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The Brown and White Vol. 130 No. 8 Tuesday, March 1, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Rathbone earns two-star green certification Alexis McGowan, Lexi Berliner/B&W Staff TOP: Cookies are available for dessert at Rathbone Student Restaurant on Thursday. The desserts are located by the community grill in the back of the dining hall. RIGHT: Jason Lopez, ’19, and Conrad Ozarek, ’19, eat breakfast at Rathbone on Feb. 20. The dining hall has been awarded a two-star green restaurant certification per the standards of The Green Restaurant Association. By DANIELLE BETTERMANN Associate News Editor Rathbone Student Restaurant became Lehigh’s first student restaurant to be awarded a two-star green restaurant certifica-tion, which means the dining hall met many of the environmental standards set into place by the nonprofit organization The Green Restaurant Association. After taking 43 environmen-tal steps, Rathbone was award-ed 132 GreenPoints, according to director of Rathbone Lauren Sleeger. Sleeger said most of the steps necessary to earn the certi-fication were already in place at Rathbone, so there were not many changes to make. “We wanted to be on the fore-front of creating these changes as opposed to being mandated to do it,” Sleeger said. “We did it volun-tarily. A lot of things they proba-bly wouldn’t notice, but again, it’s not that we weren’t doing them, it’s just that it’s an everyday thing already.” While there have been envi-ronmentally friendly updates to the dining hall, many students have yet to notice a substantial upgrade in quality of the food. Out of 106 students surveyed by The Brown and White, 71 stu-dents said they have not noticed a change in quality of the food, and 11 noted that they thought the quality had decreased. Lehigh’s executive chef Joseph Kornafel said students may not recognize the improved quality of food because they have not “It is a constant, step-by-step evolution and there’s no such thing as a jump from A to Z...So it’s a little bit at a time.” - Lauren Sleeger Director, Rathbone eaten the food for an extended period of time. The process of improving their environmentally friendly practices and the qual-ity and presentation of the food evolves over time. Kornafel said students spend only a few years in the dining halls before moving off campus or into a sorority or fraternity house. “It is a constant, step-by-step evolution and there’s no such thing as a jump from A to Z with-out going through B, C, D and so on and so forth,” Kornafel said. “So it’s a little bit at a time.” About 20 percent of students who responded to the survey noticed better quality in the food over the past year, and five stu-dents said there are now more choices. See RATHBONE Page 3 Students influenced by social media Sands Casino faces potential new tax increase By CATE PETERSON Associate News Editor Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf pro-posed a tax increase on slot games pro-vided for gamblers in Pennsylvania casinos. The tax will impact the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, which is frequented by Lehigh stu-dents and community members alike. Under the current law, the Sands Casino is not required to pay taxes on the money it gives away in vouchers or promotional-play cards. These items are given to custom-ers as a way to promote the casino. George Mease, a valet supervisor, has been working at Sands since it opened in May 2009. The voucher system has been used at the casino since its opening, Mease said. “Everybody that uses the slots uses the vouchers,” Mease said. “They have to.” People perceive reality as it is described and shown on social media. Individuals receive the majority of news content through various social media platforms, according to Janey Lee, assistant professor in Lehigh’s department of journalism and communication. Lee, who studied communica-tions with a specialty in com-puter- mediated communications, recently published research about social media and political involve-ment. She focuses her research on young people’s perception of political communication on social media. She believes social media is an expanding and evolving outlet where young people are exposed to new information that they are not By DANIELLE CAMPBELL Assistant Visuals Editor necessarily seeking. Lee used a publicly available data set from Pew Research Center to conduct her research about questions surrounding the topic of article content and if one responds to various comments on social media. “Social media use itself can lead to political view change,” Lee said. “I looked at both social media lead-ing to political view change and/or more political issue involvement on social media. I tested if these are possible.” Lee said there are other factors that spark political view change, too, such as who posted an arti-cle or how many people liked or shared it. She wanted to test how these affected people’s under-standing of news content. After proposing a diagram of her hypothesis of the effects of social media, Lee gathered the results of her data and created a new diagram. “Just exposure is not strong enough, but discussion is import-ant and information seeking moti-vation is important,” Lee said. “If you use social media just for entertainment use, you lack the motivation.” Lee said people need to have a desire to change their views, and content online is not enough to change their opinions. “What’s important, what’s cru-cial, is actually getting involved in discussion,” Lee said. If someone seeks information with the goal of learning and pos-sibly forming a view on a topic, involvement in the discussion is necessary. Some people, regard-less of the information on social media, will not change their opin-ions, in part because they have similarly minded friends on social media platforms who hold the same view as them. This confirma-tion bias can prevent some people from seeing all sides of an issue. “Usually I would ignore a polit-ical article unless the caption See SOCIAL Page 4 See CASINO Page 2 Professor researches students’ perceptions of issues on social media
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 130 no. 8 |
Date | 2016-03-01 |
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Day | 01 |
Year | 2016 |
Volume | 130 |
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Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Lehigh, South Bethlehem |
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FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 130 No. 8 Tuesday, March 1, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Rathbone earns two-star green certification Alexis McGowan, Lexi Berliner/B&W Staff TOP: Cookies are available for dessert at Rathbone Student Restaurant on Thursday. The desserts are located by the community grill in the back of the dining hall. RIGHT: Jason Lopez, ’19, and Conrad Ozarek, ’19, eat breakfast at Rathbone on Feb. 20. The dining hall has been awarded a two-star green restaurant certification per the standards of The Green Restaurant Association. By DANIELLE BETTERMANN Associate News Editor Rathbone Student Restaurant became Lehigh’s first student restaurant to be awarded a two-star green restaurant certifica-tion, which means the dining hall met many of the environmental standards set into place by the nonprofit organization The Green Restaurant Association. After taking 43 environmen-tal steps, Rathbone was award-ed 132 GreenPoints, according to director of Rathbone Lauren Sleeger. Sleeger said most of the steps necessary to earn the certi-fication were already in place at Rathbone, so there were not many changes to make. “We wanted to be on the fore-front of creating these changes as opposed to being mandated to do it,” Sleeger said. “We did it volun-tarily. A lot of things they proba-bly wouldn’t notice, but again, it’s not that we weren’t doing them, it’s just that it’s an everyday thing already.” While there have been envi-ronmentally friendly updates to the dining hall, many students have yet to notice a substantial upgrade in quality of the food. Out of 106 students surveyed by The Brown and White, 71 stu-dents said they have not noticed a change in quality of the food, and 11 noted that they thought the quality had decreased. Lehigh’s executive chef Joseph Kornafel said students may not recognize the improved quality of food because they have not “It is a constant, step-by-step evolution and there’s no such thing as a jump from A to Z...So it’s a little bit at a time.” - Lauren Sleeger Director, Rathbone eaten the food for an extended period of time. The process of improving their environmentally friendly practices and the qual-ity and presentation of the food evolves over time. Kornafel said students spend only a few years in the dining halls before moving off campus or into a sorority or fraternity house. “It is a constant, step-by-step evolution and there’s no such thing as a jump from A to Z with-out going through B, C, D and so on and so forth,” Kornafel said. “So it’s a little bit at a time.” About 20 percent of students who responded to the survey noticed better quality in the food over the past year, and five stu-dents said there are now more choices. See RATHBONE Page 3 Students influenced by social media Sands Casino faces potential new tax increase By CATE PETERSON Associate News Editor Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf pro-posed a tax increase on slot games pro-vided for gamblers in Pennsylvania casinos. The tax will impact the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, which is frequented by Lehigh stu-dents and community members alike. Under the current law, the Sands Casino is not required to pay taxes on the money it gives away in vouchers or promotional-play cards. These items are given to custom-ers as a way to promote the casino. George Mease, a valet supervisor, has been working at Sands since it opened in May 2009. The voucher system has been used at the casino since its opening, Mease said. “Everybody that uses the slots uses the vouchers,” Mease said. “They have to.” People perceive reality as it is described and shown on social media. Individuals receive the majority of news content through various social media platforms, according to Janey Lee, assistant professor in Lehigh’s department of journalism and communication. Lee, who studied communica-tions with a specialty in com-puter- mediated communications, recently published research about social media and political involve-ment. She focuses her research on young people’s perception of political communication on social media. She believes social media is an expanding and evolving outlet where young people are exposed to new information that they are not By DANIELLE CAMPBELL Assistant Visuals Editor necessarily seeking. Lee used a publicly available data set from Pew Research Center to conduct her research about questions surrounding the topic of article content and if one responds to various comments on social media. “Social media use itself can lead to political view change,” Lee said. “I looked at both social media lead-ing to political view change and/or more political issue involvement on social media. I tested if these are possible.” Lee said there are other factors that spark political view change, too, such as who posted an arti-cle or how many people liked or shared it. She wanted to test how these affected people’s under-standing of news content. After proposing a diagram of her hypothesis of the effects of social media, Lee gathered the results of her data and created a new diagram. “Just exposure is not strong enough, but discussion is import-ant and information seeking moti-vation is important,” Lee said. “If you use social media just for entertainment use, you lack the motivation.” Lee said people need to have a desire to change their views, and content online is not enough to change their opinions. “What’s important, what’s cru-cial, is actually getting involved in discussion,” Lee said. If someone seeks information with the goal of learning and pos-sibly forming a view on a topic, involvement in the discussion is necessary. Some people, regard-less of the information on social media, will not change their opin-ions, in part because they have similarly minded friends on social media platforms who hold the same view as them. This confirma-tion bias can prevent some people from seeing all sides of an issue. “Usually I would ignore a polit-ical article unless the caption See SOCIAL Page 4 See CASINO Page 2 Professor researches students’ perceptions of issues on social media |
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