HealthAI<\/a>, a platform that scans x-rays for an immediate medical diagnosis, and he said his entrepreneurial foundation also allows him to believe in the impossible and build something from nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\nGupta said he believes his lack of experience in student government is a strength rather than an obstacle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s because I don\u2019t have any experience in student government that I don\u2019t believe in limitations that (student governments) impose on themselves,\u201d Gupta said. \u201cI present ideas, and people look me dead in the eye and they say that\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gupta is also leading an initiative to make dining dollars accepted at restaurants throughout the Lehigh Valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Gupta said Lehigh would be hesitant to give up the revenue, he found through his conversations with administrators that there\u2019s less than a 10% profit margin for each dining dollar spent. If off-campus restaurants paid 10% of their revenue from dining dollars to Lehigh, the university would make a profit, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Beyond tangible measures, Gupta said he wants to restructure the mindset of Student Senate to a framework based on accountability and addressing the root issue rather than allowing pre-existing expectations to speak for themselves. He said he hopes to induct the next generation of senators with this mindset to keep the momentum going.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt should truly be a question as to why this hasn\u2019t already been done,\u201d Gupta said. \u201cWho is stopping it?\u201dTell me the name of that person. Let\u2019s call that person.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beza Geberesilassie, \u201827, is the chair of the Senate Facilities and Services Committee, supporting six committee members including Gupta.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said Gupta has already been a positive asset to the committee and attests to his go-getter attitude. \u201cWe just immediately started talking about his goals regarding laundry and dining,\u201d Geberesilassie said. \u201cAnd not only did he have goals, but he also had fully thought-out proposals that he had done the work for by already talking to different stakeholders before even joining the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said she invited Gupta to attend a meeting later that week with administration and other operating senators. She said he replied instantly to take the opportunity, with no hesitation<\/p>\n
Geberesilassie also said he put his proposals onto the meeting table for consideration, and since that meeting, he\u2019s been constantly following up with those administrators to push on goals.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe really just took charge of the meeting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
In his personal life, Gupta\u2019s roommate Kai Beattie, \u201830, said his ambition and drive are evident in his lifestyle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDev loves to learn,\u201d Beattie said. \u201cToday, he was teaching himself game theory. He\u2019s always pushing to be the best version of himself.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Beattie said Gupta inspires his peers to do the same.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s always motivating people to try to become the best versions of themselves,\u201d Beattie said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite never being involved in student government, Dev Gupta, \u201830, began his first year at Lehigh by running…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5877,153,155,154,523,9728],"class_list":["post-317005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-4-minute-read","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-people","tag-profile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317005","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=317005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}