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The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 24 Friday, December 9, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Roshan Giyanani/B&W Staff Sexual assault survivors dissuaded by reporting process By SAMANTHA TOMASZEWSKI Editor in Chief Lehigh police and university offi-cials say they know sexual assault is happening at a greater rate than campus statistics indicate, but they call it an underreported crime. Some survivors, however, have indicated the reporting process and procedures may be discouraging more students from coming for-ward to report these crimes. LUPD reported three sexual assaults in 2015, which falls in stark contrast with the national statistic that one in five women will experience sexual assault while at college. All three reported cases were rapes. LUPD tracks but recorded no incidents of fondling, statuto-ry rape, domestic violence, dating violence, incest, stalking or sex offenses. If every person who experienced sexual assault at Lehigh reported the crime, the statistic should be closer to 450 women reporting, trusting the one-in-five statistic. “I will say that sexual assault is probably the most underreport-ed crime,” LUPD Chief Edward Shupp said. “We can only respond to the complaints that we do have, and we don’t get a lot of complaints on it, unfortunately.” These crime statistics also only reflect crimes that happen within the boundaries of Lehigh’s cam-pus. Bethlehem Police Chief Mark DiLuzio said if a student is sexual-ly assaulted off campus his depart-ment will handle the case. The criminal definition of what is considered sexual assault is a con-tributing factor to this small num-ber, according to Karen Salvemini, Lehigh’s equal opportunity compli- Campus discusses recycling, waste removal progress By AUSTIN VITELLI Managing Editor Lehigh has progressed in its sustainability efforts since they began more than 25 years ago What started in 1971 as a small recycling project for old newspa-pers in Dravo and Richards dorms catapulted Lehigh into cam-pus- wide efforts to improve sus-tainability. Among the initiatives Lehigh has established over the years, it has instilled a more intensive recycling and waste diversion program, attempted to combat issues with students’ recycling habits and added education for those topics through the Office of Sustainability. Gary Falasca, the director of facilities services, said the first major efforts toward recycling on campus began in 1991 for comput-er paper. A small group of people would place collection trays for recycling on office desks. A September 1990 issue of The Brown and White mentions Lehigh purchasing 350 recycling bins to distribute throughout campus. Now in 2016, Lehigh has reached the point of measuring its diver-sion rate — the amount of waste diverted from landfills or inciner-ators to recycling plants. Lehigh’s single-stream recycling rate was 25.3 percent in 2015, and its total diversion rate, which includes all forms of recycling, donated materials and compost-ing, was 49.8 percent. For compar-ison, the diversion rate was 41.0 percent in 2014. Colorado State University achieved an 83.4 percent waste diversion rate in 2015, one of the highest in the country. At a glance of a dozen peer institutions of similar size, however, Lehigh’s diversion rate is higher than the average. Lehigh’s trash and recycling pol-icies are mostly handled by facili-ties services, but Bethlehem laws shape many policies, too. Falasca said some final decisions are made by Provost Pat Farrell and Patricia Johnson, the vice president of finance and administration. Many people involved in Lehigh’s sustainability programs believe educating the campus, specifically first-year students, on the topic is the first step in continuing to improve in the school’s sustain-ability. Dana Pierce, ’18, a Greek Eco- Rep coordinator at Lehigh, said the lack of communication about what should go where often leads to problems with recycling. She thinks most of the blame falls on the students. “They don’t know, they’re not informed, or they just don’t care, which is even worse,” Pierce said. Paola Lopez, ’20, said she fre-quently sees both the trash and recycling bins overflowing with the See ASSAULT Page 2 See RECYCLING Page 4
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 131 no. 24 |
Date | 2016-12-09 |
Month | 12 |
Day | 09 |
Year | 2016 |
Volume | 131 |
Issue | 24 |
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 | 2016-12-09 |
FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 24 Friday, December 9, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Roshan Giyanani/B&W Staff Sexual assault survivors dissuaded by reporting process By SAMANTHA TOMASZEWSKI Editor in Chief Lehigh police and university offi-cials say they know sexual assault is happening at a greater rate than campus statistics indicate, but they call it an underreported crime. Some survivors, however, have indicated the reporting process and procedures may be discouraging more students from coming for-ward to report these crimes. LUPD reported three sexual assaults in 2015, which falls in stark contrast with the national statistic that one in five women will experience sexual assault while at college. All three reported cases were rapes. LUPD tracks but recorded no incidents of fondling, statuto-ry rape, domestic violence, dating violence, incest, stalking or sex offenses. If every person who experienced sexual assault at Lehigh reported the crime, the statistic should be closer to 450 women reporting, trusting the one-in-five statistic. “I will say that sexual assault is probably the most underreport-ed crime,” LUPD Chief Edward Shupp said. “We can only respond to the complaints that we do have, and we don’t get a lot of complaints on it, unfortunately.” These crime statistics also only reflect crimes that happen within the boundaries of Lehigh’s cam-pus. Bethlehem Police Chief Mark DiLuzio said if a student is sexual-ly assaulted off campus his depart-ment will handle the case. The criminal definition of what is considered sexual assault is a con-tributing factor to this small num-ber, according to Karen Salvemini, Lehigh’s equal opportunity compli- Campus discusses recycling, waste removal progress By AUSTIN VITELLI Managing Editor Lehigh has progressed in its sustainability efforts since they began more than 25 years ago What started in 1971 as a small recycling project for old newspa-pers in Dravo and Richards dorms catapulted Lehigh into cam-pus- wide efforts to improve sus-tainability. Among the initiatives Lehigh has established over the years, it has instilled a more intensive recycling and waste diversion program, attempted to combat issues with students’ recycling habits and added education for those topics through the Office of Sustainability. Gary Falasca, the director of facilities services, said the first major efforts toward recycling on campus began in 1991 for comput-er paper. A small group of people would place collection trays for recycling on office desks. A September 1990 issue of The Brown and White mentions Lehigh purchasing 350 recycling bins to distribute throughout campus. Now in 2016, Lehigh has reached the point of measuring its diver-sion rate — the amount of waste diverted from landfills or inciner-ators to recycling plants. Lehigh’s single-stream recycling rate was 25.3 percent in 2015, and its total diversion rate, which includes all forms of recycling, donated materials and compost-ing, was 49.8 percent. For compar-ison, the diversion rate was 41.0 percent in 2014. Colorado State University achieved an 83.4 percent waste diversion rate in 2015, one of the highest in the country. At a glance of a dozen peer institutions of similar size, however, Lehigh’s diversion rate is higher than the average. Lehigh’s trash and recycling pol-icies are mostly handled by facili-ties services, but Bethlehem laws shape many policies, too. Falasca said some final decisions are made by Provost Pat Farrell and Patricia Johnson, the vice president of finance and administration. Many people involved in Lehigh’s sustainability programs believe educating the campus, specifically first-year students, on the topic is the first step in continuing to improve in the school’s sustain-ability. Dana Pierce, ’18, a Greek Eco- Rep coordinator at Lehigh, said the lack of communication about what should go where often leads to problems with recycling. She thinks most of the blame falls on the students. “They don’t know, they’re not informed, or they just don’t care, which is even worse,” Pierce said. Paola Lopez, ’20, said she fre-quently sees both the trash and recycling bins overflowing with the See ASSAULT Page 2 See RECYCLING Page 4 |
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