1988 v16 i7

Safety suggestions given

Sexual assault sparks concerns

by Troy I). Kuehl On Sunday evening, Feb. 28, a black male entered a WPI dormitory and sexually assaulted a student who had apparently heard a noise in a lounge. Investigations by the WPI police, headed by Officer Cheryl Martunas, are cur­ rently underway in conjunction with the Worc­ ester Police Department. Due to the state of the case only a brief description of the man has been released.

The WPI police are looking for a man of about 30 years o f age, between 5 foot 10 inches and 6 foot tall, about 180 lbs. and a husky build.

Martunas stated that the case is still very much alive and with the resources available in the W orcester Police Department she is still hopeful of the outcome.

Martunas has been certified by the State of Massachusetts allowing her to investigate sex­ ual assaults. In addition to the required pro­ grams she has also undergone additional train­

ing for treatment o f victims of sexual crimes.

She is working with a m em berof the W orc­ ester Police investigation squad and has been keeping in close contact with the victim. A l­ though Martunas has dealt with sim ilar cases such as acquantance rape, the charges have been dropped after counseling. This is the first crimi­ nal case of sexual assault in the six years she has been working for WPI. The incident is also the first serious crime on the WPI campus this year, but follows in the wake of minor thefts and arrests. There have been about four incidents of intrusion which led to subsequent record checks and removal of the parties from campus and there have been a number of minor incidents of theft. “ People are bound to stroll (onto W PI),” Martunas said, “because it’s an open cam pus.”

To aid in the investigation, information about the assailant was posted in every dorm i­ tory by WPI police and SNAP students and a letter to make the students aware of the threat

was distributed in mailboxes.

Other attempts to ensure the safety of stu­ dents include a recent rape awareness seminar held in the Stoddard Complex last Thursday and a plan to have a phone installed outside of every dorm has already been implimented and instal­ lation of the phones should begin this spring.

Such a phone system would force non-residents wishing entrance to call the students they desire to visit.

In addition, WPI police have seen an in­ crease in demands for their escort service. Offi­ cers or SNAP members will accompany stu­ dents to and from parking lots and resident facilities after dark. Martunas said that officers would give rides to students’ homes or SNAP students would give escorts on campus.

The key, according to Martunas, is the se­ curing of already existing safety devices; mainly, keeping the locks on outside doors and especially on personal rooms bolted at all times.

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The problem is “you go around a comer and (the outside doors) are open again,” Martunas said. “The main thing is keeping the bedroom areas secured. College is an ideal spot (for crime) because students are trusting. They have to realize that these crimes are going to happen and the key is to be alert."

According to Martunas, along with being alert it is important for students to report any­ body that seems unfamiliar to them. She said the only way the police can investigate suspect persons is if students call.

“Students don’t have to leave their nam e,” Martunas said. "If they don’t want to be embarassed let us be the bad guys.”

Along with students safety, to reduce the risk of theft Martunas reccomends keeping personal areas locked and taking valuable items home over school breaks. Engravers to identify property are also available at the WPI police station.

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Volume 16, Number 7_______________ Tuesday March 1, 1988

WPI music groups set to tour Europe

by Professor Louis Curran On the 6th of March the Brass Choir, Stage Band and 34 members of the WPI Glee Club

Schedule changes announced The anticipated reliability and capa­ bility of the new computerized Student Information System now being installed along with associated procedural modifi­ cations permit making a change in the Term B88 calender next fall. Any changes in the announced calender are made with the greatest reluctance, but it is felt that this change will be of such benefit to students and faculty that it is worth implementing.

The Change: Classes for Term B88 will start Wednesday, October 26, 1988 instead of Thursday, O ctober 27, 1988.

Classes for Term B88 will end Friday, December 16,1988 instead of Tuesday, December 20, 1988.

Thus the A88-B88 October break will be shortened by one day. This will place increased pressure on the Registrar’s Of­ fice to accomplish an even shorter turn­ around for Term A grades. The benefit, however, will be a return to a standard 35day B Term with four days added to the pre-Christmas break period. This ex­ tended preiod will be of aid to students planning travel or seeking part-time employment. It will also allow the Registrar’s Office more time to process the critical Term B end-of-semester grades, prepare audits and special action reports for the Committee on Academic Operations.

will leave from Logan Field on a concert tour of France, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Arriving via Air Icelandic in Luxembourg on the morning o f the 7th o f March, they will board two coaches for Brussels for their first engagements. Three concerts and one radio broadcast via Belgium National Radio will be the musical contacts in Brussels. The Stage Band is scheduled to play at the Flemish speak­ ing portion o f the University of Louvain, with the University's area stage band.

From Belgium, Ihe 76 members of the tour will drive to Caen. France, where the American Embassy is arranging two concerts. This tour is famous for the Normandy Beachhead in the Second World War. From there, the musicians will coach to Orleans for two concerts and then on to Paris. On Saturday the 12th of March, the Brass Choir and Glee Club will hold a rehearsal in Notre Dame Cathedral in preparation for singing the 11:30 High Mass on Sunday the 13th. The musical settings for this ceremony are from the 15th century mass - Missa Mater Patris of Tosquim des Pres - the greatest com poser of his day. To our knowledge, this is the first time that this mass will be sung as part of the service in the cathedral. Many choirs have given con­ certs in Notre Dame, but the undergraduates of WPI will have the opportunity to partake of the reason and life of this movement to French Civilization, culture and religion.

While the Glee Club is enjoying a free day in Paris or the wine regions of central France, the instrumentalists will journey to Luxem­ bourg for an evening concert at the castle - a fitting end to this - the first European tour of the Music Division - and the fifth for the WPI Glee Club.

PHOTO BV GLEN CAVANAUGH

Coach Kaufman takes time out with the engineers during their contest with Clark University on Saturday Night.

See story on page 10.

Rhode Island, Rutgers move to stop frat drinking (CPS) — Officials at two campuses last week tried to crack down on fraternity drinking last week, but a West Point cadet alleged he was driven from school because he wouldn't engage in practices other campuses define as hazing.

Third-year cadet John Edward said U.S. Military Academy officials dismissed him from school because he wouldn’t participate in the “humiliating and degrading” hazing of West Point freshmen.

West Poinfspokes'man'Maj. BruceK. Bell,

while refusing to talk about Edwards specifi­ cally, said the “Fourth Class System" Edwards refused to participate in was specifically de­ signed to teach cadets how to be leaders.

Rutger University President Edward J. Bloustein, meanwhile, on Feb. 15 banned all fraternity and sorority parties after James C. Callahan, 18. died during a Lambda Chi Alpha hazing session.

Bloustein also said he’d try to get Lambda Chi Alpha, which reportedly forced all its

pledges to “drink 'til you’re sick” at a Feb. 12 hazing, kicked off the New Brunswick, NJ, campus.

At the same time, the University of Rhode Island's Interfralernity Council, responding to faculty complaints that students were showing up at Friday morning classes hung over and lethargic, voted on Feb. 13 to halt the Thursday night fraternity parties that had been a URI traditional for decades.

NEWSPEAK

Tuesday March 1,1988

IEDITORIAL

ILETTERS

Residence hall crimes need greater attention

Smokeless area needed

Since the etui of B-term, there have been many incidences of violence and theft on campus. The places that have been hit the hardest are the residence halls. However, most students did not hear about this problem and went home on break and spent the term in ignorant bliss of the growing crime problem. The questions that must be asked are why students often leave themselves open to attack, why many students living in the dorms were not made aware ofthe increased danger, andfinally, what steps can be taken to prevent another incidentfrom occurring in thefuture.

On several occasions, people who were obviously not WPI students were seen in dormitories, yet students did not go immediately to their RA'sor call the police, as they should have. Instead, the people were allowed to stay and watch the habits of the students. In one such case, which occurred just before Christmas break, the presence of the person who had "fallen asleep” in a dormitory lounge was finally reported and upon further investigation, the person wasfound to have a long record of breaking and entering.

Most recently, with afemale student being assaulted in her dormitory, the crimes are becom­ ing more serious. Although the assailant had been seen wandering around the hall for a while, nothing was said. This breach o f security proved to be quite serious.

One of the reasons these problems occurred is that students do not protect themselves enough.

They leave doors propped open sofriends can get in or so that they will not have to dig out their key. They do not always report strange people inthe dorms. Although these precautionary steps may seen obvious to many, studentsjust do notfollow them, resulting in increased theft and now an assault.

If they had been told as soon as thefirst incident had occurred in a residence hall, then perhaps they would have been more careful to lock doors, watch who they let into the dorms, and take things of value home over break. There are several ways they could have been told. Thefirst way is through the police log which should appear in Newspeak every week, but which the police have been too busy to compile. Secondly,flyers could have been made up and put in mailboxes and posted in all the buildings. A step that was taken to some degree was to put a message on the campus television system. Finally, meetings could have been held earlier in the residence halls to inform students about the rise o f almost 300% in crime this year.

It should not have taken a slew of thefts and an assatdt for increased safety measures to be developed. At thefirst sign oftrouble, students should be informed o f thefacts in such a way as to ^to p rumors but not give way to a panic. Then, maybe, WPI would not be left so open to danger^

ILETTERS

Icy conditions exist despite work of Plant Services To the Editor; I feel compelled to respond to last w eek’s letter regarding snow removal. In this letter, David Schaffer states that “ It is Plant Services goal to ensure safe passage along all walk ways, stairwells, and other properties on campus.” I, for one, know that this goal is far from being met.

The ice conditions that exist in the Fuller complex after a storm are absolutely abom i­ nable. The entire courtyard becomes one entire sheet of ice, as do the walks, steps, and porches.

Additionally, all Fuller residents know the joy of moving their vehicles in and out of the snow

and ice covered parking lot.

Now it is understandable that these areas can not be cleared out while it is still snowing, however, what I describe above is the situation the way it looks days later. The lots are not cleared for three or four days and following the February 12th storm mentioned in the letter the treacherous ice all around the complex re­ mained for over a week until it finally melted.

From what I can see, WPI is not concerned with any ice liability whatsoever.

Jeffrey Gornstein, '90

Opinion tainted by vandalism To the Editor; This is an open letter to the student or students who had taken a gray ski jacket that was inadvertently left in the wedge on the nighl o f Sunday, February 2 1 , 198K. The jacket was found by the janitors the next morning in the Morgan Hall second floor stairwell. According to the janitor, the jacket was torn and ripped "probably by a knife, with the insulation spread

all over the stairwell”. This ski jacket was a gift and was used every day.

I am greatly disappointed that one of my classmates has done this. It is unfortunate that my favorable opinion of the student population here at WP I has been greatly tainted.

Thomas Szilagyi, '91

Students angered over entrance fee To the Editor; “It is two dollars.”

“Even if we are WPI students?!”

“Yes.” T hat’s the kind o f response we got last Friday, Feb. 26, when I went to see the wrestling tournament.

Do we have to pay for the events going on at ourschool? I think it is bullshit. F irsto fa ll.I’d like to know how much money this school made

by holding this tournament and the high school championships that take place at a school that I pay $15,000 to attend. As we may recall, don't we pay some money as a social fee?!

This kind o f attitude makes us angry and it makes us wonder w hat’s going on here.

Francisco W. Jimenez, '89 Brian S. Fraser, ’89

To the Editor; This letter is concerned with a timely issue not currently being discussed by our com m u­ nity: smoking in public places on campus.

Apparently there seem to be some regulations or conventions, since neitherof us has witnessed smoking in classrooms. Likewise smoking in hallways in many buildings seems to be forbid­ den. But there are still many public areas where smoking occurs. Student lounges, and the upper an lower Wedge are the most conspicu­ ous cases.

In the past few years public awareness of the hazards of smoking has increased considerably.

Recently, passive smoking, the inadvertant inhalation of secondary smoke by a nonsmoker, has received a great deal of attention.

Various institutions, public and private, have acknowledged the right of the non-smoker to not be exposed to secondary smoke when using community rooms. WPI has not, to our knowl­ edge, formally addressed this issue.

We do not seek the toal banning of smoking on campus. Tobacco, like other addictive sub­ stances, is not an easy thing to quit. One of us can attest to that. As tobacco is legal, we can not dictate a person’s choice to smoke or not. Yet we would like to be able to eat food in the Wedge or relax in a student lounge without inhaling others’ tobacco smoke. This issue should be addressed by the WPI community and adm ini­ stration and be resolved.

As a starting point we suggest that the lower Wedge become an official smoke-free area, and, that in sizable lounges such as Salisbury, different sections be delineated. Smaller lounges could be left up to the individual depart­ ments. We hope that various members of the administration, faculty, and student govern­ ment will respond to this problem in a timely manner.

Lamar Moore (GS) Andrea Gallant (GS)

An effort against prejudice To the Editor; By now, Americans have heard hundreds of messages concerning AIDS. This message is different and o f the utmost urgency. We have learned through extensive, competent research that AIDS cannot be transmitted through casual contact. We have also learned that the proper use of a condom during sexual intercourse is acceptable protection against the deadly virus.

What Americans have not exam ined is why some physicians refuse to treat patients who have AIDS, or are in a high-risk category for receiving the deadly virus.

Why is it that the noble doctor can be blindly allowed to turn his/her back on patients in need of medical attention? I formally charge that doctors who refuse to treat AIDS patients or those patients in a high-risk category, or who do not allow their staff the option to wear gloves when contacting the bodily fluids (blood, sa­ liva) should have their medical licenses im m e­ diately revoked; this measure would be the only recourse suited for doctors who either endanger their staff, or who blatantly violate the Hippo­ cratic Oath which is the foundation of their profession and of their entire practice.

Many professionals risk their lives each day. Electricians, social workers, police offi­ cers, and miners are only four o f the countless jobs in which people risk their lives every day for love of their work. We cannot allow doctors to pick and choose the people they will treat. If citizens can become educated concerning pro­ tection against the AIDS virus, then surely the learned professional physicians can also. And only we Americans can prevent the infection of prejudice among doctors against the AIDS vic­ tims, and give support to those courageous people who agree to help any patient in need of medical attention.

We cannot hope to find a cure for AIDS if our leaders turn their backs on the disease. We must stop prejudice in our country and educate ourselves. With the support o f the American people, professional physicians, medical re­ searchers, and the victims themselves, the deadly AIDS virus could become a tragic memory to the United States.

Bridget Powers, '90

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Faculty Advisor T hom as Keil

Sports Editor R oger Burleson

Photography Editor Chris Pater

Fegtgres Editor Jeffrey Coy

Associate Photo Editor R ob Sim s

News Editor Bob Vezis

Photography Staff Lars Beattie Steve Brightman Jim C a la rese K. Christdoulides David C ohen A thena Demetry Megat Abdul Rahim Rob Standley Laura W agner Jo n W aples Ron W en

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NEWSPEAK

IEDITORIAL

ILETTERS

Residence hall crimes need greater attention

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Since the end of B-term, there have been many incidences of violence and theft on campus. The places that have been hit the hardest are the residence halls. However, most students did not hear about this problem and went home on break and spent the term in ignorant bliss of the growing crime problem. The questions that must be asked are why students often leave themselves open to attack, why many students living in the dorms were not made aware ofthe increased danger, andfinally, what steps can be taken to prevent another incidentfrom occurring in thefuture.

On several occasions, people who were obviously not WPI students were seen in dormitories, yet students did not go immediately to their RA'sor call the police, as they should have. Instead, the people were allowed to stay and watch the habits of the students. In one such case, which occurred just before Christmas break, the presence o f the person who had "fallen asleep” in a dormitory lounge was finally reported and upon further investigation, the person wasfound to have a long record o f breaking and entering.

Most recently, with afemale student being assaulted in her dormitory, the crimes are becom­ ing more serious. Although the assailant had been seen wandering around the hallfor a while, nothing was said. This breach o f security proved to be quite serious.

One of the reasons these problems occurred is that students do not protect themselves enough.

They leave doors propped open sofriends can get in or so that they will not have to dig out their key. They do not always report strange people in the dorms. Although these precautionary steps may seen obvious to many, students just do notfollow them, resulting in increased theft and now an assault.

If they had been told as soon as thefirst incident had occurred in a residence hall, then perhaps they would have been more careful to lock doors, watch who they let into the dorms, and take things o f value home over break. There are several ways they could have been told. Thefirst way is through the police log which should appear in Newspeak every week, but which the police have been too busy to compile. Secondly,flyers could have been made up and put in mailboxes and posted in all the buildings. A step that was taken to some degree was to put a message on the campus television system. Finally, meetings could have been held earlier in the residence halts to inform students about the rise o f almost 300% in crime this year.

It should not have taken a slew o f thefts and an assault for increased safety measures to be developed. At thefirst sign of trouble, students should be informed of thefacts in such a way as to ^to p rumors but not give way to a panic. Then, maybe, WPI would not be left so open to danger

ILETTERS

Icy conditions exist despite work of Plant Services To the Editor; I feel compelled to respond to last w eek’s letter regarding snow removal. In this letter, David Schaffer states that “ It is Plant Services goal to ensure safe passage along all walk ways, stairwells, and other properties on cam pus.” I, for one, know that this goal is far from being met.

The ice conditions that exist in the Fuller complex after a storm are absolutely abomi­ nable. The entire courtyard becomes one enlire sheet of ice, as do the walks, steps, and porches.

Additionally, all Fuller residents know the joy of moving their vehicles in and out of the snow

and ice covered parking lot.

Now it is understandable that these areas can not be cleared out while it is still snowing, however, what I describe above is the situation the way it looks days later. The lots are not cleared for three or four days and following the February 12th storm mentioned in the letter the treacherous ice all around the complex re­ mained fo ro v era week until it finally melted.

From what I can see, WPI is not concerned with any ice liability whatsoever.

Jeffrey Gornstein, '90

Opinion tainted by vandalism T o the E ditor; T h is is an o p en le tte r to the stu d e n t or stu d e n ts w h o had taken a g ra y ski ja c k e t that w as inadvertently left in the w edge on the night o f S u n d a y , F e b ru a ry 21, I^XS. T h e ja c k e t w as found by the jan ito rs the n e x t m o rn in g in the M organ Hall second tlo o r stairw ell. A ccording to the ja n ito r, the ja c k e t w as to rn und ripped “ probably by a knife, with the insulation spread

all over the stairw ell". T his ski jacket was a gift and w a s u sed ev ery d ay .

I a m g re atly d isa p p o in te d that o n e o f m y c la s s m a te s has d o n e this. It is u n fo rtu n a te that m y favorable opinion o f the student population here at W P I has been g re a tly tain ted .

Thomas Szilagyi. 91

Students angered over entrance fee T o the E ditor;

“It is two dollars.”

"Even if we are WPI students?!"

“Yes.” That’s the kind of response we got last Friday, Feb. 26, when I went to see the wrestling tournament.

Do we have to pay for the events going on at ourschool? I think it is bullshit. First o f all, I’d like to know how much money this school made

Tuesday March 1,1988

by holding this tournament and the high school championships that take place al a school that I pay $ 15>.(XK) to attend. As we may recall, don't we pay some money as a social fee?!

This kind o f attitude makes us angry and it makes us wonder w hat's going on here.

Francisco W.Jimenez, ’fi9 BrianS. Fraser. 'H9

Smokeless area needed To the Editor; This letter is concerned with a timely issue not currently being discussed by our com mu­ nity: smoking in public places on campus.

Apparently there seem to be some regulations or conventions, since neither of us has witnessed smoking in classrooms. Likewise smoking in hallways in many buildings seems to be forbid­ den. But there are still many public areas where smoking occurs. Student lounges, and the upper an lower Wedge are the most conspicu­ ous cases.

In the past few years public awareness of the hazards of smoking has increased considerably.

Recently, passive smoking, the inadvertant inhalation o f secondary smoke by a nonsmoker, has received a great deal of attention.

Various institutions, public and private, have acknowledged the right of the non-smoker to not be exposed to secondary smoke when using community rooms. WPI has not, to our knowl­ edge, formally addressed this issue.

We do not seek the toal banning of smoking on campus. Tobacco, Iike other addictive sub­ stances, is not an easy thing to quit. One o f us can attest to that. As tobacco is legal, we can not dictate a person’s choice to smoke or not. Yet we would like to be able to eat food in the Wedge or relax in a student lounge without inhaling others’ tobacco smoke. This issue should be addressed by the WPI community and adm ini­ stration and be resolved.

As a starting point we suggest that the lower Wedge become an official smoke-free area, and, that in sizable lounges such as Salisbury, different sections be delineated. Smaller lounges could be left up to the individual depart­ ments. We hope that various members o f the administration, faculty, and student govern­ ment will respond to this problem in a timely manner.

Lamar Moore (GS) Andrea Gallant (GS)

An effort against prejudice To the Editor; By now, Americans have heard hundreds of messages concerning AIDS. This message is different and of the utmost urgency. We have learned through extensive, competent research that AIDS cannot be transmitted through casual contact. We have also learned that the proper use of a condom during sexual intercourse is acceptable protection against the deadly virus.

What Americans have not examined is why some physicians refuse to treat patients who have AIDS, or are in a high-risk category for receiving the deadly virus.

Why is it that the noble doctor can be blindly allowed to turn his/her back on patients in need of medical attention? I formally charge that doctors who refuse to treat AIDS patients or those patients in a high-risk category, or who do not allow their staff the option to wear gloves when contacting the bodily fluids (blood, sa­ liva) should have their medical licenses imme­ diately revoked; this measure would be the only recourse suited for doctors who either endanger their staff, o r who blatantly violate the Hippo­ cratic Oath which is the foundation of their profession and of theirentire practice.

Many professionals risk their lives each day. Electricians, social workers, police offi­ cers, and miners are only four of the countless jobs in which people risk their lives every day for love of their work. We cannot allow doctors to pick and choose the people they will treat. If citizens can become educated concerning pro­ tection against the AIDS virus, then surely the learned professional physicians can also. And only we Americans can prevent the infection of prejudice among doctors against the AIDS vic­ tims, and give support to those courageous people who agree to help any patient in need of medical attention.

We cannot hope to find a cure for AIDS if our leaders turn their backs on the disease. We must stop prejudice in our country and educate ourselves. With the support of the American people, professional physicians, medical re­ searchers, and the victims themselves, the deadly AIDS virus could become a tragic memory to the United States.

Bridget Powers, 90

The Student newspaper of Worcester Polytechnic Institute Box 2700, WPI, Worcester, Massachussetts 01609 Phone (617)793-5464 E d itor-In-C hief Jacqueline O'Neill

Faculty Advisor Thom as Keil

Sports Editor R oger Burleson

Photography Editor Chris P ater

Features Editor Jeffrey Coy

Associate Photo Editor Rob Sim s

News Editor Bob Vezis

Photography Staff Lars Beattie S teve Brightman Jim C alarese K Christdoulides David C ohen A thena Demetry M egat Abdul Rahim Rob Standley Laura W agner Jo n W aples Ron W en

Writing Staff Senor Allende Mike Barone Robert Bennett Andrew Ferreira Brian Freem an Jeff Goldm eer M onte Kluemper Tony Pechulis Robert Petrin Gary Pratt Eric R asm ussen Michael Slocik Jo s h u a Smith T hom as T essier Mike Wrobleski S ecretary Bridget Pow ers

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NEWSPEAK

Tuesday March 1,1988

ICOMMENTARY Rubes®

By Leigh Rubin

My View from the Fourth Year Covert Committees Are Taking Over \ ___________________________________________________________________ _______________

by Jo sh u a Sm ith Newspeak S ta ff T here was a faculty m eeting last w eek. It w asn’t particularly interesting — not too many people w ere there. My guess is that one o f the covert committees arranged it that way. Covert committees, you ask? Yes. Covert committees.

T here are a w hole bunch o f them , and they secretly run this school, but they keep th em ­ selves well hidden.

At the meeting the Comm ittee for Graduate Studies and Research |C G SR | and the C om m it­ tee on A cadem ic O perations [C A O | (front committees for the covert Committee for A bso­ lute Control |cC A C |) presented the spring line­ up o f students ready for graduation. The faculty had to vote w hether they w anted to let these students graduate (no kidding, the faculty actu­ ally voted on that). But it seem s that a crazed faction (the covert C om m ittee for L udicrous Suggestions |c C L S |, the group w ho gave Strauss the idea o f changing the nam e o f the school) was planning to prevent this m otion from passing. So the covert Committee for A nn Twisting and Threats [c C A T r| was called in to

by Jon S. Rennie & Michael M oser

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Dole on Dole: Elizabeth visits Holy Cross

by Monte Kluemper Newspeak S ta ff A lm ost everyone has in som e way been keeping up with all o f the state prim aries, and, w ith “ Super T uesday" right around the corner, many people still do not see dominant candidate em erging, one w ho w ould best represent the U nited States as its President.

Last T husday I had the pleasure o f m eeting the wife of one o f the candidates, herself a possible first lady. A fter talking with her. I believe there is such a candidate out there. His nam e is Bob D ole, and, as his w ife. Elizabeth, pointed out. he "is prepared to be the leader o f the free w orld."

T hroughout his 27 years in C ongress, som e o f his accom plishm ents stand out more than others. For instance, in 1982, when Social Security a w as alm ost bankrupt. Bob Dole w as

part o f a com m ission Ronald Reagan appointed to study the system and draw conclusions for a solution to the problem . As the deadline for a solution approached, the com m ission w as deadlocked and social secuity seemed doomed.

Then Dole decided to w rite an article for the Washington Post on the issue. When the rest o f the com m ission heard D o le 's plan in its e n ­ tirety, they asked fo r a tw o w eek extension o f the deadline and com pleted a w orking plan which, it appears, has m ade social security as strong as ever.

Then, there was the time in 19 8 1 when Dole guided one o f the largest tax cuts in history through Congress. Before Dole let go o f the bil I. he added an item calling for "in d ex in g " to the bill. Without indexing or bracket creep, taxpay­ ers w ould be forced into h igher tax brackets because o f cost o f living increases. This has been estim ated to have saved taxpayers over 75

Ask Mike I AM IN V O L V E D IN A LO N G D IS ­ T A N C E R EL A TIO N SH IP. W H A T A RE SOM E TRICKS T O MAKING IT LAST AND W O RK ? Long D istance Lover.

First off, if you need tricks to keep a relation­ ship going, then it isn’t a relationship. If you arc talking about spice and rom ance, then I can help.

I am involved in a long distan ce relatio n ­ ship, and som etim es it is tough to keep things running sm oothly. T here are several ways to keep the rom ance going. I w ould advise trying to write a couple o f letters each week, or at least one! Everyone likes to receive mail because it gives a tremendous emotional boost. You could also talk to your spouse a couple tim es a w eek, but this is expensive. (W hat is expense when you love someone?) I personally talk to my girl­ friend every night. We alternate nights. It is expensive, but in my case, w orth it. A lso, try

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sending each o th er little, m eaningful gifts. It show s you care. In addition, d epending on the situation, you should try to see each other sometime during the term. Not seeing someone for seven weeks is difficult. You almost have to relearn what the person is like.

A long distance relationship requires a lot o f love, trust, w illpow er, and tim e. Before going on with a long distance relationship, be sure o f the commitment. Your spouse w on't enjoy it if you go to every party on cam pus or get drunk every weekend. Also, a lot o f people will make fun o f you and tell you to cheat or that your spouse cheats. (W hat they d o n ’t know c an 't hurt them !) In addition, th e y ’ll tell you y o u 're m issing the tim e o f your life and you are stupid for having a long-distance relationship. It is your choice. It is tough, but not im possible.

Good luck.

Let me help you with that tough, personal problem y o u 're having. W rite to “ Ask M ike” box 2142 o r box 2700.

billion dollars since its enactm ent. A gain in 1985, Dole took the initiative. L eading the Senate in one hundred m eetings. Dole w as d e­ term ined to get a balanced budget passed. It came dow n to the day o f the vote and Dole knew he was one vote short, a vote w hich was held by one o f his supporters. S enator W ilson o f C ali­ fornia, but a vote w hich w as held by hospital bed. After informing the Senator o f his predica­ m ent. S enator W ilson tem porarily left the hos­ pital and arrived at the C apitol in time to vote.

I.V. unit still in his arm . And what o f the bill which w ould have b e tte red o u reco n o m ic c o n ­ ditions? U nfortunately, it w as voted d ow n in the House.

T his leads me to D o le's prim ary concern, that is, reducing the deficit. He thinks that right now we m ust have budgets, not only balanced, but also eating aw ay at the deficit. His propsal is as follow s: I .Freeze spending for one year.

This w ould give the adm inistration tim e to assess the situation. Then, examine each depart­ ment to determ ine exactly w here the excess spending is occurring, and stop it. 2 .E nact a balanced budget am endm ent. A lthough bal­ anced budgets are deseparately needed now, som etim es excess spending is good. T his is probably the w orst stand Dole takes on any, I believe. 3.G ivc the President the pow er to line veto, that is, enable him to veto parts o f bills, not ju st say yes or no. D ole has been advocating this, as well as his other economic proposals, for years.

E lizabeth Dole w as m ore than exceptional while she elucidated her audience on her h u sb an d ’s platform . She said. “ Bob D ole is a leader. He has been in the trenches, and he is running on a record, not a resum e."

Senator Steve Sim m s' comment about Dole sum s things up nicely, l ie said. "L ook, the real question is, bottom line, ‘W ho do you want sitting across from G orbachev and the Soviet dictators? W ho’s to u g h ?’

The answ er to that is: B ob Dole.

And I know. I w orked w ith the m an... H e’s got a backbone o f steel.”

pacify them . T h a t’s why there w eren’t too m any faculty at the m eeting.

Pretty scary, if you ask m e. If it h adn’t been for cC A T T . cC LS could have stopped spring graduation. Luckily, the co v ert C om m ittee on A cadem ic Intelligence [cCAI | heard about the effort and consulted with the covcrt Comm ittee on W hat T o Do [cC W T D ], who was w ise enough to call incC A T T . cC A T T is one o f the m ost effective com m ittees on campus. They orchestrated the rem oval o f S trau ss’ first park­ ing policy, you know . T hey learned m ost o f their m ethods from the now defunct covert C om m ittee on Dirty T ricks |n d cC D T |, w hich w as term inated after the W atergate incident.

The rest o f the covert com m ittees have had their hands full lately, as w ell. The covert Com m ittee on Student Persecution |cC S P | has been busy setting up the housing lottery in a joint effort with the covert C om m ittee on D is­ sem ination o f False and M isleading Inform a­ tion [cCD FM I|. You sec, the housing lottery' is not a lottery to win. R ather, it is a population control strategy. The winners are taken into the depths o f the underground O ffice of Residential Life-and-dcath complex, where they are stoned (the old fashioned way — w ith stones). O ver the past few years, most o f the w inners o f the lottery have been women, so cCSP has called in the covert C om m ittee for A ttracting Y oung A m erican Men |c C A Y A M | (a com m ittee w hich is alw ays at odds w ith the covert C o m ­ mittee lor the Prevention of Joy |cCPJ |) with the hopes that the lottery can be used to skew the M ale/Fem ale ratio on cam pus back to accep t­ able levels. cCPJ (the group which organized the beerban on cam pus) has been busily underm ining the efforts o f SocC om m . They have been sneaking about late at night secretly taking dow n all o f S o cC o m m ’s superior advertising and replacing it with negative publicity c a m ­ paigns. For exam ple, they replaced what m ust have been a great ad for A lan G insberg with a sign which read “ Poet: Alden Hall." They have m odified the software which runs the little sign over the O ffice o f Student A ffairs (next to the wedge) so that it will misspell at least one word on each ad, “ Have YUOR picture draw n...."

The poor fools at SocComm apparently haven't noticed. cCPJ is also currently consulting with the D ukakis. Bush, and R obertson cam paigns.

The covert C om m ittee for Student Insecu­ rity |cC SI | has ju st com pleted their big C -term project of relocating the C am pus Police, al­ though they w ere unable to get their nam e change bill through (they w anted to change the name to “O ff-C am pus Police” ).

I h av en 't seen that m uch from the covert C om m ittee on Student C ensorship |c C S C | since last year, w hen | they sold the school to Hugh Hefner. | Right now is also a busy tim e o f year for the covert C om m ittee for the Frustration o f S tu­ dents |cC F S |. They have been working fever­ ishly at the Registrar's and Financial Aid offices m isplacing and destroying student files. T heir sister com m ittee, the covert C om m ittee forthe Frustration o f Faculty |c C F F | has been putting in overtime at the bookstore, losing book orders and writing up counterfeit letters from publish­ ers about text books being o u t of print.

A continuing joint effo rt by cC FS ar.d cC D FM I to install unusable and outdated soft­ ware on the cam pus has successfully completed the installation o f PC -W rite and Kermit on the discontinued line o f ATT PC6300s. T hey are currently researching com puter m agazines o f the 1970s, planning the next round o f softw are and hardware installation. They are a little upset about the removal of the MV8(XX) and the Wang w ord processing system , but are pleased to see that the beginning Pascal course is still being taught on an airco n d itio n in g co n tro l unit.

The supervisory com m ittee (the covert C om m ittee for the C oordination o f C overt Com m ittees and Certain Comm ittees under the C o n tro l of C o v e rt C o m m itte e s |eC C C C C C C C C |) will soon be finishing their annual report for 1987, w hich will be sum m a­ rily shredded in their new O llie North D eluxe A utom atic Filing A pparatus. Copies will be available from the cCAI, but only in shredded form.

NEWSPEAK

Tuesday March 1,1988

Determining the distance to galaxies

I.A TIM ES SYNDICATE

by Isaac Asimov A stronom ers m ay have a new way o f m eas­ uring the distances o f som e galaxies.

T his is badly needed. W ithout an accurate know ledge o f galactic distances, we c a n 't tell for sure how far apart the galaxies are and how quickly the universe is expanding. T his m eans we c a n ’t be very precise about how old the universe is. Some astronomers say the universe is 10 billion years old, and som e say 20 billion years o ld — a substantial difference. This m akes us uncertain o f o ther key features o f the universe and o f w hat its ultim ate destiny may be.

T he best way o f determ ining a g ala x y 's distance from Earth is to detect a type o f star in it called a “C epheid variable'' Its light grow s brighter and dim m er over a certain period. By m easuring the period we can calculate how

luminous it really is — the longer the period, the greater its luminosity. The dim mer the star (ital) appears (unital) the farther aw ay it is; from its apparent dimness, we can calculate just how far away it is.

T he C epheids allow us to calculate the dis­ tance o f the 30 nearest galaxies quite accurately.

The M agellanic Clouds are 150,000 light-years aw ay, for instance, and the A ndrom eda galaxy is 2,200.000 light-years away. B eyond those 30, though, the C epheid variables becom e too dim to see at all, and 30 isn’t m any. T h ere are billions o f galaxies.

T here are w ays o f determ ining the distance of galaxies that are farther off. but they’re not as good as the C epheid m ethod. T here are giant stars, for instance, that are much brig h ter than C epheids and can be seen at six tim es the distance. A really bright star is about a m illion times a bright as the sun, and from the degree of its d im ness we can tell how far aw ay it is. But determ ining w hether a star is a m illion tim es a bright as the sun is a matter o f guesswork. Also, not every galaxy contains these giant stars.

W e can also detect supernovas occasionally in som e galaxies, even those that are very far aw ay, because a supernova will shine w ith a light that may be tens o f billions o f tim es as bright as our sun. But again we have to guess at how bright the supernova actually is, and they appear only in scattered galaxies here and there.

Finally, we are reduced to judging the d is­ tance of a galaxy by its total brightness because it is too far away to see any ordinary stars in it, even the brightest, and supernovas are rare.

T his would be a good m ethod o f determ ining distances if all g alaxies w ere o f the sam e size, but som e are a m illion tim es as large as others, and so judging distance by overall brightness is very risky.

That brings us to "globular clusters.” There exist, apparently in every galaxy, groups of stars that are packed tightly together in a spheri­ cal shape. Such g lo b u larclu sters com e in vari­ ous sizes. The sm allest m ay consist o f a few tens o f thousands o f stars, and the largest may consist o f a m illion stars.

O ur ow n M ilky W ay galaxy contains about 200 o f them that w e can see and perhaps 1(K) m ore that are hidden by dust clouds. The A ndrom eda galaxy contains a sim ilar n um ber o f these globular clusters, and they have been detected in other nearby galaxies too.

It may be that globular clusters can only reach a certain m axim um size because if they w ere any bigger the outerm ost stars w ould not be held firmly enough by the gravitational pull of the inner ones and would eventually separate from the cluster.

If that were so then the brightest globular clusters would alw ays have the sam e total brightness.

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William Harris, an astronomer at McMaster U niversity in H am ilton, C anada, has recently m ade a careful study o f the globularclusters in nearby galaxies w hose distance is known. He determ ined the apparent brightness of the globular clusters and from their distance he could calculate how luminous they really are in com parison to our sun. for instance. He re ­ ported that, indeed, the brightest g lobularclus­ ters, in any galaxy, shone with about the sam e luminosity.

This means that if we can make out globular clusters in som e galaxy w hose distance w e’re not certain of and determ ine the brightness o f the brightest o f them, we can compare that with the luminosity they really have and calculate the distance.

In a way, it m ight not seem this gives us anything new. A bright glubular cluster is about as bright as the brightest supergiant single stars, and we use those super-bright stars already to tell galactic distances. The advantage of the globularclusters, however, is that they probably o ccu r in every galaxy, and supergiants only in some. Secondly, if Harris is correct, the bright­ ness o f the brightest globular clusters can be relied on m ore safely than the brightness o f the brightest individual supergiants.

The globular cluster method may, therefore, give us (ital) reliable (unital) distances for the nearest 6,000 galaxies. T his will be an im por­ tant improvement over the present situation, but there are still billions m ore galaxies. W e m ust continue to look for additional yardsticks.

Isaac Asimov is an internationally renowed science writer and m em ber o f the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.

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The center relies on its dedicated volunteers to prived e im m ediate help and support ot c a ll­ ers experienceing emotional distress. Although volunteers are all ages and com e from widely diverse backgrounds, they sharew a sincere desire to help others.

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Tuesday March 1,1988

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Graduates take honors in national engineering program (W PI) — Seventeen o f W orcester Polytech­ nic Institute’s 1987 S enior class recently took h o n o rs in every undergraduate category o f the 1987 Pre-Professional A rc W elding A w ards Program sponsored by the James F. Lincoln Arc W elding Foundation o f Cleveland, Ohio.

T h e five team s o f students, all 1987 g ra d u ­ ates in civil and mechanical engineering at W PI, earned five of 16 possible prizes in the national com petition, w hich recognizes outstanding achievem ent by engineering and technology students in solving design, engineering, fab ri­ cation and research problem s.

“The winners were chosen from a very large pool o f contestants,” said D onald N. Z w iep, head o f the M echanical E ngineering D ep art­ m en t at W PI. “T here w ere approxim ately 75 schools that en tered the co m petition, m any o f th em with m ore than one entry,” he added.

“T h e fact that W PI students placed in every category speaks very highly o f their talent, hard w ork, and com m itm ent.”

Gopal Amin, o f Guyarath, India, Edw ard E. A higian o f E nfield, C T T hom as N ow ak o f Springfield, M A , and M ichael T h o m p so n o f G ales Ferry, C T , took first place and a $ 1,000 cash prize for their project, “ Design and D evel­ o p m en t of a F orm ula SA E Race C ar.” T hey w orked under the direction o f R oger B orden, associate professor o f m echanical engineering at W PI. to design and construct a race car m eeting certain specifications. The students actually raced the vehicle in a 1987 competition in Texas.

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R. Dowd o f Uncasville, CT, and John E. Phelps o f Noank, CT, took one o f the two second place prizes for their project, “ S tresses in a Thick W alled header A ssem bly Having Circum feren­ tial Rectangular Integrated Attachm ents.” The student team perform ed a com paritive analysis o f two methods for predicting external stress on a key element o f all fuel-buming steam genera­ tors and furnace system s used by the Riley Stoker Corperation. The project, undertaken at the co m p an y ’s request, w as part o f an effort to help Riley S toker ev alu ate its current design codes. R aym ond H agglund, professor o f m e­ chanical engineering at W PI, served as project advisor.

In the thrid place category, W PI students w on two o f three possible pries. D avid S. D utton o f New Y ork C ity, N Y, and Joseph A. Ferrari of W atertow n, M A w ere honpred for their project, “ R esidence Hall Structural D e­ sign,” developed under the advisement of Frank D eFalco, professor o f civil engineering. The students investigated prelim inary architectural and structural design features o f a residential complex for W PI, taking into consideration the optim um location on cam pus, architectural style and materials.

Jam ie K ing o f O range, M A, R ichard Sheahan o f Groton, CT, and M ark W illingham o f F ram ingham , M A also took third prize for their project, “ D evelopm ent o f a Prelim inary R etractable L anding G ear D esign for the For­ ney E rcoupe.” The students w orked, under the advisem ent o f P rofessor Z w iep, to design re­ tractable landing gear for a sm all, all-m etal, spin- and stall- proof plane. The project entailed

design an d m odelling work, as well as w indtunnel testin, to ensure that the landing gear w ould not cause addtional drag adn that the design w ould com ply with C ivil A eronautics Board specifications and regulations.

Four m ore W PI graduates w ere given an aw ard o f m erit for th eir work, “The Structural D esign o f a Parking G arage.” Eric T. Brennan o f W althan, M A, Peter Hamill o f D udley, M A, David M acG regor o f W interport, ME, and A rthur G . Sim onian o f W atertow n, MA, w ere advised by Dr. Frank D eFalco. T he study was part o f an effort to resolve a shortage o f parking areas on the WPI campus. It involved determin­ ing the m ost beneficial and econom ical site for a hypothetical parking garage to m eet cam pus needs, structural analysis and d esign and e sti­ m ating the cost o f m aterials. T he final design successfully met all structural design and build­ ing codes.

A ccording to Z w iep, the projects w ere e x ­ tensions o f the students' major qualifying proj­ ects, completed to satisfy a portion o f the under­ graduate requirem ents at WPI.

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Tuesday March 1,1988

Party goer pushed off balcony, questions legal rights

The Legal Advisor

by Jeffrey Newman Q: A t a recent party at our college cam pus, there w as a fight that involved at least tw enty people. It stared when four m em bers o f a cam pus fraternity cam e in very drunk and it ended when a student was pushed from a second story balcony, breaking his legs. The injured student was my friend and he has been hospital­ ized since the party. The irony is that we w ere only at the party for a few minutes and he w asn’t drinking at all. What legal rights does he have?

A: If you friend was pushed from the balcony intentionally, he should consider re ­ porting the incident to the police and filing crim inal com plaints against those who pushed him. The fact that his injuries occurred at a party w ith alcohol involved does not m itigate c rim i­

nal behavior. A side from crim inal sanctions, your friend m ay have a civil action against the party that served or sold the alcoholic beverages to the offenders, if they were visibly intoxicated or u nder age. Finally, if the party w as held on cam pus and the college knew or should have know n o f the abuse o f alcohol, there m ay be liability against the college for its failure to police such gatherings. It will have to be shown that the abuse o f alcohol gave rise to your frien d ’s injuries. A cross the country, colleges and universities are strengthening their policies on cam pus drinking. R ecently, an 18 y ear old R utgers U niversity freshm an died after initia­ tion festivities at the Lambda Chi Alpha Frater­ nity. An investigation has suggested that drink­ ing was a factor in his death. Tw o weeks ago, an eating clu b at Princeton suspended serving al­ cohol w hen a 19 year-old student nearly drank

him self to death. Last m onth, an 18 year- old wom an w as allegedly raped in a local college dorm itory by five m ale students. It is alleged that alcohol may have been a contributing fa c ­ tor.

Q: I was in an autom obile collision w hen another driver swerved into m y lane striking the d riv er’s door. I ended up w ith several broken ribs and a concussion, all o f which left m e hospitalized and out o f w ork for at least tw o months. When I sought legal help, I learned that the driver had only $10,000.00 in insurance coverage. This w o n 't begin to cover my e x ­ penses, lost work and my pain. W hat should I do?

A: If your m edical bills exceed $500.00. you m ay institute a legal action against the

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driver to recover monies for expenses, bills and pain and suffering. An investigation should be conducted to discover w hether the other driver has sufficient assets to cover any jury aw ard beyond $10,000.00 in insurance carried by him.

If there arc no assets, you may be able to collect on your own “underinsurance” carried on your vehicle or other vehicles operated by m em bers o f your household. U nderinsuance is m anda­ tory in M assachusetts and designed to cover cases such as yours w here insurance on other vehicles is insufficient to c o v e ry o u rc la im . In som e cases, the other driver may carry “ um ­ brella” insurance policies (such as homeowners insurance) which will pick up after the autom o­ bile policy lim its are exhausted.

Q: A bout three years ago, I was prescribed a drug called A ccutane for severe acne. Re­ cently, I gave birth to a child with severe birth defects. My doctor m entioned that he had read about a study which suggested Accutane might be the cause o f birth defects. Are you aw are of any cases against the manufacturer of this drug?

A: Yes. In m id -1983, it becam e widely known that the drug Accutane caused congeni­ tal defects in infants bom to wom en w ho took the drug. In Septem ber, 1983, one drug m anu­ facturer revised its package insert to include inform ation concerning birth defects and a statem ent that the drug shouldn’t be given to wom en w ho w ere pregnant or intended to be­ com e pregnant. By 1984, the FDA knew o f 21 m ajor birth defects and 24 spontaneous abor­ tions. All o f the birth defects involved sm all or absent ears, neurological dam age and heart abnorm alities. M ost recently, the drug m anu­ facturer sent out special warnings that Accutane was contraindicated in pregnancy. U nfortu­ nately, it w as done only after 45 cases o f re­ ported birth defects. The A ssociation o f Trial Law yers o f A m erica has received num erous inquiries from attorneys investigating A c­ cutane birth defects. C onsult an attorney.

Q: 1 am in a Special Forces unit at Fort Devens. W hile on m aneuvers, tw o o f my friends and I were injured when a civilian struck us with his car. W hen I sought legal advice, I was told that we c o u ld n ’t sue because we were on duty and a Federal law says we c a n ’t sue for injuries received on duty. True?

A: No. The Federal Torts C laim s Act restricts you from suing the governm ent for negligence in certain instances w here you are on duty. But you are not restricted from suing civilians w ho cause injuries because o f their negligence. R ecently, a m em ber o f your Spe­ cial Forces Unit at Fort Devens got $325,000.00 for a severely fractured pelvis received because o f civilian negligence. In his case, a bulldozer struck him after it slid dow n an icy em bank­ m ent. A fter several m onths o f litigation in federal court in Boston, an agreem ent was reached w ith the insurance com pany.

Legal questions? Call Jeffrey A. Newman, a practicing boston attorney, at I-fi(X)-448-0303 or write him at the law offices o f Jeffrey A. Newman. One Winthrop Square, Boston, MA OHIO.

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Tuesday March 1,1988

Deadline for futurist competition is March 18

What the Heck Is This?

( H oney w cll)-T im e is running out to enter H o neyw ell’s sixth annual Futurist A w ards C om petition, an opportunity for college stu ­ dents to write about technology as they see it 25 years in the future. The deadline for requesting entry forms is March 4, and the contest closes on M arch 18.1988.

The com petition is open to all full-tim e undergraduate and graduate students w ho a t­ tend any accredited college or university in the U nited States. S tudents are asked to predict technological advancem ents in the year 2013 in a 2,000 word essay on one of the follow ing areas: aerospace applications, aircraft capabili­ ties, control systems for comm ercial buildings, control system s for hom es, industrial autom a­ tion and control, and m icroelectronic devices.

T he second part o f the essay should reflect the societal im pact of the predicted changes.

A panel o f Honey w ell engineers will judge the essays on the creativity, technical under­ standing, feasibility and clarity o f expression.

Each o f the 10 w inners will receive a $3,000 cash prize and an expense-paid trip to M innea­ polis for the aw ards banquet in April.

To obtain registration inform ation, call toll free 1-800-328- 5111, extension 1581. Entries m ust be postm arked no later than March 18.

Sophomore Ken Truesdale says “It’s Easy! It’s a picture of the laser light show, last Friday taken during a Pink Floyd song.” Well Ken, you’re absolutely right! Congratulations! You win a FREE D om ino’s Pizza, courtesy of Newspeak for correctly identifying the photograph taken by Associate Photo Editor, Rob Sims.

Good Job! There’s only one more photo to be identified this term so let’s see if we can get a lot of response this week. Have the entries in by noon on Thursday, Box 2700. Good Luck!!

Science chief asks for more engineering science majors (C P S) — M ore students need to m ajor in engineering, the N ational Science F oundation (N SF) w arned last m onth.

If they d o n ’t, the U.S. will lose its c o m p eti­ tive edge in science and engineering, N S F D i­ rector E rich B loch told a jo in t m eeting o f the A m erican Physical Society and A m erican A s­ sociation o f Physics Teachers.

B loch said a greater percentage o f students need to be lured into science because there are simply few er young people in the population. If th ey ’re not tem pted into the field, there will be a shortage o f scientists in the nation, regardless o f how w ell- funded scientific projects are.

“F ew er young people increases the im p o r­

tance o f attracting wom en and m inorities to science and engineering,” Bloch said. T he NSF is the c h ie f source of federal funding fo r non­ m edical and non-military research. Ironically, as the n um ber o f A m ericans w ho enter science and engineering declines, m ore and m ore for­ eign students earn one-fifth o f the science doc­ torates, one-third o f the mathematics doctorates and m ore than half o f the engineering d o cto r­ ates aw arded in the U nited States each year.

A lthough m any stay in this cou n try and co ntribute to A m erican scientific p row ess and the eco n o m y , that could change q uickly. “ It is bad policy to depend on a resource w e cannot co n tro l,” B loch said.

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The Weekly Crnsswnrd Puzzle 3 Sum up 4 Afternoon parties 5 Prepares for print

6 Frolic boist­ erously 7 Symbol for tellurium 8 Lamprey 9 Footless 10 Breed of sheep 11 Runs easily 13 Daughter of King Lear 16 Deposit of sediment 19 Mine excavation 21 Fencers’ swords 24 Muse of poetry 26 Seasons 29 Scotchman’s outfit 31 Piece of cutlery 33 Holds back 35 Metal 36 Weirder 37 Bristle 39 Begs 40 Mediterranean vessel 43 Tears 46 Heavy club 48 Search for 51 Dad’s partner 53 Yalie 56 Greek letter 58 Guido’s low note

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Tuesday March 1,1988

A H is t o r y o f T u r m o il:

by Marc Rose Mathematics Lecturer "It is clear that some men are hy nature free, and others slaves, and that fo r these latter slav­ ery is both expedient and right."

The Boer Influence

Rationalized Destruction

By 1800, there were about 15,000 w hites in the C ape Colony, including a small but eventu­ ally very influential group o f sm all farm ers or

It is easy to see how this “exo d u s” cam e to occupy the central stage in what m ight w ithout prejudice be called the A frikaner mythology. I

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Part One of a Series In 1652, the D utch East India C om pany established the first permanent European settle­ m ent in w hat is now South A frica. This sm all colony, situated near what is now Cape Town by the C ape o f G ood H ope, grew fruits and grains for the Dutch spice traders rounding the C ape for the East Indies. These policies have enabled about 14% o f the population, nam ely those classified as “ w hite” , to confine about 75% o f the population - tho se officially classified as “A frican ” - to fixed reserves equalling about 13% o f the n a tio n ’s territory. T his forced “ghetto izatio n ” is accom panied by a co m p re­ hensive system o f political, econom ic and c u l­ tural oppression intended to deprive Africans o f their natural birthright w hile assuring w hites continued hegemony. Hopefully the reader will gain from this a perspective with which he can confront new s and propaganda from and about South A frica in a m ore critical way.

A lthough this m ay be very sim plistic, it m ight be said that the ultim ate source o f their

...it seems to be characteristically human for a people to bind themselves together with an inspiring set of political, reli­ gious, and historical concepts. “ B oers” . The Boers had already spread out to cover about a 4(H)-mile radius around C ape Tow n by 1760. Ironically, given w hat w as to prove to be an obstinate use o f black slave labor, one reason for their “go in g into the co u n try ” w as that the abundance o f ch eap A frican labor in Cape Town made marginal white labor super­ fluous. Another motivation for Boer expansion was the “h o m esteading” policy o f the D utch East India C om panies. N otw ithstanding their use of servants, they apparently lived up to their reputation as a rough, independent lot following a stem Calvinistic ethic. Given that the Boers in general were poorer than their more capitalistic brethren in C ape Town, and that these brethren feared that the Boers were beginning to “degen­ erate” on the “frontier”, one might set up a three­ tiered schem e o f social classes, with A frikaner m erchants and large- scale farm ers on top, A fricans on the bottom , and B oers in the

The rapid growth of profit-making farms, some quite large and most employing foreign slaves and servants, established a pattern of white use of the cheap African labor which was to continue indefinitely. success is the gun. O n D ecem ber 16 each year, for exam ple, W hite South A fricans celebrate their “heritage” by com m em orating the batle of “ B lood R iver” , in w hich a relatively small group o f white settlers decim ated a large force o f Z ulu w arriors w ith alm ost no casualties.

AfrTcan<W t<ynei. in . battle w ere few and far betw een, although resistance wifs som etim es w idespread and well organized.

The first D utch farm ers at the C ape used slaves from o th er parts o f A frica as well as servants o f the D utch East India C om pany. In the late I6 0 0 's im m igration grew , consisting m ostly of D utch and G erm ans. By the early 17(X)’s some French Huguenots, fleeing C atho­ lic persecution, had arrived. A lthough they retained their F rench surnam es, the French were quickly assim ilated into the mostly Dutch cultural group calling themselves the “ A frikan­ e rs ”, o r A fricans. T hese A frikaners, now co m ­ prising a bit m ore than h alf o f South A frica’j w hite population (the rest are m ostly o f I anccM tfvj,.speak a m odified f o n r ^ f T ) u t c h ^llfidAffiKaaivi. began anivIng I8()0’s, were the first w hite group not to be assim ilated by the A fri­ kaners, and the official languages o f the R epub­ lic o f South A frica have been A frikaans and E nglish since union in 19 10.

The rapid grow th o f profit-m aking farm s, som e quite large and most em ploying foreign slaves and servants, established a pattern o f white use of the cheap African labor which wa laAaOjttwwie^nd c finifgty .~^hesgTSTffiers also began to quickly m ake use o f the labor o f local Africans who were pressed into service through various m eans. S om e w ere m em bers o f fam i­ lies w hose fathers w ere killed in battle with whites; others were forced to work because they had lost their land or cattle to whites. In general, E uropean d iseases, w ar-m aking and theft, w hich quickly destro y ed the vulnerable social fabric existing in w estern South A frican socie­ ties, defined the general preconditions for the white em ploym ent o f black labor, whether paid o r unpaid, in S outh A frica. T he m ajor peoples inhabiting w estern South A frica at the tim e o f E uropean arrival w ere the K hoikhoin (or Khoikhoi, or Khoi) and San, called respectively “ H ottentots” and “ B ushm en” by white society.

republics, the British-dominated colonies o f the C ape and N atal, and a few areas in which A fricans still lived freely.

Great Mineral W ealth The stage was now set for what has probably been the m ost striking determ inant of South A frica’s m odern destiny besides the dom inaJUon-of fcurapean peoples. This was the discov. ~ ' .........in ,m|ji 11.. .... I m ~nr» ery o f great m ineral w ealth in areas under n t e k ;kanercontrol h d iam onds along the rivers bor-

^ , ! Bering the p ta p g c F t^ e State in 1867, andgold say “ w ithout prejud because it seerjMjnfebA \ \ in 1886 * i\tp d WittXvafcerrand' region p f ftia _ •*____ u i Jia . a .L i .\_ L li A L L l L L L ' - U - Li characteristically hutntfn*fer « pEof>le to • them selves togethel^vith an inspiring sat political, religious and M ^prical concepts, it is tragic when one so c ie ty ’s l ally, industrialization. Joh to the destruction o f another, and when the Telckof the victor rewrites history, as Afrikaners and white s \ Ally blacks who hoped for 4 shfere ol A m ericans have done, to rationalize th ijp d C t); ! wealth w#re quickly $li$appointed;t>y struction. It should be o f no surprise t h ^ w ^ H L 1 /ation ' 1 “ ‘ stric i j thar comparative histories o f white sypf^niacy inuin* ! i \ I posittofisi T h i Kite U.S. and South A frica hav^H een w ritja fl^ Art: M ore appropriate tc*OTrT^sTfative^is PPI | 4 I vu m * W'u.u, in a uw u-vinw analysis of the immense tarlteitye consequeric ,?m insuring w hite p o w ei “InflU x-cdrlrqr’ o f the voortrek. The m ost irffl^g^ikta w^s t 5c O n j r ^ l l i n g ^ l g ^ ^ ^ ^ U ^ i f e k l W ^ ^ catapulting o f E uropean penetration into tpc 1 tajc^s |w j)jdi a self-sufficient pastoralist central, northern and eastern areas o f Sour[nU \ t n g ^ f y w ithout w age w ork, further Afica. A frikaner claim s that m ost o f S. A. was*** at A fricans could not profit frpfffth^i em pty when they settled there are belied by the m ineral w ealth even though m a p f f& i^ l fact that a wealth o f settled, culturally advanced necessary to help bring it to the s&fcy|e 4 com m unitites existed in the regions into which The next step toward total why i ^ h ielsum p w hites m oved. These m ostly pastoral peoples, w as the E nglish-A frikaner Be w ho spoke Z ulu, X hosa, Sotho, “T sw ana, and causes o f this w ar are comple>jLi4i(h h o ther languages, were by virtue o f their num ­ designs on control o f the diarK m q <jrfeLapld bers and way fo life able to offer far stiffer fields being an obvious c a n d id a te ^ fl^liflace. resisitance to B oer com m andos and British O ne m ust also hang the w ar on a&tSEgeflrameregim ents than the K hoikhoi and san. W hite w ork o f B ritish im perialism , with people like history books, unsurprisingly, have tended to the British Colonial Secretary, as well as South either not mention Afican resisitance at all, or to A frican H igh C om m issioner A lfred M ilner, discredit it with treacherous motives when they pushing for a fight which they thought would be do. W hile the A fricans o f eastern and northern easier than it was. The first phase o f the “AngloSouth Africa were to all lose their independence B oer” or “ South A frican” w ar o f 1899-1902_ by the end o f the 1800’s, the m ajor ethnic w as m arked by set battles favoring the ni groups have m anaged to survive and preserve cally and m aterially superior jjw ffsn forces, some aspects o f their culture through the present w hich eventually outnum bered the B & frea^iday. The current numbers o f people in the South mandos by about 450,000 to 600,(XX). I n c r e a s - ^ African governm ent’s official racial classifica­ ingly succespfujtguerrilla tactics by the Boers tion schem e serve as a rough m easure o f the w ere cout|R ^fd by British terror against the breakdow n o f ethnic p ercentages in tw entiethlands a n c tfa ttlie s o f the Boers, with thousands

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middle. Note that the Africans arc on the bottom not because they were African but because they were dispossessed: and in w orking for w hites, black South A fricans have alw ays form ed the literal base o f the socio-econom ic pyram id that is South A frican society.

T he British presence in South A frica (or “ S.A .” , which I am using m erely as a convena certain geographical area) begaifm 1795, whcn*th'ey cTfpfOTt1d-Capfe-Tm ^nL; ^ during an early stage o f the N apoleonic W ars.

Due to the increasingly monopolistic policies o f '"'" "*' a failing East India C om pany, and their lack o f m ilitary support for B oer expansion, the E ng­ lish found “depression in the west and rebellion in the east.” Both depression and rebellion were to be frequent them es for low er class A frik an ­ ers. A fter British immigration policies encour­ aged the first w ave o f B ritish settlers in 1820, simple social and econom ic com petition with century South A frican society in general: the A frikaners w as ex acerbated by A frikaner perceptions that the B ritish w ere som etim es “ R A C E ” N uirttfer ^ F e r t e siding with Africans.

In fact, the B ritish w ere not necessarily any African 25.000.000 75% less devoted to exploiting A fricans than the White 4,500,000 14% Dutch, as is seen quite clearly in the aftermath o f Coloured 3.000.000 9% the Boer War. However, the British som etimes Asian 1.000.000 2% made pacts with African chiefs which promised their people som e protection in exchange for TOTAL 33,000,000 cooperation. Moreover, a reform- m indedJjJpK ' ish P arliam ent was in p o w ^ -rtfT ^ ftin g the Som £ S o u ^ ATrrjffl^ flp T g T s t i11 retained

...by the South African body politic consisted of two Afrikaner republics, the British-dominated colonies of the Cape and Natal, and a few areas in which Africans still lived freely.

iiniii im Iii>w»iiviirnTiini niiinrpniptr"'* ius, the B oers were faced with w hat w as to them the insufferable phenom enon o f B ritish courts attem pting to try B oer farm ers for m is­ treating servants. W hen the Emancipation Act of 1833 provided for the freeing o f all remaining slaves in the C ape by 1838, som e B oers could not lake it any longer. “ T o preserve the pro p er relations betw een m aster and serv an t”, about 12,00 Afrikaners and their slaves rolled away in their w agons in the “G reat T re k ”, o r V oortrek, o f 1835-43. L ater, an A frikaner w om an w as to ex p lain that the B ritish had placed the slaves “ ...on an equal footing w ith Christians, co n ­ trary to the law s o f god and the natural d istin c­ tions o f race and religion, so that it w as into ler­ able for any decent Christian to bow dow n beneath such a yoke; wherefore we withdrew in order thus to preserve o u r doctrines in p u rity .”

autonom y in the 18604s,T>u(theTndependence o f all indigenous p eoples o f southern A frica ended by the late I8 0 0 ’s with continued A fri­ kaner expansion, E nglish expansion in Natal (southeastem m S.A .) and north into what is now B otsw ana (then British B echuanaland), G erm an colonization bordering northw estern S.A ., and Portuguese intrusion into what are now Anglola and M ozam bique.

Boer successes and declining interest by the British C olonial O ffice in overseas com m it­ m ents led to the form ation o f tw o effectively autonom ous A frikaner republics in the !8 5 0 ’s.

O ne was the O range Free State, an area o f rich farm land betw een the O range and T ransvaal R ivers in east central S.A . The other was the South A frican R epublic, later the T ransvaal, north o f the V aal. T hus, by 1860, the South African body politic consisted o f two Afrikaner

o f B oer w om en and children dying in concen­ tration cam ps due to the diseased conditions tactics and the sheer sm allness o f the BefeV/orces led to their surrender in 1902.

The ferocity and bitterness o f the fighting left a legacy o f bitterness to the A frikaners and a further hardening o f their seige m entality.

This mentality is reflected in their comrnemonj-i, tion o f the w agon circles o r lagers from which farm ers fought in battles w ith A fricans, and in their paranoia about “com m unists” and “subv e r g e s . ” w hich sees a K GB operative behind w ^ ry 'c ritic o f the system .

B tJM jjgreSl tosers o f the w ar were those w hom white]fc>w^ir w as m aking tragically irrelevent - black m aiom ^«Sp^ne blacks actually w elcom ed the B ritish victory, ex “ liberals" to im prove their legal and econom ic status. But B ritish m otives in fighting the w ar m ade the satisfaction o f their hopes unlikely.

High Com m issioner M ilner described the Brit­ ish goal as a “ self-governing white community, suported by w ell-treated and justly governed black labour from Cape Town to the Zambesi.”

In other w ords, there w ould be business as usual. A young lion from O xford sent to help “ reconstruct” South A frica w as forgetting the im portance o f black labor, how ever, w hen he said that “ It w ould be blessed [sic] thing for us if the negro, like the Red Indian, tended to die out before us, for he acts like decay am ong

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Tuesday March 1,1988

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Each “ h om eland” already has a black adm ini­ stration; C h ief G atsha B uthalezi, forexam ple, is h eadof K w a Zulu, the so-called Zulu hom e­ land in N atal. Four “h o m elands” have already been given "in d ep en d ence” - Bophututsw aw , V enda, C isk e i, and T ran sk ei. B ophutatsw ana, conveniently located near Pretoria and Johan­ nesburg, is the home o f Sun City, a Las Vegaslike resort. Here, Frank Sinatra has m ade a fortune, and the “lifting" o f race restrictions has long enabled white South A fricans to legally have sex with black prostitutes.

The hom eland governm ents are econom iv a i i ( ) u s b l a c k e t t a a k - £ r o n D S ^ X t i f c . w v c n T m C T r r C T i r t r r * « s a y - . ...........- p ’T ' - y ' T ' r ' r Alrtcaw stale. ards them ’■ *wfhich *w,hich rew rewurdb g i^ fb rU e p i

teeth.” Black people d id not gratify this naive Englishman by dying out, but the cost o f the war to the E nglish, together with the lack o f an tici­ pated E nglish em igration to S. A., led E ngland to grant the A frikaner republics virtual a u to n ­ om y under the U nion o f South A frica form ed under British dom inion in 19 10. T hus, in a sense, the Afrikaners lost the battle but won the w ar. A frikaans and E nglish were m ade the

building blocks o f apartheid, but might m ore accurately be called the perfection o f previous policies to insure the survival o f white suprem ­ acy and “untainted” A frikaner culture, were set into place in the I9 5 0 ’s. T h e G roup A reas Act (l 950), finalized the com plete segregation o f residential areas according to race. M iscellane­ ous acts from 1945 to 1964 “ established a sy s­ tem o f ‘influx control ’ to regulate the entrance

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It should be o f no surprise that Buthelezi has been, at least until recently, a “d arlin g ” o f the Western press and among Western business and governm ent interests. He has been touted as a m oderate and has visited w ith B oston U niver­ sity President John Silber, an associate o f Presi­ dent Reagan.

H ow ever, the m ajority o f black South A fri­ cans regard B uthelezi as irrelevent, if not a traitor. If the US governm ent cannot w ake up and see this, we m ay find ourselves, as usual, backing the w rong people. But it is a personal hypothesis that Mr. Buthelezi is the "great while ^he Western powers and the South i i H im ill H i m nolicy change

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FihejgWfns o f Indeed, the new U nion o f SoutJ cnows w ho w asted no time in furthering the .r _, apartheid. “ A partheid” isan^irf^ik^at)kswdjrd \ \ ifi\gh|hfcv£g$ fieir family trees for “ separateness”.

U> som etim es vVl^n theirifbi^fi Cere roaming around the described a se ^ M iftfig irt "both “p etty ’’\ ^rfci r . ‘H i g h V c j j ^ r ^ “gran d ” fa*^rt^R etty apartheid is th e ts$grtgii’ t 'i^ n ic Pass »Laws” requiring all “Africans” to tion o f/v a te r fountains and housing^ and arry an internal passport were extended to mar] valuing bridge black w om en and so-called “coloreds” in the ‘j ^ ^ U s V j / f h e 1950’s. T his m arked the closing o f the final loophole in w hite suprem acy: the C ape C o l­ Ufiijstfnof S. A*ptovicte 11 basis ifative Land oreds had already lost th eir occasional voting o w a n d aparlheftj by rights. Extension of the much hated pass laws to A c% pf 1912 and I^BC These acts crystallized 5ing policies o f the w hites by these new classes caused im portant political protests in the II time, “Africans” would be 5 0 ’s. T he p ass laws provide that security personnel can demand to see a person’s restricted to living OTTuftj^gf the land, w ith the re m a m y a g ^ JW e se rv e d f o i \h i te s . T his does pass at any time, and provide for imprisonment ^eanlFfat blacK T w xT O Itm N e^^'ound on if a person d o es not have a pass, or if the pass CfiQrbidden 8 1 % y jju itc ljjg cont?!Hjy, the does not authorize him to be in a certain place at w ould oftenbew elcrinic thCT^ftulp the hteusea certain tim e. It should not be too surprising cleaning, gardening, farmwork, mining, faclpry work, and all the other grinding but bpring ta.%s upon which white privilege was based. Inciden­ tally, one should not be so optimistic as to th in k . that whites own 87% of the land and blacks o\tfn| the other 13%. T he w hite pow er structdr^. controls all the land, and alm ost no bf any land except p tfrh a ffs'^ ro fQ ^ Jlf ttffcak that the Pass Laws have been a tool for w ide­ rural “hom eland” areas which shall l ^ d e spread police harassm ent and hum iliation o f scribed below. blacks by whites. They are also the main reason T he period from 1910 to the S econd W orl that on the average the percentage o f South W ar w a so n e o ftre m tn d o u s industrial growt] A fricans in prison is the highest in the w orld. increased m ovem ent of blacks to urban are jlitical unit _ ___ Dolitic The H omelands Policy ip K /in form ation of the “A frican ‘N afi?

1912, and increased w hite resen tm ep T o v er In the last several years the South A frican government has begun to “reform” apartheid by what little econom ic gains blacks wore able to m ake. Several"hundred w hite w o o e rs w ere requiring all people to carry a pass, and by acutally shot dead in protests againsA iaving to permitting people o f different races to have sex ■ ^ ^ ✓ p o rp p e te for jo b s w ith blacks. Butthf> is a case and/or get m arried. In the absence o f m easures to stop the harassm ent and exploitation o f of l o s i n g ^ f o r further people o f color, and to tear dow n the law color-bar and jo b reservafio^JSVyrfiave resulted in a society in which it is vu*ff!9ly impossible for restricing w here people o f various races can live, is there any doubt that this is m erely a a w hite person to w o d f under a black. The N ational Party, s o m a o f whose leaders had public relatio n s ploy? If there is such a doubt, spent time in jaiU jdrjng the w ar for their anticonsider the “ h om elands” policy, w hich the ' id Nazi sympathies, prom ­ governm ent is pursuing m ore vigorously than ised ro HWUIc continued white suprem acy ever. through their apartheid program. In view o f the Prim e M inister H endrik V erw oerd (1958continuity o f this program with the historical 66) began to p ut into effect a program to divide interests and ideology o f A frikanerdom , one the 13% o f South A fric a ’s land w hich is re­ m ust look at recent claim s that the N ational served fo r blacks into “ B antustans” o r “h o m e­ Party supports the “ reform ” o r even “d ism an ­ lands.” By calling the “homelands” the rightful tling” o f apartheid with an extremely jaundiced ancestral hom es of various black ethnic groups, eye. Similarly, claim s that the business com m u­ the gov ern m en t can try to say with a straight nity is relatively “progressive,” are belied by face that their policy o f “grand apartheid” is one o f protecting the rights and cultural identities of their use o f cheap black labor since 1652. T his phenom enon also casts doubt on the cap italist/ the “trib es.” In a perversely logical perfection free-enterprise model o f economic society, and o f their policy o f separateness, the governm ent show s it for the m ythology that it is. has proceeded to proclaim that ots ultimate goal W hat m ight be called the fundam ental is to “ g iv e” these territo ries “ independence.”

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w eekends, and we have already m antioned the case o f m ine w orkers w ho are, in effect, inden­ tured servants.) Between I960 and 1983, about three m illion blacks w ere forcibly rem oved from “ w hite areas" to “ black spots;" so-called black vigilantes operating under police protec­ tion have occasionally been involved in these removals. Such vigilantes brutally slaughtered inhabitants of a black community called Cross­ roads after it was condem ned by the govern­ ment for destruction. T he arm ed agents o f B u th elezi’s group Inkatha have provided a model for other homeland leaders; the leaders of the independent homelands have private armies which help insure that those w hocause trouble - fo rex am p le, anti- apartheid students at black

If the US government cannnot wake up and see [the light] we may find ourselves, as usual, backing the wrong people. colleges - will be suppressed. In 1986. the governm ent abandoned plans to m ake Kwa N debele independent after bloody struggles betw een pro- and anti- independence groups.

independent religious schools w ere brought under its sw ay and forced to scale dow n their academ ic standards for black students while incorporating new courses in “tribal custom s.”

Indignation over being forced to receive “ gutter education” resulted in the school boycotts in Sow eto in 1976. A pproxim ately seventy un­ arm ed students were shot in cold blood by police during this strike, m any injured in the back as they were running away. Several weeks o f angry unrest follow ed in w hich the police killed hundreds o f people to “ restore order.”

Yet, in a report on the A frican N ational C on­ gress in a recent edition o f “ 60 M inutes," jo u r­ nalist M ike W allace referred to unrest in Sow eto w ithout any explanation and cut to a shot of a large group of young blacks moving up and dow n w hile chanting or singing. T his is only one o f m any exam ples o f the m ethods by w hich this presentation consciously set out to discredit the A NC. and direct anti-apartheid action in S.A. in general, by portraying black South Africans as generally violent, uncivilized C om m unists who only w ant to skew er white babies. It was thus a blatant case of red-baiting, racist propaganda. Something like this seems to be m ore typical o f Pat R obertson w ho believes there is dem ocracy in South Africa.

Orwellian Policies A Road to Democracy?

M ost o f the inhabitants of the independent hom elands, as well as an increasing num ber o f blacks w hom the governm ent claim s have eth ­ nic ties to the homelands, have been stripped of their South African citizenship. This Orwellian policy can only be regarded as the coup de grace in the g o v ern m en t’s program of m aking the black South African a ghost in his own country.

It should now be obv io us that the hom elands program is a purposeful, w ell-organized effort by the white state to enforce a “final solution" to the nation’s “race problem.” The aim is to keep blacks out o f sight and out of mind but nonethe­ less available for the strenuous labor which keeps w hites w ealthy and trade partners satis­ fied. It also appears that those w ho regard B uthelezi as being an instrum ent o f apartheid because he is part o f its structure are absolutely right.

C onveniently, how ever, Buthelezi preaches “non-violent” resistance to apartheid w hile his forces are engaged in brutal w arfare with anti-apartheid forces like the United D em ocratic Front. L eaders o f such opposition groups as the U D F support stronger interna­ tional sanctions against South A frica while Buthelezi naturallu opposes them . (Inciden­ tally, one can be imprisoned in South Africa for

If it is a ‘d em o cracy ,’ it is a strange one which blurs any meaningful difference between dem ocracy and totalitarianism . T hrough cen­ sorship, segregation and propaganda, the gov­ ernm ent attempts to m inim ize contact between the white m inority and the m ajority, and be­ tw een the m ajority and the rest o f the world.

M oreover, the denial o f basic political and econom ic rights has been accom panied by w idespread beatings, torture, and “deathsquad” type killings. Notwithstanding a certain formal legalism which may appear to make S.A. som ew hat “dem ocratic,” their abuses have rarely, if ever, resulted in punishm ent o f those responsible. A nm esty International has re­ cently attested to the prevelance o f child torture, especially since the current State o f Emergency w as declared in June of 1986.

Future articles will exam ine issues o f cu r­ rent interest, like the question o f S anctions and the current state o f U.S. and international legis­ lation. Readers may decide what is appropriate for them selves. But this must be done on the basis o f know ledge and n o t preconceptions.

Tuesday March 1,1988

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ISPORTS

Engineers have strong season finish

By Kris Weeks

NEWSPEAK STA FF PHOTO/MECiAT ABDUL RAHIM

Junior M ark C zerepusko goes up for a shot despite the defence o f W NEC for­ ward Gary Borque on Monday night in H arrington Auditorium . WPI took an easy win (95-66).

W ith the com pletion o f the irre g u la r season schedule, the W PI varsity m e n ’s basketball team aw ait a possible bid for the East Coast A thletic C onference post-season tournam ent.

The E ngineers are hoping to be one o f the eight teams selected for the tournament based on their strong season finish (13-4 of 17) which brought the E ngineers season record to 15-10.

On February 22, WPI exploded for 60 points in the second h alf to so undly defeat W estern N ew England C ollege, 95-66. T he tw o team s played evenly in the first half, w ith W estern leading 37-35.

In the second half, the E ngineers put alot o f defensive pressure on W N EC that enabled WPI to mn off a 15-1 spurt. The WPI guards, sopho­ m ore Jeff A yotte and sen io r M ike M cC ourt, forced m any turnovers and the E ngineers o f­ fense cam e alive to let W PI coast the rest o f the way.

Mark Czenespusko led the WPI scoring with 22 and w as followed b y A yotte w ith 17 and M cC ourt with 12. E ngineers freshm an Tom B artolom ei and senior Dan Sioui were also in double figures with 10 and 11 respectively.

W N EC w as led by Bill Porter w ith 16 and Linw ood Dickinson with 15.

O n W ednesday, W PI had a strong second half shooting performance to defeat Suffolk 9882. A yotte, who had 18 points for the gam e, hit

a three-pointer to give W PI a 46-44 lead at the half.

In the second half, the E ngineers shot 67 percent from the field to w iden the gap and win by a comfortable ten point margin. Sioui led the w ay w ith 24 points follow ed by C zerespusko w ith 21. B artolom ei had 10 points to round off the WPI double figure scorers.

W PI ended their regular season in a tough loss to W orcester rival Clark University, 88-80.

C lark entered the gam e at 17-6 and decreased W P I’s shot at post-season play by dropping the Engineers to 15-10.

The E ngineers m anaged to keep the gam e close and ended the first h alf only five points behind, 43-38. In the second half W PI cam e o,n strong and at one point hustled to a 70-68 lead w ith eight m inutes left in the gam e.

Clark then utilized their height advantage to rebound and score m any second shot points.

S ophom ore forw ard Jason Q ua led the C lark rebounding w ith 14 follow ed by sen io r center Brian B lanchard. Down the stretch, C lark sen ­ ior guard K erm it Sharp hit several key freethrow s to secure the win.

Sophom ore forw ard A rt O uim et led the W PI scoring with 19 points follow ed by C zere­ pusko with 16 and Ayotte with 14. Sharp led the C lark scoring with 31.

W PI m ust now w ait to see if they will receive a spot in the EC A C T ournam ent. The tournam ent is scheduled fo rearly M arch.

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Senior M ike M cCourt holds off Clark defensem an Scott W irtanen on Satur­ day night at Clark University's Student Athletic Center.

PUZZLE SOLUTION

Men and Women swimmers finish season at 5-7 (W PI new s service)B oth the m e n ’s and w o m en 's team s ended their seasons at Trinity College on February 20th, hoping to break even with a .500 season record. But. Trinity came out on top in both m eets.

D espite the loss, the w om en had four first place finishers. The team o f senior Kathy Cushing, sophomore Jen Lambert, senior Diane Fyer, and sophomore Jen Tobin, finished first in the 400yd. medley relay with a time o f 4:33.27.

Other first place finishers were Kim K uzm ­ itski in the 60yd. freestyle ( :3 3 .8 1), C ushing in

Despite two losses,

Women’s basketball playing well

by Roger Burleson Sports Editor W PI w om en’s basketball dropped gam es to T rinity 78-71 and C lark 57-38. D espite the losses the W omen played very good ball and did have their chances to w in, especially against Trinity.

Against Trinity, W PI beat them selves more than T rinity beat them . M ental errors caused W PI to m ake turnovers w hich T rinity cap ital­ ized on. W PI stayed close throughout the first h alf and was only trailing by one point at inter­ m ission. D espite som e great perform ances in the second half by m any players, W PI could never take the lead. Another significant fact that should be noted, at the end, the w om en played m ore like a team instead o f looking for one person. When they were doing this, they looked very sharp. Jody N orm andin finished w ith 31 points and was five for nine from the three point line. Eileen Sullivan threw in 15, w hile D onna D eF retishad ten.

Against Clark WPI p yed very well against a team that will be probably be going to the Division III nationals. In the first half, a scrappy WPI defense forced many turnovers which kept the gam e very close. In the second half, C lark got things going fo r them selves and never looked back. But W PI did hold C lark to far below their season average. N orm andin fin­ ished the gam e w ith 15, and D eb C a rre lli had ten. W PI finishes the year out w ith a 5-20 record, s

the 200yd. freestyle (2:30.56), and F yrer in the 200yd. breaststroke (5:35.89).

T he men earned three n u m ber-one slots.

Ju n io r A ndy O wen finished first in the 200yd. fly w ith a time o f 2:04.59. Sophom ore M iklos Kiss took first in the 500yd. freestyle, finishing at 5:13.88. Sophom ore Ben G ray , senior Jim M atthew s, sophom ore Bill H ow ey, and fresh­ m an B rian Howey, and freshm an Brian Sylvester, finished first in the 400yd. freestyle relay with a time o f 3:32.43— nearly ten seconds ahead o f the second place team .

Basketball tournament delayed

by David M iKnight Sorry hoopsters! T h e tw o on tw o b asket­ ball tourney that ws cancelled this past week­ end has been rescheduled fo r the first w eek­ end after break, M arch 26,27. The first rounds will start at 10:00 on that Saturday and the final rounds will be played on that Sunday at 12:00.

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Wrestlers fourth in New England Tourney

by Roger Burleson _______________ Sports Editor _______________ T h is tournam ent was expected to be very com petitive, and it lived up to its expectations.

O ut o f the fourteen team s com peting in the tournam ent, W PI place fourth with 93 1/4 points.

Finishing first in the tournament was Rhode

Island C ollege with I22 1/4 points. Itw as their first team cham pionship in their sch o o l’s his­ tory. In second was Coast Guard Academy with 108 points, followed by W estern New England C ollege w ith 104 points. Fourth w ent to N or­ wich with 84 1/2, followed by MIT with 70 and W esleyan with 66 I/4.

O ut o f the ten w eight classes, W PI had tw o finalists for the night, 118 pounder Rick M a­

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Rich M aguire, who will be an alternate at the nationals, overpowers his opponent during last weekend's tournam ent.

guire and 167 pounder Brian G latz. M aguire went into this tournam ent as the second seed behind first seeded Scott M artin o f RIC. He finished second in the tournam ent, after losing in the finals to M artin 12-4. It w as the second time of the day that Maguire faced Martin. The first tim e he faced him , he was pinned by M ar­ tin. As one might expect from 118 pounders, the pace o f the match was very fast paced. After the first period, M aguire found him self down 4-2.

The beginning o f second period, Maguire found him self on his back, w here he fought for over one minute before he could get up. He was now behind 7-2. M agire then had to play catch-up for the rem aining tw o m inutes.

Third seeded G latz established the pace of his m atch early in the first period. It w ould not be one o f fast pace action, but one of strength and technique. At the end of the first period, the bout w as tied 4-4. At the beginning o f the second period, G latz put Tom R ainville from Norwich on his back and pinned him at the 4:06 mark.

In all, WPI placed in eight o f the ten w eight classes. At 126 third seeded Todd Wyman took a fifth. Third seeded T om Sgam m ato took a sixth at 134. Second seeded M att O ney took a third at 142. First seeded Toby Wyman finished fourth at 150. D ave S underland had a good tournam ent, too. C om ing in as the fifth seed at 158, he finished third. U nseeded Sueng-H o C hoi knocked o ff a n um ber three seed to finish fifth.

G latz will now go on to com pete in the nationals to be held M arch fourth and fifth at W heaton, Illinois. Rick M aguire will serve as first alternate for the tournam ent.

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by Michael Fitzpatrick T he W PI hockey team finished up its regular season this past w eek with another three straight wins com ing up one gam e shy o f a tw enty win season.

The first o f the three victories was a close win over rival Comm unity College o f Rhode Island by a 4-2 m argin. The Engineers then took to the road where they had tw o blow ­ outs. T hey first rolled over C enteral C onnecicut State 13-2. In the season finale, the Tech skaters crushed Connecticut C ollege’s J.V .’s with a 10-0 victory. As an indication o f the play in the last two games, WPI outshot its opponents by a 112-10 edge.

These wins upped the team ’s overall rec­ ord to an im pressive 19-4-1 with an even m ore rem arkable undefeated 10-0-1 league record, thus seeding the team into the play­ offs as the undisputed top seed in the tourna­ m ent that was held February 27 and 28.

T he other three team s in the playoffs were University of Rhode Island, CCRI, and the UConn J.V.s. all o f whom were beaten by the E ngineers. C ongratulations to the team on a near perfect season, as they battle for the cham pionship. A note o f interest is that no one w ill be graduating from the team so e x ­ pectations will be high once again for the follow ing season.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Art museum hosts “Freebie”

Forum Theatre Presents As Is

(W orcester A rt M useum ) - For a day o f sixties inspired fun, com e to th e W orcester A rt M u su em ’s “F reeb ie” at l p.m . on Sunday, F ebruary 28.

O ffered throughout the afternoon, the p ro ­ gram provides an exiciting selection o f free activiites designed for ad u lts and children o f all ages. “ Freebie” is presented in conjunction w ith the m ajor exhibition, O p and Pop: P rints o f the Sixties draw n from the m useum ’s h o ld ­ ings and several private collectio n s, w hich is on view through A pril 24.

The afterno o n ’s activities will include a dem onstration by local artist C hristine W eisiger o f bodycasting, an artfo rm that grew in popularity during the 1960s. A silent clow n, a frequent visitor to 60s-sty!e fairs, will m eander throughout the museum all afternoon perform ­ ing spontaneously for m useum visitors. Face painting, film clips from the sixties, a balloon

F orum T h eatre’s current season continues w ith the pow erful 1985 O bie aw ard w inning d ram a ,4s Is by W illiam H offm an. Now in revival in N ew Y ork, As Is brilliantly and hauntingly traces the experiences o f a prom is­ ing young w riter w hen he learns that he has A ID S syndrom e. As Is deals w ith a specific situ atio n and the evolving relationships of specific characters, but larger them es - love, d eath , God, ju stice, creativity - are explored w ith com passion and hum or.

As Is opens T hursday, M arch 3 at the C en­ te r fo r Perform ing A rts, 6 C hatham Street in d ow n tow n W orcester, and runs through Sun­ d ay M arch 27. Perform ances are T hursdays th rough Saturdays at 8:00 p.m . and 2:00 and 7 :3 0 p.m . on Sundays. T ickets are $12 for Friday and Saturday perform ances and $9 for T h u rsd ay and Sunday perform ances. T ickets m ay be purchased in advance from Ben F ran­ klin Bookstores o r M.T. Plante Ticket Agency, o r call the theatre at (617) 799-9166 for reser­ vations. Senior C itizen, Student and G roup

rates are available; please call the theatre for further inform ation.

In collaboration w ith AIDS Project W orc­ ester, Forum T heatre will offer free to the public open forum /discussions follow ing the fo u r m atinee perform ances o f As Is, Sunday M arch 6 ,1 3 ,2 0 and 27. E xperts w ill discuss a variety o f A ID S issues o f concern to the W orc­ e ste r com m unity including transm ission o f A ID S, the econom ic im pact, A ID S and the clergy, A IDS research, and support needs o f A ID S patients. V olunteers will be available in the lobby at all perform ances to an sw er ques­ tions and provide w ritten m aterials. Inform a­ tion and special arrangem ents can be m ade through the F orum T heatre by calling 7999166.

As Is will feature T om O ullette and R andy A ram ondo under the direction of Forum T heatre’s artistic director and founder Brian T. T ivnan. T his production is partially funded by a grant from the M ass A rts L ottery as adm ini­ stered by the W orcesterC ultural C om m ission.

D im es Fun Fest on W achussett M ountain Sat­ u rday, March 5th. All are w elcom e. Any q u estio n s contact M ike Fitzpatrick at A TO .

Tall house parties are back w ith a vengence a fter last w eekend’s Black and W H ite Bash!

W ay to go and look forew ard to going back to the 50s in D -term .

H ats o ff to Paul G ibbons, Brian D aly, and K aw i Neal for being selected as R A ’s for next y ear. K nute, dude, good luck in Ireland next term .

L asty, thanks go to W PI grounds crew for the w alkw ays across H iggins L aw n (Pond).

O u r shoes are grateful.

E verybody have a ballsy break and d o n 't fo g et the w orkparty on the 20th.

m oney into K arin today or at least by the time you go hom e for break. Hope everybody is ready for the end o f term exam s and getting psyched for S pring Break! And especially get psyched to com e back for D -term and W PI beach on the quad. Remember the first meeting o f D -term is W ed. the 23rd and form al. L et’s also get ready to w elcom e K aren, Pam , K hris, and Heidi back from Ireland to good ole W orc­ ester!! i vWi ?

release, storytelling, and to u rs o f the e x h ib i­ tion will also be offered free to the public during “ F reeb ie.”

B eginning at l :30 p.m ., three segm ents o f E yes on the Prize, an aw ard-w inning video series on the C ivil R ights M ovem ent, will be show n. “ N o Easy W alk, 19 6 1-63” will be follow ed at 2:30 p.m. by “ M ississippi: Is this A m erica?” and “ B ridge to F reedom , 1965” at 3:30 p.m . A pow erful rem iniscence o f the recent struggle to achieve civil rights, these p rogram s are also offered as the W orcester A rt M u se u m ’s observance o f Black H istory M onth.

The m useum will serve refrshm ents in the S alisbury R oom from l to 4 p.m. No p re ­ registration is necessary.

For further inform ation please call the m useum at 799-4406.

^GREEI^CORNER A L P H A C H IR H O The past few w eeks tu rn ed out to be rather busy at our house. Partying, installation o f new officers, and a few other activities kept the brotherhood occupied for m ost o f the tim e.

The m ost im portant event, naturally, turned out to be the inauguration o f o u r new officers.

C ongratulations are in o rd er to the follow ing: President: P ete Perrotti V ice President: D ave Stec C haplain: D ave Smith T reasurer: P aul Lavigne Secretary: K eving Bowen Ritual O fficer: K en C arpenter Sgt. at A rm s: D av eD iB attista H ouse M anager: Al Prescott Stew ard: S ean Sweeney Social O fficer: M ichael Pom erleau M em be at Large: M ichael Iannacci C hapter C orrespondent: Jay L arro w A lso, a final thanks to th e departing o ffi­ cers. C ertainly, they have d o n e a fine jo b . In addition, we w ould like to congratulate brother M ark S iciliano for his recent induction to Tau Beta Pi. G ood jo b M arcus!!

On another note, the last tw o parties turned out to be both fun and eventful.

T he V alentine’s Day dance w ill be long rem em ­ bered. How is y o u r hand G reg o r? N ot even reinforced glass w ill stop th e fists o f fury. W e certainly hope that neither B illy nor Pete had too tough of a time getting up the next morning.

On another hand, the Jail B reak party w as also a good time. M any d ressed for the them e, m aking it a fun event. B oth brothers an d o u r num erous guests partied the night aw ay. B ox, m aan, y o u ’re still the cham p!

Finally, congratulations to all the re c ip i­ ents of our num erous aw ards last week. E sp e­ cially D ave for alm ost cap tu rin g the triple

crow ner. To end my last co m er: do well on the finals and have fun over the break. See you in tw o weeks.

A LPH A G A M M A D ELTA C o ngratulations to the new Z eta R ho c h a p ­ ter o f A G D at Q uinnipiac C ollege, H am den, C onn!! C ongratulations A nne! R oses to th o se w ho w ere at Q uinnipiac - they will never know that o u r song w as the best! T hanks Sue for carry in g us to A T O F riday night! A nna, how m any trashcans and to ilets have you scooped now ? H olly, will you please fix the zip p er on y o u r skirt?!!? Hey, S ham im , w here are we going to live? M ichelle, how w as lunch S atu r­ day? Jenn, better luck nex t w eekend. Big N ance - w ipe out! T ra-h e gets a sm ile to g o with arms and legs now. Deb, you surprised us.

P.D .A .!! P opcorn party - anyone?!! “ A nd she stood less that FIV E F E E T T A L L !”

ALPHA TAU OMEGA C ongratulations go out this w eek to A T O ’s athletes as the Tau m en took the sw im m eet under the direction o f the ‘D u ck ’ and the B asketball team m ade it to the final four for the fifth y ear in a row before being knocked out.

W ith these results the lead in the Sportscup is still increasing. Finally in a clim actic co m e from b ehind fashion, the A T O skaters behind league M V P and high scorer John “M acLeish” D rake defeated FIJI for the cham pionship for the second y ear in a row . R um ors are c irc u la t­ ing that D rake, the Flying P ylon, m ay hang up the skates and have his # 19 retired. G ood jo b g uys and le t’s hit D -term strong.

A nother note o f congratulations goes out to G ordon C routaers as he has ju st becom e a m em b er o f Skull.

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DELTA PHI EPSILON C term ’s alm ost over - only 2 m ore days!

D o n ’t lose sight o f Spring B reak as the rush to fin ish projects take over.

C ongratulations to R obin and ’T ’ on their jo b offers (and anyone else w ho has too!)

D o n ’t forget D onna’s birthday on the 25th w hen we get back.

G et ready for Spring R ush D -Term !

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PHI GAMMA DELTA C o ngratulations to our new ly elected cabinet: President: K irk H ayden T reasurer: M ichael K elleher R ecording Secretary: M ark M acaulay C orresponding Secretary: B rian Perry H istorian: M ike Lilley B est of luck to them in the upcom ing year from the outgoing cabinet.

B elated congratulations go out to the 17 new est F IJI’S o f our 1987-88 pledge class.

O n the Intram ural S ports Scene - the FIJI A B asketball defeated L am bda in the finals to w in the cham poinship for the second year in a row . The FIJI A B ow ling (yes. B ow ling) team also had a strong show ing, finishing a surpris­ ing third in our division.

Finally, congratulations to o u r three broth­ e rs tapped by Skull last T uesday: Bill Bennet.

M ark M acaulay, and Brian Perry.

PHI SIGMA SIGMA C ongratulations to Joan H am el for organ­ izing a successful division conference as we w elcom ed m any Phi Sig Sigs from other schools to W PI. A lso congratulations to A li­ son G otkin for being tapped to Skull! E very­ body rem em ber to get your B ow l-a-thon

SIGMA PI G ood m orning! W h at's a m atter, do you feel blue? D o n ’t w orry, I ’ve got the dirt for you. First o f all, Sigm a P i’s 3rd A nnual M iracle M ile for M ultiple Sclerosis raised over $8,000, w ith a y ear’s w orth o f work culminating in one big weekend at the Galleria.

T H anks to everyone w ho helped m ake it a success, especially chairm an,T om m y B. Also congrats to all new house positions: H ouse m anagers - M ike Plourde and B rian L aV alley, Stew ards - M ike R utkoske and Pete (003.5) R odski, Pledge T rainer - Louis A picella, Phi­ lanthropy - V an W oolley, C ultural/R ecreation - Enis V lashi, A ctivities - Paul L enfest, Song L eader - D erek H eard, Phones - M erlin, the Phone w izard, (w ho by the way is too short to reach the phone, and consequently d o e sn ’t answ er it.), IFC rep - K ris R osado, R ush - Peter T ousignant, S cholarship/L ibraryian - Andy Reed (w ho is also the new IFC secretary), Publicity- yours truly, and finally, but not least, the AV “ D ude” - Je ff K am insky. H ope­ fully som e o f the m aggots, uh, I m ean ... skits, skits, skits!... J A ’s will have som e sack and get an assistantship o f tw o, so we w o n ’t have another w eek o f meal crew bone jobs.

On a lighter note, the black hole sentim en­ tal favorites, T om M oynihan and B ob Von Hein walked away with last weeks pich toumey title - way to go. Speaking o f black holes...

SK ITS, SK IT S, SK IT S!... excuse me, speak­ ing o f VP, w hich by the way is a very, very serious subject, I believe the old, bald presi­ dent is leaving us this year. N om inations for the new V P Pres (a prestigious position) are being taken now , perhaps a certain cubby, blond, m aggot, un, I m ean JA ... SK ITS, SK ITS, SK IT S, ... ST O P T H A T !... Sorry.

A lso, on a very new sw orthy note, one o f our favorite and m ost recent alum ni, E ric A m , has been accepted to C al. Tech to do graduate research for 5 years, with a few fringe benefits - hope you can handle all o f those sundreched QUAVEN, do you need any help? Well, That’s all for now folks, E N JO Y SPR IN G B R E A K SEE you D R IN K , uh, I m ean D -Term !

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The Blood Knot: A continuing struggle

by Tony Pechulis "T he Blood K not," a play by A thol Fugard, w as presented by the W PI A frican A m erican C ultural Society in the pub on M onday night.

T he play w as a m ajor event in Black History M onth. M cebisi M aham behlala and Raheem H osseini starred as Z achariah Pietersen and M orris P ietersen, two brothers living near Port E lizabeth, South A frica. A characteristic that sets the tw o apart is that Z achariah is dark skinned and M orris has a lighter com plexion.

T his difference eventually causes clashes be­ tw een the two.

The play opens after M orris had returned from an experim etn at trying to pass as white.

He seem s m ore w orldly than his brother, and know s how to act like a w hite man. Z achariah, on the other hand, know s little about the world outside o f h is town.

A fter Z achariah com polains o f loneliness, M orris encourages him to correspond with a lady w ho had advertized in a local new spaper for a pen-pal. The story becom es com plicated when she sends a picture and they discover that she is w hite.

Z achariah continues to w rite, but M orris convinces him that, because he is black, he is no good for the lady. T his idea o f lost inno­

cence is im portant and is w ell-portrayed by Fugard, M ahambehlala, and Hosseini. Zahcariah had not noticed that M orris was a few shades lighter htan he until M orris points it out.

He begins to realize that, in the eyes o f his society, M orris is a better person than he, because o f color, even though they had the sam e m other.

This play descibes frustration caused by racism and apartheid and how South A frican Blacks are forced into seeing them selves as a lower class than w hite people. In reality, the tw o are brothers.

Much o f what w as expressed must have been though first hand experiences. T he writer. Athol Fugard, com es from South Africa him self. He has w ritten o th er w orks such as Master Harold and the Boys, in w hich he tells o f his ex periences as a young m an grow ing up in a racial society.

Both actors were very co n v in cin g as South A fricans. I can not understand where these WPI students found the tim ne to rehearse for a three h o u r play and to present it so well! T hey were both filled w ith em otion and energy, providing for a dynam ic evening for all p re s­ ent. A lso, the am ount o f tim e that the produc­ tion m anager, R ajeeve K elkar, mut have in­ vested into the play seem s exem plary.

Music Notes Today*s Music more Technology than Talent

by Troy Nielsen I d o n 't know about you, but lately I ’ve been finding it harder and harder to listen to the radio stations that play current pop m usic. No. I ’m not going deaf, but I am turning a d e a f ear on stations, such as W A A F and W ZO U (B o sto n ), that play m ostly current m usic.

T here are many reasons for this decline of pop m usic, but I think that the 3 m ain reasons are technology, taping, and the media.

M usic is not m ade by m usicians any­ m ore— it’s electronically prefabricated in the studio due to the increased use o f high-tech effects. T h ere's so m uch alteration o f vocals, guitar, keyboards, and drum s that the m usic sounds as prefabricated and glossy as the Super Bowl halftim e show. If you stripped the new m usic o f its high-tech effects, you w ould real­ ize that the technology is there to co v er up the lack o f creativity and talent in the m usicians.

On the subject of hom e-taping, I can say w ith confidence that m ost o f us have at som e tim e o r another taped an album instead o f buying it. W hen hom e-taping gets out o f hand (as it has), the m usic industry loses large am o u n tso f m oney. C onsequently, the com pa­ nies m ust crank out m ass am ounts o f m ediocre

music in hopes that a hit will be produced. This is their meatis for survival. Now the em phasis is placed on business and m oney rather that on the quality o f the m usic. T h e results are evident— current pop m usic is too g im m icky and too bland. Oh yes. I’m not for o r against hom e- taping, but instead I'm m erely telling you w hat it has done to m usic.

On the subject o f the m edia, how m any tim es have you heard girls sw ooning o v er Bono or cheering for Bon Jovi because o f th eir good looks? O r what about g u y s thinking that M otley C ru e ’s costum es and stage antics are cool? T hose kind o f things are pretty com m on in today’s day and age o f m edia. It goes to show that quality m usic has taken a back seat to good looks, hype, and m oney. The m edia is mostly responsible for this change in priorities.

MTV ("M u sic” T elevision), for one, literally dictates what is and isn’t popular in new music.

If a new group com es out w ith a great video filled with special effects, etc., it sells the group b etter than the song itse lf does. W hy?

Because the m ajority of the m asses are sa tis­ fied with the trash that is forced dow n their throats. Most could care less about the musical content o r lyrics o f the song— as long as the singer is gorgeous, the video is cool, or it has a “good beat.” Then the m u sic’s aw esom e.

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Zachariah Pietersen (M cebisi M aham behlala) explains the concept o f "Woman" to his bother M orris (Raheem Hosseini)

Cool flicks at the art museum

by J e ffrey Coy Features E ditor I w as like totally boged out when I saw the sign: “ Due to production com pany difficulties, we will not be show ing ‘W o o d sto ck ’ tonight."

Aw. m an. w hat the h e ll’s up? I thought. I cam e all the way to the Art M useum to. like, see this sixties film festival, you know ? Yeah - Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin, Crosby. Stills, and Nash, those dudes in Peter. Paul, and Mary. Those are the guys I cam e to see, m an. I was. like, totally psyched for that.

So, then the sign, like, said, "W e will be show ing ’Tommy" by T he Who. instead.”

W ow . T h a t’s cool, too, I guess. Not W oodsto ck ’ o r anything, but still pretty cool.

So, the flick started up, you know. And it had these really intense scenes with a guy and his w ife sw im m ing a round and running through som e wheat fields o r som ething. And then it’s, like, their h oneym oon, and he has to g o o ff to fly this huge plane to protect England.

It w as. likem W orld W ar II o r III or som ething, and his bride was ju st totally boged w hen he left. And then you see this plane going down in flam es, m an. Really harsh stuff, you know ?

A nd, like, through the w hole thing, m an, y o u ’ve got these ripping, heavy duty guitar solos by Pete T ow nshend and the boys. And then the babe is in a hospital o r som ething, and sh e ’s having a kid. A nd the nurses and doctor d o n ’t talk to her. Instead, they just sing ev ery ­ thing, like, “ It’s a boy! Y o u've had a boy!” and

Kodo drummers of Japan come to Worcester

by Thom as Tessier Newspeak S ta ff I suppose y o u ’re w ondering "w hat is K odo?” W ell, probably very few people know what K odo is, so d o n ’t feel bad. I d id n ’t know either until last w eek when I saw a short p resentation on it. K odo is the Japanese per­ form ing com pany that is presently on its 1988 Tour.

T he K odo group originated in 19 7 1 on a sm all island in the S ea o f Japan where the m em bers lived, trained, and played a variety o f instrum ents. Why the need for physical train­ ing to play an instrum ent? It is because they d em and it o f them selves to give a good per­

form ance through their endurance abilities to w ithstand long and rigorous playing tim es.

Some o f their instrum ents, m ost of which are drum s, are quite heavy. T h eir largest drum w eighs approxim ately nine hundred pounds.

What does “ Kodo” mean, you wonder; well it m eans sim ply “C hildren o f the D rum , “ which refiects their desire to play the drum purely o r with a ch ild ’s heart. U sing the “ taiko” , the traditional Japanese drum , the Kodo m em bers try to create a m odem and yet traditional sound w ith w hich to rem ind us o f our part in the “ larger and m ore im portant village o f the w orld.”

T heir show s hosts a m ultitude o f en tertain ­ m ent in such form s as dance, m im e, and m usic from instrum ents such as drum s, sham isens,

the shinboe, and the koto. T hey have appeared in cities such as New Y ork. C hicago, Los A ngeles, and Boston and now plan to m ake an unscheduled stop here in W orcester.

O n T uesday, M arch 15th, at 8 p.m ., Kodo will appear at M echanics Hall in dow ntow n W orcester. T ickets are $ 13 .50 (a considerable difference betw een here and other show s) and are available through M .T. Plante T ickets at 752-0888.

In addition to w hat prom ises to be a great show , a portion o f the ticket co st will go to help poor families in rural areas to produce food and incom e for them selves w ith im proved live­ stock through H eifer P roject International, a non-profit organization.

shit like that, you know ? (I guess th a t's why they call it a "rock o p era.” But it d id n ’t seem like an opera to me - 1m ean, I could understand all the w ords, and I d id n ’t fall asleep, you know?)

So, then, it’s like five or six years later, and T o m m y 's mom is fooling around with this other dude cause she thinks her h u b b y 's in a lot o f little pieces floating around in the A tlantic.

And T om m y w alks in on them when they're doing som ething, you know ? And they sing to him this pow er-piece about how h e 's gotta be quiet and pretend he d id n 't hear o r see any­ thing. So, he goes deaf, dumb, and blind. More really harsh stuff, you know ?

So. it’s m aybe fifteen years later, and the k id 's turned into, like. Roger D altry. you know ? And he still c a n ’t see or hear anything - totally organic - but he can play pinball, man.

So, Elton John sings “ Pinball W izard" and Tom m y (R oger, you know ?) gets fam ous and m akes m ucho dolares.

Then Jack N icholson tries to sing and plays this doctor w ho c a n ’t cure T om m y. Then Tom m y cures him self and opens up a church.

Do you believe that? So. I said "W hoah - hold up a second, bud. Just w hat’s going on here? I m ean, this is getting just a bit too psychedelic for me. you know? Like. George Harrison isn't even here, so w h a t's the deal with all this Hare Krshna garbagg?"

But T om m y just keeps baptizing people in his sw im m ing pool, you know, until everyone gets all pissed off at him for charging $3 for a button that says "TO M M Y " on them. And then all the people leave his comm une - kinda place.

■So, h e ’s really bum m ing, you know ? And I was. like, ready for him to sing “ Behind Blue E yes” or som ething, and. suddenly, he clim bs onto this m ongo pinball and starts singing some really stupid lyrics about how he s been saved and how the world corrupted him - kinda like N ixon, I guess. But. anyw ay, the sun rises behind his sillouhettc. and the flick ends.

So. I was, like, "W hat now, dudes? It can t be over.” But it w as. m an. That w as it. So. I though about it later, and I guess it was a pretty ballsy rtick. Som e cool tunes. The W ho, all that, you know ? M aybe it seem ed better in the sixties, though, when they m ade it and every­ one was already baked anyw ay. M aybe it was cooler back then, you know ?

But, it w asn ’t Jimi H endrix or anything.

And it definitley not CSN. Yeah. I guess “ T om m y” is cool. But it’s not like “ W oodstock,” man. “ W oodstock’s” totally cool. See it som etim e, m an. Y ou’ll thank m e for the favor. You know ?

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|CLUB CORNER ALPHA PHI OMEGA W hy am I first? . . .H iya, C huckie!! You F .F .!!!.. .O O O O O H !. . . K eith your going the wrong way!! . . . C ongratulations Seth . . .

M ackenzie lives!! . . . H erm , w ho said you ca n 't teach a new dog new tr ic k s ? . . . The Big Screw w as a huge success. T here were many more nom inees than we could h o n o r!. . . Sorry Jeff, som etim es I get out o f control! K eepthat pledge psyche fo r another w eek guys! . . .

Jonathon F., why weren’t you at the meeting on M on.? You lost your chance to vote (for som e offices). . . A nother Tie?!?! . . . A NO TH ER TIE ????? . . . B eer N uts? D eer Nuts? . . .

BW AAHAHA!!!!

W ell the elections are o v er and guess w hat?

I’m back for another term as PC . Just can ’t get rid o f m e, huh. A nyhow here is a com plete list of the new officers. C ongratulations.

President: Seth Hillman V ice President Service: Pete Crisanti Vice Pres. M em bership: Paul Curtin R ecording Secretary: Steve D elfino C orresponding S ecretary:L inda W illey A lum ni S ecretary: S tephanie A pprille T reasurer: M ikeN ow lan H istorian: K evin Beaulieu Social C hairperson: Jen nifer Sheldrick Publicity C hairperson: Jon D. Lam kins C ourt Jester: Ju lie Bolton Q uite an im pressive bunch, if I do say so

myself. In other news: Conclave this W eekend at M aine M aritim e. G et psyched, tw o spaces are still available. The Big Screw w as a great success. Look for the top ten list o f S crew ers elsew here in this publication, if som eone talked to the w in n er last Friday. Paul w ants to form a A PO track team for the Intram ural T rack m eet in D -term . See him if you are interested. G et ready for the Project Planning Day next term . O h, yeah U M O C is next term as well as the B lood D rive. Boy are w e busy or what! Shalom .

CHESS CLUB The W PI C h ess C lub w as recently ch a l­ lenged to a m atch against cross-tow n rival, Holy C ross. W e w ere inform ed o f th eir newly form ed club and sustained sending our best five players. N eedless to say, we sent seven representatives with all seven returning to WPI undefeated. T he team consisted of: Steve M cD aniel, R o g e r D escheneaux, M anny Pacheco, Lipen C hang, Bucky W aid, Kermit Beirut, and G reg M islick. C o ngratulations are in order to these fine chess players.

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GERMAN CLUB Plane, H offnungen und E rw artungen von C heryl Pearson Ich schreibe diesen Artikel in Bezug auf die zw ei A rtikel iiber das schw eizerische Austauschprogram m, die vor kurzem in Newspeak gedruckt wurden. Ich habe diese Zwei begierig gelesen, denn ich nehm e nachstes Jahr an dem gleichen Program m teil. A lso schreibe ich iiber die Schw eiz von einer anderen Perspec­ tive, namlich der von jem andem der noch nicht d a war.

Schon jetzt habe ich m anche Plane, H offnungen und E rw artungen fiir mein Austauschjahr, und ich glaube, daB die Liste immer groBer und anders werden wird. Als Studentin, T ouristin und als M ensch sind m eine E rw ar­ tungen anders.

Als S tudentin erw arte ich ein ganz anderes A usbildungsystem als W PIs zu finden. Nicht nur in Bezug auf den Aufbau des akademischen Jahres m eine ich, aber in B ezug au f die M ethode der Lehre und zudem die Verbindungen zw ischen Professoren und Studenten. Am A nfang des Jahres glaube ich, wird es schw er sein, den U nterricht gut zu verstehen, ab er ich hoffe, daB ich schnell flieBend in der technischen Sprache werde. U nter meinen K ollegen hoffe ich engere Freundschaften zu schlieBen und mit diesen Freunden SpaB zu haben und von ihnen zu lem en. AuBerdem w are es toll, wenn es einen T anz-K lub an der ETH gabe, wo ich klassiches Ballet iiben konnte. A u f Franzoisisch w are er noch toller.

W enn ich in E uropa bin, m ochte ich so viel w ie m oglich reisen. Ich vergesse bestim m t nicht m einen Photoapparat m itzubringen.

Jetzt mache ich Plane, um Freunde in Deutsch­ land und Spanien zu besuchen. Ich habe auch im Sinne die groBen europaischen Hauptsladte w ie Paris und B erlin auBer den kleinen gem iitlichen D orfem zu besuchen. B esonders m ochte ich die Leute kennenlernen und die Natur sehen. Ich wiinsche im W inter die Alpen durch Skilaufen zu sehen. U nd im Herbt und Friihling will ich in den B ergen w andem und mit dem Rad umherfahren. Einmal mochte ich auch im M ittelm eer schw im m en gehen. N ur brauche ich G eld, um das alles zu tun.

Da ich ein Jahr auBerhalb d er U .S.A. und weit w eg von H ause sein w erde, werde ich mich bestim m t besser kennenlernen. Auch denke ich, daB dieses E rlebnis m ich verandern wird. W as fiir neue Ideen und Perspektiven, ich ziiruckbringen werde, weiB ich nicht. Aber wenn man in einer neuen K ultur w ohnt, sieht man m anche Sachen anders. Am w ichtigsten ist, daB ich mich in Zurich zu H ause ftihle und, daB andere mich nicht nur als Auliinderin sehen.

Fondue, Fondue, Fondue, Fondue, Fondue, Fondue, Fondue Am Ende dieses C -T erm s veranstalten w ir w ieder unser traditionelies F o n d u eessen . D ieses M ai g ib t es ein K asefondue in der Fruitstreet 63 um 18.30 Uhr am M ittw och, den 2. M arz 1988. W ir feiern dam it die gelungene K arnevalsfete und besprechendie A ktionen fiir den Internationalen T ag am 6. A pril. Die Studenten des Interm edi­ ate K ursus sind besonders w illkom m en.

C om e, Eat and Talk!!! At the end o f CT enn we again meet for our traditional fonduedinner. Y ou are very w elcom e to com e and have cheese-fondue with us W e d n e s d a y 3/2/88 at 6.30 p.m ., 63 Fruitstreet. W e will also start planing the events for the International Day, 4 / 6/88. The students of the G erm an Intermediate C ourses in particular are very w elcom e to join us.

Serie: 8 w irkungsvolle Phrasen, mit denen A rzte ihre H ilflosigkeit vertuschen I. “ A lles nur E inbildung.” 2. “W ahrscheinlich ererbt.”

3. “Ein Virus, der gerade um geht.” 4. “Noch zu friih fiir eine D iagnose.” 5. “ L eider zu spat, um noch etw as zu tun.” 6. “ Erst m uss ich einen Test m achen.” 7. “ Erst m uss ich noch ein paar Tests m achen.” 8. “Die Testresultate sind nicht eindeutig.”

6 Schm eicheleien, die bei Em anzen vollig fehl am Platz sind I. “S iehst niedlich aus, K leine!” 2. “ Nicht iibel, dafiir, dass du eine F rau b ist!” 3 .“ Lecker! Die g eb o ren eK o ch in !”

4. “ Hatte ich nicht gedacht, dass du da mitreden kannst!” 5. “ Du fahrst fast w ie ein M ann!” 6. “ Ich m ag M iezen, die sich w ehren!”

WIRELESS ASSOCIATION C o n g r a tu la tio n s to p re s id e n t B o b (KA2PZD) Inderbitzen on his upgrade to Extra class last w eekend! G ood going!

The next license exam s will be held on M arch 26th at 9:00am in H iggins 109. This is the first w eekend of D term . T hose o f you who would like to upgrade(or get your Novice class licenses) should plan to take the test that w eek­ end. W e w o n ’t be offering them on cam pus again till som etim e in the fall.

We m ay have a new H F rig up in the shack soon(and Joe can have his back). W e are look­ ing at picking up a refurbished Kenwood 930 or 940 w ithin the next few w eeks. It is possible that we will have it in for the beginning o f D term , but d o n ’t count on it.

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Tuesday March 1,1988

NEWSPEAK

THE BOYNTON

What's Happening

RESTAURANT & CATERING SERVICE

Tuesday, M arch 1 ,1 9 8 8 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

10:00 p.m. Lenten Mass at the Religious Center.

7:00 p.m. Ecumenical Bible Study and Prayer Group meeting at Religious Center.

7:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Hamid Kizilbash of the Political Science Dept, at the University of Panjab, Lahore, Pakistan, “Can Anyone Win the War in Afghanistan?” Dinand Library Browsing Room, Holy Cross.

117 Highland St.

Worcester, MA

Wednesday, March 2,1988 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

12:00 p.m. Weekday Mass at the Religious Center.

10:00 p.m. Lenten Mass at the Religious Center.

Thursday, March 3,1988 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

7:30 p.m. Folk Group. Meeting at the Religious Center.

10:00 p.m. Lenten Mass at the Religious Center.

’Look Into Our Blackboard Specials" EVENING SPECIALS MONDAY: TUESDAY: W EDNESDAY:

Twin Lobsters Filet Mignon Chateau Broiled Seafood Platter

THURSDAY: FRIDAY: SATURDAY:

N.Y. SIR LO IN Baked Stuffed Lobster Prime Rib

Friday, March 4,1988 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

12:00 p.m. Lenten Mass at the Religious Center.

3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Confessions at the Religious Center.

3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Confessions at the Religious Center.

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Saturday, March 5 ,1 9 8 8 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

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Haircut only $ 1 0 .0 0

Haircut & Style Sunday, M arch 6 ,1 9 8 8 12:00 - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds. At the George C. Gordon Library.

11:30 a.m. Sunday Mass in AJden Hall.

6:00 p.m. Sunday Mass in Founders Hall.

$ 1 2 .0 0

Also receive 10% off all other services. (mo re q u e stin g w ith th is o ffer)

M onday, M arch 7 ,1 9 8 8 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

10:00 p.m. Lenten Mass at the Religious Center.

G57/ ' what pou want 235 Park Avenue. Worcester 752 2222

is (SLverpthing. .

The Office of Housing and Residential Life is accepting applications for:

RESIDENT ADVISOR POSITIONS FOR 1988-1989

Positions available: Morgan Hall (male) Stoddard A/B (male) Daniels (male or female)

Interested students can pick up applications at the Office of Housing and Residential Life.

Application Deadline: March 28, 1988

Tuesday March 1,1988

NEWSPEAK

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THE BOYNTON

What's Happening

RESTAURANTS, CATERING SERVICE

T uesday, March 1,1988 8:00 a.m. - i 1:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

10:00 p.m. Lenten Mass at the Religious Center.

7:00 p.m. Ecumenical Bible Study and Prayer Group meeting at Religious Center.

7:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Hamid Kizilbash of the Political Science Dept, at the University o f Panjab, Lahore, Pakistan, “Can Anyone Win the War in Afghanistan?” Dinand Library Browsing Room, Holy Cross.

117 Highland St.

W ednesday, M arch 2 ,1 9 8 8 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

12:00 p.m. Weekday Mass at the Religious Center.

10:00 p.m. Lenten Mass at the Religious Center.

Thursday, M arch 3 ,1 9 8 8 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

7:30 p.m. Folk Group. Meeting at the Religious Center.

10:00 p.m. Lenten Mass at the Religious Center.

Worcester, MA

"Look Into Our Blackboard Specials" EVENING SPECIALS MONDAY:

Tw in Lobsters

TUESDAY: W EDNESDAY:

Filet M ignon C hateau Broiled S ea fo o d Platter

THURSDAY: F R ID A Y : SATURDAY:

N .Y . S IR L O IN Baked Stuffed Lobster Prim e Rib

tu d e H t\

Friday, March 4 ,1 9 8 8 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

12:00 p.m. Lenten Mass at the Religious Center.

3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Confessions at the Religious Center.

3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Confessions at the Religious Center.

Saturday, M arch 5 ,1 9 8 8 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

Haircut only $ 1 0 .0 0

Haircut & Style Sunday, March 6 ,1 9 8 8 12:00 - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds. At the George C. Gordon Library.

11:30 a.m. Sunday Mass in Alden Hall.

6:00 p.m. Sunday Mass in Founders Hall.

$ 1 2 .0 0

A lso receive 10% o ff all other services. |no re q u e stin g w ith th is o ffer)

M onday, M arch 7 ,1 9 8 8 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Exhibit: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

At the George C. Gordon Library.

10:00 p.m. Lenten Mass at the Religious Center.

GS7/" what you wan/ 235 Park Avenue. Worcester 752 2222

is (S iw rpthing. .

The Office of Housing and Residential Life is accepting applications for:

Positions available: Morgan Hall (male) Stoddard A/B (male) Daniels (male or female)

Interested students can pick up applications at the Office of Housing and Residential Life.

Application Deadline: March 28, 1988