Air Force ROTC comes to WPI (W P I N ew s R elease)-A ir Force R e se rv e O ffic e r T ra in in g C o rp s (R O T C ) announces that W PI w ill becom e the host institution for Air Force ROTC w ithin the W orcester C o n so rtiu m for H igher E ducation beginning in January. D etachm ent 340 will move from The College o f the Holy Cross to WPI and join a m ilitary tradition dating back to 1943 when the Navy brought its’ V-12 officer candidate program to W PI. The Institute was one o f 22 colleges nationwide that housed this program . The Navy V-12 program processed 767 candidates before leav ing in 1946. Army ROTC at W PI began in 1951 and currently has a program o f 212 students at 10 differ
ent locations. The A FRO TC program began at Holy Cross in 1951. The decision to move the 89 stu dent detachm ent from Holy Cross to WPI was based on A FRO TC enroll ment figures declining at one college and increasing at another. Last year about 87 percent o f the unit w ere WPI students. This y ear’s enrollm ent in cluded 76 W PI students, five each from Holy Cross and Clark, tw o from W orcester State, and one from As sum ption. Thirteen are women and 48 are on scholarship. The agreem ent betw een the Air Force, Holy Cross and W PI has been reached so that an A ir Force ROTC program w ould be available to all
colleges and universities in the W orc ester area through the existing consor tium. W PI has m ade a building at 35 Institute Road available for the Air Force detachm ent. WPI D ean o f U ndergraduate Stud ies W illiam R. G rogan indicated sat isfaction w ith the move. “T his will be a highly desirable move since it will facilitate scheduling o f the A ir Force ROTC courses,” he said. Students had to travel across town to attend many o f the m ilitary classes. B egin ning this academ ic year the classes have been held at W PI. “ A ddition ally, there is potential for scholarship assistance and increased recruiting potential,” Grogan continued.
A pproxim ately 80 percent of the 2,800 undergraduate students at WPI are pursuing an engineering degree. Three percent of electrical engineers accepted into the A ir Force through the A FR O T C program com e from WPI. A dditionally, WPI has a rapidly growing A erospace Engineering pro gram, and sees a tie with this depart ment and the AFROTC program. The head o f the Departm ent o f Air Force A erospace Studies is Lt. Col. Jam es R. Coakley. He is a graduate of Oregon State and earned an MBA and PhD from the University o f Utah. His staff includes three other instructors, two enlisted personnel and a secre tary.
“The A ir Force is looking forward to working with W PI and the opportu nities there,” said C olonel Coakley. “W e will have access to engineering students. O ur top three enrolled m a jors are aerospace engineering, m e chanical engineering and electrical engineering.” T he A ir F orce R O T C Program presently averages 20,000 m en and women located at 151 colleges and universities throughout the U nited States and Puerto Rico. T here are 641 separate cross-town enrollm ent pro gram s or consortium agreem ents na tionwide. H eadquarters for A FROTC is located at M axw ell Air Force Base, A labam a.
The Student Newspaper of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Volume 17, Number 22
* TUesday, November 7,1989
Field Hockey season comes to an end by Roger Burleson Sports Editor Last year, the WPI field hockey team finished w ith a 19-1 record. Despite having such an outstanding team , they did not m ake any post season tournament. That was despite the fact that some o f the teams they faced m ade it to the NCAA Division III tournam ent. This year, things were different. Not only did they m ake it to the N C A A ’s, but they were the num ber one seed in the N ortheast region and cam e one game away from m ak ing it to the Final Four. The action started on Friday night when W PI faced the 13-1-2 team of Southern Maine. W PI struck early in this game when two minutes into the gam e Nicky M cGowan would score the first o f her four goals o f the night. A fter Becky H arasim ow icz hit the post on the w eak side o f the net, M cG ow an connected on the short rebound. M cG owan struck again at the 19:49 mark after converting on a pass from Kristen Baielein. The same com bination struck again in the sec o n d p e rio d a t th e 2 9 :1 3 m a rk . M cG ow an ended the scoring on an unassisted goal with 2:54 to go. T he gam e w as also m arked by great defense by the Engineers. There w e re m an y o p p o rtu n itie s w h e re Southern M aine could have had one on one opportunities on W PI goalie K im G abis. B ut, a h u stlin g and
scrappy defense got back and broke up the plays and G abis recorded yet another shutout. By winning, the season was ex tended an extra day so WPI could face the 14-2-3 team o f C ortland State. T he en tire gam e w as a d efensive struggle. Both team s had their oppor tunities in the first half, but failed to score. So, at the end o f the first half the score was deadlocked at 0-0. But, at the beginning o f the second half W PI cam e out quickly. They took the ball dow n into C ortland territory and received a short com er. C ortland’s goalie had three quick saves before knocking the ball out o f bounds and g iv in g W PI an o th er sh o rt corner. B aielein received the inbound pass from H arasim ow icz. She passed the ball to M cGowan who stuck it into the right com er o f the net to give W PI a 10 lead. Cortland cam e back though, at the with 25:37 to go, C ortland passed across the net to the w eak side o f the field, w here it was put into the open net. A fter that the defenses took over. Both goalies made incredible saves and the defenses handled the short com ers well. Late in this game the score was still tied and it looked like the gam e might be going into over time. But, with one second left on the clock, Cortland passed to the weak side. Cortland took the ball and shot it high into the left co m er w here there was no chance for a save, and WPI ended its season by losing by a score
V o lle y b a ll s e a s o n e n d s w ith l o s s a t S m i t h by Heidi Lundy Newspeak Staff T he W PI W o m e n ’s V o lley b all T eam finished their season last T hurs day night w ith 16-18 record. A l though their last game was a dismal loss, the team perform ed very well throughout the season. T hursday’s gam e was the first part o f the N ew -8 T ournam ent. It was away, at Smith C ollege. W PI did not score much, (the final scores were 15-4, 15-5, and 15-5) but team captains Pam Murphy and Stacey Cotton put on a good show with 17 com bined attem pted kills, 3 were successful. A kill is w hen a player spikes the ball over the net without a return from the other team. Stacey Cotton is also one of the team 's setters and Thursday night she set the ball successfully 6 times. A setter sets the ball up so that another player has a better chance for a kill. The team ’s only other senior. Sue M itch ell, had 19 attem pted kills, 5 of which
w ere successful. Sue returned the ball 9 times out o f 21 attem pts, more than anyone else except Kim Johnson, a ju n io r w ho also returned 9. Amy Shoem aker, one o f the team s prom is ing sophom ores, had four successful kills with only 6 attem pts. A m y is the team ’s other setter and she set the ball effectively in Thursday n ight’s game. Stephanie Buhl and M ichele Leboeuf, the team ’s other sophom ores, had 16 c o m b in ed attem p ted k ills, one o f S tephanie’s was successful. Michele returned the ball well 4 tim es with only 6 tries. W PI had a strong team this year, finishing with a record ju st under 500. It will lose three good players this spring when its seniors graduate. A lthough there are no freshmen on the team this year, there is a lot o f interest on cam pus and our junior and so p h o m o re p la y ers are aw esom e. W PI is entitled to a lot o f hope for a successful season next year.
of 2-1. So, W PI ends its season with a 172-1 record. This team also loses five seniors who are captain Kristen B aie lein, captain Kim C loutier, captain Jody N orm andin, Nicky McGowan,
and T racy Fallon. The returnees for next year are junior Loree Griffin, junior B ecky H arasim ow icz, junior E laine L a ch an ce, ju n io r D anielle L eM ieux, sophom ore K im G abis, sophom ore Shellee M orehead, fresh
m an Sandra Hardy, freshm an Nickie Hunter, freshman Susan Tarallo, and freshman Donna U nderwood. Even though the season is over, this team will still be rem em bered for a time to com e.
Security phones now working by Andrew Petrarca Newspeak Staff Probably m ost o f us have noticed that sev eral secu rity p hone boxes were recently installed around cam pus. W hat w e’d like to know is why. Well, w onder no longer. According to Janet Richardson, Dean o f Students, the p h o n es w ere installed for tw o reasons: to allow Cam pus Police to be co n tac ted q u ick ly in the e v en t o f em erg en cies, and to m inim ize the need to peg open doors. D ean R ichardson w ishes to let people know that the phones are there to be used. Anyone with a legitim ate reason to use them should not hesitate. It is hoped that students will have their guests call in when they arrive, rather than pegging doors open. O n the recom m endation o f the S e curity Task Force, ten phones have ((
been installed around campus. Six more are planned, but were not in stalled this year because wiring to those locations is more difficult, cost ing more than available funding al lows. B udget increases for next year have been requested and if approved the rem aining phones will be ordered next year. The phones in place now are all hooked up and ready for use. They are the black boxes on the w alls labelled “phone.” Inside the box is a pushbut ton d ialin g pad, a sp eak er/m icro phone, and tw o large buttons labelled “call,” and “em ergency.” T o m ake a call, press the “call” button and w ait for a dial tone. Then simply dial the extention for an inter nal call, o r “9 ” followed by the num ber for an outside call. C alls can be ended by closing the door to the box.
or when the person on the other end hangs up. All calls are lim ited to three m inutes, and will autom atically be terminated if this is exceeded. The “em ergency” button autom ati cally calls C am pus Police, and tells them which extention is calling so that someone can be dispatched im m edi ately. Plates are on order that will include instructions for using the phones, emergency phone num bers, and the numbers of cam pus payphones. The payphone num bers are there so that people w ithout phones in their rooms may be contacted. According to D ean R ichardson, the phones may still have som e glitches. If you have trouble with any o f these phones, contact yo u r RA , o r C on stance Z ajak at ex ten tio n 5210 or 5500.
S h iftin g G e a r s ” c o n f e r e n c e to b e h e ld
(W PI news release) — W orcester Polytechnic Institute and the M assa chusetts Foundation for Humanities and P ublic P olicy w ill co-sponsor “Shifting G ears,” a conference on the changing meaning o f work in M assa chusetts on Saturday, Novem ber 18 at W PI’s K innicutt Hall. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. follow ed by ses sions at 9:30, 11:15 and 2:30 p.m. Luncheon speaker at 1 p.m. will fea ture C o n g ressm an C h ester A tkins. Several hundred participants are ex pected. The conference will include ses sions with scholars, econom ists, jo u r nalists, labor and governm ent leaders discussing how the concept o f work has changed in M assachusetts from 1920-1980. Sponsors indicate that the “Shift ing G ears” project results will be part o f the conference. The 18 m onth study exam ined econom ic and social ch an g es in d iffe re n t c o m m u n ities with the goal o f learning how the declin e o f m an u factu rin g and the growth o f the service sector affected people’s attitudes toward work. The M assachusetts Foundation for H umanities and Public Policy indi cates that the C om m onw ealth lost
16,500 m anufacturing jobs during the first 10 m onths o f 1988, a greater decline on a percentage basis than any other state. The high tech industry is in recession with the loss of more than 30,000 jo b s in the past four years. M eanw hile, the growth o f the service sector w ithin the state has been even more dram atic - 250,000 new “serv ice” jobs in the first half o f this decade alone. T his apparent shift from m anu facturing to a service based economy worries m any observers. The 9 :3 0 session topic w ill be “ Why D oes M anufacturing M atter?” M o d e ra to r w ill be C h ris to p h e r Lydon, W G BH -TV newscaster. O th ers on the panel will be: Robert Jackall, Professor of A nthropology and A merican Studies at W illiam s C ol lege; Bennett Harrison, Professor of Political Economy and Planning at the M assachusetts Institute of Technol ogy; Juliet Shor, A ssociate Professor o f Econom ics at H arvard University; and D om inic Bozzotto, union leader and President, Hotel and Restaurant W orkers Union, local 26 AFL-CIO, Boston. The 11:15 session will be m oder ated by R obert F. Dalzell, Jr., Profes sor of H istory and American Studies
at W illiams College. He will m oder ate the session on “T he C hanging Meaning of W ork in M assachusetts, 1920-1980. Appearing w ith him will be working people and scholars-inresidence from “Shifting G ears,” the foundation’s statewide public history project. T hey include: C hristine Howard Bailey, scholar-in-residence and Raymond Beaudry, since 1960, president of the oldest paper makers union in the country; R obert Gabrielsky, scholar-in-residence and Eve lyn Jones, a Sprague w orker from 1946-85 and vice president o f IUE local 200; and from the Blackstone V alley, Doug R eynolds, scholar-inresidence and M argaret C arroll, a community leader. The 2:30 p.m. session will cover “C an W e C o n tro l O u r E conom ic Destiny?” This session will be m od erated by Marty Blatt, Education Di rector, M assachusetts Executive O f fice o f Labor. The conference is open to the pub lic. Seating is limited and advance registration is encouraged by contact ing the M assachusetts Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy at (413) 536-1385. The $15 registration fee includes lunch.