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Prepare for Paddle... See page 12 Viiliitnp Nuftibrf r^il.KlPtphia. Ppnnsvlv.in(.» August 7,1998 The Student Newspaper at Drexel University . -)pyiiriht thp Tfianglp Astro to actively recruit dean candidates Student Chris Puzak the candidate Astro said that he is looking son for this job, right now. It’s a EDITOR-IN-CHIEF could not be for someone who “far exceeds” human decision ... it’s difficult Provost Richard Astro will be confirm ed at Life to the criteria of engineering dean. ... but I have to rely on my gut taking a more active role in the press time. He wants a dean who will be a instinct.” selection of the new engineering The success leader and who will be able to Astro said that he did not dean. Astro told The Triangle he ful candidate develop relations with people believe that the College of tackle will personally select candidates would report di both inside and outside the Engineering has been hurt by the for the search committee’s rectly to Astro, University, as well as someone absence of a dean for over a year, approval. The search committee along with other who has an impressive track but that he believed it would be if will also be looking for candi deans. Astro is Astro record of work within engineer drugs, the position remained vacant for dates. in charge of aca ing. much longer. Astro also said that “I’m prepared to bring them demic affairs at the University. Astro also said that it is this was the first time he has ever in one a week if I have to,” Astro Astro announced at the July important the new dean work conducted a search for dean in alcohol told The Triangle. Astro said that 16 meeting of the Dean’s council well with other deans within the this matter, but that he was also he had already contacted seven that none of the candidates University. hesitant to advertise for the dean Chris Puzak people about the position, and selected by the search committee Astro said the candidates he position again, saying “two ads EDITOR-IN-CHIEF that one of them would be on for the position of engineering rejected were qualified, but that are enough.” The Division of Student Life is campus on Aug. 5. The name of dean were accepted. he is “looking for the right per See Astro on page 2 involved with the formation of two committees that could potentially have a great effect on Drexel students. One committee Basketball Drills is the Alcohol and Other Drug Task Force, designed to review Drexel’s policies regarding alco hol and narcotics. The other, the Committee on Greek Life, is designed to review the polices and practices regarding Greek organizations on campus. The committee members consist of faculty, staff, and students. According to a press release from Dianna Dale, Senior Associate Vice President and Dean of Students, the Alcohol and Other Drug Task Force was designed with the intent of reviewing several University policies: Drexel’s alcohol policy, including the residence halls pol icy on alcohol, Drexel’s drug pol icy, and the administrative sanc tions imposed upon those who violate Drexel’s alcohol and drug polices. The task force also looked at the monitoring of alcohol being served at fraternity parties, and the purchasing of alcohol through fund raising efforts by student organizations. It also reviewed both Drexel’s efforts to educate students on substance and the services available to help students with substance abuse problems. George Papayinnls The Triangle Dale told The Triangle that the task force has completed its Associate head coach Steve Seymour teaches kids basketball drills at Drexel University's 1998 all-star basketball camp. The seventh annual event took place from work and submitted its recom- July 27 to 31, and was open to children in grades 4 through 12. See Student life on page 2 Drexel hosts digital television preview
Lisa Rocci futuristic television station. transmit up to four programs TRIANGLE STAFF WRITER Inside the truck, there is a over a single channel, and digital Philadelphia got its first showroom featuring a large- “data-casting,” which will pro glimpse of digital television on screen digital television set. The vide course material and other July 27 in the form of a traveling other half of the truck is the pro information at up to 500 times tractor trailer. The Harris/PBS duction room, which shows the the speed of a modem. Data- DTV Express, a 66-foot 18- capabilities and equipment nec casting will also allow broadcast wheeler containing digital televi essary to broadcast the digital ers to send web pages along with sion equipment and a show signal. Digital television is a new the television signal. room, pulled into the Quad lor a form of broadcasting that pro According to a Drexel press three-day stay. vides all-digital audio and video release, Dr. Fredericka Reisman, The visit to Drexel was the programming over the air. director of Drexel’s School of only Philadelphia appearance Philadelphia, which is among the Education, said, “DTV will bring DTV Express made in its 40-city nation’s top 20 TV markets, will school into the home by turning national tour. Designed lo begin in the fourth quarter of TV screens into home comput inform the media, corporate, 19^8. Other smaller markets is ers. TV is going to go from a pas educational, and political lead scheduled to begin to receive the sive provider of entertainment to ers, the vehicle features demon DTV services by early 1999. an interactive educational tool.” George Papayannis Ihf Tri.iiujk' strations and scenarios such as Among the features making Digital television sets are the living room of tomorrow, the DTV attractive are “multi-cast scheduled to arrive in stores later The Harris/PBS DTV Express trailer stops in the Quad as.part of its publicity tour classroom of tomorrow, and a ing,” allowing broadcasters to this summer. to increase industry and public awareness about digital television. University/National The Triangle • August 7,1998 Elderly man Provost to Crime Report Crimes that occurred on or near campus can be reported by calling Drexel Security at THE TRIANGLE 895-2222. According to Drexel Security, it responded to 80 calls for assistance during the allegedly Established 1926 recruit period July 27 through August 2. Of those calls, the following 12 incidents were attacks classified as criminal complaints: new COE On-Campus Attempted Robbery Editorial 3400 Block of Race Street July 29 Attempted robbery Editor-in-Chief Chris Puzak girlfriend Production Manager Venu Gaddamidi candidates On>Campus Burglary Photo Editor Patrick Boyle Randell Hall July 30 Forcible Entry Photo Editor George Papayannis with gun Randell Hall July 30 Unspecified Wire Services Editor Bob Rudderow Astro from page 1 Datebook Editor Jessica Fuhrer Comics Editor Ashish Talati On-Campus Vandalism ASSCKIATED PRESS Contributing Editor Ross Snyder Astro said he hoped that the Early Childhood Center July 31 Window vandalized PITTSBURGH — An elderly new process of selecting a dean man wounded his girlfriend and would allow the position to be On-Campus Theft Administration set his house on fire before he filled as quickly as possible. CAT July 27 Credit card stolen Several sources close to the Book bag stolen was wounded in a shootout with MacAlister Hall July 30 Business Manager Sam John police. search committee expressed their PEAC July 30 Unspecified Advertising Manager Despina Raggousis Ralph Hale, 72, was in critical belief that Astro is doing the Korman Center July 31 Pocket book stolen Distribution Manager Ryan La Riviere condition Wednesday at right thing in taking this new F-Lot Aug 1 Articles from vehide stolen Classifieds Manager Cyril Addison Allegheny General Hospital with tack to finding an engineering 212 North 34th Street Aug 1 Personal Property stolen chest and shoulder wounds after dean. PEAC Aug 2 Wallet stolen On July 16, Astro told the the 1 a.m. incident. On-Campus Threat “If he survives, he’ll probably search committee that he reject New Tower Hall Aug 2 Employee threatened be charged with attempted mur ed its three recommended candi staff Writers Greg Apessos, Ty Chow, Matt DiFranco, der and arson,” Allegheny dates: Mohammed Karim, chair Joy Morgan, Lisa Rocci, Elizabeth To, County police Lt. John Brennan of electrical and computer engi Michael Thurow neering at the University of said. Student Life forms two Entcrtainffltiit Writtn Hale’s 53-year-old girlfriend, Dayton; Dr. Ronald Sack, direc John Pitale Nancy McCoy, was released after tor of the civil and mechanical Cohimnists systems of the National Science treatment for a hand wound. new committees Michael Busier Hale shot Ms. McCoy as she Foundation, and Dr. Bruce tried to leave the house they Eisenstein, Drexel professor and Student life from page 1 and Panhellenic council will still Advertising DasigiMrs Despina Raggousis shared in Ross Township, a department head of electrical be responsible for issues relating Pittsburgh suburb, police engineering. mendations. The report has been to violations of IFA and Cartoonists alleged. He fired several shots at Astro also rejected the recom passed on to Senior Vice Panhellenic regulations. Tom Fulp, James Point Du Jour the car as she fled, Brennan said. mendation of the first dean President for Student Life and Another change the commit Production Staff “She ducked real well. There search committee, Dr. Makram Administrative Services Tony tee is working to bring about is Heather Bellew was a bullet hole in the headrest. Suidan, head of the University of Caneris. the addition of graduate assistant Businosc Staff I believe he attempted to kill Cincinnati’s civil engineering Dale said that no final deci staff in the Greek houses. These Beth Holl, James Jurgens, her,” Brennan said. department, who was a late addi sions would be made until she would be live-in positions devot Eve Nikotova, Lauren Rudderow While Ms. McCoy drove to a tion to the pool of four candi and Caneris had time to fully ed to issues concerning facilities, nearby ambulance station, Hale dates. review the report, but that she conduct, and activities program returned to his home where he Suidan worked for University was impressed with the work the ming. The committee is also opened a natural gas line from a President Constantine Papa- committee had done. working on reviewing Greek dryer, poured gasoline through dakis’s time there as dean of Dale said that the work of the policies in the student handbook, the house and ignited a fire. The engineering. Committee for Greek Life had chapter evaluations, and the house was gutted, the lieutenant The position of engineering not progressed as far, but she was social management policy, and Contact Information said. dean has been vacant since July happy with the thoroughness of creating a Greek Life handbook. Mall: The Triangle When police arrived at the 1,1997 when former engineering the work done to this point. The Dale told the Triangle that 32nd and Chestnut Streets house, Hale fled in another car dean Y.T. Shah left to assume the committee’s goals are several word-of-mouth recruiting has Philadelphia, PA 19104 but traveled only a mile before position of senior vice provost fold. It will form a Greek Judicial started for the Greek Judicial P/jonc. (215)895-2585 officers blocked his path. for research and graduate studies Board, which will act as a com Board and the graduate assistant fax: (215)895-5935 He got out of his car, drew his at Clemson University. ponent of the University’s staff, but that progress will be E-mail: [email protected] revolver and fired at police offi The interim dean of engineer Judicial Board, and involve the slow until a replacement is found cers but missed, investigators ing is chemical engineering pro same standards and procedures. for departing Director of Greek alleged. fessor Raj Mutharsan. The Interfraternal Association Life Shane McGoey. Copyright 01998 The Triangle. No work herein may be reproduced in any form, in whole or in part, without the written con sent of the Editor-in-Chief. Opinions expressed within are not neces 'Virtual frog' offers alternative to dissection sarily those of The Triangle. The Triangle is published Fridays during the academic Olennda Chui be the first in a series of pro get more out of their lab work. There’s nothing like it. There’s year except during examination and vaca COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE grams to explore the denizens of “One problem with dissection something visceral about doing tion periods. The Triangle is published biw e^y in the summer. PALO ALTO, Calif. — The 5ie biology lab — from the cat to — once you dissect it, it’s gone the hands-on. Kids see things on The Triangle's only source of income is inhabitants of Frog Island don’t the mouse to the grasshopper. and you can no longer refer to TV all the time — it becomes advertising; funding from the University is have to worry about the mysteri In some cases, these virtual it,” said Decker Walker, a unreal to them. When kids touch not accepted. ous die-off that has been wiping reality programs could replace Stanford education professor the eyeball of a cow or the brain The Triangle is free to members of the out amphibians in many parts of dissection of real animals. A who worked on the project. With of a sheep, it blows their minds Drexel community, but distribution is limit ed to one copy per reader. the world. They’re in no danger number of states, including Frog Island, he said, students can away.” Subscriptions may be ordered for $40 for of croaking. California, now require teachers refresh their memory with a Wayne Carley, executive one year; display and classified advertising They’re virtual frogs — hop to offer other options to students detailed map of the frog anatomy director of the National inquiries may be placed at the addresses or ping, swimming or scooting who object to dissection on ethi on their computer screens. Association of Biology Teachers phone numbers above. across the screen while baring cal grounds. And with a library of virtual in Virginia, agreed: “A model is their innermost organs for sci More than a dozen studies creatures at hand, he said, stu always going to be limited, no ence. have concluded that students dents could plow through the matter how good it is — even if With the click of a mouse you who use alternatives — from 3-D innards of several animals a year we get smell-a-vision on our peel back their slick, green skin plastic models to computer sim — and compare them side by computers and waft the odor of to reveal a skeleton, muscles, ulations — do just as well in their side, something that can’t be preservatives” over the virtual heart and guts. Click! Rotate a courses as those who dissect, said done with real specimens. The dissecting table. C olophon frog, or zoom in for a better Jonathan Balcombe, a biologist program comes at a time when Frog Island is not yet ready for Hardwara view. Click! A joint flexes, and and associate director for educa many schools are cutting back on The Triangle is produced using Apple prime time. Running the 3-D Macintosh and Power Macintosh comput the frog leaps. Click! Give the tion for the Humane Society of dissection because it’s expensive, program requires a powerful ers. Images are digitized with a Nikon frog a new set of muscles. Send it the United States. and because they can’t find time computer, far beyond the reach Coolscan negative scanner and an Apple racing around a track to see how Color OneScanner. Proofs are printed to a “What kind of message are we to fit it into the curriculum. of most classrooms - which typi Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4si MX; final this particular configuration sending to young, impression A preserved frog is $6, and a cally have 4-to 5-year-old equip boards are printed to a Hewlett-Packard works. Click! Explore the physics able children when we put them cat can run more than $25, said ment. LaserJet 4MV. of a frog jump. in class and tell them today we’re Patrick Roisen, a biology teacher Parvati Dev, an electronics Software It’s all part of a Stanford Page layout is designed using QuarkXPress. going to dissect a fetal pig or at Menlo-Atherton High School engineer and director of the Images are prepared for reproduction University project called Virtual whatever it is?” he added. “We in California who helped develop Stanford group, said she is bring using Adobe Photoshop and Ofoto. Text is Creatures that aims to brighten feel that’s not the kind of educa the lesson plans for Frog Island. ing in students from high schools set in Adobe Minion and Myriad typefaces. the teaching of biology by draw tional exercise conducive to At his previous high school in and colleges this summer to cre ing students into a vivid, three- developing respect for life.” Daly City, Calif., he said, money ate a QuickTime virtual-reality dimensional world - and giving But many biology educators was so tight that the science stu version of the program, which them a possible alternative to say dissection is an essential part dents sold T-shirts to raise should be more accessible. dissection. of learning about living things. money for dissections and lab Roisen said, “I think what they’re Recycleo The Trianfle. Financed with a $125,000 seed They said it’s more likely that equipment. trying to do is great and has a lot grant from the National Science Frog Island will be used along Still, he said, “from my view of promise. I just hope we’ll be Foundation, Frog Island could side dissection to help students point dissection is invaluable. able to use it.” The Triangle • August 7,1998 Regional/National Officials propose toll hike for A.C Expressway National News ■ ASSOCIATED PRESS interchanges, and a major vers using the E-Z Pass electronic least Nov. II, when E-Z Pass is Video rental contains ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — widening project. toll system would pay $1.30. expected to be in full operation, porn instead of Barney State transportation officials are Tolls have not been boosted Frequent E-Z Pass users — authority executive director BOSTON (AP) — Barney proposing to double tolls on the on the highway since 1969. The motorists who pass through at James Crawford said. does Boston? Ann Kenney said Atlantic City Expressway for dri agency considered increasing least 30 times a month — would Gov. Christie Whitman, who she and her husband popped a vers who pay cash, but offer dis tolls as a last resort last Dec pay $1.10. has the power to veto a toll newly rented Barney video into counts to those who use a new ember to fill an $800,000 budget “We have structured the toll increase, is not taking a position the VCR for their children, automated toll collection system. shortfall, but the state came increase to minimize the impact on the proposal, spokeswoman Carolyn, 2, and Myra, 5. The South Jersey Transporta through with a subsidy in on the people who use the road Jayne O’Connor said. “It’s pre "They were sitting in front of tion Authority, which operates January that closed the deficit, regularly. That’s primarily South mature for her to make a deci the TV waiting for Barney, and I the 44-mile highway connecting “I don’t think that any house Jersey residents,” agency sion until the authority has taken went out of the room,” Ann Philadelphia and Atlantic City, hold is close to working on the spokesman Peter Hartt said. any action,” O’Connor said. Kenney said. “When I didn’t announced the plan to raise tolls same budget as 30 years ago,” Drivers of trucks and buses The authority has a board hear any music, I went back in for the first time in nearly 30 authority chairman Stanley R. also would pay more, with rates meeting on Tuesday, when it is the room, and there’s eight years on Wednesday. Glassey told The Press of set according to vehicle size, and expected to adopt a resolution women completely naked.” Officials said a toll hike was Atlantic City. limousines would fall into a spe authorizing a series of public The cuddly purple dinosaur needed for the cash-strapped Under a three-tiered toll sys cial higher rate category and hearing on the proposal. The who tunelessly sings “I love you, highway to fund long-delayed tem, tolls at the Egg Harbor plaza would no longer pay the same dates and location of the hear you love me” was nowhere to be highway improvements such as a would double from $1 to $2 for toll as cars. The higher tolls ings will be announced next found. Clearly, another video full-scale resurfacing, three new motorists who pay cash. But dri would not take effect until at week. had been substituted. “I was in shock. Where was Barney? There’s no Barney on the tape,” she said. “They Would-be contestants try out for the 'Wheel' couldn’t understand why there was no Barney, and that’s a hard Niki Kapsambelis adding, “It’s a game that every alternates will be chosen for five resented a cross-section of the question to explain to a 2- and a ASSOCIATED PRESS one can play.” shows that will be taped Sunday show’s audience. 5-year-old.” PITTSBURGH — Wanted: “It doesn’t take the knowledge at Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center, “We don’t want all cute, we Mrs. Kenney said she spoke Game show contestants. Must be that ‘Jeopardy’ does,” Forsman A few more may appear on a don’t want all young,” said pub with the store manager, but got perky, loud, and willing to buy added cheerfully. series of shows taped in licist Suzy Rosenberg. no satisfaction and turned the vowels. Pay negotiable; experi Vanna herself and host Pat Pittsburgh on Saturday along Also out are people who don’t video over to police. The store ence helpful, but not necessary. Sajak are not due in town until with people from other cities. understand the game’s rules, like had no comment Wednesday. With visions of consonants Saturday; in the interim, their Still more will be invited to a man who committed the faux “This is a moral issue and very dancing in their heads, would-be life-sized cardboard cutouts appear on the show if they are pas of asking to buy a vowel serious,” Mrs. Kenney said. “The “Wheel of Fortune” starlets stand at the door. willing to fly to its home studio before he had earned any money. innocence of childhood is very crowded into a downtown “I’ve been watching it since I in Los Angeles at their own “They would just go on the valuable, and once it’s gone, it Pittsburgh hotel Wednesday for was this high,” said Dana Young, expense. show and embarrass them can’t come back again.” the final auditions for shows to 24, of Pittsburgh as she held her Contestants came clad in selves,” Ms. Rosenberg said. be taped this weekend. hand about three feet from the everything from pin-striped suits Beverly Wheeler, a telephone Porn aired on local “I feel a little outnumbered,” ground. “You had to spend your to shorts. A few wore T-shirts operator from Wilkinsburg, said Gil Forsman, 55, of Lower money on prizes like the glass with slogans like “The Wheel shouted every response to con access channel Burrell in Westmoreland Dalmatian.” Rocks,” and some wrote songs testant coordinator Gary SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — County, as he glanced around a She took a vacation day from explaining what they would do O’Brien, who reminded her that Skin flicks pre-empted an events room that was filled mostly with her job to attend the auditions. with their prize money. she was not playing “‘Wheel of calendar and the like on a com women. “I’m good at ‘Jeopardy,’ but Anita Gavett, 30, of suburban Fortune’ for the hearing im munity access channel, and Forsman, a school guidance not that good,” she said. “I figure Pittsburgh practiced for the show paired.” channel executives were seeing counselor, came to the auditions ‘Wheel of Fortune’ is more my by having her husband coach her “I’m excited!” Ms. Wheeler red over the un-family fare. The with his wife. Dee, a teacher. speed.” on a computer “Wheel of shouted back, Jones Television Network, oper Both said they watch the game About 400 people auditioned Fortune.” She showed up in a “We don’t want anyone injur ated by the Jones Center for show nearly every night. at the Marriott City Center maternity dress and told the ing themselves,” O’Brien cau Families, carried a scrambled but “I like Vanna,” said Forsman, Tuesday and Wednesday after show’s representatives that she tioned, then tossed her a “Wheel visible pornographic movie referring to the show’s slinky let they were culled from about was willing to name her baby, of Fortune” pen as a gift, channel for five hours Sunday ter-turning hostess, Vanna 10,000 people who tried out at a due in three months, Pat or Ms, Wheeler, who made the night. White. roving “Wheelmobile” that criss Vanna. final cut, said she has tried three “We’re just stunned,” said Joel “Gilbert! You’re not supposed crossed Pittsburgh in July. Judges said they were looking times to get on “The Price Is Carver, the center’s chief execu to say that,” his wife chided, Fifteen contestants and two for enthusiastic people who rep Right,” to no avail. tive officer. “Everyone here at the Jones Center is outraged and embarrassed.” The channel normally offers a Entrepreneurs shoot to establish new league community bulletin board announcing local events and Tired of NCAA regulations, a Mass. professor exchange, the companies would Division I basketball annually go shows city council meetings. It get to use players for personal on to finish college, also carries some programming seela to create a new basketball league appearances and plaster their Wally Renfro, spokesman for by satellite, and the satellite feed where college players would be paid to play. photos on billboards and signs. the NCAA, said the CPBL could sent to the channel Sunday night McMann sunk $300,000 of his be a good idea for some players had more skin than scheduling. Sharon L. Lynch will get bonus bucks and those own money into the project and but they should think twice if Someone would have had to ASSOCIATED PRESS who finish college in four years enlisted the help of investment they believe it to be a stepping have had technical knowledge to LEXINGTON, Mass, — A would get another $10,000. bankers Josephberg Grosz & Co. stone toward the NBA. program the porn channel onto sports-loving college professor is Those who graduate in eight to raise the remaining $18 mil “I think that a concept like the receiver. Carver said. putting his money where others years would get $2,500. lion he needs to launch the pro this may in fact be a healthy have only talked a good game: “If they are going to try and ject and see it through the first alternative for student athletes Treat peddler arrested paying basketball players to go to focus on their basketball skills, two years. A major sponsor is who are ill prepared for continu FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — I college. it’s going to take them longer expected to sign on within the ing their sport while continuing scream, you scream , we all It may sound like an immedi than the traditional four or five next month, McMann said. their college work,” Renfro said, scream for ... pot? ate NCAA violation, but Paul years to graduate. It’s a full-time Former New Jersey Nets head “But there’s an awful lot of A Good Humor man was McMann and his management job,” said Dennis O’Connor, coach and veteran NBA center basketball players coming up caught selling marijuana to a team are stepping out of bounds communications director for the Alfred “Butch” Beard and one through the ranks who believe teenager out of his ice cream for this venture, leaving the fledgling CPBL. time Boston Celtics guard Jo Jo that they are going to play pro truck, Fairfax County police said NCAA behind and forming their “We’re going to give them the White are already on board to fessional basketball. Obviously Wednesday. own league, opportunity to pursue their hoop manage the league. there’s very little access to those Ousainou Lowe, 29, was Boston, New York, New dreams,” McMann says his main moti ranks.” arrested for distribution of mari Jersey, Philadelphia, Cleveland, And where Nike has paid mil vation is a desire to see more col Only about 2 percent of col juana after police watched from a Washington, D,C,, Chicago and lions to Division I colleges in lege basketball players graduate lege basketball players go on to distance as the ice cream seller Detroit could be hosting teams exchange for the right to attach while giving them a chance to join professional teams. peddled more than cones and from the proposed Collegiate its trademark swoosh to sports share in the wealth their athletic So why would starry-eyed sprinkles on Tuesday. Professional Basketball League as jerseys, corporate sponsors sign prowess generates. hoopsters pick the Collegiate The 16-year-old boy who early as next year. ing on to back the CPBL early As long as they play in college, Professional Basketball League? allegedly was buying the drugs Students playing in the league will get. a much bigger bang for the NCAA prevents athletes from “They could play for a Duke was released to his parents. would get a $5,000 signing bonus their advertising buck, taking a dime in profits. And or a North Carolina, but they Police said charges against him and a $9,000 annual stipend, plus McMann, a Babson College often they run out of scholarship could also play for a Coca-Cola are pending. tuition, room and board. At a professor who conceived of the money before finishing school, or Pepsi Cola or a McDonald’s. An employee at Good minimum, they would be league, is hawking njiming rights “I felt that the kids were being They’ll be playing for global mar Humor-Breyers Inc. in Green required to attend an annual and a host of promotional possi^ taken advantage of and at the keters,” McMann said. “When Bay, Wis., said Good Humor ice eight-week accelerated college bilities to firms like Levi Strauss, very least they should be able to we go knocking on kids’ doors, cream trucks are locally owned program at the University of America On-Line, Budweiser get an education,” McMann said. our recruiters will have a $5,000 by independent operators. A Maryland Eastern Shore. and Sega in hopes they will ante Currenfly, about 45 percent of check in hand, ready to sign Good Humor spokesman could Players who take extra classes up $400,000 to name a team. In the 3,600 men who play NCAA over.” not be reached for comment. ditcffial pimon Page 4 August 7,1998
Chris Puzak Editor-in-CHief THE TRIANGLE Editorial Board Patrick Boyle Photo Editor Venu Gaddamidi Production M anager Bob Rudderow Wire Editor Ross Snyder C o ntrib u tin g Editor
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This week, Provost Richard Astro announced that he would be recommending candidates to the com Television commercials mittee in charge of finding a new engineering dean. While having the Provost suggest candidates to the committee is not necessarily a bad thing, it’s curious that it took Astro this long to take such an initiative. aren't getting any better If Astro knew people he thought were qualified, why go through the process of having two committees watched some television the Contact was awesome, and I still have a soft spot in search for candidates? If Astro has picked seven new other day for the first time in a my heart for The Electric Company. But no kid couple of weeks, and once should have to endure that public service candidates that are qualified, why didn’t he seek out ■ again I was disappointed. No announcement about cheese they showed during those candidates a year ago? matter how many columns I write Saturday morning cartoons. T\vo searches have been unsatisfactory to Astro. complaining about it, the “pow For those who don’t remember it, the commer Drexel has its back to the wall, because Astro didn’t ers that be” seem content to do cial consisted of a dancing piece of cheese singing divulge his list of “good” candidates until one year nothing about improving it. I will m about how cool it is to eat cheese. After only one write another column about it anyway. Hey, if you viewing, I got the message that this cheese wedge after former dean Y.T. Shah left. The University has don’t like it, feel free to drop off your column at was “hankering for a hunk of cheese,” and it would little choice after all the time that has passed; it must 3010 MacAlister or e-mail it to triangle- be a good idea to increase my daily intake of prod find a qualified candidate. [email protected]. ucts from the dairy section. Astro’s assertion that Drexel is not hurt by having For example, there’s a commercial for America But every week, they delayed Dungeons and no engineering dean for the past year is just plain Online that seems aimed at the freaks of this coun Dragons so this damn piece of cheese could sing. wrong. The College of Engineering is Drexel’s most try. One guy on the commercial proudly exclaims Eventually I started worrying about cheese products that the best part of his day is the cheerful “You’ve and began to forgo cheeseburgers for fear that my prominent college. Not having a dean for over a year got mail!” message which greets him when he logs slice of Velveeta would jump onto the table and hurts its prestige, not to mention chances to raise on. begin singing “Happy Trails.” money for research and from outside donors. Am I the only person who is worried about this I hated those stupid news programs for kids as guy? After all, anyone who gets in a tizzy over get well. For some reason, CBS was constantly running ting yet another e-mail about making money fast is a 20 minute spot about the equinox. It was so bor Tne AMe(?i
Ross Snyder: My Heart Is Made of Gravy Media ignores too many important stories believe Leslie Nielsen said it best in The more like Hard Copy every day! think that would be a very inspiring end to dom that detonates after being used, in Naked Gun — “Is it just me, or has the In all honesty, I think it is pretty neat the story. order to destroy the evidence. I bet it will ■whole world gone completely crazy?” that these 13 people who have been toiling Another news item that baffles me is the be a big hit. Some of the news stories being covered away in a factory all their lives have finally new evidence in the Monica Lewinsky dog Yes, I think that the national media is a today are ludicrous. struck it big. and pony show. Lately, all people have bunch of dorks for being so obsessive The extent to which I have been forced However, I think they are just a bunch been talking about is this dress of Monica’s about the Powerball jackpot and the to hear about this recent Powerball lottery of glory hounds now that they’ve got the that is now being examined for possible Lewinsky fiasco. is just absurd. Recently I was watching the spotlight. It was reported that nine of the genetic evidence of a sexual encounter But unlike many people, I don’t blame nightly news and after hearing about the 13 say they will keep their jobs, despite between Monica and the President. them for their skewed vision. I blame the Powerball jackpot, the top story, for three their newfound riches. Am I the only one a little sickened by people all across the country who worry or four minutes, the newscaster went on to Who are they trying to kid? I’m sure lit this? Did Monica forget to do her wash more about Mark Fuhrman’s current job say, "In other news, two children died tle old ladies nationwide are saying “Isn’t somewhere along the line? Or was it more than the country’s economic factors, the today...” that nice?” in response to this show of duty of a "Wow, cool. I’ve got the President’s people who actually have a favorite day Ah, how I love to live in a world where and all-Americanism, but who else in their love juice on my dress — it’s the ultimate time talk show, the people who drank New the great American dream of winning the right mind believes it? souvenir!” Coke because they were told to. These lottery and wallowing in the power that Not only are they liars (would you work Either way, the implications are scary. people are sheep, and they are willing to be large sums of money affords takes prece in a factory after obtaining a few million Just think, soon the nightly news will have led anywhere, whether it be salvation or dence over the real-life trials and tribula dollars?), but they are also occupying jobs close-ups and diagrams of the dress in slaughter. tions of real people. that they no longer need. question, along with color-coded keys on And the news media owns a lot of What is this, “Rush Limbaugh Does the I also have to wonder what it would be the side identi^ng the various substances butcher knives these days. News?” “Ladies and gentlemen, I made like at the plant if they actually did keep on it. $20,000 in the time it took for me to say their jobs. If they show up late too many Additionally, men everywhere will now Ross Snydw is a sophomore majoring in teacher this sentence. By the way, the President has times and get canned, what will they do? do their partner’s wash the day after a one- preparation and mathematics. Be on the lookout been shot and someone else just cured Buy the place and fire the foreman who night stand instead of leaving immediately next week for his exclusive story in The Triangle cancer. But I have more money than both fired them? in order to avoid a similar scene down the on how President Papadakis won $5 in the lottery of those guys, so who cares?” Of course, you might argue that the road. I hear that the good folks at Trojan and spent it on a book that was banned in a rural The nightly news is becoming more and money will not change these people, and I are hard at work on a new explosive con Nebraska school.
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Atari Force from page 12 great that even Coleco and games were some of the hottest estimated that over 16 million through special sendaway pro Mattel made games for the Atari, items of their day. Atari 2600s were sold in the motions) routinely sell for over Raid, and Seaquest. Their games despite their own competing One of the more interesting United States alone. $200, if they can be found at all. are also known for their bright home video game systems. In rumors is that following the The Atari 5200 and 7800, On M arch 13, 1998, JTS labels and high-quality graphics. crash. Atari was losing so much machines designed to compete Corporation, Atari Cor Activision continued producing money that they decided it with first the ColecoVision and poration’s previous owner, sold Atari games until 1988, and is would be more economical to Intellivision and later the all of Atari’s intellectual property now a large player in the com dump millions of their overpro Nintendo and Sega Master to Hasbro Interactive for the puter game industry. duced games like E.T. and Pac- System, never caught on to the princely sum of $5 million. Activision was not the only Man into a landfill in Arizona extent of the 2600, but retain a Hasbro wasted no time famous name to take a stab at rather than sell them. cult following to this day. announcing that many of these making Atari games during the Finding this landfill would be A huge collecting scene has games were going to be re- early 80’s. Amiga, 20th Century the video game equivalent of the sprung up around the Atari 2600, released for current computer Fox, Sega, Konami, CBS, Milton holy grail, but no one has found and some of the rarer games pro and home video game systems. Bradley, and Parker Brothers all it yet. duced for it command extremely While this is definitely some made games for the Atari at one addition, system changers that By the time Atari went out of high prices. thing Atari enthusiasts every point or another. allowed the ColecoVision and business in 1989, they had defi While common games like where are looking forward to, The system’s draw was so Intellivision to play Atari 2600 nitely left their mark. It has been Combat and Asteroids sell for nothing can ever compare to sit around 50 cents each, some, such ting down and playing a real as Chase the Chuckwagon and Atari, the grandfather of all video Tooth Protectors (offered only games. Six straight hours of pure death metal Headbangers from page 12 formed. Surprisingly, the band pulled nounced the song titles. What the incredibly lame stunt of can I say, “Skull Full of Maggots” walking off stage, and then com and “Meathook Sodomy” sound ing back on. Still, the band ciid $ 1 8 . 3 9 C D 71 somewhat alike to me. The band play their hit singles “Devoured played songs from their debut by Vermin” and “Hammer album Eaten Back To Life all the Smashed Face.” It was truly a way up to their latest opus great way to end the evening. E aqlb E ye C h er r y Gallery of Suicide. I worry that some day □ e s i r e l e s s It was surprising to see that a Cannibal Corpse is really going lot of people there were able to to run out of ideas for songs sing along, considering that there about killing people and we may were rumors that the band’s sec one day be treated to such death ond album Butchered At Birth metal ditties as “Death by had no lyrics and was actually Photocopying,” “Crushed by a just a bunch of grunting on the Craftmatic Adjustable Bed,” or $ * 1 3 . 3 3 C D part of the vocalist, which is not even “Satan’s Wedgie.” But until too far from the truth. that day, I hope they keep on Still the band is an incredibly rockin’. G illian W elch skilled group of musicians, and H e l l A m o n g T h e Y e a r l i n g s even though I didn’t know the Concert words to “Puncture Wound Ginnibal Corpse Massacre” or “Born in a Casket,” The Trocadero, Philadelphia I was thrilled to see them per with Angelcorpse, Immolation
Quickies $ 1 8 . 3 3 C D Insect small animal or child. The only comfort I ▲ - had before going to sleep was they were S wirl 3 B O . June Bugs too big to crawl under the door or fit through any vent. A s k A n y b o d y Raid is too good for them But give cockroaches a cute little name, Put down Savannah, Georgia as one spot and no one seems to mind. Well, I say we to avoid. Read all the travel guides you SXPJf^Ll^GO can learn a lesson from our southern want, but let me tell you about two little friends. Instead of homeless people, let's words you will never see in those guides: call them "happy campers" who are just ' June Bugs. This is a nice way of saying "roughing it" in Philly. Not to mention the 'These are the biggest fucking "feathered angels" (pigeons), aren't cockroaches you will ever see." Think $ 1 8 . 3 3 C D spreading disease and pestilence, they're cockroaches on steroids. If you have just sharing their love and happiness with never been afraid of cockroaches before, everyone. And the "fuzzy bunnies" (rats) go down to Savannah, and you will be. are actually helping to keep our streets V a r io u s A r t is t s Worse yet, these things travel in packs at clean. This way we can just ignore any F o r T h e M a s s e s .night. It is common to see three or four problems under the guise of cute little of them sitting on the sidewalk staring names. right back at you. These things show no Greg "In the fear and, if provoked, could easily eat a Garden of Good and Evil" Apessos
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Ross Snyder increased quickly, topping off at Trocadero with PADDLE over 500 games. Although Nintendo64 and Combat, the first game ever Sony Playstation are all the rage released for the Atari, was bun today, I think more people dled with every Atari console for Cannibal Corpse should take a moment to look many years and became one of back at the early video games — the most classic video games of a time when game play meant all time. everything, and the bells and The game is extremely simple whistles of today’s games were by today’s standards — two nowhere to be found. This was players, controlling either tanks the time when the mighty Atari or airplanes, fight it out — but ruled the Earth. the idea of two people being able The Atari Video Computer to blow each others’ brains out in System was introduced in 1977 a game was too addicting to take off. and singlehandedly created what resist, and Combat is still good Additionally, Coleco released is today a multibillion-dollar for some two-player fun today. its ColecoVision, which was industry. Atari also made a great move technically superior to the Atari The system was built around a when they decided to bring 2600. revolutionary new idea: instead many popular arcade games to Atari was already facing com of just sitting down and watching their system, allowing kids every petition from Mattel’s TV, now you could actually where to live out their wildest Intellivision and Magnavox’s interact with it and play games dreams of playing arcade games Odyessy2, and Coleco’s entry Metal Blade Records on it. at home, without quarters. Pac- into the already-crowded market "Hey, wait a minute. This isn't Fleetwood Mac!" The concept took off like Man, Donkey Kong, Missile made conditions even worse for wildfire and in the late 70’s and Command, Asteroids, Space the beleaguered Atari. Chris Puzak even going to mention the fact early 80’s people used the words Invaders, and Centipede are all Finally, in 1984, the dam MAGGOTCOLONY that the lead guitarist was obvi “video game” and “Atari” inter examples of this. burst, leading to what is now The band Cannibal Corpse ously a spring, and he was changeably. Of course, not every game called the “Great Videogame has often been a source of con dressed as an autumn. Although other cartridge- produced for the Atari was an Crash of 1984.” Many video troversy. (For those of you who The next band up was based home video game systems instant classic. By 1981, a lot of game companies went out of have never heard of them, they Meshuggah. They were OK, but I did exist, the Atari was by far the the early Atari games, like Night business, while others made the were the band in Ace Ventura: was not particularly thrilled by most popular and the only one to Driver, Outlaw, and Basketball, jump to other markets. Of the Pet Detective) Several of their anything they were doing. They have a substantial number of were starting to look pretty raw. dozens of Atari game publishers albums have been banned in var sounded a little bit too much like games created for it. However, they were still in the Atari’s heyday, only a ious countries. They were just another clone of Pantera for The Atari was not great groundbreaking when they were handful still make home video attacked by Bob Dole as under my taste. I took some time dur because of its technical elegance. introduced — a far cry from games today. mining the moral fabric of ing their set to peruse the ‘zines today, when many games are American society. One reviewer that were being distributed. simply clones of each other, with SyP€B BBCRHOOT Use jjith Podolc. ConCroll«rs declared that their lead singer None of them were very impres slightly tweaked game play. sounded like a “pus-infected sive, and one of them. The Almost all of the early Atari gorilla from hell.” Negative Grimoire of Exalted Deeds, struck games were 100 percent original reviews were even less kind. me as incredibly stupid. The in most every aspect, since they This is not to say that the band magazine consists of such scintil were truly the first. has had an entirely negative lating music reviews as “This They didn’t have gi;eat graph effect on people. A couple of kids album is so gay. Don ‘t buy it,” ics or sound, but they were defi I met in Harrisburg told me one badly photocopied ads from nitely fun to play. of the greatest moments of their record labels, and pictures of half Although Atari enjoyed a young lives was being able to naked women. It was very lame. mountain of success throughout share a joint with the band’s bass After Meshuggah, Immolation Chances are that your toaster has the late 70’s and early 80’s, bad Activision in particular player. And they are one of the performed. Immolation releases more processing power under things were on the horizon. brought mounds of glory to the most popular death metal acts in an album about every four years, the hood than the old Atari 2600 As the market became flood Atari. the world. but they do quality work. consoles. ed with games in 1982-83, many Founded by a few disgruntled So when I found out they Immolation also carries on the What made Atari famous was of which were of somewhat poor Atari employees in 1981, they would be playing at the Troc proud tradition of having a band the incredible game library avail quality, people began drifting came out with some of the sys adero, I immediately bought a name with the suffix “ion” in it, able for it. The Atari 2600 was away from home video games tem’s most memorable games, ticket. such as Suffocation, Incantation, unveiled to the public along with and towards personal comput such as Pitfall, Kaboom, River The show was opened up by a Dissection, and Defecation. nine games, but that number ers, which were just starting to See Atari Force on page 10 local band, Mortal Decay. I had This trend is worrisome to never heard of them before, but I me, however, as I fear that in thought they did a decent job. I about five years we will be seeing Renegade Soundwaves felt pretty much the same about bands like Pasteurization or The Scale the other area act, Final Prayer. Cable Installation. And no mat All Triangle Entertainment reviews are Courtesy of 91.7 FM, WKDU, Drexel student radio Neither band was doing anything ter what anyone says, it is impos subject to the world-famous Triangle Bands least likely to do a split 7 inch with Hanson. exceptional, but they were both sible to convince me that albums rating scale. competent performers and rea like Dairy Products of the Devil or No. Album sonably entertaining. ■ $19.95 (I month for... Satanl (pre ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ Sporty Artist 1. The best of...volumetwo After a brief pause, Aii- mium channels not included) are AAAA Posh Longmont potion castle 2. Split cd Zed/309 chorus gelcorpse hit the stage. Angoi- going to be any good. Anyway, ▲ ▲ ▲ Baby 3. Experiments in sound &energy Ink and dagger corpse jilays extremely last death Immolation delivered a fine per ▲ A Scary 4. The burning times Burn witch burn metal, and while most people formance, performing such hits A Oprah 5. S/T The ncthirteens there seemed untanuliar with the as Burn With Jesus and Nailed to 6. Live on wkdu Rancid vat band due to their limited distrib Gold. 7. When the sun goes down The Boils ution in the United States, they At'ter five bands 1 was sure that 8. We're the ghettoest The Town Managers had a pretty successful pert'or- people would be worn out, but 9. Exmachina Man orastroman? mance. (.■ver\'one gave a very enthusiastic 10. Prison shake Karp 1 saw a lot of people buy welcome to t'annibal Corpse, The Word 11. The singles Bikini Kill 12. Six songs with jay singing Angelcorpse alter the band who started off their set with Kid Dynamite "It's all fun and games until someone 13. Under the running board left the stage. 1 was particularly their new song I Will Kill You. The Dillinger Escape Plan loses an eye. Then it's just fun." 14. Echoes of anguish Rudimentary Peni impressed by the fact that the I’m embarrassed to admit it, but James Hetfield 15. Over the james Avail lead singer was wearing a bullet- 1 really have trouble distinguish 16. Beats the fuck out of me Broad Street Bullies belt. It is a well known fashion ing death metal songs apart, so 1 let's go get some sushi. And not pay!" 17. splits The Showcase Showdown/The Twerps faux pas to wear bullets uiHil was glad that George Emilio Estevez in Repo Man 18. Division Anti-domestix/Rocketcar after Lab('” Pay, but there he “Corpsegrinder” Fisher an- 19. Destroy all music The Flying Luttenbachers was, wearing it anyway, 1 am not S\c Headbangers W 20. Happy heroes Negativeland