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              or ridicule.”
Nine out of 10 students who
are being hazed do not recognize
the act as hazing, according the
Lehigh Student Affairs webpage
about hazing.
According to the
Lehigh Hazing
Assessment from
2012, 75 percent of
respondents said
hazing was “defi-nitely”
or “proba-bly”
occurring on
campus. Of those
who responded to
the survey, over 80
percent said hazing
constitutes: depriva-tion
of beverage or food
by others, deprivation of
sleep by others, consumption of
substances not intended for eating
or drinking, forced consumption
of alcohol and/or other drugs, kid-napping
or abandonment of mem-bers,
engaging in or simulating
sexual acts, being pad-dled,
whipped, beat-en
or kicked, being
tied up, taped or
confined in small
spaces or rooms
and destroying or
stealing property.
The Hawks
Against Hazing
initiative is the
only anti-hazing
event that Panhel
participates in each
year. Daitch said haz-ing
on Lehigh’s campus
is less of a problem compared to
The Brown and White Vol. 130 No. 7
Friday, February 26, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Madi Welker/B&W Staff
Chenfang Wang, ’14G, reacts to the virtual reality glasses in a simulation in Coxe Hall on Wednesday. The
screening included two movies, one on Syrian refugees and another on Ebola.
By KATIE MORRIS
Assistant News Editor
Members of the Lehigh com-munity
strapped on goggles in
Coxe Hall on Wednesday and
were transported to the Zaatari
Refugee Camp in Jordan or the
streets of Liberia, by way of vir-tual
reality glasses.
Participants viewed one of two
eight-minute films through the
glasses. “Waves of Grace,” one of
the two films, followed Decontee
Davis through the streets, into
the schools and around the hospi-tals
of West Point, Liberia, which
was hit by the Ebola epidemic.
“Clouds Over Sidra” showed the
day-to-day life of Sidra, a refugee
girl who lived in a Zaatari refugee
camp in Jordan for over a year.
The glasses immersed the view-er
through the use of sight and
sound.
Viewers watched Sidra as she
kicked a soccer ball across a field
and sat beside her in a cramped
classroom. The video then panned
over the refugee camp, which is
filled with thousands of makeshift
structures and Syrian refugees.
In 2015, Pennsylvania received
112 Syrian refugees for resettle-ment,
according to RefugesinPA.
org. Fourteen of those Syrian ref-ugees
settled in Allentown, which
is home to one of the largest
Syrian communities in the coun-ty.
Lutheran Children and Family
Services works to resettle these ref-ugees
in the Lehigh Valley. Sarah
Stanlick, director of the Center
for Community Engagement,
said Lehigh has partnered with
Lutheran Children and Family
Services for past six years to help
the refugees.
Program promotes prevention, awareness of hazing
Interpretation
of snow delay
policy varies
By COURTNEY MESILAS
B&W Staff
The Hawks Against Hazing
campaign has been expanded to
the month of February to promote
the elimination of hazing in Greek
and non-Greek organizations.
Run by the Panhellenic judicial
board committee, the campaign
was a week long in past years.
This year, the program is com-prised
of three phases: aware-ness,
prevention and intervention.
Carly Daitch, ’16, Panhel’s vice
president of judicial affairs, led
the revamped initiative.
Lehigh defines hazing as “any
action taken or situation created,
whether on or off campus, to pro-duce
mental or physical discom-fort,
embarrassment, harassment
past years, but is still a problem
that needs to be addressed.
On Feb. 16, the initiative start-ed
the program with the aware-ness
phase, which is a social
media campaign to raise aware-ness
about hazing through out-lets
such as Facebook, Instagram
and Snapchat. Posters are
urged to caption images with
#HawksAgainstHazing.
“It’s encouraging students to
bond with their friends, to show
that there’s other bonding activi-ties
besides hazing that will bring
people closer together,” Daitch
said.
She believes organizations
should outwardly show positive
support for members of their
See VIRTUAL Page 4 See DELAY Page 3
By KAREN KONKOLY
B&W Staff
The snowfall and ice accumulation
on Feb. 15 led to Lehigh’s first class
delay of the school year. The campus
community received an LU-ALERT
around 6 a.m. that there would be a
“two hour delayed report time for all
but essential staff.” Classes began at
10 a.m. that morning.
The morning delay meant class-es
officially started at 10 a.m.
Professors teaching 9:20-10:35 a.m.
classes, however, could cancel class
completely, hold an abbreviated
class starting at 10 a.m. or hold class
at the normal time despite the delay.
Pasquale Costa, a professor for
the Integrated degree in Business
and Engineering honors program,
decided to start his Introduction to
Entrepreneurship class at 9:20 a.m.
Costa e-mailed his students that he
would be in class at 9:20 a.m. and his
students were welcome to join him.
He noted that students should not
attend if they felt it was unsafe to
travel to class.
Costa said students had the choice
to attend class, and he does not grade
in a punitive way. Twenty-nine of his
34 students were in attendance.
“I think that behavior says every-thing
about the quality and com-mitment
of Lehigh students,” Costa
said.
Christa Gamboa, ’17, is a stu-dent
in the Introduction to
Entrepreneurship class who received
Costa’s email after she had gotten
ready for class. She found out about
the delay after reading his email but
decided to go attend anyway.
“I like my professor and I respect
See HAZING Page 3
Virtual reality puts refugee crisis in perspective
THROUGH THE EYES OF SYRIANS
Courtesy of Panhellenic Council