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APSA endorses student center

by J. Rob Sims Editor-in-Chief On Friday, O ctober 20, 1989, the W PI trustees held their fall meeting.

O ne o f the subcom m ittees, the A ca­ dem ic Planning and Student Affairs com m ittee (A PSA ), deals with m at­ ters that are directly related to stu­ dents. This com m ittee then reports to the general trustee m eeting.

T he agenda for this meeting was quite full of m ajor topics. It included reports on cam pus safety, a student center, the quality o f student life, short term loans for fraternities, and several other shorter reports.

Janet Richardson, Dean of S tu­ dents, presented the report o f the cam pus security task force.

The cam pus security task force was set up in O ctober o f 1988, after a sexual

assault in Founders Hall. Its purpose was to com pare the safety on the WPI cam pus with standards proposed by the A ssociation o f Independent C ol­ leges and U niversities in M assachu­ setts. The task force was then to m ake recom m endations to improve secu ­ rity on the cam pus.

R ecom m endations were m ade in three areas: education and prevention program s, lighting and grounds secu ­ rity, and locks and facility security.

Faculty and students were surveyed about security program s and issues.

The survey had a high return rate, in­ dicating a great interest in the security issue. The com m ittee made the fol­ lowing recom m endations in their report: 1. Helping students to take respon­ sibility for their own safety is the single m ost important and diffi­

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cult recom m endation of the co m ­ mittee.

D evelop an ongoing safety aw areness program series which can be started during fresh­ m an orientation and can incorpo­ rate additional security related topics such as date rape and per­ sonal safety throughout the aca­ dem ic year. C ontinue to support the efforts of the Personal Safety Com m ittee to im plem ent these program s by providing an annual program budget by July 1, 1990 o f $2,500 for printing, overhead, etc. Advise the W PI com m unity regularly as to cam pus crim e sta­ tistics. Publicize the current es­ cort program and encourage use during evening hours.

Engage a consultant to evaluate the effectiveness o f a card access system to the residence halls and

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certain academ ic buildings and/ or laboratories. Students were extrem ely im pressed by the flexi­ bility o f a card system and were supportive o f this step. While there are many advantages of a card system over a key access system , this represents a major Fi­ nancial investm ent and should be explored with trained specialists before im plem entation.

The com m ittee recom m ends that a final consultant report be subm it­ ted no later than January 1, 1990.

To elim inate the reason students peg open outside residence hall doors, install cam pus telephones outside o f every residence hall by Septem ber 1989 for personal and em ergency use at a cost o f ap­ proxim ately $5,000.

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remote areas of the cam pus for em ergency use as w ell. Panic alarms may be evaluated in place of telephones for rem ote loca­ tions.

Increase the lighting in all areas o f the cam pus, especially the dorm areas, over a Five year pe­ riod at $10,000 per year.

Replace all large high density shrubs with ones that cannot hide a potential assailant o v er a three year period at $3,000 per year.

Im m ediately im plem ent security work order plan outlined by Plant Services D epartm ent to expedite the handling of priority work or­ ders. T his plan can be imple­ m ented at no cost to the institu­ tion.

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WPI ranked 1st by US News & World Report

by Pat Charles Features Editor W PI was recently selected as the first ranking R egional C ollege/U ni­ versity in the N orthern region in U.S. N ews and W orld R eport’s Best C ol­ leges edition. The report is based on a survey o f 2,348 college presidents, deans and adm issions officers and a quantitative analysis o f student selec­ tivity, faculty quality, academ ic repu­ tation, financial resources and reten­ tion.

A ccording to the report, W PI is the top-ranking Regional C ollege/U ni­ versity am ong the 170 other such schools in the North. Since last years report, the categories and format have changed, but even so, WPI is up from its previous num ber five ranking am ong “A m erica’s C om prehensive C olleges.”

The report describes WPI as “ re­

garded by its peers as one o f the finest undergraduate engineering schools in the nation” and recognizes W PI for earning its highest m arks in faculty quality (87% hold Ph.D .’s) and F inan­ cial Resource. The report further com m ends W P I’s retention and abil­ ity to attract science and engineering students: “W hile m any colleg es worry about declining enrollm ent in science and math, W orcester has m anaged to keep its enrollm ent of 2600 full-tim e undergraduate stu­ dents fairly stable.” And goes on to attribute this to W P I's “energetic recruiting program s in New England and nearby states.” In addition, the article credited WPI for its w ork to guarantee the stability o f future en­ rollm ent through faculty tutoring in math and science in W orcester-area public schools. In the report, John van A lstyne com m ents on the recent dis­ patch o f team s to assist local public

schools with math, science and com ­ puter education. “There has been a lot in the popular literature about the poor quality of secondary education about declining college enrollm ents.” The program to assist local schools “ is a way to deal sim ultaneously with both p roblem s.”

W P I’s inclusion in the report as the num ber one Regional College and U niversity gauges W P I’s quality against typically sm aller schools “ w hich generally aw ard degrees in occupational or professional disci­ plines.” In contrast, the “top” catego­ ries in the survey are that of Liberal Arts and National Universities. A c­ cording to the description, these schools “offer a full range o f bacca­ laureate program s, give a high prior­ ity to research and award the most P h .D .’s each year.”

The current expansion o f W P I’s recruitm ent not only across New

WPI football reb ou n d s over Bow doin

by Roger Burleson Sports Editor A fter a disappointing 34-33 loss to Plym outh State last w eek that hurt W P I’s playoff chances, WPI took to the field to face B ow doin this week.

They responded with a 33-21 that assured W PI o f a w inning record. The win raised W P I’s victory to 6-2 and dropped B ow doin’s to 1-4-1. It would also be quarterback’s G reg W hitney’s first gam e in two w eeks after com ing o ff knee surgery.

W PI scored first in the game. On its second possession o f the gam e.

W PI took over from its own 25. On the first play W hitney threw a 39 yard pass to Evan Elkington to bring the ball into Polar Bear territory. T hen on a third and seventeen, W hitney found Elkington in the end zone for a 34 yard score. W P I’s second score started from a drive that started from their ow n 25. A fter com pleting a num ber o f short passes they drove deep in B o w d o in te rrito ry w h ere M ark M cGill finished o ff the drive with a tw o yard run. Bowdoin scored on their next tow possessions to tie the score 14-14.

But, W PI wanted the lead at

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halftim e. With 2:05 rem aing in the half, W PI took over at their 33. A M ike Bucci run o f 18 yards and a W hitney to M ike Long pass brought the ball to the Bowdoin 14. Tw o plays later, W hitney w ould connect on a nine yard pass to Earl Larson. The kick was no good and W PI led at halftim e by a score o f 20-14.

But, Bowdoin cam e out of the lockerroom on fire and drove seventy yards for a touchdow n to lead by a point 21-20. Bowdoin started another drive at the end o f the third quarter, but, they fum bled and it was recov­ ered by WPI at its ow n 27. A fter ending the the third quarter with 34 yard W hitney to Bucci pass. They continued the drive in the fourth with a 40 yard W hitney to Elkington touch­ dow n. The two point conversion and W PI led by a score of 26-21.WPI started its final drive at the 7:10 mark from its ow n 23. W PI drove the entire 77 yards without com pleting a pass w hich killed the clock as well as giv­ ing W PI the insurance score, which ended up as 33-21.

W hitney w as 16 for 26 on the day for 260 yards, three touchdow ns, and one interception. Bucci was the lead­ ing rusher with 102 yards on 16 at­ tem pts. Elkington was the leading recieverw ith 141 yards on six catches and tw o touchdow ns. WPI will take on Stony Brook next week dow n at Stony Brook, N. Y. They will finish up the season on N ovem ber 11 w hen they will take on M IT at Alumni Field in a ■ • 1:30 contest. . . . . ....................

England and the U.S. but around the world, the growth o f secondary d e­ partm ents such as hum anities, and top perform ance in the Regional category

may w arrant recognition and a future reevaluation o f W PI not only as a Regional College but as a National University.

Egg Drop Contest was a smash

by Bryan Gaudet Last W ednesday Pi Tau Sigma, the ME honor fraternity, held it’s Annual Egg D rop Contest. The entrants had to design a device that w ould prevent an egg from breaking w hen dropped from the top floor o f Stratton Hall.

The device also had to fall within a ten foot diam eter circle.

O nly six o f the fifteen entrants survived the final judging. Many of the designs missed the circle. Rob M andeville and M atthew S trupt’s design, “The Freshm an Cholesterol D elivery System ,” fell outside the circle when the wind caught it’s large parachute. Larry Brem and Mike Pender’s “Sonny Side u p ” suffered from the same fate w hen they over corrected for the wind and ended up on the opposite side o f the target.

Not all the parachute designs failed though.

Bill K allg ren ’s device “Icarus” fell sm ack in the middle but, his egg broke w hen his elaborate cushioning system failed.

Prof.

Richards m ade everyone stand back when three chemistry majors in lab coats and goggles leaned out the window and use pipets to mix a “sim ple chem ical reaction.” The

“Hunka H unka Hunka B u m in ’ Love” spewed sm oke as it plum itted down­ wards how ever, failed to hit the target.

After the drops were completed, the judges, Professors N orton, Scott and A lexandrou, took the five final­ ists’ entries into Stratton Hall for the final judging.

The designs were judged on size, weight, ingenuity and post-im pact condition.

W hen the decision w as alm ost m ade Catherine D arensburg announced that the mess made in her device was not the shat­ tered egg but, the peach yogurt she used to cushion the egg. W ith the egg intact her design was considered also.

The w inner of the $100 first prize was David Scam poli, a junior. His “E ggsterm inator” was a rocket with a crushable nose cone. T w o freshman, Tom B rosnihan and Tom Casker, won the $50 second prize by cushioning the egg in a com plex arrangem ent of straws and ballons. R ick Calawa, a Junior M E, won the $25 third prize with a rocket design featuring angled spinfins and baking pow der egg pad­ ding.

The Egg D rop C ontest proved that the art o f design is only lim ited by the im agination.

New sm okin g p olicy T o prom ote a more healthful environm ent and to be in com pliance with state law, the follow ing policy regarding sm oking on the W PI cam pus is being proposed: “ Effective January 1, 1990 sm oking in buildings on the W orcester Poly­ technic Institute cam pus will be allowed only in the areas that have been specifically designated as sm oking areas and in com pletely enclosed private offices, as set forth in the M assachusetts Clean Indoor A ir Act. Designated sm oking areas will be located in the ‘U pper W edge’ o f Morgan Hall and the lounge in Salisbury Labs and will be clearly identified by signs.

Sm oking in residence halls will be addressed by the Residence Hall Council.”

Please forward any com m ents and suggestions related to the proposed sm oking policy to the Director of Human R esources before N ovem ber 1, 1989 to assist in finalizing this policy.

In order to assist em ployees, students, and/or their dependents w ho wish to stop sm oking, the College will be sponsoring stop-sm oking clinics on cam pus, both before and after January 1, 1990 w hen this policy becomes effective. For inform ation about these clinics, please contact the Office of Hum an Resources, at Extension 5470.

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Flag-walking on the quad

by Ajay Khanna If you were on the Q uad at noon on W ednesday, O ctober 25, you w ould have seen a protest against the law recently passed by C ongress prohibit­ ing m utilation o f the A m erican flag.

The protest was staged by a group of students who call them selves “ B urn­ ing for Freedom .” Glen Flaherty, the dynam ic organizer o f the event, led the protest. This event generated som e excitem ent because there were reporters and police at the Q uad to cover the event, som ething that rarely happens at WPI. Flaherty spoke o f his feelings about the American flag and about the new law prohibiting its mutilation.

He then proceeded to rip up a few sm all A m erican flags while about 100 to 200 WPI students and faculty looked on. With cam eras clicking, he and others burnt paper im ages o f the

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flag. A fter saying a few m ore words, he took the flag he had been display­ ing during his speech and, saying that he did not wish to destroy his personal property, laid it on the ground and walked o ver it, calm ly saying that this was his right as an American. He invited anyone from the audience to do the same. About sixteen WPI students follow ed suit. The crowd then dispersed.

Flaherty, a W PI senior, considers him self a patriotic A m erican who is a staunch supporter o f the freedom that America has upheld throughout her history. He, along with o ther m em ­ bers o f the “ B urning for Freedom ” group want the people of W orcester to know that the A m erican flag is a symbol o f liberty; liberty which goes so far as to perm it m utilation of the very sym bol o f A m erican independ­ ence. He said that the flag he held was his own, and the law should permit

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him to do w hatever he likes with his property. He stated that he had never considered burning the flag before, and did not want to do such a thing ever again. But he still wished to have the right to bum the flag.

The protest proceeded peacefully and lasted about 20 m inutes. Al­ though num erous W PI and W orcester Police O fficers w ere on hand for the dem onstration, neither they nor the W PI adm inistration intervened dur­ ing the event.

The T & G estim ated the crow d at 100 people; the police report esti­ mated 200. Based on the num ber o f those little flags that were left over after the rally. I ’d say that between 100 and 150 w ere handed out. Not everyone there took one.

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islation was recently passed re­ quiring colleges to m ake cam pus crim e statistics available upon re­ quest. Sim ilar legislation has re­ cently been introduced in the C om m onw ealth o f M assachu­ setts. To show support for the pending legislation, WPI should prepare a statem ent to be in­ cluded in future adm issions m a­ terials that cam pus crim e statis­ tics are available to students and parents upon request. Com pile statistics in a format w hich is easily reproduced and is publicly accessible.

Hire a professional night security staff to patrol the residence hall areas until such time as a decision is m ade to upgrade the residence hall access system to a card sys­ tem . The primary purpose o f the staff would be to m onitor build­ ing access, report safety prob­ lem s, and create a presence in the residence hall area. The SNaP program should be review ed and perhaps elim inated once a profes­ sional night security sta ff is hired.

Increase the cam pus police staff by adding two patrol persons and three dispatchers. U pgrade the current police com m unications system s to include recording capability for all incom ing calls.

Install a backup generator to support the com m unications sys­ tem .

Upgrade crossw alk and ramp access for handicapped individu­ als. Provide better signs and repaint areas for easier identifica­ tion at a cost o f $2,500.

T o avoid situations w here indi­ viduals are alone in academ ic facilities after hours, m onitors should be utilized and stricter guidelines established regarding student access to labs. K ey co n ­ trol to labs should be coordinated and enforced by cam pus police.

A s mentioned previously, a card access system to buildings and labs should be explored to m ini­ m ize the need for key distribu­ tion.

For external groups using WPI facilities a policy should be d e­ veloped through the Events C oor­ dinators O ffice stipulating m ini­ m um safety requirem ents such as hiring off duty police officers as m onitors for all non W PI func­ tions. Residence halls should be excluded from available facilities list during the academ ic year.

H ire an apprentice locksm ith to assist the current locksm ith with the implem entation o f a preven­ tive repair program for locking system s.

Locking system s in residence halls should be rotated annually and all locking system s should be reviewed regularly and replaced as necessary.

14. Continue to pursue the closing o f W est Street to m inim ize the con­ cern about students crossing a busy street and to tighten up the public access to the campus grounds.

15. Provide additional supervision within the residence halls by hir­ ing professional hall directors with evening duty responsibili­ ties. Begin consideration o f reno­ vating space for Hall director apartm ents in facilities.

It should be noted that som e of the above m easures have already been im plem ented. The APSA com m ittee approved the report and voted to pass it along to the budget com m ittee.

The next topic was the student center. Mike Donahue, president o f the student body, presented his goals for a student center. He stressed the need for a new building, and not the renovation o f an existing building. He has been meeting with architects to create exact proposals for the center.

Mike also stressed the increased at­ tractiveness o f a cam pus with a stu­ dent center to prospective students.

President Strauss said that the funding could be m ade available if the center was deem ed a priority issue.

Judy Robinson presented the re­ sults o f the quality o f life comm ittee.

The com m ittee was com posed o f adm inistration and students, and they m ade the follow ing recom m enda­ tions; 1. C om pletely renovate D aniels Hall at a cost o f $1,000,000.

2. Replace all furniture in the Ellsw orth/Fuller apartm ents at a cost o f $167,000.

3. Upgrade the locks and doors in the Ellsw orth/Fuller apartm ents at a cost o f $30,000.

4. Replace the drapes in Riley and D aniels H alls, the Stoddard C om plex, the Ellsw orth/Fuller A partm ents, and the houses at a cost o f $ 100,000.

5. Keep Institute Hall as a residence hall.

6. C o n v e rt ro o m s in M o rg an , Daniels, and Riley Halls into study room s and recreational lounges at a cost o f $200,000.

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the area and renovate into living space. The cost of $3,250,000 will be carried out over four years.

Create a new full time position in the Office of Housing and Resi­ dential Life to handle the needs of international, off-campus, trans­ fer and graduate students. This would cost $40,000 for salary, benefits, and additional office space.

Form a committee to examine the particulars of a campus center.

New construction is recom­ mended, not the remodeling of existing buildings.

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10. A fter the com pletion o f the cam ­ pus center, renovate G om pei’s place into lounge and study space, and reclaim som e o f the space in the dorm s that w as ear­ lier converted into lounges. This option will cost approxim ately $70,000 for the G om pei’s reno­ vation, and $48,000 to reconvert the floor lounges back into dorm s.

T he trustees voted to pass the rec­ om m endations o f this report on to the budget com m ittee.

T he trustees then voted to approve a short term loan fund for fraternity and sorority housing. This loan would be lim ited to $300,000 total, and $50,000 per chapter. The m inim um loan will be $15,000. Interest will be set at the prime rate, and each loan

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Glen Flaherty (standing on the flag), Nick Barone, and Glen M cG uire led the protest against the law prohibiting m utilation of the A m erican flag. m ust go through an approval process.

G reg Baryluk, IFC president, and Jen Tobin, PanHel president, then presented a sum mary o f the G reek life evaluation. They discussed the new rush rules, including the academ ic requirem ents for pledging. Also d is­ cussed was the know ledge each chap­ ter had o f laws and cam pus regula­ tions. The study pointed out several areas which needed no im provem ent, and several which required increased

education. They recom m ended that copies o f the applicable law s and regulations be sent to all chapters.

They also indicated that the m ajority o f the chapters had a good relationship with their neighbors, alum ni, national organizations, and the Dean o f Stu­ dents Office.

A fter discussion o f several other brief reports, the com m ittee ad­ journed at 3:20 pm.

RA se lec tio n p r o c e ss is underway This article is in two parts; the first was written by the Office o f R esiden­ tial Life, and the second by the RA Staff.

Part One: G iven that an RA must deal with issues such as hom esick freshmen, loud stereos, fire drills, and much more, som e o f you might be asking “ why would anyone want to be an RA?” The answ er lies in the many advantages o f the job. For one thing, as an R A you leam a lot about yourself and other people. R A ’s gain a great deal o f self-confidence as they take on recru iters and future em ployers.

R A ’s also have an opportunity to interact with faculty and adm inistra­ tors on a more personal and profes­ sional level. A dditionally, resident advisors receive free room and board.

There are, o f course, responsibili­ ties involved with the RA job. R esi­ dent advisors are expected to be avail­ able in the residence halls as much as possible to m ake sure that things run sm oothly and to help students when necessary. R A ’s answ er questions about classes, schedules, and the sys­ tem in general, such as “W here’s OH 120?,” “W ho do I see about...?,” “ How do I change a course?” R A ’sare also expected to enforce the policies o f the school as covered in training and to be on duty for the residence hal I a certain percentage o f the time.

O n the w hole, the RA jo b is a good experience. It’s fun, challenging, and rew arding. W e have people on the staff w ho have been R A ’s for three or m ore years. They w o uldn’t have stayed if they d id n ’t think there was som ething to be gained from the job.

If y o u ’re thinking about applying, the best advice we can give you is to go for it. Y ou have nothing to lose and everything to gain! It is the toughest jo b y o u ’ll ever love!

Part Two: W ith the beginning o f B Term,

com es the start o f the R esident A dvi­ sor (R A) Selection Process. In order to help you decide if the RA position is for you, we, the RA S taff thought you might like to hear about the selec­ tion process and the jo b from our point o f view.

L et’s start with the selection proc­ ess. Step 1 is to attend one o f the inform ational m eetings run by Judy M cG uire Robinson, D irector o f R esi­ dential Life, Elizabeth Sinkiew icz Reid, A ssistant D irector o f R esiden­ tial Life, and the present RA Staff.

This step is im portant because it gives a candidate the opportunity to see what the jo b is all about and to ask any questions she/he m ight have. Also, RA applications are only available at one o f these tw o meetings. So be sure to attend if you’re interested in be­ com ing an RA! Step 2 is to com plete the application and return it before the deadline. Following this step the Selection C om m ittee will be review ­ ing all applications and determ ining w ho will continue on to the next phase o f the process.

Phase II o f the selection process involves a full Saturday o f group interview s and activities in which candidates are evaluated by the co m ­ m ittee while the candidates interact with one another, attem pt to resolve situation which may arise in the course of the RA job, and have fun!

Follow ing this phase, there is another w aiting period w hile the Selection C om m ittee m akes decisions as to who should be passed into the final phase o f the selection process.

Phase III o f the process involves an interview for each candidate with Judy M cGuire R obinson, Elizabeth Sinkiew icz Reid, and the 1990-1991 Student Hall Directors. This individ­ ual interview focuses on a candidate’s personal traits and qualifications for the RA job. The final selection of RA staff will be m ade follow ing this inter­ view.

D on’t be scared by what seem s to be a long and com plicated process.

A lthough selection is carried out over two term s, this tim e is needed by the Selection C om m ittee to m ake the best possible decisions about the future RA staff. Excluding the am ount of time a candidate spends waiting for decisions to be m ade, the actual time com m itm ent for an applicant is not a great deal.

D uring the spring term , the new RAs get together for training. Among other things, this training involves a ss e rtiv e n e ss tra in in g , listen in g skills, group dynam ics, this group, and effective ways o f dealing with problem situations and a diversified resident com m unity. In the fall the entire staff com es back early for a 7day training program . At that time R A ’s m eet key people from all over the cam pus w ith whom they w ill inter­ act throughout the year. T he R A ’s also review school policies and how they are enforced, as well as other basic inform ation such as how to run a floor m eeting. At the end o f the seven days w e’re ready and anxious for the incom ing class.

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Selected highlights of WPI, 1988-1989 (W PI Release) - Educational A c­ tivity and A ccom plishm ents: In O ctober 1988 U.S. N ews and W orld R eport again recognized WPI in its annual survey o f the best co l­ leges in Am erica. WPI w as ra n k e d fifth am ong the n ation’s 399 com pre­ hensive institutions, based on data about selectivity, faculty quality, re­ sources and retention rates. (C om pre­ hensive institutions are defined as those granting m ore than h alf their degrees in tw o or m ore career-related fields.)

C onstruction o f the George F. Fuller Laboratories, W P I's new in­ form ation sciences building, contin­ ued on schedule. The $9.9 million building, scheduled to be com pleted early in 1990, w ill house the Insti­ tu te’s C om puter Science D epartm ent, central com puter hardw are, com puter support staff and the Instructional M edia Center.

W PI received a $750,00 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to help build Fuller Labs. The term s of the grant required the college to raise the bal­ ance o f funds needed for construction, m ore than $2.5 m illion, by February I, 1989. W PI met the challenge through a com bination of corporate, individual and class-gift support by January 23, 1989.

W PI continued to expand its stu­ dent project program across the globe.

E arlier the Institute had established project centers and exchange pro­ gram s in W ashington, D.C., San Fran­ cisco, London, Ireland, Scotland, G erm any, Sw eden and Sw itzerland.

Students can also com plete projects for city and tow n governm ents in M assachusetts through W P I’s Center for M unicipal Studies. In O ctober 1988 a new Venice Project Program was initiated. The Bangkok Project Center was started in the sum m er of 1989.

Current plans call for the launching o f new centers in Asia, Latin Am erica, South A m erica, and possibly, the Soviet U nion, in the years ahead. In 1988-89 more than 170 students participated in these off-cam pus program s.

A total o f 160 separate research proposals w ere subm itted during the year, 94 new aw ards totaling $4.1 m illion w ere received, for a total of $9.7 m illion in active aw ards. In D ecem ber 1988 the W .M . K eck Foun­ dation approved a grant o f $250,000 and the National Science Foundation aw arded a W PI a $95,000 grant. Both w ill be used to create a new bioprocess technology laboratory in W P I’s D epartm ent o f Biology and B iotechnology. T he laboratory will teach ferm entation and dow nstream processing, skills vital to the em erg­ ing biotechnology industry. It will be designed as a pilot plant with all the apparatus, including ferm entation equipm ent and robotics, needed to take a biotechnology process from the laboratory scale to the pilot scale.

W P I’s Research Development Council (RDC) funded 22 new re­ search p rojects w ith a total o f $97,834. T he goal o f the RDC is to provide faculty seed m oney for re­ search w hich m ight later prove w or­ thy o f outside funding. As o f the end o f the fiscal year, $110,537 in outside research support had been received for projects begun with these new RDC allocations.

Proposals for nearly $1.8 m illion were pending.

A lso, by June 30, 1989, three papers had been published in refereed jo u r­ nals, three w ere subm itted o r in-press, and 12 had been presented at scientific m eetings based on new work funded by the RDC. A sim ilar body, the

Education Development Council, last year funded 13 proposals for inno­ vative approaches to classroom and laboratory teaching for a total of $57,542.

In February 1988 WPI Studies in Science, Technology and Culture, a book series edited by W P I’s Interdis­ ciplinary Studies Division, published its first title, Science and Cultural

Context: S oviet Scientists in Comparative Perspective by Nina Toren, senior lecturer in business adm inistration at the H ebrew U niver­

sity of Jerusalem .

W P I’s new $2.8 million telecom­ munications network w as c o m ­ pleted last year. The system includes a fiberoptic Ethernet backbone that provides high-speed data com m uni­ cations to every office, classroom and laboratory on cam pus, a new digital telephone system , and a cable televi­ sion backbone.

WPI jo in ed the New England

Academic Research Network consortium (NEARnet), which gives m em ber colleges the ability to send and receive data at 56,000 bits per second. N EA R net also links W PI to the thousands o f m em bers o f Internet, a national com puter netw ork. U sing Internet, W PI faculty, staff and stu ­ dents can easily com m unicate with colleagues across the country and access rem ote databases and special­ ized com puter resources, including those m anaged by the National S ci­ ence Foundation.

William F. Gasko, a successful entrepreneur him self, w as named the first Robert H. Grant ’42 Professor of Entrepreneurship. The profes­ sorship w as established to recognize, foster and strengthen the spirit of entrepreneurship am ong W PI stu ­ dents and faculty. It was created with a $1 million com m itm ent from G rant, who also provides funds for the Robert Grant Scholarships for stu ­ dent entrepreneurs. W inners o f this y ear’s scholarships w ere Raym ond Chin ’89, T im othy Storey ’89 and Stephen T rier ’90, founders o f Soltaics Engineering Inc. The com pany m akes solar-pow ered products, in­ cluding battery elim inator for use with portable consum er electronics devices, and a trickle-charger for boat and recreational vehicle batteries.

WPI’s Computer Science De­ partment was reaccredited for six years by the Computer Science Ac­ creditation Board (CSAB). The departm ent w as one of the first in the nation to be accredited by the board in

1986.

Tw o new laboratories in the A tw a­ ter Kent Laboratories building d e ­ voted to m icroelectronics education were dedicated in D ecem ber 1988.

Equipm ent for the Computer-Aided

Design (CAD) Engineering Labora­ tory and the Semiconductor In­ structional Processing Laboratory was supplied through the M assachu­ setts M icroelectronics Center. The Sem iconductor Instructional P ro c­ essing Laboratory includes a clean room and extensive facilities for fab ­ ricating solid-state devices.

W PI estab lish ed the Visiting Mathematics Scholar Program to prom ote the exchange o f ideas and inform ation betw een W PI and the region’s public school systems. As the first visiting scholar, M arie Tangney, an outstanding m athem atics teacher from W orcester’s D oherty M emorial High School, served as a visiting faculty m em ber in W P I’s D epartm ent o f M athem atical S ci­ ences. T angney helped organize the first WPI Invitational Mathematics Meet in O ctober 1988. Four-person team s from 47 M assachusetts high schools com peted for scholarships and awards.

In N o v em b er 1988 P resid en t Strauss announced the establishm ent o f the Helen E. Stoddard Fellowship in M aterials Science and E ngineer­ ing. This endow ed fellow ship will be aw arded annually to an outstanding first-year graduate student. Helen Stoddard is the w idow o f the late Robert W. Stoddard, a W PI trustee for 33 years and a longtim e supporter of the W PI m aterials engineering p ro ­ gram through the W ym an-G ordon C om pany, which he led for m any years W P I’s m aterial engineering laboratory building is named for Stoddard.

Faculty and Staff Highlights: In the 1988-1989 academ ic year 17 men and wom en joined the faculty.

The appointm ents include four new assistant professors in the D epartm ent o f M athematical Sciences. N ear the end o f the year, WPI also named three new departm ent heads, all existing

m em bers o f the faculty. T heir terms were set to begin on July I, 1989.

They are W illiam W. Durgin in m e­ chanical engineering, Albert Sacco, Jr. in chem ical engineering and Helen G. V assallo in m anagem ent.

In o th er appointm ents, David Cyganski, professor of electrical engineering, w as prom oted from chief inform ation officer to the newly created position o f vice president for inform ation system s and services; Robert W. Gailey, form erly vice president for adm inistration and fi­ nance and assistant treasurer at W est­ ern New England C ollege, was named W P I’s new treasurer; M ichael M as­ souh w as nam ed dean o f graduate studies and research after serving as acting dean for the previous year; Richard D. Sisson Jr., professor o f m echanical engineering, was named director o f m anufacturing engineer­ ing; and Francis J. T rainor, formerly a principal in the W orcester public school system, w as chosen to direct W P I’s School/C ollege C ollaborative for M ath and Science Education. The collaborative brings together under one um brella m any WPI program s aim ed al enhancing the quality o f precollege instruction in science and m athem atics.

In M ay 1989 Harold W. Hilsinger, associate professor o f physics, and Allen H. Hoffman, professor o f m echanical engineering, w ere chosen as the 1989 recipients of the T rustees’ A w ards for O utstanding T eaching and O utstanding Scholarship and R e­ search, respectively.

William R. Grogan ‘46, dean o f undergraduate studies, received the first T rustees’ A w ard for O u tstan d in g S ervice.

H ilsinger has been on the faculty since 1962. His aw ard citation described him as “dedicated to instilling in his students an appreciation for the ele­ gance, beauty and pow er o f physical principles.” H offm an, on the faculty since 1965, was cited for his research in biom echanics that established that neurons can be em ployed as force transducers in the study o f the m e­ chanics o f soft tissue. G rogan was recognized for his extraordinary con­ tributions to the Institute as “one o f the founders of and continuing stan­ dard bearers of the W PI Plan.”

V isiting lecturer o f m usic Richard G . Falco received the Henry “ B oots” M ussulli Jazz Educator o f the Year Award from the Jazz W orcester M u­ sic Festival for his contributions to the advancem ent o f jazz through educa­ tion.

David A. Lucht, director o f W P I’s C enter for Firesafety Studies, as­ sum ed the presidency o f the Society for Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) in May. Richard L.P. Custer, asso­ ciate director o f the W PI center, re­ ceiv e d the s o c ie ty ’s D ire c to r’s A ward, which recognized his contri­ bution to the publication o f the SFPE

Handbook o f Fire Protection Engi­ neering.

John A. Mayer, professor o f m echanical engineering and director o f the Institute’s nuclear engineering program , was appointed chairm an o f the M assachusetts Low-Level R adio­ active W aste (LLRW ) M anagem ent Board. M ayer also received a Dedi­ cated Service A ward from the A m eri­ can Society o f M echanical Engineers.

Robert C. Plumb, professor o f chem istry, received the John A. Tim m A ward, the highest accolade of the New England A ssociation o f C hem is­ try Teachers, for his more than a d ec­ ade o f research on the results of the Mars V iking lander biology experi­ ments. Plumb published the m ajor results o f that research, which pre­ sented the first com prehensive model for the chem istry o f the M artian regolith, in an article in Nature, the inter­ national British science journal, in April 1989.

James E. Rollings, associate p ro ­ fessor o f chem ical engineering, was one o f 46 A m ericans selected by the W.K Kellogg Foundation to partici­ pate in the 1989 W .K. K ellogg N a­ tional Fellow ship Program . The tenyear-old program is designed to in­ crease participants’ skills and insights

in areas outside o f their chosen disci­ plines. Rollings, past recipient of a P re sid en tial Y oung In v e stig a to r A ward, will receive a $35,000 grant to help underdeveloped countries de­ velop low-cost crops that can be com m ercialized and sold on the world m arket.

Malama Robbins, adjunct associ­ ate professor of m usic and director o f the W om en’s C horale, received the Lowell Mason A w ard from the M as­ sachusetts Music Educators A ssocia­ tion for her outstanding contributions to m usic education.

Lance Schachterle, chairm an o f the Interdisciplinary Studies D ivi­ sion, was elected a com panion o f L ondon’s Institute o f Electrical Engi­ neers in D ecem ber 1988. The rank is equivalent to fellow for individuals who are not electrical engineers. The honor was bestowed in recognition o f Schachterle’s role as coordinator o f W P I’s London Project Center.

Thomas A. Shannon, professor o f religion and social ethics, won recog­ nition for two o f his books, Abortion

and Catholicism: The American De­ bate and Religion and Artificial Re­ production: An Inquiry into the Vati­ can Instruction on Respectfor Human Life, at the annual national convention o f the Catholic Press A ssociation.

Student Highlights: In Septem ber 1988 W PI welcomed the 666 m em bers of the Class of 1992, including students from 37 states and 27 foreign countries. The class was selected from 2,820 applications, the second highest total in W P I’s history.

W om en com prised 19 percent o f the class. Enrollm ent figures for the fall o f 1988 included 2,579 undergradu­ ates, 365 full-tim e graduate students, and 790 students in evening graduate and continuing education programs.

In N ovem ber 1988, eight m em bers o f W P I’s Class o f 1988 received col­ lege engineering aw ards in the Pre-

Professional Arc Welding Awards Program sponsored by the Jam es F. Lincoln Arc W elding Foundation.

The foundation annually recognizes outstanding achievem ent by engi­ neering and technology students in solving design, engineering, fabrica­ tion and research problem s. Three W PI u n d erg rad u ates shared the $2,000 Best of Program for a M ajor Q ualifying Project on motorcycle wobble.

Nearly 30 m em bers o f W P I’s thea­ ter group, M asque, perform ed a col­ lection o f short plays written by WPI students at the “ Fringe,” part o f the annual International Artists Festi­ val in Edinburgh, Scotland, the larg­ est arts celebration in the world. The W PI production, called “Short C ir­ cuits,” was also perform ed in London and several other locations around the United K ingdom.

In Septem ber 1988 m em bers o f the WPI Wireless Association, celebrat­ ing the c lu b ’s 80th anniversary, m anned their ham radios during H ur­ ricane Gilbert and helped W orcesterarea residents verify the safety o f rela­ tives.

The WPI Women’s Chorale hosted the 27th annual Classic Colle­

giate Women’s Glee Club Festival Competition in February and eam ed a gold medal.

W P I’s In te rn a tio n a l S tu d e n t C ouncil hosted the 1989 Interna­ tional Student Olympics in April 1989. More than 350 students from New England colleges and universi­ ties competed.

W PI celebrated the 100th season

of intercollegiate varsity football and the arrival o f new head coach Jack Siedlecki. The Engineers fin­ ished the season with a 4-4 record.

The season began with the first-ever night football gam e on A lumni Field and concluded with a com e-from behind victory against Bowdoin C ol­ lege (the latter game included an Eastern Collegiate A thletic C onfer­ ence record-setting 97-yard pass com pletion). The Women’s Field Hockey Team (19-1) won the New-8 Conference cham pionship. During the season the team am asses 101 goals, including a record 30 goals by

C a rrie Nolet ‘90 of Berlin, N.H. The W o m en ’s C ro s s C o u n try Team (122) took second place at the M assachu­ setts A ssociation of Intercollegiate A thletics fo r W omen (M A IA W ) T ournam ent, while the Women’s Volleyball Team (24-14) battled to second-place finishes at both the M AIAW and New-8 tournam ents.

The Women’s Track Team (8-2) cap tu red its first-ev er T ri-S tate C ham pionship and placed fourth am ong 17 team s at the 1989 New England D ivision III W om en’s O ut­ door Invitation. The M en’s Track Team (9-5), concluding its 22nd consecutive winning season, tied for ninth place (o f 25 teams) at the D ivi­ sio n III New E n g la n d Cham pionships. David Hearrin ‘90 o f W ells, M aine, placed sixth in the shot put and eamed A ll-A m erican honors in the Division III National IndoorT rack C ham pionships. H e was the Institute’s first m en’s indoor track A ll-A m erican.

Cam pus Events: Ralph E. Gomory, senior vice president for science and technology at International Business M achines C orporation (IBM), delivered the com m encem ent address at W P I’s 121st graduation exercises. Shortly after C om m encem ent G om ory was nam ed president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The C om m ence­ ment them e was “The Inform ation Age: Its Im plication for H igher Edu­ cation.” G om ory received an honor­ ary doctor o f science degree. O ther honorary degree recipients were Andrew S. Grove, president and c h ie f o p eratin g o fficer of Intel C orporation; Kenneth G. Fisher, chairm an, president and chief ex ecu­ tive officer o f Encore C om puter C or­ poration; and John J. Shields, then senior vice president of Digital E quip­ ment C orporation and a 1969 graduate o f W P I’s School of Industrial M an­ agem ent. A total of 797 degrees were awarded during the com m encem ent, including 556 bachelor o f science, 17 m aster of business adm inistration, 176 m aster o f science an d 13 Ph.D. degrees.

In the sum m er of 1988, WPI along with the A m erican A ntiquarian Soci­ ety and O ld Sturbridge V illage, hosted the 10th annual m eeting of the

Society for Historians o f the Early American Republic (SHEAR).

W P I’s D epartm ent of B iology and Biotechnology hosted the fifth Worc­

ester Colloquium of the New Eng­ land Biotechnology Association in October. T he theme was “ How to G et the Job Done: Novel M ethods and A pplications in B iotechnology.”

In O ctober, W PI’s C hem istry D epartm ent hosted the second annual

Symposium on Photochemistry, which brought 60 researchers to ­ gether to discuss “Photochem istry and Spectroscopy in M edicine.” The departm ent also hosted its second biannual chem ical education sym po­ sium . This y ear’s sym posium , “Per­ ceptions of Chemistry,” was cospon­ sored by the New England A ssocia­ tion o f C hem istry Teachers and a t­ tracted 200 high school, college and university chem istry teachers.

Hans P. Moravec, director of the Mobile R obot Laboratory at C am egie-M ellon University an d author o f the popular book Mind Children, d e ­ liv e re d th e 23rd a n n u a l Hull Memorial Lecture. T he lecture com m em orated the 20th anniversary o f W P I’s C om puter Science D epart­ m ent.

A d m in istra tiv e and F inancial Highlights: Faced w ith both a shrinking pool o f college-age students in the United States and declining interest in sci­ ence and technology m ajors am ong high school students, W PI began work on a new Strategic Plan for the Institute. T he plan w ill help WPI determ ine strategies and goals in the areas of enrollm ent and financial aid, student life and academ ic program to meet the challenges of the 1990s. The effort was initiated by Howard G. Freem an, chairm an of the Board of co n tin u ed on p a g e 5

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lateral cuts w ere made in nuclear arm s in the Baltic region.

T he East G erm an governm ent said some travel restrictions to the W est would be eased.

L eader Krenz said that protest w ould “worsen the situtation.” H ow ever, thousands of people protested throughout the week. 200,000 pro­ tested for dem ocracy in Leipzig, and near the end o f the week, 100,000 protested in Dresden.

O utside o f Berlin, and independent trade union called Reform was started in an electronics plant. Krenz said he would m eet with some o f the opposition leaders, but he m ade it clear that although there w ould be an ease on travel, the B erlin wall would not com e dow n.

Soviet Foreign m inister Sheverdnadze said that the Soviets violated the 1972 ABM treaty w ith the radar statibn in K rasnoyarsk. He said the radar station would be soon dism antled.

Hungary declared itself a dem ocracy and openly com m em orated the 1956 uprising against the Soviets that was crushed by the Soviet Army. N ear the end o f the week, the US restored most favored nation status with H un­ gary.

O n a trip to Finland, G orbachev assured that the Soviets w ould not intervene in the internal affairs o f other nations in the W arsaw pact.

The British C om m onw ealth, a group of 49 nations, met in M alaysia, w here they gave South Africa six m onths to com e through with th eir prom ises to ease restricitons on apartheid.

If they fail to do w hat they said, they will face new er and tougher restrictions from the com ­ m onw ealth. South A frica did test launch a short range ballistic m issile that could carry nuclear weapons. A US official says that Israel helped, although Israel denies the charges.

A proposed peace sponsored by the Arab league fell through in Lebanon. The country has been engaged in a civil w ar for 13 years.

Iranian parlim ent leader Rafsanjani said that the Iranians w ould try and get some w est­ ern hostages freed if the US unfroze Iranian assets. Later in the w eek, som e o f the kidnap­ pers said they w ould exchange some western hostages, including journalist Terry Anderson, for 15 shiite terrorists held in prison in Kuwait.

N A TO officials met in Lisbon, Portugal to discuss the nuclear arm s strategy in Europe.

A fter the two day conference, they concluded that NATO did need to keep a strong nuclear strategy for the present time, and they urged the soviets to talk on short range nuclear weapons.

In Finland, G orbachev did announce that uni­

N atio n al News The San Fransisco area continued its reco v ­ ery from the earthquake. The death toll was reported to be around 63. A man was rescued from the freew ay last w eekend- days after the initial quake. The federal governm ent apporved a $2.85 billion relief package, and C alifor­ nia raised its sales tax tem porarily.

13,000 people from the bay area are ho m e­ less.

U nder a certain restrictions o f the Senate Intelligence C om m ittee, the US governm ent had to inform foreign dictators when they knew o f a coup attem pt. A fter negotiations last week betw een the W hite House and m em bers o f the Senate Intelligence C om m ittee, Bush was given a freer hand in foreign coup attem pts.

The Space Shuttle A tlantis returned to Earth on M onday after its five day mission to deploy the G alileo probe to Jupiter. A tlantis landed three hours early because o f w eather condi­ tions.

A Phillips petroleum plant in Pasadena, T exas exploded on Tuesday, and started a fire that was visible for 10 miles. T w o people died, 124 were injured and 22 w ere missing. O ffi­ cials still are unsure o f what caused the blast.

The house failed to override B ush’s veto on a bill that w ould have eased funding for abor­ tion. The were 51 votes short o f the required tw o thirds m ajority. The M ichigan State Sen­ ate required parental consent on all m inors who try to get an abortion, and the Pennsylvania house said that there could be no abortions after 24 w eeks o f pregnancy.

House and Senate officials agreed to con­ tinue the G rum m an F - 14 carrier based fighter.

T hey also approved $3.8 billion/year for the space based anti m issile system.

Rep. G arcia (D -N Y ) was found guilty by a federal ju ry , o f extortion involving the W edtech scandal.

T elevangelist Jim B akker was sentenced to 45 years in prison and was fined $500,000. He will serve m ost o f his prison term in a federal prison in M innesota.

E co n o m ic N ews The U.S. econom y grew at an annual rate of 2.5% in the third quarter, although the trade

m

im balance was the highest in two years.

Early last week, Ford decided not to enter in a joint venture with the autom aker Saab, be­ cause they said that m odernizing Saabs plants would elim inate any potential for profit. They then focused their attention on Jaguar, which had been negotiating with GM . On W ednes­ day, Ford said they were interested in acquiring all of Jaguar. On Thursday, GM said they were interested in buying 15% o f Jaguar. Many officials think that a bidding war will start betw een GM and Ford.

DEC introduced m ainfram es in an attem pt to com pete with IBM .

Sears sales were dow n 16% in the third quarter- their first m ajor loss in 5 years.

United A irlines stock fluctuated as the em ployee led buyout failed.

Union C arb id e’s earnings were down 35% in the third quarter. The big three autom akers also posted declines for the period, while oil com panies were mixed.

A nheuser Busch said it would start big discounts on its beer, which may start a price war in the upcom ing months.

S p o rts News The A ’s won the third gam e o f the world series Friday night. The series had been de­ layed for several days due to the quake.

Tagliabue was nam ed the new N FL com ­ missioner, and will serve a five year term . He is replacing Pete Rozelle. In the NFL w eek 7, the Bears lost their third straight and fell to 43. The V ikings defeated the Packers for the first time in 3 years, and w ent 5-2, and are now on top o f the NFC central. It is the first time since 1982 that the Bears have not been at least tied for num ber one in their division. The Dallas C ow boys lost their seventh straight, and are the only w inless team in the NFL.

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After raid, O sh kosh stu d en ts march for lowering drinking a g e (C PS) — H oping to reverse a political m ovem ent tow ard prohibition and lower their legal drinking age limits. U niversity of W is­ consin at O shkosh students have staged a series o f protests.

Both have ended in m ass arrests, and have divided the cam pus. Acting Chancellor David W ard, for one, refused to take a stand on the drinking age issue, but has pledged to support stu d en ts’ efforts to low er it through political m eans. “ I d o n ’t see drinking being stopped” by the 21 -year-old limit, said student body President M ike Fum ner, noting that about 75 percent o f the 11,917 students at O shkosh are under 2 1. “ Parties will continue. I ’d rather it be in a controlled atm osphere (such as a bar).”

T he higher drinking age at Oshkosh, as at o ther cam puses around the country, effectively has led underaged students in private apart­ m ents to set up bars o f their own, often charg­ ing classm ates they barely know money to draw beer from kegs.

T o set an exam ple for the school year, local police in Septem ber raided a “party” in the

basement o f som e O shkosh students’ house, confiscating kegs, arresting 80 students and slapping the students w ho lived there with a $17,000 fine.

In response, O shkosh students protested first on Oct. 12 and again on Oct. 19 in angry street dem onstrations that led to 55 arrests and about $2,000 in property dam age.

“The current situation,” W ard w rote in a memo to university residents, “cam e out o f the state’s reluctant 21 standard age for drinking.”

W hile asserting his support for tow n efforts to prevent students from running “ illegal tav­ erns,” he said the cam pus w ould help support student efforts to get the drinking age lowered through political m eans. “ I will support a process that will allow (students) to debate the issue and put it in legislative form ,” W ard said.

Students, a UW O spokesm an said, were upset that the fines levied on underaged drink­ ers the O shkosh cam pus w ere so m uch larger than the fines levied in crackdow ns on under­ aged drinkers arrested at other U niversity of W isconsin cam puses.

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WPI grad returns to talk about quality

by Dmitry Milikovsky Paul allaire President o f the Xerox C orpora­ tion was on cam pus to give a speech to the A dvisory Com m ittees on quality. Mr. Allaire w as a m em ber o f the class o f 1960, and came to speak about the long road Xerox went through to regain the m arket they had lost to the Japanese and how the rest o f the country could benefit from their experience.

A lthough everyone has a pet reason on why the Japanese were able to forge ahead in the race for econom ic suprem acy, the real reason stands as sim ple arrogance. This nation had grow n to accept that we had been m agically given the role as the top econom ic pow er in the w orld.

X erox was no different than any other com pany in this respect. A fter inventing the first copier and years o f m arket dom ination X erox too had fallen in this respect. C om pla­ cency had taken its toll though. Fortunately X erox reacted in time in a different way than m any other corporations. Instead o f giving up they sw itched the way they looked, how they did their business, and they looked at how the com petition ran their business. Xerox discov­ ered som e am azing things about their assum p­ tions. They thought that the Japanese had high costs; they were wrong. The thought that the Japanese had poor quality; wrong again. The fact w as that they sold better quality at a lower price. The m ost startling fact o f all was that the Japanese m ade a profit at it. No m atter the area the Japanese did it quicker and better.

T he time had com e for X erox to m ake m ajor changes in the way things had to be done. The changes, how ever, took a while to take effect.

T hey also produced a great deal o f frustration am ong the em ployees o f the com pany. The quality had to be more than just a simple quality in products; the quality had to be a change in the way each em ployee did their job.

T his change had to com e from the em ployees them selves.

All o f this w orked to help Xerox becom e the first A m erican corporation to be targeted by

the Japanese to regain a m arket share. Mr. Allaire believed that this experience can show the rest o f the nation how to regain its position as an econom ic pow er in the next decade.

The path to regain the position is that o f five rules. First the upper m anagem ent must be dedicated to the change because w ithout their effort, all changes will fail. The m anagers m ust do more that ju st speak for the change, they must be w holeheartedly behind the change. They m ust sim ply lead by exam ple.

Second, labor must be behind the change.

The work force is the key, because they are at the level to see w hat changes really are needed.

The union can work with m anagem ent to im prove conditions for both sides. This leads to an environm ent that is beneficial to the econom y as a whole.

The third rule is that any change takes an initial investm ent. This m eans both money and tim e to retrain the w orkers, change equipm ent, and persuade custom ers to believe in the new im proved approach. The investm ent may seem large and often times painful, but the results far outw eigh any hardships that m ay fall along the path.

Fourth, and most im portant o f all, it requires patience and discipline. Because no m atter how sim ple the change may seem to be, the actual detailing will be more com plicated and difficult. The problem s may com e from any­ where and thus m ust all be handled. The analgoy Mr. A llaire used is a good one. He talked of a bam boo farm er. They must water seed every day for four years w ithout result.

T hen in the next ninety days it grow s sixty feet.

Finally it must be understood that im prove­ ment is a continuous process. For every time you im prove, the com petition is also im prov­ ing. All your im provem ents also m ake the custom er expect m ore im provem ents. This leads to a never ending spiral in the search for quality.

Most im portant, we m ust heed an old o rien­ tal philosophy: “If it isn’t perfect, m ake it better.”

I Q P In sig h ts Theatrical interactions

by Brian Weissman and Jeffrey Yoder T his w eek’s colum n exam ines a project in progress dealing with hum an interaction. The students undertaking this project are Harold M ackiem an and Deb England.

Professor Susan Vick will be advising. The project, w hich is as yet untitled, w ill focus on how the m any aspects o f a theatrical production inter­ act. The project will be done from the direc­ to r’s and producer’s points o f view.

H arold and Deb noticed that in som e p ro ­ ductions all things ran sm oothly due to certain interactions betw een the many crew s, while o ther productions shone in some areas, but w ere neglected in others. They concluded that this w as due to the style o f the producer and the director. Som e producers interacted well with everyone on their staff and kept good com m u­ nication lines open. O thers put too m uch stock into particular aspects o f the show while not

paying enough attention to others. This caused friction betw een the crew s and resulted in a w eaker production.

Tney decided to determ ine which styles o f producing and directing w orked best by look­ ing at how various productions were done.

A fter that they planned to apply w hat th e y ’ve learned to a production o f their own.

The end result o f this project will be a production w herein they will use what they have learned. The production has already been selected. “Blue W indow ” by C raig Lucas will be perform ed in January o f 1990. The MW Repertory Etc. theatre com pany will be spon­ soring the production. H arold will direct thepproduction and D eb will produce. W ithin the scope o f the show they will need to interact with a host o f crew s and people. They will need to deal with such things as casting, selecting a set and lighting designer, overseeing the d e­ signs, getting together m usicians, and many others.

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Paul Allaire, President o f the Xerox Corporation and member o f the class o f 1960, visited WPI last Thursday to speak about product quality.

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WPI highlights, 1988-89 Trustees. Initially, study com m ittees polled the trustees and the rest o f the WPI com m unity and m ade recom m endations. Based on this work a task force will draft a strategic plan during 1989-90. O ther college com m ittees were established to investigate and m ake rec­ om m endations on the quality o f life in WPI student housing, alcohol and drug policies and issues, and cam pus security.

Four new m em bers were elected to the WPI Board o f Trustees: P au l W. Bayliss ‘60, vice president for m arket planning and m anage­ ment for A T& T N etw ork Systems, Holmdel, N.J.; Arthur J. LoVetere ‘60, president and

M orehouse e x p e ls two, s u s p e n d s eigh t after fraternity p led g e d ie s (C PS) — T w o students have been expelled and eight m ore suspended following the Oct. 18 death o f an A lpha Phi A lpha pledge at A t­ lan ta's M orehouse C ollege.

“C learly w e want to send a m essage to fra­ ternities that hazing o f any kind is not tolerated and will not be tolerated,” said M orehouse spokesm an Robert B olton. “From our stand­ point, the college defines hazing as harass­ m ent, m ental and/or physical."

Pledges told Alpha Phi Alpha state director R obert W illis they w ere “ pushed and shoved around” w hen they failed to answ er questions about the fraternity correctly.

Dr. Joseph Burton, C obb County medical exam iner, said an autopsy did not reveal any bruises or visible injuries on Joel H arris, who collapsed during the questioning.

O ther pledges said they d id n ’t see the sophom ore get hit.

M edical exam iners say Harris had an en ­ larged heart, which contributed to his death.

A lpha Phi A lpha — the natio n 's oldest black fraternity — prohibits hazing, which is considered a crim e in G eorgia.

In late A ugust, Z eta Beta Tau and Tau Kappa Epsilon w ent further. The tw o banned pledging as a way to end a series o f hazing deaths, injuries, fights and racial incidents at various houses at R utgers U niversity and at the universities o f L ow ell, T ennessee, T exas and California, to nam e a few.

The M orehouse tragedy “continues to point out the need to persist in education about and eradicating hazing” said Jonathan Brant, head o f the Indianapolis-based N ational Interfrater­ nity Council.

In 1988, M orehouse stopped m ovie director Spike Lee, a M orehouse alum , from finishing film ing “School D aze” on cam pus in part because it featured hazing scenes.

In O ctober a M orehouse judiciary court, m ade up o f adm inistrators and faculty m em ­ bers, im posed the m ost severe penalties they

could on the 10 fraternity m em bers, whose names were not released.

B olton said A lpha Phi A lpha broke at least two M orehouse rules by beginning the pledge process before the sanctioned Oct. 19 date.

chief executive officer of M acD erm id, Inc., W aterbury Conn.; Myles McDonough, chair­ man o f the board, chief executive officer and treasurer o f Flexcon Com pany Inc., Spencer, Mass.; and Judith Nitsch ‘75, senior vice president at Allen, D em urjian, M ajor & Nitsch, Inc., Cam bridge, Mass.

Excellent total returns on the college’s endowment fund perm itted reinvestm ent of a substantia) portion of those returns during recent years. A s o f June 30, 1989, the endow ­ ment investm ent had a m arket value o f $99 million, an increase o f 11 percent over the prior year’s $89 m illion.

C ontributions to the $52.5 m illion Cam­ paign for Excellence, begun in N ovem ber 1986 and scheduled to conclude in N ovem ber 1990, were valued at $47.7 million, or about 91 percent o f the goal, as o f June 30, 1989. That total includes 11 gifts o f $1 m illion or m ore and 10 new m em bers o f the Presidential Founders, the group o f supporters w hose contributions m eet or surpass John B oynton’s founding gift o f $100,000. The 1988-1989 Annual Alumni Fund, including corporate m atching gifts, sur­ passed $2 m illion, a new record. The average gift was an all-tim e high o f $284.

W P I n e e d s to “ r e m e m b e r t h e tr a d itio n H ow many o f you freshm en actually made it to the rope pull? About 20 m inutes after the end o f the hom ecom ing festivities at the foot­ ball field, I, along with m any other freshm en, started to go to Institute P ond to see the sopho­ m ores get covered in m ud. W hat we saw was dejected freshm en saying “go back, it’s all over.” Now, correct me if I ’m wrong, but the announcer at the gam e said that the rope pull w ould take place 30 m inutes after the events at the football field w ere over. So, the freshmen lost. But, did we lose fairly? Seeing as how about h alf o f the freshm en got to the park after the pull was over, but before the half hour was up, I d o n ’t think we did.

A nother point I’d like to make: the them e o f hom ecom ing w as “celebrate the tradition,” right? W ell, from what I gather, the freshm en and sophom ore classes used to have a heated rivalry, w ith m ore events than ju st a rope pull.

W hy not rem em ber the tradition, and have a softball o r a football gam e along with the rope pull?

W hy not add other com petitions?

M em bers o f the sophom ore class: why d o n ’t we have another rope pull, this time w ith all o f the freshm en. This tim e, m aybe it could start at the right tim e. O r are you afraid o f us winning?

A m em ber o f the freshm en class.

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Dana Carvey hosts a “special” show • by Pat Charles Features Editor On O ctober 23, com edians Tony V and Dana Carvey entertained a large Homecom ing crow d in H arrington Auditorium .

Tony V opened the event with his cutting and pessim istic jo k es about life and fools who dare to venture beyond their living room sofa.

V 's form ula for eternal life: “ You never hear about anyone dying on their couch.” One look at V verifies his strict adherence to this phi­ losophy on life.

Finally, Saturday Night L ive’s well known Dana C arvey took the stage. Carvey is fam ous for a variety o f roles on Saturday Night includ­ ing the "Church L ady” and Hans of “ Hans and Franz." In an interview after the show, Carvey told about his career before Saturday Night L iv e ;"... I had been working in clubs for about 10 years... Saturday Night Live was my ‘big break '.” Carvey says most of his characters developed from his stand-up act.

Fortunately, C arvey did not rely on his well known characters, but proved to be a m aster of im personations and introduced some o f his lesser known m aterial. Carvey did perfect im i­ tations from Jim m y Stew art, to Jessie Jackson, to G eorge Bush. Carvey captured the vague and indefinite discourse o f politics. C arv ey 's G eorge Bush handles a crisis situation: “ Not enough inform ation at this time... w aiting for

m ore data... at a later tim e.” And John T ra­ volta, who Carvey generalized could be any­ one living in Brooklyn.

C arvey did finally introduce his best known character in an entertaining dialogue and con­ frontation between the strong willed, pure and C hristian Church Lady and the overbearing and com m anding “Scarface.” A ccording to C arvey, the character o f the Church Lady developed from his experience with old ladies from his own church and TV evangelists.

C arv ey ’s performance contrasted Tony V 's loud mouth, tough guy perform ance. Carvey dem onstrated the power o f intelligence and thought. As the Church Lady m aintains her esteem and calm arguing with any evil, even Satan, and has Hans, C arv ey ’s depiction o f physical strength and m asculinity are por­ trayed as slightly less than effective or intelli­ gent. Carvey also mocked his deep voiced and bearded junior high class m ates and portrayed him self as simply a “ fetus with shoes.”

Carvey closed the show with his fam ous em otional rock ballad and keyboard piece about the m eaningless, “S h e ’s C ho p p in ’ B roc­ co li.”

W PI has hosted an assortm ent o f larger show s and im portant guests as in previous years. In addition, a highlight o f the show was the announcem ent o f 10,000 M aniacs, which will be appearing on cam pus on D ecem ber 3rd.

Dana Carvey doing one o f his im personations.

Cocktails comedy

by Joe Parker

NEW SPEAK ST A F F P H O T O / RO B SIM S

C om edy Night was O ctober 13, and the en ­ tertainm ent was tw o com edians from the B os­ ton Area. The First was Rich Jenkins. He was the im m ediate success of the evening. He played o ff the audience and heckles vey w ell.

Thin Red Line opens in G om pei’s for The Service last Saturday night.

Thin Red Line and The S erv ice in the pub

by Rick Pires It is not very often in tod ay ’s world o f big money rock ‘n roll to see a band that plays m usic because they enjoy playing music. This Saturday, O ctober 28th, in G om pei’s Place, there were tw o bands that really seem ed to enjoy what they were doing.

The crowd was small com pared to the crow ds that have been at recent Pub events.

This was probably due to the large num ber o f Hallow een activities that were also scheduled for Saturday night. So for those o f you that m ade the m istake o f not being at G o m p ei’s Place on Saturday night, the two bands that played were Thin Red Line and The Service.

Thin Red Line is a WPI band, while The Service is from Chicago.

Thin Red Line cam e out to play first. The band has four m em bers. The lead singer, John M acNeill, also plays keyboard and sax, and the bass player (Dave R ostcheck)and guitar player (Troy N ielsen) switch instrum ents for a few songs. L ayin' out the beat in the back is Pete Jenkins on drum s. As I m entioned before, all the m em bers o f the band are from W PI. In talking with the band before the show, they described their m usic as red They also said that they all hate MTV, which m akes them okay by me.

Thin Red Line has played in the Pub before, although I didn’t see them. I was told that they were better this time than last time. Regardless of how they were last time, I thought they put on a good show on Saturday. They opened with a song called “ I D o n t’ C are.” The first thing I noticed about the band was the energy they put into their music. They d id n ’t move around on stage as much as a lot o f bands, but they played hard. Looking back at my notes o f the show. I

noticed that I wrote the w ord “ loud” quite a few tim es. The guitar player’s hands were flying all over the neck o f the guitar, and he was strumm in ’ away like his life depended on it.

My favorite song o f the night was the fourth song o f the set, called “ Sound City B looz.”

This song, true to its nam e, has a blues sound to it, and features excellent guitar and bass work.

It was only a matter o f time before Troy broke a string on his guitar, the way he was b eatin ’ on the strings, and a string finally snapped during “Death V alley ’69," one o f the two covers that they played. They went right into the next song, called “ M ellow M om ent," after a quick guitar change. The song did not resem ble its name in m y opinion. A nother favorite o f mine was a song called “ Kill Yer Room m ate," which they said was about their freshm an experience. The song supposedly has over forty verses, but they only played two.

A lso quite exciting w as the record give­ aw ay they had. They launched a m ultitude of album s into the crowd after “ M ellow M o­ m ent.” I was fortunate enough to get the cover o f L eif G arret’s latest album , with a free pin-up poster inside.

A nother thing 1noticed about Thin Red Line is that they d id n ’t announce the nam es o f any o f th eir songs. They would finish one song and go right into the next song. They also varied the style and types o f songs that they played, which added to the interest of th eir m usic. Although they seemed to lack a certain am ount o f stage presence, and did not interact with the audience very much, I thought they were an excellent, talented band, and they should be a contender in this years Battle o f the Bands.

A fter a very short break. The Service cam e on stage. They feature a keyboard player, a

guitar player who also sings, a bass player and a drum m er. It was im m ediately obvious that they had the stage presence that Thin Red Line was m issing, and then some. They interacted easily and often with the crowd, and seem ed to enjoy playing as m uch as the crow d enjoyed watching them play. Before the first song they announced that they w ouldn’t have an album give-aw ay, like Thin Red Line did. Instead they would be giving away six luke-warm pizzas, one o f which I was also lucky enough to get as it flew through the air.

I would have sw orn that they announced the name of the first song as “Art Fag,” but looking at their song list, it says the name of the song is "H ogfat.” W hichever it was, I liked the song.

Like Thin Red Line, their music was hard and driving, with a sound that for some reason rem inded me o f older R eplacem ents’ songs.

Looking at my notes o f the show, I again see that I wrote the word "loud” quite a few times.

Despite the volum e and hectic pace o f their music, they appeared to be pretty tight, and their entire show was enjoyable. At one point they threw out a pizza into the crowd that alm ost hit a girl in the head, but she didn't seem to mind. They played for about an hour and a half, but it seem ed much shorter than that. My two favorite songs were “Sundow ning," and the last song o f their set, “ Mr. R esponsible.”

This last song seem ed to me to have a shade more heavy metal influence than any o f their other songs. Even still, I liked it. The song “ El A m igo,” used more keyboards than som e of their other songs, and it was a nice touch.

They have an album out called “In N on­ sense Is Strength," which they were selling at the show, and which I got. They are a band that is fun to listen to, and I recom m end that an y ­ body who has a chance to see them does.

and it added im m ensely to hius act. It seemed that he related to the WPI crowd much better than his colleauge, Brian Fisher. It seemed he was more on the students’ level, and they reacted better to him.

Fisher, on the other hand, ignored the heck­ lers, and seem ed to go entirely with a m em o­ rized act. He w asn’t bad, but after the great reception that Jenkins received, it was a let dow n, frankly. Things seem ed to be going alright for him until he cam e out with the dog com edian, which bom bed entirely.

The m ovem ent w as unanim ous from every­ body, Jenkins won the aw ard for best com edian o f the night, hands down. This was quite obvious when time cam e to write this article, and Fisher’s nam e escaped everyone. The typical com m ent w as “W ell, one was named Jenkins...” But, hey. for a buck, the entertain­ ment was outstanding. You c a n ’t even rent a decent video for a buck, so I thought the whole thing was well worth it. I will definitely be around for future Com edy nights. The next one is in December.

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Haunted house still for sale

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APO and the Pep band sponsored the haunted house.

Here Steve Nelson serves up a scary feast.

Despite its best efforts, the Spook Realty com pany was unable to sell the W PI Haunted House last Saturday, how ever, they did m an­ age to raise $750. Perhaps the prospective custom ers d id n ’t enjoy the idea o f having a graveyard on their property but who could pass up the other extras the house had to offer?

Like all houses it had a m odem equipped kitchen w ith a cook who was quite w illing to work cheap. His specialties included eyeball soup, finger frappe and, w ell, w hatever the main course w as it was still very rare. Being so close to the W PI cam pus the cook has abso­ lutely no problem doing his shopping and actually is able to save his em ployers quite a bit on food bills.

The M aster and M istress o f the house greeted visitors in the D ining Room as the w aiter served the scalding eyeball soup and a nice fresh G ardener salad, o r was he last w eek’s w aiter. Furnished in a w onderful old world baroque the dining room is the perfect com plim ent to a pale com plexion and the blood, oops, wine cellar is stocked only with

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tial Equations while his studious older brother spends his tim e at his desk with a textbook in his hands and a knife in his chest. T he other tenant has been there ju st about forever. While he keeps going on about being a vam pire he is quite harm less and the present ow ners assured me he has not moved once in the last 3,000 years.

You could also entertain in the spacious Living(?) Room . A special feature o f this house, the television is able to pull in all the best horror m ovies. T he room also seem s to be especially suited to com m uning with the dead so you could watch “Friday the 13th” w ith dear departed A unt Bertha or play cards w ith late Uncle R alph. From here the kennel is easily accessible w here all m anner o f pets are kept.

The present ow ners keep a w onderful pet go­ rilla but the accom odations are large enough for large dogs, Lions Dragons are any other large pet that needs to be caged. The proxim ity o f the W PI cam pus also insures an ample supply o f free pet food.

If you w ere unable to m ake this y ear’s showing, perhaps you could m ake it to our next open house som etim e next October. Perhaps you will even see som eone you knew .

the finest vintages.

F or after dinner entertaining you and your guests could adjourn to the echo cham ber which is right on the way to the Rec Room.

T here you and your guests could indulge in personalized exercise program s overseen by a world infamous exercise instructor. Well known for his slightly unorthodox m ethods he has aided hundreds in becom ing taller, thinner and w orking out annoying kinks through rigor­ ous stretching exercises. The annoying scrab­ bling in this part o f the house is due, adm it­ tedly, to the rats craw ling around inside of the walls. W e were told the rats are quite effective in keeping down the m ouse problem.

Part o f the m ortgage paym ents for this fabulous edifice can be covered by the tenants inhabiting the dow nstairs rooms. They are the most unobjectionable, quiet people you could ever hope for. The hardw orking husband o f the fam ily spends his nights at the blood bank w hile his wife spends her nights at the hair­ dressers. Most wom en would love to have som eone as a neighbor who can fashion her hair into a four foot cone. They also have two darling children. The youngster just loves to hear bedtim e stories about daka and D ifferen­

Jethro Tull: better with a g e as Jon A nderson’s or as blatantly psychotic as Dave B yrne’s but they were effective enough.

In the m idst of “B ouree” five gentlem en in w hite suits and m iner’s hardhats w andered onto the stage and ju st stood there w aving their lights around. During the intro to “M y G od,” Anderson stated that he would be jo in ed by the guitarist in order to “reduce [his] chances of fucking up by 50% .” W hich brings us to the various objectionable phrases and actions used

by Tull in th eir songs. For exam ple: “ ...Snot is running dow n his nose...,” “Y our sp erm ’s in the gutter, your love’s in the sink,” obscene gestures m ade with Ian ’s flute, and o f course that w onderful slide show o f lips and phallic objects during “ Kissing W illie.”

Despite Jethro T u ll’s frequent use o f shock tactics for the sheer hell o f it, they often have im portant political messages.

“W h aler’s Dues” from their new album is an anti-w haling song replete with slides o f whaling ships and dead w hales. “ Farm on the Freew ay” is about “that endangered species: the A m erican farm er.” T hey also played som e extrem ely good folk m usic.

W hen “A qualung” cam e on, the crow d went w ild, even the clueless lum ps that d id n ’t “ ‘g et’ that other shit.” For the encore, T ull played “L ocom otive Breath” w hich sent the audience supersonic. Then follow ed a series o f solos during w hich the m iners cam e back, Ian A n­ derson softly and silently vanished aw ay, and tw o janitors swept up the stage. T h e lights cam e back up and the m ajority o f the crowd wandered o ff in confusion.

W ell, it’s very late, so I ’m going to w rap up this m orass of diverse ram blings by saying, Banzai! T he concert was incredible, am azing, fantastic. In other w ords, it w asn’t all that bad.

by Shawn Zimmerman Newspeak Staff First off, a note o f explanation. Jethro Tull does not play any instrum ents in the band. In fact, Jethro Tull is not doing anything more exerting than decom posing. This Scottish farm er who invented a handy device that seeded your field w hile plowing it has been dead for several hundred years.

W ith that o ff my chest, I can proceed on with the review.

T he opening act for Tull was a group from England named “It Bites.” The lead singer claim ed that this hom ey little phrase m eans som ething entirely different in England. But then again, he said the same thing about the name o f their new album from G effen, “Eat Me in St. Louis.” For an opening band, they w eren’t all that bad. T hey were way too loud and real obnoxious, but they did have plenty o f class.

A nd now a word about the crow d. Diverse.

T h at’s the only way to describe them. There were druggies, hippies. Yuppies, and Yippies.

It w as incredible the variety of people that Tull pulled in.

Jethro Tull has been around now for over 20 years and as their new est album , “Rock Is­ land,” shows, th ey ’ve only gotten better. In that tim e, they have consistently produced excellent rock, from orchestral to medieval to just plain heavy metal. They also had incred­ ible stage presence. For exam ple, when they played “Thick as a B rick” there were slides of various fam ous personages, including the Pope, with bricks for heads. Also, Ian A nder­ son, the flutist and lead singer, danced around the stage making obscure and dem ented hand gestures. Adm ittedly, they w eren’t as mystical

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Merit scolarships available for 1990-91 Five, m erit-based scholarships are avail­ able for the 1990-91 academ ic year: The American Society of Naval Engineers, the National Roofing Foundation, the Founda­ tion of the Wall and Ceiling Industry, the

Coors Veterans’ Memorial Scholarship Fund, and the Samuel Huntington Public Service Award.

The American Society of Naval Engi­ neers is offering scholarships o f $2,000 to students o f engineering and the physical sci­ ences. Support for undergraduate work is limited to the student’s final one or two years o f undergraduate education. Graduate scholar­ ships are aw arded to masters degree candidates for one year. The deadline for application to The A m erican Society of Naval Engineers is February 15, 1990.

T he National Roofing Foundation and The Foundation of the Wall and Ceiling Industry are offering num erous scholarships to students who show an interest in applying their studies in engineering and the physical sciences to the fields of construction, architec­ ture or industrial technology. The deadline for the National R oofing Foundation is February 1, 1990. For a scholarship application and further inform ation about the N RF awards, write to the National Roofing Foundation, One O ’Hare Centre, 6250 River Road, Rosemont, Illinois 600018. The deadline for the Founda­ tion of the Wall and C eiling Industry is Decem­ ber 1, 1989.

The Coors Veterans’ Memorial Scholar­ ship Fund provides grants to sophom ores,

juniors and seniors who are sons and daughters of American veterans. Second and third year students may receive $ 1500 per year and sen­ iors, $2000. The deadline for receipt of tran­ scripts, application and parental information is M arch 15, 1990.

The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides an annual stipend o f $10,000 for a graduating senior to pursue public service anyw here in the world. The Award allows recipients to undertake a m eaningful public service activity for a period o f six months to one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career. The activity may involve the student alone or within a charitable, reli­ gious, educational, governm ental, or other public service organization. The deadline for

public service proposals is February 15, 1990.

Additional information and applications for the above scholarships may be found in the Financial Aid Office in the basem ent o f Boynton. In the coming months information and applications for other scholarships will be available as well. The FAO w elcomes your inquiries about any awards.

Three sources in Gordon Library contain detailed information about financial aid, in­ cluding m erit scholarships; Financial A ids for H igher Education by Keesler, located in the Reference Department; Financial Aid for C ol­ lege T h ro u g h S ch o larsh ip and L o an s by Hoffman and Stafford, a new acquisition also located in Reference; and Scholarships. Fel­ lowships. G rants and Loans by Feingold.

S p ecial projects sem inar ex p la in s o p tio n s On Thursday, N ovem ber 2 at 6:30 pm, the WPI Projects Office will host the first of two Special Project O pportunities Sem inars in K innicutt Hall (Salisbury Labs 115).

The “special" program s and centers repre­ sented at this sem inar require students to make early decisions regarding their interest in proj­ ects for next year. Most o f the opportunities are for Interactive Q ualifying Projects (IQ P’s) in O FF-CAM PU S locations. Virtually all o f them require a preparatory course which stu­ dents need to schedule later in this academic year. Several project programs and centers receive more applications than they can ac­ com m odate; therefore a process is needed in which students dem onstrate their writing abil­ ity, are interviewed to assess their ability to com m unicate, and agree to have their aca­ demic credentials reviewed as the basis for selection.

The Project Centers or Programs presented at this Sem inar include: C EN TER FOR M U NICIPAL STUDIES IRELA N D PROGRAM B A N GK OK PROGRAM HONG KONG PROGRAM V EN ICE PROGRAM LONDON PROJECT CENTER W A SHIN GTO N PROJECT CENTER SAN FR AN CISCO PROJECT CENTER

U NIQ UE LON DO N PR O JEC TS (SU M ­ MER ’90) CENTER FOR IN TERN ATIO NA L STUD­ IES LIVING M USEUM S A D V A N C E D S P A C E D E S IG N P R O ­ GRAM A DV AN CED A ER O N A U TIC A L DESIGN PROGRAM Some project opportunities offer students a selection o f terms to choose from, while others are unique to one particular term only. An ADD ITIO N A L opportunity to com plete an IQP in LONDON during E-term, 1990 has been created with two options o f projects to choose from (London is usually offered only during D-term, and the D -term, 1990, students were selected at this time last year). Also for next year, two project centers - W ashington and San Francisco - offer students a choice o f term s but with the understanding that only O NE term for each center (yet to be deter­ mined) will be operational. The C enter for International Studies and the Living Museums program allow students to choose the terms negotiated as mutually acceptable with their project advisor.

T w o project programs will also be offering MQP and IQP opportunities at this early date -

Advanced Space Design and Advanced A ero­ nautical Design. Students accepted into either of these programs must take specified courses in C and/or D terms as prerequisites to starting their projects next year.

A t the Seminar, the directors and some of the student “alum ni” of special project pro­ gram s or centers will initially provide a short overview of each area to the students attending at 6:30 pm. Immediately thereafter, students may attend informal sessions in various class­ room s o f Salisbury Labs in order to ask ques­ tions and pick up handouts. Applications for these programs/centers will be available in the Salisbury Labs lobby that night, and in the Projects Office thereafter.

O n Thursday, January 18, the second Spe­ cial Projects O pportunities Sem inar will be held to offer students details o f both M QP and IQP off-cam pus project opportunities. These program s are DIFFERENT from and A DD I­ TIO N A L to the options detailed on November 2. “ Project P lanning D ay”, including the “Project Fair” in Harrington Auditorium , is planned for W ednesday, February 7, as the last opportunity for students to gather information, acknow ledge options for ON-CAM PUS and some off-campus M QP and IQP opportunities for next year, and to take the steps needed to m ake a com m itm ent later in the Spring.

RESIDENCE HALL JUDICIAL BOARD ELECTIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED P etition s available at th e O ffice of H ousing and R esidential Life for electio n to th e R esid en ce Hall Judicial Board.

Election for: 3 S tudent J u s tic e s 2 A lternates Q ualifications for Election: Full-time undergraduate stu d en t living in a resid en ce hall.

Petition deadline: N ovem ber 6 ,1 9 8 9

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by Pat Charles Features Editor This week, N ew speak recognizes Dean of U ndergraduate Studies, William R. Grogan for the lasting effects o f his achievem ents as a student, engineer, professor, and faculty m em ber at WPI. G rogan com m ents on the W PI Plan he and faculty im plem ented nineteen years ago, the changes he has seen at WPI and what w e can expect to see in the future.

In 1945, W illiam G rogan graduated with a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering at WPI. As an ROTC student, G rogan becam e involved in the m ilitary and left for the services aboard the PCER 857 and at the Naval Electronics Laboratory in San Francisco. In 1946, he returned to the Eastern U.S. and decided to stop by WPI to visit som e acquaintances.

During his visit he was offered a position as an EE instructor. He accepted, and in 1949, G rogan received his M .S. in Electrical, and has since been active at W PI in a variety o f influ­ ential positions.

A fter receiving his M .S., G rogan was ap ­ pointed to the position o f Assistant Professor.

In 1956, he becam e an Associate Professor, and in 1962, he was appointed to the position of Professor of Electrical Engineering.

D uring his career as a professor at W PI, G rogan was also very active in other profes­ sional engineering activities.

During the sum m ers betw een 1953 and 1960, Grogan worked for G eneral E lectric Com pany where he w rote articles in the G .E. Technical Infor­ mation Series dealing w ith m issile guidance and control. In 1961 and for five years follow ­ ing, he w orked as C onsultant to the D irector o f U.S. Navy Surface M issile System s and as a Staff Consultant on radar evaluation at John H opkins University A pplied Physics L abora­ tory. In 1965, G rogan was C hairm an of the Typhon R adar Evaluation C om m ission. At the same tim e, he worked as C onsultant on the P resident’s M ilitary M anpow er Policy Board and C onsultant to the A ssistant Secretary of the Navy.

D uring this period betw een 1956 and 1965, G rogan also w orked as C hairm an o f the Elec­ trical Engineering D epartm ent Curriculum Com m ittee. And in 1966, he was elected C hairm an of the Faculty Curriculum C om m it­ tee.

A s a professor o f Electrical E ngineering and through the developm ent o f its curriculum , Grogan and other professors in that departm ent becam e concerned that Electrical Engineering, and other departm ents on cam pus sustained program s that were too rigid; “W e w ere afraid that students were not developing as individu­ als.” From this concern, G rogan and a faculty com m ittee developed the “ Model.” Before the introduction o f this concept, WPI adm inistered a schedule and course structure sim ilar to

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Dean Grogan soon to retire. program s standard w ith m ost other colleges in the nation. Students had to jo in a particular departm ent by the end of their Freshm an year and had no choice o f electives until their senior year; G raduation was determ ined solely by the students score on a “C om petency Exam ” ad­ m inistered during their senior year.

The “ M odel” elim inated the com petency exam and restructured the school year and course structure. In 1970, as Grogan was elected Dean o f U ndergraduate studies, the

“M odel” was finalized and changed to include distribution requirem ents, seven week terms and the potential for project work. W PI ac­ cepted the new “ M odel” and as the W PI Plan it was introduced into the college curriculum . In the seven years that follow ed the introduction o f the Plan, students had a choice of participa­ tion in the new course structure, projects, and the other changes it meant to the old curricu­ lum. A ccording to G rogan, this was an excit­ ing, but difficult time in W P I’s history: “ It was

like making a new college while running the old." The Plan was of great success though, and recognized as a factor which clearly distin­ guishes WPI from other schools across the na­ tion. G radually, more projects were im ple­ mented and finally, in 1977 the plan and the three projects were fully established by WPI for all undergraduates.

According to G rogan, the Plan, in addition to radically im proving the program offered to the students and better preparing them for pro­ fessional careers, has changed and will trans­ form WPI from a New England college to a National and International University. The introduction o f project centers around the world has given students an opportunity to experience different cultures and has also at­ tracted students from these areas.

“What m ost people don’t realize is the number o f students taking advantage o f this opportunity... O ver 30% o f W P I’s students took advantage o f project work at off-cam pus sites.” And according to G rogan, the num ber will continue to increase as m ore students recognize this opportunity. His goal is to see 50% of the students active at these centers.

W hat will this mean for W PI in the future? As students recognize their opportunities, and as others outside the W PI com m unity, others in the U.S. and the world, G rogan says “ WPI will experience dram atic changes... we will see a more dynam ic student body.” A s a more geo­ graphically diverse student body is attracted to W PI the cam pus atm osphere will change.

“The cam pus will be more active during breaks, m ore like a N ational University where students d o n ’t travel hom e each w eekend.”

A nd G rogan says we are already seeing signs of recent recognition o f W P I’s innovative pro­ gram. W P I’s recent first place ranking in U.S. N ews and W orld Report is one indicator o f this recognition and more to come.

Dean G ro g an ’s w ork as a professor and overseeing undergraduate affairs has had a tre­ mendous affect on the cam pus and W P I’s program s. Dean G rogan recently announced that he will be retiring this sum mer. In the m eantim e, though, G rogan has m any goals he w ould like to achieve. He wishes to see the im plem entation of project centers in Latin A merica am ong other places around the globe in addition to increased student participation in these project center program s. Further, he wishes to do work in im proving pre-college education particularly in science and m athe­ matics.

Even after his work is com plete as Dean of U ndergraduates, G rogan says he would like to begin work on w riting a narrative history of W PI and the program . Through this work, G rogan hopes to evaluate WPI and the plan to find im provem ents w hich will further benefit the plan and its prom otion in the future.

SPORTS

Women’s Cross-Country team results

by Kelley McQueeney Saturday, O ctober 7th, the herd tram pled Bryant C ollege by 16 points to em erge victori­ ous at the Tri-States in Providence. Final score: WPI 44, Bryant 60, USCG 62, Stonehill 102, RIC 103, Q uinnipiac 145, and Hartford 179, Leading the victory were A thena D emetry (1st, 19:31), Chris M ikloiche (4th, 20:23), Maura C ollins (5th, 20:25), Robin

Fontaine (16th 2 1 :50) and Det Carraw ay (24th, 22:21), Kelly M cQueeney (25th, 22:35), Kristin B rem er (29th, 23:02), Deb Duhamel (37th, 23:45) and Jenn D o (38th, 23:57).

O ctober 14, at the M AIAW at G ordon, the W omens Cross-C ountry team was ousted from first by a m ere 3 points by Sim mons. Final score: S im m o ns41, W P I44, M IT 55, ULowell 84, G ordon 138, Suffolk 156, Regis 186, Pine M anor 250. In the top ten for WPI were A thena

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Demetry (2nd, 18:21), M aura C ollins (3rd, 18:49) and C hris M ikloiche (4th, 18:52).

C lose behind and in a tight pack were Jenn Schaeffer (17th, 20:32), Robin Fontaine (18th, 20:37), K ristin Brem er (20th 21:17), Det C ar­ raway (21 st, 21 :23), K elly M cQueeney (22nd, 21:24), Jenn Do (28th, 22:18) and Deb Duhamel (31st, 22;21). The team will be travelling to Franklin Park, Boston, for the New 8 Conference.

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A Day in the Life of WPI This feature is the result o f a 24 hour photography assign­ ment designed to capture a day at WPI. Starting at 12:00 m idnight Thursday and ending at m idnight Friday, each photographer was given film and a goal - "represent life at WPI in an interesting and artistic manner." (Or at least take a lot o f pictures throughout the day....)

W e hope you enjoy it.

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12:05 AM- M elissa Lichw an is studying hard on the third day o f the term.

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10:25 AM- It's coffee break time on the construction site at Institute Hall.

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11:06 AM- The snack bar prepares for the daily lunch crowd.

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11:30 AM - Students try to unravel the m ysteries o f daka lunches.

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12:15 PM - A student em erges from the caverns o f Atwater Kent.

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12:20 PM - Maura Collins arrives early to class to relax a little.

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12:32 PM- W hen Mark hangs around Riley Hall, he hangs around Riley Hall.

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Air mail - W PI style.

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1:23 PM- Brian “G oose” Gosselin helps a freshman with her homework.

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Students pum p them selves up in the weight room.

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4:18 PM- The wedge term inals in use.

2:55 PM- M ike Joubert gets an early start on his calculus homework.

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4:33 PM- A com m on sight on the Quad.

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4:52 PM- Rongrong Wu does som e laundry in the Daniels laundry room.

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5:35 PM- Cindy R ichards “resting.”

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7:25 PM- Patty Dube and Kathy Francis try out a pair o f 72 inch waist pants.

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8:10 PM- Elio Trolio and friend.

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10:32 PM- People dance to the rhythm in Gompei's.

9:47 PM- C hris looks for his lost keys in Riley.

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11:57 PM- Jeff Yoder gives a different perspective on keg tapping.

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Congress considers bill to ban campus alcohol Papers ‘Are Right To Be C oncerned’; But Law Is N eeded T o Control ‘Abuse O f A lcohol’

by Dacia Dorries (CPS) — College newspapers around the country will be barred from running alcoholrelated ads in their pages if a new bill intro­ duced in C ongress becom es law.

The bill, cosponsored by senators Jesse Bingam an (R-N .M .) and Herbert Kohl (DWis.), cuts off all federal funding — including student aid — to colleges that fail the restrict alcohol prom otions on their campuses.

Separately, outgoing U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in Septem ber sent a letter to all college presidents urging them to disassoci­ ate their schools from liquor-related prom o­ tions, and w arning h e ’d recom m end “ eco­ nomic and legal sanctions” against schools that ignored him.

The sanctions, however, seem to fall most heavily on student ventures like sports and new spapers, many o f w hich depend on reve­ nues from local bars and national brewers to survive.

Student papers “are right to be concerned," said Keenen Peck, an aide to Kohl. “The penalties are so severe that universities are likely to err on the side o f overcensorship.”

A variety o f schools already have started to crack down. The University o f North Dakota, for exam ple, in Septem ber prohibited students from displaying posters from beer companies in their dorm room windows.

California State University at Chico Presi­ dent Robin W ilson announced he was forbid­ ding the O rion, the student paper, to run alco­ hol-related ads.

W ilson’s directive, O rion ad manager Perry Quinn estim ated, could cost the paper about $30,000 in lost revenues from local and na­ tional liquor ads.

U nder the measure now in Congress, virtu­ ally all A m erican college newspapers would face sim ilar budgetary blow s. “(An anti-alcohol ad law) would hurt us

pretty badly,” said C hris Roth, advertising m anager o f The C hinook at Casper C ollege in W yom ing.

Local bars and liq u o r stores buy about $5,000 worth o f ads a year in the Chinook, representing a third o f the paper’s $15,000 in annual ad revenues. The rest o f the paper’s expenses are met by a $10,000 appropriation from the college.

Local liquor ads accounted for $7,000 — or 14 percent — o f the ad revenues earned by the Kansas State University Collegian in Septem ­ ber, faculty adviser G loria Freeland reported.

O ffice coo rd in ato r Pat M cN am ara e sti­ m ated T he O utlo o k , the w eekly pap er at M o n m o u th C o lle g e in N ew Je rse y , g ets “probably $2,000 a year in alcohol advertis­ ing.”

A ban would also cause some big campus dailies, which are paid to insert national m aga­ zine supplements like U. several times a year, to lose money in other ways.

“I w ould imagine som e schools w ouldn’t be able to insert our paper, so it is a concern,” said A nnalee Ryan, op eratio n s d irecto r for U., which typically includes several beer company ads in each issue.

Students at The C om m unique at Kirkland Com m unity College in Kentucky voluntarily decided to stop accepting alcohol-related ads this year, costing the paper about $1,000 — or about 10 percent — o f its $10,000 a year in ad revenues. “ In the short run, th ere’ll be (financial) problem s,” speculated Tom Roinicki, execu­ tive d irecto r o f the A ssociated C olleg iate Press, based in M inneapolis, “but in the long run it’ll even out. Eventually... som ething will jum p in to take the place o f the beer ads.”

The big national brew ing com panies like A nheuser-Busch and M iller also place ads, worth a total of “m aybe $1 m illion,” in college papers nationwide during any one school year, estim ated Mark Rose o f CASS C om m unica­ tions, a student new spaper ad broker based in

Evanston, 111.

Rose w asn’t sure how badly a congressional ban on such revenues would hurt papers, noting the money is spread among a lot of publications and that the beer ads represent a small percent­ age o f the $18 million in national ads the papers get.

“Three years ago I would have said (the ban) would have had a tremendous im pact” on the papers, Rose said. Since then, other kinds of advertisers like financial services, telecom m u­ nications and com puter companies have come to provide the bulk o f national ads in college papers.

Nevertheless, Rose blasted the proposal as an “unnecessary and unfortunate” attack on papers’ First Amendment freedoms.

“It’s sort o f like a witch hunt,” he said. “I m ean, w hat’s next? Will colleges ban ads from outside com puter companies because they’re selling com puters them selves in the book­ store?”

To Bingaman, it’s a question o f health and safety.

“We will never control the use o f illicit drugs or the abuse of alcohol am ong this age group if we do not take the fundam ental, though perhaps politically unpopular, step of encouraging colleges and universities to adopt policies on cam pus alcohol advertising and alcohol industry sponsorship of college activi­ ties,” Bingaman said in a statem ent defending his measure.

His bill requires schools to provide alcohol counseling to students, and to bar ads and events that prom ote “ irresponsible” o r under­ age drinking.

If colleges d o n ’t comply, they could lose all their federal funding.

“W e think (the m easure) is like using a sledgeham m er to put a thum btack into the w all,” said Jam es Sanders o f the Beer Institute, a W ashington, D.C., based trade group for brew ers.

“The approach to controlling and curbing

alcohol abuse is through education of the con­ sumers, not control of the product,” M iller B rew ing spok esw o m an E lizabeth C onlisk added.

College sports programs would be hurt most by the ban, asserted Stephen Lam bright of Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis. Beer advertis­ ing at sporting events “provides tens o f m il­ lions o f dollars in badly needed revenue every year to the institutions o f higher learning.”

Some cam pus papers, however, don’t think a ban would hurt them too badly.

In B ingam an's hom e state, alcohol ads accounted for $7,000, or “less than 2 percent,” o f the ad revenue earned last year by the Daily Lobo at the University o f New Mexico, Lobo ad manager J.R. Spradley said.

Rob Sims, editor o f N ewspeak at W orcester Polytechnic Institute in M assachusetts, esti­ mated his paper gets “only $200 or $300 a year” in alcohol-related ads.

Ad managers at some sm aller papers worry a ban would cause enough financial stress to alter their operations. Casper C ollege’s Roth said The Chinook probably would have cut back the num ber o f pages it publishes each week if it lost its alcohol ad revenues.

In W ashington, Kohl aide Peck w asn’t sure o f the bill’s chances o f becoming law. “ I’ve been told there’s not a lot of enthusiasm (for the bill) in the H ouse.”

If it passes “ad m anagers will have to be­ come more aggressive” in finding other adver­ tisers to com pensate for the lost revenues, Roinicki counseled.

Even if it doesn’t, local cam pus bans prom ­ ise to hurt some papers. At Cal State-Chico, worries that the Orion w ould suffer financially from W ilson’s Septem ber ultim atum have led to a compromise, Quinn said. W ilson agreed to let the paper carry ads that mention beer, while the paper agreed to ban tavem ads that prom ote low-price drink specials.

“It cuts the ‘let’s get drunk’ attitude,” Q uinn said.

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Near-riot parties e sc a la te (C P S )— C ollege street parties raged out of control at m ore cam puses in recent w eeks, leading to arrests and even public pleas from college presidents asking students to behave.

Students at Plym outh State C ollege in New H am pshire, Purdue U niversity, Michigan State and W estern M ichigan universities staged parties that led to fires, property d a m ­ age and, ultim ately, calls for police help. “ I feel pretty bad,” said John Roberts, w hose 1974 Ford T hunderbird was set on fire three tim es during an O ctober 14 street party that went aw ry at W estern M ichigan in K ala­ mazoo. “ It w asn’t the best-looking car, but there w ere a lot o f m em ories, and now th e y ’re gone.”

An estim ated 3,000 students were at the gathering after W M U ’s 34-6 homecom ing loss to C entral M ichigan University. Ten people suffered injuries from flying beer bottles, and 10 were arrested for causing $10,000 to $14,000 w orth o f property d am ­ age.

At M ichigan State, thousands o f partiers clogged streets near the C edar Village A part­ ment com plex in East Lansing, igniting bon­ fires and trashing the neighborhood, after M S U ’s 10-7 loss to the U niversity o f M ichi­ gan Oct. 15.

R evelers pushed over a trash dum pster, chanted “ bum , bum , bum ...” and fed two bonfires with m attresses, bicycles, a bigscreen TV and a m oped until flames leapt an estim ated 30 feet into the sky. Students also tried to add a car to the blaze.

Less violently, about 700 Purdue students jam m ed the streets near three apartment c o m ­ plexes Sept. 30 to dance to a live band. At Plym outh State, police arrested 135 people, m ostly for violating drinking laws, at parties surrounding the school’s Oct. 14 hom ecom ­

ing.

In recent years student parties have grow n into w ild, drunken riots at schools such as Iowa State, M ankato State an d C olorado State universities, as well as the universities o f Nebraska, C alifom ia-D avis, Pennsylvania and C alifom ia-Santa Barbara.

The m elees have convinced a number o f the schools sim ply to ban outdoor student parties.

MSU President John D iB iaggio stopped short o f forbidding such p arties, but in an extraordinary O ct. 19 open letter to students asked them to act more m aturely.

“A drunken, disoriented student throwing a chair into a raging fire is representative o f nothing other than that indiv id u al's need to grow up,” DiBiaggio observed in the letter.

Three days earlier, W estern M ichigan President D iether H. Haenicke w rote a sim i­ lar open letter to his students, offering a $1,000 reward for help in finding the people “ responsible for the threat to personal safety and destruction o f personal property.”

Haenicke blasted the destruction as “com ­ pletely unacceptable” behavior, and threat­ ened the “ severest possible m easures against any W M U student” identified as a rioter.

O f those arrested, only tw o were W M U students.

At both M SU and W M U , police did not interfere with the crowds, fearing greater d e ­ struction if they did. The 30 police officers on hand at MSU adm itted they w ere n o match for the 3,000-plus crowd.

Police said the event rem inded them o f a sim ilar incident in the same area in the fall o f 1986, w hen a block party o f about 5,000 people turned into a riot resulting in 35 arrests and 24 injuries.

D am ages am ounted to $24,000.

Nabbing underage drinkers (C PS) — H oping to keep local bars from serving alcohol to underaged students, offi­ cials at St. B onaventure U niversity in New York are offering local tavern ow ners a list o f stu d en ts’ names and ages.

A dm inistrators decided to circulate the list despite student anger over a sim ilar effort last fall. “ It cam e up that we ought to help these bar ow ners out if th ey ’re saying they can ’t manage so m any people by helping them verify w ho’s o f age and who isn ’t,” explained Tim othy G allineau, vice president for student develop­ m ent.

Student governm ent leaders, how ever, com plained students’ nam es and ages were nobody e lse ’s business, and that the school was distributing personal inform ation that students had given it in confidence. “ W e felt it violated our privacy rights,” explained student President Dan M aerton. The A m erican Civil Liberties Union subsequently refused to take the case, saying it didn’t think it could convince a court the information was private.

Local bar ow ners don’t use the list anyw ay, M aerton added. They found that com bing through a list o f St. B onaventure’s 2,700 students is a “ridiculous” way to check for underage drinkers at their taverns, Maerten m aintained.

C om panies that sell food and drink to stu­ dents do seem to be more careful, however. At the U niversity o f A rizona (U A), a bartending com pany stopped w orking at fraternity parties in Septem ber because of concerns it would be liable fo r m inors drinking alcohol.

Som e student groups, like U A ’s Interfrater­ nity Council, are considering new procedures to try to weed underaged drinkers out from

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their parties.

O thers seem to have grow n im patient with the new, higher drinking ages that all cam puses have to observe.

Students at the U niversity o f W isconsin at Oshkosh staged two protests — both ending in m ass arrests — in O ctober in hopes of low ering the state’s legal drinking age limit. Protesters were angered by a police raid o f a party, in which 80 students w ere arrested and the party hosts were slapped w ith a $17,000 fine.

At least one study suggests the higher drink­ ing age actually encourages alcohol use. Indi­ ana U niversity’s R uth Engs and David H anson o f the State U niversity o f N ew Y ork’s Potsdam College surveyed 3,375 American college students in 1987-88, and found that 81 percent o f students younger than 21 drank alcohol, while only about 75 percent o f “legal” students do.

R O T C ’s p o l i c i e s o n h o m o s e x u a ls (CPS) — R eversing w hat had been a slight trend toward letting units o f the m ilitary’s Reserve O fficers T raining Program Corps (ROTC) back onto som e cam puses, Yale Uni­ versity’s student governm ent has voted to keep ROTC away.

A remark about R O T C ’s policies concern­ ing hom osexuals, m oreover, prom pted several University of M innesota groups to try to im­ peach student president B rian Bergson.

Bergson got into political trouble Sept. 28 when he told the M innesota Daily, the cam pus paper, that “ I can ’t understand why (gays) w ould want to subject them selves to the ridi­ cule of being in the arm ed forces.”

Bergson subsequently said on a local cam ­ pus radio show that hom osexuality isn ’t con­ ducive to “a strong structure within the m ili­ tary.”

In response, tw o groups — the Ad Hoc Coalition for Equal O pportunity and the U ni­ versity Democratic Farm ers Labor U nion — called for B ergson’s im peachm ent in late O ctober.

G ays can take R O TC classes, but the De­ partment o f Defense forbids them from joining the arm ed forces.

C iting the policy, Y ale’s student govern­ ment voted 17-1 to defeat a proposal to re­ establish a ROTC unit on the New Haven, Conn., campus.

Scores o f colleges first voted RO TC off their cam puses — and in several cases, actu­ ally burned ROTC buildings — during the V ietnam W #r era, w hen the units were often seen by anti-w ar students as sym bols o f m ilita­ rism.

Since then, R O TC opponents generally have cited the program ’s attitudes toward hom osexuals as the reason for not letting it back on campus.

At Harvard U niversity, the student govern­ m ent last spring voted to encourage R O T C ’s return to cam pus w ithout academ ic credit, starting a storm of protests from various cam ­ pus groups.

H arvard students go to the nearby M assa­ chusetts Institute o f T echnology to participate in ROTC. Yale students in ROTC now com ­ m ute 70 miles to drill at the U niversity o f C onnecticut in Storrs.

B ut Capt. R obert Johnson o f the ROTC C adet Com m and office in Virginia said it’s unlikely the ROTC w ould want to establish a program at Yale. “ If the school d o esn ’t w ant the program , we w on’t do it,” he said. “A nd ju st because a school asks doesn’t m ean w e’ll do it.”

Johnson said that 315 schools have ROTC program s on cam pus. O ne hundred have ROTC extensions on nearby colleges, and 1,000 institutions have students who partici­ pate at other schools.

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m ista k e s. O n e m a jo r p ro b le m w e a ll try to a v o id is

q u e n c e , su p p o se d ly th e re su lt o f a few years o f stu d y on

p artic ip a tio n in g ro u p s w h ile m a in ta in in g g o o d g ra d e s in

fa ilin g c la s se s. In th e p a st, th e n u m b e r o f faile d c la s se s

ho w to red u ce fa ilu re rates.

A d m issio n s lik e s to p o in t o u t th at this y e a r ’s fresh m an

h igh sch o o l is an in d ic a tio n o f g o o d stu d y h a b its.

c la ss is m o re w e ll-ro u n d e d th an o th e rs, that stu d e n ts w ere

rush. S tu d e n ts g o t the c h a n c e to a d ju s t to c o lle g e life and

c h o se n for d e d ic a tio n to o n e a c tiv ity in high sc h o o l in ste a d o f “ p a rtic ip a tio n ” in m an y a ctiv ities. S u p p o se d ly ,

c o lle g e c o u rs e s b e fo re b ein g in u n d a te d by the G re e k s. In

th is h a s p ro d u c e d a m o re d e d ic a te d fre sh m a n c la s s, one th a t is m o re w illin g to g e t in v o lv e d . M o st W P I clu b s

c o u rse s to be e lig ib le to ru sh a fra te rn ity o r so ro rity .

W e lc o m e to th e b e g in n in g o f B -te rm . C o n g ra tu la tio n s

a m o n g fre sh m e n h as in c rea se d e a c h y ear.

A lth o u g h the S A T sc o re s o f the a v e ra g e fre sh m a n w ere d o w n 10 p o in ts, m o re fre sh m e n p a sse d th e ir c o u rs e s last A -te rm than in p re v io u s y ears. W h y ? H av e th e c o u rs e s g o tte n e a sie r? P ro b ab ly no t.

A c a d e m ic a d v isin g d e se rv e s so m e o f th e c re d it. T h e ir

m a te ria l an d h ow to stu d y . A c c o rd in g to A nn G a rv in ,

A n o th e r fa c to r is th e re s tru c tu rin g o f th e c a lc u lu s se ­

a c a d e m ic s is u n p ro v e n , b u t so m e h a v e said th a t a c tiv e

T h e fin al a n d m o st im p o rta n t fa c to r is th e d e la y e d

a d d itio n , th is y e a r s tu d e n ts m u st p a s s a c e rta in n u m b e r o f So, fre sh m e n , k e e p up the g o o d w ork!

M * A * S * H p ro g ra m h e lp s fre sh m e n learn b o th the

LETTERS

Flag desecrators deserve to die To the Editor: On W ednesday October 26, sev­ eral students held a rally concerning the new law banning desecration of the United States Flag. The rally on the quad w as attended by several dozen students. I was not there; however, I was told that a few students had vented their feelings on why they thought the law was wrong. They then proceeded to walk on the U.S. Flag and joined others who felt the same to walk on the flag.

The Flag sym bolizes everything America stands for, from the Marines fighting and dying on Guadalcanal to the plight o f the homeless. Millions of people died defending what that Flag represents. The Flag is what immi­ grants see as freedom and hope and evil doers see as a mighty force of good. T he Flag is the A m erican Spirit, Constitution, People, and the Nation. It is all things both good and bad. It depicts being able to go into a

store and buy fruits and vegetable during any season. It is the right to sue others no matter how absurd the rea­ son. It paints the true portrait of A m erica, the users and abusers of rights and privileges.

In my mind those individuals that walked on the Flag should be shown what it is like to be without this sym ­ bol o f America. W ithout this symbol and what it represents they would not be able to walk on the Flag and vent their feelings freely in public. Let them see what life is like without freedom . Try asking a H olacaust Survivor what it is like without free­ dom .

Finally, if these individuals want to abuse the freedom o f speech by dese­ crating the U.S. Flag, then I will abuse one o f my rights. No, not freedom to print what I want, but the right to bear arms against enem ies, both foreign and DOM ESTIC. I prom ise that if I see you desecrating a U.S. Flag and I have a gun in my hand, I will KILL

YOU! No jury in America would convict me and the police will also be on my side, I can assure you of that.

I am not against people saying negative things about America. We are not perfect and we have numerous

problem s, but you desecrating the National Symbol is not going to help.

Either help correct the problem or just vent your feelings, but don’t infringe on my freedom and rights by desecrat­

ing a symbol of everything (the good and the bad) America is, was, and will be.

Michael Barone '90

is recycling a valid option?

To the Editor: I have some questions about WPI policies on solid waste disposal. I spent a lot o f time during A-Term in the Apt. Lab, M icro-Cad Lab, M an­ agement Lab, and the CCC. What amazed me was the huge volume of printer paper that these labs throw away. I’m w ondering if WPI has recently looked into the possibility of recycling this paper. If they have, what did they find? Have there been lQ P’s on WPI recycling in the past few years?

I am mM saying that the managers

of these labs or the powers that be at WPI are stupid. There must be logis­ tic and econom ic problems with recy­ cling. And I don’t even know if there is a recycling company in the W orc­ ester area. I’d just like to know if anyone has investigated paper recy­ cling recently.

A nother question I have involves chemical wastes. I just read an article in a Lowell newspaper about prob­ lems at the MIT Chemistry D epart­ ment. T he article said that M IT pays more to dispose o f many chem icals than it does to buy them. And MIT found that their Chem istry D epart­

m ent was throwing away tremendous volum es o f chem icals, many in un­ opened containers.

That article made m e w onder if a sim ilar situation exists at W PI. How does WPI dispose o f its chem ical wastes? How do the C hem istry or C hem ical E ngineering D epartm ent decide what to buy and when? Do we use all that we buy or do we throw som e of it away?

I would like to read a N ew speak article addressing one or both of these issues.

Rick Calawa '91 ME

AGD’s entry disappointing To the Editor: We would like to respond to Alpha Gam m a D elta’s winning entry in the Cam pus C enter Challenge.

First, we w ould like to address their suggestions for location of the center. Does AGD mention the AXP house because they encourage WPI to ev ic t the fra te rn ity th e ir sch o o lowned housing, besides - why would a cam pus “center” be placed so far from the mainstream of college traf­ fic? Also, why should we construct on the quadrangle, where students often retreat on warm days to enjoy grass, sun, and gam es such.as lacrosse and frisbee? A nd d estroying H iggins lawn would detract from the only true beauty to be found on WPI campus in the serenity o f Higgins H ouse’s gar­ den and grounds. We believe, too, that Patricia B ender already crea­

tively covered the option o f adding floors to the wedge area.

Second, we are fam iliar with the MIT student center and realize that a com parable center is not viable at WPI. The MIT fast-food services are their meal plan, whereas we have a contract with daka. Besides, these fast-food franchises suggested would probably require more facilities than W PI had considered incorporating into a student center design plan.

W hile we found Patricia B ender’s entry to be creative and well thoughout, A G D ’s entry struck us as obnox­ ious and disoriented: here, too many cooks certainly spoil the broth. How in the world was A G D ’s disappoint­ ing entry judged a winner, and by what criterion?

Bridget Powers, ‘91 Sarah White, ‘92

G ood job so p h o m o res!

To the Editor: Well sophom ores we did it! The class o f 1992 has broken the long tradition o f freshmen triumph at the Hom ecom ing Ropepull by easily de­ feating them at Institute Pond on the October 14th. It was great to see such a large turnout for the sophom ores for once. W hen doing some research re­ garding the ropepull victories, the last time we could find a year the sopho­ mores won was 1960. So for nearly three decades the sophom ores re ­ mained the underdog...until this year.

Although there was a disappointment when the freshmen neglected to hold onto the rope for the traditional losers drag through the pond (which was drained and all mud), a select few sophom ores entertained us afterward

—e—M e a h

with a mud-slinging body dragging contest in the cesspool. (Doherty, we loved the outfit!) So for the first time in a long time the Class o f 1992 has gotten back-to-back victories in the ropepull and more than its share of engraving on the G oat’s Head. I just wanted to take the time to thank all the people who made our victory p o s­ sible: our advisor Chris Jachimowicz, all the Class O fficers, Theta Chi and Fiji, and o f course every m em ber of the C lass o f 92 who p articipated, promoted and pulled for us. Again thanks for the participation and lets keep up the school spirit. We still have a big year ahead o f us.

David C. Cortese President, Class o f 1992

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by Alton Reich Newspeak Staff This w eek I thought I ’d do som e­ thing different. I ’d like to ask your opinion about something. W ell, first of all, how many o f you saw the article about colleges and universities in US News last w eek? Ok, you can put your hands dow n now. How many noticed that WPI was rated num ber 1 in the north? How many feel that if the magazine asked the students, th e y ’d get the im pression that its a load o f bull?

E ver look around you and say, “Why am I here? 1 could be som e­ place better.” I think we all have, most of us more than once. W hy do we think that? T he food in daka isn’t de­ licious, but it isn’t better at other places. It isn ’t really the professors.

At least I d o n ’t think so.

You could argue the reason WPI seem s bad is because of the profes­ sors. Many students feel that profes­ sors d o n ’t do a good job in teaching them the m aterial, but I disagree. Yes, som e professors d o n ’t speak the lan­ guage, som e aren’t very organized, and some ju st d o n ’t explain the m ate­

them “R esidence H alls,” but to us they are “the dorm s,” our hom es, and the topic o f this w eek’s colum n.

Let me start by saying that I love living in the dorm . Dorm life is very different from life at home with your parents. For one thing, my parents used to let m e live at home for free.

That is not the case here, o f course.

But never fear, the money we pay to live here is put to good use providing us w ith a high quality living environ­ ment full o f experiences we never even dream ed of at home. Like daka.

Fire alarm s at 4:00 AM are another prime exam ple. It has happened to you, just like it happened to me. I ’m sure. Picture this: I ’m trying to get a little sleep before my 8:00 AM C alcu­ lus class, and you know I c a n ’t w ait to face the day. In spite of my room ­ m ate’s stinky feet and all, I finally manage to doze off when all o f a sudden, my fitful rest is shattered by the sound o f a thousand Volkswagen Bug horns blaring outside my room.

In a trance, I go to investigate. In addition to a not-a-all unusual dosage of shaving cream on the walls and floor, 1 am greeted by blaring sirens and flashing signs that appear to say “FIR E.” T here are also 50 other sim i­ lar zom bie-like creatures who half­ dressed, confused, and looking for their m others, all of whom are getting m adder by the second as the awful truth rears its ugly head. Some foggy part of our collective brains realizes that som ew here in the building there is an infem o o f flaming cinderblocks, whiie another part scream s out that they cannot bum . N onetheless, we find ourselves trudging outside to the 3 0 -degree W o rceste r n ight and “safety.”

W hy is it that the fire alarm never goes off in the daytim e, maybe on a nice warm, sunny day ? Is there some unw ritten code that m andates only fire drills in the wee hours o f the morning during w inter months?

A nother privilege we are granted here at WPI is the freedom from hav­ ing to decide what tem perature we want our w ater to be. Som ew here out there is a bunch of, as they say, “ w icked” considerate folks w ho wanted to protect us from having to make those tough choices early in the m orning, so they decided not to make us bother with tem perature control faucets and such. Instead, we just turn on the w ater, maybe fiddle with the

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rial; but you can still pass. I have found that what you get on a scale o f 0 - 100 m eans nothing. W hat you do in relation to the people around you is what m atters. If you have problem s understanding the p rof chances are that everyone else does too. If you read the book and absorb all you can, y o u ’ll at least keep up with everyone else. If y o u ’re lucky, y o u’ll do better than som e. The problem often isn ’t a p rofessor’s ability to teach, but a stu­ d en t’s ability to leam .

A nother source of disharm ony is the adm inistration’s seem ing total disregard for the student’s opinions.

The adm inistration carries out it’s little schem es without any concern for anyone else. President Strauss re­ m inds m e o f Golum in the anim ated version o f the Lord o f the R ings, kind o f a m utated schem ing little rodent (Yesss preciousss). The best quote ever to com e from Strauss w as about tw o years ago (my m em ory is a bit fuzzy). Som eone asked him why he continued to raise tuition at such a high rate, he answ ered, “ Because I c an .” Until the students organize and let him know that he c a n ’t, he will continue to raise tuition by large

w ouldn’t be so bad if the tem perature was ju st right, o r at least predictable so we cou ld get used to it. A s it happens, that is not the case.

On the contrary, adjusting the w ater is more a gam e o f Russian Roulette than personal com fort. The w ater m ay range from “arctic” to “ wicked h o t,” but you ca n ’t tell until you put y o u r pink little body u nder the show er head. O ne thing that you can count on is that once you are in there, the tem perature will change halfway through your show er, usually by about 75 degrees one way or the other.

D o n ’t think that you can avoid this by taking a quick shower; it knows.

A nother thing that you can depend on is that you will be cold w hen you come out of the showers, no m atter what.

There is alw ays an arctic breeze chill­ ing your already traum atized blue body. T h is breeze com es from a hid­ den vent that is specially designed for ju st that purpose. O f course, the floor is always wet because the w ater re­ fuses to g o down the drain, mostly because th e drains are raised above the puddles. I ’m no plum ber, but shouldn’t the drains be in the low spots instead? I guess I ’m not the expert on such m atters, though. The sinks are ju s t a tiny bit better. H alf of them provide only cold w ater, and the rest can occasionally produce nearly lukew arm water, but only if tw o toi­ lets are being sim ultaneously flushed.

I w on’t even point out the com m on fact that there are no paper tow els to dry your hands with anyw ay.

The w ay I see it, it’s not too much to ask for som e warm w ater every now and then. W hat really confuses me, though, is that the girls say that their water is alw ays scalding and they would like some m ore tem perate w ater in there. O f course, rum or has it that they have curtains to keep the breezes out, but th a t’s a different story. To m e, this m ajor tem perature difference says that som ew here deep within the pipes of W PI, there is a m ajor valve problem or som ething.

But I suppose th a t’s all part o f dorm life. ...As is the DAKA TR A Y O F T H E WEEK (which was m ysteriously edited out last week): “ Stop G raffiti” Until next time, rem em ber: If y o u ’re gonna boot, boot with you clothes off!

am ounts.

T he fresh m an c la ss probably d o esn ’t know about the health care cuts, and the $1 m illion shortfall last year. The adm inistration wallows in delusions o f its own greatness without any regard for the concerns o f anyone else. A few weeks ago there was a story about tuition on the front page in which S trauss said he w as concerned about how m uch it will cost him to send his kids to college. I think the figure m entioned was about $50,000 if tuition continues to go up as m uch as he raises it every year. W ell, why isn’t he doing anything to decrease the upward trend!?! I suspect that his salary goes up proportional to tuition raises and so he can afford to send his kids to college. Secondly, the school seem s to spend lots of money trying to attract new students, but what about the ones w ho are here already? Ever walk into a lab and find equipm ent that seem s to date back to the late I8 0 0 ’s? T h a t’s what I’m talking about. O ur reactor could help local police with forensics w ork using neu­ tron activation analysis. The problem is that we c a n ’t get new software for our G eLi detectors with better resolu-

by Nathan Daniels T hose w ho know m e know that I am not one who is enam oured of flying. The w hole concept of getting into the hollow innards of a metal projectile that is heavily laden with highly explosive fuel does not appeal to me. H ow ever, there are times when circum stances dem and it of me. Such a tim e has ju s t passed.

I had to fly to Philadelphia for a day. I thought I would be sm art and avoid Logan traffic and fly out of W orcester. The W orcester A irport had a beautiful view o f the area. With fall foliage at its peak, I was actually enjoying m yself as m y room mate drove me to the term inal. (I really wish they w o u ld n ’t call it a ‘term inal.’

It d o e sn ’t instill the assurance that y o u ’re going to com e back.) Then we went around the co m er and the term i­ nal cam e into view.

I ’d never seen the W orcester A ir­ port. I guess I was sort of foolish to assum e that it would be glass and concrete like Logan. It looked like the N ew port C ream ery. But it did have a landing field and those funny anten­ nae that all airports have, so I went in.

The outside w asn’t too big, so I figured n either would be the inside. I was right. B ut th a t’s okay, the folks behind the coun ter were very friendly and efficient and they tagged my lug­ gage and put it on that never-ending conveyor belt that all airports have.

I went through the security check that all airports have and sat in the seating area aw aiting my flight to exciting N ew ark. The boarding an­ nouncem ent was m ade and my fellow passengers and I dutifully lined up like sheep and filed through the door.

O nce outside I looked around for our 747. “ H m m m m ...” I thought, “ None in sight. Just that sm all propeller plane that w e are heading towards.

Small propeller plane? H m m m m .”

I figured a plane is a plane. It d o esn ’t m atter if you can fit as much as half o f the freshm en class in one or if you can fit only half o f a freshm an in another. So I ducked my head and clim bed the stairs into this smajl pro­ peller plane. O nce inside I felt a bit of relief to see that I could stand erect and there w ere four seats across. But 1 did have m y initial concerns. W ere small planes like this safe? W as there a stew ardess? W as there a bathroom?

Fortunately, the answ er to all three

It isn ’t even com pletely the ad­ m inistration’s fault either. A great deal o f the blame lies with the stu­ dents. L e t’s face it many o f us are apathetic as hell. I know those who do try to m ake things better are going to scream and yell at me. I'd like to ask them to look around and count. First look and see how many others are yelling w ith them, then count every­ one else. Divide the num ber scream ­ ing by the total num ber of people; m ultiply by 100. Pitiful isn’t it?

Around you are the children of people who grew up in the turbulent 6 0 ’s.

W e’ve sure come a long way, haven’t we.

It isn ’t just the fact that people around here don’t care, it is som e­ tim es a lack of effort. Look around you in class, what do you see? People failing left and right. The great and mighty Prof. Van A lstyne once said that h e’d like to give the entire class A ’s. How can you give everyone A ’s, you m ight ask. If everyone under­ stands the material, you give them all A ’s. Just because som eone passes, som eone else d o esn ’t have to fail.

Maybe I ’ve been lucky, m aybe I have­ n ’t gotten terrible professors, but

work, d o n ’t get used to using the stuff th ey ’ve been taught and still expect to pass. People who try to do the hom e­ work and have problem s, I ’ll help.

People who do the problem s, but don't understand why it w orks I ’ll work with to try to figure it out. People who do nothing and then ask me for help before a test really annoy me (not quite strong enough, but I really shouldn’t say “piss me o f f ’ in a re­ spected journal such as this one).

People who d o n ’t leam from m is­ takes annoy me even m ore. I d o n ’t know how many rem em ber the falling out that Lambda Chi had last year (I know , bad pun). The scoop is that a drunken student fell out a w indow and broke either his neck or back, I don’t recall which. I was reading the police log and I saw that som eone fell out a window at Kap. Come on guys, this is a valuable lesson, seal up your win­ dow s, then things like this w on’t happen. I’m not trying to criticize the system , I’ve given up hope o f chang­ ing it, but what is this fixation you have with window s?

Anyway, the point is that the article in US News was based on numbers, and school issued propaganda. If it

questions is yes.

The rest o f that flight was unevent­ ful. I landed in exciting N ewark in less than an hour. Through the w on­ ders o f m odem technology one can traverse great distances in a rem arka­ bly short period of time. O f course, I had a tw o and a half hour wait for my connecting flight.

So I had a bit o f time to explore the N ewark airport. I was astonished.

The term inal I was in was built only a year ago and you would be amazed what you can do with concrete, glass and a few potted plants. Now if only the rest o f New Jersey looked like that...

It w as dinner tim e and I had re­ signed m yself to spending $20 for less-than-delectable food at an airport cafeteria. Imagine my surprise to find a fast food haven at the center o f the term inal.

There was M cDonalds, H agen-D as, Famous A mos, a Chinese place, a fried chicken place, a frozen yogurt stand, and best o f all, there was not one but two cocktail bars. All too soon I realized I had to leave this concrete and glass wonderland and continue on to the City of Brotherly Love.

I was ready for my connecting flight. I knew w hat to expect this time. I lined up with the other sheep and keeping in step with everyone else, I w alked out of the terminal

tow ard my next encounter with a sm all propeller plane. A nd once again I ducked my head and clim bed the stairs into this second sm all propeller plane. O nce inside I noticed som e­ thing was odd; namely the num ber of seats in a row. There w ere only three seats to a row and I had to keep my head bowed. Through m y acute sense o f geom etry I deduced that there were tw o possibilities. Either the airline was now using larger seats and I had grow n four inches while in N ewark or this plane was sm aller than on my first flight.

As the plane taxied dow n the run­ way I had my usual anxiety fit. But this time I rationalized to m yself that this flight was going to be real short only about 30 m inutes airtim e. I only had to go 80 miles to Philadelphia.

That calm ed me down. And sure enough, a half an hour later I was safely on the terra firma o f Pennsylva­ nia. (O f course, the final irony was that I waited 2.5 hours to fly 0.5 hours to get 80 miles. That is, I could have driven for three hours at about 30 m iles per hour and gotten from N ew ­ ark to Philly just the sam e.)

And that escapade was over. I was in Philadelphia. I certainly had flown in the sm allest planes in the world and the return flights would be a breeze.

O r so I thought. But that will have to w ait for next w eek’s article...

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Live at WPI 1 0 ,0 0 0 M a n ia c s Sunday December 3rd 1989

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Ah, joy! H omecoming. T h e great chance for W PI to show o ff its great im age to all sorts o f A lum ni. A chance for alum ni to return to the place o f their college education, to say to their spouses “Yes, I w ent here” an d “Y o u ’ll come here som eday" to their children. The Campus is at its best. Clean, good food, great entertain­ m ent, the bright sm iling faces o f students...

Bullshit. Sure it was a chance for WPI to show itself off. Nowhere was it m entioned that w e ’re over budget. Nowhere w as it mentioned that tuition will m ost likely g o up ten percent and housing seven each year fo r a few years to com e, anyway. It w as simply a chance to look pretty and scoop up as many alum ni donations as possible. H om ecom ing is a crock! There w as food everyw here, there w ere people every­ w here. W hat do we really care about an old guy riding around in a car saying “ C lass o f ’34?” Is this to try and say that WPI g rad s live forever?

(A lthough I have seen a sign aro u n d that says “ Sex kills, com e to WPI and live forever!”)

T hen there was the G reek parade. This cam pus is SM ALL. Tiny. It’s pretty sad when you have to ride around the Q u ad four or five tim es ju st to have a parade that lasts more than 4.76 m inutes. (D o n ’t bother, math majors, thats ju s t over four minutes, 45 seconds.) The best part was that cam pus police had to lead it!

They break up parties and lead parades. W hat a li f e .. No w onder W orcester Police has this opinion o f WPI police not being real cops.

T hen, to top this whole baby off, w e’ve been told that W PI is a dry cam pus. No alcohol (yeah, sure) on cam pus. W ell, I think that if you were paying attention to all the A lum s that were w atching the football gam e Saturday, you would have been had pressed to find O N E that w asn’t holding either a beer or a wine cooler.

We w alked dow n the drivew ay which parallels the field, and there was literally a stream of beer flow ing dow n. Not a trickle, a stream .

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H om ew ork...w ell, m aybe. What w ould you be doing on a Sunday night in O ctober at 11:30 w ith a brutally shredded beanbag chair? Hey! L e t’s not be so disgusting. It y o u ’re actually reading this colum n I know what you’re think­ ing right now.

It ju st so happens that a beaten and tom , black beanbag chair m et a prem ature death and w as inconspicuously deposited on top o f an already overfull trash can. A very distinct trail o f white Styrofoam beads traced the path o f the culprit back to his/her hum ble (or m aybe not so hum ble) abode, but we needn’t concern our­ selves with his/her identity. But then again, it w ould be interesting to see that name in print if I could spell it but I digress.

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evening when som eone go the bright idea to throw a few handfuls o f “snow ” aloft. T his was follow ed by an echoing chorus o f bodily threats and a rem inder of how m uch the janitor was going to love us the follow ing m orning.

Provoked, rather than daunted by the com ­ m ents o f the now foam -ladened victim s, a certain individual hurled the entire beanbag and its contents across the hall. Soon there was a two inch layer of foam on the floor which covered a 10 foot expanse o f the hallw ay. (It may have been less than that but we here at this colum n reserve the right to exaggerate). No sooner than one could recite the official Sue M ielinski definition o f a slut, the entire popu­ lation o f the floor (except for a few o f the her­ mits who inhabit the com ers and believe they ’re too good for us, but no nam es o f course) had filtered into the center of the hallw ay to join in this w onderful blizzard o f foam . The Styrofoam continued to fly until the R .A .’s sauntered in. But w ait, som eone had all so ap­ propriately put on C hristm as carols and one could hear bells jingling in the distance (O.K so it was som eone’s alarm clock, w hadya’ want).

Then by the force o f some stray magnetic anom aly we m anaged to get the R .A .’s in­ volved as well as our spiritual leader (rum or has it he had a difficult tim e getting the foam beads out of his turban) and what had started out as an annoying m ess had turned into a social function. An annoying m ess is an accu­ rate description, especially for those wearing sweatpants. W e were having such a w ild time we were able to victim ize unw ary m em bers of the other floors and attract the attention o f both SN aP and the C am pus Police.

An hour later, being the m ature and respon­ sible students w e are (W AIT!! T h a t’s contra­ dictory to my last colum n. W e ’ll have to scratch that.) A n hour later, after being en­ slaved (that’s m uch better) by our R .A .’s we conducted a m ajor cleanup w hereas 90 percent o f the foam was rem oved. It ju st so happened that, being the considerate students we are, we had appropriately done this the night before the tours for prospective students w ere to start.

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After th e quake: stu d en ts put their liv es back together Some Are ‘Still Sleeping O utside’; Others C an ’t Study A nything But ‘Earthquake N ew s’

by Amy Hudson (CPS) — Like everyone else involved in the devastating earthquake that shook the San Francisco area Oct. 17, students are trying to put their lives back together. In doing so, they’re facing closed campus buildings, nights cam ped outside, canceled classes and even guilt feelings.

One psychologist predicts it will take a long time for college life to return to normal and that, in the traum a's wake, students’ grades m ay suffer.

“T here’s a lot o f uncertainty, a lot of stress, at this p o int,” said Bill G eorges, assistant housing director o f Stanford University, where 304 students may be forced to move perm a­ nently.

The quake immediately displaced 420 Stan­ ford students.

At the University of C alifom ia-Santa Cruz (U CSC), just eight miles from the epicenter o f the quake, some dorm residents were “still sleeping outside to rest their nerves” four days after the initial shock, reported Armin Quiring, a cam pus hotline volunteer at UCSC. Most of the colleges in the area canceled classes for at least one day, and some, like G olden G ate University, San Francisco Com ­ munity College, UCSC and Stanford were shut dow n for three days.

Some schools were relatively undamaged.

At the University of California at Berkeley, for exam ple, one student reported watching in fear as the quake threatened to burst the huge w in­ dow s of the library and shower everyone inside with glass. However, the w indow s held, and the campus in general suffered seem ingly few structural consequences.

About 200,000 students are enrolled at the 23 major tw o-year and four-year campuses in the area hit by the quake, which registered 6.9 on the Richter Scale and was felt as far as 350 m iles from its epicenter.

Officials were still trying to figure out the num ber of dead. A week afterward, the death toll had reached 47 people, with another 160 people still m issing. A lm ost 3,100 w ere treated in area hospitals for injuries. At least 4,500 in Santa Cruz.

N ear Santa C lara U niversity alone, the quake caused five deaths and 900 injuries,

dam aging as many as 800 houses and 150 businesses. Emergency officials’ first esti­ mates w ere that it would take at least $260 million to put Santa C lara back together.

No fatalities have been reported at any o f the college campuses in the area.

Stanford may have suffered the w orst physi­ cal dam age of the schools in the region.

Twenty-four o f its 240 m ajor buildings have been closed “indefinitely” because of struc­ tural dam age, reported spokeswom an Eileen W alsh.

S tu d en ts w ere sh u ffled into tem porary housing, and classes relocated to temporary building space, she added.

Even those who survived w ithout signifi­ cant dam age to their routines had stories to tell.

Robyn Carter, a UCSC sophom ore, was in class when the quake hit. “ Usually I d o n ’t even get up (during an earthquake). But then it didn’t stop, and I got really scared.”

Students sitting nearest to the classroom exit crow ded under the doorw ay, generally the safest place to be indoors, leaving the rest of the class to dive under desks.

It w asn’t until the students filed outside, where they were greeted by huge billowing clouds o f dust, loose rocks everyw here and the sound o f piercing em ergency sirens that they had an inkling o f the tem blor’s severity.

A fter witnessing such scenes, many stu­ dents report having a hard time thinking about school. “ I haven’t been able to study anything besides earthquake new s,” C arter said.

College life for the students caught in the earthquake is not likely to return to normal soon, observed Daniel Sachau, a psychology p ro fesso r at M ankato S tate U n iv ersity in M innesota.

After m ajor disasters, Sachau said, people experience different degrees of post-traumatic stress, from slight d epression to am nesia, where a person literally denies the incident ever happened.

Students, he added, m ight find it difficult to concentrate on school after what was, for most, a terrifying experience. Some m ight even be inclined to drop out.

“I would think a few college students, espe­ cially those from out o f state, might take it as an excuse to go som ew here e lse,” Sachau predicted.

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K ennedy ordered professors to “consider the stress o f the event” in postponing assignments and exam s in the coming months.

M ost other schools like G olden Gate U ni­ versity announced they would open their safe classroom s, but leave it to professors to settle their students’ schedules for the time being.

D avid Brodie, a student at the University of C alifornia’s Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, said his feelings w ent from terror during the quake to “a good feeling” the next day.

T he daily routine o f classes and studying, he said, was interrupted. “ It was like sum m er break or something. You feel guilty if you’re having too much fun.” “ I feel sort o f guilty because nothing bad happened to my house,” C arter added. “For a lot o f people, it’s a vacation."

Indeed, there were reports o f post-quake tennis m atches and beer parties from some students who, Sachau suggested, may be trying to cope by pretending it did not have an effect on them .

S om e campus residents already have reas­ sum ed a seem ingly nonchalant view o f earth trem ors. An aftershock m easuring 4.8 on the

R ichter Scale rocked 15,000 fans who showed up to watch the University o f Utah-Stanford football game at Stanford Stadium Oct. 21.

A fter a few m om ents o f apprehension and confusion, how ever, officials m erely restarted the game.

Down the coast in Los Angeles, where “The Big O ne” long predicted by seismologists is expected to tear up the area some time during the next 30 years, students profess not to be w orried.

“I ’m not really afraid o f it happening,” m aintained Kris Lindquist, a junior at O cci­ dental C ollege in Los A ngeles. “ It’s just som ething I accept. I know it’s coming, but it’s just part of life.”

In 1987, a local report estim ated as many as 2,000 students at UCLA would die if The Big One hit.

T w o years ago, a Southern C alifornia quake killed a C alifornia State University-Los A nge­ les student when a concrete slab fell on her.

Sachau believes the N orthern California quakes will have a lasting impact on all the students who endured them . “It w ouldn’t surprise me a bit if their performance level dropped for the rest of the term .”

2 3 C o lle g e s a ffe c te d b y e a r th q u a k e (C PS) — Among the m ajor two- and fouryear cam puses affected by the earthquake in C alifornia Oct. 17 were: San F ran cisco S tate, S tan fo rd , G olden G ate, C alifo rn ia State at H ayw ard, Santa Clara, Lincoln and San Jose State universities, as w ell as the universities o f C alifornia H astings College o f Law, San Francisco and C alifornia at San Francisco.

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by Isaac Asimov H urricane Hugo did a great deal o f damage, but it w as a pinprick com pared to some o f the natural disasters that may have struck the Earth. This does not refer to the com etary strike, 65 million years ago, that killed the dinosaurs. W e are talking now about possible events that took place only a few thousand years ago when hum an beings were about to begin establishing civilizations in the Middle East.

The speculation involves the Ice Ages. For the last m illion years, the Earth has seen inter­ mittent periods in w hich huge ice sheets co v ­ ered the northern half o f N orth A m erica, and large parts o f northern Eurasia as well. These may be caused by slight, periodic changes in E arth’s orbit and the results have been serious in the last m illion years only because the m ovem ents o f E arth 's crust has surrounded the North Pole with land areas.

A pparently, there are periods when the sum m ers in the northern hem isphere cool o ff a bit. In that case not all o f the w inter snows have a chance to melt before the next w inter snows begin. Little by little, from year to year, the snow cover increases. As it does, more and more sunlight is reflected into space and does not have the chance to warm the Earth because snow is more reflective than bare ground is.

Sum m ers therefore grow cooler still.

Thus, the glaciers slow ly form and move southward, reaching as far south, at an ex ­ trem e, as the O hio R iver and Long Island. The sea-level drops and land bridges connect Asia with North A m erica in the North and with A ustralia in the south, so that hum an beings could m ake their way into those continents from their Old W orld origins.

But then, the sum m ers warm a bit as E arth’s orbit cycles back in tim e, so that more snow is melted than falls in the next winter. Less sunlight is reflected and more is absorbed, as bare ground is uncovered so the sum m ers grow w arm er still. Little by little, then, the glaciers retreat. Ten thousand years ago they were com pleting their m ost recent retreat and the world becam e as it is now.

Usually, though, the com ing and going of the ice-sheets is thought o f as slow — glacially slow, in fact. T here is no way o f im agining the

com ing of the glaciers as anything but slow, but what about the melting?

Back in 1975, Cesare Em iliani o f the U ni­ versity of M iami studied the fossil rem nants o f microscopic organisms under the sedim ents on the floor o f the G ulf of Mexico. From his studies, he concluded that there was a period, l 1,000 years ago, when the G ulf o f M exico contained w ater that was much less salty than it is today. He suggested that the ice-sheets had undergone a sudden melting and that a vast flood o f water had entered the G ulf of M exico, and raised the sea level m arkedly.

The suggestion was largely ignored because it was difficult to imagine the ice melting that fast. Now, however, John Shaw o f Q u een ’s University in Kingston, O ntario, in Septem ber, 1989, made a suggestions as to ju st how such flood might com e about.

The regions, where once the ice-sheets were found, have a scattering o f low hills called “drum lins.” These are usually supposed to have been form ed by the grinding action o f glaciers as they came and went. Shaw , how ­ ever, feels they may more easily have been formed by a vast rush of water.

He suggests that the ice-sheets did indeed m elt very slow ly, but that the w ater did not necessarily run off, soak into the ground, pour into rivers, and reach the sea as rapidly as it formed.

Instead, w ater might have slowly settled dow n to the bottom o f the ice-sheet, soaked into the ground till it reached bedrock, and then slowly accum ulated there. There would thus form what was essentially a lake o f w ater underneath the ice-sheet and this would be prevented by ice-dams from spreading o ut­ ward.

Eventually, though, as the glaciers contin­ ued very slow ly to melt, sections o f the icedam s would weaken and then break. The lake o f ice-water that had been pent up would then pour out seaw ard in a vast flood that beggars anything we can imagine.

Shaw has calculated that som ething like 20,000 cubic m iles o f w ater may have poured out o f the ice, all at once, to form the drum lin fields o f northern Saskatchewan. The A m azon River, the largest on Earth, takes ten years to discharge 20,000 cubic m iles o f w ater into the Alantic Ocean, but the ice-lake may have dis­

charged it in a m atter o f a few days only. It w ould therefore have the effect o f a river perhaps a thousands tim es as large as the A m azon.

That water, tum bling into the ocean, may have raised the global sea-level as much as 9 inches in just a few days. The rising water would have m oved up the low -lying continen­

tal shelves that had been exposed during gla­ ciation. Human beings, retreating inland be­ fore the inflowing water, may have rem inisced and exaggerated afterw ard, giving rise to tales of drow ned continents and universal floods.

S haw ’s suggestion is obviously controver­ sial but it presents a startling and dram atic picture.

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S t u d e n t s o b j e c t t o CIA re c ru itin g o n c a m p u s (C PS) — The C entral Intelligence Agency resorted to fake and m isleading statem ents to pacify students at the U niversity o f New M exico and M iddlebury C ollege who object to its cam pus recruiting in O ctober.

At New M exico, C IA recruiters confused dem onstrators by show ing up one day earlier than scheduled to interview students.

At M iddlebury, a recruiter convinced pro­ testers lo disperse by sounding like he was prom ising the CIA w ould never recruit at the V erm ont cam pus again. “ I will not com e back on cam pus to do any m ore recruiting. I prom ise you that,” Brian Peters, chief of the ag en cy ’s new England recruitm ent center, told 15 students who had staged a sit-in at M iddlebury’s placem ent of­ fice while more than 50 others dem onstrated outside.

Mark M ansfield, a C IA spokesm an at the agency’s W ashington, D.C., headquarters, how ever, quickly clarified that Peters had not meant the C lA would not return to M iddlebury.

Though Peters signed a statem ent saying that he “ will not initiate interview s” at the 1,600-student school, other CIA recruiters might continue to conduct interviews, M ans­ field said.

“Peters was trying to quell a very tense situation,” M ansfield said, noting M iddlebury had not provided any security for Peters.

In a separate incident at the University o f New M exico, the CIA began recruiting on cam pus on Oct. 5, a day earlier than scheduled, to avoid confrontations with students.

Last year, UNM students disrupted recruit­ ing and took CIA literature during a govern­ ment career fair on cam pus. CIA officials left, and said they w ould not return.

In recent years, protests against the agency have rocked the universities o f Minnesota, Colorado, M assachusetts, Iowa, W ashington, V erm ont, North C arolina at C harlotte and C alifom ia-L os A ngeles, as well as Brown, Syracuse, N orthw estern, Duke and O hio State universities, to nam e a few.

“Students have the right to dem onstrate, ju st as the CIA has the right to recruit,” M ans­ field said, adding cam pus opposition som e­ tim es h e'^ s its recruiting. “A fter the publicity

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Tuesday October 31,1969

Choices is there to help

by H eidi Lundi N ew speak S ta ff D rinking alcohol is, le t’s face it, the norm at W PI. The m ajority o f W PI students partici­ pate in drinking events at least once a week.

The question is are students educated and aware enough to drink safely.

C hoices is a peer advisory group on cam pus that is 2 I /2 years old. It has 15 + m em bers, Lisa King is the coordinator and Sharon Savage is secretary. The g roup ’s main focus is Alcohol Aw areness and it w orks closely with Judy M cGuire Robinson, D irector o f Residential Life and C oordinator o f Alcohol and Drug Education.

Choices is made up o f several different attitudes. Som e of the m em bers are voluntary, some are R A s w ho need the education.

Choices provides to fulfill their requirem ents.

Some m em bers are students who forced to serve on a C hoices program as punished for discipline infractions. T he group wants it to be understood that they d o n ’t want people to stop drinking, just to becom e more educated about it. The group focuses on maturity in alcohol consum ption. D rinking games are not smart because the goal is to get very drunk. Ms.

Robinson warns that passing out is serious and w orries that students feel unconsciousness is a joke and treat it too lightly when friends pass out. She points out that people can drive at 16, but only after several m onths o f d river’s train­ ing. People can drink at 21 with no training w hatsoever.

The m em bers of C hoices recently com ­ pleted four w eeks of training with Ms. Robin­ son. She met w ith them once a week during A Term .

They learned how to deal with intoxicated people and how to run sem inars and w orkshops about alcohol.

Traditionally the N ational Alcohol A w are­ ness week has been held the week o f O ctober break so WPI h a sn ’t participated for the past 2 years. Choices has held W P I’s ow n alcohol aw areness w eek in January. This year the them e is “Get A bsurd” (for “ Get A Better U nderstanding o f R esponsible D rinking.” ) C hoices and Ms. R obinson are always avail­ able to do educational program s. In the past th e y ’ve had w orkshops at A lpha Chi Rho and Fiji. Choices w ill hold open discussions on subjects like “responsible drinking,” and “in­ tervening when a friend is in trouble,” or “students who com e from alcoholic fam ilies.”

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O rganized in a m anner sim ilar to that of a ski resort, there was a “bunny slope” for begin­ ners, an “ interm ediate” slope for the more advanced, and an “expert” slope for the adven­ turous. The bunny hill was a sm all cliff about 15 feet high that the novice rappellers used to

becom e fam iliarized with the equipm ent and m ethods o f rappelling, and to build confi­ dence. Those who had m astered the bunny hill then descended the interm ediate hill, which was approxim ately 80 feet high. The expert hill w as more than 100 feet high and steeper than the interm ediate hill. All o f the rappellers enjoyed the experience, and had the opportu­ nity to descend the interm ediate and expert cliffs several tim es. During the entire day, safety was heavily stressed.

In addition to the rappelling instruction, those who attended the weekend received in­ struction in field expedient first aid techniques, as well as building and crossing a one-rope bridge, crossing a two-rope bridge, and going through a grenade assault course. The cadets and students com peted in these events against other cadets and students. T he entire day was very successful; prospective cadets, cadets, and invited guests o f the cadets were given an enticing taste o f Army adventure.

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Tuesday October 31,1989

What is the role of Evil in the world?

by Gary McCaslin WPI Campus Ministry To those o f you in the W edge last Thursday o f A term w ho were unable to enjoy a quiet, relaxing lunch because o f all the shouting and loud discussing at a level beyond that neces­ sary for civilized people to com m unicate, I apologize fo r the w hole rowdy bunch o f highly vocal people at the C am pus M inistry table.

T he only problem is that the discussion was so much fun and educational I hope it happens again and often.

The STD (Suggested Topic for D iscussion) was T h e R ole o f Evil in O u r Lives. O v er the last few w eeks I had read about som e people labeled b a d by our press, Hallow een is com ing up and there seem s to be an increased interest in devil w orship, death and evil in general.

A fter having gone around the sun forty som e­ thing tim es, I have com e to see that how a person defines the role evil plays in his o r her life determ ines how life will be lived. So, w anting to explore the unique W PI student m ind on this question, I set the topic out and invited response. The first jo b was to see where evil raises its ugly head as we encounter the w orld.

The S oviet Union - we used to think o f them as evil, they were out to get us and take over the w orld, yes even the U nited States and every M cD onalds from coast to coast. But times have changed. They are not defined as evil any m ore. N ot only do they want their own M cD onalds, they seem to be in a race to cut their w eapons faster than we can. A re the R ussians inherently evil and is this all a trick to lull the A m erican defenses to sleep? C an we envision a tim e when a person w ould trust a R ussian like you w ould trust an A m erican? Is evil so deep inside the R ussians that such trust w ill never be possible?

T he U nited States - we used to be the good guys all created in the im age o f John W ayne but fo r som eone sitting outside the US borders, a lot o f the above questions would im ply a great deal o f evil deep inside A m ericans also.

M anuel N oriega - This man tortures and kills people, runs drugs through his country to ours and w ould not hesitate, it seem s, to use any form o f violence necessary to get h is way.

call evil is to confront it in a way that seeks to understand and teach. W e c a n ’t reduce evil until we let go of o u r fear of death. And w e’re all going to die anyw ay - w hat’s the big deal?

6) M ight m akes right. The only way to deal with som eone truly evil is to m ake sure your w eapon is bigger than the next guy’s and is loaded.

Is evil genetic and will it alw ays be there?

O r is evil a construct in our m inds that we use to define in groups and out groups? Is the world basically a friendly place? I believe it is.

C an any point of view be proven? I doubt it, but I also believe the continued exchange o f ideas in a spirit o f good will is crucial to these tim es - especially in the face o f what we label as evil.

Stop by the C am pus M inistry table T hurs­ days and let me know what y o u ’re thinking.

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do use harm , we call them evil. Then, after categorizing the person, we can understand and possibly predict behavior.

3) N o one is bom evil, but our culture teaches a greed that m anifests itself as evil: one person sees that another person has more and then the first person wants to have more too. Then, in the first p erson’s quest to get and to have, people get in the way o f profits and that resulting behavior, originally m otivated by a simple desire to have the good life, is called evil.

4) T here is no evil in the world; evil is only a mental construct that separates one person from another, when we realize we are all one and separated only by one person’s not under­ standing another, what we know now as evil will not exist. Evil exists only in our minds.

5) The only way to deal with what we now

Is he inherently evil and im possible to ever deal with in a constructive w ay? W hat would be a positive response to a m an like this?

The list o f h u m an s’ inhum anity to other hum ans continues: oppression in South A f­ rica, racism in A m erica, violence in the M iddle East, there seem s to be no shortage o f exam ples to provide. The problem for u s is: How do we deal with all the evil in the w orld and still live sane, productive lives? H ow will we define evil for ourselves?

Perspectives w ere provided and defended Thursday over lunch and here are som e that were gleaned from the exchanges: 1) Evil is inside everyone, we are bom with it. Face it and d o n ’t try to hide o r ignore the reality or your naivete will d o you in.

2) The use o f the term e v il is necessary to sim plify o u r lives. W hen people are a threat or

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use their magic markers and what not! (W e raise $533.75 in the Servant Auction- C o n ­ gratulations) Put on your scary faces for Halloween. H aunted House was aw esom e as usual! Ed.....alas he did too much. O nce again Kevin snatches defeat from the jaw s o f victory.

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Brown: Happy Hour will follow . Come to the m eeting for events dates and bring your sug­ gestions for additions to this terms programs.

C ongratulations to T erry Schmiet! H e’s the latest w inner o f an SM E licence plate. TShirts, T-Shirts, T-Shirts! O u rT -S h irts should be here in a few weeks. Van will have more to say about them at the m eeting. O u r evergenerous Senior C hapter is offering a $ 1000.00 scholarship for an SM E student-m em ber m a­ joring in m anufacturing. They will also give the three runner-ups SM E handbooks and din­ ner. This has probably been real confusing to read, because it was real confusing to write, so com e to the m eeting and get the REAL TRUTH about MAKING IT IN AM ERICA.

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W P I M usic to R ussia This is perhaps the m ost exciting year for music in the history of W PI. For the first time in the history o f the college, all o f the m usic ensem bles are leaving for Europe on concert tours during the spring break - M arch 2. L eav­ ing for Russia from J.F. Kennedy International A irport, New York, will be The WPI Stage Band, The Brass Choir, The W ind Ensemble, The W om en’s Chorale, and the M edw in String Ensem ble. All o f these num ber some 80 people, actively engaged in perform ance, now to be heard by a very musical people.

M em bers o f the W PI instrum ental en­ sem bles (Brass C hoir and W ind Ensemble directed by Professor Douglas W eeks, Stage Band and Jazz Ensem ble directed by Rich Falco, and Medwin String E nsem ble directed

by M ichael M ega) and W om en’s Chorale, (directed by Professor M alama R obbins) will arrive in Praque, C zechoslovakia on 3 March 1990 on the first leg of their tour behind the “ Iron C urtain.” Perform ances are scheduled in M oscow, Minsk, Leningrad, and Pushkin. O f special interest will be a perform ance pre­ sented at Pushkin Polytechnic Institute that has been arranged by Professor Pat Dunn o f the H um anities D epartm ent.

The WPI Brass C hoir in the past has per­ formed on tour in England and presented con­ certs in Coventry Cathedral and W estm inster Abbey. In 1986 it perform ed at the invitation of the governm ent of British C olum bia at EXPO ’86 in V ancouver, B.C. In 1987 the Stage Band and Brass C hoir travelled and presented many program s in France, Luxem ­ bourg, and Belgium. T his will be the first time the W ind Ensemble, W om en’s C horale, and String Ensem ble have engaged in such a m ajor tour. All organizations have been asked to perform American m usic particularly selec­ tions that are based on ja z z rhythm s as this is very popular in the Soviet Union. W hile on the tour the students will have the opportunity to visit m any o f historical sites in the U.S.S.R. The last stop on the tour will be Bucharest where the groups will change planes for the flight home, arriving in W orcester on 12 March.

Departing from Logan International A ir­ port, Boston, will be the Regis C ollege G lee Club (w om en) from W eston, M ass., and the WPI G lee Club (som e 80 singers) all bound for Madrid and a Spanish tour. For the Glee Club and the Brass C hoir, which began this tradi­ tion, this will be the sixth E uropean tour, and the third to the continent. Their schedule is attached. Strangely enough, they have been asked to bring m ostly A m erican F olk music or A m erican Spirituals to Spain, as the Spanish audience clap politely when their ow n music is sung - such as M orales o r Vittoria, but go into yells and screams when the rhythm s and en­ ergy o f “ Eekiel Saw de W heel” or “ Ain-a That Good N ew s” is perform ed. In the schedule, enough free time has been included to allow the undergraduates tim e to tour with the group or to pool their resources and travel where they want. Traveling with the singers w ill be Sister M argaret William M cCarthy, M oderator o f the Regis G lee Club and professor of m usic; Sister Terese, President o f Regis College, and the two directors, Professor Shelia Vogt o f Regis and Professor Louis C urran o f W PI. W hen Professor C urran first arrived at WPI in 1966, it took the D ean of Student A ffairs months to get over the fact that he wanted to TOUR with G lee Club. (They w ent to New Jersey in 1967). The next president considered a tour to England a “boon-dogel” and wanted to know why they didn’t sing in a fraternity instead. He never understood the look o f total surprise on Professor C urran’s face when that statem ent was expressed. Since then, the struggle to gain perm ission for international tours has become less and less and is now negligible. In fact, the international project centers are among the academ ic benefits o f this college, as it becomes m ulti-national and less provencial. On tour to Spain will be one o f our undergraduates w ho is Spanish and whose home is in M adrid.

Concert tours - are they an en d in them ­ selves? The answ er from all international m usicians is “no.” The reasons are many but am ong the forem ost is the level o f perform ­ ance, w hich goes up, as m usicians strive to perform at their highest possibility. A nother reason is the “espirit de corps,” w hich binds the group into one concertizing whole. A third is the international exposure, which w orks boths ways, thus broadening m inds and perspectives.

The reasons and answ ers are too num erous to tell, all heading in the direction o f civilized and cultured experiences. And so, on 2 March, 1990 - over one hundred WPI undergraduates are launching them selves with American music into new w orlds - the "old w orlds."

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GREEK CORNER A lpha C hi R h o The Brothers o f Alpha Chi Rho would like to welcom e everyone back fo r yet another B term . Last term ended, thankfully, with a lot o f excitem ent here at the Crow house.

H om ecom ing was one of the best ever. W e, of course, w on the float com petition again this year. T hat’s seven years in a row for those who are keeping count. Plenty o f G rads showed up and had a great time. It will be hard to top next year, but w e’ll ju st have to give it a try. And on a final note for A term, Pete finally snapped and Dupes was the lucky winner.

O ver break a rowdy bunch o f guys went to see Sponge, and from what G ato r says, he lived up to his nam e once again. T his term, although it ju st began seem s very prom ising. Rush is cruising along, on it’s way to an exciting finish.

Movie Night and C asino N ight were a lot o f fun, and our doors are still alw ays open to anyone w ho w ants to com e dow n to hang out or skip Daka.

O ur H allow een Party was yet another great one. The costum es were as outrageous as ever with a few surprises thrown in. B term looks to be another great partying experience, so d o n ’t m iss out.

Intram urals are beginning again and our basketball team looks pretty good, if we can keep the guys away from the kegs. And finally Schm eg is fixing his hot tub, but he says that h e’s just doing it to sniff the fum es. W e d o n ’t buy that line for a second.

W ell, th a t’s it. Enjoy the term . Try not to let any classes interfere with your fun.

Delta Phi Epsilon H ello sisters o f Delta Phi Epsilon. I hope everyone survived the w eekend and had lots o f fun. We w ould like to give A X P a big thank you for Friday and Saturday night. We all had a blast and we hope you did too. A special thanks goes to Keith Pflieger and Mike Bowen for cleaning up the house. T hanks a million.

Chris, w e’re sorry C hris d id n ’t show up, but Bill came from Chicago. W hat do you mean w ho is D Phi E? Guys, get a clue!!! Am y, w hat’s the nam e o f this drink, a pregnant fish?!

Kate, get a clue, it’s an uptow n party. Do you w ant to borrow my blouse? L isa, what the hell were you thinking o f -w alking from N. A sh­ land St. to B oynton St.? K ris where are you going? To hell and back! C om e on Kim shake

those....! Kim, you really looked hot, you certainly were dressed for success. C ongrats go to Sue for finding the right guy. C indy, what were you doing when you hurt your back? Val, w ho taught you how to sit in a chair? W hy were y our feet in the air? Hey A X P guys, w e really enjoyed the entertainm ent. W here did you guys learn to dance?

W hat time are we leaving, eleven or tw elve?

You guys want hot water, go take show ers in 204 and 209! G et a clue Rueben and Gibba.

Special thanks go to Pete A nam asi for getting us to Mt. Monadnock with only a few difficul­ ties but teach Henry how to follow directions.

T hanks a bundle for dinner! W e had fun despite the fact that we got back at 9 pm.

W e would like to thank all those brothers at Fruit St. We love you! Lisa, do you want an escort? Isn ’t that enough C indy? D idn’t your m other teach you how to m ake lemonade?!

W ho started the shoe fight, Lisa? Pledge som e m ore water please. Hey, Val another G T please, but only two fingers. Superpledge.

L et’s go to Boynton St. to dance. C o m ’ on guys. Sheryl - w here’s your pledge pin? Lisa and Sue, are you playing in puddles again?

O kay K im , your in charge. I ’m going home.

Sue and Lisa do you have a hom e or do you stay up a|l night? Amy d o n ’t forget the teddy graham s for your secret adm irer. Sheryl, w h a t’s making you so happy? W h at’s the S C O O P girls? OH - girls just wanna have fun!!!

G ood m orning Val. Yes, it is 6:30 am . Get up! W e ’re making breakfast! Sheryl how com e you can ’t com e for breakfast? Lisa and Sue, you haven’t gone home yet? A re you insane? Thanks for breakfast Mom, we all really enjoyed it. Amy, the goat looks really good! Y o u ’re awesome!

V al, nice try M onday, m aybe next time! At least you gave L isa’s car som e personality!

Steve, thanks. Thanks to my little mouse for trying to get me out Saturday night (A mes).

So, w ho isn ’t going to the Sheraton? O h, WE have and alum ni dinner Saturday? W ho’s gonna be there?!

O ne last question: W hat do crop dusting, red hot air balloons, big bazam bas and W anda have in com m on??

Phi Sigma Sigma Psyched. There has been much speculation on w hy we use this word so often. Psyched.

Saturday November 4th SocComm Pub Event Featuring The Zulus

W hen the m ind, soul, and intellect are in a state of euphoria. Psyched. The result of pride in w hat you do and enthusiasm when you do it.

Psyched. A reward o f Sisterhood in Phi Sigm a Sigm a.

H om ecom ing was a blast. The alumnae turnout was great. The “traditional” float parade fun and muddy (thanks to ATO for lending us the mud). Our Psyche paid off: congratulations to the sisterhood for winning the SPIRIT AW ARD for our float (Standing “O ” M ichelle for organizing it!) Cheers to C ari, Danielle, Diana, Tam m y and their apart­ m ent. The festivities were out o f control!

Psyched.

I hope everyone had a restful term break— w hat a great tim e to build up the energy needed for good Psyche.

The next event that w e’re Psyched for is R U S H ! O ur minds, souls, and intellects are in a state o f euphoria at the prospect o f meeting all o f the rushees. Tammy and her com m ittee are doing an excellent job in keeping the psyche up and decorations festive. Donna, oops, I mean M adam e G ertrude sees in her crystal ball a lot o f psyche in the future.

Oh, by the way...Happy Halloween! Per­ sonal H i’s to Sherry C. and Sue M. 22 days until Thanksgiving recess; 38 days until the X m as Dance; 45 days until the end o f the term.

Until we meet again, stay Psyched and LITP.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Happy Halloween. Freshm en, it’s been great seeing all o f you guys at our Rush events.

K eep up the good attendance. How about our sports team s? In the quest for the Sports Cup, we are the leader in points. A wesom e job by everyone. W ith our weakest sports over and our strongest sports ju st about to start, the Sports C up can be ours. The Hotel Party was the best, holy w astedness. M any things hap­ pened at the party, girls passing out, Ukes shadow boxing second deck window, and m any more. Thanks for everyone’s help dur­ ing Saturday’s rugrat party. Saturday night’s party H allow een party was better, there were m essed up people under those costumes. In one strategic move, the Zoo increased its m em bership by 50%. The new member, Mark C loutier, was quoted as saying “I feel good!”

For anyone else thinking about entering the Zoo, rem em ber we d o n ’t haze and we take anyone w ith the required strikes. Rumor has it that Palooky, m aster o f chew spit, will fly to O regon and back with only one dip. Speaking o f 10.375, Sw eet Lou ravages the brown house, the pavem ent and his eye in a alcohol induced frenzy. Redeye, nice fake ID. Raftery, the wife will be back in four days to give back your toy.

Finally, as a last note d o n ’t forget the Mustardseed group leaves tomorrow. Until Next week.

Tau Kappa Epsilon The Rush events for this week are the fabu­ lous TEK E CON NECTION , on Thursday, N ovem ber 2 at 8 PM in G om pei’s. Win a date with aT K E little sister chosen just for you. Just like the dating gam e but much better. Refresh­ m ents will be served. The other events are a night of com edy with cartoons on Saturday at 7 PM . M onday we will be playing Volleyball location “T B A ,” more details will be available at your local dorm ...

W e had a great PR event last week with Up W ith People. Up With People is a group o f college aged students w ho travel across the US and many other countries. They have musical perform ances, do comm unity service and stay with host fam ilies. We at TK E hosted 7 people of the group. The group stayed here O ctober 17

and 18. They perform ed at M echanics Hall and m any members o f the Fraternity w ent to see the concert which ended with a standing ovation.

W e would like to take the time to thank certain people which helped us make their stay more com fortable at our house: Dean o f Students Janet Richardson, A ssistant Dean o f Students Tom Thom sen, also Peggy Jablonski at R esi­ dential Life and m em bers of W PI Plant Serv­ ices for their help (Tom and T uppy).

We also had many happy events last week; K en O ’C o n n o r p in n e d C h ery l Pegnam ..C O N G R A TU LA TIO N S!!!!. Many o f the brothers w ent to the H ead o f the Charles..w e saw brothers from the RPI, N orth­ eastern and R utgers Chapters. T he rest was pretty normal fo r a break.... people caught up with their sleep. T ill next week...

Brothers, howz y a purple nips? Hey man, this is the last one o f the term, w ow , man, like w ow, isn’t that like totally thought provoking.

Bridge, all I saw w ere two heads, bodies, and four legs com ing out all over the place, it was ju st big glop o f shit, I d idn’t know where the heads began and the bellys ended. Chris C. says he has to take a leak, so please excuse him from leaving the room , thank you for your support. So ya say your from N BH S, well what does R. Leper do w ith his nose and a cigarette box every year. N ice m irror Skin, but I say we break it. Nate w asn’t C ronos stim ulating.

‘Skirda want to join the life-tim e student club, I d o n ’t know he looks too smart, oh what the hell, he’s been to R ussia twice and still has a clearance at R aytheon, those facist war m a­ chine idiots ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha what little they know. Nate your doing it alone, I Figured if you punt, it’s about $1000, thats 20.8 kegs at $48 a piece and if the deposits are brought back thats $208.3, thats another 4.3 kegs and still get back $43 which is alm ost equal to another keg. So if there w as a party in the center of the quad for the whole cam pus including faculty, every person could have the equivalent o f two beers.

Rem em ber this w as only one class punted.

This adm inistration is doing alot o f drinking that the studants are not invited to , I guess.

Saint more burrittos (sorry I d o n ’t know how to spell in spanish). Y es Art there are 12 foot aliens with tiny heads in this w orld. TASS never lied before. F or those of you read the last installm ent in N ew speak but did not under­ stand the last blurb (this m eans you guys in newspeak, also since it seems you d id n ’t get it either) don’t panic I ’ll go slow. C hapter 1 L y es 11, just before 12 after 10, eleven, is the law that says all your debters, people you owe m oney to, m ust sign up in a first com e first serve suit, to sue you, once the m oney runs out, they are shit out of luck. Ok understand so far, I d o n ’t w ant to lose anyone this tim e, I know som e of you need clues. Now if we put all the student loans on Joe Z ete’s gold card, hence the nam e, where was 1, oh ya we put them all on the card and then go C hapter 11, m aybe one loan will get payed o ff and since we d o n ’t own the house and Mr. Zete is wanted by CBS and BM G anyways, we can’t get touched and le­ gally our loans are payed off, it w ould also be in the courts for years, we all w ould be long gone by then. Now do you all understand, nod your head yes, good, now get your dam n heads out o f the ground and get a fuckin life. TJ pay for pizzas, ha w e ’ll ju s t order them to Adam in Morgan 501. Pyro, lets torch the centrum . Has anyone seen Jam ie in the last three w eeks, I say we take back his bid. Oh well, ‘til Judge Dredd arrests Petee and Johnathan for D is’en every­ one, ‘nuff said.

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Applications for RESIDENT ADVISOR positions are available at the following informational meetings: Wednesday, November 1 4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Kinnicutt Hall

Thursday, November 2 Noon -12:30 p.m.

Kinnicutt Hall

NOTE: All interested students must attend one of the informational meetings regarding selection procedures, expectations and application information.

QUESTIONS: Contact Judy McGuire Robinson or Elizabeth Sinkiewicz Reid, Office of Housing and Residential Life, ext. 5645, before November 1.

ALL F U L L -T IM E UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE S T U D E N T S A R E E L IG IB L E .

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CLASSIFIEDS Cruise Ship Jobs. Hiring men-women.

Summer/Year Round.

Photographers, tour guides, recreation personnel. Excel­ lent pay plus FREE travel. Caribbean, Hawaii, Bahamas, South Pacific, Mexico.

CALL NOW! Call refundable. 1 - 2 0 6 736-0775, Ext 991 J WELLNESS CLASS B Term - PE 1000-B17. Improve your mental and physical health! Lecture, discussion and non-competitive exercise.

Info: Judy, x5588; Madeleine x5540.

WANTED— SPRING BREAK SALES REPRESENTATIVES. Average $3500 Commissions, Part-Time, Flexible Hours, plus Free Vacations (Cancun, Bahamas, Bermuda, Rio, etc) Vacation Planners 1800-47-PARTY (10am - 7pm).

Cashiers, part time all shifts available; days, nights, and weekends. Duties in­ clude light cleaning and cashiering. Start­ ing rate is $5/hr. Apply in person. Dream Machine, Greendale Mall.

BECOME A WPI STUDENT AM­ BASSADOR ! Visit your high school over term break and share your enthusiasm for WPI with prospective students. Informa­ tion packets will be available in the Ad­ missions Office after Wednesday, Octo­ ber 11th. Contact Anne Harris (831-5286) for more information.

2611 and ES 2503. Call 795-1365.

CAMPUS Representatives Needed For “Spring Break 90’s” programs to MexicoBahamas-Florida & S Padre Island-Eam Free Vacation Plus $$$$. Call 1-800-4482421. .

SPRING BREAK 1990 - Individual or student organization needed to promote our Spring Break trips. Earn money, free trips and valuable work experience.

APPLY NOW!! Call Inter-Campus Pro­ grams: 1-800-327-6013.

Newspeak will run classifieds free for all WPI students, faculty, and staff Free classifieds are limited to six (6) lines Ads of a commercial nature and ads longer than six lines must be paid tor at the off campus/commercial rate of $3.00 for the first six lines and 50 cents per additional line.

Classified ads must be paid for in advance.

No information which, in the opinion ol the Newspeak editors, would identify an individual to the community will be printed in a personal ad The editors reserve the right to refuse any ad deemed to be in bad taste or many ads from one group or individual on one subject.

The deadline for ads is the Friday before publication.

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Tutor wanted for 6th grade girl in Math and computers. On Campus. 45 minutes per week. 755-9375, x5215 after 11:00.

Is It True You Can Buy jeeps for $44 through the U.S. Government? Get the facts today! Call 1-312-742-1142 Ext 5883.

Waiters/Waitresses wanted for catering jobs. Experience necessary - good pay.

College Essentials, 791-0194, Gerry.

It’s not too late to sign up for the ground school class offered by the flying club.

Learn to fly. Contact box 1385.

WANTED: Garage to rent near WPI campus. Contact Daytona at 792-0171 or box 1065 for details.

Free access to all WPI students. Com­ puter bulletin board system.

On-line games, good conversations, many other options. Call today. 753-1625 and in­ clude box number.

TO ALL MEMBERS OF HI 1321 9 am class & LG: Sorry about period imediment! - A1

Pokey - do you remember the notorious trip you took on Oct. 7?

Need a class in typing perfection? Head down to Zayta Sigh!

Smee and Blogg + The Dynamic Duo + The Three Stooges = The monkees plus one. Playgrounds at 11 pm!

PSCA-Surrender your hostage now! If our staff is not returned unharmed imme­ diately, the consequences will be swift and strong...

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Easy Work! Excellent Pay! Assemble products at home. Call for information.

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GREECE, GREECE, GREECE. March 9-18th. 2 nights in Athens, 6 nights on the Isle of Rhodes. Only $799. Call ISTA 203-429-1032.

Looking for a Sports Car? How about a 1981 Subaru Station Wagon, wicked fast, lovingly cared for, and fashionable to be seen in. Contact Bob at 792-1375 for all the exciting details.

Bands wanted for “Weekend Riot” in Gompei’s. Contact Bill at the Social Committee Office or box 2196.

ROCK AND ROLL! cometh!!!

The Icemen

Santa, didn’t your mommy ever tell you that only birds can fly?

DON’T FORGET - The TEKE CON­ NECTION on Thursday, Nov. 2 8 PM in Gompei’s. Win a date with a little sister.

Works like the dating game.

How dumb do you have to be to be sucker-punched by a window?

Pokey’s history o f the best grinder ever.

WANTED: Books for ME 1800, MA

Friday November 3rd Cocktails and Two Towers After Hours present: COMEDY NIGHT with opener Mr. Gary Shapiro Class of 1973 Folk and Blues Singer $100 Admission Don’t Miss It!!!

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POLICE LOG S a tu rd a y O c to b e r 7 12:18 AM - A report was received o f disorderly students at the intersection o f Institute Road and W est Street. O n o f the students w as seen w alking on the hood and roof o f a parked vehicle. Tw o students responsible were located by WPI police officers. They initially denied any involve­ ment in the incident, but upon further interrogation one o f the students adm itted to w alking on the vehicle. T he second student was found to be in possession o f an open container o f alcohol, which was dum ped.

5:51 AM - A report was received o f a student having a seizure in Founders Hall. WPI Police officers and an am bulance responded. The student w as unconscious upon o ffic e rs’ arrival, but had re­ gained consciousness w hen the am bulance arrived and declined further m edical assistance.

10:08 PM - A com plaint was received o f a keg party in the Ell worth apartm ents. O fficers responded and located the party w ith about 30-40 participants, all o f whom left the apartm ent upon the officers’ arrival, leaving the prem esis vacant. A keg was confiscated and the apartm ent was se­ cured. The residents o f the apartm ent were to be charged with various party guideline violations.

11:50 PM - A fire alarm was reported in Morgan Hall. The alarm was caused by a roll o f toilet paper which had been ignited in the hallway on the third floor outside o f the m ens room . The fire had been extinguished by a student on the floor w ith a fire extinguisher. T here was dam age to the carpeting in the hallway from the incident.

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12:15 AM - A Sergeant reported observing tw o students rem oving traffic cones and a barrel from the Fuller Labs construction site. The students fled on area. The items rem oved from the site w ere recovered

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7:00 pm - Soccer: Babson

Wednesday, November 1, 1989

4:30 6:15 Gpi

- C hem istry D epartm ent Colloquium : “A pplication o f ESR Spectroscopy to O rganom lic C hem istry” w ith Dr. R ieger, GH 227.

- Lecture and d i ^ W f i i P * ^ ^ ctal A nalysis and A pplications in M aterials Science and ineggng. Wasbufn 22* G ro upP ractice,1R eligious C entw . 19 Schussler Road, ry E x hipuftir N ovem ber opSis: TRIPLE D ECKER H OU SING IN W O RC ESTER .

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11:00 am - A1RG Colloquium: “Acquiring Process Planning K now ledge from Process Plans,’ AK232.

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7:16 PM - A report was received from B ecker Police that a WPI student had just been assaulted by four black m ales at the intersection of Sever Street and William Street. The student was reportedly w alking south on S ever Street toward Willaim Street when he was accosted by the 4 m ales, all aged late teens o r early twenties. The subjects punched the student, knocked him to the ground and began kickuig him. He was able to flee the scene, and did not require medical attention. N othing was stolen from the victim.

Thursday October 12 10:23 PM - An autom obile accident was reported at the intersection of Boynton Street and Salisbury Street. WPI and W orcester Police officers responded. The operator of one of the two vehicles involved was transported by ambulance to Memorial Hospital. « § |T j II

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Friday, November 3,1989 3:00 - 5:00 pm - Sacrament of Reconciliation, Religious Center, 19 Schussler Road.

8:00 pm - Conceit: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic at Worcester Artist G roup, 38 Harlow Street.

Saturday, November 4,1989 8:30 pm - Pub Show: “The Zulus” with WPI’s “Fields Erikson,” Gompei’s Place, $2.00.

Sunday, November 5,1989 10:30 am - First Presbyterian Church invites you to join us for worship, fellow ship, C hristian involvement, 125 Holden St., Worcester. Rides available, 852-2111. :30 am-Catholic Mass in Alden ’ 6:00 pm - Catholic Mass in Founders (dewnstairs) ij» 6:30 pm & 9:30 pm - Film: “License to Kill,” Alden Hall, $2.00.

9:50 PM - An O fficer reported that 2 1/2 cases of alcohol found in an Ellsworth apartment had been ■mm mmm m m M wk dum ped, as the residents were all underage. The alcohol was found when the officer noticed Friday October 20 ■ la a strong sm ell o f beer eminating ill station which i the apartment.

3:00 AM - A fire alarm was activated in Riley Hall. The alarm was caused by 12:05 PM - A W PI student reported th »vehicle parked in the WPI parking lot on Dean St. across had been pulled. from the T heta Cl ' eggs which were thrown at it. k W & m s fflS K B N k 1 m

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S a tu rd a y O c to b e r 1 12:53 AM - A report o: by am bulance to intoxicated and b e f of the building. iL ... , , 1:56 AM - SN aP re p o r tB a 4 by 4 vehicle Aiving down the grass embankment below Boynton Hall in the vicinity of the skull tomb. The vehicle proceeded to drive on lawns at the intersection of Boynton St. and Institute Road, where it was stopped by WPI Police Officers.

2:45 AM - A report was received of a very intoxicated student in Stoddard C, who was vomiting and drifting out o f consciousness. A Sergeant responded and requested an ambulance for the student. She was transported to Hahnamann Hospital for treatment of alcohol poisoning.

7:15 PM - A WPI Police Officer reported an altercation in front of Founders Hall. The incident reportedly began with a WPI student burning the American flag in the quad in protest of the recent C ongressional act prohibiting flag burning. The student was then chased on foot by several other students who were irate over the incident. The chase culminated at Founders Hall, where the O fficer interceded. The incident was referred to the Dean of Student Office.

11:46 PM - A break was reported into the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity on Dean Street. Jewelry and $100 cash w ere reported missirig. The Worcester Police Department was notified.

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Saturday October 21 10:39 AM - A Motor vehicle accident Schussler WPI Police officers notified. There were no injuries.

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12:30 PM - A student reported the theft of a Walkman tape player from the com m on area in a Founders suite. The theft is believed to have occurred the previous weekend.

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Police report that approximately 200 people assembled for the dem onstration, w hich ended peacefully and did not require police intervention.

Friday October 27 .M 6:55 AM - A report was received of a 3-car accident at the intersection o f Institute Road and W est A WPI Police officer responded and'the W orcester Police D epartm ent w as notified, re were no tnjftffes.

Tuesday October 17 5:02 AM - A delivery person from a dairy com pany reported the theft o f m ilk from his truck parked at the Founders Hall loading dock while he was m aking a delivery.

7:05 PM - A citizen reported that a portable com puter valued a t $4500 w as sto len from her vehicl while parked at her residence on Insititute Road. T ^ r W orcester Police D epa notified o f the theft.

8:59 PM - A student reported that a vehicle ha< lot and struck the Plagjt Services building on Hackfeld Road. Officers respondin, vehicle resting against the P lin t Services building with its ei|>iit£ running, but the < fled on foot. The car was towed from the scene. After contacting the registered owner of vehicle. The W orcest# 1 ^ 6 liw u ^ a r # e # d e t e r n m e ^ that it had been ^ t e n - f h w t Dal in W orcester.

Safety tip: Utilize the escort service when walking alone an d late al night. C ontact SNaP at 8315566 or the Campus P olice at 831-5433.

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S a tu rd a y O c to b e r 7 I 2: IS AM ■ A report was received ot disorderly students al the intersection o f Institute Road and West Street. On of the students was seen walking on the hood and roof o f a parked vehicle Two students responsible were located hy WPI police officers. They initially denied any involve­ ment in the incident, hut upon further interrogation one ol the students adm itted to w alking on the vehicle. The second student was found lo be in possession ol an open container ot alcohol, w hich was dum ped.

5 :5 1 AM - A report was received of a student having a seizure in Founders Hall. WPI Police officers and an am bulance responded. The student was unconscious upon officers' arrival, but had re­ gained consciousness when the am bulance arrived and declined further m edical assistance.

I (MIS PM - A com plaint was received o f a keg party in the Ellworth apartm ents. O fficers responded and located the party with about 30-40 participants, all o f whom left the apartm ent upon the officers' arrival, leaving the premesis vacant. A keg was confiscated and the apartm ent was se­ cured. The residents o f the apartment w ere to be charged with various party guideline violations.

11:50 PM - A fire alarm was reported in Morgan Hall. The alarm was caused by a roll of toilet paper which had been ignited in the hallway on the third floor outside o f the m ens room. The fire had been extinguished by a student on the floor with a fire extinguisher. T here was dam age to the carpeting in the hallway from the incident.

Sunday O c to b e r 8 12:15 AM - A Sergeant reported observing two students rem oving traffic cones and a barrel from the Fuller Labs construction site. The students fled on foot but were apprehended in the Quad area. The items rem oved from the site were recovered.

T u esd ay O c to b e r 10 7:1A PM - A report was received from B ecker Police that a W PI student had ju st been assaulted by four black m ales at the intersection o f Sever Street and W illiam Street. The student was reportedly w alking south on Sever Street toward W illaim Street when he w as accosted by the 4 m ales, all aged late teens or early tw enties. The subjects punched the student, knocked him to the ground and began kicking him. He was able to flee the scene, and did not require medical attention. Nothing was stolen from the victim.

T h u rs d a y O cto b er 12 10:23 PM - An autom obile accident was reported at the intersection o f Boynton Street and Salisbury Street WPI and W orcester Police officers responded. The operator o f one o f the tw o vehicles involved was transported by am bulance to M emorial Hospital.

F rid a y O c to b e r 13 9:50 PM - An O fficer reported that 2 1/2 cases o f alcohol found in an Ellsw orth apartm ent had been dum ped, as the residents were all underage. The alcohol w as found w hen the officer noticed a strong smell o f beer eminating from the apartment.

12:05 PM - A WPI student reported that his vehicle parked in the W PI parking lot on Dean St. across from the Theta Chi fraternity had been damaged by eggs w hich were throw n at it.

'ueoday October 31, 1989

What’s Happening?

Tuesday, O ctober 31, 1989 7:00 pm - Soccer: Babson W ed n esd ay , N o v em b er 1, 1989 4:00 pm - C hem istry D epartm ent Colloquium : "A pplication o f ESR Spectroscopy to O rganom etallic C hem istry” with Dr. Rieger, GH 227.

4:30 pm - Lecture and discussion on Fractal Analysis and A pplications in M aterials Science and Engineering, W asburn 229.

6:15 pm - Folk G roup Practice, Religious Center, 19 Schussler Road.

G ordon Library Exhibit for N ovem ber opens: TRIPLE DECKER H O I JSING IN W O RCESTER. 8:00 pm - Video: “ The Blues Brothers, G om pei’s Place, free.

Thursday, N o v em b er 2, 1989 11:00 am - A1RG Colloquium : AK232.

‘A cquiring Process Planning Know ledge from Process Plans,"

Friday, November 3, 1989 3:00 - 5:00 pm - Sacram ent of Reconciliation, Religious Center. 19 Schussler Road.

8:00 pm - Concert: Birdsongs o f the Mesozoic at W orcester A rtist Group, 38 Harlow Street.

Saturday, November 4, 1989 8:30 pm - Pub Show : “The Z ulus” with W P I’s “Fields E rikson,” G om pei’s Place, $2.00.

Sunday, November 5, 1989 10:30 am - First Presbyterian C hurch invites you to join us for w orship, fellow ship. C hristian involvement, 125 Holden St., W orcester. Rides available, 852-2111.

11:30 am - C atholic M ass in Alden 6:00 pm - Catholic M ass in Founders (downstairs) 6:30 pm & 9:30 pm - Film: “License to K ill,” Alden Hall, $2.00.

Friday October 20 3:00 AM - A fire alarm was activated in Riley Hall. The alarm w as caused by a pull station which had been pulled.

Saturday October 21 S a tu rd a y O c to b e r 14 12:53 A M - A report of an injured student in Institute Hall was received. The student was transported by am bulance to Hahnemann Hospital for treatm ent o f a broken nose. He w as reportedly very intoxicated and belligerent, and had sustained the injury in an altercation w ith other residents o f the building.

1:56 AM - SNaP reported a 4 by 4 vehicle driving dow n the grass em bankm ent below Boynton Hall in the vicinity of the skull tomb. The vehicle proceeded to drive on law ns at the intersection o f Boynton St. and Institute Road, where it was stopped by W PI Police O fficers.

2:45 AM - A report was received of a very intoxicated student in Stoddard C , w ho was vom iting and drifting out o f consciousness. A Sergeant responded and requested an am bulance for the student. She was transported to H ahnamann Hospital for treatm ent o f alcohol poisoning.

‘7:15 PM - A WPI Police O fficer reported an altercation in front o f Founders Hall The incident reportedly began with a WPI student burning the American flag in the quad in protest o f the recent C ongressional act prohibiting flag burning. The student was then chased on foot by several other students who were irate o ver the incident. The chase culm inated at Founders Hall, where the O fficer interceded. The incident was referred to the Dean o f Student Office.

I 1:46 PM - A break w as reported into the Phi Sigm a Kappa fraternity on D ean Street. Jew elry and S I00 cash were reported missing. T he W orcester Police D epartm ent was notified.

M onday O c to b e r 16 S:20 AM - A report was received of vandalism in Alumni Gym. A fire hose valve had been partially opened on the track level, causing w ater damage to the track, main court and first floor office areas.

T u esd ay O c to b e r 17 5:02 AM - A delivery person from a dairy com pany reported the theft o f m ilk from his truck parked at the Founders Hall loading dock w hile he was making a delivery.

7:05 PM - A citizen reported that a portable com puter valued at $4500 was stolen from her vehicle while parked at her residence on lnsititutc Road. The W orcester Police D epartm ent had been notified of the theft.

8:59 PM - A student reported that a vehicle had ju st crashed through a fence in the Stoddard parking lot and struck the Plant Services building on H ackfeld Road. O fficers responding found the vehicle resting against the Plant Services building with its engine running, but the operator had fled on foot. The car was towed from the scene. After contacting the registered ow ner o f the vehicle. The W orcester Police D epartm ent determ ined that it had been stolen from Dale Street in W orcester.

10:39 AM - A M otor vehicle accident was reported at the intersection o f Institute Road and Schussler Road. W PI Police officers responded and the W orcester Police D epartm ent was notified. There w ere no injuries.

Sunday October 22 1:55 AM - A fire alarm was activated in Daniels Hall, The alarm was caused by a pull station on the first floor that had been pulled.

Tuesday October 24 7:30 AM - A student reported that a wheel cover valued at $80 had been stolen from his vehicle parked in the T heta C hi lot. The theft occurred som etim e after 8:30 PM the previous evening.

12:30 PM - A student reported the theft o f a Walkman tape player from the com m on area in a Founders suite. The theft is believed to have occurred the previous weekend.

Wednesday October 25 12:00 PM - WPI Police and W orcester Police officers responded to the quad area for a student dem onstration in opposition to the recent law passed by congress prohibiting flag desecration.

Police report that approxim ately 200 people assem bled for the dem onstration, which ended peacefully and did not require police intervention.

Friday October 27 6:55 AM - A report w as received of a 3-car accident at the intersection o f Institute Road and W est Street A W PI Police officer responded and the W orcester Police Departm ent w as notified.

There were no injuries.

Safety tip: Utilize the escort servic e when walking alone ami late at night. C ontact SNaP at S 3 1 5566 or the Campus Police at S 3 1-5433.

W inter parking warning Due to the architecture o f many cam pus buildings, snow slides o ff the roofs o f these buildings are com m on during the w inter m onths. Snow slides have in the past occurred in areas used for parking, and can be large enough to cause damage to vehicles parked in these areas. This has been a problem particularly with Boynton Hall and H iggins Labs. C am pus Police encourage everyone to avoid parking in these areas during w inter m onths when there is a snow accum ulation on the building roofs.

SO C C O M M presents

“The Blues Brothers” Wednesday, November 1st 8:00 pm Gompei’s Place It’s Free!