Recognition ’90 rewards students by H eidi Lundy Features Editor W P I’s cam pus exuded pride on Sunday, April 22nd. Parents, faculty, students and adm inistration gathered in Harrington Auditorium to celebrate R ecognition 1990. The cerem ony has been celebrated for three years in a row here at WPI, and is a very successful way o f bringing recognition to out standing students, organizations, and faculty. The cerem ony was divided into two parts, one honored academ ic excel lence, the other honored excellencc in leadership. The WPI stage band, di rected by Rich Falco, visiting lecturer of m usic, performed several musical selections throughout the cerem ony. After President Jon Strauss welcomed everyone in his opening rem arks, the cerem ony got underway with the pres entation of academ ic honors and awards. W illiam G rogan, Dean o f U nder graduate Studies, announced the aca dem ic portion o f the cerem ony which began with the presentation o f the O u ts ta n d in g W o m en S tu d e n ts Awards. The M arietta E. Anderson Award, presented to the outstanding
freshm an, sophom ore, or ju n io r who not only has a superior academ ic rec ord but w ho also has been a work-study student and a volunteer for collegesponsored activities, and has partici pated in recognized extracurricular activ itie s, was given to A thena D em etry ’91. Susan C. M oser ’92 won the United Technologies C orporation and the Society o f W omen Engineers A w ard for being an outstanding wom an undergraduate student. The Bonnie-Blanch Schoonover Award and the Ellen Knott Award, both given in tribute to wom en who have played significant roles at WPI, were pre sented to M elanie K. Ting ’91, M ich elle B. R osenberg and Concetta A. Depaolo ’92. The President’s IQP Award was presented to two separate team s this year. Paul C. K irkitelos ’90, Gregory C. Friel ’90, and Jeffrey L. Q uirke ’90 won for their project, “ An A ssessm ent o f the Effectiveness and M arketability o f the UK Patent O ffice’s Search and A dvisory Service," advise 1 by Profes sor Jam es S. D em etry. The second team , Jam es W. C alarese ’90, M ichelle D. Petkers ’90, and Stephen E. Selby ’90, won for their project, “ An Evalation o f the EPA SITE Demonstration
Program ,” advised by Professors Di eter Klein and Richard D. Sisson Jr. The Class o f 1975 Award is pre sented to students w ho conduct a proj ect they have designed on their own. It was presented to Alton J. Reich '9 2 and Jeremy M. Dover '9 2 for “An Interdis ciplinary Approach to Math and Sci ence Education,” and to Kirstin H. Caldwell ’92, Joshua L. Howard ’92 and Kelly J. M cQueeney ’92 for “Nutrition on the College C am pus.” These projects were advised by Profes sor M ayer Humi and Professor Brigitte Servatius respectively. The United Technologies C orporation Minority Award is presented to an outstanding minority student, and was given to Anup K. Gosh ’91, this year. Next on the program were special awards, which are divided into disci plines. Stacey J. Cotton ’90 was pre sented with the A erospace Education Foundation W. Randolph Lovelace M emorial Award. In the Chem ical Engineering D e partm ent there were three awards pre sented. The first one, The American Institute of Chem ists Award was pre sented to M ichelle D. Petkers ’90. The American Institute o f Chemical Engi neers Student Scholarship Award was
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presented to Sarah C. G low ’9 1, and the Western M assachusetts AIChE Award for Significant C ontribution w as given to Christine A. Donoghue ’90. In the field o f Chemistry, Richard M. Pires ’90 was honored w ith the A m erican In stitu te o f C hem ists Award. The General Chem istry Achievement Award was presented to Thomas A. Ericsson ’93, and Steven J. Rigatti won the Undergraduate Award for Analytical Chemistry. T he A n d rew H olt M em orial Award, presented to a civil engineer ing senior who has consistently earned academic honers and who show s ex cellent promise for success, was be stowed upon Stuart C. Pearson ’90. Sonja M. A nnecharico ’90 won the Carl F Meyer Im provement Award in Civil Engineering. In the field o f Computer Science, Joel D. Young ’90 was presented with the Computer Science O utstanding Senior Award. The Jon Calvert Strauss A w ard for Excellence in Computer Science was given to Scott D. Plichta ‘91 The Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Student Award is presented to the out standing senior and junior Electrical Engineering students in recognition of
their academ ic achievem ent and their service to the WPI com m unity. This y ear’s senior winner was Paul C. K irkitelos, and the junior was Paul F. W ojciak. The Humanities Department had tw o awards. One is the Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Hum anities, this award was presented to Jeffrey L. Quirke ’90, for “Tragedy and the G othic,” advised by Professor Ljungquist, to Sharon L. Savage ’91 for How the Organic and Mechanistic C onceptions o f Life Apply to the Body and to M edicine,” advised by Profes sor Iris Young, and to Paul F. Wojciak ’91 for “Obstinacy and Naivete: The O rganized Labor M ovem ent in W orc e ste r M assachusetts, D uring the 19 3 0 ’s,” advised by Professor Kolesar. The second award in the Humanities is the Steven J. Kahn A ward, presented to M atthew P. Ronn ’90, for his contribu tions, comm itment and unwavering loyalty to the WPI G lee Club. T he M anagem ent E ngineering A w ard was presented to Jam es W. Calarese *90 and to Deborah L. Carney ’90. The M anagement Project Award was given to Jeffrey E. G ilbertson ’90 and to D onald E. Leblanc ’90. Edward continued on p age 3
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WPI hosts international student leadership conference by Ron Burrowes and Inderpreet Khurana O n Saturday, April 7, W PI w as the host of the first Annual International Student Leadership Conference. The conference was sponsored by the Inter national Student Council (ISC) o f WPI and the National A ssociation o f For eign Student Advisors (N AFSA ). A pproxim ately sixty international stu dent leaders from about 19 schools from the New England area converged at WPI to exchange ideas and share experiences on international student issues in their schools. The International Student Council m em bers did an excellent jo b at organ izing this conference and had a fun filled and informative schedule of events for the day. The d a y ’s events began with group discussions in which the participants were divided four groups. Each group was overseen by a m oderator who initiated and m ade sure that all the participants were given the opportunity to take part in the discus sions. The moderators were WPI inter national students: Ron Burrow es, In derpreet Khurana, Ankur Patel and T im Wang. A fter the discussions were over, the conference gathered for a general assem bly, chaired by N aray anan Rajan (the Chairperson o f the
ISC), in which the m oderators pre sented a sum m ary o f the main issues brought out in th eir group discussions. Som e issues that these groups found to be o f great im portance were: the lack of interaction betw een international stu dents and American students, the need for cohesion am ong the different inter national groups on cam puses, the need for international com m unities in dif ferent colleges to keep in touch with other college com m unities and a wide variety o f other pertinent issues. A fter a successful m orning session, the participants w ere in for m ore o f an enlightening experience. In the Lower W edge, not only w as lunch served, but a num ber of m otivational speeches were heard. The chair of the luncheon was our own International Student A dvisor, Tom Thom sen, w ho intro duced the special guests for the pro ceedings. The first guest speaker was D onna O 'C o n n er w ho is the Director o f International Programs at Clark U niversity and w as also the represen tative o f the NAFSA Region XI (New England area). D ean W illiam Grogan o f W PI welcomed all the participants to the conference and stressed the fact that the international students are an invaluable asset to universities. The highlight o f the luncheon w as the key note address by Doug Cureton who is
Update on Senior Events Just a little update on w hat’s going on. The Senior photo will be taken after Graduation Rehearsal on Thursday - Please Be There!! The Rehearsal is in H arrington at 11 am. Also d o n ’t forget the P resident’s Reception on W ednesday from 4-6 pm. Tickets and t-shirts are available by the m ailboxes from 11 a m - 1 pm until Friday 4/27. If you sent in th e reservation form, stop by to pick up your tickets & t-shirts and plan seating. The schedule of events is below in case y o u ’ve forgotten already. Get Psyched!!!
S ch ed u le o f E vents W ednesday, April 25 - P resident’s Senior Reception, 1 D rury Lane, 4-6 pm. Saturday, M ay 5 - Senior D inner Dance, W orcester Sheraton-Lincoln, 8 pm. Sunday, M ay 6 to W ednesday, May 9 - Cape C od Trip Thursday, M ay 17 - Senior Barbecue, H iggins House L aw n, 6 pm. Thursday, M ay 17 - Senior W alk, Park A venue, evening. Friday, May 18 - B accalaureate Cerem ony, Alden Hall, 6 pm. Friday, May 18 - Parent’s Reception, W achusett Country Club, 9 pm. Saturday, M ay 19 - G raduation Breakfast, M organ D ining Hall, 7 :3 0 - 10 am. Saturday, May 19 - C om m encem ent C erem ony, Quad, 10 am.
the Associate D irector for Training and A ctivities at Rhode Island College. His topic covered the dilem m a that international students across campuses in the U.S. are facing today: How can international student leaders help in ternational students to stay in touch with their own culture and at the same time encourage active participation in college life. The address was inter mixed with innovative audience par ticipation activities that got the point o f his m essage across extrem ely well. A fter lunch the participants were given a choice o f w orkshops to attend. These workshops were presented by WPI adm inistration, staff, faculty and students. The workshops offered were:
International Student Organiza
tions and Liability Issues Janet Begin Richardson - Dean of Students (W PI)
Publicity from A to Z Chris Jachim ow icz - A ssistant Di rector of Student Activities (WPI)
International Student Issues in the Residence Halls Tom Ghosh and Inderpreet Khur ana - Student Hall Directors (W PI)
International Students as a Re source for Faculty Members Prof. John Zeugner - Professor of History (WPI)
Group Dynamics Richard Halstead Psychologist (W PI)
- Counseling
International Student Involvement in Campus Activities Tom Thom sen - Associate Dean
o f Students and International Stu dent Advisor (WPI) The workshops w ere found to be very helpful and educational and we thank the presenters for a brilliant job. The day ended w ith Narayanan Rajan chairing a general assembly on netw orking among international stu dents in New England. The feedback at this session was that this conference was an excellent idea and should not becom e a one shot deal. All colleges expressed interest in hosting as well as participating in future conferences. We would like to thank all the organiz ers of the conference for an excellent jo b and for helping us (the interna tional students of A m erican colleges) m ake the most of our college experi ence.
WPI students win regional AIChE award WPI News Release - Three WPI seniors have won the annual Student Paper Contest o f the New England Region o f the American Institute o f Chem ical Engineers. M ichelle E. Brideau, Christine A. Donoghue and Patricia N ewcom er wrote “ C haracteristics o f Fluid Flow in H ollow -Fiber M em brane Bioreactors.” The students completed their work as their M ajor Qualifying Proj ect. David DiBiasio, associate profes sor o f chem ical engineering, and Stephen C. Moore, associate professor o f biom edical engineering, were proj ect advisors. “ Hollow-fiber m em brane bioreac tors are used for such procedures as
blood dialysis and protein production from genetically engineered cells,” says DiBiasio. “The fluid and nutrient supply to these reactors determines their productivity.” The students used magnetic resonance imaging (M RI) to characterize the fluid distribution. MRI is a noninvasive medical diagnos tic technique used in blood-flow stud ies, tumor diagnosis and other clinical applications. The project group was able to use MRI in a new way for their study, which was conducted at the Central Massachusetts M agnetic Im aging Center in the M assachusetts B iotechnology R esearch Park in Worcester. The contest was held April 7 at the
M assachusetts Institute o f Technol ogy. The trophy the team won will be on display in W PI’s Chem ical Engi neering Department until next y ear’s contest. The students will present their paper at the com petition for the na tional AIChE award in Chicago in Novem ber. All three students are chemical engineering majors w ho will receive degrees in May. Donoghue and N ew com er have accepted positions as product developm ent engineers at Proctor & Gamble C o., in Cincinnati, Ohio; Brideau will work as a product developm ent engineer at Richardson & Vicks, a division of Procter & G am ble located in Shelton, Conn.
IMPORTANT NOTICE T O : AH G raduating Seniors & Faculty Members
FROM: The Office o f the Registrar SUBJECT: PROJECT PANIC DAY - C DR ’s DUE M O ND A Y, APRIL 30, 1990 at 4:00 PM AH Completion o f Degree Requirements (C D R ’s) - MQP, IQP, Sufficiency - for May, 1990 graduation are due in the Registrar’s Office by 4:00 pm on Monday, April 30, 1990. This deadline M U ST be met to be considered for May, 1990 com m ence ment.
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NEWS In te rn a tio n a l News Tension mounted betw een Gorbachev and ihe secessionist minded republic of Lithuania. G orbachev warned the republic to stop its inde pendence movem ent or he would order sanc tions against the republic and stop shipping oil and natural gas. However, the leaders o f Lithu ania chose independence over heating oil, and gas and oil shipments were cut back by 80%. The leaders of the republic were urging conser vation to the residents o f Lithuania. The leaders have also been demanding a conference with G orbachev to discuss secession. Fighting continued in the South African black township of Natal last weekend despite a large police presence. ANC leader Nelson Mandela went to London, but ignored an invita tion from Prime M inister Thatcher. At a rock concert, M andela urged that countries not lift sanctions until Apartheid had ended. In the Himalayan republic o f Nepal, King Birenda asked the opposition to form an interim governm ent that would rem ain in pow er until the free elections - the first in over 30 years. On April 8, Birenda lifted the 29 year old ban on political parties after thousands of people pro tested in pro-democracy dem onstrations. India is facing continuing problem with the province of Kashmir. The Indian governm ent banned 8 militant Moslem groups and shut dow n two pro-independence new spapers. In the past three m onths, 270 people have died in the independence struggle in Kashmir. Nicaraguan President Daniel O rtega raised the possibility that the inauguration o f Violeta Cham orro would be delayed if the Contra rebels were not disarmed by April 25, Inauguration day. Ortega lost the election to Chamorro ear lier this year. Contra leaders did meet with Sandanista leaders in M anagua, and did work out an agreem ent in which they will be fully disarm ed by June 10, so the inauguration will proceed as planned. Representatives from 17 industrialized na tions met for a conference in the White House to discuss Global W anning. European leaders criticized Bush, but Bush said he was com m it ted to stopping global warming. Secretary o f State Jam es Baker said that the US would not resume funding UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural O rganization) because o f m ism anage ment and its political bias against Israel. The US stopped funding the organization in 1984.
Bush m et with French President M itterand in Florida. The two leaders agreed that Germany should be reunified and have complete sover eignty over its territory. The two leaders also stressed N A T O ’s importance in a changing Europe. East G erm an leader de Maizre said that the tw o G ennanys may merge their econom ies within eight weeks. He also said that East Germ any would pursue a quick path towards reunification. Rival factions fought in Beruit last week, and a school bus was hit with a rifle fired grenade. 15 people were killed in that incident alone. There was some rum ors that one the groups holding American hostages in Beruit were going to release one, but no hostage was re leased. In Slovenia, a northern Republic in Yugoslavia, voters elected a center-right coalition into the local Parliam ent, the first non com m unist party in 45 years.
N atio n al News The Suprem e Court handed down several decisions last week. The high court upheld a ban on school dances in a predom inantly Funda mentalist Christian town. The court said that the ban did not violate the separation of Church and State clause in the C onstitution. The court also ruled that Oregon could make the hallucino genic drug Peyote illegal. Peyote was used by Indians in religious rituals, and they claimed the ban violated their first am endm ent rights. The court also ruled that judges can stop laws from being executed if they are discrim inatory, and that judges can even impose taxes to stop dis crimination. However, the court did impose limits on what the judges can do. There was also legal news outside the Su prem e Court. Ex-Baseball star Pete Rose pleaded guilty to two felony counts o f filing false tax returns. He could face up to 6 years in jail and $500,000 in fines. In Boston, jury selection started for a case that involves two Christian Scientist parents. The parents are being charged with m anslaughter because they did not seek medical help for their child, and he died. Christian Scientists do not believe in using medicine, but rather in praying. In Cincinnati, innocent pleas were entered for a museum and its director in a case that deals with the contro versial photographs o f M applethorpe. The
museum and director are being charged with obscenity charges because the photos depict homosexual acts and show children naked. A judge in Atlanta ordered that 175 bank accounts be frozen because they were used to launder drug money. Researchers from UCLA and University o f Texas (San Antonio) claim to have found a gene that is related to w hether or not som eone be com es an alcoholic. However, a larger study is needed before the results can be accepted as fact. Several Universities, including MIT, N orth western and W isconsin, warned the Defense Department that ROTC policies (i.e. banning) tow ards homosexuals has created tension on their campuses. The Defense Departm ent de clined comment.
E conom ic News The C onsum er Price Index was 0.5% in M arch, putting the annual inflation level at 8.5% for the first quarter. Investors sold o f T -B onds
as a result, pushing the yield up to 8.83%. Many corporations issued earning state m ents for the first quarter. The large banks Citibank, NCNB, M anufacturers Hanover and Chase Manhattan all lost money. American Express lost $619.8 million in the first quarter, the largest single quarter loss in the com pany’s history. D E C 's earnings were down 90% . but the stock price rose anyway. M icrosoft’s earn ings increased by 83%, IB M ’s were up over 9%, G E ’s were up 12%, A T & T ’s profits increased by 12% and Apple C om puter’s profits increased 134%. Coca C ola’s profits increased over 9%, m ainly due to international sales. The trade deficit is the lowest in over 6 years, at $6.49 Billion. Saudi Arabia urged OPEC nations to cul production, and the price o f oil went up initially. H owever, the other nations did not com ply, and oil prices cam e back dow n to their original levels. com piled by G eorge Regnery
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Recognition 1990 was a whoppinga success A. L atham '9 0 and Jacqueline G . O ’Neill ’90 were recipients of the Institute o f Industrial En gineering Award. The Wall Street Journal Award was presented to Jeffrey G. G om stein ’90 for his outstanding record o f achievement. T he Math Departm ent sponsored three awards. The first was the H anover Scholarship Award for the M athematical Sciences, and it was given to Scott A. M aramo ’91. The Richard V. O lson Award was presented to Jerem y M D over ’92 and David H. W heeler ’90 was the re cipient of the Senior M athem atical Sciences M ajor Award. T he Robert H. G oddard Award was a physics prize established by the C lasses of 1908 and 1909. It was awarded to Sotiris Danakas ’90 and Tsunefum i Tanaka ’90. N icholas J. Barone ’90 was the recipient of the W illard Elliot Lawton/ Sam uel Jam es Plimpton Award. T he M echanical E ngineering Department had m any awards to honor its outstanding students.the American Institute o f A eronautics and A stronuatics C ertificate for Service was presented to M ichael W . Barry ’90. The A m eri can Institute of A eronautics and Astronautics Papers Contest was w on by M ichael W. Barry
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’90 and Tim othy R. M embrino '90. Amy B. Little ’90 was presented with the American So ciety of M echanical Engineers C ertificate foe Service. The ASM E Papers Award C ontest was won by Daniel C. Bejune ’90 and John A. David ’90. The Edward C. Perry A ward was presented to C hristopher G. Dusseault ’90, S. Scott Emus ’91, Douglas P. Martin ’90, and Sean M. O ’Mal ley for “ A Flexible W orkcell for Assem bly of PC Boards,” advised by Professor Sullivan. The Institute o f Nuclear Pow er O perations Scholar ship was presented to Garrett J. Hall ’92, Alton J. Reich ’92, and Paul B. Woods ’91. Paul J. Benham ’90, M ichelle L. D iguette ’90, Christine M. Hajjar ’90 and Christian P. Paraskevakos ’91 were all recipients o f the NMTB A, Association for M anufacturing Technology Award. The Pi Tau Sigma Award for Excel lence was given to Jonathan E. Flem ing ’91. The Precision Metal Form ing Association Scholarship was given to Jay C. Diman ’90 and Lisa A. King ’90. Rita M. Buckley ’90, Eric R. Lindgren ’90, and Lisa R. Ricker ’90 were recipients o f the Society o f M anufacturing En gineers A ward. The W orcester C hapter of American Society for Metals: C hester M. Inman ’ 14 O utstanding Student Award was presented to Edward J. Callaghan ’90. In the second half o f the program Bernard Brown, Vice President for Student Affairs, presented the awards for Excellence in Extra curricular Activities. Each class had its own Excellence Award for Extra-curricular Activ ity. The winners in the freshman class were Ajay Khanna and Deborah M. Sanna. In the sophom ore class Miguel J. Painha and Theresa A. Schm idt were the recipients. The ju n io r’s who were presented with this award were Brian R. G osselin and Leslie A. Thom as, and the seniors were Kimberly A. Lemoi, M ichelle D. Petkers, Narayanan Rajan, and Jean Peirre Trevisani. The graduate student recognized for ex cellence in extra-curricular activities was Paul R. Mancini. The O utstanding Student O rganization Award was presented to the Hockey Team and to the International Student Council. Christo pher S. Jachim ow icz and Dave Roy were pre sented with the Outstanding A dvisor to a Club or G roup Award for their help with the Social Comm itte and the Hockey Team respectively. Nancy Hunter Denney, Assistant Dean of
Students presented the sorority and fraternity aw ards. In the Panhellenic Council portion, the O utstanding Chapter A ward was presented to Alpha G am m a Delta, and Jennifer A. Tobin ’90 was the O utstanding Greek. The Outstanding C hapter in the Interfratem ity Council Awards portion was Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and the O utstanding Greek was G regory R. Baryluk ’90. Jon C. Strauss, President, and Edwin B. Coghlin Jr ’56, president, Coghlin Electric Com pany, presented the A lumni and Com m u nity Service Awards. The Alpha Phi O m ega Service to Students Award, a new award pre sented to a m em ber of the faculty, staff, or ad
m inistration in recognition o f outstanding serv ice to the WPI Student C om m unity, was pre sented to Katherine T arm asew icz, Custodian. The Student-Alum ni Interaction Award was presented to Denise M. Fortier ’90. The Student Phonothon Award was won by Skull, a senior honor society. The last aw ard was the C om m u nity Service Award Presented in Memory o f Edwin B. Coghlin ’23. This year its recipients included Gregory R. Baryluk ’90, Debra S. W hitm an ’90 and Jeffrey A. Y oder ’90. As all the recipients o f aw ards and their fam ilies will tell you. R ecognition 1990 was an enorm ous success. The W PI com m unity has a right to be proud.
Racing by the sun for peace W PI N ews Release - A road race devised by two W orcester Polytechnic Institute students holds the promise o f bringing unfriendly coun tries together under the sun. David T. Black and Scott Sandler designed an International Race for Peace for solar-pow ered vehicles. Their goal was to encourage politically disparate nations to cooperate in solar technology research and developm ent and to educate people about the uses o f solar power and its value as an environm entally safe energy alternative. The students completed their work the sat isfy their Interactive Q ualifying Project require ment. Faculty advisor was Edward N. Clarke, director of W P I’s Center for Solar Electrifica tion. The students researched the topography, cli mate and available sunlight in areas of Russia, Rum ania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece, then developed four possible race courses. One route w ould begin in Moscow and pass through Kiev and O dessa before crossing Rumania and Bul garia on its way to the finish line in Athens, G reece; another course w ould start in Istanbul and go across Bulgaria into Athens; a third w ould take place only in G reece and Turkey; and the fourth alternative would be to conduct the race only in Greece. Each course would require that the vehicles be capable of traveling over terrain that varied considerably in altitude, tem perature and the amount of available sun light. W hile scientists and engineers would com
pete against each other to build the best solarpow ered vehicles, peace w ould be promoted as they shared the results o f their work and as sponsoring nations opened their borders to race participants and visitors from many countries. Black and Sandler based the International Race for Peace on the A ustralian Pentax W orld Solar C hallenge - a com petitive event that high lighted the effectiveness o f solar photovoltaics and spotlighted the General M otors Sunraycer and on the Sw iss Tour de Sol, which focused on designing solar-powered vehicles for com m uter use. In the course of their project work, the stu dents met with representatives o f each potential host country and sent copies o f their report to autom obile companies and other possible spon sors. An article about the race appeared in Sunworld Magazine. “The race was designed before the political w alls began crum bling in the Eastern Bloc.” says Clarke. “ We believe that with the current clim ate of acceptance and openness to new ideas and people, and with adequate sponsor ship, the race will be run. The final report was designed to be useful to potential professional organizers of the event, and, while the students have not yet received any repl ies, the idea for the race is a valid and viable one.” Black and Sandler are m em bers o f W P I’s C lass of 1990. Black will receive his degree in civil engineering; Sandler is majoring in m e chanical engineering with aeronautical interest.
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Men’s and women’s track (WPI News Release) Freshman Naomi C ar negie finished first in the triple jum p at 33-6 1/ 2, and the long ju m p at 15-5 1/2. C arnegie is now in second place in the all-tim e WPI record books for the long jum p. Junior Maura C ollins qualified for the N ew England Cham pionships when she won the 3,000 meters with a tim e o f 11:13.26. Freshm anT erraPeckskam pqualified for the E C A C ’s in the shot put with a throw o f 33-2 1/2. Senior K ristine G atley also qualified for the ECA C in the shot put with a throw o f 331/2. The final score o f the meet was not avail able.
(W PI News Release) Coach Merl N orcross’ track team finished second at the Engineers Cup with MIT and RPI this past weekend. The final score was M IT 91 1/2, WPI 58 and RPI 53 1/2. Junior M ike Cumm ing won the 3,000 steeplechase with a tim e o f 9:51. O ther first place w inners for WPI were: sophomore Scott O ’Connel in the 110 high hurdles in a time o f : 15.99; freshman Brian Malone in the javelin with a throw o f 180-7; and Mike Thibert in the shot put with 46-1/2.
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The following nightly callers won BOOMERS Gift Certificates for top performance: Top Dollars Brian Kinsley ’93 Walter Kretzer ’93 Matt Teguis ’93 Jeff Me Connell '91 Frederic Gold Brian Daly ’91 Tom Kendzulak '91 Chris Hajjar '90 Patti Newcomer '90
Top Pledges Teresa Cordeiro '92 Tisha Messamore ’93 Rami Salman '93 Darilyn Reuter '90 Wendy Sears ’91 Mark Bonanno ’93 William Cramer Rick Wuensch ’93
Walter Kretzer ’93 Matt Teguis ’93 Frank Russell '92 Christopher Blume '90 Al Prescott ’90 Brian Daly ’91 Tom Kenzulak ’91 George Regnery ’92 Cori Lenois 90 Mary Agnes Beals ’92
Again, our thanks to everyone who participated. Plan to join us again next year! Julie Bolton, Co-Chair Pete Tousignant, Co-Chair
Tisha Messamore ’93 Rami Salman ’93 Kim Cloutier ’90 Darilyn Reuter ’90 William Cramer ’92 Mark Bonanno ’93 Aron Sacchetti ’93 Chris Hajjar '90 Pam Peterson '91
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SPORTS
Men’s tennis goes 3-1 WPI News Release - The m en ’s tennis team improved their record to 3-2 after beating W heaton College 72; W orcester State 9-0; and Nichols college 6-3. The Engineers lost to Babson 2-7. Freshman Matt Cote was a winner
in each o f the team ’s w ins inlcuding 6 0 ,6 -0 against W orcester State. Junior Tracy C oifm an was also a triple w in ner winning 6-3, 7-5 versus W heaton. Freshman Darek Ezovski has a 4 - 1 record in singles m atches so far this season.
Baseball team sets new school record WPI News Release - The WPI base ball team could have used some o f the runs later in the week after they set a new school record in a 28-0 win over Mass. M aritime. The Engineers lost to Brandeis 10-5 and were swept by Amherst 9-4 and 5-0 later in the week. The team is currently 7-1 1-1. Mike Bowen struck out 12 batters and gained his third win on the hill against Mass. M aritime. But the big winner was the
team with 29 total hits. Individually, freshman Rich Kracunas went four for six with three RBIs. Senior Tim Jung was three for four with five RBIs. Junior Paul Styspeck hit his first career college home run in the loss to Bran deis. Kracunas accounted for all of W PI’s runs in the first gam e against Amherst by sm acking a grand slam in the bottom o f the sixth inning.
Golf team now 5-5
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W PI N ew s Release - The m en ’s golf team went 4-0 during the week. The Engineers first beat N ortheastern and MIT. The final score was WPI 422, N ortheastern 432 and M IT 440. Senior captain Kris Kasheta was a medalist shooting a 79. In the second match of the week Kasheta shot a oneover-par with a 72 as WPI won. The
final score w as WPI 421, Tufts 422 and Clark 441. Freshm an Dick W uensch and Scott Nicol weach played well against T ufts and Clark. W uesch shot an 81 while Niol shot an 82. The Engineers finished the regu lar season at 5-5 and will now compete in team tournam ents only.
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softball team drops the ball WPI News Release - The Lady E n gineers softball team had a tough week. WPI lost to NEW 8 opponent MIT 4-1. The team had five hits, but could not put together any type of rally as three base runners were stranded. Sophomore M arion Miller pitched well in the loss and went one for two at the plate and scored the team 's only run. Against W heaton, WPI led 6-3 going into the bottom of the seventh, but four runs by host W heaton dropped WPI to 1-3 in NEW 8 . Sophom ore Donna Roesing went two for four and is now hitting .416 in the NEW 8 . In a 9-2 loss to Clark M iller sm acked a triple while Roesing had a single. Against SM U , the Lady Engineers were swept 11-1 and 8-2. M iller had two singles and scored one run in the first game. In the second game Elaine LaChance had a single and a double.
Spring break spreads measles outbreaks (CPS) — Students returning from sp rin g break a p p a re n tly sp read m easles outbreaks to at least five cam puses the third week of April, shutting classm ates out o f classes, prom pting quarantines and forcing one school to cancel cam pus activi ties. C reighton University in Nebraska, the University o f O regon, the State University of New York at Brockport, Colorado State University and the Colorado School o f M ines, among others, were trying to contain the highly contagious disease. Many o f the cam puses were not letting students go to class without getting a second vaccine or otherwise proving im munity to the disease. They quarantined others who had been exposed to the m easles. At Creighton, where at least 26 of the cam pus’ 6,000 students have com e dow n with the m easles, the health center held daily “ symptom clinics.” Students who had any o f the sym ptom s — which include a high fever, cough, runny nose watery eyes and a bad rash — were not allowed out of their dorm rooms until a doctor visited them. About 5,000 students have been im m unized, and four students who had the m easles spent their spring break under quarantine at the Omaha cam pus. “ We have a real stringent im m uni zation policy. W e’ve never had an outbreak like this before,” said Mary K enny, a sp o k e s w o m a n fo r C reighton. At the Colorado School o f Mines, 10 students had the disease as o f April 17. Nobody, including faculty and staff, could go to classes until they had proof o f immunity or a second vac cine.
A Mines student who visited Mex ico during spring break, where measles is common, and Texas, where there have been outbreaks at the Uni versity of Texas campuses in Austin and El Paso, contracted the disease before returning to campus. A student at the University of Northern Colo rado who had contact with the Mines student also caught the disease. At Colorado State, about 250 stu dents were quarantined after a student with the measles attended three classes. Nine other students had the disease as of April 18. SUNY-Brockport banned campus activities until April 30 after three students caught the disease from an other who got it while on spring break in Florida. In January, Daytona Beach re ported several cases of measles and cautioned students who planned to spend spring break there to make sure they were immune or had been innoculated a second time. The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta joined the American College Health Association in December 1989 in recommending that people bom after 1957 get two doses of the measles vaccine.
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Arts and Entertainment
New Voices shout out loud and clear by Scott R unstrom For the second time in three weeks, I found m yself unexpectedly standing in front o f an audience in Alden Hall last Friday night. I d id n ’t m ake quite as big a fool out of m yself this time, but I had just as m uch fun. 1 was at the M asque production o f New V oices 8 , and had the privilege o f being an audience participant in a “ Patchwork Q uilt” production between plays. As always, M asque put on an extraordinary set o f productions. From W ednesday to Satur day o f last week, fifteen separate plays were perform ed, each exhibited tw ice over the seven perform ance times. All were written, produced and perform ed by W PI. students, (T hat’s right, there is creativity lurking som ewhere in the bow els of this institution) and dealt with serious topics such as AIDS, incest, and suppression of the human spirit, as well as being hum orous and entertaining. New V oices saw its hum ble beginnings eight years ago with a couple o f students deciding to produce their plays in a workshop setting. People loved the little-tw o play production, and a few began to volunteer their plays for produc tion. The experim ent grew quickly, and soon DT erm was set aside entirely for student play w rights, rather than m ainstream drama. In this year’s perform ances, the most m em o rable plays dealt with rather serious subjects. Shane M cBride starred as a m an defending his individuality against the “court of society,” in M ark S im pson’s* ! David Brewster played the part o f a man telling his girlfriend (Tara Zaharoff) he has AIDS in W illiam B ullard’s You N ever Told Me and Brian W eissman and C heryl Pegnam were excellent as the creators of a supercom puter meant to solve all the problem s o f m ankind in Kevin D ahm ’s It's the Thought that C ounts. The com puter cures all disease, elim inates pollution, and eventually takes over the world. The com puter then determ ines that p eople’s daily lives are too dangerous to be acceptable, and therefore everyone should stay asleep. It creates a huge “sedation bom b” to put
everyone to sleep, forever. Im ani Torruela, as Ms. President, brought the loudest applause of the night by rem arking that being elected twice is no test for greatness since: “The people elected Reagan tw ice.” Comedy was strongly represented this year by Michael and Tim M clnem ey, who play two people meeting in a dream and eventually switching bodies in Scott B urroughs’ The Wrong Side. Charles L yons’ “ Living Room ” brought loud applause for Jim O ’Connor, Kelli M cQueeny, D onna Roche and Joe Provo, as a contem porary satire of the American Dream. The most powerful perform ance o f the night, however, was exhibited by Tracy Clark. Tracy played Jessica, the victim of her uncle’s m oles tation in Kelli C lark ’s Jessie. H er performance was com m anding, from the girlish introduc tions o f the first act, to the final gunshot. Tracy was simply excellent. This year’s production o f New Voices marked the debut o f the new com puter lighting system developed at WPI by Masque president Rob Everton and Chris Arthur. The system was run by John Reardon, and, as showcased in Jonathan D rum m ey’s Som ething W ithout a Title, is capable o f providing advanced coordi nation o f effects, concurrent effects, and ran dom functions. The system is expected to be used by both M asque and Lens and Lights in the future. A special m ention should be given to “ Patch work Q uilt,” the im provisational drama group who entertained audiences betw een acts. They somehow m anaged to put together extremely humorous skits based on audience suggestions of “two nouns and a setting,” as well as acting out “m ovies” and briefly exhibiting the “ E ner gizer R abbit.” To all the Actors, Actresses, Producers, D i rectors, W riters, Managers, Set W orkers, Elec tricians, and m iscellaneous people who worked on the show, and especially to P.Q., BRAVO! And rem ember, when all else fails, just grin and wing it.
T h eatrical excellen ce fro m T racy C lark a s Jessica in the N ew V oices play “J essie” .
The Pub rocked by Hush Hush and The Sense by Scott Runstrom When I descended into The Pub last Saturday night, I must admit I was a bit turned off. The sound o f im com prehensible sets o f bar chords couldn’t help but rem ind me o f two-bit punk bands playing over at the W orcester Artist Group. I mean, I can turn an am p up to eleven and pound out a few chords. T o say the least, I was not im pressed. As the show progressed, how ever, the three m em ber band called “Hush H ush” slowly won me over. They were loud, and they were rowdy, but they also had one o f the best drum mers I ’ve seen in a long time. The drum solos were spectacular, and the band’s rendition of Suzanne V ega’s “Luca” was the most original cover I ’ve heard in a while. All in all. Hush
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A m nesty s p o n so r s bands in the Pub by William K atzm an Does anybody out there rem em ber Freedom Fest? You know - the big band get together a year or two ago, with Sting, U2, and a slew of other bands. W ell, if it does ring a bell, you might also rem em ber that one o f its main them es was “ free Nelson M andela.” G uess w hat - h e ’s been freed. O kay, so m aybe this isn’t new s, but if you rem em ber more about Freedom Fest, y ou’ll rem em ber it was sponsored by Amnesty International - a group that w orks to free prison ers o f conscience (people im prisoned for non violent expression o f their beliefs). W ell, our own local chapter o f A m nesty International continues this fine tradition by annually sponsoring a benefit band show , only instead of seeing U2, Sting, or some other band, you will be treated to D isplindapotheosis, Fields E rickson, and DMOH. O kay, so m aybe these bands aren’t world fam ous yet, but if they were w orld fam ous, you probably w ouldn’t be able to see them for just $ 2. N ow, I bet a few o f you are saying, “ Y eah cool - far out dudes, but w h at’s this Amnesty thing?” O kay, in reality probably none o f you
WPI musical groups to perform by B ryant O 'H ara The WPI M en’s G lee C lub, W om en’s C ho rale, Cham ber O rchestra, and C ham ber En sem ble will present a spring concert at Alden Hall on Alumni W eekend, Saturday, A pril 28 at 8:00 pm with the glee clubs o f Regis. U nion, and W heaton Colleges. The main pieces will be Joseph H aydn’s “Te Deum in C m ajor,” w hich will be done by the com bined choruses and the C ham ber O rchestra, and Igor Stravisnky’s “L ’Histoire du Soldat,” w hich will be perform ed by the WPI C ham ber E nsem ble and narrated by Fred Ferbota. These pieces will be conducted by Prof. Louis Curran and Prof. Douglas W eeks respectively. In addi tion, there will be separate m usic for m ale and fem ale choruses. A dm ission will be $3.00 for alum ni and the general public, $ 2.00 for stu dents with ID.
were even thinking that, but I ’ll answ er the question anyway. Briefly put: Amnesty Inter national is an organization dedicated to the preservation o f basic human rights as guaran teed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which was adopted by the U.N.). To this end, m em bers o f Amnesty International write letters, fill petitions and do other activities on behalf o f people who are being imprisoned, or tortured for the non-violent expression o f their beliefs. I know that writing letters may not sound like it would work, but it does. After receiving hundreds of letters results are seen, and people are freed. So, why should you go to the Amnesty Inter national band night? Because: 1) It’s fun. 2) I t’s for a good cause. 3) W hen your parents ask you what you did Saturday night, instead of saying “W ell, Mom, Ig o t trashed,’’you can say ,“ I went to a culturally enlightening event which broad ened my horizons, and benefitted a worthy organization.” Just don’t mention what you did after the concert. Rem em ber - date: April 28; time: 7:30 (bands perform ), 7:00 (doors open); place: G om pei’s; price: $2.
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Hush was pretty good in its farewell perform ance at W PI. Now if they would only leam how to sing.... Following Hush Hush, “The S ense” took the stage. They played a couple o f their own songs and a bunch o f covers. I heard som eone call them “U2 w ith a keyboardist.” I d o n ’t know about that, but they did do a rem arkable job with the three U2 covers that they did, and they seemed to have alm ost as much money. It’s not every college band that plays Steinberger chordless guitars, and brings its ow n roadies and sqynd man. The Sense were pretty good though. They played covers o f U2, The C ure, M odem English, Sim ple M inds, and REM , and the few people who stayed to the end seem ed to enjoy them selves. It was all in all not a bad way to spend a Saturday night.
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MORE FILMS Friday, April 27, Salisbury Labs 11 T h ree o f th e m o st con troversial an d p raised film s o n th e war:
A pocalypse N ow , 2 :3 0 p .m ., 8 O scar n o m in a tio n s! 1977 H earts a n d M in d s, 5:00 p .m . D eer H unter, 6 :3 0 p .m ., 5 Oscars! 1978 D isc u ssio n s w ill fo llo w th e film s for th o se in terested .
VIGIL AND REMEMBRANCE Noon, Friday, May 4 J o in us o u tsid e D an iels Hall o n th e Q uad for a b rief c e r e m o n y o f re m em b r a n c e an d reco g n itio n for th o se w h o s e lives w er e g iv en for p ea ce and for th eir cou n try.
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Prankster borrows from Vonnegut to play hoax (CPS) — Somebody at the University o f Iowa borrowed from a Kurt Vonnegut novel to play a practical joke on about 800 classmates. A fter seeing a few spray-painted m essages on cam pus sidewalks, some signs posted on telephone poles, and hearing gossip that the "S acker Foundation” on the U o f I campus was sponsoring Vonnegut, nearly 800 students as sem bled April 12 at the university’s Pentacrest outdoor courtyard to hear the author speak. They waited for about 20 m inutes until junior Matt M artin took the stage and told the crowd, "T oday the Sacker Foundation is the Sucker Foundation, and all o f you have fallen incredi bly badly for an incredibly bad practical joke." Martin then hopped on his bike and left the stunned crowd. Many diehard Vonnegut fans
still d idn't believe it was a joke, and stayed for an hour before giving up. The scene was rem iniscent o f one from V onnegut’s 1959 book, “The Sirens o f Titan,” which opens with a mob waiting for “a man and his dog to materialize.” “ It was great. It was a student joke and nobody really knows what happened,” said Linda Kettner o f the university's news office. Even Martin, who made the announcem ent, claim ed he really did not know the origins o f the joke. “A stranger who w ouldn't identify him self approached me and told me what was up. He asked if 1 would make the announcem ent,” he said. “T hat’s the closest thing I know .”
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EDITORIAL
Attitudes and the real world
With four weeks until graduation, most seniors have decided what they’ll be doing next year. Som e w ill be attending graduate school and others will be entering the white collar work force. WPI has done a good job preparing those w ho will be working to be competent problem solvers. Given a diffi cult problem, a WPI graduate has a better than average chance to com e up with a solution. However, just finding a solution to a problem is not enough. The one thing that WPI has failed to impart to its graduates is a sense o f responsibility. WPI claim s that it gives students a “social conscience” through the project system , specifically the IQP. Even though the IQP relates som e aspect o f science or technol ogy to a specific social issue or problem, this is not the
you, a new engineer, question the decisions o f your superiors? It could probably cost you your job. The average WPI engineer would probably ignore w hat’s happening and continue working. If this is indicative o f what we are to expect in the future, the world is in for hard times. WPI must promote social awareness as som ething that is both ethical and necessary. Each class should impress upon the student the necessity o f protecting and im prov ing society. WPI must take action on this issue and guarantee that its students do graduate with a social con scien ce. Only then w ill the school be doing its part to im prove society.
sam e as teaching the ramifications o f our actions. Face it - the average WPI student is apathetic. It seem s as though all they care about is graduating, getting a good job, and making lots o f m oney. This is not the attitude o f a socially responsible person. It seem s that engineers in general and WPI graduates in particular do not have a social conscience. They do not do things like disposing o f wastes properly because it would improve the earth or protect the population, but because it is the “law.” For exam ple, say y o u ’re are working in a large com pany developing som e product and you discover that the com pany is dumping waste products in an unsafe manner. They may not be violating the law, just co m mon sense. D o you do anything? Think about this - do
LETTERS
We can’t forget the events of the past To the Editor: In his letter to the editor last week, Mr. U gur Baysal claim ed that the A rm enian G enocide did not happen and that it was created by a few ex tremist Armenians. He presented so called proofs, in less than a hundred words, referring to works by Stanford J. Shaw and Justin M cCarthy, who have close ties to Turkey and are c o n tin u a lly fu n d e d by T u rk ish sources. In his letter Mr. Baysal argued that A rm enians had collaborated with the invading Russian arm ies, therefore constituted a threat to the national security o f the O ttom an Empire. He went a step further to claim that A rm enians of Van m assacred the “M uslim ” population o f that prov
ince, and for these reasons the O tto man rulers decided to deport the A rmenians “ from the eastern part of A natolia towards the southern states.” These excuses have often been resorted to by Turkey in trying to alter history. The truth is that the A rm eni ans were driven not only from the Russian front, but throughout the Empire, the southern states that they were sent towards w ere actually the deserts o f Syria and M esopotam ia.! I ] In most cases the A rm enian popula tion was given only a few hours to prepare for their death march. The United States Ambassador to the O t tom an Em pire, Henry M orgenthau wrote: “The Central G overnm ent now announced its intention o f gathering the two million or m ore A rmenians living in the several sections o f the
Empire and transporting them to this desolate and inhospitable region... They knew that the great majority would never reach their destination and that those who did would either die o f thirst and starvation, or be m urdered by the wild M oham medean desert tribes. The real purpose o f the deportations was robbery and destruc tion; it really represented a new method o f massacre. W hen the T urk ish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and in their conversation w ith me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact.”[2] The eyew itness accounts o f the mass killings of A rm enians during these m arches are abundant, includ ing the reports o f the United States
Consul to the Interior Anatolia, L. D avis, which draw gruesom e pictures o f cruelties. M r. Baysal then went on to state that during these deportations there w ere “attacks and counterattacks” betw een Armenian and M uslim popu lations. He wrote; “ ...betw een 1912 and 1922 some 584,000 Armenians w ere killed vs. 1,040,000 M uslim s.” First, it is strange that he com pares the num ber of A rm enians perished to the num ber of M uslim s w ho lost their lives. The O ttom an Empire was not the only Muslim entity in the world and the number o f casualties o f other M uslim nations in W orld W ar I is both misleading and irrelevant to the subject. Assum ing that Mr. Baysal m eant to say T urks, instead o f M us lims, he failed to mention that the
Campus police showed lack of concern To the Editor: At approximately 5:05 pm on Tuesday, April 17. one o f the mathe matics staff had a tire blow out in front of Stratton Hall on West Street. T raf fic was fairly heavy, o f course, at that time o f day, and it was raining, but we managed to get the car to the side o f the road and in as safe a position as possible. We then set about changing the tire. At about 5:15 a patrol car form the campus police department drove dow n W est Street, saw us changing the tire, and continued driv ing. I found this som ewhat surprising, as I w ould have thought the officer in the car w ould want to stop and make sure the situation was under control. Since he didn’t, I assum e he must have been on his way to take care o f other business. At approximately 5:20 we con cluded that the tire iron was missing from the car, and I w ent back into Stratton to call cam pus police to ask them if they would please send som e body over. I called them , identified m yself, informed them o f the prob lem, gam e them the location, and requested theat a patrol car come over and lend us a tire iron. I was put on hold for about two minutes, and then the gentlem an who answ ered the phone cam e back and said, “Sorry, we d o n ’t have any o f those.” They w eren’t going to come help us, and they w eren’t even going to com e offer and m ake sure that the situation as it stood presented no safety pioblem for the campus com m unity. W ell, I managed to borrow a tire iron eventually from one o f the other m athem atics faculty, so by about 5:30 we had the problem taken care of. N evertheless, I’m writing this letter as a com plaint. I am certain that every patrol car on this cam pus carries a spare tire, a jack, and a tire iron. The fact is, the cam pus policem en on duty simply d o n ’t w asn’t to go out in the rain to help a m em ber of the campus com m unity. The fact is, 1 was lied to. Since this incident. I’ve talked to other m em bers of the campus com munity, who have recounted similar stories. As one faculty m em ber put it, “O h, they don’t do cars.” 1 am certain that if a m em ber of the W orcester City police departm ent had driven by d u r
ing this episode, he or she would have stopped to render assistance. I am astounded that we c a n ’t expect the sam e level o f assistance from our ow n, local campus police, my hope is that this letter will spur a new policy position. 1 would like to see our cam pus police “do cars.” I’m not
intending to imply that they should serve as auto mechanics, but it seem s to me that assisting with a flat-tire situation, if only to ensure the safety of the cam pus com m unity, should certainly fall within their area o f re sponsibility. It’s a day later now, and I ’m still outraged at their lack o f
concern Jim Norihrup Assistant Professor M athematical Sciences cc: John Hanlon, D irector of Public Safety
Teaching is m ore im portant than research To the Editor: Recently, I have heard the very disappointing news that the contracts o f Professors Lavers and T iberio are being term inated. W hat is the M athe m atics D epartm ent thinking? These tw o gentlem en have been my best teachers by far since I ’ve been here. G ranted, I ’m only a freshm an, but
I’ve seen my y ear's worth o f poor teachers. I have learned so much from their classes because they are clear about what they say. They know how to teach. The problem with the faculty at WPI today is many o f the professors are too busy with their research to really teach. I wish the M ath Dept, and other departments would W AKE UP and see that students pay twenty
Please don’t walk alone T o the Editor: This letter is from the m em bers of SN aP to the WPI C om m unity. Spring is back and for some reason the num ber o f nightly escorts is down. This is o f great concern to us because more attacks and incidents occur in the spring, when everyone is more active. Please d o n ’t walk alone. G et a friend to w alk with you or call SNaP or Cam pus Police. W e are m ore than glad to take the walk, that is why we are here.
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thousand dollars a year to learn and get a good education, not to be im pressed by professors that have doc torates. Why is W PI so hung up on P h .D ’s? A Ph.D. does not m ean that they can teach to other people what they themselves have learned. I am certain that I am not the only one with this opinion. In closing, I truly hope that the departm ents begin hiring professors that will be more benefi cial to the students, and less beneficial to what will m ake the school look good. Kathryn Ingenii '93 MEB
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Pathways correction To the Editor: Due to an error on the part o f the Pathways Editorial staff, a story in our current issue entitled “ A Piece” was erroneously attributed to Pro fessor John F. Zeugner o f the WPI H umanities Department. Professor Zeugner DID NOT write this an onym ously submitted story, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. D avid Scampoli Editor, Pathways
O ttom an Em pire had an arm y, which was engaged in a W orld W ar, w hereas the A rm enian casualties were ordi nary men, w om en and children. Mr. Baysal also claim ed that all casualties w ere “essential to all wars on earth, i.e. ‘M an’s Inhum anity to M an’.” C alling the victim s o f the A rm enian G enocide victims o f w ar is absurd. A rm enians were subjects of the O ttom an Empire, had no free country, and no army. How could such a relatively small group of people be at war with the Great O tto m an Em pire? Furtherm ore, Mr. B aysal’s quote “M an’s Inhum anity to M an,” interestingly enough, com es from the US House o f R epresenta tives R esolution 148 (April 8, 1975), and US House Joint R esolution 247 (Septem ber 10, 1984) in both with respect to "... all victim s o f genocide, especially the one and one half m il lion people o f Armenian ancestry...” The claim s that the recognition of the A rm enian Genocide is seeked by an “extrem ist” few is ludicrous. If we w ere to forget the events o f the past, which som e jieople are forced to do so, why do we study and teach His tory? W hat is the importance o f H is tory? The truth is that only by study ing the past and focusing the light of truth on past atrocities can we ensure that they will never be repeated. Had the O ttom an Turkey been held ac countable for its crimes, then perhaps H itler w ould not easily find the cour age to say: “ ... W ho, after all, speaks today of the annihilation o f the A rm e nians?” References: [1] The Armenian G enocide in Perspective. Richard H ovhannesian, “The Historical Di mensions o f the Armenian Question: 1878-1923” , New Brunswick(USA), Transaction Books, 1986, p.29. [2] H enry M o rg en th au , A m b assad o r M orgenthau’s Story. Garden City NY, D oubleday, 1918, p.309. [3] N azi C onspiracy and A ggression, W ashington, 1946, vol vii, p.75.
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LETTERS / COMMENTARY
Scheduling screwups aggravating To theEditor: I am w riting about the m ess the scheduling office has made of everyone’s schedules. I can ’t believe how many classes people are not able to take, when they need these courses to fulfill their degree requirem ents. I can under stand that som e o f the course requests could not be filled, because o f the tim e constraints. One o f my “om itted” courses simply conflicted with another request. That is reasonable. But on the other hand, I was locked out o f one o f the core courses required for m e as an EE, Signals
and Systems. It’s not that 1 had a conflict with another one o f my requested courses, the time that Signals will meet is still open in my schedule. Its not that the course was full, I checked that too. I used the “sch” program on the Encore to check on the course information. For some reason, the scheduling office just plain decided that I didn’t really need to have the course. There is no reason that I was not scheduled in the course, 1just w asn’t! W hat the Hell is going on!?! This problem d id n ’t exist last year, at least not to this degree, why are we being shafted now ? Are their simply not
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(I would not be writing this if I was the only one who had this problem , but it seem s like most o f the people I know had the same prob lem s.)
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O bservations fro m the A sylu m The EndApproaches by Alton Reich N ewspeak Staff The end of the term is almost upon us, and we all have too much too do, and too little time to do it. This always seems to happen at the end o f the term. D on’t worry, though, the sum m er is almost here and, for most o f us, W orcester will soon be an unpleasant mem ory. For the rest, it’s an other W orcester sum m er. A sum m er that is alw ays too hot, or too cold; too humid, or too dry; and sometimes more than one thing in the sam e day. The end of the year is always encouraging. It’s good to see people you know graduating,
because you say, “ If that bonehead can do it, so can I.” It is always best to buoy your spirits at some one else’s expense. This world has been a bit of a boring place lately. The only interesting thing that’s been in the news is Earth Day, and m urders in Boston. Boston has had 49 murders since the beginning o f the year. T h at’s im pressive, I don’t even think that New York is up that high yet. At this rate it’ll be about 150 by the end of the year. Talk about population control. It seem s to become self regulating when the population concentration goes up (like in Boston). W ell, enough for this week. N ext week is the last one of the year (sniffle), see you then.
One of three freshmen isn’t prepared for college work (CPS) — More than 34 percent of the college-bound high school seniors in G eorgia end up taking at least one rem edial course after they get to college, a state legislative report released April 11 said.
“This show s that we still have a lot of work to do in Georgia as far as preparing our young sters for college,” said state Sen. John Foster, whose com m ittee sponsored the study.
One of five seniors isn’t prepared for real work (CPS) — About 20 percent of the people w ho apply for corporate jobs can’t read o r write w ell enough to com plete employment applica-
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CLUB CORNER Alpha Phi Omega You know, if there’s one thing a human being can ALWAYS do, it’s lie. Do something violent to that clown! Cheep! Boioioing! Klink-KIunk! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHARON!!! It’s about time you were able to join us at R alph’s.
KKKKeith is cccoming to kkkkill me! So you want to see my butt do you.... Super Job in N V 8 brothers!! Howdy all! Joe Curtin?!? Joke Hurtin! But R alph’s is never uopen w hen we go!! Pledges - good work on the drive! T hanks to everybody!! Bal 11loooooooooooooooooooooooooooons!!!
Um, how many schools were locked Friday when pickups were supposed to be done?? For everyone’s inform ation - there is no student center at Clark!! It hasn’t been built yet!!! I though about you w hen I booted naked!! Cori, I lick you as you lick me. W hat is happening? No, Shane, you C A N ’T keep your socks
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ASME At this lime we would like to w elcome in the new officers: Patrise Puleo C hairm an Shawn Harrington Vice Chairman D anielle Lemieux Secretary John M cCullough T reasurer M ike Social A ctivities C oordinator A nd say good bye to the graduating officers: Amy Littel, Jen Lambert, Cara Dellaguistina, and Drew Boynton. Good luck in the future to all o f the gradu ating members! Thanks for the great BBQ Patrise and every one who helped. D on’t forget coffee and donuts every Friday m orning in Higgins 101. Be ready for lots of fun and exciting activities in the year to come. Until then have a nice sum m er.
IEEE W ell C-term is alm ost over and congratula tions should go out to our new officers: C hairm an M ike Vinskus V ice-C hairm an Jay M cGaffigan T reasurer Dave Colom bo Secretary Neal McCann Publicity Brian Malone A ctivities Chris Savina Anyone interested in becom ing a member o f IEEE should contact Jay McGaffigan (WPI bow 639; EE box 269). It looks great on a resum e. There will be an IEEE cookout on Friday April 27th from 11:30-1:00, all are invited to come. This is a great chance for freshmen who are undecided about EE to talk to proffessors and other underclassm en (and avoid DAKA). Hey juniors, need an M QP advisor? Come to the cookout and talk to the professors. ,
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GREEK CORNER A lpha (ia m m a D elta Hello everyone! First of all, I hope every one had a good time helping T heta Chi cele brate their tenth anniversary on Friday night. Also it was great for our current sisters to meet with some of W P I’s charter A GD m em bers at International Reunion Day on Saturday and the less formal festivities at G om pei’s afterwards. C ongratulations to all award w inners at Recog nition ’90 on Sunday. I hope you all have “aw ards” ready to honor your sisters at the activities banquet tonight! Tori, how far do you like you m en to jum p? It must be nice to have sue power. Rachael, it was a great movie. Michael, the Alpha Gams love your new hairdo. Happy belated birthday to Brian C. 22, Wow! Y ou’re an old man!! WHO SCOOPED S.B.?!
Delta Phi Epsilon C ongratulations Lisa on being inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon! HAPPY SENIOR WEEK!! We all had fun celebrating o u r 10th year anniversary on Saturday! Let’s m ake the next 10 years just as awesome. Congrats everyone for making this w eekend the best! Congrats on ten years! Bouquet o f irises to Liza for a job well-done! Congrats! Best o f luck to all the seniors! Next year w on’t be the same without you! You guys better come back and visit next year, especially during B-term! No, the seniors have not been forgotten! Oh baby you - you had what I needed. Wa - he fits the suit. W anda - Oh! I let up on the clutch then hit the gas - I get it! 2 pizzas with 10 toppings for $9.99 - th at’s im possible! Amy - take third - take third is that a softball term or a car term? Nancy - G reg says you don’t have strep throat. Ooh baby were those brass but tons shining! Excuse me! You w ere going 37 in a 25! Why do you have a rental from Mass? Since you have a cute smile, I ’ll only give you a warning. But next time rem em ber a $50 ticket can win your weekend. K ris - Either one or both? Either one but not both! P D A o rP D L , what are your favorite initials! Amy - if he calls. I ’m in Timbuktu! Congratulations to the new brothers o f Zeta Psi! Sorry w e m issed the initiation party, but we were really busy with our 10th Year Reunion. Only eleven days left until freedom! Have an awesome sum m er and see you all in the fall!
Stay psyched and come visit W orcester and the unem ployed, Val and Amy! See you all again in the fall! Love you! Me.
Phi (iamma Delta The house would like to congratulate the Pledge Class o f 1990 on its initiation, and com pleting o f Post Initiation Training. These new brothers are: Aaron Anderson, Derek A nderson, Dan Bisson, Barry Hilliard, Dave Henry, Chris Ledoux, Chris DiEllo, Elio Trolio, Lorenzo Bailey, Dave Reisinger, Matt G arceau, Bill Musiak, Kevin Beatrice, Bill Johnson, Jason Golden, Anthony G irard, Brett Perroni, Paul Bordieri, Matt Jeffers, and C rispin Battles. W elcome aboard and settle in. W e are in for a good year next fall. Seniors, we bid you all goodbye for now. You all will return to mooch the house bever ages anyway, so its really no big deal. Jam ie and B ubba are leaving also... finally... m aybe?... we think?... we hope so. Thanks from the underclassm en for all of your im m or tal words o f wisdom on W ednesday. Island F ever should be catching on soon.....wait N iff w ent home with it on Thursday telling every one he has mono. Keep spirits high athletes, the C up should not be forgotten yet! Congratulations in ad vance to Staff for his pinning to the truck driver. The show ers work! The showers work! T hanks to the efforts of the “building com m it tee.” Nice job. Lets have a good Island! All for now.
Phone-a-thon. Phi Sig Sig raised the most money for the Alumni Fund! C ongratulations also to Lisa D. and Amy B. on their induction into Phi Sigm a Biological Honor Society. Standing O ’s go to Beth Anne for trying zeal ously to get anyone to show up for the floor hockey gam es and to Sejal for jum ping right into her new position. So everyone try to m ake it to the wedge to guess how many M & M ’s can fit into M oe’s glass head! My com plim ents to Sue T. on her “pseudo” progressive haircut. A rem inder to Amy C. not to w ear shorts to Chem Lab. You sofa-crevice fondler, Jen S., where have you been lately? A few w ords o f wisdom by Slappy White, “The trouble with unemployment is that the m inute you wake up in the morning y o u ’re on the jo b .” Until next time, LITP.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon G reetings students and faculty o f WPI. The Sports C up is looking tough this year but with the pow er o f the floor hockey team, speed of the track team and team work o f the softball team the Sports C up will be ours. In all sports it is going to be a tough race with Sigma Pi so best o f luck to all teams. At 6 Hum boldt this w eekend the studentfaculty cocktail hour with Phi Sig Sig, the softball tournam ent and Parents Day all w ent very well. Congratulations on a jo b well done for all those involved. On a parting note as we all look forward to the infamous Paddy Murphy festivities rem ember these wise w ords our fo r e fa th e r s h av e to ld us: S.P.E.P.A .T.L.A .B .F.D .
Phi Sigma Sigma Sigma Pi Oh, most holy and angelic beautiful seniors, how may we serve you? With the “ Blind Leading the N aked” into the final stages o f S enior W orship W eek, let me say that I hope all the seniors enjoyed the events that we slaved over this past weekend. W e’ll miss you next year! Phi Sig Sig is just chock full o ’ new s this w eek. The SAE-Phi Sig Sig Faculty Happy H our was a dazzling success. Thanks to all w ho assisted in the Bancroft Tow er cleanup on Saturday, as well as to everyone who helped at the work party. Congratulations to all who participated in New Voices, and to everyone (honorable m ention goes to Tisha) w ho worked at the
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The house is looking good - thanks to every one who helped out in getting it ready for Clambake! I think I even saw Lennv doing work, o f all people. In sports: congratulations to the softball and floor hockey teams who played decisive games in the last week and cam e up winners! The ping pong freaks are doing well also. And B-team soccer lost another gam e after the A TO v a rsity /p ro fe ssio n a l-w o rld -c h a m p io n s Cteam ran circles around us. M iracle keg: 27 dollars and som ething, for those o f you who were w ondering, and Sagi won the pool. Speaking o f pools, I w onder w ho’s going to take home Laurie at the O rchid? 100-1 that Chassie will... Uh-oh. Do I detect that another brother has caught the Randy Fulton virus? Deadwood? A nyways, the Clam bake party should be a success, with Booty K ’s band playing and both sides opened up! And rem em ber... Shane still owes us 42 kegs. D on’t forget!
It has also been brought to my attention that Fraters Russell Flugel and Abraham Fainsod our President and Vice-president respectively, have becom e m em bers of The O rder o f Omega. A great honor for two men w ho have worked hard to m ake T K E a stronger part o f Greek life on the WPI Campus. And one more congratulations to Frater Jonathan “Sparky” Davis, w ho has been ac cepted as a m em ber o f Alpha Psi O m ega, the National honor Fraternity for Drama. A spe cial round o f applause also goes out to Sparky and Cheryl Pegnam for the great jobs they did in New V oices 8 last week. Every year TKE takes on the responsibility of finding w ays to help the W orcester C om m u nity. Last year we started work on Habitat for Humanity. T his year we are continuing that effort with another. Brothers from Tau Kappa Epsilon have started devoting a few hours each week to w orking at Mustard Seed. A local soup kitchen that provides meals for people who might other w ise go hungry. This is an organi zation that we at TKE feel deserves to be heard about, and supported. If you would be inter ested in helping us support this im portant service in W orcester feel free to contact David Newman at 752-9946. One last word or two before I end this w eek’s little bit. Good job by our A ssociate members during psyche week. You are doing great. Ok Lets Keep up the good work and the good G rades. Remember T.K .E. the Tim e is Now!!!!
Theta Chi D-term has been very prom ising so far. Many achievem ents have com e our way, we received aw ards for com m unity service and campus involvement. We w ere proud to host Mike G reene, a Theta Chi, w hose speech on alcohol aw areness was delivered to over 600 members o f our Greek com m unity. The out side of the house is looking great thanks to our new details m anager. Sod God. We were also very proud as well as excited to host Regional Weekend. A thletics are look ing great, all sports have m ade it to the play offs. A fter getting o ff to a very slow start the soccer team has come on strong with OX Bteam crushing SAE A-team. Floor hockey is very solid as is the defense o f our softball team. Red Sox gam e is tonigh, how many will get tossed this year? On a lighter note, Dickie donates $500 to the less fortunate in the Combat Zone; The R ough ing Up C lub gets George, Sm itty, Cohen, and Killer KK. O nly the strong will survive! Stas is whipped again, so much for C hapter Sw eet heart C urse... W ho will be the next?... O tis is banned from everything now!
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First, Congratulations to T K E floor hockey for their Victory over the chim ps. Only one w o rd c o m e s to m in d c o n c e rn in g the w in:”N OTHING !” (as in four to nothing). Congratulations to Frater Jean-Pierre T revisani for receiving the senior Recognition A ward for extra-curricular activities. J.P. is in a senior EE/CS M ajor from Bogota Colum bia. He is involved in W PI Glee C lub and B aker’s Dozen. J.P. has held many offices at TK E-ZM from Little S ister’s and Rush Chairm an to V ice-president. W hen JP graduates this su m mer, he will be sorely missed not only by T K E but by many others at WPI.
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Guess w hat all you Zetes out there! T here’s lots o f new s to broadcast this week. First, about the spring class. Congratulations to our former pledges who were ju st initiated on Saturday. T he new Zete brothers are David Smith, Jerem y Smith, and Daniel Steffann. I hope you all had one hell o f an Inspiration week! I also hope no one else tries to mail me my breakfast. Air m ail doesn’t include throw ing it at me either, Ace. Good jo d getting yelled at (a.k.a advised) by the WPI cop w hile singing off the porch. Good job too on Pledge Project, Part II, the Switching of the Leaves. H ope you had a good swim in the pond, John, you too Adam (the neophytes return, ha ha ha ha!!). Welcome to the brotherhood, it was well earned. Also in the news today, Joel and Jim beat the pants o ff all competitors in the A ir Force foosball tounam ent, getting scored on an aver age o f tw o points per game, m ucho garps to you guys. W e w ould welcome any challenge on the home table, ju st set up a time. Now that we have a year, let’s get motivated on that fun draiser. The Founder’s Day Party was aw e some, let’s keep bringing back Johnny Groove and the band in the future. I’ve noticed that there has been a recent flurry o f nonsense words floating about the house, and wish to offer this tidbit to the cryptologists out there. G urbleplatz ik bleem ungle farplegleeg ext jouffe sertifon exodoupajati yepplefem ipricious. And speaking o f floating, the floating asshole movement has expanded everm ore. Now there is a designated floating asshole of the day, so watch out for him, but d o n ’t look! W ell, there isn’t much more to say. but then again is there ever? The Gods are calling, and so I must be going. There are Teenage Mutant Ninja T urtles to kill and Dan Q uayles to si lence. ‘Til a Jehova’s W itness and a Bom Again C hristian have nothing to say to each other, nuff said
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CLASSIFIEDS EUROPE BY EURAIL. LONDON O N E W AY FROM $199.00. EURAIL PACKAGE FROM $659.00. INCLUDES ROUNDTRIP AIR FROM BOSTON, HARTFORD, NEW YORK, PHILADEL PHIA, A N D W ASHINGTON TO LO N D O N , FRANKFURT, PARIS, ZURICH & BRUSSELS, EURAIL PA SSES, FREE LISTING OF YOUTH HOSTLES. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL TOLL FREE AT 800-283-8767. Q: What do Displindapotheosis, Fields Erickson, and DMOH have in common? A: They all have O ’s in their names, and they’re all performing at the Amnesty International band night. FURNITURE FOR SALE: DESK, BED, DRESSER... and more for your apartment next year. Call 797-9060. I need two IQP partners for next year either A, B, and C terms or B, C, and D terms. Interested parties must have good writing abilities and excellent motivation. The project will entail a cam pus-wide survey and the re-writing o f an instruc tional manual for the computer system . James Spillane Box 343 Room s for Rent. 7 man apartment, 1 triple, 1 double, 2 singles. Can be sold separately, utilities included, washer, dryer, kitchen. Call Jay Sheehan at 7554139. SUM M ER JOBS: The Adm issions O ffice is seeking undergraduate students for summer employment. Positions in clude giving tours and/or general office work. If interested, plase contact Anne Harris in the A dm issions O ffice (1st floor Boynton, 831-5286).
3 Female Undergrads need roomate. Only $ 130 a month plus utilities. Walking distance to cam pus, washing machine. 7 9 2 -3 2 6 6 Since flame throwers didn’t work, any fem ales interested in a geek contact Max at box 2635. Is Displindapotheosis really a name for an obscure mind-wasting disease originat ing in the Middle East? Is Fields Erickson really the new name that Elvis Presley adopted before being seen at K-Mart? Are the Dead Men On Holiday really dead and if so, why are they on holiday at WPI? These questions and more may be an swered at 7:30, April 28th, Gompeis. Apartments For Rent. 3 and 4 bed room s, o ff street parking. O ff Highland Street. Call 835-2806. Get ready for BNTJW D! Sunday, April 29. Rainchecks available.
Matt, Carl, M ike, D ave, Steve & Dave - Thanks for an aw esom e Spring Break! When are you all com ing to Madtown? Have a great summer and good luck in all you do. Tell everyone I met “hello”, and thanks for everything. N icole P.S. I told you Steve - U N LV !!!
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POLICE LOG S u n d ay , A pril 8 , 1990 8:10 pm - LA R C EN Y : Student reports his car stereo stolen from his vehicle while parked in the quad parking lot. O fficer responds, report filed, incident under investigation.
Wednesday, April 11, 1990 1:37 am - SU SPICIOU S PERSON: SN aP reports a suspicious male hanging around lower wedge area. O fficers respond. O fficers report speaking with the individual and running a record check. Subject has a record, nothing outstanding, advised o f trespassing and escorted off campus. 2:14 am - M ALICIOUS MISCHIEF: Female students from Daniels Hall report individuals from Morgan are throwing rocks at their windows. O fficers and SNAP respond. Officers report speaking with students involved in incident. M atter referred to the Office o f Residential Life.
3:00 pm - M en’s T ennis vs. Assum ption 4:30 pm - Softball vs. RIC 8:00 pm - Cinematech: “Pelle, the C onqueror," Fuller
Sunday, April 15, 1990
Wednesday, April 25, 1990
2:38 am - LOUD NOISE: Citizen calls to report yelling and or possible fight by Phi Sig 11 Dean St. Sergeant and O fficer respond. Sergeant reports entire area and surrounding streets checked to no avail. O fficers clear.
8:00 pm - Video: “The Jerk,” G om pei’s
WEEKLY SAFETY TIP: Observe your surroundings and recognize locations and situations where you may be at risk, and avoid them. Be fam iliar with the routes you use, and know where public phones and em ergency call boxes are located.
Tuesday, April 24, 1990
Thursday, April 26, 1990 11:00 am - A l Research Group M eeting - M aster’s Thesis Presentation, FL 311 3:00 pm - M en’s Tennis vs. AIC
Friday, April 27, 1990 11:00 am - Com puter Science Colloquium - R ubik’s Cube and Parallel Computation, FL 320 4:00 pm - JV Baseball vs. W orcester Academy 8:00 pm - TTAH: C om edy Night, G om pei’s, $1
Saturday, April 28, 1990
ENGINEERING 8. COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATES
1:()0 pm - Baseball vs. MIT 7:00 pm - Film: “A lw ays,” Kimball Theatre, Holy Cross, $1.50 7:30 pm - Pub Show: Am nesty International Band Night, G om pei’s, $2
Sunday, April 29, 1990
T a k e te c h n o lo g y w h e r e it has n e v e r b e e n b e fo re . Applied Automation, Robotic Materials Handling Transport Technology
6:30 and 9:30 pm - Film: “Black Rain,” Fuller, $2 7:00 pm - Film: “A lw ays,” Kimball Theatre, Holy Cross, $1.50 7:30 pm - Transcendental Meditation Lecture, 755-8332 for more info.
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