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LOOKING FOR The Trmngle LAUGHS? PAGE 7 I VOLUME SIXTY FEBRUARY 8, 1985 NUMBER SIXTEEN H d p Asbury Ministry aiding the city^s homeless b) Patricia M. Rose Adds Dean Snyder, pastor of Church. Currently 30 from the univer Lounge, February 15 at 1:00 p.m. Thanfile Staff H'riter Asbury Church, “ The most important sity have gone through the training for Petersen notes that the next PCH thing is human contact and develop People’s Emergency Center, PCH and training session will be on February "You remember all your fears, all ing friendship.” a third volunteer organization, the 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the stereotypes...and then you start While Petersen notes that the PCH University City Hospitality Center. Temple University’s Newman Center. talking with them. It's amazing. program is flexible according'to a “ The response from Drexel students Students and other university members Everyone has different stories. volunteer’s availability, it is necessary has been encouraging,” says Petersen. can find out more about the volunteer They’re real people.” for volunteers to attend a training ses “ A couple of them have been just programs by contacting Petersen at This is the way Barbara Petersen sion. Offered every six weeks, the ses blown away. Coming from the 895-2522 or 386-0724. describes her experience with the ci sions are intended, according to suburbs they haven’t been exposed to Estimates of Philadelphia's ty's homeless community. Petersen is Petersen, to make the community the homele.ss. They are just beginning homeless range as high as 10,000. on the staff of the Asbury Ministry, aware of the plight of the homeless and to understand the complexities of all Petersen explains that trying to solve and It is her job to coordinate student its cau.ses. this.” the problem is a complex situation. volunteers to aid in the programs for Eighteen university students and To make students more aware, “ Because of all the red tape of welfare the homeless. staff members attended the first train Petersen has arranged to have Sam Ir and unemployment, it becomes There are three volunteer groups ing session in October at Asbury vin, a former homeless person and a cyclical. It’s hard to get [the homeless] where area residents can assist. current PCH volunteer, speak at the off the streets. Closest to the university is the People’s university. Irvin will discuss his own “ The biggest thing is respect,” she Emergency Center located in the experiences as a homeless person and adds. “ Don’t ignore the fact that Asbury Church at 3 th and Chestnut PCH programs in the Living Arts they’re there.” streets. For the past eleven years the first floor of the church has been us ed as a shelter for homeless women and their families. Up to 40 people at a time reside there for stays of two weeks to two months. In addition to ‘The biggest thing is providing emergency housing, PEC also provides food, clothing and crisis respect... Don’t ignore the counseling. fact that they’re there’ Another organization aided by stu — Barbara Petersen Photo by Bill Steiner dent volunteers is the Philadelphia g A software program has been developed by the university to familiarize students Committee for the Homeless (PCH). ^ with the Macintosh. Known as the ‘Drexel Disk' it includes a map of the campus. Organized by college students two and For more details on its use see page four. a half years ago, PCH distributes food and clothing to the homeless. More essential explains Petersen, group volunteers refer people to nearby shelters and try to follow up on their status Study offers interesting view of student leaders federal deficit was the top national of the editors and 7 percent of the National On-Campus Report cellent, and 7 percent labeled it poor. concern overall and among leaders. leaders. “ We need more support from Editors ranked the deficit as the se Most student leaders found their The national media image of today’s faculty and administration,” said one campus paper good (39 percent) or fair cond most important problem, behind two-year student leader. "W e’re tired TAs draw criticism college students as politically conser the nuclear arms race. Those concern (32 percent), while 7 percent called the vative has come under fire. Most of being used as ‘token students' just paper excellent, and 13 percent ed about both issues saw them as the so they can say they included us in the recently, the annual American Coun root of many other evils: "Until we described it as poor. Editors were cil of Education survey of freshman areas that affect us as students, when equally tough on their student govern on language problem reduce the threat of nuclear war, the truth is thay do not accept our reported most incoming students con nothing else really matters.” ment counterparts: 32 percent called input.” their student government good; 40 per College Press Senice “ Students were just studying from sider themselves “ middle of the Higher education problems — lack A four-year private school leader cent labeled it fair; only 6 percent the book.” he remembers. “ The road.” of funding and financial aid cuts — concurred: “ Someone needs to remind found it excellent; and 14 percent Sandra Begay anticipated a tough classes were not helping at all.” That survey’s author, Alexander took a back seat, ranking fourth and the administration and faculty here that described it as poor. curriculum when she enrolled in the University of Minnesota .students Astin of the U. of California-Los fifth overall. Unemployment, usual students are the reason this ;school ex When asked about their own University of New Mexico’s civil claim the school’s screening program Angeles, called the college conser ly considered a major concern for job- ists. Sometimes they treat us as if political views, in relation to those of engineering program. But she didn’t releases foreign TAs to teach before vative image a media invention. But eager students, ranked sixth. Reduc we’re bothersome interruptions.” their campus, 38 percent of students’ expect the Central American teaching they’re fully proficient in English. the National On-Campus Report an ing poverty was seventh, and a par A surprisingly small number of leaders say they are in tune with the assistant would be harder to unders But the increase in foreign graduate nual survey of student leaders and ticular concern for editors. students listed alcohol-rela.'ed pro rest of the campus politically. Thirty- tand than the calculus she was trying students means more teaching assis editors nationwide shows they believe, One thing that didn’t change this blems as a top campus concern. Many four percent say they are more liberal to learn. tant positions go to students who speak almost overwhelmingly, that their year was the number one campus pro of those who did were student leaders and 24 percent more conservative. ‘‘There a lot of foreign TAs here,” English poorly or, at best, as a second peers are becoming more blem: Student apathy was named by looking for programming ideas that A little under half — 43 percent — she says. ‘‘And they’re hard to unders language, says Mack Gilkeson, of the conservative. 28 percent of the student leaders and don’t involve drinking. of all student leaders continue to work tand. I had a hard time in calculus at American Society for Engineering Sixty-five percent of student 20 percent of the editors as the major As in the past, student leaders were without compensation, while 22 per first, but I survived.” Education. newspaper editors and 63 percent of problem on their campuses. more critical of the campus newspaper cent receive a salary, 24 percent get But many students, locked into re While no studies have been done," student leaders say students are more The next three problems named all than they were of admini.strators. a scholarship or grant, and 10 percent quired classes run by foreign-born wouldn’t surpri.se me if the number of conservative now than in the past. In relate to financial woes: overcrowd Editors, however, spread their receive academic credit. For those teaching assistants, aren’t as lucky as foreign TAs is not much different from fact, only among student leaders on ed or outdated facilities; declining criticism around. who receive salaries, the average at Begay. the number of American TAs.” he two-year campu.ses was the issue in enrollments; and general financial pro Thirty percent of student leaders large schools (over 8,000) was $54 a Student complaints about not being admits. doubt. They split almost evenly on the blems or lack of funding. Although rated their administrators as excellent week. At smaller schools, it was $41 able to understand their foreign-born “ A few years ago, American question. college administrators have discussed while another 53 percent labeled them per week. Four-year public .schools grad instructors — and consequently students went into industry afetr get Many of tho.se who disputed the the coming enrollment crunch for good. Only 13 percent called the ad were the most likely to pay student not doing well in classes — have crop ting their baccalaureate degrees,” conservative trend were far from say some time, this is its first appearance ministration fair and 4 percent called leaders salaries; four-year private ped up in formal proceedings at scat Gilkeson explains. “ The vacancies in ing today’s students are moderate or on the NOCR student survey. it poor. Thirty-two percent of editors, schools were the least likely to offer tered camfhwt«^'4>ver the last few grad schools were filled with foreign liberal.

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