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S i / u Triangle Music Pott results... seepage 12 Volume 70 • Number 15 The Student Newspaper of Drexel University February 3,1995 Feels a lot like spring Students feel sting of crime John Gruber good look at their faces. Managing Editor _ “I thought they were going to Andy Taylor thought he was shoot me,” said Taylor. In addi going to die. tion to his coat and $16 in cash, He was walking home from Taylor also lost his driver’s the Wednesday, Jan. 25 men’s license, MAC card and key ring, basketball game, and as he all of which were in his coat neared his apartment on the pockets. The key ring contained 3600 block of Hamilton Street, keys not only to his apartment, he passed three young men. Just but also to his parents’ New as he neared his door, he felt Jersey home. cold metal pressed against the Taylor, a junior majoring in back of his neck. The men had mechanical engineering, had doubled back and were about to never worried much about mug him, 15 feet from his apart crime. Now, he no longer feels ment. safe alone in his neighborhood. “This is a gun. Don’t move,” “I’m looking at living in the one of his assailants told him. dorms next year, or at least get “Give me your money.” ting an apartment a lot closer to Facing away from the mug campus,” he said. “I’m afraid to gers and afraid to move, Taylor go out by myself, especially at felt hands rummage through his night.” The Drexel men’s lacrosse team practices on the artificial turf recreation field on 33rd and Arch pockets. They took his wallet Debby Lopata, however, had Streets. The field has seen plenty of use since Its completion in January. and jacket. reason to be afraid at 9:40 in the By the time he turned around, morning. they were gone. He never got a see MUGGINGS on page 3 New way DUers learning to link Minarik to rate Senior Learn by D U ing students master could increase enrollment by teaching students in satellite resigns teleconferencing so they can visually network classrooms. The students could t h e w o r l d . watch professors teach at Drexel profs as the students sit in teleconfer from OCS Denise Inman an audio-visual network to share encing classrooms in their own AnhDang Stacy Lutkus Editor-in-Chief information about service learn neighborhoods. Assistant News Editor_________ Staff Writer_________________ Pete Seeger and Rande Harris ing. By linking up with other Dr. Andrew Verzilli, founder “The comparatively low Drexel’s course evaluation singing “This Land is Your video conference sites, they pro of the Learn by DUing course, salaries offered by Drexel, the process has been revamped after Land,” all in the context of a mote use of the equipment too. graduate professor and owner of lack of pay raises over a number a Faculty Senate committee required business course? Used occasion^y by adminis the $30,000 teleconferencing of years, and the offer I received redesigned the questionnaires The two tested, with music trators to contaf't colleagues, the equipment, wants to see the to leave aU combined to push me used to judge classes. Although and song, some teleconferencing video teleconferencing may one equipment used, said Dubas. to leave,” stated Senior the new questionnaires have equipment used for connecting day be an instructional delivery The equipment requires conven Consultant Joe Minarik. been available since the begin to other teleconferencers world method for the College of tional phone lines to transmit Minarik resigned, effective ning of summer quarter, some wide. Seniors in the Learn by Business and Administration. the signal. Three rooms in Feb. 5, after sbc years of employ colleges have not yet adopted the DUing course joined the folk Highlands explained, “Faculty Matheson Hall have lines dedi ment at the Oftice of Computing new system. singers as they sang to each other are chomping at the bit” to find cated to its use. If connecting to Services. At Drexel University’s Middle on-screen while in separate out if it is a viable method for a university far away, the cost is “I’m not bitter about the States assessment in 1991, a rooms in Matheson Hall. teaching courses to students not the price of a long-distance salaries, though I am disappoint point of criticism was the The musical exchange was the willing or able to come to phone call. Additional costs ed in the lack of pay raises in University’s course evaluations. culmination of the first four Drexel. The biggest interest cen could include renting the room recent years.” Shortly thereafter, Associate weeks of Learn by DUing class- ter has been the Drexel MBA which holds the equipment. Minarik has been at the Provost for Undergraduate work for Tammy Cheung, Nizar program. Verzilli has used his own University for six years as an Affairs Gail Dinter-Gottlieb Dajani, Rebecca Dubas, Bill Highlands explained how he money to fund the connections OCS employee and four as a stu worked with a Faculty Senate Highlands and Carlos Paraliticci. interprets the College of so far, but showing others how dent. Recently, he worked on committee to develop two They are working out the logis Business and Administration easy it is to operate will encour- Drexel’s World Wide Web pages assessment surveys: one for tics of connecting universities in interest in their progress. COBA see LINK on page 7 in addition to being the primary alumni who have been graduat UNIX consultant and a work ed five years and one for stu shop trainer. dents to complete at the end of a “I think Drexel is on its way term. [to the cutting edge of computer Although some of the colleges technology],” said Minarik. had their own evaluation forms, “ResNet was a major step in the the committee developed a uni right direction. We need to do form questionnaire suitable for more with the World Wide Web all colleges for student assess [and provide] dial-in network ments. The questionnaires were access through modems.” sent to each of the deans prior to According to Minarik, dial-in summer term 1994. access will be coming from the Gottlieb explained that the see MINARIK page 5 evaluations would be distributed to department chairs within the colleges, and that at least one In This Issue third of the college’s course offerings should be assessed at Ed-Op..............page 8 the end of each term. Gottlieb Datebook............... 11 said that one of the premises Entertainment.......12 behind this system was that Comics...................16 “untenured faculty have people looking over their shoulders,” Classifieds..............19 see EVALUATIONS on page 5 U arn by DUing students (left to right on screen) Carlos Paraliticci, Bill Highlands, Rebecca Dubas and Sports.................... 24 Tamnr\y Cheung, demonstrate their teleconference link-up capability. 2 * The Triangle * February 3,1995 News in Brief McNeill to be named CEO of PECO ___ _____ TTie Board of Directors of PECO Energy announced Feb. 2 that Drexel University Board of Trustee member and current PECO F R E E L O V E president Corbin A. McNeill, Jr. will be named Chief Executive Officer of PECO sometime in mid-April. The current CEO, Joseph F. Paquette, Jr., will remain with PECO as Chairman of the Board Right now, we are accepting personal submissions for our and Chairman of its Executive Committee. extra^special Valentine’s Day issue. Bring in a completed "(Trianik a love cow) Valentine’s form located on page 9, or any reproduction Breaker foe evacuates New Tower___________ In New tow er Residence Hall, a breaker room safety device thereof, by Monday, Feb. 6, and we’ll print it in our shorted and started a small fire approximately 8:00 a.m. on Monday, yearly pink issue on Feb. 10 free of charge. Jan. 30. The desk receptionist smelled the smoke and pulled the fire alarm. The fire department and Drexel Security cleared the lobby of resi dence hall staff and made sure evacuated students were not clustered near the doorways. Some students mistakenly believed the evacua tion was due to a gas leak. Need assistance w ith personal or academ ic The 33rd block of Arch Street, from Calhoun Hall to the 7-11 on Lancaster Avenue, and including the New Tower, experienced a concerns or ju st need som eone to talk to? PECO Energy “drop in phase” at roughly 8:00 a.m. A drop in phase makes heavy equipment short-outs or motor burn-outs more likely to occur. The drop was responsible for the short in the breaker DREXEL COUNSELING j room safety device. SERVICES Segall protests PCRM recommendations_____ The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) 2 . recommended making meat and dairy products “optional” for daily Are available for you! ' fo' nutrition. Immediate responses to the recommendations are contro . .a:- versial. Dr. Stanley Segall, Drexel University professor of bioscience and •s- biotechnology, called the recommendation “a mistake.” 925-2159 “This message will confuse people to the point where I fear peo ple will actually be lowering the nutritional quality of their diet by appointments 6 days a week dropping meat and dairy products, said Segall. “I think it’s fine for vegetarians who want to pursue this kind of two locations diet. You can do it if you know what you’re doing nutritionally. But it will be difficult for the majority of people to get the calories and 24 hour answering service nutrients they need with a diet of 15 percent or less of fat.” SEPTA Tokens available in the Dean of Students Office The recommendations were the result of research which shows sr: that heart disease can be reversed by diet and lifestyle changes.