Some 10 Lehigh undergraduate students met with University President Alice Gast this past Friday afternoon to discuss replacing the Maze Garden on Third and New streets with a comparable garden on a site similarly accessible and convenient for the community.

The talk went well, according to John Pettegrw, Lehigh's South Side Initiative director.

The group of Lehigh students who have been working at the garden with, among others, Boys and Girls Club children, will lead the effort to have a new garden in place by the beginning of the 2014 growing season.

At Friday's meeting the students emphasized their interest in collaborating with Southside merchants and other community members in building the new garden.

Lehigh's Facilities Services will help in the construction, while the office of Community and Regional Affairs will develop lines of communication with the City of Bethlehem for working out details about a site, its water source, electricity, and the like.