Brown and White Vol. 134 no. 7

              The Brown and White Vol. 134 No. 7
Friday, February 23, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
STUDENTS DEMAND DIVESTMENT
Lehigh’s Hyperloop club switches gears
By REBECCA WILKIN
B&W Staff
By JULIA ADELIZZI
B&W Staff
In 2017, Lehigh’s Hyperloop club
made it to the third phase of the
SpaceX Hyperloop competition,
which challenges students to design
and build a transport pod prototype.
Team members submitted a final
design package in the fall. Though
they soon learned they would not
advance to the next round, they were
not disheartened. Instead, the group
used it as an opportunity to switch
gears.
Raymond Tetyevsky, ’20, a team
captain, said Hyperloop pods need
specific high-tech rails and tunnels
to function, which club members
did not have access to, leaving them
unsure of how their pod would per-form
once installed.
“We’ve decided the best thing is to
detach ourselves from (Hyperloop)
and move on to bigger and better
things,” Tetyevsky said. “Something
that will make a difference (at
Lehigh).”
Alexander Radetsky, ’20, a team
captain, said club members spent
the last two years developing hyper-loop-
related pods. They want their
next project to be short-term and
relevant — something the team
can visualize and implement in the
moment.
That’s when an old prospect
became a new goal.
The club’s attention was redirect-ed
toward a competition it had dis-covered
in September but set aside
during the Hyperloop competition.
HeroX’s “GoFly” challenges com-petitors
to create a personal flying
device that achieves vertical takeoff
and landing, travels a minimum of
20 nautical miles and can carry one
person.
“We’ve always been a transporta-tion-
oriented club,” Radetsky said.
“GoFly is a competition that targets
a different form of transportation:
aerospace.”
Tetyevsky said the GoFly compe-
See HYPERLOOP Page 3
Courtesy of Lehigh University website
After two years of competing, Lehigh’s Hyperloop club did not make it to the third
phase of the SpaceX Hyperloop competition in 2017. Now, the club will focus on
HeroX’s “GoFly” competition and creating a Lehigh-specific transportation system.
Courtesy of the Green Action Facebook page
In this Oct. 20, 2016 file photo, members of the Green Action club hold a rally on the front lawn. Members of Green Action are asking the university for an immediate freeze on
its investments in any of the top 200 most polluting fossil fuel companies, as defined by the Carbon Underground 200, and for a gradual divestment from these companies over
the course of the next five years.
The board of trustees will discuss
divesting the university endow-ment
from the fossil fuel industry
at the request of Lehigh’s Green
Board of trustees to discuss fossil fuel investments
See FOSSIL FUEL Page 2
Action club at the board’s March 1
meeting.
Green Action president Andrew
Goldman, ’19, said the club has
been calling on Lehigh to divest
from the industry for five years.
Last October, members of the
club submitted an 18-page report to
the university’s board of trustees.
The report, which had been in the
works for over a year, included a
call for Lehigh to divest a percent-age
of its $1.16 billion endowment
from top-polluting fossil fuel com-panies.
Divestment — the opposite of
investment — is the process of
removing capital from stocks, bonds
or funds. Since 2010, a growing