Brown and White Vol. 131 no. 2

              The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 2
Monday, September 13, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Students adjust to new bus routes, schedules
Sharon Shen/B&W Staff
Students board the brown route bus Friday afternoon. Each of the
three lines have a specific color, with brown corresponding to the
Packer Express.
By SARAH BOYLE
B&W Staff
See BUSES Page 3
At the start of this academic
year, students arrived on campus
to new classes, new professors and
a new bus route to add to their
daily routines.
On Aug. 29, Transportation
and Parking Services kicked off
its initiative to improve trans-portation
throughout the campus.
The remodeled bus routes provide
students with three new forms
of transportation: the Campus
Connector, the Mountaintop
Express and the Packer Express.
The late-night TRACS service has
not undergone any route changes.
Although Transportation
Services staff members hope the
new campus-wide routes will soon
become second-nature to those
who use them, the changes have
served as a source of confusion
to many students returning to
campus.
Jon Marotta, ’18, a resident of
the Sigma Phi Epsilon house, is
still working to become accus-tomed
to the new route. Marotta,
who typically rides the bus to
his home on the Hill, said he has
had the unfortunate experience
of waiting to ride up the Hill and
having a bus pass by him on its
new route around campus.
Robert Bruneio, the manager of
Transportation Services, said the
Packer Express was developed in
response to the student body’s
request for faster transportation
around campus.
The route provides a 12-minute
total loop from Packer Avenue
and back to that same stop. There
is a six-minute travel time to the
Alpha Tau Omega and Alpha Phi
stop and a six-minute return time.
Sonia Velez, ’17, a member of
By MATTHEW COSSEL
B&W Staff
This year marks the 15th anniver-sary
of the Sept. 11 terror attacks
that shook the country. Though
many of this year’s first-year stu-dents
were only 3 or 4 years old on
that tragic day in 2001, the memory
of those events lives on at Lehigh.
On Sunday, Student Senate host-ed
the third annual flag memorial
on the UC Front Lawn to honor
the lives lost on Sept. 11. Members
of the Lehigh community reflected
on the tragedy using the hashtag
#LUremembers.
Professors and faculty members
who worked on campus during the
attacks reflected on their experi-ence
and on the post-Sept. 11 atmo-sphere
on campus.
Professor Frank Gunter from the
department of economics, a marine
veteran who has taught at Lehigh
since the mid-1980s, recalled the
atmosphere on campus 15 years
ago.
“Lehigh’s first reaction was the
right one,” he said, remarking on
the fact that Lehigh continued
business as usual with classes. He
recalled being commended by one
of his students for not altering the
scheduled lecture due to the events
of the day.
Lloyd Steffen, the university
chaplain, led a service in Packer
Memorial Church on the night
of the attacks. He said the main
emphasis of his speech that night
was a commentary to encourage
See SEPT. 11 Page 3
Roshan Giyanani/B&W Staff
LEFT: Aislinn Strohecker, ’18, the secretary of Student Senate, places
memorial flags on the UC Front Lawn on Sunday morning. RIGHT:
LUPD officers and students from various campus groups help plant
flags in memorium of the Sept. 11 attacks Sunday morning.
Members of the Lehigh community reflect on the
campus atmosphere 15 years after Sept. 11
‘A lot of hugs, a lot of tears’