T h e T riani Vol. 70, No. 23 The Student Newspaper of Drexel University April 14,1995 Study: Campus still in dark about men’s hoops two seasons, have been free for Students dont know when games are played, Drexel students who present their or that tickets are free. Research findings ID at the Physical Education Athletic Center. could affect the entire athletic department. Learn by DUing students Mara Landberg, Gilles Bogaert (also a Adam Blyweiss Learn by DUing program found center on the men’s team), and News Editor that the campus is still underin­ Mike Ferry presented their find­ Even with four consecutive formed about — and unsupport- ings on Tuesday, March 11. conference final appearances, two ive of — Drexel men’s basketball. Faculty and administrators in consecutive NCAA tournament Topping the list of disappoint­ attendance took notice. trips, and growing media expo­ ments? More than half of the stu­ “The results were stunning,” sure, Drexel’s increasingly suc­ dents surveyed said they didn’t said Director of Men’s Athletics cessful men’s basketball team gets attend regular-season games Johnson Bowie. “They shocked no respect. because they thought they had to us aU.” NOAH ADDIS/r/)e Tnangle Research conducted this past pay for tickets. Almost 41 percent of students The PEAC was packed for the North Atlantic Conference men's winter by students in Drexel’s The tickets, in use for the last see BASKETBALL on page 5 basketball final. The regular season was a different ballgame. Lambda Chi goes Is y o u r aid o n th e rise? Denise Inman the corresponding drop in aid given to stu­ the same formula it always has — with one Staff Writer dents advancing through the academic exception — to calculate the expected stu­ Phone numbers a great deal of Drexel ranks. They couldn’t understand why they dent and parent contribution. green It has, however, altered some things stu­ students may be familiar with — 895-2534, would get no grants from Drexel after hav­ 895-2535 and 895-2536 — are ringing a lit­ ing received the money when they were dents will find essential. Catherine Campbell tle less frequently these days. freshmen. Drexel used to assume students could Staff Writer Enrollment Management’s new approach Many aid reductions occur because stu­ contribute up to 70 percent of their co-op In an effort to educate and to fmancial aid could be the reason why. dents’ situations change. If students or their earnings to their tuition bill, but now they link the University and Powelton Students used to call those numbers to parents earn more money, expect Drexel to use 55 percent in their calculation. The Village community, the brothers voice disgust with the apparent “front- give less. contribution is not obligatory; it merely of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity loading” of financial aid for freshmen, and Indeed, the Office of Financial Aid uses offsets the parent contribution. have created EarthFest *95. Additionally, the Office of Financial Aid The environmental festival has altered the way it handles seniors and will be held Tuesday, April 28 how it allots money to designated classes. from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Donald Dickason, vice president of brothers are looking to raise enrollment management, launched a study $500 to $1,000 for the Friends of to determine why students felt they were the Wissahickon to celebrate the not getting satisfoctory financial aid. By 25th anniversary of Earth Day. examining the expenses of students According to Lambda Chi throughout their stay at Drexel, he found Alpha Vice President Chris students would be best helped if seniors, McCarthy, who is coordinating with their additional term of classes, were the day’s activities, “[we] devel­ not expected to absorb the extra cost of that oped the festival to heighten the term. environmental awareness of Dickason wants to equalize the parent Drexel students and Powelton and student contribution for each of the Village residents.” student’s years at Drexel, including senior “We invited the students of year. To do this, since the money available the Powell Middle School in for federal grants and loans is static, the aid order to continue our link with made available by Drexel is the number them and to extend a hand into which must grow to meet the need. (See the community,” said McCarthy. graphs on page 3.) Lambda Chi has participated Dickason has pledged to have seniors’ in the Adopt-a-School program fmancial needs met. Soon, financial aid in for several terms. Four to six the form of Drexel grants will be available brothers per term go to the to seniors in amounts comparable to those school for two to four hours a given to freshmen. week to tutor and assist in activi­ Since increased financial aid arrives next ties with Powell students. year — and hopefully, says Dickason, con­ Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority, tinues until all need is met — students who led by Erika Bell, will decorate will be pre-juniors in fall 1995-96 will bene­ the Quad for the event. fit from the increase first. Drexel’s Department of The money is coming from a Board of Bioscience and Biotechnology Trustees decision to increase the financial will have displays in the Quad, aid budget by 10 percent in the 1995-96 along with the New Jersey State academic year. The bulk of the increase has Aquarium, GreenPeace, Long- been allocated to the pre-junior, junior and wood Gardens, the Environ­ senior classes. mental Protection Agency and The preferential allocation, explained Friends of the Wissahickon. Dickason, makes up for the exclusion of Drexel professor Sally these students from the Financial Aid see GREEN on page 3 Assurance Plan. It also helps phase in the senior year aid increases. Students’ righteous indignation about In This Issue financial aid inequity had been so wide­ spread that two years ago, Enrollment E d-O p............. page 10 Management began the Financial Aid D atebook.................15 Assurance Plan. The Plan aimed to guarantee one level of Entertainment........16 financial aid to students for all their years at Com ics.................... 20 NOAH A D D IS/r/je Triangle Drexel, so long as nothing about their situ­ Classifieds...............24 His future in his hands, Civil Engineering freshman Stephen Steinbrook (left) goes ations changed. see FINANCIAL AID on page 3 Sports...................... 32 over financial aid paperwork with Pell Grant Coordinator Giles Letlough. 2 * The Triangle • April 14, 1995 Crime Report Elite college grads: Is money everything? From April 2 to April 8, there were 627 calls to Drexel Security for assistance. Of those, the fol­ College I’rcss Service pants to determine how a col­ than 90 percent identified intel­ at least based on the Stanford lowing seven incidents were clas­ Ever wonder if it pays to lege liberal arts education lectual challenges and creativity study, are not entering fields sified as criminal complaints: invest in that expensive, elite affected their personal and pro­ as the most important qualities such as public administration, college? fessional lives. to consider in a career,” he says. the arts and education. ________Theft________ That depends how you define The perception that a diplo­ “Although graduates make “Of course, we’re starting Kelly Residence Hall success, says Emory sociologist ma from an elite university rep­ time for sports, exercise and with the assumption that uni­ MacAlister Hall (twice) John Boli. If success is mea­ resents a ticket to career success hobbies, intellectual pursuits versities should combine a lib­ Rush Building sured in professional status and seems to be confirmed by Boli’s and volunteer and political ‘ eral arts education with solid Calhoun Residence Hall high salaries, then an elite col­ research: 80 percent of the activities receive far less atten­ career preparation,” says Boli. lege is worth the money, says Stanford students went on to tion.” “But in these days of financial Boli. obtain graduate The fact that the benefits of a accountability and curriculum Robbery Randell Hall But if being degrees and liberal arts education are not debates, we should ask whether successful in­ Eighty percent of m ore than 90 easily discernible among its we need to be concerned if these cludes the nur­ the Stanford percent have graduates should be of concern graduates do not pursue a ‘life turing of the “life em barked on to universities, says Boli. of the mind,’ or if they do not of the mind,” students went on to professional Boli also says he is especially bother to read literature, visit Vandalism then results obtain graduate careers. concerned that a majority of the museums, or challenge their Van Rensselaer Hall aren’t as posi­ Of these, 27 “best and brightest” graduates, beliefs in a search for meaning.” tive, says the degrees and more percent were author of than 90percent business execu­ “Cream of the tives, 17 percent Crop: The Edu­ have embarked on attorneys, 1 1 cational Elite professional percent physi­ Comes of Age.” cians, and 9 per­ Cat-nap in the cab “Cream of the careers. cent engineers. Crop” is based The graduates’ on a study of 320 college stu­ median income a decade after dents who graduated from college was $54,000, with a Stanford University in 1981. combined family median During their four years at income of $104,000. Stanford, Boli and a colleague, But when it came to identify­ Stanford dean and professor ing what qualities were impor­ Herant A. Katchadourian, tant to consider in a career, few examined the factors that influ­ graduates were practicing what enced the students’ choice of they preached, says Boli.