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Seoson's Greetings Good luck on ixams VOLUME Lli, NUMBER 10 DREXEL u n iv e r sit y , PHILADELPHIA, PA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1975 Students Victim To Crime In Subway Station And Library By Olena Stercho “ I’m lucky that I’m fast,” Wood By Dennis Myers Two Drexel students were remarked, “My advice to students Quick thinking and a prompt mugged on the north side of the 34th is not to ride the subway if they Street subway station recently. The description relayed to Drexel don’t have to- take the bus in Security by Heather G arrish two incidents, which occurred on stead.” He added that if a person resulted in the apprehension of an the weekend of November 21, were decides to ride the el, he or she alleged purse snatcher in the confirmed by a police spokesman should be prepared to take the for the 16th Precinct who reported library on the 19th of last month. consequences. In most instances, Fred Birkby. Director of Security that there had been no increase in he warned, there is little a student trouble at the el stop. and Safety, cited Garrish’s im can do in the face of an attempted mediate call to security as the According to Bill Wood, a pre robbery. reason for the capture and arrest of junior, he was accosted by four Not As Fortunate William Hatten. He is presently males who asked for spare change Mark Goodman, a senior, was not free on bail awaiting action by the when he entered the station on as fortunate as Wood. Goodman, grand jury. Friday night, November 21 around who was carrying a substantial The incident accured while 10 P.M. “At that point, I decided to portion of his paycheck in his Garrish, a secretary in the library, make myself scarce and scooted up wallet, was approached by a man was in the Library Director’s office. the stairs,” Wood said. He was who asked him for change as he A noise in the outer office caused pursued by the men and made a entered the subway stop early the secretary to peer out and see an successful getaway by kicking one Saturday evening, November 22. 34th Street Septa Substation unknown man with her purse in his of his attackers down the steps. The student ignored the request and hand. As she hollered, the culprit was then attacked from behind by started to dart from the room. the man’s apparent accomplice, However Garrish was able to who was lurking behind the stairs. confront him and he threw the Goodman reported that he was Business College Evaluated; pocketbook back in the office. struck in the stomach and head several times by the assailants who Security Alerted then grabbed his wallet, emptied it As his secretary called Security, Re-accreditation Is Certain of cash and threw it on the plat Richard Snyder, D irector of form, After they fled, Goodman By Olena Stercho Librarjes, took up chase. He 40% of all classes must be taught by full-time, terminal said that he asked the cashier at the followed the suspect toward the Three representatives from the American Assembly degree (PHD) faculty on the undergraduate level, ticket turnstile to call police, who subway station at 33rd and Market. of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) visited the while the same standards are applied to 75% of arrived in less than a minute. The Mike Fee, an assistant basketball College of Business and Administration on Monday and graduate courses. student accompanied officers on a coach, seeing the commotion joined Tuesday to determine whether the college should be Besides examining individual faculty resumes, the chase which took them to the 40th in the pursuit. As the fleeing man reaccredited. According to Dr. John Clark, Director of team evaluates a college’s progress in the fields of and 46th street subway stops, where entered the Market St. station the MBA program and member of the Accreditation published and funded research. Clark said that AAC- he could scan disembarking Drexel Security entered onto Self Study Committee, ‘‘There is no question that the SB’s prime concern is whether a given institution has passengers for his attackers. The Market Street, Security followed college will be reaccredited. an active faculty or not. He noted that the business subway train was finally halted at Hatten into the station and because Clark noted that attaining accreditation places a college has come a long way during the past five years, 52nd St. where all passengers who of the description suf^lied iden school in a select group, since of the 700 colleges in the namely in the areas of finance and accounting fit the description of Goodman’s tified and apprehended the per United States, only 160 are accredited. He said that the, publications. assailants were pulled off. petrator. Snyder supplied a positive accreditation team studies three basic aspects of a The final element the AACSB officials consider is However, Goodman could not I.D. and the suspect was taken to college’s offerings to arrive at a decision. supporting facilities, including such areas as the identify them from the line-up. the 18th Police district where he The curriculum is evaluated according to AACSB business collection in the library, the computer center, “The cops were quite good about was booked. standards, which are drawn up by deans of other ac the physical facilities in the building and the amount of it. They did quite a lot for me,” Arraignment credited business institutions. Guidelines provide that a office space provided for professors. Clark said that Goodman said. But I don’t like school’s curriculum maintain a specihed level of this final factor makes obtaining accreditation a very riding the subway too much Hatten is scheduled for proportions between the arts and sciences, business expensive process for many schools. anymore.” arraignment on the 29th of this courses and areas of concentration. Furthermore, the During their two-day stay at Drexel, the ac Fred Birkby, Director of Security month in room 268 of City Hall. team evaluates the syllabus of each individual course, creditation team interviewed both business students at Drexel, said that he was not Arraignment will take place if with the objective of checking whether certain topics and faculty, and deans of the other colleges, S. Herbert informed of either incident. “We’re Hatten is indicted by the grand considered necessary to presenting the subject, are Raynes, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dr. having a hard time getting people to jury. If no action is taken by the covered. William Hagerty, University President. Clark said that realize that we’re here. I’m sure jury by that time, a continuance The accreditation team also looks at the composition the team’s final report, along with suggestions and things are going on which we don’t will be sought until grand jury ol a college’s faculty. According to AACSB regulations. recommendations, will not be received until April. know about,” he said. action results. Research Instrumental To University’s Development By Anita Brando!ini vironmental Protection Agency, cording to Dean Francis Davis. He sociological mathematics, and noted that this is an improvement Increasing research efforts are and the National Aeronautics and information retrieval. over past years. Davis attributed ‘‘ssential to the development of Space Administration. The College of Engineering hopes this to “the degree of excellence of Hrexel’s reputation, according to S. Private corporations which have to receive nearly $2 million this the faculty. We have improved the Herbert Haynes, Vice President for awarded money to Drexel include year. Dean Richard Woodring, said faculty in the past few years. Academic Affairs. In the past Philadelphia Electric Company, that most of Engineering’s Research is being done in several several years the university has ARCO, Mobil and other refineries, research centers on four major areas, but Davis noted “our em e ngaged in a campaign to increase IBM, Xerox, General Electric, areas: energy utilization, materials phasis is to concentrate on 2 areas - *)olh funding and the volume of Westinghouse and U.S. Steel. One testing, environmental quality, and environmental and health related research conducted. Research private foundation which has given biomedical engineering. Woodring sciences.” He cited projects con Krants and contracts awarded to considerable support is the noted that these are all critical cerning weather forecasting, the iJiexel faculty members amounted American Cancer Society. areas and commented that “we Most of these awards are used for chem istry of air pollution, constantly try to think ‘What’s the to $3,62 million during 1974. Most of stratospheric ozone, improvement •his money, 88%, cam e from research in the Colleges’ of Science next thing we should get involved of Philadelphia drinking water, in?’ We try to anticipate where the Sovernment sources. The and Engineering. In Summer 1975, biological physics, and cancer next need will be.” remaining 12% was from private for example, these two accounted studies on cells and membrane. Woodring also outlined some of Mr. Herb Raynes corporations and foundations. for nearly 94% of the total awards. Other research is being done in the major projects being done in his Proposals for research projects ^^nly a small part, $200,000 of the The College of Science expects to population mathematics. College. Some faculty are working are written by the individual government money was from state receive $1 million this year, ac on the better utilization of waste faculty members, who then submit ^nd local sources. The remaining heat in industry, solar energy, and them to their deans.