Brown and White Vol. 121 no. 1

              Vol. 121 No. 1
Friday, September 9, 2011
‘All the Lehigh News First’
THE BROWN AND WHITE
Lehigh University’s Student Newspaper Founded in 1894
SPORTS
Cross country wins first invitational
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ONLINE
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A guide to
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LIFESTYLE
By JESSICA SZAFONI
Now is the time to stay smart about your property after a Bethlehem man has been charged with breaking into nine cars in the Campus Square and Brodhead parking lots.
According to Lehigh Chief of Police Edward Shupp, Orlando Rivera, 38, al­legedly stole GPS devices, an iPod and a stereo, caused damage to cars and violated students’ sense of safety.
After being recognized and ap­prehended in the Zoellner parking lot based on surveillance camera footage, Rivera was charged with theft, receiv­ing stolen property, criminal mischief, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of an instrument of crime. He is currently in the Northampton County Prison on $20,000 bail.
Although the suspect is currently charged and held in prison, break-in victim Lauren Ugarte,’13, has lost some sense of comfort at Lehigh.
“The fact that people can be in such an isolated area, as the parking garage when they don’t belong there, scares me,” she said. “It’s not safe, and at least it was only cars that were dam­aged. It could have been a person.”
Ugarte said she no longer feels her belongings or herself are safe on cam­pus after being notified of the break-in and seeing her damaged car. The pas­senger-side window was shattered and the back right window pulled down, and her iPod was stolen.
Because the break-in to her car was not an isolated incident, she said she now feels nothing would stop a perpe­trator from repeating the offense after getting away with it one or more times before.
Unfortunately, Shupp said, accord­ing to surveillance video, multiple unknowing witnesses walked by the suspect as he peered into cars in the lot before the series of break-ins, in disre­gard of his frequent reminders to main­tain vigilance both on and off campus.
Mary Nunley, ’12, president of Stu­dent Senate, said she agrees with the need to remain aware.
“Teaching students to be more con­scious and giving them the information on whom they can contact and what procedures to follow if they see some­thing suspicious can be a prevention method,” she said.
Ugarte said students should remem­ber there is no room to be careless, whether on campus or off.
“If anything is too valuable for you
Man charged with alleged car break-ins
By ANNAMARIA ANSELMO
After local and national television news, the Internet is the third most popular news and infor­mation source, according to a story, titled “Inter­net TV main news sources for Americans,” from MSNBC. And with the growing demand and use of smart phones, accessing news online is much more convenient.
With all of these widespread changes in tech­nology and journalism, The Brown and White has also decided to make a landmark change. Over the course of the summer, The Brown and White has been editing and modifying its website, merg­ing with The Express-Times, a local Lehigh Valley news publication, on its website lehighvalleylive.com. Additionally, news coverage on The Brown and White’s new website will be updated daily rather than twice a week.
This has been “a goal for quite a long while,” said Wally Trimble, faculty adviser of The Brown and White and associate professor in the Depart­ment of Journalism and Communication.
The Brown and White had previously been a subscriber of College Publisher, a web provider that hosted The Brown and White’s content.
“They [College Publisher] were changing platforms, so we would have had to completely change our website anyway,” Trimble said.
Even though The Brown and White would have faced changes with College Publisher, Trimble said he still felt The Brown and White original site was inadequate.
“We weren’t unhappy with College Publisher, but the look and feel of the website wasn’t as pro­fessional as we would have liked,” he said.
For most of the past year, Trimble was in talks with The Express-Times to create the new Brown and White webpage.
Lehigh is the first university to partner with
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The Brown and White unveils new website
CAS of Lehigh welcomes new Dean Donald E. Hall
By KIRK GREENWOOD
Lehigh University welcomed Donald E. Hall as Herbert J. and Ann L. Siegel Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences on July 28.
Hall came to Lehigh from West Virginia University, where he was named the Jackson Distinguished Professor and chair of the English department.
At Lehigh, Hall succeeds previ­ous Dean Anne Meltzer, who an­nounced early last year that she would be stepping down from the post she had held for seven years and returning to the faculty of the Earth and Environmental Sciences department.
Hall was selected to replace Dean Meltzer following an exhaus­tive national search in which sever­al candidates vied for the position. Hall and other candidates visited Lehigh’s campus many times, meet­ing with faculty, staff and students to share their thoughts on research and their educational and adminis­trative philosophies.
“Throughout the selection pro­cess many people commented on the strength of [Hall’s] ideas and his potential to provide creative and innovative leadership for the college and the university,” Patrick Farrell, provost and vice president for academic affairs, said in a press release.
The selection process culmi­nated in late spring with a series of lectures given by finalists for the dean’s position.
Hall was named Meltzer’s suc­cessor in mid-May.
“We were consistently impressed by the long-range vision he articu­lated for the college, and we were pleased he has decided to join the
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B&W courtesy of DOUGLAS BENEDICT
Donald E. Hall comes from West Virginia University, where he was Jackson Distinguished Professor and chair of the English department.
n Lehigh police catch thief who allegedly broke into vehicles on campus. Students warned to remain vigilant.
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