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Editorial: Exit Caneris
Editorial Board
Issue date: 3/2/07 Section: Ed-Op
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Students living in East Hall should know that their residence hall will soon have a new name: Caneris Hall.
The Board of Trustees decided to honor Caneris in this matter. Although people who usually get this are either very rich or very dead, we'll make an exception for Caneris.
(However, we can't help but wonder why Caneris' name wasn't affixed to North Hall or the new Race Street residence hall. He went to school at the University of Cincinnati with Michael Graves, North Hall's architect. The Race Street residence hall still doesn't have an official name.)
As we've said in previous editorials, Caneris has been Papadakis' right-hand man in his revitalization of Drexel, which began in 1995. During his time with Taki, they took a university on the verge of bankruptcy, quintupled its endowment and increased enrollment.
Caneris told The Triangle in an interview a year ago that he drew on his memories as a young person to help run the University. The rapport he built with Taki in their days at the University of Cincinnati translated into a trust and shared corporate strategy the duo needed to stabilize Drexel.
With Taki and Caneris running our campus as a business, one corporate idea they've never implemented to improve student life is allowing students to earmark a portion of their Student Activity Fee for a club of their choice. Perhaps by choosing where some of their money goes, they'll take an interest in that club to see a return on their "investment" - more events and better campus involvement.
We guess these are all things Caneris' successor will have to worry about.
However, there are other things Caneris didn't implement from his Cincinnati days. He opened a nightclub there with some of his brothers-in-law. Sadly, he didn't do that here. He hired students to move furniture and equipment on university projects - saving costs. Sadly, he didn't do that here.
Speaking of which, it's been a year and half since Caneris and the USGA negotiated a 15 percent discount with facilities for student organizations. Also, with all the construction going on, can we please have some more green space? Studies have shown that it reduces stress levels. Maybe that's why our University consistently scores low on The Princeton Review's survey for student unhappiness - besides a lack of females on campus.
One of Caneris' old jobs at the University of Cincinnati was director of Nursing Services, working to serve a major dominantly held by women at the time. Sadly, he hasn't effectively used that experience to boost female enrollment at Drexel. Then again, we can't fault him too much for that, since men really don't know what women want.
Joking aside, we wish Mr. Caneris the best in retirement and look forward to learning more about his replacement.
The Board of Trustees decided to honor Caneris in this matter. Although people who usually get this are either very rich or very dead, we'll make an exception for Caneris.
(However, we can't help but wonder why Caneris' name wasn't affixed to North Hall or the new Race Street residence hall. He went to school at the University of Cincinnati with Michael Graves, North Hall's architect. The Race Street residence hall still doesn't have an official name.)
As we've said in previous editorials, Caneris has been Papadakis' right-hand man in his revitalization of Drexel, which began in 1995. During his time with Taki, they took a university on the verge of bankruptcy, quintupled its endowment and increased enrollment.
Caneris told The Triangle in an interview a year ago that he drew on his memories as a young person to help run the University. The rapport he built with Taki in their days at the University of Cincinnati translated into a trust and shared corporate strategy the duo needed to stabilize Drexel.
With Taki and Caneris running our campus as a business, one corporate idea they've never implemented to improve student life is allowing students to earmark a portion of their Student Activity Fee for a club of their choice. Perhaps by choosing where some of their money goes, they'll take an interest in that club to see a return on their "investment" - more events and better campus involvement.
We guess these are all things Caneris' successor will have to worry about.
However, there are other things Caneris didn't implement from his Cincinnati days. He opened a nightclub there with some of his brothers-in-law. Sadly, he didn't do that here. He hired students to move furniture and equipment on university projects - saving costs. Sadly, he didn't do that here.
Speaking of which, it's been a year and half since Caneris and the USGA negotiated a 15 percent discount with facilities for student organizations. Also, with all the construction going on, can we please have some more green space? Studies have shown that it reduces stress levels. Maybe that's why our University consistently scores low on The Princeton Review's survey for student unhappiness - besides a lack of females on campus.
One of Caneris' old jobs at the University of Cincinnati was director of Nursing Services, working to serve a major dominantly held by women at the time. Sadly, he hasn't effectively used that experience to boost female enrollment at Drexel. Then again, we can't fault him too much for that, since men really don't know what women want.
Joking aside, we wish Mr. Caneris the best in retirement and look forward to learning more about his replacement.
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