Power of Ten funds recreation, safety
Stephanie Takach
Issue date: 3/14/08 Section: News
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The recreation component of the initiative revealed that students will be able to view Buckley Green and Buckley Recreational Field via web cams beginning in the first two weeks of April.
Chris Young, a pre-junior business administration student at Drexel, submitted this suggestion in June of 2007.
Young said that he came up with the idea when he and his friends were looking for people to play, but didn't want to go outside and search randomly for people.
Although Young originally intended his suggestion to mean that all recreation fields on campus should have web cams, he said he is honored that he was chosen as having the best suggestion.
"The suggestion came because he said that it would be great to see if Buckley field was available," Jim Katsaounis, executive director of communications and marketing for the division of Student Life and Administrative Services, said.
The web cams will also help students view games played at Buckley field through the streaming live video online if they are not able to make it to the game, according to Rita LaRue, senior associate vice president for Business Services.
"I definitely think that a lot of students will use this," Young said.
The fourth component for the Power of Ten is safety and includes the traffic light and crosswalk installation at the intersection of 34th Street and Lancaster Avenue.
This has been an ongoing initiative by Drexel's administration and the Undergraduate Student Government Association.
Both departments have been working closely with the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding community to improve pedestrian safety.
The University is being a good community partner, according to Katsaounis, and is covering the cost of a professional traffic study along with the purchase and installation of traffic lights and crosswalks.
"Within the next month, we expect to put out a bid to a contractor," Katsaounis said.
This is an initiative that has a large price tag, according to LaRue, and has been requested by students for years.
Although price tags for each component of the Power of Ten initiative are not going to be released, SLAS is looking to spend approximately $1 million for all ten initiatives.
The fifth initiative, communications, will be released in The Triangle April 11.
"It [the safety initiative] certainly includes every member of the Drexel community along with campus safety," LaRue said.
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