Ifidm Ed-Op 10 Oatebook II Sports 14 Comics 18 Classifieds 20 Entertainment 24 THETHANGLE Volume 73, Numbet 18 Page 24 PhK<d«lphiJ, Pennsylvanli February 20,1998 The Student Newspaper at Drexel University iiei998Th».Tnangl« Pledge falls from fraternity window The incident may have been the result of ed or fell out the window. critical condition. Drexel’s Sources told The Triangle that Associate Director for Public hazing. Tony Caneris said he will take action Lieberman was found naked. Safety Ben Gollotti said the stu­ quickly after the investigation is complete. Greek members from other fra­ dent underwent major surgery ternities who asked The Triangle on Thursday. Anh Dang person at the University of Penn­ to withhold their identities said According to his Myers Hall EDITOR-IN-CHIEF sylvania hospital told The Trian­ the incident was a result of fra­ roommate Jon Kegerise, Lie­ Marketing freshman Craig gle that Lieberman’s condition ternity hazing. berman received multiple frac­ Lieberman, a pledge at Sigma was “stable.” He is scheduled to Lieberman landed on his side, tures on his skull, legs, and Alpha Epsilon fraternity, fell be in the intensive care unit for at on the south side of the fraternity elbow. Lieberman also received from the third floor bathroom least a week. house, located at 206 N. 34th multiple internal traumas includ­ window of the fraternity’s house The winter pledge class of Street. ing a bruised lung. Kegerise said in the early morning of Thurs­ Sigma Alpha Epsilon was going Drexel security officer Mark he got the information from day, Feb. 19, according to through its final phase, known as Cooper reported that at 1:38 a.m. Lieberman’s father. Eve Nikolova The Triangle Drexel’s Department of Public “initiation week,” or “Hell the student was taken to the Lieberman is from West The freshman fell from a third floor Safety. week.” Drexel security reported University of Pennsylvania hos­ Orange, New Jersey. He is either window on the south side the of On Thursday night, a spokes­ that Lieberman was either push­ pital, where he was first listed in See Fall on page 2 Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. OCS on schedule in Amistad descendant talks on history upgrade to faster campus network Michael Thurow an increase in the speed of the TRIANGLE STAFF WRITER network in the past year or so. Last spring, the Telecommu­ The improvements have in­ nications and Networking Group creased the speed of Drexel’s of the Office of Computing Ser­ access to the Internet and net­ vices embarked on a project to work from 1.5 megabits-per-sec- upgrade the backbone of the ond to 10 megabits-per-second. campus computer network. The “Some people might be group’s plans were to connect doubtful of the speed of the net­ the entire campus with a newer work, including the [access to and faster network system. the] Internet. The major reason­ According to Telecommu­ ing behind this is ... the nications and Networking Group increased usage,” Palmer said. Manager Greg Palmer, the group With the rise in the number of is right on schedule and has students using the network, made significant progress on the especially after 5 p.m., the net­ upgrade project. work has been jammed, thus decreasing the speed of the net­ Speed and usage work. Palmer said that OCS has Even withiall the improve­ recently cracked down on its Patrick Boyle The Triangle “acceptable use policy,” which ments in the network system, Samuel H. Pieh (right) spoke on Feb. 18 about the lessons to be teamed from the Amistad revolt of 1839. Pieh Is the many students are still asking states that an individual cannot great-great grandson of Joseph Cinque, who led the revolt on the slave ship La Amistad. why the network doesn’t seem to abuse his privileges on the net­ the State Technical Institute at display any noticeable speed work. There has been one inci­ Anh Dang His great-great grandfather was EDU0«-1N<HIEF Memphis, Tennessee. improvement. dent in which one student was Sengbeh Pieh, better known as ’’Education should be func­ Nevertheless, there has been See Network upgrade on page 2 Samuel H. Pieh, the great- Joseph Cinque, the leader of a great grandson of a slave who led revolt aboard the Spanish slave tional, transforming, and com­ the Amistad revolt, said his fami­ ship “La Amistad’' in 1839. prehensive,” Pieh said of the ly’s history has shown that com­ Director Steven Spielberg lessons he wants people to learn munications, education, and reli­ hired Pieh to serve as a language from the Amistad story. “Any­ University Gty marks gion should be “transforming.” coach and cast him as one of the thing that does not walk the walk Pieh was the speaker at a Amistad slaves for the 1997 will not be tolerated in the new Campus Activities Board presen­ DreamWorks movie. Pieh said millennium.” district with banners tation on Feb. 18 in the Van he took three months leave from Pieh also told the audience of Rensselaer Hall Living Room. his job as a biology professor at See Amistad on page 2 Jessica Fuhrer DATEBOOK EDITOR On Thursday, Feb. 19, work­ ers started to mount banners Experts discuss Arab-lsraeli conflict marking the boundaries of the University City District on street Babita Kuruvilla has been resolved ... [and why] a hand experience as a journalist light poles along Civic Center TRIANGLE STAFF WRITER major effort [towards peace] who covers the region. Sipress Boulevard and throughout the The ongoing political saga of seems totally unfulfilling.” said that recent peace efforts University City area. the Arab-lsraeli conflict was the Panelists included Alan stem from a 1993 agreement Seven different blue, gold, and topic of discussion on Feb. 18 in Sipress, foreign correspondent among Palestinian leader Yasir green banner graphics emphasize the Living Arts Lounge during a for The Philadelphia Inquirer; Arafat, Israel’s Yitzhak Rabin, aspects of University City life: forum sponsored by Drexel’s Ian Lustick, professor of political and U.S. President Bill Clinton. education, neighborhood & Institute for the Humanities and science at the University of Lustick discussed demograph­ community, arts and culture, the History and Politics depart­ Pennsylvania and member of ic and ideological issues related dining and cuisine, athletics, ment. both the Association for Israel to the conflict. Lustick said that transportation, and science/ “The Arab-lsraeli Conflict: Studies and the Middle East the territorial integrity of medicine and information tech­ Where to?” was coordinated by Studies Association; and George Palestine, which is significant in three major world religions, is nology. Sami Ofeish, associate professor Zahr, member of the Palestine Aid Society. central to the conflict. Patrick Boyle The Triangle The installation of 125 ban­ of history and politics.The pur­ pose of the discussion, according Sipress summarized the con­ George Zahr, who grew up in The transportation banner is one of ners was the latest initiative by the University City District. to Ofeish, was to discuss “wheth­ flict’s background and the cur­ Jordan, said that the most viable seven types hung to identify the See Arab-lsraeli confiKt on page 3 See Banners on page 3 er or not the Arab-lsraeli conflict rent situation, based on his first­ University City District. University The Triangle • February 20,1998 Architect speaks on his residential work in South THE TRIANGLE Patrick Boyle Mockbee’s firm of Mockbee/ economic housing for families Established 1926 PHOTO EDITOR Coker Architects of Canton, after meeting with them to dis­ “Love your neighbor as your­ Mississippi has won several cuss their needs. These houses self,” architect Samuel Mockbee awards in the past for innovative cost less than $15,000 each. told an audience of students and interpretations of traditional ver­ Mockbee was selected as one Editorial architects in a lecture at Mandell nacular architecture of the south. of this year’s lectures by the lec­ Editor-in-Chief Anh Dang Theater on Tuesday, Feb. 17. The In the past five years, Mockbee, a ture series committee due to its Production Manager Venu Gaddamidi Eminence Orise Patricia O'Brien lecture was part of the Farajollah professor of architecture at awareness “of Sam Mockbee’s Editor-at-Large Jonathan Poet and Maryam Badie Arfaa Lecture Auburn University, has focused interesting practice, as well as his Photo Editor Patrick Boyle Series in architecture. his efforts on teaching his rural extraordinary success with the Wire Services Editor Bob Rudderow This message seemed to be at studio class. Auburn rural studio. They Datebook Editor Jessica Fuhrer Comics Editor AshishTalati the heart of Mockbee’s lecture The rural studio offers under­ thought it would be meaningful about his work with his students graduate architecture students a for our students to hear about his in the rural studio he runs chance to spend a semester in experiences,” said Paul Hirsh- through the architecture depart­ Hale County, Alabama designing orn, head of Drexel’s Depart­ Administration ment at Auburn University in and building homes for the rural ment of Architecture. Executive Business Mgr. Venu Gaddamidi Business Manager Sam John Mockbee’s rural studio pro­ Alabama. poor of Hale County. Distribution Manager Ryan La Riviere Mockbee’s overall message The students live in a donated vides “needy people with better Classifieds Manager Cyril Addison was a message of social involve­ home in the town of Antebellum, shelter ... and a better environ­ Patrick Boyle Triangle ment to fulfill an “inner depen­ which Mockbee jokingly calls ment through thoughtful archi­ Architect Samuel Mockbee spoke on dence to nurture and be nur­ “the Red Neck Taliesin South.” tectural solutions,” Hirshorn staff Writers Feb.