!\/ T h e T r i a n Vol. 70, No. 35 The Student Newspaper ofDrexel University August 11,1995 Landau says: No food in class To deal with limited custodial resourcesy Landau has asked professors to discourage students from eating and drinking in class. Anh Dang inspected “[appeared] to resem­ News Editor ble places where motorcycle “Effective immediately, food maintenance classes are being and drink are not allowed in taught ... but it’s really food and classrooms.” drink stains.” In In a July 27 addition, I.andau memo, Senior Vice noted that a majority President for Finance of trash in the class­ and Administration rooms is food and Bert Landau asked drink trash. college deans, I-andau realized department heads that the guideline will and faculty to “constitute an incon­ enforce the new venience” for some guideline. students and possibly “When students Bert Landau some faculty. enter classrooms with “(The policy isj food or drinks, please ask them ridiculous,” said biology preju­ to consume these items else­ nior Pete Buckley. “I’d rather see where,” Landau continued. [students] eating than passing The classroom guideline was out. Some people are just too set in an attempt to reduce stains busy to eat outside of class.” on carpeted classrooms and to “I think they’re treating us make up for the 50 percent like kids,” said mechanical engi­ reduction of the custodial staff a neering prejunior Eric McGill. few years ago. “It’s one of those things where a KRISTEN UING/r/)e Triangle Landau wrote in the memo few [uncivilized students] ruin it Under Landau’s direction, students may be eating more of their meals in.lounges. that some classroom carpets he see N O FOOD on page 3 Paco Texas- Hitting the books outside bound Nick DiFranco Production Manager Leland “Paco” Redmond, member of the 1994-95 North Atlantic Conference All-Rookie team and recent transfer student out of Drexel, has settled on a new home. Redmond, who hails from Houston and left Drexel in order to be close to his family, will be playing his next season with Texas Southern University. Redmond was the Dragons’ starting point guard in his rookie season, leading the team, in assists nine times through the year. Recruited by Head Coach Bill Herrion out of Willowridge High School in Houston, Redmond leaves a Drexel team which recently lost freshman Jason Yoder to the Philadelphia Phillies organization. The Dragons, minus Redmond and Yoder, are set to open the 1995-96 basketball sea­ son at the Purdue University Tournament, Dec. 1 and 2. In This Issue ANH DANG/The Triangle Ed-Op............. page 4 When the weather is nice and warm, It’s no fun to sweat yourself studying in Hagerty Library. This student chose Comics....................6 instead to study in the Quad and catch some rays at the same time. Classifieds...............8 Entertainment.......12 2 * The Triangle * August 11,1995 Engineers, rocket scientists need not apply nation’s gross domestic products experience working at NASA, This past year, Gessner said Graduates with science or engineering PhDs, devoted to non-military research Gessner was able to obtain fund­ she ta u ^ t three undergraduate are finding the job market slim. and development in the U.S.. is ing for her research project fi-om labs a week while taking three the lowest among industrialized the space agency. classes on her own. “That’s a College Presf Service director for Ph.D careers at nations. “But many students go to huge workload,” said Glessner, When Ann Snyder started Harvard University’s Office of He recalled that when he was graduate school from under­ who added that sometimes she graduate school, she never Career Services. a young scientist, the National graduate without any work believed her department was thought twice about what she’d The reasons for the Ph.D sur­ Science Foundation was award­ experience,” she said. “And the more interested in finding teach­ do after she earned her Ph.D. plus are numerous, said ing grants to about half of all professors don’t encourage that ing assistants “rather than some­ “In academia, the career track Newhouse. During the past research proposals that reviewers their students obtain work expe­ one who will be a potential is very, very set,” said Snyder, decade, many universities and found had merit. Now, the NSF rience outside the university. researcher.” who expects to complete her small colleges have been forced and the National Institutes of Some end up teaching elemen­ One way to solve the long­ doctorate in neurobiology this to tighten budgets, and as a Health are funding less than one tary school after going to school term underemployment of doc­ summer from Harvard result, research and teaching third of the meritorious propos­ an extra four years and setting toral degree holders in science University. positions “have been consolidat­ als, and those numbers continue their sites on research.” and engineering, say researchers, After completing a post-doc­ ed and have evaporated,” she to go down. In most labor markets, when is for academic departments to torate, she imagined herself as a said. For many graduate students, job opportunities decrease, fewer reduce the number of doctoral principal laboratory investigator Meanwhile, as the U.S. econo­ this decrease in the percentage of people seek to enter the field. students they admit. “To put it and lecturer at a university. my has moved away from manu­ meritorious proposals funded But in the^case of Ph.Ds, the bluntly,... at least some kinds of “But the closer I got to com­ facturing toward service indus­ means leaving the scientific fold Stanford researchers said they institutions will have to change pleting my Ph.D, the more I tries that don’t support scientific altogether to pursue careers in found “neither [universities] nor their mix to use more faculty realized to get the research, research, funding for public and business and other fields. prospective doctoral students and fewer TAs to teach under­ become a professor and then get private research has been shrink­ “A lot of graduate students take close accounting of the doc­ graduate courses, because that tenure, one has to be extremely ing. are making plans for back-up torate employment gap.” has a dual effect: It reduces the single-minded,” she said. “Then, Physicist David Goodstein, careers,” said Andrea Gilbert, a For universities, admitting number of doctoral students even if I made my job my life. I’d vice provost at the California graduate student studying astro­ students to doctoral programs produced, and it increases the have to be extremely lucky to get Institute of Technology in physics at Harvard University. ensures a steady stream of teach­ demand for faculty,” Massy said. the research and get the grant Pasadena, argues that the “They’re going for careers in ing and research assistants, said But this is easier said than money.” Golden Age of American science money — on Wall Street, in Stanford Professor William done. For one, if faculty admit Snyder’s dilemma is far from lasted ft’om 1950 to 1970. In the investment banks and in con­ Massy. fewer graduate students, it unique. Universities in the 1990s, opportunities in science sulting.” Faculty and administrators would make their own jobs— United States are producing have dramatically dwindled, he But the bleak job market has who make admissions decisions and chances for tenure—more about 25 percent more doctor­ noted in a paper called “The Big not deterred Gibbons, who just tend to admit the same number difficult. ates in science and engineering Crunch.” began pursuing her Ph.D. “In of doctoral students, regardless Having fewer graduate stu­ fields than the U.S. economy can “With the Cold War over, the next five or six years, who of changes in the quality of dents to assist in research would absorb, according to a new study national security is rapidly losing knows what could happen? A lot applicants. Massy added. “They make it harder for professors to by researchers at the Rand Corp. its appeal as a means of generat­ could materialize,” she said. do that because they must have publish new research results and and Stanford’s Institute for ing support for scientific Susan Gessner, a third-year the Ph.D students for teaching also likely would cause them to Higher Education Research. research,” he wrote. * graduate student in astrophysics assistants, for research assistants spend more time teaching “As the production of Ph.Ds At a San Francisco news con­ at the University of Alabama, and because faculty have a sense, undergraduate courses, rather continues, the supply has grown, ference in June, White House said she considers herself one of in certain places, that they really than the upper-level courses but the demand has not,” said science adviser Jack Gibbons the lucky ones. After coming to need Ph.Ds to keep intellectually many prefer. “It goes against a Margaret Newhouse, assistant noted that the proportion of the graduate school with two years’ alive.” whole lot of forces,” Massy said. ITieTWangle Itie DreMel Players Present: VoIm : (2 1 5 ) 8 9 U 6 8 8 Summer Shorts Editorial Editor-in-Chief John Gruber Managing Editor Patricia O’Brien Production Manager NickDiFranco Production Manager Larry Rosenzweig News Editor AnhDang Ed-Op Editor Jonathan Poet Entertainment Editor BradW ible Photo Editor Noah Addis Business & Aciministrntion Business Manager Gina Di Vincenzo Distribution Manager Ryan La Riviere Staff Writers^^lColumnists Adam Blyweiss, Monica Cimini, Michael Busier, Christopher Chad Corn, Danielle Reinhart, Hatch, M. Scott Smith Steven D. 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