Academic Properties to Manage Apartments

No. 3 October 9, 1987 Volume 63 Poth Apartments Robbed by Edward Hartnett O f The Triangle Last Wednesday afternoon, between 12:45 p.m. and 2:45 p.m., three apartments were broken into in the Drexel-owned Poth apartment complex on Powelton Avenue, between 34th and 35th streets. The front door of the apart ment building was undamaged, however it can easily be forced open, according to the residents. Photo/Joann Gayuski “You can just push them This year’s Convocation, held on Monday, October 5th, featured right open, it’s no trouble at guest speaker Hobart G. Cawood of the National Park Service. The all,” said one of the residents. sparsely attended ceremony received local media attention when it The criminal or criminals then became known that the Faculty Council urged the faculty to boycott went up to the third floor and the ceremony, rather than appear with President Gaither. broke into the two apartments there by kicking the doors oj)en. They completely shattered one The other door was stronger, “The other door ton the third doof, breaidng it in half and tore according to the third floor resi floor] was a piece of junk. They it off the hinges. That apartment dent who’s apartment had been probably shattered it with one was uninhabited, but contained robbed. “They had to keep kick.” the belongings of a tenant who kicking my door until they The resident was unsure what had moved out but still hadn’t broke the frame,” said the resi had been taken from the other removed everything. dent, a recent Drexel graduate. See Poth on page 5 Academic Properties to manage apartments by Edward Hartnett corporated (API), the for-profit si|||||^in g through the belong C f The Triangle subsidiaiy of Drexel which ings of an apartment resident owns the properties, will begin when he believed the apartment The Poth apartments, which to manage them on next Thurs to be empty. According to the line the south side of Powelton day, on October 15th. resident, the occupants of the Ave between 34th and 35th Three of the Poth apartments apartment had reported an elec Streets and part of the east side were broken into last Wed trical problem to the building of 35th Street, are currently be nesday. superintendant and had then ing managed by Hertzfeld According to Whitney, API is gone out, leaving a friend of Assoc. Academic Properties In- assuming control because it has theirs, who was asleep in a loft. grown to the point that it can The maintainance man knocked, comfortably assume control. when he recieved no reply, Whitney refused to comment entered with his key. He fix^ on Hertzfeld’s handling of the the problem, and, not seeing the EC E students voice opinions apartments except to say that girl in the loft, had looked they “ did a good job of setting through the occupants posse up a system to monitor income sions and stolen an expensive by Cheryl Potocki students felt they could better engineering was and what it in and expenses.” necklace, the tenant reported. Triangle Staff Writer handle the ECE environment if volved, most said they didn’t A resident in the Poth com The employee was recently their teachers were more ac- know. One freshman EE plex building which was next discharged by Hertzfeld Assoc. This is the first in a series o f cessable and just plain replied, “I think it has door to the burglarized apart Craig Meldosin, the Hertzfeld three articles on the Electrical friendlier. something to do with math and ment building complained the agent in charge of the Poth and Computer Engineering The ECE department at Drex science, and I know I’ll be all the security was “ riduculous.” apartments, refused to comment department. This series was el University has 46 full time set and have a good job.” He reported that his bicycle had on Hertzfeld’s apparent bungl sparked by numerous com faculty members, 1443 Most students who dislike the been stolen only a few weeks ing of the security situation at plaints from students and undergraduate students, and ap department do so because of a ago from the downstairs the Poth apartments and grew several letters that were printed proximately 350 graduate few negative experiences with hallway. abusive when pressed. Accor last Spring in The Triangle. students, of which 120 are full some faculty members. According to this re^sident, a ding to one tenant of the burgl- time. Many students felt they had Herzfeld employee had been see API on page 2 Many Electrical Engineering Of the approximately 320 their fist ‘bad’ encounter during students are dissatisHed with the pre-junior year, in particular their department, according an Said one junior the Electical Circuits and informal poll taken by The Systems II class. For current Faculty Council to meet Triangle. currently in school, juniors and seniors, the Circuits The majority of the Electrical n class was taught in part by Dr. is to wait for the Board’s deci and Computer Engineering **Nobody seems to Fischl. While many students by Marc A. Smith sion concerning Gaither. The (ECE) students interviewed complained about Fischl’s Triangle Staff Writer Council is “ partly in a reactive 99 stated that a negative faculty at care. grading policies, more students posture,” according to Dr. titude was the biggest reason were dissatisfied with Dr. Yar- On Friday, October 9th, the Charles Morscheck, Council they did not like the department students who started as man (who is no longer teaching Faculty Council will meet to Secretary. Although the Coun at Drexel. freshmen ECE undergraduates at Drexel), co-teacher of the discuss a request from the Board cil has been quiet, “ the level of Said one junior currently in in 1983, 225 are expected to course. of Trustees for final information feeling and determination is as. school, “Nobody seems to graduate in 1988. It is not until the junior year concerning the crisis surroun strong as ever.” care.” Looking back, many of the that they feel somewhat more ding University President The Council has postponed its Although undergraduate seniors felt that when they were welcome in the ECE depart William S. Gaither. The Coun University Faculty Meeting un students saw several other pro freshmen they didn’t know what ment, many EE’s said. Juniors cil has taken a strong position til after the October 21 st deci blems with the department, in they were getting into. One and seniors alike stated that this opposing Gaither after charges sion of the Board on whether to cluding outdated lab equipment, senior said “ I had no clue what was the year they were taught of sexual harassment were made retain Gaither, because it was the absence of a grading I was doing.” Some of the pre by their first “good” teacher. public. The Board requested in felt that there was no point for grievance procedure and sent freshman ECE’s don’t Most frequently metioned as a formation from Gaither, the University faculty to meet with teaching assistants with profi seem to either. When asked well-taught course was Elec- Deans and Faculty Council. a president whose tenure was cient English skills, most what they thought electrical see ECE on page 5 The Council’s current policy still in doub^ The Triangle October 9, 1987 API to manage apartments continued from page I entire complex, and certainly University Fee whereabouts discovered ed apartments, Meldosin was security is a top priority,” never very helpful concerning Whitney said. API is in the pro security. Meldosin also refused cess of installing a leasing ofR ^ by Marc A. Smith prior years. The renovation of Currently, the Physical to comment on whether the poor in the building next door to the Triangle Staff Writer the dining facilities caused Education Center and Nesbitt security situation had anything pilfered {q)artment building. Ac last year’s hike, while the cur Hall are being paid off to do with why Hertzfeld was' cording to Whitney the on-site Many of the services pro rent operating losses in the through the student fee. dropped by API as a manage office “will go a long way to vided and maintained at Creese Student Center caus According to Drexel Com ment company for the Poth stop this sort of thing.” Drexel are supported not by ed this year’s hike. ptroller, Joseph Ragg, these apartments. The residents of the apart tuition, but rather by the The amount of the student and other costs have been According to Whitney of ments that were broken into University Fee. The fee is a function of the level components of the fee for the API, the entire security system complained that Hertzfeld was Undergraduate Student of enrollment and the amount past 20 years. The percentage in the Poth apartments will be extremely unresponsive until General University Fee is of costs incurred by various of allocation to each recipient redone when API resumes con they contacted Ron Whitney of currently $416.00 per year, programs. More than 53% of of the funds generated by the trol. Until the locks and doors API. Temporary security up from $402.00 in the 86-87 the student fee is used for the fee has also not changed are rqyaired in the robbed apart messures are being taken until academic year. The 86-87 fee payment of loans on Univer significantly in that time. ments, Hertzfeld will be supply the entire complex can be was $38.00 higher than the sity buildings and projects.

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