Brown and White Vol. 129 no. 16

              The Brown and White Vol. 129 No. 16
Friday, October 30, 2015 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ BUS ACCIDENT
By DANIELLE DISTEFANO
Editor in Chief
What would have been a typical
20-minute ride to the boathouse
turned into a harrowing experi-ence
on the evening of Oct. 27
when a bus carrying 18 members
of the Lehigh men’s and women’s
rowing teams was struck from
behind and rolled over onto its
roof.
As it flipped, the bus struck
the cement wall on the side of
U.S. Route 22 westbound. The
driver of the vehicle, 28-year-old
Rodney Dale Sigley, Jr. from
Quakertown, was the only fatality
in the accident.
The cause of the crash is
still being investigated by
Pennsylvania State Police.
Student rowers who were on
the bus spoke to The Brown and
White anonymously because they
were not authorized to give com-
Architecture dept. resources strained
By HENRY GREENBERG
B&W Staff
Students in the Lehigh Art and
Architecture department have
experienced difficulties with the
accessibility of its laser cutter
offered in Chandler-Ullmann.
There are student shop moni-tors
who are hired to work around
their schedules at the laser cut-ter,
who often don’t show up for
their shifts and leave the laser
cutter unattended, according to
Kathleen Gerard, ‘17, an archi-
See ACCIDENT Page 3
See RESOURCES Page 4
One dead, 18 injured in crash with Lehigh bus
“It happened in
an instant, but
everything just
happened in slow
motion”
- Student rower aboard bus
Courtesy of ABC 6
TOP LEFT: The Lehigh Athletics bus lies overturned on U.S. Route 22 after a collision with a vehicle Tuesday. The accident resulted in the
death of the car’s driver and 18 injuries. TOP RIGHT: The other vehicle involved in the crash with the bus lies mostly destroyed on Route 22.
The vehicle’s driver was the only fatality in the accident. BOTTOM LEFT: The Lehigh bus lies on its roof. The bus collided with the highway
divider. BOTTOM RIGHT: An aerial view of Route 22 shows the overturned Lehigh bus. The cause of the accident is still being investigated.
ment to the media.
“I was sitting near the front of
the bus on the driver’s side, and
we were just going along,” a male
rower said. “We were merging
onto the highway, and we hit
something or something hit us,
and everyone just kind of got
knocked around. The next thing I
knew we were driving toward the
barrier, we hit the barrier and we
Grant to help
women in
STEM jobs
rise in ranks
tecture student at Lehigh. This
poses a problem for students who
need to work on projects, because
students are not authorized to
operate the cutters on their own
and do not know how to use them.
The department will be receiv-ing
a second laser cutter at the
start of next year, which will help
with efficiency when using the
cutters.
For this reason, professors and
former students have advised
current architecture students to
make use of the Northampton
By GRIFFIN LEE
B&W Staff
See GRANTS Page 2
Lehigh has received a sec-ond
grant from the National
Science Foundation ADVANCE-Institutional
Transformation pro-gram,
which aims to increase the
ranks of women in academic sci-ence
and engineering careers. This
second grant arrived after the com-pletion
of a five year, $2.6 million
grant received in 2010.
The NSF ADVANCE PLAN
IHE (Partnerships for Learning
and Adaptation Networks across
Institutions of Higher Education)
grant aims to achieve a level play-ing
field for female associate pro-fessors
in STEM fields, or Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Community College printers and
laser cutters, where students can
print their own files and cut their
own projects.
“Northampton is a really great
resource for us, it really is,”
Gerard said. “It’s just unfortu-nate
to pay all of this money and
these lab fees to go all the way to
Northampton to get this done.”
Gerard was ready to begin the
building process for an upcoming
assignment and brought it down