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Class of 1992 revives Goat’s Head tradition

by Mike Shorr On Friday April 27th, the class of 1992 led by Mike Shorr, Dave C ortese, Ellen M adigan, and B ernadette C arraway revived the G o at’s Head T radi­ tion. The last class to successfully steal the G oat’s head was the class of 1984 who kept the G oat’s head in h id­ ing for several years.

This tradition was initiated by the class o f 1893 who had a m ascot, a living, breathing goat. The upkeep of the animal became too great for the original goat keeper, G om pei Kuwada. Therefore it was killed and the

head was stuffed and mounted. A bronze replica o f this G oat’s head, which is now the coveted trophy for the w inning class o f the traditional freshm an-sophom ore rivalry com peti­ tion, was presented to the Tech C oun­ cil in 1928. Follow ing 1928, the tradi­ tions associated with the com petition have been re-enacted with varying success.

The w inning class is determined by the outcom es o f the traditional rivalry events. This year, the class of 1992 swept all three com petitions - the rope pull, the paddle rush, and the basket­ ball game. Following the homecom ing

football gam e, the rope pull was held at Institute Pond. W ith the freshm en obviously outnum bered, it was no sur­ prise that the class o f 1992 won with ease. The second battle, the paddle rush, was still no obstacle for the sophom ores despite the now even numbers. This was also the case for the final event, the halftim e basketball game. The sophom ores’ speed and agility could not be matched by the freshman class. W ith no doubt in anyone’s mind, the rightful victors of the traditional freshm en-sophom ore rivalry were the sophom ores. All that

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was left was to obtain the G o at’s head.

W ith much concern and apprehen­ sion directed toward the true ability o f the sophom ore class in obtaining the G oat’s head, the Alumni O ffice can now rest at ease. Following num erous certain reports of how the class o f 1992 accom plished the feat, the G o at’s thigh now bears the num ber 1992. There is much speculation to the circum stances that led to the event, but all that is truly known is that the G oat’s head was relum ed exactly 92 m inutes after its m ysterious disappearance. This was the finale to the class o f 19 9 2 ’s efforts

in returning class traditions back onto the Tech campus.

W e the m em bers o f the class of 1992 hereby invite any succeeding classes to accept this challenge, if they are worthy, to uphold the continuation o f the traditional WPI games. By chance, if they are successful in all three events, like the prestigious class o f 1992, we wish you the best o f luck in obtaining the G oat’s head and right­ fully engraving your class year as tra­ dition states.

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New Provost talks about campus issues

by Jeffrey S. Goldmeer Associate Editor During the last week o f March, W P I’s new Provost, Diran A pelian, was on cam pus for a series o f m eet­ ings. Dr. Apelian met with students and faculty to discuss cam pus issues.

During his visit, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Apelian. The follow ­ ing is an excerpt of this interview.

The perception (by undergradu­ ates) that the adm inistration views them only as a source of income: “The first thing to do is to diffuse that idea, m aybe to make a big hole out there in the field and bury that notion.

It is a terrible notion. I come here w ith a new perspective and see a shared identity am ong the faculty; a com m it­ ment to education. I see the faculty dedicated to educating the under­ graduates as well as having aspirations to do graduate research and pursue the frontiers o f knowledge creation.”

“The projects are so labor intensive com pared to any other curriculum that I’ve see in engineering education. By the sheer im plem entation o f the plan that exists here, there is a real devotion to do it.”

The perception that research is more im portant than teaching: “It is unfortunate that those kinds of perceptions are being sensed. I think what we want (“w e” m eaning the fac­ ulty and adm inistration) is quality in scholarship. (The faculty and the administration should be working to­ gether; no “ us” and “them .”) Teaching at the exclusion o f scholarship is not the wave o f the future, perhaps it w as in the past.

Teaching versus Scholarship: “It’s a balance we are talking about, not one versus the other. If you are just doing research and not good teaching that is a terrible thing. If you are only teaching and not involved in scholar­ ship that is also a terrible thing to do. It is difficult to separate the two; they are so synergistic.”

“W hen you stop reading sooner or later you will stop writing and then sooner or later you stop doing research and then sooner or later you stop ex cit­ ing others and teaching w ell.”

“We must be careful not to equate doing research and scholarship with how much money you bring in.”

Faculty Evaluations: “It’s ludicrous to have param eters

WPI to require measles vaccination b y Jo Ann VanDyke Asst. Supervisor o f N ursing During the past two years, there has been a significant increase in the num ber o f measles cases reported to the C enter for Disease C ontrol (CD C) including reports of outbreaks on over 70 college campuses. The measles outbreaks of the past two years have indicated that the national im m uniza­ tion policy is not working. A m ajority of cases have occurred in individuals who have been immunized on or after 15 m onths of age suggesting that a single dose of MMR vaccine m ay not provide adequate protection against measles. For this reason, the N ational Academy of Pediatrics (A AP) and the Advisory Com m ittee on Im m uniza­ tion Practices (ACIP) have changed their measles vaccine recom m enda­ tion from one dose to two doses for students bom after January 1, 1957.

The M assachusetts Departm ent of Public Health and the A m erican C ol­ lege Health Association have recom ­ mended that the new im munization guidelines set forth by the A A P and the ACIP be im plemented by all health care providers. In recom m ending the new two dose schedule they further state “any college student w ho has not already received two doses o f measles vaccine (given on or after 12 m onths of

age) by college entry should receive a second dose at that time.

Due to the high mobility of college students and the potential for mass exposure in classes and at athletic and social events, colleges have becom e a primary foci o f transmission. On sev­ eral cam puses this past spring, measles outbreaks forced the cancellation of classes, social activities and athletic events.

Based on the above information, W orcester Polytechnic Institute is rec­ om m ending that all its currently en­ rolled undergraduates and graduate students check their own immuniza­

tion records and secure the recom­ mended second dose if necessary.

Incoming freshman will be required to have the second im munization. W hile we are not im posing this requirem ent on currently enrolled students, we strongly suggest you obtain this for your own protection. The WPI Health Service will not be able to provide the recom m ended second dose, however, we are available to check the health records currently on file for you and apprise you o f your im munization status and needs.

If you have any questions concern­ ing your ow n immunization status please feel free to call WPI Health Services, 831-5520.

Senior Event Correction The Tuesday, April 24, 1990 issue o f N ew speak contained an error in the “ Update on Senior E vents." It should read: Saturday, May 19 - C om m encem ent Cerem ony, Quad 11:00 am.

that evaluate people by one number.

For example: 50% teaching and 50% research. It is ludicrous to set such standards.”

Success in Academia: “W e m ust m ake sure that the fac­ ulty here are successful them selves.

Success is a very relative (subjective) kind o f thing, it’s very different for each individual. A s an institution of higher learning we are the integral of all faculty m em ber’s successes.”

Positive Aspects o f WPI: “The students are dedicated, pro­ ductive, good work ethics, and inter­ ested in their fields.”

“There is a caring and nurturement o f students through fellows, math hours, etc... It is the little things that in the aggregate make up all o f the quality aspects.”

WPI in the year 2000: “The faculty and 1will work hand in hand to achieve the future vision that we will collectively have to put to­ gether. A strategic plan has been es­

tablished and specific goals will have to be m ade on a departm ental basis; what actions are required to achieve these goals.”

“A s we enter the third m illennium I would like to see WPI having a pre­ em inent position in the nation for its undergraduate program. The nation needs a lot o f good engineering stu­ dents, and there is a dim inishing inter­ est in technology by the younger gen­ eration. So part of our job is to turn that around.”

O pportunities in G raduate Educa­ tion (Leaders o f Technology): “T here exists an opportunity to do a sim ilar model with graduation educa­ tion as was done with the undergradu­ ate plan; to educate the whole person, not ju st the engineer. We want to be globally com petitive, not fb lose the edge in technology. That will require a hum an resource base; people who are technologically trained on the gradu­ ate level in a new program m atic, inno­

vative approach. I w ould like to see a program like this unique to WPI; one which will serve needs o f country. I am talking about a product of the Ph.D. program. The Ph.D. that will serve the third millennium . A person who un­ derstands the global econom ics o f our society, who has some management training, perhaps m anagem ent of engi­ neering and technological issues, who speaks one or two languages.”

General Advice: “As an institution w e can not sit back and rely on glories o f the past, but rather advance what we have now and even make it better. I think those people who put the plan together would want nothing but that. They d o n ’t want this thing to becom e an archaic plan, but one that is constantly changing to stay in tune with the de­ mands and needs of our nation, be­ cause change in itself is a good thing, it has to occur. We are after all, agents of change.”

All your questions about the Alumni Association are answered

by Jeffrey S. G oldm eer Associate E ditor Recently I received a letter from the A lumni Fund asking if I would like to contribute to WPI and the 1989 annual cam paign. I replied to this letter with a letter o f my own, which opened a dia­ logue betw een m yself and Liz Siladi, the Director o f the Alumni Fund.

The goal o f this article is to educate the average WPI student to the “ in’s and o u t’s” o f the Alumni A ssociation.

This will be done by answ ering a num ber o f important questions about the association and its function.

What is the Alumni Association?

Founded in 1891, W PI’s Alumni A ssociation is a service organization w hose purpose is to provide both bene­ fits and services to W PI. The associa­ tion is led by a president, an executive com m ittee com posed o f alum ni and students who chair specific program areas, and an alum ni council com ­ prised o f alumni class and regional representatives. There are currently 20.000 members in the association, who are active in 23 alumni clubs na­ tionwide. As part o f the college’s by­ laws, at least 15 alum ni are part o f the board o f trustees.

W hat services does the Alumni O ffice/A lum ni A ssociation provide students?

In general the alumni program pro­ vides opportunities for alumni and students to be involved with their alma mater. There are several “ services” which are provided to students through the Student Alumni Society - M anag­ ing your Salary, “G o o d stu ff’ pack­ ages, hom ecom ing Parade, survival kits and general promotion of tradi­ tions. The Alumni Office staff can be helpful in providing names and ad­ dress o f alumni for project or job con­

nections as well as for club activities.

There is a phone bank available by reservation for groups w ishing to hold phonathons for fund raising or other purposes. The Alumni O ffice also m aintains a complete library o f class yearbooks as well as an inventory of yearbooks for the more recent classes.

In addition, the Alumni O ffice pro­ vides other services, such as enroll­ m ents in a group term-life insurance program, a new short-term major m edical insurance program for gradu­ ating seniors, discounts on group travel packages, and a credit card pro­ gram which will be introduced this fall for all alum ni including graduating seniors. Information on these pro­ gram s is distributed to alum ni on a periodic basis.

The Alumni Association also helps alum ni keep in touch with WPI through publications, including the WPI Journal and The W ire. In addi­ tion, the Alumni Office also publishes an alum ni directory, offers career developm ent programs, and a listing o f jo b opportunities for alum ni w ish­ ing to change careers. One o f the m ajor

functions o f the Alumni Association is the organization and m anagem ent of alumni reunion program s and Home­ coming.

What is the Alumni Fund?

The WPI Alumni Fund was estab­ lished by the Alumni A ssociation in 1924 with the purpose of soliciting annual operating support for W PI from alumni of all classes. It is one o f the oldest annual funds in the country.

That first fund drive raised $16,600 from 866 alum ni. In 1988-89 the Alumni Fund campaign raised nearly $1.6 million from 5,625 donors. The Alumni Fund provides “ funds to live by” with gifts which are generally unrestricted and can be used through­ out the year in support o f the Institute’s annual operating budget.

Tuition covers less than 70% of the income necessary to meet our annual unre­ stricted operating budget, and the Alumni Fund is important and neces­ sary to provide the balance o f income needed to maintain a quality WPI experience for all students. Typical continued on page 3

This is the last issue of the year Newspeak wants to wish everyone a good summer.

See y’all in A-term First issue next year is August 28,1990

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WPI to award five honorary degrees WPI N ews Release - “WPI in the W orld” will be the them e o f W PI’s 122nd graduation exer­ cises on Saturday, May 19. The them e focuses on W P I’s diverse international education pro­ grams for undergraduates as well as honors alumni living in all 50 states and 88 nations w orldw ide. There will be an estim ated 790 undergraduate and graduate degrees awarded.

During the comm encem ent cerem ony, WPI will honor Five leaders who have influenced changes on the global scene. Receiving honor­ ary doctor o f engineering degrees will be W il­ liam R. G rogan, a 1946 W PI electrical engineer­ ing graduate and long-time dean o f undergradu­ ate studies at WPI, who retires this year; and Tarek M.A. Shawaf, a 1955 WPI graduate in civil engineering and president of Saud Consult, an engineering and architectural firm in Saudi Arabia. Receiving honorary doctor o f science degrees will be Claude P. Mancel, a 1974 WPI Ph.D. graduate in chem ical engineering and vice president for Procter & Gamble Research and D evelopm ent in Iji^ope, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium; Henry M. Strage, a 1954 WPI chem ical engineering graduate and direc­ tor, M cK insey & C om pany Inc. in London, a worldw ide m anagem ent and consulting firm; and Lester C. Thurow, D ean of the Sloan School o f M anagem ent at M IT, who will deliver the com m encem ent address.

This y ear’s graduation also com m em orates the 125th anniversary o f W P I’s founding. On May 10, 1865 the Institute received its charter from the C om m onw ealth of Massachusetts.

Am ong the 300 plus engineering educational institutions in the United States only Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1824) and M IT (1862) are older than W PI. W illiam R. Grogan is a 1946 WPI graduate in electrical engineering. He also earned his mas­ ter’s at W PI. He joined the electrical engineer­ ing faculty in 1946 and w as a professor in that departm ent w hen he helped draft the W PI Plan, an entirely new approach to engineering educa­ tion in the late 1960’s.

After the Plan was accepted by the WPI faculty and Trustees in 1970, Grogan was ap­ pointed to the new post o f dean o f undergraduate studies to oversee its im plem entation and ad­ ministration.

Grogan has been active in electrical engi­ neering professional circles in various capaci­ ties over the last 40 years. He was selected as the 1979 recipient o f the W orcester Engineering Society’s Scientific A chievem ent A w ard and the A m erican Society for Engineering Educa­ tion’s 1979 C hester F. Carlson A ward for Inno­ vation in Engineering Education. In 1980 he won the W illiam E. W ickenden Award for the year’s best contribution to engineering educa­ tion for his paper “Perform ance-Based Engi­ neering Education and W hat It R eveals.” He is a fellow in the Institute o f Electrical and Elec­ tronics Engineers and the 1986 recipient o f its M ajor Educational Innovation Award. In 1988 he received the Sterling Olmstead A ward from the A m erican Society for Engineering Educa­ tion’s Liberal Education Division for “ innova­ tive contributions to the liberal arts within engi­ neering education.” Last year WPI aw arded its first Trustee Distinguished Service A w ard to Dean Grogan.

Claude P. Mancel began working for Procter & G am ble in 1973 upon receiving his Ph.D. from W PI. he has held progressively more responsible positions in both the U.S. and Eu­ rope in Procter & G am ble’s packages soap and

detergent product developm ent areas. In 1987 he becam e m anager o f research and develop­ m ent at the European Technical C enter in Brus­ sels and in 1988 was appointed vice president for research and developm ent for Europe, the M iddle East and A frica. There are over 40 WPI alum ni employed by Procter & G am ble, mostly in the United States.

M ancel has been as successful in sports as in his professional life. As a rugby player he played on a cham pionship team while in Sene­ gal in 1968 and 1969 performing French gov­ ernm ent aid service to underdeveloped coun­ tries. In 1975 he was again on a cham pionship team playing for the Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht and winning the Belgian R ugby Cham­ pionship.

Since 1987 he has served on the W PI C hem i­ cal Engineering Advisory Committee.

Tarek M.A. Shaw af was one o f the first students from Saudi Arabia sent to the United States to study engineering. He returned to Saudi A rabia from the United States with an engineering education at the precise moment when technical knowledge was a vital need in his country and filled that need.

He is considered a pioneering professional in his country. He started Saud C onsult in 1967 with three em ployees and now has a w ork force o f nearly 1,000 engineers, architects, techni­ cians, consultants and adm inistrators in Riyadh and three regional operating centers as well as a liason office in the U.S. and a design office in London. His firm undertakes projects in every aspect o f developm ent including cities, indus­ trial centers, hospitals, schools, and universities as well as highw ays, airports and com m unica­ tions systems.

S haw af has had repeated assignm ents in goodw ill and business-promotion missions abroad. He contributes about one-quarter o f his time in public service roles at home and abroad.

He has also contributed to WPI as a m em ber o f the C ivil Engineering Advisory Board, the Poly Club Advisory Com m ittee and the Presidents Advisory Council.

H enry M. Strage earned an M.B.A. from C olum bia University, worked for Union C ar­ bide and served for two years in the U.S. Army C hem ical C orps following graduation from' W PI in 1954. He later worked for Singm aster& Breyer as a consulting engineer. He joined M cK insey & Company Inc. in 1962 as a m an­ agem ent consultant and moved up the profes­ sional ladder to becom e director and senior partner.

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Strage works in London, where his projects have included a six-year effort to help restruc­ ture the governm ent o f Tanzania and the first com prehensive review and reorganization of B ritain’s National Health Service. At the global level, he has carried out assignments for a broad range of U.N. agencies, including the World Food Program.

He has used his resources to attack not only the most challenging problems of this many global clients, but also some fo the w orld’s most com plex and persistent social conundrum s: health care, urban renewal, population control, unemployment, famine and economic develop­ ment.

Strage has been involved in a variety of philanthropic endeavors. O ne he supports, the Inter-A ction Trust, provides professional ad­ vice to hundreds o f charitable organizations, often with the help and assistance o f McKinsey staff on a pro bono basis. He helped establish the Jerusalem Institute of M anagem ent and was chairm an o f Project Renewal to link deprived areas in Israel with com m unities w orldwide.

Lester Thurow, the com m encem ent speaker, is an economist by training and a w riter with a global perspective as well as one of A m erica’s m ajor educational leadei*. A m em ber o f M IT ’s

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All your questions about the Alumni Association are answered directions toward which Alumni Fund gifts are focused include financial aid, faculty and staff salaries and benefits, utility costs, library acqui­ sitions and new laboratory equipm ent. The Alumni Fund also conducts special cam paigns for m ajor reunion classes. These gifts from the classes are generally designated for a special project on cam pus. Recent gifts have supported Fuller Labs, the Bio Process Lab, and the ath­ letic field renovations.

How much is raised?

The am ount contributed by alum ni has stead­ ily increased each year, most dram atically throughout the 8 0 ’s. In 1980, the A lum ni Fund raised over $600,000, with an additional $165,000 from corporate m atching gifts. In 1988-89 A lumni Fund gifts totalled $ 1,596,687, a new record and a 36% increase from the previous year. M atching gifts from alum ni em ployers added another $410,536 for a total o f more than $2 million in alumni generated sup­ port. O f that amount ju st over $1.4 m illion was unrestricted. The balance was restricted tow ard specific projects or purposes designated by anniversary classes or individual donors.

W here does it go?

U nrestricted Alumni Fund gifts are directed toward the annual unrestricted budget o f the college and are expended in keeping with the priorities established in that budget. In 1988-89 unrestricted budget operating expenditures were directed as follows: Instruction and dept, research Staff benefits Student A id O peration and m aintenance

40.8% 10.8% 10.0% 9.7%

G eneral adm inistrative & institutional Student services O ther educational operations Public services and information Library Institute com puter center (from W P I’s A nnual Report)

operating budget. Other revenue sources cur­ rently include student tuition and fees, endow ­ m ent/investm ent income and other educational operations. M ost likely tuition would have to be increased. In another scenario, the college budget w ould have to be reduced and budgetary program cuts would most likely ensue. Some services or special opportunities accorded stu­ dents might be reduced or eliminated.

How did the senior challenge evolve?

The Senior Challenge w as conceived by the Alumni Fund Board as an opportunity to: 1) educate students about the importance of annual

8.0% 5.8% 5.8% 3.6% 3.1% 2.4%

W hat would happen if these gifts were not raised?

In one scenario the budgeted unrestricted gift incom e would need to com e from other sources in order to balance the college’s unrestricted

alumni support to WPI; 2) develop the habit of participation in the Fund by young alum ni; 3) generate increased participation and broadbased support in early alum ni years; and 4) identify and begin to cultivate young alum ni leaders for the Fund while they are still on campus. It is a program still in its infancy in that it will m ost likely take several years and several class efforts to begin to achieve these goals.

Judging from the results o f the ’88, ’89 and ’90 cam paigns, the Fund Board believes it is a program worth continuing.

Faculty Spotlight: Frank DeFalco [then], I guess, and I ’ve been away maybe three or four years during that tim e.”

He has spent time working on projects in the Middle East, and then a year in Connecticut, to finish his Ph.D. For him, the students com e first. “Teaching is number one. I do a certain amount o f research each year. You can ask m y students. I never miss a class, and we start exactly on time, and everyone know s it. I like to teach, and 1 try to give the students a decent tim e in my class. I try to give them a fair shake, and they know I d o n ’t fool around. My teaching evaluations usually end up high.” He likes to assign individual projects to the students. He is a firm believer in the project approach, and also a supporter o f the W PI plan. He has been here long enough to see the rise o f the plan, and the changeover to four seven-week term s, and this, he believes, is what separates W PI from the rest.

He also keeps him self open to the students,

by Joe P arker N ew speak S ta ff As you enter Professor Frank D eF alco’s office, you are im m ediately aw are that he is a man o f diversity. One is struck by the photo o f the Earth with the m oonscape in the foreground.

This is unusual enough, but then he points out the sm all sign siuck on the wall which says “W orcester, 240,000 m iles.” A popular figure in the Civil Engineering departm ent, Professor D eFalco is him self a W PI graduate. He received his B achelor’s in 1958, and his M aster’s degree in 1960. He went’on to be the first Teaching A ssistant in the C E department.

He then worked for W estern Electric in G reenland and Iceland for a year. Then he got two offers: one from W estern Electric, to go to the Aleutian Islands, and one from WPI to com e here and teach. “ I said, well, I ’ll com e back here for a while. I ’ve been here essentially since

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present o r former. He gets about three calls a week from form er students, whether they are just in tow n and dropping a line, or if they have a problem that they need som e practical advice or help on. “They keep in touch,” he says.

He has just finished a project with John Orr o f Electrical Engineering. Funded by the N a­ tional Science Foundation, it was an early w arn­ ing detection systdrtlfor failure of bridges. He also does his job for the city ofW orcester, as not only a m em ber, but chairm an o f the W orcester Planning Board. He takes part in hearings, and has been an official w itness in court cases re­ garding structural failures and the like.

His interests are structures and surveying.

He is teaching an advanced surveying course this term, and about two w eeks ago, som e of his own surveying equipm ent w as used by his class to measure the distances in the javelin throw at a track m eet. “The officials were using the tape for a little while, but we w ere giving them the exact distances from tw o different locations faster than they could m easure it, so they said 'F orget it, w e’ll let you do it!” ’ In his spare time, what little he has, he enjoys playing squash. He plays for the Friends o f WPI team in the M assachusetts League, and the team has won the state cham pionship twice. O ther than that he skis as often as he can, on w ater and snow, and has even done som e heliskiing, that is, when there is no lift, you are brought up to the top of the slope by the helicopter, and you m ake your own trail. He also has a picture of him self skiing w ith the M atterhorn in the background, further proving he is accom plished at his hobby.

He also enjoys photography, and takes m ost o f the pictures we see o f the W restling Team.

On top o f everything else, he is writing a com puter program for the UNIX system , the system used by the new DECstation 3 100’s in Kaven Hall. Virtually none of the softw are currently in possession is com patible, so he is translating the programs. He is w orking with some people from The University O f M iami concerning the programs.

ROTC conducts training exercise

by D ave W illis This past w eekend, from April 20 to 22, Army ROTC conducted its Spring Field T rain­ ing Exercise (FTX ), O peration D eterm ined Trooper. The exercise took place at the Fort Devens Sudbury T raining Area, near N atick Labs in Sudbury.

The FTX was designed to teach cadets about small unit patrolling and tactics such as reacting to and setting up am bushes. The w eekend was mostly for the benefit o f the juniors, helping them to prepare for their upcoming Advanced Camp this summer, but it also gave the freshmen and sophom ores experience that they will need in the near future.

D espite the rain, the FTX was a resounding success, and both sophom ores and freshm en are looking forward to next y e a r’s exercise.

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SPORTS

Baseball team in three game winning streak WPI News Release - Coach Whit G riffith ’s baseball team is currently on a three game w inning streak after dropping four straight. The Engineers beat Suffolk University 5-2 and sw ept Coast G uard 2-0 and 8-0. WPI is now 1012- 1.

Senior Dave Lanni sm acked his second hom er o f the season in a 12-2 loss at Trinity.

Against Suffolk, senior Mike Bown gained the win on the mound for W PI, striking out 10 along

the way. He is now 4-2. Lanni went three for four including two doubles. Senior Greg Allegrezza improved his record to 3-2 with a 2-0 shutout over Coast Guard. Seniore co-captain Rich Bourgeois went two for three with a triple and one RBI. In the second game Brian Powers went the distance and im proved his record to I 2-1. Bourgeois went two for four with a double and scored one run. Senior Tim Jung was also two for four with a double and one RBI.

Men’s track team clinches another winning season W P I’s m en ’s track team clinched another winning season when they finished third on Saturday. The final score was Tufts 66 , Coast G uard 60 1/2, WPI 52 1/2 and Trinity 23.

W inners for WPI were: Brian Hanlon in the ham m er at 156-7; David Berthieaume in the

3,000 steeplechase in a tim e of 9:33.4 which is a new school record: Brian Daly in the long jum p at 21-5 1/4; Scott O ’C onnell with a time o f 15.42 in the high hurdles and Mike Thibert in the shot put with a throw o f 47-2.

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G abis collected another hit against Anna Maria as did sophomore Donna Roesing, freshman Nickic Hunter, and freshm an Donna U nder­ wood.

Golf team finishes 9th out of 18 at Mass Open WPI News Release - The 5-5 m en's golf team ju st finished one tournament and are o ff to another. The team recently com peted in the M assachusetts Open where the team shot a 345

for ninth place overall o f 18 teams competing.

Lowell won the tournament by shooting a 316.

Senior Kris Kasheta led the Engineers with an 84 while freshman Scott Nicol shot an 85.

Women’s track team 3-2.

Individuals turn in great performances WPI News Release - Coach Brian S avilonis’ track team got back into action by hosting the WPI W om en's Relay last week with Mt. Hol­ yoke. And on Saturday WPI hosted Coast G uard, Trinity and Tufts. The final score was Tufts 110, WPI 46, Trinity 20 and Coast Guard 9.

Despite losing all the relays, WPI did have some fine individual performances. Freshman Naomi C arnegie set a new school record at 15-

10 in the long jump. Sophom ore Laura Paciorek qualified for the New Englands with a throw o f 96-10 in the discus. Sophom ore Dianna Fur­ long placed first in the javelin with a throw o f 108-2.

W inners for WPI on Saturday were: senior Kris Gatley with a throw o f 106-4 in the javelin and sophomore Kristin Conley in the triple jum p at 31-10.

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Tuesday May 1,1990

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Dead Men shine in their last performance

by Shawn Zim merm an an d Troy Nielsen N ewspeak S ta ff On Saturday, April 28, 1990 Amnesty Inter­ national featured 3 various and sundry bands in G om pei’s Place. The bands were, in order, Displindapotheosis, Fields Erikson, and Dead Men on Holiday. To be frank, this article will heavily favor the Dead Men when it com es to concert coverage. This is because it was the D ead’s swan song. Personally, I ’m going through the first stage— denial. “No, it couldn’t h av e h a p p e n e d ...th e D ead w ill p la y again...they’ll go on to rock and roll stardom ...”

But alas, ’tis all a wish and a hope in the fleeting lifespan of this Dead-icated fan. Before I get carried away, let's get to the show. Shawn will now inform about the first band. I ’ll let him type it in.

W ell, I wandered in about quarter after eight, figuring, hey the signs say it’s gonna start at 8:30. That means th ey ’ll start around nine. But no! D isplindapotheosis m ust’ve laid into it about eightish, cause they were already half way through their set by the time I w an­ dered in. Disp was tw o guys with guitars and lots o ’ mellow art rock. They graced the Pub with such tunes as Leibnitz the Leprechaun, and The D olphin’s Love Song, which w as totally im provisation. Let me tell ya, that improv song was better than some bands best tunes. They only played for half an hour, though the way the crow d was grooving, they could have played a lot longer. I hope we see m ore o f these tw o in later pub shows. And Troy wi 11talk about Fields Erickson, the second band.

Actually, Shawn, I ’d like to chip in my words about Disp. The m usic was heavily laden with

effects, dipped in new age, and hung out to dry on Robert Fripp’s clothesline. The m usic was very hypnotic in an intellectual sort o f way.

Basically, if you are an intellectual m usic lis­ tener, you were set. If not, then m aybe you w ouldn’t have enjoyed them. Personally, I thought that they did a fine job.

Fields Erikson is a very “jam ” orientated band, with lots o f emphasis on Deep Purple and other sim ilar 7 0 ’s British heavy metal bands.

But they were a notch above the som etim es mundane sludge rock o f those bands. A ctually, I was pleasantly surprised at their variety o f song styles. For exam ple, they played a b u m in ’ version o f “ Highw ay Star” and then proceeded to go out to the edge with a very avant-garde heavy rock thing called “S atan’s M allard.” In general, I really liked their set except for three things: the balance and overall tonal definition were nasty, som etim es the keyboardist w as too busy, and the singer screamed like an old lady.

Shawn?

Yeah, I ’ll agree with that. But I do have to add that this group had a great sax player. Like I ’ve said before any sax is good sax. But at times the whole set seem ed a bit disjointed. It may have just been the poor mix. Overall, though, the set was very hip.

And then cam e the piece de resistance, the final perform ance o f Dead Men On Holiday. It was both a sad and joyful occasion for those of us w ho’ve follow ed them the last couple o f years. Troy?

For this gig, they should’ve renam ed the band to Dead W om en on Holiday, because they were, gasp, in serious drag. Let me tell ya, it must take some big balls to do a gig dressed in drag. Not only do you look silly, but you may become disorientated in foreign garb, such as denim skirts or sun dresses. Oooh La La. A fter

we men got calm ed dow n, the music started.

The set consisted of the entire span of D M O H 's music, including the classic “ It Must Suck” (their “ hit”), “ Sunshine" (a John Denver com position), and the newest and last DMOH tune, appropriately entitled, “ New Song.”

Shawn?

These busty broads really steamed up the joint with their unique blend o f pounding punk rock and actual m usical abilities. T hey’ve come a long way from their mundane beginning as talentless slobs. T roy?

Cat got your brain, Shawn?!? W ell, the sound has evolved som ewhat from their earlier days. I was in the trenches with ‘em back in my frosh year, where they were truly raw as a daka burger. But still, the pure energy em anating from their songs m ade up for any faults. This show was no different. For, they played about an hour o f solid rock.

As far as the players go, Tom has changed the most. He likes to toy with effects to a certain extent, but he keeps the sound quite controlled.

He is always m ellow , and some of the new er songs display his laid back, alm ost m odem “ folk-rock” approach.

Bill on bass has upgraded his equipm ent to optim um levels. He possesses the ultimate rock bass setup. The Rickenbacker, Sound City, and Acoustic cab not only look cool (dude) but they really provide the band with a solid bottom end.

B ill’s song w riting efforts have rem ained sparse but strong. He has increased his aw areness for the essential bass presence in the band.

The new est m em ber, who reigned as the king of swing for one year, Dave Swist, has shown his talents on the m ike. Most people had their doubts about anyone trying to replace W ayne, but Dave kept his style intact and at the sam e

time “replaced” W ayne.

Any thoughts, Shawn?

W hat you said. But also, it was nice to see that the change in singers did not have a delete­ rious effect on the consistency of the group. The first show with D ave this year was som ewhat less than optim al, but still up to DM OH stan­ dards. Ever since then, they’ve ju st gotten tighter. And while they have im proved techni­ cally, this hasn’t decreased the lethal energy levels em itted during one of their gigs. While they have had much fewer o f these gigs this year then last, they have introduced about one new song per showing.

Last but not least is Jay. Jay, in m y mind, has been the main source for fuel for the D ead’s sound. His loud rock drumming has pushed the band to higher levels. Good going Jay. O verall, the new er songs really dem onstrate a positive musical progression from m ore hard­ core to m ore lyrical and melodic rock. It’s time for Dead Men to m ove on. I have thoroughly enjoyed all of thejjr shows. And you, Shawn?

W hat is your epitaph for the alm ighty DMOH w ho m ust now lay to rest?

W ell, I think we have to m ention the cheesy get-ups. Through the years we have seen paper suits, a rapper DM OH, Disco D ead, and of course the Dead in Drag. These have added an essential elem ent o f whimsicality to their highly charged melodies. I think it was this elem ent of not really taking them selves seriously that transform ed this truly m emorable band into one that will live forever.

Note: Dead M en On Holiday tapes are on sale for only three dollars. Cheap at twice the price! Just contact any of the m em bers to get yours.

Eagles return for Walden

W o rc e s te r P o ly t e c h n ic In s titu te

by S cott Runstrom

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C om edian S u asan Jerem y, exp ert com ed ian n e and im p erson ator.

Have you ever dreamed about seeing the Eagles in concert? M ost o f us w eren’t even teenagers when the band broke up, but alm ost everyone knows the music. My friends and I used to have a running bet going, ten bucks to the first person to find someone who liked lima beans, but not the Eagles. We never found one.

Last T uesday and W ednesday nights at the Centrum . Don Henley and “friend” played benefit concerts to save Walden W oods, the forest surrounding W alden Pond in C oncord, MA where renow ned naturalist Henry David Thoreau lived and wrote during the nineteenth century.

Thoreau has been called the father o f the Naturalist M ovem ent. For those o f you who haven’t read his w orks, Thoreau abandoned society, built a sm all shack in the C oncord “w ilderness” and lived solely on nature and his own devices for two years ( 18 4 5 -1847). Upon his return Thoreau published “W alden,” an account o f his life in the woods, which w ent on to be acclaim ed as one of the great literary works o f the century.

Now, developers are trying to build about twenty luxury condos in T horeau’s woods, along with a few “ low incom e” units which they believe justify the intrusion.

Groups such as “The Thoreau Society” and the “W alden W oods Project” are fighting this developm ent in an attem pt to preserve the area.

Several I.Q.P. groups from W .P.I., with the help o f professors Wesley Mott and Kent

Ljungquist o f the H umanities departm ent, have spearheaded this effort to prevent develop­ m ents. The concerts raised money for the cause.

O pening up the benefit was the active conservationalist/perform er from Key W est, Flor­ ida, Jim m y Buffet. He opened up w ith “Stars on the W ater” before going into an electrifying version of Van M orrison’s “Brown Eyed G irl” and bringing the sell out crowd to its feet with “ M argaritaville.” Bonnie Raitt was up next, entertaining the crow d with “A T hing Called Love” before yielding the stage to Don Henley who cranked out an array of som e o f his best m usic including, “ Boys o f Sum m er,” “Sunset G rille” and “The End of the Innocence.” He brought out Glenn Frey for a kick-ass version of “ Sm ugglers Blues” before bassist T im Schmit joined them for a m ini Eagles reunion. The trio cranked out an assortm ent of Eagles tunes as if they had never been away. Bringing the loudest applause for “Take it Easy” and a three guitar jam version o f “H otel C alifornia.” The Eagles then went on to play five encores, bringing out the whole cast for “ H eartache T onight,” before culm inating in a draw n out version o f “ D esper­ ado.”

All in all the perform ance was truly spec­ tacular. The crowd w as left stunned by the three and a half hour production of som e o f the best m usic ever written. The Eagles w ere back, and more than one dream had been fulfilled.

If you wish to express concern over the developm ent o f W alden, write to Mr. Philip DeN orm andie, C .O . DeNorm andie Research, 12 M arshall st. Boston, M A 02108.D

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Few people consider AIDS to be epidemic

by Wilpen G orr an d A ndrew Golub Special to The Tartan (C arnegie-M ellon University) Despite considerable publicity in the mass media, few people consider the AIDS epidem ic to be o f im mediate and personal concern. And yet, teenagers, young adults, and others are increasingly at risk o f being infected. Given the deadly nature o f the disease — over 70,000 people have already died from AIDS in this country — it is important to ask why it still appears so remote.

First, human im munodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a particularly insidious disease. It can remain in the body with no outward sym p­ toms for roughly 10 years on the average before converting to full-blown AIDS. It is unlikely, therefore, that many AIDS cases will appear in high school or university student populations.

Even when HIV infection occurs in teenagers, AIDS will likely not appear until the mid to late twenties. So university students have no out­ ward signs o f the epidemic.

During the long latent period before conver­ sion, an infected person ig n unsuspectingly transm it the virus to others through vaginal, anal, or oral sex; by sharing intravenous needles; and through contact with infected blood, either by transfusion or through an open lesion (sore). At this time there is no cure. Death follows on the average a little over two years after the onset of AIDS. M easures to prevent HIV transm ission include chastity, m onoga­ m ous relations, condoms, rigorous tests o f blood donations, special precautions for health w orkers— anything that will disconnect a per­ son from the pathways o f transmission.

Second, AIDS is seen as a disease o f the male gay population and intravenous drug users, two groups initially infected w idely with the disease in this country. But there are many “bridges” from individuals engaged in these risky behav­ iors to the general population; for example, bisexual m en, athletes w ho share needles for steroid injections, intravenous drug users who share needles, crack cocaine users (because o f their association with intravenous drug users and crack’s sexual arousal effects), runaways who have been prostitutes/drug-users and are now back in the general population, etc.

An ongoing study o f blood sam ples from hospital patients being conducted by the C en­ ters for D isease Control found tw o to three percent of 21 -year olds in high risk areas like New York City and M iami are already infected. “ AIDS south” refers to AIDS in the southern hem isphere, where the HIV is thought to have originated. T here it is primarily a heterosexually transm itted disease, likely because o f pro­ m iscuous behavior, unprotected sexual inter­ course, and open lesions caused by other sexu­ ally-transm itted diseases. Analogous but less intense conditions exist in this country for teen­ agers and young adults. One research center reports that each year one out o f six teenagers contracts a sexually-transm itted disease; fur­ thermore, one out o f six sexually active high school girls has had at least four different part­ ners. A m ajor 1988 study o f college students clearly dem onstrated the health risks that many older adolescents were taking. O f the 899

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Lastly, publicity has focused on numbers infected now and in the future, but most people have little idea o f the geographic extent o f the epidem ic. In brief, there have been no maps published to bring the epidem ic literally home to people, to help them understand that the HIV m ay be very close at hand. Today, 97 percent o f the counties in the United States have people infected with HIV. The map sequence for Pennsylvania, accom panying this letter, was produced by Professor Peter Gould, o f the D epartm ent o f Geography at Penn State, by interpolating contour lines from cum ulative cases-per-county data. By the end o f 1988 the state had 2401 reported AIDS cases with 230 in A llegheny County and 1285 in Philadelphia C ounty. H owever, the number o f HIV-infected persons is much higher than the num ber o f A IDS cases because o f the exponential growth rate o f HIV infection and the lengthy time for an

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Goldmeer wins 3rd place in AIAA regional paper contest On April 20-21, the United States Military A cademy at West point hosted the 1990 AIAA (A m erican Institute of Aeronautics and Astro­ nautics) Northeast Regional Student Confer­ ence. The purpose o f this conference is for students to present technical papers to their peers.

The WPI contingent was made up o f three undergraduates, one graduate student, and Prof.

George Jum per (M E). The three undergradu­ ates who attended are: Michael Barry (MEA ’90), Timothy M em brino(M E A ’90), and Dean Famiano (MEA ’91). Jeffrey G oldmeer, who is a graduate student in the ME, received third place in the graduate paper contest. Prof.

Jum per is the advisor o f W P I’s AIAA student chapter.

Michael Barry presented his IQP which was

entitled “The C om m ercialization of the E L V ’s (Expendable Launch V ehicles),” in the oral presentation competition. The purpose o f this IQP was to exam ine the national com m ercial space policy im plem ented in 1988. This IQP was completed at the W ashington D.C. Project Center. The sponsoring agency was ASM E (American Society o f M echanical Engineers).

Barry was advised by Prof. Looft and Prof.

Hayes.

Tim M em brino's presentation was entitled "Rotational Fluid Flow in M icro-gravity,” and was entered into the technical paper com peti­ tion. This presentation was based on his MQP, which is the Rotational Fluid Flow Experim ent for W PI’s second G ASCAN. The purpose of this MQP is to gain a better understanding of how micro-gravity effects fluid properties. The

GASCAN is a self-contained payload that will fly aboard the Space Shuttle. The Rotational Flow project is being advised by Prof. W illiam Durgin.

The third presentation was made by Jeffrey G oldmeer, who is a graduate student in the M e c h a n ic a l E n g in e e r in g D e p a rtm e n t.

G oldm eer’s presentation was entitled Lunar Power Distribution, and was entered in the graduate student division. This paper was a feasibility study o f three possible lunar power distribution systems. This project was com ­ pleted while G oldm eer was an intern at the NASA Lewis Research Center. This paper/ presentation was aw arded third place in its divi­ sion.

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tion is judged on the material being presented, and the presentation itself. The technical paper contest is judged in .two separate areas: the technical paper, and the oral presentation. The paper and the presentation are judged by two different sets o f judges. At the West Point conference, the judges were from Grumman, which is based on Long Island.

Next year’s northeast regional conference will be hosted by W P I's student chapter of AIAA. In addition to the technical divisions a division is being added to next y ear’s com peti­ tion: “ Social Impact o f Aerospace Technol­ ogy.” This should be a natural showcase for som e o f next y ear’s IQ P’s in the aerospace area.

Those interested in learning more about next y ear’s conference should contact Professor Jum per.

Wellness Day’s Fitness Walk/Run was a success

by Judy Soderlund

F rom left to right are D ave C ortese, B ern ad ette C arraw ay, Ellen M ad igan , and M ik e Shorr, all o f the C la ss o f 1992, w ho revived the G o a t’s H ead trad ition o f stea lin g it. See story on front page.

Students w on’t tolerate more double-digit price hikes (CPS) — Students and their parents during the 1990s may be less willing to pay the double­ digit increases many colleges imposed during the 1980s, a higher education consultant pre­ dicted in a study o f what drove schools to raise their prices during the past decade.

“Consumers were relatively price-insensi­ tive in the ’80s,” said A rthur Hauptman, who did the study for the A m erican Council on Educa­ tion and the College Board, “but it w on’t be necessarily so in the ’90s.”

Average college tuition and fees at four-year public schools rose from an average $636 per year in 1980 to $ 1,694 this year.

At private colleges, average tuition and fees in 1980 was $3,466. This year it was $8,737.

In the study, called “The College Tuition Spiral,” Hauptman found many schools drasti­ cally raised their tuition to physically improve

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They also felt pressure to increase tuition because enrollm ents had leveled off, m aking it harder for schools to “ spread their fixed costs over grow ing num bers of students,” the study found.

“I d o n ’t necessarily think it was a bad deci­ sion” to keep raising prices, H auptm an ob­ served. “Schools were faced with these needs and demands, and they figured they could raise costs.” Colleges, he added, didn’t have to meet those dem ands by increasing tuition, however.

“They chose to do it.”

All the extra spending “didn’t necessarily im prove the quality o f teaching,” he noted.

Hauptman said he d id n ’t think colleges could maintain the practice o f raising tuition faster than the general inflation rate w ithout provok­ ing som e kind o f political backlash. Yet, “it will take a grassroots expression of dissatisfaction for something to change.”

A few hints o f a developing backlash have arisen in recent weeks.

In N evada, state legislators ordered U niver­

sity o f Nevada officials, who have proposed raising tuition next year 15 percent, to keep their prices reasonable.

Sim ilarly, V irginia’s state legislature voted April 19 to withhold state money from any fouryear college that increases undergraduate tui­ tion by more than 6.5 percent or any tw o-year schools that approve m ore than a 7.5 percent increase for the 1990-91 school year.

Additionally, students at Pacific Lutheran, Arizona State, Syracuse, and Rutgers universi­ ties, and the universities o f Miami, M ichigan and M assachusetts have been active in opposing tuition hikes.

N evertheless, announcem ents of tuition in­ creases that exceed last y ear’s continued on April 20, when students at O regon’s three pub­ lic universities learned they will have to pay 9.5 percent more in 1990-91. Four-year state col­ lege students will have a 8.5 percent tuition hike.

On April 19, A lbert Berry of the Tennessee Higher Education C om m ission announced Tennessee students’ tuition would go up 8.5 percent next school year. The com m ission had raised rates 7 percent for this school year.

Parties lead to trouble at Potomac State (CPS) — Student tempers flared and rela­ tions with neighboring college towns deterio­ rated as partying students created havoc in sepa­ rate incidents at Potomac State College and Central Connecticut State University.

At Potomac State in W est Virginia, local police reported that 50 to 70 students w ent on a rampage April 19 through a city street, spurring seven com plaints within a three-hour period.

People reported loud disturbances and sev­ eral cases o f car windows being smashed. One woman told police several youths leaped onto her car and broke two windows when she stopped her vehicle at a stop sign.

However, Potom ac State President Joseph Gratto said his own investigation found that only about 15 students were involved in the

incident, in which three students, after leaving an off-cam pus party, fought among each other as they made their way back to campus. “ It’s springtim e,” G ratto said, “and these are young people.”

At Central Connecticut, nearly 200 students battled campus and local police April 3 after a group o f students was ordered to stop playing in a mud puddle on cam pus.

The ruckus occurred when cam pus police officers tried to stop students from sliding in the puddle. A crowd grew when the police parked a squad car over the puddle, and some students shouted obscenities and threw rocks and bottles.

A black student, Joseph Roach, was arrested when he and several others stood on a wall and sang “G od Bless A m erica.”

Despite the num erous activities which took place on W ednesday, April 18th, the annual 2.2 mile fitness w alk/run once again proved suc­ cessful.

Thirty-eight m em bers of the WPI com m u­ nity braved the brisk cold and wind to take part in the event. Everyone gallantly finished the course.

The top runners for the day were Bland A ddison from the H umanities department fin­ ishing with a time o f 15:23.45; Herb Beal from the Chemistry departm ent at 15:36.29; student Jose Manuel C unhaat 17:11.09; Allen Hoffman from the ME departm ent al 17:11.99; and stu­ dent Scott Kelly at 17:34.53.

The top walkers for the day were Harriet Freslo, Personnel M anager, with a time of 30:44.52; C hristine Scott from the M anagement departm ent at 30:56.12; tying Christine, cross­ ing the finish line at the same time was Kristen Sw enson, Y vonne Harris from Accounting and Business A ffairs placed fourth with a time of 35:20.15 and rounding o ff the top finishers was Judy Sullivan also from Accounting Affairs with a time o f 35:21.36.

The W ellness Days organizers wish to thank all the participants and look forward to seeing all o f you again next year.

Iowa State junks video game for being racists (CPS) — The head o f Iowa State U niver­ sity ’s student union has removed the popular video game “ Double D ragon” after several people com plained the game carries racial over­ tones.

The object o f the game is for “one or two white ‘R am bo-like’ m en to rescue a white wom an from crim inal gangs whose members are all black or persons o f color,” mem bers o f the Student Union Board wrote in a letter to cam pus leaders. The board took up the m atter after several students com plained about its content.

Union Facilities M anager Roger Ferris said he rem oved the game the first week of April because o f declining revenues, not because o f the union board’s letter.

But the student paper, the Iowa State Daily, subsequently reported that “ Double Dragon” was the fifth-best m oney-m aker out of 18 games in the union, and when Ferris took it out, reve­ nues were at their peak.

Students later charged that the arrest was racially m otivated. In an April 25 report. U ni­ versity President John Shum aker denied the arrest was racially m otivated, but admitted that both students and police acted in a “provoca­ tive” manner.

Earlier this spring, student parties at the University of O regon and Kutztown University in Pennsylvania turned into near-riots, with students resisting arrest and throwing whatever they could at police.

Past springs have been marked by sim ilar disruptions at scores of schools. Earlier in the school year, student parties got out o f hand at W estern M ichigan, Michigan State and Purdue universities, and Plym outh State College in New H am pshire, to name a few.

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Tuesday May 1,1990

EDITORIAL

Recognition ’91 example of budgeting incompetence Three years ago WPI started a new program, R ecog­ nition ’88. Led by Nancy Hunter D enney, Assistant Dean o f Students, the R ecognition program was in­ tended to bring together those students who excelled in class with those w ho excelled in extracurricular activi­ ties.

Over the past three years the program has gained popularity. It is one o f the few programs that invites students, faculty and parents together to celebrate excellen ce. Unfortunately, R ecognition ’91 may not take place.

For the past three years the Recognition program has subsisted on funding from the Provost’s O ffice, the O ffice o f the Dean o f Undergraduate Studies, the O ffice o f the V ice President o f Student Affairs, and the Dean o f Students O ffice. It does not have a budgeted source o f funding, instead each year funds must be solicited from various offices, since the Dean o f Students O ffice

alone cannot afford the $3,000 program.

This year a volume change (a request for additional funding) was submitted to fund the Recognition pro­ gram. B em ie Brown, Vice President for Student A f­ fairs, felt it w as time that the program had its own source o f funds, instead o f depending on the donations o f others. The request was denied by the budget com m ittee. Essentially, this action implied that WPI did not consider the program worth the cost.

This is shortsighted. The R ecognition program is one o f the few nice things WPI does for its students. It is a wonderful w ay that WPI says “thank you” to students and faculty. The program is worth far more than it costs, but W PI, keeping to its tendancy to put students last, can’t com e up with a m easly $ 3 0 0 0 to fund it. $3000 is relatively cheap, compared to the cost o f larger programs, which benefit students less, such as Parents’ Day.

This does not mean there will be no R ecognition ’91.

Hopefully the new Provost and new Dean o f Under­ graduate Studies will decide the program is worth spar­ ing the funds to make R ecognition ’91 a reality. But this is only a temporary solution.

WPI must make a com m itm ent to the program by granting it yearly funding. WPI can save at least $3 ,0 0 0 if it looked at those places where m oney is m ost wasted.

For exam ple, does it really take four men to run the fertilizing equipment on the quad? Is it necessary to have two guys in a truck to plow? W hy is so much paper wasted through intercampus junk mail? W hy do w e have to sign anti-hazing forms every semester?

Once should be enough. Not only does excessiv e paperwork cost a lot in supplies, it all has to be handled and filed.

Have a good summer.

LETTERS

Are teaching and research incompatible?

To the Editor: A letter appeared last week has prom pted me to express my thoughts about the subject o f teaching vs. re­ search.

I must admit I have not seriously thought about possible widespread undergraduate dissatisfaction with teaching. Whether this is actually the case or not, it remains to be proven that research and teaching are incom pat­ ible. I doubt the latter as a general principle.

I w ill assume, as is im plicit in Ms. Ingem i's letter, that a Ph.D. is a re­ searcher. M y comment is that a Ph.D. can teach. More often than not, a researcher who has difficulty commu­ nicating can become more effective after a short briefing to understand who his students are going to be. Of­ ten, the administration is at fault.

During my undergraduate yea rs at a top university in England, I w as of­ fered one o f the best structured and taught program s one can think o f in the

physical sciences. And all the instruc­ tors were eminent scientists. The use­ fulness o f a Ph.D. to the teaching p ro ­ fession is someone with a deep under­ standing o f the subtleties o f the subject.

I hope I am not putting people off by saying that at all levels o f learning students are lied to every now and then in order to simplify the subject matter.

It might actually hurt if the lie is being

communicated unknowingly.

All in all, what makes a good teacher is simply a willingness to teach plu s an understanding o f the student’s needs.

As to Ms. Ingemi's suggestion of having less Ph D ’s around, I do hope that the administration o f this univer­ sity has never ever considered this possiblity. One o f the reasons fo r

having the WPI graduate program, it seems, as referred to in the graduate catalogue, is that “...vigorously pur­ sued and rigorously assessed scholar­ ship is the lifeblood o f the institution. ” Many undergraduates probably do not realize that, despite the above words, many graduate students fe e l neglected by the school. To minimize research activities would be tantamount to

changing its status to that o f a fouryear college.

A lot more can be said about the above issues. I do hope Ms. Ingemi's note and mine w ould trigger the appro­ priate people to calm the fea rs o f all parties concerned.

L.C. Lew Yan Voon Graduate Student, PH

Student needs a real education?

T o the Editor: Kathry Ingem i’s letter in N ew ­ sp eak , April 24, 1990 needs an an­ swer.

WPI is “hung up on” P h.D ’s, be­ cause people with a Ph.D. tend to know more about subjects that, pre­ sum edly, she and other W PI students w ant to study: m athem atics, engi­ neering, humanities, etc.

One o f the failures o f American high school education is that very

often it does not teach young people how to study. C ollege and university education is not supposed to be ju st 4 more years of high school. Many high school pupils come to college and, figuratively, sit in class with open mouths and wait for a professor to spoon in “know ledge”; if it tastes sweet, the professor is a good teacher, if not s/he is a poor teacher. U nfortu­ nately getting educated is not that sim ple.

Mr. Lavers and Mr. Tiberio are

high school m athem atics teachers, and very good ones too, who are here for one year as Visiting Scholars. We leam from them and they leam from us. Their contracts have not been terminated. At the end o f the year they will return to their regular jobs. Next year there will be another visiting teacher scholar in their place.

I hope that within the next three years Ms. Ingem i becomes more truly educated; that when she has “heard”

som ething she will then know how to investigate, to analyze and make more sensible comm ents.

If this is the case, then the $20,000 a year cost (largely paid by others than she or her parents) to educate her will be money well spent.

If not, she m ight m ore profitably have gone to a trade school.

freshmen to get something other than the suger-coated version o f WPI and, a t the same time, try to p ro d current students to get more involved in cam ­ pu s life. ■ Going back a little further, N ew ­ speak brought to the surface some proposed budget cuts that would seri­ ously affect student life. We didn't ju st complain, we worked with the Student Government and convinced the Administration that funding stu­ dent life was important. We had the help o f several hundred students who show ed their support a t a meeting prom pted by the action o f Student Government and Newspeak.

Obviously you've never bothered to notice that N ew speak is an active member o f the Executive Council o f Student Government. In fact, w e’ve

been working with Student G overn­ ment to increase student!administra­ tion communication. We have repre­ sentatives at Trustee's meetings and are active members o f SAB. N ewspeak likes WPI, but we real­ ize it’s not perfect. We don’t expect perfection, but the more we work tow ard it, the better this place will be.

Although you may see this school as good enough, the vast m ajority o f the students here have a t least a fe w complaints, and they voice them to us.

This medium does cause change.

While you may not fe e l w e need change, most o f the students, faculty and administration do.

The solution to a problem may not always be explicitly set forth in an article, but it gets 2,750 people think­ ing about a solution.

Bruce M cQuarrie Professor o f Mathematics

WPI does have a good side To the Editor: O ver the past four years, I have been a faithful reader o f N ew speak.

On many occasions I have w anted to respond to articles or editorials, but, like many people, never seem ed to find the time. Now that I’m graduat­ ing, I had to sign o ff from W PI with a final response to the N ew speak staff.

I realize that this m ay shock or disturb you, but I would like to go on record as saying that I like WPI. If one were to only read the weekly articles, without going to school here, this college would seem at the bottom o f the barrel. Incom petent adm inis­ trators and faculty m em bers, apa­ thetic students, a void o f any type of social life on cam pus, and the list goes on.

Despite all these problems, how ever, N ew speak seems amazed that students take up no protests, stage no dem onstrations.

Why is this?

W ell, I know this is just one idea, but m aybe things aren ’t as bad as New­ sp eak reports. M aybe some students think that they’re getting a good edu­ cation. Maybe they actually like some o f the professors. Maybe the tuition here, high though it may be, is com pa­ rable to other technical institutions which m ust support not only the social and athletic needs o f students but also the enorm ous cost o f keeping pace with technology. Maybe, ju st maybe, students are “apathetic” because they like WPI. N ew speak has done a trem endous jo b at bringing attention to problem s on campus. H owever, they have used an inflam m atory style of attem pting to generate cam pus interest by attack­ ing specific student groups (W edge R a ts, F ra ts), W P I D e p artm en ts (C am pus Police, Plant Services) or th e a d m in is tra tio n ( P r e s id e n t Strauss). On all counts, these attacks have failed to im prove cam pus life. If you want to w rite about students hanging out in the Wedge, w hy not focus on the benefits these students would get from a new cam pus center.

Sim ilarly, rather than insulting the C am pus Police, follow Professor N orthrup’s example by stating a spe­ cific problem and proposing a solu­ tion. For every ten com plaints I have seen in N ew speak, I would be hard pressed to find even one proposed solution.

W ell, to avoid being a hypocrite, I suppose I m ust also propose a solution to my grievances. I w ould hope that next y ear’s N ew speak staff would focus not on creating cam pus contro­ versy o r on blaming adm inistrators or faculty for every problem that arises on cam pus, but on identifying areas fo r im provem ent and generating cam pus interest to bring those ideas to fruition. The campus center is a great place to start. Please, do not begin criticizing adm inistrators for failing to start construction in Septem ber o f 1990 or 1991. Instead, find out why pitfalls exist, report them to students, get input on how to overcom e these problem s, and work with student governm ent or adm inistrators to gen­ erate cam pus interest in support o f this enhancem ent to life on campus.

N ew speak has a trem endous tool at its disposal. I can only hope that the future will result in m ore positive than negative uses o f that tool. This will help to improve cam pus life and even increase student satisfaction. Who knows, maybe even the N ew speak staff may begin to like it here. Well, anything’s possible.

Don LeBlanc, ’90 MGE Editor’s Note: Mr. LeBlanc does not seem to real­ ize the difference between the opin­ ions o f N ewspeak and its columnists.

Any opinion presented in a column is the opinion o f that columnist, not necessarily that o f the editorial board. The editorial can be consid­ ered the “opinion" o f N ewspeak, but even then it may not necessarily rep­ resent the opinion o f the majority o f

the editorial board.

We have never turned down a col­ umn with a pro-W PI standpoint, but we have never received one. You have always been welcome to write to us, but since you “never seem ed to find the time,” it was never printed. We seem to fin d from half an hour to upwards o f 60 hours p e r week printing this paper. We don ’t do this ju st to mouth off, we do try to change things.

The editorial that appeared in the issue ju st before “WPI... a closer look" (April 17, 1990) was designed to give prospective freshmen an accu­ rate look a t what to expect from WPI. We were not complaining - we mainly gave advice on how to look at a col­ lege. The overall tone w as negative, however the administration found no fau lt with the editorial. We wanted

—e—Meah Editor-In-Chief Gary DelGrego

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LETTERS/COMMENTARY

Professors should set an example To the Editor: I would like to address last w eek ’s editorial “ A ttitudes and the Real W orld.” It stated that W PI does not uphold its responsibility o f creating students with “social consciences" and I agree. Could the apathy we students feel towards our social re­ sponsibility be a reflection o f the view s held by the faculty here at W PI? Last week a recycling program was instituted in A tw ater Kent in conjunc­ tion with an IQP entitled “R ecycling Feasibility at W PI.” I hope the profes­ sors will help the students prom ote social aw areness and m ake the time to participate in the project. The profes­ sors may find that disposing their paper in the large containers located throughout the building is inconven­ ient. Society’s obsession with con­

venience is a major cause of the w orld’s current waste disposal prob­ lems. It will take time and energy to change present waste disposal habits.

The sooner these changes are made the easier they will be.

Professors pride them selves on being among the brightest m em bers o f the com m unity. If they are not willing to take some actions towards reducing the am ount o f wastes hauled to landfills then who is? I ’m not

trying to say that professors have more social responsibility than other members o f the com m unity; how ­ ever, they do have a responsibility to educate students. W hat students leam is a reflection o f the exam ples profes­

Rubes (j»)

Shawn Harrington '91 ME

L o o k in g O u t fr o m B a n c r o ft T o w e r Backrubs and Freedom

by Jonathan D rum m ey Newspeak S ta ff A really short colum n this week, since it’s approaching 90 degrees Fahrenheit outside and I ’ve got an apartm ent to paint. First, a few fare­ wells: I wish all the graduates the best

of luck, w hether it be laying around the house, getting a jo b or going to grad school.

To Dean G rogan, founder o f The Plan, I wish a happy retirement. T hanks for all your work these past forty-four years. T o the Accounting O ffice, how did I get an $1800 insurance bill for a vehicle that

doesn’t exist?

Som ething to think about over the summer, as the Pentagon cuts its budget and troops and the Atomic Countdown moves back from mid­ night, is what freedom means. With Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Poland,

J o g e r ’ s V ie w End of the Fun & Games W ell, kiddies, it’s just about over.

W hat happened to this year? It’s over just as I was beginning to get into a groove. Oh well, there is alw ays next year. I suppose I will be back. I ca n ’t deprive the class of 1994 the privilege (?) o f my satire and wit (?).

I got a heartening letter two w eeks back from “A Concerned R eader” who basically said all you guys whine too much, and to some extent I agree.

Thank you Mr. or Ms. C oncerned reader. It’s nice to hear that people appreciate what you do from tim e to time instead o f just mail saying what a je r k la m . At least everyone d o esn ’t

sors set, in and out o f the classroom.

How am I supposed to prom ote social aw areness after graduation if I see that it isn’t im portant here on campus?

feel that way. My favorite line was “ You ca n ’t stop writing, you o f all people know that we need more enter­ tainment on this cam pus.” True... very true... too true.

W ell, I can do nothing now but look back on a banner year. I must admit I had fun doing this colum n, and I hope at least some o f you had fun reading it. Maybe it took you away from the w orry of that Lab, or DiffEQs, or Physics, or som ething once in a while. I can also adm it that it was som etimes a pain in the ass to come up with a new subject every week, and if from time to time I was a little boring

By Leigh Rubin

I apologize. (T his week must take the cake for boredom . W ait, it gets better, or does it?)

By far the m ost exciting time o f the year, colum n-w ise, was the W edge Rat Era, but too much has already been said about that already. I had fun with it though, maybe because just from the influx o f mail it took me away from that Lab, or Calc, or w hat­ ever for a m inute or two.

A coupla’ weeks back someone sent me a suggestion as to a colum n about recycling (or lack of it) on the campus. W ell, I haven’t forgotten you, just put the idea on a back burner for a while (about four months!). I ’m not sure if I w ant to become an inves­ tigative reporter Ala Fletch ju st yet, but maybe next year. (Spoken in a whisper: The real reason is I ran o ut of time, if you w ant me to be honest!)

Back to the year... Not bad for entertainm ent... Dana Carvey, 10,000 Maniacs, Sun Ra, The Battle. Ah! M em ories o f the war that my little colum n started then. I was suddenly a Jazz hater w ith a closed mind, and my “colum n lacked insight.”

Thanks Bill, and H appy Graduation to you and the rest o f the Dead Men, along with Hush Hush, Twelve Mile Limit, and all those o th er seniors out there. A very special Bon Voyage to four sen­ iors in particular, my brother and sis­ ters: Steve, M aureen, Chris, and well, I m ust say it, K ay. Y ou have been a source o f entertainm ent all year.

Special thanks to my big brother, for a

multitude o f stuff.

Yes, my colum n has deteriorated to cryptic m ush. It’s my colum n, I can do and say w hat I want. (This should be a fam iliar speech by now, guys!)

I should, by the way, say hello to Mom and m y other sister Andria. Hi. My family is grow ing exponentially.

I used to be an only child!

As for the infam ous Barney, who has not been m entioned of late, well, he’s still around and kicking, but that’s another story.

Bye to Bud Miller.

And finally I have to say hi to Vikki. C om e by and check out my sp ine a n y tim e.

P lease: v o cab words?!? I liked it, w hoever it was, that letter was good for a chuckle and a post on m y corkboard.

Till next year, I remain Joger, the vacationer (should I really add the Box 2700? If you guys don’t know by now you never will!)

“Be excellent to each other, and...

Party on, dudes!”

-A braham Lincoln

Hungary, Lithuania, the Soviet Union and others relaxing restrictions, the Parents Music Resource C enter ban­ ning lyrics, the controversy over the M applethorpe exhibit, and Secret Service raids on public bulletin board services, where are we going? More im portantly, where are you going to stand? Are you going to sit blindly and let our governm ent spend us into obliv­ ion? (3 trillion dollar national debt now) Are you going to stay seated while the Secret Service takes even nuts and bolts during its afformentioned raids? M eanw hile, on televi­ sion and in the press we can see m il­ lions o f people standing up to say “W e want our freedom s.” And not just once, to simply let in a new govern­ ment. But many times. For instance, in Rum ania, there are still dem onstra­ tions to protest aspects of the new governm ent.

Perhaps none of this m eans much to the American people. Perhaps the fact that interest rates on loans (like student loans) could be several per­ cent low er if the governm ent w asn’t borrowing 100 billion dollars per year d o esn ’t m atter enough to protest about it. Som etim es it’s been my experience that people are afraid of exercising their freedoms. But we d o n ’t live under totalitarian rule. But we could be, if we pick our leaders and don’t w atch them. Throughout his­ tory, there have been those with the freedom to act, but th ey ’ve abused their freedom s, and have been cast dow n. O ur case is a different one. W e m ight lose our freedom s from apathy.

G et some exercise. G ive som eone a backrub today.

Thanks to all who helped To the Editor: On behalf of the Recognition ’90 Planning C om m ittee, I ’d like to thank all o f the students who nom inated other students to receive aw ards at our recent cerem ony.

Recognition ’90 was truly a w on­ derful day o f celebration. O ver 75

students and staff and five groups received honors in front o f a crowd o f approxim ately 400.

Thank you for taking the time to nom inate your peers!

Nancy Hunter Denney Assistant Dean o f Students

O b s e r v a tio n s f r o m th e A s y lu m One for the Road!

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W ell, the last week of the term is here and things are more hectic than usual. Seniors have already gotten CDRs in (th ey ’d better have), and sum m er is rapidly approaching. I t’s a bit sad to see the people you know and like graduate, but they are m oving on

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to bigger and better things.

I ’ve heard that the job m arket this year isn’t too good. Someone told me that about 1 out o f every three senior doesn’t have a jo b yet. Is this true? I know that one of my apartm ent-m ates doesn’t, but he is an aero. I think that the aero m arket is bad due to the recent outbreak o f peace. A wise(ish) man once said, “W ar may be hell, but

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it’s good for business.” This may be true nowhere more than in the aero business. G overnm ent contracts re­ ally keeps that industry alive. If lots o f people don’t get jobs, we may see a sudden increase in grad school enroll­ m ent.

Sum m er means going away from W PI, except if you are going E-term (like me). If you are leaving, I hope you have a easier sum m er than I will.

Life at Tech, ah the joy o f it all. I d o n ’t know about you, but I am beginning to get sick o f being here. If the term d o esn’t end soon I ’m going to ex­ plode. You know, like boom!

I’m sure that by the beginning of next year, I ’ll be refreshed, and ready to go. Like I’ve got thing to be happy about now, but I’ve got too many classes to worry about. I ’ll be very glad when this term ends.

W ell, that’s about it for another year. I look at it this w ay, at least you w on’t have to listen to me complain for a few months.

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Tuesday May 1,1990

Students at 2,000 campuses participate in Earth Day

by D acia D orries (C PS) — Students at an estim ated 2,000 cam puses built displays, joined rallies, planted trees and participated in other environmental consciousness raising activities surrounding Earth Day Ar ril 22, observers reported.

At the University o f C incinnati, for exam ple, students held w eek-long Earth Day events, in­ cluding building an extinct species graveyard, displaying a model home made out of recycled products and holding a “m ud baptism .”

Students at Kirkwood Comm unity College in Iow a joined forces with area sixth-graders and colleagues from neighboring Coe, Mt. Mercy and C ornell colleges to plant trees.

Even MTV got in the act, holding a nation­ wide recycling contest at cam puses nationwide.

The winner — the U niversity o f Colorado at Boulder, w here students collected 61,000 pounds of recyclable m aterial in a week — was featured in taped segm ents shown on Music Television during its four-hour Earth Day cov­ erage.

The participation o f MTV and other busi­ nesses, however, provoked debates among cam pus activists that Earth Day was little more than a superficial, slick trick for corporations to boost their images as ecologically minded. “ Earth Day has become the Christm as o f the environm ental movement, paying homage with a consum er orgy,” said Darryl Chem ey, a m em ber o f Earth First!, a radical environmental group that found the events too comm ercial to support. “ Many people are thoroughly dis­ gusted with Earth Day.” G reenpeace International, the W ashington, D.C.-based environmental group best known for its daring work in trying to halt whaling enterprises, was also critical o f the corporate presence in the festivities.

“G reenpeace is extrem ely concerned about com panies painting them selves green,” said G reenpeace spokeswom an Lisa Milz. “ Many are taking out large ads prom oting Earth Day, but they are the ones w ho are exploiting the Earth.” “ But,” M ilz added, “G reenpeace took part in

Kent State Anniversary prompts obituaries of the student movement (C P S )— Veterans o f the May 1970 National G uard shootings o f 13 students at Kent State University m arked the 20th anniversary o f the tragedy with new books, long looks back at the era and visits, often accom panied by reporters, to the Ohio campus.

W hile a barrage o f stories reflected how much student political activism had changed since 1970 at colleges nationwide, observers and anti-w ar m ovem ent veterans argued w hether students today are more or less political than their predecessors.

The older observers generally blasted to­ d ay ’s students as self-centered and apathetic.

Students themselves tend to see the natio n ’s colleges as cauldrons o f dissent.

“On the w hole, students are much m ore ac­ tive today because there is a broader spectrum of people involved and more issues,” said Julianne M arley, president of the W ashington, D.C.based United States Student A ssociation (U SSA ). “I get a little bit weary o f the constant com parison to the ’60s.”

“Students are not active at all,” maintained Gary W eaver, an American University interna­ tional relations professor w ho wrote “The Uni­ versity in R evolution,” a book about student activism of the 1960s.

The reason, he says, is that today’s students grew up in the “me decade” o f the 70s, and are more career-m inded than students o f the past.

In a film called “Letter to the Next G enera­ tion,” which will air July 17 on public television stations, form er Kent State student Jim Klein collected a group of nonstudent observers to lam ent that students today seem to be more concerned about getting rich and looking good than in im proving the world.

Student activists them selves disagree.

“At a very young age we were labeled the ‘me generation.’ W hat a horrible thing to throw on anybody,” Marley said. “ It seem s like once the label was planted, no m atter what happens, it sticks.”

“Students are just disem pow ered,” said Jor­ dan Marsh, the leader o f an April anti-ROTC protest at the University o f W isconsin at M adi­ son that looked very much like a student-police confrontation from 20 years ago.

T here, a 10-hour sit-in by more than 200 students April 24 ended only after police forci­ bly rem oved 52 o f them from the Board of Regents office. “W henever we do get active, (adm inistrators) get upset,” M arsh added.

“T im es have changed and the issues have changed, but students are basically the sam e,” said A lan Canfora, who was shot in the wrist during the K ent State May 4 massacre. “ The student movement never died down after the 60s. It’s just that the new s media (doesn’t) ac­ curately relate student protests, so people are no longer aw are.”

U S S A ’s M arley, who tw o weeks before the Kent anniversary was at O berlin College help­ ing to assem ble a national student netw ork to protest bigger-than- expected tuition increases, concurred.

“To have students replacing campus light bulbs with fluorescent lights o r working to keep tuition down is not flashy new s,” she said.

Students, she noted, now devote them selves to issues like apartheid in South Africa, tuition hikes, cam pus race relations, the quality o f stu­ dent life, college crime, abortion, the environ­ ment, U.S. policy in El Salvador and opposing Central Intelligence Agency recruiting, to name a few.

Canfora, currently the director o f the Kent

May 4 Center, lectures at college cam puses about excessive police force, and to encourage activism. Although he believes collegians al­ ways have been politically active, he has o b ­ served an upsurge in activity during the past few years. “ It’s a backlash against the Reagan and Bush conservative policies,” he said.

Indeed, events in recent m onths suggest stu­ dents have become increasingly active. In March, for instance, more than 50 University of California at Berkeley students were arrested during a sit-in by a coalition o f groups dem and­ ing policy changes on m inority, faculty tenure and gay rights issues. On April 5. students at 76 cam puses participated in pro-choice rallies, and more than 2,000 cam puses had activities on Earth Day, April 22.

Students at Albion and Baruch colleges, at Morgan State, Syracuse and Princeton universi­ ties, as well as at the universities of Oregon, Kansas and Texas-Austin, am ong many others, have m ounted sit-ins and demonstrations in recent w eeks over a variety o f other issues.

Statistically, today’s students are more likely than any prior generation to dem onstrate against things that displease them.

The 1989 annual survey o f 200,000 college freshm en nationwide conducted by the U niver­ sity o f C alifornia at Los A ngeles and the A m eri­ can C ouncil on Education found that the propor­ tion o f students who had participated in dem on­ strations w hile in high school — 36.7 percent — was greater than the proportion o f the students surveyed in the late ’60s.

Yet w hat “little activism there is, is safe activism ,” American U niversity’s W eaver ar­ gued. “ Students can protest against Styrofoam cups and not have to miss class. W hen it comes to personal issues such as abortion, students can be very liberal. But when it com es to issues that affect other people — like racism — they are conservative,” W eaver said. “ Id o n ’tsee intense personal com m itm ent.”

“T h a t’s not true at all,” countered W iscon­ sin’s M arsh, who said his political involvement has caused his grades to suffer.

M any o f the W isconsin students who on April 18 began protesting the m ilitary’s policy o f discrim inating against hom osexuals, for exam ple, are not gay them selves.

“The level of activity d o esn ’t surprise me.

W hat does — and it pleases me — is that there are a lot o f non-gay students involved,” said Sue Hyde o f the Gay and Lesbian Task Force in W ashington, D.C. “ It’s not that there is a shortage o f political issues,” Hyde added, “it’s that students are see­ ing and understanding that their gay and lesbian colleagues are being rejected by the governm ent on the basis o f their sexual orientation. Students see that as fundamentally unfair.”

Sim ilarly, white students were prominently involved in efforts to force adm inistrators at Emory and Harvard universities to hire more minority faculty m em bers in separate dem on­ strations the third week o f April.

Black and Islamic students, in turn, were at the head o f a March Iowa State University protest o f a wave o f “hate crim es” directed against them selves as well as against Jewish and gay collegians.

“A lot o f great stuff is going on and I’m very encouraged,” Canfora said. “The student m ove­ ment will easily pass the movem ent of the ’60s in num bers and in accom plishm ents.”

Earth Day because we feel it’s extremely im por­ tant for people to celebrate the Earth.”

The group did withdraw from an April 13-14 conservation festival in New O rleans after dis­ covering that it was sponsored by Shell Oil Co. and that Chevron Oil Co. would have an exhibit.

Even students who worked to prom ote Earth Day activities conceded the celebration was marred by comm ercialism.

“The big industries have realized that the environm ent has become a big issue,” said Chris vanD aalen o f the Student Environm ental Ac­ tion C om m ittee at the University o f North C aro­ lina at Chapel Hill (UNC). “They are trying to improve their public image by taking advantage o f it. M any are cam ouflaging the truth with a lot o f rhetoric. They are making token changes to try and disguise that they really don’t give a shit.”

Exxon Corp., the com pany responsible for the w orld’s largest oil spill in which 11 million gallons o f crude oil polluted the waters sur­ rounding A laska last March, asked to be a cor­ porate sponsor. Earth Day 1990 turned down the offer.

But H ewlett-Packard, one o f C alifornia’s 10 worst em itters o f chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), an industrial chemical suspected of thinning the ozone layer above the planet, served on the Earth Day board. “ I no more want Hewlett-Packard on the Earth Day board than I'd want a Nazi on a Jewish group board,” C hem ey said.

“Earth Day is taking the environmental movem ent away from the grassroots, and allow­ ing corporations to get a green seal of approval without having to do anything but sign a paper saying th ey ’ll be nice to the Earth," Chemey maintained.

Earth Day sponsors had to sign the “Valdez Principles,” a set of 10 rules drafted by the Coalition for Environm entally Responsible Economies.

Some o f the com m ercialism was necessary, said Kris Sarri, Earth Day organizer at W ash­ ington University in St. Louis, who helped to

incorporate environm ental displays and a recy­ cling program into the university’s annual Thurtene Carnival, which drew about 100,000 people. “ It’s a big festival and draws a lot o f atten­ tion. A lthough Earth Day has its problems, (the corporate sponsors) are necessary because they will reach a lot of people that we otherwise w ouldn’t,” she said.

A dded Nancy Roca, a regional Earth Day coordinator in M endocino, C a lif, “ If you can­ not start to work with the polluters in some way. y o u ’re not going to open up the dialogue.”

John Com m ito, director o f the environ­ mental studies program at Hood College in M aryland, concurred that Earth Day did serve at least one purpose. “ It’s doing one good thing, and that is getting people aware of the problem ,” Com m ito said. “ But in terms of finding solutions. Earth Day is pretty superficial.”

Instead o f Earth Day, the country needs a “ nonviolent but thorough revolution in the way w e live our lives” in order to keep the environ­ ment from being further destroyed, Chem ey said.

He also advocates banning all non-recyclable products and fossil fuelsr* T h at’s not exactly what they did in in Rhode Island for Earth Day, where G ov., Edward D iPrete toured state parks in a W innebago while volunteers planted trees and the Rhode Island Lung A ssociation and the Environm ental Pro­ tection Agency gave free auto em issions tests.

A W innebago gets about seven miles on agallon o f gas.

“The hype (o f Earth Day) will die down, more diehard activists will develop as a result of Earth D ay,” predicted U N C ’s vanDaalen, who said SEAC now has 2,000 cam pus chapters.

“The environm ental movem ent is exploding.”

Hood C ollege’s Com m ito was less certain. “ I hope this weekend brings some awareness.

T he test will be in six months, if people are still interested. Earth Day should be every day.”

Two months later, grand jury probes St. John’s gang rape (CPS) — A New York grand jury reportedly has begun investigating a St. Jo h n ’s University student’s allegations that she was sexually as­ saulted by a num ber of other students at an offcampus house.

St. Jo h n ’s officials learned of the incident M arch 9, but waited until M arch 30 to report it to local police.

Published reports indicate that some mem ­ bers o f the university’s lacrosse team partici­ pated in the alleged assault while other team ­ mates watched.

The w om an told the Student Development O ffice — the office that oversees student activi­ ties — M arch 9 that the assault had taken place M arch 1. The university d id n ’trep o rtitto p o lice until March 30, maintaining the woman agreed to report it only after counseling sessions en­ couraged her to do so.

The sam e day the woman reported the inci­ dent to the Student D evelopment Office, the head o f that office apparently was fired, but the university claim s the two m atters were com ­ pletely unrelated.

“She did not want it reported,” St. John’s spokesm an M artin Healy said. “We have to defer to her sense o f privacy. “ In m atters like this,” H ealy continued, “if the incident occurred on cam pus, w e’d report it im m ediately.” “ We encourage a student to go to police

alw ays, but if they don’t want to we d o n ’t force them ,” said Sarah Bickel, dean of student life and developm ent at Southwest M issouri State University.

G enerally, campus health offices have a duty to let the victim decide whether to file a police report, said Dr. John Free, director o f health and counseling at Pepperdine University in C alifor­ nia.

“The distress o f the patient,” Free observed, “takes precedence over concerns o f the judicial process.”

Yet St. Johns may have left itself open to a civil suit by waiting to report the crime, sug­ gested University of Louisville (Ky.) criminal law Professor Les Abramson. If another assault occurred betw een the day the crime happened and the time it was reported to police, “the second person would have a pretty good case” against the university for failing to warn resi­ dents they might be in danger, A bramson said.

Southw est M issouri’s Bickel said her school w ould alert other students to the danger by reporting the incident to police, but withholding the victim ’s name.

But editors of the student paper, The Stan­ dard, say the university refuses to release such police reports to them. The new spaper recently filed suit in federal court to force the university to m ake campus crime inform ation public.

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U.S. weighs postal changes that could cost schools millions

by Jan et Seiberg (CPS) — Colleges w ould have to spend millions o f dollars m ore in higher postal rates, change the way they send m ail and perhaps even curtail their mailed appeals to alumni for money if the government approves two new proposals to raise the prices o f postage.

Experts predict cam pus alumni associations will be hit hard if the new rules and increases go into effect.

“The biggest impact will be on alum ni asso­ ciations,” said Carolyn Em igh o f the Non-profit Mailers Federation in W ashington, D.C. The associations, which in the past have gotten low, non-profit group postage rates, “would proba­ bly lose their non-profit status altogether” if the proposals pass.

Only mail that advertises “courses with a student-teacher relationship” would get to use non-profit postage rates, Emigh said.

Rubes

Many schools raise money by sending fun­ draising appeals and ads for campus T-shirts and m ugs to alumni.

“If we were forced to use the standard (thirdclass m ail) rate, that would increase costs," said Danielle Brown, assistant director o f the U ni­ versity o f Maryland at College P ark’s alumni program s. “ We would have to rework our budget.”

She predicted her office would have to look into raising alumni association dues and reduce the num ber o f publications it mails to cover the increased costs.

Her concern stems from a March 7 proposal

by O ffice o f M anagement and Budget D irector Richard G. Darman to stop mail that includes com m ercial advertising from going out at non­ profit third class rates.

Darman estimated that making such mail use regular third-class postage rates could bring the governm ent an additional $21 million a year in

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revenues.

In supporting the proposal. Postm aster G en­ eral Anthony M. Frank told C ongress he wants to stop “those who use these reduced rates to advertise articles, products, financial, travel and other services which have no direct relation to the mission o f the non-profit organization and w hich clearly advertise for com m ercial pur­ poses.”

Emigh predicted the measure, if adopted, would force many cam puses to cut down on mailers. “ My guess as an econom ist who has repre­ sented non-profit mails for 10 years (is that the proposal would) elim inate 50 percent o f the non-profit m ailers,” she said.

The Postal Service offers “third class” or “ bulk” mail rates to certain custom ers who send out at least 200 pieces or 50 pounds o f mail at a time, arranged and sorted to m eet the service’s

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internal handling procedures.

It also offers slightly reduced third-class rates for sort mail sent by qualified non-profit groups.

Postm aster Frank in February proposed rais­ ing postage rates for most kinds o f m ail, includ­ ing pushing the cost o f a first-class stam p to 30 cents.

Postage for mail th a t’s bigger than letter­ sized could increase by as much as 50 percent, said Bob M itchell, an econom ist w ith the Postal Service. “ )Wie are in the process o f making a very important structural change” in the way mail is priced, Mitchell said. “We are suggesting let­ ters have low er rates than nonletters. Secondly, we are proposing that rates recognize the loca­ tion of entry (into the postal system). And we are still recognizing presorted m ail.”

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CLUB CORNER A lpha Phi Omega If anyone would like to donate a necktie to the “ Ed ate his tie on stage and has no more” fund, it w ould be greately appreciated.

Hey everybody! Brian and I made a woman cry! Isn’t that wonderful?

W hy... tell me... W HY did Steve Rigatti and Cori come in together? Looking quite out of breath mind you! W H Y?? And they were late, h m m m ... , M aybe this tardiness has som ething to do with C ori’s expertise in the field of woodcarving...

LA! No, m ore jokes.

D on’t ask about the river cleanup!

K eith - nice legs!!

Hey Brian - cute knees but that dress does nothing for you.

Santa was here, therefore Shane you owe me $. 01 !

Is it over? Is it really over?!?

It is and I loved every minute of it.

Sum m er... the beach... the ocean... no more jokes.

I t’s not a normal Monday... It’s a Random Day. So Keith, how do your jeans look...

Ed, y o u ’d better cover those sexy knees or you’re going to get raped or som ething!

Som ehow , I think not.

C ongratulations pledges!!! W elcom e to the wonderful brotherhood o f APO. I dearly hope you enjoy your stay, and continue to serve as brothers. W e c ouldn’t haze you as pledges, but now that you are brothers, anything goes... We know where you live.

Sailing Club M ainly due to the lack o f m otivation, an article hasn’t been written about the Sailing C lub so this one tries to fill everyone in on w hat’s up in the club.

This fall, W PI won its first collegiate sailing regatta since the 1960’s. The regatta we won was the Donahue bowl down at Lake Quinsig.

W e beat Holy Cross, Mass and M aine M ari­ time and Stonehill College. N eedless to say, the sailors (A Division: Edward Suit, Tac Chadwick. B Division: Rob Standley, Tori “The ultim ate freshm an” Pesek w ere totally pum ped.

A fter the lake closed, a couple o f the m em bers (N ick G anzon and Edward Sutt),

ventured to Bristol Rl to frostbite Penguins. In fact this was E d ’s first and last time in a Penguin after he effectively sank the boat he borrowed. This stunt earned him the nickname “Captain U -Boat.” Nick went on to buy a Penguin and take it apart. (If you want to help him rebuild it go to the garage at 17 Elbridge St.) Nick and Ed proceded to take the St. Peters­ burg Y acht Club by storm for the Thistle M idwinters, sailing with form er O lym pic 470 sailor Dan Coughlin during spring break. We did pretty well, too. Feel free to ask Nick about the alligator he w restled (W e have pictures.)

After spring break our collegiate program started again. W e went down to Roger W il­ liams C ollege and cam e in third or fourth out of five schools. The sailors were the same as the Donahue bowl except Carl W esterlund subbed for Tori. Tac and Ed learned quickly that we were very heavy together (about 100 pounds over everyone.) R ob learned what not to do at the jib e mark in heavy air (How was the water, Rob?). The next w eekend we sailed at the U niversity of R hode Island and finished sev­ enth out o f ten schools. The A division sailors (Edw ard Sutt and Tori “Sail w icked fast, Ed.” Pesek) were plagued by inconsistency mainly due to the fact Ed co u ld n ’t get the boat o ff the line. B division sailors Nick G anzon and Mike “Call me V ictor” Janus were getting it to­ gether, having the sam e inconsistency prob­ lems, but not related to starting. The next w eekend we found ourselves at Stonehill Col­ lege where we tied for second and were dropped to third in the tie breaker. The sailors were Tori and Ed in A, and Rob and Carl in B. N eedless to say, we had a great time at all these events.

Presently the Sailing Club is trying to sell it’s three Lasers to buy tw o-person boats par­ alleling what we sail intercollegiately.

A cookout is planed for som etime this week to celebrate our year o f sailing. If y o u ’re inter­ ested, please contact Tori Pesek at 792-5512 or Nick Ganzon at 792-3425 about sailing or getting the Lasers out o f our sight.

the bus station, we were w aylaid by wandering, wicked wildmen. They dem anded dung from long dead dodo birds. Undaunted, we declined.

Stanley, a stocky soldier, happened to saunter by and stopped the sinners. Stan is now sig­ naled as the SFS savior.

At the bus station, nothing happened except the tediousness o f time trickling until the bus came. The bus took us to big, bad, burly, balk, budding, blue, barbed, bandaged, bonded New York. We caught the flight from there. On Thursday we arrived. On Thursday we left.

Wow. To make up for the endlessly exciting entourage of entertainm ent in Europe, we had a m ovie night on Saturday.

Now I must thank everyone who was re­ sponsible for why I’m here. First o f all, M eister Bill “I spoo, you spoo, we all spoo” Marrs. he provided a model that I could pervert to my own purposes. I ran against him for the position o f Secretary. Silly me. He was a popular incombatant. But thanks to the Grand Poo-B ahs’ Grand Poo-Bah, Harold M acKiernan, I was given a second chance as the SFS wanted a colum n in N ew speak. One cannot forget the rest o f the W PISFS w ho provided the proper atm osphere of silliness a young mind needs in order to fester properly. I can only hope I fulfilled my position adequately. G ood­ bye for the sum m er to you all. To the seniors: I hope what you have learned here can be put to use im proving the state o f the world. To everyone else: see you next year in this w on­ drous, W orcester wasteland o f WPI. - George Kostopoulos Final Quote (this one will leave you ponder­ ing): “ W hen a man lies he murders some part o f the world.

These are pale deaths which mean miscall their lives.

All this I cannot bear to w itness any longer.

Cannot the kingdom o f salvation take me hom e?”

- M etallica Society of W omen Engineers

Science Fiction Society W elcom e back to America weary travell­ ers! For those o f you that did not know (who w ould (hat be?) the SFS decided to go to Europe on a whim. The trip was awesom e, so I’ll brag about it. We left wonderful, witty W orcester on W ednesday. W hile walking to

S W E ’s appreciation cerem ony, that was held on April 24, recognized the following people for their outstanding contributions to the organization: Prof. M ary Hardell, Betty Shanahan. Dean o f Students Janet Richardson, Priscilla Eastman, Beth Landers, Sue Carlson,

Kim Tharp, and Det Carraway.

The new 1990-91 officers are: President: T eresa M. C ordeiro Vice President: Kim Tharp Treasurer: Valerie K schinka Corresponding Secretary: Sue Carlson SW E’s reactivation on cam pus this year, after a seven-year dorm ant period, proved to be a major success, especially since we grew from an organization with only a single m em ber to one with 56 members! Next year, SW E plans to be just as rew arding and successful for its members since we will continue to work on the foundation the past officers have made. This includes more tours and guest speakers and our continuing work with the W om en’s Issues Comm ittee and G irl Scout Badges. Some of the new activities that are in sight are: a formal­ ized job shadow ing program , a fem ale NASA astronaut as a guest speaker and social func­ tions. SW E hopes to see you at next year’s meetings!!

U ltim ate Frisbee The ultimate season seem s to have its ups and downs. A fter our good perform ance at Babson the team w ent to The Yale C up and lost all four games. The team played strong with Dante in our com m and but we just didn’t have what it takes to win the luxurious cup. The day at Yale was fun and the rain and m ud made for some interesting plays. Right Rob and Jay? Spring is in the air, the robins have returned, the grass is grow ing greener, the sun is shining stronger and a young m an ’s fancy turns to frisbee except for a certain player o f ours who had to leave Yale early so that he could make merry with other certain people and get blown away by a head gasket. W ow! It must have gotten pretty hot for a gasket to blow. I w on’t mention any nam es Sam. O ther team mates even brought their m other along to keep them dry and to blow their nose.

The team has im portant tournaments com ­ ing up for sectionals and hopefully regionals and beyond. O ur Captain Andy has returned all huffy and puffy about practices and our other Captain Steve’s little boo-boo should be all better in time for sectionals. L et’s get a good showing at sectionals and m ake it to regionals ag a in th is seaso n .

U n til th en S.I.W .B .T .H .W .P.

GREEK CORNER Alpha Chi Rho W ell, this is it: the end o f another y ear (sniff, sniff.) I trust that all the seniors passed those necessary classes. W e will really m iss all of you, so m ake sure you come back w hen you start making those big engineering salaries, (“fifty thou a year will buy a lot o f beer!”) The “Sex Under The Sun (/m ulch)” blowout with Johnny G roove was a fitting end to the year of parties. W ith three band parties on 3 weekend nights in a row, things look prom ising for next y ear’s social scene. Thanks to Swindle and The Spank M onkey for the great Senior A ppre­ ciation Dinner. T hanks also to the Garden Weasel for finally letting us put the couch out front. Reuben, we know you d id n ’t really mean to do work the other day, just d o n 't let it happen again. I d o n ’t have to write this again until Septem ber, so shut up. Have a good summer, and get some Fahrvergniigen. Y ’all com e back now, hear? MJS

Phi Sigma Sigma In these final days o f a very interesting year (to say the least), let m e wish everyone good luck on any finals. D on’t pull too many allnighters, Cathy! (W hat will becom e of your spot next year?) Congratulations to Stacey D. on her recent pinning.

T here’s not too m uch to report because we all know what an outstanding year this has been, with the highlight being the purchase o f our very own house. But d o n ’t forget about all the other special events that took place, and all the special friendships that formed.

Special T hanks to Donna, who has done an incredible jo b doing EVERYTHING! Y ou’re an awesom e baby, like art in motion! Thanks also to D eb S. and Maria K. for an interesting luncheon conversation.

I hope everyone has an excellent summer.

Rest up for an intense upcom ing year! And o f course, one final quote from Tom m y Cooper, “Last night I dream t I ate a ten pound m arsh­

m allow , and when I woke up my pillow was gone.” Have a great one, LITP.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon T hree more days until Paddy Murphy!!!

“Lock the gates o f Heaven and throw away the key, hide the Virgin Mary here com es SA E!!”

The State of V erm ont is in for one hell of a rude aw akening.

Excellent jo b to our sports teams, due to their efforts the W PI Sports C up is ours! The taste o f victory is sweet. We must give credit where credit is due though, Sigm a Pi and Fiji both put up a good race. Rum or has it that a GDI group will be organizing to go for the Sports Cup next year, w e’ll ju st see about that.

O utstanding Chapter, O utstanding Scholar­ ship, Sports Cup, what next... M oseley?

On a part(y)ing note, to the seniors o f SAE good luck after graduation, we w ouldn’t be where we are now without you, and it’s been a great experience having you guys as brothers.

G et Murphed!!

Sigma Pi W ell, sports fans, what can I say. If Poirire had put a little m ore effort into the soccer game we m ight have won the cup. But no... He had to spend all his tim e plotting to m urder Jake. It w a a close year though - good effort on every­ o n e ’s part! Next year - the cup is ours!

Orchid was fun, although it w as sad to see three fellow brothers willingly clasp the ball and chain to their legs. C ongratulations, any­ ways, going out to W ally, Nisi, and Derek. I know Knapton enjoyed him self (Rod = Intel­ lect = NO!). C lam bake was sick, and so was the party until C hasse’s friends had to ruin the fun for everybody. I guess the sign-up list is now in Jesse’s room. Shane - tell her to clip the fingernails.

G raffitti party - D w it’s hoping h e ’ll pick up som e Young C. Until next year: y o u ’re on fire!

G oodbye and good riddance to those pesky

black holes who w on’t be coming back next year. (At least city-side we w on’t have to fum igate the place every time Plerdenerd com es around.)

Tau Kappa Epsilon W elcom e Back to our last installm ent of the 1989-90 season. First Congratulations to the TK E Soccer Team, who after a great year m ade it to the Intramural Soccer finals. A large round o f applause goes out to the Team and especially coach Giordano.

I also have the pleasure o f w elcoming our new brothers this week, Partrick Brown, C hris­ topher Parks, Steven Tufts, Alexandru Vircol, and Bradley W aterson. Congratulations guys, and rem em ber the work is just beginning. Just ask som e of our Exiting Seniors. T hey’ll tell you. So now we must also say goodbye to some good friends and Great Fraters. Ken Bromfield, Pete Chapman, M att Evers, Dave G ior­ dano, Aaron Konvisser, Rick M aguire, Ken O ’Connor, J.P. Trevisani, and Dave W oodilla thanks for all your work and all the good times.

Good luck w herever you may go and we look forward to seeing and hearing from you real soon.

And now for those o f you who were living in a Cave last weekend, and m issed out, I would ju st like to tell you that the 26th Annual Sewer Party was an O U TSTA N D IN G Success!!!

Actually, The Party would not have been pos­ sible without the hard work o f Chris Haley, Rick M aguire, and Mark G risw old. One can also not forget our special Sew er Stars THE TW ILLS. T hanks to everyqpe who attended and helped out. Hey you guys want to go for the 27th next year? T hought so.

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WPI faculty awards presented at Honors Convocation WPI News Release - Three WPI professors and a graduate student were recognized for their contributions to the Institute at the annual Faculty Honors C onvocation held last week.

R etiring faculty were also honored at the con­ vocation and dinner that followed.

David S. A dam s received the WPI Board o f T rustees Award for Oustanding Teaching.

A dam s, an associate professor o f biology and biotechnology, earned his degree in physiol­ ogy from O klahom a State University, his M.S. in biophysical sciences from the University o f Houston and his Ph.D. in m olecular biology from the University o f Texas. A fter receiving his Ph.D. he spent four years as an American C a n c e r S o ciety p o std o cto ra l fellow at R ockefeller University in New York.

He began teaching at WPI in 1984. His research interests focus on the role o f small nuclear RNA molecules in the developm ent o f invertebrates. Adams was cijed for “captivat­ ing his students in the classroom , motivating

them in the laboratory, and for collaborating with them in his research.” Adams if founder and faculty advisor to the WPI chapter o f the biology honor society Phi Sigma and faculty advisor to BIO, the biology interest organiza­ tion. He is chairman o f the Institute’s C om m it­ tee on Academic O perations as well as W orc­ ester chapter president fo Sigma Xi, National Research Society. BIO has twice named him Biology Teacher o f the Year.

Honored with the WPI Board o f T rustees’ Award for O utstanding Creative Scholarship and Research were Paul W. Davis and L. Ramdas Ram-M ohan.

Davis, a professor in the m athematical sci­ ences departm ent, began teaching at WPI in 1970 following education at Rensselaer Poly­ technic Institute where he received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics. He was cited for developing im aginative tech­ niques and novel m ethods of solving prev-

T h e m e n a n d w o m e n o f th e A r m y N a tio n a l G u a r d w o u ld lik e t o g iv e y o u a n e d u c a t io n .

eiously intractable problems. His research has concentrated on applying m athematical m eth­ ods to the solution o f a diverse array of sophis­ ticated physical problems in such areas as com bustion and chm ically reacting systems.

He has collaborated with Kevin Clem ents of the electrical engineering departm ent at WPI in the analysis and developm ent o f m easure­ ment systems for electric pow er networks.

L. Ramdas Ram-M ohan, professor o f phys­ ics, cam e to WPI in 1978. He earned his undergraduate degree at Delhi University and m aster’s and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue U ni­ versity. He is nationally recognized for his creative theoretical research in several fields o f physics including elem entary particle the­ ory. solid-state and sem iconductor physics.

He has made significant contributions to the understanding of m agnetic im purities in sem i­ conductor physics. His theory o f transfer m atrices is being used by m ajor research facili­

ties in the U.S. in the analysis o f electronic properties of sem iconductor quantum struc­ tures.

Edyth Kurtzweil received the Teaching Assistant o f the Year Award for her work in the chemistry department.

Kurtzw eil is form M arlboro, Mass. and studying for her Ph.d. in chemistry. She was cited for her “technical com petence and teaching skill and her ability to com m unicate and stim ulate interest in the subject.”

Retiring faculty honored included William R. G rogan, dean o f undergraduate studies; Robert J. Hall, associate professor of m echani­ cal engineering and m anagem ent, and director o f continuing education; Charles R. heventhal, associate professor o f English; Russel H. Krackhardt, professor of electrical engineer­ ing; and Donald N. Zwiep, professor of m e­ chanical engineering and acting provost and vice president for academic affairs.

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Number o f people is limited to five. Pe­ riod o f lease is one year starting June 1, 1990 ending M ay 1, 1991. Rent is $9600 per year payable each month at a rate of $800.

For further information: phone Harry O ’D onoghue ’49 at 508-263-2285, Acton, MA. T o Dana, A xel, Ray, Ron, Vinsk and Dave: Graduation doesn’t mean you ’re not still “B astos”! ! By the way, that is fur on your tongue! - WPI Stage Band Yo! W olfgang! Spoo!

Apartments for Rent, 3 and 4 bedrooms, o ff street parking. O ff Highland Street. Call 835-2806 Thin Red Line sez: have a La-z-boy summer. Get ready in “A ” term to... follow the thin red line.

SUM M ER JOBS: The Adm issions O ffice is seeking undergraduate students for summer em ploym ent. Positions in­ clude giving tours and/or general office work. If interested, please contact Anne Harris in the A dm issions O ffice (1st floor Boynton, 831-5286).

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Apartments - Best Selection. Lowest Rents. N o fees. 2-3-4 bedrooms. Private three fam ily houses 3-5 minute walk to WPI cam pus. Gas heat, appliances, park­ ing lot. Call Jim at 799-2728 or 755-2996 or 842-6601.

D o you know anyone who could use an A T & T M O N O C H R O M E M O NITOR (M odel 3 1 3 ) and K EYBO A R D (Model 301)?? Both are in excellent condition and would seve as a back-up for an AT&T 6300 or the base for anew set-up. The set: $45. S ee Charles Heventhal, Dept, of Humanities, SL 018 or email crh@ wpi.

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Monday, April 16, 1990 3:28 am - INTRUSION ALARM: Higgins House alarm activated, O fficer responds. Officer reports exterior appears secure, entering to check interior. O fficer reports apprehending a student hiding within, student entered without authorization by means of a window. Further discipli­ nary action pending.

Saturday, April 21, 1990 4 :00 pm - TRESPASSING: O fficer reports observing subject within A lum ni Gym who in the past has been advised o f trespassing. Officer reports subject has been placed under arrest for trespass after notice.

4 :10 pm - TRESPA SSIN G/DISO RDERLY : Sergeant reports out with 2 subjects betw een Riley Hall and Daniels, O fficer assists. Sergeant reports both subjects placed under arrest for trespassing and being a disorderly person(s). Subjects transported to WPD for booking.

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Sunday, April 22, 1990 12:35 am - FRATERNITY ASSIST: Student from Zeta Psi requests officer assistance in removing disorderly subjects from premises. Sergeant and Officers respond. Officers report removing individuals, record checks conducted. Individuals returned to fraternity at approximately 1:10 am after being warned by officers. Subjects subsequently placed under arrest for Trespassing and Disorderly. Transported to W PD and booked.

4:15 am - FIGHT: Call received reporting a fight in front of the Executive House on Salisbury St. involving W PI students and non-students. Sergeant and Officers respond, W PD notified.

Sergeant reports all set at the Executive House, W PD backed off. Incident involved friends of 2 subjects arrested earlier (note 12:35 entry). Non-students had dispersed upon officers’ arri­ val, officers report speaking with students at scene.

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