Nestled on the left-hand side of the Dyer Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a small room populated by a worktable and a few rolling swivel chairs. In the back, a small plastic poo emoji is being constructed on the print bed of one of two large 3D printers, its disk-like eyes glistening in dark […]
Every year at Lafayette a new class of rising freshmen pore over packing lists, scroll through endless Facebook pages in search of friendly faces, and prepare to ease their families into their imminent departure from home. For international students, however, an acceptance letter is not the only document between them and a college degree, and […]
The year 2020 hails not just a historic presidential election, but also the recurrence of another highly significant event: the nationwide U.S. Census. By providing census data to the federal government and assisting local organizations in boosting the census response rate, Lafayette is playing an important role in the 2020 census. “The census is so […]
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s canonical work “Hedda Gabler,” a 19th century play about a pregnant woman bored to the point of recklessness by the trappings of society and her marriage, may or may not be a “well-made play” – that is, at least, according to Heddatron’s 10-year old narrator Nugget. This 2008 reimagining of the […]
In a nook of the Dyer Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Yusuf Dahl, the center’s director, sits before a small sign. On it are two words: the first, struck through, reads “mistake.” Below sits an alternative: “lesson.” It is a fitting backdrop for a man who has managed to see all his major setbacks with silver […]
Lehigh University put a pause on all Greek life operations last week due to ongoing problems with alcohol, hazing, and drug abuse. At the peak of its membership in the 1980s, Lehigh’s fraternities numbered 34, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. As recently as 2016, Lehigh was ranked the No. 4 party school in the nation […]
There is a quiet change brewing in a freshly renovated office on the ground floor of Markle Hall. Kara Howe, currently the Associate Registrar for the college, will become the registrar in March, following the retirement of current registrar Frank Benginia. Changes in the registrar’s office often go unnoticed, but their work is an integral […]
Easily identified by his cheery, gentle smile and fluorescent green safety suit, Steve Tashner has quietly observed and shaped the changing landscape of the campus through his work as a groundsman during his 18 years at the college. Raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, Tashner grew up doing the same sort of planting he would […]
While the #MeToo movement and self-branding in the internet age may seem irrelevant to early 19th-century British society, Kate Hamill’s modern adaptation of William Thackeray’s novel “Vanity Fair” (1848) seems to draw those modern parallels. Similarly, we see those same parallels at Lafayette’s production of “Vanity Fair.” “Vanity Fair” centers around the story of two […]
With the confirmation of over a hundred cases of the mumps associated with a flare-up at Philadelphia’s Temple University in February, mumps breakouts have since been confirmed on Lehigh Valley campuses. Lehigh University had a confirmed case of the mumps in late August, while Moravian College in neighboring Bethlehem confirmed on September 23rd that five […]
