Brown and White Vol. 131 no. 9

              The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 9
Friday, October 7, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Lehigh, Nasdaq partner in California
Over-occupancy raises health concerns
By ALEXA BERLINER
B&W Staff
Courtesy of John D. Simon’s Instagram
President John Simon and Nicola Corzine, the executive director of the Nasdaq Center, shake
hands after signing an agreement between Lehigh University and the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial
Center on Sept. 28 in California. Nasdaq and Lehigh will share a location in San Francisco where
they will offer joint programs.
Roshan Giyanani/B&W Staff
Beds are bunked in a forced double on Nov. 19, 2015, in Richards House. Forced doubles are rooms fewer than 150 square feet, said Ozzie
Breiner, the director of Residential Services.
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial
Center officially joined forces with
Lehigh as its academic in residence
partner Sept. 27.
This partnership, called Lehigh@
NasdaqCenter, is a university-wide
initiative. It is an in-residence col-laboration,
with year-round Lehigh
offerings.
The new collaboration, which will
go into effect Jan. 1, 2017, aims to
help students in any discipline or
major advance his or her entrepre-neurial
skill sets and spirit.
The Baker Institute for
Entrepreneurship, Creativity
and Innovation strives to devel-op
a platform for Lehigh’s suc-cess
in building new enterprises.
Lisa Getzler-Linn, the executive
director of the Baker Institute,
and Lehigh President John Simon
spearheaded the new collaboration
with Nasdaq.
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial
Center is a nonprofit organization
based in San Francisco that aims
to educate, innovate and promote
interaction among aspiring and
successful entrepreneurs. The cen-ter
celebrated its one year anniver-sary
last week.
Lehigh first interacted with
the Nasdaq Center when its win-ter
entrepreneurship program,
LehighSiliconValley, spent a day
in San Francisco last year.
“When I met the Lehigh students,
I was really blown away,” said
Nicola Corzine, the executive direc-tor
of the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial
Center. “What is unique to the
Lehigh spirit is that hunger and
curiosity that is difficult to teach.”
Corzine said Lehigh’s philos-ophy,
history and heritage with
entrepreneurship made the uni-versity
a great choice for this col-laboration.
Getzler-Linn said the partner-ship
was mutual.
“We chose each other,” she said.
“When we got together and talked
about it and saw that we believed
in the same things, it was very
clear, very soon, that we were a
natural partnership.”
Getzler-Linn said Lehigh
believes innovation is at the cen-ter
of success, and the Nasdaq
Entrepreneurial Center shares
IFC, Panhel
encourage shift
from MoCos to
tailgates
By PAIGE PAGAN
B&W Staff
The Panhellenic Council and
Interfraternity Council hope to
expand student attendance at tail-gates
and ultimately encourage stu-dents
to attend football games. They
want students to take part in tail-gates
rather than in morning cock-tails,
referred to as MoCos.
“Basically, we’re trying to start
a movement to rekindle the school
pride here at Lehigh and give our
athletic programs some support,”
wrote Kyle Durics, the president of
IFC, in an email.
Durics said MoCos tend to interfere
with athletic events, and it is import-ant
for students to see their peers
compete.
Margaret Burnett, ’17, the pres-ident
of Panhel, said she has only
received positive feedback about tail-gates.
Raquel De Jesus Castillo, ’18, said
MoCos can be unnecessarily extrav-agant.
“The whole idea of MoCos is exces-sive,
especially drinking so early,” De
Jesus Castillo said.
Panhel and IFC are pushing for a
policy that would only allow students
See MOCOS Page 4
Small rooms with extra roommates
are not uncommon at Lehigh. In
some cases, the lack of space on cam-pus
leads to forced doubles, triples
and quads.
“We have ‘x’ amount of spaces for
first-year students and when our
friends over in Admissions bring in a
few more first-year students than we
have spots for, we are forced to over
occupy rooms,” said Ozzie Breiner,
the director of Residential Services.
Breiner said over-occupied resi-dence
halls differ from over-occupied
Greek houses, because Greek stu-dents
choose their constituency and
over occupy their rooms to keep both
sophomores and juniors living in the
house. The rooms in Greek houses
were built as doubles, he said, but
have since been designated as singles
because they are small spaces.
Breiner said students receive com-pensation
if they are asked to live in
an over-occupied room.
“If you’re living in a space that is
over occupied, we offer a 10 percent
discount for that semester,” Breiner
said. This discount is applied as a
reimbursement to students’ bursar
accounts.
This year, there are only seven
first-year students living in over-oc-cupied
rooms, while in previous years
there have been more than 100,
Breiner said.
He said while over occupying
rooms is not ideal, it is important to
give students the opportunity to live
on campus.
See OCCUPANCY Page 2
Lehigh@NasdaqCenter will have a location in
San Francisco for student entrepreneurs
See NASDAQ Page 2
By MATTHEW COSSEL
B&W Staff