Sports Shorts Drexel Researchers Honored fructose and glucose. The Research atomic molecular group, where sizes Men's Basketball by Allison Leah is able to purchase new supplies and Triangle Staff Writer Achievement Award recognizes are approxim ately 10 nanometers: the equipment. Students who assist and M atharasan as a national leader in his nuclear group, at about I0-” cen­ observe these research projects benefit Michael Anderson-ECC Basketball Player-of-the-Week field because of his hard work and timeters; and the subnuclear group, as by discovering up and coming Drexel University's Michael Anderson has been named the East Coast The Annual Research Conference, dedication to research. the most highly advertised division, technologies. Conference Basketball Player-of-the-Week. He averaged 23 points, 9 re­ held on Tuesday, January 28, mark­ Professor Webb, the designer of the make up the nuclear structure of K. Geller, Director of Sponsored bounds, 7.S assists, and 3.5 steals in leading the Dragons to conference ed the thirteenth year Drexel has new Presidential Logo and the Drex­ Physics. Projects, summed up this program wins over Rider(83-74) and Delaware(‘K)-89,OT). recognized its professors with awards for their dedication to research projects el Banner, was recognized for his According to Feng, “the recogni­ perfectly on Tuesday. He used the fascinating artwork which has been tion of the importance of symmetry in popular triangle analogy to describe John Rankin-ECC Basketball Rookie-of-the-Week in their respective fields. commissioned in various parts of the nuclei have caused a major revolution three major benefits: John Rankin, a 6-7 freshman forward out of West Catholic High School, Michael Webb, Associate Professor country. As stressed by President in this field and great excitement world • History Technology: records was named the East Coast Conference Basketball Rookie-of-the-Week. of Design, Da Hsuan Feng, Associate Gaither, his “public and private, wide among nuclear physicists.” our track record His average of 22 points, 11 rebounds, and 4 bliKked shots helped the Professor of Physics and Atmospheric classical and symbolic " style has the Feng has been with Drexel since • Materials Technology: seeing Dragons to victory against both Rider and Drexel. Science, and Dr. Rajakkannu energy to give a somewhat ordinary Mutharasan, Professor of Chemical 1976 and has had close contact abroad how new materials can be subject an extraordinary perspective. Engineering are nominated this year with other Chinese scientists. His used W eb b ’s work is admired publically discoveries in Physics have gained an Women’s Basketball by their College Deans and by an • Imagination: a mysterious and privately, nationally and interna- Achievement Award Committee. admirable reputation for both him and path showing where we can tion^ly in mediums that shift from oil- Drexel. go from here Colleen Dougherty-A Drexel First These recipients are just three of a paint to an Italian technque called Unfortunately, very little is known Other work done by professors Colleen Dougherty, a senior forward, became the first Drexel women’s large portion of Drexel faculty who "Scraffito" (engraving into a wet stuc­ about the many research projects tak­ within the University include: basketball player to score 1,000 points in a career on January ISth at spend their time away from the co surface). Wall murals in the lobby ing place within Drexel. The Depart­ Engineering: According to Dean Hofstra. Dougherty was given a special salute before last Thursday's home classroom providing useful informa­ of PSFS (Broad and Chestnut) and in ment of Research and the Department Woodman, “ 1985 was an outstanding game with Rider in a ceremony to honor her achievement. tion and community service. RCA's cafeteria (New Jersey) are two of Sponsored Projects at Drexel Receiving the first of three awards year” in the way of Biomedication, regulate incoming grants and pro­ was Professor Matharasan. Heading a prime examples of his incredibly Biomechanics, Combustion, and realistic illustrations. posals by governmental and private Hazardous and Toxic Materials. W restling selected group of graduate students. As the first member of the Design sources. Future research includes artificial in­ Mutharasan has focused his research College to be honored by the Commit­ These funders - including the telligence in computers. Dragon’s push record to 9-3 on ■•monitoring and regulating the tee, Webb is a most deserving reci­ Department of Energy, the National Information Science: Although it is The Dragon's defeated Rider last Saturday in a key ECC match 26-14. reduction state of the cell in bacteria pient of one of the Research Achieve­ Science Foundation (primary funder locally small, this college is national­ Paul Zarbatnny, who was the conference champion at 118 pounds a year systems.” These food-related pro­ ment Awards. of universities for basic research), the ly large. Various research topics in­ ago, knocked off John Lucerne 10-8 in the highlight match of the even­ blems require feeding broken-down The final award this year goes to National Institute of Health, and the clude public library systems, creating ing. Lucerne was ranked fourth in the nation at 126 lbs. in the pre-season cells into particular sizes of reactors Professor Feng, who described his State of Pennsylvania (Franklin Part­ information systems for high tech and was last year's ECC champ. Drexel also downed Delaware 27-18 and mathematically recording the data. research as ‘probing the beauty of nership) - provide grants to Drexel in firms, and making- tests for how on Saturday to run their dual meet record to 9-3. Heavyweight George Matharasan and his group, which nature through symmetry.” Together return for essential information. systems practice with and relate to Kovach, ranked 15th in the nation in his class, recorded his second pin centers their work on commercial pro­ with a group of highly motivated col­ Awards are made to Drexel after the clientele. in the triangular meet to lead Drexel to victory. ducts, begin their analysis with such eagues, he has been studying the faculty member in charge writes a natural substances as agricultural physics of the small world, which he report of the proposal. residues or natural com syrup and use As a result of these awards, Drexel Men's and Women’s Swimming them to test and produce gasoline or categorizes into three groups: the (See Sport’s page for expanded coverage) Colleges Cracking Down on Activism by Jim Schwartz WasSington. D.C. withdraw or increase premiums," explains. O f the Triangle ‘‘In loco parentis," meaning a col­ notes Dorothy Stevens of Risk Con­ Cornell Dean of Students David lege has all the legal obligations “ in sultants, a Denver insurance firm. Drinkwater says the ‘‘crackdown" Some time this week, the Universi­ the place of the parents" while a stu­ A single multi-million dollar judge­ aims to minimize the school’s liability. ty of Massachusens at Amherst is due dent attends the school, was the ra­ ment against NU in an injury case At a protest “ shanty tow n” last fall, to decide how to punish 18 students tionale for strict campus control of stu­ could consume much of the school's he recalls, “ one of the shanties burn­ who staged a sit-in when an ad­ dent behavior up through the mid­ endowm ent, and fiscally cripple it for ed down, sending flames 25 feet high, ministrator unilaterally decided to sixties. years. which came close to one of the cam­ seize control of most student fees. Schools, of course, carefully con­ Courts recently have held a variety pus buildings. This definitely provok­ And in coming weeks, more than trolled all aspects of students’ social of schools liable for rapes occurring ed concern about liability.” l(X) Cornell students will face trespass­ and sexual lives by regulating dorm near their campuses and for many in­ All-night sit-ins, Drinkwater adds, ing charges connected to a fall anti­ hours, visiting procedures, drinking, cidents common to any community, can expose a school to lawsuits if one apartheid demonstration. North on-campus entertainment, driving, like campuses, the size of small cities. of the students in the unattended cam­ Carolina State students will find their political group activities, and even stu­ Universities are now reassessing pus building should be injured. dorms shut down to members of the dent dress. their rules. Lawyers suggest there may Fears of crime drove North Carolina opposite sex. Undergraduate Syracuse While the system was broken by stu­ be behavior schools simply can’t State to force all dorm visitors - students, meanwhile, may no longer dent upheaval in the sixties, there’s regulate. including parents - to sign in and leave be allowed even to be at a party at evidence administrators’ concern for Indeed, the American Council on their driver’s licenses at the front desk, which people age 21 and older are being held legally liable for students' Education last fall warned ad­ says housing Director Cynthia Bonner, drinking alcohol. m isbehavior is helping revive at least ministrators not to go overboard in im­ “ We have a feeling of responsibility Student freedoms on those and part o f it this year. posing new drinking rules. toward the students,” she says. dozens of other campuses across the ‘ ‘There is no indication of ill will “ Unrealistic rules which are in­ But administrators, student Sen. nation, in other words, seem to be on the part o f administrators. It’s real­ capable of practical enforcement can Michael Palmer says, refuse to add fading fast ly a crackdown on administrators,” actually invite greater liability by lighting to dark areas on campus, ad­ COULD IT BE? Yep. more orange bricks have arrived on campus.