{"id":148416,"date":"2026-03-25T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148416\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:11:08","slug":"student-senate-sends-official-resolution-demands-actionable-steps-the-brown-and-white-student-senate-sends-official-resolution-demands-actionable-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148416\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Senate sends official resolution, demands actionable steps – The Brown and White Student Senate sends official resolution, demands actionable steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Senate XXVIII sent an official resolution titled \u201cLehigh University Code of Conduct Discrimination Sanction Amendment\u201d to the Lehigh community on Wednesday, shortly after President Joseph Helble sent a statement about racism on campus<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The resolution includes a list of demands and a petition form<\/a> in response to the current campus climate, and serves as an effort to improve the overall community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The resolution said racism was once again highlighted on campus by the finding of a second BORG depicting blackface.<\/a> This incident comes after the finding of a BORG at a fraternity party, labeled \u201cBORG Floyd\u201d on Feb. 23<\/a>, leading to a Greek pause.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis secondary act of deliberate racial discrimination, particularly affecting black students on campus, has caused large numbers of the student body to demand decisive action from the administration,\u201d the resolution said. \u201cStudents urge the university to implement policy changes to uproot the bigoted environment that is present within our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The email stated that the Student Senate demands the administration to \u201creconsider and strengthen\u201d the current sanctions under the University of Code of Conduct<\/a> related to incidents of discrimination and bias.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Student Senate calls for a change under Appendix A, regarding the sanction for Discrimination and Discriminatory Harassment from \u201cwarning through expulsion\u201d to Disciplinary Suspension that remains in effect through graduation, which would shift the response from a warning to accountability.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additionally, the resolution called for the university to require members of the Lehigh and Greek life community to participate in \u201canti-racial discrimination online training.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBe it further resolved during what is colloquially known as \u201cGreek Prep\u201d \u2013\u2013 mandatory informative sessions before the \u201crushing process\u201d for any given fraternity or sorority \u2013\u2013 a segment of the presentation should be dedicated to educating prospective members on the historical and institutionalized racism within the Greek system, as well as the creation of cultural greek organizations and the Cultural Greek Council (CGC) as a result of that,\u201d the resolution said.<\/p>\n

The resolution is identified as Resolution SSR38-002<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Student Senate XXVIII sent an official resolution titled \u201cLehigh University Code of Conduct Discrimination Sanction Amendment\u201d to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4818,119,121,120,334,29652,295],"class_list":["post-148416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-2-minute-read","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-brief","tag-student-senate","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}