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The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 6 Tuesday, September 27, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Women in STEM represented at Lehigh By TANNER BUSS B&W Staff Malcolm Scobell/B&W Staff TOP: (from left) Society of Women Engineers officers Maria Castro, ’18, President Cassandra Gakos, ’17, Elisabeth Oglevee, ’18, Kianna Lauck, ’18, Rachel Santangelo, ’17, and in front Kira Gobes, ’18, talk about the upcoming WE16 conference in Philadelphia at a club meeting Thursday in Maginnes Hall. LEFT: Lehigh women engineers attend a Society of Women Engineers meeting Thursday. The club will attend the WE16 conference this October. Students and professors discuss the progress in representation and perception of women in engineering and computer science University imposes rules for political programming At Lehigh, 28 percent of engi-neering majors and 15 percent of computer science majors are women. Lehigh falls above many universities in terms of female rep-resentation in these fields but is not among the top 20 universities, according to a Washington Post article. In light of the recent push for gender equality in the workplace, the number of women pursuing engineering and computer science degrees has increased at some of America’s top colleges and univer-sities, according to the Post article. Nationally, men outnumber women 4 to 1 in engineering and 5 to 1 in computer science. Although men still dominate these fields, recent pushes for gender equality have been successful. Students and professionals in the engineering and computer sci-ence fields have seen this change firsthand. Computer science major, Rachel Santagelo, ’17, has noticed changes in perceptions of women in computer science. Santagelo said the first time she took a computer science class was in high school. “I was the only female in the class and right off the bat there were jokes like ‘go make me a sandwich’ — really derogatory com-ments about me being the only girl there and that I couldn’t do (the work),” she said. The Lehigh community is gen-erally more accepting of women in computer science, Santagelo said. “Girls know there are guys smart-er than them,” she said. “Guys know there are girls smarter than them. I never really had any specif-ic problems with it.” When professor Mooi Choo Chuah of the computer science depart-ment was pursuing her undergrad-uate degree in electrical engineer-ing at the University of Malaya in Malaysia, there were only four women out of about 200 engineer-ing students. Chuah has been in the computer science and engineer-ing field for around 30 years. “Things have changed a lot from many years ago,” Chuah said. Both students and professors noted Lehigh’s inclusive environ-ment. Although men greatly out-number women in these degrees, most students and professors do Winter abroad includes option to travel to Cuba By DANIELLE CAMPBELL Assistant News Editor With busy schedules and rigorous academics, not every Lehigh under-graduate can find the time to add a semester-long experience into their schedule. To help combat this issue, Lehigh has introduced other options to make abroad experiences more accessible to busy students. Through winter abroad programs, students have the opportunity to travel to countries such as Cuba, Costa Rica, Martinique, Germany, South Korea, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Katy Rene, the assistant director of Study Abroad, said all of the pro-grams count for three credits and are taught by Lehigh faculty. “The (programs) range in size and destination,” Rene said. “They stay standard from year to year, but occasionally, based on student inter-est, we’ll either have a program take a year off or have a new program.” The lengths of abroad opportu-nities range from 10 days to three weeks, depending on the desti-nation. This year’s addition is an abroad program in Cuba. Jack Lule, the chair of the jour-nalism and communications depart-ment, said he first led the program two years ago. “At that point I felt like Lehigh should have some type of presence in Cuba,” Lule said. “Most Americans hadn’t been there before.” More than 50 years ago, the U.S. placed an economic embargo on Cuba, which was on the verge of a nuclear war. This embargo affected travel between the U.S. and Cuba. Earlier this year, that embargo was lifted, and the countries have worked to reestablish diplomatic relations. With the relatively new changes, safety issues are at the forefront of discussion about travel to Cuba. “When a group travels to Cuba, they’re actually required to work through some kind of Cuban edu-cation provider, and so those people are aware of any issues the group should be aware of,” Rene said. “The students have a safety orien-tation on the first day, but we don’t have any more concerns about going See STEM Page 3 See POLITICAL Page 2 See CUBA Page 4 By CATE PETERSON Associate News Editor In the fall of 2004, Michael Moore visited Lehigh as part of the “Slacker Uprising Tour” to colleges in swing states, aiming to encourage people to vote in that year’s presidential election. The event was supposed to be non-partisan, Lehigh’s general coun-sel Frank Roth said during a Sept. 20 meeting. Moore was supposed to promote voting, but not who to vote for. However, in the last moments of his presentation, Moore told the audience to vote for John Kerry, the Democratic candidate. In doing so, Roth said Moore violated multiple university polices. Lehigh is a nonprofit institution of higher education, a designation that allows the school to enjoy tax-ex-empt status. In order to maintain this, however, Lehigh must comply with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, which states the uni-versity is prohibited from “(partici-pating) in, or (intervening) in (includ-ing the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.” After the Moore incident, Roth revisited the guidelines to be followed on Lehigh’s campus. These guidelines are outlined in a document entitled the Guide for Ensuring Compliance with Lehigh’s Tax Exempt Status during Political Campaigns. This year, Americans will elect their 44th president. During election years such as this, Lehigh’s compli-ance guide is particularly significant. The guide includes rules pertaining to political fundraising on campus, event registration and event compli-
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Date | 2016-09-27 |
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FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 6 Tuesday, September 27, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Women in STEM represented at Lehigh By TANNER BUSS B&W Staff Malcolm Scobell/B&W Staff TOP: (from left) Society of Women Engineers officers Maria Castro, ’18, President Cassandra Gakos, ’17, Elisabeth Oglevee, ’18, Kianna Lauck, ’18, Rachel Santangelo, ’17, and in front Kira Gobes, ’18, talk about the upcoming WE16 conference in Philadelphia at a club meeting Thursday in Maginnes Hall. LEFT: Lehigh women engineers attend a Society of Women Engineers meeting Thursday. The club will attend the WE16 conference this October. Students and professors discuss the progress in representation and perception of women in engineering and computer science University imposes rules for political programming At Lehigh, 28 percent of engi-neering majors and 15 percent of computer science majors are women. Lehigh falls above many universities in terms of female rep-resentation in these fields but is not among the top 20 universities, according to a Washington Post article. In light of the recent push for gender equality in the workplace, the number of women pursuing engineering and computer science degrees has increased at some of America’s top colleges and univer-sities, according to the Post article. Nationally, men outnumber women 4 to 1 in engineering and 5 to 1 in computer science. Although men still dominate these fields, recent pushes for gender equality have been successful. Students and professionals in the engineering and computer sci-ence fields have seen this change firsthand. Computer science major, Rachel Santagelo, ’17, has noticed changes in perceptions of women in computer science. Santagelo said the first time she took a computer science class was in high school. “I was the only female in the class and right off the bat there were jokes like ‘go make me a sandwich’ — really derogatory com-ments about me being the only girl there and that I couldn’t do (the work),” she said. The Lehigh community is gen-erally more accepting of women in computer science, Santagelo said. “Girls know there are guys smart-er than them,” she said. “Guys know there are girls smarter than them. I never really had any specif-ic problems with it.” When professor Mooi Choo Chuah of the computer science depart-ment was pursuing her undergrad-uate degree in electrical engineer-ing at the University of Malaya in Malaysia, there were only four women out of about 200 engineer-ing students. Chuah has been in the computer science and engineer-ing field for around 30 years. “Things have changed a lot from many years ago,” Chuah said. Both students and professors noted Lehigh’s inclusive environ-ment. Although men greatly out-number women in these degrees, most students and professors do Winter abroad includes option to travel to Cuba By DANIELLE CAMPBELL Assistant News Editor With busy schedules and rigorous academics, not every Lehigh under-graduate can find the time to add a semester-long experience into their schedule. To help combat this issue, Lehigh has introduced other options to make abroad experiences more accessible to busy students. Through winter abroad programs, students have the opportunity to travel to countries such as Cuba, Costa Rica, Martinique, Germany, South Korea, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Katy Rene, the assistant director of Study Abroad, said all of the pro-grams count for three credits and are taught by Lehigh faculty. “The (programs) range in size and destination,” Rene said. “They stay standard from year to year, but occasionally, based on student inter-est, we’ll either have a program take a year off or have a new program.” The lengths of abroad opportu-nities range from 10 days to three weeks, depending on the desti-nation. This year’s addition is an abroad program in Cuba. Jack Lule, the chair of the jour-nalism and communications depart-ment, said he first led the program two years ago. “At that point I felt like Lehigh should have some type of presence in Cuba,” Lule said. “Most Americans hadn’t been there before.” More than 50 years ago, the U.S. placed an economic embargo on Cuba, which was on the verge of a nuclear war. This embargo affected travel between the U.S. and Cuba. Earlier this year, that embargo was lifted, and the countries have worked to reestablish diplomatic relations. With the relatively new changes, safety issues are at the forefront of discussion about travel to Cuba. “When a group travels to Cuba, they’re actually required to work through some kind of Cuban edu-cation provider, and so those people are aware of any issues the group should be aware of,” Rene said. “The students have a safety orien-tation on the first day, but we don’t have any more concerns about going See STEM Page 3 See POLITICAL Page 2 See CUBA Page 4 By CATE PETERSON Associate News Editor In the fall of 2004, Michael Moore visited Lehigh as part of the “Slacker Uprising Tour” to colleges in swing states, aiming to encourage people to vote in that year’s presidential election. The event was supposed to be non-partisan, Lehigh’s general coun-sel Frank Roth said during a Sept. 20 meeting. Moore was supposed to promote voting, but not who to vote for. However, in the last moments of his presentation, Moore told the audience to vote for John Kerry, the Democratic candidate. In doing so, Roth said Moore violated multiple university polices. Lehigh is a nonprofit institution of higher education, a designation that allows the school to enjoy tax-ex-empt status. In order to maintain this, however, Lehigh must comply with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, which states the uni-versity is prohibited from “(partici-pating) in, or (intervening) in (includ-ing the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.” After the Moore incident, Roth revisited the guidelines to be followed on Lehigh’s campus. These guidelines are outlined in a document entitled the Guide for Ensuring Compliance with Lehigh’s Tax Exempt Status during Political Campaigns. This year, Americans will elect their 44th president. During election years such as this, Lehigh’s compli-ance guide is particularly significant. The guide includes rules pertaining to political fundraising on campus, event registration and event compli- |
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