Brown and White Vol. 129 no. 15

              The Brown and White Vol. 129 No. 15
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Political involvement still lacking on campus
Chris Barry/B&W Staff
From left: Juliet Panichella, ’19, and Marlena Boesch, ’18, perform in
the hourly morale dance at Dance Marathon on Saturday. In its third
annual event, Lehigh Dance Marathon aimed to raise $75,000, but
raised $57,023.36, beating its previous record of $54,243.37.
Greeks use
members
as Gryphon
replacement
Clarifying
the citation
process
By PHUONG NGUYEN
B&W Staff
By MAX ROSENBAUM
Assistant News Editor
By KAREN KONKOLY
B&W Staff
Along with failing tests, gaining
the “freshman 15,” and searching for
internships, getting cited is a com-mon
fear among Lehigh students.
Most students, however, don’t truly
know what the citation process is
until it happens to them.
The regularly updated crime log
is a reflection of the party culture at
Lehigh. Amid all of the arrests on the
log, the most common, by a sizable
margin, is underage drinking.
“On Monday I get a list of all the
students who were arrested over the
weekend,” said Chris Mulvihill, the
assistant dean of student conduct.
“It’s a part of my Monday morning.”
From Lehigh’s point of view, the
process is the same, no matter what
the citation. Mulvihill explained
hypothetically how one could get
cited. He painted the picture of a
woman who is stumbling in heels as
she walks back from a party and gets
stopped by the police and breath-alyzed.
This hypothetical woman
blows a .14, so she does not need to go
to the hospital, but she is intoxicated.
“No matter if it is the Bethlehem
police or the Lehigh police, the
officers have some discretion as to
whether to cite you for underage
drinking,” Mulvihill said.
According to Edward Shupp, the
chief of the Lehigh University Police
Department, the behavior of the stu-dent
is what draws the attention of
an officer to intervene and potentially
issue a citation.
“It could be public urination, stag-gering
and stumbling, vandalism
of property, fighting, loud music,”
Shupp said.
An officer will not usually take a
student in unless he or she is “bellig-erent.”
Instead, they will just hand
the student a ticket and the proto-col
that follows depends on which
police force issued the citation. The
Bethlehem police informs the Lehigh
police of arrests they make. If an
arrest is carried out by the Lehigh
police, Mulvihill is notified directly.
“I got cited on my first day back to
Lehigh this year,” said a female stu-dent
who preferred to remain anony-mous.
“We didn’t have a party, but I
wanted to go out. We went to (Asian
Bistro), then to a fraternity house.
I saw my friend I hadn’t seen in a
while, got excited, drank too much,
and then we left for home.”
The two students thought they
were halfway up the Hill, but in actu-ality
they were on Brodhead Avenue.
The student’s friend vomited as a
cop passed by. She blew a .25 on a
breathalyzer, and she and her friend
were required to go to the hospital.
See CITATIONS Page 4
The term Gryphon in Greek
Mythology is a winged beast: half
eagle and half lion. They were
considered keepers of the gold and
at Lehigh, students are considered
“the gold.”
As university employees and
peer advisors, Gryphons provide
students in residence halls with
support in terms of educational
and social opportunities, health
and safety.
But for individuals living in
Greek houses, these governing
students, and the resources they
bring, are not available.
Allison Gulati, the associate
dean of students and director
of strategic initiatives, said fra-ternities
and sororities provide
type of living community that
differs from traditional residen-tial
housing. Rather than having
Gryphons, Greek organizations
have a self-governance structure
that includes a variety of positions
in which students advise and pro-vide
educational opportunities for
their peers.
“Students who choose to join a
fraternity or sorority are joining
a national organization that also
has its own set of values, rules,
expectations and accountability
See GRYPHON Page 3
Lehigh’s political atmosphere
can be described in one word: quiet.
Ted Morgan, a political science
professor, said that segments of
campus occasionally fire up to
defend close-to-home issues like
gender, sexuality and race. Yet,
other aspects of political aware-ness
are often ignored.
“College is a bubble,” Morgan
said. “The environment does not
reinforce paying attention to out-side
the bubble.”
See POLITICAL Page 2 Klaudia Jazwinska/Made with Canva
Lehigh trends toward a
‘corporate conservative’
atmosphere, which
contributes to the campus’s
lacking political scene
for the kids