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Residence hall networking being considered

by Joel W atterman, Class o f ‘97 and Jesse Zbikow ski, Class o f '97 “Networking,” said John Miller, Di­ rector of Plant Services and chairman of the ad hoc dorm-wiring committee, “ is becoming a way of life.” With this in mind, the Board of Trustees will consider a proposal later this month to wire all of the WPI residence halls for the next academic year. The proposal would involve providing campus-wide telephone service, computer connec­ tions, and cable television jacks lo every room in the dorms. John Miller and his colleagues have been studying the feasibility of networking the cam­ pus together through an intracampus freeway of data exchange. Just how the project would figure into next year’s budget is yet to be decided.

Anyone who has ever fought for a free line over the modem knows that WPI has a problem with connecting personal computers to the network.

According to Allen Johannessen, Di­ rector of Academic Timesharing, if the proposed plan goes through, every room

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dents to connect at 10 Megabits per would have a connection for each res­ Many students, however, want to read ident. This connect ion would link PCs second to a backbone running at 100 news, talk with friends, read e-mail, to the Novell file server, allowing stu­ Megabits from any of the satellite lo­ and MUD from theirown rooms. Over cations (Residence Halls) to the WPI dents to access all of W PI’s on-line 700 warnings for computer system software from their rooms. Document computers. The wiring will be a mix of abuse have been given so far this aca­ p rep a ra tio n so ftw are such as fiber-optic FDD1 and unshielded twist­ demic year, many of them because of ed pair cable. This will replace the WordPerfect, math and CAD packag­ modem misuse. With the Ethernet es, sp re a d sh e e ts, and connections, students will Internet resources could be have access to the entire used through the familiar Internet at their disposal for W ith the E th e rn e t co n n e ctio n s, stu d e n ts will “black and yellow lettering” personal use, in their rooms. h a ve access to the en tire In te r n e t at th e ir automenu screens. Access A n o th er asp ec t of the d isp o sa l f o r p e rso n a l use, in tlic ir room s. would probably be available project would be replacing the on a subscription basis or it current phone system with the might be included in the on-campus WPI switchboard, room fees. Students who wish to take serial lines which currently connect which would have to be upgraded. advantage of the network must have an the terminals in the dorms. With these This means that students would no Ethernet adapter card, which can be high speed Ethernet lines to every longer receive local service directly obtained for about the price of a m o­ room, the clogged modem lines will from New England Telephone, but become obsolete. dem. from a WPI operator. They would also This Ethernet connection would en­ It is estimated that 60% to 75% of be using the same long-distance that able high speed data transmission, and WPI students have a PC in their room.

WPI uses, and be billed through the would allow you to connect anytime Even though eight new modem lines Institute. Students could, however, without having to wait for a free line. have recently been added. Johannessen use the long distance service of their Right now, the WPI system has only 28 feels that modems will never be ade­ choice if they employed acalling card, modems which operate at maximum quate for student’s needs. Because of or dialed the operator to use another speed of 9600 bits per second. The long-distance service. Additionally, the scarcity of modems, they are cur­ Ethernet connection would allow stu­ each room will be provided with a rently reserved for academic use only.

phone line for each occupant, so that students could have their own person­ al lines if they so desire.

Included in the wiring plan is the prospect of cable TV services in each room. Currently, the cable companies are refusing to provide cable service on a per-room basis, but rather charge a fee for the entire building, irrespec­ tive of who wants to receive the signal.

This will have to be worked around if the re-wiring is to include cable.

One major concern with the project is the anticipated cost of initial setup, which could be around one million dol­ lars. Once this capital is invested, the project is expected to pay for itself. One idea is to make the Ethernet service available on a subscription basis, at about $20 per month. At this rate if there were 500 subscribers or more, the project would become completely selfsufficient. Other options include incor­ porating costs into room charges, al­ though this is not as likely. The budget proposal will be reviewed in mid-Feb­ ruary by the Board of Trustees and a final decision is expected by May.

The Student Newspaper of Worcester Polytechnic Institute

N e w sp e a k Tuesday, February 8, 1994

Volume Twenty-two, Number Four

Time for students to rediscover the Career Development Center

by E ric Craft Associate Editor The Career Development Center (CDC) is located on the third floor of Boynton Hall. The mission of the CDC according to Yvonne Harrison, Director of the CDC is: “To assist all students in obtaining career informa­ tion and gaining experiential knowl­ edge (through Cooperative Education and summer jobs).”

The first half of the mission (to

help students obtain career informa­ tion) is accomplished through a vari­ ety of programs. The CDC starts the year with a Career Development Day in A Term, where students can go to learn what companies are interview­ ing on campus and also make contacts for the future. Then, throughout the year, seminars are held on summer jobs, co-op, resume writing, and oth­ er activities. There is also a software program called “Resume Expert” of­ fered that helps students design their

resume in the proper format. Using the “ Resume Expert” allows the CDC to compile an Electronic Resume Book which is a compilation of all the stu­ dents that have made resumes on “Resume Expert”. The Electronic Resume Book can then be sent to interested companies. There are also other software tools available from the CDC: xinfo (a database on wpi that h as in fo rm atio n on C D C ), CDCnews (a news group on wpi ded­ icated to the CDC), SIGI Plus (a ca-

WPI receives manufacturing grant WPI announced that it has received $64,000 from the AT&T Foundation that will be divided among the de­ partments of Mechanical Engineer­ ing, Civil Engineering, Mathemati­ cal Sciences and Management. This represents that latest installment of the $200,000 Manufacturing Tech­ nology Grant the AT&T Foundation

awarded the institute last year.

Presented in three installments, the grant is designated for the develop­ ment o f a new integrated case study m e th o d o lo g y for th e s c h o o l’s multidisciplinary manufacturing en­ gineering education program.

“With the AT&T grant, we will be able to incorporate the new case study

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methodology into the school’s manu­ facturing and engineering programs at both the graduate and undergradu­ ate levels,” says Diran Apelian, WPI Provost.

“We have seen AT&T’s efforts effectively change engineering edu­ cation on a number of campuses across the country,” notes Apelian. We an­ ticipate similar innovations in sever­ al different departments.”

Richard D. Sisson, associate head of the Mechanical Engineering and head of WPI’s manufacturing pro­ grams, says the AT&T grant will en­ able the manufacturing faculty to use the integrated case study approach throughout the manufacturing curric­ ulum, with at least one case study used in every course. He says the m ethod will also stren g th en the multidisciplinary nature of the manu­ facturing program, which is one of only 11 such programs in the country accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

The AT&TManufacturingTechnology Grants Program was established to support the development of graduate and undergraduate curricula that in­ clude state-of-the-art manufacturing practices. The program is directed by a committee which, with input from AT&T’s manufacturing community, invited 19 colleges and universities to submit proposals. The manufacturing Technology Grants were awarded to 11 schools and totaled $2,087,000.

recr information and graduate school database), and NEWS (a database o f immediate job openings). The CDC also offers a job hot-Unes thal have information about available jobs and campus interviews and workshops. A bi-monthly newsletter is also created detailing exactly what is happening on campus concerning career oppor­ tunities and workshops.

The CDC also has an adv isory board of students. Ideas arc presented to the students and they respond with their feelings and suggestions as to what new directions the center might take.

It is true that the CDC offers all these services, but according to Alyce Pack, there are improvements that could be made. Alyce Pack is on the advisory board for the CDC. She says that the board has a lot o f ideas for improving the CDC, but that the board has not met since A Term. Ms. Pack stated that the people in the CDC try very hard to provide excellent servic­ es to the community, but that they fall short in one area - advertisement.

She believes that for major events such as the Career Development Day in A Term, there should have been

much more publicity to encourage students from all levels to attend and not just seniors. She also believes that the CDC has very good services, but not many people know about them.

According to Ms. Pack, the CDC of­ fers services that are at least as im­ portant as QuadFest because it con­ cerns a students future; and should be advertised as such.

Other seniors have also had some feedback for the CDC. One student stated that he thought the co-op and summer job programs were excel­ lent, but the job placement programs needed improvement. “The CDC doesn’t do much of the work for you, they force you to go out and find a job.

I have heard from my friends at other colleges that their CDC does much more toensure that students get jo b s.”

The CDC does provide a lot of services for students. The major prob­ lem with the organization seems to be that not enough people know what it hastooffer. There will be a follow up article in next w eek’s paper, so if there is any feedback to this article please contact Eric Craft at 791 -4838 or email eacraft@ wpi.edu.

Stefos on health care

by Brant Sm ith Class o f ’94 Last Tuesday, the Global A ffairs Party invited Dr. Ted Stefos to speak to the WPI community on the issue o f National Health Care Reform. Dr. Stefos, WPI Class o f ’76, had previ­ ously served on the Quantatitative A nalysis W orking Group for the White House Health Care Task Force headed by H illary C linton. T he Quantatative Analysis Group focused on economic models and the rational for the proposals, now in front o f Congress, to be formulated around.

In his speech. Dr. Stefos provided an objective and candid look at the proposals, outlining the ideas and th e­ ories that the plan is based upon, but also pointing out some trouble spots

and areas where the Health Care Plan’s theories might break down.

In the question and answer sec­ tion of the presentation. Dr. Stefos fielded many questions on some of the controversial points of the Health Care Plan. Those points included whether Federal Funds would be used for abortions. Health Care benefits for the very young and old might be reduced, health care in rural areas might be dim inished, and what is going to happen in the future when baby-boomer generation retire and less and less labor force would be available.

The speech has been recorded on video tape and is available to the WPI community. If you are interested, p le ase c o n ta c t B ran t S m ith at brant@ wpi.edu.

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IN THE NEWS Senator John Kerry, decorated for bravery in Vietnam, Senator John McCain, who was a prisoner of war for more than six years, and Senator Robert Kerrey, who lost part of a leg and won the Model of Honor in Vietnam, all supported the resolution to lift the trade em bargo. They argued that opening up trade to Vietnam will provide POW groups with more access to the Asian countryside and clues to the whereabouts of the missing soldiers.

by Eric C raft and Je n n x Yambert G lobal A ffairs Party International News Palestinians Headed for Jordan Confed­ eration According to the PLO, the Palestinians are headed for a confederation with Jordan in­ stead o f forming an independent state. Unfor­ tunately the Palestinian bankers fear the con­ federation because of Jordan's superior eco­ nomic power, even though the two countries signed a peace treaty last month. In an effort to prevent the Jordanian overpowering, the Palestinians have created a strange alliance.

A group of Palestinian businessmen will start a bank called International Palestinian Bank which will be partners with an Israeli bank called Bank Leumi. This strange relationship will try to prevent the Jordanians from taking over the Palestinian bank.

National News Trade Embargo on Vietnam Two weeks ago the Senate passed a resolu­ tion urging the W hite House to drop the trade embargo on Vietnam. The President agreed and last week ended the embargo that has been in place since the Vietnam War. American businesses have pressed Con­ gress to let them into the potentially rich Vietnamese markets. They want the right to compete with the Japanese and other nations for drilling rights in Vietnam’s oil and gas fields. Vietnam is also expected to be a good market for consum er goods, aircraft, telecommunicationsequipment and modern infrastruc­ ture.

Senator Bob Smith led the opposition to the end o f the embargo, calling the Senate’s vote "immoral and disgusting.” Veteran groups, like the American Legion, and many POW/ MIA families wanted the embargo to remain in place until the U.S. is given an account of the 2.238 American servicemen who are still missing.

Medical School A dm issions

C ooper Bill to Rival Clinton's Health Care Plan The Business Roundtable, which is a group of chief executive officers from the nation’s largest corporations (such as DuPont, Procter and Gamble, Boeing, and TRW), passed the Cooper Bill which is an alternative plan to Clinton's current Health Care Plan.

The Cooper Bill is receiving bipartisan support and was made to quell business fears about “caps on health-insurance premiums and the shape of proposed region insurance-buying pools.” The major weakness o f the bill is that it does not provide “universal coverage” as C lin to n ’s proposed plan does.

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W ho Cares Three recent Harvard graduates have introduced community service to the world of the chic magazine. “T here’s an information war out there, and we want to be read,” says ed ito r H eather M cLeod. The m agazine challenges readers to answer “ I do” when they read the title. Who Cares. It acts as an information network, providing a directory of v o lu n teer o p p o rtu n ities, and it contains inspirational stories of people in various aspects of community service. “ O ur m issio n as a m a g az in e is a communication forum for all these people working for social change,” says editor Leslie Crutchfield. The magazine iscurrently building up a list of subscriptions, but the editors hope to someday provide service oriented college students with free copies, paid for through advertising.

Emission Rules May Toughen in North­ eastern States E n v iro n m en tal re g u la to rs voted in Washington in favor o f adopting stronger em ission rules that would require the sale of zero-em ission cars. T he environm ental regulators will petition the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt an em ission program sim ilar to C a lifo rn ia ’s, w hich mandates that Californian auto makers must sell zero-emission cars by I998. An example of a zero-emission car is the electric car.

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by M elissa Lagreca, Class o f '97 and Joshua Dobbelaar, Class o f '94 On Wednesday, February 2, 14 members of GAEA. Global Awareness of Environmental Affairs, were given a tour of EnviroPlastics, a 24 hour. #2 plastics recycling facility. Mr. Franco Prev id. Vice President o f Engineering, discussed with the group the com pany’s spe­ cial role in the re c y c lin g b u sin e ss.

EnviroPlastics has developed their own repro­ cessing methods and the high quality of their product has earned the relatively small opera­ tion a revered position in the industry.

EnviroPlastics buys large bundles of re­ claimed High Density Polyethylene plastics, commonly known as #2 HDPE. from M ateri­ als Recovery Facilities (MRFs) in states such as New Jersey, Rhode Island, New Hamp­ shire, and Massachusetts. Their facility loads these 700ib. bundles o f milk bottles and deter­ gent bottles onto a sinuous system of convey­ ors and vacuum tubes which separates and shreds the materials, puts them through a thorough cleansing and sterilizing process, forms the material into little beads, and loads the reprocessed HDPE into silos awaiting trains to various companies such as Clorox and Dupont. 80% o f ihe homopolymer (the clear stuff) they ship goes lo Dupont which has created a material called Tyvek which is wide­ ly used for insulation and also by the US postal service for a Iighl weight but durable and wa­ terproof envelope that protects the materials inside.

It was interesting to note that one o f ihe major problems that EnviroPlastics conlends w ith is caused not by careless consumers and recyclers, but by the collection agencies them ­ se lv e s.

M uch o f the m a te ria l thal EnviroPlastics receives is scraped and soiled

in the collection and bundling process. "It's the garbage handling mentality that we need to change.” Franco explained. In spite of this c h a lle n g e , th e m a te ria l p ro d u ced by EnviroPlastics is so pure that it is actually stronger and more predictable than virgin res­ in. It is also two to four cents cheaper per pound than their com petitor’s first generation product.

It was also interesting to note that because of the ratio of colors that go into the process, the material produced by the mixed color batches comes out a greener brown in Califor­ nia than il does in New England; it appears that the demographic difference in our con­ sum ers’ taste in product colors shows through in the mix.

A fter speaking to the group. Mr. Previd conducted a tour of the facility so the group was able to see the plastics through the various steps. The emphasis on quality control was prevalent. EnviroPlastics keeps a close watch over its process and is continuously testing the material and the machines to make sure every­ thing is operating in top form and to identify places that might need improvement. Inciden­ tally. their quality control engineer is a WPI graduate.

The members of GAEA would like to thank Mr Franco Previd and Mr. Tom Whiicomb, V ice P resid en t o f M a n u fa c tu rin g at EnviroPlastics for taking their time out to talk with us and to guide us on a comprehensive tour o f their facility.

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Deathtrap: A real thriller in two acts

by Eric Craft Associate Editor MW Repertory Theater Co., etc. presented Deathtrap: A Thriller in Tw o Acts by Ira Levin in Gotnpei’s February 3 through February 5.

The audience was first presented with a stage cluttered with many objects ranging from a piano to book laden bookshelves to a large assortment of medieval weapons. The weapons were displayed over one whole wall of the stage which made the collection look impressive.

As the lights went out, eerie music came up which would establish the mood for the first act.

Two actors are discovered, Sidney Bruhl (VenkateshGopalakrishnan) and his wife Myra Bruhl (Krysten Laine). Sidney is a struggling playwright who pretends to receive a manu­ script that he believes is so good that he would kill to have it. Myra is both repulsed and attracted by the idea of killing because she sees the possible profits that the play could provide.

Sidney calls the author of the manuscript and invites him over to "go over the manuscript."

Enter Clifford Anderson (N. Harrison Ripps) the author of the manuscript. The next scene was played beautifully by Gopalakrishnan and Ripps. The audience was surprised to actually see the realistic death of Clifford by Sidney.

After Sidney “kills” Clifford, Myra is shaken up badly. Next enters the psychic, Helga ten Dorp (Helene Anderson). She enters the room and immediately feels the pain of Myra and comes to some correct and incorrect conclu­ sions about the murder. Helga acts as the foreshadower for the play, much of what she says eventually becomes true even though it sounds impossible or incorrect at the time. ..

Helga leaves and Clifford comes back from the dead to “ kill” Sidney and then as he is about to kill Myra, she dies of a heart attack. Sydney gets back up to look at his wife with Clifford.

They both laugh and eventually Sydney calls the doctor to look at his wife’s dead body.

Finally the last character enters the scene. Porter Milgrim (Keith Franklin). He is the lawyer that tells Sidney w'hat will happen with his wife’s estate. The play goes on to take many twists of plot that left the audience puzzled for a time. In the end, all is resolved, and the play closed with thundering ap-

plause from the audience.

All of the actors and stage crew were very professional, and the minor mishaps that did occur were covered beautifully. Even though the play only contained five actors, there were a wide range of accents. Sydney, Porter, and Helga all had slightly different accents that

sounded very authentic. All of the actors played their parts well, but Sydney was an especially convincing murderer.

According to directors Timothy Mclnerney and Joe Provo, “the main point of theater is to entertain.” In this sense. Deathtrap definitely

fulfilled this purpose. The directors and pro­ ducer, Noah Weisleder, both agreed that every­ one in that cast was great and worked very hard to deliver such a quality product. The play was very enjoyable for the audience and a worth­ while experience for all theater-goers.

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"Poetry Gets Real, Flashing Its Form on MTV " "When uuriters perform their works in 'Spoken UUord,' poetry returns to its roots in song and chant."

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DIVERSITY - OPINION

Salute to a great African-American inventor: Granville T. Woods his first patent in 1884 for a steam boiler furnace. In 1885, Woods patented the tele­ phone transmitter that Bell Telephone bought later on. With the proceeds of that transaction he founded the Woods Electric Company that manufactured and sold telephone, telegraph and electrical instruments. In 1900, he re­ ceived a patent for an incubator and another one in 1902 for the automatic air-break that the W estinghouse Airbreak Company eventu­ ally obtained.

Granville T. Woods* most advanced inven­ tion was in the area of electric railway travel.

In 1887, he obtained a patent for the induction telegraph system also called the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph. After he real­ ized the high frequency rate of railways’ acci­ dents and collision. Woods undertook the suc­ cessful task of designing a device that would keep each train informed o f the position of the train immediately preceding or following it through communication between the moving trains and the station as well. The Synchro­ nous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, result of the concern of a visionary, surely contributed to safer travel and was also a major advance­ ment in communication technologies.

Woods, the prolific inventor, did not rest on his laurels and within the same year - 1887 - he registered seven different inventions related to his ingenious railway communication sys­ tem. From 1879 to 1899, he left the indelible mark of his genius on 23 inventions, averaging more than one invention a year. His inven-

by N dofunsu Osias N ational Society o f Black E ngineers - W PI The month of February has a special signif­ icance in American history because it is devot­ ed to the celebration of the multidimensional contribution made by Americans of African descent. Most of the time, the only focus is on African-American political leaders, entertain­ ers, athletes; and little, if any mention is made of Black inventors and scientists. As a future engineer I felt the duty to salute the achieve­ ments of the great scientists and inventors who preceded me. Granville T. Woods represents an excellent illustration of the rich AfricanAmerican scientific heritage.

Born on April 23, 1856, in Columbus, Ohio, Granville T. Woods is the father o f modern railroad communication systems. He attended school until he was 10. After he left school, Woods first worked in a machine shop; then he realized his mechanical aptitude. From 1872 to 1876, Woods worked on a railroad and in a rolling mill, and during that time he mastered the trades of machinist and blacksmith. This man with the equivalent of a third grade edu­ cation took advantage of his work experience to master the fundamentals of electrical and mechanical engineering, thus preparing him ­ self for college. From 1876 to 1878, Granville T. Woods took courses in both fields, a double-major we would say today, and was hired as an engineer and was handling a steam locomotive on the D&S Railroad. He obtained

The story concerns a monastery that had fallen upon hard times. Once a great order, as a result of waves of antimonastic persecution in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the rise of secularism in the nineteenth, all its branch houses were lost and it had become decimated to the extent that there were only five monks left in the decaying mother house: the Abbot and four others, all over seventy in age. Clearly it was a dying order.

In the deep woods surrounding the monas­ tery there was a little hut that a Rabbi from a nearby town occasionally used for a hermit­ age. Through their many years of prayer and contemplation the old monks had become a bit psychic, they could always sense when the Rabbi was in his hermitage. "The Rabbi is in the woods, the Rabbi is in the woods again,” they would whisper to each other. As he agonized overthe imminent death of his order, it occurred to the Abbot at one such time to visit the hermitage and ask the Rabbi if by some possible chance he could offer any ad­ vice that might save the monastery.

The Rabbi welcomed the Abbot at his hut.

But when the Abbot explained the purpose of his visit, the Rabbi could only commiserate with him. “ I know how it is,” he exclaimed.

“The spirit has gone out of the people. It is the same in my town. Almost no one comes to the synagogue anymore.” So the old Abbot and the old Rabbi wept together. Then they read parts of the Torah and quietly spoke of deep things. The time came when the Abbot had lo leave. They embraced each other. “ It has been a wonderful thing that we should meet after all these years,” the Abbot said, “ but I have still failed in my purpose for coming here. Is there nothing you can tell me, no piece of advice you can give me that would help me save my dying order?”

When the Abbot returned to the monastery his fellow monks gathered around him to ask, “ well, what did the Rabbi say?” “ He couldn’t help,” the Abbot answered. “We just wept and read the Torah together. The only thing he did say, just as I was leaving — it was something cryptic — was that the Messiah is one of us. I don’t know what he meant.”

In the days and weeks and months that followed, the old monks pondered this and wondered whether there was any possible significance to the Rabbi's words. The Mes­ siah is one of us? Could he possibly have

greatness, and armed with the inspiration of his feats we, future engineers and scientists of African descent, can share with the rest of the world the often underestimated scientific com­ ponent o f our rich and glorious heritage.

The Cold Within -Authorunknown Six humans trapped by circumstance in the stark and bitter cold Each one possessed a stick of wood or so the story is told.

Their dying fire in need of logs, one woman held hers back For of the faces around the fire, she noticed one was black The next one looked up and saw that there was one outside his church and could not bring himself to give the fire his stick of birch The third one sat in his tattered clothes and gave his coat a hitch Why should my log be used he thought to aid the idle rich.

The rich one sat back and thought of the wealth he had in store and how to keep what he had earned from the lazy shiftless poor.

The black man’s face bespoke revenge as the fire passed from site all he saw in the stick of wood was a chance to spite the white.

The last one in this forlorn group did not expect for gain, giving only to those who gave was how he played the game.

Six logs held tight in death’s still hand was proof of human sin.

They didn’t die from the cold without, they died from the cold within.

The Rabbi’s Gift A nonym ous [contributed by Provost Diran Apelian]

tions revolutionized the railway industry.

The lifelong achievements of Granville T. Woods teach us that a permanent thirst for scientific knowledge and a dedication to find it wherever it is are the keys to true intellectual

meant one of us monks here at the monastery?

If that’s the case, which one? Do you suppose he meant the Abbot? Yes, if he meant anyone, he probably meant Father Abbot. He has been our leader for more than a generation. On the other hand, he might have meant Brother Thomas. Certainly Brother Thomas is a holy man. Everyone knows that Thomas is a man of light. Certainly he could not have meant Brother Eldred! Eldred gets crotchety at times.

But come to think of it, even though he is a thom in people’s sides, when you look back on it, Eldred is virtually always right. Often very right. Maybe the Rabbi did mean Brother Eldred. Butsurely not Brother Phillip. Phillip is so passive, a real nobody. But then, almost mysteriously, he has a gift for always being there when you need him. He just magically appears by your side. Maybe Phillip is the Messiah. O f course the Rabbi didn’t mean me. He couldn’t possibly have meant me. I’m just an ordinary person. Yet supposing he did?

Suppose I am the Messiah? O God, not me. I couldn’t be that much for you, could I? As they contemplated in this manner, the old monks began to treat each other with extraordinary respect on the off chance that one among them might be the Messiah. And on the off, off chance that each monk himself might be the Messiah, they began to treat themselves with extraordinary respect.

Because the forest in which it was situated was beautiful, it so happened that people still occasionally came to visit the monastery to picnic on its tiny lawn, to wander along some o f its paths, even now and then to go into the dilapidated chapel to meditate. As they did so, without even being conscious of it, they sensed this aura o f extraordinary respect that now began lo surround the five old monks and seemed to radiate out from them and permeate the atmosphere of the place. There was some­ thing strangely attractive, even compelling, about it. Hardly knowing why, they began to come back to the monastery more frequently to picnic, to play, to pray. They began to bring their friends to show them this special place.

And their friends brought their friends.

And it happened that some of the younger men whocam e to visit the monastery started to talk more and more with the old monks. After a while one asked if he could join them. Then another. And another. So within a few years the monastery had once again become a thriv­ ing order and, thanks to the Rabbi’s gift, a vibrant center of light and spirituality in the realm.

3 Bedroom Apartment

Leadership conference seeks outstanding WPI women Sponsors of a national leadership conference to be held in Washington, D.C. are seeking outstanding WPI women to participate in the 1994 “Women as Leaders” program. The twoweek conference is scheduled for May 16-28.

The intensive program is designed to offer a select groupof 200 college and university wom­ en an opportunity to sharpen leadership skills, examine their personal aspirations and explore the impact of women’s leadership on society.

They also will participate in a “ Mentor for a Day” program wh ich al lows stude nts to observe a professional woman throughout a typical busi­ ness day.

The conference is presented by The Wash­ ington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars. Sears Merchandise Group is spon­ soring the program for the second year, provid­ ing tuition and lodging for the 200 participants.

Students are responsible only for travel and living expenses.

Honorary co-chairwomen of the 1994 con­ ference are Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D., III.) and Rep. Susan Molinari (R., N.Y.). In addi­ tion, prominent women leaders will lecture the group on topics related to women in leadership roles.

Three women from each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will be chosen to participate in the program. An additional 44 students will be chosen on a national at-large basis. Criteria for selection include leadership on- and off-campus and the endorsement of the student’s college or university president. In addition, students returning to campus after the program are required to address a campus or community organization on a leadership topic.

Women students may call (800) 486-8921 for information on availability of applications.

Applications also are available in the Main­ frame departments of Sears retail stores. Dead­ line for submitting applications is February 15.

Smith to lecture, perform Friday, Feb. 25, noon: Lecture: The African-American Woman Artists/Musician in the 1990s: A Personal Perspective,” by Cecilia Smith.

Smith will lecture in Morgan A. Admissions is free; bring your own lunch.

4 -6 pm: Jazz Improvisation Workshop/Clinic with Cecilia Smith and the WPI Jazz Ensemble will be held in Spaulding Hall. Area high school students have been invited to participate. Admission is free.

8 pm: The Cecilia Smith Jazz Quartet will perform in concert in Spaulding Hall. Admission is $2 for students, $5 for the public.

Cecilia Smith, a member of the faculty at Berklee College of Music, is one of the leading four-malett vibraphonists in the country. Her WPI appearance is funded in part by a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts with additional support from the Norton Company Founda­ tion, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, SocComm’s Fine Arts Committee, the WPI Student Speakers Fund and the WPI Jazz Group.

$650

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Tuesday February 8, 1994

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DIVERSITY - OPINION

Salute to a great African-American inventor: Granville T. Woods

by N dofunsu Osias N ational Society o f Black Engineers

his first patent in 1884 for a steam boiler furnace. In 1885, Woods patented the tele­ phone transm itter that Bell Telephone bought later on. With the proceeds o f that transaction he founded the Woods Electric Company that manufactured and sold telephone, telegraph and electrical instruments. In 1 900, he re­ ceived a patent for an incubator and another one in I902 for the automatic air-break that the W estinghouse Airbreak Com pany eventu­ ally obtained.

Granville T. W oods’ most advanced inven­ tion was in the area of electric railway travel.

In 1887, he obtained a patent fo rth e induction telegraph system also called the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph. A fter he real­ ized the high frequency rate o f railw ays’ acci­ dents and collision. Woods undertook the suc­ cessful task of designing a device that would keep each train informed of the position of the train immediately preceding or following it through communication between the moving trains and the station as well. The Synchro­ nous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, result of the concern of a visionary, surely contributed to safer travel and was also a major advance­ ment in communication technologies.

Woods, the prolific inventor, did not rest on his laurels and within the same year - 1887 - he registered seven different inventions related to his ingenious railway communication sys­ tem. From 1879 to 1899, he left the indelible mark o f his genius on 23 inventions, averaging more than one invention a year. His inven-

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The month of February has a special signif­ icance in American history because it is devot­ ed to the celebration o f the multidimensional contribution made by Americans of African descent. Most of the time, the only focus is on African-American political leaders, entertain­ ers, athletes; and little, if any mention is made of Black inventors and scientists. As a future engineer I felt the duty to salute the achieve­ ments of the great scientists and inventors who preceded me. Granville T. Woods represents an excellent illustration of the rich AfricanAmerican scientific heritage.

Born on April 2 3 ,1856, in Columbus, Ohio, Granvilie T. Woods is the father of modern railroad communication systems. He attended school until he was 10. After he left school, Woods first worked in a machine shop; then he realized his mechanical aptitude. From 1872 to 1876, Woods worked on a railroad and in a rolling mill, and during that time he mastered the trades of machinist and blacksmith. This man with the equivalent of a third grade edu­ cation took advantage of his work experience to master the fundamentals of electrical and mechanical engineering, thus preparing him ­ self for college. From 1876 to 1878,Granville T. Woods took courses in both fields, a dou­ ble-major we would say today, and was hired as an engineer and was handling a steam locomotive on the D&S Railroad. He obtained

The story concerns a monastery lhat had fallen upon hard times. Once a great order, as a result of waves of antimonastic persecution in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the rise of secularism in the nineteenth, all its branch houses were lost and it had become decimated to the extent that there were only five monks left in the decaying mother house: the Abbot and four others, all over seventy in age. Clearly it was a dying order.

In the deep woods surrounding the monas­ tery there was a little hut that a Rabbi from a nearby town occasionally used for a hermit­ age. Through their many years of prayer and contemplation the old monks had become a bit psychic, they could always sense when the Rabbi was in his hermitage. "The Rabbi is in the woods, the Rabbi is in the woods again," they would whisper to each other. As he agonized over the imminent death of his order, it occurred to the Abbot at one such time to visit the hermitage and ask the Rabbi if by some possible chance he could offer any ad­ vice that might save the monastery.

The Rabbi welcomed the Abbot at his hut.

But when the Abbot explained the purpose of his visit, the Rabbi could only commiserate with him. "I know how it is,” he exclaimed.

“The spirit has gone out of the people. It is the same in my town. Almost no one comes to the synagogue anymore.” So the old Abbot and the old Rabbi wept together. Then they read parts of the Torah and quietly spoke of deep things. The time came when the Abbot had to leave. They embraced each other. "It has been a wonderful thing that we should meet after all these years,” ihe Abbot said, “but I have slill failed in my purpose for coming here. Is there nothing you can tell me, no piece of advice you can give me that would help me save my dying order?”

When the Abbot returned to the monastery his fellow monks gathered around him to ask, “well, what did ihe Rabbi say?” "He couldn’t help," the Abbol answered. “We just wcpl and read the Torah together. The only thing he did say, just as I was leaving — it was something cryptic — was lhat the Messiah is one of us. I don't know what he meant.”

In the days and weeks and months that followed, the old monks pondered this and wondered whether there was any possible significance to ihe Rabbi’s words. Ihe Mes­ siah is one of us? Could he pos:;ihly have

greatness, and armed with the inspiration of his feats we, future engineers and scientists of African descent, can share with the rest of the world ihe often underestimated scientific com­ ponent of our rich and glorious heritage.

The Cold Within -Author unknown Six humans trapped by circumstance in the stark and bitter cold Each one possessed a stick of wood or so the story is told.

Their dying fire in need of logs, one woman held hers back For of the faces around the fire, she noticed one was black The next one looked up and saw that there was one outside his church and could not bring himself to give the fire his stick of birch The third one sat in his tattered clothes and gave his coat a hitch Why should my log be used he thought to aid the idle rich.

The rich one sat back and thought of the wealth he had in store and how to keep what he had earned from the lazy shiftless poor.

The black m an’s face bespoke revenge as the fire passed from site all he saw in the stick of wood was a chance to spite the white.

The last one in this forlorn group did not expect for gain, giving only to those who gave was how he played the game.

Six logs held tight in death’s still hand was proof of human sin.

They didn't die from the cold without, they died from the cold within.

The Rabbi s Gift A nonym ous [contributed by Provost Diran Apelian!

lions revolutionized the railway industry.

The lifelong achievements of Granville T. Woods teach us that a permanent thirst for scientific knowledge and a dedication to find it wherever it is are the keys to true intellectual

meant one of us monks here at the monastery?

If that's the case, which one? Do you suppose he meant the Abbot? Yes, if he meant anyone, he probably meant Father Abbot. He has been our leader for more than a generation. On the other hand, he might have meant Brother Thomas. Certainly Brother Thom as is a holy man. Everyone knows that Thomas is a man of light. Certainly he could not have meant Brother Eldred! Eldred gets crotchety at times.

But come to think of it, even though he is a thorn in people’s sides, when you look back on it, Eldred is virtually always right. Often very right. Maybe the Rabhi did mean Brother Eldred. But surely not Brother Phillip. Phillip is so passive, a real nobody. But then, almost mysteriously, he has a gift for always being there when you need him. He just magically appears by your side. Maybe Phillip is the Messiah. O f course the Rabbi d id n ’t mean me. He couldn’t possibly have meant me. I’m just an ordinary person. Yet supposing he did?

Suppose I am ihe Messiah? O God, not me. I couldn't be that much for you. could I? As they contemplated in this manner, the old monks began to treat each other with extraordinary respect on the off chance lhat one among them might be the Messiah. And on ihe off, o ff chance lhal each monk himself might be the Messiah, they began to treat themselves with extraordinary respect.

Because the forest in which it was situated was beautiful, it so happened that people still occasionally came to visit the monastery to picnic on its tiny lawn, to wander along some of its paths, even now and then to go into the dilapidated chapel to meditate. As they did so, without even being conscious of it. they sensed this aura of extraordinary respect that now began lo surround the five old monks and seemed to radiate out from them and permeate the atmosphere o f the place. There was some­ thing strangely attractive, even compelling, about it. Hardly knowing why. they began to come back to the monastery more frequently to picnic, to play, to pray. They began to bring their friends to show them this special place.

And their friends brought their friends.

And it happened that some of the younger men w hocam e to visit the monastery started to talk more and more with the old monks. After a while one asked if he could join them. Then another. And another. So within a few years the monastery had once again become a thriv­ ing order and, thanks lo the R abbi’s gilt, a vibrant center o f light and spirituality in the realm.

3 Bedroom Apartment

Leadership conference seeks outstanding WPI women Sponsors of a national leadership conference to be held in Washington, D.C. are seeking outstanding WPI women to participate in the 1994 “Women as Leaders” program. The twoweek conference is scheduled for May 16-28.

The intensive program is designed to offer a select group o f 2 0 0 college and university wom­ en an opportunity to sharpen leadership skills, examine their personal aspirations and explore the impact of wom en’s leadership on society.

They also will participate in a “Mentor for a Day” program which allows students toobserve a professional woman throughout a typical busi­ ness day.

The conference is presented by The Wash­ ington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars. Sears Merchandise Group is spon­ soring the program for the second year, provid­ ing tuition and lodging forthe 2 0 0 participants.

Students are responsible only for travel and living expenses.

Honorary co-chairwomen of the 1994 con­ ference are Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D„ 111.) and Rep. Susan Molinari (R., N.Y.). In addi­ tion, prominent women leaders will lecturc the group on topics related to women in leadership roles.

Three women from each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will be chosen to participate in the program. An additional 44 students will be chosen on a national at-large basis. Criteria for selection include leadership on- and off-campus and the endorsement of the student's college or university president. In addition, students returning to campus after the program are required to address a campus or community organization on a leadership topic.

Women students may call ( 8 (H)) 486-8921 for information on availability of applications.

Applications also are available in the Main­ frame departments of Sears retail stores. Dead­ line for submitting applications is February 15.

Smith to lecture, perform Friday, Feb. 25, noon: Lecture: The African-American Woman Artists/Musician in the 1990s: A Personal Perspective,” by Cecilia Smith.

Smith will lecture in Morgan A. Admissions is free; bring your own lunch.

4-6 pm: Jazz Improvisation Workshop/Clinic with Cecilia Smith and the WPI Jazz Ensemble will be held in Spaulding Hall. Area high school students have been invited to participate. Admission is free.

8 pm: The Cecilia Smith Jazz Quartet will perform in concert in Spaulding Hall. Admission is $2 for students, $5 for the public.

Cecilia Smith, a member of the faculty at Berklee College of Music, is one of the leading four-malett vibraphonists in the country. Her WPI appearance is funded in part by a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts w ith additional support from the Norton Company Founda­ tion, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, SocComm’s Fine Arts Committee, the WPI Student Speakers Fund and the WPI Jazz Group.

$650

With wall to wall carpeting, parking, laundry area, fully applianced kitchen with dishwasher, air conditioning, excellent maintenance and management.

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_____________________________ NEWSPEAK_______________________________________ Tuesday February 8,1994

COMMENTARY

Philler Strawberries and W hipped Cream - Why I g et wet at WPI

by Laurel and Guinevere I like to think it's almost spring time. It's finally starting to get warm­ er. Soon the birds will be singing the trees will be budding... Unfortunate­ ly, the only spring time event has been melting snow which has lead to Ihe creation of small streams and ponds around campus. We have the ever popular Riley River, Founders Lakes, the Quad Pond, and the Field of water logged Astroturf.

When I came to WPI l envisioned an engineering school which applied their technology throughout campus. I ex­ pected buildings designed by the civils which demonstrated new building tech­ niques. I expected the computer de­ partment to sponsor a campus wide network with terminals in every room.

I wanted a mail room who would flip a switch which would turn on a small light in your room when you got mail so you wouldn't have to check your mail box all the lime. Most of all, I expected a drainage system that would work. Silly me.

I, personally, do not own knee high rubber boots to walk though the pud­ dles seemingly designed to appear around campus. This is an engineer­ ing school. Things should be built lo funnel water into drains instead of forming large puddles you must ford to get to class. I don't understand.

Yes, the snow has baffled Plant Services once again. Coming back on campus after winter break, there were several paths shoveled... correction... created about campus. I figured that they were temporary paths made right after the snow storm, so people could

get around easier than through a foot or so of snow. Unfortunately, that was all they had planned. These paths were created by, as far as I can discern, a type of machine, which had a plow on the front raised one or two inches above the sidewalk, followed by an­ other attachment on the back of the truck which sprayed the snow with water and then pressed it into flat ice with a roller of some sort. This m a­ chine, however, does not have the abil­ ity to go up stairs. Stairs, it seems, were left for the people to climb of their own devices.

So basically, to get anywhere in the last few weeks, we have to take small steps'with our hands sticking out to balance ourselves as we try to walk down wavy ice covered sidewalks. For a while, the paths didn't even let you get close enough to the street to cross, either... Eventually, people started making practical paths, and reforming some sort o f stairways which were treacherous at best. So, someone de­ cided that these paths weren't good enough. Back where I'm from, we have these nifty neat things called shovels.

Plant Services only knows of sand.

Sand, sand, sand. Everywhere I look, sand covering slippery ice below. Sort of like camouflage for ice to hide under and make you think your safe until you step on it, and then the ice pops out of nowhere and makes you land squarely on your bum. When the sand didn't seem to be doing the trick, they decid­ ed to add more sand. When the smooth ice turned into smooth ice with small holes from the sand which had melted through, they decided to try the novel idea of... adding more sand. Basical-

Just a thought Character Education

by Stephen Brown Protestant Campus Ministry I know a faculty member at Worces­ ter State who regularly gives me articles about religion and human values. Often I read them and chuckle, for my friend ism oreconservativethanlam. But last week he gave me one that made me cry.

The article concerned the Air Force Academy's effort to develop character in their cadets. The commandant was quoted, “The raw material (high school students entering the academy) is not coming in the door with the same values that our grandparents and parents taught us 30 to 35 years ago.” In contrast to past generations in which cadets grew up in two-parent homes where rules were black and white, 5 of 10 cadets stated their parents split up during their childhood.

The result is that today’s cadets are more rebellious and more abusive.

Racial and sexual assaults (now that there are women cadets) are increasing.

After a Valentine’s Day sexual assault on a female cadet, the Air Force Acad­ emy set up a Center for Character Development. The goal of the Center is to “build character by breaking it down to its essential parts. There are ‘feeling components’ to instill understanding and concern for others, ‘cognitive com­ ponents’ to help cadets think through moral conflicts, and‘doingLomponents’ to help cadets to practice what they preach. They all add up to ‘character development ’ - the way an officer should behave.” (Providence Sunday Journal, January 29, 1994, Religion Page) After reading that, I wanted to cry.

Cry for the condition of our family life.

White and Black, that has so deteriorat­ ed that their children no longer have a common sense of decency and restraint in their relationships. Cry for colleges and academy’s which find themselves burdened with conflicts and violent in­ cidents and having to play catch up to make up for values their students have not learned yet. And I cry for a society who has reached a coalition where we

need the Center for Character Develop­ ment. But tears alone will not a better society make.

Another thought that crossed my mind as I read this article was that we already have Centers for Character Develop­ ment all over the place, even at WPI. They are known by othernames: church­ es, synagogues, Mosques, fellowship groups. These already exist and have at their core a message of love and peace, forgiveness and reconciliation. Weeven have role models for the quality of characters: Moses, Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammed. And each of us have sa­ cred books that can serve as guides to how one can develop character and moral reflection.

The problem is that unlike the Air Force Academy, most colleges and uni­ versities cannot require students to at­ tend these kinds of Centers for Charac­ ter Development. In fact, most semi­ naries and religious colleges have re­ scinded mandatory chapel attendance.

Our religious groups are voluntary as­ sociations and students, faculty, and administrators are free to join us or ignore us. Those who do, choose to come comm it themselves lo understand­ ing values that ask them to transcend their selfish nature.

The chal lenge for schools Iike WPI is not to find ways to coerce or encourage persons to join religious groups, but how to infuse their curriculum and cam­ pus life with ethical and character de­ velopment. And I don’t for a minute want to dismiss the efforts of Student Activities, the Student Life Office, and the Counseling and Student Develop­ ment Center; they make significant con­ tributions to such goals. But it takes more., more than a few ethics courses here and there and an occasional confer­ ence. It takes a commitment from all faculty and administrators to believe that WPI’s final goal is to graduate students who are technically and ethi­ cally educated.

Engineers with brains are good; en­ gineers with consciences are even bet­ ter.

ly, come spring, we'll have enough sand around campus to have a SocCom sponsored beach party about campus.

Now, I can see where it would be a pain to shovel campus by hand. But I think a few key spots could have been arranged. Like steps for instance.

There’s nothing quite as exhilarating as trying to run down icy steps when your late for a class. 1 fell down a full flight of stairs last year. I went to Res. Life, and what did they do? Right, add sand... That nice sloping path which comes down the hill in front of Boynton along Institute? Instantly transformed into a wonderfully sloping bobsled track of death. Shovel, chop ice, do something so we can walk without falling down at least once a day. Peo­ ple are skipping classes because it's just too hard to try to get around cam­ pus...

The only truly practical, innovative, good idea thing around this campus is the God send to Founders residents and others who don't live 'on the hill': The heated library steps. Even on the most icy day, the library steps up the hill are dry and toasty wami to the touch. It also tends to have a wicked cool smoke machine effect in the mom-

ings after a light snow. I feel like I'm in a music video some mornings. Un­ fortunately, the steps themselves are too short to walk up comfortably, and to far apart to take two steps at a time to compensate.

That's another thing: steps. I've been noticing that most sets of steps around campus come in odd numbers.

That doesn't seem to be a big deal, but when you're in a hurry, and want to take two steps at a time, you always get one of those awkward half set of steps at the end which gives you that funny feeling in your stomach for some bi­ zarre reason. I think most of the steps should be redone around campus with even numbers of steps, and rise-run ratios calculated for human beings.

Wonderful, wonderful, applications of the technology being taught at this school. We have Riley Hall which I believe is a civil project gone horribly awry. Don't get me wrong, I love the look of the building, but it seems to be experiencing a very strong gravity field which causes the floors to get shorter and shorter as you go up in the build­ ing.

And I am sure that most of you have been in Goddard Hall at least once.

Did ya ever notice that Goddard really sucks? Literally, it sucks. (Heh, heh.

I said suck... ShutupBeavis...) In fact, you have to brace yourself like a moun­ tain clim ber to open the door without dislocating your shoulder. Who de­ signed this thing? Furthermore, when you try to leave the building, there is this Arctic blast of air (kinda like those in the York Peppermint Patty commer­ cials) that nearly knocks you off your feet - and, I have to add, does a good job in messing up your hair. Anddid-cha' ever notice how its almost like this sick little game of "who gets to open the door" when more than one person is approaching the dreaded entrance?

Everyone kind of s-l-o-w-s down until one person reaches the door, then once they open it, everyone hurries up to get through before it closes...

The magic is over. It's just a normal school, with normal building prob­ lems, no drains, a chemistry building that could spontaneously implode at any minute, and a civil building named after a structural disaster. If a campus conveys the spirit of the technology taught, I hope the company that is thinking of hiring me doesn't come down to visit.

TFM Security Break

by M egaZone This time I ’m going to cover a pair of student written programs. But what I’d like is some feedback; is there something you’d like to have covered?

Someone recently asked me to cover DEC customization, but that varies from window manager to window manager, of which there are several.

I’ve covered most of the student pro­ grams, now I’m trying to plan what to cover next. I’d rather respond to the readers (yes, both of you), than just pick things at random.

First, an important announcement: The Com puter Em ergency R e­ sponse Team (CERT) has announced that a network wide break in has taken place on the Internet. Part of this break included network sniffers which would catch network packets with passwords in them. Unfortu­ nately, both NEARnet, our network provider, and a hand full of Computer Science Sun machines were com pro­ mised and may have been used as collectors.

Since there was a collector on the WPI campus, it could have collected passwords from machines on our net­ work. even if you didn’t log into one of the infected Sun machines. There-

fore, we are urging everyone to change their passwords to prevent having their account com prom ised. Use the ‘passw d’ command to change your password.

Ok, with that said, onto the rest: The first program is fairly simple.

Newwho, by Josh Gentry, displays the users on the network organized by the lab they are in. Similar in concept to the wide-spread Super-Who, it uses simple vertical columns, which auto­ scale to reduce the number of redraws needed when labs are full. Newwho also uses the standard .friends files to highlight users, in the same way as Super-W ho and Crystal.

You run Newwho via ‘-gentry/Bin/ newwho’, and it currently has three options, ‘-p ’ doesn’t show the profes­ sors, as many of them have their own machines and therefore are ALWAYS logged in. ‘-ihh:mm:ss’ doesn’t dis­ play users who have been idle for the entered time; hh is hours, mm is min­ utes, and ss is seconds. The default is five minutes. *-h’ displays the help screen.

The second program is Vote, one of the Neat-O programs. Vote allows users to enter topics to be voted on, and then everyone can vote on the choices entered. Topics have varied from the

serious to the stupid; it’s an open fo­ rum after all. In addition to voting, users can make comments on the cur­ rent vote, and read the comments made by previous users. Vote is in ‘-ralf/ bin/vote’, and there are several op­ tions.

‘-r’ checks the results o f the previ­ ous vote.

‘-c’ runs vote, and checks for an update. It doesn’t print out anything if you’ve already voted on the current topic.

‘-s’ prints only the subject of the current vote.

‘-t’ prints out the current total num­ ber of voters. *-a ’ mails to the program maintainer.

‘-u’ updates the vote, allows you to enter a new topic and choices.

‘-w ’ displays who entered the cur­ rent vote topic.

‘-v’ displays the comments vote users have made.

‘-m ’ allows you to enter a comment on the current vote. *-h’ displays the help screen.

As always, feed-back is welcome, email to tfm@wpi. If you have any problems, the Help Desk is open 8 AM5PM, Mon-Fri. Email box5888, call 831-5888 (x5888), or come by Fuller B21. See you next time.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Student Government Association Minutes fo r the meeting o f February 3, 1994 I. II.

MeetingcaIIedtoorderat6:30.

Approval of the Minutes: Minutes of 1/27/94 were ap­ proved with no changes.

III. Attendance: Present: Executive Council: W ar­ ren Smale, Pres; Barbara Doyle, Vice Pres; Cathleen Connelly, Treas; Amy Scott, Sect.

Senate: Josh Arias, Jason Averill, Prakash Bhatia, Rachel Butland, Lexie Chutoransky, Dan C o rriv ea u , Ryan D aly, Nat Fairbanks, Greg Findlen, Deb Foley, Josh Greene, John Grossi, Jen K eenan, S y lv ia Khatchadourian, Krysten Laine, Dan Larochelle, Joe Laydon, Chris McKeever, Pat McManus, Kirsty Reidy, Mike Schulz, Josh Single, Danielle J. Snow, Donald Socha, Justin Sprague, Patrick Sullivan, Andy Thiessen, Chris­ topher Thomas, Dennis Walsh, W olf Winset Absent: IV. Vice P resident’s Report: none V. Treasurer’s Report: It was reported that budget packets have been turned in, there were some late packets that will receive the appropriate penalties.

VI. Committee Reports: - SGA - Club Sports: Chair Single asked members of the comm ittee to stay after the Senate meeting for a short meeting.

Elections: Chair McManus an­ nounced that petitions were due Tuesday, February 1st. The peti­ tions for the following positions were turned in:

for S tu d en t A citiv ities Jachimowicz to reconfigure the Blue Ribbon Task Force pam­ phlet that the WPI Plan II com­ mittee had given them. Chair Laydon also reported that the committee is developing a flyer on the workings of SGA. All members of the committee were

concerning the consitutionality times and places on the wall cal­ of the position, and Senator Sin­ endar in the office so that when gle moved for a division, Senator she makes the posters for the Keenan 2nd. The motion was keyosks she can include the com­ divided into 1) Acceptance of the mittees. position and 2) approval of Sen­ - Senator Butland announced that President ator Thiessen to the position. there have been many senators Cathleen Connelly The discussion concerning the that are not fulfilling theirduties, Greg Findlen Consitutionality of the position and asked that Senators begin Wolf Winset continued until Senator taking their duties more serious­ Keenan called the ques­ W ORCESTER POLYTECHNIC IN ST IT U T E lyVice President tion, which passed 16-8 X. President’s Remarks: Pres­ Fiona Abrams - 0 (y,n,abstain). A vote ident Smale announced that Pres­ Nat Fairbanks on the First portion of the ident Strauss will meet with the Joe Laydon motion was taken and Senate at 6:30, Thursday Feb­ failed 1 1 -1 3 -0 . Due to ruary 10th before the Senate Secretary the postion not being ac­ meeting in order to answer ques­ Dan Corriveau cepted Senator Findlen tions on the White Paper he has w ithdrew the second written. Pres. Smale also in­ Treasurer portion of the motion. formed the Senate that the White S T U D E N T G O V E R N M E N T ASSOCIATION Adam Adams IX. A n n o u n c e ­ Paper w ill be posted to the Don Socha asked to stay after the meeting. ments: Newsgroups, and stressed that ■ Transportation: Chair Averill Senator Sullivan announced that everyone should remember that Senators-at-Large announced that the committee SOCCOM is currently in the pro­ this paper is only a “Though Lucie Lasovsky had tried to meet on Thursday, cess of writing a letter concern­ Piece”. The Senate was also Jason Macierowski however due to lack of atten­ ing why student groups are not informed that there are two plans Jason Mickey dance the meeting was cancelled. allowed to reserve Forkey Con­ forthe renovation of Higgins Labs - WPI Plan II: Chair Findlen ference Room, if any Senators renovation that will be going to All senators were asked to be at reported that they were still work­ are interested in participating or the Board of Trustees on Febru­ the Candidates Debate on Tues­ ing with PR on the pamphlet, and know of other such rooms that ary 18th for a vote. Some of the day, February 15th, and to en­ that the committee hopes to fol­ students can’t reserve they could plans have been put up on the courage other students to come low-up on the pamphlet with a contact Senator Sullivan.

SGA Bulletin Board. also. survey. The committee’s next Senator McManus asked that all Pres. Smale then announced Policies & Procedures: Chair project will be to distribute a senators closely review the infor­ that committee attendance has Schulz reported lhat the commit­ summary of President Strauss’s mation on networking the Resi­ been lacking recently, if commit­ tee had met on Wednesday and White Paper. dence Halls, because there would tee members haven’t met because had discussed the terms o f Sena­ VII. Old Business: none probably be a motion on this at the chair has not scheduled a tors-at-Large. Senators should VIII. New Business: the next week. meeting then they should speak expect to see a motion in the Appointment of Appoint­ President Smale announced that with Pres. Smale. Pres. Smale future that would change Sena­ ed Student RepresentativesCothe first QUADFEST meeting then explained to the Senate that tors-at-Large terms back to D, A, ordinator: Senator Findlen will be at 4:30 in Salisbury 104, the Executives should act as fa­ B, C-terms, however the change moved that the Senate approve on Thursday, February 10th, in­ cilitators to the Senate and that it would not take effect until next Andy T hiessen as President terested senators should attend is the responsibility of the Senate years elections.

Smale’s appointment to this new­ or encourage others to attend. to create action.

PR: Chair Laydon announced that ly created position. Senator Senator Keenan asked that com­ XI. Meeting adjourned at 7:15. he had met with Assistant Dean Keenan 2nd. Discussion followed mittee chairs place their meeting ars/ARS

•S-G-A

SGA candidates submit position letters for C-term elections The following are the letters of can­ didacy submitted by the candidates for SG A ’s C-term elections.

Office of SGA President: Greg Findlen How much do you know about SGA? Unfortunately, you probably don’t know too much about the Student Gov­ ernment Association. As SGA Presi­ dent, I will strive to improve the in­ volvement of SGA with issues con­ cerning the students. To do this I plan to make senators and executives more aware of student concerns by collect­ ing student input with one to one con­ tact. I will also work to help alleviate tensions between the student body and the WPI Administration which will lead to a more productive community.

Instead of merely fighting for students on current issues within the faculty and administration, I will fight for issues which the student body is con­ cerned about.

W olf Winset Would you like to attend the school described in the WPI admissions bro­ chures? Hell, I ’d just like to visit.

I’m running for President because SGA has failed in its responsibility to act as an advocate for the student body, and we are all paying the price.

There are issues affecting the school, from safety to the male-female ratio, that are not being adequately ad­ dressed. I believe that running SGA along sharp, goal-oriented business lines, instead of arbitrary parliamen­ tary ones, will create a student-driven change on this campus.

I ran a tavern for two years in Miami. In a business, there is a bottom line: m on­ ey. In politics and academia, there is often no bottom line whatsoever. For SGA to work, it MUST change. In the past two Senate meetings, we wasted a combined 80 man-hours arguing over semantics. The bills that were passed (i.e. Campus Creed and SGA Mission Statement) will have no m ea­ surable effect on campus quality. They were all symbolic. And, despite this, the Senate still managed to waste time arguing semantics. That is, the arguments were not about the m ean­ ing or purpose of the symbolic bills the arguments were just about w ord­ ing!!! Can you understand why so little gets done?

I believe the purpose of student government is to seek out problems on campus and fix them. Lack of quiet study space in the

dorms? That is a prima facie respon­ sibility of SGA. Stoddard’s lounge unheated for two months? T h at’s our job. DAKA’s menu selection seem­ ingly unrelated to student desires?

That’s us too. Sidewalks covered with ice for three weeks? It’s our job to see that the work gets done, and we haven’t been doing it. My platform consists of problems that will be fixed

by SGA during my term.

Here are some highlights: 1) Students need an interim campus center right now. The current student center will be finished in ’97-’98.

That’s too long a wait. I have a plan to get us an interim campus center by October of this year. If elected, I guarantee w e’ll have an interim center ... or I’ll resign.

2) Many off-campus apartments suck. T hey’re falling apart, unsafe, and run by slumlords. Currently there is no tracking system for apartments and landlords. There needs to be one.

SGA needs to create a map-based system for so that students interested in an apartment can walk into SGA, give an address, and find out how the last few tenants rated the landlord and the apartment. Repair problems, safety, pests, heat/hot water regular­ ity, deposit return, and landlord schizophrenia (Dr. Jeckyll to Mr. Hyde after the lease is signed) are just a few things students need to know about.

3) The male-female ratio on this campus is inadequate; it's inadequate at most engineering schools. To ef­ fect change in this area, this school must publicly take a leading role in women’s issues in engineering. It boils down to this: until we offer prospective female students a reason to come here, they aren ’t going to: there are too many top-notch engi­ neering schools (Rice, RPI, MIT, Camegie-M ellon, Cal Tech, Georgia Tech) pursuing too few candidates.

4) The caliber of students WPI is attracting is decreasing: we are cur­ rently accepting 83% o f all students applying for admission. The long­ term effect o f this is that your degree is going to be worth less as time goes by. The problem is not academics: WPI is consistently ranked among the top ten undergraduate engineering schools in the country academically.

The problem is the lack o f a social life on this campus. Providing for a social life is Student Government’s respon­ sibility; if the administration isn’t made aware o f a problem, they aren’t

going to help fix it. Lack of a social life doesn’t just mean that weekends are boring - it means this school is less attractive to matriculating stu­ dents, which, over the long term, wili mitigate the quality of this school. A collegiate social life isn’t a luxury for a com petitive school, it’s a re­ quirement.

Student Government isn’t acting as your advocate right now. If elected, I will take a proactive stance towards change. I will reorganize the Senate along traditional business lines, with a bottom line: finding problems and solv­ ing them. We will have an interim campus center. We will actively assist off-campus students. We will improve the value of your degree.

Vote for W olf Winset - he’s working for you.

Cathy Connelly is also running for President but did not submit a letter of candidacy Office of SGA Vice-President: Fiona G. Abrams My name is Fiona G. Abrams, and I am currently a sophomore, running for Student Government Vice-Presi­ dent. In the future 1 would like to see more involvement and awareness in the student government. I am the Sec­ retary of the Black Student Union, a sister of Alpha Gamma Delta, and I am involved with cheerleading and la­ crosse. In the past I have also been an Orientation Leader.

Nat Fairbanks For three years now I have served as an on campus senator, and now I am running for the office of Vice President o f the Student Government Association. I am well aware of the duties of Vice President, and I know I will perform those duties quite well.

My experience on the Student Gov­ ernment, including membership on the Community Council, chair of the SGA Van Committee, and participa­ tion in Transportation, Election, Con­ stitution, and other SGA committees, makes me an excellent candidate be­ cause I have experience in almost all areas that Student Government is in­ volved with. When you vote, elec­ tronically, or paper balloting, vote for me.

Joseph Laydon My name is Joseph Laydon and I am running for Vice President of The Student Government Association. I

am running for this position because I see the need to coordinate the efforts of the President and the SGA com mit­ tees in an effort to reach out to the WPI community. The Vice President should work to improve communica­ tion lines between the Senate and the WPI community.

I have been in­ volved with SGA for over a year and I have witnessed numerous changes.

Involvement has grown within SGA to levels I have not seen in the past.

The committees which run SGA have been restructured to better address students concerns. I am the chair of the newly created Public Relations committee and we have begun to ad­ dress the problem of communication between SGA and the WPI communi­ ty. But this should not be the work of one committee. The PR committee is a tool to improve public relations, improved communications need to be the concern of all SGA senators. This is the role I foresee the Vice President should be undertaking, to help dis­ miss the questions of what SGA does.

Office o f SGA Secretary: Dan Corriveau is running for SGA secretary but did not submit a letter of candidacy.

Office of SGA Treasurer: Donald Socha Hello! My name is Don Socha. I am running for SGA Treasurer. I feel that a more open communication link between the SGA and students would benefit the entire campus. As treasur­ er I will strive to keep the campus informed of all financial matters that affect the school and in turn the stu­ dent body. I will focus on reforming the budget process through the use of computers to eliminate the mountain o f wasted paper. My experience as Assistant Treasurer to Class III Orga­ nizations and a past Explorer Post Treasurer will help me to accomplish these outlined goals and serve you better. I would appreciate your vote on election day. Thank You.

As 1 see it now, there are many situa­ tions that need to be dealt with and projects to be accomplished. First there is the most popular issue: the proposed campus center. I say proposed because this is a project that has been in the works since the late 1960’s. After 20 years we are still waiting and while there have been meetings and such as o f late there is still much to accom­ plish. Then there is the entire issue of community and working together. Have you ever tried to accomplish anything here that bridges across a couple clubs or groups? Often it’s impossible due to a lack of communication. A campus creed is a nice idea but its only words.

There are many other issues I would like to discuss such as opening com­ munication between other Worcester colleges and WPI, Quadfest, and the Social Committee to name a few. I have the qualifications for this job in being what I consider a diverse student who participates in Masque, Social Committee, and GA P to name a few things. If you care about this school, your future here, and what your diplo­ ma is worth in five or 10 years, elect Jason Macierowski as an SGA Senator-At-Large. If you have any issues or qualifications you wishtodiscuss; feel free to contact me about them via campus mail or email.

Jason Mickey Hello fellow students. My name is Jason Mickey and I am running for Senator-At-Large this term. 1 am a sophom ore Chem ical Engineering major. I have been interested in run­ ning for a student government position for some time, and I have just no gotten the opportunity.

I have been here for a year now and I have some good ideas that I think could work.One o f the things that I would like to do as senator is bring the student body and SGA closer together.

I would also like to personally be more in contact with what is happening here on campus and be active in the deci­ sion making process.

I would like your support and thank F. Adam Adams is also running for you.

SGA treasurer but did not submit a a letter of candidacy.

Lucie Lasovsky is also running for Senator-at-Large but did not submit a Office o f SGA Senator-at-Large: letter of candidacy.

Jason Macierowski To be honest I do not care much for Electronic balloting begins Febru­ politics. It really doesn't matter to me ary 18th and continues through paper what you call the SGA or the positions; balloting, which is on the 24th. Please It’s what actually gets done within it. take the time to be involved and vote!

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Tuesday February 8,1994

CLUB CORNER

Alpha Phi Omega I love all my brothers, especially those broth­ ers that were at Higgins House Wednesday night and last night to welcome Spring of 1994 pledg­ es. I love all my brothers, especially- the vegeta­ ble, the house, the cowboy, the rainbow, the spit, the tapestry, the popcorn that tastes better with butter, the belly button lint, the kinky, the peach, the peacock feather, the hug, the kiwi, the burrito, the window, and everyone else that I forgot (sorry) because like me, we are all here to serve, (aaawwwwhhhh isn’t that sweet...)

Calendar. I am like a calendar because I ’II tell you to watch out for service projects like - the Service to Students Award, Worcester Public School volunteering. Elderly Home work, and Mustard Seed.... Fellowship Events like bowling (hope y 'all had fun!), game night (TH AT WOU LD BE TONIGHT !!! 7:30 - AT MARC’S!) and various parties!

Look about you: UMOC - contact Adam Adams, Alumni Comm - contact Melissa, Rollerskating the 12th, Ice cream social and last but not least-CONCLAVE!!! If you don’t know what it is. ask a brother!

YiLFS, the little pea in the pod.

Association for Computing Machinery Welcome to the Club Comer for the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Elec­ tions for ’94 officers were held at our last meet­ ing. Congratulations to the new officers: President: Keith Barnett Vice-President: Allen Martin Secretary: Gabe Emst-Edwards Treasurer: Jason Phi Ibrook Promoter: Rollin Crittendon Thanks to everyone that attended the last meeting. The new staff is ready to work for you.

Plans for the spring include; tutorial sessions, a programming contest, bar-b-queue. and the ACM Lectureship Series. Also, we are still selling the ’94 Fractal ACM shirts. There are 2 Green Large, 2 Blue Large and I Green X-Large left. They are $ 10 and you can e-mail acm@ wpi for more information.

Here is a peek at what the C-Term-Tutorials, in the Garden Lab, will cover.

TUTORIALS :send requests to register@c, with the session you plan to attend.

(ALL TIMES P.M.) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12 Make Files (7:00-8:00) * Special dependencies * Using different make files * Macros * Conditional builds * Setting gcc (lags Source Code Control/RCS (8:00 - 9:(X» * Creating RCS projects * Checking in/out files * Source code annotations * Retrieving old versions * Multiple person RCS projects We hope that people enjoy the C-Term-Tutorials. Just about everyone can leam something.

Feel free to stop by one of the next advertised meetings, usually in Fuller 3 11.

See you soon!

Questions, suggestions? E-mail toacm@wpi!

Also, Check out the newsgroup wpi.acm

Global Affairs Party Our Health Care Reform Presentation went very' well, good job Brant! For the people who came to the presentation, thank you very much, and we hope that it helped you to form your own opinion about the Health Care Reform. If you have any suggestions, questions, or ideas about speakers you would like to listen to, please contact Brant at brant@wpi.edu.

We are also looking for new members. By joining GAP, you’ll be informed of current do­ mestic & international issues, have opportunity to talk to our speakers personally, and train your debate skills. If interested, please contact Hidenori at hidenori@wpi.edu.

T-shirt designs have been submitted to the artist, now all we need to do is decide how many shirts to order. The first thing we’ll be doing is taking orders from the club members, so if you want one, let Damian or Jennx know at the next meeting. Speaking of the next meeting, it will be Thursday the IOthat 6:30pm in AK2I8. Election for next year is coming up p-term, so we'll keep you posted about it, too. Harvard Model UN delegates,don’t forget that HNMUN is the 17th20 th of this month!

Hispanic Student Association AND I AM OUTTA HERE! Congratulations to our new officers: PRESIDENT Leila Carvajal (Yeah, that is right! no more sexist remarks from me Flavia!)

V-PRESIDENT Felix Diaz (From now on our Fraternity rules) SECRETARY Rudy Soriano (RE-Elected,

Viva la Familia!)

TREASURER Enrique Martinez (Now he’s got plenty of money to print his Newsletter(O.L.) and make as much sangria as he pleases) Congratulations to all the runners up too.

And don’t forget to sign up for your “HOT SHOTS” we are having the sign ups right now in Daniels! Just stop by and find out what is this all about.

Nos vemos en el espejo.

Lens and Lights IN THE NEWS: The Jackets are in (in case you hadn’t noticed) and they look pretty dam spiffy! Make sure you pay Treasurer Matt for them, though...

In case you missed it, we finally have a ‘new’ HP. Greg Marr finally clinched the 3/4 majority at Wednesday’s meeting.

The new execs officially took office on Mon­ day at the key toss. We had even more meetings than we did on Wednesday, bringing the total to five, if you count dinner as a meeting. If not, we still had four bone fide Executive Board meet­ ings, two open and two closed.AT THE MEETING: Since the amendment proposed last week has been withdrawn we won’t be voting on it. However, there is a new committee to revise the By-Laws once and for all being formed, so if you are interested, come to the meeting and sign up!

EVENTS: For the first time in 3 years, ex-VP Jon will have to sit in the back. New-VP Fubar will sign up events and read the weekly Top Ten list...

FUN FACT OF THE WEEK: For the past 2 years, the initials “JK” have appeared at the top of work orders, but now the initials “KL” will take their place!

QUOTES: “Good luck.” -David. “I have to take attendance AG AIN ?” -Dan A. “This ’11m ake my THIRD meeting in row!” -Alex. “I move we close this business meeting and open a third..just because W ECAN!’’ -Jon K. “You missed BOTH meetings, Adam!” -Greg M. We still meet Wednesday, 4:30, AK233, so BE THERE.

Society of Pershing Rifles Well, I am back, sorry for missing last week, but all we did was ski any way. First of all, even though he is already gone, I want to give a final fare well to our very own Mr. Shope, I know we will all miss him, but he will enjoy all that beer we gave him, heh, heh.

I forgot my calendar, so I am going to venture a guess as to what we are doing tomorrow...bungy jumping!! No, that’s not quite right, uhh...sky diving!! ! NO, that’s not it either, it is some­ thing much better than either of those... D&C, yes, D&C, everybodies favorite pastime. But, I guess we need to get into practice, because we have another colorguard this weekend. Yup, the Miss Rhode Island pageant is this Sunday, and six to eight lucky men and women will get to go and stand around for awhile. Watch out for Top though, he will be looking fo for volunteers tomorrow.

Pledges, get ready, and drag in some friends too. The more of you there are, the less each one will be picked on, heh, heh. Study those manuals you ju just got, pretty soon we will be asking a lot of questions, and expecting COR CORRECT answers. But do not forget to Have Fun!!!

Pre-Med Pre-Vet Society Hey everybody! The Pre-Med Pre-Vet Soci­ ety would like to let everyone know that there is a representative from UMASS Medical School coming on Feburary 8th to talk about the require­ ments for entering medical school, specifically UMASS. Anyone interested is welcome tocome.

It will be held on Feb. 8 at 4:30 pm in SL 0 11.

We also have a news group for anyone who might possibly be interested in pursuing a career in the medical or vet world. If you would like to be added to the group just e-mail us at medvetnews@wpi. We are trying to get a lot of things started up, so if you are interested and would like to lend a hand, please let us know. If you have any questions contact us or our advisor Jill Rulfs in the Biology department. Hope to see everyone on the eighth.

Masque

Student Pugwash

Hello all! I trust you went to see M.W. Repertory TheaterCo. Etc.’s production o f Death­ trap'? It was a Great show and if you missed it that's your loss. It was hilariously funny. M.W. Rep. will soon be looking for ideas for plays that they can do A-term, so start thinking now.

Masque’s C-term SHOW: Jesus Christ Su­ perstar opens in 9 days! This is Masque’s first musical in decades. Everyone involved tells me it is going to be the best C-term Masque show EVER! SO here’s what you need to know: Tickets are $3,5,7 for WPI, Consortium, and others.

Tickets will be on sale for all nights startinii Feb. 10.

Show Dates are the 17 ,18 ,19 of February.

Jesus Christ Superstar will be performed in Alden Hall.

For more information email Masque@wpi.

NewVoices 12 received 50submissions. Yeah!

The dramaturgy staff is busy reading them as we speak. The shows for NewVoices 12 will be announced Feb. 18 at the Masque meeting.

Auditions are in the last week of Feb. If you ever had ANY desire to act PLEASE audition; there will be more than enough parts to go around!

Hello everyone! We have a lot of activities up in the air, starting with one this THURSDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 1994. We will be watching the second part of three movies concerning the CHALLENGER DISASTER. Called “The Flawed Decision”, it is a thought provoking video and you don’t need to see the first part to get something out of it. This meeting will be held at Professor Wilkes’s house, 25 INSTITUTE ROAD, at 5PM. Snacks and discussion will also be provided and afterthe flick, we will talk about some of Pugwash’s future plans: there are a lot of possibilites! EVERYONE on campus is wel­ come, so bring a friend, or just show up for fun and food!

Thanx a bunch, jenn with a double n, ho rses@ w p i.w p i.ed u . P resident, Student Pugwash.

WPI Mens Crew Hell of a good job this week guys. I really like how the intensity is holding out through C term.

The novices are really busting their balls and varsity is all out every weight circuit! This is awesome guys, but then again HC, Coast Guard, and U Conn are doing the same stuff as us. We’ve got to be at full rowing shape before we get out on the water for the first practice! Remember once we get on the water we only have a few WEEKS to reach full output on the lake. Si) keep up the good work and try to push the whole team forward! GO CREW!

Society for Medieval Arts and Sciences Yeah, well, I know there hasn’t been one o ’ these for nigh on three weeks. You may (collec­ tively or individually) bite me; I’ve been a bit busy.

Anyway. What you already know, that I didn't put in the first article, is that practices are Tues­ days and Thursdays, at 7:30. This is the usual time and place. I have no idea when the third practice is.

By the way, everyone is very much encour­ aged to show up to practices for the next couple weeks. We are expecting a visit from some event holders, like Lance, Queen Meg, and a few others. This is something not to be missed. It will probably be on a Tuesday night.

This is the last reminder forthis term: Anyone who does NOT want to be on the SMAS mailing list, please email me, randi@WPI, and I’ll take everyone off in one lump deletion. This will occur next Sunday, the 13th. I figure that gives everyone time to mail mes one in February, or am at least pretty sure of it. There is also a wedding to be taking place soon as well: Lady Dee to Lord Highrider. More to follow on both of these prospective events.

Farewell for now. (Aydan, don’t you dare rank on me.)

Society of Women Engineers Hello? Earth to SWE members. Ummmguys, we have these things called meetings right? And the reason we have them is so that members (that’s you) can attend and find out what SWE is up to. Well, we have this slight problem. There are about 100 of you members...however, only about 10 show up to meetings. So, what we need is some attendance at these meetings. We CAN NOT exist and prosper without you. OK, enough of that. Here’swhatSW E is upto nowadays. On February 10 and 11, SWE will be selling Valen­ tine’s Day candygrams. Awwwww. Now I’m sure all of you know at least one person you could send one to. And I’ll bet you even know acouple of people you can convince to send some. They are only $.50 for hugs or kisses and $ 1.00 for hugs AND kisses. So all of you, help support SWE by buying candygrams and begging others to! Thurs.

Feb. 24 - Sat. Feb. 26, Tufts University is putting on the play Machinal. It’s about attitudes to­ wards women in the early 19th century. Anyone who wants to go can email carolynd@ wpi. Hey here’s another great way to support SWE. We have T-shirts for sale for the bargain price of $5 . Email sw e@ w piifyou are interested. (Ieven own one!) If you want to help plan SWE meetings, join the program committee. Email swe@wpi for more information. On Mar. 22, the programs committee for planning Nation­ als in 1995 (B oston) will meet. Email barbeau@ wpi if you want to go. Thought for the week: Do one thing and do it better than anyone else.

Wedgerats of WPI Another comer? Shocking isn’t it? Anyway, I hope C-term is going well. It’s been... urn... "“interesting* forme... Maybe WPI should offer Stress Management 1001, what to do when Eris takes a personal interest in your life. There are only so many times you can read the Principia Discordia... Oh, just in case you don’t read the other club comers and you're reading this one, this is your LAST CHANCE to submit things to Pathways. (Yes, go check out the Pathways club comer...) Yeah, the deadline was last Thursday, but our next meeting to start layout is this week.

W e’re being nice. L.I.T.P. Public service an­ nouncement, Toy Truck had a large amount of equipment stolen last Thursday night. If you are in the local music scene, get a description from noahvawt@wpi and keep your eyes open. And if you know who did it, feel free to injure them gravely. Hmm, what else... Oh yeah, officers, someone please step forward from the Wedge as the next President. What are the duties? Not much really, just sort of local Wedge folklore knowledge storehouse and club comer author.

Oh, and it makes you eligible to be part of the Class IOCFC... So you can have some ‘official’ powers... KALL.ISTI! -MegaZone

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Pathways What? You MISSED the deadline?! How could you?! Oh, ok. we’ll be nice... The next Pathways meeting is this Thursday at 8 PM, as usual. We’ll be starting the layout process, so if you gel things into us before Thursday, it might get considered for this issue. Anything that comes in this year too late for this issue gets held over until next year. So, if you were waiting, and you waited just a bit too long, get things in NOW. This is your LAST CHANCE! Especially if you have any artwork or B&W photos, we'd like to have some variety. Email to pathways at WPI. or pul it in out box in the S AO. Just do it ASAP. We did have a lot of last minute submissions, so I suspect there may be some more lurking out there, -editor, MegaZone

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Tuesday February 8,1994

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GREEK CORNER

AXP So, it’s time once again for the Greek Comer.

Is it me, or is every- thing I write completely out of date by the time Tuesday rolls around? Giving an example - Friday’s graffiti party. Most likely, lots of noteworthy stuff happened, but it didn’t happen by the 5pm deadline last Friday, so it’ll just have to wait ‘til next week. Anyway, on with the stuff that DID happen...

Postulants: ifat first you don’t succeed... yousuck!

If you’re still feeling low because you totally BOTCHED the last raid attempt, well, you should!

Luckily for you guys, however, we have to let you in some time. October sounds about right! Victory will be yours, but probably not before Haye and I both graduate! Eventually, you will HAVE to get your acts together, though. Some day...

Thanks to Costa, the coveted “A ward” was passed down along with the office last Wednesday night. Of course, if he hadn’t been wearing that lace teddy, there would not have been any confusion!

Similarly, congratulations go out to Luke for coming out of the “Closet” last weekends. Unfortu­ nately, the Gay Bee is still IN the Closet, so beware!

Considering the fact that our “two out of twenty” quota still hasn’t been filled, I would like to offer some advice to the brothers. Keep your distance!

Continuing on, I’d like to announce forthe second consecutive week that the Valentine’s Day Dance is this Saturday. One of these days I’ll get it right!

C ’mon and bring yourdate, or don’t bring adate and steal someone else’s! Kaimes will show you how to STALL when a dateless brother comes looking for what was once rightfully his! (Later...)

A rA Once upon a time, there was a house with the letters... Alpha Gamma Delta... Oh, that was supposedtobea Phi!?! I liked it better our way... Red looks better anyways... And I hear there arc pic­ tures... Great job Jen Lowell, Suzy Berry, Erin Brophy. and Heather Miller... And from what I hear, it doesn’t stop there... Ourwonderful pledges pulled another raid... on ATO... something about AGD is # l ... Matt Wingman, do you know anything about that? Karen Lambert, Deb Foley, and many of the above... GREAT JOB, you guys! Keepup the Alpha GaniSpirit!!!!

So what else has been happening lately? Well, there was the Groundhog Day celebration at Theta Chi... And the sisterhood retreat... Thanks Carrie, Mellisa, and Fiona... You guys are great hosts... We

all had a blast! (I’m so sure I can write it 2 days in advance!!!)

I wish all the candidates good luck in the elections for Panhellenic Officers... and also good luck to all those running for AGD offices...

Before I go any further, I must commend Cindy Moser for being the BEST house chairman the Zeta Zeta chapter has ever had... Cindy, you’re awe­ some... and you are the only sister to ever get a “wave”during ameeting... what was it, the back two rows?

As for last weeks article, Kari enjoyed explaining it toevery one... Special hello’sgoouttoHB, Wendy, Gilda, Steph, and Fosset... We love you guys... And if I missed anyone, just yell at me, and I will add them to the next list... That’s a beautiful necklace I’ve been seeing people wearing... ornot wearing (Wendy ... I know, it was the hairspray’s fault...)

One more exec, council, and I believe we have finished... no more late nights with Susan and the rest of the Advisors... but that also means no more Teddy... HB, can you deal with that?

As for Birthdays... 1don’t have my list with me, but I will continue in a bit...

Thanks goout toourawesome pledges for throw­ ing us the sister social last Saturday! You guys did a great job, we all had a blast!

Thanks go out to ATO for the social last Friday!

We all had a great time!

Congratulations to Lily Lau for getting a job!

Also, great job to all of the winter sports teams who are still working hard!

Thanks go out to Mandy and Kelly for making a bunch of stuffed peppers last week! Not only were they great, but you guys managed to find a creative way to get rid of half of the population of green peppers that have made our kitchen their new home!

Also, thanks for being brave enough to go into the basement and get the chairs, Kelly! Now we can all eat together!

Special hellos this week to: pledge FH, Diane N., Amy R., Kimmy, Robyn, and Marie M. (from all your big sisters). Also, Sue Crowley (from Waz, Patti, and Nan), Heidi W. (from Kondo), Sarah Tegan (from Julz and Cathy C.), Pookie (from your little sis), Polly (from Amanda), and EVERYONE else (from Teresa).

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Well, I guess it’s time to tell the another story.

Hope all of the parents enjoyed their brief stay at the house. 1 hope that some of them at least got to eat something considering Giorgi decided to stay forthe festivities. But hey, at least Cauley is sticking to his diet. I think that means he won’t have to pay extra this year for his plane ticket. Although, I am not sure the people sitting next to him would agree. Oh by the way did I forget tomention four weeks until Cancun.

Simon was up to his old tricks again shooting the trifecta. I think he is becoming somewhat of a legend.

Good luck tothe basketball boys, and Pelkey. Oh and forthat mattergood game pledges. Keep up the good work. Well, that’s all for this week. See Ya.

Weenie, one week out of office and boy are you awful. Your display on Saturday lets us see that the only thing you can offer is a big fat gut!!!!!!

E.C. waiton was cool. We started eating at 5:30 and left at 5:31. Al, Youki, and McDinkTool found out how tough a waiton can be. Al be aware of the flying tuna.

Congrats go out to our new IFC reps. Maybe next yearSaltroni.Twig and Crazy can ride the bandwag­ on intooffice!!!!!

Apparently Captain Stubey is the only man of the third deck brown house with last week’s perfor­ mance. Thibs, how about listening to another hour of Dufort’s tall tales? Al “Don’t go breaking my heart”. Gibbs, how’s the new\d disciple, ooh I mean roommate.

Faunce, don't worry room picks are only 9months away. Come to our own SAE yard sale as Munsells some of the things he found around the house. (The Moseley?) Sasha, good job on the brown house bathroom and Anne’s head, keep up the good work.

We now have our first graduate from the North AndoverTractorTrailerTraining School, good job Billy Joe Freddy.

Hope you had fun at the Under the Sea Party and again good luck to the IFC guys, you earned it.

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A HUGEcongratulationsgoesout to Amy Knapp on herengagement (yes...ENGAGEMENT) to Scott Paradis! Congratulations, Amy, we all wish you the best! Hope you enjoyed your spoon passing (sorry we couldn’t find a candle).

The Valentine’s formal is a mere 4 days away ...I hope everyone is getting ready and looking forward toit! StandingO’sgoouttoeveryonewhoisworking hard to make this a memorable formal!

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national Meeting

Storytime...

Steve has come up with another enterprising idea for a philanthropy event. We’ll sell off days on the calender and who ever gets the day that Fred or Hal start drinking again gets to donate a lot of money to their favorite charity. An additional bonus will be added if you correctly predict when they both start again. Runners-up will recieve lovable, stuffed Hal dolls.

Hey Beal, nice head wound...

Interview dress tips from Colin... Wear a nice suit... Wear a nice tie... Don’t wear white socks...

Most importantly. Don’t wear underwear, it’sasure way to get a secondary.

Don’t forget to yell car!

Hey Tex, welcome to team wet although most people don’t join while they are awake... Dallas sucks!!!

For all of you who arc having a rough C-term just rememberthat it could be worse; you could be acivil.

Here’s a riddle for all you clever people... What goes up the hill, down the hill, up the hill, down the hill, up the hill, down the hill, and back up the hill in the same night and misses many meal crews and really, really sucks?

Hope everyone had front row seats to the fight of the century. In one comer, weighing in at 160 pounds, champion of the dark side, Mather. And in the other comer, weighing in at 168.14152654 pounds, the defender of the people, the amazing Juice. In thecourse ofthefighting,they both suffered concushions and subsequently don’t remember s#$@...

Rumor has it that Squirrel is planning to elope withTrishsometime soon. Awe... thosecrazy kids!!!

Is itjust me or is everybody at the Pi getting really good with cooking knives? See you next tuesday...

0X Hey kids, it’s that time again. Here’s the week that was and the week that will be at Theta Chi. I haven’t written this for two weeks because people d o n ’t realize that I am actually Megazone and had a problem downloading G IF’s of Houly in a speedo. Thanks to Sacco for laplinking with Pineo and sorting everything out.

On a more serious note, there is an issue that needs to be dealt with quickly: the Armenians.

Who are these people that d on’t know how to drive but still own cars bigger (but not louder) thanGodizilla? Why are they all over 50 years o f age? Whos is that guy who mows the lawn in December with no shirt on? Is it that they are actually aliens trapped in Worcester, ready to blast off in their “church”? Rug Sale?...Get real, just more experimentations upon college students. This would explain D ’Anna and Ewen. And if this is true does it explain where Babb goes every night? I may not get all A's, or any grades for that matter, but I’m no dummy.

Why is it that there are always funerals, but no caskets? Is Armenia even a country, and if so, why would they put a church in Worcester, home of..well..nothing? Just another ploy by the WPI administration to pull the wool over our eyes. Something smells fishy and it’s not Lombard’s laundry basket.

That’s all I got and remember Two weeks until Beach Epsilon...”Utah, get me two. Utah, two.”

TKE Hey jerkies, happy help week to all. I nearly graduated before you guys got it right. Congratula­ tions to Heath for making it two straight years in a row of being completely silly then getting on the big white phone to the porcelain god.

If I have to hear bow wow wow, yipee yo, yipee yeah again I might just freak. Bet you never thought getting up so early could be so fun did ya? For a nice way to get in trouble with your professor, take a lab with Thor and have him say: “Hey Berka. is it bad to snifYchloroform?”

T-minus one week till the RCB so, once again, if you ain’t found nothing yet.... tell Zippo or G-Spot you want to go to the RLC. Wei I, the corned beef and cabbage haseroded my nose and now my stomach so I will leave you with a closing thought.... isn’t it strange to not have Guervich around to pick on and make fun of anymore. Fraterette Goonan is the next best thing.

UNGDOW Killaman.you'reamurdercr. Killamillion.you’re a conquerer.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sophomore and junior CE majors: April deadline for MCAP scholarship applications In an effort to promote professionalism in the construction industry and further the goals of students in collegiate construction programs, the Massachusetts Construction Advancement Program (MCAP) is offering scholarship aid to sophomores and juniors enrolled in full-time civil engineering, construction and construc­ tion management disciplines. These scholar­ ships may be used by students to help defray tuition and/or living costs for the 1994-95 aca­ demic year.

Applications have been distributed to civil engineering and building construction technol­ ogy departments at Massachusetts colleges and universities offering construction oriented de­ grees. Additional application forms are avail­ able from the MCAP Office, 888 WorcesterSt., Wellesley, M A 0 2 18 1-3708. Completed appli­ cations and transcripts of grades must be re­ turned to MCAP by April I, 1994. Award recipients will be selected by contractor repre­ sentatives of the Associated General Contrac-

Athletics declares Feb. 15th “Spirit DayJJ The WPI Department of Athletics recently announced plans for the second annual “Spirit Day”, to be held on Tuesday. February 15, in conjunction with both a wom en'sand m en’s basket ball contest.

The festivities will begin before the women’s basketball game against New England Women's Eight Conference rival Wheaton College at 6 p.m., and continue through the m en’s contest at 8:00 p.m. against Constitution Athletic Conference foe. Western New England College.

At halftime of each game, there will be a three-point shooting contest with prizes to be awarded.

Tickets for those interested will be handed out upon admission to the game. There will also be a banner contest with prizes. Banners must be brought to the lobby of Harrington Auditorium between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. on the 15th. Winners will be announced during the second half of the men’s game.

Prizes will be gift certificates to Gompei’s Plate for pizza worth $75, $50, and $25.

Members of the WPI administration, faculty, staff, and their families, and all WPI students, will receive free admission and hot dogs and soda (after7:00 p.m.), with a valid ID card, compliments of the President’s Office and the Department of Athletics.

The evening should be full of action and excitement, as the Engineers fight for supremacy in their respective conferences.

For more information, please contact the Department of Athletics at 831-5243.

Schedule o f Events for "Spirit Day" 5:30 p.m. - All banners for banner contest must be submitted and hung from balcony of south end.

6:00 p.m. - W om en’s Basketball game vs. Wheaton College 6:45 p.m. (Approx.) - Halftime Three-Point Shoot-Out Contest 7:00 p.m. - Concession stands open for free hot dogs and soda.

7:30 p.m. (Approx.) - Women's Basketball game ends Judging of banners between games 8 :(X) p.m. - M en's Basketball vs. Western New England College 8:45 p.m. (Approx.) - Halftime Three-Point Shoot-Out Contest 9 :15 p.m. (Approx.) - Winners of Banner Contest announced ( 10 :0 0 remaining in second half) 9:40 p.m. (Approx.) - Men’s Basketball game ends

tors of Massachusetts Education Committee, and will be announced by the end of May. Scholarship awards will be presented in Sep­ tember.

The Massachusetts Construction Advance­ ment Program is an industry advancement trust formed in 1973 by the Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts and the Building Trades Employers’ Association of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. It serves the construc­ tion industry with comprehensive activities in

the fields of manpower training and recruit­ ment, intra-industry relations, job safety, acci­ dent prevention, public relations, market de­ velopment, education, and informational ser­ vices.

Nearly one hundred twenty-five students, pursuing professional careers in the construc­ tion industry, have been awarded over $ 165,000 in scholarship grants since the inception of the scholarship program.

Hydro Power Contest Offers Students Challenges, Recognition, and Prizes The 1994 Hydro Power Contest provides students throughout North America an oppor­ tunity to demonstrate their engineering prow­ ess, ingenuity, and mechanical skills while competing for recognition and thousands of dollars worth of scholarships, cars, and prizes.

The hydro power contest challenges students to demonstrate their ability to design and build a device that converts the gravity potential of water into mechanical power.

College and university students, as well as other interested individuals, are invited to enter the 1994 Hydro Power Contest, which is being sponsored by 37 companies, utilities, and government organizations in the U.S. and Canada with ties to hydropower. The contest will be held during HydroVision ’94 in Phoe­ nix, Arizona, August 16-19, 1994.

To participate in the competition, contes­ tants are required to construct a device that converts the gravity potential of water into mechanical power. Competitors can either design a device producing maximum power or maximum efficiency. The mechanical power will be measured by the time, in seconds, it

takes to lift a weight a fixed distance. The turbine design that lifts the weight in the shortest period of time wins. In efficiency competition, the turbine that displaces the least amount of water to move the weight wins. A panel of industry experts will monitor and judge all entries.

The contest offers six categories of compe­ tition - five timed divisions and one efficiency division. W inners in each category will win cash plus a Hewlett-Packard scientific calcu­ lator and other prizes. Top winners in the two Student Divisions also will be eligible for scholarship funds. (To enter a Student Divi­ sion, an individual must be a student in the Fall of 1994.)

Contestants took home more than $20,000 worth of cash and prizes from the 1993 Hydro Power Contest, competitors must purchase a turbine kit for $ 15. Both individual and team entries are welcome. To purchase a kit or receive more information, contact Laura Smith - Noggle, Hydro Power Contest Coordinator, 410 Archibald Street, Kansas City, MO 6 4 111; (816)931-1311; Fax: (816)931-2015.

COMMUNITY UPDATE

Annual Entrepreneur’s Workshop Set for March 26 at WPI

WPI Basketball...

Scott Ennis goes for a layup against defenders from Norwich University in a game played Tuesday night in Harrington. The Engineer's took this game with a score o f 87-73.

“Thrivingon Change: Entrepreneurial Strat­ egies for the ’90s” will be the theme for the fourth annual WPI Venture Forum Entrepre­ neurs Workshop set for Saturday, March 26, on the WPI campus. Kenneth Olsen, founder and former president of Digital Equipment Corp., and Alfred Molinari, founder, president and chief executive officer of Data Translation, will be the keynote speakers.

The day-long workshop will feature more than 30 presidents and chief executive officers from some of the most innovative companies in the Northeast moderating and participating in

the sessions. The workshops sessions will include: Finance 101: Surviving the First Year; Market-Driven Product Development; Attract­ ing, Building and Selecting the Management Team; How to Create a Winning Business Plan; Finance 201: Funding Growth; Managing the Start-Up Corporation; Client-Focused Sales and Marketing; The Virtual Corporation; Women in Business: A CEO’s Perspective; Product Redesign vs Reposition; Marketing the Service Company; Surviving the Start-Up Phase.

For additional information call (508) 831-5605.

Students Inducted into Management Honor Society Four WPI students were recently inducted into Epsilon Upsilon Pi, the management honor society, for outstanding academic performance in management and management engineering.

The new members are: Florian Dannheim of Rosengarten,Germany; Marc Klaschka; Chris­ topher Music of Heredia. Costa Rica: and Jen­

nifer Rice of West Hartford, Conn.

Elected officers of Epsilon Upsilon Pi are seniors: Charles Schlopp of Canaan, N.Y. as president; Bruce Reedstrom of Middlebury, Vt. as vice president; Lynn Marzano of Pittsfield, Mass. as secretary; and Stefan Randholm of Nassjo, Sweden as treasurer.

Recent Promotion for Philip Clay

#21 Cindy Moser blocks a d e fe n d e r w h ile te a m m a te M ic h e lle Bu/./.ell goes up for the s h o t as th e W PI W o m en ’s B ask etb all team battled Rrandeis d u r in g an a c tio n p a c k e d gam e last W ednesday, February 2. The Lady Engineers’ put up a courageous effort keeping the game a close 59-53 final.

Philip Clay is W Pl’s new director of residen­ tial services. Clay, who has served as associate director since 1993, replaces Peggy Jablonski, who recently accepted the position of associate dean of students at MIT. In his new position. Clay has overall respon­ sibility for the management and operation of WPI’s 1,300-bed on- campus residential sys­ tem and supervises 40 undergraduate residen­ tial advisors. He came to the Institute after four

years as assistant director for residential pro­ grams at Potsdam College. Clay received his bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence Universi­ ty in 1982 and his m aster’s from SUNY Binghamton in 1986.

The Student Life staff encourages all mem­ bers of the WPI community to join with them in congratulating Philip Clay on his promotion and new responsibilities.

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Tuesday February 8,1994

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CLASSIFIEDS Two Martians walked into a bar...

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Nassau/Paradise Island, Cancun, Jamaica, San Juan. Earn FREE trip plus commissions as our campus rep! 1-800-9-BEACH-l.

Earn $500 $ ICKH) weekly stuffing enve­ lopes. For details RUSH $1.00 with SASE to: GROUP FIVE, 57 Greentree Drive, Suite 307, Dover, DE 19901.

Word from the weird: something about mink meat, rotisserie mink and mink burgers

Hey Patty!!! Thanks for the plastic, ah....ah.... ah.... whatchamacallit - grw Anyone w ith feedback about the CDC please contact Eric Craft at 791-4838 or email eac ra 11@ wpi.wpi.edu.

Don’t say feedback!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH- L in Last Call.... 2-3-4 Bedroom Apartments gas appliances parking (some roommate vacancies Jan May 1994 (C-D Term or yearly reduced rates, call EDIE 799-2728. 842-1583) Winter Seminar Topic: TEST ANXIETY CONTROL: Wed.. 2/16, 2:3()-3:30pm. Coun­ seling and Student Development Center. 157 West St. 831-5540.

Do you know whai I would like to get on Valentine’s Day? Yea! Hugs and Kisses.

Do you know what I'd like to get for Valen­ tine’s Day? A new Hill!!! (With 0.0 VAC) So how many pledges have bruises from playing Train wreck ?

So how many L’ln pledges have bruises from the 800’s???

W inter S em inar T opic: STR ESS M ANAGENT/SELF-H YPNOS1S/RELAXATION SKILLS. Wed.. 2/9, 7:00-8:30pm.

Counseling and Student Development Center.

157 West St. I didn’t know that we could do photo over­ lays. Well...at least I hope we can.

Newspeak will run classifieds free for all WPI students, faculty, and staff. Free classifieds are limited to six (6) lines Ads of a commercial nature and ads longer than six lines must be paid for at the off campus/commercial rate of $5.00 for the first six lines and 50 cents per additional line.

Classified ads m ust be paid for in advance.

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

The deadline for ads is noon on the Friday before publication.

All classified ads must be on individual sheets of paper and must be accompanied by Ihe writer's name, address and phone number.

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APARTMENTS: 3,4,5 Bedrooms. Avail­ able for ’94-’95 year. Close to campus, conve­ nient to Highland St. stores. Partially fur­ nished, laundry, parking and CLEAN. Call today for an appointment to see. 792-0049.

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L’nl loves its new officers. Good luck; you’ll need it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:-) Bar with 2 stools for Sale Great for dorm, fratemity.or apartment.

Price $100. Call 755-1935 after 7:00PM. l_________

Hugs and kisses are SWEet.

tine’s Day APARTMENTS: Dean St. Near WPI. Mod­ em 1-2 BR for 1-3 people, w/ all utilities including parking and coin-op laundry. $515726. Call Stan 793-1773.

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Hugs for friendship, Kisses for love. Who is that someone you are thinking of ?

Typhoid Dennis has struck E5. grw the weird doth say: Is it in phase?

Wanted: one leak proof roof. Apply above the Acapulco.

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I’ve got 50 dollars on the coin toss...oristhat the toin coss.. ?

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POLICE LOG

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Friday, January L4 8 :16pm - Report o f fight in progress in Wedge.

I():35pm - Report of accident with motor vehicle and 4 pedestrians. Dean and Salisbury Sts. Ambulance called.

Saturday, January 15 12:50pm - Elbridge St. fraternity reports entry and robbery. Students instructed to notify WPD. 8:55pm - EMS called to Dean St. fraternity, student with a hurting knee. Transport to Hahnemann Hospital.

Sunday,January 16 11:37pm - Report of smoke odor in Fuller Labs 1st floor. Watchperson notified, reports odor dissipating, no apparent problem.

Monday, January 17 7:50am - Fuller Labs, Sprinkler alarm. Plant services notified. Water everywhere. Sprinkler head broken.

8 :15am - Total shutdown of Fuller Labs due to water problem.

6:24pm - Einhorn Rd. blocked off due to extremely hazardous road conditions.

Tuesday, January 18 12:14am - Missing person: Parent of Mass. Academy student calls attempting to locate her son.

9:03am - Plant services notified of slippery conditions on West and Salisbury Streets, asked if they could lay down some salt or sand.

10:58pm - Call from student, see 12 :14am. Spent the night with a friend. Mother informed.

Wednesday, January 19 8:37am - Complaint of no heat in Daniels Hall, Plant Services notified.

1:51 pm - Traffic Emergency - Institute Rd. near Einhorn, cars unable to get up icy hill. WPD notified.

fa/hat 'g Tuesday, February 8 8:00pm - Gompei’s Open Mic Night.

Wednesday, February 9 3:00pm and 8:00pm - Holy Cross - Kimball Theatre - Film: “ Much Ado About Nothing” $1.50 w/ college id.

6:00pm - Alden Hall, African Percussion Workshop.

7:00 to 8:30pm - Counseling and Student Development Center, 157 West St. Winter Seminar Topic: Stress Management/Self-Hypnosis/Relaxation Skills.

8 :(X)pm - Holy Cross - Fenwick Concert Hall - “ Holy Cross Chamber Players” Thursday, February 10 4:30pm - SLI04 First organizational meeting o f QuadFest.

8:00pm - Holy Cross - Fenwick Theatre - Dance Concert Friday, February 11 7:00pm - Holy Cross - Kimball Theatre - Film: “ Flesh and Bone” $1.50.

8:00pm - G om pei’s - MTV Free Your Mind/ Spoken Word Tour 1994. $4.

8:00pm - Holy Cross - Fenwick Theatre - Dance Concert Saturday, February 12 7:00pm - Holy Cross - Kimball Theatre - Film: “Flesh and Bone” $1.50 Sunday, February 13 2:00pm - Holy Cross - Fenwick Theatre - Dance Concert 6:30pm and 9:30pm - Perreault - Film: “Dragon, The Bruce Lee Story,” $2.

Friday, January 21 5:10am - Officer falls on ice in back of station.

9:26am - Handicap sign missing from West St. Lot. 11:06pm - Stoddard B. intoxicated person, officers respond.

Monday, February 14 7:00pm and 9:00pm - Holy Cross - Hogan Campus Center Rm 519. Film: "About Last Night".

Saturday, January 22 12:54am - Malicious Mischief - Report of 4 individuals damaging trash receptacles outside of Washburn, Officers respond.

1:41am - Report of party and loud music in Fuller Apartment.

4:21pm - Morgan Dining Hall reports clogged sink pipes.

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Sunday, January 23 4:06am - Stoddard B 3rd Floor, intoxicated student. Officer responds.

Would like to remind you that Monday, January 24 7:34pm - Worcester PD requests assistance locating a lost juvenile in the area of Park Avenue.

8:32pm - WPD reports missing juvenile located.

Tuesday, January 25 3:09pm - Call to WPD regarding heavy congestion on Boynton Street between Institute and Salisbury Street.

5:20pm - Computer terminal stolen from Morgan 4th floor.

M o n d a y , F e b r u a r y 14th is Valentine's Day ( SWE is selling Candy Grams in the wedge on the 10th and I lili *hint:!: *hint*)

Wednesday, January 26 3:00pm - Suspicious persons: Bookstore.

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