The Aquinas 1990-01-24

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January 24, 1990 UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON
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Vol. 62, No 13
University may purchase seized pharmacy
COUN KELLAHER
Aquin~ News Staff
Federal marshals have seized the
Mulberry Street complex housing
Hazzouri's Phannacy and Babe's
Place Restaurant, and the site may be
purchased by the University when
·the government offers it for sale.
••0ur intention is to monitor the
situation with Hazzouri's very
closely,'' said Glenn R. Pellino,
vice-president for planning.
The pharmacy complex at 1030
Mulberry St. was seized Tuesday,
Jan. 17, along with the Colfax Ave-
-nue home of Alex Albert Hazzouri,
owner of the property, who was arrested
last January on drug-trafficking
charges.
The action is part of a civillawsuitflled
againstHazzouri by United
States Attorney James West to forfeitHazzouri
's properties to the U.S.
government for drug law violations.
Authorities padlocked the com-
Hazzouri's to face federal auction
plex to inventory the pharmacy. The
pharinacyreopenedthenextday,but
Deputy Marshal Norman Hylton
said prescriptions will no longer be
filled because ""the cost of restocking
the pharmacy after it _has been
closed so long would be too much.''
Hylton said that Babe's Place is
outofbusiness. On Sunday, employees
and an outside agency inventoried
supplies in the restaurant and
prepared perishable items for donation
to local soup kitchens.
• •rm not happy with it (the closing),"
said a fonner Babe's Place
manager.
"'This(allegeddrugdealing)was
something that happened a year ago.
We weren't expecting to be shut
down.''
Hylton said Babe's Place would
soon be available for rent and that
the entire complex would eventually
be sold.
• 'We will market it at the highest
profit we can get," he said.
Should the businesses be put up
for sale, one potential buyer is the
University.
.. We are right now evaluating
the potential uses of the facility
since it is contiguous to our campus,
and if it meets our needs, we will
give it (purchasing the complex)
serious consideration," Pellino
said.
He added that no formal plans
have been made for buying the property.
The University already owns
much of the property on the block
where the complex is located.
Hylton said his office has not
been contacted by the .University
regarding the purchase.
With the construction of the new
library and the near-complete purchase
of the Lackawanna County
Juvenile Center tying upmudiofthe
University's buying power, acquisition
of the complex may be fmancially
difficulL
"'When the property was put up
for sale by the former owners, there
was a price tag of around $750,000
on it, which, judging by its appearance,
is afairlyhighpricepersquare
foot,'' Pellino said.
Authorities must still get the title
to the property before they can sell it.
Under federal law, real estate
may be forfeited to the government
for felony violations occurring upon
or involving the property. The government
sells the property to gain additional
funds for law enforcemenL
According to state police, Hazzouri
had been using the pharmacy
complex and his home to sell cocaine.
Hazzouri faces several various
drug charges and is scheduled to
stand trial in Lackawanna County
Court in February.
CAS retains Fahey as dean
CHRISTINE DUUSSE
Paul F. Fahey, Jr., has been
named permanent dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences. Fahey,
who has served as acting dean since
last July, was chosen from nearly
100 candidates across the nation.
Fahey said he hopes to enhance
education at the University through
closer contact between students and
faculty. The academically challenging
honors program, which offers
tutorials, senior research projects
and seminar courses, should be the
nonn for all students, Fahey said.
Creative scheduling and more
fmancial resources will be necessary
to foster better relations between
students and faculty, according to
Fahey.
• •1 like the feeling of being at the
center of things that the new position
gives me," Fahey said.
If the faculty chooses a curriculum
revision, Fahey said, his top
priority would be to facilitate that
revision. If the faculty does not
chose to revise the curriculum, then
Fahey plans toimplementasmanyof
the curriculum recommendations he
received as possible.
Curriculum '90, a committee
established in 1988 to revamp the
University's curriculum, was disbanded
in the spring of 1989 after the
members could not arrive at any
substantial a~ements.
A survey of faculty members
regarding possible curriculum
change is being conducted and the
new results are expected next month.
Fahey was elected through a standard
dean search committee consisting
of three elected faculty members,
an elected staff member, two
administrators appointed by the provost
and the Rev. Bernard Mcilhenny,
S.J., dean of admissions.
Among those selected for the
committee were Kevin Nordberg, of
the philosophy department, Vito
DelVecchio, of the biology department,
Leonard Champney, of the
political science department, and
Marianne Czanysz, a university staff
member in the CAS.
Fahey, a professor of physics,
expects to continue teaching.
He hopes to teach at least one
class a year or one class each semester.
He will also continue both his
applied research in which he hopes
to involve more undergraduates,
and his basic research that he's now
conducting on the biophysics of
hearing.
Fahey, a University alumnus,
received a bachelor of science degree
in both physics and philosophy
in 1964. He went on to earn both a
masters degree and a doctorate in
physics from the University of Virginia.
Fahey joined the Scranton faculty
in 1968 and has taught both
graduate and undergraduate courses
in physics, biophysics and electronic
engineering.
TheCollegeofArtsandSciences
is the University's largest academic
division with 1,970 undergraduates
and over 180 full time faculty.