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On Friday night, a crowd of about 200 was treated to the comedy of Dan Hom. Sponsored by the Special Events Committee of SocComm and Two Tewers After Hours. it was the kickoff event of the Winter Weekend.

Dan is not just your normal stand· up comedian, however, he is also a first rate ventriloquist. and the crowd left convinced of this.

His main character. Orson, is a ni nety-one year old man. and Orson had the audience rolling with his snappy comebacks and sometimes rude (and lewd) behavior towards the crowd, especially one spectator named Amy. He played off of her and the audience very well. Orson used to be a singer in his heyday we were told, and he was conned into singing a song for us. He dedicated it to Amy, and

from the mike and crooned to Amy. but of course, h1s voice level dropped 10 almost nothing. and he kept moving back and forth raising and lowering the volume as he went. Hom proved right here beyond any doubt that he had superior control of his vocal chord .

But is not just the dialogue that makes Orson come to life. it is also the control that Hom exerts over the puppets. This is made possible by means of two rods connected to the hands of the puppets (al Ia Jim Henson's Muppets). This allows him total control over all aspects of the puppets movementS. This produces movementS that are almost lifelike, and then the characterization is complete.

Orson and the others come alive. no longer being just puppets. but separate, seemingly living people. The overall effect is incredible.

· brought Amy up on stage, and had a joke contest Amy was contestant number three. Contestant number one was a very extra-terrestrial looking puppet named EP (extra-puppet) and contestant number two was a rather stuffy looking lady named Polly Esther. After their jokes bombed, Hom hooked rods up to Amy and transformed her into a puppet of sons. He then worked it so she would move her mouth in sync with his actions, producing a hilarious effect. and a good joke. thu11 proclaiming Amy the win· ner.

Although at times somewhat risque. the whole net was a sma.~hing success. and I think everyone walked away satisfied at a time well-spent Dan Hom has been performing professionally for about twelve years now. He '> tarted out in the usual manner, working open mikes and

and performing for a children's show in Arizona (where he was raised) in 1981. and while still pursuing a night club act worked on the show until 1987, when he left to pursue his act full time.

He has built all of his puppets himself. except for "Fluffy" the dog which is a small part of his act. When I asked him where Orson came from he replied that he was the synthesis of four different parts. Orson is 1/4 Dan 'h grandfather. 1/4 Aunt Toots. his grandfather's sister, l/4 Uncle Lonny, and the remaining 1/4 is pure imagination.

He says that the ideas for his puppets come from all different ways. He may come up with a bit and build the puppet to suit the bit. or come up with a puppet and build a personality to go along. He is also continually evolving

includes a girl from the audience to play off of is only about nine months old. and he says every time he performs. he pushes a linle further. seeing just how far he can go.

Dan, when not working comedy shows and colleges, now lives in Cali· fomia. waiting 10 make the "Big Time". We can only foresee the day when ''Dan Hom" is a household name and the toy companies are mass producing ''Orson" dolls.

The night was a rousing success for performer and audience, and Dan Hom was even called back for an encore. something which rarely happens at a comedy show around here.

The rapport here (which Dan gave u~ a lesson about at the Sllltt of his show) was definitely working. We hope to see Mr. Hom back at this campus in the near future.

The Student Newspaper of Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Volume 19, Number 5

Tuesday, February 12, 1991

Big changes for student government

by Troy Nielsen Associate EdiJor Recently a large number of changes have been proposed for the reorganization of the WPl student government. These changes will be renected in the student government constitution that will be printed in Newspeak next week. At that point, the constnuuon should lx; revle..,et.l by the student body. Subsequent vot· ing on the proposed constitution by

the student body will take place shortly thereafter.

The present student government has been praised for its effom. but the government itself dec1ded that they were not properly meeting the needs of the student body. Some of the inadequacies were caused by student government representatives coming from !>pecial interest groups and thererof'l_ not trul) rc.pt<!~,;ntintt a cro s section of Lhe student body.

What follows are a '\Cries of highlights

from the proposed changes.

The Student Government As~ocia· uon (SGA) w1ll be comprised of the Executive Branch and Senators.

There are 5 members of the Executive Branch: President. Vice Pre.,ident, Corresponding Secretary. Recording Secretary. and Treasurer. The number of the Senators shall be 30 and elections of the Senators will be basct.l on thl! .tuu~nt 's place •Jf residl'flll!. Of the 30, 13 Senator!> will be elected from studenL~ residing ON campuc;,

Housing lottery to begin Office of Housing and Residential Life The Office of Housing and Residential L1fe will be kicking off the annual Housing Louery for the 199192 academic year. Any full-time undergraduate student enrolled nt the college is eligible 10 enter. Students can pick up an application with in· ~tructions from their Resident Advisor or from the Office of Housing and Residential Life. Applications are due February 28. 199 • in the Office of Housing and Residential Life. The louery will be held on March 25 and 26 in the Lower Wedge.

Among the many advantages of living on campuo; are the convenience of locauon and the lifelong friend· ships that arc ch:veloped with fello" rel-idents. Resident Advbors. who

live in the residence halls. organi1.e activities and progmms that a~sist students in developing an awareness of themselves and others. Many students who live off cnmpu~ find a void 10 those areas.

WPI offers a variety of hving op· tions for students. Suite living is available in Founders, an all upper· class residence hall; two to seven person apartments are obtainable in the Ellsworth/Fuller complex: several small houses provide students with a bit more privacy: and corridor style living is available in larger residence halls.

Another living option for <>tudents ib World House which i!> a special interest house that focuses on global/ intematjonal issue~. A ~cparole applicauon h required for World House ood can be picked up in the Student

Life Office.

Last year, the Office of Hou~mg and Residential Life received approximately 730 lottery applicauun for almost 600 actual spaces. Those who do not receive housing through the lottery arc encouraged to place their name on the housing wait list.

Last year, all students on the wait list did receive an offer for housing some· time between April and August If students have any questions about the housing louery. the Office or Housing and Residential life would be happy to address them. The office will be holding two louery information o;ess•ons on Wednesday. Febru· ary 13 and on Monday. February 18.

Both sessions w1lltake place m Morgan A at 4:30. Freshman 111 particular are encouraged 10 come and ask questions.

14 will be elected from OFF campu_~ <,tudents, and 3 will be elected from eilhcr location. With this system, one Senator will repre~ent every 100 student~ for the on/off campus positions.

Out of the 30 Senators, 27 (representing the exclusive on or off campus positions) will be elected m A-Term and will take office at the beginning of B-Tem1. However, the.- 3 At-Large po,uiono; and the 5 Excc:uuve Brand• positiOn!> will be voted on in C-Tcrm and will take office in D-Term.

The other mt~;or change that i!> bemg propo~cd is that SAB (Student Activiues Board) will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the Student Government. In fact. the SAB will no longer exist. All of the SAB functions will be handled by the SGA Treasurer.

Thus. the power ha.<; been de-central ized in that a larger number of students (1he Senators and Group Repre· sentative!.) will be drawmg up the budgets, making the decisions, and presenting the proposals for the groups. These budgets, proposals. and decisions will be voted on by the entire SGA. All of the SAB-funded

groups will be split into categoric.~ of '>imilar interests (club ) pOrt!>, music, campus service groups, etc.). Th•s new coherent grouping will allow for a more sensible di.,tribution of the budget money.

The Treasurer structure will be as follows: the Execuuve Branch will have one Treasurer who is in charge ol 7 Assistant Treasurers that over;ee the budget!> in their spec10l intcrc~t categories. For example, the international students group would have an U!osistant treasurer reporting 10 the Execuuve Branch treasurer. Under each a~sistant treasurer. there will be from 4 to 8 representatives from the mdividual groups. The representatives and the assistant treasurer comprise the group that makes the category's budget proposal'>. These budgets are then voted on by the Senators.

In the February 19th issue of Newspeak, the new proposed student government constitution will be printed so that each student can sort out the many new changes for himself. A vote of the student body will reject or accept the new constitution.

Financial aid awareness for 1991 by lAura B. P11r11lyan A' mentioned prevlOU\Iy in Ne\\· the financ1al tud application prcx:ebs requ1rC\ thauhe followmg items must be liled accordin~ to the deadline.~ mentioned in the :lpphc:all(1n packet: the 1991 -92 College Scholarship Servtce ~pea k .

Finunc1al A1d Form: the WPI Financ.ul Aid Application -U ppercta~\(grecn folder): and cop1c., of !loth your parent"' and your 1990 IRS ta:'< rl!tum,, Applicant<> mtcreMed in only n Swf· ford/Guaranteed Student Lo;m mu't ubo submit the Jl}qJ -92 CSS FAF 10 Princeton. NJ. a' well as the WPI folder appli·

Valentine's greeting from STAAR Students Teaching AIDS Awareness and Responsibility (STAARl would like to wish everyone a happy Valentine's Day. In celebmtion of thl'l day. STAAR w1ll be sending a candy heart to everyone'!. mailbox.

We will also be sending an American College Health A~MJCiation pamphlet wuh information regarding the tran~­ mis<;ion and prevention of \exually tran!>miucd di'>cases CSTD'S). We feel that the information therem i' important for everyone to know. regardless or whether or not you are sexually active. Kno"ledge of HIV/ AIDS •~ e11pecially 1mportan1. a1> current Matistics indicate that I in 500

college ~tuden 111 are HIV po~itive.

STAAR would also like to extend a message to all those who mlght be 'exually active: PLEASE LOVE CAREFULLY! Lovmg carefully mean~ bein_g aware of the rcspcmsibilitics that 'lexual acuvity entails.

Pan of thi~ re:.pon!.ibility implie:. having o basic knowledge of sexually tran~miued dhease~ and their prevention, 110 you can make infonned decisu>n~ about your activity So remember, you can choose not to be sexually ac.tive. If you cho()~C to be sexually active. LOVE CAREFULLY!

cation to the FAO. a\ mentioned above.

If mtcndmg !:.-term '91 at lc3~t hitllumc. you may ~ubmn a Stafford/GSL appllcauon by M:trch I. I991.

If you participmcd m the CO-OP program dunng Full '9(1, you mu) exclude your CO-OP camn1g~ when filhng_ out the 1991 -92 CSS FAF. If you are currently partic•patmg m the CO-OP program. then you may e'<clude your proJected eammgs from the CO-OP pro g_ram Y..hen estimating the 1991 income.

Therefore. you must mclude your CO·OP e::tm1ngs nnly on your IRS tax rc1um. Th1s cxclu~•nn from 1he CSS FAF I!> allowed becau~e the CO-OP e,lmln!l' are con•1dered nc.:d-baM~d a''i~­ tance. a.; are College Worl.. Study cammgs.

Currem financial ;ud recif)ICnh in the Classes '92. '93. and '94 who h;~ve been enrolled \incc Tem1 A '9() w1ll recc•vc notilicauon lrom the Hnunc.al Aid 01· lice by the fir.t Y..CCI.. of Jul)'.

Plca~c conlact the hnuncHII A1d Of lie!! 1n the IO\\ cr level ol Boynton or at t>.xten_\lon 5469 for any quc~uons you may have.

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Tuesday February 12, 1991

WORLD NEWS The Gulf War An Iraqi Scud missile fired from westem Iraq hit central lsroel late Saturday night. Over I50 houses were damaged, and 26 people were inj ured in the attack, although no one was killed. According to an lsrJeli defense spokesman, the Scud was intercepted by a Patriot anti-missile miSsile. The Israeli government ~>aid that the late t Scud attack, which i!. the eleventh auack and the thirtieth missile fired towards Israel. will not change their po ition on retaliation.

There was increUI>ed talk of a ground war last week, as both proponents and opponents of Operation Desert Storm said that a ground offensive would be necessary to get lroql troops out of Kuwait. However, US oflicials seem to be hesitant to ltlnrt a ground war. becau.<;e it would mean that there would be a large number of US casualties.

Defense Secretary Richard Cheney and General Colin Powell went to Saudi Arabia to visit US troop~ and to tall.. to Saudi diplomats.

Saddam Hussein accused the United States of targeting civilian locations, and several videos of destroyed apartments were released.

However, a returning Austrian journah~t s:ud that while there were some civilian locations hit. most bombs have been hittmg miluary targeb.

Iraq accused the US of bombing a baby milk formula factory about two weeks ago, and the United Nations said that they were sending some infant formula to Iraq. The US hru. maintained that the plant was used to make biological weapons, and says the plant was surrounded with guard towers and barbed wire.

US-Jordanian ties began to cool, as King Hussein of Jordan accused the US and the coalition of targetmg Civilian sites and trying to dewoy Iraq.

Jordan has a large Palestinian population. and is located between Iraq and Israel. Soem US officials were saying that Jordan's foreign aid allocation was in review.

The Saud1\ have ~hut off one of their desalinization planb on the Persian gulf because of an 011 spill. The closing was juM a precaution: no oil has entered the facility. The spill was caused by a tanker leaking oil after being bombed by conliuon forces.

The huge deliberate spill started in Kuwait is about40 miles off the Saudi coast.

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A mortar exploded in London, outside of 10 Downing Street. the Prime MiniMer~ re!>idence. Bntish officials say that the Irish Republican Army was rc~pon~iblc for the bombing. which broke several windows but injured no one.

Gorbachev urged Soviet vote~ to vote for a strong Soviet Union in the March 17 referendum. However.

Lithuania sa1d 11 wa!> gomg to have a non binding referendum on Sunday.

February I0. although Gorbachev has said that the Lithuaman referendum is illegal. The Un11ed Statel> said that medical supplie!> would be sent to Lithuania. In the Ru'>~ian Republic, the legislature pn!>sed a law that said the republic could elect their own president. The ~eat will probably go to Boris Yeltsin. head of the legislature.

Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria threatened to withdraw from military maneuvers in the Warsaw Pact unless there is summit do d1M:us~ the future of the Pact by the end of the month.

Germany's minister of Labor announced that there were going to be tough times ahead. In January. there were 2.6 million Germans that were unemployed or very underemployed, because of the closing of inerricient state run cntcrpnses.

Winnie Mandela, w1fe of Nelson Mandela, was put on tnal for the kidnapping and assault of four black youths. in 1988. Wmnie Mandela ha~ denied the atlegauons.

On Friday mght, South African police arrested over 11 ,000 people in "Operation Thunderbolt."

Most

people were arrested for weapons trafficking.

National News Lamar Alexander. the nominee for Education Secreta ry, told a Senate committee that he would not enforce the adminbtrauon's policy of minority scholarship!>, saying it had sent the "wrong '>ignal." La 1 year, an underJ>ecretary of education had ruled that scholarsh1ps can not be given solely on the basis of race. The White House later sa1d that scholarships with public money can not be, but scholarships with private money can be. The connict started after the Fiesta Bowl wanted to give minority scholarships to the teams that played in its college championship game in Phoenix. The reibon for doing this wru. to counter the fact that there was no official hohday for Martin Luther King's bmhday m Ari7ona.

President Bush '>igned a bill that allow!> Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange, a defoliant. to rece1ve specinl benefits.

The Magellan space craft has some dust on the mirrors and lenses, which is causing it to overheat. However.

NASA officials ~ay that it should be able to map 95% or more of Venus. financial and Business News Stoc~s rallied throughout the week, and the Dow Jones average closed at 2830. up 100 points for the week, although it is still fairly far from its all time high of 2999.75, set last July. l11e market ha:. been doing well since Operation Desert Storm began. but there are other factors as well. Bank stocks did very well early in the wee(.. as invel>tO~ anticipated that an easmg in regulations would allow them to make higher profits.

However, ncar the end of the "cck. the FDIC had propo'ied that the in~ur足 ance premaums would be raised to help keep the FDIC out of debt.

While stocks and bonds went up, the dollar plummeted, an is at an all

time low again!>~ the German Mark.

German interest rates have been rismg, and US rates falling. which is the principal reason for the fall of the dollar.

General Motors cut its dividend 47%. a 1.ignal that the company thinks the recession will last a long time.

Chry~ler's bonds were downgraded to junk \latus. and GMs and Ford's bond' were al\o downgraded, but not all the way to the junk levels. ''Junk" i~ a term to used to describe bond~ that have a low rating, meaning that there ir. a greater ri~k of default.

Bush. on the other hand, does not think that the recession will last long - he told a group of New York busi-

ne,~men that the reces!>10n w11l be mild and brief.

President Bush propo~>ed a new budget of$ I.446 trillion for I992, an increase in spending of 2.6%. There would be many taxes on invc~tors a commodity tax and higher fees for i~suing stocks and other securities.

America West airl ine~ \larted a price war among the various airlines, and some prices were cut 50%.

A dozen banks. mcludmg two banks from New England. have expre~~d a desire to buy pans of the failed Bank of New England. Due to liS size. the Bank will probably be sold off in pans. compiled by George M . Regnery

NEWS

Attention entrepreneurs

by Mike Ryan

Aspiring entrepreneurs at WPI. I regret to inform you that you mas<,ed the inaugural meeting of the WPI Venture Forum. The meeting took place on Wednesday, January 23 at 7:00 pm in Salisbury labs.

The topic~ discussed were an introduction to the Forum and "Launching and financing a new business in a recession."

Dr. William Gasko. chairman of the venture forum, ~>poke of the organization's hope to foster and strengthen technological entrepreneurship in the Worcester area.

This was followed by Robert Foster who spoke of launching a new busines~. raising capital in a recession and expansion under tough economic condition11. Foster is a co-founder of Commonwealth Bio-Ventures, a thn vmg bio-tech company in the immediate Worcester area.

Kmmcutt Hall was fitted with area entrepreneur.. and business people.

There was a chance for anender~ to ibk questions and begin networking.

Many of these people seemed eager to explore possible outside project ideas involving student MQPs and IQPs. At the conclusion of the meeting

PUB COMMITTEE PRESENTS:

PHYSICAL GRAFFITTI Saturday March 23rd 8:30 PM in Alden Hall (also)

0 POSITIVE Saturday April 6th 8:30 PM in Gompei's Pub

people were actively trading business cardo; and began nctworkang wllh each other. As far as the WPI student community, if you have mnovative ideas and did not attend, you missed a great opportu nity.

The next open meeting i~> 7:00 pm, Thursday, March 7. The keynote speaker for the evening will be Peter Dumas, Director of entrepreneurial services at Ernst & Young. The topic is an overview of services available to the technology entrepreneur in the New Engltmd area.

Just a reminder, the deadline for the Grant Entrepreneurial Scholaro;hips is February I5.

For more information contact: Mike Ryan-Box 729.

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Tuesday February 12, 1991

NEWS

Graduate I Undergraduate forum held

by Ajay Khanna Newspeak Staff At 4:30pm on Thursday. February 7. about fifty members of the WPI community, mainly faculty and administration, came together in Newell Hall to discuss how the graduate and undergraduate programs at WPI affect each other. This forum was put to· gether and moderated by Professors Enio Velazco and Peter Levin, as part of their work in the Commiuee for Intellectual and Community Cultures at WPI, in preparation for a report to obtain further accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Mr. Diran Apelian, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Mr. Frank Lutz, Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Mr. Jeffrey Bloom, President of the Graduate Student Organization, and Mr. Brian Gosselin, Presjdent of the (Undergraduate) Student Government, were invited to speak at the forum.

Mr. Diran Apelian talked about the synergism between graduate and undergraduate studies, saying that the goal of WPI is to disseminate and create know ledge, and that the question of the graduate program helping or hurting the undergraduate program at WPl

is an oxymoron. He said that the educational process at WPI occurs at both levels of study, and that research is vital to keep WPI and its professors well-recognized and at the forefront of modem tec hnology. Faculty at WPI play an important role in teaching, advising, and motivating students, and have a duty to read and write research papers, and pursue grants to maintain the environment that undergraduate and graduate students learn in. It is only if they cannot mruntain a balance between the two that they are failing their students. lfWPI education can be judged by its results, the evidence is loud and clear. WPI students are wellrecognized in industry as being extremely well-prepared for their tasks, and many fac ulty win awards and are recognized at other institutions.

Mr. Frank Lutz said that he was involved in the Institute Planning Process. and felt that the trick lies in finding a balance between research and education, which is a "fixed enthy that changes constantly." The graduate program is well-suited to the educational objectives of WPI, and has been a positive contribution to MQPs, which are often solutions to real-world problems engineers have to deal with today. The research initiatives by the

faculty and graduate students prov ide unde rgraduates access to major facili ties that they would not otherwise have access to. Projects like the Advanced Space Design Program, which extends across a number of departments. and has provided MQPs and IQPs for over a hundred WPI students, would not be able to exist without the work of many graduate students and faculty . Teach· ing Assistants provide a high proportion ofWPI undergraduates with more access to knowledgable people to get help for a course.

Jeffrey Bloom then spoke about the reaction of the graduate students to the forum. He said that the key to education at WPI lies in the coexistence of the two programs, and that the viewpoint expressed in the title of the program makes the graduate program seem a secondary objective of WPI. Jeff said that while he was an undergrad, he felt a part of the WPI community, but when he became a graduate student, he suddenly felt left out. The Student Life Office and the Student Activities Office are for UNDERGRADUATE students. even if 1he name does not make that clear. He said that his feelings were shared by a number of graduate students, for whom the title of the forum ''Does the

Pugwash students go to Washington

by D IUine Morin

CIDss of'91 This past weekend (Jan. 3 1 - Feb. 3) a delegation of WPI students, led by

Professor John Wilkes of the Social Science and Policy Studies department, traveled to Washington D.C. to take part in the Sixth Annual Technological Literacy Conference, spon· sored by the National Association for Science, Technology, and Society (NASTS). The trip, made possible through the efforts and funding of Student Pugwash, marks the third tjme that WPI has had the chance to participate in this prestigious event. Michelle Burke, Darcy Simpkins. Gunnar Kleven, Burt LaChance, Rick Rogan, and Kei th McCormick brought with them the results of their IQP projects. all of which had a very clear unifying theme. in order to present their findings to educators from around the country. The underlying theme of the projects chosen was the deve lopment of Society Technology (ST) curricula at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. The project teams carefully chose teachers and c lasses to work with, and used recognized measures of creativity and personality type to try and predict how well a fairly new concept, that of teaching the math and science using social issues, would be accepted among the different type of students. Michelle and Darcy's unit on pollution, for example, was taught not only by discussion of what constituted pollutjon, but its effects on the sur-

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rounding community as well. Burt, on the other hand, used a unit on statistics to tie in this theme as well, having his studentS predict the number of dead fish in Lake Quinsigamond instead of pulling colored marbles from a bag.

By changing the traditional s tyle of teaching, the teams hoped to increase results predictably.

Backed by a solid body of past research by Professor Wilkes in the area of measuring cognitive styles, the project teams literally shone with success after success as they showed marked increased in performance in aU of the c lasses with which they dealt. Students who had been labeled as underachievers in the past were now working on the same level as their peers.

College level students began working at the honors level. pushing the honors students to work even harder. To say the least, the reception to WPI 's findings was exceptional. To ~ay the most. we stole the show. All of the students were deluged with questions and comments during their presentations. and on a t least one occasion Keith McCormick was recognized in an audience and began to draw questions as well. Miche lle. Darcy and Rick were invited to present their find ings to ACS, the American Chemical Society, writers and publishers of ChemCom, an ST unit that was very well received

by Rick's project group. Afte r ninety minutes of question and answer from an audience filled with professional chemists. and inc luding several guests

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from the Smithsonian, Professor Wilkes commented that, " ... they were very generous with their praise." The ACS was, in fact, sufficiently impressed to request that the two project teams write articles to be included in the next ACS newsletter. On Sunday morning, most of the group had to wait for Gunnar and Professor Wilkes to finish answering questions on WPI's school-college collaborative before they could check out of the hotel. By the close of the weekend. the number of people who had requested a correspondence with WPI so that they could find out more about what was going on was absolutely outStanding.

Before the trip ever took place.

Pugwash arranged for the teams to present their results in somewhat of a practice session to one of Professor Wilkes' SS classes. This gave the students who had not presented before a chance to fine tune what they were going to say, before spcakjng before the prestigious audiences that lay before them. Jenn Greenhalgh. John Joy and Duane Morin were invited along to Washington to observe and provide moral support for their classmates, as well as visit a few choice presentations that they thought would interest them.

The g roup hopes to make this trip a precedent seucr, allowing for future students who have the possibility of presenting the ir results with a chance to see how the conference works, and even to add a little variety to their knowledge.

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Graduate Program He lp or Hurt Undergraduate Education at WPI" hit a raw nerve, and was just another eltample of the aujtude at WPI. He said that graduate students are STUDENTS, too. and Teaching Assistants take COURSES, just like everyone else. Undergraduates, and everyone else. should be more considerate of graduate students, and accept them as a part of the WPI community.

Brian Gosselin was up next. He said that the graduate program is beneficial to WPI, although there are some tensions that elCist between graduates and undergraduates. He said that graduate students are freely given keys to laboratories, while undergraduate students are not trusted in this respect.

Thus. resources and access to labs are limited for undergraduates. Often, disputes with Teaching Assistants cause undergraduates to be hostile to graduate students in general. However, he srud that he felt the program is beneficial overall, and that he feels comfortable talking to graduate students. His personal interaction ha.s helped him make decisions about his future by finding out why they made the choices they did in going to graduate school or working in industry.

They also provide other services, s uch as the grading of papers, and are usually willing to help undergraduate.~.

There are pros and cons to every situation, but the pros In this case far outweigh the cons.

Jeffrey Goldmeer, a graduate student in the ME Dept at WPI, sajd that he has seen this problem repeatedly. both as an undergraduate and a graduate student here. Thereareanumberof tensions between the undergraduates, the graduate students. the administration, and the faculty. Unfortunately,

the graduate students seem to have the worst of it. The two issues of commitment to education and balance between teaching and research are the most imponam to faculty at WPI, and the only link may be the Teaching Assistant.

Various people brought up other points during the discussion, the most significant of which may be WPI's commitment to education. The primary duty of the faculty at WPJ is to teach. However, the younger, nontenured faculty try to remain marketable, and therefore are under pressure to obtain research dollars. They are forced to put in long hours of work. and have to strike a balance between research and education. Their research is supported by graduate students. and helps to get more equipmem. and subsidize undergraduate research. Mr. Frank Lutz said that the Strategic Planning Committee has identified that undergraduate tuition makes up 73% of WPI's income, and hopes to reduce this figure to 65% in the near future.

All in all, it seems that the graduate program is vital to W'PI's educational objectives. It helps keep WPI unique and innovative, and trains future faculty for posterity. WPJ's unique undergraduate education means that the graduate stud~ts. too, have a unique experience at WPI, as they interact with undergraduates on their projects. The consensus was that the graduate and undergraduate programs could benefit from more talks to reduce the tension between the two groups.

Hopefully. the faculty. administration, graduates, and undergraduates who auended the forum will take it upon themselves to make the WPI community more unified.

"Living museums" offers IQP oppo~unities to WPI students

by Ellen Madigan As a part of the " Living Museums" IQP Program at WPI. many students are offered the chance 10 complete their IQPs at the Thoreau Lyceum.

Located in Concord, MA, the Lyceum is the headquarters of the Thoreau Society, Inc .• an international organization dedicated to furthering the recognition of the 19th-century naturalis t-ph ilosopher Hen ry David Thoreau through the consideratiOLl of his life, wri ting. and ideals. The Lyceum, which is open to the public. contains a research library, a permanent collection of memorabilia, changing exhibits, a lecture room, a bookshop, and a gift shop. Also on the grounds of the Lyceum i'l a furnished replica of the house that Thoreau built and lived in at Walden Pond.

In the past. many students have completed their IQPs at the Thoreau Lyceum. In a previous project, which was done for the Thoreau County Conservation Alliance, WPI students prepared a management plan to protect the his toric Walden Woods from commercial development.

Additional projects related to this IQP are possible. Another recent IQP updated

the famous 1906 Gleason map of "Thoreau County," drawing upon the thorough reserves of related material available at the Lyceum. This IQP included an inventory ofsites and landmarks mentioned in Thoreau's writings, and the preparation of n guidebook and new map reflecting changes in Concord between 1858 and 1906, and between 1906 and 1990. If you are interested in finding out more about IQPs available at the Thoreau Lyceum, please contact Professor Mon (SL 19 ). or Professor Ljungquist (SL I 06) as soon as possible. Next week's column will feature project opportunities at Old Sturbridge Village and Mechanics Hall.

In last week'scolumn, Vincent Van Gogh was incorrectly referred to as the military engineer and artist associated with the Higgins Armory Museum.

Actually. Leonardo da Vinci is the artist who has been the focus ofseveral research projects at the museum.

Various IQP projects are avaHable at the Armory for anyone who wi.s hes to further study his life and dual career.

Contact Professor Hayes (SL 16) or Professor Parkinson (SL 27) if interested.

Support allied troops in the Gulf as well as POW/MIAs of Vietnam

by Rob Baham '94 The Arnold Air Society of Air Force ROTC is at it again. This Tuesday. February 12. we will be in the Wedgefrom 11 :00- t :OOsellingPOW/ MlA T-shins and bracelets for those still missing. There will also be a petition for a postage stamp. These items are for the servicemen that fought in Vietnam.

The soldiers of Operation Desert Storm also need support. To help them

there will be a box for donations for care packages to be sent to Saudi Arabia. Items such as Chapstick, s mall packages of Kleenex. deodoranr. soap, shampoo, Handwipes, or moUthwash, will be gratefully a.ccepted. Money will also be accepted to pay for the postage. For more information or to make donations at other times call 79125 19 and ask for Chris. or 791 -2 107 and ask for Rob. We would appreciate the help and so would the soldiers in the gulf.

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Fighting world hunger at Heifer Project International

by MicheUe LeBlanc

Class of '92 Heifer Project International is un orguni7ation that combats world hunger through training in appropriate technology. animal husbandry. amproved farming methods. and utilization of ecological energy sources. HPJ is dedicated to assiMing poor families in rural areas domestically and abroad. and its maan featu re il> the donation of livestock to needy communities and its focus on "passing on the gift''. This means that the recipients of HPJ livestock breed their donated farm animals and pass the second generation on to the next community. so th at the benefit ex tends to an ever growing number of people. Th~ types of

animals used in thi~> program incl ude pigs, cows. goats, rabbits, ch ickens. and even bees!

The allocation of livestock is determined by the recipient community's c limate, resources. culture. and dietary needs. Heifer Project International relic'> upon livestock as a primary means of assistance for ~evera l reasons. Livestock may provade malk to undernourished children. (complete) protein from meat al> well as fur. hade. and a very valuable source of feniliur (and sometimes energy. in the ca$e of biogas). Other forms of assistance involve donating seeds, teaching rotational and zero grazing methods (which maintain the quality of the soil), teaching better management of water sources, and introducing irrigation and alternate energy forms.

In January HPJ hosted its second an nual College Symposium on world hunger at its Northeast Headquarters in Rutland, Mass.

Thineen students gathered from Massachusetts and New York, and one tudent even n ew up from Florida to attend! During o ur weekend visit we increased ou r awarenes<~ of world hunger issues and learned about the ways in which HPI is trying to help. We also exchanged ideas among ourselves about what we have done already and what we can do in the near and distant future to support this cause.

Among our activities was an interesting "survival" game where we had to scramble to the store to buy an M&M. representing our d aily food requirement, before the ring of a cow bell <~oundcd off the end of the day. If unable to eat

WPI freshman statistics recently published Statistics reveal who they really are by }tflni/t r Kavka Newspealt Stqff Sophomores, do you remember during Orientation when we took that standardized test that asked all sons of questions abou t us, our religion. our opinions. and other things? The results are published in a book called "The WPI Freshman" by James E. Groccia, &tO., director of the Counseling and Student Development Center. In 1989, 83.3% of the Freshman c lass was male and 16.7% female. 82.6% of these were e ighteen years old upon arrival

while only 2.3% were eventeen. 92.8% of the class of 1993 is White/Caucasian. which has dropped since 1973 from 97.6%. 93.3% of the typical freshman class are U.S. citizens.

90.4% speak Eng lish as their first language.

10.7% spoke a language other than English at home.

By looking at the tables in this book. one can see lhe panern of religious preference. In the past nineteen years. lhe percent of Roman Catholics stayed nearly the same at 47.9%.

The other categories are d ivided up as follows: 2 1.8% Protestant, 2.4% Jewish, 2 1.8% none.

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and 5.9% other. Six percent conside r themselves Born-Again Chrbtians while 94% do not.

A few of the questions had to do with parental income and educati on . 5 1.3% stated that their family's income was between $30.000 and $60.000. 28.9% of the fathers graduated with a college degree whale 30.7% of the mothers graduated with a college degree.

35% of the mothers graduated from h igh school as the highest level whi le 21.7% of the fathers graduated from high school as the highest level. 72.9% of the freshmen believe that their parents are "deeply concerned about thei r children." 66.4% of the students say that their parents have " high aspirations" for them.

80.8% of the students say that their parents are living with each other, 15.7% say their parents are divorced or separated. and 3.6% have at least one parent deceased.

79.2% of the typical freshman class are engineering majors: 15% aero/astro. 10% civil, 7.2% chemical, 18.2% e lectrical, 1.4% industrial, 20.1% mechanical, and 7.3% other.

3. 1 % are majoring in the biological sciences: .6% biology, I% biochemistry or biophysics. and 1.3% other. 7.9% are majoring in the physical sciences: 1.6% c hemistry, 2.6% math, 3.3% physics, and .2% statistics. 3.5% are majoring in computer science. .5% are majoring in humanities and ans..2% are majoring in social sciences. and 1.9% are undecided. Along with these table'! are lists of the highest degree of each hoped to receive at this college or at others.

There are many more categories avai lable in the book that include career plan~. past activities. objectives. political orientation, and many more.

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an M&M at the end of the day. we shrieked a painful death, donned the death sticker. and had to sit out a round before re-entering the game. Each individual began with a supply of currency (pennies), food (M&Ms), and a profit-making tool (a plastic pig). Our plastic pigs could be bought for 5 pennies/M&Ms and resold for 7. The majority of us began allequipped. resorted to begging and died several times. A lucky minority lounged on the sofas. got preference at the store a.nd never went hungry. although they continued to dole out their wealth to the many. The helplessness. frustration, and inability to save for the future was felt by the many. and the frustration of being unable to adequately help was the feeling of the few. In fact . many of us were ready to rob the store! This activi ty brought the world hunger problem to a level that we could betler understand. Another ac tivi ty involved examining photos depicting water shonages. strenuous land cultivation. erosion of soil. and extended families. Each group of three examined a photo, explained to others what the problem was. and presented a possible solution. This was a valuable brainstorming activity. In this I learned something very important: large families do not cause poverty, b ut rather poven y causes large families. The Iauer is true because this penains to rural poveny, where more people means more help. either in the field . gathering water, collecting scraps. or begging for food. Also, large families are imponant in places were there is no social security system. Children are the parents' protection and assistance in old age. Other activi ties included videos and slide shows, which focused not only on the desperate situation of the third world, but depicted also the beauty and spirit of each region's culture which should always be preserved.

On Saturday evening we gathered in a circle around our special guest. Umaru Sule. to hear a beautiful tale of his life as a member o f the Fulani. a (formerly) nomadic tribe in Cameroun. His ardent desire for an education went against his father's wishes. so he left his family at an early age and went to another village where there was a school. He knocked on doors until somebody took him In, and he was allowed to stay and have one meal a day with another boy. He returned to his tribe many years later and was welcomed back to his family. When a disaster hit, many family and tribe members were killed, as well as all their livestock. HPI visited the Fulan is and were interested in implementing a project. Because a project begins by po ing many questions about the community. the people were skeptical and unwilling. Sule, having been educated and knowing English. was a spokesman between his community and HPJ, although he was also skeptical in the beginning. He couldn't believe these people were ac tually going to donate cattle to them. so they brought ham to the nirpon to '>CC the animals for him'elf. Seeang wa\ believing, so he convinced hb people to cooperate with the visitors and the proJect wao;an\lltuted. The Fulnnis learned that they no longer needed to continue a nomadic lafe if they properly managed land and water supplie~. and they were able to build permanent hou!>ang. Because Sule was o f such exceptional character, he was presented with a scholarship to •audy in the United States. Thnt brought him to where he is now. presently a freshman at UMn<~'l Amher~t studying animal science.

Besides leamang about world hunger. we also got to experience a little bit of fann life.

Some of u~ woke at 7:00am for chores: milkang goats. feeding the horses. rabbits. heep. and goats, and collecting eggs from the chicken coop. This was quite a novelty for u "city" people! We also made cheese and soap from goat's milk. ropes out of goat hide, and enjoyed a horse-dmwn sleigh ride through the freshly fallen snow. Sule s howed us how to make Fulani Fufu, a Camerou nian meat dish prepared with ground peanuts and served on fufu (boiled cornmeal). Wendy Peskin , the HPJ director in Rutland. made a spicy Gajarati dish from roasted chickpeas. With all the discussions about world hunger. we cenainJy did not go hungry!

HPI's facilities include a community room with a library. kitchen, and overnight accomodations. A staff of full and pan-time volunteers help in the office, in the field, giving tours, and doing presentations. HPJ is also looking for ways to promote these issues across o ur campuses and in the public ed ucation system. If you would like to get involved in a world hunger awareness group or team more about Heifer ProjeCt International feel free to contact me at Box 506.

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Music Review All you ever wanted in a review... and less by ) oe Parlcer News Editor and Ray Bert AssociMe Edilor

Our special guest this week is Jennifer Kovka, our trusty Features Editor. We 'll talk with her later. Unfonunately. due to an MQP. Troy cannot be wuith us week.

We have six, count 'em, six albums to review this week after that wonderful recycled review Ia t week, so I guess we'llget this show on the road ...

Tesla "Five Man Acoustical J a m" (Geffen Records) Joe: Iam not a big fan ofTcsla.lct me get that out in the open to begm 1.\'ith. However. thi~ album !-hould be pan of everyone·~ mu\ical collection. I thml.. bi..'Cau..e it i~ really good. I have a new re~pect for Te,la. becau~e they proved to me that they are not a bunch of notuh:nh who htde behtnd po"er chords and dtstonton to ~ell album' The phl) ing on Fin· Mu11 prove' that they can piny. and pia) very well.

"Com in' Atcha Ltve" i' a real hurd rocl.cr in it's ongmallorm. but on th" album. a.' Ray pomted outJU" mmute\ ago (although 1/rocl nouced). il> more hl.c honl.y toni.. You would never I.now 11\ the \Ume '>ong (people at the show dtdn't. it !>eems) except that if you're musical you can tell that they play the ~ume chord,, Anyway. they abo do a lot of covers on thtl> album (it runs like 76 minute~ or ~o. comprhing 14 :.ongs) and they stay pre11y faithful to the original\. l lil.ed thi\, because they didn't tul.e libenics. they just played ~ongs they liked. It tum' out that th1~ album b a good rock album. good if you want 10 hear a well-played l>Ong but not really hard 'tuff.

Ray: I a m a big fan ofTel>la. unlike Joe. and have been h\lenmg tothctrtwo previous albums for about three year~. Rumor.. had flown about whether thl\ album would he lave or acou~tic and it turned out to be both. record~ at the Trocadero in Phtlly. Heanng a lot of these songs that I really lil.e (from the album~ and two concens) done acou ticully gave a refreshing new per~pccuve to many of them. Regarding their own materiai,Lhey keep:.ome very close to the origmal studio version!> (minu!. the electricity), whtle others ore radically different. As Joe mentioned, "Comin' Atcha Live·· is vinually unrecognizable from the original, a crash and bum guitar jam-fest that is a staple of their live show. Similarly, "Modem Day Cowboy" gets a complete overhaul and becomes a quiet, almost moody piece. Whether you like these new versions beller or not is not really the point, its simply giving you a new look at them. !thought the guitar work was phenomenal, paniculorly on the classical intro to "Love Song" which sinfully wa.<o cut from the single that everyone heard on the radio. Frank Hannon extends ilm this version, and it leaves you with your mouth agape. Anyway, my favorite tracks include "Paradise" and "Heaven's Trail" from Tht Grtat Radw ContrOI'trsy and "Comm' Atcha Live/Truckin ... and "Gellin • Beller" from Mullanicol Rtsononct. The two new songs included are no big deal. one being just a goof and the other a countryish original. That last track doe~ include a great cover of the Looney Tune:. theme mu.,ic. though.

All 10 all. I liked the album tremendously. with my only real complaints bemg wtth facets of the live show. The crowd noise is a lillie intru~ive at Limes. and lead singer Jeff Keith's mostly inane between-song pauer is left intact. but I think they were stri ving 10 keep the album true 10 the show.! would consider it n must-have forTesla fans. and give it an 88. As for non-fans.

I'm not one of you. so I'll leave that. and a di~cusc;ion of the covers. to ...

Joe: I think one of the reasons that I like 1he album so much is bccauc;e of the covers they do.

I would hove to a.'t:.ume that if they stuck completely with origmnl material I would have a much lower opinion about thil; album. the reason being that I don·, know Tesla 's music at all.

The covers made me li<,ten 10 the originals (whtch are very good) because I knew that a cover of a soug I knew wa.s coming up. They cover a pre11y good class of music, playing "We Can Worl. II Out", "Loc:h". "Mother'' Liule Helper". "Truckin'", and "Signs" which has been gelling heavy atrplay "Stgn!>'' was originally done by the Five Man Electncal Band (thu' 1he llllc of th1' ulbum) and tf you don't know who dtd the other one!> you should get beller Ul\le m muSJc. I agree with Ray in his rating,unR8t'>rightabout what I would say. I'm not a fan. but I Mill recommend that you go out and buy thi!> one...

Chicago "Twenty I" (Reprise Records) Joe: Thi' album on the other hand i!> really

not that great. When I think of Chicago I think of "25 or 6 to 4", or "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It I ". or even "Stay The Night". That b Chicago. Tw~nty I. however is not Chicago. but as best as I can tell, some really mellow Chicago suburb. This album is really sappy and syrupy. This i~ the kind of drivel thai keePl> those Easy Lb tening/love radio stations alive. Even the horn sectiondoesn'tdo anything really exciting. I can't really come up with anything good 10 ~ay about this album. I fear.

Maybe they need Peter Cetera back 10 breathe some life into the band (although his solo Muff is nothing to ru~h out and buy either). I will give this album a pitiable 19 out I00. On IQ our gue.'t reviewe r...

Jen: I was told to listen 10 tht-. album by Joe because a' he 'at d. "Jen would lil.e thi' one." I do have to admll that I do ll~ten to thll\C ea~y ll'temngllovc mdto ''alton' that add to Mro., Buuerwonh'' 'appinc'>' I IJ,tcncd to thl\ at bum wtlh the a1111udc- "th•' '' Chtcago. I lll.c Chtcago... I Wll'> C).JX'Ctmg the love drenched l)rtC'> 10 "tal.e me uwa) ··and put me tm u beach '>Omewhere Wllh the love or nl) lik. Boy Wa!> I ~mng Th" album hrought me to the garbage barrel ""hile I retched from the monotonou' droning of the horrcndou,ly o;appy.drippy. :O.) rupy (you get the picture) word~ Let me trcm you to u few of the ''bcller'' line\: "Ali i do " thin!. ubout you/ I never did let go of what we were/ Can't pretend I'll hve wtthout you/A~ I learn to live alone", Cgmbagc ba,l.et please) "Girl you're everything I need/ Hold on, we'll always be/ Alway' you and me'', und my personal favorite. "Smoke in the sl.y/ Slime in the seal Tall timber 1umblin' nround me". And thCl>e arc juM the lyrb. Add the same hom section from every other of their album' and the same beats (Type A •fit's a fast song, Type B if it'<; a slow '>Ong). Spcalmg of A·, and B's, on a 45 record. I couldn't find one \Ong on this album '>Ullable for \Ide A They were all \Ide B's. If you're the.ldnd ol pcr..,on who need..'> tO have background mu~ic playing whtle domg homeworil:, this album is great. If )'OU 're actually going 10 hc;tcn 10 the words and the ~ongs them!>eiVCl>. I recommend that you do your homeworl. in the hbrury. I know I'm not gtving this album much JU tice but Lhtl> ll> quite a letdown from the ''old" Chicago. Usually their songs make you want to find the nearest boyfriend or girlfriend and curl up in front of a fireplace. This album makes you want to toss it in the fireplace. Most of the songs are about breaking up, rather than gelling together. I can't say much about the music itself except that it's the same as all the other albums. I give thi!> album a negative scale on the Jennifer chan but a 24 out of 100 on Joe's chnn.

Susanna Horrs " When You're A Dov" (CBS Records) · Ray: Well. I guess the middle is going to be the tripe section of the revtew. Hoffs, ex-lead singer of the Bangles. has released her first solo record that. in all probability. will sin!. her into anonymity. There's immedtate trouble because a total of four ~ongs have the word "love'' in the Litle, and the album proves to be mostly bubblegum pop. Some of the material leans slightly toward the pop/rock style of her former band. especially ''Thts Time", but moM doesn't and isn't nearly as interesting. Granted the Bangles weren'tthe greatest thing to hit the music scene in the 80's, but they were diMinctive and wrote some"neat stufr'(couldn't thmk of another way to describe 11). The lyrics are consistently silly or sappy. and the few decent songs bas•cally succeed in being bouncy nod somewhat unique - i.e. pop radio fodder. There nrc too many ballads (about half the album), ">he's got a cute voice but it get::. annoying after twelve songs, and she really has nothing to :.ing about. Basically. it sucked. 28. Joe? Joe: Yeah. 30. Next ...

Todd Rundgr en "2nd Wind" (Warner Bros. Records) Joe: This album is from u guy who is ~up­ posed 10 be pre11y good. and bu~y. too, writing and helping other people out. I thought "Well. thtscould bcol.ay". Nope. sorry. folk'>. Thts il. another album for the tripe l>CcLion. The only thmg I could thmk of when I wa.\ hstemngtolhts wn that he has crawled out of a hole and thought thts was sullthc mtd- to latc-7()'.,, Th•~ mu~ic belong~ on the ~nme \tat ion a ... "The Hu~tle" and "Copa Cabana", )OU know. the Ea\y Ltstenmg 70'~>. I couldn't believe that ~omc exccuuve actuall) allowed them 10 putth" out There was ..ume wetrd '\tuff em here. hke a 'on ol rhumba song. I gues<, But even that wa,n't enough to bnng any !>On of interN to the thing I can·, even put thl'> into word.... Tht\ ronks right m there w1th Chtcago, except I don'ttlunl. it'' a' good. I won't even embarrass Mr. Rundgren wuh a raung.JU'>tlakc my word for 11. th1., tape

really bites it.

Steve Winwood " Refugees of the Heart" (Virgin Records) Ray: First of all. I'm not a huge Steve Winwood fan. Basically, I've heard the stuff he'll released off of his Ia!.I few albums, and, for the most pan, I've liked them. From talking 10 Joe. I guess that affected my first exposure to un entire album.

I enjoyed most ofthb album a lot. finding it to be very mellow and distinctly, uh ... Winwoodian. especially the organ puns.

Other than that. I can't really pin down exactly what appealed to me about it. The only tracl. I disliked was "Running On", a boring tunc.

Otherwise. the '>On g.' had interesting pcrcu~\lon and hom sections that gave them '>Orne unique IWI\1:-.. The lyrics arc often poc11c and 'P•ntual in u vel) non-ostentatiou'> way. and he appear\ to mjcct hi' 'ong' wuh a lot or h" own feeling~ and reflection,, whtch I feel i~ almo't al"aY'> a plu,.

TI1e best tmcl.~ \\CI"C "You' ll Keep On Scarchmg". "One and Onl) Man · (the liN "ngle). and "Come Out and Dance" The fiN i.., a melanchol) but hopeful ptcce ol ad"tce to a clo": fncnd. '' ith 'ome cool sa., playing. The ~econd manage~ to <,ound u bit hl.e n bunch ofht~o. big hiL~. but not enough to be a rip-oft of an) one in purucular. and it'<, upbeat and catchy. The Ia~ I is slow and purpo~eful with a great baritone 'ax growl pushing it along (vaguely recalling Lisa Simp!>On). as well a'> a throwbacl. 10 Winwood's 60's roots wllh a "make dunce not war" mel.sage. Preaching a.'ide. though, it'> a greut song_ Overall. the album i:. very moody and 1111110!.pheric (though a bit long con~idcring there are only eight c;ongs). and I enjoyed 11 enough to give it an 80. But, us I said. if you've listened to hi~ <;tuff before...

Joe: I have, and I wasn't overly tmpre\'>ed with this album. h wa' the typtcul Wtnwood, nothing really chancy or really progressive for Lhts album. It was just more of the -.;arne wtthout being a complete clone. I will J'tnve 10 say that thts album is a step bacl. onto the truck from "Roll With It'' which I thought wru. a total disa.o;ter. but many people dtd not.

I'll have to agree with Ray about h•~ chotce\ oft he best songs off of the album. I think he hll the nail right on the head. I think that it i11 lime for Winwood to think about what he's doing to come up with something that's a lillie different for next time.

Now that I've complained for such a long time. I' ll move 10 the upbeat stuff. This album is very listenable, (like all the other ones, funny that.) If you're a Wlnwood fan, you're going 10 love it. It is rather plain by Win wood standards (I've come to expect more from a man who used to be on the culling edge) but by everyday standards this is preuy good. I like the way he uses saxophones throughout the album (I like sax) and I like the xylophone sound that he gets in "Come Out And Dance". And I must ~y that Winwood must be the laM man on earth who consistently us~ a Hammond Organ in Rock music today. He is tremendoul>ly talented. and I think some of that is gomg 10 waste on thts album. However, thi!. album is very well engineered and the wund quality and musical performance!. ore very good. [ Lhinl., desplle my qualms. that this album is headed 10 the top ten at least. I give it a 74.

ZZ Top " Recycler " (Warner Bros. Records)

because I was ruther disappointed with "Afttr· Bumtr". I thought they went just a lillie 100 pop for me, with the drum machine and the 12 versions of the arne song. Then I heard that Rtc:yclu was a return to their blues beginnings, and that made me shudder a liule bit, too.

Anyway. after bubbling for u couple of lines Lhere, l' lltell you that I am very happy with this album.

It b a good mix of Eliminator and the old, more bluesy stuff. It stuns off rockin' prc11y good with "Concrete And Steel'' and never looks back. The guitar riffs were great, the ~ongs were back to the gri11y style that I like from ZZ Top. I would say that this album is beller than Afttrhumer and even better than £/iminafllr. I was bored through quite a bit of Elllnlflatnr most of the time. but this album kept me intere~ted all the way throuHh. These guys have decided toea~• olfthe <;tngle mal.ing forn1ula the) fell into. tal.e a chance (although a mmor one with the follolo\'mg they have garnered over the yea!'.) and ju'l have '>Orne fun. I'm glad the)' dtd_ II mnl.es hfe a lillie more mtcrcsllng (and getS them a good review 10 the paper. and"" you know.this i~ an 1mponant muMcal publicauon Our rcvtew .. cclip'IC even the imponance of R()/lmg Stant review!>.) That " not to \ay. however. that there " no ~ingle material on thts album. ln fact, there is probably more single material on this album than on the "t.ingle making formula albums'' if you can figure out the irony of that. They have already had a couple of hits off of this. like "Doubleback", ··concrete And Steel" and "Give It Up". " My Head'~ In Mtssissippi" hlh abo been getting ~orne heavy atrplay on some stations.

Anyway. I'm gonna give thil> album a 90 out of 100.

Ray: I wholeheartedly agree. I liked a lot of the material off of their two previou~ albums, which I wu' expo!>ed 10 fitl>t. When I later heard ~orne of their older wori:, primarily Dtgurllo (the album containing clas~icl> like " Mamc Mechanic" and "Cheap Sunglasses"). it was hard to imagtnc that it was the :.arne band. ZZ Top hnd alway!> been a southern blues band, and after their foray into techno-rock and slick MTV videos. Lhey have returned 10 those rootl> an a big way. Not completely, of cour.e "Concrete and Steel" especially draws on some of their recent patterns. but enough 10 win them buck all kinds of credibility. From diffe rent things I've read. even fellow recording ;mistS can't stop raving about Recycler.

The best tracks on the album have some great blues riffs and virtually no commercial gloss.

The slower songs like "2000 Blues" and "Tell It" positively blow away just about everything in Lhe lucrative " power ballad" genre that WAAF loves to jump on these days, and "My Head's In Mississippi" is a great, screwy song about (I think) bar and nightclub life and a drunken stupor. " Burger Man" is a real raunchy. off-beat food/sex song. with lyrics like "Once you've tried my burger, baby. you 'II grow a new thyroid gland" - enough said.

The only things I really didn't like were the sometimes repetitive nature of the guitar work. and a few of the songs which weren '1as interesting as the rest.

Anyway. the aLtitude of the album seems to be captured by the ong "Doubleback'', wn11en for the Back to the Future Pan III soundtrack. but easily applicable to ZZ Top's new (old?) career direction. They carried it off well, and I give the album an 86.

Joe: I wasn'ttoo keen on gelling this album

Cancellation of Comedian Mario Joyner and Pub Show with 0-Positive Due to scheduling conflicts with the performer, the presentation of Comedian Mario Joyner at WPI on Friday, February 15, 1991 has been cancelled. Also due to scheduling problems, this week's Pub Show featuri ng 0-Positive, scheduled for Saturday has been postponed to April 6th.

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Arts and Entertainment

We're Progressing ... A tale about growing up

by Brian Beauregard C/Jzss of '92

When was your life the easiest'! When you were children! Why? Because everything was FUN. fewer rules and norms- we decided what was fun until someone told us not to. Has this become the current subtle Meanini of Ljfc.

Let's revisit...

Can you recall the first time you obtained a small portion of money and spent at very selfishly? Do you miss past ''show and tell" performances you have given? Can you remember making your first phone call then possibly using this source, one of the I 00 I Black Jnventions, to your ability? Do recollections of past elementary theatre productions, music performances, and spelling bees haunt you? Do you remember watching the etas~> clown perform his or her antics like applying Physical Graffiti to the teacher's desk? Or perhaps it was your very own self entertaining others. Were you ever in that glorious and powerful leadership po~ition of replacing your teacher as they left for exactly 9 1/2 Weeks?

We're progressing...

Then along came your ingenuity and you created. developed. and administered your own unique games. Cenainly, you were 0 - Positive and maybe a lillie stubborn about your beliefs yet stnrted incorporating others' suggestions.

Kaboom, you suddenly view the opposite sex in a different way and you realize you are Running ~. Separation has started to form between these two groups namely the GOO<Ifclla!> and The Liule Mennaids.

We're progressing ...

Now you started taking authoritative roles whether in academic or extra-curricular acrivi-

ties. There was always a Denny Dent. in every high school crowd trying topaintthe true picture of an up'n coming event. Did you ever voice your opinions about what programs you wanted or did not want? Cenainly everyone. like the renowned Bauy Crimmons. gave valuable advice regarding political and social events.

Wow. what an experience you had in choosing. planning, organizing. publicizing, budgeting. and auending dances. talent shows. proms. play~>, pep rallies and Cl>pecially Ai!:JlliU. eve illS and more. Just sit back and recall all your fondest memories.

We're progressing...

Well. let's see. I graduated from that apathetic school ofWPI and finally got a job. J am doing fairly well now. however I am still terrilied of imerviews. I also have trouble planning and implementing projects as well as meeting deadlines. Geez, I always feel overwhelmed because I do not know how to delegate tasks effectively. Jane Byaela and I haven problem in that ...

We're regressing...

Here at WPI your college experience can be FUN. Did ariy of these experiences happen to you? Would you like to become more involved and informed? Well, we have got just the tJ1ing for you.

We are offering to you free. that is no charge. an experience that will last you a life time. By joining us you will gain communication and listening skills from informal meetings with other students and associates (business people, agents. etc). Funher, you can develop important negotiating skills through 'person to person' contacts or directly over the phone. Job responsibility. marketing skills, brainstonning power and creativity are just a few of the skills that can

Eating ln ... better broccoli Utensils:

by Kelly McQueeney Kajsa Cadwell and Josh Howard

Although every college student complains that vegetables are more trouble than they are wonh, cooking vegetables can be fun and add life to your meals! This simpre recipe takes only a few minutes to assemble and you can finish stUdying for mid-terms as it cooks. Besides. it will impress the shoes off of your mother when she asks what you had for dinner!!!

BROC€0Ll CORDON BLEU This meal is easily prepared using luncheon meat!

Ingredients: 2 frozen broccoli spears or 2 fresh broccoli

spears (even better!)

4 slices of ham 2 slices swiss cheese 2 tablespoons flour 1/4 teaspoon basil l/4teaspoon pepper I cup mHk optional : 1/2 onion and pat butter

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small baking dish medium sized bowl pol wisk or mixing spoon skillet (optional) Directions: I . Preheat oven to 350. Cook broccoli according to directions or steam fresh broccoli until slightly limp. Roll up broccoli with slices of ham and cheese (cheese should be on the inside), and place in baking dish.

• 2. (optional) Warm skillet with butter in it over medium heat. When butler is bubbly, saute onion rings (i.e. do not cut up the onion. but feather out the rings} until golden brown and place on top of ham.

3. In bowl place flour. basil, and pepper.

While whisking, gradually add I cup of milk.

When mixture is smooth, pour over ham.

4. Bake for 25 minutes.

be accumulated through our organization. All these skills are essential in having effective job interviews, smooth team building, and also will help throughout your job career.

It is also a fun. challenging and rewarding experience. You will be able to meet emenaincrs of all stalUre on a more personal basis. It is extremely exciting to see a show that you either booked or promoted actually come to the school. We are a friendly. open-minded group which is always open for suggestions from other non-student members. faculty. administration, staff. and the entire WPI community. For these reasons, ljnyone is encouraged to suggest programs they'd like to sec on campus. and is welcome to join any one of the seven distinct

commillees we have.

We are the WPI Social Commiuee or " SocComm" as we are more commonly known.

SocComm is the major programming board on campus and is responsible for providing the WPI Community with a variety of educational, ocial, cultural and entcnaining events throughout the year. This Wednesday, February l3, 1991 SocComm Is having an open and informative meeting in Salisbury Labs Rm 104 ac 4:30PM. All are invited!! Wewi lldiscusswhat we do, who we are and most imponantly how you can join. This is our first meetingofthe kind so take advantage and take your next giant step in life.

Talent Show a success Juggler takes home $1 00

by Erik Cu"in Newspeak S taff Tuesday night, Pebruary 5th. the class of '94 held a talent show. There was an impres~ivc turnout for the show, with about two hundred people attending. The ~how staned at 8:00 pm (really 8: 15) and lasted unti I I0:30. Tbere were a total of twelve acts, with various shows of talent.

To start off the evening, Adam's Eve of Battle of the Bands fam,!. played three songs.

They ended with Ozzy Osbourne's •·craz.y l'rdin''. The lead guitarist was superb, and the band was overall pretty good.

John H<lll entenained the audience by juggling assoned items. Balls. pins, knives, blocks. ping pong balls (actually spit out of his mouth), and chickens flying through the air in a dazzling display. The blocks were especially awe-inspiring a.nd original. John received first prize forthe act, taking home a cool $100, which he says will go towa.rds buying new equipment.

Second place went to J_ay Bradshaw, who played the acoustic guitar. He performed Ste· ven Stills' "Love the One You're With" very well. His family was there to share in his jubilation, as well a fellow fraterni ty members from Sigma Phi Epsilon. He received a $50 check which he says will go towards paying bills.

Third place went to Stage Fright, made up of Steve Sousa. Jeff Rocha. and Paul Ormand.

They played Van Morrison's ''Brown Eyed Girl" as well as two other songs. Each of the members displayed his singing abilities, which were pretty impressive. They also did an excellent job on guitar. They received a prize of$25.

Honorable mention went to the lmprov group, which consisted of Bill Katzman. Erik Pelton, Alan Stering, Brian Weissman, Chad Council. Glenn McGuire. and Jon Davis. They did skits from commercia h. and they were hilarious.

The other acts, in order of appearance were: Blind Ambition, a parody of Madonna: the Pledges Of AGO, which did semi-choreographed dancing: New Members of TIC. which poked fun at Milli Vanilli. The New Kids, AC/ DC, and M.C. Hammer; Lastnight's Leftovers, which was an instnamental group; Rectoflame "Flames". a thrash metal band; CJ Quinten and the Musical Jam, a parody of a Heavy Metal acoustk guitarist: Jen Harwin. a unicycle act; and to end the evening WCDN (We Can Die Now), a musical group.

The judges were Professor Bell of the Chemistry department, Prof. Long of the Physics depanmcnt, Prof. Christopher of the Math dept.. Ann Harris from the Admissiorts Office, ·Janet Richardson, Dean of Students, Ellen Madigan, representative of the Student Body. and Diran Apelian. Provost and Vice President of Student Affairs. They j udged the acts based on 4 categories: talent, originality, crowd appeal. and appearance. They rated lhe acts on a scale from 1- 10 in each category. They dropped the lowest and highest scores and then determined the winner. Honorable-mention was a consensus vote, which happened to be the founh place act anyway.

The Class of '94 should really be commended for this talent show. It wac; fun, well attended, and probably even made money.

Maybe it will even become an annual event.

Well done!

Serves: 2 Time: 15 minute prepar.uion.

Music Review

by Troy Nielsen AuocitJU EdiJor

All questions derived from the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock n' Roll (Summit Books.

1983).

Questions: I ). Yoko Ono wrote a book in 1968. What was the name of the book?

2). ln 1970, Bob Dylan wrote a book. What was its name?

3). Jazz guitarist/vocalist George Benson had a pop mainstream debut with an instrumental tune written by Bobby Womack. What was the tune's name? (Hint: It's also the titJe track of the album) 4). What is the name of Chuck Berry's first album (on Chess Records)?

5). What group h11d a hit with "Louie. Louie"?

6}. What was the theme song from the 1980 movie "Caddy Shack.,?

7}. Who recorded th111 theme song?

8). In what year was Lynyrd Syknyrd Conned?

9). Who recorded the one-hit wonder "Book of Love" in 1958?

10). What group originally recorded the much-covered "Venus'"?

Answers: I ). "Grapefruit" 2). "Tarantula" 3). " Breezin "' 4). "After School Sessions" 5). ''The Kingsmen" 6}. " I'm Alright" 7). Kenny Loggins

8). 1966 9). Monotones 10). Shocking Blue

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NllWSI'flAJ( STAFF rttOTOIDIC KaiSTOfll

Freshman John Hall juggles his way to a first place finish in the talent show.

NEWSPEAK

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Tuesday February 12, 1991

EDITORIAL

Is being lazy really worth it?

How many rimes have you decided that it would be easier ro drive to campus in your car rather than using traditional ambulatory methods such as walking? Once a week? Once a day? Or every time you head up to campus. which could be nearly 5 times a day? Have you ever stopped to consider the consequences of your laziness? Granted, automobile transportation to campu~ b a ometimes necessity because of residence location or safety . But when students regularly drive to campuo; our of complete slothfulnes!> a~ they so often do now. it i!> an

unforgivable act of ignorance and apathy.

Consider this: every time you unnecessarily drive your car to campus you are adding to the traffic and parking problem on campul>. All we all know. WPI campus roadways arc few and far between. Parking facilities are slightly adequate at best. Because of WPI's location in a large city. it i1> vinually impo~!>ible to expand at will for such things a' roads and parking lot<,.

But the parking and traffic problems could be alleviated tf students woul~. if possible. walk rather than dnve to

campus.

Looking at the hann of the lazy student driver on a larger scale, automobile emissions (Carbon Monoxide and other pollutants) greatly contribute to the destruction of our fragi le environments. Anyone who ha a clue aboot the environment or cares about the well-being of our Earth would realize the crime they are commiuing every time they drive when the}' could otherwise walk.

Think before you drive! It is really wonh it be o;o lazy? Most likely not!

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Lack of interest in African-American culture To the Editor.

h was \\ell adven1.,ed One could see 11 on nyer... posted all around the campus. Posten. "'ere tud.. on pan1cular Rnd commonplace bulleun boards. Invitation leuers were sent to ~pec1fic personnel. h wa' d1splayed on WPIC and could be read in the Club Comer of

Newspeak If you sull do not know what Ill!.,

it is the presentation and :.lide !.how on ''The H1~tory of Afncan-American Mu,lim~".

TI1c gue~t speaker was Dr. Allan Au\tlll.

A,-;ociate Profesl>or of English and AfncanAmerican Hi, tory at Springfield College. He IS a well known authority in the field of African American 'itudies and the author of Afr.L£il.n

Thin Red Line defense To the Editor:

After reading Bryan Packard's le11er about the 1991 Baule of the Band~. we. the members of Th111 Red Une. feel compelled to offer a reply that will hopefully remove wme of the myth surrounding our performance.

The first myth involves the "early returns" from the judges. According 10 Mr. Packard, '"early returns' may be translated to mean voting done one to three weeks in advance of the actual performance." The judges were selected, and this can be confirmed by events coordinator Chris Savina. in less than a week before the Battle. thereby nullifying Mr. Packard's "early returns" allegauon.

It is true, however. that the judges cast their final votes before our performance was over. Thin Red Line was not involved in this has1111ess and we are quite disappointed that the judges chose to leave early.

Next Mr. Packard labeled Ulo as "being the only WPI band in recent history 10 mimic Pink Floyd." Evidently Mr. Packard has not been listening to · the same Pink Floyd as us.

Grmted, three of the twelve song!. performed were wriuen in the Floydian style with heavy keyboards and droning bass lines. but the rema111ing songs (such a~ "Kill Yer Roommate" and "Do You Really Care?'') demonSlnlte a tot:Jllack of Pink Floyd mnuence. Also remember that Pink Floyd was not the originator of the concept p1ece performance-count· less other bands (Genesis. ELP. King Crimson. and the Who) have performed hve concept pieces before Pink Floyd ever wrote "The Wall".

Another point Mr. Packard bring' up is our lack of stage presence. He is correct in that we

were in darkne~os for the first 32 minute' of our performance. But this was out of complete necessity: our video couldn't have been viewed in full stage light. And in fact, the judges renected our opucal lack of stage presence 111 our scores 111 that category.

If Mr. Pad..ard would have checked with the Special Events Commiuee about the rule of time limil'> before writing his le11er. he would have been told that such a rule does not exi'lt. h was, however, strongly suggested that each band's performance be approximately 45 minutes long. In years past. there was a heavy penalty for exceeding the time limit. but that was softened this year to encourage a more full set from each band. Our total Lime on stage was approximately 50 minutes. including set-up.

Since there was no time limit rule and since we followed the suggested time span, we don't see the justification for Mr. Packard's bitter accusation.

Finally, Mr. Packard questions our professionalism in general. Over 8 months were spent organizing, filming, editing. and writing for "The Pion". Also. nearly 100 hours were spent synchroniL.IIlg the live music with the video. For a group of 4 people (and the generous help of 3 video assistants) to put that much effon into a single performance. we don't tlunk that any aspect of our professionalism shoul.d be 111 question.

It 1s a l>hame that Mr. Packard'!> opimons turned out to be misinterpretations of the fact!\ surrounding our performance.

Pttu Jenkins '91 Jolin MacNeill '92 Troy Nielsen '91 David Rostchtk '92

Mushm~ in Amebc!lum America. Morever. he founded the depar1ment of Black Studiel> in Springfield College lotarung form 1968 to pre~­ ent.

His lecture informed the audience about the Afncan-American culture which has always been and still is a pan of American history. It comprises such heroes II'> Billulc. Sulayman. and Omar whose bodie!> were enslaved but their minds remamed free. Their survival owes to their strong faith which pulled them through the adversities. They were probably pan of the breed of fi rst true American heroes who accomplished. what we cons1der today to be. ''the American dream". 'They did that by withholding to the1r original African Muslim heritage.

It is imponant to recogmze these heroes as our own and make an effon 10 understand their original culture since it i' a ogment of our own

hl'>toncal tradition. This could have been acat least to a ceruun extent. on last Tue!>day '!. (Feb. 5) lecLUre and slide ~how wh1ch bas1cally presented historical facts 111 their \imple't form. Unfonunately. not many people were interel>ted in broadening their historical homon. h ~hould be noted that we arc livmg 111 a mult1·cultural society. thus we l>hould mentally embrace cultural diversity. Lack of enthusiasm dillpluyed at this presentation on an educated campus as WPI paints a very blurred picture of multi-cultural awarene!>~.

It is hoped that in fuLUre people will a11end more cuhuml presentation!> and activities to educate themselvel> about various cultures wh1ch exist all around the globe.

Muslim Student Assochltion comph~hed.

Hatetalk and hatecrime at WPI To the Editor: I om writing th1s leiter in response to the many troubling occurrences on our campus in recent months. The problems myself and others have had with members of BiLAGA and some of the "Regulan.'' at tbe Wedge have become a local new item recently and the snuauon is very unfonunate for all involved.

The boltom line in many of the incidents which have fueled numerous rumors on campus is hatecrime and hntelnlk.

My involvement has evolved from a difference of opinion on American foreign policy to open and publicized exchange!> of dislike between myself and several other members of the loludent body. This ''exchange of fire" has culminated in an exchange of e·mail which has made its way to every administrator's desk and professor's office on campus.

One day while wal~ing through the Wedge I was advised to check my e-mail, something I had not done since AuguM 28th, by a cer1ain person I have had several confrontations with.

After having a friend help me login because I am ~till very computer illiterate, I found that among the other leuerlt I had rece1ved in the

past five months was one from a group idemifying themselve!> as "TheOther". This "leiter of warning" triggered a response from me which I now deeply regret. I responded to "TheOther" with a leuer which was just as awful if not worse. First and foremost I would like to say that I do not believe any of the crap I wrote in the letter. I have opened myself up to much misunderstanding by reciting segments of very extreme and very outdated philosophies which key in on the suppression of individualism. something I am very strong ly opposed to. My only purpose in the letter was to send a message to theauthorthat''l don'tlike you and leave me alone,'' very childish J adrnit but that was the depth of my feelings upon receiving "TheOther"'s leuer.

At thi~ point I feel that the best solution is for me to communicate with the people involved and mediate a resolution. But my situation i not unlike those of many others on campus. I would recommend that those of you • who are experiencing similar difficulties get them resolved before they escalate to thi!> point, if not further. We all make mistakes, but to not learn from them is to make another.

John P. Coylt '94

COMMENTARY

Europe: A Review Is Scandinavia a Civilized Country?- Part 3

by Shawn

Zimmerman Newspeak Staff

Lego!and!! In my mind. Scandinavia could be a thousand acre broiling desen. 111fested with Toyota-eating \and crabs and bacteria that gave the creep111g rot to anyone within a lightyear. and 11 would still be a cool place if 11 had Legoland.

Located in Billund. Denmark (which is that secuon of Germany giving Norway the finger). Legoland is the Mecca of all truly immature people. All throughout my trip I'd been psyching up myself for this one rvent. The Black Porest? A buncha trees.

Paris? Dog turd filled streets. A snowfall in the Alps? Piles of din with frozen water. But Legoland. Legoland was the big payoff. the only real reason J came to Europe. So the day of my visit, 1 was in the Youth Ho tel meditatmg. preparing for the experience when someone told me: "Legoland? Oh, that closed down yesterday". Once I stopped screaming. I went down to get the bus, because I hadn't put up with airline food. military time. and a lot of silly looking, nonsense babbling foreigners for nothing. I was going to see the park sf I had to do what Chevy Chase did to see Wally World.

Lucksly that wasn't necessary. Although the theme parte was closed, they d1d have some eAhibllS in ide about how Legol> are made and the I hstory of Legos. There wa~ aho some \tuff that had nothing to do with Legos: how the Lego Foundation funded the restoration of t.ome old ship Cyou may notice that these people have a fell~h about boats. h comes from

their first king. Sven the Broad-Grinned. having on unhappy affair with a cute lillie Dutch Clipper). the history of dolls. gark like that.

I'm sure that finding out that the first dolls were made of sacl.clolh and wood shavings and looked like something from Gotex. the World of Lumps would norm:Jlly put a cheery lillie glow 111 my hean. but I was still bummed at not being able to wander amongst the 33 million Legos in the Theme Park. Thiny Three million! 33.000.000!! That's almost tw1ce the number of years that Dick Clark's been around.

The Inside wasn't a total waste however.

The history of how Mr. Lego staned with a tiny lillie wooden toy shop and built it up into the multi1.illion dollar integral part of every child's life that it is now was cenainly interesting. And then there was Titania's Palace.

Wow! Apparently there was this guy who was into spoiling his children in a big way. His daughter wanted a liule palace built for the pixies that Jived 111 the garden. specifically Oberon and Titania(Don't know who they are?

Then maybe you should polish up on your Shakespeare a bit, you heathen.) Now. most fathers would just bang together a couple of moldy boards and that would be good enough.

Not for th1s guy. He went all over the world collecting all ..ons of we1rd stuff that wa~ pix1c size. Combs. furniture. weapons. even a B1ble. for Chri,~ake. And he had thi~ enormous doll house bu1h wuh secret room!., mtricately cal"ed cc1hng~. nnd lot!. of gold. And you thought the ncighbol"\ Jag Walo COn\piCUOU~ COn\u01p11011

Needless to say. it never actually made it out to the garden. "What?" I can hear this guy saying to himself. "Putthi ~ masterpiece on the lawn and let the dog piddle on it and the neighbor kids chew on it? When I can sell it to Eggo(At least 1 think that's what Mr Lego's first name was] for tons o'bu"'?" So now it resides permanently in the Lego Museum of Truly Bizarre hems.

But as interesting as that was. all I could really think about was entire villages, the Statue of Libeny. Mt.Rushmore. enormous giraffes that walk up to you and say"Biooorpl'', a working model of a hydrogen bomb - all built out of nothing but Legos. I was all ready to bust my way through the glass walls that were teasing me with tiny glimpses of the Glory of Legos. and run amok through the park. Luckily I was saved that necessity (and a possible ten year prison sentence. they take their legos quite seriously) because they have this tower that you can go up in and see that park from above.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave it at that, the whole experience was just too emotional for words. I still get misty eyed thinking about it.

·•so is it civilized or not? " you are all screaming. "I really want to get back to my DiffyQ's homework. <;O tell us already!!!" I'm afraid I have to <~ay "Yes it i<," II may have nuny. cold weather. but II aho has hot babes. It may not pos!>e~s quahty cinema. but it doe, feature weekly Vikmg ratds on ne1ghbonng v1llages for food. women. and sun lamp:.. It lacks a reliable :.ourcc of Pc.t. but offers Lego-

land as an adeq uate alternative. I'm sure you'll agree that these all tend to cancel each other out, leaving us right where we staned. Ah! But the one thing that we have forgotten to take into cons1deration, the thing that Scandinav1a has exponed to the world. thereby making it a happier. more prosperous place to live 111 (and, I feel. panly responsible for the decrease in JOgging. salmonella poisoning. and I Love Lucy reruns). and that is: ABBA! Without ABBA giving us such classics as Ballerina.

Boomerang. Belatedly Beating. Bobby's Buddy in Bi:;cayne, and other songs containing a preponderance of b's, then I'm sure that the world would have already been eliminated through nuclear holocaust, plague. famine, or as a result of litigation by linle five armed. purple ahens demanding to know what happened to "Rat Patrol" and why Nixon isn't still in office. Thus, Scandinavia is unequivocably civilized.

Well. having solved thal burning question.

I feel a lillie ambitious. So. next week. I'm going to rate some of God's greatest performances. from Genesis( And on the Third day God created Butterscotch pudding, and bright orange created He it. And it tasted Good, so He had to make it again. and again on the Founh day made He it.). to the advent of American fore1gn policy be111g dictated by well-mean111g, Yale educated Holsteins. Along the way we'll ~e the 111venuon of Velcro a!o a tonure dev1ce -;omeume 111 the Dark Age,, as well u' the n~ of mctcorologl\ts to the statu\ of coun clowns.

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Tuesday February 12, 1991

COMMENTARY

Sounding Off FroiD Stoddard The Third Time's a Charm

by Mall Meyer Newspeak Staff Eduor'l Nott'. Stc unrr w tilt ttlitor from Jo/111 Co\'lt' ...and the saga conunucl>. A., a joumali't if you ever pnm tl column which cAprcsse~ n story only from one !.ide of it you ore 'ure to ht:nr the other side a' ~oon u., your article i., 111 print.

Last Tuesday I wu~ approached by the "defendant" of the cu'e I hud presented and he told me that the \tory I printed was b.... and that he would have appreciated huvmg been talked to before the \tory was printed. At the time. I told him that I would have approached him, but I had only go11en hi' name and the \tOry on Saturday mommg. wh1ch was already o'er 12 hours past my deadline. There was no time for me to follow up on that portion of the ~tory 1f I hoped to get anything in print. Later that week he rc uerated thi~ feeling and reflected orne of the details I p~nted in the story. I would give h1m the benefit of

the doubt (I lil..e to tru't my '>ource~J but Janet Richardson (Dean of Students). who oversaw the mediation. sa1d that when she rend my article (although she did not dis.,ect it, ~he would add). she did not notice any inaccuracies. She at ... o made it a point to say that often times two people may st!e a single incident in two very different perspective., (e<,pcciull)' when one b trying to save h1\ bull lmy notcJ>. On top of that I wa" having a conversation with ... omcune "ho know' the defendant relatively well when 1 remarked that''! would like to hear hi~ side of the ~tory hut ... I don't tru~r him". To which rhey rl.!plied "That would be wise." A<, far a<o I am concerned everything I '>aid in la\1 week·~ anicle stays unaltered.

No" it's time for some new dirt. It <,eems as though we have pried opened Pandora·:. box. Hate, bigotry. ignorance. and a lack of unders tanding have roared forth into our community and left a bloody trail of destruction. We can only pray that ''hope"~~

lmgering 'omewhere in the :.hadows ofrhe box. I have been pre~nted with nnorher very interesting c~c which revolve:. around the ~nme issue. It just 'o happen'> that there b an undercla&.man who ha'> -;ome ex1rcmely intriguing (und bigoted) view~ which he has cxpres,ed op,cnly and somewhat publicly. lie hll\n't done nnyrhing illegal \O I here nrc no churl!e~ pendmg but he ha\ aimed some of lm views directly at another WPI student. who is a wedge rut. I obtained a copy of a letter he sent her by e-nuul and I am going to quutc it in ito, entirety (although hi'> ~pclllng error~ and typl)s have been corrected). It "· like I 1oa1d. an mtrigumg lcucr. but 1h1s person has a very warped sen\C of rca'>on. He writes: "You and your fnends should find beuer thing' to do than mes1o with people you can not even begin to compete with. You were born to fail.

Never to win. On I) to succeed if and only 1f you accept your definite in!>ignificance. To be very plam ... your lives mean very little to me and to

Plastic is not perfect!

by Isaac Asimo~>

Plastics arc <;O useful. They arc light. They nrc strong. They are cheap. They can be easily molded into any shape. They don't rust or discolor or rot or get moldy. They don't break when dropped. They are impervious to water and air. There's only one flaw, but it's an enormous one. We can't get rid of that stuff.

When we're through with a plru.tic product, we throw it away. It is collected and taken to a dump. and piled up there. And nothing happens to it. It is still impervious to water and air. It still doesn't ru tor rot or get moldy. It j ust stays there practically forever and accumulates.

Virtually everything ehe we throw away is taken care of by naruml forces. Metal rusts and powden..

Wood rots. Paper decomposes. Dead bodies slowly decay. Animal excrement fertili7.es plant or is taken care by various type'> of beelles. Leaves slowly crumble or become compost.

All rhese thing~> arc recycled.

"Having been di'ICarded by some parts of the world of life. they are broken down by air, by water and by other forms of life, and once that h done. they re-enter the world of life. That is why life has been noumhmg on Earth for con11. Everything goc~ in c.rcle!>.

If, when things were u~ up, they were never really u...ed up and could never be used again, we would run out of things 10 a rclauvely short time and we'd all d1e.

But that's exactly how it is w1th pi~ tics. Plastics nrc long cham~ of Carbon atoms. wuh a few other atom:. added to them: chains that do not occur in nature. The chams hang together so tightly that ordinary innuences in nature, such ru. air and water,

just bounce off harmlessly. Becau'e they don't occur in nature. the natural enzymes that have been evolved in all forms of life from bacteria and molds to men and elephants, and that serve to destroy natural substances don't work on plastics. No form of life can touch them, which means they are not "biodegradable." They won't recycle naturally.

Something must be done and, one thing we might do, is recycle them by dint of human technology. We can do that with metals. Old. rusted, broken pieces of metal can be melted down.

Somewhat refine and made into brand new object . No metal is lost. We merely use up energy, but we do all that time, anyway.

In the same we can melt plastics and make use of them again - in theory. The trouble is that there are all ki nds of different plastics and you can't just melt them all together. You end up with a mixture that doe~n 't necessarily have any of the properties you need for bottles, or wmppmg material, or machine parts or whatever you wam to usc the plastic for.

You just have plastic crud thai can be used for nothing more than packing, and you have to continue to mal..e special plastic for special needs.

Of course, you can ~epa rate plastic mto ir 's different kinds and cycle each separately. Buttheo;e rakes more time and effort. Then, 100. different part-. of some object are made up of differem types of plastic. That makes the process of separating even more difficult. h 's also possible to ma.nufacturc biodegradable plru.tics. You can incorporate some form of Carbon chains that do occur in naturc(starch, for instance.) That will be decomposed by bacteria and mold. and the

reM will powder away and be easier to handle.

That's nor as easy as it sounds. You don't want to make plastics too easily biodegradable, because you wouldn't want your bottles, for instance to go to pieces while they are standing in your cupboard. In other words. we would want plastics to be biodegradable only afler they have been specially tre:ued.

It is possible to prepare plastics that are biodegradable only after they have been e11posed to sunlight for several days, or left to :.oak in waJer for <;evcral days. On the dump site after all, the sun shines and the rain M>aks m. However. as the dump piles up, deep inside you get a quantity of pla~llc that neither sun nor water ever rcache . And you have a vision of havang to stir up the whole pile of miserable dump material every few days so that everything in~ide gets exposed. An enormous JOb. Furthermore, you can never be sure what materials will be produced by biodegradable plastic. With ordinary materials - wood. metal. excrement, dead animals and so on - we are dealing wilh what ha~ been rotting ever since life has exi<;tcd. The materials produced can be handled by livmg thing.,, or we would have all died out long ago. With pla!tlic~. however. product\ maybe formed that aren't composed of anlral 'ubstance~. They maybe tOXIC, or carcinogemc. or in orher ways very damaging.

Well. then. what do we do? There arc tho\e who say rhat recycling plastiC:. or making them biodegradable won't M>lve the problem. They insisr that the only thing we can do is use less pla'>tic. maybe no plastic. But then. as I said at the !>tart, pl:l.\tic!> are so useful. I thml.. we'll JUSt have toconunue lookmg for solutions.

anyone who IS trymg to folio" the STRAIGHT and narrow path all good people were meant to a:.pire and for the sake of personal fulfillment and ultimate happinc~~. You can all go on living your own way of life. after all this i' the USofA, und muny JX!Ople have died to give you the nght to be nmhmg if you so choobe. But to fighr all thm i' good and to find your own path is futile. A sclf,c.rv mg at Illude i' rhe sure~• rond to hell on earth. But 11 i' not too late. You do not have w conunue rebelling becau ... e you do not fit m the malll\trcam. A\ long a\ you huvc life you have the opportunity to change.

Give up your fal\e indiv1dualitie~.

It take-. the \trcngth to conform. h " easy to mas'> m rhe Wedge as a group of lost ~ouh and much more d1fticult to confront your fear\ and make your "ay in the world If you thin!.. I am not speaking from cxpenence~ of rcbelliou\nes~. then check our my pa ... t. 1f you can, if not, then ru.k me.

You and your fncnd'> are united in suffering. The suffering involved with rejection, lack of purpo~c. and confusion. Do not try to impres!> me or scare me with your p'cudo· intcllectual stuff abo!lt the meek and absolute power. And don'l in~ult me by quoting tbe Bible and calling yourselves rhe children of God. You are an abomination as are your friends. You support the deviation from all that is good. Man will always lead himself astray if he refures the reaching of his father. Your \Cnseless pursuit of your own objectives will only contribute to your eventual de\lruction. Save yourselves and keep your ~rmons for the rats."

Thas guy ISa,.... ... •ng 1diot! Hang· ing thi~ man from a barbed wire fence by his testicles 1s too good for him.

Sending him down a water :.tide, which has razor blade'> imbedded 1n the fibrcgla" surface, and warching as he fillet!. h1m\elf at 35 m1les per hour and lands m a pool of alcohol at the bottom i' a more filling fare.

Now before I go off too much (although I do find 11 to be quite fun) I'll reiterate the fact that he hasn't done anything illegal. Unfortunately crucifixiOn is no longer an accepted from of capital pumshmcnt.

Let's take a closer lo(lk at 'omc of the rhing~ he said. "Your live~ mean very little 10 me and anyone who is trying to follow the STRA lGIIT and narrow path... " Excu~>e me, but '>peak for your...elf. not the entire community. Some people don'r hl..e wedgcrab. but rhey have all the srune nghl\ a' the re<>t of u' They mo1y be a nunorit> but that is no reason for the majonty 10 persecute them. He 'illy rhat "A ~If serving auitude IS the :.urest road to hell on earth." Weill hope he likes 11 hot because I can already smell b1go1 nambe. Hi ~ cure for cvcrythmg IS "Give up your false individualities. It takes true strength to conform " These are the word~> of a "1oM soul" and "an abomination" who 1~ too

scared to confront his own identny.

He is afraid to look within him elf and di<;cover what i!t really there so he h1dcs behind hi~ prejudice. He menlion'> rebt!lliou\ness more than once.

He says wedgerots arc bt!mg rcbt!lliow. in order to avoid conformity. what he is doing ISconfusing diversuy w1th rebellion. T!li~ group i~> different than the majority. They arc pan of the community's diversity. They aren't necessarily rebelling. He i' right when he !lays "You and your friend\ arc united in suffering." They arc ,uffering becau:.e parts of a \ociety lack enough understanding to accept them a:. they are. Instead. the'>e part' of society fear them just because they are different and unfairly pt:f\ecute them. But "hat I find the most amu'>ing IS the quote "Man will alway~ lead hunsclf ru.tray if he refures the teaching of his father." Who was hb fa ther'? Charlel> Manson?

This kind of attitude '" dangcrou!> to our community and your society. If we arc so narrow-mmded that we cannot accept aiven.ity we arc condcmmng oursclve:.. ~Yes, let's conform . May we all bt! bigots for now and forever." Yeah. right! That 's crap. Thi\ attitude reminds me of Hitler and the Aryan theory. The idea that one master race will rule and nil noncomformists shall be eliminated.

Discrimination (defined as "actions based on prejudice") like this perpetuates itself and it can be seen in things as simple as " Fightingwords".

Here is the issue I explained two week<; ago. Fighting words. as defined by students and faculty in a rule prohibiting their use arc "speech that i!. intended to insult and stigmatize an individual or a small number of individuals on the basis of their sex, race, color. handicap. religion, sexual orientation or national and ethnic origin". Of course there is the argument of whether or not this IS a v1olauon of our rights to freedom of speech. It i~ my opinion that everyone has a right to their own views and everyone has a right to say what they want but there has to be a bound to this. We weren't given freedom of speech so we could use words to inflict pain upon other:..

If your views arc discnminatory or insulting fee l free to talk about them with people but don'r publici7.C them.

Freedom of Speech does not give you the right to harass people. You can be a bigot but don't advenise it, especially if you rc in the public'\ eye.

God know~ George BU.<.h would never have gotten elected if he publicly acknowledged that he was a bigot. A person m that type of position could be biased by his prejudice and would not make an entirely effective leader.

Well I've bled my ht Amendment rights all overthis page and I think I'm done. Erik sent me a nice, new platinum shovel this week but I think I'll need some hip boots if I have to deal with the person who wrote that letter. Please send some (si1-e 10 1/2) to me a1 Box 1589.

Observations From the Asylum Cover-Up?!?

by A/Jon Reich N~wspeak Stoff

Editor's nott: It should /)t noted that tht victim rt[erred tn in this com mentary chose not to rtport the incident to the poltct and instead chose to report it to WPI's ltgal system.

I must apologize r,.,r not having a column in the paper last week. When I tned to drop 11 off at Newspeak, no one was around, and so 11 didn't get pnnted.

Fortunately,lt wa.,n'tanything terribly special, so it doesn't really mauer.

Those of you who have been paying attention the past few weeks may have nouced several report'> of VIOlence perpetnued again\t and by WPI '>tudents 10 the pages ofNcw.,pcn.t... Wh1le campus security" chiefly the concern of Campu<, Police. I'm \Ure these event\ have u<, all a bll concerned. The inc1dcntthat has me mo\1 concerned IS

an alleged rape at a WPI fraternity, and the way it has been handled.

Normally when a rape occurs, the police force with jurisdiction conducr:. an invesrigation. arrests a su pect. and has him tried in a court of law. This case has me a bit confused, according to Bernie Brown, WPI is conducting its own investigation into the matter. Ha.~ Herr Strauss been deputized and told none of us about it? It smells like a cover up to me.

Why would the beloved head of our administmtion want to cover up an incident like this? Well, two reasons come to mind. Fin.t of all, let'> :.ay that you are a parent withadaughter (whlch I am) and she i thinking of attendmg WPI. Would you want to know about a rape involvang one of the msutu te~ fratcrnitie~? Strauss, in hi'> god-ltke Wl\dom. believe!. rhat parent'> don't want 10 know about such thing<,. I

submit to you rhat I would like to know about such things, and also that the animal responsible was publicly gutted and left to bleed to death on the quad as an e11ample for others who might commit similar acts.

Another reason for not wanting a public investigation is that an outsider might conclude that in some way the entire fraternity acted as an accessory to the crime. This might end up in the entire membership facmg criminal charges. All the alumni who belonged to the fraternity would be very upset and stop donnung money 10 the school. If that happened our fearless lender maght not be able to g1vc hirnM!If a pay rai!.c next year. and that would be bad.

To be rnarginall> ftur. I really do want to know why WPJ and not the Worce,ter Police are conductmg an in\·estigatlon IIllO an IOCidCntiOVOlv-

ing a potentially dangerous and psychotic individual. Why the event is being invesrigated in this manner is incomprehensible to me and I hope that Bernie Brown will come forward with some of the details of this incident. I

also hope that he is willing to give a clue as to what will happen to the animals responsible. 1 can only pray that they will not get away with just a slap on the wrist. bur l suppose public execution is a bit much to ask ror.

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Injuries ravage the WPI Ski Team

by Jon D. ) . Webster On February 2nd and 3rd 1he WPI Alpine Ski team competed at Burke m nonhem Vermont. In Saturday's slalom the women's team placed sixth. Tori Pesek captured second place in the slalom. Jcnn Shiel was in nimh place after the morning run. but fell in the afternoon run. injuring her knee. Get well soon Jen. the whole team is hoping for your ~:opeedy recovery. The women':. tcam came in founh place in Sunday's gialll \ lalom race, aided by Tori Pesek's Lh1rd place fini h, Wendy Sear's eleventh place fim~h and Beth McGee's lwenticth place finish.

Tori Pescl.. is now in third place in the women 'o; overall s1andings. while Wendy Sears is in eigh1h place. The women's 1eam is now in a tie for second place in the overall team Mandings.

The men's team took fifth place in the slalom race on Saturday, with excellent finishes from Burrill Haag in third. and Jon (D.J.) Webster in Lhineenth. In Sunday's giant slalom race the men's team fini:.hed in sixth place. Burrill Haag took ~cvenlh place. and Igor Manoylovich Look sixteenth place in Sunday's giant slalom.

Burrill Haag is tied for third place in the men' overall standings. The men·~ team is still solidly holding to the sixth place. In a training

fall on Tuesday, D.J. broke hjs ankle and will probably be out for the year. Drink lots of milk and gel well soon D.J. Jack Whitman broke his hand during trruning on Tuesday night. which makes two broken hand this year. Get well quickly Jack. I sympathize with your mjury.

The WPI Alpine Ski Team will be l"dCing a double slalom at Bo-.que in western Maqsachusetts February ninth and tenth. and a double giant slalom at Haystack in southern Vermont February sixteenth and seventeenth. Come and watch the WPI Alpine Ski Team compete and have ~orne fun. Ski fast and win some race~ for those on the di \abled h t!!!

Men's and Women's Basketball Womens: VS

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Game Highlights: Michele LeBoeuf 24 pts. 8 of 15 from the fl~r Kim Gobis 14 of 15 freethrows WPI shol 48% from 1he fl oor and 7 1~ for free throws Score By Periods INt H. 2nd J-1.

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Game llighlights: Michele I eBoeuf 21 pt,, 9 of 1-l tmm 1he floor Laune McCabe I0 rebound ~ Michelle Bullcll 12 poinb

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CLUB CORNER Alpha Phi Omega

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Hi, I'm oock with another colorful and informative Club Comer. Let's see... first, Happy Birthday to Brothers Rob Tarr and Marc Cassero and prospective Sue Heath. Next, the I1st of things to do this tenn just keep!> getting longer and longer.

THINGS TO DO: SERVANT AUCTION-TODAY!!

Need your laundry (or some other awful task) done? Well. don't do it! Buy someone to do it for you. The auction begins at 4:30 in the lower wedge this afternoon.

TROOPS Though Shep has little hair, I mean time, he has been working quite hard on this. A necessities drive has begun for supplies that our troops involved in Operation Desert Stonn need. Lists are posted and boxes are located in the bookstore and (hopefully) all residence halls. Please give generously.

RUSH It's still going on. Interested in APO? Contact Keith Box 932.

CONCLAVE It's coming soon! Sign up to help, because everyone needs to be there to keep things organ· ized. See Bill.

Happy Valentines Day!!

At least for those among us who have valen· tines.

Awesome party Rob, AI, and Keith.

THANK YOU The Prince of Darkness would like to remind you aJI of the first commandment: Thou shall not mix.

Sell Yourself: today.

Kevin is still a slug.

Not!!

Welcome Prospective Pledges.

More romances among the officers?? or Less?

Bad Bubble means big things for those in the Know.

Hey, Paul shaved his beard ofn!

Mark's joke isn ' 1 a secret anymore!

Yes EO, NOW!!

That's all for now. See Ya Later. ME Men's Bowling Club JO was unable to come to you this week so here I am. the Legend Killer. We had a very successful weekend, destroying plenty of pins.

First. let's hear the truth about our captain.

He ducked everyone just so he could go take some points. Even then he couldn't bear everyone.

News1ine: RPI demolished by the big black machine. All the great legends fell. including Brian Thompson. Jimmy Joe Bob Cavanaugh (oops sony about the u) whipped the Gibber though. the only good thing about that was I don't owe him 6 beers anymore.

Anotherteam triumph as#l ULowell falls to the mighty hands ofWPI. Hey Pat, in your faccf. yeah right between your eyes.

In doubles the Castaways lost their rir;t point. Sony Skipper. As well Gilligan and the Skipper did better than the A and B teams.

The question I have is not Who is Oarkman? but who is the Shaft? This is a new enemy that WPI has been confronting and maybe with a role of the Dice( man) we could d1spose of this.

Oh. Don how does 11 feel to get beat by a girl who tarted bowling rwo months ago. I'm not sexiSt. I'm glad she won. Thil> guy was a real puck, I thmk he played for Nonh Stars.

Now for some awards: Best quote • "No playmg on the concourse."

Gibber '>By~. "Krusher.ldidn't know this was an airport."

Be<;t Shoes · The new Kru~her Dextel's Worst Shoes - Andy Lewin. MIT. maybe they would look beller if you stopped kicking machines.

Best Game • New velcro ball. hours of fun, come out of a bowling meet.

Best Recovery - Chuck Best Cook • Mrs. Coach. We need more brownie~.

Biggest Guns· We~t Point's women's team.

Well. Mr. + Mrs. Cardimino just went on their honeymoon and I have to go to bowl. Hey. what sport is beller than one where you can be out of shape. It truly has been a pleasure entertaining myself. Yours truly, Krusher.

Mike Legend Killer.

P.S. Till nex\ week, hopefully I'll be back. write to Box 2578 to hear my version every week.

Bilaga Hi all, Well. there should be a meeting (tonite I believe- ifth1 i~ Tuesday). Get in touch with me or G. to find out when and where - we now have a •new• and •improved• meeting place.

To be discussed at the meeting: The NELGSA conference in Virgmia - anyone interested in gomg, be at the meeting. Also,

there is a Worcester based dance in the wort.s. It is scheduled for February 16 (Saturday) at Hpm. Tickets are S2 with a \tudent I. D.• and $4 without a student I. D. SSA has abo menttoned that they are Lrymg to get aT-shin made which many of the people in BiLAGA would be interc~ted in.

See you tonite ...

Kelli Anyone with question~concemmg BiLAGA can contact: Shane McBride. Box 828; Janet Richardson, Dean of Students Office; or send mail to BiLAGA in the Student Activities Ofrice. All inquire!! are confidential.

Christian Bible Fellowsh ip Hi everybody! If you're interested in a Bible discussion group or have any questions. spiri· tual or other. just drop a note in our Mudent activities box.

We will be l>ponsorlng a presentation on creation and evolution, Tuesday. Feb. 12th (TOOA Y!) at 7 pm in Kinnicull Hall. You've probably seen the "ORIGINS?" posters hanging around campus. It will be both informative and enlightening. The speaker will be Babu Rnnganathan. Babu was born in Madras. India and at an early age emigrated with his family to the United States. Mr. Ranganathan was raised in a traditional Hindu family but during his teenage years recognized that he was sinner who needed forgiveness. He found forgiveness and salvation in Jesus Christ.

Many people think that getting to heaven is a matter of weights. If the good I do outweighs the bad I do, then with any luck. I should make it.

Besides, I am not as bad as Bob next door. I mean I've never killed anyone or anything. The only really bad thing l'vedone is, well, it wasn't THAT bad anyway. I'm generally a pretty good person.

We all know good people who are doing things. trying to get into heaven. Things like going to church regularly, giving 10 charities. obeying the Ten Commandments, living a good life. community service. All of these represent things that a person does or tries to do. They reflect the popular idea that eternal life in Heaven is a reward to be won. Maybe you're one of these people. So long as we think that we must cam eternal life, we can never be sure we've done enough to deserve Heaven.

However. getting to Heaven IS not like that.

In fact . it's much simpler. "For it b by grace you have been saved. through faith - and th1s not of yourselves, it is the gift of God · NOT by works, so that no one can boast." (Eph. 2:8-9) You see, there is nothing you can do to earn your way to Heaven. "All our righteous nets are like filthy rags." (Isaiah64:6) Bullherc is good news! God has provided the way for all people to have eternal life in Heaven.

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father. except through me.

- Jesus Christ (John 14:6) Fencing Club REMINDER: Eleclions are today! Come elect your new officers. nnd let me rest in peace.

I hope to see a major turnout today. Abo. epee fence-offs arc today. No pract1ce on Thursday.

Hope everyone has a great Valentine·._ day.

(Someone tell me later how mine went.)

On Feb. 2, ~vera I of us trekked out to Concord Carlisle High School and had ~orne interesting piaa. if not such a great day of fencing.

(Trust me. ham and pineapple i ~ a k1ller pizza.)

As a team we lost to CCHS 9- 18. lost to Riverside 8- 19. and lost to St. John ·s Prep 6-21. I am proud to say. however. that our fo1ltcam had a winning day. We beatCCHS 6-3.andRiverside 5-4. ln total the foili~t~ went 14- 13 forthe day.

Sabre went 5-22, and the epee1M 4-23. Joe walked away with the best personal record of the · day with 6 wins and 3 lo!.se~. Both Kevin and I went 4 and 5. (I also lost my 3 subre bouts.)

Sean. Bill, Mark and Brian all went 2-7. Tom picked up a sabre abd actually managed to win ~neofhis bouts. Dandidn 't pick up any wins for the day. but did manage to go Ia belle a couple of times.

February 23rd is fast approaching. Joe and I are fencing foil, it look lit.e Bill and Archie for sabre (I could be wrong), an the epee <;landing~ to date are very close. Gary has 8 wins, Brian and Mark have 7 wins, and Dan ha~ 2. (Remem· ber guys. I'm not just looking for wins though. fencing is a gentlemen's spon.)

In fores1ght. it was great to ~e Tom. Rob. Jim and Yvonne at our Fnday night madness. I hope to still be the holder of the record,4.33S!.et on 1/18191. In two days I enter the senior div1sion. Yvonne - Cherubino says " wlbhing machine."

Thanks to all (Tom. Rick. Coach. Doug.Jafo, Joe, etc.) for makmg my year (eternity) as cap tain (dictator) such fun (hell).

Attack arrives. touche right. Bout nght • Bruce.

Men's G lee Club Today IS Lincoln's binhday. ' o a happy birthday to him. Also. a happy b1nhday to Bruce M. on the 17th. I believe. Don't forget the Carbo-load on Saturday. It will start 111 6:00 or so and will entail much consumption of ~pa­ gheui. bread. and other foods/beverages derived from grains. Be sure to contact Brillo if you intend to go.

Hope that all who auended the $.99 movie night enjoyed it. Actually. I hope I enjoyed it, 100. seeing that I'm writing this before Sunday.

I guesss I did. After all. it was at my apartment. 'Remember- the phone-a-thon dates have been changed to Feb. I I and 18 and we •re really going to plug the Alumni Concert to them our alums. This will probably have a lot of bearing of the cost of the tour next yeann so sign up for a time 10 work the phones and BE THERE. More Wheel of Fortune: (clue: another reference to Wheaton) __ ER T _ E ---- _ EN _ E

there will be an open meeting thb Wednesda) at 4:30 1n Morgan A todiscusssomeofthe detml \.

The lollery will occur during D-tenn (so get p<;yched pledges! -Wait. We don't have pledges. I must have slipped into the alternate reality of the Greek Comer.) So be prepared to make !>orne final decisions on where your hablt:lttng next ye11r.

The eternally on-going process of gathering mfonnation and trying to improve daka is making progress. Granted, its moving at the same pace as the lines at daka, but we are optimio;tic. We may do a survey sometime soon and we hope to get a response from all I I00 of you who are effected by daka.

We have weekly meetings on Wednesday at 4:30 in the Harrington Conference Room, but tomorrow is an uncommon exception. We will be meeting at 3:45 instead. New members are always welcome. We need them Lo replace victims of last weeks meeting (pany}. I told Russ not to go for that 2 1{2 minute keg stand but he wouldn'tlisten. Until next time- TCMN M uslim Student Association

Outing Club Hello everyone. For those of you who don't know yet, there isanoutingclubat WPI. We've been very active so far this year and have a lot of trips planned for the near future. The next trip is a hike up Mt. Lafayette on Feb 15 + 16 (Fri + Sat). The weekend afrer that Dave Toupin is leading a ski trip (if it snows) ora mountain hike.

There may or may not be a third trip before our spring break trip to the Applachian Trail. If you'd like more infonnation on these or other trips come to our meetings on Wednesdays at 7:00 in Higgins 224. If you want to get on our mailing list contact Bob Mason (Box 2957).

We're also planning a wide variety of trips for D-term. Come join us!

P.S. Ifyou 're interested and worried because you don't have much experience, don't wony.

The club has equipment and people who cnn show you everything you need to know.

Residence Hall Council

Last week. afrer we tapped the kegs and went through a few rounds of quarters. the members of RHC got down to business.

The Housing Lottery is coming up soon and

Last week Muslim Student Association invited a speaker. Dr. Allen Austin. from Spring· field College. He presented historicaJ facts concerning the history of African-American Muslims.

Our future activities will take place at the end oftheCultural FestivaJ Week (from March 22 to March 27. 1991 ). In other words, CuJturaJ Festi vaJ will take place on March 27, 1991 , in Alden HaJJ from lOam to 3pm. For those who do not know, Cultural Festival is one of the biggest activities sportsored by International SAtudent Council (lSC). All the intemationaJ clubs on campus get a chance to display their culture through various media. Last year was the first year that MSA took parr in Cultural Festival and those who were there know it was very successful. MSA is planning to make it even better this year which can onJy be accomplished by input from its members. Your ideas and concerns are always welcomed.

Please contact Rizwan Qureshi at WPI Box N260 I or caJI for more infonnation nnd to offer your input. The executive committee is planning 10 have a generaJ meeting very soon. You will be notified of the time. Thank you for your interest.

Due to scheduling conflicts with the performer, the presentation of Comedian Mario Joyner at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Friday, February 15, 1991 has been cancelled.

...sorry for the • • 1nconven1ence ...

We will continue to bring you the best possible shows.

Please send questions and/or suggestions to SocComm in the Student Activities Office.

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GREEK CORNER Alpha Chi Rho Greettng\ from 8 Boynton St. Everything conttnue\ to go well here. as long as Songer doe\n't get too involved and mess 11 all up. The second postulant/brothers retreat over the weekend was mformattve and Mimul:uing. and a good ume was had by all. A good ttme was not had by the pledge~ several time~ during the week. First they allempted 10 fool the brothers by walking out of a surrounded house, and hiding in Fruit St. ltving room. If il were not for the vigilance of the Boynton St. brothers, however. the Fruit St. guys would have been too engrossed in Spt>rts Channel and the pledges probably would not have been noticed. Good luck in your next (several) auempts, po:.tulants. Then there was that embarra~singly ~hon. a boned kidnapping of certain people on a certain noor in a certain dorm. which the brothers had under complete control until. of course. the postulants had to come and cause l>UCh a ruckus (they screamed like the girhe they arc!) that we almost all got arre ted. (Lighten up.

Lisa!) Thanks a lot. postulants, we were lool..ing forward to the brownie!. and beer. On a more happy and productive note, everybody get really psyched for the North Adams Hot Legs contest on Friday. Swindle says that Blume will be coming up to help him win. (By the way, Nate. I would lil..e the wait-on for Wednesday night.

Thanks.) There arc some strange rumors about a big pany in the Cave tomorrow night, silly tuned for details.

Its BYOB of course. Roses to Jonas for no apparent reason. just becuuse he's a swell guy.

Alpha Gamma Delta Hi guys! Hope you 'reaII hanging in there and not giving in to the evil Cterm blues! I thought the talent show was quite abri&ht spot in this otherwise killer term. Congratulations to all of the freshman cla.o;s for doing such a great job pulling it together. Of course... we thought our pledges were the It I act of the night but perhaps we are a linle bit biased. After all we think it 's hard to forget that they are the greatest, most psyched bunch of chicks ever to hit the WPI campus.

Jodi, HOW DOES IT FEEL?!

Welcometothe 21 club! I guess you'll be a regular down at the local bars!

Good luck to all of our contestants in the Dating Game. The question is..."Which one of you lucky guys gets a free date with an Alpha Gam!" Pledges: Super job on the Standars Program at last weeks meeting. You really touched a lot of sisters with your sincerity and imtiative. Hope you enjoyed the cake Tara got you. I know we did! You guys are doing great with your gigbooks and your enthusiasm is refreshing and appreciated. We love you guys!

OK enough mushy stuff! Sisters: Down the house 2-nite at 6 for Rachael's friendship efforts! Also pll"dge sleepover tomorrow - you d idn 'tleave

the !.kits to be made up at the last minute did you? NO'! Of cou~ not! I Great! C-ya nex.t week!

Alpha Gamma Delta Pledge Column We d1dn 'twin. but we are wmners.

Working on the talent show together was great fun for everyone. Thanks 10 everyone involved (e!opecially Mary) in making this event such a great success. Of course, we would like 10 extend congratulations to the actual winners. Great Job! Thanks 10 the sisters for the special treat last Thursday night. Swim season'-; finally over.

Karen. Sue. Carla and Kim no one could ever call any of you one of the 4 s.s. Tara we're all happy to learn you've moved past icecream. Project!\ arc going great. Who can wait to see what new inventive idea will show up in your mailbox! Dayna we're all glad to see you're feeling betler. We've m1Sl>Cd you. Vee and Hollybeth - glad to sec you've found a way to get a date.

Everyone remember unity and stan gelling ready for the pledge sleepover.

Alpha Tau O mega There are a lot of negative vibes going on in the Tau house in the pa't couple of weeks. Tuck says the tall. lanky guys are the source of it all and the shon, stocky guys should pumble it out of them. I wonder why Tuck baid that? Mac and Pal are trying to change it all by making the "whimps" (I could think of the actual word. but...) of the house drink because if you drink. then you're cool. So Mac has everyone scheduled to a specific night.l He's sure it will work.

The Annoyance Award of the Week goes to Sug and Brownie. Everyone on the third noor voted for Brownie because of the stench, but Cote' had a big pull for Sug to even it out. If Sug doesn't steal the Nintendo. there will be a tournament held m the top deck.

There is small talk about boxing returning to Tuesday nights. the top contenders are Chris " I want you.

Pipes" Fiacco. Andy "I can kickbox too" garreu, Steve"l'm back for more" Baker. and Ed "Brain Dead" Kelley.

But the main man is Dawg Balls who I believe said. "Keep thecamero moving because I'm kind of fast."

Anyways, did someone say GOLDFISH? Kingy said'he will try to break something Friday night because he wants everyone to hate him again. Quit your whining, baby!

Delta Pbi Epsilon Greetings to the sisters and pledge!> of D Phi E!!! Yet another week of Cterm has passed and we all know what that means... Pledges better be on your guard and always remember those dimes...you never know when a sister might need one! The sisters are proud of you so just keep up the psyche and you 'II be rewarded soon enough. Better get that pledge project done and don '1 forget your big sisters. We can't wait to see how creative you've been.

But watt... tt seem ~ that congratula· !Ions arc in order. ·our ~ister Kate has rece1ved a JOb offer from Generol Electnc. Now G.E ha~ to deal with you Kate!! But o,eriously. the rest of the l>emor; are jealous and can't wait until 11 I'> their tum. In other news ... we all l..now that elections for executive offices were held recently and I am proud to announce next year''l executive board.

Pres1dent - Valerie Kschmka Vice Pres. - Julie Bailly Treasurer - Veda Ulcickas Secretary - Lauro Gregory Rush Chair - Aimee Brock I would at thb time also like to congratulate Miss Wanda Gleason who will represent u' as Panhel V.P. Activitie'>.

No1 much else to ~ay but u ccnain Sl'lterwanto; us to know that if the Eanh moves one more time ...she's gonna fall off! ARMY RULES!! Hope the pledge' and everyone else had a great time at the BBQ Friday. The seniors probably ate every1hing anyway ...

Before I forget . Happy Birthday Ban now you'rcold too! (But ~he love!. you anyway... ) Has everyone seen Wanda lately'!? Just wondering because there isa lot le ., of her... Hope all that went to the Snowball had an awesome time!

Chns Pi ~oz unfortunately misl>Cd out. A special thank you to Chris Ematrudo for being there. And lastly. when will Val adm11 that she is mamed?'! Til next lime - JSL Phi Sigma Sigma Bonjour. Sistefl> of Mercy! Well, let's see. what do we have going on this week'? Tonight is the Dating Game. brain child of our own Cathy F., sponsored by the Sophomore Class. I just know you're all gomg 10 be there to watch our sisters ..et up! Don 't forget to bake cookies or brownies or crispie treats (the bigge. 1 seeler of them all!) for the adjoimng cafe!

Valentine's Day i' coming up on Thursday. so buy your loved one a nower. It jusl so happens that those good ol' Phi Sig girll> are selling them m the wedge this week ! What's that you ~ay, you don't have a loved one?

So buy one for your professor (brown nose!) or send one to a friend to make them think they have an admirer! ls anyone going to the Snowball?

Just checkmg! Hey, the housing lottery is tomorrow night, so get psyched on living in our totally awesome Nationally recogni1,cd house! (I know Tori is still looking for a roommate, but you better catch her on a good day because she tells me the women's ski team doesn't really kick bull. only maybe a knee!) Speaking of knees. we're all hoping that Jen S. 1s feeling (and hobbling about) much beller!

How did the pledges like seeing the sun come up this morning? There will be plenry more sunrises in the future. don't you worry! Just a little piece of adv1se, get your homework done and make sure you have a dime on you at all times: it's a long walk home from the Maine-Canadian border!

A liule reminder to all the sisters to

make an appointment with the1r advisor for Academic Advio.ing Day' A few of us would like to say hello to an ATO pledge named Dave. Sec. we're not o;nobs! Stacey was wondering where the Phantom Phi hll!.been lately.

When asked how her love life wll!. going, Amy C. rephed. ·•excellent,ju.,t as planned!" Special hello~ thb week to Sluggo. Dara. Anneue. Cari. and Kim. "SiMerhood doesn't happen to everyone. It i'l more ~pecialthan that."

LITP.

We are also pleased to announce that we have staned Spring Rush! On Tuesday night. Fran Branco, Chris Mu~ic. Joel Be log, Robert Enters. Ben Lee. Tony Campbell. and Ian Faass jomed us for dinner. We will be having Spring Rush eventS through the end of C term so come up 10 the house and check things out. The doors ofTKE re always open.

Good luck on these last two week!>.

Then ... Spring Break! Remember.

TKE - The Time is NOW

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Zeta Psi

TUCK-IN Help fight Muscular Dystrophy by donating $2.00 to the MDA for being tucked in to bed. read a bedtime story. and~ungasong. Call 757- 1767 or83 17279 for details.

Attention! (Message Cleared By U.S. Armed Forces) The corresponding !>ecretury hu~ been detained by the imperiali~t forces now in control of the house - On 6 February I 99 I. at approximately 2200 houfl>. former Marine ROTC Peter Chestna seized military leadership of Zeta Psi Pi Tau chapter from Michael Bradford. declaring a state of emergency and enstating maniallaw,this is Wolf Blitzer reponing hve from The Pentagon. Ousted leader Michael "I thought! told you not to bring orange!> to class!" Bradford has sought asylum in an unamed Western consulate.

Congratulations Pete!

But scriouslr, folks. Peter Che~tna wao, elected our new president. Good luck. and may the forces of evil become confused on the way to your room Also of importance. kudos to all of the brothers who have helped make our MDA Jail'n ·Bail fund raiser come together. Tomorrow we will be arresting the persons who were so graciously named by their friends. and completing the "Bail" portion of our fund raiser.

Thank you to all of the people who have donated their hard earned cash to embarrass their friends! Another LTI, another spring, hope you guys had great time! How was Boston anyway?

Dave, get a new pairof headphones.

Arc you dumb or what? Hey Duck, next lime you need a ride to the hill, try to ask someone who isn't serious- ly 1njurcd....just a thought. Long live the KwoatSheep! Notcraw.CRAW! Hey Pyro. how's the land of the lo 1 (or engaged. as the case may be)?

Marshall, can the pen on TV do that? If could do that with a Semprini pen like BOND? that .....PEANUTS MR. Lucas, waking everyone up on saturday mornings at 8:00 am could have serious physical consequences.. .like pre-mature death! Just some friendly advice, from the acting Minister of Propaganda. Skin, what will you do with all of your spare lime now? Boredom is the mind- killer. " Bob'' is.

George. what happened? I look in your Columbia CD magazine to buy mabye two discs, and I end up signing up for ten ...go figure. A special thanks to authority of all kinds from Joseph Wisgirda, thank you for the blanket!

So until next week- this has been a Zeta Psi special broadcast! Later, and I am ouna here......

Sigma Pi Here it is sport-; fans. the result" of another succe~\ful D-tem1 b:~~>l..c tball sea on. We fimshcd up with an lll'>pirmg 0-7 record while reaching new levels of stupidity m game play. Th1s season the 'AXT SLAM' and the ' RECfALFLAME' ~ere added to the team' playbook. Spcakmg of rectal name!> lthmk we all know who the real winners of I he talent show were. The judges obviously couldn't sec the genius behind the music. Johny Sphincter's moving vocals about Steve·., baiLie with his own aroma brought the fans to a screaming frenq at the stage.

Gash. the bastard son of Julia Childs, and Stanley, rumored to be the mutant offspring of an ancient Albanian pygmy tribe, were the driving force behind the Flame's outrageous llhow.

Next performance- Beach Puny.

Miracle Mile ticket loUie~ are underway. It'!. up to the brother\ ad pledge<., to make it a succc\s. But more Important than that, I think we arc all sleeping eas1er now ever :.ince Chasse took 11 upon himself to check the fire alarm :.ystem. Thanks goe!. out also to Dan for keeping us amused all last week.

From Maries of high !.Chool abuse to tales of hi, infatuation wtth bemg abducted and handcuffed. he's always good to laugh at. Butt hen again, that's what cartoons are for. Will there be a SAKI PARTY II? (please no!) By the way pledges still suck, bring back my clock!

Tau Kappa Epsilon Greetings from 63 and 65 Wachuseu Street! Last week turned out to be a real success. Our New Members completed the linal event of their education and we had a great party Friday night. We would lil..e 10 thank the Barretts and Tuppy for the generous as:.istance in coordinating the New Member's last event.

To the New Members. congratulations on two note!.. First, the talent show was beyond all expectations.

Secondly, congratulatio~ for finishing the first. ever New Member Program. Three unforgettable years lay ahead of you- Lake advantage of them.

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POLICE LOG Monday January 28, 1991 9:2 1am- MEDICAL EMERGENCY: R.A. requesung n!l\1\lance wnh studem who pas~ed outm the 'hower. EMS responds. student t mn~ported to Heahh Serv1ces.

T ufsday, January 29. 1991 9:09am- LARCENY: Report of Larceny from Kaven Hall office. Orticer investigates. report filed.

Wednesday, January 30. 1991 I2:00am-NOISE COMPLAINT: Call reportmg loud screammg at SAE Fratemny hou-;e. Officer reports house advi ..ed.

Saturday, february 2. 1991 I2:32am- INTOXICATED PERSON: Call received from city addres' reponing intoxicated :.tudcnt there in need of medical attention. Officer respond~. ~tudent refusmg treatment.

9:55 pm-MEDICAL EMERGENCY: Report of female in Stoddard complex with pos!>lble broken ankle. EMS respond!.. student trnn~po rted to hospital.

Sunday, f ebruary 3, 1991 5: 14pm- MEDICAL EMERGENCY: Report of student with knee injury in Daniels Hall. Officer trlln,pons tudent to hospital.

SAFETY TIP. On~ nftlr~ 11WSI e.ffeclll'f! theft prt'1·~n11nn mrtlwds IS awurt'lwu. luhs. pltase report u11.v suspu·ious flt'I'SOII or actn•it\' mthe huildiiiJ(S.

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