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Senzft^ TRI NGLE DREXEL Volume 65, Number 26 May 5,1989 m a y S Through its history, Drexel Block Party bloc "adm inistrator has gone from an Institute to a University, Beginning with by Joe Saunders activities. “When I tell people, they say with Denny Dent, a rock-por the no colleges or co-op and O f the Triangle News of the switch has not ‘What?’,” said John Ponist, trait painter as an opening act. an enrollment of 1,600, the been well-received, Interfratemity Association Block Cheap Trick is scheduled to take school now offers over 30 Fears of inclement weather “People have been really Party chairman. the stage at 2:30. Neither SPA majors and has 12,500 stu forced the cancellation of the upset,” Yamauchi said. “In gen Marburg defended the deci officials nor Yamauchi could say dents, See page 12. annual Block Party yesterday, eral people were resistant sion. whether refunds would be according to organizers of the because they knew it wouldn’t “Cheap Trick is such a picky, offered to students who did not event, A scaled-down alterna be the same.” fussy band [if it rained) they want to go to the concert. tive, a Cheap Trick concert in “A lot of people are upset,” wouldn’t play,” she said. “That Although some students the Physical Education Center is said Student Program would have been really pathet agreed with the decision, virtual set for Sunday instead, accord Association President Deb ic.” ly none were happy with the ing to Gayle Yamauchi, Marburg, whose organization The concert is now set to manner in which it was made. University director of student sponsors the annual party. begin at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday While Marburg was at the meet Once again, throngs students ing that changed the party into a are running for Student concert, she said, Yamauchi Congress positions and once Bresttn, University tie knot in 3-day fete made the decision without con again throngs of students sulting students in SPA or the will vote for the electees. So All classes from 1 p.va, to 5 p.oi event’s co-sponsors. you are not an uninformed .today are cancclied. “We don’t know what the response is going to be,” throng, read the candidate’s IfijUtgoration ceremonies begin at Marburg said. speeches on pages 4 and 5. .2:30 p.m. today in the Physical BdticatioiDsitter. Discontent with the way Yamauchi handled the decision sparked some debate yesterday V Ik; ' ....... in the Quad about a potential ^ Vilkum^ Vmvvmty boycott of the event by fraternity members, Ponist declined to comment on an organized boy Realizing that the improve cott. ments necessary to make “I heard a lot of students say Drexel a ‘homey’ campus ing they weren’t going to go,” he would be astronomical, one said. “We’re not getting what columnist suggests that sim we want. We didn’t want a con ply moving the campus cert, we wanted a Block Party.” across the country to an unin SPA officers charged last habited area would be more night that Yamauchi has over stepped her role as an advisor to economical. See page 14. take greater financial and admin istrative control over the organi zation since she assumed her post last summer. Two wiU lis c|)en “They stopped advising and to lixiKm 3:30 10 5:30 started programming,” said Gary one in tfee Qrand jM of Bernstein, SPA’s vice president The Drexel Players will tbe other i for finance. Ay jJV/# Mhe Great Cotut, Main Building. deviate from their norm of See BLOCK on Page 2 plays and musicals next week and present six short plays entitled Kicking and Day of remembrance marks Holocaust tragedy Screaming. For a preview by one in the know, turn to by Joann Gayuski ents fled to Israel where they today do not even know where dents together with Holocaust page 18. Triangle Staff Writer later married, Meir does not they came from. They have lost survivors and their families, felt even know where the rest of his their line of decent.” sympathy for the millions of People around the world family was killed. Possibly Jenny Tietze, a representative deaths. She said she had no remembered Yom Hashoah, the Auschwitz, but he just does not of Project Reconciliation, a prejudices, but, instead, claimed Holocaust Memorial Day, know. group that brings German stu See HOLOCAUST on Page 3 including Drexel’s Hillel Group Leonore Meyer was another which sponsored a Holocaust guest at the sei'vice who remem The Lady Dragons are Memorial Service open to the bered her two cousins who man preparing to enter the East community on Wednesday in aged to survive in the German Coast Conference softball ensse aer a , concentration camps. A solemn group of Jews, “They [her cousins] were not championships. After finish- in Auschwitz because everyone ing in first place in regular prayer and discussion in rev- at Auschwitz died,” said Meyer. season play, the team is erence of those horrifying 12 “The Holocaust was worse than favored to win. years during World War II, slavery because it was actually Candles were lit, prayers recited, planned out to murder millions and personal stories told. One of people.” gentleman who attended had suf This statement struck a nerve fered the loss of his father’s in another guest, Greg Easley, a entire family, except just one sis- black member of the audience, who countered Meyer’s state M a y 5, lyoV mother’s family, as well. ment, claiming that “the Gad Meir reflected on the Holocaust was not worse than Editorial ...............................8 mistakes of the past, lamenting slavery, they were both bad, but Features...............................10 that “you cannot close your eyes slavery had lasted for hundreds Classifieds.......................... 12 and blindly follow the govern- of years whereas the Holocaust Delta Zeta and Sigma Pi released 1,500 balloons from the quad Entertainment.....................14 ment.” Meir’s parents were lasted fur 12 years. Also the Wednesday afternoon in the annual Drexel University Philanthropic Comics................................17 among the few survivors of the slaves were permanently separat Balloon Lift Off despite charges of mass littering and posing an eco SpQrts 20 concentration camps. Like most ed from their families and logical threat. Funds raised by sponsorship of the balloons will be Jews freed at the time, his par because of this most blacks donated to various charaties. Photo by Adam Geibel. The Triangle M a y 5 , 1 9 8 9 Journalist: U.S.-Israeli relations jeopardized in spy case by Brian Goodman convicted Israeli spy Jonathan 6 feet by 6 feet,’’said Blitzer. Israeli intelligence forces. sion there, but the cooperation O f the Triangle Jay Pollard. Although the actual breadth “He was a ‘walk-in’ spy,” continues.” Pollard, a former U.S. naval and scope of Pollard’s 18-month said Blitzer, “who sought out the Blitzer contends that U.S.- “The United States suffered a intelligence analyst, passed spy mission are largely Israelis and offered them the Israeli relations reached their tremendous failure in intelli thousands of classified U.S. unknown to the public, Blitzer information he had.” highest level under the Reagan gence,” said Wolf Blitzer, intelligence documents to Israeli reports that the stolen informa Pollard was warily regarded administration which afforded renowned journalist and pundit agents that had reportedly circu tion included Soviet military by the Israelis at first, but was the struggling nation strong con on Israeli-U.S. relations. lated as high in the Israeli gov systems intelligence as well as later fully embraced and was gressional, military, and eco Blitzer, who described a peri ernment as the country’s defense details of U.S. diplomatic initia officially “run” in Washington nomic support. od in which several foreign spies minister, Blitzer said in an inter tives in the Middle East. as he began to deliver. "Israel has been strategically were permitted access to confi view Friday. Pollard was the first and last “There are some loose ends important to our Middle Eastern dential U.S. military and intelli According to a U.S. affidavit Israeli spy uncovered within the that are not yet resolved [but interests (and is our] major non- gence data, will appear at Drexel to the sentencing judge, Pollard U.S. military ranks, according to U.S.-Israeli] relations on the sur NATO ally” in the region, said on Wednesday to promote his delivered enough classified doc Blitzer. Ironically, Pollard was face have been patched-up,” said Blitzer. book Territory of Lies about uments “to fill a room 10 feet by not initially recruited by the Blitzer. “There is still some ten continued on next page Team Sundragon ^raycing^ to capture Australian crown by Brian Goodman will make final selections based fashion the car’s structural and use in developing the car; the The three top-fmishers in the Of the Triangle on qualifications portrayed in exterior corriponents. team also received $2,000 from Florida-to-Michigan “Sunrayce” those resumes. Marmel was The car, when completed, the U.S. Department of Energy will be sponsored by GM to par Intent on developing the most unsure as to how many students will be roadworthy and is Additional funding for the pro ticipate in the November, 1990 efficient way of harnessing solar will be selected to participate in expected to reach top speeds of ject, according to Marmel, is World Solar Challenge race to be energy to power their 1,800-mile the project. 45 to 55 miles per hour during expected to come from industry held in Australia.