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Volume 63 L e c tu r e r Board votes p ro m o te s tuition hike by Joe Saunders re fle c tiv e Of The Triangle The Board of Trustees’ executive committee e d u c a tio n voted unanimously last Wednesday to accept Ac by Brian Goodman ting University President Harold M. Myers’ budget Of The Triangle proposal for fiscal year 1988-89 which includes a nine percent tuition increase, as well as raises in Dr. Donald A. Schon, Ford student fees and residential living costs. Professor of Urban Studies and Although the $722 tuition-and-fee increase is Education at the Massachusetts comparable to hikes at “neighboring and com Institute of Technology, spoke to peting” institutions like the University of Penn University students and instruc sylvania and Villanova, Drcxel’s increases are paid tors yesterday on “Reflecting over a five year period, as of^sed to other Upon How We Educate Profes schools’ more traditional four year cycles. sionals,” stressing the need to Taken over the five year period, the jump in tui “do first, then learn” for the tion from $7,678 to $8,370 and the raise in the education of future American general fee from $416 to $446 will add $3,610 to students. the cost of an undergraduate University degree, for Schon's proposition, which he a total of $44,080. calls the. art o f‘reflection-in- In comparison, the cost of a four year action,” is having the ability to undergraduate degree at Villanova is priced $8,508 make a change in action by less than Drexel, while a similar degree costs less responding to a surprise, think than $5,800 more at the University of ing, turiCng back the thou^t, and Pennsaylvania. restructuring the response while TTie largest increase in University expenditures it can still make a difference. budgeted for next year is in the category of per By further reflecting on sonnel costs which includes total fiEiculty salary in reflections-in-action, said Schon, creases of slightly over $ 1 million, a five percent educators can open up other increase over last year. Administrative employees possibilities that were previously will receive the same 5 percentage increase, totall unavailable while enhancing their ing nearly $2 million. Classified employees, whose abilities and helping to coacb so wage rate, according to University Vice President meone else' and Treasurer Freddie Gallot Jr., is beJow that of “ A good coach,” a c c o rd ^ to Pboto by PanJ Kowal employees in competing institutions, received the highest group increase of eight percent. Schon, “ is somebody who pays Drezd Player Jane Harrington and Equity Guest Artist Will Stutts star in the Drexd attention to what he himself does Players* production Peter Pan wiuch opened last night in Mandell Theater. Pan One reason for die salary increases is the growth in a difficult situation.” (Harrington), the boy who never leaves the island of Never-Never Land to face the in the number of administrative positions, par Based (» examples from an ar world of adults, will be joined by his friends Wendy, John, and Michad to battle ticularly in the Admissions department, while the chitectural design studios and the Indians and his arch-nem i^ CapCiun Hook (Stutts), until next Saturday night. A faculty has renuuned numerically inferior to the arts, Schon’s dieoiy of reflecti(xi- limited supply of tickets is stiD on sale at the Theater Box Office. $2 for studoits and full-time staff teaching at the University in 1984. $5 for faculty and staff. For more information regarding ticket sales call 895-ARTS. continued on page 7 continued on page 6 Administration InterfraternityAssociation (IFA), and a member the Drexel frater nity Pi Kappa Phi. He was nominated by the 19th police Task Force formed district’s crime prevention by Lisa Gerson Skills (CAPS) workshops. department. and Susan J. Talbutt “ AIDS just seemed to fall Margolis was recognized by Triangle Staff Writers naturally into a subgrouping [of the mayor and the city for his help the committee], and obviously it in the Powelton Village Civic “ AIDS is a terror that society was an issue to be dealt with,” Assosiation and for being the must address, and we recognize said Dr. James Hallam, dean of driving force in organizing Drex that this society must deal with students. el University’s Townwatch Pro it,” said Arthur P. According to gram which now has over three- Joblin, vice presi Associate Dean of hundred active members. He was ■ dent for student af Students Jane M. also noted for his outstanding fairs explaining the Stellwagen, who is ability to work with the reasoning behind chairing the task community. t)ie formation of a force, the force’s Townwatch had its first patrol University AIDS top priority will be on November 18th of last year task force. The task the dissemination of and since then has become the force held its first accurate informa ,largest townwatch in the city. organizational tion to the Drexel Margolis was asked to submit a meeting last Mon community. Her presentation to the Police Crime day. According to goals are to in Prevention A ssoci^on about his Joblin, the office of crease awareness of plan in h<^)es of making it the Student Affairs has the disease while IFA Pres, honored base for a statewide program. already carried out some educa decreasing the levd of fear. It has A proposal has also been sub tional activities targeted to not yet been determined, by Stacey Crown those in need. This is the fourth mitted to odier colleges in the students. however, if the task force will Triangle Staff Writer year that the city has honored a Philadelphia area as a guideline “ We’re taking this step to ex concern itself with mattos of Volunteer of the Year. The to form their own townwatches. pand [such] educational activities University p(^cy. it began with over one- criteria for nomiimtion are that New radio equipment has been to include die entire can^)us. The The Drexel Trxistee Student thousand nominations throughout candidates have denwnstrated ordered and* the organization is Administration feels a respon Affoirs Committee developed and the entire city and was then nar success in serving their communi also working c« an opoation I.D. sibility to provide AIDS educa adopted “ A Statemrat oo AIDS” rowed to over one-hundred. ty, devel(^)ed innovative ap program for neighborhood tion and information on cam in February, 1986. The policy, Eventually, twenty-one finalists proaches to solving problems, landlords. This entails engraving pus,” Joblin said, “and this issued to all students, faculty and were chosen to compete for demonstrated empathy and tenant’s equipment with I.D. responsibility is being addressed staff in May of the same year, in Volunteer of the Year. awareness of the n e ^ of those numbers to ease recovery in case by this task force.” cluded a section entitled Educa They were received on around diem, and showed unusual of theft. The task force is an outgrowth tional Outreach. Educational Wednesday in the Civic Center commitment in helping fellow Elections were recendy held to of the Student Health and Outreach cited education as “ the by Mayor W. Wilson Goode for citizens. elect a new president for Development Committee, which most potent weapon currently their outstanding contributions to Among those twenty-one Townwatch for next year after sponsors the date rape and the available for control of AIDS,” the city of Philadelphia and for finalists was Hank Margolis, Margolis gradutues. The new Career, Academic, Personal, continued on page 3 their unselfish efforts in helping president of Drexel University’s '"continued on page 6 Tlie_Tria|^le A p r i l 2 2 , 1 9 8 8 Latest breakthroughs in Superconductivity to be discussed Triangle News Desk Encouraged by recent indica electricity. creating a superconductor that re Bose added that the lecture tions that superconductivity might According to Dr. Shuyamalen- tains its transmission properties should be interesting to the Dr. Praveen Chaudhari, vice be achieved at room temperature, du Bose, a University professor after temperature fluctuations and general public as well as to scien president for science at IBM’s scientists around the world have of Physics and atmospheric while carrying high critical cur tists and engineers. Thomas J. Watson Research been experimenting with super science, some scientists have rent densities—strong current Chaudhari’s lecture, part of the Center, will discuss some of the conducting compounds. Such reported achieving superconduc flows necessary 'to create Universtiy’s Distinguished Lec latest breakthroughs in the compounds may eventually make tivity at room temperatures, but magnetic fields u s^ in a variety ture Series, will be held at 3:30 development of high-temperature it pbssible to build faster and they have been unable to of {plications. “ Dr. Chaudhari p.m. It is free and open to the superconductors—materials more powerful computers, duplicate the tests so far. has done some pioneering work public. capable of conducting electric develop 300 m.p.h. trains that Bose noted that scientists face in attaining high critical current current with no loss of energy— travel on magnetic cushions, and a challenge not only in finding a densities in high-temperature at a lecture in Mandell Theater on create more effecient ways to material that conducts electricity siq>erconducting thin films,” said Friday, April 25. generate, store and transmit at room temperature, but also in Bose. Images of World War II captured on film in new exhibit Special to the Triangle represent the first time in history job was not the easiest, but was minutes; encrypted speech the black, white and gray tones of that the art of making pictures the only way to accurately docu systems provided the radio chan the picture, which modulated the Images for the Folks Back combined with advances in ment and prove positions in a nels for transmission.