The Brown and White

10/20/2026

Lehigh men’s and women’s cross country teams have continued to dominate Lafayette, adding another dual meet victory on Sept. 25th. This extends the men’s team’s win streak to 27 years straight and the women’s to 21 years straight.

The men delivered a strong performance with 15 points, the lowest possible score in a cross country dual meet. Cross country meets are scored by the order the runners cross the finish line. The first runner to cross gets one point, the second gets two and continues until every runner in the dual has crossed the finish line.

The women scored 27 points, beating Lafayette’s 30 points.

Lehigh cross country head coach Debbie Utesch, who’s in her 30th year coaching, said the streak holds more significance than just one race.

“No one on the team is 27 years old, so the last time that Lafayette won, our current team wasn’t even born,” Utesch said.

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Lehigh men’s and women's cross country teams have continued to dominate Lafayette, adding another dual meet victory on Sept. 25th.

10/18/2026

Visiting professor Shay Rabineau hosted a guided hike through South Mountain Trail with Lehigh’s Berman Center for Jewish Studies and Environmental Studies Program.

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10/17/2026

Lehigh football suffered a 48-38 loss to Cornell at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York. This game marks Lehigh’s first regular-season loss since Oct. 19, 2024, and Cornell’s first win over a top-five team since 1939.

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10/16/2026

Last season Josh Hand became the Lehigh men’s ice hockey head coach with the most wins, surpassing a 100-win milestone.

He's been coaching at Lehigh for 10 years and spent the decade prior coaching other programs.

With experience within the sport, Hand said this year with the team, is special.

He said the group is full of talented student athletes, especially exemplified through senior leadership.

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Photo courtesy of Courtesy of Jesse Heinberg

Head coach Josh Hand said this year the team is special, full of talented student athletes, especially exemplified through strong senior leadership.

10/16/2026

Sarah Naumes is a resident of South Bethlehem.

Fall has begun, and Lehigh has transformed into a campus that looks like the setting of a movie. Just a few blocks from the institution, a different scene is shaped by years of uneven investment and ineffective governance by the city of Bethlehem.

In the two-plus years my family has lived in South Bethlehem, just adjacent to Lehigh, there have been multiple documented shootings and incidents involving gunfire in our surrounding neighborhood.

In the first incident after our move, the police knocked on our door in the middle of the night to ask us to check that no one in the house had been injured or killed by a stray bullet.

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Photo by Sarah Naumes.

10/16/2026

Greek life can shape vital parts of the college experience. For many students, fraternities and sororities offer a place to find community, participate in philanthropy and build a social life.

But that sense of belonging hasn't always come without its consequences.

For survivors of sexual assault in higher education, a headlining case is an everyday lived experience, with trauma that isn't solved by a temporary suspension.

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Illustration by Kindah Qaissi/B&W Staff.

Cornell University's response to the alleged gang r**e, shows how colleges fail survivors and let r**e culture persist on campus.

10/15/2026

“Stop hiring humans.”

A few months ago, I stepped outside my apartment building in New York City to find these words plastered to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus stop.

“The era of AI employees is here.”

An ad, paid for by the artificial intelligence company Artisan, features this emboldened call to action, layered atop a woman’s face. That day, that woman stared me down as I waited for the bus that would take me to work.

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A student journalist argues that AI's "inevitability" is a myth, from its environmental toll to its threat to human work.

10/15/2026

When most people think of emergency medical services, they picture high-stakes, life-or-death situations. For Brooke Bourgal, ‘27, it was no different.

As a shy, first-year pre-med student navigating an overwhelming club fair, she cautiously put her name down at the Lehigh University Emergency Medical Services (LUEMS) table.

“I was thinking, ‘It’s up to me to save someone’s life,’” Bourgal said.

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Photo courtesy of Michelle Tellez

10/15/2026

On Tuesday, former NASA astronaut Linda Godwin spoke to Lehigh students about the importance of compromise and civic participation during an event titled “Voting and Space.”

The event was organized by a collaboration between Lehigh’s Community Service Office and Astronauts for America, a nonpartisan organization of former NASA astronauts. Founded this April, the group of over 100 former astronauts focused on protecting constitutional democracy and fostering civic engagement, according to their website.

The event is part of a series called the Vote for Freedom campaign, put on by Astronauts for America aimed at reaching college students ahead of the November midterm elections.

Godwin said Astronauts for America began out of conversations of former astronauts who shared concerns about the current direction of the political environment.

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Former NASA astronaut Linda Godwin spoke to Lehigh students about the importance of compromise and civic participation.

10/15/2026

First-year Amrinder Gill spoke with The Brown and White about his cricket career, his goals and how he balances playing professionally and completing his civil engineering degree.

Q: What was it like for you to grow up in Bethlehem, attending a local high school, and then decide to come to Lehigh?

Coming to Bethlehem was a culture shock for me. I lived in India until 2019 because my dad relocated here. There weren't many cricket clubs that I could join near me, so my dad put me in a cricket club in New Jersey. Once I got to high school, I started taking academics seriously and had cricket on the side. I also played volleyball all four years of high school, which has been such a great experience for me to be on another team. I ended up at Lehigh through early decision because it’s 15 minutes away from my house, so I can commute easily, and the engineering program is exactly what I was looking for.

First-year Amrinder Gill spoke about his cricket career, his goals and how he balances playing professionally and completing his civil engineering degree.