The Triangle Volume 66 • Number 11 'Serving Drexel University Since 1926...' January 11,1991 Telephone Student Drop/Add Activity Fee Being Hike Considered Proposed
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E ntertainm ent O p i n i o n S p o r t s We’ve got a new Entertainment Editor, so in This week’s packed opinion section presents news While term break afforded many students a addition to the usual look at the film scene you can and view on a variety of subject, from the music chance to take it easy and relax, the m en’s basketball get the story on an evening with the Philadelphia recording industry to the Persian Gulf Crisis to a team was taking it the hard way, in loss after loss. Orchestra, dinner at Chili's, and, oh, why not, you peek at the news through the eyes of Fidel Castro’s The Dragon name was redeemed, though, by the can win a bunch of free stuff. See page fourteen.... favorite journalists. Take a look at page ten.... women’s swim team. Check it out on twenty-four.... The Triangle Volume 66 • Number 11 'Serving Drexel University Since 1926...' January 11,1991 Telephone Student drop/add activity fee being hike considered proposed Suzanne Hinton John Van Ness Triangle Staff Writer Of The Triangle Drop/add is a nightmare. The Amidst all the talk of budget first day of the term you have to problems and never-ending rise at dawn, trudge down to the tuition hikes that has recently Creese Center, and stand in line echoed through the halls of with a herd of half asleep Drexel, a proposed fee hike of a students who are also trying to different nature gained attention ensure themselves a low priority earlier this week. number. But no matter how The proposition is an odd one early you get there, it always because of its source—the seems like your number is never students. In a letter dated low enough to be called before A view of Drexel’s snow covered campus from the comer of BRIAN YATES/TRIANGLE January 2, 1991, to Senior Vice noon. “Group number seven!” 33rd and Market Streets. President for Administration Dr. they yell, and your num ber is Richard W. Schneider, President 36. You’ve already waited in the of the Student Congress Rob ticket line for half an hour, and Holston asked for an increase in now you’ll wait in the lounge all % the student activity fees for morning for your number lo be G overnor to cut aid by 3.5 undergraduate day students. called, only so you can wait an Bob Pritchett___________ Office. came as a surprise to the Currently, the student activity Some school officials have adm in istratio n , w hich is eternity in the lines to speak Of The Triangle fee (a part of the general with your college’s repre raised concerns over the currently trying to reduce the University fee) for sentative. All this while you are Pennsylvania slate aid to governor’s authority to cut school’s budget by $6 million in undergraduate day students is missing the classes for which Drexel, currently at $5.85 funding set by state legislation, order to deal with falling $33 a year. Student Congress you pay. Wonderful.... million, will be cut by but Stoner said “I believe there revenue. wants to raise it to $75 a year, Drop/add is no longer, approximately $205,000, if is precedent for the executive “The Commonwealth [of which, according to Dean of however, a universal nightmare Governor Robert Casey’s branch [withholding funds...- Pennsylvania! has a serious Students Diana Hackney, “is of lines and waiting. The nearby proposed budget cuts go into although] you have to do it financial concern... land! the closer to the national average.” University of Pennsylvania’s effect. According to President across the board. budget cuts will impact us in “Last year- the Student PARIS (Penn’s Automated Dr. Richard D. Breslin the cut “I would think that he would some degree,” Breslin said. Activities Funds Allocation Registration Information will affect Drexel’s state aid for like to have their [the Noting that “the (Uni Committee (SAFAC), which is System) allows students to program funding, not research. legislature’s! concurrence,” said versity’s! suspense fund is the in charge of deciding how much register for and drop and add All non-preferred appro Stoner, noting that there would only serious rainy day money money the various student courses over the telephone. priations are slated for 3.5% cuts probably be some negotiations, the institution has,” Breslin said organizations will get, received Telephone operators handle calls this fiscal year (July 1, 1990- which would affect all non he was not sure how the funds almost $600,000 in requests twenty hours a day between 7 June 30, 1991), said Tom Stoner, preferred appropriations equally. would be made up. from student organizations but See TELEPHONE on Page 5 of the Governor’s Budget The announcement of the cuts only had $200,000,” said Hackney. “[The fee hike! will benefit the students but it is Despite enrollment drop Drexel retains A- rating difficult to change the billing. We will be waiting for a Catherine Campbell Drexel’s retention of this rating to .service the debt. competition between the response from Dr. Schneider.” is good news for the school According to Assistant nation’s institutions, especially Triangle Staff' Writer “If [the students! know every because many other universities Treasurer Vincent Stach Drexel in the North East corridor. dollar is going directly to the Despite obstacles such as a have been dow ngraded in the has floated five bond issues Another contributing factor to students they may be willing to nationwide decrease in the annual ratings. Standard & since 1983. These bonds, sold to the rating is the school’s go with the higher fee,” said number of students planning to Poors main concern, however, raise money for the University, endowment. Drexel’s Schneider. attend college, Drexel was able was what impact the continuing were issued to individual endowment at $76.5 million as At this time no immediate to retain A- bond rating by decline in enrollment would investm ent buyers or in large of June, 1990, is good but decision on the matter is Standard & Poors this fall. have on the University’s ability blocks to institutional investors; cannot be compared to places expected from Schneider. “I in 1990 Drexel’s bond issue like Harvard or the University of understand Student Congress’ totaled $19,265,000. Texas. The larger the need for more money. I’m real The school’s rating is based endowment the more secure the concerned about any increases on many factors such as student bonds are to the investors. quality, student demand, price Stach stated that he was very See STUDENTS on Page 4 competitiveness, available pleased with the presentation financial aid, and the overall that was made to Standard & financial strength of the Poors, the rating organization; I n d e x university. The school’s the two-and-a-half hour morning financial aid status is important presentation was made by because it shows that the school members of the freasurer’s staff. January 11,1991 can support a variety of students Dean of Enrollment that may not otherwise be able Management Thomas P. to attend because of financial Weickowski, President Richard Ed-Op.......... ...........,1 0 difficulties. Breslin and other members of Entertainment......... 14 Drexel’s A- rating also the Board of Trustees. After ,,,17 reflects the school’s ability to lunch the S&P representatives ...18 attract students. The current were taken on a tour of the declining eighteen year old campus. ,.24 population is creating greater 2 • The Triangle • January 11,1991 Students to be added Channel 54 brings Drexel right into to Priorities Review your living room twelve hours a day Jeannette Mulligan______ and concert bands. The CO-OP including a children's singer, a office at Drexel is planning a Latin American group, a brass Triangle Staff Writer Committee show entitled "Career band, and even a rap group. On the fourth floor of Highlights." The show is One disadvantage that Bob Pritchett MacAlister, Drexel has its own designed to help high school students have is that none of Of The Trianf>le television studio. Until now, the students select a career. Drexel's dorms have cable station has dedicated itself to The station is not limited to television, so watching the show The administration has agreed to place student creating promotional materials only Drexel events, however. may be difficult, to say the least. representatives on the President's Priorities Review Committee, for the University and features G eorge M cC ollough, who is However, for the students that said Provost and Vice President for Academic'Affairs Dr. for local channels. Last April, currently in charge of the studio, do have cable at home, the show’ Dennis Brown. however, Drexel was offered a stated, “We hope to interest not will be aired on Channel 54 in “We will add students to the PRC but we will do it as the regular spot on cable television. only Drexel students in viewing only a few days. new (fiscal 1 year starts," said Brown. .Student Vice President for Drexel will now share a our show, but also students from Currently, the station is being Student Life Monica Turner said, “I would like to see that channel with the University of other schools, along with the operated by McCollough, [student appointment to the PRC] now because with the Pennsylvania. Each school will general public of Philadelphia Lamont Wilson, and some decisions being made now I think students need a say what's be allotted twelve hours daily it.self." Drexel students.