Brown and White Vol. 124 no. 15

              Vol. 124 No. 15
Friday, March 22, 2013
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Paul Brown, dean of the College of Business and Economics since 2007, will join the Monmouth University staff next year as the institution’s president.
Monmouth U taps CBE dean for presidency
By BECCA BEDNARZ
The dean of the College of Business and Economics, Paul Brown, will leave Lehigh this summer to become Monmouth Univer­sity’s next president.
“On behalf of the Lehigh community, I would like to express our pride and admira­tion for Paul, whose professionalism and vi­sion for education made him a clear choice to lead Monmouth University,” said Pat Far­rell, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Lehigh, in the announcement from the university communications office.
Beginning Aug. 1, Brown will succeed Paul Gaffney II, Monmouth’s lame duck president, and will take the helm as the school’s eighth president. The private uni­versity is located in West Long Branch, N.J., a community on the New Jersey shore.
“Dr. Brown was our first and unanimous choice to be the new president of Mon­mouth University,” board chairman Robert Sculthorpe said in a March 13 press release. “He is an outstanding leader with the qualifications to help Monmouth University continue to prosper as a strong, vibrant institution.”
During his tenure at Lehigh, Brown helped the university reach new heights, and as a result will offer proven leadership skills to the Monmouth community.
“First, [Dean Brown] sees the big picture, so he knows exactly what is meant by the finish line, what steps are needed to get there, and how to implement them,” said Kenneth Sinclair, professor of accounting and senior advisor to the dean.
“Secondly, he is a terrific judge of char­acter,” Sinclair continued. “In so many instances, I marvel at how he is able to describe in detail the strengths and weak­nesses of any individual within the college. And finally, he has a great sense of humor. Being a leader means that there are many hurdles along the way, and his humor has been a wonderful technique to help deal with these issues.”
Brown, who earned his bachelor’s de­gree from Franklin and Marshall College and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, became the dean of Lehigh’s business school in 2007. Brown said there is a noticeable enthusiasm for higher education at Monmouth.
“The university’s enthusiasm and com­mitment to making its mark on the higher education landscape is palpable across Monmouth’s board of trustees, faculty and staff,” he said in a press release last week. “Students are at the heart of Monmouth, and it is my honor to serve them, as well as the larger university community, in an effort to reach new heights of excellence.”
While at Lehigh, Brown is credited with leading the college through a strategic plan,
Lehigh IFC wins philanthropy and service recognition
By KATE SALAVA
Lehigh’s Interfraternity Council returned from the 2013 Northeastern Greek Leader­ship Association conference in February as the winning recipient of the Amy Vojta Im­pact Award for Philanthropy and Service.
The NGLA holds an annual conference for fraternities and sororities on the East Coast, from Maine to Washington D.C., which honors exceptional service, values and principles within Greek college organi­zations. Every year, the organization awards the best-performing chapters and councils with one of seven awards, ranging from aca­demic achievement to risk reduction. This year, there were more than 70 applications for the Amy Voita Impact Award, but only five organizations received the accolade.
The IFC applied for the philanthropy award under the guidance of its advisor, As­sistant Director of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs Jessi McPherrin, after the success of its Feed the Food Bank event in late Novem­ber. Feed the Food Bank accumulated more than 3,000 pounds of food donations in its first year of operation, and more than two-thirds of Greek life at Lehigh participated in it. IFC Community Service Chairman CJ Sevilla, ’14, and Vice President Bo Johns, ’13, came together to organize the event af­ter recognizing the need for donations at the Hispanic Center’s food bank.
“These men really did it all on their own,” McPherrin said. “I’m really proud. They saw the need and they acted on it.” Sevilla said receiving this award “meant
Author discusses folkore, fairytale meanings
By KELSEY LECK
Author Jane Yolen discussed the pro­cess of creating folklore through collective authorship during her “Folklore vs. Fake­lore” lecture Tuesday afternoon in the Zoellner Arts Center’s lower level gallery.
Ruth Setton, the director of Lehigh’s Berman Center of Jewish Studies, intro­duced Yolen by reading one of her quotes, “Literature is a textually transmitted dis­ease usually contracted in childhood.”
In her lecture, Yolen addressed folklore as the art form that doubles as both her livelihood and way of expressing herself.
She said that some pure folklorists have tried to make a distinction between what they deemed “fakelore,” which are folktales rewritten by modern authors, and traditional folklore. Pure folklorists criti­cize fakelore, claiming that it was tailored for mass edification. They argued that hav­ing authors rewrite folklores was deviating from its origins.
“When I’m writing a passage or even retelling a story, I’m bringing my own per­sonal baggage […] I’m living in a specific community,” she said. “I have the cir­cumstance of being white, female, Jewish and having married a non-Jewish Virginia academic.”
She emphasized that all folktales have evolved through thousands of telling and retellings by individual storytellers, each contributing their own perspective. But, their perspectives were not always as ob­jective as they may have seemed.
“Stories are mirrors of our time, reflect­ing prejudices and class hatreds,” she said. Three fairytales that she identified as folk­lore with hidden agendas and prejudices were “Puss and Boots,” “Rumpelstiltskin” and “The Frog Prince.”
According to Yolen, in “Puss and Boots” the character different from the rest is immediately treated like a villain, which
B&W photo by MEGHAN BARWICK
Jane Yolen, folkore author, poses with Jacob Cohen, ’14. Following her lecture, Yolen signed books and spoke with students.
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