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HUME XLVII Copyright, 1970 The Drexel TriangleFRIDAY , JU NE 26, 1970 NUMBER 35

communication: community and drexel

.ast night the Drexel Board of Trustees

let with The East Powelton Concerned

Residents, The Philadelphia Community

Inion, The Summer-Winter Streets Action

association, The West Powelton Con-

lerned Community Council and The Phil-

idelphio Women for Community Action,

ielow ore excerpts from the letters that

led to that meeting.

From the above organi za t ian s to Dr.

logerty on March 24:

“ P lease be advised by th is le t te r tha t while ,e do not recognize the legitim acy of a planning tudy conducted by D rexel U niversity to d e te r ­

mine the future of o u r community, we hope that D rexel will recognize, through i ts planning study, the feasibility of the p rinc ip le of no fu r th e r dem o­lition of hom es and growth based on a lte rn a tiv es to community d es truc tion .

Only on th is b a s is can good and neighborly r e ­lations ex ist between D rexel U niversity and the

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possib le to a rra n g e to have these T ru s te e s p rese n t on June 11, 1970, between 8:00 and 9:00 p .m . at the D rexel U niversity Planning C en te r located on N atrona S tre e t South of Powelton Avenue.”

From the above o rgan iza t ions to Mr. C harles L. Huston, J r . , Chairman of Drexel’ s Board of t ru s te e s on Ju n e 9:

“ We a re very p leased that the Board of T ru s ­te e s of D rexel U niversity has accepted our request to m eet with m em b ers of our coalition of com­munity groups.

Unfortunately the June 11 date proposed in M r, J.K . Lee S m ith 's le t te r of June 3, did not allow sufficient tim e fo r ou r community groups to p re ­p a re fo r the m eeting. We would, th e re fo re , like to propose the a lte rn a tiv e tim e and place of W ednes­day, June 24, 8 p .m . at 3312 Race S treet.* '

From C harles L. Huston, J r . to Dr. Gerald Goldin on Ju n e 15:

**...! am asking M r. J.K . Lee Smith to a rran g e a su itab le tim e and p lace at which a m eeting can be held. We w ill give all possib le consideration to the date of W ednesday, June 24."

people of the surround ing com m unities.P lease be advised by th is le t te r that the com­

munity re s id e n ts a r e in the p ro c e s s of p repa ring a repo rt em phasizing construc tion a l te rn a tiv e s to the policy of to tal c lea ra n ce . We envision th is rep o r t to be the f i r s t step in the p ro c e s s of community se lf-de term ina tion through the people of the com­m unities to plan th e ir own future.'*

From J .K . L e e Smith, Vice P re s id e n t for

Community Affairs to the above o rgan iza t ions

on Ju n e 3:

“ I am p leased to extend an invitation fo r D r. Goldin, M r. G reenlierg , M r, Pette t, M rs. Thom as and M rs. T ing le ...to m eet with m em b ers of the D rexel Board of T ru s te e s who have resp o n sib il­ity for Buildings and P ro p e rty m a tte rs . It has been

From the coali t ion to Mr. Huston on June 23:

**We will be happy to m eet with the se lected T ru s te e s on T hursday , June 25, at 8:00 p.m . at the Asbury M ethodist Church located at 33rd and Chestnut S tre e ts , and we have re se rv e d the church fo r that m eeting.

We hope that th is meeting will be the f i r s t of many fru itfu l d iscussions with the t ru s te e s o rien ted toward resolution of the long-standing d ifficulties which have existed between D rexel U niversity and the surrounding com m unities.

It is the position of the community o rgan iza ­tions, as we have previously inform ed P res id en t H agerty, that we can only partic ip a te in the r e ­study of the D rexel M aster P lan on the b as is of a jo in t-decis ion making p ro ce ss acceptable to D rexel and to the affected com m unities.”

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Drexel will be c lo sed on Friday , July 3rd in honor of the 4th of July holiday. The

Triangle will not publish tha t week, and we hope you con live until our next i s su e , which

will be F riday , Ju ly 10. The dead l ine for the Ju ly 10th i s s u e will be Wednesday, Ju ly 1.

rebirth of a buildingby d a v e er le

3312 ARCH STREET IS A VERY IMPRESSIVE BUILDING THAT HOUSES SEVERAL IMPRESSIVE PEO PLE WHO HAVE TAKEN SEVERAL IMPRESSIVE ACTIONS.

The Casket Company Community C enter w ill officially open its doors to the Powelton Village public on July 1, 1970, with a C hil­d r e n ’s Day Camp. It w ill also se rv e as a meeting place for a re a re s id e n ts .

The C asket Company Community C en te r, p resen tly located a t 3312 Arch S tree t, is a non-profit organization whose main goal in life is to provide needed se rv ic e s for a com m unity that is being m ur­dered by expansion.

The C enter p resen tly occupies the C asket Company Building, which was recen tly lib e ra ted from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority . The building had been unoccupied for two y ea rs before it was libera ted by a group of individuals for use by the com m unity and had suffered som ew hat from the cold w in ters and the Redevelop­ment Authority (see p ic tu res) . All the plumbing fix tures w ere r e ­moved by the Redevelopment Authority. Plum bing fix tures a re u s ­ually destroyed by the Authority to p reven t such takeovers . Much of the tim e since the takeover has been taken up with rep lacing and reconditioning the plumbing.

C e rta in public s e rv ic e s have been denied the occupants of the building. They now have som e of the b a re essen tia ls for life, such as w ater and e le c tr ic , how ever, the Philadelphia Gas Works has denied them se rv ic e and the Redevelopment Authority ap p ears to have the much needed w ater h ea te r.

The Community C en te r has had one money ra is in g a ffa ir , the s t r e e t thing. This was a reasonably successfu l money m aker, which w ill help defray the cos t of plumbing fixtui'es destroyed by the R e­developm ent Authority.

T here have been s e v e ra l o rganizational meetings which have been opened to the public to se t up opera tiona l p rog ram s such a s : Day C are C en ter, L ib ra ry , After School C h ild ren ’s P ro g ra m s , A Drug P ro g ram , T enan t's P roblem s Help and a Soup Kitchen.

Any student o r faculty m em ber who may be in te res ted in joining the Powelton Community and its adventure with the Redevelopment A uthority should contact Dave E rie , c a re of The T riangle office.

dean

parr ish

leav ing

by craig n y g a r d

Y esterday P res id en t H agerty met with the faculty and adm in is ­tra t io n of the B usiness A dm inistration College to se t up c r i t e r ia for m em bersh ip on the com m ittee to find a su ccesso r to Dean P a r r is h . Dean P a r r is h will leave D rexel in Septem ber to begin work a t the U niversity of N orthern F lo rid a . This university Is s t i l l In tiie stages of o rganization and will not accept students until S ep tem ber, 1972. D uring Uie next two y e a rs , Dean P a rr ish will be o rganiz ing his deijartm ental faculty and c u rr ic u la .

According to Dean F o rd , the com m ittee to se lec t a new dean will be com posed of faculty, adm in istra tion , departm ent heads of the Bus Ad college, s tudents and U»e “ V isiting C om m ittee .” The “ V isit­ing C o m m ittee” Is com posed of in te res ted businessm en from the D elaw are Valley a re a . Dean Ford also ex p re ssed Uie hope that rep re se n ta tiv e s from a l l levels of f a c u l t y — full p ro fe sso rs , as so c ia te

parkway volunteers neededb y la r ry m a r io n

Any D rexel student in te re s te d in teaching at the Parkway School th is sum m er will be in it for the experience of teaching a t an ex ­perim en ta l educational env ironm ent--one without w alls, s t ru c tu re , or d isc ip linary prob lem s, o r money: college students working th e re as faculty in terns a r e not paid.

The Parkway School, one of the m ost Im aginative educational p ro ­g ram s Philadelphia has ever initiated, allow s students to lea rn the l>asics, and any other dam n thing they want, by attending se m in a r - type c la sse s a t various Institutions along the greenway In c e n tra l Philadelphia.

Located between Vine and M arket S tre e ts , th is authentic p a r t of Penn’s “ G reene Countrie Towne” has the A rt Museum, the F ra n k ­lin Institu te , the F re e L ib ra ry of Philadelphia, and many o ther cu l­tu ra l c e n te rs . Technicians from each of these Institutions a re p a r t of the teaching corps; reg u la r teachers from the Board of Educa­tion a re the bulk of the In s tru c to rs . A rea businesses contribute space for c la s se s and occasionally a business m a n /in s tru c to r . As Philadelph ia’s only libera ted high school, they a lso feature e so te r ic co u rse s taught by the local guru on that sub ject. The sum m er s e s ­sion is p rim arily dedicated to the basic c o u rse s offered in the school sy s tem . (Notice I did not say “ t a u ^ t ” —read ing levels a re s t i l l sub­standard .)

Those students in te res te d in teaching, a s s is t in g other te ac h e rs , or helping out the adm in is tra tion of this floating learning game can contact J im Keen at KI 6-8067, or v isit him a t 1736 Naudain St.

p ro fe sso rs and a s s is ta n t p ro fe s so rs—will be Included on tlie com ­m ittee.

The se lection of m em bers for this com m ittee and the p ro ce sses they will employ In the se lec tion of the new dean a re of In te res t In light of Spring’s s i t - in . One of tlie reasons for the Kellman affair was the lack of student voice in tlie h iring and firing decision. Student voice In the co n tro v e rs ia l Coles h iring was m inim al. It Is doubtful whetlier student voice will Influence the reco n s id e ra ­tion of the te rm inal co n trac ts of M r. W agner, Mr. Axelrod or D r. S terne,

While D r, Crouch Is recuperating from an unfortunate h ea r t attack , D r. M iller will be filling In for him as V.P. for Academic A ffairs for tlie next six weeks and he may be contacted by students In te res ted In being on the com m ittee .

d r e x e l t r i a n g l e

Page 2,* June 26, 1970

„ ,.s a common raloconcepllon Ihal J pseudoscle«=e which helps one !world’s most ardent astrology scholars claim the ,

dawning = = = = =L u o n of » r e a r l h - s equator) and the elepllc (a slmUar greal

r Of “ > r e r < l r - r ^ : v e r . .

L c h sign of the zodiac, a ll of which lie on or near the eleptic. The sign at the vernal equinox has profound bearing upon all the ° men, i.e., upon history itself. The Age of Taurus (rem em ber toe Golden Calf?) ended, so they say, when Moses with the Tables of the Law, thus heralding the a d v e n t^Aries. This next age gave way to that of P isces, at atout the tim of Christ. According to whatever astro loger you follow, we a re either in the last days of Pisces or at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, as the Broadway show teUs us. It really is supposed to herald a new age of humanitarianism, just as P isces was sup­posed to improve the state of brotherhood over its previous level. Even the most skeptical of us would do well to hope that this seemingly very pretentious branch of astrology has a grain of validity, in light of this promise.

of an

age

by alex turfa

the

bermuda

triangle

by bill Sullivan

A rough triangular area between Bermuda and Florida and Puerto Rico has a ra ther sin ister reputation. Whole ships and en­tire formations of airplanes have disappeared without a trace here .

The best known Bermuda Triangle incident occurred on December 5, 1945. Five Grumman TBM Avengers left F ort Lauderdale on a routine practice run. At 3:45 P.M., the flight commander reported a disorientation. Five navigators were simultaneously lost. At 4:25 the last message came in “ not certain where we are...about 225 miles northeast of base. Looks like we a re .. . ' 's i le n c e .

A Martin flying boat with thirteen men and full rescue equipment roared out from the base, only to vanish five minutes la ter without a trace. Twenty-one vessels and 300 planes in the biggest land-sea search to date failed to find a trace of either the bomber or the fly­ing boat. Not even an oil slick.

At 10:30 P.M., January 29, 1948, the British a irliner S tar Tiger radioed that she was off course, 400 miles from Bermuda enroute to Kingston, 26 passengers and crew members aboard. Good weather and no trouble.

That was the last ever heard from her. Disappeared without a trace.

At 7:45 A.M. on January 17, 1949, Capt. J.C . McPhee lifted the Ariel off the runway at Bermuda for a tr ip to Kingston, Jam aica. (The Ariel was a s is te r ship to the Star Tiger!) Forty minutes a fte r it left Bermuda, Capt. McPhee radioed that he had reached cruising altitude, wind and weather fair, expected to a rr ive at Kingston on schedule,

Ariel also disappeared. No trace was found. Her fate and the fate of other planes and ship in the Bermuda Triangle rem ain a m ystery to this day.

SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE McGHEEPius PAUL GEREiMIA • JUNE 25-28

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coincidences?by bill Sullivan

Shanti Devi claim ed she had lived befo re . Her p are n ts hum ored h e r , thinking she was insane. Then one day, a man cam e to v is i t Shanti’s fa ther. She claim ed the man was h e r cousin from h e r fo rm e r life, even though neither one had met befo re .

Shanti's s to ry checked with the m an 's . It s e em s he had a cousin who died in childbirth in a village named M uttra . This is what Shanti had claim ed all along.

A team of sc ien tis ts took Shanti to M uttra , She accu ra te ly nam ed landm arks of a town she had never v is ited . She a lso gave a c c u ra te d irection to her “ fo rm er life house ,’*

Another re incarna te s im ila r to Shanti Devi was the P ram odh Shama case , a lso in India, The boy c la im ed he had lived a fo rm e r life in the village of Moradobad. When he was five he and h is fa th e r visited the town w here he showed him se v e ra l shops w here he claim ed he >often shopped. He a lso showed h is fa ther a soda w a te r factory which he owned in his fo rm e r life , explaining the o pera tion of the c a rb o ^ t io n machine in detail.

Perhaps the s tran g e s t ca se of re in carn a tio n is tha t of Joey Verwey, a South African g ir l who c la im s she had e leven p rev ious lives. Joey was f i r s t noticed when she c la im ed tha t an 80 y e a r old woman was h e r daughter. She was la te r found to have a trem en d o u s ­ly accu ra te knowledge of events in h is to ry . She c la im ed to have known Oom Paul D ruger, a fo rm e r P re s id en t of South A frica who died in 1904. A sketch she did of Kruger turned out to match with a p o r t ra i t of K ruger found in a Derban m useum . She a lso re m e m b e re d a Roman Legion officer. She exhibited a fan ta s tica lly accu ra te knowledge of Roman d re ss and weaponry. She noted tha t sh ie ld s w ere em bossed with gold and copper which checked out fo r the tim e p erio d she 'Claimed to have lived in.

Coincidences? I wonder.

BRAZENLY SLY, BOLDLY FATALISTIC AND OFTEN HILARIOUS!"

V I' / / n u - ,

1830 Market St LO 3-1236

y in /yangb y l inda thompson

TiiP symlK'l of the y ln-yang is one of the most ancient of all s \m bo ls , havinp its ro o ts in ancient Chin;i. It consists of a c irc le Msectetl liy S-»haiied line; one half of the c irc le is white with 1 hLick dot, and the o th e r half black with a white dot.

The p arts of th is f igu re rep re se n t the dual nature of the world ind the fact that it is inco rpo ra ted into one single form shows the unification of both s id e s into one whole. The black half is called

yin and it r e p re s e n ts the fem inine, passive, and earthly parts of existence; the white the mascuUne, ac tive , and heavenly sides . Neither of the hs^lves is pu re white o r black, because the figure is tipant to em phasize tha t nothing is ever completely one thing or u o ther, neither purely m asculine nor purely feminine.

The purpose of th is sym bol is to re p re se n t an abs trac t concept in concrete fo rm , much a s the c ro s s Is a symlwl of Christianity and its philosophy. It em bodies the nature of the world, and is coming liack into vogue now with the r i s e of the occult, the m ystical and the a s tro lo g ica l s c ie n c e s . Those given to such pursuits find that the yln-yang sym bol Is very apt a s a non-verbal characterization of ce r ta in concep ts , and It Is often used as such. Of course , the actual h is to r ic a l y ln-yang sym bol d ese rv es much more study and regard than the m odern day casual usage of It, and such is to be found among the annals of the E aste rn re lig ions, particu larly Taoism.

DREXEL TRIANGLE June 26, 1970-PaRe 3

s u m a r e f o r f r e e

If you’re short of cash, got a date o r a free night, and want a place to go tha t’s exciting, wild and fun, you don’t have to leave P hila ­delphia. Forget the Spectrum , Factory and a ll other places that cost money. There a re other places to go.

Philadelphia is known for the Robin Hood DeU, where the Philadelphia O rchestra under the su p e r­vision of guest conductors, plays the g rea t c la s ­s ics under the night sky in Falrnnount P ark . F o r a se lf-addressed envelope (Dept, of R ec., P.O. Box 50, Philadelphia, Pa. 19105) you can get a pair of tickets to any one of the Monday, T ues­day, or Thursday night 8:30-10:30 co n certs . If its on the spur of the moment, you can hop down to 33rd and Ridge and ask any F a ir mount P ark Guard because they always have an am ple supply of extra tickets for needy persons. Once th e re , skip the thousands of hard backed cha irs and t)ench- es and head for the h ill on the righ t. B ring a blanket, something to munch on, and watch out for the mosquitos. T h ere ’s no way to describe what i t ’s like having Beethoven’s Fifth float up through the tree s while you’re d iscussing the population explosion with ants and U ^ tn ln g bugs. One caution: watch out for the F alrm ount P ark G uards--they hit you for some tickets to the annual Police and F ire m a n ’s T h rill Show as they open the door of your c a r . Be prepared to know that you already bought four.

If class'lcal music just doesn’t do It lo r you, then the free be-lns a t Belmont P lateau should. Every Sxmday from noon to dusk a g rea t gath­ering occurs and th e re ’s always plenty of live local groups and su rp r is e s , like Danny Strobin of Sweet Stavln Chain. The P ark Guards a r e a l ­ways friendly and I t ’s a g rea t place to get a suntan or bring the dog. The teenyboppers show off a l l their new clothes and some fre e food shows up once in a while (like five bushels of rotten apples). _________ _

b y l a r r y b e s n o f f

If you like a r t and dancing, then every Mon­day and Tuesday night you should be In front of the A rt Museum. Folk dancing on the e a s t side takes place from 8:30 to 10:30 and even non­dancers find that they have feet because th e re a re In s tru c to rs who teach a l l kinds of w eird foreign dances. This Is a g rea t place to meet new peo­ple . If dancing t i r e s you out and the opposite sex d o esn 't, then stop by the A rt Museum on a F r i ­day o r Satiurday night and' notice how hundreds of single people kind of m ill around the sta tues and fountains of the only rea lly nice building around. To get th e re , ju s t walk up 33rd S tree t to Spring Garden and make a r i ^ t . You can ’t m iss it s ince it looks like the Parthenon.

F a r up In the N ortheast, In a p lace called L ittle City because people always seem to park th e re nights. Is the Pennypack P ark Pop s e r ­ie s . In o rd er to enjoy th is s e r ie s of c la s s ic a l , folk, rock, and b a lle t concerts just go north on the expressw ay and tu rn r igh t a t Rhawn S tre e t , the Pop S eries is a m lniattire of the Dell with a sm a ll stage and n a tu ra l sylvan se tting . Make su re tha t your can of “ O F F ” is fully loaded be­cause the bugs a re always fam ished.

L ast, but not le a s t , and c lo ses t to D rexel, is Rittenhouse Square. Anytime is fun if you*re a people w atcher. But on Monday and Wednesday nights they have spec ia l program s^

' These five things a re only the beginning, for a s m ore people attend them , m ore money will be allo tted . L ast y e a r , Pennypack Pop only had ten co n certs , this y ea r they’r e having seven­teen . The Dell has expanded its s e r ie s from two to th re e concerts a week and folk dancing has in c reased from one to two se ssions a week.

T here a re concerts fo r a l l kinds of ta s te , and they a r e scheduled a lm ost every day of the week. As fa r as Philadelphia In the su m m er, i t Is pos­s ib le to keep your w allet untouched and your eaurs full of m usic.

The whole worid is watching, the wiiok wotld is watchiiig.

g e t t i n g s t r a i g h t

b y kenneth sal ikof

GETTING STRAIGHT is a bltlngly funny film about college life , m utilated by the film m akers who tr ie d too hard to make this film “ re le v a n t" (How I desp ise that overused cUche!) and appeal­ing to college s tu d en ts , who a re going to see through Its tokenism and p seudo-U bera l a t t i tu d es as if they w ere panes of g lass. There Is nothing wrong in try in g to make th is film appeal to college s tu ­d en ts , but with phoney scenes totally without purpose like the horrify ing ly r e a l is t ic r io t o r the one showing Elliot Gould making it with a black chick; the r e s u l t is a film that defeats what It Is trying to be: a m e a n i n ^ l f ilm about colleges today. As for its “ r e le ­v an ce ,” GETTING STRAIGHT has been outstripped by history; the Kent S tate M a ssac re m akes th is f ilm ’s “ re levance” an extraneous r io t scene pall in bloody, r e a l is t ic com parison.

Another unforgivable fault of GETTING STRAIGHT is th e q u iv o ca te s .-an d th a t is a s s tra ig h t and true as Notxe Efame C a th ed ra l b e l lr in g e r . The h ero of the s to ry , H arry Bailey, gr s tuden t, V ietnam vet and fo rm e r bas tard king of t lo n a r ie s , is th is y e a r ’s N ell Klugman (hero of GOODBYE, "BUS). He Is caught betw een the coUege’s faculty and adm i^steation , which^he d esp ise s b ecau se of the ir narrowm indedness ^ ® ^ , t e s te r s whom he d e s p is e s because of th e ir shallowness. c r e a te s a ne^^tive fee ling fo r both ex trem es , to com e to te r ih s with H a rry , veteran of Southeast Asia a »trapped in the paradox of having to join the sy stem to ,i t . A t fUm*s end, a f te r a b r im a n t scene in which M h U « ‘o ^ ^ and deU berate ly fail* h is o ra l M a s te rs ’ seen , am id s t r io tin g studen ts and Nationalto c in d lc e B e r ^ t u u u m h is Idea that the " Z T e X Is to go out and get la id . But that answ er, and the rUm s end! g,

is a cop-out and leaves the perplexed audience nowhere. ,„-om D ar- What p a r tia lly re d e e m s GETTING STRAIGHT H arry

a b le , m ammoth com ic ta len t of E lliot Gould, >"^0 p l a y s ^ r r y and is ten tim es b e t te r than th is film d ese rv es . Gould is en tire

ly believable a s H arry and the main " f f " to ourwhich b rings la rg e r than life , poor shot upon ylevel, and m akes h im se em m ore h u ^ ^ t w d o g ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

f ig u re . Com plem enting him nicely , Isas a “ WASP Q u tn n ” who u se s a l ib ra ry comedy

GETTING STRAIGHT is a lso partia lly J ^ g e ) stand -(which w ill be more ap p rec ia ted by ^ boredom of thetng out in bold reuef

many confrontations which degenerate ” . show-

^ m a tc h e dlag a professor through a green fUter tnai through aw ork beuiUM Uy, while o th e rs , 1U » v l e w ^ “ Idea that went“ ll» h -» y « " l u * th a t d is to r ts his “ SECONDS—out with perspiration commercials andFrankenhmight as wsU be seen «»rough a f l ^ r . hUarious and

For tilt first half hour GETTING STRAIGH i ^

fast paosd, sseming to ^ ^ frantic pace, the jokesBut U oanoot kMp up ® ^ u t. 1 could write abtcom t more spiced out after the first halfmuch bsttsr revisw of this mm U 1 qettIN G STRAIGHThour. UuUto high schrol f o r Its humor andknows too wsU t h i s I s a film that shafts the bsautlful photography of LasSo Kovacs,us all.

illO T T GOULD-CANDICE BERGEN

G E T T H H G S T R ^ fS ffT

ROBERT

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S tatic s ta tic s ta tic

Editor. Drexel Triancle.

Yestprdnv, I heard on Oie radio alvut some wags who robbed a bank, drove four blocks, and walked into a Uir one block from Uie petaway car. When the pt'ilice found them, one of them had tlie license plate in his shirt, and the loot and tlie pun in his |x )ckets . This sort of nonsense has pot to stopi

Today, I heard that before you send troops into a country, you send in advisors, and before this you sell the country puns, and before this you send in financial aid. THIS is what we need: a sense of organization and order. (The trw ps are to protectthe adivsors.)

Actually, all this will take care of itself. What I really want to talk alx)ut is these people who part their hair funny and thereby give everybody bad thou^ ts . THIS is a disguised intrusion on our right to the pursuit of the violation of happiness.

(Those of you who are well-orpanized will recognize the blatant disorpanization of this letter as an attempt to influence your subconscious so YOU start parting your hair funny. Don’t fight it. It’s too late: you’ve already read the letter!) (I’ll l>et you’re starting to get neck tension pains and your right triceps is twitching.)

(A secret remedy IS available, and I will supply the formula to anyone who will provide me with free tips on the stock market.)

I’ll have to sign off now, as I ’m starting to get a headache. Gt’s a good thing I ’m left-handed.)

Affectionately yours,R. RomaineVice-President, Ogpu Charms, Unlimited(A subsidiary ofCarbonated International Auctions)

Editor, Drexel Triangle:Our technician came up to get me because THEY

had found the recorder lamp on “ off” instead of on “ standby.” (THEY had been up earlier but there were fumes in the corridor, so they retreated and sent HER up instead.) We went down to see what had happened and were greeted by a deadly silence. This meant that the mechanical pumps were off. Since I didn’t know that the diffusion pump heater ALSO sequences off, I ran like a bunion to ask Mrs. Lollobridgidigotta to page Uncle and tell him I didn’t know where the D.P. heater switch was.

As it was, everything WAS safe, but all this ag­glomeration of human potential gave them a chance

to ask what had hapj>eni'd. I explained tliat flow splitters deiu'nd on adequate input p ressu re . ( learned this from Alln^rt McTwo himself.) I had told them this yesterday; wlien I s ti r te d again to­day, I seemed to have heard, “ O.K. Tell me about i t .” (Of course, I just imagined Uiis; youknow, paranoia vera.) ,

Incidentallv, I AL50 must have imapined that I “ told Uum tliis yesterday ,” since, when we looked in Uie log lx)ok, nobody had used the ma­

chine since February.In the course of thf excitement, one of the

parallel flow valves on the cooling water supply got moved a little. (Notice I mention noaim es; I’m very clever.') So I hope, when they’re baking off the absorbed monolayer, they keep a sheep 's eye on the analyzer tube tem perature. (Actually, this isn ’t too important, since they’re sure to remove the alignment rods before bake-out.)

All kidding aside, don’t touch the analyzer tul>e during bake-out; i t ’s heated BY ME^NS OF high current. (You can tell by color if i t ’s too hot.)

R. Romaine

Editor, Drexel Triangle:E lectrical Engineering is one of the great op­

portunities open to qualified individuals who wish to contribute to one of the most dynamic domains of technology. The new techniques springing from new technologies place great demands on the en­gineer. A dramatic change has taken place in en­gineering due to the increasing difficulty of the problems being undertaken and the com pressing of the time scale between the discovery and the appli­cation of new knowledge. Although it is difficult to describe with certainty the devices and system s of the future, it is certain that the computer will be­come an all pervasive component of organized so ­ciety and technology.

The Computer Option of the E lectrical Engineer­ing Department of Drexel University has neither the quality of instructors nor curriculum neces­sary to meet its responsibility to its students. The courses in the option have no meaning without the faculty to execute them. The department must either see that qualified people a re hired to develop and teach the option or drop it from the catalog.

Stephen L. SquiresCurriculum Committee of Eta Kappa NuComputer Group

a n n o u n c e m e n tsAlpha Phi Omega is sponsoring

a Road Rally on July 11. In­te re s te d students should contact Ken M iller or M orris Goldberg at the APO office, room 22 in the DAC or extension 2112.

On Wednesday night, July 1, fo lk-s inger and occasional h u m -‘ o r is t C arol Nygard will e n te r ­tain the audience at the Hovel. The Hovel is located at 3309 P ea r l S tree t, one block north of the Women’s Dorm. D oors open at 7:30 p.m .; showtime is 8:30. Bring a friendl

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On Wednesday, July 8 th, WUHY-FM, Radio 90.9, will p re ­sent e .e . Cummings as he spoke

to a H arvard audieiice. His SIX NONLECTURES w ill begin this W ednesday and continue in hour- long segm ents.

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The IBM S elec tr ic typew rite r has in terchangeable b a l ls .

If you are u p se t about the

lack of sports a r t ic le s , do

something about i t - jo in

the Triangle! Sports reporters

and photographers are needed

despera te ly .

archaicscholastic

system

by erich

flothmeier

If I Had my Schooling to do Over Again at this Institution:I would never choose as my major the subject in which I am in­

terested most. Why is this? One very good reason is to be in a po­sition to avoid those professors who don’t seem to be very in­terested in the subject themselves. To give you an example, my in terest happens to be the subject of physics; and nearly five years ago, I chose it as my major at this school. When it came tim e to take a course in mechanics, the professor assigned to me and the other members of my class, told us that the subject was archai^' and boring; and then spent the next three te rm s exhibiting the ut­most boredom for the subject. Toward the end of the second term , in addition to praying for its surcease , I noted that our teacher possessed a sort of intellectual snobbery, which subtly suggested to us that his journey to the citadel of abstract physics and higher mathematics was one we would never take. Well, be that as it may,I still feel that it was a frustration not to be able to drop the course and study something in lieu of this subject, o r study mechanics from a professor who was more interested in it. Perhaps choos- mg another major while taking this as an elective would have p e r ­mitted me to do so.

I would make it a point to spend more time studying in the li- b ra n e s of the University of Pennsylvania. My, how fortunate we

^ o r w h ^ lib ra rie s of the east coast!For what other reasons would I do this? Well, for one given a call

possible to find a bookta a n n g this same number on the library shelves. I find this a

physics, the one I am interested in. Another reason is that when a

a a n ■ have very rare ly noted that It was more

next to Plato’s works o n nno» ni- conversation piece ___________________ ® library shelves. One of the touch­

stones of a good university is the quality and condition of i ts li­b rary , and ours is not going to im prove m erely by posting a little old lady at the exit tu rn s tile to check b r ie fcases . We m ust rea lize that laws a re not made so that they can be broken to provide m a te r ia l for w rite rs of te levision d ram a. Laws a re p rese n t to somehow e s ­tablish a sense of community sensitiv ity and responsib ility . (Maybe we shouldn’t use the word “ law” because of all the ad v e rse pub­licity it has been getting lately.)

I would, lastly, vigorously p ro te s t an archaic sc h o la rs t ic system which does so much to d iscourage the individual from educating him self on his own initiative; a system which does li ttle m o re than to d ism iss the student’s scholastic ability with a glib num erica l grade. It is my contention that so long as the system of th is in s titu -

on is going to depend as heavily as it does now on n um erica l a v e r ­ages, le tte r grades, and the like, it will act as a se v e re d e trim en t to many students. F o r those with high averages, my own experience has indicated that the d e s ire to c re a te is replaced by a d e s i re to compete, inquisitiveness is replaced by obsequiousness; and, w orst of all, wisdom is replaced by vanity. F o r the student having a grade

o r below, a lack of confidence and a difficulty in develop-

thp n / r r p resen t. Once, feeling f ru s tra te d overa<jkpH paucity of the subject m a teria l fo r a cou rse , I

sked the p rofessor who taught it, why it w asn 't rwssible to encourage

s i m r c re d it fo r thee Z l ' h inefficiency greatwouW^’t hP 7 f t bankruptcy. Bankruptcy? C erta in ly itif we of education; and maybe,nan ^ a l f ^ enrich the school fl-stitutions recen tly founded In- oJ th i s L p n T 'n u " ^considerable extent; much to the rew an iin these timp* ^ student attending a techn ical schoolto r e m L w ^ Is of valuelite rarv abilU v7 h ^ ° f ^ Twain, who Is noted m ore fo r hisallowed rnv l i t T ^<=^emlc achievem ent; - I have never

my schooling to in te rfe re with my education.”

dr. crouch

has

heart attack

a ' e l r fnot yet known. ’ cause of the attack is

ious other adrnimstrators^^^kiciildi with v a r-taken to King Edwards VII Memori^f hosD U ar^l He wasly being treated. He is exn^P ph / ^ ^ P resen t-six weeks. s expected to rem ain there approximately

and the acting^ De"*an\f^ th e ' S c L c e ^Con‘‘ “Presidentbe filling in for Dr. C r o L f D ^help from Mr. Haynes Preident expected to receiveistrative matters. * Serty s assistan t in adm in-

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