Brown and White Vol. 132 no. 1

              The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 1
Friday, February 3, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
In her four years studying engi-neering
and international relations,
Sanjana Chintalapudi, ’17, has had
three female professors. Only one
taught an engineering course.
“If I don’t find people, especial-ly
women — forget about them
being Indian because that’s even
fewer — in the fields I’m pursuing,
I’d be scared to pursue that field
because I would be standing out,”
Chintalapudi said. “So I think it’s
important, especially at Lehigh, to
have diverse faculty, especially in
engineering because oftentimes it’s
white males. It makes me question
how hard of a time I’m going to have
pursuing (a career in) my field.”
Diversity in faculty is regarded as
a national problem and is reflected
at Lehigh. Systemic factors, such
as the amount of available minority
candidates and their retention by a
school, contribute to the problem, as
well as the low number of minorities
graduating from these programs.
According to the university profile
the Office of Institutional Research
compiles every year, Lehigh had
a total faculty of 521 professors in
2015. Of these, 168 were women.
In other words, men outnumber
women 2-to-1.
That’s not the only disparity
between groups. Out of the 521
faculty members, 369 were white.
According to the university’s diver-sity
profile, 3.5 percent of the faculty
was black (non-Hispanic), 3.5 per-cent
was Hispanic and 13 percent
Asian or Pacific Islander, among
other minority groups. These sta-tistics
do not break down race and
ethnicity by gender.
Percentages for both black and
Hispanic faculty members at Lehigh
are lower than the national average,
which sits at 9.2 percent for black
faculty and 4.5 percent for Hispanic
faculty, according to a Time article.
The diversity profile breaks down
each college’s diverse faculty by plac-ing
black (non-Hispanic), Hispanic,
Asian or Pacific Islander and two
or more races statistics into what it
calls domestic minorities. According
See DIVERSITY Page 4
Fixing ‘the pipeline’: diversifying faculty
By GABY MORERA
Editor in Chief
Lehigh’s falls below
the national average
for diversity among
faculty members.
Social worker Heather Ev-ans
of The Valley Against
Sex Trafficking visited cam-pus
to discuss the dangers
and reality of the sex trade
in surrounding community.
See Page 5
By MARISSA McCLOY
Design Editor
Ashley Omoma/B&W Staff
Amanda Slichter, an assistant director of Residence Life and training and education coordinator for the Pride Center, holds a sign at the Rally of Solidarity. The sign reads, “Undocuqueer Solidarity.”
Members of the Lehigh communi-ty
gathered Tuesday for a Rally of
Solidarity in response to President
Trump’s executive order on immi-gration.
The order, enacted Jan. 27, bans
citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia,
Sudan, Syria and Yemen from enter-ing
the United States for 90 days.
Among those affected by the exec-utive
order are 55 Lehigh students
who call those nations home.
“There are students who might
want to go home and can’t leave the
country and there are others who are
worried that they won’t be able to
finish their programs,” said Cheryl
Matherly, the university’s vice presi-dent
of international affairs.
Juan Palacio Moreno, ’16, ’17G,
was one of several speakers at
the rally, which was organized by
Lehigh’s No Lost Generation club.
Standing before the crowd that had
gathered near the university flagpole,
he spoke about his own experience
as an immigrant and refugee in the
United States, as well as his inter-action
with refugee students at the
University of Tübingen in Germany
this summer.
“The current policy enacted by this
administration is not based on sta-tistics
or reality, but rather racist
fear and xenophobic fiction,” Palacio
Moreno said.
Mohammad Pirhooshyaran of the
Iranian Student Association cited the
feats of Iranian scientists, including
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first female
Field’s medalist, to emphasize the
importance of international scholar-ship.
“This order will kill the hope of a
mother to be with a pregnant daugh-ter,
will kill the hope of a son to see
his sick father for the last time, and
will kill the hope of a student, like me,
who aspires to pursue higher educa-tion
in the U.S.,” Pirhooshyaran said.
The No Lost Generation club, the
second of its kind in the country, is
an organization led in coordination
with the state department that aims
to raise awareness about the refugee
crisis. Katie Morris, ’18, the pres-ident
of No Lost Generation, said
Tuesday’s rally was organized in only
a few days, as she and several group
members started planning the event
less than 24 hours after the executive
order was issued.
When choosing speakers for the
rally, the group aimed to have multi-ple
students share their stories, and
also to diversify the event’s schedule
by having Sarah Stanlick, from the
See REFUGEES Page 2
A show of solidarity
INSIDE LIFESTYLE
Lehigh students rally in protest of
executive order