M Yers Holds Open Reception Vietnam Memorial Dedicated in Philadelphia
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IFA and RLO M yers holds open reception D runk driving discussed President stresses need for hard w ork from students, faculty by Kevin Fosko in Van R presentation Triangle Staff Writer On Tuesday, November 3rd at 3 p.m. in the Creese Student by Kevin Fosko Center Lobby, Dr. Harold Triangle Staff Writer Myers, Drexel’s temporary in license is suspended for one year. terim president, held a reception Last Wednesday night, If the person is under 21, he is for students to meet him. November 4th, at 7:30 P.M., In also charged with underage About 100 students attended ter Fraternity Association (IFA) drinking and arrested. the reception, which was also at and Residential Living Office tended by some faculty and ad sponsored a Drinking & Driving presentation in the Van R living ministrative personnel. In Pennsylvania, having a President Myers seemed a room. blood-alcohol content of Hosted by the public relations very personable and congenial director of IFA, Eric Bradbey, 0.1 is considered the level person as he went around and the speaker was Trooper Long at which one is legally in introduced himself to students from the Belmont State Police toxicated. This figure and administrative personnel before and after his brief Barracks. means that one-tenth of speech. He talked about how Roughly 200 students attended one percent of your blood the annud program, where ex glad he was to be back at Drex- cept for a few RA’s present, most cells contain alcohol. el, after his retirement in 1982, and praised the faculty and of the students were pledges or John Pegg'7)j» '/rtuJafiJ* students for the great jobs that fraternity brothers. This year, all pledges were required by IFA to There are three sobriety tests: they have been doing. He lofted praise the university and ex Assistant Dean of Men and attend the presentation. blood, urine and breathalyzer. hand and get to know them. plained how great this univer Director of the Student Building Trooper Long first gave a talk Breathalyzer tests are most com Myers came across as a very (1946-1951). about Pennsylvania’s laws regar monly used, and all three of these sity is. nice, congenial man who seems Myers commented that the After his stay in Korea, he ding drinking and driving, as well are useable as court evidence on to want to be in touch with the returned to Drexel again to as Pennsylvania’s philosophy drunken driving charges. In ad faculty should be pushing the students and administration of students harder, and how the become Dean of Men concerning driver’s licenses. In dition to testing for alcohol pre the university. students, likewise, should be (1952-1955), Treasurer Pennsylvania, having a driver’s sent in your, system, blood and Relating with the university pushing the faculty harder to get (1955-1957), and Vice President license is not a right, but a urine tests will also detect drug would be no problem for him, the best education they possibly and Treasurer from 1957 to privilege. use, which is also contained in being that he started here as a can in order to prepare freshman in 1933. Graduating 1980. He then became Senior In Pennsylvania, having a DUI, Driving Under the themselves for the real world. Vice President for University blood-alcohol content of 0.1 is Influence. from Drexel in 1938 with a “ I want you to be able to Relations from 1980 to 1982, considered the level at which one The punishments for DUI start, bachelor’s degree in commerce, work so hard that when you he became an instructor in Co where upon he stepped down to is legally intoxicated. This figure right off with the first offense, graduate you can coast and still operative Education and Direc retire. He was awarded the Doc means that one tenth of one per which yields a - two day jail be ahead of the graduates from tor of Graduate Placement, a tor of Science Degree. Honoris cent of your blood cells contain sentence, a S300 fme and suspen other American colleges,” position he held until 1942, Causa, in 1983. alcohol. sion of one’s driver’s license for Myers said. He stressed this im whereupon he entered the Navy He also has a dormitory He then went on to say that if one year. Second offenses yield portant ideal of getting the most which bears his name, Myers you are stopped by a policeman a 30 day jail sentence, along with and saw active duty during out of college education-wise in World W ar II and the Korean Hall. Myers Hall is the only and he asks you to take a sobrie suspension of their license. preparation for the real world. War. He presently maintains the building named after a current ty test, you must take it. If you Subsequent offenses yield a 60 Myers then went around and rank of Lieutenant Commander ly living person, and is now the refuse, you are automatically day jail sentence and a suspension talk^ with students, saying that in the Naval Reserves. Between only dormitory named after a assumed guilty of driving under of driving privileges for two he wanted to shake every'one’s WWII and Korea, he was the president of Drexel. the influence and your driver’s See Drunk page 3 box all night. The box contain ed etchings that where taken from the Vietnam memorial in DU grad rem em bered Washington and brought back to Philadelphia this summer by or reticent to go - it was just part I ' In one comer of the Pliiladelphia members of the ‘Last Patrol‘. of his obligation. Daily News’ supplement on the This group of Vietnam In November of 1967, he was 630 casulties of Vietnam, there veterans, the organizers of the assigned to Company B of the was the name Richard W. monument fund, made the trip 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry, Brooks, III. He was listed as a on foot and in some cases, by 196th Light Infantry Brigade. Drexel Institute of Technology wheelchair. Their area of operations was in graduate, class of 1966. What The parade was scheduled to the northern highlands, along start at 10 A .M ., Monday mor had been written just didn’t ning. It eventually wound down seem to be enough, so The through the city to the monu Triangle contacted his mother. ment at Front and Spruce and Brooks seems to be a typical, like any other parade featured representative of everyone who Vietnam memorial marching bands, color guards was ever a Drexel student. and military marching units. ‘Rick’ was a Business Ad dedicated in Philadelphia The majority of marchers were ministration Major who lettered veterans in old uniforms whose in crew as a coxswain, enjoyed his classes and married the girl by Adam Geibel Philadelphia area who served, numbers grew stronger with he started dating as a freshman. Of The Triangle and died in that war. each block they traveled, as Last minute work on the fellow veterans left the crowd to He was in the Army R.O.T.C. and was commissioned a 2nd the South China Sea coast. The Vietnam War finally end granite walls and surrounding join them. On December 27, 1967, Lieutenant upon graduating in ed for most area veterans when landscape continued until late Drexel University was while leading a patrol near Chu June of 1966. the Philadelphia Vietnam Sunday afternoon. That night a represented by a detachment of Lai, Quang Tin Province, Brooks looked forward to candlelight reading of the 630 Army R.O.T.C. cadets, led by Brooks was hit by sniper fire. Veterans Memorial was dedica starting his family and a career names took place and was nude Drexel Instructors and Viemam K? lived long enough to be med- ted, in a series of emotional in business but had to attend to even more poignant when \\ t veterans Lieutenant Colonel ceremonies, the weeketvl of Oc other obligations. After receiv evaced out of the area but died Force R.O.T.C cadets fnMi\ T>fccevl and Seargeant Major later that day. He had been in tober 25 - 26th. It has taken ing his training as an Infantry I Aivalle l ’niNtTsrt> unevpcvtcvih Vietnam a total of six weeks. He nearly fifteen years (since Platoon leader at Fort Benning, ,7 1 > ftiu 'n o n il was 24 years old. Am erica’s withdra\N I of C’Cv.vpa. Brooks was ordered to in 1972) to rea>gnuc jhhI \ tfc£iir H? was neither eager See Brooks page 7 the men and won>c« T h £ ^ r i a ^ £ N ovem ber 6, 1987 Protect yourself from date rape you’re coming back, everyone by Paul K. Johnson Speaking at a recent Drexel you’re going with and tell this Triangle Staff Writer workshop on the problem was Mark Blaweiss, Associate Dean person you know all of this infor mation. Also, don’t go alone to Date Rape, rape usually pre of Students and Director of the a party to leave together. conceived, usually occurs on the Freshman Center. Blakeweiss Assert yourself; if a woman is first date and is often connected stressed that it isn’t the girl’s fault assertive it will help prevent date with alcohol, social events and and women have the right to dress rape. Refuse stereotypes (like takes place around areas familiar anyway they want. Blakeweiss “ college students mess around, to the victim. Men think they can gave the woman precautions in dress like tramps” ), have the date get away with it and most women going on a date to avoid becom understand that just because he don’t know what potential ing the victim.