Provost Pipes Accepts Presidency of RPI

In Section 2 In Sports An Associated Collegiate Pi-ess Five-Star All-American Newspaper Four years and and a National Pacemaker johnny Depp two ECC titles for does the Big Molly Larkin Apple page B4 page B1 FREE FRIDAY Provost Pipes accepts presidency of RPI ~J:to~~~~;?,onovan have learned a lot by watching university's Center for Composite a ceremony at RPI on Wednesday. academic priorities while After 19 years, R. [former university president E.A.] Materials and became the center's As RPI president, Pipes said he investing in high priorities. Provost R. Byron Pipes was Trabant and Roselle." director in 1978. He was hopes to broaden the cultural He said the university made Byron Pipes will appointed president of Rensselaer Debra Townsend, director of appointed dean of the College of basis of the five, mostly science $1.2 million in academic cuts for Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in RPI public relations, said Pipes Engineering in 1985 and was oriented schools on campus. 1993-94 but has invested leave the university Troy, N.Y., this week, and will came highly recommended. chosen provost in 1991. He is also He also said RPI, like most $700,000 into new initiatives. assume his new duties July I. Townsend, who served on the a member of the National schools of higher education, is in Similar cuts and investments in july for the Pipes, who has served as 17-member search committee Academy of Engineering. the midst of budget cutting. have recently been made at RPI, provost, or second in authority to which started in September, said, Townsend said 12 candidates But, Pipes, as university budget Townsend said. Rensellear the president, since 1991, said his "He has a premier reputation in were invited to visit the RPI director, will have an experienced "All the candidates we viewed 19 years at the university have composites and is very highly campus, and the final decision pair of scissors to pack. seriously have had budget Polytechnic lnstitue prepared him for such a thought of." was madt.; by the Board of He said he will maintain experience," she said. promotion. In 1974, when Pipes arrived at Trustees at the institute. Pipes priorities similar to those used at President David P. Roselle said in Troy, N.Y. "It is a step up," Pipes said. "I the university, he co-founded the officially accepted the position in the university, by cutting low see PIPES page AS NAACP "Students like to come to my stand in chapter between classes for a bagel and coffee, or returns soda and chips." - Herb Thomson to UD By Kelly Gilbert and Charles Creekmur "We will try to modify Slaf( Reporters The National Association for the the ordinance ... it's Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Collegiate Chapter not as simple as it returns to the university this looks on the surface." semester to assist black students on campus. - Mayor Gardner Horace Trent, the organization's president, said the chapter is taking new directions in leadership to adequately represent and aid all Photos by Trudi Schmidhausler black students. "(NAACP] will be different from Herb Thomson Mayor Ronald l. Gardner the Black Student Union (BSU)," Trent said, "because it will have a strong legal wing." To create these political strengths, he said the university's chapter is rapidly forming You can't fight City Hall, or can you? allegiances with black leaders in the state and surrounding communities. By Lisa Goodman if they made an exception for Trent said he and a number of Staff Reporter Street vendor lobbies Newark City Council to have his Thomson, others would follow. black students felt the need to bring In an effort to keep his vending The council said every aspect another powerful black truck parked in the Amstel license renewed, students and professors join the fight of the problem will be properly organization back on campus to Avenue spot where he has been analyzed before any decisions are assist with problems concerning the since 1988, Herb Thomson His vending license expires March 31 and "He's benefitting students and professors," made. administration, such as the alleged pleaded his case before Newark will not be renewed, officials said. Kofford said. "Maybe it is possible to modify The university, Thomson said, police brutality incident on Laird City Council Monday night. According to the council, Thomson has not the ordinances to deal with this issue." feels he is a "friendly competitor" campus in September. But he was not alone. complied with two city ordinances. The council told Thomson if there is a way to and supports his efforts, but has Timothy Brooks, dean of About 20 student and faculty The council said Thomson violated an adjust the ordinance to fit his and others' needs, yet to actually help him out. students, said the NAACP has done supporters turned out to protest ordinance stating mobilized vending vehicles then an effort will be made. City Manager Carl F. Luft said an excellent job at the university in the council's refusal to renew are not permitted to remain stationary, except on However, the council said they cannot make a the situation arose when people the past. Thomson's vending license Main Street. law based around one person's isolated problem. began complaining about a lack of "I welcome the group back to because he is in violation of city The other ordinance Thomson has violated is Councilman Anthony S. Felicia said he would oarkine soaces in front of Smith campus," Brooks said, "and we will ordinances. in regards to feeding the. meters more than once agree to try to create a new ordinance in a fair Hall . be happy to work with them." Thomson's vending truck has while parked in the same spot. and legal manner. "We are trying to do the best The collegiate chapter at the been selling snacks to students Thomson presented the council with a "Thomson is meeting the community's needs, we can [for Thomson] under the university phased out, he said, after and faculty outside of Smith and petition signed by 1,185 members of the and I would be in favor of creating a new situation at hand," Luft said. Marvin Olds, key student leader of Purnell Halls almost every day for community who want him to stay. ordinance in an effort to resolve his problem," Thomson said to the council, the organization, graduated last the past five years without ever Economics Professor Kenneth John Kofford Felicia said. "Students like to come to my year. Trent said he has being denied a license. spoke on Thomson's behalf at the meeting. But several members of the council said that see VENDOR page AS experienced difficulty in forming the chapter due to "tremendous student apathy," although white students on campus have been supportive. One goal of the collegiate chapter, Trent said, is to reevaluate College Democrat Assassination 101: tactics used to combat and address such issues as the Ku Klux Klan New course examines the death of JFK march on Main Street in February. He said he felt the unity rally, By Kristen Livolsi publicizing the theory of the receives state job Staff Reporter held in Newark Hall during the assassination as a conspiracy march, should have followed Students tired of the involving the Central Intelligence instead. Ex-president named youth coordinator classroom, bored of assignments Agency, the Mafia and other "People have to see first hand By Stacey Bernstein the non-paid pa;ition will be"' recruiting or frustrated with lectures will government agencies. what they are about and then learn Anisrant Features f!/itot more young people into the Democratic have the opportunity this summer Allan Fanjoy, administrator of how to organize against that," Trent The former president of the Party. to study first hand the special sessions, said he is trying said. university's College Democrats is "I want to try to link up all of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. to establish a feasible cost for He said the organization is also making a new niche for himself in the younger Democrats," he said "I would A university professor will students interested in the course. concerned with incoming black political arena. like to repeat the success I've had a1 the bring students to the scene of the "We're waiting for responses administrators not willing to Loyd Burcham (EG JR), who university a1 a larger level." Kennedy assassination to piece from travel agents and for the sufficiently represent black worked with the Democratic Party of Mary Margaret Williams, executive together testimony and physical number of students participating students. Delaware (DPD) for the past 10 months director of the DPD, said Burcham' s evidence to determine exactly before we can say anything "I hope to see this NAACP on such projects as the Clinton/Gore appointment is the first of its kind. what happened in Dealey Plaza definite," Fanjoy said. chapter not only establish an campaign, was appointed Youth "Over the past eight to 12 years Nov. 22, 1963. Kelly , who taught a Winter agenda," Trent said, "but to execute Coordinalor for the group March 17. young voters have not been voting lloyd Burcham The criminal justice Session course about the it to the fullest ends." Burcham said the main objective of democratic and have not been department is offering a six Kennedy incident as well as supporting democratic candidates," process of getting to know "the wants credit travel course between June "Study of Murder," which also Williams said and needs of the 20 to 35-year-old age 9 and July I, which will be taught focuses on the assassination, said During the Clinton campaign, there group.

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