Brown and White Vol. 119 no. 22

              By Courtney Buchanan
Lehigh renewed its partnership for another five years with East China University of Sci­ence and Technology two weeks ago.
Lehigh and ECUST are both committed to developing exchanges of faculty and students, President Alice Gast said.
Shared academic interests include materi­als science, energy research and chemical engineering.
Some past projects included clean coal, chemical engineering simulation and a welding and lightweight structures projects.
Gast said both universities benefit by sharing knowledge of faculty and students with similar interests, as well as diverse backgrounds.
The partnership has involved research col­laborations among undergraduate and gradu­ate students, said Himanshu Jain, Diamond Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
Jain advises students in their research proj­ects and explores the International Material Institute for New Functionality in Glass pro­gram with ECUST.
He was appointed as the international editor for the Journal of the Chinese Ceramic Society.
Jain agreed with Gast regarding the success of the partnership.
“Through this synergy, we are able to ac­complish much more than we would indepen­dently,” he said.
Jain said the partnership has involved a lot of ECUST students coming to Lehigh, and he would like to see more Lehigh students going to ECUST to balance it out.
“I would like to see Lehigh students joining
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Lehigh renews partnership with Chinese school
Students, athletes give back to Bethlehem families
By JESSICA SHANNONHANNONHANNONHANNONHANNONHANNON
Student-athletes in the C.O.A.C.H. (Community Outreach by Athletes who Care about Helping) program will hold their annual Adopt-a-Family event at Donegan Middle School in Bethle­hem on Dec. 8.
The Adopt-a-Family program pro­vides underprivileged families in the area with gifts for the holiday season.
This will be the first year the event will include efforts and support from other groups on campus.
“This year, it is not only the student- athletes participating in the program, but also fraternities, sororities and other departments on campus that will be participating,” said Roseann Corsi, Lehigh Athletics’ community relations coordinator.
The program has taken place for the past 12 years at Lehigh, Corsi said.
“We adopt families in the commu­nity and collect money and donations to go shopping and buy gifts and other items needed by the families,” she said.
The families will receive these gifts during the event held at the middle school.
The event has been held in Taylor Gym and Grace Hall in the past, but was moved this year because of the growth in the program.
“We are excited because we are making the event even bigger this year with combining the Greek life and de­partments with us,” said Brittany Dick­inson, ’11, a member of C.O.A.C.H.
“Instead of the families receiving the gifts at Grace Hall, we are holding the event at the middle school because there are more people involved,” Corsi said. “Each organization will have a separate time slot to give their gifts to the families.”
Families in the Bethlehem area are selected to be a part of the program each year.
“We try to select new families each
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Vol. 119 No. 22
Friday, December 3, 2010
‘All the Lehigh News First’
THE BROWN AND WHITE
Lehigh University’s Student Newspaper Founded in 1894
B&W photo by DAN COBAR
The brothers of Lambda Sigma Upsilon Latino Fraternity, Inc. and members of the Lehigh community built the first human red ribbon at Lehigh in support of World AIDS day on Wednesday in Ulrich Student Center.
Ribbon of hope
By KATHRYNATHRYNATHRYNATHRYNATHRYNATHRYN SUMA
The Family Smoking Prevention and To­bacco Control Act now requires larger, more graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and advertisements.
The Tobacco Control Act was enacted on June 22, 2009, and amended the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act. It also provided the Food and Drug Administration with the authority to regulate tobac­co products.
Section 201 of the Tobacco Control Act modifies section 4 of the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Ad­vertising Act to require that nine new health warning statements appear on cigarette packages and in ciga­rette advertisements.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ website, the FDA issued Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertise­ments, a proposed rule that already required warn­ings on cigarette packages to be changed to make a stronger point to consumers.
The new warnings are part of nine new categories with each category consisting of a statement and an accompanying colored picture.
The public has an opportunity to comment on the 36 proposed pictures up until Jan. 9, before the final nine images are chosen, with one for each statement.
The images are graphic and show the consequenc­es of smoking for both smokers and those around them.
“It seems like the FDA is incorporating preven­tion strategies by raising awareness,” said Rajika E. Reed, director of health promotions for the Health and Wellness Center. “The words and pictures might frighten and offend people, but it is better to have full disclosure and keep consumers in the know.”
The new warnings will appear on both the front and back of cigarette boxes, as required by the act.
This means the new statements will comprise at least 50 percent of the boxes.
“Marketing tactics, such as this, typically work for only a certain period of time, until the novelty of the product wears off, or savvy retailers create cigarette cases or sleeves and the like to counteract the cam­paign,” Reed said. “Currently, tobacco companies spend a lot of time and money to market cigarettes as cool and sexy.”
The warning statements will be forced by the act to be a main part of advertising, covering at least 20 percent of an advertisement for smoking.
In the case that the advertisement is less than 12 square inches, the proposed rule states that textual
Graphic box warnings aim to deter smokers
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