Brown and White Vol. 121 no. 5

              Vol. 121 No. 5
Friday, September 23, 2011
‘All the Lehigh News First’
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By ERIN COOK
After making a believer of Diane Sawyer and winning the “National College Entertainer of the Year” award, hypnotist Tom DeLuca brought his show back to Lehigh on Tuesday, Sept. 20.
The act focused on powers of suggestion and imagination. The 20 students that volunteered to participate were strong believers in these powers before the night was over.
From making one student believe that fruit has feelings, to making another student think he was the top cheerleader for the Lehigh Chicken Toes, DeLuca amazed the audience in Baker Hall with his talent for hypnotism.
Each new scenario that DeLuca placed volunteers in was different and unique; they kept the audiences alert throughout the show.
At one point, DeLuca had put several students in a deep sleep and told them when he said “music,” they would believe that they heard music coming from their shoes.
A minute later, there were six students holding shoes up to their ears and dancing.
“The show was hysterical and such a fun event,” said Alexandra Nicolosi, ’12. “It’s also a great way to meet other Lehigh students.”
Later in the show, DeLuca tapped certain stu­dents while they were in a trance and said that they were in a bodybuilding competition. Students went around the stage posing in their toughest positions and flexing their muscles.
When asked why he should win the competition, one student replied, “Because I’m so strong.”
DeLuca asked the next student the same ques­tion, and he replied, “Because I’m stronger than him.”
The show was full of humor and mystery. Some students were in disbelief that such hypnotic power exists.
“I was wondering how DeLuca performed all of the amazing mind games in the show,” said Teck Tze Lee, ’13. “The fact that the students’ eyes were open during some of the hypnosis, but they were not awake, was surprising.”
Several of the audience members recalled seeing DeLuca’s show their freshman year, and felt lucky to have had the chance to see him again.
“Every year the show is different,” said Claude Bingham, ’12. “I have seen it three times, and De­Luca still managed to include different acts and sce­narios this year.”
DeLuca was brought to Lehigh by University Productions Special Events in what is now becom­ing a Lehigh tradition, since the performer attracted a large number of students to his show yet again this year.
Hypnotist spellbinds, entrances students
By PAMELA OYERBIDE
Lehigh’s ADVANCE program, which fo­cuses on increasing representation and facilitat­ing career advancement of female faculty in the natural science and engineering fields, continues to move forward in implementing programs that will abridge the gender gap that currently plagues these academic fields.
In 2010, Lehigh was one of just seven in­stitutions to be honored with a $2.6 million ADVANCE-Institutional grant by the National Science Foundation.
The university can make institutional chang­es to effectively create a more equitable working environment that will welcome diverse faculty members and tear down the barriers for success that target women particularly in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathemat­ics, otherwise known as STEM fields.
“We are really after more than just throwing money around and increasing salaries,” said Marci Levine Morefield, the project manager for Lehigh’s ADVANCE program.
“In the long term, we aim for institutional transformation: to produce a culture shift to­wards systems, policies and programs that sup­port faculty careers of the best and brightest to benefit women and men, the whole university; to build a community across academic depart­ments,” she said.
These long-term goals will be achieved through the collaborative efforts of the many members of the leadership and research teams, as well as advisory committees that together make up the greater Lehigh ADVANCE team.
ADVANCE seeks to accomplish its greater goal of institutional transformation by im­proving various areas of the faculty, includ­ing recruitment, retention, career satisfaction and leadership development of female STEM
See ADVANCE Page 3
Program looks to increase females in STEM
By DOUGLAS BAJAN
The Community Service Office hosted the first blood drive of the fall 2011 semester Tuesday Sept. 20, and Wednesday Sept. 21, in Ulrich Student Center.
“While students are here on cam­pus, this is their community as well” said Carolina Hernandez, CSO direc­tor. “So, we are trying to engage stu­dents into being active citizens. Some­thing like a blood drive is a relatively easy and incredibly meaningful way to serve.”
The blood drive itself was made possible by Miller-Keystone Blood Center in Bethlehem, the sole provider of blood to 22 hospitals in the Lehigh Valley and as far away as Philadelphia and Warren, N.J.
“High school and university stu­dents are our biggest donor group,” said Denise Whitney, donor resources representative with Miller-Keystone Blood Center. “In the summer when schools close, we suffer. It’s important that the education is there for students to realize that your unit of blood can actually save three to four lives.”
Whitney, who replaced Lehigh’s former Miller-Keystone contact Peggy Shupp nearly two months ago, was originally unaware that Lehigh and similar institutions held such blood drives.
“In my high school, we never did a blood drive, so it’s so exciting for me to go to a high school or a university like this,” Whitney said. “These young adults are just amazing, how they just
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B&W photo by MATT BREITEL
Leo Balsom ‘13, and John O’Connor ‘14, donate blood in Ulrich Student Center on Tuesday and Wednesday. Though the numbers haven’t yet been tallied for this drive, recent ones have attracted about 200 donors each.
n On-campus blood drive gives students an opportu­nity to give back.
First blood drive draws many student donors