Brown and White Vol. 132 no. 3

              The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 3
Friday, February 10, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
‘Lessons from my grandfather’: Gandhi at Lehigh
Maxim Beard/B&W Staff
Dr. Arun Gandhi, the peace activist and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, speaks at the Kenner
Lecture on Cultural Understanding and Tolerance on Tuesday in Baker Hall. Gandhi reminded his
audience of the need for peace and nonviolence in our globalizing world.
By LAURYN RAGONE
Associate News Editor
Tormented and ridiculed for the
color of his skin, Arun Gandhi was
constantly angered by the prej-udices
that came with living in
South Africa.
At age 12, Arun Gandhi’s par-ents
sent him to India to live with
his grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi.
During those 18 months, he did not
realize the impact his grandfather
would have on his life.
Arun Gandhi spoke at Lehigh
Tuesday evening as a part of
the Kenner Lecture Series on
Cultural Understanding and
Tolerance. Gandhi’s lecture was
titled “Lessons Learned from My
Grandfather: Nonviolence in a
Violent World.” It focused on how
to use nonviolence to love, respect,
accept and understand human
society.
Arun Gandhi is a peace activist,
president of the Gandhi Worldwide
Education Institute and author of
two children’s books, “Grandfather
Gandhi” and “Be the Change.”
Arun Gandhi said the first lesson
his grandfather taught him was
to understand anger and use his
energy to be a positive influence.
To share his lesson, Mahatma
Gandhi used an analogy by com-paring
anger to electricity.
“Anger is like electricity,”
Mahatma Gandhi said. “Its just
as powerful and just as useful, but
only if we use it intelligently.”
Arun Gandhi offered his own
wisdom to the crowd gathered in
Baker Hall.
“Let’s channel that electrical
energy and bring it into our lives
and use it for the good of human-ity,”
Arun Gandhi said. “We must
learn to channel anger in the same
way so that we can use that energy
constructively rather than abuse
it.”
Arun Gandhi emphasized how
anger is important to fuel change,
but one must learn how to channel
that anger properly and distin-guish
right from wrong.
His grandfather also taught him
about peace. Arun Gandhi used
Q&A with
Gandhi’s
grandson
By LAURYN RAGONE
Associate News Editor
Arun Gandhi, the grandson of
Mahatma Gandhi, was this year’s
Kenner Lecture speaker. Arun
Gandhi sat down with The Brown
and White for a brief question and
answer session.
Q: After living with your
grandfather for 18 months,
what were the most important
lessons you learned?
Arun Gandhi: I think the first
most important lesson is under-standing
anger and using that ener-gy
constructively and intelligently.
Harvard University recently did a
study finding that anger generated
more than 80 percent of the violence
in our personal lives as well as in
our national lives. If we can harvest
anger and use that energy construc-tively
we would reduce violence by
almost 80 percent.
That is something I think we need
to do because today we don’t want to
talk about anger. If we don’t teach
it, we just allow everyone to find
their own way with dealing with
Professors weigh in on Trump administration
By MICHAEL GIES
B&W Staff
As the Trump administration continues to divide
the public, Lehigh faculty offer their opinions
After President Donald J. Trump
was elected Nov. 8, Lehigh profes-sors
shared their mixed views on
the impending implications of his
presidency.
Just three weeks into his term,
Trump has signed highly debated
executive orders and made contro-versial
appointments.
The immigration ban Trump’s
administration is trying to imple-ment
has been one of his most con-troversial
statements, both during
his campaign and within the past
few weeks. These travel measures
are supposed to protect the country
against current threats of terrorism.
Trump is barring entry from cit-izens
of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia,
Syria, Sudan and Yemen, all of
which have Muslim majorities. In
addition, the ban would impose a
120-day halt for all refugees. Many
people are accusing the ban of being
discriminatory, while Trump argues
it is purely an issue of national
security.
“I think that courts will likely
uphold its constitutionality,” said
Sean Beienburg, a constitutional
law professor.
Beienburg added that although
this is what he could see happen-ing,
it is not exactly the outcome he
would like to see. In the past, the
courts have been deferential to both
Congress and the executive branch
on immigration issues.
“That’s one of the interesting
things, that this administration
might cause people to reassess the Courtesy of Gage Skidmore
President Donald Trump was inaugurated Jan. 20 in Washington D.C. at the United States
Capitol. Since Trump took office, his executive orders and nominees have been controversial
See TRUMP Page 4 discussion topics.
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