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The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 15 Tuesday, April 4, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ More money, more problems Lehigh’s tuition rises 50% over course of 10 years ‘Marital laws are intertwined with power dynamics’ By EMILY WARD News Editor In 2006, Lehigh’s tuition was $33,470. Fast forward 10 years, and that cost has risen by 50 percent. On March 23, Pat Johnson, the vice president of finance and admin-istration, sent an email to students and parents informing them of a 5 percent rise in tuition for the next academic year, from $47,920 to $50,320. Johnson said the $2,400 increase will go toward funding several activ-ities, including hiring new faculty, improving academic buildings and classrooms and expanding new pro-grams like the Data X initiative. She said some of that money will also go into the financial aid budget. Johnson said the cost of operation increased as a result of new labor laws and regulations related to com-pliance. The Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, defines a full-time employee as anyone who works more than 30 hours a week. Johnson said this increased the number of staff who receive health benefits from the university. She said a portion of the tuition money will go to providing these benefits to faculty and staff. Johnson said the money will not go toward the Path to Prominence expansion plan because it’s too early in the planning process to start allo-cating funds to the initiative. Five percent is the university’s largest tuition increase since 2008. Last year, tuition increased by 4.5 percent, and before that, it increased at a rate of approximately 3 percent for seven years. Johnson said tuition increases were kept moderately low from 2013 to 2015 because trustees wanted to experiment to see whether the price attracted more applicants from mid-dle- class families. Johnson said their plan didn’t work. “When we were doing 3 percent increases, other schools were doing four and five,” Johnson said. “Now we’re kind of catching up a little bit.” Johnson said parents have contact-ed her to express their disapproval of By MEG KELLY Deputy News Editor Spinster. Thornback. Witch. None of these words are particularly pleas-ant, but historically they have all been used to describe the same thing: single, unmarried women. Author Rebecca Traister discussed these and other words in her talk Thursday night in Whitaker audi-torium. A self-proclaimed “feminist jour-nalist” and a writer-at-large for New York Magazine, Traister said she became aware of the societal tradi-tions and expectations surrounding marriage when she got engaged in her thirties. The lecture was held as part of the university’s Friends of the Library Speaker Series and was originally scheduled in February before it was canceled due to a snowstorm. Traister said although she was older than what she described as a “typical” bride, her friends insisted on throwing her a bachelorette party and giving her gifts that would be more practical for a younger person. “At our wedding, they’re giving us plates,” Traister said. “We’re in our thirties, we already have plates. The gift should be paying someone to come and take away all these plates!” Through her own experiences as a bride, Traister became interested in learning more about what mar-riage meant in the past and how it has evolved as a practice throughout history. Initially Traister said she planned to have her book be more about the present day, with a heavy focus on politics. However, as she began researching she was drawn to the way marriage has shaped the course of American history. “Marital laws are intertwined with power dynamics,” Traister said. Traister led her audience through an unconventional look at America over the centuries, showing how marriage impacted major events and initiated cultural shifts. She said marriage has varied by region, such as in the Southern colo-nies in the eighteenth century, where having considerably fewer women led to girls being married as young Author Rebecca Traister visited Lehigh to discuss society’s perception of single women Maxim Beard/B&W Staff Rebecca Traister, author of “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation,” addresses her audience Thursday in Whitaker Auditorium. Traister spoke about the role of single See TRAISTER Page 4 women throughout history. See TUITION Page 3 Anna Simoneau/B&W Staff
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 132 no. 15 |
Date | 2017-04-04 |
Month | 04 |
Day | 04 |
Year | 2017 |
Volume | 132 |
Issue | 15 |
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Source Repository | Lehigh University |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Lehigh, South Bethlehem |
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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. 132 No. 15 Tuesday, April 4, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ More money, more problems Lehigh’s tuition rises 50% over course of 10 years ‘Marital laws are intertwined with power dynamics’ By EMILY WARD News Editor In 2006, Lehigh’s tuition was $33,470. Fast forward 10 years, and that cost has risen by 50 percent. On March 23, Pat Johnson, the vice president of finance and admin-istration, sent an email to students and parents informing them of a 5 percent rise in tuition for the next academic year, from $47,920 to $50,320. Johnson said the $2,400 increase will go toward funding several activ-ities, including hiring new faculty, improving academic buildings and classrooms and expanding new pro-grams like the Data X initiative. She said some of that money will also go into the financial aid budget. Johnson said the cost of operation increased as a result of new labor laws and regulations related to com-pliance. The Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, defines a full-time employee as anyone who works more than 30 hours a week. Johnson said this increased the number of staff who receive health benefits from the university. She said a portion of the tuition money will go to providing these benefits to faculty and staff. Johnson said the money will not go toward the Path to Prominence expansion plan because it’s too early in the planning process to start allo-cating funds to the initiative. Five percent is the university’s largest tuition increase since 2008. Last year, tuition increased by 4.5 percent, and before that, it increased at a rate of approximately 3 percent for seven years. Johnson said tuition increases were kept moderately low from 2013 to 2015 because trustees wanted to experiment to see whether the price attracted more applicants from mid-dle- class families. Johnson said their plan didn’t work. “When we were doing 3 percent increases, other schools were doing four and five,” Johnson said. “Now we’re kind of catching up a little bit.” Johnson said parents have contact-ed her to express their disapproval of By MEG KELLY Deputy News Editor Spinster. Thornback. Witch. None of these words are particularly pleas-ant, but historically they have all been used to describe the same thing: single, unmarried women. Author Rebecca Traister discussed these and other words in her talk Thursday night in Whitaker audi-torium. A self-proclaimed “feminist jour-nalist” and a writer-at-large for New York Magazine, Traister said she became aware of the societal tradi-tions and expectations surrounding marriage when she got engaged in her thirties. The lecture was held as part of the university’s Friends of the Library Speaker Series and was originally scheduled in February before it was canceled due to a snowstorm. Traister said although she was older than what she described as a “typical” bride, her friends insisted on throwing her a bachelorette party and giving her gifts that would be more practical for a younger person. “At our wedding, they’re giving us plates,” Traister said. “We’re in our thirties, we already have plates. The gift should be paying someone to come and take away all these plates!” Through her own experiences as a bride, Traister became interested in learning more about what mar-riage meant in the past and how it has evolved as a practice throughout history. Initially Traister said she planned to have her book be more about the present day, with a heavy focus on politics. However, as she began researching she was drawn to the way marriage has shaped the course of American history. “Marital laws are intertwined with power dynamics,” Traister said. Traister led her audience through an unconventional look at America over the centuries, showing how marriage impacted major events and initiated cultural shifts. She said marriage has varied by region, such as in the Southern colo-nies in the eighteenth century, where having considerably fewer women led to girls being married as young Author Rebecca Traister visited Lehigh to discuss society’s perception of single women Maxim Beard/B&W Staff Rebecca Traister, author of “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation,” addresses her audience Thursday in Whitaker Auditorium. Traister spoke about the role of single See TRAISTER Page 4 women throughout history. See TUITION Page 3 Anna Simoneau/B&W Staff |
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