Thetri Volume 66 • Number 25 'Serving Drexel University Since 1926..." April 5,1991
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N ew s Opinion Sports Senator John Heinz was died in a plane crash just Our columnists ponder on the difficulty with Baseball season has begun, women’s lacrosM^;^ outside the city. Six othm were also killed including Drexel tuition, and what can be done about it. how welt underway and the crew team started tteir s£i^ ' two children from an elementary school where the students can change the Univmity, and the adven son. For a complete round up of the start of spring debris landed. Details on page 3... tures in Iowa. Turn to page 12... sports at Drexel turn to page 28... TheTri Volume 66 • Number 25 'Serving Drexel University Since 1926..." April 5,1991 V a n R . U . reduces w ork t o b e force because o f c l o s e d state aid reductions Ian Broverman_________ Gary Rosenzweig_______ of the administrative positions Triangle Staff Writer Of The Triangle will remain until June 30. Due to a drop in enrollment, The text of the letter desig the Residential Living Office has On March 25, the University nates a limited number of pro decided to close the Van began the process of eliminating fessional positions available to Rensselaer dormitory, located ai 94 funded positions. This reduc the administrative/professional 3320 Powelton Avenue. When tion program is the result of a employees who are without posi the 220-bed facility shuts down recent announcement of a $3.5 tions. Those who are not reas for Summer term, it will remain million cut in state aid and the signed will be given a .severance closed for the 1991-92 school “declining demographics of col package as if they were being year. lege-bound seniors,” according terminated. The decision is currently to a letter sent to the heads of the Schneider said on Wednesday being viewed as temporary, with University by Senior Vice that the position eliminations the dorm closing for one year President for Administration, will save the University about only. No one seems particularly Richard Schneider. $2.2 million. happy with the finding, and both “Our goal ... was to imple Schneider was concerned that students and administrators are ment a program that was as sen the Governor’s cuts would con keeping fingers crossed that sitive as it could be to our tinue past this year. “If the there will be a last-minute occu employees and, at the same time, Governor’s cuts remain and are The Van Rensselaer Dormitory, Drexel’s oldest residential hall. pancy surge to keep Van R. open. protect the financial stability of permanent, I will have to make The idea of closing down was TIM DAILEY/TRIANGLE the institution,” according to the more cuts ... or we will have to first considered at an administra taken the projected drop in high Currently, those sources are letter. increase tuition revenues ... but tive meeting among Residential school seniors into account, it projecting that there will be 1040 Only 62 of the 94 positions we don’t want to do that,” he Living Director Dianna Dale, wasn’t until the new enrollment new students in the halls, with were occupied. 34 of the posi said. Vice President for Student figures and the 1991 Residence 439 returning. Since the other tions are administrative/profes According to the letter, the Affairs Dr. W oodring, and Dr. Hall Retention Survey figures residence halls can accommodate sional, 31 are classified, and 29 Provost and Academic Deans are Hallam, Assistant Vice-President were received that they realized space for at least 1596 beds are union personnel in the Phys also reviewing the elimination of for Student Life, on March 4th. that drastic action had to be without Van R., administrators ical Plant department. Drexel auxiliary and adjunct faculty Although the administration had taken. See DORM on page 5 employs a total of 1,535 people positions. Auxiliary positions are full-time and 1,896 part-time one-year, full-time appoint (including students who work ments, and adjunct faculty mem for the University part-time). bers are hired to teach one or Disseminator out of circulation All classified staff will be several courses a year. Bob Pritchett that “I made the decision that 1 Rosenzweig "it wasn’t wholly offered “comparable positions at Schneider said these faculty wasn’t going to do the advertis un ex p ected , because w e ’d grade level and will have positions would simply not be Special to the Triangle ing anymore.” The paper was always been running on a employment continuity.” The renewed for next year if they The Disseminator, an inde completely dependent on adver shoestring.” letter also ensured that “the Uni decide to eliminate them. pendent, alternative paper pub tising revenue for its support, The Disseminator began pub versity was sensitive to equal An ‘outplacement’ workshop, lished by Drexel students, shut and without that income could lishing on July 20, 1990, after employment opportunity issues.” conducted by Manchester Asso down over term break. Gary not continue to publish. financial mismanagement caused All of the classified employ ciates, Inc., is being conducted Rosenzweig, former editor-in- The staff was informed on a shutdow n of The Triangle. ees should be transferred to their this week for those employees chief of The Disseminator, said Monday, March 25; according to Rosenzweig said that it was new positions by Monday. A few leaving the University. “originally intended that we were The Triangle," and accord Student dies in car accident ing to Jack Persico, formerly the Counseling Center will entertainment editor of The Triangle News Desk Disseminator, “it was going to take budget cuts be a temporary thing to fill the On Monday, April 1, John void for the remaining issues of Deb Monaghan According to the Public Hinojosa, a junior Chemical summer term.” Triangle Staff Writer Relations Office, it is required Engineering major, was killed Between summer and fall by law to have some kind of in a car accident in Maryland. terms, Rosenzweig and Susan J. According to Arnold Farley, counseling available to students. The car he was traveling in Talbutt, his partner and manag the Director of the Counseling If there were not a counseling was struck by an oncoming ing editor of the paper, decided Center, there is no truth to center on campus, the University car that h’ad jumped the medi to keep publishing The rumors that the Counseling would have an outside contractor an. Disseminator as an independent Center will be the next victim of fulfill their duties. Hinojosa, 22, was traveling paper even after The Triangle University budget cuts. He was At a Student Congress meet- on interstate 95 on the way resumed publication. “We asked to implement budget See BUDGET on page 5 home from his parent’s home thought we could do a better job, reductions, but the Center will in Virginia. He was about to leam more, and enjoy it more if not close. start his co-op job in John Hinojosa we were an independent newspa “There will probably be mini Philadelphia at the Marshall also killed, and his grandfather per.” mal cuts, due to the Center’s Index Laboratory of Dupont. He was was hospitalized, in critical Rosenzweig and TalbuU regis retention value. Drexel would eighth in his class at condition. tered The Disseminator as a lose a lot if the counseling center April 5,1991 N esham iny H igh School in There was no word at press trade name, got a post office box, closes and gets contracted out.” .......8] 1987 and was reportedly an time of the condition of the and began to build the organiza Farley said. excellent student at Drexel and other driver. tion from a collection of ex- Richard Woodring, Vice a member of Tau Beta Pi, an A memorial service will be Triangle staffers into a distinctly President for Student Affairs, Entertainment.....,.,...14 ! honorary engineering society. held on Saturday, April 13 at different paper, pursuing new said “there will be a reduction in Also in the car with 1:00 p.m. in St. James advertisers, recruiting new staff funding, but (the Counseling Hinojosa were his grandpar Episcopal Church, 330 S. members, and setting its own Center) will remain open and Classifieds...............20 ents. His grandmother was Bellevue Ave., Langhome. style and tone. At the time of its fulfill its function. 1 think we Sports,.............. .....28 i See DISSEMINATOR on page 5 need the Counseling Center.” 2 • The Triangle • Apnl 5,1991 Faculty Senate approves new charter, debates smoking policy (lary Rosenzweig According to the new plan, Committee on Student Affairs, Both plans provide education sm oking policies will be d is the Provost will notify all eligi gave a short presentation sup al programs' to aid stnokers in cussed further at the next meet O f The Trianf>le ble faculty every June 1 for porting iinplementation of such adjusting to the policy. ing. Facully Senate approv'd a leave the following year A four- a policy as soon as possible. She Most members of the Faculty Finally, the Senate considered revised ^'tiarler >>•' FaLUhv nage tiroposal should be submit advocated a starting date of Senate spoke favorably of estab draft resolutions recommending Governance ol Drexel ted by that faculty member by Sept. 1, 1991, saying that a later lishing a policy, although they that Drexel find Si million for Universiiy by a vote ot 23 to I Oct. 31, which will eventually date would only "delay the failed to reach a consensus the Office of Enrollment during its lirst meeting ol the reach a Sabbatical Leave advantages." regarding the starting date and Management for each of the spring term last Tuesday The ommittee.