Goal for Faculty Council Is Communication New Library Could Be

~1 VOLUME LIV, NUMBER 22 DREXEL UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1979 Goal for Faculty Council is communication by Steve Moss items on which to take action An attempt is presently being Presently, the committee is made by both the Faculty Council awaiting a meeting with students and Student Congress to establish from congress and various other clear lines of com m unication student factions to gather input between students and faculty. Mr. from the general student body Joseph Stockier, Chairman of the concerning this issue. Student Affairs Committee, The committee is also in commented that the purpose of vestigating student allegations such a group would be to bring concerning the quality of teaching mutual concerns of the students and in the summer term and also the faculty to both sides and then to the quantity of courses offered. administration in a unified method. Although the latter part of this The Student Affairs Committee, investigation is not directly according to Stockier, is concerned associated with the faculty, with and is presently discussing Stockier remarked that it is a three topics which directly relate to problem which the students face students. Although the grading and we should be concerned about policy is “ in limbo,” it rates high on it. The third issue being tossed around is a discussion on the policy New library could be 'generation away' regarding students taping lectures. Both sides are being presented, as members are split on this issue. It was noted that immediate due to legal and financial setbacks action concerning policy proposals on these issues was not being hy John Singleton completion of the project architects to draw up the initial mittee will defend the proposed considered at this point-that they The proposed new library at the Smce Drexel is currently engagt*d plans for the project. program before the board of were in the investigation stages. site of the old SKPTA power station in a $36.4 million f’eaks of Progress When the title to the SEPTA trustees for approval. Afterwhich Stockier is the assistant director could be a generation of Drexel campaign, in which the library is building is acquired by Drexel and the building and properties com of the C ooperative E ducation students away from being com not included, funds for the new insured the building will im mittee will send out the program, Department. He is presently ser pleted, according to Harold Myers, library are coming in slower than mediately be demolished. The with the library building program ving his second year on Faculty Council and his first year as V^ice I’resident and Treasurer. expected As of Ja n u a ry 1979 proposed building time table should committee’s specifications to a As of January ly, 1979 Drexel was Drext‘1 has raised apprf>ximately follow R ep resen tativ es of the number of architectural firms. chairman of the Student Affairs Committee. He served as a member slill without the title to the structure $5(H),(HK) library building program com- It is estimated that it will take 6-8 of the committee during his first which casts an imposing shadow However. Myers did indicate that weeks for the firms to draw up a year on the council. There are over the western'end of the campus when Drexel acquires the property, preliminary building plan. The presently four other members on It could take up to three more an intensive campaign to raise the Board of Trustees will review the the Student Affairs Committee: Dr. months before Drexel can legally needed tunds will be launched. plans and select 3-4 architects who F'rank Huntington, Professor Myers forsees no problems in will give a presentation before the lake over the building thereby Lester Stradling, Dr. John raising the money, but he stated Board. P'rom the firms chosen to clearing the way for construction of Colamosca, and Dr. Richard that no official action will be taken give a presentation, one will be the new library. Klafter. The committee will be on the project until most of the chosen for the design of the new The delay caused by the inability acting as the link between the funds, approximately $6 million, library. It is estimated that it will to i-lear the title is not the only students and the faculty. problem that besets the new are raised. take nine months to one year to library. According to Myers, the Although there has been a delay draw up the final plans for the projected cost of the new library is in acquiring the proposed site for library. (‘stimated at $7 million. This cost the new building, Richard Snyder, When the final plans have been Cashier's has been offset by a $1 million grant Director of Libraries, his staff, and approved, bidding by the con Irom the Pew Memorial Trust for the library building program tractors will be received by the the acquisition and demolition of committee has prepared a manual Board of Trustees. H is hopeful that office robbed outlining their recommendations this bidding will take place in the the old structure. The trust has by Chris Holden promised an additional $2 million and the physical requirements of winter because of cheaper prices provided that Drexel raise the the new library. These resulting from the recession in the At ap proxim ately 11:50 AM remaining $4 million needed for the specifications will be used by the construction industry. Bidding is January 17, 1979, a tall, well-built expected to take up to 6 weeks man in his mid-twenties, wearing a before the contract is awarded. blue ski jacket, entered the Construction of the new library is cashier’s area of the Comptroller’s expected to start at the earliest Office and stole approximately $450 Focus: On nuclear enerav possible date after the contract is from a desk. The unidentified male was ob by Neil Schmerling that was heated in the process. Technology for a stuoy made by the awarded. According to Myers, a conservative estimate of con served near the cashier’s desk by A very interesting view of nuclear Nuclear plants heat water to levels Atomic Energy Commission and struction time is 3 years. Allowing an office employee. When asked for energy was presented to the Sierra that are double the temperature of the Nuclear Regulatory Com for possible construction slow-down identification, he took off. C'lul) of Philadelphia last week by a water at cool plants. Most nuclear mission. and unexpected delays, a con Security was called and Princeton University Professor, plants have cooling towers that This study found that the struction time of 3 1/2 years is responded quickly. The campus Dr. Walter Von Hippie, Senior allow the waste heat to escape into probability of an accident killing 10 expected, which means that the was .searched and the Philadelphia Hesearch Physicist for Kn- the atmosphere. Dr. Von Hippie people, if there are 100 plants new Drexel library is at least 4 to 5 Police were called in. An All-Points- vironmental Studies at Princeton stated that at the nuclear plant in (which is approximately the years away from replacing the Bulletin with a description of the expressed his views on nuck>ar Seabrook, Massachusetts, a number of nuclear plants in the thief was put out. energy for military and civilian question was raised in regard to United States', is 1 in 10,000. Dr. SEPTA building. There have been no new use. using the ocean to cool the water. Von Hippie explained that this is the As of yet, the thief has not been developments in the future of the At the present time, there are Although the possibility is same probability as 10 people being apprehended by the West Detective many "key issues” that must be remote, the worst type of accident killed by a meteor in one year. Korman Center The bottom floor Division of the Philadelphia Police. will probably be used by the new considered, according to Dr. Von that could occur at a nuclear power However, these probabilities do not As a result of the robt)ery, the security force at Drexel has been Hippie. Nuclear power is very plant must be anticipated. Ac include any long-term deaths Continued on page 4 attractive because it offers a cording to Dr. Van Hippie, the most caused by carcinogenic material beefed up. tremendously concentrated form of severe accident from a nuclear entering the environment from energy due to the chain reaction plant could kill people 10 miles nuclear power plants. caused in the formation. However, away. Long-term contamination The Associated Press recently there are currently many dangers, could result at distances as far reported that the U. S. Nuclear Freshman election results Regulatory Commission repudiated i)oth encirotiniental and social, away as 100 miles. Dr. Von Hippie A ttitiil of 313 ballots were Ciist, about 20% oj the I reshmuii i hiss. associated with nuclear energy. added that “contamination could a study it has used for five years to In the Mill// Court, 152 ballots were cast, while 161 were cast in the show that nuclear power plants are One of the major hazards of reach a level where evacuation cafeteria. nuclear energy is the radioactivity may last for years.” safe. According to Representative released by power plants. Dr. Von Even though these consequences Morris Udall (D-Ariz.), “Nuclear PRESIDENT: VICE PRESIDENT: are very remote, they must be proponents have for years used the Hippie reported that people that David Pelzman 126 Beth Arenson 168 live near nuclear plants are ex- considered Dr Von Hippie ex Rasmussen study to assure the Heidi Paul 86 Angela McNeill 116 pased to double the radiation than plained that probabilities for these public that nuclear power is safe.

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