LA VIE COLLEGIENNE LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE’S STUDENT RUN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1924 VOLUME 86, NO. 6 | FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Board of Trustees votes tomorrow CASSANDRA BARRETT ’19 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Lebanon Valley College Board of Trustees will meet Friday, Feb. 8, to vote on proposed budgetary restructuring. In 2018, the Board charged a faculty task force with the responsibility of
creating a list of proposed spending cuts in order to reduce $1.6 million from academic and organizational costs. The task force assembled a preliminary list of recommendations and presented it to the Executive Committee of the Board on Dec. 5, after each recommendation was
endorsed by a faculty vote on Nov. 29. The faculty voted not to endorse involuntary separations. The Board is now set to vote on the final list of recommendations at its meeting Friday night. An early retirement incentive, involuntary separations of faculty, the altering
of faculty appointments and the elimination and consolidation of several majors and minors are among the items on the list of recommendations to be voted on by the Board. La Vie will continue to follow this story.
Dutchmen Pantry opens as part of MLK service week makeshift pantry in the basement of Frederic K. Miller Chapel, accessible to students with food insecurity, which can be defined as a lack of reliable access to sufficient quantities of affordable and nutritious food. The purpose of this new resource is to combat food insecurity by giving students access to the basic resource of food. Jen Liedtka, the service and volunteerism coordinator at LVC, told attendees of the grand opening that, though there is yet to be sufficient data relating to food insecurity on our campus, “enough students have expressed challenges related to food access that action in the form of a modest pantry needed to happen now, as we continue to grow our understanding of the extent of this need.” The Pantry comes at no additional cost to The College. Student organizations, sports teams or faculty groups may sponsor the Pantry for one month by collecting and donating supplies. The recent Photo by: Brianna Metsger outpouring of interest in this
BRIANNA METSGER ’19 COPY EDITOR A new resource pantry for students celebrated its grand opening on Monday, Jan. 21, as a kick-off to the Martin Luther King Jr. Week of Service at LVC. The Dutchmen Pantry is a small
Photo by: Ryan Gilroy ABOVE: Marvin Worthy walks down the aisle in Miller Chapel during the opening ceremony for the Symposium on Inclusive Excellence. The symposium was held on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
opportunity has ensured that the pantry will be stocked for well past the spring semester. In addition, Metz will take items leftover from dining hall meals to package and donate to the Pantry. “By Metz doing that, it’s doing two things: creating access to food for students while also preventing food waste,” Liedtka said. Many LVC staff, students, community members and alumni have been instrumental in the
creation of the Pantry. Members of the planning team include Jen Liedtka; Austin Cassatt, junior biology major; Tatianna Garcia, senior exercise science major; Caitlin Lenker, acting director of residential life; Jonas Fester, head baseball coach; Alice Rulapaugh, senior assistant for student affairs; Renata Williams, assistant dean for engagement and inclusion and director of Pantry opens continued on Page 2
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