Brown and White Vol. 130 no. 4

              The Brown and White Vol. 130 No. 4
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
By KATIE MORRIS
Assistant News Editor
Lehigh administered the first
campus-wide survey since 2006
last semester to assess the exclu-sive
and fragmented nature on cam-pus.
In response to results shared
in January, a set of suggestions was
presented by the Council for Equity
and Community.
Twenty-two percent of those who
answered the survey believe the
campus climate is a negative one,
and roughly 85 percent believe this
negative climate is “institutional and
systematic,” according to the results.
The council’s recommendations
aim to create a more inclusive and
positive environment on campus,
steps to which would include educat-ing
students, faculty and staff about
diversity as well as conducting more
in-depth surveys to understand com-mon
trends about campus sentiment
about hostile community environ-ments.
These recommendations are
similar to the set of recommenda-tions
that were made after the last
climate survey was administered,
according to Jennifer Swann, pro-fessor
of biological sciences and tri-chair
of the Council for Equity and
Community. She said there is over-lap
in the recommendations because
Lehigh’s past four presidents have
not been as focused on creating an
inclusive environment on campus as
they could have been.
“The problem at Lehigh is that
there is no ‘one’ Lehigh,” Swann said.
“We are colleges. We are depart-ments.
We just don’t have that one
thing. We need to build that.”
Pride Center Director Chelsea
Fullerton is excited about the chang-es
that will ensue because of the sur-vey.
She said the Council for Equity
and Community is working to ensure
that the recommendations are exam-
The Council for Equity and
Community suggested
solutions for creating
inclusive campus
D-Life talks
race issues
with visiting
students
Warren Square updated after complaints
By REBECCA WILKIN
Assistant News Editor
See SURVEY Page 3
Three percent of Lehigh students
identify as black or African American
and 9 percent identify as Hispanic,
while 62 percent of students identify
as white, according to the Lehigh at
a Glace page.
To create a more diverse univer-sity,
the Admissions Office hosts
Diversity Life Weekend to bring
accepted students who represent
regionally, socioeconomically or
racially diverse backgrounds to cam-pus.
These sorts of applicants are
less common at Lehigh.
The goal of Diversity Life Weekend
is to encourage students to enroll,
and the Admissions Office works to
depict life at Lehigh as accurately as
possible. This effort includes address-ing
some of the racial issues that
have plagued Lehigh’s past. Group
leaders discuss previous incidents
such as the egging and vandalism of
See D-LIFE Page 2
Sarah Dawson/B&W Staff
Warren Square D is located at 222 Summit Street on Friday. Warren
Square D recently underwent multiple renovations, including the
stairwell, lounge and the kitchen.
By ANDRE VERDUZCO
B&W Staff
Several houses in the Warren
Square Complex underwent ren-ovations
this summer and winter
break after students complained
about the living arrangements.
The kitchens in both Warren
Square A and D were renovat-ed
over the summer, and new
flooring and carpeting were
installed in these houses, accord-ing
to Ozzie Breiner, the director
of Residential Services. A bath-room
in Warren Square D was
refurbished over the winter break
along with the kitchen in Warren
Square F.
“I think they actually did a
good job,” said Eugene Vivino, a
former resident of Warren Square
A and previous member of the Eco
House Live Lehigh Community.
“It was a process to get there, but
they did a good job.”
After the Lehigh administration
decided to transfer the Eco House
— one of several Live Lehigh
communities in the complex —
from Warren Square A to the
less-maintained Warren Square
D, Vivino and other residents
See WARREN Page 3
Made by Liz Cornell, Kelly McCoy
RESPONSES INDICATE DIVIDED CAMPUS