Two columnists stare crime in the face. Beaver Boy abducted by aliens Read about it on the Ed-Op pages... on page ten. The weekly student Serving the new spaper campus and of Drexel the community University The since 1926 Volume 67 • Number 28 ___________ w m t BSU benefit concert loses $21,000 R o b B l a s i gone through all the receipts. We BSU’s operating account. was approached by BSU member requested SAFAC “decided to N ew s W r ite r haven’t made any final conclu­ A total of 636 adult tickets Gerald Jones with the original fund BSU $25,000 up front in The Regina Belle charity con- sions yet.” were sold by the BSU for both request for funding for the con­ order to sign the contract for the cen held on Feb. 14 by (he Black Livingood described the sessions of the concert. 78 tickets cert. Jones wanted to put on “a performer and cover her costs. Student Union lost a total of investigation as follows: “The were sold to students and an huge event,” according to Additionally, as ticket sales $21,847.15 according to a report best case scenario is one where additional 60 tickets were com­ Grazioso, and “anticipated a came into BSU’s account, it was issued by Student Activities no one is in debt and that every­ plementary, in accord with profit which would be donated to specified that $15,000 was to be Funding Allocation Committee. thing’s fine. The worst case sce­ Belle’s agreement. At the meet­ a specific charity.” Grazioso said repaid immediately, as the A total of $25,000 was loaned nario is that [the BSU] is in debt ing Livingood said that approxi­ the BSU needed money to $25,000 was only to obtain con­ to the BSU by SAFAC to initial­ more than any organization mately 1,800 tickets were “establish ahead of time a guar­ tractual agreements and to meet ly pay for the concert. Only would want to be.” expected to be sold, a difference anteed payment for the per­ up-front costs. The remaining about $15,000 was paid back. This past Monday, however, of 1,026 tickets. former.” $10,000 was to be repaid when Over $10,000 of SAFAC money Livingood, Zimmis and SAFAC According to Drew Williams, Until the May 11 report, the the event turned a profit. If by was lost and the rest was lost by member Chris Grazioso released Director of Student Activities, an actual amount of the seed loan to some chance, the event had loss­ the BSU. a report to the Congress about organization putting on a concert the BSU was under debate. es, SAFAC would cover up to Proceeds from the concert the situation. plans their budget around According to Williams, who was $10,000 of them. This was prop­ were to go to benefit the home­ According to Livingood, approximately 70 to 80 percent absent from the SAFAC meeting erly voted upon and approved by less of Philadelphia. SAFAC itself only took a of their tickets being sold. in question, “sketchy minutes SAFAC.” SAFAC member Jason $10,000 loss, which SAFAC had Working with Livingood’s fig­ were kept” and $10,000 was later Not everyone was convinced Livingood stated with regards to originally anticipated as a possi­ ures, the BSU sold 43 percent of transferred to the BSU’s account. of the concert’s profitability, the investigation that “we ble loss. However, as per the the tickets they expected to sell. According to the May 11 however. In an interview, haven’t gone through all the report, that leaves a deficit of According to Grazioso, the SAFAC report, at the initial Wilhams said that “when you’re accounts yet and we haven’t $11,847.15 currently in the situation began when SAFAC meeting where funding was See BSU on page 3 Freshmen enrolltnent Crew wins gold at Dad Vails down, transfers up Andrew Ross becoming more and more a place N e w s W rfter for [students interested in a Although the number of fresh­ bachelor’s degree>r..part of it man applicants is down from last certainly is cost.” The agreement year’s rate, the rate of students with CCP and other two-year transferring into Drexel is colleges to make transferring “sharply up,” according to into Drexel from those schools Donald Dickason, Vice Provost also increased the transfer rate. for Enrollment Management. Dickason said that the offer The offer rate— percentage of rate would be “slightly less” tlian applicants accepted—will be last year, when Drexel accepted slightly less than last year’s 91 91 percent of high school stu­ percent offer rate. dents who applied. “The quality The numbers are . “soft,” [of students] may be up a tad... according to Dickason, because everyone in the world wants to Drexel does not have a cutoff lower their acceptance rate.” date like most colleges. There­ He cited many methods that fore, final enrollment numbers Drexel uses to attract quality stu­ Drexel’s men>s pair with coxswain wins the V n iy e r ^ ’s first Pad Vail goU in 18 years. Four- Other Drexel won’t be available for a while. dents, including the A. J. E)rexel boats reaelud finals. See story on page: 16, Jrak v O'Hara/TMe T riangle “[We’re] a little bit behind [on scholarships that pay a signifi­ freshman enrollment],” said cant amount of tuition for stu­ Dickason. “Our [number of dents with high SAT scores. L & I moves Drexel lunch trucks freshmen] last year was 1,205; Drexel also amasses mailing K aihleen J. Padova protecting their spaces.” owners. When the men could I’d like to match that, [but] my lists from sources such as the Duncan Widman Antico explained why L&I not produce them, L&I took suspicion is a little bit less than Delaware Valley Science Fair, N e w s W r it e r s had so many problems with 32nd action to confiscate the truck. that.” members of two-year college At 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, street. “When you find a location About half an hour later, howev­ Dickason said that transfer honor societies, and students four people from the that is lucrative,” Antico said, er, a friend of the owners arrived rates were up approximately 30 who score high on the PSAT. Philadelphia Department of “you keep expanding and with the operating licenses, percent for a number of reasons. “We’re getting good students,” Licenses and Inspections expanding, and pretty soon you which had been left at home. “[It’s] part of a national said Dickason. “I don’t consider returned to 32nd Street to map don't have a hot dog stand, you L&I returned the truck to them, trend...two-year colleges are it a crisis issue.” out spaces for food vendors. have a WaWa.” advising them to find a different Business appeared to go on as Jane Robinson, the West street to work on. “You guys usual as they measured out street Philadelphia area supervisor for came to a bad place at a bad and sidewalk space. An officer L&I, said, “We really want to time,” explained an L&I official from the Philadelphia Police to them. arrived on the scene around noon “5ce, we 're not that The owners of the Golden to maintain order. mean; we can be Dragon Chinese food cart, The group then discussed the Muisan Paun and her husband, possibility of moving vendors reasonable ” had previously been given a further down the street. Frank P. warning about the size of their Antico, Chief of Business work with the vendors who have cart. According to Philadelphia Compliance for L&I, recorded been here for a long time...We vendor ordinances, carts operat­ distances where vendors could don’t want to move anyone out. ing on sidewalks can be no larg­ park for a possible*new ordi­ We’re trying to work with er than 4 feet wide and 8 feet nance which would allow for 20 them.” long. The cart was measured at 5 feet between each vendor instead Around noon, a Mister Softee feet wide by 71/2 feet long. of the cunent 30 feet. ice cream truck owned by two Paun said that her cart had been Antico said that L&I was try­ men from New Jersey moved in that location for 10 years. ing to find a way to kee'p every­ into a spot which they saved two L&I explained to Paun that only body happy, while providing nights earlier with their car. cash and personal items could be enough space between the trucks Before they opened for business, removed from the cart before it for the students to walk safely the group from L&I asked them was taken away. Robinson said, across the street. “We want to to move, as they were parked “All food items will be thrown give them a dedicated spot, so right next to another vendor. out.” The SunDragon III leaves Saturday to prepare for the American Tour De Sol L&I requested the operating As Paun prepared her cart to fiom Albany, NY to Brookline, MA. the race begins on Monday and ends on they don’t end up coming in at 5:00 a.m. in the morning and and health licenses from the Friday. Courtesy Team SunDragon See TRUCKS on page 4 2 • The Triangle • May 15,1992 D r e x e l N e w s I n B r i e f N a t i o n a l C a m p u s N e w s Reorganizatioii eliminates Senior VP post King Verdict Sparks march May 1 on campus.