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R u s h is g o in g g re a t th is y e a r by Heidi Lundy Newspeak Staff A fter a slightly slow start at the G reek K ick-Off, Rush ‘89 is going very well. Peter Tousignant estim ates that 50% o f the freshman class is rushing. The K ick-O ff was three Fridays ago in Alden with a live band. It was great w eather outside, and although A lden’s gloom iness was offset by an excellent G reek turnout, only about 60 freshm en showed up. A ctivities since then have been much better. One of the nights o f house tours was post poned because o f bad w eather, but they were very successful on M onday and T hursday. Interested rushees w ere given calenders at every house telling o f their events for the next 7

weeks. Activities over the past couple of weeks have included Carnival Nights, Casino Nights, a G o lf Night, a Hot Legs C ontest, and a lot o f Monday night Football and pizza. In addition to these events, individual freshm en are invited to dinner to sam ple the co o k 's specialties. The food served and the kind o f events chapters hold say a lot about the taste o f each frater nity. The WPI Food Service has noticed a decline o f alm ost 500 people on the last couple Friday nights, pointing to the fact that rush activities (m any fraternities had outdoor barbe cues the first w eekend) were very well attended. Because the houses are limited this year in the am ount o f weekly rush events they can have, there is a greater

em phasis on having the rushees come dow n to the house to study. The IFC is pushing academ ics heavily and freshm en have been taking advantage o f the extra help. Any rushing fresh men should know that they can get help anytim e. There are also IFC tu toring sessions every Tuesday and Thursday night in the lower wedge w ith rep resen tativ es from every house. T herefore the longer Rush period is going to be successful. Pete T ousignant feels that the freshmen will have had enough time to make friends and not be so insecure that they cling and “go where everyone else goes.” The fraternities want to get to know freshm en for w ho they are, ju st as the freshm en should find the house they feel they have the most in com m on with.

T here are notable disadvantages to the longer Rush. Freshmen males are getting itchy watching fem ales going freely to fraternity parties where al cohol is being served. The Interfrater nity Council understands that for stu dents being away from home for the first tim e, drinking seem s like the natural thing to do. but dry rush was som ething that was decided on for the good o f everyone and it must be en forced. It is difficult because sports teams are recruiting too and they often have o ff campus parties, where broth ers will see freshm en drinking and there isn ’t much they can do about it. In the beginning, before brothers and freshm en get to know each other it is very easy to break dry rush rules. There have been incidents reported o f freshm en drinking at fraternities un

known to the brothers of the chapter. These freshmen should understand that they are putting the house in jeo p ardy of breaking dry rush rules. Be cause the IFC cannot be everyw here all the time, enforcem ent becom es an issue o f honor for each individual house. C onsidering that last year at this time the fraternities already had pledges, and this year they still have 4 w eeks entertaining to do, freshmen have plenty o f tim e to m ake the right decision. Freshmen are obviously interested this year. Pete Tousignant stated that it is up to the fraternities to do a good job with Rush, because it’s only what they m ake o f it, and he thinks that Rush is going great this year.

The Student Newspaper of Worcester Polytechnic Institute Volume 17, Number 20 Tuesday, October 10, 1989

Security increased around Institute Hall by Gary DelGrego Graphics Editor Security has been increased in the area surrounding Institute Hall re cently in response to a num ber of vandalism s. V andalism has been a problem since the.sum m er when renovation of the building began. N um erous inci dents such as the spreading o f carpet glue on w alls prompted the stationing of a WPI police officer in the building when the contractors were not w ork ing. A fter freshm en moved in the van dalism d id n 't stop. On two separate occasions rocks were thrown through w indow s in Institute Hall. Early Sat urday m orning (Sept. 30) som eone spread a polyurethane solvent on the carpet and w alls o f the first floor, ruining the carpet and a section of painted wall. According to Janet Richardson, Dean o f Students, C am pus Police have no suspects and only

an eyew itness account o f an individ ual in a Lambda Chi jacket fleeing the scene after one o f the rocks was thrown. Vandalism w asn’t restricted to Institute Hall. Three large rocks were thrown through the window etched with the WPI seal. Replacing the window and etching will cost at least $2,000. It is unknown if the incidents at Founders and Institute Hall are re lated. More im portant than the m onetary dam ages incurred is the potential for harm ing som eone through acts o f senseless vandalism . O ne of the rocks was thrown into a student’s room and the solvent spread over the first floor hallway was potentially flamm able. Freshmen in Institute Hall were understandably concerned that som e one could get seriously injured. They felt victim ized by circum stances be yond their control and were, accord ing to Tom G hosh, Student Hall Di

rector, scared and concerned that the security o f the building was inade quate. To voice their anxiety a letter was sent from the residents and R A 's in Institute to Peggy Jablonski. Direc tor o f H ousing. The letter stated that the students felt terrorized and wanted both increased lighting around the perim eter and additional police pa trols. The Dean o f Students O ffice along with the O ffice of Housing and R esi dential Life "responded immediately 1o the students’ concerns”, according to Tom G hosh. They ordered extra patrols and will have additional light ing installed within a week. In addi tion, m eetings with the residents o f Institute were held to hear their con cerns and inform them of the actions taken in their behalf. The school is planning to offer a reward for any inform ation. W PI has taken the van dalism seriously and will deal se verely with w hoever is responsible.

Facts about blood donation by Megan Moore Each year, many student o r ganizations at WPI sponsor Red Cross blood drives. Blood drives such as these constitute approxi mately twenty percent of all the blood which is collected by the Red Cross in the New England area. By supporting blood drives, WPI students, faculty m em bers, and staff m em bers can help to ensure that there is alw ays enough blood to meet the constant demand for blood. O ften, many people walk by the blood drive sign-up table, which is either set up in the W edge or in the mail room , without giving much thought to donating blood. These people do not realize the signifi cance of taking one hour out of their schedule to give blood. D onating blood one time contrib

utes to the treatm ent o f two or three sick or injured patients. Additionally, a patient has a blood supply on hand w ithout the burden o f finding others to do nate blood. Since every individ ual has the potential of becoming a victim , donating blood while in good health allows every individ ual to have blood available in case o f sickness or injury. On W ednesday. O ctober 11. and Thursday. O ctober 12. the Red Cross will be accepting do nations between 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. If you m issed sign-ups, they will gladly accept those who come into Alden Hall without making an appointm ent. Help support this blood drive, as well as other blood drives that will take place during this school year, by giving one hour of your ; time to give blood.

Sorority Rush should be fun and relaxing Alan Allen of the Eggs of Evolution provides guitar raunch Saturday in the Pub NEWSPEAKSTAKK PHOTO/BILL BARRY

by Rebecca Reilly As a freshman last year I rem em ber being very confused about rush and sororities; where should I go, and when? What should I say? Should I go at all? This year things are differ ent. Rush starts the first day o f B-term instead of A-term. Hopefully this has given all the freshm an women a chance to see the true character o f each sorority before rush begins. The best attitude to have during rush is to think “ I may or may not decide to pledge a sorority, but rush is fun." Rush is a good way to meet other women on cam pus since m eet ing women is not such an easy thing to do from day to day. It is also interest ing to learn more about each sorority. Up to now you have probably only had the chance to guess what each sorority is like based on a few sisters you may have m et or things another person may have told you. Each woman should have a chance to form an opin ion about each sorority based on first hand inform ation. D epending upon who you may have talked to you have probably

heard many different things about sororities and rush. Sororities are groups of w omen who share common values, goals, and friendship. Som e times it is very hard to decide what sorority to pledge, or w hether to pledge at all.* Greek life is not for everyone, so you may decide not to pledge, and that is fine. If you are interested, how ever, sorority can be a m ajor asset to you during your college years and long after. W hen choosing a sorority you should consider many things. Talk to as many sisters from each sorority as possible, and see if you feel com fort able with them. O f course everyone will feel slightly uncom fortable be cause you are meeting these people for the first time. Try to learn as much as you can about all aspects o f the sorority. Ask the sisters about philan thropy projects, social life, academ ic aspects, mottos, values o f the soror ity, and any other questions you may have. R em em ber that this will be a m u tual choice, not only is the sorority

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NEW S W o rld News There was a coup attem pt in Pan ama that failed to oust General N ori ega. Some ju n io r officers led the coup, and they did manage to hold Noriega hostage for five hours. The US forces did help by blocking two crucial routes for N oriega troops. However, the coup failed due to inex perienced US troops, comm unication failures, and grave errors by the reb els. At first, the US did deny any part in the uprising. O v e r the w eek en d , 6 ,0 0 0 East Germ an refugees staying at the West Germ an embassy in Prague were al lowed to go to W est Germ any. A train carried them through East Germany, where 1,000 people jum ped aboard the train to get into the West. The refu g ees had been sta y in g at the em bassy for w eeks. On M onday, hundreds of East G erm ans went to Prague to try and get into the West G erm an embassy. East G ermany then restricted all travel to Czechoslova kia. 40,000 East G erm ans have fled W est since Hungary opened its bor ders. On Friday, an additional 7,600 East G erm ans were allow ed to go W est from Prague. In Dresden, East G erm any, citizens battled with riot police because they w anted to go W est. M exican President Salinas was in W ashington on a five day visit. Seven agreem ents were signed between the US and Mexico, and Bush said that relations between the US and Mexico had never been stronger. Salinas said his country would work hard to stop drug dealing. The British Labour Party met in Brighton, England for a conference. They agreed to scrap their platform calling for unilateral nuclear disarm a ment. The Labour party is seen by many political observers as moving closer to the center. They are at their strongest point since they were de feated in 1979. Registration to vote began in Nica ragua. Daniel Ortega will face oppo sitio n leader V io letta B arrio s de

Chamorra in February. Gorbachev proposed a 15 month ban on labor strikes because they have hurt the econom y greatly. However, this proposal w as rejected by the Soviet legislature. Strikes have be com e a way o f ethnic protest. The Israeli g overnm ent said it expects 100,000 Soviet Jew s to em i grate to Israeli in the next five years because the US has tig h ten ed its im m ig ratio n p o licies. Israel has asked the US for $400 million to re settle the refugees. However, the US says that none o f them may be re settled in the occupied territories. Talks between the various factions in Lebanon took place in Saudi Ara bia. The factions agreed, in principle, to an agreem ent, but analysts think the agreem ent w on’t last. A rchbishop o f Canterbury Runcie (head of the Anglican church) and Pope John Paul II met in the Vatican to d is c u ss re u n ific a tio n o f th e tw o churches, that split 450 years ago so King Henry VIII could marry Anne Boleyn. However, the major obstacle is th at the A n g lic a n ch u rch lets women become priests. The C olum bian Suprem e C ourt said that extraditing suspected drug lords to the US was legal. An Israeli Peace activist was jailed for 6 months because he met with Y assir Arafat. The law he broke was an anti-terrorism law. Bush proposed a $200 m illion grant to Poland, so the new govern ment could get on its feet. T h e N o b e l P e ac e P riz e w as awarded to the Dalia Lama, a Tibetan. Tibet is a province in China where there has been unrest and calls for independence. The Chinese govern ment said that this was an intrusion into its internal affairs.

caine had a street value o f $20 billion. HUD Secretary Jack Kemp said changes were being instituted to stop future abuses. Lobbyists who do not register with HUD will be fined if they lobby anyone in HUD. Cleanup continued in Charleston, SC. South Carolina officials banned shellfishing because hurricane Hugo dum ped a lot of sew age into the w a ters. T e le v a n g e list Jim B akker w as found guilty on 24 counts o f fraud, and could face 120 years in prison. He

diverted $3.7 million to him self from his ministry. T he Florida Suprem e Court over turned a law that said a pregnant girl had to get parental permission before getting an abortion. E conom ic News T he leading Econom ic Indicator (LEI) was up .3% in August. While most econom ists say that this means the US will continue to face slow growth, some are saying that we are going to have a recession soon.

The Dow Jones average soared to new all time highs this past week. Zenith, the last American com pany to produce TV s, sold its com puter division for $635 million to a French Firm, so it can concentrate on TVs. D onald T ru m p o ffered to buy American A irlines. Stock for A m eri can A irlines shot up after this an nouncement was made. 55,000 m achinists went on strike at Boeing.

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Craft fair to be held Saturday W IN (W om en in N etw o rk ) of W orcester Polytechnic Institute will sponsor a Fall Craft Fair on Saturday, O ctober 21, from 10 AM to 4 PM, in Alden Hall and G om pei’s Place on the W PI cam pus. Many crafts people will be on hand to exhibit teddy bears, wood novelties and wall hangings, as well as country w reaths, baby quilts.

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Students design science table for the handicapped (W PI News R elease) The m ari golds that line the g lass-en clo sed corridor o f W o rcester's Mill Swan School are alm ost as bright as the smiles o f the children who planted them. Mill Swan is a magnet school that serves 53 m ulti-handicapped pupils ranging in age from preschool to 22 and 210 K-6 students. Since last

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growing and pressing flowers, study ing rocks, birds and small animals, and exam ining insects, leaves and pond life under microscopes. Before they designed the table, Denis J. Boissoneault, son of Phillippe and C laudette Boissoneault of Raymond, M aine, Paul M. Hanlon, son o f Thomas and Gail Hanlon of P lym outh, M ass., and R ichard D. Hennessy, son o f Richard and Helen Hennessy o f M arlboro. Mass., studied the elem entary science curriculum , researched the ch ild ren ’s handicaps and prepared and taught six lessons on growing plants to be able to under stand and deal with the learning prob lems the children face each day. The team m em bers worked with Linn G errard. a special needs teacher, and with M ichael Silver, Mill Sw an’s facilitator and science teacher, and other teachers to devise and build the 42 inch by 24 inch tables, which fea ture lam inated tops and large ball casters that enable them to glide along the floor at the touch o f a finger. Because the Mill Sw an students use wheelchairs that vary from childto adult-size, B oissoneault, Hanlon and H ennessy d esig n ed the tables • with legs that adjust like crutches— simply by m oving bolts up or down as necessary. Each table is also fitted with a rem ovable center section that unlatches to reveal a deep well suit able for planters, animal cages, mi croscopes and small animals. The WPI students tested the effec tiveness o f their design when they taught the planting lessons. 'I he chil dren planted the m arigold seeds in planter boxes inserted in the wells: the tables w ere then w heeled into the sunlit corridor until the flowers grew tall enough to be planted outdoors. Silver is delighted with the tables. "They are ideally suited to our needs,” he says. “ If you want to teach science properly, it has to be ‘active.’ With

physically challenged kids, the key word is ‘adaptability.’ They have to have room to maneuver their w heel chairs and walkers, and you have to be able to structure the science class room appropriately for each lesson.” B oissoneault, Hanlon and H en nessy completed their research and design work to satisfy their Interac tive Qualifying Project (IQP) require ment. The IQP is a distinctive ele ment in the WPI Plan, W P I’s unique educational program. It encourages engin eerin g , science and m an ag e ment students to recognize how their professional work affects society at large by challenging them to investi gate topic relating science and tech nology to a social need or issue. John van Alstyne, professor of m athem ati cal sciences (now retired) and John E. Schlicte, adjunct assistant professor in W P I’s Division o f Interdiscipli nary Affairs, served as advisors to the project. Francis Trainor, who now ' heads the WPI School-College C ol laboration in Math and Science Edu cation, was principal of Mill Swan School when the project was com pleted. Trainor says the tables were just one exam ple of the kinds o f projects WPI is involved in under its SchoolC o lle g e C o lla b o ra tio n p ro g ra m .

O ther activities for w hich T rainor hopes to attract funding include bring ing WPI professors into to classroom s to deliver presentations from a scien t i s t ’s p e rs p e c tiv e on c h e m is try , m athematics, ecology and other sci ences; conducting w orkshops for sci ence and math teachers; and establish ing science clubs in several of the city’s schools. “I was very pleased w ith the tables and more important, w ith the efforts of these three students— consulting, observing, preparing the lessons,” says Gerrard. “ By having these men teach science, our students learned that science is for everyone, not just for the science teacher or the class room teacher, and that it can be acces sible to everyone. The lessons we teach focus on science in the world around us and learning about such things as weather and planting seeds can help these children later on voca tionally or avocationally. At Mill Swan School, the focus for the WPI students is on working with children who are ‘differently abled’ — and on using their technical training to facili tate learning.” B oissoneault, H anlon and H en nessy are all m em bers o f the Class of 1990 who will receive their degrees in mechanical engineering in May.

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Sorority Rush is fun choosing you, you must choose the sorority which you feel fits all your values and needs best. Rem em ber not to be pressured into joining a sorority by friends or anyone else. C hoosing a so ro rity is an im portant d ecisio n which will affect you throughout your

life. Last, but not least, rem em ber the major point o f rush, relax and have fun! Rebecca Reilly is a sophom ore member of a WPI sorority.

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A sk M ik e What are Projects?

Hello WPI. One week and the term ends. Has everyone noticed how packed the library, CCC, and com puter labs are getting? People are trying to finish M Q P ’s, IQ P’s, Sufficien cies, and papers. That brings us to this w eek’s question:

W ashburn) or you can make up your own. Most people have to find a project advisor for IQ P’s. Many professors will take an IQP if it is in their area of study. You are required to complete one unit o f credit for an IQP. It can all be done during one term or I know o f one IQP going for 7 terms. WPI has project centers where an IQP can be done. They are situated in several different states and countries. The MQP is a paper and project in your major area o f study (Chemistry if y o u 're a Chem istry major). There are topics in the project center or you can come up with your own. The M Q P requires one term of credit and you usually have to find an advisor. Numerous com panies and towns send WPI proposed M QP topics. In essence, the MQP is a real life case study or project in your major. Some M Q P 's have been experiments on the Space Shuttle, while others have been the basis for million dollar decisions in com pa nies. M Q P’s can also be done at one o f the variety of WPI Project Centers. The Project Center has all the information for registering for a project. You have to register at the Project Center for a project. You cannot register at class registration. Your advisor should also have information to help you. One word of advice: plan a project early in your academic career, in case it should run over your scheduled time frame. Need help. Ask Mike for it at box 2142 or 27(K).

What are the Sufficiency, IQP, and MQP? When I was a freshman, a helpful senior explain what each o f these projects meant. He explained it in simple english, not the Student Handbook language. First o f all, each o f these must be completed to graduate from WPI. If you wish to receive a Dual Degree then two M Q P’s must be done. One in each discipline o f your degree. The Sufficiency is part of the Humanities Degree requirement. It completes your two required units of credit for Humanities. A student is required to have five courses before doing the sufficiency. These courses must all relate to each other and to the overall theme of the paper. The student develops his own title and theme of his/her paper. Basically, the Suff. is a seven week long research paper. They vary in size and length, but most are 20 to 25 pages. The IQP is a paper and/or project (all proj ects usually require a paper explaining them) to relate technology with society. It can be done in any field you have know ledge in. You can find topics in the project center (in Freeman Plaza, in betw een Salisbury, Stratton, and

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Search for Class of ’94 is underway As the new college year rolls around, the Admissions Office is searching the country for the Class of 1994. To the current students this may not be o f great importance. Although, if you think about it for a second, you have to wonder what is coming next. Well, to answer that, the A dm issions O ffice is looking for basically two types o f p e o p le One goal is to increase the number o f people who major in M anagement and the Sciences. This objective stems from wanting to dispel a long-held view that WPI is a school for ju st engineers. In fact, the science faculty has even been calling pro spective freshmen who have shown an interest in the sciences.

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N A sk M ik e What are Projects? Hello W PI. One week and the term ends. Has everyone noticed how packed the library, CCC, and com puter labs are getting? People are trying to finish M Q P’s, IQ P’s, Sufficien cies, and papers. That brings us to this w eek's question:

W ashburn) or you can make up your own. Most people have to find a project advisor for IQ P’s. Many professors will take an IQP if it is in their area o f study. You are required to complete one unit of credit for an IQP. It can all be done during one term or I know o f one IQP going for 7 terms. WPI has project centers where an IQP can be done. They are situated in several different states and countries. The M QP is a paper and project in your major area o f study (Chemistry if you’re a Chem istry major). There are topics in the project center or you can come up with your own. The MQP requires one term o f credit and you usually have to find an advisor. N um erous companies and tow ns send WPI proposed MQP topics. In essence, the MQP is a real life case study or project in your major. Some M Q P’s have been experim ents on the Space Shuttle, while others have been the basis for million dollar decisions in com pa nies. M Q P 's can also be done at one o f the variety o f W PI Project Centers. The Project C enter has all the inform ation for registering for a project. You have to register at the Project Center for a project. You cannot register at class registration. Your advisor should also have information to help you. One word o f advice: plan a project early in your academ ic career, in case it should run over your scheduled time frame. Need help. Ask Mike for it at box 2 142 or 2700.

What are the Sufficiency, IQP, and MQP? When I was a freshman, a helpful senior explain what each of these projects m eant. He explained it in simple english, not the Student Handbook language. First o f all. each of these must be completed to graduate from WPI. If you wish to receive a Dual Degree then two M Q P 's must be done. One in each discipline o f your degree. The Sufficiency is part o f the Humanities Degree requirem ent. It com pletes your two required units of credit for Humanities. A student is required to have five courses before doing the sufficiency. These courses m ust all relate to each other and to the overall them e of the paper. The student develops his ow n title and theme o f his/her paper. Basically, the Suff. is a seven week long research paper. T hey vary in size and length, but most are 20 to 25 pages. The IQP is a paper and/or project (all proj ects usually require a paper explaining them ) to relate technology with socicty. It can be done in any field you have knowledge in. You can find topics in the project center (in Freeman Plaza, in betw een S alisbury, S tratton, and

Search for Class of ’94 is underway As the new college year rolls around, the Adm issions Office is searching the country for the Class o f 1994. To the current students this may not be of great importance. Although, if you think about it for a second, you have to wonder what is coming next. Well, to answer that, the A dm issions O ffice is looking for basically two types of p eo p l^ One goal is to increase the number of people who m ajor in M anagem ent and the Sciences. This objective stems from wanting to dispel a long-held view that WPI is a school for just engineers. In fact, the science faculty has even been calling pro spective freshm en who have shown an interest in the sciences.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

H o m e c o m in g W e e k e n d H ig h lig h ts

W e ’r e o n F i l m Black Rain Proves A Point by G eoff Littlefield and Richard O ’Steele Geoff: Ridley Scott's new film. Black Rain proves a point: that not even Ridley Scott can outdo his own Bladerunner. I went to this movie expecting great things from Scott and leading man, Michael Douglas. A las, it was not what I expected. Michael Douglas plays an American police investigator who captures an operative of the Yakuza (the Japanese organized crim e syndi cate). Japan seem s to w ant this particular crook very badly, so Douglas and his partner are assigned to deliver him overseas. When they get to Japan, the villain escapes and the two A m ericans insist that the Japanese police allow them to stay and help with the manhunt. The plot does get fairly com plex, as Eastern and W estern law enforcem ent techniques clash and the fact becom es evident that there is a war going on w ithin the Yakuza. Despite the interesting plot. I found the characters to be shallow and disappointing. D ouglas' character was the m acho character so typical of East-m eets-W est movie who knew better than any o f the Japanese, was m ore laid back, and w as a man o f action. His partner was a better character, but was not allow ed to do very much by the writers. Their Japanese partner was depicted as an uncool, objecting, wimpy officer w ho did n 't becom e useful until the end w hen, o f course, he adopted the violent, Ram boesque m ethods of the West. What saved this movie w as Ridley S cott's rem arkable vision. He deftly used gritty Japa nese settings to create darkly beautiful scenes. His influence brought a decent-looking movie from a below average script. I give it a switch to turn off the sound and a Tibetan m onk with a boom box. R ich: I agree with better characterization, this movie could have been excellent. The fact that M asam oto. the Japanese investigator, had very little input until the end o f the m ovie made me feel cheated. One particular scene that real ly got to m e was when Douglas went to find

“ M as" at his K endo instruction session (Japa nese sword fighting). M asam oto took a swing at Douglas with his practice stick for som e thing Douglas said and stopped at his neck. D ouglas grabbed the stick and pushed M asam oto over. I'm no expert, but I believe that any Kendo trained individual would probably not be able to taken off guard as brutally and easily as that. To me,, that scene was written by m inds who feel that anything A m erican must be better than anything Japa nese, naturally. The other, supporting characters were al most infuriatingly flat. They seemed to be treated m ore as parts o f the scenery than people. I, too, think that Ridley S cott’s expertise saved this film. It gives me faith that m aybe his next film will be better. I suppose it has to do with the quality o f the script. Nevertheless, I give Black Rain a Daka tray for the script and a large, m arble, Ionic colum n for the director.

PROF CONFESSES TO KILLING STUDENT DURING ARGUMENT (CPS) — A professor has confessed to m urdering one of his students, apparently for not studying hard enough. Rex B. C opeland, a 20-year-old student at Sam ford University in A labam a, was found in his apartment Sept. 22. He had been stabbed several tim es in the chest. W illiam Lee Slagle, a Sam ford professor who coached C opeland on the debating team , wrote a letter to police Oct. 2 adm itting to the murder. The pair had argued about preparation for a debate in Iowa, and Slagle "d id n 't feel like he (C opeland) was studying enough.” “ I know these folks are serious about their debating and it could lead to a heated argu m ent,” said Shelby County Sheriff Buddy G lasgow . "B ut it d o e sn ’t sound like som ething worth killing for, does it?”

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The Alumni O ffice is planning a full schedule o f interesting activities for graduates w ho will return to their alm a m ater for Hom ecom ing W eekend O ctober 13 and O ctober 14. Highlights include:

Friday: 7 pm - A lum ni Soccer G am e, Alumni Field 7 pm to 11 pm - W orcester C ounty Alumni C lub K ickoff Reception at the W orcester M arriott

Saturday: 10 am - 12th annual Frank Sannella M em orial Road Race 10 am and 11 am - Cam pus tours leave from H arrington Auditorum 10 am to II :30 am - Academic Open H ouses 11 am to 1:30 pm - Reunions o f the C lasses of 1974, 1979, 1984 and 1989, various locations 11:30 am - Parade of Floats 1:30 pm - Football: WPI vs. Norwich 4:45 pm - R eception for alumni and friends, Higgins House 5 pm to 7 pm - Fraternity and sorority receptions and dinners 5:30 pm - Athletic Hall o f Fame inductions. Founders Hall 8 pm - Dana Carvey, “The Church Lady," in " It's Saturday N ight"

W h a t h a s h a p p e n e d to tr a d itio n ? used to engage in 1 think we can all see how it has begun to go slowly dow nhill. W hen I went and looked at this G oat's Head m yself (not the greatest looking thing on cam pus) I found the last y ear engraved on it to be the Class o f 1984, which means no one has signed this thing since 1981-82. So instead it has been sitting up in the library's A rchives Room collecting dust for nearly a decade. "T radition" has had that the Freshm en usually win the rope-pull fo r basi cally tw o reasons. One. there has alw ays been the lack of participation on part of the S opho m ores and two, the Freshm en are usually hyped up about winning, being first year stu dents. Being the 80th anniversary of the event this year it has been a goal for the Sophom ore Class O fficers to try and get the class united for this festivity and defeat the Freshm en in this com petition. I hope that this year’s turnout will revive the gradually dying tradition and keep it thriving for years to com e. T his y ear's rope-pull is planned for, o f course, O ctober 14th at approxim ately 4:30 or one h alf hour after the football game ends. I hope to see you all there!!!!!

by David C. Cortese President, Class o f 1992 On O ctober 14th, WPI will be celebrating Hom ecom ing W eekend with its traditional sports festivals, alum ni reunions, and other various activities. One thing that really slips by a lot of us on H om ecom ing W eekend is the annual Freshmen vs. Sophomore rope-pull held at Institute Pond. Last year in fact, as a freshm an myself, besides seeing a few posters here and there, it w as not publicized at all. The sham e of the whole situation is the extensive tradition that the rope-pull holds here at W PI. The traditional rope-pull event itself was origi nally ju st one of ten events that the Freshmen and Sophom ores com peted against each other for in order to claim the prestigious G oat's Head. Thereafter, the winning class was able to engrave their class year in the head. All of this began in 1909, making this year the 80th anniversary o f the event. Although there is no longer a paddle rush, softball game, and other seven contests the Freshmen and Sophomores

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Alpha G am m a Delta (collective entry) Type of Facilities: Pool table & Ping-pong table; snack bar/coffee shop (sit dow n cafe type); m usic lounge; another banking machine; new spaper stand; change machine. Location: A X P fraternity house; under o r on the quad; Behind H arrington/H iggins; put another floor over the wedge Name: The “ Dean Van-A" center! O ther Ideas: Should be sim ilar to M IT ’s new student center; have a M cD onald’s or B urger King; T.C.B.Y. Frozen Yogurt Shop

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Tech Soccer ready for a surge by Gregory Humora W ith the season h alf way com plete, and a solid 4-3-1 mark under their belts, the WPI m en 's soccer team is poised for a late season charge that could possibly put them into play o ff contention. But to start they need to knock off soccer power B randeis at tonight 7:00 at A lum ni field. This will be no easy task. It has been som e time since the last W PI victory. This y e a r’s seniors have yet to com e out on top. But with a little luck m aybe... Last week WPI eam ed a last m inute tie against unbeaten T rinity and a routine victory over Nichols. In case anyone didn’t make it to the a.m . thriller here last Saturday betw een the Engineers and B antam s, you m issed a dandy. The ball spent m ost o f the half in the Trinity end but despite a post and a crossbar all WPI could get out of it w as one. Sophom ore G reg T ucker blasted the ball in from fifteen yards out. The second half was much more of a seesaw battle with both teams getting their chances. Trinity w ith a slight edge. The B an tam s finally did break through with twentyfive m inutes left, but the score rem ained 1-1 at the end o f regulation tim e. The team s were then granted thirty m ore m inutes to try and find a v ictor. At the end o f the first fifteen there was still a deadlock. T hen Trinity struck with ten m inutes rem aining, deflating the Engineers, for last year Trinity had done a sim ilar thing, beating WPI in overtim e. But, as Tech has done all season long, W PI cam e right back after being scored on. They kept on a constant pressure and with ju st 2 :5 1 rem aining Tucker shoved a loose ball in for his second goal o f the gam e. And so after tw o full hours o f play the score w as 2-2, both team s still searching for a victor.

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With a 4-3-1 record, WPI M en ’s Soccer looks toward a possible playoff berth W ednesday night went a little easier for W PI, this time Nichols was the foe. Brian Daly put the Engineers on the board early when he forced a N ichols defender to m isplay a Jeremy D ieterle cross into his own net. But Nichols refused to die early, despite being dom inated, by tying up the gam e midway through the first half. At the break the score rem ained l - 1. But W PI controlled m ost o f the second as Daly and D ieterle both connected from T ucker and Tech coasted to a 3 - 1 win. Chris Burke played a superb game, a stopper dem olishing several N ichols forw ards and plugging up the m iddle.

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Field Hockey remains undefeated by Roger Burleson Sports Editor

goals against an All-American goalie from Mt. H olyoke. WPI struck first ten minutes into the contest on a goal by Kim Cloutier. Three minutes later C loutier would strike again with her second goal. She would have five goals on the day. Nikki M cGowan and Jody N orm andin fo l lowed with goals of their own to give WPI a 40 lead. But. Mt. Holyoke would not give up yet. They scored two goals to cut W P I's lead in half. However, WPI was not to be denied. C loutier would score three more goals and N ormandin would add one, while the defense bore down to give WPI a 8-2 victory. During the game. WPI had over fifty shots on goal. G oalies Nickie Hunter and Kim G abis co m bined for the victory. With WPI playing well as a unit, and with their rankings, they will hopefully be able to go to some sort of post season play. WPI will

With the end of B term approaching, the WPI field hockey team is finding itself in a situation just as last year. At this time, they are undefeated with a 8-0-1 record. Their only blem ish is a 0-0 tie suffered earlier this week against Clark. But, this year WPI is a little bit better than years before. At this time they are ranked fifteenth in the nation in Division III, second in Division III in New England (South ern Maine is ahead of them and are ranked tenth in the nation), and ranked first in then New-8. Saturday, Mount Holyoke traveled to WPI to take on W PI’s ranking. But, Coach Judy Soderlund had her troops ready for the game. All facets o f the game went well for the Engi neers. The passes were crisp, the defense was stingy, hardly allowing Holyoke in WPI terri tory, and a high powered offense scored eight

Campus officials admit that athletics and academics don’t mix (CPS) — Pressure to succeed in college athletics interferes with schools' efforts to achieve their educational goals, cam pus offi cials admitted in a poll released Oct. 3. The poll, done for U.S. News and World R eport, found that 85.7 percent o f college deans and presidents polled believe that “the pressure for athletic success and for financial rew ard in intercollegiate sports today has reached a level where it is interfering with the prim e education m ission of A m erica's col leges and universities." More than 60 percent o f the 3,900 college officials contacted responded to the survey, and o f those, about 10 percent disagreed and 4.1 percent had no opinion. National C ollegiate A thletic A ssociation officials declined to comment.

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EDITORIAL

If it matters to you - tell us Newspeak is h e re as a se rv ic e to th e W P I c o m m u n ity .

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w ith o u t stu d e n t in p u t, but if stu d e n ts w o u ld sp e a k up,

p le n ty o f ro o m fo r m o re s u g g e s tio n s . It is b e tte r to h a v e

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LETTERS/COMMENTARY

Fraternities are not to blame T o the Editor: In response to the editorial printed in Newspeak. O ctober 3, 1989, one can obviously see the prejudice in the author’s m ind. It is obvious that the purpose o f Rush functions is not the “prom otion o f philanthropy, altruism , and good w ill." Only a com plete and total idiot w ould think so. It is im portant to have som e form o f em otional release, w hich these Rush functions do pro vide. In addition, freshm en year is a big adjustm ent period. M ost fresh m an know few people, if any, on cam pus. Rush functions provide a com m on m eeting place for freshman in a social atm osphere as well as help m ake the adjustm ent period easier. The author o f ihe editorial would have one believe that all the police services, vandalism , m edical bur dens, rape, back injuries, and the na tion ‘s drug problem are due entirely to the activities o f fraternities. First of all, individuals com m it crim es, not fraternities. Greek letters on one’s jacket do not create negative brain w aves that induce that person to dis turb the peace. Indeed, if one exam ined all o f the disturbing the peace violations in the nation, only a small percentage could be attributed to fra

ternities. The rem aining 99% + are related to non-fraternity incidents, such as the 47 year-old public drunk, the 39 year-old anti-abortion dem on strator or the 33 year-old overzealous football fan. True, Tau Kappa Epsilon did vote to elim inate pledging. First of all. this was a national decision.and not a local one. Secondly, although I can only speak from my own experience at W PI and my fraternity, this does not mean that hazing is inherent to pledg ing. The purpose o f pledging is to meet all the m em bers of the fraternity that you chose to be a part of. Pledg ing is a period in which that individual decides if he/she wants to be a part o f the fraternity. At any point in time, should that person decide that they dislike their situation, they may stop at any time. If the auth o r's unbacked assum ption that hazing is inherent to pledging and that pledging is such a hellish experience, isn't it ironic that over 95% o f all those who sign bids last through pledging and becom e brothers or sisters? W hat about the positive things that fraternities and sororities provide? M y fraternity actively participates in the Big Brothers program and holds m any events for the underprivileged children of W orcester, including a

T a le s f r o m R ile y T w o A Night with Officer Bob by Matt Meyer Have you ever done anything re ally stupid? O f course you have, y o u ’re at WPI aren ’t you? Thinking back, (w ell, not that far back) in high school we, the aspiring students o f the w orld, were able to avoid severe punishm ent for the truly moronic things we did because we w eren’t supposed to know any better. But now w e ’re in college and all o f a sudden w e ’re expected to be m ature and re sponsible individuals. So w h a t’s our excuse (G od know s w e’re not m ature and responsible)!? Stress, o f course! W hat better cop out is there? Yes, we try desperately to convince ourselves that the reason we are caught in the m idst o f unscrupulous, highly unin telligent acts is because we are trying to relieve the tension and stress caused by those rigorous W PI Hu m anities courses. Why else w ould 35 students from various dorm s venture to one hallway (because the guys c a n ’t go to frater nity parties and the wom en can) to build a pyram id o f 100 em pty 12 oz. cans (what was in them ? W e ’ll leave that to your im agination) on som e bo d y ’s w ardrobe at 2:30 am and wait fo r “O fficer B ob o f the N ight Patrol” to com e by? So as not to disappoint us, he did arrive on tim e, and after checking his stripes and inform ing everybody of

his identity and rank "O fficer Bob o f the N ight Patrol” proceeded to peer into that one room with the open door with a glare rem iniscent o f Capt. Jam es T. Kirk. A fter a routine inspec tion o f the hall he began to m um ble som ething to the effect o f the follow ing text: “I hope you realize by sitting in the hallw ay and in front of the closed doors you are creating a fire hazard. [Like if the fire alarm went o ff we w ould still be there) ...(to a student with a lit cigarette gently balanced betw een the lips o f his relaxed vis age)... Do you like to smoke? T h at's all it takes, you know , just a little bit... I want a clear fire lane down the m iddle o f the hall... [hey “O fficer B ob,” how about we all sit in the m iddle of the hall so there will be a fire lane on either side],..(peering at the them e signs left on the wall and q u o t ing one sarcastically) so you all want to “get stoned with Riley” [w onder w ho w rote that?) T hus be concluded his lecture (if you w ant to call it that) and exited the hall with that unm istakably distin c tive sw agger, which is all his own. W ell, thank you “O fficer Bob” for that insightful view on fire safety. See you next Friday. Send all questions, com m ents, insults, com plaints, or letter bombs to box 2401 (not that it’s my box or anything)

C hristm as party and track meet. Fra ternities also provide a means o f em otional release and act as a catalyst to many friendships. Some o f the best friends that I’ve ever m ade were people that I met because o f my frater nity. It is obvious that the author wrote his editorial based only on biased feelings and little fact. That person is

blinded by prejudice, blam ing the entire group o f people associated with fraternities fo r the deeds com m itted by a mere handful o f individuals. Each person is entitled to their own feelings and opinions, but d o n ’t blame all the heinous crim es com m it ted against society on those associ ated with fraternities unless you have cold, hard, unbiased and unprejudiced

facts. P.S. W hy d id n ’t you have the balls spine to sign your nam e to your ed ito rial? Eric Salvador '90 Fraternity Brother, Phi K appa Theta (and damn prou d o f it)

Film educates about Apartheid To the Editor: A partheid - we know vaguely what it is, that it's in South Africa, that it’s “ bad,” and that there are some sort of sanctions against the South African G overnm ent, but do we really know what A partheid is for the South A fri can people, what it m eans to be a black living in the black tow nship of Sow eto? I returned, ju st five m inutes ago, from seeing the film “ A Dry W hite Season” and was so blown away by what I saw that I sat down im m edi ately to write this letter and urge all who can to go see this movie. A partheid has always been an ab straction to me. I was informed about it; I follow ed the news and knew the issues, but only until seeing the movie did I really know what was going on. An early scene o f the blacks’ staging a peaceful dem onstration in Soweto in order fo r the simple right to learn English in their schools is powerful and disturbing, and it is only the first of the atrocities and injustices that one w itnesses in the film. The film is engrossing in its artful presentation of a tough, sickening subject; its depic

tion of the strongly contrasting life styles and attitudes o f the w hites and the blacks; and its rich sensory con tent - the soundtrack is full o f the rich sounds of Black African m usic of Hugh M asekela, and the cinem atogra phy is equally stim ulating to the eyes. Donald Sutherland is excellent as the white South A frican w ho is at first blind to the im pact o f apartheid on the blacks but w ho then becom es in volved in their struggle for justice when his black gardener’s son is bru tally killed by the police. M arlon Brando is fascinating as the law yer who is enlisted to argue the case against the governm ent. I especially enjoyed w atching the expressive faces and listening to the lilting, unfa m iliar speech patterns o f the native South A fricans. I went to see this m ovie as a m em ber of the International Rela tions Council (IRC) after several of our mem bers w ho saw the m ovie pre viously were so affected that they urged the rest o f us to see it, and they them selves returned for a second viewing. The IRC will be discussing the movie and the issue at our weekly m eeting W ednesday, O ctober 11* at

7:30 in H iggins Labs Room 201, and all are invited to attend. W e have also decided to hold a special event at the beginning o f B-Term on South A frica, so please be looking for the announce m ent and try to attend. Most o f all, please see this m ovie: it is sickening at times, but it will open your eyes and m ake you hurt and m ake you care. As a fellow IRC m em ber said, “ It isn ’t pretty. You w on’t like it. Go see it.” Athena D em etry '91 Editor’s Note: Now appearing at W ebster Square Cinem as.

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by Nathan Daniels The Talking H eads have a song called "O nce in a L ifetim e." In the song David Byme m akes the musical question/statem ent, "A nd you may ask yourself, ‘W ell, how did I get h ere?'" I often do exactly that and ask m yself, "W ell, how did I get here?” This afternoon I was pondering that question and I cam e upon a better one; "W ell, why do I stay here?" So Dave, if y o u 're out there reading this, could you re-record "O nce in a L ifetim e” and add that lyric? W hat is this lead ing to? I want a portion of Talking H ead 's royalties? W ell, yes, but I ’m not counting on it. R ather. I wanted to share with all of my readers a tiny reason why I stay here. I got a letter. It w as a letter to me at Newspeak. This w as a most d ra matic event as from the content o f the letter it was evident that the writer had actually read my colum n. The bottom line here is that I have docum ented

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proof o f a reader! Som eone out there actually reads what I write. Not only is this astounding, but it is refreshing that all o f that ink is not going to waste. U nfortunately this letter was not signed so it co u ld n 't go into the "L et ters to the Editor" section. The gender of the w riter is uncertain since it was done on a printer, but it was signed "T ickled" in what I would call a fem i nine script. So I shall assum e that my reader is fem ale. She w rite s,"... You claim to type a phenom enal 75 words per m inute, yet com plain about how many errors you make! W hy d o n 't you ju st say you can drive 150 mph but crash every quarter-m ile. O r bet ter yet, you 'k n o w ' how to type, but you ‘forget’ which keys you want to hit. Are you a victim o f your own criticism ? ..." Everything she wrote was a good point. T here was one fundam ental flaw, though. I hate to adm it this, but

I d o n ’t know how to drive. I never got my d riv er’s license and have som e how found a way to live without it. H ow ever, at the speed o f 150 mph, crashing every quarter-m ile, that com es to a crash every six seconds, which is about how often I mistype. So I’ll let that analogy stand. And its funny that you should m ention that ‘‘(I) ‘forget’ which keys (I) want to hit.” W hen I first started typing (I had a biology paper due in 10th grade) I could have sw orn that som e letters w ere missing from the keyboard. I rem em ber once spending at least 3 m inutes looking for the letter ‘C ’. Ever since then, though. I’ve lived with my left index finger hover ing mere m illim eters from the ‘C ’. So yes. I ’ve ‘fo rg o tten ’ where keys are. She closed that paragraph with, "A re you a victim o f your ow n criti cism ?” Yes! And proud o f it! I firmly believe that the only person that I am qualified to criticize is myself.

So thanks for the letter, Tickled. Y ou’ve given me a topic for the first half of my article. I owe ya one. Now for the second half... My friend John and I were going to go to the G reendale Mall this past W ednesday. I got hom e from W PI, told John that I w ould be ready in a few m inutes and went upstairs to shower. It was a long day and I w asn’t feeling or sm elling my best so I thought that a show er might be in order. As I looked into the mirror I noticed that I had some facial hair grow ing on my chin. Not wanting to parade about the mall with follicles galore, I reached for the shaving cream and applied it over the offend ing hair. At this point John walked by the bathroom and saw me standing there were shaving cream on my face and a razor in my hand. He looked at me and asked, “ W hat are you doing?” I was nonplused. I had alw ays thought o f

John as a very logical being. I thought that in this case my actions were rather obvious. I looked back at him and tried to fathom what might be going through his head. I tried to im agine what other activity that I might perform with shaving cream on my face and a razor in my hand. Perchance he had never seen another person shave. Thinking that this may be the case, I sought to enlighten him. I said, "I am going to shave.” He looked back at. me and said. “I know, but why?” And I tried to think of various reasons why people shave. I kept com ing back to the fact that I wanted to get rid of that dam ned facial hair. I was really nonplused now, so I shut the bathroom door and proceeded to shave and shower. And to this day, I still d o n ’t have an answer to his "W hy?" question. In fact, each morning in the bathroom I still ask, “Well, why do I shave here?”

O b s e r v a tio n s f ro m th e A s y lu m Ok, Now What? by Alton Reich Newspeak Staff Earlier this week the Pentagon re leased a report from the Joint C hiefs o f Staff that contained a subtle change from their usual w ording. In previous reports, the Joint C hiefs referred to the Soviet Union as a threat. This tim e they used the word challenge. W hat does this change o f one word m ean? It potentially means a lot. The difference betw een a threat and a challenge can be likened to the difference between a type 5 hurricane and a tropical storm . It may m ean som e changes in A m erican foreign policy, and military policy. In the past U.S. - Soviet relations were simpler. If they said black, we said white. O ur international goals w ere different, they wanted to spread com m unism and we wanted to stop them. The

“Evil E m pire" appears to have been replaced by a more cunning foe. W hile the USSR was the “Evil Em pire” the US took upon itself to try to stop the low of com m unism . Inter national politics took the form o f one side doing som ething, and the other side scream ing about it in the UN. Som etim es the conflict was more violent than sim ple scream ing, but the point is that there was conflict. We were the good guys, and they were the bad guys, very simple. D epending on which side o f the Iron C urtain you stood on, there was a certain way to act. Y our people and the people on the other side o f the Curtain expected you to act that way. Now the situation is m ore com pli cated. The Soviets are breaking from their norm al patterns o f action. G or bachev is trying to push his nation to develop. He is trying to w esternize

T h e G h o s tw rite r Communication Here at WPI, we have two main m ethods o f com m unication with the outside world: mail and telephone, also known as m ailage and phonage. First le t’s look at... M AILAGE: M ailage comes in the form s o f letters, packages, and m is cellaneous other pieces of printed m aterial that m ysteriously appears in your m ailbox on w eekdays, if y o u ’re lucky. It originates in the O utside W orld, where your fam ily and friends live. Y ou may vaguely rem em ber it as the place where there was m ore than one fem ale for very six m ales. M ailage gets to your m ailbox by way o f the Mail Gods, those m ysterious, om nipotent beings w ho live in the shadow s on the other side of the m ail boxes. When they are pleased, you get lots o f mailage, or even packages on a really good day. H ow ever, when they are offended, you will get no m ailage, or worse, phone bills (w hich we will look at later). If you com e into d isfa vor with the Mail G ods, you may have to m ake some type o f offering to them , such as leaving cookies in the m ailbox for them, sort o f like you do for Santa Claus. O ther times, m erely begging pathetically through the little door o f your m ailbox is enough. If you have no luck with m ailage, there is always.... PHONAGE: Phonage is vastly different from m ailage because you can have direct verbal com m unica tion with the O utside W orld. U nless your family decides to move or change their phone num bers (m ine did) you can reach them at any tim e, as

long as the Phone G ods allow you to. The Phone G ods, also know n as New England Telephone, are those beings who actually control the phone lines, and dem and huge sacrifices o f cash in return. W hen it’s time to m ake your sacrificial offering, the Phone Gods make sure you know. H ow? Instead o f calling you, like they should since th ey ’re the Phone G ods, they send you mailage via the Mail G ods. This mailage is, o f course, your phone bill, which is basically the only m ailage that you really d o n 't w ant. Then again, at least the Phone Com pany sends you m ail. W hen was the last time the Post O ffice gave you a phone call? They also send you one o ther piece o f m ailage bearing im portant infor mation. This letter starts out “ Thank you for doing business with the New England Telephone C om pany.” Sure, that’s friendly, but it’s not like som e body else could hook up our phones for us anyw ay. Then they tell us about the superior reliability they offer us, but th ey ’re careful to do it in a letter instead o f over the phone, ju st in case. The letter ends with a toll free hotline to call if there is som ething wrong with your phone. Now, as I see it, if you can call the hotline, then your phone works fine In fact, I w onder if the hotline is just a recording saying “ See, your phone isn’t broken after all, so quit bugging us...” T h a t’s all for now. Until next time, keep your feet on the ground, and your knees above them!

his country, and his people. He isn't trying to m ake them free (in the sense that th ey ’d ha«e a representative governm ent), but free thinkers. The force behind western technological developm ent isn 't the desire to make society better (in general), but to m ake your ow n life better. In the Soviet U nion what incentive do people have to create? What incentive does a m achine operator in a factory have to go to the "forem an” (they probably have another term for it that d o esn ’t imply boss) and suggest changes to im prove the production process? He has none. G orbachev is trying desperately to provide the w orkers with a reason to produce better products and to help im prove the production process. He needs w estern contact, influence, and capi tal. The political situation is infinitely m ore com plicated. The Soviet Union has alw ays w anted to “ spread the re v o lu tio n ” a ro u n d the w o rld . T h ey ’ve succeeded to some extent as evidenced by C uba and N icaragua.

U nder Gorbachev the USSR has not made any overt m oves toward liberat ing workers in another country. In fact they seem to be giving ground in Poland (I say seem to because the USSR through the Polish com m unist party still controls the armed forces). I still have a hard time believing the Soviets' sincerity. A fter years o f playing gam es with the Soviets I can 't believe they’d stop now. The gam e has only gotten more complicated. Now the game is to decide what is and what isn't the truth. One ups-m anship has been a part the game for years. It used to mean each side making fiery speeches in the UN condem ning each other for som e thing or other. The classic example is Kruschev banging his shoe on the table. Now the face o f that game has changed as well. Now we say we want to elim inate 50% o f a certain type o f m issile and the Soviets say they want to elim inate them all. The Cold W ar has becom e a W ar for G ood Press. It is no longer a contest to see w ho’s got more m issiles, but a contest to see

w ho's got more good headlines. The problem boils dow n to, “Ok, now w hat?” W ell, I really don’t know what is next. I know that I trust the Soviet Union about as far as I can throw it. I also know that G orbachev could be lying to lull us into a false security while planning a conven tional w ar in Europe. Even if he is being honest and has good intentions, he could die tom orrow and be re placed with the reincarnation o f Stalin. I do know that this country must be able to com bat the USSR openly at any time. We must alw ays have conventional forces capable o f destroying the Soviets (if we go to war it will be with conventional weapons, nobody wins a nuclear exchange). The future is bew ildering and it will be interesting to see what hap pens. W hat I do know , is that the USSR still represents the alternative point o f view, the other side o f the coin. The idea of the USSR being the “good guys” and on our side is as foreign as fraternities that have ac countability.

J o g e r ’s V i e w Enough of Rush Already All the m ale freshm en have heard plenty about rush already. I ’m sure, but hey. I ’ll add m y views to the list as w ell. Rush seem s like an all right idea, and I suppose I can live with it. The problem is this: I’m really not sure if I w ant to pledge any frats, or not. They all try to make them selves appear as the greatest thing to appear on the face o f the earth since m an, and I know , before all the Greeks get bent out o f shape, that frats are fun, and good in their own way. Like I said, I m ight pledge, so calm down. W hat I c a n ’t handle how ever is their incessant interruptions. H ere’s the scene: Y o u ’re doing hom ew ork, or som e thing equally unim portant, and there is a knock on the door. You think it’s the guys across the hall, so you yell, “C om e in!” Then suddenly, your room is filled w ith between nine to tw elve guys w earing m atching jack ets. “ Hi! W e’re from Alpha T heta Beta Rho Mu Delta, and were having full body bobbing for apples in a beer vat tonight at our house. It’s gonna be a

lot of fun, so why d o n ’t you come on down. Have you looked at any houses?" You reply that you have, and they give you a calendar filled with really interesting things like “Street Foot ball on Park A ve.” and “ Monday Night Football on Ice,” you know, things only frats could com e up with. Next thing you do is look on the map to find out where the place is, only to find out it’s in Auburn. Now when w e registered for classes a form cam e along with it asking us if we wanted our names made available to the frats for a m ail ing list. W hy aren ’t they using it? There are obviously people out there who d o n ’t want to pledge, so why bother them ? W e get the mail, but more frats com e in person by far. “And it’s not like it’s once or twice it’s every dam n w eekend," to quote a quotable. I could even see one frat a day, but it’s usually three, or four, or even six on a full T hursday evening. Now I’m not trying to be a radical and ban frats, or anything stupid like that. Fraternities have been, and will always be, an integral part of college

life for many men (and the sam e o f sororities for w omen). If nothing else they give the paper som ething to put in the Police Log. (Just kidding, no poison pen letters, please, but if there are any com m ents, w rite “Joger’s View" Box 1076, or Box 2700. R egarding last w eek ’s article about things to do on Saturdays, I did receive one comm ent on it. The w riter in question informed me that I should not forget about SocCom m , which sponsors multiple activities including Cocktails every Friday night, videos on W ednesday nights, and C inem at ech on M ondays & Tuesdays, how ever, he did miss the point about Sat urdays, which there is still pretty much nothing doing. He did mention Pub show s, such as the Lem onheads this weekend past, three times a term, but that still leaves four unaccounted for. He said, though, that the cam pus deserves to be rem inded about these activities, and I agree. But, I still think that there should be an even spread, no one has answered me yet; why is everything open on Fridays, but noth ing on Saturdays? ‘Til next week...

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Where to Put Your Money by George M. Regnery Newspeak Staff If you earned som e money last sum m er, and d o n ’t think you'll spend it all, you may have been w ondering how to get a better interest rate than a.typical savings account o r interest bear ing checking account. W here you put your m oney depends on how much risk you want to take, and how much liquidity you want (i.e. getting your m oney back today if you need it). O ne thing you may want to look into is a CD. or C ertificate o f Deposit. These can be bought at nearly any bank. They usually have an interest rate between 9 and 10%. W hen you buy a C D , you have no liquidity. If you buy a three m onth CD. you can not withdraw that m oney for three m onths (unless you pay a substantial penalty). You can buy CDs for as little as $100, but they are very hard to find. C D s can be bought for a large variety of time periods- from three m onths to five years. W hen the C D expires, you can have the bank roll it over into another CD, o r you can take your m oney and spend it or invest it elsewhere. Most banks in W orcester require a $500 or $1000 m inim um for CDs. H ow ever, there are banks outside W orcester, and som e o f them do offer higher interest rates. M oney magazine (available at Store 24) lists banks that have the best C D rates. H owever, before you invest in a C D , m ake sure the bank is FD IC or FSLIC insured. This m eans that if the bank goes bankrupt, you will get your m oney, plus any interest earned so far, from the Federal G ov ernm ent. T here are also money m arket savings ac counts, available at most W orcester banks. A M oney M arket savings account is just like a norm al savings account, except that it pays a much higher rate (Bank o f B oston currently pays 8.05% ) and you need a m inim um balance to avoid service charges. The m inim um bal ance is usually at least $1000. H owever, you

can m ake unlimited deposits and w ithdrawals, so your liquidity is much higher. You can even get an ATM card if you w ish, and some money market savings accounts will let you write a few free checks a month- and will even give you a supply of checks. If you can keep a m inim um of $ 1000, all of your m oney will earn higher interest until you w ithdraw it. Interest rates change weekly. M oney M arket savings accounts are 100% safe if the bank is insured by the FDIC or FSLIC. You may also want to risk som e o f your m oney playing the stock m arket. U nless you have some experience, you may not want to jum p directly into the stock m arket, but instead invest in a mutual fund. A mutual fund is run by an investor who will w ork all day determ in ing where to invest your m oney so you d o n ’t have to decide. There are hundreds of mutual funds. In return for investing your money, mutual funds charge a m anagem ent fee o f around I or 2% . Some m utual funds may be “ loaded” which means that there is a brokers fee when you buy or sell. L oads range between 0 and 10% o f your investm ent. Some mutual funds just invest in specific industries, and som e in just international m arkets. M oney m agazine lists the best perform ing mutual funds. If you plan to invest in a m utual fund, d o n ’t simply invest in the one that has m ade the most profit in the past few m onths. Try to find one that has done consistently w ell, over the past year and even five years. This way your money w on’t be at as much risk, if the fund has proved itself over tim e. Mutual funds usually require $1000 m inim um , although som e go as low as $100 or $500. Before you send m oney to a m utual fund, ask for inform ation and read over it carefully. Check with several sources, in cluding different m agazines and new spapers, before you send money. Finally, there is the stock market itself. H owever, there are thousands o f stocks to

$25,000 cash and a trip to the Caribbean. There are also several other prizes, and the gam e is open to all professors, undergraduates and graduate students. Last year, the w inner was a textile and apparels m ajor at the U niversity o f Illinois. She had over $2.3 million at the end o f the com petition. For information on this con test call 1-800-545-1990. Fortunes can be m ade or lost in the stock market. M ake sure you are absolutely sure you know what you are doing before you buy a stock. You will also need a broker to buy it for you. You can usually sell a m utual fund or stock at any time, and get money within a few days. So they are m ore liquid then CDs are.

choose from. If you ask ten different brokers what stocks to invest in, you’d get a wide range o f answers. Don’t buy stock sim ply hecause you heard that Donald Trump w ants to buy the com pany and the price just shot up or som e thing. A T& T does have a stock m arket sim u lation for college students. The gam e lasts ten weeks and starts on N ovember 1st. You have to call an 800 num ber, speak with a “broker," and then decide what stock to buy or sell. It costs $49.95 to join, and then you are given a fake account with $500,000. You can invest that money in any stock out of 5,000 listed in a guidebook (the Standard and P o o r’s Stock G uide). The w inner o f the com petition will get

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C ollege S tu d en ts sh ou ld take 50 hours of hum anities (C PS) — All college students should have to take at least 50 credit hours o f hum anities courses to graduate, said Lynne Cheney o f the N ational calls of the six-year-old school re form m ovem ent. T he report’s suggestions, if adopted, would radically change how m ost students go to co l lege. C heney also said they would force students to learn the “basic landm arks o f history and thought," satisfying critics w ho use surveys show ing some collegians' unfam iliarity with certain geography, history and literary facts as proof colleges d o n ’t educate people well. To support their call for reform , Cheney and the N EH also released a survey O ct. 8 showing large percentages o f college seniors d id n ’t know key historical dates and phrases (see follow ing story). The N EH ’s report, titled “50 H ours," calls on colleges to strengthen their general ed re quirem ents with a core o f learning — 50 se m ester hours of required study, which would take a full-tim e student nearly tw o years to com plete — in cultures and civilizations, for eign languages, m athem atics, natural sciences and the social sciences. “ Entering students often Find few require m ents in place and a plethora o f offerings,” and, as a result, skip from class to class throughout their college careers with “ little

rationale" or any sort o f consistent pattern, Cheney com plained. The report is the first since President B u sh's “education sum m it" with the n atio n ’s gover nors at the University of V irginia Sept. 27-28. where he agreed to set national school goals, alm ost exclusively for pre-college education. Reaction to the NEH report has been pre dictably m ixed. "G eneral education is a real strength o f the A m erican system ," said Jam es Kilroy, dean o f the English departm ent at T ulane University in Louisiana. “ A college education should be more than just a technical kind of training." "I think a 50-hour core curriculum would be absurd," countered W alter Johnson, an engi neering dean at the University of Nevada in Reno (UNR). "I think people from hum anities get as fo cused if not more focused than engineers are accused o f being. They often look at their world as the only world, and they fail to see the w orld around them ." He thinks even a 36-hour core, which UNR im plem ented this year, is too m uch. N oting that m any engineering grads eventually end up doing som ething besides engineering, the core prevents them from trying anything outside o f engineering o r the core. “They no longer have time to explore,” he

Hirsch listed hundreds o f dates, facts, allusions and other bits of m iscellany that, he felt, all educated people should know, but d o n 't. Feeling the heat, scores o f schools — in cluding the U niversity o f North Texas, Boston and K en tu ck y S ta te u n iv e rsitie s , and Brooklyn, St. A nselm and Shim er colleges — adopted “co re” course requirem ents for their students. N ationw ide, the average college grad in 1988 took an average o f 1.5 more credit hours of hum anities than did the average grad o f 1984, the N EH found in a survey released last February. N evertheless, m ost colleges d o n ’t make students take enough hum anities couurses, the NEH contended. It found that four out o f every 10 colleges let students graduate w ithout ever taking a history course. N early 45 percent d id n ’t m ake stu dents take English or A m erican lit. classes, while 62 percent d id n 't require philosophy and 77 percent d id n ’t require foreign languages. Yet others believe students should get such general know ledge in high school, not college. “I d o n ’t know if it’s necessarily a jo b for higher education,” said Thomas G oldstein, head o f the A m erican A ssociation o f U niver sity Students, a Philadelphia-based group that represents student governm ents.

observed. Some students, though, like having specific requirem ents in general ed. “ It’s a pretty good core,” said G len Krutz, president o f U N R ’s student governm ent. “There needs to be a body of com m on know l edge." "If colleges are saying they are liberal arts colleges, they have an obligation to prepare (students) not just for their first job, but for life," said Jeff M organ, vice president o f St. Jo h n ’s College in New Mexico, where students m ust take core courses — half in hum anities, half in science — all four years. “One o f the obligations we have is to gradu ate educated people,” Morgan said, “not to be in the business o f vocational education." Indeed, many o f the colleges that have adopted “core" curricula in recent years did so in response to criticism they had become “vocational” schools that narrowly trained students to be doctors, businesspeople or art ists without “rounding" them with knowledge outside their m ajors. In the m id-eighties, two bestselling books — Allan B loom 's “T he Closing O f The A m eri can M ind” and E.D. H irsch’s “C ultural Liter acy” — further fueled the criticism . Bloom, a University o f C hicago professor, wrote o f his students' self-centeredness and ignorance.

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A sum m ary of e v e n ts in China th is sum m er by Ajay Khanna

hand, one day there were m ore than a million people on T iananm en Square! The usual form o f protest in C hina is absten tion from work which is achieved either by prolonged “sick leave" or by doing no work after reporting for duty. (O ne m ust keep in m ind that C hinese workers can never be fired since the governm ent guarantees a job to every adult.) The problem with this kind of protest is that it is usually by a single individual and the governm ent can afford to ignore his discon tent. On the other hand, it does not allow organized protests o f any kind, which puts the poor Chinese into a Catch-22. Although the students had banners asking for all sorts o f reform s, there were a few prom inent ideas that were both feasible and not too radical. The people concentrated on 3 main issues: 1. reducing corruption and straightening out the governm ent 2. perm itting freedom of speech 3. creating a true m ulti-party system

A note about the person who m ade this article possible: G ary G u is an instructor o f com puter science at W PI and a PhD student. He cam e to the United States 3 years ago. He is very m uch affected by what went on in China this sum m er because his family is still there, and has kindly volunteered to give his view, as a C hinese, on the background and probable consequences of the m assacre that took place. An Introduction: M ost o f you probably know that the dem onstration in C hina in May was not organized at all. It came about because there was a trem endous am ount o f discontent in China, which had been building up over the past couple o f years. It was directly triggered by the death o f Hu Y ao Band, a party chief whose career was seriously im paired when he sym pathized with the students during the pro tests in late 1986 and early 1987. A similar event took place recently, when Z hao Ziyang was deposed in favour o f J iang Ze Min because he had a soft spot for the students. An interest ing fact is that Z hao was Jian g ’s mentor. How ever, Jiang, though not very original in his thoughts and ideas, has a reputation for being loyal and m ore conservative than Zhao. Thus, Jiang is currently party chief, Li Peng is Prime M inister, and Deng X iaoping, the m ost pow er ful o f all, is the man behind the scenes who calls the shots. A ctually, the W estern press was very lucky to know so m uch about the massacre. Previous protests have never been as well reported as this one because C hina has been, as a rule, closed even to news reporters. H ow ever, the A m erican new s services were there in May, preparing for the com ing o f M ikhail G or bachev fo r a Sino-Soviet sum m it, and they m ade a new s scoop. It was the largest massacre in C hina in the tw entieth century. W hat H appened in May: The dem onstra tion actually started as a collection o f small protest m arches o f students who said they were m ourning Hu Y ao B an g’s death along with the C hinese party. T here were processions o f m ourning students w ith banners praising the leader, and their actions, though not entirely in line with the C om m unist P arty’s ideals, were condoned. D em onstrations are very rare in C hina, and even those small processions were seen as being very cheeky and inviting the governm ent to arrest the dissidents. The larg est m arches since W orld W ar II had never been m ore than a few hundred people. On the other

There were many C hinese w ho went over board and w anted all the top leaders to resign. They also asked for dem ocracy and im m ediate elections. Although C hinese students have expressed a desire for dem ocracy, many o f them do not know its true m eaning, just like many A m eri cans do not know the true m eaning of C om m u nism . (I d o n ’t claim to truly understand it m yself.) H ow ever, they do not want an oligar chy in pow er which does not respond to the needs o f the people and m isleads the vast majority o f C hinese, who live in rural areas, into believing that they are right. It is ironic that in the past few m onths the sam e technol ogy that the C hinese governm ent used to m is lead the people is being used to spread the truth to the 80% o f its population in rural areas that is ignorant o f the many deficiencies o f the ruling party. Actually, there was a time in C hina, 3 years ago, that there was freedom o f speech, at least am ong the students. As long as there were no slogans such as “ Down with the C om m unist Party,” the leaders did not care. The students o f Beijing U niversity, one o f the foremost in the country, enjoyed the most privileges. Since the C hinese leaders had built a repu tation o f being m ore liberal than before, peace ful negotiations were in line with their foreign policy, so they let the students do what they w anted in the May protests, until the students

C o l l e g e s e n i o r s d o n 't k n o w b a s ic f a c t s (C PS) — Students d o n ’t know certain basic facts about our own history and literature, a G allup Poll o f 696 college seniors released Oct. 8 suggested. The poll, com m issioned by the N ational En dow m ent for the H um anities (N E H ), found that alm ost one out o f four seniors could not nam e the century in w hich C hristopher C olum bus landed in the W estern H em isphere. Fifty-eight percent o f the seniors d id n’t know that Shakespeare wrote “The T em pest,” and 55 percent could not identify the Magna Carta. W h at’s m ore, 23 percent attributed Karl M arx’s phrase, “ From each according to his ability, to each according to his n eed ,” to the U.S. C onstitution. If th ey ’d been graded on the survey, more than h alf — 55 percent — would have flunked, and another 20 percent would have gotten a “ D,” NEH C hairm an Lynne Cheney said. The survey results prove that colleges need

to revise their curricula so that undergrads get a broad education, said C heney, who then released a N EH report calling for schools to re quire all students to take 50 credit hours of h u m anities courses to graduate. O thers, w hile acknow ledging students should know basic facts, d id n ’t think the su r vey results are an indictm ent o f higher educa tion. “ A lthough we can do a better job, le t’s not throw our hands up and say w e’re hopeless," said Jam es K ilroy, dean o f the English depart m ent at T ulane U niversity in Louisiana. “To be able to read ‘The T em pest,’ th a t’s w h at's im portant.” “The test itself is circum spect,” claim s Thom as G oldstein, executive director of the A m erican A ssociation o f U niversity Students, a Philadelphia-based group that represents college student governm ents. “ Do I have to know these things to be a good citizen?”

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got out o f hand. It was probably one o f the biggest m istakes they ever made, leading to over 2,000 estim ated deaths and an array of political events spread o v er45 days that caused a m ajor setback for C hina and Chinese leaders. Life in C hina is very different from that in a capitalist country. There are very few privi leged in C hina. Out of a total population of 1.000 m illion, there are 40 million party mem bers. Being a party m em ber is essential if you want to get privileges of any kind. O ut of that 4% o f C h in a’s population, there are about 2.000 people who are truly privileged and can get the rights aw arded to any citizen o f the United States such as freedom o f speech, thoughts and actions, and a voice in w ho runs the country. People do jiot own anything in C hina, but many party and governm ent officials have a lot o f C h in a’s resources at their disposal, which is effectively theirs. People in China circulate lists of “ top” people - people who control com panies because their parents and V IP 's, people who get special privileges such as not paying taxes and people whose children go abroad. W idespread corruption and, the two sets o f rules - one for V IP’s and one for com m on people, have caused a great deal o f discontent. It is only natural that a few years after China opened up to the W est, the C hinese would pick up W estern ideas and prefer the liberty that is granted to all over that which is granted only to a select few. The educational system in China is very sim ilar to what it was in the Soviet U nion forty years ago. The large universities are like mini tow ns, often with their own hospitals, m arkets, apartm ents, et cetera. They are thus com pletely separate from the rest o f the city. This provide m ore independence to students, which is one reason why it was the students who initiated the dem onstrations. The students are also more up to date than the elders about the outside world, and are more outspoken. They have stronger feelings about the ruling party’s failings w hereas the elders have come to accept

C ollege President d isp la y s art (CPS) — Amid national efforts to ban cer tain kinds o f art, the president o f Huntingdon College pointedly asked an artist w hose work had*been barred from a local gallery to display his work on cam pus. Allen Jackson, president o f H untingdon in M ontgom ery, Ala., invited Dennis Sears to display his painting, “Television Envangelism ,” on cam pus after it was rem oved from M ontgom ery’s Armory Learning Arts Center. Sears is the director o f the college’s art depart m ent. The painting, which three people called “ vulgar and offensive,” depicts a clothed woman bathed in light cast by a television screen. The w om an’s hands are on her breast and groin. A shadow y figure in the background stands beneath a printed passage from the Song o f Solom on. “An artist has a right to make a point, w hether it be visual or written, and have it review ed,” Jackson said. “A college is the proper forum for such consideration.” C olleges, as well as other traditional free m arketplaces o f ideas, have been punished for displaying controversial works in recent months. The city o f C hicago, for example, passed a new city law banning the use o f the A m erican

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things as they are. A fter China cut ties with the Soviet U nion, the C hinese apparently did not update their governm ent policies, educational and political system s and the like. However, China and USSR are in many ways still alike, since C hina copied everything from the designs o f factories to the Politburo. In recent years, as both China and the Soviet Union have been opening up, C hina adopted a different strategy. The situation in these c o u n tries can be contrasted by the follow ing w ords: glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restruc turing). The Soviet Union is ahead of C hina in glasnost, but behind in perestroika. T heir respective internal problems are sum m arized in the follow ing: In the Soviet Union one can “talk" but not “eat,” whereas in C hina one can "eat" but not “talk." C hinese in other countries: C hinese tend to do well abroad. There are many C hinese students in the U.S., mainly graduate students, who usually have a much higher standard o f living after a few years o f settling in than their counterparts have after years o f work. M ost Chinese students who study abroad prefer com ing to the U.S. over studying in another country because A m erica is one o f the few countries where they can legally stay and w ork after their education is over — they usually do not w ant to go back to China. Future of C hina: Gary does not envisage a revolution of qny kind in C hina in the near future, because “This protest show ed that this kind o f com m unication with the governm ent does not work.” However, he does expect a severe power struggle in the com ing years when a few o f the aged Chinese leaders are deposed, either by man or by God. N ote: A lthough I spent about 10 hours w atching videos o f political events in C hina and m ade 3 drafts o f this article, I am aware that there m ay be errors in this article. I apologize for any mistakes, while encouraging anyone to send any com m ents he/she may have to m e (Ajay Khanna, BOX 2363)

flag in works of art after a student at the A rt Institute of C hicago displayed a work last spring that featured a flag laid on the floor. Still another A rt Institute student provoked City Council wrath with an irreverent sculpture depicting late M ayor Harold W ashington in w om en’s underwear. T he city is currently suing 10 local artists who used the flag in their works. In Septem ber, several students com plained about a University o f Pennsylvania professor's stunt in which she burned a flag in class, and several veterans groups lodged com plaints about a C olum bia University m arching band routine in which it formed itself into a "fla g ,” and “ lit” itself on fire. At the same time, the U.S. House of R ep re sentatives passed a weakened version o f Sen. Jesse H elm s’ ban on providing federal grants to artists who create “obscene” art. H elm s’ bill defines works that depict sad o m asochism , hom oeroticism , sexual exploita tion o f children or individuals engaged in sex acts. O f the bill, H untingdon’s Jackson said, "this depends upon a com m ittee to evaluate art, and w ho is to say what is obscene? Som ebody has to be given the authority to make that ju d g m en t.”

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Hi again,.folks! Tim e for the latest news about w h at’s happening. W e have started a tutoring service to assist the underclassm en with their academ ic e n deavors. Tim es for this w eek are Monday and W ednesday, 3:30-5:30, and Tuesday and Thursday, 7-9. Location is the G oddard Hall lounge (basem ent floor). Juniors and Seniors will be there at the indicated times to answ er your questions,' help with hom ew ork, or w hat ever. I encourage all freshm an and sophom ore chem ical engineers to participate. Any input from anyone with ideas as to how to improve the program , let your tutors know. Reminder: PAY Y OU R DUES!!! We have some fun events planned for the com ing term, and we need money! Four o f our local m em bers will be attending the national conference in San Francisco, N o vem ber 3-6. It prom ises to be an exciting and fulfilling experience. G ood luck to everyone in the end o f the term. See you in B-term!

Did you know that your liver can only m e tabolize about one drink per hour? T his means that if you have three drinks in an hour it will take at least three hours for your liver to process the alcohol. This is another reason for pacing yourself. Peer advisor training sessions are going well. I hope that everyone has learned a lot and is psyched to start doing talks. G et A.B.S.U .R.D. W eek is in the works. Speakers, mocktails, and even T-Shirts! Are you interested in being a peer advisor? If so contact Lisa King, Box 495 or Sharon Savage, Box 420.

WPI Flying Club O ur next meeting will be today at 7pm in O lin Hall 107. We vtfill be show ing excerpts from "R eaching For the Sky,'* a series that aired on cable TV a few weeks ago. T here’s som e really good footage. D o n 't miss it! In ad dition, the Flying C lub will be sponsoring a ground school for the Private Pilot Written

Exam. The classes will be during B and C Term , one night a week, for tw o hours. R egis tration will be before the start o f B term. W atch for more info. If you have any questions, contact Mike M esser at box 1385. Send any ideas or questions to Scott A shton at 1513. C om e and check us out tonight! D on't forget, C -130 pilots carry big loads!

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers For all o f you volleyball-m onsters out there, w e're working on a match against A CM (As soc. o f Computing M achinery). More on that as soon as we get a firm com m itm ent. This y e a r’s kick-off issue of Signals should be out this week. If you would like to write for Signals or if you would like to air your views or com plain about som ething, send a note to EE Box 16$— this is new spaper for all you EE students.

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WPI flying club to offer ground school classes for the private pilot's exam by Scott Ashton The W PI Flying Club will be sponsoring a ground school for the private pilot written exam. The classes will be taught by the C lu b 's Director o f Education and Training, Mike M esser. The course, which will prepare students to begin actual flight training, will be run during B and C term. The classes will be one night a week, for two hours. The class will cost approxim ately $40. d e pending on the num ber o f students enrolled, as com pared with $140 for o ther ground schools. Students will be using the ASA Complete Pri-

vate Pilot Kit. This kit includes a text book, w orkbook, FAA test booklet, sam ple exam s, a plotter and E6-B “ whiz w heel" for cross coun try planning, and a current sectional chart. En rollm ent in the class will also entitle students to access the King Private Pilot V ideo Ground School Series. The King Video tapes are the best quality tapes available. The Airguide M anual will be referred to, but is optional. Registration will be from now to the end of A-Term to ensure that the textbooks w ill be re ceived by the start o f the class. Late registra tion will be accepted. If you are interested, drop a note to Mike at Box 1385, or th e Flying Club Box.

Mike recently was endorsed by the Federal A viation A dm inistration as a Certified Basic G round Instructor, meaning that he is qualified to teach ground school and endorse his students to take the exam. Recently, M ike also received his Instrument Rating, which allow s him to fly in conditions where flight by reference to the ground is made difficult by clouds. Federal Aviation A dm inistration regula tions state that every applicant for a Private P ilo t’s license must pass a w ritten exam with a score o f 70% of better. In order to take the exam it is necessary to get a sign-off by a C ertified Flight Instructor.

back again this year with another actionpacked activities schedule! T uesday (wait, that’s today) is the day you have to call either Dave Stec (756-2794) or Van W ooley (7561675) to get a spot on the W ym an-G ordon tour this W ednesday (10/11). The group will be leaving the W edge at I PM sharp, and there may be a few extra places even if you can’t get Dave or Van. And rem em ber - you ought’a wear shoes that at least look like safety shoes, not sneakers or heels. B -T erm ’s alm ost here! T here’ll be a G eneral M eeting early in the term -w atch for more. A lso a happy hour, a presentation by Prof. B row n, and a couple more tours. See you on W ednesday!

Student Pugwash Student Pugwash is presenting a video “ Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned T o Stop W ar ring And Love The Bom b” on T uesday, O cto ber 10th, at 8:00 PM in the Salisbury Lounge. All m em bers and non-m em bers are welcome. Snacks and soft drinks will be served. So bring some of your friends and enjoy the movie.

WPI Wireless Association The first Novice Class o f the fall was held Tuesday, O ct 3 and as usual turned out to be a great success. W e had about 25 people show for the class. About 6 o f these were under graduates and 4 were som ehow affiliated with WPI. O ur best luck to all o f them as they work for their first ticket in am ateur radio. Each Tuesday night at 7:00 PM we will hold lessons in theory, rules and practice. Thursday nights will be dedicated to learning the m orse code. W ith the term rapidly com ing to a close, we look tow ard B term activities with great antici pation. O peration Santa Claus is just around the com er, as well as a trip to N ew ington Ct. to visit the Hiram Percy M axim M em orial S ta tion. W e'll open this trip to all m em bers and non-m em bers. Dates will soon be announced. If y o u 're interested in learning more about Ham R adio or want to becom e a ham , drop us a note in Club Box 5393. M eetings for the W ireless C lub are held each Thursday at 4:30 PM in Salisbury room 11. B R IN G A FRIEND!

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GREEK CORNER Alpha Chi Rho All right everybody, only 8 days left. Plans are fast being m ade for Fall break. But d o n 't have too much fun. because you have to be back here at W PI. in a week. Hom ecom ing is the talk o f the house this week. We are determ ined to retain our long_standing best float title. The 25th A nni versary H om ecom ing for o u r local fraternity Delta Sigm a Tau is this year and everyone is working hard in preparation for the G rads. Intram urals have been going well. A_team volleyball m ade it into the play-offs. Flag football defeated Morgan 2nd by a score o f 43_0. O ur strong defensive line and secondary boosted our offense and put us into the play offs. The social calendar has been getting better and better each week, with a great Uptown Party last w eekend. B_term is shaping up to be a great one this year also. C hris and Keith are still knocking o ff the com petition, and trying to win their bet. C ongratulations this week go to Lem for m aking IFC Judicial. And to Carps and his helpers, for conquering the kitchen. Rush is keeping the house rolling and Pete still hasn't snapped yet, but w e’re trying. The Pig Roast and the Mt. M onadnock trip were great and ev eryone is looking forward to Com edy Night in G o m p ei's this w eek. So d o n 't miss it, it will be a great chance to hang out with the Crows. T h at’s it for this week. H ope to see every one at H om ecom ing, and good luck on finals. D on’t forget, the house is alw ays open so come on down and check us out.

Alpha Gamma Delta A re the sisters o f Alpha G am m a D elta ready to meet our goals? W e are ready for rush. Seniors — > it’s our last A -term (sniff, sniff!) so do it right. G ood Luck! Luck, w ho needs luck, we have each other. Luck is us having the opportunity to m eet the freshm en. W e are all w orking tow ard to getting to know them through rush. The sisters would like to thank our spirit com m ittee for their surprise at our last m eet ing. Y our efforts were greatly appreciated you really know how to get to a true Alpha G am 's heart. W e hope you are all show ing that spirit by donating blood this week. If you h av en ’t signed up just stop by Alden on W ed nesday and Thursday. W e also hope everyone had a great tim e on Sunday at the tri-sorority reception. Until next week -

Alpha Tau Omega The annual M ud w restling night was tre m endous as usual. We had m ore participants than ever, probably because the rush events are on Fridays this year. Report has it that Rush is going very well so far, seem s to be a great freshm en class, and the H ouse is ‘psyched’. A lso note, H opkinton park field trip, mystery “guest", casino night are still to come. H om e com ing w eekend is upon u s , alm ost. Lets keep M A happy (and quiet) in the kitchen, lets have a great tim e with the alum ni. A PRO note: lets see som e volunteer spirit this year. W e can start by getting all the posters for the Art M useum put up around the city. Hope to see everyone pitching in. T hree men and a Randy. M aybe y o u ’ll get _____ ! Ma, Phil wants to tell you that he is really happy to be steward this year and w ork ing for you. N ice bell-bottom s M orrissey. Prim ate Pi. The Dawg house may soon File bankruptcy. G rim m is happy though, he is the

only track winner yet, besides the Dawg him self. Hey guys, REGA was here. And there. Drink your milk Phil and Jimmy Joe. Belated b-days to G rim m and som eone else for Sep tember. Yenna and Deli, sh e ’s cookoo for coco p u ffs. Sorry to disappoint you guys, especially after the novel last w eek. M any, Many more funnies next week.

Delta Phi Epsilon Hello again sisters o f Delta Phi Epsilon. One week till Oct. Break!! Roadtrip? W here? W e’d like to congratulate our charter m em ber Terese K wiatowski for being adm it ted to the WPI Hall o f Fame. W ay to go!! Speaking o f charter, C indy you did a great job with the Constitution. Pledges, d o n ’t get dis couraged. Things are looking up... get those projects and interviews d o n e ‘ASAP! Lots o f news this week. The main topic is our mail. I just love mail, d o n 't you?! Kay. hang in there, it’s over! T h ey 're gone, finally! You want me to go w here, and see who, to get what? Oh, but th ey ’re not stam ped bulk rate. Make sure the stam p is clearly in the com er. You stam ped the sam e one Five times, Kay, I think th a t’s enough. Hey, Val, wanna sw itch? Carolyn - oh. C arolyn, where are you...? I have to go to Dean o f Students to get our account number? Hah, just let your fingers do the walking. Carolyn, you are m arvelous!! Thanks for all the help! W hat do you m ean the #?!@ !? WPI Stam p? You said we co u ld n ’t have the #?!(a)!? W PI Stam p on them! Val, why w on’t my typew riter work. Not now. I ’ve got 2 papers to do - o f all the tim es to die! Alpha Chi Rho - busy Saturday nights? B etter get ready for this Saturday. C ongrats to C indy, Sue, Kay, Kate and Jen for receiving this w eek ’s smart cookie award. Cindy - can you m ake a bigger batch o f spa ghetti? Me valet, can you hold my keys? Lisa - where did you ever end up Friday night? H ow 's your M QP proposal? Did you have fun M onday night. Cheryl, so glad y o u ’re feeling better! Val, draw ing posters isn ’t T H A T hard. Thanks Mike, John and Al for tak in’ care o f business last Saturday! A nybody for nachos?

Phi Gamma Delta This is starting to be a habit. T w o articles in a row has got to be som e kind o f a record for me. This is going to be short because nothing has happened in the last week. I ’d like to thank the alum ni for their generous donations for the installation o f the jacuzzi. T h a t’s gonna be installed next W ednesday and should get some good use. Freshman are w elcom e to com e dow n to the house any time and m eet Doug, who will tell you all about our fraternity and his opinions of every other one on cam pus. And on a final note, confusion is created by chaos.

Phi Sigma Sigma W hat a fun-filled Phi Sigm a Sigm a w eek end. A llow me to highlight: C osponsoring C ocktails with Sig Pi was outstanding; alw ays w illing to aid a fraternity in need. Not to m ention the Fund. They prom ised it would never happen again, but it did. A nd all had fun — The BO W LA TH O N — rejoice. T hanks to Phi Sig Kap for their preparation - especially the Brunch with tasty liquid refreshm ents. (Next time, ladies, let’s ditch the bow ling balls and go Scorpion-bow ling, instead). A fun tim e was

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had by all. Cheers to Lisa, Kathy, Patty, M oe and Moe for the post-bow ling festivities. I still think a Seventies-them e would be excellent. E very one could w ear wide collar shirts, denim bell bottoms, fringe... and we could play the Bee G ees. Shaun C assidy and Donna Summ ers album s, watch the Partridge Fam ily... Just kidding - these view s are not representative of the entire sorority - just Moe M ’s and mine - 1 hope I didn’t offend anyone. Thanks to all the women who attended the Tri-Sorority Reception on Sunday. I think I speak for everyone from the three sororities RUSH Is G oing To Be A Blast! G et psyched for the 1st day o f B-term. D on't forget to vote for D anielle and Pete for H om ecom ing Queen and King. Speaking o f H om ecom ing... h o w 's that float? A tradi tion of excellence... hmm? Speaking o f excel lence... it should be a blast to visit/party with our sister alum nae." R e-m em -m em , remm em -m em -ber. Phi Sig Sig and good times together: Laughing, singing, doing w hatever.” G osh, how sentim ental (sigh). Sisterhood is great. W ell, th at's enough mush. Y uck. Personal H i’s to C arrie Scheinm ann (w h o 's she?) and M aria K. Eight days ’til the end o ’ the term! Fifteen days 'til RUSH! Fifty-nine days 'til the XMAS dance. Until we meet again, LITP.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Hey Freshm en, get psyched to com e down to SAE this Friday. W e’re having a casino night with lots o f prizes, like beer lights and neon signs. R em em ber it’s only three days away. For those brothers who d o n 't know, rem em ber H om ecom ing is this Saturday. L et’s make a great float. See Palooky if anyone is excited to go dow n and visit the next chapter installation, w hich is Nashville. Hey roadtrip! Happy birthday. W indm ill. But there is one question, w hen’s this “VC" thing going to end? Tom orrow the Mustard Seed will need three volunteers, are there three good brothers out there, som ewhere? Please not pushing the Fat m an ’s bell, h e ’ll get upset and start making more stuffed cabbage. Yuck. Kill the Keg was awesom e, great idea by social. L et’s have another soon, m aybe like tonight? Finally, rem em ber one week from tom orrow the term ends. L et’s get good grades and help freshmen get good grades, too. O ther than grades, the e n d p f the term signifies the Hotel Party. W h ite . House people start thinking of great drinks! Until Next week:

Sigma Pi Well I ’m Back. Sorry If you m issed me, but I was unavoidably delayed by an unavoidable situation which was unavoidably unrectifiable.I hope you all enjoyed thoroughly last w eek’s guest appearance by Todd Squire. Thanks Todd. Even though our flag football team d id n 't do so hot (1-2) our C ross-C ountry A and B team s got 1st and 4th respectively for all Greeks. Way to go guys! A-tearn Finishers were: Link K., Bellfystein, LaRoch, Scooter and C hassuhole. B-team finishers were: W hitehead, R od 10+, Second Fat, Foos and Paul Quave. All the rest o f you fat shits keep running. In other new s rush is off to a great start with no end in sight. Last weeks graffilthy party was a smash and everyone was indeed sm ashed. TANK TAG. Sophom ore retaliation was short and painless. C om e on guys get Teal. Finally som e of the new relationships in the house, Derek and TF. Flounder and Beth (pass the tape please), Toos and that crusty hole in his fore head, BB and G loria, Rothkugel and Spank’s fist, Deadwould and Jackie (could be).

Tau Kappa Epsilon The Rush events for this week are the fa m ous Casino Royale, it’s going to be the best casino night in history; door prizes will be awarded, so only by show ing up m ay you win som ething. Special currency was also made, we will have craps tables, poker, blackjack, roulette, foos-ball, and many other gam es. D o n ’t miss out, the fun will start at 8:00 PM on Friday. Sunday we will have Soccer followed by a Bar-B-Que starting at 3:00 PM. Things that happened last w eek... An aw e som e Rocky H orror Picture Show , thanks to Twice and Sparky. Also, we m ight have beaten the record o f how many people can pile into a car... 13! And how about foosball, TKE has proven again that we are num ero uno. Ken O ’C onnor and D ave G iordano brought back a First place trophy as expected, great job, Ken and Dave!! W e also had the yearly trip around the world last Saturday, but since this article was due Friday I c a n ’t elaborate m ore. Philanthropic events com ing up... The ad vance group o f Up with People cam e up to the

house last Tuesday, we will host'som e m em bers o f their 180 men and w om en cast. The m em bers o f the advance group told us that the cast has a 2:1 women to men ratio. T hey're going to be playing the 18th at m echanics hall, if anybody in cam pus is interested in going to the concert or hosting some m em bers of the group, please contact our cam pus box or call the advance group at 755-6101 ext. 208. Last Sunday we also helped the G reater Hammond Heights N eighborhood in preparing and clean ing up for the Birthday of G eorge Bancroft at Bancroft tower. T h at’s it for this week and one m ore week and w e’ll be outta here...

Theta Chi G reetings. A rem inder to freshmen that brothers are always w illing to tutor as exam s approach (food all night next Monday). Next Friday Smitty is hosting a Mystery event. W hat is it? Come see. but we w eren’t supposed to mention it. Pool and foos tables are alw ays available. The race for the cup tightens as the first round of play-offs are com pleted. Theta Chi football team sported a victory in the first round, although not without costs. Why did Sup, Sponge, and Phil really go to the hospital? Skirts! H endu, you'll never be asked to ref again! A nd . we placed third out of the Greeks in the cross country meet, thanks to Uni and Rosey. H om ecom ing is upon us. The party will be one o f the best, guess w ho’s in charge- (K ent’s room m ate). Theta C h i’s new building’s 25th anniversary will be celebrated. Poster, poster, poster. D o n ’t let Oom pa sw eat over the float, help him out (w here arrr my kezes). BROTHA!!! And after 25 years we are going to have heat regulation in B-term. Hopefully it doesn’t escape out the windows- thanks to Jeff Mclane (w indow god) it probably w on’t. Tonight, after the you know what there is a thing in the you know where. Yes, hosted by super senior and social god E-rik Maki (of course h e’s a civil), the best W arm Dorm of the year. Be prepared ye brothers. Stas and Barry were talking big- let them prove they are not girly-m en. "D on’t leave the m ilk out. I’ll kill you" JJ and O om pa are dudes, M urph is whipped, Gweeks is happy. Sup is a flower, and Gormley is cool (although that's not what he said about John). Until next week, see ya.

Zeta Psi B rothers, how ’s your banging pipes. There is heat in the house, what a concept. I say we turn it off, d o n ’t want to get spoiled. Everyone should start going to sleep earlier (except for me o f course), TJ is getting pissed that he can only get one piece of his own pizza. For those of you w ho m issed it, the H ealth Dept, came and believe it or not, the w orst thing was that frig door w ould not close. A ndy the pledge, nice jo b on the clean up the night before... you switched brands, run out of tiparillos. Nate, Mo punted, whose next? W hat’s gunna happen to team xerox now? What, is there a cry for som ething to be broken, look up into the sky, its a ‘skirda, it’s a nus, no it’s SU PER SKIN, breaking things where ever he drinks and blacking out so he c a n ’t get blam ed; by day he’s a m ild manner, speed m etal, thrashing, long-haired hippy freak that says w eird things, but w henever theres a cry for beer, he trans forms into, you got it boys and girls... SUPER SKIN, m irrors cringe, plate glass cow els, cars windows roll down, defender to all who get caught w ith slightly flawed ID 's in liquor stores. T h a t’s enough, I guess I got off the track, you got to go with the creative juices w henever they occur. They usually occur during essay tests, but they com e together with pitchforks. Bridge, nice napkin can I use it as a sw eat band. Did ya ever notice M aria has nice... well I guess we have all noticed now, but for how m uch dinero, we could have bought 20 cases and Jim and Saint could have gotten drunk. W ake up Petee, and d o n ’t tell me you were reading, no one takes 4 hours to read a paragraph. To all brothers, w hat happen to Petees’ and my discs, we want them back, the regional dude probably took them , why that... wonderful guy, hi Lauck. W hile I have your attention, where is my UFO abduction insur ance, I hope it d id n 't get thrown out, I d o n ’t like leaving hom e without it. Nus, nice face, howz ya noze, a wittle tuffy, that m outh piece did a lot o f good. Art nice score, but can you go for a second round, d o n ’t tell me skin w o n ’t give you the phone numba. Rock Rock Rock the telephone rock, slight Sesam e Street fetish. Axis & A llies, the interfratem al gam es. What if ev ery o n e charged their school bills on Joe Z ete’s gold card and the C hapter lied, ya think national would blow a shit, it could be tied up in the courts for years, look how long a wait traffic court is. 'n u ff said.

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I Q P In sig h ts Today’s British Women Engineers by Jeffrey Yoder and Brian Weissman This w eek’s feature IQP is “An Oral History o f W omen Engineers in Great Britain.” This project was com pleted last D-term at the Lon don Project C enter by M inette Levee, Nancy M cLaughlin and Ron Zawadzki. This project w as the second of three con secutive projects on the topic o f women engi neers in Great Britain. The ultimate goal of these projects is to record a recent history of women engineers in Great Britain. The goal of this project was not to investi gate how women become engineers, but why they did. This investigation was carried out by interviewing over 20 women engineers o f the ages of 30 years to retirement. (O ther age groups are covered in other projects). Three main issues were discussed during these interviews: what influenced them to become engineers; how they are coping in the engineering world today and; what are their future plans relative to engineering. From these interviews the team was able to m ake som e g e n e ra liz a tio n s about B ritish women engineers o f this age group. C o n s tr u c ti o n

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Minutes of the Executive Council Meeting M eeting called to order 11:50 AM.

Members Present: Mike Donahue. Pres.; Brian Gosseiin. V.P.; Dan Falla. IFC Rep.; Rob Sims, Newspeak; Kim Lemoi, Soccom ; Jenn Tobin, Pan-Hel; Stephen N elson, A cadem ic Comm .; Becky G riffith, SAB; Brian Beauregard, ’92 Rep.; David Cortese, '9 2 Pres.; Beth Schaefer, SAS; Dave Dickey, C H B ; Janet Richardson, Advi sor.

Committee Reports: Newspeak: W e are now featuring Out land.

CHB: W e will be starting training this Friday 10/ 6. There aren’t any cases to report.

SAS: The Student Alumni Society is still working on plans for Homecoming. Information letters were sent to cam pus organizations on the pa rade o f floats and w e are now excepting entries. Due to police request we will be changing the parade route.

Pan-Hel: W ill be having a tri-sorority function to w hich all potential rushees are invited. It will be held in G om pei’s Place and ice-cream sun daes will be served. There are a limited number o f the The Freshm en Record left, they are available for organizations at $7.00 each.

SocComm: G eneral A ssem bly meeting Oct. 2. The new O ctober calendar will be out this week. There was a Pool & Foos Ball Tournament Friday and a Pub Show Saturday.

New Business: Looking into custodial services for meeting room .

Announcements: — Campus C enter: looking at possibility of A lden/Riley? People are more interested in building a Cam pus Center rather than renovat ing an older building. — Possibly Pres. Strauss will meet with us next week. M eeting adjourned 12:30 PM R espectfully submitted, Lisa A. King Secretary

Firstly, most of these women were at the top of their academ ic class. A dditionally, these engineers all were very determ ined in their goal o f becoming engineers. A lot of today’s British women engineers had parents that encouraged their children to pursue any goal they desired. This seems significant since the British culture at that time did not encourage women to go into engineer ing. It was up to the wom en to take their own initiative to decide to becom e engineers. A lot of these women also report that they either lost ground (i.e. position, salary) in the engineering world during the time o f child rearing. It was also discovered that the women who had not lost ground had no children or had full-time nannies to care for their children. The most exciting part o f the project was that the team was able to sit down and talk with women of different ages from all over the United Kingdom that had not travelled the normal professional route o f British women. For more inform ation about the London Project C enter contact Lance Schachterle at the Project Center.

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Tuesday October 10,1989

POLICE LOG

W hat’s H appening?

Saturday September 30 2:15 AM - A Sergeant reported confiscating alcohol from a student outside o f an Ellsworth apartment. The student had reportedly been behaving in a threatening manner. 2:46 AM - A Sergeant reported warning a UM ass student of trespass after he was found in the Institute Hall parking lot. The subject was observed drinking in public, and a false ID card was confiscated. 2:51 A M - An RA reported vandalism within Institute Hall. Turpentine had been poured in the first floor hallway and paint had been poured in a stairwell. 3:46 AM - An O fficer reported vandalism to a trash receptacle located in front of Alden Hall.

Tuesday, October 10, 1989 4:15 pm - Fall M athematics Renaissance Art Festival, Higgins Courtyard. 8:00 pm - Cinem atech presents: “A Study in W et,” Light Y ears," “ 17 Reasons W hy,” and “ U irapuru," Kinnicut Hall, Free.

Sunday October 1 2:42 AM - A sergeant reported finding 3 students in possession o f a “ No Parking” sign on a pole in front of Institute Hall. The students stated that they obtained the sign from Highland St. The sign was confiscated. 3:55 AM - A Sergeant reported a non-WPI student creating a disturbance at Institute Hall. The subject had also attempted to break a window at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He was removed from the area by friends. 6:40 PM - A student reported the theft of a stereo and CB radio from his vehicle parked in the rear o f 8 Boynton St., Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. The theft occurred sometime after 7:30 PM the previous evening.

Wednesday, October 11, 1989 11:00 am - Egg Drop Contest in front o f Stratton Hall. 3:00 and 8:00 pm - Film: “ Pelle the C onqueror,” Kimball Theatre, Holy Cross, $1.50 charge w/ college I.D. 8:00 pm - Video: “A irplane,” G om pei’s Place, free.

Thursday, October 12, 1989 7:00 pm - Volleyball: W heaton 7:15 pm - Field Hockey: W heaton 8:30 pm - Folk Group Practice at Religious Center, 19 Schussler Road.

Thursday October 5 2:50 PM - A Sergeant reported assisting the W orcester Police Department with a m otor vehicle accident at the intersection of Park Ave. and Drury Lane. There were no injuries.

Friday, October 13, 1989 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Sacram ent of Reconciliation, Religious Center, 19 Schussler Road. 7:00 pm - Film: “ A Fish Called W anda,” Kimball Theatre, Holy Cross, $1.50 charge w/college I.D. 9:00 pm - Comedy Night: Entertainers from B oston's Comedy Connection, G om pei’s Place, $1.00.

Friday October 6 12:10 AM - A call w as recieved from the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity reporting that a male subject had fallen from a second floor window at the house. The W orcester Police Departm ent and an am bulance also responded. The subject, who was visiting a resident o f the house, was found lying on his back outside the house upon officers' arrival. He was transported by ambulance to UM ass hospital where he was treated and released a few hours later. 5:(X) AM - A delivery person for Nissen Bakeries reported that approxim ately 40 loaves of bread in 5 trays had just been stolen from the Morgan loading dock while a delivery w as being made. Suspects responsible for the theft were seen by the delivery person running into the Ellsworth complex. A search of the complex turned up the empty racks outside o f the laundry room, but no bread was found. 12:48 PM - An officer reported a fire on a utility pole at the intersection of Salisbury Street and Dean Street. The W orcester Fire and Police departments responded. M assachusetts Electric was notified. 11:55 PM - A Sergeant reported an automobile accident with injuries at the intersection of Highland Street and Lancaster Street. The W orcester Police and Fire departm ents responded as well as an ambulance. T w o victims with facial and head injuries were transported to hospitals.

Saturday, October 14, 1989 All Day: Homecoming Events, see article inside this issue.

Sunday, October 15, 1989 11:30 am - Catholic Mass in Alden Hall. 6:00 pm - Catholic Mass in Founders Dorm. 6:30 pm & 9:30 pm - Film: “The Dream T eam ,” Alden Hall, $2.00.

Monday, October 16, 1989 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm - “ Mr. Mom,” Hogan Campus Center, Holy Cross, $1.50 w/college I.D.

Safety tip: Use electronic engravers to mark all valuables. This m akes these items less attractive to thieves and easier to recover if stolen. Engravers may be borrowed from the Campus Police with presentation of a WPI ID. Also, record serial numbers o f any equipm ent owned.

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