Photo Courtesy Andrienne Juarascio

Researchers at Drexel University are currently developing an app called iCAT+ that will provide mobile counseling to people who suffer from binge eating disorder or bulimia nervosa.

Over the next two years, the Laboratory for Innovations in Health-Related Behavior Change will seek out the help of around 50 volunteers to test the app’s effectiveness.

iCAT+ deploys the use of Cognitive-Affective Therapy to identify its users’ binge triggers and remind patients of coping mechanisms they’ve learned in therapy.

Adrienne Juarascio has been studying therapy techniques for eating disorders since she was an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. As an associate research professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, she leads the iCAT project.

She said her team’s goal is to develop a smartphone app that will help patients be more able to respond and use treatment skills outside of their therapy hours.

“Patients with bulimia and patients with binge eating, they often struggle to implement the skills they learn in a therapy office outside in their day-to-day lives,” she explained.

Juarascio said patients might come to therapy for an hour a week and learn various coping methods to work past their patterns of emotional or binge eating. But implementing these coping methods in real life can be very challenging. In addition to using new coping skills, they’re often asked to keep records of meals they’ve eaten and reduce their dietary restraints.

“It’s really easy for patients to struggle with that,” Juarascio said. “They might go in, you know, with the best of intentions, to use those skills during the week. But then when they come back into therapy they maybe forgot when they should have used them or they tried using them and it was difficult.”

Poor adherence to patient recommendations makes it difficult for patients to get the maximal benefits from the therapy that they’re getting, Juarascio said.

The iCAT app focuses on the emotional antecedents of binge eating. Users are prompted a few times a day by a push notification to answer questions about their emotions and stress levels.

The app tracks this data and sends patients coping suggestions when its algorithm detects they’re feeling increases in depression or anxiety.

“The idea behind this treatment is that binge eating doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s often triggered by stress or negative assets in the patient’s day-to-day life,” she said. “Right now, bulimia patients are more likely to binge when they’re feeling depressed or feeling anxious just using food as their coping mechanism.”

Suggestions for patients might be things like talking to a friend, getting out of the house or away from food or working on their ability to tolerate discomfort.

The last suggestion, Jurasco said, is often very challenging. `

“When patients have an urge to binge it can often be really uncomfortable for patients not to give into that urge,” she said.

But just because they’re having an urge or a craving doesn’t mean they have to give into it.

“That discomfort will eventually go away all on its own, even if they don’t give in,” Jurasco said.

Each participant in this study comes in once a week for individual therapy with their therapist. Clinicians have access to clinician portal where they see the patient’s app compliance and utilization.

They can see charts and graphs that plot a patient’s triggers, like stress or anxiety, against their binge eating episodes. This data provides the therapist with more information about their patients and how they are doing using the skills they’ve learned in therapy outside therapy appointments.

Juarascio is also working on a related project called EMOTE, which is much earlier in its stage of development.

EMOTE uses a wearable sensor device, similar to a Fitbit, to monitor a patient’s heart rate, heart rate variability and galvanic skin response and uses this data to predict episodes of anxiety or depression, triggers to many patients’ urges to engage in emotional or binge eating behavior.

“The goal ultimately is to be able to use that data to sync with the app so that the app can detect automatically, you know, within a couple seconds when you’re starting to have that rise in negative assets and send you a personalized message of intervention at those moments of need,” Juarascio said.

The next phase of the project will be integrating the EMOTE project into iCAT+.

Currently, both iCAT and EMOTE projects are seeking volunteers for their preliminary research. Participation in the iCAT project is open to anyone who wants to get therapy for binge eating or bulimia. Participation in the EMOTE project is open to anyone who experiences emotional eating behaviors.

Volunteers are compensated for their time, and Drexel students in psychology classes may receive extra credit for their involvement.

Joseph Roselli, a 20-year-old computer engineering major at Drexel University, is facing multiple charges for flying a drone near a police helicopter during a Center City anti-Trump rally Nov. 16.

According to Philly.com, Chief Inspector Scott Small said the drone was “within feet” of the helicopter.

As the device hovered above 18th and Walnut streets, police traced the controller’s location to be the 2900 block of Chestnut Street, the Evo building at Cira Centre South.

Police promptly arrested Roselli, who was seen picking up the drone outside of the building.

Philadelphia police said Nov. 17 that Roselli has been arrested on four charges: aggravated assault, risking catastrophe, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

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Chipotle Mexican Grill will open underneath The Summit Nov. 18, giving its first 25 customers of the day one entree, drink, and order of chips and guacamole for free.

Customers will be let into the restaurant, located at 3400 Lancaster Ave., at 10:45 a.m.

With Chipotle’s opening all retail space beneath The Summit, which opened in August 2015, is completely leased. Within the past term, Old Nelson Food Co., Blaze Pizza, Insomnia Cookies and Starbucks have also opened below the student housing building.

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Claiming fraudulent inducement, breach of contract and unjust enrichment, SodexoMagic filed suit against Drexel University Sept. 26, six days after the university terminated its longstanding partnership with the food service provider.

SodexoMagic, owned 51 percent by Magic Johnson and 49 percent by Sodexo Inc., claims the university tricked it into signing a contract in May 2015 by falsely representing future enrollment numbers. The contract required SodexoMagic to invest $9.3 million upfront and $24 million total into new on campus dining facilities, pay the university more than $35.5 million in commissions and donate $2.2 million to Drexel-chosen community organizations.

“SodexoMagic has been injured by its reliance on Drexel’s inaccurate statements. Relying on the continued honesty of its longtime partner and specific representations memorialized in the Agreement, SodexoMagic entered into the Agreement on terms extremely favorable to Drexel, also incurring obligations to other third parties, known to Drexel, that were necessary for SodexoMagic to provide food services,” the claim reads.

The lawsuit alleges the university knew a vendor would be unwilling to make this investment unless it believed the student body was poised to see robust growth.

Drexel sent out requests for proposals for dining hall facility updates dated July 2, 2014 and accepted SodexoMagic’s bid.

SodexoMagic’s claim relies on this text from the RFP: “The University’s Strategic Plan calls for an enrollment increase from our current number of 26,132 to 30,470 students by 2017 and to 34,000 students by 2021. Proposed programs, facilities and infrastructure of services should be aligned to this plan.”

Drexel University’s James Tucker, senior vice president for Student Life and Administrative Services and Rita LaRue, vice president for Campus Services, participated in negotiations with SodexoMagic’s Senior Vice President Nancy Arnett, and division presidents, Thomas Post and Leonard J. Riccio on the contract, which was signed in May 2015.

“LaRue said that Drexel would place a greater emphasis on sophomore retention, and that there would be growth across the board in all classes and at all campuses,” SodexoMagic’s complaint reads.

“LaRue never suggested the freshman class would do anything but grow, and grow consistently. The size of the freshman class was particularly important because first year students at Drexel are required to live on campus and purchase a student meal plan,” it continues.

According to the suit, SodexoMagic had reason to believe that the university’s enrollment numbers were on the rise due to Drexel’s history as a safety school. From 2005 to 2014, Drexel pursued a high-volume admissions strategy, recruiting as many students as possible by sending emails where students could apply with a single click.

During this time, applications increased from 12,000 to 55,000, but an 80 percent acceptance rate became necessary to welcome an incoming class of 3,600.

“For every 35 additional applications, only one new student enrolled, and a majority of new students failed to graduate during four years. As of 2013, only nine percent of applicants admitted to Drexel wound up enrolling,” the complaint states.

Many of these students later dropped out, pulling down the university’s retention and graduation rates.

On April 9, 2014, Drexel hired Randall C. Deike as senior vice president of Enrollment Management and Student Success. He began on Sept. 1, 2014. In an effort to increase student retention rates, Deike implemented a new retention program in the spring of 2015 to attract “right fit” students. This included the elimination of one-click applications, the introduction of a $50 fee and student submission of a college essay.

Subsequently, Drexel’s applicant numbers dropped off sharply from about 55,000 to 29,000 in the first year. While Drexel increased its yield rate to 13.7 percent, it wound up enrolling a smaller class: 2,600 freshmen and 850 transfers.

SodexoMagic’s suit claims that it was only after the contract was signed that Drexel disclosed enrollment would decline.

Allegedly the contract it signed “indisputably represents that Drexel’s student enrollment will grow at a robust rate, specifically requiring bidders to take this assumed growth into account in their proposals.”

SodexoMagic says it sought an explanation and to remedy the situation in the fall of 2015. It wanted the university to pay as compensation for reduced revenue.

“The agreement requires the parties to negotiate new terms in good faith when there is a change in the fundamental economics,” the complaint asserts.

As of June 2016, 2,518 freshmen were committed to attending in the fall, a 400 students fewer than in 2015.

In July 2016, SodexoMagic issued a notice of default, contending that the University had ten days to end the non-payment default or SodexoMagic could terminate the contract and end services immediately. After some negotiation, Sodexo agreed to extend this period to Sept. 30.

On this day, Drexel University ended negotiations with SodexoMagic officials and issued SodexoMagic a notice of termination effective Dec. 10.

“While the precise amount of injury remains to be proven, SodexoMagic has suffered and will suffer millions of dollars of damages, including but not limited to liabilities that have already been incurred, and lost profits,” the claim reads. Additionally the company is seeking punitive damages.

Drexel University has received this complaint and is reviewing it, according to the Office of Communications.

“Drexel is committed to ensuring a high standard of service for its students through the transition,” communications officials stated in regard to SodexoMagic’s suit. The university has declined to comment further on the litigation.

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Drexel University is brewing up something special for its 125th anniversary — a limited-edition beer dubbed Dragon’s Gold.

Dragon’s Gold is Drexel’s first official beer. Alumnus Gene Muller ‘84, who founded New Jersey-based Flying Fish Brewing Co. in 1995, was approached by the University’s Office of Institutional Advancement to design the beverage.

Muller was tasked with creating a brew that would have been available in 1891, the year Drexel was founded. He settled on an extra special bitter amber ale.

“It’s kind of like a traditional English pub beer and it’s a style that would have been available when Drexel was founded,” Muller said.

As for flavor, Muller said that Dragon’s Gold is rich.

“It’s amber, but it has a nice kind of caramel maltiness,” Muller explained, noting that the flavor isn’t bitter. “[It has] a good hop finish as well, but it’s not really, as you would say, a hoppy beer.”

But Muller wasn’t the only Dragon involved in the design process.

The Dragon’s Gold label was designed by Nurul Rumlan, a senior graphic design major in the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. She designed the special edition label on the beer while working for the Office of Institutional Advancement on co-op.

Although Rumlan had never designed a beer label before, she quickly established what needed to happen. Rumlan had two goals — she wanted the label to look vintage and to reflect the university’s brand. She created two potential labels, which were sent out to the Drexel community and Drexel alumni April 7, National Beer Day. Popular vote determined the winner.

Dragon’s Gold is the only Drexel beer right now, but Muller hasn’t ruled out the possibility of working with the university on more creations in the future.

“We’re starting out with this one and we’ll see how it goes,” Muller said. “Drexel beer seems to be a natural fit.”

Dragon’s Gold will be available at all Drexel University anniversary celebrations in the upcoming year. Six-packs can be purchased at the Flying Fish Brewing Co. in Somerdale, New Jersey.

SodexoMagic filed a federal lawsuit against Drexel University Sept. 29 accusing the University of misrepresenting its student body growth and fraudulently inducing the food service company to sign a 10-year vendor commitment, for which it paid $9.3 million in advance.

SodexoMagic claims that Drexel talked the business into signing a contract in May 2015 under the pretense that the university had robust plans for student body growth.

The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. According to the document, it was only after SodexoMagic invested $9.3 million into Urban Eatery, a new dining facility on campus, that the university disclosed student enrollment would decrease for the 2015-2016 academic year. In total the contract committed SodexoMagic to invest $24 million into new campus dining facilities and provide $35.5 million in commissions to the University.

SodexoMagic alleges that Drexel University President John A. Fry approved of the reduced enrollment plan months before the university’s contract with SodexoMagic was signed.

“Drexel’s calculated omission of this known defect in the critical financial assumption of the entire agreement locked SodexoMagic into losing millions of dollars beginning in the very first year — and millions more in the years to follow,” the complaint reads.

Drexel University stated that the school lowered its expectations for growth before reaching out to vendors to sign contracts in 2014 and announced a new plan for student retention in 2015 that would strategically lower freshmen enrollment numbers in an attempt to attract “right fit” students and increase the University’s retention rate.

According to SodexoMagic’s lawsuit, the food service provider was under the impression that Drexel’s student body would be growing by about 60 freshmen per year. The company claims not to have been informed of the new enrollment plan and that the University was not willing to fairly renegotiate the contract.

“Unfortunately, SodexoMagic’s hope that its long-time partner, now advised by highly reputable outside counsel, would honor its contractual commitment to negotiate in good faith and not insist on holding its partner to money-losing terms, was misplaced,” the complaint states.

For the alleged breach of contract, fraudulent inducement and unjust enrichment, the company seeks monetary compensation and punitive damages.

On Sept. 19, Drexel University terminated its contract with SodexoMagic via email, giving the company a 60-day notice.

Although SodexoMagic has claimed it has a contractual right to cease service at Drexel immediately, the company will continue to provide food through Dec. 10, 2016.

“Drexel received the complaint and is reviewing it. Drexel is committed to ensuring a high standard of service for its students through the transition. As this matter is in litigation, we will have no further comment,” Drexel University’s Office of Communications stated.

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In early August viewership spiked on the Wall Street Journal’s webpage. Reporter Nicole Hong had written a story on cargo shorts and the unexpected havoc they wreak in marriages.

It didn’t take long for the article to take off. Hong recounted a tale everyone seemed to know — of a cargo short happy husband and a not so pleased spouse:

“Dane Hansen, who operates a small steel business in Pleasant Grove, Utah, says that throughout his 11-year marriage, 15 pairs of cargo shorts have slowly disappeared from his closet. On the occasions when he has confronted his wife about the missing shorts, she will either admit to throwing them away or deflect confrontation by saying things like, ‘Honey, you just need a little help.’

Mr. Hansen, 35 years old, is now down to one pair of cargo shorts, and he guards them closely. He has hidden them in small closet nooks where his wife can’t find them…”

“Mr. Hansen’s wife, Ashleigh Hansen, said she sneaks her husband’s cargo shorts off to Goodwill when he’s not around. Mrs. Hansen, 30, no longer throws them out at home because her husband has found them in the trash and fished them out.”

Soon, media outlets like the Washington Post, NPR and Cosmopolitan were weighing in on Hong’s deliciously detailed cargo controversy. VICE’s Harry Cheadle live blogged a reading, providing humorous commentary. Blogs around the country took off with posts to discuss whether martial boundaries should include a line drawn in front of the closet.

At the center of it all was Joseph Hancock, a design and merchandising professor at Drexel and Hong’s referenced cargo short expert. As her story gained widespread popularity, Hancock received calls from media outlets around the country.

Why? Because Hancock wrote his doctoral thesis on cargo pants in 2007. He titled it: “These Aren’t The Same Pants Your Grandfather Wore: The Evolution of Branding Cargo Pants in 21st Century Mass Fashion.”

Essentially, the 328-page thesis documents the pilgrimage of cargo pants in the fashion world. It all began after World War I when William P. Yarborough, a United States army officer, decided he was tired of seeing his soldiers standing around with their hands in their pockets. He wanted a pant for his soldiers that wouldn’t tempt improper proper posture. A pant with pockets, but not where hands could reach them easily. Thus, the cargo pant was born.

After the war, soldiers returned to America sporting their new pants and clothing companies soon picked up the style — each putting their own spin on the design.

As a teenager, Hancock, drew from the look of his favorite bands The Clash, Bananarama and The Thompson Twins, which all displayed a baggier ’90s-esque image on stage. The clothes they’d wear, he explained, couldn’t be picked up at the mall because they’d be wearing vintage. So, in order to get the cargo pants, he’d seen on MTV Hancock would shop at the army/navy surplus store.

“As an eighteen year old, I thought I was inventing fashion, of course,” he said. “At the time, also, the big craze in fashion was the preppy look. If you didn’t have Lacoste, a Ralph Lauren Polo shirt, or Tommy Hilfiger oxfords — if you really weren’t wearing that preppy style — you really weren’t anyone. However, what I liked to do was take the preppy look, but [combine] it [with] a utilitarian look.”

Hancock would wear something like a Ralph Lauren polo shirt, with sneakers and a camo pant. Utilitarian fashion, he called it. Although he wouldn’t sit down to pen his thesis on cargo pants until the late 2000s, this was the beginning of his interest in the cargo pant as a fashion icon.

In fact, up until recently, Hancock owned about 135 pairs of cargo shorts and pants.  Following their transformation fashion as part of his cargo collection has become a hobby for him. Although he’s since given his collection away, he still keeps them all digitally, organized in a file called “Cargo Fever” where he sorts them by season, year and brand.

Hancock has been teaching retail and fashion courses at Drexel since 2004. He was contacted by Hong to talk on cargo shorts and their controversy as an expert and has since been contacted by numerous media outlets with follow-up questions.

“What was interesting to me about the article was that the cargo shorts that they’re discussing… are not the cargo shorts that are out in stores,” Hancock said, referring to the shorts mentioned in the WSJ article.

It’s the cargo shorts from the ’90s that everyone hates, he explained.

“They were really popular with brands like Abercrombie & Fitch. Of course, you might not like the big, boxy look of the ‘90s in the 21st century, but as I keep telling interviewers and people in the media, the cargo short has changed. It’s not the same short as it was in 1998.”

Unless, of course, it’s been hiding in a closet for almost 20 years, in which case it is the exact same short — just as boxy and unappealing as it was when the Spice Girls ruled the world.

These are the shorts Ashleigh Hansen evidently spends the days pillaging through her husband’s closet for because they’re baggy and out of style. They’re noticeably bulkier than the preferred trim silhouettes sold in stores today.

“It’s become a little bit slimmer, it’s become a little bit shorter, it’s not as boxy as it used to be. It reflects the style of what’s going on today,” Hancock explained.

The cargo shorts of the ’90s, the ones everyone’s riled up about, were made by Old Navy and Abercrombie & Fitch — they were the big players back in the day for high schoolers and college kids with sexy catalogues featuring attractive models. But they peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the rise of electronic gadgets and gizmos that made the optimal pockets functional for wearers.

Nowadays, cargo pants are still on the racks, but their look has changed.

“We’ve kind of moved into the ’60s and ’70s silhouette where everything’s just a little bit narrower. We’re mimicking the fashions of the ’80s and the ’90s, but we’re giving them a ’60s and a ’70s cut,” Hancock explained.

“So, everything’s slimmer even though some of the fashions that we’re wearing we consider ’80s,” he surmised.

Hancock says the reason that so many men haven’t moved on from the ’90s pant is because they have other priorities now — shopping isn’t on the top of their minds.

“They have jobs. Some of them have families. They have kids. They’re buying houses. They’re buying new cars…” he listed.

Maybe it’s that these men just aren’t making time to go out and buy the newer cargo pant models. Maybe it’s that they aren’t aware the ’90s silhouette has become so unsightly. Whatever the case, Hancock has some bad news for those who hate the cargo pant: it’s a classic, which means it’s here for good.

“It’s going to get re-silhouetted and it’s going to get reinvented, but it’s never going away,” he says.

Unless of course you’re a man with a closet-hacking wife — then, no promises.

On behalf of The Triangle’s editorial staff, I’d like to extend a warm, hearty welcome to the incoming freshmen class. Heck, I’ll say it a few more times just to be exuberant. Welcome to campus, welcome to Philadelphia, welcome to the next four or five years of your life — Welcome to Drexel.

As you’re probably very well aware, this is not your typical college. We give up summer vacations to begin our professional lives early, we study on the quarter system and our campus is steps (literally, just a walk across the Schuylkill) away from Center City Philadelphia.

You’ve busted your tails to get here. I’m sure you’re ready to dive into your academics with passion and fervor after that lengthy summer break and that’s great. Study hard, but at the same time please remember that Drexel is about more than excelling in your academics. It’s about gaining experience. If you want to make the best of all of this university’s advantages, your best bet is to get involved.

Drexel has no shortage of opportunities.

All around you, your professors are researching groundbreaking projects. Just during my few years at Drexel, I’ve met with many notable Drexel professors —  among them, Wei Sun, who 3-D prints cancerous tumors in an effort to personalize medicinal treatment; Andrew Cohen, who’s working to develop a virtual reality software that allows biologists to study slides as if they’re standing directly on them; and Longjian Liu and Ana Nunez, who document how the neighborhoods Philadelphians live in correspond to their level of health. Their research extends past our campus’s borders and holds the potential for impact around the word.

Get to know the next generation of change-makers, too. Join a club. It’s a great way to make friends outside of your year and major, have fun and merge into the Drexel community. You’ll have something to look forward to every week and a distraction to fall back on when school gets to be too much.

When on co-op, do as the professionals do. You’ll start building your resume Winter or Spring Term depending on your co-op cycle. Tailor it to the career you think you want and work hard when you land a job, but don’t be surprised if you change your mind about the field you want to go into. Co-op gives you the chance to taste-test different career paths without being bound to them permanently. You have six months to decide if you like the field you’re working in. If you don’t, it’s no biggie. Just try something different next round.

Finally, your biggest opportunity, in my opinion, comes from living in the city itself. Do yourself a favor and explore Philadelphia. Break out of our little University City bubble every chance you get because you’re going to school in one of the coolest cities in America. Philadelphia’s getting a lot of hype these days. We hosted the Democratic National Convention a few months ago and Pope Francis came to see us last September. The city’s full of great restaurants, hangouts, and, of course, American history. And I don’t just mean Old City. Take a look around you and get involved with organizations making history today. There are regularly events and political protests down at City Hall. Don’t let the size of the city intimidate you. It’s not as big as it looks —  you can walk almost anywhere. We’re as much Philadelphia citizens as we are Drexel Dragons, so get out there and live it.

You as students will have the opportunity to get involved in this all of this excitement. The beauty of Drexel’s system is that if you play your cards right, you can experience more than the average college student ever does. College is a time to try new things. Don’t limit yourself to academic learning. The entire city is our classroom and it can teach you a lot.

We Drexel students value experience — that’s what brought us all here.

Don’t forget that, and you’ll do fine.

Sincerely,

Alexandra Jones

Editor-in-Chief

The Triangle

It’s easy for upperclassmen to identify freshmen. If their baby-faced innocence (ah, life before you know the shaft) doesn’t give them away, ye olde Dragon Card lanyard will. But did you know that up until the 1960s, Drexel had a more definitive way to mark our campus newcomers? That’s right, it was called the dink.

The “dink” was Drexel’s affectionate nickname for the classic freshman beanie. They were tiny blue and gold caps freshmen would slip over the back of their heads and sport for the first week or so of college. And, oddly enough, they were considered kind of cool to wear.

According to The Triangle’s archives, dinks first appeared at Drexel in Oct.ober 1938. The University’s inter-fraternity council, in an act of solidarity, decided all fraternity freshmen would wear dinks of the “same make, color and design” that year, in lieu of marking each fraternity’s freshmen separately.

“Such an action will greatly aid in giving the freshmen more of an atmosphere of college life than hitherto at Drexel,” they wrote.

The following year, in 1939, several Drexel students put in a request with Drexel’s Men’s Student Council to enforce that the majority of the men of the freshman class wear dinks. Their request was initially denied.

“We repeat, why should fraternity freshmen be distinguished with the privilege of wearing dinks while the rest of the Frosh, who are by far an overwhelming majority in the class enrollment, go without this universal adornment? These men want to wear dinks,” reads an anonymous opinion article in The Triangle’s October. 1939 archives. “They enjoy being pointed out as a ‘“green Frosh.’” Let them have dinks. We suggest to the freshmen that if the Student Council continues to ignore your wish, buy dinks and wear them anyway. Who’s to stop you?”

Fear not, the Men’s Student Council couldn’t resist the demand for the dink forever. Beginning in the ’40s, freshmen donning the dink became a coveted tradition at Drexel. This fashion accessory became the primary mark of “hazing,” a period of time during which upperclassmen would acclimate freshmen to campus. The hazing period would last from the second week of September, when the freshmen arrived, until the end of the first week of October.

Dinks were often accompanied by freshmen buttons and “D-books.” Freshmen were assigned designated entrances for Drexel buildings, and had to “pay their respects to A.J. Drexel” if they were found breaking any of the rules or regulations.

Until the the 1960s, Drexel’s freshmen continued the proud campus tradition of wearing dinks. According to the administration at the time, the dink served to foster a collegiate atmosphere. It was easy for professors and upperclassmen to single out Drexel newbies and for freshmen to identify members of their own class.

Unfortunately, the dink’s decline in popularity was not intensively documented in The Triangle. The last mention of them appears in an issue from September 1967.

Adjusting to college can be difficult, so it’s important for students to know where to go if they need help.

One of Drexel’s many resources is the Counseling Center. Operated by the Office of Counseling and Health Services, the center offers services in individual, group and couples counseling.

Drexel’s counseling center offers time-limited sessions with professionals. Students can see therapists for free for a maximum of 15 sessions per academic year. The counseling center can help connect them with a more permanent provider, like Drexel’s Psychological Services Center, after this point.

Scheduling counseling appointments is possible in person, over the phone or by e-mail. Students may visit Suite 201 of the Creese Student Center, call 215-895-1415 or email counseling@drexel.edu to learn more.

Students in need of physical health services or checkups can visit the Drexel Student Health Center (DSHC) located at 3401 Market Street in Suite 105B.

The DSHC is staffed by physicians and nurse practitioners and provides a variety of services including allergy shots, immunizations, sports medicine and women’s health care. It is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. To schedule an appointment at the DSHC, students can call 215-220-4700.

The first time students go for an appointment at the DSHC, they will need to fill out some initial paperwork to give the center their medical history and insurance information. These forms are available online at the Office of Counseling and Health Services website and can be printed and completed prior to appointments to save time. Students may also go to DSHC while they’re healthy to fill out paperwork and get it out of the way before a sick appointment.

Students should always bring their Dragon Card, a form of payment for the co-pay and their insurance card.

Additionally, a Women’s Care Center (WCC) is located on Drexel’s Center City campus at 1427 Vine Street, which students can use  Drexel’s free shuttle service to get to. The WCC offers family planning services such as contraceptive medicine, STD screening, gynecological and obstetric care for both men and women. Women without insurance or with a limited insurance program can find special programs at the WCC, that may provide them with free services.

Walk-in appointments for the WCC are available between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Fridays for STD (including HIV) screening, pregnancy testing, options counseling and emergency contraception. Evening walk-in services are also available between 5 and 6 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at the DSHC on Drexel’s main campus. To schedule a WCC appointment, call 215-762-7824.