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Parrish wants to expand WPI’s “good reputation”

by D onna Edzards Newspeak S ta ff O n M o n d a y , A p ril 10th, a p p ro x i­ m a t e l y 5 0 p e o p le g a t h e r e d in P e rre a u lt H all to m ee t w ith P r e s i­ d e n tia l C a n d id a te D r. E d w a rd A .

P a rris h , Jr. D r. P a rrish is th e se c o n d c a n d id a te to v isit th e W P I c a m p u s a n d h o ld an o p e n fo ru m w ith th e fa c u lty a n d stu d e n ts.

E d w a rd P a rrish h a s b e e n b ro a d ­ e n e d by e d u c a tio n a t m an y le v e ls.

H e sp e n t fo u r y e a rs in the U n ite d S ta te s A ir F o rc e . H is a lm a m ate r is th e U n iv e rsity o f V irg in ia . A fte r g ra d u a tin g a s an E le c tric a l E n g in e e r­ ing m a jo r, he to o k a jo b in the c o m ­ p u te r in d u stry . P a rrish th en w e n t b a c k to sc h o o l fo r h is d o c to ra te .

P re sid e n tia l C a n d id a te P a rr is h 's e x p e rie n c e d o e s n o t e n d w ith h is fo rm a l e d u c a tio n as a stu d e n t. H e a ls o h a s w o rk e d for m an y y e ars in th e te a c h in g a n d a d m in istra tiv e a s ­ p e c ts o f le a rn in g .

P a rrish w as a m e m b e r o f th e fa c u lty o f th e U n iv e r­ s ity o f V irg in ia ; he c o u ld o fte n be

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fo u n d in the re s e a rc h a n d c o m p u te r s y s te m s labs. A s th e h e a d o f th e E E d e p a rtm e n t b e tw e e n 1978 a n d 1982, h is tra v a ils in c lu d e a c lo s e c o rre ­ s p o n d e n c e w ith fa c u lty a n d stu d e n ts .

F ro m 1983 u n til 198 4 , he w a s the c h a ir o f A c a d e m ic C o m p u tin g . As su c h , he d e v e lo p e d p ro g ra m s and fu n d e d re se a rc h in c o o p e r a tio n w ith A T & T as w ell as the N a tio n a l S c i­ e n c e F o u n d a tio n .

D r. Parrish is c u rre n tly the D ean o f V a n d erb ilt U niversity. H e b e g an as an a d m in istrato r th ere in 1987. Since th en , he has trie d to integrate the fac­ u lty a s a d m issio n s is try in g to d o with the students. H e has hired 5 w o m en , 4 A frica n -A m e ric an s, and 1 H ispanic w hile the student p o p u latio n is 25% w o m e n and 15% m inority.

W h il e h e h a s b e e n th e re , V a n d e rb ilt h as o v e rc o m e m a n y p ro b ­ le m s w ith e n ro llm e n t a n d fin a n c ia l a id , p ro b le m s sim ila r to th o s e w hich fa c e W P I. H e h a s w o rk e d h a rd w ith a d m is s io n s a n d th e fin a n c ia l aid o f­ fic e to lo c a te s c h o la rs h ip s a n d re ­ c ru it stu d e n ts.

W h en a sk e d w h y he w a n te d to c o m e to W P I, c a n d id a te P a rris h jo k ­ i n g ly r e p l i e d , “ I lo v e th e c o ld w e a th e r .” He th e n w ent o n to e x ­ p la in th a t he w a n te d to e x p a n d th e g o o d re p u ta tio n th a t W PI h a s. H e b e lie v e s th at the W P I P lan o ffe rs th e b a la n c e th at m ost c o lle g e s , e sp e c ia lly te c h n ic a l sc h o o ls, are n o w striv in g fo r. T h e N a tio n a l S c ien c e F o u n d a ­ tio n is try in g to d e v e lo p a n in te ­ g r a te d c u r ric u lu m w ith h a n d s o n p ro je c t w o rk ; he re m in d e d us th at th e W PI p lan o ffe rs all o f th a t a n d m o re .

D r. P a rrish stre sse d th a t th e m ost im p o rta n t issu e o f all w as c o m m u n i­ c a tio n . T h e issu e s th at a ris e o n m ost c a m p u s e s are th o se that s te m from a la c k o f c o m m u n ic a tio n b e tw e e n th e p a r ti e s in v o lv e d .

As p r e s id e n t, P a rris h is re a d y to liste n to th e fe e d ­ b a c k o f stu d e n ts , fa c u lty a n d s ta ff in w h a t he c a lls an “ ite ra tiv e p ro c e s s .”

A fe llo w o f the IE E E fo r o v e r 25 y e a rs, P a rrish is its c h a ir o f n o m in a ­ tio n s . H e w a s a m e m b e r o f its h o n ­ o re d c o m p u te r so c ie ty in ‘85 a n d

‘92. He is a ls o the a u th o r o f m an y o f the IE E E ’s p u b lic a tio n s in o r d e r to “ sta y in the te c h n ic a l m a in stre a m an d not b e sw e p t a w ay by th e a irs o f

b e in g an a d m in is tra to r.”

In h is free tim e , P a rrish lik e s to lis te n s to m u sic a n d o fte n re tu rn s to his m a jo r p a ssio n , w o o d w o rk in g .

NEWSPEAK STAFF PHOTO / JASON PHILBROOK

Presidential candidate Edward Parrish spoke to students, faculty and staff at an open meeting in Perreault Hall on Monday, April 11.

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Campus gears up for New Voices One-Three

by Carlos Zapata Newspeak S tu ff “ O n e, tw o, three and L IG H T S !” yelled the d irector, and one o f the c h ar­ acters started reciting his lines. O n the sides o th er acto rs ran around trying to get th eir costum es ready o r w ere in the c o m e r m em orizing lines. O n the o th er side o f the w all, crew s w ere actively w orking on setting the stage. L ight crew s w ere g o in g o v e r the light sy s­ tem . C o untdow n for N ew V oices (N V ) O ne-T hree had started.

NV is W P I’.sT h eater Festival, started

by P rofessor Susan V ick o n the spring o f 1983. It started sm all and “ it ju s t grew as m ore voices em erged,” said Prof, V ick w ith a sm ile.

She has been the co o rd in ato r o f the event since then, except fo r last y e a r’s N V , w hen she w as o n sabbatical and Prof. O ’ D onnell coordinated it for her.

In NV all plays are scripted, d irected and perform ed by m em bers o f the W PI com m unity. It is a totally open festival and every b o d y is en couraged to subm it

by February first. “ I feel it is im portant to let people kn o w that it [the selection process] is a to tally b lin d read in g .”

M eaning that the 5 d ra m a tu rg s reading and evaluating the plays d o n o t know w ho w rote the play. “A fte r everybody has read the p lay s w e discuss them . It’s a very fair process,” she said.

P ro f V ick a lso e x p la in e d the reasons for callin g this y e a r’s festival N V OneT h ree saying that m ost th e a te r people are extrem ely su p erstitio u s a n d thought about not having a NV this year. Prof.

V ick on the co n trary d ecided to have a NV 12+1, and started c allin g it OneT h ree, “som ehow people started call­ ing it O ne-T hree too. So it stay ed like that,” she explained.

T h is year 48 plays w ere subm itted and 2 2 w ere accepted. Prof. V ick re ­ calls that the h ig h est n u m b er o f plays sub m itted was 54 and 30 for the num ­ ber o f plays perform ed. S h e is very ex cited about th is y e a r’s festiv al. “ New V o ices O ne-T hree is o n e o f o u r best.

W e have an unusual n u m b er o f play­ w rights and people w ho have been in-

What IS Q3

by Am y L Plack Newspeak S ta ff and QuadFest Committee Co-Chair Starting this w eek, you have p ro b ­ ably been seeing som e posters that say “Q* is co m in g ...” o r “Q uadF est III; T o u can Jam .” Y ou m ight be one o f the m any people asking them selves “ w hat is Q u ad F est?”

Q uadF est is a m assive cam pus unity event entirely conceived, organized and run by students. The idea for a Q uad F estival cam e out o f a retreat held by m em bers o f the 1993 SocC om m E x ­ ecutive board. At that tim e there w as m uch talk (and little actio n ) by people about the W PI C om m unity and how it co u ld be im proved. M uch the sam e w ay that W PI is o rganized into d iffe r­ ent layers o f adm inistration, faculty.

and support staff, the stu d en t body is split into groups w hich d o n ’t interact m uch: on-cam pus students, off-cam ­ pus students, co m m u ters, g re ek s and grad students. T hese g ro u p s o f stu­ d en ts only interact a ca d em ically , with very little social interaction.

T h e basic idea w as to co m b in e a “ S pring W eek” type activ ity with a large unity event. T his w o u ld involve m any people in essen tially w h at w as to be a huge p arty o n the Q uadrangle, kn o w n as the Q u ad , w ithout the nega­ tive issues surrounding S pree D ay held previously at W PI and cu rren tly at Clark U niversity. B oth Spree D ays have been criticized by the a m o u n t o f d rink­ ing that traditio n ally has o c cu rre d and the im age that it w as school-sanctioned.

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volved for three o r four years in the festiv al.” T he result is “a very sophis­ ticated festival.”

In fact, N V O ne-T hree has a w ide variety o f plays ranging from com edy to dram a, from w esterns to religious dram a, from m edieval to m o d em soci­ e ty and “ different takes o n things you w ould not norm ally expect to e ncoun­ te r in a college festival.” S he also says that there is n othing like NV around an d that “ w e [W PI] are ju s t am azing.”

S om e schools have som e kind o f th e ­ a te r festival but "w e are O n e-T h ree” sh e says excitedly. For 12+1 years W PI has m anaged to present its theater festival to the W PI co m m u n ity as well a s o th er schools. P rofessors from H oly C r o s s a n d A s su m p tio n U n iv e rsity em ailed her earlier during the week to h ave her send them a program "as soon a s possible.”

“A s soon as possible” w as also a co m m o n w ord from M elissa L aG recca, ‘9 7 , executive producer o f the festival.

F o r her it is the first tim e producing. “ M ore than 200 students are involved in N V ,” as she explains a little m ore a bout N V “ It all starts w ith the play se lec tio n process. A fter that, w e spend a w eek or tw o looking for directors.

M eanw hile we set dates for auditions w h ich take up a w eek. A fter auditions th e directo rs choose their c ast.” She a lso assures that every b o d y w ho audi­ tio n s g ets a role. It is then w hen thing

get really hectic, cast rehearsal, stage design, p ro p and costum e search, p u b ­ licity. L aG recca a lso e x p lain ed that they w ere on a tig h t schedule. T h ey only had six d ay s to build the set and

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The stage is set for New Voices 13 W ed n esd ay , A pril 19, 7 :0 0 pm .: D am n the T o rp ed o es, H an g -U p s, A rtificial L ife, P lease, N ot the Fleas, P assio n s, R ew rite, O ne F in e D a y in W ashington, T h e G reat C o w to w n B ank R obbery, E ncounter, N o O ffen se Intended, T h e T eddy B ear, F red and Foul Play.

T h u rsd ay , A pril 2 0 ,4 :3 0 pm .: Ju d as Iscariot; 8 :0 0 p m .: Insert Q u a rters #1, T he D e ath o f C o m rad e P etrov, In se n Q u a rters # 2 , L av a , In se n Q u a rters #3, A ll-A m erican S m allpox, In se rt Q uarters #4, T h e W rong Side o f the B ed, Insert Q u arters #5, T h e S h e p h e rd ’s F lute Is A lw ays Playing (note: Insert Q uarters has five scenes; e a c h scene w ill be sep arated by a play d u rin g T h u rsd a y ’s 8:00 p.m . perform ance).

F rid ay A pril 21 , 4 :3 0 pm .: G ra ce , T he T h ree Servants; 8 :00 pm .: Ju d a s Iscariot, P assio n s, T he T ed d y Bear, T h e G re at C ow tow n B an k R o b b ery , R ew rite, A ll-A m erican S m allp o x , L ava, D a m n the T orpedoes, Foul Play.

Saturday A pril 22, 2:00pm .: O ne Fine D ay in W ashington, E nco u n ter, P lease, N ot the F leas, T h e W ro n g Side o f the B ed, H ang-U ps, N o O ffen se Intended, the com plete Insert Q uarters; 7 :00 pm .: Fred, G race, A rtificial L ife, T he S h e p h e rd 's F lute Is A lw a y s Playing, T h e D eath o f C om rade P etro v , T he T hree Servants.

Worcester celebrating Earth Day You are invited to jo in W o rcester’s annual E arth Day an d A rbor Day c e l­ eb ratio n on April 23rd at W orcester C om m ons! 1995 is a particularly sp e ­ cial year, a s this is the 25th A nniver­ sary o f E arth D ay. The festival will tak e place from 12:00 to 4 :3 0 and will feature speakers o n environm ental is­ su es, m usical entertainm ent by local gro u p s, arts and c rafts tables for kids o f all ages, live anim als and exhibits, and

lots o f in fo rm atio n about local e n v i­ ronm ental co n cern s and issues.

This year R EC has changed the festi­ val site from Institute Park to the W orces­ ter C om m on, w hich is more accessible and convenient because o f its central

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get the lights up before technical re ­ hearsals. “ All new voices are d ifferen t. N o N ew V oices is like the one b e fo re .”

location. The W orcester R egion Transit A uthority (W R T A ) will be providing free bus service all day on E arth Day. In a ddition, six W PI project team s will be presenting their w ork as they co m p e te for a $ 150 prize.

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F o r the w e e k p re c e d in g th is S a tu rd a y , A pril 15th, 19 9 5 , h e r e ’s a re v ie w o f w h a t h a p p e n e d B e y o n d the F a rm : S e n a te m a jo rity le a d e r B ob D o le (R -K S ) fo rm ally d e c la re d his c a n d id a c y for P re si­ d e n t o f the U n ite d S ta le s in N e w Y ork A pr 10th. D ole e m p h a s iz e d h is lo n g -te rm la w ­ m ak in g e x p e rie n c e a n d his se rv ic e in W orld W a r II d u rin g sp e e c h e s in N ew Y o rk , K a n ­ sa s, and W a s h in g to n DC. S o -c a lle d “ fire ­ b ra n d ” c o n s e rv a tiv e R ep. R o b e rt D o rn a n (R C A ) d e c la re d his c a n d id a c y A p r 13th, w hile P re sid e n t C lin to n q u ie tly file d for re -e le c tio n A p r 14th.

C a n a d a a n d the E u ro p e a n U n io n fin ally se ttle d th e ir d is p u te o v e r th e tu rb o t fish e rie s in the N o rth A tlan tic A pr 15th. C a n a d ia n F ish e rie s M in is te r B rian T o b in a n n o u n c e d th at the N o rth A tla n tic F is h e rie s O rg a n iz a ­ tio n had set n e w q u o ta s o f a b o u t 11,000 tons o f fish fo r C a n a d a , 1 1,0 0 0 to n s fo r th e E u ro ­ p e an U nion, a n d 7 ,0 0 0 to n s for th e rest o f the w o rld . T he a g re e m e n t a ls o m o re c le a rly o u tlin e d e n fo rc e m e n t p la n s for th e q u o ta s . A J a p a n e se d e c isio n to b an fish im p o rts from th e E u ro p ea n U n io n A p r 11 th w a s a p p a re n tly u n re la te d to th e N o rth A tla n tic s itu a tio n .

T h e U n ite d N a tio n s v o te d to a llo w Iraq to sell $2 b illio n w orth o f oil to ra is e fu n d s for h u m a n ita ria n p u rc h a se s A p r 14th. Iraq re­ je c te d the o f f e r A p r 15th, c a llin g for all sa n c tio n s to b e lifte d in ste a d . M e a n w h ile , re p o rts p e rsist th at Iraq has c o n tin u e d its n u c le a r w e a p o n s d e v e lo p m e n t p ro g ram .

They’re Talking About It...

R o b e rt M c N a m a ra , se c re ta ry o f sta te d u r ­ ing key pa rts o f th e d e v e lo p m e n t o f V ie tn a m W a r s tra te g y , has now a d m itte d that he w as w ro n g a b o u t V ie tn a m . O n th e A sso c ia te d P re ss ra d io p ro g ra m “ N e w s w e e k o n A ir,” M c N a m ara s ta te d that he now re a liz e s that m an y d e c is io n s a b o u t th e V ie tn a m W ar w ere fla w e d in w a y s p o in te d o u t by p ro te s te rs of th e era.

R e p u b lic P a rty b a re ly w o n re -e le c tio n in Ic e ­ l a n d A p r 9 t h ...R e p . N a t h a n D e a l (G A ) s w i t c h e d to th e R e p u b li c a n p a r ty A p r 1 0 th ...th e n ew Isla m ic C o m m a n d C o u n c il re b e ls k ille d 53 in the S o u th e rn P h illip in e s A p r 1 0 th ...b u s in e ss m a n K irk K e rk o ria n an d a c o n so rtiu m in c lu d in g L ee la c o c c a o ffe re d to b u y C h ry s le r A p r 12th fo r $ 2 2 .8 b illio n ; th e n e x t d a y C h ry s le r sta te d it w as n o t fo r s a le ...a s s a u lts o n R w a n d a n re fu g e e s in Z a ire k ille d 31 A p r 12 th ...th e R u ss ia n lo w e r p a r lia ­ m en t v o te d d e c is iv e ly to en d m ilita ry a c tio n in C h e c h n y a A p r 12th, th o u g h its v o te w as n o t b in d in g ; it c am e as re p o rts w e re c o n ­ firm e d th a t th e R u ss ia n a r m y ’s ta k in g o f S a m a s h k i w as a m a ssa c re o f c iv ilia n s ...S e rb p re s id e n t S lo b o d a n M ilo se v ik re fu s e d to r e c ­ o g n iz e B o sn ia A pr 12th as fig h tin g in te n s i­ fied ; tw o F re n c h UN tro o p s w ere a m o n g c iv ilia n s k ille d in S a ra je v o A p r 1 5 th ...a 5 .6 e a rth q u a k e c e n te re d at A lp in e , T X A p r 13th c a u s e d little d a m a g e ...n e a rly 1800 p e o p le h a d to be e v a c u a te d n e ar S a v a n n a h , G A A p r 14th as a re su lt o f c o n tin u e d lea k s fro m a c h e m i c a l p l a n t w h ic h c a u g h t f ir e A p r 1 0 th ...th e ju r y in th e O J S im p so n c a s e w a s tr e a te d to a p riv a te p e rfo rm a n c e by Jay L en o A p r 14th as w o rrie s c o n tin u e d th at a ra c ia l d iv id e had d e v e lo p e d am o n g ju ry m e m b e rs ...n o th in g u n u su a l h a p p e n e d in T o ­ k y o A p r 15th; the le a d e r o f the A um S h in ri K y o re lig io u s sect a p p a re n tly re s p o n s ib le for th e s u b w a y b o m b in g had p re d ic te d d e v a s ta ­ tio n ...4 7 p e o p le w ere k ille d n e a r C a iro , E g y p t A p r 15th w h e n a b u s and tra in c o llid e d ...fo lk s in g e r B url Iv e s d ie d A p r 14th at the a g e o f 85.

Continued from page I event, e x p ec tin g to b rin g approxim ately tw o thirds o f the cam p u s together for a com m on cause - F R E E F U N ! T h is year, A m y Plack, H arrison Ripps, and R ich Santora are serving as co-chairs o f the Q u ad F est com m ittee, helping student groups organize their e ffo rts into this large c eleb ratio n . T his y e a r’s th em e , chosen by the co m m ittee, is “Q uadF est III: T oucan Ja m .”

On A pril 26th, the Q uad will have a carnival atm osphere from 12-4:30 and a H aw aiian L uau from 7-m idnight.

H ere is a list o f ev en ts that are sch ed u led to take place d u rin g the day: A irb a ll - b a c k b y p o p u la r d e m a n d

G y ro s c o p e - o n ly at an e n g in e e rin g sc h o o l...

M a rtia l A rts d e m o n s tra tio n by S O M A F R E E F O O D - c o o k e d by IF C a n d P a n H e l T e m p o ra ry T a tto o s by lic e n s e d a rtis ts Sand A rt - m ake yo u r o w n Q u a d F e st so u v e n irs C h a ra c itu ris t - h e ’ll d ra w y o u fo r free!

V irtu a l R e a lity g a m e s F un F lic k s - m ake y o u r o w n m u sic v id e o D u n k T a n k - d u n k y o u r p ro fs a n d R A ’s!

F re e S n o C o n e s, c o tto n c a n d y , a n d so ft se rv e!

T hese are ju st a few o f the ex citin g and FR E E events that w ill be going on A pril 26th - m ake it a point to com e out to the Q uad!

New Voices Continued from page 1 W hen asked w hat the m ost appealing feature o f NV w as, she q u o ted D aw n V aracchi: “ It is the single largest e v en t on cam pus that involves as m any p e o p le .” A s tim e passes by “ we [NV ] keep on getting b etter an d better.”

O f the 250 people involved in the festival, it is interesting to note that tw o o f them are Prof. Helen Vasallo, from the M anagem ent D epartm ent, and Prof. R ubinstein from the C om puter Science D e­ partm ent. F or Prof. V asallo this will be hersccond appearance on a W PI stage. She w as in Fahren­ heit 451. “T he energy that bounces around is incredible,” V asallo said. For Prof. R ubinstein is his first tim e, but he w rote two o f the plays being perform ed. T hey both seem to be having m ore fun than the students and defined the experience as a “rejuvenating experience.”

“T h e w riters are e x ce p tio n a lly tale n te d ,” V asallo said. T hey both also ad m ire the effort all the students w ere p u tting into it. “ T hey w ork hard an d know w hat they w ant.”

A n argum ent nobody can d isa g ree w ith. D i­ rector, actors and crew are w o rk in g on a tight schedule. 22 plays will be perfo rm ed tw ice in 4 days, from April 19th to the 22n d at A lden Hall.

D aw n Varacchi, ‘95, is one o f the pro’s in NV, she has been involved in it since she w as a freshm an. In betw een acts and costum e runs she w as able to com m ent, “the biggest thing about the festival is seeing the great am ount o f people and plays com e together.” For everybody at new voices, as well as for her, “ the biggest rew ard is seeing it happen on stage.” B ut, w hat is happen­ ing on stage? In this N ew V oices alm ost eveiything, cow boys, bom bs, sw ord fighting, the last supper and sm allpox, ju st to m ention a few.

N ew V oices is entirely free and definitely w orth the tim e. A fter w atch in g one o f the plays.

Prof. V ick ’s w ords m ade a lot o f sense: “T here is no reason to assum e that anything we are d oing here is any less im portant that anything happening anyw here in the th ea ter w orld.”

Finally...

A n ape e sc a p e d fro m its o w n e r in K u w ait C ity re c e n tly . It so o n fo u n d a w o m an d o in g la u n d ry o u ts id e and p ro c e e d e d to an n o y h e r in c e s s a n tly . N e ig h b o rs trie d to h e lp , b u t the a p e ig n o re d e v e n p h y sic a l a b u se u n til it w as o ff e r e d a b a n a n a . T h e ap e th e n se ttle d d o w n an d m u n c h e d q u ie tly un til a u th o ritie s a rriv e d to re tu rn it to its o w n e r.

A n d t h a t ’s w h at h a p p e n e d B e y o n d th e F a rm .

Sources this week included All Things Con­ s id e r e d (NPR), the A s s o c ia te d P ress newswire, the Christian Science Monitor, Face the Nation (CBS), KGO radio news, the Late, Late Radio Show (CBS radio), the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour (PBS). Marketplace(P R l), Newsdesk( BBC/PR I), Newsweek on Air (AP radio), the Reuters newswire, Sunday Morning (CBC/PRI), and Weekend Edition (NPR). Compiled by: Lance Gleich, Stanford CA

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T w o b o m b s e x p lo d e d in the G a z a S trip A p r 9 th , k illin g 8. H am as and Isla m ic Jih a d c la im e d re s p o n s ib ility ; th e P a le s tin ia n A u ­ th o rity re s p o n d e d by d is a rm in g g ro u p m em ­ b e rs; Israel has c lo s e d th e W est B ank and G a z a fo r the d u ra tio n o f P a s s o v e r...A lb e rto F u jim o ri w o n re -e le c tio n as p re sid e n t o f Peru A p r 6 th w ith 6 4 % o f th e v o te to J a v ie r P erez d e C u e lla r 's 2 3 % ...fig h tin g b ro k e o u t in the fo rm e r S o v ie t re p u b lic o f T a jik is ta n A p r 9th, R u ssia n d e fe n siv e a c tio n to p re v e n t th e sp re ad o f the c o n flic t a c c id e n ta lly led to b o m b in g o u tsid e o f R u ss ia n te rrito ry A p r 1 0 th ...th e

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This exhibit o f color cibachrom e and black and white photography by sophom ore Jason Ph ilbrook is com prised pri m arily o f nature closeups from his home state. Post-card idealisms and tourist bait are not included in this exhibit.

A closer, m ore intim ate perception o f nature is

revealed, sim ilar In w ays to the 19th century w riter H enry D avid T horeau and 20th century photographer Eliot Porter. The collection will be on display April 17 through June 5, 1995 during norm al library hours. C all the library at 831-5410 for m ore inform ation.

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Weekly sports update - results from April 7 through April 13

by G eoff Hassard Sports Information Director Men’s Track (5-3) T h e m e n ’s track team traveled to R ensselaer S aturday, A pril 8, to participate in the annual E n g in eers M eet. In w intry co n d itio n s they fin­ ished in th ird out o f three team s. M IT w on the m eet w ith 93 points and R PI took second w ith 74 points. P lace w inners and scorers for W PI in the m eet w ere as follow s: senior Jam es B eardsley took first place in the high ju m p ; sen io r Stan F arrell w a s second in the pole vault and fifth in the triple ju m p ; freshm an D avid H aw es finished second in the 40 0 -m eter interm ediate hurdles and tied fo r fourth in the 100-m eter dash; senior C h ris R eilly w as th ird in the 3,000-m eter steeple­ ch ase; ju n io r C hris M oore took third in the long ju m p ; ju n io r M arc L efebvre placed third in the high ju m p ; ju n io r R ich P erson w as third in the 8 0 0 -m eter run; ju n io r D ana S c h lo sse r finished third in th e ham m er and third in the discus; freshm an L iam K elly placed fourth in the 3,000 steep lech ase; freshm an Rick C risp o finished fourth in the 1,500-m eter run and fifth in the 800; sophom ore D oug M artin placed fourth in the 1 1 0 -m e te r h ig h h u rd le s ; s o p h o m o re P e ter M an o lak o s was fourth in the 4 00-m eter dash; freshm an C hris N eum aier finished fourth in the jav e lin ; freshm an K yle H eppenstall w as tied for fourth in the 100; senior Je ff M ullen finished fourth in the triple ju m p and fifth in the long ju m p ; sophom ore D an Sadow ski placed fourth in the d isc u s and fifth in the shot put and fresh­ m an D ave B ow ler placed fifth in the pole vault.

W o m e n ’s T r a c k (6-2) T h e w o m e n ’s team also participated in the E n g in eers M eet, but their venue w as M IT. The RPI w om en w ere ju st too strong as they ran aw ay w ith the m eet, scoring 103 points. W PI finished second w ith 42 points and M IT was

third w ith 36 points. Place w inners and scorers fo r W PI w ere, freshm an H e ath e r M azzaccaro w ho placed second in the 4 0 0 -m e te r dash, se c ­ o n d in the 2 00-m eter d ash , fourth in the long ju m p a n d fourth in the jav e lin . Ju n io r E laine M ongeon w on the 4 0 0 -m eter hurdles, finished third in both the high ju m p a n d long ju m p .

S enior C in d y M o ser w on the long ju m p w ith a perso n al career b e st 17feet. Ju n io r Patty Panlilio placed second in the ham m er. S enior A kiko H ikada finished third in the 1,500-m eters. F resh­ m an L iz K ieronski p laced third in the 100-m eter dash. S o p hom ore R achel K upcinskas finished third in the triple ju m p and fourth in the 400.

F reshm an E ileen R oach p lac ed fourth in the discus a n d senior A m y B ro o k s finished fourth in th e high jum p.

Men’s Tennis (1-4) The m e n ’s tennis team has b e en bu sy during th e p a st w eek hav in g played all five o f their m atches. T hey w ere shutout versus T rinity C ollege and W heaton C ollege before bouncing back a g ain st W o rcester State 6-3. T hen they d ropped tw o in a row to W estern N ew England and N ich o ls, both 8-1. In the m atch versus W orcester singles w inners w ere, sophom ores John A llan, N athan H endrix an d R anjit K her and freshm an V ladislav Z ilberm an. In doubles, H endrix team ed w ith ju n io r Jo n a s O lm stead for a win a n d Z ilberm an team ed w ith ju n io r T odd D avis fo r the o th e r w in. In the m atch versus W estern N ew E ng lan d , the o n ly W PI w inner w as H endrix in straight sets. In the N ichols m atch, W P I’s w inner w as sophom ore John Park.

Men’s Golf (1-2) The w eather finally co o p erated and allow ed the E n gineers to play a m atch against W esleyan on M onday, April 10. T h ey w ere victorious 446 to 455. S enior cap tain M att L an g ev in led the way w ith an 85, fo llow ed by freshm an M ike

W illock w ith an 86. S enior Bill T yrrell c o n trib ­ uted w ith an 89. L ast T h u rsd ay , A pril 13, W PI com peted in the M assach u setts O pen at Stow A cres and finished 16 out o f 17. Ju n io r B rian K lauber w as the lo w scorer o n the day w ith an 87.

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the se c o n d gam e. F reshm an S arah T hom pson had a so lid day with three hits and three RBIs. Picking u p the w in and g oing th e distance in the first g a m e was sen io r Jen D eL uca, w hile fresh ­ m an K e rry M allon p itched a com plete gam e to pick up th e win in the second gam e.

L ast T u esd ay , A pril 11, the E ngineers took on the C o a st G uard A cadem y and lost a tough one in 10 innings by a score o f 7-6. T he gam e w ent in to extra innings in w hich the gam e shifts to international tie b re ak e r rules. U nder these rules, e a c h team starts each inning with a ru nner o n seco n d base w ith the gam e p roceeding as it n orm ally would. B oth team s scored in the eig h th inning to force another inning. It finally e n d ed in the tenth w hen C oast G uard scored w ith o n e out. M ercier led W PI w ith three hits, tw o sto len bases and tw o runs scored.

T h e softball team had a busy w eek playing five gam es, including back to back d o u b leh e ad ­ ers ag ain st N ew E ngland W o m e n ’s E ight C o n ­ ference foes B ran d eis U niversity and M ount H olyoke C ollege. T hey cam e through the five gam es w ith a 2-3 record that c o u ld have easily been 5-0. A w eek ago F riday, th e E ngineers hosted B randeis and played tw o close gam es.

T hey lost both, b y sco res o f 6-3 an d 7-6.

In the first g a m e , W PI seem ed to be in control w hen they led 3-2 a fte r five innings. In the sixth, a co u p le o f c o stly erro rs allo w ed B randeis to score four runs w h ich ended up bein g the gam e.

S eniors R enee C u sso n and A m y M ercier led the way for W PI. C u sso n had tw o hits, an RBI a n d four stolen bases w hile M ercier w as on base all day w ith three sto len bases.

In the second g am e both team s scored early and often, unfortunately B randeis cam e up w ith the ex tra run for the win. J u nior T eresa L intzenich had a strong g am e at the plate g o in g 3 for 3 w ith an R B I. F reshm an M argaret K ing chipped in w ith tw o hits.

T h e follow ing day W PI trav eled w est to play M ount H olyoke in an o th er tw in-bill. W PI c o m ­ pletely d om inated both gam es d espite w inter­ like conditions. T h e E ngineers sw ept both gam es 17-4 and 12-3. Ju n io r T racy L angis led the hit parade as she had five hits o n the day including a h om e run and four R B Is. S he a lso had a double, tw o sto len bases and scored four runs.

S ophom ore S tephanie T orrey collected four hits, scored four runs and drove fo u r runs in. K ing contributed by k n o c k in g in three runs h e rself in

E ven though the b aseball team is in the m idst o f a th ree gam e losing streak, they continue to play com p etitiv e w ith the young players as the E n g in eers rem ain in first place in the C o n stitu ­ tion A thletic C onference. O v er the last w eek, W PI d ropped tw o gam es to T rin ity and S alve R egina. In the T rinity g am e, W PI w as ahead through five innings 4-2 before things fell apart in the sixth. T rinity struck for 16 runs o v e r the last four innings to take the gam e 18-7. S o p h o ­ m ore T im Doyle had three hits and an RB I, fresh m an Guy M iller had tw o hits and tw o R B Is and ju n io r captain L en M acrina knocked in tw o runs on th e day.

Last T hursday, A pril 13, W PI hosted Salve R egina fo r a single gam e on the C lass o f 1893 Field. S alve ju st had too m uch p o w er as they hit three h o m e runs and w ent on to the w in 14-4.

F resh m an Aviv K aufm ann hit a solo hom e run for W PI. The E ngineers did score three runs in the n inth pow ered by a double by freshm an A lex B artkin.

to g iv e national visib ility to the issue by g oing on a nationw ide c o n se rv a tio n tour, spelling out in a dram atic language the se rio u s and d e te rio ­ ratin g co n d itio n o f ou r e n v iro n m en t, and p ro ­ posing a c o m p re h en siv e ag en d a to beg in a d ­ d re ssin g the pro b lem . N o P resid en t had e v e r m ade such a tour, and I w as sa tisfie d th is w ould finally force the issue into the n a tio n ’s political a genda... T he P resid en t liked the idea and b e ­ gan his c o n se rv a tio n to u r in the fall o f 1963.

S en ato rs H ubert H u m p h rey , G e n e M cC arth y , Joe C lark , and I a cc o m p a n ied the P resident on the First leg o f th e trip to P e n n sy lv a n ia , W isco n ­ sin, a n d M inn eso ta. F o r m any reaso n s, the to u r d id n ’t achieve w hat I hoped for; it did not su cceed in m ak in g the e n v iro n m en t a national p olitical issue. H ow ever, it w as the germ o f the idea that e v en tu ally flo w e re d in to E arth D ay.

W h ile the P re sid e n t’s to u r w as a d isa p p o in t­ m ent, I co n tin u e d to hope fo r som e idea that w o u ld thrust the e n v iro n m e n t into the political m ainstream . S ix y ears w ould p ass before the idea for E arth D ay o ccu rred to m e in the spring o f 1969 w hile on a c o n se rv a tio n sp eak in g to u r out W est.

A t that tim e th ere w as a great d e al o f turm oil on th e college c am p u se s o v e r the V ietnam W ar.

P rotests, c alled a n ti-w a r tea c h -in s, w ere bein g w idely held on cam p u se s acro ss the nation. O n a flig h t from S a n ta B arbara to the U niversity o f C a lifo rn ia, B erk eley , I read an article on the teach -in s, and it su d d e n ly o c c u rre d to m e. W hy not have a n a tio n w id e tea c h -in o n the e n v iro n ­ m en t? T h at w as th e orig in o f E arth Day. I returned to W ash in g to n , ra ised the funds to get E arth D ay started , and p rep ared letters to the 5 0 g o v ern o rs and to the m ay o rs o f all the m ajo r cities e x p la in in g the e v en t and re q u e st­ ing that they issu e E arth D ay P ro c lam atio n s. I sent an E arth D ay article to all o f the college n ew sp ap ers e x p la in in g the e v en t, a n d o n e to S ch o lastic M ag azin e, w h ic h w en t to m ost o f out g rade and h ig h schools.

In a sp eech g iv e n at S e a ttle in S e p tem b e r, I form ally an n o u n ce d th at th ere w o u ld be a n a ­ tional e n v iro n m en ta l tea c h -in so m e tim e in the sp rin g o f 1970. T h e w ire se rv ic e s c arried the

story natio n w id e. T h e re sp o n se w as dram atic.

It took o f f like g an g b u sters. T eleg ra m s, letters, and telephone inquiries p o u red in from all o v e r the n a tio n . U sing m y S enate staff, I ran E arth D ay a ctiv ities out o f my o ffice. By D e ce m b er the m ovem ent had exp an d ed so rapidly that it b ecam e necessary to open an office in W ash ­ ington to serve as a N ational C lea rin g h o u se fo r E arth D ay inquiries and activities.

E arth Day a chieved w hat I had hoped for.

T h e o b jectiv e w as to get a nationw ide d e m o n ­ stratio n o f concern fo r the e n vironm ent so large that it w ould shake the political estab lish m en t o ut o f its lethargy and finally force this issue p re m a tu re ly into th e political arena. It w as a g a m b le , but it w orked. An e stim a te d tw e n ty m illio n people particip ated in the d e m o n stra ­ tion all across the c o u n try . T en th o u sa n d g rad e sch o o ls and high sc h o o ls, tw o th o u sa n d c o l­ leges, a n d one th o u sa n d c o m m u n itie s w ere in v o lv e d .

It w a s truly an a sto n ish in g g ra ssro o ts e x p lo ­ sion. T h e people cared, an d E arth D ay b e ca m e the first o p p o rtu n ity they e v er had to jo in in a n a tio n w id e d e m o n stra tio n to send a big m es­ sage to th e po litician s - a m essage to tell th em to w ake up and do som ething.

It w o rk ed b e ca u se o f the sp o n tan eo u s, e n ­ th u sia stic response at the grassroots. N o th in g like it h a d happened before. W h ile o rg a n iz in g o n c o lle g e c am p u ses w as d o n e very w ell, the th o u sa n d s o f e v en ts in o u r sch o o ls and c o m m u ­ nities w ere self-g en e rated at the low er level.

W e h a d n eith er the tim e n o r reso u rce s to o rg a ­ nize th e ten th o u san d g rade sch o o ls a n d high sc h o o ls and one th o u san d c o m m u n itie s th at p articip ated . T h ey sim ply o rg a n iz ed th em ­ selves. T hat w as the re m a rk ab le th in g th at b ecam e E arth Day. D on’t ever forget: If you want to m ove the nation to make hard decisions on im portant is­ sues, the grassroots is the source o f power. W ith it you c a n do anything - w ithout it, nothing.

If w e are g o in g to m ove the natio n to an e n v iro n m en ta lly su stain ab le e co n o m y , you a n d that y o u n g gen eratio n right beh in d you are g o in g to have to d o it - and I th in k you w ill.

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Ea r t h D a y

History of Earth Day

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WRDERNESS SOCIETY

Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day. I Ed. Note - This is an excerpt from the Catalyst Conference Speech given by Senator Gaylord Nelson at the University o f Illinois on October 6, 1990.]

M y re m a rk s a re titled , E arth D ay - W here do w e go from h ere? T h at, I think, is the right q u e stio n to ask, an d you are a sk in g it at this conference. O ne o f the three m ajo r ob jectiv es o f this c o n fere n ce is to “ B uild on E arth D ay .”

T o p ro v id e som e fo u n d atio n a b rie f history o f Earth D ay and its p u rp o se m ight be helpful.

For m any y ears prio r to E arth D ay, it had been tro u b lin g to m e that the critical m atter o f the sta te o f o u r e n v iro n m e n t w a s sim ply a no n ­ issue in the p o litics o f o u r co u n try . T he P re si­ dent, th e C o n g re ss, the e co n o m ic p o w er stru c ­ ture o f the nation and the press paid alm ost no a ttention to this issue, w hich is o f such sta g g er­ ing im p o rt to o u r future. It w as c le a r that until w e so m eh o w g o t this m atter in to the political arena, until it becam e part o f the national p o liti­ cal d ialo g u e , not m uch w o u ld e v e r be achieved.

T he p u z zlin g c h allen g e w as to th in k up som e d ram atic event th at w ould focus national a tte n ­ tion o n the e n v iro n m en t. F in a lly , in 1962, an idea o c c u rre d to m e that w as, I th o u g h t, a virtual cinch to g et the e n v iro n m en t in to the political lim elight once a n d for all.

T he idea w as to p e rsu ad e P resid en t K ennedy

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AlChE presenting environmental speaker D ouglas G u tro will discuss the history and current status o f the Environm ental Protection A gency along w ith som e pressing issues o f today and tom orrow . T he w orkings o f the regional office will also be discussed along w ith career opportunities that exist o r m ay arise during the next few years.

Since July 1994, D ouglas G u tro has served as A cting D irector o f E xternal program s for the U nited States E nvironm ental Protection A gency N ew England R egional O ffice located in Boston,

M assachusetts. Mr. G utro m anages a sta ff o f 15 w ho are responsible for carrying out all the daily strategic com m unications functions o f the re­ gional office including: m edia relations, environ­ m ental education, congress liaisons, com m unity relations, and response to Freedom o f Inform a­ tion A ct requests.

T h is lecture will take place on W ednesday, A pril 19th at 7:00pm in the L ow er W edge. It is presented by the A m erican Institute o f C hem ical E ngineers Environm ental C om m ittee.

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'Bass A graduate o f Brown University, David Laurent earned his M aster’s Degree in Music from that institution and pursued special studies at the University o f Wisconsin, the New England Conservatory, and Boston University. Among his teachers have been Royal Dadmun, Adrienne Neumann (Saltzburg, Austria), Frederick Jagel, Jennie Tourel, and Aksel Schiotz. Mr. Laurent has appeared with major symphony orchestras in the East and has been a featured artist in the Providence, Rochester, and W inter Park Bach Festivals.

He is well known to audiences for his performances of the German Lied, the French Melodie, and the British and American song repertories. He has been honored with the Grand Prix du Disque from the Academie Charles Gros in Paris for his role as the Christus in Scarlatti’s St. John Passion. His most recent engagements have included the Verdi Requiem at Imperial College in London. Mr. Laurent is a retired Professor of Music at Brown University.

]. S. Bach Magnificat Brandenburg Concerto #3 Featuring: WPI Glee Club Louis Curran, director Sm ith College Glee Club Lucinda Thayer, director Soloists: Yumi Wada Bruso, soprano David Laurent, bass Drew Minter, Countertenor and

Jean Pierre Trevisine, Tenor - ’90 /Pliniet d ttm le tie M t "No one sings English words more beautifully than Drew Minter... He had the audience hanging on every phrase, word, syllable that he uttered. Spontaneous shouts o f "Beautiful! " and "Wonderful! ” rang out at the close o f his songs. ” -The New Yorker, February, 1989 Renowned for his sensitive musicianship and spectacular coloratura, Drew Minter is acknowledged worldwide as the foremost countertenor. He has been guest soloist with the National (Washington, D.C.) and San Francisco Symphonies and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; and performed with the world's premier early-music ensembles, including the Acad­ emy of Ancient Music, Les Arts Florissants, Tafelmusik and the Philharmonia and Freiburger Baroque Orchestras. He has been welcomed at Brussels’ Theatre de la Monnaie, Wolf Trap, the GOttingen and Karlsruhe Handel Festivals, Washington and Santa Fe Operas; Boston Early Music Festival, Handel and Haydn Society and the Brooklyn of Academy of Music’s “Next Wave” Festival. Mr. Minter is represented on more than 25 acclaimed recordings on the Harmonia/Munci, Hungaraton, Koch, Nonesuch, Decca/London and Music Masters labels.

Winner of the 1995 New England Metropolitan Opera Auditions

April 23, 1995 - 4:00pm Alden Memorial Hall Worcester Polytechnic Institute Tickets: $5.00 general admission $2.00 students and seniors For reserved tickets or more information call 831-5816

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Traditions Day competition winners

The Inimitable Tom Rhea

Two winners in the annual Alma Mater contest

by Beatrice Grygo Newspeak Staff There were two winners in this year’s Alma Mater contest that concluded the annual Tradi­ tions Day at WPI. Judges had to make a difficult decision in choosing the best performer, since all o f them presented humorous, very entertain­ ing, and yet very different interpretations o f our Alma Mater.

The first contestant, and co-w inner enter­ tained the audience not only with singing but also with bizarre and dynamic acting and color­ ful clothing. The “Skull Y oung’ins” definitely scored points for the creativity o f their perfor­ mance. Their Brady Bunch accents - so popular nowadays - would probably m ake even the most serious person laugh. Singers left the stage to the loud laughs and even louder ovations.

Two o f the competing teams gave quite differ­ ent interpretations o f the Alma Mater. The first team was comprised of Jeff Coates and Marc Lefebvre o f Lambda Chi Alpha, who were part of last year’s winning team. The other consisted of Orientation Leaders Kevin Doherty and Scott McDermott. Both duos received a big applause: the first after performing the Alma Mater to the

famous melody of “Mack the Knife”, and the second after amusing the audience with an uncon­ ventional beginning o f their presentation.

The most breathtaking performance o f the night was that o f Simple Harmonic Motion, formerly known as the B aker’s Dozen. They

brought their talents to the stage in beautiful and strong voices and delightful acting. A very emotional leading performance, as well as the collective singing o f the whole group made Simple Harmonic Motion the co-winners in this year’s Alma M ater contest.

Sophomores win again!

by Beatrice Grygo Newspeak Staff The Sophomores won the Jeopardy G am e on Thursday night in Riley Comm ons, one o f many events o f Traditions Day at WPI. As a part o f the annual Freshman - Sophomore rivalry, both team s had a chance to not only show their know ledge about WPI, but also to have a good time.

Q uestions ranged from W PI campus, history and traditions, sports and recreations, to WPI personalities. Both teams had a fairly good know ledge about the school. However, there were questions - as The longest punt in Tech foo tb a ll history was kicked from goal tine to goal-line. Who kicked it? - that nobody could respond to. (The correct answ er was Ray Forkey,

‘40.)

It seemed that most o f the audience was in favor o f the Sophomores. They were a little bit better, mainly because o f their longer experi­ ence with W PI, and took the lead after the first round o f the game. In the second part o f the game, the Freshmen appeared not only to have more luck, but they seemed to have a better spirits throughout the rest of the game. Unfor­ tunately for the Freshmen, the Sophom ores were able to answ er more questions correctly and won the game.

It is worth to mention the host o f this year’s Jeopardy Game - Rhett Brown. His great sense o f humor and lively spirit made the game alive and entertaining. By creating a very relaxing atmo­ sphere he made a good show out of what seemed to be a boring event at the very beginning.

Tom Rhea a Professor at Berklee College o f Music, will be presenting a sem inar on The History of Electronic Musical Instruments this Friday, April 21 at 4:00pm in the 1MC Televi­ sion Studio.

Tom has been involved with musical instru­ ments during his entire career as a musician, com poser, and teacher. At the Berklee College o f Music, where Professor Rhea is the Assistant C hairm an o f the Synthesis D epartm ent, he teaches state of the art synthesizers, MIDI con­ trollers, keyboards and samplers. However, he has long been interested in the history o f this field o f music, and so he has collected many historical instruments and docum ented how they work, how they sound and how they were used.

Tom Rhea is a captivating speaker with strong views o f the state o f this industry and of its future. Laboratory for Acoustical, Music, and M ultimedia (Lam3)faculty mem bers of the WPI H um anities, CS and ECE D epartm ents are pleased to be able to present him to you for a close look at this fascinating area of music m aking . C o n tact P ro fesso r C am pbell at rhcam p@ ee.wpi.edu form ore information. This presentation is also partially funded by the WPI Student Speakers Fund.

WPI’s Cultural Festival: When diversity is no longer just a word

by Carlos Zapata Newspeak Staff W hile Assum ption College gets criticized for its lack o f diversity, and Clark University strives to pull its diversity together, WPI with its C ultural Festival dem onstrates that it is a unified diverse campus. More than 1,000 people throughout the day managed to stop by and check out the C ultural Festival held in Alden Hall on Saturday, April 8th.

The C ultural Festival, organized by the In­ ternational Student Council (ISC), annually gathers all the ethnic clubs on campus under one roof for a full day of activities. All interna­ tional clubs display items from their culture, deliver live perform ances, and offer sam ples o f ethnic foods.

T om T hom sen w as one o f the key o rg an iz­ ers o f this event. He is th e International Student A dvisor and the A ssociate D ean o f Student Life. T hom sen e x p lain s that th is was the tenth tim e WPI had hosted the event under his supervision, but th at it had been done a couple o f tim es before his arrival at WPI. For him , the C ultural Festival “ is a chance for the international students o f WPI to share their culture w ith the rest o f th e WPI co m m u ­ nity and the W orcester com m unity at larg e.”

This is the second lime the ISC hosted the

C ultural Festival on a Saturday. It used to be held on W ednesday, but was found to be too stressful for students. On the other hand, “we m ade it more o f a fam ily day and it seem s to be w orking,” Thom sen explained. “ As usual, the intern atio n al students have done an excellent jo b o f putting to g eth er the p erfo rm an ces, the ex h ib its, the food... It is a very ed u cational day and a fun day that in­ volves a lot o f w ork, and a lo t o f stu d en ts who have w orked hard to put this to g e th e r,” he said.

M anuel Van O ordt, who is the P resident o f the ISC, com m ented on how hard they w orked, “ we started planning this in early C term . We g ot all the groups to g eth er ju s t before S pring B reak, and started w orking on the final d e­ tails in early D term . The am ount o f effort v aries w ith the differen t clubs. I w ould im ag­ ine that the clubs that perform ed and put to g eth er a display spent a good co u p le o f w ee k s.”

B oth T hom sen and Van O ordt felt pleased w ith the results. “ We had a very good tu rn ­ o u t, not only students, but faculty, sta ff and W PI neig h b o rs,” Van O ordt said. T he au d i­ en ce w as mixed, ranging from high school stu d en ts to senior citizens, and som e o f the people ev en cam e from as far aw ay as B os­ ton. F lo rd e M aria, 17, Y a d ira L isse t, 19, and C arla S arrias, 17, attend Q uincy H igh School

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in B oston, and trav eled here to enjoy the festival. “ W e w ant to d o som ething like this at our school so we cam e to learn and get ideas,” De M aria said.

Brenda C araballo, 15, from neighboring Doherty M emorial High School was also in the audience. “1 came to learn about different cultures,” she emphasized.

M embers o f the student body also stopped by. Leon De O liveira, ‘95, enjoyed the live performances the most: “ I was on C am pus and I heard it was going on, and I had been here a couple o f years ago and I thought it w as quite interesting.” Eric Person, ’98, thinks that the whole WPI com m unity has a lot to gain from events like this: “I cam e to WPI because of the international mix o f students. I think this is an excellent way o f show ing the com m unity what a great mix it is.”

It is such a great mix, that even som e Alumni showed up. Sarah Kazmi, ‘94, w as a m em ber o f the ISC board and a member o f the Indian Student O rganization. She said that after four years of doing it she missed being part of the festival. For C arm en Arozemena, 91, it repre­ sented a great opportunity to see most o f her old international friends.

Students from Clark and A ssum ption also took advantage o f the festival. Luisa Lazzaro, a sophomore at A ssum ption, com m ented that “ it was much better that what I thought it would be.” For L enir Beltran, however, it represented a great opportunity to study outside the class­ room; being an international studies major, she came “to learn about people from different

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Throughout the day live perform ances and dances entertained everybody, and when the show w as not on stage, the audience was free to walk around and observe all the displays o r taste the different types o f food. Even the perform ers stayed to watch other performances.

Francesca Escoto, ‘98, one o f the performers fo rthe Hispanic Student A ssociation said, “this is a great opportunity for WPI to learn cultural aw areness and learn it from people from those countries.”

B land A ddison, a p ro fesso r on the H u­ m anities departm ent agrees w ith her. “T his C u ltu ral Festival is like tak in g a course on global history as far as I ’m concerned. T he opportunity to learn a little bit about th eir cu sto m s, their food and th eir history is tre ­ m endous.” B arbara M cC arthy, also a profes­ sor from the H um anities departm ent, liked the id ea o f having a C ultural Festival. “ I think it gives the students an opportunity to dem onstrate som ething o f th eir own culture that is not A m erican, and show the A m erican stu d en ts that life is very d ifferen t outside the U nited S tates.”

Performers, audience m em bers and the or­ ganizers were happy with this year’s Cultural Festival, knowing that it dem onstrates that d i­ versity at WPI is not a politically correct word, but a fact. And that is what the Cultural Festival is all about: sharing and learning from other cultures, because as, Barbara M cCarthy puts it, “ I love to think o f m yself as a citizen o f the w orld.”

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Helping hand shows itself on campus

by Myles Walton Class o f ‘97 Theta Chi and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternities will be participating in the 25th anniversary of the M assachusetts Special Olympics. Over 800 Special Olympic athletes will participate over the course o f the two day event (April 22,23).

Competitors will be competing in either bowl­

ing or basketball. The bowling will take place at Thunderbird Lanes in Auburn, while the basket­ ball is being run in Harrington Auditorium. This year T heta Chi and Tau Kappa Epsilon will be exchanging brothers between the two sites to prom ote interfratemity relations.

If you would like to volunteer or have any questions concerning the events, call Myles W alton at 831-5167.

Learn more about symmetry T uesday, A pril 18th, m eet in the math lounge (located in the math office, S H I08) for refreshm ents at 4PM , then head over to SL104 for a talk on sym m etry by M arjorie S e n e c h a l o f S m ith C o lle g e at 4 :3 0 P M .

Speaker will "clue" the audience in to the

third clue o f the M ath A w areness*PM E S cav­ enger Hunt, co p ies o f w hich are available in the m ath departm ent office.

P izza will be served afterw ards, so if only for the sake o f not eating another DAKA m eal, come!

UMOC, Blood Drive next week A lpha Phi O m ega service fra tern ity ’s an­ nual Ugly M an on C am pus fund-raiser will be held from T u esd ay, A pril 18, through Friday, A pril 21, in D aniels H all near the m ailroom . M em bers o f the WPI com m unity are invited to vote for their favorite contes­ tant with a cash donation. The m oney will be

contributed to a c h a rity o f the w inner’s choice.

T he fraternity’s annual R ed C ross B lood D rive will be held in Founders Hall from 10 a.m . to 4 p.m. on W ednesday, April 19, and T hursday, A pril 20. D onors may sign up in D aniels Hall at noon on A pril 13, 14, 17 and 18; w alk-ins are also w elcom e.

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Small changes - a big help A w eek a g o to d a y , th ere w a s a m e e tin g h e ld to h e lp c le a r up so m e o f th e ru m o rs w h ic h h a v e b ee n c irc u la tin g in re g a rd s to w h at W P I w ill a n d w ill not d o to cu t e x p e n se s . D iran A p e lia n sp o k e to th e le a d e rs o f th e g ra d u a te a n d u n d e rg ra d u a te s tu d e n t g o v e rn m e n ts, as h e is c o m m itte d to c o m in g up w ith “a d o c u m e n t re g a rd in g w h at w e (at W P I] v a lu e .”

T h e re h as b e e n a lo t o f th o u g h t g o in g in to th is e ffo rt, w ith in p u t fro m th e a c a d e m ic d e p a rtm e n t h e ad s a s w ell as m an y o th e rs. A s it now sta n d s, th e re are a ro u n d te n p a g e s w h ic h talk a b o u t “re v ita liz in g the c o m m itm e n t to the e d u c a tio n a l m issio n an d w h at m a k e s th is p la c e tic k — w h a t h a p p e n s in th e c la s sro o m s, d o rm s a n d h a llw a y s is le a rn in g in m an y fo rm s.”

T h o se w h o a tte n d e d w ere to ld th a t W P I is g o o d at e d u c a tin g its s tu d e n ts, an d th a t led so m e to w o n d e r “ w hy a re o u r fin a n c e s in su c h b ad sh ap e. . .w e e n d up w ith b e in g $ 1 .5 m illio n o v e r b u d g e t e v e ry y e a r.” W h ic h , in tu rn , led to an e ffo rt to p rio ritiz e sp e n d in g , fo r fu n c tio n s o u ts id e o f the c la s sro o m (su c h as th e R e g is tra r’s O ffic e a n d a d m in is tra tio n ), w h ich w ill h o p e fu lly slo w tu itio n in c re a se s. T h irte e n task fo rc e s w e re e sta b lish e d in Ja n u a ry to lo o k at e v e ry th in g fro m fa c u lty o rie n ta tio n to c o m p u te r fa c ilitie s a n d A p e lia n e v e n sta te d th a t o n e o f th e q u e s tio n s he a sk e d w as: “C an I e lim in a te m y j o b ? ”

T h is ty p e o f th in k in g is re fre s h in g , an d p e rh a p s lo n g o v e rd u e . A n e x a m p le o f s o m e th in g w h ic h h a s a lre a d y c o m e o u t o f th is stu d y is at th e R e g is tra r’s O ffic e . C h u c k K o rn ik a n d K a ri B lin n e x p la in e d th a t th e y b e g an by lo o k in g at all o f th e th in g s w h ic h w e re re d u n d a n t in re g iste rin g fo r p ro je c ts a n d c la s s e s . B lin n sa id that th e re w e re m a n y c a s e s w h e re stu d e n ts h a d to ru n aro u n d a n d do sim p le th in g s fo r th e re g istra r, w h ic h for th e m o st p a rt, ju s t to o k u p s tu d e n ts ’ tim e . B y c o m b in in g th e P ro ject C e n te r w ith th e R e g istra r, s tu d e n ts c a n n o w re g iste r f o r all o f th e ir a c a d e m ic a c tiv itie s in o n e p lace.

A n o th e r th in g w h ic h is b e in g p a id m o re a tte n tio n is the “ te rrib ly o u td a te d e n ro llm e n t at W P I.” W h ile m any o th e r sc h o o ls in th e re g io n a llo w s tu d e n ts to re g is te r by p h o n e , w e g e t th e u ltim a te p le a s u re o f s ittin g in H a rrin g to n .

K o rn ik a n d B lin n are w o rk in g h a rd to m a k e th e s y s te m w o rk for e v e ry o n e . B lin n sta te d th a t h ere w e u se m u c h m o re p a p e r p e r stu d e n t in th e re g is tra tio n p ro c e s s th an o th e r sc h o o ls. K o rn ik is w o rk in g to e lim in a te so m e o f the w o rse c o u rs e c o n flic ts a n d h e in v ite d s tu d e n ts to sto p b y h is o ffic e to se e th e sc h e d u lin g m a tric e s th a t lin e his w alls.

T h e m e e tin g th en m o v e d o n to th e s u b je c t o f p ro je c ts.

W h ile th e re is n o p la n to c h a n g e th e P la n , th e re m ig h t be so m e m o v e m e n t o f th e o rg a n iz a tio n a l stru c tu re in to th e

a c a d e m ic d e p a rtm e n ts. T h e re is so m e n eed to fo rm a liz e th e g u id e lin e s fo r o ff-c a m p u s p ro je c ts, as o n e th ird o f W P I stu d e n ts n o w do o ff -c a m p u s p ro je c ts. L an ce S c h a c te rle sta te d that h e w as w illin g to ta lk w ith stu d e n ts w h o h a d q u e s tio n s on th is to p ic.

T h e first y e a r e x p e rie n c e at W P I is a lso slated to be e n ric h e d , as e a c h d e p a rtm e n t d o e s a c u rric u lu m re v ie w .

O n e id e a is fo r u n iv e rsa l te c h n o lo g ic a l c o n c e p ts to be ta u g h t, w ith th e e x a m p le o f te a c h in g the p h y sic s o f e q u ilib r iu m a n d th en th e sa m e c o n c e p t fro m a c h e m ic a l a n d m a th e m a tic a l p e rsp e c tiv e .

T h e to p ic o f b io te c h n o lo g y c o u ld a lso b e a h o t o n e in th e n e a r fu tu re as m o re stu d e n ts are in te re ste d in th a t fie ld . C re a tin g a new d e p a rtm e n t w o u ld re q u ire a d d i­ tio n a l re s o u rc e s , b u t w e a lre a d y h a v e m a n y ta le n te d fa c u lty m e m b e rs w ho c o u ld b e c o m e lo o s e ly a ss o c ia te d , w ith o u t le a v in g th e ir c u rr e n t d e p a rtm e n ts. It w as p o in te d o u t th a t w e a lre a d y h a v e an a c c re d ite d p ro g ra m , w ith o u t a s ta n d in g d e p a rtm e n t (M a n u fa c tu rin g ).

T h e m e e tin g p ro v e d to th o se in a tte n d a n c e th at w o rk is c o n s ta n tly b e in g d o n e to m a k e W P I an e v e n b e tte r p lace fo r th e stu d e n ts. T h e y a ls o su g g e s te d that w e as stu d e n ts c a n p la y a sig n ific a n t ro le in th is p ro c e ss, by p o in tin g o u t s o m e o f the a re a s w h ich m ig h t n eed im p ro v e m e n t an d o ff e rin g c o n stru c tiv e c ritic ism .

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Just a Thought Telling Our Story

by Stephen Brown Protestant Campus Ministry In last Thursday’s Boston Globe, there was the following political car­ toon: A man and his wife were reading: he the newspaper, she a book. The husband says “G ina Grant killed her mother., and Harvard said she can ’t be a student.” The wife responds “ if she'd killed thousands of mothers, she could have been the head o f the world bank.”

The w ife’s reference was to the book

she was reading, written by Robert McNamara, In Retrospect.

The book is M cN am ara’s confes­ sion after 27 years o f silence that he knew the Vietnam W ar was wrong and unwinnable, even when he was still Secretary of Defense for JFK and LBJ. He helped propagate the lie during his cabinet post that we were very close to winning the war...we were “ turning the com er” and that "there was light at the end o f the tunnel .” In this case, the old joke was more accurate: the light al

the end o f the tunnel w as an oncoming train. The Tet Offensive o f 1968 fi­ nally shattered all of o u r safe assumptionsabout the American military might and our “winning the war.” It also forced M cNamara to finally resign.

Yet for some 27 years he has kept his silence. W hile some o f us have named the Vietnam War as w rong and been c ritic iz e d fo r it in R e v o lu tio n ist America, and while first Dan Quayle and then Bill Clinton were raked over the coals because they worked to stay

Philler Paper Bags and Sharp Sticks - What flavor would you like?

by Laurel and Guinevere Yet another week flying by as we come ever closer to the end o f the year.

It's about this time that even the die-hard academic seniors start to break down and begin showing signs of the senior slide. You can tell that the stress level is gening to graduating students about to enter the real world. One particularly good example is exhibited by our first letter: Philler, I was reading one o f your articles recently and finally realized how I could leave my tasting mark on WPI before I graduate fo r the great Real World (and that is *not* the MTV variety). Ifeel it is my responsibility, as an experienced work-study employee/student, to de­ scribe to the non-work-study folks out there why students even do it. I mean, if somebody stopped me on the street and offered me the opportunity to do menial chores such as make photocopies and type labels, I wouldn 't normally jump at it. So, here are my top ten reasons fo r keeping a work-study job.

Top Ten Reasons To Be A Work-Study Student 10. Easy access to tons of free food 9.

Minimum wage encourages better money management 8.

Find out why the Project Center *really* moved to Boynton 7.

Only time / have lo read the news­ paper 6.

Excellent source o f campus politi­ cal rumors 5.

Two words: Free printing 4.

Great chance to suck up to the administration 3.

One week o f work will buy a whole computer game 2.

Unlimited source o f free computer software /.

Good way to find a date So to those o f you who receive work-

study money next year, you may want to reconsider cashing in on this excellent source o f free goodies.

Jason S. Anderson Class o f 95 This is truly a frighteningly accurate description o f most work-study jobs and we appreciate your enlightening contri­ bution to our column. For those of you who do not know the answer to number eight, the answer lies in the word project itself. It comes from the two words “proj” and "ect”, neither o f which are in our Webster’s 9th dictionary. This docs not make any sense in the least. Hence, by that chain of theory, it had to be moved to Boynton along with the other nonsensical departments such as ac­ counting. Accounting is that frightening land where, for some mysterious reason, the employees are able to recall the simple procedure o f cashing a check for only several hours each day and then promptly forget. If provoked after this time, they will simply reply, “ I’m sorry, I can’t do that anymore.” The alien possession theories here are endless.

The next question comes to us from our beloved category, w hich is our generation-x fans who read our articles and submit questions to us using the world wide web...

Okay. ..h e re ’s something useless and random that should rem ind you o f Philler's phirst phew articles... There’s a sign on Boynton St., across the street from Founders, which says "No Park­ ing on Sidewalk. ” Despite vigorous efforts on the p art o f my friends and me, we have been unable to locate the side­ walk we aren 't supposed to park on. Just something to think about...

David Spencer Mr. Spencer obviously hasn’t been reading his Tech Bible. You see there ♦used* to be a sidewalk there. After the wall was constructed to protect against

invaders from rival colleges, the side­ walk was added to deter the frequent tunneling attempts. Those crusades ended long ago when the city changed Main Street to loop back on itself disori­ enting the attackers by sending them back toward their origin. B ut that doesn’t explain why the sidewalk is no longer there. See, 1 told you that story so that 1 could tell you this one. because then of course, you have the fifty year swarms.

Remember what Freeman Plaza looked like last year? Do you know why it no longer looks that way? Exactly! The fifty year swarms. Unfortunately, it See Philler Continued on Page / 1

out o f that terrible w ar, McNamara kept his silence. He could afford to, not all o f us could. M aybe he was afraid of what telling his story might do.

G ina Grant found out what telling her story accom plishes. In case you m issed it, Gina G rant is an honors high school student from Cam bridge Rindge and Latin High School who was re­ jected by H arvard after they previously accepted her. Harvard learned that at 15, G ina had killed her mother. The case involved years o f abuse: Gina served her 6 months probation and set about getting her life back together.

Till now. Harvard doesn’t want her.

O f course Harvard wanted Henry Kissinger, whose foreign policy coverups and lies and resultant death and violence would fill num erous books: they w anted M cGeorge Bundy, another LBJ advisor and H arvard Alum who insisted bom bing civilians and others in north Vietnam would win the war.

Seem s Harvard likes som e killers and liars more than others. PoorG inaG rant.

Maybe if she joins the CIA and helps some Guatem alan thug kill some “ter­ rorists,” then Harvard might look more friendlier to her application for admis­ sion.

Y ou see, boys and girls, HOW AND W H EN you T EL L YOUR STORY m akes a difference. You can twist your story so much that even if it is fiction it will, if repeated enough times sound like the truth. And you can wait till the right moment... the moment w hen the consequences seem s least fatal and then

confess. But one thing is certainly true.

Stories count! Told often enough and in the right way, stories can be killers.

Just ask any survivor o f a Nazi concen­ tration camp.

For thousands o f years, we C hris­ tians told the story o f Jesus' arrest, trial, and execution and put the blam e for it on Jews. They were the ones in Galilee who feared him, they brought him to Pilate, they forced the Romans to kill Jesus. As if they could. No Roman governor ever would have caved into any religious minority to satisfy the mob. Jesus was hung by Romans b e ­ cause he preached and lived a life o f shared eating and shared healing and calling persons to G od’s Kingdom... asking them to imagine a world with God, not Caesar on the throne. That living and preaching is sedition by any definition. That is why the Romans, not the Jews, had him crucified.

Yet we Christians, from the earliest priests through Martin Luther, through Vatican proclamations and Sunday ser­ mons, cast Jesus’ blood upon the Jews.

Only now are we confessing to our lie and red ressin g h isto ry . But like M cN am ara’s late confession, we are in many ways too little too late. For the way we told our Passion story led to an ti-Ju d aism and e v en tu a lly an tiSemitism. John Dom inacCrossan starts his new book. The Killing o f Jesus this way: “ Anti-semitism means six m il­ lion Jew son Hitler’s list but only twelve hundred on Schindler’s list.”

How you tell your story counts.

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the sidewalk in front o f Daniels for Friday. She also reported that they voted o n the T-shirt designs and will have those designs available for sena­ I. Meeting called to order at 5:45 pm. tors to look at and to order.

V. Vice-President’s Report: ViceElections: Chair Wain reported that President Reidy asked new senators to see her about orientation. he needs senators that can work the IL Attendance: elections table between 1:30 - 2:30 and Executive Board: Cathy Connelly, 2:30 - 3:30. He also reported that VI. Secretary’s Report: Secretary President; Kirsty Reidy, Vice Presi­ Elections for Campus Hearing Board Uchendu asked all those senators who dent; Chizzy Uchendu, Secretary; G re­ will be held this Friday in gory Snow, Treas. the mail room.

Senate: Alfred Andrade, WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE WPI Repositioning: Paula Brezniak, Shelly Ann Chair Mickey reported that C o o tie , S am b a D u ttthere will be no meeting Mazumbar, Matt Freimuth, tomorrow.

Beth Gentry, M am i Hall, Ed H a llisse y , R eb ecca IX . Old Business: none H offm an, Seth K intigh, M ichael M ark s, Ja so n X. New Business: Mickey, C raig O ’Rourke, Motion 10d.95- Trea­ Jeremy O lszew ski, Amy STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION surer Snow moved to sup­ Plack, Jessica Sands, Jeff port the decision o f the SGA A ppro­ were not present at the retreat to see Spaleta, K risten Stagg, Cindy Vollaro, p riatio n s C o m m ittee to reject the Joe Wain. him. He also asked all committee heads Supplemental Funding o f Masque in to hand in written documents o f their Absent: H eather Cleary (excused), the amount o f $990 as approved by the Ryan Daly (excused). Shannon Finley oral reports or the report will not be Class III OCFC. Senator Plack sec­ (excused), Deb Foley (excused), John included in the minutes. onded.

Grossi, Lee Guthrie, John Pieper, Dave Discussion: Truss ordered by L&L Smith (excused), T im Tully (excused), VII. Treasurer’s Report: Trea­ d id not arrive on time so funding is Shelby Walker. surer Snow stated that motion 10d.95 Parliamentarian: Nat Fairbanks. being requested by Masque so they should read Supplemental funding in­ may rent Trusses fo r New Voices. stead o f Emergency funding.

Senator Wain moved to refer the ID. Approval of Minutes: The motion (10d.95) back to the Class ill minutes o f the meeting held April 4th, VIII. Committee Reports: -SGA Committees OCFC so discrepancies may be cleared 1995 were approved with no amend­ ments.

Public Relations: C hair Stagg re­ up. Senator Mickey seconded. ported that this week they have adver­ Motion to refer to committee now IV. President’s Report: Madam tised for the cam pus hearing Board on floor: President Connelly asked all senators elections and are planning on chalking

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Discussion: More information was needed in order to make a wise deci­ sion.

Senator Brezniak called the ques­ tion. Senator Kintigh seconded.

Motion to call the question passed.

Motion to refer back to Committee passed (14-8-0).

Motion 10d.95 dies.

Motion lld.95- Senator Mickey moved that the Student Government Association officially recognize the or­ ganized March On W orcester to dem ­ onstrate against the C ontract With America currently in Congress and of­ fer its assets to those organizing it.

Senator Brezniak seconded. Motion passed.

XI. Announcements: -Comm ittee on Student life issues will meet following adjournment.

-Vice-President Reidy needs nom i­ nations for the goats head award.

-Comm ittee on Academic Initiatives will meet following adjournment.

-Participate in Traditions Day. -Elections table sheet stills needs to be filled.

-Senator Stagg has the T-shirt de­ sign and needs the money by Thursday.

XII. Treasurer Snow moved to ad­ journ, Senator O ’Rourke seconded, motion passed.

M eeting adjourned at 6:42 p.m.

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Call to order Roll Call Approval of Minutes of meeting held April 11,1995 President’s Report Secretary’s Report Treasurer’s Report Committee Reports Old Business New Business Motion 12d.95- Special Funding request for Rugby Motion 13d.95- Approval of Academic Committee Appointments Announcements Adjournment

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An open letter to the members of the Presidential Search Committee In order to give you my opinion o f the two candidales who have met with our campus in the last tw o weeks, I have decided to w rite you this letter.

Perhaps the first thing I should m en­ tion is that you have done perhaps too good a jo b in finding us excellent men who would do a good job (in my opin­ ion) at W PI. Now com es the hard part, deciding betw een them. Perhaps I should m ention that I served as a m em ­ ber o f a search com m ittee, which chose the current pastor at my church at home and that I understand a little bit of the process w hich you went through.

It is tough to find people who are willing to tackle such a challenge and willing to do so at the same time that you are looking. T here are many people w ho could be President o f WPI, but few are looking for such a jo b right now.

Both o f the candidates mentioned in some way that the WPI Plan is an important part of the community and that they have no major plans to change this. But they did seem to agree that WPI could do a lot more in marketing the Plan and that doing so could help us get more national recognition. Do we want to be just a “well-kept secret” in

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New England, o r do we want to broaden our pool o f talent? Right, and it seems that they all have some ideas on how we could get our message out. They also m entioned that WPI co u ld n ’t (and shouldn’t) attem pt to em ulate MIT. Both o f these are important lo myself and I believe that they are im portant to many other students here as well.

My opinions between them are very mixed, I feel that they both represent a chance at a bright future, but require a comm itment from us as well. Jay Stein mentioned that he felt that working here would be personally gratifying and that he felt he could take “good things that are done here now to the next level.”

According to him, our undergradu­ ate program is as good, if not better than any o f our com petitors, but that it must expand and change to remain vital.

His proposal, naturally, is that WPI should proceed in the direction o f bio­ technology. This is not a new idea for us and there has always been some flux o f student interest towards newer fields.

There are less aerospace majors here today than in the recent past, while there are more people with an environ­

mental interest. Jay Stein’s feeling is that as research begins to move out o f the academ ic health centers, it will be up for grabs by schools like ours. He is clearly the candidate with the best con­ nections to help us, if that is the direc­ tion w e choose.

I w as impressed by the fact that he said he bypasses the administrative or­ ganization at his school to make him ­ self available to students. He feels that his big g est accom plishm ent is the completion o f the student union. He stated that he enjoys “recruiting more than anything else. . .you have to be able to demonstrate that you are civi­ lized.” I have no doubt that he would be able to bring to WPI some o f the “ fine international and national figures [such as from the National Academy o f Engi­ neering and the National Academy o f Sciences] to bring in outside support.”

So in the end, I feel that this gentle­ man, who met Elvis twice in his life “but w as totally unimpressed by him ,” who heard from Joyceln Elders “ I am the people’s surgeon general and if the President doesn’t like that, he can fire me,” and who doesn’t want to “miss out on the college family,” could be a great president.

But there is another direction that WPI can take, which is equally inter­ esting and again, puts us in the fore­ front. Edward Parrish offers us the opportunity to get our message out and use what we have learned to help other schools. It seems that the N SF has been looking to create curriculum which we already developed years ago. He men­ tioned that WPI is where they want to go and that we could, perhaps, take an international role in education, not just engineering. He offers us the chance to best get this word out and his vision calls for no more than “a little paint here and better lighting there.”

He seems to genuinely like working with students o f all ages. His work with some of the kids in the local area, to teach them com puter skills is to be commended. But perhaps the fact that he agreed to run w orkshops for all o f the students on campus to teach them to use the com puter system is surprising and good news for any student he deals with. He also likes our location and would like to expand the Plan a little bit, to ensure that WPI provides stu­ dents with a good understanding o f politics and culture. He feels that “purely technological institutions do

not have an indefinite lifetime.” Ed­ ward Parrish seems to be able to work well with the comm unity and is very down to earth, yet intuitive.

The first thing that he mentioned was that he has been married alm ost thirty-two years. He feels that WPI is a compact institution, w hich generates spirit and trust am ong the faculty, whereas other institutions tend to have turf battles. The man seem s to have a good sense of where WPI might go in the future and it is a direction that many at WPI seem to share. His major con­ cern is for the students who will end up changing careers five to seven tim es in their lifetime, which calls for a com pre­ hensive education. This sort o f fore­ sight and caring is needed.

I would like to thank you for the opportunity that you have offered me and relate to you that I have the utm ost confidence in your ability to make the right decision for WPI. The candidates were superb and either one o f them would be able to provide us with the leadership and the vision that w e will need as we enter the next century.

screening p ro c c e s s?

I c a n ’t say an exact num ber. H ow ­ ev er we looked at quite a few; prob­ ably about 80 candidates.

What kind o f skills d id you look f o r when screening can didates?

We looked for many qualities. We looked at leadership skills, good in­ terpersonal skills, personality, good scholarship records, and fundraising capability am ong others. W e looked for an o v erall w ell-ro u n d ed indi­ vidual w ho w ould be able to lead this institution into the next century.

Have any o f the th ree fin a l candi­ d a te s had a d irect relation with WPI. No. N one o f them have had expe­ rience w ith W PI before, directly. In­ directly som e o f them have seen o r visited cam pus for conferences o r o th er events, but none o f them hold a d irect relation w ith W PI. You have n arrow ed dow n to three people. Now w hat?

We w ant the com m unity to take a look at the candidates and to give us their im pression o f these people. This w ould further help us in m aking our decision.

How w ill the student body be af­

fe c te d with this transition into a new P residen t?

T here is going to be change b e ­ cause each candidate has his oi h er ow n style, but all have expressed a c o n c e rn fo r the s tu d e n ts ’ n e e d s.

T here is no way to tell exactly how sm ooth the transition will be. T he transition from P resident S trauss to President B row n was sm ooth. A lso, it [the transition] gave the stu d en ts m ore participation than before...

H as yo u r input been taken into account?

Y es, the com m ittee has been fair about that. T hey have considered ev ery b o d y ’so pinion. E verybody has been heard, and we h ave heard e v ­ erybody.

Sincerely, Brian T. Parker

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An interview with Manuel Van Oordt

by Carlos Zapata Newspeak S taff For a student who has a m ajor voice and vote in W P I’s future, he certainly looks calm . Just an hour aw ay from the open m eeting w ith the first presidential candidate, M anuel Van O ordt, the undergraduate stu ­ dent representative for the p resid en ­ tial search com m ittee, w orked on his M Q P in AK 120. H e told me that tw o o f the presidential candidates had already visited cam pus. Jay Stein is one of the final candidates. Stein is a m edical do cto r at the U niversity o f O klahom a, and has had extensive experience in the university arena.

Edw ard Parrish is the other c a n d i­ date w ho has been presented in open m eetings. Parrish is an electrical en g in eer and is cu rrently the dean o f th e s c h o o l o f e n g in e e r in g at V anderbilt U niversity. Manuel did not w ant to give his personal co m ­ m ents about the tw o presidential c a n ­ didates for co n fidentiality reasons.

He also reserved inform ation about the third candidate but he com m ented on several o th er issues.

What is yo u r role on the p resid e n ­ tia l search com m ittee?

I am the underg rad u ate student rep resentative. M y m ain o bjective on the co m m ittee is to en co u rag e the search co m m ittee to 1isten to the co n ­ cerns that the students have in the search fo r W P I’s new P resid en t.

A lso, to keep the students updated on the search process.

As a student representative, what issues are at slake f o r the students in this P residen tial search?

T he next elected p resident has to take into account the students w hen m aking decisio n s. He o r she m ust keep a good relatio n sh ip w ith the students. The next P resident has to be approachable and able to c o n ­ sider input from the student body.

A lso, he or sh e sh o u ld not m ake d e c is io n s e n tir e ly a lo n e u n le s s strictly n ecessary.

O f the two can didates p resen ted at the open m eetings, who d o you think is b e tte r f i t to handle those issues p revio u sly m entioned?

In the open m eetings w ith the stu ­ dents, both cand id ates d em onstrated they have those q u alities.

H ow m any can didates is the com ­ m ittee considering right now ?

C u rren tly , we have invited 3 ca n ­ did ates. 2 have already been p re ­ sented at open m eetings, and the third candidate has not yet confirm ed w hen he o r she will visit cam pus yet.

You are saying that three visited o r w ill visit campus, but a re there any m ore candidates?

(H e h esitates as if reserving in fo r­ m ation.) T here are 3 people that were invited w ithin the past three w eeks. T hat is all for now.

D oes that mean that one o f those three candidates will be the p r e s i­ dent o f WPI next year?

D epending on the feedback we get from the rest o f the cam pus we will m ake a recom m endation to a p ­ point eith er one o f them or no one at all.

If none o f the can didates a re s e ­ lec te d what w ill happen ?

M ost likely Interim P resident John Brow n will have to stay one more year, and we w ould have to conduct an o th er search.

H ow m any ca n d id a tes d id the search com m ittee look a t during the

M anuel looked at his w atch, and saw that he had an o th er forty m in ­ utes w orth o f M QP in front o f him before the m eeting started and began typing aw ay on his com puter.

A list o f the Presidential Search C om m ittee m em bers is located on the SGA office.

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Bacchus Hello, and welcomc to week number five! It’s five right? I hope so. Anyway, the end o f the term is rapidly approaching, and so is the Bacchus lunch - it’s tomorrow by the way. If you’re in Bacchus, and are feeling hungry around noon on W ednesday the 22nd, head on over to Higgins H ouse for some of the best vittles that DAKA can roust up! Also, while I’m on the topic o f fun for Bacchus people, (he Riverside trip is this Saturday - contact Sylvia right away for details!

This weeks meeting was sorta productive as usual, although we still have no idea what film we are showing at freshman orientation. It’s gonna be 3-D though, so 1 think we have at least 2 choices (Jaws and that other movie com e to mind offhand). I was happy to see that Tim got my m essage in last w eek’s article, it was so nice to see you Tim - glad you could make it. How­ ever, it has come to my attention that Rich has been missing lately - well, w hat’s your excuse R ich? We want a written explanation and a note from your mother... Lucy? Can I puleeze have a cookie? Please? Oh yeah, hey Greg! If you’re reading this: Gimmie my construction paper.

Sue, it was nice to see you on Thursday, thanks for all your help writing this...Say Hi to Sly for me! Well, I have a thing to go to, so I should finish this article. I hope you all have a pleasant T uesday, I’ll see you tonight!

Chinese Student Association Hello everyone, welcome to yet another in­ stallm ent o f the CSA Club Comer. Now that we only have three weeks left in the year, I believe that it is time to sit back, relax, and write really short Club C om er articles.

Now, that the old CSA officers are out of office, the new officers get their first taste of power. So far, there have been no incidents of anyone abusing their authority. Well, except for Eric telling people what to write in the Club C om er articles, but that’s nothing new. At any rate, good luck to all o f the new officers, espe­ cially those in the position o f taking photo­ graphs and writing certain articles.

Speaking o f the new and the fresh, the WPI activities fair was held in Harrington Gym, on the 12th, and o f course the CSA was a part o f it.

Several o f the CSA members went to, and sat at the club table for hours and hours o f gruelling work, trying to snatch as many potential fresh­ man members as possible. Keep in mind that these are the truly dedicated, and are willing to give their lives, if need be, to the cause. H ow ­ ever, just because certain members couldn’t m ake it didn’t mean that they are lazy. Some people had to go to classes, labs, o r even confrences, just like a certain member, that takes photographs and writes certain articles, that I know of.

In other news (no pun intended), Jimmy Pai and his band of overworked slaves are working hard to produce the final issue of the DRAGON newsletter. Features include: A very special note from our beloved (*coff* *coff*) presi­ dent, New officer interviews by the cat burglar him self, Steve, Jack’s Sleazy Gossip by Dirty Jack Lock, some stuff by Vince, more stuff by Lai Lai, things by Jimmy the editor, more things from many outside sources, and o f course con­ tributions from that special someone who takes pictures and writes certain articles. Don’t miss it, reserve your copy today!

Until next time.

Christian Bible Fellowship Well the term is winding down, o r up depend­ ing on how you look at it, quite rapidly. There are going to be a lot o f exciting things happening these next couple o f weeks as we see the Lord working. Short term happenings: Prayer and Share at 8pm in Morgan A on W ed and Friday is L A C K O TALENT NIGHT! It will be at 7pm,

like usual, but be on the look out for a LOCA ­ TION C H A N G E (details to follow). O kay, now for the Long term happenings: Next Tuesday from 7-9pm there will be a workshop on rela­ tionships. M ore info on where will be com ing to you. And for all of you who are looking to the few days after the term and how nice it w ill be to be done with classes. C B F is having a Reunion!

It will be an A W ESO M E time o f meeting alumni and their fam ilies and finding out what God is doing in their lives.

“And pray... on all occasions with all kinds o f prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying..” (Ephesians 6:5 NIV) We saw last week how God is working in the lives o f people here on campus and also on other cam puses. It was also very encouraging to see the pow er o f prayer. This verse urges us to continue praying, especially for the needs o f our brothers and sisters. We d o n ’t need to worry about what we pray, necessarily, we just need to humble ourselves and pray. “ Be alert and al­ ways keep on praying..”

those o f you who must take them. Keep in­ formed o f any volunteer opportunities, espe­ cially over the summer. A couple o f hours a week is all you need, anything to beef up your application. Beef up? cute, w ell, that is it for this week. Hope you all had a pleasant Easter! See ya, guppy.

Society of Women Engineers Well, w e’ve made it to the end! Our LAST M EETING o f D-term will be held TON IG HT in OH 126 at 7pm. Please come and share your ideas with us for next year. We recently set up a table at the prospective senior day and re­ cruited some eager new students. Next year will be great if we make it that way. Lots o f candy and t-shirts to sell....is anyone interested?? Re­ member, come to our meeting tonight— only one more left!!

Water Polo International Student Council Hi there! How is everybody doing? 1 hope classes are treating you fine... I’m sure every­ body is still thinking about the Cultural Festival, right? W ell, I know I am. I had so much fun, it was the topic o f my dreams for the last week. I can’t wait till next year - we promise it’s going to be even better! Guess w hat’s com ing up? (drum roll please...) Elections! That’s right, ISC is going to have it’s annual election and we might even be looking at a constitution change.

The officers did such a good jo b this year and we are looking for others to carry on in their foot­ steps. If you feel that somebody should run for the position, please nominate them soon! Feel free to stand for office by yourself too! There is going to be a meeting this Wednesday at 4:00 pm at Morgan C and I expect all o f you to turn up and show your support. This is a great tim e for nominations and the like as well. Any ideas and suggestions are w elcome too. If you can’t make the meeting, and have som ething to share, please contact Tom Thomsen. OH, don’t go very far yet! The ISC still has one more event lined up to close o ff the year with. We will be having a social event som etime soon. Everybody is in­ vited to com e and have fun. Stay tuned to this article for more information on that next week.

Till next tim e, Namaste!

Well guys this is the first time I’ve done this so don’t expect a masterpiece. I’d like to thank everyone for a job well done last weekend. We played great and deserved all o f our wins. So here’s my special thank you to Rich, Joe, Becky, loannis, Jose, Teak, Eric, Jam ie, Brandon, and

Tony. We played great and should be proud o f each other.

O ur weekend started with a dem olishing o f Bridgewater State College by a score o f 14 to 4.

This was a great team effort as Jose Lopez, T eak Ackman, Eric Hultgren, and Jam ie M urdock each had two goals, loannis Sechopolous add three goals o f his own and Eric Dingley, Joe Raab, and Rich Shea also had had a goal apiece.

Brandon Alexopolous played great in his first game at goalie. T he second gam e of the day ended the same as the first, as we dism antled Clark 14 to 4. However this gam e turned into a one-m an show as loannis had 11 goals. Eric H. added two goals and Rich had one. This w as a pretty good show ing for our first actual gam es as a team.

Day two consisted of our thri 11ing final agai nst the hosting team, Holy Cross. A special co n ­ gratulations must g o out to Rich, loannis, Jam ie, Teak and Eric H., all of whom played the entire game. This game was hard fought on both sides as we traded goals and played tremendous d e ­ fense throughout. We pulled ahead with only !: 15 left in the gam e and held o n to a final score o f 4 to 3. Two goals by loannis and a goal apiece

by Jose and Eric H. Proved to be more than they could muster against our stingy defense. T ony Oses played well in goal to stop their offense.

Thank you to everyone for such trem endous efforts.

LET THE MAJOR SELECTION PROGRAM HELP.

Masque 5 minutes to the meeting! Congratulations to all of the inductees. Shh! It’s a secret. NV 1-3 opens TOM O RRO W !!! Shoot outs. Faeries, Jesus and blasphemy. Be there! Performances are this Wed. 7pm, Thurs. 4:30pm and 8pm, Fri. 4:30pm and 8pm, and Sat. 2pm and 7pm. Once again I say, Be there!

Mu Sigma Delta Hey everybody! I am back after taking a week off due to the fact that I had the flu and couldn’t even gel out o f bed let alone come up with witty remarks or coherent information. The most important thing going on at the moment is plan­ ning for Q uadfest. Our fruit fondue was a big hit last year and they want us to do it again, this time at night! 1 have sent email about it already and if you haven’t volunteered to help already, what the hell is w rong with you! You better have an excuse that can beat mine, and that isn ’t the easiest thing to do, eh, Chris! The pow er went out I sw ear it! Anyway, the word for the week is KISSA**. C an you use this word in a sentence boys and girls? I can, like I need to kissa** to pass my classes this term! Going to lecture can do wonders for your grades, ju st call it guppy’s word o f advice! I think M CA T’s are coming up, or already passed I have no idea...Good luck to

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A loha! Is it spring yet? H appy B irthdays going to Pam M oser and Amy G aitane both on the 23rd! C o ngratulatio n s to all the new Rho C h i’s for next year. R em em ber, Q uadfest is com ing up, so sign up to w ork at the IFC booth. A huge hug goin g out to A nnabella this w eek and w hat is that crazy thing w ith warm fuzzies on it? It’s cute Jen! W ell that goes to Patti and you have to w ear it e v e ry ­ day. Ju st kidding! A nd th a t’s for her great job helping out S hannon. Sorry about y our jacket. Hope we helped you out. T hanks go to M ia from the fall pledge class for the pictures from the C rush party. It’s w eird, you can tell where people are in initiation o rd er by the look on her face! We love you M ia!

R um or has it that one o f the T heta C hi floor hockey team s considers it a pretty violent sport! Is this true M indy? D on’t hurt the boys to o bad girls! T onight is the F IJI/A G D garden party. M eet at 24 D ean at 3:45 d ressed for the occasion. Food that is! (N o silly it’s semi form al) T o m o rro w ’s m eeting is a fo r­ mal one and the T eeter T o tter A Thon starts this Friday!! Are we ready or w hat? A w ards banquet this F riday, w h a t’s this Jen still n eeds ideas? G et them to her A SA P or sh e’s giving us all th e poopy aw ard. H appy T eeter T o tte r­ ing! U ntil next tim e w hen w e’re all sore...

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Well guys, better start getting in shape b e­ fore the Teeter-Totter-athon. It starts this Fri­ day. A ctually, while teetering o r tottering (which ever you like better) you can actually b um o ff that beer belly. But y o u ’ll probably be adding to it at the sam e time! I hope everyone raised gazillions o f money. Even though I’m not that good at predicting the future, a few brothers went to the dog track and w on gazi lions o f money, m aybe. O ur IM team s are still ________! I ca n ’t say the word because it’s bad luck. K AG L (no “E”) soccer had a great 3-1 win over their division rival. C ongrats to our first LCA team to win in D ivision I! LCA soccer got the win. And everyone com plained about being in Div. I. O ur painting job went w ell last Saturday. We had so many guys we ran out o f brushes. Quote o f the W eek: “ If you d o n 't know anything, you’re f* @ $& #.” -anony­ mous. W hen’s the Sigm a Banquet? 32nd o f April? Topic for next e-m ail argum ent: Rhode I s la n d e r is b e tte r th a n m e s s e d up M assachussetts. Y our Personalized Lucky Number: 9-23-21-5-37-12. I told everyone there w asn’t much to write about this week!

ATO Rad has officially becom e the spokesperson for weight watchers. For details, ask G ajew ski and Lew is how they lost ten pounds in the first four days. Teela, MD. W hat? John WB, I m ean D awson, congratulations on an academy aw ard w inning performance the other night. C ohen please relax. Relax. Relax. Deep breaths.

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Keep it up. G ourdreau, how many times has she been the one? St. M arie, what do you say kid? Petrini and Jabberw ock have been spotted on M ars where they have been staying for the past 4 years. G ood Luck on the west coast college with Phat man. Y ou’ll need it. W eed, how much fat does 14 pieces o f bacon and 23 pieces o f sausage have? W ait a minute, d o n ’t eat that cold cut sandw ich. W ho ha ha, get your tickets for space m ountain because their going fast. (!@ #$% P ete)

ozz H ello voluptuous Phi S igs!! First off, a special hello to all the seniors, you are alm ost o ut o f here!! You all must be feeling really good after W ednesday’s meeting! C ongrats to M oose for getting pinned! (som eday Dope) H appy B-day to LJ, Liz H „ and Bethy hope they were G R E A T !! Hello to Rajah - that o n e’s for Lee. W hit says thanks to Pucci and Jen for being there. Hey Laura, what was that toy found in your room ? Ann, what did you do with that candle? Erika - No more p e ts!! Great job show ing our spirit at the third annual fork-off.

Hey Teresa, fork y o u !! D on’t forget the March o f D imes-W alk A m erica on April 30th. Hi to Heidi, Jen R., Liz A., M oose, and Jen C. Good luck to the seniors with their project presenta­ tions, thanks for the day o ff!! L IT P !!

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Hultgren and C ohen go for a sw im 8. Micheal Ong V incent says he only has one year o f school left....w hatever 7. Spud and Trey jr. become dinks 6. Mun rents a U -Haul to take home all the stuff in Room 8. 5. Basl and S tubert d o som e recruiting for the arm ed forces...They’re looking fo ra few good men. 4.

P ro u lx g e tsa c lu e . 3. D uff finally does a senior appreciation shot. 2. G eorge and Coux go tanning on the beach in their Speedo’s. 1.

Faunce gleam s the Cube. Well that’s it for this week. Five Apples.

in I’d like to start out this w eek’s article with a poem dedicated to our friendly neighbor who is in the hospital and has tolerated us for som e time- Sigm a Pi hereby disclaim s any offense taken by it. (I d id n ’t write it either): There was an old lady w ho was our neighbor. She alw ays com plained about our behavior. She barred the windows and locked the doors, she even at­ tem pted to even the score. She blow s on her whistle, she bangs on her walls. She calls up the cops alw ays breaking our balls. She looks in Sherm an’s w indow , scream s the m usics too loud, W e think she’s checking out W iebe cause he’s well endow ed. We try to be neighborly and shovel her walks, But the good things we do, don’t m ake o u r talks. W e have a good time till the partying stops. Through M S, cam pus po­ lice, and the “ Real” cops. We crank our Alice, and our Pearl Jam , N either o f w hich, she is a fan. W ith L en’s sound and w ith L en’s bass. W e shake her house all over the place. But w e’re in college ju st having fun, We stay up boozin’ till the m orning sun. You may say w e’re evil, Y ou’ve heard all the lies, God D am n, I love this place. Sincerely, Sigm a Pi’s O ther N ews- Black hole’s are getting anx­ ious as the year comes to an end, and they’re too cool to hang out with us underclassm en. G et out! All o f you! you’re dragging us dow n!

C lam bake is com ing up, and there is no reason why every o n e’s parents shouldn’t show up too, so get em dow n here. O r at least find a date for the O rchid, I know many w ho w ould like to come, so if you can’t find one, I’ll find one for you. T h a t’s not a threat, just an offer. See You Next Tuesday.

TKE Ba Bing!! Hey there again to all o f the T K E column groupies. Let’s get these announcm em ts out o f the way: this w eekend is the Special Olym pics tournam ents, all brothers should sign up for tw o shifts (those o f us working not participating). Also, except for all o f the civils, because you guys need all the help you can get, there are no classes this Thursday. Hey Stim py how ’s public transportation? G lad you and the little woman are ok. W e all know that condom s are for safe sex, but Charlie B row n what is that thing on your arm for? We definitely cannot forget to thank all o f o u r aw esom e Little Sisters for the great jo b they did with the Easter d eco­ rations and the egg hunt!!! G ood ideas, and the house looks great. Hey Sahal, with less than three w eeks left, when are you going to start on your suff? G reg?? If you ever get the chance, lock Dooley out o f his room, it’s pretty funny.

Believe it or not, there are only 12 more days o f classes left in the term. Bob, he’s in the band, they played at UM ass last Thursday, they played good, I think it’s because B ob’s in the band, ladies and gentlem en, G FY! W ater balloons off the deck, what could be better. T hat’ll do it for this week except for our now tim e honored tradition of another top ten list, the Top Ten things about Easter W eekend 10. End o f m id­ term week 9. The freedom to consum e once again, all of us except for M arkus that is 8.

Rabbit hunting 7. Finally the chance to blow som e eggs 6. We get those cool palm leaves at church 5. Cool cards in the mail from your Little Sister 4. Nice quiet house for once 3.

D on’t have to fight for good spot on the couch Sat. morning forthe tick 2 .Those cool Cadburry cream eggs and com m ercials 1. Egg hunts (E aster eggs and others) L et’s get ready for this w eekend, everyone’s help is needed. Aaa bye bye.

ex I got 5 minutes to pump an article through the information superhighway in hopes of making this deadline...I wish me luck. Last week I decided to save the world some paper and not write one. Contrary to popular belief, I didn’t forget, (right) Hager got what was coming to him...justice is served. Now that pigga betta take down that barbed wire corral he calls a room and thin up. T here’s no need for butter on the doorjam bs on party nights...it ain’t right. So we had a great faculty dinner., about 30% atten­ dance, which is good by comparison to last year... Next one will be even better. Well, I got adeadline, and that’s it for this week. I’m audi...

Only a few more weeks...Hope y’all had a happy Easter...In two weeks, its TH E PARTY II (creative) brought to you by that same lov­ able bunch as last year... Congratulations to the intram ural softball team forgoing 3-0, hey who cares if there’s only one legitimate win...Also, to the A-team hockey squad for their close win over KAP, putting them at 2-1 with only one gam e rem aining...This w eek’s M ickey’s Ice athlete of the week: N ick Palmer, for trying to prove that not even an iron fence could stop him from catching the ball, and to the rest of us who show ed up to play softball last week, for m ak­ ing the Bad News Bears look good...this week its the A team Hockey final game against SAE on Thursday Now for the part you’ve all been waiting for som e o f this year’s year end awards: Most Im proved Social Leper: Sac, but h e’s still danc­ ing alone at the end o f parties, First Runner Up: George “Craftsm an” for breaking the five foot rule at the Form al...M ost C reative Brother: Jim m y “Big D og” Pavlat, Nobody can crim p and kybosh those mingers like Big Dog... Athlete o f the Year: Ted “ D on’t call me lazy” Phipps, yes, he does do more than sm oke, eat, and study...M ost C lueless Looking Brother: Greg Sheeler, how does he manage to look so out of it?...B est D runken Swagger: Jason Kipp, no­ body can sway and pass out like he can...M ost Annoying Brother: For the second year run­ ning, G eoff Zub, keeping the annoying forest alive and w ell...T hat’s all for now, more next week...Signing O ff-Jabba

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Thursday, April 6 6:29am - Alarm: Intrusion Alarm in Higgins Vibration Labs.

2:25pm - M alicious Mischief: Student into station to report car scraped in library lot.

4:20pm - Lockout: On Drury Lane. O fficer needed to unlock house and turn off alarm.

10:38pm - Medical: Student in Institute with asthm a problem. Officer, EMS respond. Transported to hospital.

Tuesday, April 18 Friday, April 7

2:00pm - Tour: “A print is a print is a print,” W orcester Art M useum, 55 Salisbury Street.

8:00pm - SocComm presents: “Jabbering Trout,” Riley Comm ons, free with mug.

1:15am - Complaint: Noise complaint on W est Street. Referred to W orcester PD for jurisdiction.

1:17am - Harassing Phone Calls: Student reports harassing phone calls. Advised to use call trace if occurs again.

9:20am - Professor called regarding wallet found in his dept, office.

10:15am - W orcester FD at station to advise o f hazard at W achusetts St. Fraternity. Maze will have to be removed.

10:38am - Officer assists W orcester Fire Inspector with papers being served at Fraternity.

11:00am - Welfare o f student: Uncle called to check on welfare o f student.

11:31am - Medical: Founders Kitchen, male with general illness. Officer, EM S respond., W orcester EA called.

11:09pm - Call received requesting welfare check on student. Officer responds. Student OK. 11:49pm - Vehicle Stop: Officer advises motorcycle operator o f helmet requirement.

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Environmental Speaker: Douglas Gutro, “ Discussion on the history and current status EPS,” Lower Wedge.

New Voices One-Three: Alden M em orial, Free.

Thursday, April 20 Project Presentation Day - No Classes 4:30pm and 7:00pm - New V oices One-Three, Alden Memorial, Free.

7:00pm - Workshop: “Past Lives, Dreams, and Soul Travel,” Mechanics Hall Board Room, 321 M ain Street.

Saturday, April 8 Friday, April 21

1:31pm - Goats H ead conference room secured.

5:58am - Officer stops vehicle on Institute. Vehicle unregistered, parked in Stoddard lot. Operator transferred home.

8:54pm - Officer requests locksmith to repair exterior door lock on W ashburn entrance. Locksmith responds.

1:00pm to 5:00pm - 5th Annual academ ic Spree D ay, Clark University.

4:00pm - Lecture: “The History o f Electronic M usical Instruments,” Televison Studio, Fuller Labs.

4:30pm and 7:00pm - New Voices One-Three, A lden Memorial, Free.

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Saturday, April 22

12:53am - Medical response: illness in Stoddard. Officer, EMS respond.

2:10am - Noise Complaint: Fuller Apts, basketball court. Officers respond.

3:46am - Officers check on welfare o f subject laid out on W est and Institute. Transfer subject to Fuller Apts.

7:40am - Officer opens Alumni swim ming pool for SCUBA class.

4:34pm - Complaint: Student complains o f people on Dean St. roof making noise. Officer responds.

5:42pm - Medical Complaint: Student hit head previous night and would like to be looked at to be sure nothing serious happened. Officer, EMS respond. Student transported to hospital.

6:58pm - Student into station to speak to officer.

8:15pm - Complaint: Vagrant w on’t leave steps o f Boynton Street house. O fficers respond. Suspect gone upon arrival.

12:00pm to 4:30pm - 25th Annual Earth Day and A rbor Day Celebration, W orcester Common.

1:00pm - Softball vs Smith.

1:00pm - M en’s Track and Field vs Springfield / Fitchburg / Norwich / U Mass Dartmouth.

1:00pm - M en’s Tennis vs U Mass Lowell.

2:00pm - Tour: “A print is a print is a print,” W orcester Art M useum, 55 Salisbury Street.

2:00pm and 7:00pm - New Voices One-Three, Alden Memorial, Free.

Sunday, April 23 2:00pm - Flute Recital - Jera Howe, Anna Maria College.

4:00pm - J. S. Bach “M agnificat,” Alden M em orial, $5.

6:30pm and 9:30pm - Movie: “Quiz Show,” Perreault Hall, $2.

Monday, April 24

Monday, April 10 1:49am - Alarm: Intrusion alarm in first floor / basem ent o f H iggins Estate. Officers respond.

9:34am - C ar Horn: Quad area, personnel notified of problem.

7:46pm - Malicious Acts: people throwing rocks at cars from Boynton Hill. O fficer responds.

10:48pm - Medical: Facial injury on Quad. Officer, EM S respond. W orcester EA called, subject transported to hospital.

Tuesday, April 11 10:24pm - W ork Orders: Founders front door loose on hinges, third floor fire door.

11:45pm - Harassing phone calls in Stoddard. O fficer to check it out.

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7:1 lam - ROTC asked to move cars.

8:05am - Parking Consideration: behind Boynton in handicap zone.

9:00am - Parking Consideration from city o f W orcester: Institute Road.

10:13am - Car blocking other cars in library lot.

10:19am - Campus security on cam pus to work in O lin and Daniels.

11:57am - Cellular phone turned in by Food Service.

6:01pm - Malicious Act: People throwing fruit at door in Institute. O fficer responds.

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