Brown and White Vol. 123 no. 4

              Vol. 123 No. 4
Friday, September 21, 2012
‘All the Lehigh News First’
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By ALEC KROSSER
The Community Service Office will be hosting its annual blood drive on Wednesday and Thursday in Lamberton Hall. This will be the first blood drive that is taking place at Lehigh this academic year.
The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. dur­ing both days, and anyone interested in donating blood is able to sign up for a time every 15 minutes.
The goal of the blood drive is to have somebody sign up for each allotted timeslot, which would lead to 150 people donating blood during the two-day event.
All of the blood is then donated to the Miller-Keystone Blood Center, which is a non-profit organization that spe­cializes in blood donations.
Blood drives at Lehigh have had significant success in the past.
“Over the course of this past year Lehigh students, staff and faculty donated over 650 pints of blood to Miller-Keystone Blood Center,” said Dan Coviello, a coordinator of the event through the Community Service Office. “This is significant because the blood donated to Miller-Keystone stays within the Lehigh Valley and helps people within our community. Miller-Keystone is the sole provider of blood to 25 local hospitals, and they need about 450 pints a day to meet the needs of our community.”
According to Miller-Keystone’s website, it says they are the only provider to many local hospitals, including 25 in the area, and that “only blood donated through Miller-Keystone is transfused at these facilities.”
Some regional examples of hospitals that the Miller-Keystone Blood Center donate blood to include St. Luke’s Hospital, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Sacred Heart Hospital and Easton Hospital.
In the 12 counties that Miller-Keystone serves, they need approximately 450 units of blood every day. To maintain enough blood to do this, they have many collec­tions throughout the year. Unfortunately blood cannot be stored for long periods of time, so they have to constantly be collecting more blood and having more blood drives to keep up with the hospitals demands.
Lehigh blood drive to increase donations
By DARCY MONAGHAN
The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Af­fairs has instated a new policy that prevents any freshmen student who has a serious alcohol or hard alcohol offense from taking part in the so­rority or fraternity recruitment process for two semesters.
“I think what it comes down to is what we are trying do is curve dangerous drinking,” said Tim Wilkinson, director of the Office of Frater­nity and Sorority Affairs. “We understand that college students are going to drink, but we do everything we can to think about the safety of our students.”
Although this is just becoming an official policy at Lehigh this year, it is not entirely new. In the past, the conduct office has prevented students from participating in recruitment if they had a serious alcohol offense.
“So [this applies] if you’ve gotten so drunk that you’ve either gone to the hospital, gotten in a fight or damaged property,” Wilkinson said.
The only new piece to the policy is that it now includes hard alcohol offenses. If a student is in possession of hard alcohol, or if police or a hospital can verify a student’s use of hard alco­hol, the policy states that the student cannot join a Greek organization that semester or the follow­ing semester.
Wilkinson said that last year more than 90 percent of hospitalizations were due to hard alcohol and that OFSA hopes this policy will reduce the most major, high-risk aspect of drinking.
“There is just too much anecdotal evidence that this is something we need to handle,” Wilkinson said.
“While it does make sense for there to be some kind of punishment for a citation, I think that not being allowed to rush is a little harsh considering freshmen get cited easily and be­cause a good amount of them plan on rushing,”
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Policy prohibits rush for serious alcohol offenses
Students march to raise gender violence insight
By ALLISON SCHWARTZ
Lehigh will hold its annual Take Back the Night march next Monday at 7 p.m. The march will begin at Cen­tennial II and conclude at Sayre Park Lodge.
Following the walk, participants will have the opportunity to speak out and share personal experiences and stories about sexual violence against women.
“This year Take Back the Night is encouraging not just survivors of gender violence to speak out but also friends, family, partners and supporters,” said Brooke DeSipio, assistant director of the Women’s Center and adviser for Break the Silence. “We are encouraging people to share stories of hope this year in order to empower others.”
Take Back the Night is a safe haven for citizens to fight sexual violence against women. Lehigh’s Take Back the Night is dedicated to the memory of Jeanne Clery who was raped and murdered by another student on April 5, 1986. The walk has become a tradi­tion since.
In the past, the march has com­menced at the lookout point. This year’s event organizers decided to start in Lower Cents to honor the location of Clery’s death.
“As a freshman, I knew Break the Silence was a really close-knit group, and I wanted to be a part of something like that on campus,” said Sofia Capre­tta, ’15.
In a study conducted by New York University, titled “National Statistics About Sexual Violence on College Campuses,” one in four college-aged women report experiences that meet the legal definitions of rape or attempted rape.
“Research continues to find that gen­der violence is disproportionally high on college campuses, so it is important for our community here at Lehigh to join together and change the culture and climate that allows gender violence to occur,” DeSipio said. “Take Back the Night helps to raise awareness about gender violence on campus, as well as offers support and empowerment for survivors of gender violence and their
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B&W photo by ASHLEY YANCY
The annual Take Back the Night march is Monday at 7 p.m. starting at Centennial II and finishing at Sayre Park.
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