Brown and White Vol. 113 No. 38

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 113 no 38 tuesday march 21 2006 ah the lehigh news first hundreds walk out for diversity by lucy mele assistant news editor about 400 students faculty and staff walked out of their classes at 11:45 a.m thursday to gather on the university center front lawn to publicly address their demand for acceptance of minorities at lehigh the rally organized by student group the movement is one of a series of events organized by the group to raise awareness and incite change for diversity on campus kate meiman graduate student and a founding member of the movement gave the opening remarks at the rally college is meant to be a learning experience but learning takes place outside the classroom too meiman said we need to make another focus of our everyday college experience the learning and con stant practice of compassion understanding and acceptance of all of those around us all ideas have their place in academia and every one of us deserves to feel like we have a place here at lehigh movement member alex milspaw 07 read a list of demands including more courses about racial stud ies and more funding for cultural programming before opening the floor to anyone in the crowd who wanted to share an experience or their thoughts on campus diversity robert daye 06 said he has experienced discrim ination on campus on several occasions a lot of us have had a lot of experiences and that's why we're here today he said we feel like our education is being affected in a very serious way daye cited an incident where he and his younger photo courtesy of aaron bergman students and faculty gathered on the university center front lawn at 11:45 a.m on thursday after walking out of class the rally organized by the student group the movement was an effort to raise awareness about racial issues on campus students health jeopardized by bio lab mix-up by olivier lewis senior news writer as many as eight students rinsed their mouths with iso propyl alcohol which can be lethal if ingested during a biolo gy lab when they were supposed to rinse with salt water bobby buckheit 08 was one of the students who rinsed their mouths with the isopropyl alco hol in the last experiment of a three-day series buckheit and his three lab partners attended the second experiment of the day following the directions of the teaching assistant buckheit started a routine dna-extraction procedure to collect his dna buckheit picked up one of four little vials filled with a salt solution that were placed in a styrofoam ice container in front of him he then brought the flask to his mouth and initiated a recom mended one-minute rinse it tasted horrible buckheit said it was pretty bad stuffy toward the end of the minute it started burning a little bit which is why we spit it out at that moment the professor in charge of the lab came in to the room and told everyone to spit out the solution buckheit said buckheit had just rinsed his mouth not with the saline solu tion but with isopropyl alcohol a solution commonly known as rubbing alcohol randy shebby director of environmental health and safety said no students were injured in the incident and the response by the biology department was immediate and accurate the solution confusion appears to have stemmed from the preparation of the small vials which were used to hold a salt solution in the monday lab but were pre-filled with the iso propyl alcohol the following day buckheit said the tuesday lab was pre pared by a lab technician who failed to place the larger salt solution containers on the tables that day buckheit said jeffrey sands chair of the department of biological sci ences linda lowe-krentz asso freshmen face parking penalties by devon giddon assistant news editor seventeen first-year students have lost their privileges to obtain parking passes as sophomores and 17 others have received warn ings following a recent crackdown on illegal parking the loss of privileges resulted from a policy that has been in effect for more than 15 years but had not been enforced in recent years the policy states first-year students with five or more tickets may receive this punishment the policy can be found in the student handbook on the parking services web site and in the motor vehicle regulations pamphlet that is given to every student who receives a parking permit the policy for first-year students says violators are subject to additional penalties including but not limited to suspension of privileges for subsequent years a new additional policy states freshmen excluding non-resi dent commuting students are not permitted to have park or to operate any motor vehicle while in residence according to christopher christian director of transporta tion and parking services admin istrators began to enforce the poli cy when parking services and transportation services merged last june the purpose of the new implementation of the policy is 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