Find out about the latest video releases an d Eric Clapton*s ne w live album on page ten... Volume 67 • Number 5 October 18,1991 Founder’s D ay m a r k s D rexel’s centennial Gary Rosenzweig Walter Cronkite to moderate panel discussion celebrating it’s one hundredth Of The Triangle anniversary. will be questions taken from the The rededication ceremony McClements, Jr., chairman of There will be two events Celebration and ceremony audience. The event is being will begin at 6:00 p.m. on 32nd the centennial committee, and following the light show. One is will mark Drexel University’s filmed by Quantum Productions, street. According to Hanshew, it President Richard Breslin. a reception in the Quad open to Founder’s Day this Monday, who have been recording many will start with a “centennial This will all take place on a all, where hors d’oeuvres will be Oct. 21. Several events will take of the centennial events this salute” with trumpets and a specially built stage on the served. The other is a cocktails place starting with a panel year. There will also be a choir. There will be speeches by closed-off 32nd street. There and black-tie dinner for trustees, discussion on the future of continental breakfast served for , George Ross, chairman of the will be a light show featuring the corporate executives, and education moderated by former those attending in Mandell. Board of Trustees, Robert Main Building, which is also administrators. CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite, and ending with a formal rededication of the Drexel University and an exclusive black-tie dinner. The day is one of the main Family to events of the year-long centen­ nial celebration which began last reunite this June. Drexel was officially dedicated on Dec. 17, 1891 with Thomas Edison, Andrew weekend Carnegie and J.P. Morgan in attendance. Catherine Campbell The panel discussion, entitled Of The Triangle “Frontiers of education in the 21st century” will take place From October 18-21 the from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Drexel family will be holding a Mandell theater. The theater reunion to commemerate the seats about 420 and the U niversity’s centenial. More proceedings will be shown live than 250 of Anthony J. Drexel’s on video screens in the cafeteria descendents will meet on below. campus from across the United According to Louisa States and Europe for this pre- Hanshew, centennial coordin­ Founder’s Day event. ator, Walter Cronkite^ will act as Drexel’s decendents cover the moderator for six panelists: many brackets of society including politics, the arts, Mary Francis Berry, seated Studtn$aHdDiraill»n4oauHiii^ Anne ^gUy/THE TRIANGLE professor at the University of finance, science, and other Pennsylvania, George W. Denise Inman Through the urgence of the who stepped into the ring, and fields. His family tree includes Johnson, president of George omnipresent blue and yellow promises of prizes such as T- the Dukes, Van Rensselaers, Mason University, James L. Triangle Staff Writer Drexel Dragons and members shirts and money to those who Devereuxs, DuPonts, Powel, president of the Franklin To celebrate Diexel Univer­ of Public Relations Student stayed. With a flourish, the DJ Vanderbilts, and Wyeths. Other Institute, John Silber, president sity’s centennial, students, ■Society of America (PRSSA) started the record, and the family members include the of Boston University, Niara faculty, and staff joined id “100 there were, enough people Hokey-Pokey began. No one Biddles, Cadwaladers, Cassatts, Sudarkasa, president of Lincoln Hokey-Poicey Steps.” There assembled in the Main actuaUy wins the Hokey- and Pauls. University, and Bernard C. were some e^tra stuUeqis on Building for another one of the Fokisy i but there were judges to President Richard Breslin Watson, president of the hand because a camera crew “Dragon-rDaze” activiues. choose those with exceptional commented, “This is a very William Penn Foundation. from CBS^s Afomitiji The Hokeyrfokey got hpkey aptitude. special event because only four The panel will engage in free A m ^i^a Almeji^ a spot i underway around 1;1S. A dftnce competitipn for universities in the United States discussion at fu'st, with Cronkite wav a free for aikyplie have the founder’s families asking questions. Then there directly involved.” Six members of the Drexel family currently sit on the Board of Trustees. The family members will be Tw o student sexual assaults reported residing at the Ritz Carlton Hotel and spending their Stacey Crown Oct. 4, a female undergraduate President Richard Breslin she was sexually assaulted. The weekend taking part in activities O f The Triangle reported an alleged date rape in stated that, “It is my assailant is described as a black involving the University and the Calhoun Hall that occurred at understanding that both students male, medium complexion, with Centenial celebration. Two sexual assaults on approximately 5:10 p.m. Officer involved were Drexel students.” a mustache, approximately 5’4” Saturday’s activities will Drexel students have been Cofield of the Philadelphia sex On Thursday, Oct. 10, a night to S’6” tall, slight athletic build, include a continental breakfast, a reported to Drexel Security in crimes division is currently student called Drexel Security in approximately 23 years of age, walking tour of the University the past two weeks. On Friday, investigating this allegation. what resulted in a safety alert wearing a white cloth baseball- and several educational work­ which was posted the next day. type cap, a jacket, and also shops regarding the cooperative The alert said: wearing tennis or moccasin-type education and computer pro­ “Drexel University Security shoes. His shoes are described as gram. A group picture will be has received a telephone report possibly cinnamon or orange- taken outside of the gym of over from a female Drexel student colored, with tan bottoms. The 250 relatives. An animated Walt stating that she was sexually assailant is also described as Disney movie entitled “The StifdiW' assaulted. Due to the serious soft-spoken but able to revert to Happiest Millionaire,” which is nature of this non-verified a coarse-sounding voice. based on the life of Anthony J. report, Drexel Security is Drexel Security is investigat­ Drexel-Biddle, will be shown in disseminating the following ing this report. Anyone having the Stein auditorium. Saturday information so that members of any information regarding this night’s event features a black tie ».v M. elicaon. Oilier the community may take report should notify Drexel cocktail party and art exhibition follows: Kcunwth Ppvovar, 43; Adam Blywelw, 16; appropriate precautions. Security at 895-2822 and/or the followed by a dinner in the Brown,7;A«^P|Mton,3. ,, According to the report, on Philadelphia Police Department Great Court. KwadJo A s m the l&MhiMB claw’s Vice Fiwk||tati|a Thursday evening, (October 10), Drexel Security reminds all On Sunday morning, a prayer positioil with 82 vote^^ f o l l o ^ by Joe Di Mtfta. «9: n zza the student was abducted at members of the Drexel com­ service given by Cardinal 15; and JuMin D eA n^lis. iT. ThW w # gunpoint on campus, and taken munity that a Drexel Security Bevilacqua will be celebrated in votes for eachpoiition. to an off-campus location where See ASSAULT on page 3 See FAMILY on page 2 2 • The Triangle • October 18,1991 Library makes do without funding Scott Smith Libraries. Anyone with an research in less time and also Triangle Staff Writer account on the Internet network, provides them with a much including Drexel students, can larger source of journals. New books are not being log in to CARL, a database of Hitchingham said the Drexel added to the shelves of college articles from journals. CARL library would keep copies of all libraries as quickly as they were contains 2 million articles and articles retrieved through CARL ial« air'li Mljr m day*. The inrfem a year ago. The W.W. Hagerty 600,000 are added annually. and other sources, so the articles Library at Drexel University has Hitchingham stated that the would be available to Drexel been forced to cut spending, but library will continue to stock students immediately in the **— Ite car taikte the library is finding alternative those journals which are in future. ways to maintain the quality of highest demand. When a student Hitchingham spoke of a time information available. needs an article that is not in one in the near future when Drexel Drexel University has been of the library’s journals, the students can access the resources forced to limit spending in most library will go on-line with of any library in the world from areas. Dr. Eileen Hitchingham, CARL or other university their personal computer. She Dean of the Library, has been libraries to locate the article. stated that the Development and managing the development of This is what Hitchingham University Relations department •Wi^ dw IfMWla dMMi the Hagerty Library within the referred to as a just-in-ti'me at Drexel has given the library current cost constraints. approach. Once the article is top priorities in development. Journals are an important located, Drexel can "borrow” it Ideally, Drexel University will aspect of libraries, but their from another library. It takes a follow in Virginia Tech’s foot­ inflation rate is considerably couple of weeks for the article to steps and network the entire higher than books. In many arrive at Drexel. If the article is campus, dorms included, so cases, it exceeds 16%. Drexel needed immediately, Drexel can students can access the library University, Lehigh University, have it faxed in less than 24 from the comfort of their own Virginia Tech and most other hours.