Trustees and Breslin Retreat to Discuss Future

Volume 65, NumberTR 17 NGLEFebruary 17, 1989 In the paper Trustees and The I\iition increase tentatively at 7% Mysterious Breslin retreat Case... by Joe Saunders to discuss future Of The Triangle Of the missing firearm. Did by John W. DeWeese In a wide-ranging faculty the guard really threaten Triangle Staff Writer the University alumnus meeting Tuesday, University with a pistol or was he just President Richard Breslin ten Last Wednesday and tatively predicted a 7 percent imagining things? Can the Thursday, President Richard tuition increase for next year witnesses really be trusted? Breslin and a group of term and appeared to signal a cap on Who's to blame in the case trustees met at a retreat in new program development in Radnor, Pa., to discuss the of missing pistol? You the face of “significant” fiscal decide. See page 6. board's responsibilities and pressures. f f future plans for the university. Drexel’s financial problems Ik Term trustees are elected to the are “not insurmountable but Board of Trustees for a five year certainly significant,” Breslin term with voice and vote on said at the afternoon meeting trustee committees. The retreat The bionic in the Grand Hall of the Creese was mentored by John Pocock, a Student Center. national expert on trustee duties. University “We cannot be all things to The first day was spent in dis Once upon a time there was all people ... The reality is that cussion on the duties and some of the hardest choices we a University that was at the responsibilities of a board of have to make are in front of cutting edge of technology. trustees, according to Breslin. us.” It had a microcomputer pro Educating the trustees on sub wy;-. Breslin emphasized that the gram ahead of any other in jects like dealing with commit increase was a preliminary fig the country and was, in fact, tees and their composition was ure and the final budget pro the president’s initial reason for the first university in the posal for next year is not yet holding the retreat, he said, but nation to require each of its completed. However, he said, Governance Charter passes unanimously. Photo by Pete Tocci as it progressed to the second incoming freshman to own a “my gut instinct ... is that we day, more emphasis was placed ought to be talking about a 7 about $475,000 to the general allocation comes from a personal computer. Where is on planning for the University’s percent tuition increase.” financial aid fund to “increase reserve fund of about $950,000 it now? See page 10. future. At the same time, Breslin financial aid for students with made up of specific donations On Thursday, the group dis announced a one-time gift of out taxing their tuition.” The See TUITION on Page 8 cussed three topics: Creating a University mission statement; If it ain’t future academic and construction plans, and Drexel’s current broke... financial situation. In search of the ultimate question Breslin said he considers The band that seemed one drawing up a mission statement by Paul T. Bobnak God” boxes located at the distri The discussions are intended of the most up-and-coming to define the future plans of a Triangle Staff Writer bution points and in the dorms, to center on topics that have new groups of the ’80s university as a very important Matheson and Nesbitt halls. been drawn from the top 10 cate faded from the popular step. A mission statement is a If you have ever wondered Creese Student Center, and gories of questions. The most- scene after six huge hits and document that says “This is what about the existence of God, the Hagerty Library.'Of the 3,000 asked category of questions a tour with a the comeback we are as a University,” he said. meaning of life, or the presence papers distributed, 446 ques composed of 51 queries about Moody Blues. The rumours Next Wednesday through of evil in the modem world, you tions, about 15 percent of the evil, suffering death. The majori of death have been greatly Friday a group of faculty and are not alone. According to the total, were returned. ty of those were concerned with According to Barbara unnecessary suffering and death. exaggerated, however. The administration members will be results of the “Ask God” survey meeting in Sugarloaf, Chestnut conducted by the Drexel Weidman of the DCF, the survey Others asked “Why is there star Fixx’s new album. Calm Hill to follow up on the discus Christian Fellowship, many was intended to be of .service to vation?” and “Why is the human Animals , is the band’s most sions about the mission state Drexel students have just such students by encouraging them to race headed for destruction?” mature yet. See page 14. ment and to give their input on concerns. think about spiritual matters and And some are very specific: the document. On Feb. 1, surveys were hand trying to determine what topics “Why did you create Hiller?” Construction of new facilities ed out in the Great Court of the could form the basis of discus while others are quite poignant:” is something that affects our Main Building and the cafeteria. sions. The first of three discus Why is it so heartfelt to lose a school most visibly, Breslin said, The survey asked each student to sions in the “God Answers” loved one even though they are Come heck or and determining a blueprint for write down a question for God series was held last night on the moving to a better, eternal life?” high water... See RETREAT on Page 5 and return the form to “Ask 4th floor of MacAlister Hall. See DCF on Page 5 ... Go out and support the Men’s Swimmers as they Senior V.P. search opens to U niversity forum compete in the East Coast Conference Championships Les A, Karlovitz, of a public, urban technological Stewart Harris, and Ph.D. — of Northwe.stern being held today and tomor Dean of Liberal Studies university in shaping education Dean of Engineering University with post-doctorate row in the Physical at Georgia Tech in society,” the topic all four and Applied Sciences study at New York’s Courant Education Center. candidates must address in their Institute of Mathematics, cur by Joe Saunders public meeting. by Laura Bobnak rently holds the position of dean Of The Triangle “(Urban) universities are not Triangle Staff Writer of the College of Engineering ivory towers,” Karlovitz said. “It and Applied Sciences at State About 50 administrators and must continually hone its com Dr. Stewart Harris, the second University of New York at Index faculty, with a few students, petitive edge” by clearly defin of four finalists for the post of Stony Brook. gathered in Stein Auditorium ing its mission and exercising vice president of academic He previously held chair of the kind of leadership necessary mechanical engineering for three Op-ed Page 10 Monday for the first of four pre affairs to meet in an open forum to “carve out a niche in its eco of students, administrators and years, one of which he spent on Classifieds Page 12 sentations by the final candi logical environment.” faculty spoke Wedne.sday on the leave as a visiting fellow at the Entertainment Page 14 dates for the position of Drexel’s senior vice president for aca “International competition is “role of a private, urban University of Surrey. Harris has Comics Page 17 demic affairs. particularly intense in technological university in shap been at Stony Brook since 1966, Page 20 Sports Dr. Les A. Karlovitz, 52, dean Pennsylvania,” Karlovitz said. ing education” to a sparse crowd participating in the university’s of the College of Liberal Studies “It's clear that education and in Stein Auditorium, Nesbitt growth from "an idea and a set at the Georgia Institute of technology are at the heart of the Hall. of goals into a major research Technology, spoke on the “role See KARLOVITZ on Page 3 Harris, a graduate — M.S. See HARRIS on Page 3 The Triangle F eb ru a ry 17, 1989 AIDS to be t o p i c o f M a c A l i s t e r c o n f e r e n c e Triangle News Desk at Pennsylvania Hospital, and Joseph Tramo, the assistant A conference to discuss the director for social services at effects that Acquired Immune Family Services of Philadelphia. Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is All hospitality industry per having on the hospital industry, sonnel are invited to attend the including hotels, restaurants, conference, including hotel and institutions, and catering ser restaurant owners, operators, and vices, will be held at Drexel managers, corporate hospitality University on Tuesday, March 7, executives, hospitality manage from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. ments trainers and educators, The conference, titled "Aids executive housekeepers, institu and its impact on the Hospitality tional food service managers, all Industry," will feature speakers kitchen personnel and food from the fields of health, social servers, convention and meeting services, law, and medicine, and planners, and food distributors will examine the facts, fears, and brokers. and legal issues related to AIDS. The conference will be held in Topics that will be covered Drexel's Living Arts Lounge. include AIDS as a contagious MacAlister Hall, 33rd and disease, employees with AIDS, Chestnut Streets. Advance regis the legal ramifications for tration is $15 per person, $20 at employers and employees, cus the door. For further informa tomer relations, and the poten tion, call Drexel's Office of It’s almost gone ...the building that once housed Cavanaugh’s is reduced to rubble to tially adverse effects the disease Continuing Professional make way for what President Breslin call **Campus Green Space,” Photo by M.

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