accused of allegedly making inap-propriate comments regarding a student’s ethnic heritage in a class Wednesday. John, an Intermediate Accounting II student whom The Brown and White has chosen not to name to protect his securi-ty, filed a complaint to Lehigh’s Equal Opportunity Compliance Coordinator and the university initiated an investigation into the matter. John said Bayak bragged at the start of class Wednesday that he won $10,000 from a bet he made that Donald Trump would win the election, and made various discrim-inatory comments to non-white stu-dents about the election. For example, John said, Bayak asked one Indian-American stu-dent how late he stayed up the night before watching the election, because his eyes “looked like slits.” Moments later, Bayak, who knew John was an American with Mexican heritage, allegedly asked him, “What about you? Are you staying or are you going back to your country?” When John, who was in disbelief, asked, “Excuse me?” Bayak repeat-ed his question. John said he told Bayak he thought the question was inappro-priate, especially given the circum-stances of the election. Maria, another student in the class, said Bayak had made com-ments to John about his heritage on several other occasions. She said though John’s responses to the pro-fessor were respectful, it was clear he was visibly upset by the com-ment. “Then professor Bayak said some-thing along the lines of, ‘I’ve been teaching for x amount of years, I ask these questions all the time, no one’s ever had a problem before,’” she said. John said he was shaken and angry, because he felt the language Bayak was using was threatening to his grade. As he began to pack his things to leave the classroom, Bayak said, “‘Oh my God, you’re not going to throw a temper tantrum now, are you?’” Maria said the rest of the stu-dents sat in stunned silence after John left, and the professor contin-ued to teach the class. “I think a lot of people wish that they had done something, but every-one was just so shocked and no one really said anything,” she said. Anna, a third student in the accounting class, said she was glad someone said something and stood up to the professor, “instead of let- Initial plans set for business school expansion Post-election silent rally draws hundreds By CATHERINE MANTHORP Assistant News Editor Lehigh’s business program, pres-ently housed in Rauch Business Center, is in the process of plan-ning to build a new facility to accommodate the university’s No. 32 ranked undergraduate business school. In early October, with the support of the university’s board of trustees, President John Simon announced plans to expand Lehigh and allow it to become more competitive among higher education institutions. This expansion, known as the “Path to Prominence,” will bring about changes throughout the university. “The ‘Path to Prominence’ is everybody and we all contribute to it in different ways,” said Georgette Phillips, the dean of the College of Business and Economics. Phillips said an architect hasn’t been hired yet, but a walk-through of Rauch Business Center has been scheduled for the end of November for those who are interested in submitting proposals. She said the process will take at least two years. Once proposals have been sub-mitted, a faculty committee, among others, will meet in January to choose the architect who will do the study drawing over the next few months. Phillips said the location of the new building has yet to be deter-mined, but it will be on Asa Packer Campus. She said the building may be an expansion on the current building or it may be an entirely Roshan Giyanani, Annie Henry/B&W Staff TOP: Members of the Lehigh community gather in a circle for a silent rally Thursday in front of the UC Front Lawn. Many people held up signs regarding issues in the United States, such as sexual assault, women’s rights and xenophobia. BOTTOM LEFT: A Lehigh student holds up a sign titled “Lehigh denounces xenophobia” at a silent rally Thursday on the UC Front Lawn. The rally first gathered on the front lawn before walking throughout campus, including into Fairchild-Martindale Library. BOTTOM RIGHT: A participant in the silent rally holds up a sign Thursday in front of the UC Front Lawn. People held a variety of signs during the rally, which See EXPANSION Page 3 was held as a response to the recent presidential election. See BAYAK Page 4 |
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