A Look Back
Jason Hand
Issue date: 10/14/05 Section: News
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October 15, 2004-One Year Ago
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) declared a strategy to terminate all weekend services in an attempt to handle its deficit. This plan would have had a detrimental impact on commuters who use the system on weekends, leaving them to find alternate means of transportation on Saturdays and Sundays. Furthermore, there was to be a 25 percent raise in transit fares, a 20 percent reduction in transportation services on all routes and an approximate workforce decline of 1,400 employees. SEPTA's website called the move drastic, but also stated that it had to be taken unless adequate funding could be obtained to uphold the company's services in the five-county region. SEPTA faced a $62 million shortage for the Fiscal Year 2005 Operating Budget, and combined savings from a fare increase, service and workforce decline would equal the deficit value. If the assessments were passed, they would have been implemented no later than Jan. 1. SEPTA Chairman Pasquale Deon called the agency's predicament the worst in its 36-year history, and that the SEPTA Board had tried to prevent the plan. Public hearings were held throughout the region in May to warn the public of the company's financial emergency.
October 13, 2000-Five Years Ago
Richard Goodwin, a member of the Class of 1948, pledged $5 million to the College of Evening and Professional Studies. At a Sept. 21 Board of Trustees meeting, University trustees also commended the college's renaming to the Richard Goodwin College of Evening and Professional Studies. Senior Vice President for Institutional Management Barbara Spiro said that Goodwin's donation would go to new programs and implementing the future needs of the college. Conversely, Spiro wasn't able to comment on when the whole amount would be relocated. Before his $5 million gift to the University, Goodwin donated assets in support of a $100,000 endowed scholarship fund for students in construction management. The University acknowledged Goodwin by electing him to the Drexel 100 Club, the University's most esteemed alumni society, which recognizes alumni who exhibit high professional achievement, outstanding public service and fervent involvement in philanthropic pursuits.
October 13, 1995-Ten Years Ago
One week after fumingly leaving a meeting of the Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA), Speaker Jared Levine announced his resignation Oct. 9. He stated that he felt he wasn't adequately contributing to the group and no longer making a difference. During the same assembly, USGA President Steve Martorano offered an apology to USGA Advisor and Vice Provost for Student Life Diana Hackney, stating that he was fully responsible for the rift between Hackney and himself. Martorano was upset that another student, Daniel Bahar, represented undergraduate students at the convocation. That was a role reserved for the USGA President traditionally. Though Hackney affirmed that calls were made to Martorano asking him to speak at the gathering, Martorano stressed that he received no such calls.
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) declared a strategy to terminate all weekend services in an attempt to handle its deficit. This plan would have had a detrimental impact on commuters who use the system on weekends, leaving them to find alternate means of transportation on Saturdays and Sundays. Furthermore, there was to be a 25 percent raise in transit fares, a 20 percent reduction in transportation services on all routes and an approximate workforce decline of 1,400 employees. SEPTA's website called the move drastic, but also stated that it had to be taken unless adequate funding could be obtained to uphold the company's services in the five-county region. SEPTA faced a $62 million shortage for the Fiscal Year 2005 Operating Budget, and combined savings from a fare increase, service and workforce decline would equal the deficit value. If the assessments were passed, they would have been implemented no later than Jan. 1. SEPTA Chairman Pasquale Deon called the agency's predicament the worst in its 36-year history, and that the SEPTA Board had tried to prevent the plan. Public hearings were held throughout the region in May to warn the public of the company's financial emergency.
October 13, 2000-Five Years Ago
Richard Goodwin, a member of the Class of 1948, pledged $5 million to the College of Evening and Professional Studies. At a Sept. 21 Board of Trustees meeting, University trustees also commended the college's renaming to the Richard Goodwin College of Evening and Professional Studies. Senior Vice President for Institutional Management Barbara Spiro said that Goodwin's donation would go to new programs and implementing the future needs of the college. Conversely, Spiro wasn't able to comment on when the whole amount would be relocated. Before his $5 million gift to the University, Goodwin donated assets in support of a $100,000 endowed scholarship fund for students in construction management. The University acknowledged Goodwin by electing him to the Drexel 100 Club, the University's most esteemed alumni society, which recognizes alumni who exhibit high professional achievement, outstanding public service and fervent involvement in philanthropic pursuits.
October 13, 1995-Ten Years Ago
One week after fumingly leaving a meeting of the Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA), Speaker Jared Levine announced his resignation Oct. 9. He stated that he felt he wasn't adequately contributing to the group and no longer making a difference. During the same assembly, USGA President Steve Martorano offered an apology to USGA Advisor and Vice Provost for Student Life Diana Hackney, stating that he was fully responsible for the rift between Hackney and himself. Martorano was upset that another student, Daniel Bahar, represented undergraduate students at the convocation. That was a role reserved for the USGA President traditionally. Though Hackney affirmed that calls were made to Martorano asking him to speak at the gathering, Martorano stressed that he received no such calls.
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