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The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 6 Tuesday, February 21, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Senate hosts On air with John Simon third annual Gatsby Gala By MICHAEL GIES B&W Staff Nearly 300 students filled the University Center on Friday night for the third annual Gatsby Gala. They wore 1920s-inspired outfits, danced and snapped photos with their friends. But the room was significant-ly emptier than last year. Over 700 students were in attendance at the school-sponsored dance in 2016. The Gatsby Gala was created by Student Senate in an effort to bridge the divide between dif-ferent groups on campus. One of the most frequent requests from students was to host an event that combined Greek and non-Greek students. Student Senate, the Residence Hall Association, Student Activities and the Lehigh University Police Department sponsored the event. In order to make the Gatsby Gala more appealing, Student Senate said it worked with the Learning the ‘why’ behind the ‘yes’ with FERPA By AUSTIN KATZ Assistant News Editor On his radio show “Prof. Talks” on WLVR, Austin Katz sat down with President John D. Simon to discuss his first year on campus, the new health college and the importance of data lit-eracy. Q: You’re kind of embed d ed with my class, the class of 2019. We started at the same time, so how did your first year at Lehigh go? Was it what you expected? John Simon: I had a great time my first year. I really enjoyed getting to know students, fac-ulty, staff, alumni (and) tradi-tions at the university. I’ve had a very enjoyable first year. In some ways, I wondered what it was going to be like to really live on campus and to really not have a whole lot of privacy, but I’ve really enjoyed living on cam-pus since it allows me to go to a lot of student events. In oth-ers, I was surprised — there’s an awful lot of travel. You spend a lot of time on the road, meet a lot of alumni, state and federal government people who work in industries, so there’s just a huge component of travel that I sort of knew about but didn’t realize what it’d be like to live. Q: You looked at student feedback in the CORE report, which is a data col-lection of students and faculty (responses) about how the university could be improved. How are you implementing the results from the CORE report? JS: There were a lot of sugges-tions around making the insti-tution more welcoming for inter-national students that are cur-rently being implemented. Issues around graduate student housing and the lack of availability for students near campus have sev-eral projects being discussed with developers in the South Side that will be addressed in the next couple years. The undergradu-ate recommendations — largely some of them make sense and some of them don’t. We’ve tried to integrate the thinking and how we’re approaching growth at the university and what type of resi-dential communities we’d want to build to support that growth. Q: There’s the recent announcement to expand into the College of Health. Can you elaborate on that? JS: I think the faculty at Lehigh needs to grow, so we think about 100 new faculty would have a dramatic impact on the offerings we could give students and the Lehigh’s president talks expansion and data literacy By SAM BENCHEGHIB B&W Staff When high school seniors receive their admission envelopes or check their decision online, the answer rarely goes into detail. The response might be a yes or no, or offer the student a spot on the waitlist. What’s missing from the decision is the why. Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, otherwise known as the Buckley Amendment, students are able to view any educational records Lehigh may hold by submitting a request to the Admissions Office. The law states universities are obligated to respond to the stu-dent’s request within 45 days. Among the documents that should be available to students are their admission records. With it, students can view the forms they submitted when applying to the university. Students can also request copies of their education records, which include both direc-tory and non-directory informa-tion. Directory information is more general and usually not harming to the student if shared publicly, such as the student’s name, date and place of birth and home and university address. Non-directory information is more private and cannot be shared with anyone, including the stu-dent’s family, without written con-sent from the student. If students wish to grant their parents access to FERPA-protected documents, they may do so by contacting the Registrar’s Office or the Associate Dean of Students for Academic Photo illustration by Roshan Giyanani/B&W Staff FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) was passed as part of an initiative to protect the privacy of all student education records. Under the act, Lehigh students can request access to any of their educational records through the Office of Admissions. Under FERPA, stu-dents can gain access to admissions docu-ments if requested See TEST Page 4 See GATSBY Page 3 See Q&A Page 3 Chris Barry/B&W Staff
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 132 no. 6 |
Date | 2017-02-21 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 21 |
Year | 2017 |
Volume | 132 |
Issue | 6 |
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 | 2017-02-21 |
FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 6 Tuesday, February 21, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Senate hosts On air with John Simon third annual Gatsby Gala By MICHAEL GIES B&W Staff Nearly 300 students filled the University Center on Friday night for the third annual Gatsby Gala. They wore 1920s-inspired outfits, danced and snapped photos with their friends. But the room was significant-ly emptier than last year. Over 700 students were in attendance at the school-sponsored dance in 2016. The Gatsby Gala was created by Student Senate in an effort to bridge the divide between dif-ferent groups on campus. One of the most frequent requests from students was to host an event that combined Greek and non-Greek students. Student Senate, the Residence Hall Association, Student Activities and the Lehigh University Police Department sponsored the event. In order to make the Gatsby Gala more appealing, Student Senate said it worked with the Learning the ‘why’ behind the ‘yes’ with FERPA By AUSTIN KATZ Assistant News Editor On his radio show “Prof. Talks” on WLVR, Austin Katz sat down with President John D. Simon to discuss his first year on campus, the new health college and the importance of data lit-eracy. Q: You’re kind of embed d ed with my class, the class of 2019. We started at the same time, so how did your first year at Lehigh go? Was it what you expected? John Simon: I had a great time my first year. I really enjoyed getting to know students, fac-ulty, staff, alumni (and) tradi-tions at the university. I’ve had a very enjoyable first year. In some ways, I wondered what it was going to be like to really live on campus and to really not have a whole lot of privacy, but I’ve really enjoyed living on cam-pus since it allows me to go to a lot of student events. In oth-ers, I was surprised — there’s an awful lot of travel. You spend a lot of time on the road, meet a lot of alumni, state and federal government people who work in industries, so there’s just a huge component of travel that I sort of knew about but didn’t realize what it’d be like to live. Q: You looked at student feedback in the CORE report, which is a data col-lection of students and faculty (responses) about how the university could be improved. How are you implementing the results from the CORE report? JS: There were a lot of sugges-tions around making the insti-tution more welcoming for inter-national students that are cur-rently being implemented. Issues around graduate student housing and the lack of availability for students near campus have sev-eral projects being discussed with developers in the South Side that will be addressed in the next couple years. The undergradu-ate recommendations — largely some of them make sense and some of them don’t. We’ve tried to integrate the thinking and how we’re approaching growth at the university and what type of resi-dential communities we’d want to build to support that growth. Q: There’s the recent announcement to expand into the College of Health. Can you elaborate on that? JS: I think the faculty at Lehigh needs to grow, so we think about 100 new faculty would have a dramatic impact on the offerings we could give students and the Lehigh’s president talks expansion and data literacy By SAM BENCHEGHIB B&W Staff When high school seniors receive their admission envelopes or check their decision online, the answer rarely goes into detail. The response might be a yes or no, or offer the student a spot on the waitlist. What’s missing from the decision is the why. Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, otherwise known as the Buckley Amendment, students are able to view any educational records Lehigh may hold by submitting a request to the Admissions Office. The law states universities are obligated to respond to the stu-dent’s request within 45 days. Among the documents that should be available to students are their admission records. With it, students can view the forms they submitted when applying to the university. Students can also request copies of their education records, which include both direc-tory and non-directory informa-tion. Directory information is more general and usually not harming to the student if shared publicly, such as the student’s name, date and place of birth and home and university address. Non-directory information is more private and cannot be shared with anyone, including the stu-dent’s family, without written con-sent from the student. If students wish to grant their parents access to FERPA-protected documents, they may do so by contacting the Registrar’s Office or the Associate Dean of Students for Academic Photo illustration by Roshan Giyanani/B&W Staff FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) was passed as part of an initiative to protect the privacy of all student education records. Under the act, Lehigh students can request access to any of their educational records through the Office of Admissions. Under FERPA, stu-dents can gain access to admissions docu-ments if requested See TEST Page 4 See GATSBY Page 3 See Q&A Page 3 Chris Barry/B&W Staff |
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