Brown and White Vol. 125 no. 15

              Vol. 125 No. 15
Friday, November 1, 2013
‘All the Lehigh News First’
THE BROWN AND WHITE
Lehigh University’s Student Newspaper Founded in 1894
SPORTS
XC teams head to PL championship
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ONLINE
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The role of Gryphons
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LIFESTYLE
By GABBY ROMANO
Dozens of people covered themselves head-to-toe in pink at Zeta Tau Alpha’s “Paint It Pink Run” Saturday at Goodman Campus.
The 2.5-mile run, which showered participants in pink powder at five different sta­tions, supported breast cancer education and awareness in conjunction with ZTA’s philanthropy.
“I’m most excited about being able to create some­thing that the whole campus is going to want to come out for and get excited about,” said ZTA President Madison McGahan, ’15.
The sorority advertised the run by creating a Facebook event, through which 104 people signed up to partici­pate. As participants waited to start the run, sorority members painted faces and sold t-shirts while a live disc jockey performed to excite the crowd.
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Photo courtesy of LIZ ILLIANO
(From left) Rae Ricciardi, ‘16, Lauren Boller, ‘16, and Cara Bagley, ‘16, all members of Pi Beta Phi enjoy the festive pink atmosphere while participating in ZTA’s ‘Paint It Pink Run.’
Author speaks on human connection
‘Paint It Pink Run’ closes ZTA’s annual Pink Week
UP, Microsoft, HBO screen spooky film
By ANNA BOLD
University Productions, in coordination with Association for Computing Machinery, hosted a screening of the movie “Shaun of the Dead” Thursday as part of a display of Lehigh’s partnership with Microsoft and HBO.
The event was sponsored by Microsoft and HBO through their on campus Mi­crosoft student partner, Grey­son Parrelli, ’14. Before the movie, Parrelli spoke about “HBO GO” as well as Micro­soft, and demonstrated how the movie would be shown through HBO GO on an Xbox that Microsoft provided for the event. Choosing to show “Shaun of the Dead” was based on both its availability on HBO GO and the fact it fit a Halloween theme. HBO GO on Xbox is available to any­one with an HBO subscrip­tion, Parrelli said.
“Shaun of the Dead” is a British comedy about two friends, Shaun (Simon Pegg) and Ed (Nick Frost), who lead mundane lives. Shaun struggles to find focus in his life when, without realizing it, he and Ed find themselves in the middle of a zombie apoca­lypse. The two ignore warn­ings to stay indoors, instead trying to save friends and family. They fight to stay alive and escape hordes of zombies trying to eat them, attempting to use records to cut off the zombies’ heads among other hijinks on their journey. Along the way, the pair discovers truths about themselves and finds the zombie attack was just what Shaun needed in order to find what to do with his life.
“This event was to advertise that ‘HBO GO’ exists and ad­vertise that Xbox can be used as an entertainment center, and really just to have fun and say ‘Hey, Microsoft’s here’,” Parrelli said.
As a Microsoft student part­ner, Parrelli represents Micro­soft on Lehigh’s campus, help­ing the company to connect with students by familiarizing them with Microsoft tech­nologies and garnering a good public image of the company. Parrelli will be presenting and leading future events on cam­pus, such as a Windows 8 app-building workshop.
Employees from Microsoft will also be coming to Lehigh to teach students how to make games, Parrelli said. Microsoft is the only major technology company that has kept a pres­ence on Lehigh’s campus, which Parrelli has always appreciated.
“I just want to make sure that Microsoft has a good presence here and it stays a good presence,” he said.
The movie showing also featured free pizza, soda and candy, courtesy of University Productions, ACM and the programming club.
“UP runs movies every Friday and Saturday night in Whitaker, so I decided that
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By CONNOR TAIT
In order for emerging writers to be successful, they should write with a unique theme no person can replicate, said a renowned author at a lecture given to the Lehigh University com­munity Tuesday afternoon.
The author, Deborah Heiligman, specializes in young adult writing, and wrote the award-winning non-fiction book “Charles and Emma” and the novel “Intentions.” She has written more than 30 books for children and young adults. Her speech, “Writing and Living with Intention,” was pre­sented to about 50 students, faculty and members of the Bethlehem com­munity in Maginnes 102.
Heiligman was brought to campus by the Berman Center for Jewish stud­ies and the creative writing center.
In the speech, she provided anec­dotes from her life and read portions of “Intentions” aloud to explain her writing style, important aspects of growing up and how to live a meaning­ful life.
“Our lives should not be patchwork, we should have clear intent and we should follow the way that’s right for us,” she said. “We’re always trying to better, and we only reach that goal so often. That’s what interests me about life. That’s what interests me about growing up.”
She said she put Rachel, the main character in “Intentions” into multiple sticky situations to mirror pivotal developmental moments people go through while growing up.
“As a writer, what you do is keep throwing [bad situations] at your char­acter and have them keep digging out of it,” she said.
She said every writer should try to write with a unique theme, and advised the audience members to de­velop their own while writing.
“My theme is ‘connect’,” Heiligman said. “I think that human connections are the most important thing and that’s what I’m most interested in as a person and as a writer.”
She said “Charles and Emma” was her favorite book to write because she was able to utilize her theme by writ­ing about the connection between the woman and the man responsible for
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