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WPI’s new Greek life advisor learning the ropes Andrea Dorow brings “a fresh look” to our Greek system

by Amy L. Plack Features Editor Spend ten m inutes with A ndrea Dorow and y o u ’ll com e out o f her office feeling like you ju st took the w o rld 's longest calculus exam . S h e’s that energetic - she m akes people like me feel like I’m 42 instead o f 21.

T h at’s why it cam e as no surprise to learn that she w as a ch eerlead er in high school, am ong o th er things.

D orow is W P I’s new A ssistant D irector for S tudent A ctiv ities in charge o f G reek life, a brand-new position that encom passes m ore than just G reek life. She says she w anted to “do a variety o f student activ ities things that w ere challenging to m e.” and she got it - she is now co-advising the Social C om m ittee w ith Di­ rector for Student A ctivities C hris Jachim ow icz. In fact, her o ffice is S ocC om m ’s old one, located in the Student A ctivities O ffice, adjacent to Jach o m o w icz’s.

As the press release in last w e e k 's Newspeak read , D orow co m e s to W orcester from B oston U niversity,

got a com m unity h ere,” she says e x ­ she rarely saw at BU. The build ings w here she was co o rd in ato r o f pro­ citedly. “ I think you som etim es take fence in the cam pus and separate us gram s. She also held the position o f things for granted until you are in a from the city and, especially with the d irecto r o f fratern ity and sorority place w here th in g s are very d iffe r­ recent closure of W est S treet, we are affairs at C olgate U niversity before e n t.” She w ent on to talk about how a com m unity. “ M aybe it’s not as that. W hy did she leav e BU? “ 1 had strong as som e people would o u tg ro w n the p o s itio n ,” ______ like, but th e re ’s defin itely a says D orow. “ WPI o ffered sense of com m unity here that an o p portunity to have the “ / wets lookin g f o r a p la c e that h ad a nice d o esn ’t exist on a lot of c o l­ fraternities and soro rities sense o f com m unity, which WPI does; a nice lege cam puses. Part of [the as well as doing ju s t about cam pu s , both a esth etically pleasin g a n d f u n c ­ reason] is that the cam p u s is e v e r y t h in g y o u c o u ld tional; a (Ireek system that I cou ld work with ju st small enough to en co u r­ im agine in student activ i­ a n d is in relatively g o o d shape; a n d a g o o d age that co m m u n ity .” ties. I w asn ’t learning an y ­ W hat about the planned thing new , it w asn ’t ch a l­ reputation f o r its bright, com petent stu den ts." cam pus center? D orow re­ lenging [anym ore].”

-Andrea D orow plies, “ I think [we] do need S h e ’ s a lw a y s lik e d [one]. It’s hard w hen there sm aller schools, she says, the layout o f a cam pus is a facto r in isn ’t a central location for p ro g ram ­ and she was looking for “a place that building com m u n ity , using BU as an m ing, ju s t getting together for h ang­ had a nice sense o f com m unity, which exam ple. At a cam pus like B U ’s, ing out, things like th at.” She says W PI does; a nice cam pus, both aes­ w here all the buildings are lined up the cam pus center will strengthen thetically pleasing an d functional; a the com m unity as w ell. along a w ell-trav eled road, it’s hard G reek system that 1 could w ork with In the m eantim e, and w ith Rush to h a v e a c o m m u n ity , s in c e and is in relatively good shape; and ev e ry th in g ’s is spread out and the rapidly approaching, D orow is try ­ a good reputation for its bright, co m ­ cam pus is n ’t separate from the city. ing to get settled in as fast as she can. petent students."

W P I's cam pus, how ever, is nicely “ I ’m still learning what R ush at W PI H er first im pressions o f W PI are laid out, she thinks. T h e re ’s enough is all ab o u t,” she says. H er desk is good ones. She likes the cam pus, the green for people to get together and piled w ith m aterials for h er to go students sh e’s met so far, and o u r play a gam e o f F risbee, som ething th rough, her draw ers are packed w ith com m unity. “ I d efinitely think w e’ve

rules and regulations sh e’s already read. “ It’s going to take som e tim e...

W hat I need to do is to look at all the system s that are currently in place and figure out w hat m akes sense, what d o esn ’t, m aybe condense som e th in g s.”

S h e ’s p leased so far w ith our G reek system , w hich, according to her, is “ in good shape... I’ve been at far, far w orse...” D orow is also en­ jo y in g her role im m ensely and is glad to be the “ fresh eyes” to look at our system and assist students in m aking changes. “ I think it’s good to have new people som etim es,” she stated. “T h ey ’ll com e in w ith fresh eyes and say 'W h y are w e doing th is?’ o r'W h y aren ’t we doing th at?’ and th e re ’s the opportunity to im ­ prove things.”

H e r e n e r g y a n d e n th u s ia s m w eren’t alw ays aim ed at positions in G reek life, how ever. She started out at W estern Illinois U niversity as a m usic m ajor. D orow , who played the drum s in a m yriad o f m usical groups in high school, had alw ays

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Worcester Common Fashion Outlets hosts “Homecoming Weekend” H ere’s a great way for W orcester area college students to break in their new college IDs! W orcester Comm on Fashion Outlets is hosting "H om ecom ­ ing W eekend", September 9-10, jam packed with hot music, cool back-toschool student discounts, free food, and shuttle bus service to and from eight W orcester Area campuses.

Kicking o ff “Homecoming W eek­ end" is the Elite Model Search, Friday, September 8 at 5pm in the .mall’s Cen­ ter Court. Elite scouts will review photographsand interview women ages 13 and up with the energy, confidence, and “look" of a professional model. “ Homecoming W eekend” will wrap up with a day o f free musical entertain­ ment on W orcester Common, just out­ side the mail’s Front Street entrance.

Hosted by W A AF-pM , Cold W ater R at, voted “Best Cutting Edge Band” in 1995 by Boston M agazine’s “ Best of Boston” panelists will perform at I pm on the Common. The Blue Route will open for Cold Water Flat at noon.

“We want W orcesterCom mon Fash­ ion Outlets to be as much a pan o f college life as spring break,” said Tony Kalinowsky,General Manager. “These great events during the opening o f a new school year are a way for us to let students know that they are welcome and we appreciate their business.”

Beginning Saturday, Septem ber 9, the first 1.000 students visiting the mall’s Custom er Service C enter with a valid college ID will receive a free $5 Food Court voucher to “pig out” with.

The next 1,000 students arc entitled to a free “Common Sense Savings” cou­ pon book (worth $300). W orcester area college students can also receive W orcester Common Fashion O utlets’ free College Discount Card, offering a variety of discounts at participating stores. Also, students are eligible for free parking for up to three hours with a valid college ID. In addition, students can enter lo

win two $500 shopping sprees, one mall-wide al W orcesterCom m on Fash­ ion Outlets' Custom er Service Center and another offered by Media Play, a book/audio/video superstore. No pur­ chase is necessary to entereither sweep­ stakes. Media Play is also planning an afternoon o f activities for kids and a

special “M agic School Bus" party.

F o r s tu d e n ts w ith o u t w h e e ls, W orcesterC om m on Fashion O utlets is rolling out two free shuttle buses reach­ ing eight campuses. The bus for WPI is on route A, and will stop at the Boynton Street Parking lot at 15 past each hour.

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lets, featuring 100 designer outlets and a fabulous 700-seat food court, is a joint venture of Newton-based New England Development;CIGN A Invest­ ment Inc. of Hartford, Conn.; and S.R. W einer and Associates, Inc. o f Chest­ nut Hill, Mass. W orcester Common Fashion Outlets is located offlnterstate

290 at exit 16, across from the W orces­ ter Centrum. The mall is also acces­ sible by the Mass. Pile (Interstate 90) and Routes 495, 84, 9, and 190. Mall hours are M onday-Saturday, 10am 9pm, and Sunday, 1 lam - 6pm. For more information,call W orcesterC om ­ mon Fashion Outlets at (508) 798-2581.

The history of the Goat’s Head Rivalry at WPI

by Members o f the Skull Honor Society Picture it now. A small stautuette of a goat, with an oversized head. It is cast entirely in bronze. A quiet little thing, certainly not an object o f artistic value (one would think). And yet, each class at this institute w oulddo anything (well, almost anything) to possess ihis trophy and obtain the bragging rights that their’s was the class to possess it. But the trick was to display it to the entire Institute, and not have it subsequently stolen from them.

That is the way it used to be, when the G oat’s Head tradition was in full swing and everyone participated. It all went back to the school mascot, a goat who was maintained and kept by a Ja p a n e se stu d e n t n am ed G o m p ei Kuwada (guess where G om pei’s got theirnam e, folks) starting in 1891. Why was he named the goat keeper? Be­ cause noone else had the intitials, G .K .!

The goat was a gift o f the class o f 1893, but the animal soon became too diffi­ cult to maintain. So what logical thing did they do? T h ey beheaded and mounted the thing!

Beginning with the class o f 1928, it was decided that the G oat’s Head would become an object o f class rivalry to inspire school spirit. The original G oat’s Head was actually stolen by the class o f 1894 and hidden in Nova Scotia.

It was not seen again until 1913, when the crane in the Electrical Engineering Laboratory carried it to the Class of

1893 at an alumni dinner. The head was in very poor shape, so it's carica­ ture was cast in bronze and mounted on a disproportionately small body.

Originally, the G oat’s Head C om ­ petition was focused on the two young­ est classes and in­ volved a point sys­ tem based on vari­ ous events such as sp o rts, the T ech C a rn iv a l, Paddle Rush, and the Rope Pull. The Head was p re sen te d to the class that accumuJated the larg est number o f points, who were obligated to “ s h o w ” the G oat’s Head at least once a year in order to give the other class a chance to steal it themselves.

Some m em orable “ s h o w in g s ” in ­ cluded hanging it from a helicopter during a home foot­ ball gam e, d ro p ­ ping it from Earle Bridge into a m ov­ ing c o n v e rtib le , and hanging it in Alumni Gym dur­ ing a b a sk e tb a ll game where it was swung out a win­

dow to those waiting outside.

The G oat’s Head Competition that began in the 1920s was halted in the 1930s. It came back in the 1950s to some extent and continued for several more years. Formerly a source of class

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bonding, this competition was aban­ doned due to the somewhat violent nature o f the chases. There are plans for a revival o f this tradition, but only time will tell to what extent it will be reintroduced to the WPI community.

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For the week preceding this Saturday, September 2nd, 1995, here’s what’s happened Beyond the Farm: 1995 has furthered its claim as the y ear o f the m erger. C hem ical Bank and C hase M an­ hattan Bank announced th eir intention to m erge A ug 28th. The com hincd bank, which will retain the C hase name, will be the n a tio n 's largest with $ 10 billion in holdings. T hen, on A ug 30th, the T urner B roadcasting System announced it w as in serious n eg o tiatio n s with T im e-W arner to form the n a tio n 's largest m edia com pany. The final agreem ent has not been signed, but TBS ch airm an Ted T u rn er w as said to be "excited " about the prospect o f being the vice-chairm an o f the com bined com panies.

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NATO airstrikes ceased Sep 1st to give the Serbs a chance to take constructive action, and some troops did appear to retreat from the front lines.

N ATO and the UN announced late on Sep 2nd lhat the Bosnian Serbs must move heavy artillery from the exclusion zone around Sarajevo after an hours-long grace period o r face additional airstrikes. The announcem ent was m ade after meetings with Bosnian Serb general Ratko M ladic, who did not im press the western diplom ats with his sincerity.

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The tapes form er Los A n ­ geles detective M ark Fuhrm an m ade for a screenw riter d e ­ scribing his w ork as a police o fficer were show n without the ju ry present in the trial o f O .J. Sim pson Aug 29th. In the tapes, Fuhrm an repeatedly uses the racial slur "n ig g er” w hich he had denied doing in court testim ony. He also d escrib es how w hite o fficers w ould beat up blacks, am ong o th er clearly racist segm ents. Judge L ance Ito ruled A ug 3 1st that only tw o short clip s from the tapes, including sam ples o f Fuhrm an us­ ing the ep ith et, w ould be ad m issab le in court, though w itn esses could testify about the co n ­ tents o f the rest o f the tapes.

Thirty-seven Muslim civilians died when the Bosnian Serbs fired five shells into the marketplace area o f Sarajevo, the same site where over sixty died last year in a single incident, on Aug 28th.

NATO launched a huge air strike cam­ paign against the Bosnian Serbs Aug 29th, involving 200 sorties o f US, British, and French planes in an attem pt to re-establish by force the heavy w eapons exclusion /one around Sarajevo. British and French artillery on Mt. Ignman also fired on Serb positions.

Five UN observers in Serb-held territory were killed Aug 29th, but it was not clear if they were killed by the NATO airstrikes or Serb fire.

Bosnian Serb leader Radovan K aradzic's initial response to the N ATO bombing was to say that it w ould only harden the Serbs’ resolve.

The Bosnian Serbs announced Aug 30th lhat they would turn over the authority to negotiate a peace agreem ent on their be­ h a lf to S erb ian P re s id e n t S lo b o d an Milosevik, creating for the first time a unified position for the Serbs at the nego­ tiating table.

Russia issued a weak condem nation of the NATO bom bing cam paign Aug 30th.

Germany announced Aug 3 1st that it had participated in the N ATO airstrikes. though its planes did not actually bomb. This represented the first com bat mission for German forces since W orld War II.

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Two people were killed and 35 injured when a bus and an RV collided in C olo­ rado Aug 27th.

The United Slates and C hina announced Aug 28th that they would he holding a sum mit, probably in Beijing some time in O ctober.

The three m ajor New Y ork-area airports were shut down for a time Aug 28th be­ cause o f a bomb threat.

California governor Pete W ilson (R) offi­

1st that he will resign after being con­ cially announced his candidacy for Presi­ dent o f the United States with the Statue of victed of sexual misconduct.

• Huge protests were held in Tahiti Sep 1si Liberty as a backdrop Aug 28th. over French plans for nuclear testing to R w a n d a n P rim e M in is te r F au stin Twagiram undu resigned his post Aug 28th begin on that day. over accusations o f unfair treatm ent to • French forces seized two G reenpeace ves­ Hutus; another m oderate Hutu took his sels that entered French w aters where place by Sep 1st. nuclear testing was to begin Sep 1st; A car bomb exploded near G eorgian Prime Greenpeace has protested.

M inister Eduard Shevrandazi Aug 28th in • A new transitional council took control o f an apparent assassination attem pt. On Liberia S ep 1st in preparation for elec­ Aug 30th, he declared his candidacy for tions. the new post of President in the former • Jap an ese a m b a ssa d o r M . N ish im u ra made a form al apology on the b eh alf o f Soviet republic.

Calvin Klein decided to drop its contro­ the Japanese people for W orld W ar II versial ads featuring scantily clad teenag­ during c erem o n ies m arking the 50th ers Aug 28th. anniversary o f the Japanese surren d er • Pakistani Prime M inister Sep 2nd.

B enazir Bhutto offered Aug • A British plane crashed at an airshow in 29th to hold new elections in Canada Sep 2nd; all seven crew m em bers the region o f Jammu and Kash­ missing. mir if rebels would agree to a • Eight people were killed when a private six-month truce. plane crashed near M esquite, NV Sep 2nd • Rebels in C olom bia killed 17 civilians in Bogota Aug Finally: 29th.

Steve B eilstein o f M inot, N D called up a • K a z a k h s ta n ’s P resident taxi to take him to tow n. A fter the taxi had N ursultan N azarbaev won a already driven him near his d estination, he re feren d u m to increase his realized that he had no m oney in his w allet. office’s pow ers by an 89% vote So, he told th e d riv er to go to a nearby Aug 29th. hardw are store. U pon arriv al, he told the • Zaire warned the UN that driv it er to wait w hile he w ent to buy a flash­ has until the end of the year to remove light so that he could find the $100 bill he Rwandan refugees still in Zaire Aug 29th. dropped in the back seat. W hen he exited the The Conference on Women for non-govern­ store a few m inutes later, the taxi w as gone. mental organization opened in China Aug 30th with far fewer than the 25,000+ women And that’s what happened Beyond the expected, mainly due to problems with get­ Farm. ting visas to enter that nation. However, Sources this week included A ll Things C on­ concerns about censorship appear to be un­ s id e r e d ( N P R ) . th e A s s o c i a te d P r e s s founded, with speakers condemning the Chi­ newswire. the C alifornia State C apitol R e­ nese record on treatment o f women, and only po rt (KXPR), CBS radio news, the C hristian one protest has been organized. It was Science M onitor, KCBS radio news, Larry quickly broken up by authorities Sep 1st.

King Live (CNN), M orning Edition (NPR), Guiana announced the leak o f cyanide Newsdesk (BBC/PR I), Paul H arvey N ew s and from the Omai Gold Mine into nearby Comment ( ABC radio), the R euters new sw ire. waters ceased Aug 30th. the San Jose M ercury News, and the W orld An investigation in M exico concluded Aug N ews Roundup (CBS radio). Special thanks 30th that Bishop Juan Posadas Scapo was to Imran M askatia f o r information and to killed by drug traffickers.

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Federal judge Royce L am bert overturned C om piled b y: Lance Gleich, Bellevue WA the n a tio n 's 1 4 8 -y earo ld ex trad itio n law Beyond the Farm is design ed to p rovide a Aug 31st in a huge ruling. It is unclear reasonably short summary o f a ll w eek's events what the ram ificatio n s the ruling will fo r people who w ould otherw ise have no have for the U nited S ta te s’ treaty obli­ chance to keep up with current events. C on­ gations. gratulations on keeping up with the w orld Rep. Mel Reynolds (D -IL) announced Sep around you!

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WPIR preparing for a new year

by Beatrice Grygo Newspeak Staff If you are a freshm an, you probably do not know that W'PI has its ow n radio station.

Even am ong those of us who have been here longer, there are some that do not know about its existence. B elieve me, it’s there and it has its Ians! A lthough the team o f D J's and others involved in radio activity are not able to estim ate at this lime how big their public is, C hris K uiaw a, who cu rren tly holds a sec­ retary position in the radio station, is rather optim istic. He believes lhat the people who have access to it will listen to the program s.

U nfortunately fo rso m e o f us. W PIR broad­ casts its program s only to the residence halls.

In addition, you can listen to il at Salisbury lounge and on the top floor o f Fuller Labs on channel 38. The radio station team hopes to be able to broadcast its program s to students and others w ho reside o ff cam p u s som e day.

Unluckily., there are still problem s o f legal as w ell as financial nature. T hus, do not expect this to happen in the near future.

WPI R adio (W PIR) orig in ated as an IQP Project and started its activity in O ctober 1994. Its prim ary purpose was to entertain students. T his is stiil the m ain goal o f our

radio team . T here is no p articu lar type o f show that D J’s have to p resent. Such in d e­ pendence allo w s them to decide on the su b ­ je c t m atter and the m usic they like. This approach seem s to work w ell. D J’s are e n ­ thusiastic and u sually very e ntertaining. They offer a variety o f program s and styles to choose from. T his will allow you to select the style and p articu lar DJ you like and listen to what you w ant.

A lthough th ere are more D J’s than W PIR needs at the present, do not feel d isco u rag ed if you w ant to jo in the rad io team . W hether you arc an o utspoken and aggressive or a rather shy p erso n , there is alw ays som ething to do at the rad io station. You do not have to be the one w ho docs all the talking on the air.

W'PIR needs a crcw to coordinate a d m in istra ­ tive m atters such as advertising its program s am ong the WPI com m unity. T hink about it!

The radio statio n , which is located on the bottom lloor o f Fuller L abs, is not only an enjoyable place to work, but it is also a great place to hang out, meet people and make som e new friends.

WPIR will start broadcasting in about two weeks. Look fo r the schedule o f program s and D J’s in on e o f the upcom ing issues o f Newspeak.

Cardboard Canoe contest to be held on September 8th Members o f the WPI com m unity are invited to enter a Cardboard Canoe Contest on Friday, Sept. 8, in Institute Park. The M echanical Engi­ neering Department and the WPI Student Sec­ tion of the American Society o f Mechanical Engineers is sponsoring the contest, which chal­ lenges participants to build a canoe out of a refrigerator box and duct tape. The sponsors will provide the boxes and the tape, as well as knives, scissors, paper, and pcncils.

Beginning at 11:30am, each four- to eightperson team will have ten minutes to prepare a sketch o f their canoe and 35 minutes to build a two-pcrson craft. For the race, which will begin at 12:15, contestants will be required to use their hands to paddle theircanoes in Institute Pond for approximately 50 yards. A panel o f judges will present awards for speed, seaworthiness, artistic expression and effort. A free barbecue for contestants will begin at noon.

Dorow Continued from page I figured sh e ’d be a m usic teacher. Despite taking num erous college courses w hile in high school, how ever, she still faced a fiveyear stint in school to get her degree. She described her great aw akening: "O ne day... the thought o f going to school each morning and listening to kids try and sing was like fingernails running dow n a chalkboard to me. I started thinking about what I liked and psychology is som ething I had alw ays en­ jo y ed and found challenging in a different way."

In the m iddle o f her ju n io r y ear o f college, Dorow sw itched her m ajor to psychology, graduated in four years instead o f five, and enrolled in graduate school at h er alm a mater.

A fter earning her m asters o f science in col­ lege personnel, she got her first jo b at C olgate U niversity. She cred its a friend w ith steering her tow ards her m asters. "S he helped me see that all the things I enjoy and the people I looked up to [in co lleg e) w ere in higher e d u c atio n a d m in is tra tio n ." W hat alm ost scared her o ff w as her "narrow focus on w hat student affairs w as - G reek life and residence

halls.” D orow learned that she was looking at a plethora o f other positions from which to choose, how ever, and took internships in several d ifferent areas to help her decide w hich one to pursue.

W hile D orow no longer plays the drum s, she still sings with her church choir and has directed the c h ild re n ’s ch o ir there. At any rate, the form er cheerleader, sprinter, d ru m ­ mer, and singer still has all the energy she needed to have in high school. She looks back on her experiences : "In sm all high schools [like m ine], you tend to be involved in everything o r nothing... I’d be cheering (a football gam e), then I’d run out onto the field in m y cheerleading uniform , as opposed to my m arching band one, play the half-tim e show , then run back and ch eer the rest o f the gam e.”

H er enthusiasm and overabundance o f e n ­ ergy com bined w ith her experience at a larger college make her the perfect addition to the current student affairs staff. Her well o f fresh ideas will supply our G reeks and the Social C om m ittee well for the years to com e if w e can all keep up.

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College Fest Worcester scheduled for September 22 and 23 W here can you find free food, g reat intern­ ship opportunities, sports, art, live m usic, lots o f free stuff, and hundreds o f d o o r prizes all under one ro o f ? T ry looking al C ollege Fest W orcester on Friday, S ep tem b er 22 and S aturday, S eptem ber 23 al the national G uard A rm ory for the C olleges o f W o rcester C on­ sortium in cooperatio n wilh the W orcester A rea C ham ber o f C om m erce, S napple Bev­ erages. W AAF. W o rcester C om m on Fashion O utlets, and Polygram R ecords (just to name a few ), arc presenting a w eekend o f food and fun to "w elcom e back" the college students in the area. E xhibitors from local businesses w ill be available there to show only a fraction o f the many goods and services available in W orcester.

The event kicks o ff on Friday night with Live Bands , free food and g iv eaw ay s from Spm -m idnight. A feeding frenzy w ill ensue w ith many local restaurants sh ow casin g their specialties. M usic and dancing run co n tin u ­ ously ‘til m idnight and every person through the door receives a chance to win a W inter Break ski trip for two to a m ajor ski area.

We get dow n lo business on S atu rd ay with the Internship F air opening up at 1 lam . At noon, the Food Fest w hets e v e ry o n e ’s appe­ tite as W orcester R estaurants co m p ete for

"B est o f C o llege F est". It’s yo u r chance to influence the w o rld , if only in a sm all way, and vote for y o u r favorite. At 4pm , the arm ory b ecom es a gym nasium w hen V elcro ju m p in g . B asketball shootout. Sum o w res­ tling and more takes over for hours o f fun.

T hen, ju s t like Friday night, m usic blasts as W o rc e s te r s tu d e n ts d a n c e la te in to the evening. D o n 't forget the d raw ing to win a trip for tw o to Jam aica during S pring Break as well as an o th er ski trip (m ust be present to win both n ig h ts’ d raw in g s). For students “o f ag e," several local bars will o ffer free cover charge after I lp m on both nights with a C ollege Fest ad m issio n ticket (and I D. o f course).

No w heels? N o problem . The W RTA will run co n tinu ou s F R E E bus service from the C olleges to ihe N ational G uard A rm ory both days. W atch for the bus schedule and stops in N ew speak and the W orcester T elegram and G azette.

You also have a chance lo give back to the com m unity at C o lleg e Fest. F or every nonperishable food item donated to the W orces­ ter C ounty Food B ank, you will receive another raffle tick et to win one o f the three trips being raffled . Just bring yo u r donation to ihe Food B ank T ab le at C ollege Fest and

have your name put into the d raw ings a se c ­ ond time. The m ore item s you bring, the m ore chances you have o f w inning a W inter Break Ski T rip for tw o or the S pring B reak trip to Jam aica for you and a friend. L e t’s all be generous and give to those w ho have less than ourselves.

S o keep a look out for the C ollege Fest representative and W A A F Rock Bus to m ake a stop at WPI on S eptem ber 7th.

If you m iss the T our, tick ets may be available in the S tudent A ctivities O ffice.

T ickets for the even t are $3.00 w hen p u r­ chased on cam pus, $5.00 at the door, and one ticket gets you in both days! O ffice. T ickets

for the event are $3.00 when purchased on cam pus, $5.00 at the door, and one ticket gets you in both days! Y our ticket also gets you discounts at som e establishm ents represented at the event , so d o n ’t lose it! W ith every ticket sold during the cam pus tour com es a gift b ag full o f cool stuff. R em em ber to bring the co upon from your bag to receive a free copy o f the exclusive C ollege Fest ‘95 C D .

W e hope to see you all at C ollege Fest ‘95 with a m outhful o f food and an arm load of free gifts!

F o r m ore inform ation, contact : B arb ara G u th rie at 754-6829 or D ave L aP ierre at 753-3283.

Book Review: Favorite Places of Worcester County “Yes, there really is a lot to do in Worcester”

by Dave Koelle Advertising M anager W hoever says thal th ere’s nothing to do in W orcester h asn ’t looked hard enough! “ F a­ vorite Places o f W 'orcestcr C o u n ty ," w ritten in co operation by the W orcester T elegram & G azette and T an tuck B ooksellers, describes every place you w ould ever warn to go in the area: pool halls, sk atin g rinks, restaurants, shopping centers, m useum s and art g a lle r­ ies... W hatever y our interests, th e re ’s bound to be som ething for you in this book! M any o f the suggestions w ere c o n trib u ted by nearly 700 residents o f W orcester C ounty during a "F avorite P lac e s"c o n te st held last fall. T here are 1400 entries in this guide, w hich should he enough to occupy an y o n e's free tim e!

T h e book also has profiles o f each of W o rcesterC o u n ty ’s6 0 to w n s, w hich includes tow n histories and data such as tax rates, SA T sco res, and population. It also describes fam ous people, fam ous firsts, and inventions w hich originated in central M assachusetts.

Did you know the first curve ball w as throw n in A thol, o r that Johnny A ppleseed was born in L eom inster?

Favorite Places or Worcester County c o n ­ tains profiles o f local colleges, w hich in­ cludes descriptions o f the colleges as w ell as deg ree program s, sports inform ation, and im pressive facts.

L ook for “ Favorite Places o f W orcester C o u n ty ” at Tatnuck B ooksellers and Sons M arketplace (335 C handler St, W 'orcester) and o th er local bookiiores.

Sports

Women’s soccer debuts as a varsity sport NEWSPEAK STAKE PHOTO / ALISON KEACH

22 B rides p erfo rm ed in G o m p e i’s on T uesday, A ugust 29th. T h e show w as sp o n so red by SocC om m ’s CofTeeHouse C om m ittee.

Sunday Masses at WPI

H istory will be made on A lum ni Field al 4pm on M onday, Sepi. I I , w hen ihe w o m en 's soccer team kicks o ff against U M ass-L ow ell in its first gam e as a varsity sport.

W om en’s soccer was established as a club sport at WPI in 1986; it w as elevated to varsity status last spring. The team is coached

by S tephanie C arlson, w hose experience in­ cludes sim ilar positions at W estborough High School and A m herst and H averford colleges.

The new team will com pete in the New England W o m en 's 8 C onference, along w ith Babson, C lark. M IT, M ount H olyoke, Sm ith, W ellesley, and W heaton, says S ports Infor­ m ation D irector G e o ff H assard. “The w om en will also continue to face nonconfcrencc o p ­ ponents in the region. T urnout for this y e a r's team was high - 35 w om en tried out - so w e 're

looking forw ard lo what prom ises lo be an exciting season and hope ihe WPI com m u­ nity w ill com e out to cheer for the new varsity team ."

First football game is September 9th W P I's first football game o f 1995 w ill be played on S aturday, Sept. 9, at 1.30 pm on A lum ni Field. The Engineers will kick off the new season with a game against U rsinus C ollege. C oach Kevin M orris, returning for his third season, is optim istic that this y e a r’s squad will com pete for another Freedom Foot­ ball C onference title. Last season, the team finished 5-4.

A n n o u n cem ents

11:30am — Alden Hall 6:00pm - Founders Hall

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Now forming: WPI Chamber Choir A uditions w ill be held on Friday, Septem ber 8, from 4:30 to 7:30 in the Janet Earle Room o f A lden Hall

5 sopranos 5 altos 3 tenors 3-4 basses Sign on to audition list - m usic bulletin board - outside Spaulding Recital Hall, or see Professor Curran.

Preference given to m em bers o f the WPI G lee Club and Alden V oices.

One hour before Masses and Fridays from 3:00pm to 5:00pm at the Collegiate Religious Center

Come worship w ith your college com m unity i

Anthony’s

Barber Shop Open until 9:00pm on Wednesday!

By Appi. or Walk-in Hours: Tue. Thu. Fri. Sat: 7:00am - 6:00pm Wed: 7:00am - 9:(M)pm Closed Sunday and Monday

324 Grove St, Wore.

(Across front Jillian's) Tel: 752-5510

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Anyone want a social life??

I'm led up with the apathy on this campus.

I'm sick and tired o f seeing people who walk from class to class with their eyes glued to the sidewalk, forcing themselves to walk through Daniels Hall without looking at a single flyer posted there.

These people expect to be handed a social life, for the rest o f us to go out o f our collective way to get them involoved.

Wake up, folks - this isn’t high school anymore - it’s real life now. Forget it, 'cause I’m apathetic about apathy.

I just don’t care anymore, and I don’t feel sorry for them. I do feel sorry for the dedicated students who keep trying to get more people involved and come to their programs. I feel sorry for the hard-working individuals who plaster the campus with flyers that no one sees.

Last year, sidewalk chalking caught on big time groups figured that, if their target audience insisted on looking down at sidewalks, putting the advertising on the sidewalks would solve the problem. Apparently, we were wrong, since no one saw a dramatic increase in attendance at these events.

Like I said, though. I’ve given up on these folks, the people who don't want to be helped - we can beg them to get involved and all they do is ridicule us for trying. I guess it wouldn't be so bad if they didn’t laugh at us for actually giving a shit, but it happens and it hurts.

These people are like patients, people with a disease or needing surgery. Students who care are like doctors, doing everything in their power to help these people recover, prescribing medications and getting the best surgeons money can buy. Unfortunately, studies have shown that those who have a poor outlook on life and

don’t want to get better won’t - it takes a bit o f willpower and a desire to live to make these patients recover, no matter how hard the doctor tries.

Who are the doctors? People in the Social Committee, who work hard to book entertainment for this, our “mundane college campus.” It seems that, no matter how much publicity is put out by these folks, there are people on this campus complaining about their lack o f a social life. Get real! Stop whining amongst yourselves, you spineless weenies, and start telling them what you want to see! What, are they supposed to read your minds?!

Who are the doctors? People in Student Government and the Graduate Student Organizaion who hold open meetings and elections, trying their damndest to, God forbid, help their fellow students. Students in these groups are laughed at for their efforts - why? You who laugh at them - what are YOU doing to make the campus better?! Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Who are the doctors? The members o f the Newspeak staff, who bust their asses every week, all week to put out a paper for YOU, the student body o f WPI. What do we get back? Complaints about how much o f the paper is advertising and press releases. You know what? We need those press releases for lack of a writing staff to handle all the information we are supposed to get out to you. All those ads you find annoying - we need the money they bring in to pay for things like newsprint and ink.

See the pattern? Nothing is ever good enough for some people. All they can do is whine, and they are such cowards and so lazy that they w on’t even get up off their butts and tell us in person what they’d like to see done.

Nope. All they can do is critique. Sorry, gang, but I haven’t seen too many job openings for whiney critics in

the paper lately...

This is so pointless, isn’t it? I am writing this to insult and provoke the apathetic fools on this campus, yet they probably aren’t even reading it. But saying that and giving up on them makes me just as bad, doesn’t it?

A friend of mine said, “You can’t expect to have a social life handed to you; you have to go out there and TAKE it.” That’s true, no one was at the “Free Social Life” booth at the activities fair a couple weeks ago. But those o f us who do care can do one of two things: give up, and just write them o ff as lost causes, or set the good example and just pester the hell out of one person, just one, for months until they finally give in and get involved.

So, here’s my challenge - the next time you go to an event on campus, be it a club meeting, a sporting event, or a social event, take someone with you who’s never been to that particular type o f event. It could be your room­ mate, a friend, or just someone you meet in class. Don’t just invite them, say, “Come with me to this event.”

Don’t even give them the option!

Take that challenge a step further - go to something that other, person is involved in, or pick something neither of you have experienced. You never know until you try something, and it will boost the morale o f the people involved that someone new showed up, even if it only happens once.

My point is that apathy grows - it starts with people who don’t want to get involved and grows, engulfing those who truely do care. Don’t let yourself be swal­ lowed by apathy - fight it.

Just remember - a campus center won’t solve the problem here, folks - especially if you think it’ll never be built.

C om m entary

Philler Laserdisks and Fallen Angels - Who finished off the milk?!

by Laurel and Guinevere Forget the introduction this week.

We have a much more important thing on o u r mind: renovations. Not the work that is currently being done on cam pus -that stu ff sold hat now. W e're talking about our apartment. Plenty of work to be done up here: painting the deck, refinishing the floors, hanging the new flower-print wallpaper in the kitchen, scraping paint off the w in­ dow s. unclogging the drains, vacuum ­ ing the m annequins, polishing the stuffed dog collection, rctiling the O lym pic pool (wink, wink), spit-shin­ ing the Trojan W ar relics, and sw eep­ ing the floors.

A fter reading last w e e k 's article by o u r E ditor-in-C h ief Brian Parker ( “D ad" to us and many others...?), we w ere ex cited to discover that Dr. Parrish, aside from his many ad m in ­ istrative talents, also has a knack for household repair. We quote: "the rest is just projects my wife tells me to d o . like w allpapering, electrical w ork, plum bing..." T his man is p er­ fect. In fact, we w ould like to for­ m ally invite the good D octor and his lovely wife over for dinner, a stim u ­ la tin g discussion o f cam pus c o n ­ cern s. and various o th er "re sto ra ­ tio n s"... Say... Saturday nigtit around eig h t o 'clo ck ?

In case no one told you about Philler, Dr. Parrish, the follow ing letter may clear up the hazy bits: L&G, Finally, after a year and a h a lf o f "lurking, " / have an insight worthy o f your attention. Think hack to last year, hours o f debate, trying to find a spot fo r a Student Center. Now, we have con­ quered West Street, and they want to put a pedestrian mall there. Am I the only one that caught the irony here?

They want to start the redesigning soon, before anyone changes their minds about the street closing. What belter way lo lay permanent claim to The Property Formerly Known as West Street than to put a building on top o f it? Added bonus: it could be pla ced lo conceal the air-conditioner studded side o f The Edifice Formerly Known as the Project Center, in m y opinion the ugliest building on campus. I m hoping

the administration will seriously con­ sider this idea. From what I can tell the best way to get something changed around here is to gel you two lo make fun o f it... I think the administration takes you more seriously than the alleged student leadership. New slogan: "Laurel and Guinevere: Voices o f the Silent Majority. " Is anyone listening today?

Alan Head '97 S a a a a a y ... T h a t's c a tc h y .

"V oices o f the Silent M ajority."

Yeah... Anyone want to m ake Tsh irts fo ru s ? At $4 a shirt, w e'd get everyone to wear one, and just think o f the fun that would be... Oh, on second thought, maybe w e're getting a little bit ahead o f ourselves. (Is that really possible? Can you be ahead o f yourself? Hmmm. Sounds like a question for the Fysics and/or Filosophy departm ent.)

Now, back to the topic at hand: making our apartment livable. After much thought, w e've decided that a Jacuz/.i would he appropriate, since w e’re going to be the voices o f the silent m ajority, w e're going to need some relaxation time. Speaking for all those people is not easy. But we d i­ gress, as usual.

Back to the topic at hand: the Campus Center. W e'd like to publicly (and pri­ vately, but that comes later) endorse A ’s idea for putting a building directly on the road which, until so recently, was known as West Street. (Since this expression is becoming a pain in the butt to type, it will henceforth be represented by the glyph “ @ ") For some reason, the sheer guts involved in petitioning forthe road, fight­ ing with the city over it, finally getting it, and, in less time than it takes a onelegged pig to dig a tunnel to Kansas City, erecting a mountainous building on it really appeals to us.

U nfortunately, A, you neglected to c o n sid c r A rticle 756, S ection 2922 o f the K en tu ck y B u ild in g C o d e, which states “any such erected stru c ­ ture pertaining to the party o f the first part hereunto in v o lv in g the p er­ sonification o f art and livestock u n ­ d er especial duress cau sed by u n h in ­ dered use o f T eflon w ash ers shall be constructed in the sh ap e o f a U ."

H ow ever, d o n ’t feel too bad, since we had to work very hard to uncover this little know n, and qu ite obscure, statute. This, on the w hole, has am az­ ingly little to do w ith the reasons why we c a n ’t follow y o u r idea to the letter. E x planation follow s.

Guineve

Snail Mail: Philler do S en s peak Box 2700 e-mail: newspeakQ1wpi.edu Web Site: http://wwwMpi.edu/~tbtlPhiller/

The agreement, which resulted in @, specified that @ should remain acces­ sible to emergency vehicles (read Ben and Jerry's delivery trucks to some o f us). Since a building can usually be considered a major hindrance to the movement o f such vehicles, the plan will have to be slightly altered. Enter the Earle Student Center. Bearing a striking re se m b la n c e to the E arle Bridge, the E.S.C. [which will be great place for students to escape to... (We gotta make at least one joke the C S ’s will get...)] would be the best of both worlds. Spanning @ would al­ low for the passage of the emer­ gency delivery trucks, and also create a majestic entrance to the main portion of the campus, rivalingthe A rchdeTrium ph. The ^ E.S.C. would connect Salisbury Labs and Olin Hall, providing an extremely large area for student

use. It would also cover up that silly blank spot on Olin (the exterior of OH 107). Although w edon’t have an artist’s conception of this proposal (we don’t even have an artist), we would be more than w illing to w ork with anyone Boynton wants to hire to further explore this proposal.

For posterity, we would like to men­ tion that we have been listening to They Might Be Giants, wearing our hats, and Guinevere has been drinking coffee (from The Bean Counter - plug, plug) while composing this week’s article qu ite late on a Sunday night. We certainly hope that explains a few things... Until next time, please write to us. Our ad­ dresses are next to our logo.

Q uote for the week: " D o n 't think o f organ donations as giving up part o f y o u rself to keep a total stranger alive. It’s really a total stranger giving up alm ost all o f them selves to keep part o f you alive."

N e w spe a k The Student Newspaper of Worcester Polytechnic Institute WPI Box 2700, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 Phone (508) 831-5464 • Fax (508) 831-5721 newspeak@wpi.edu • http://www.wpi.edu/~newspeak Editors-ln-Chiel Kristen Greene Brian Parker

News Editor Jenn* Yambert

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Associate Editors Vi|ay Chandra Donna Edzards Chris Freeman Carlos Zapata

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WPI Newspeak of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, formerly the Tech News, has been published weekly during the academic year, except during college vacations, since 1909 Newspeak has been printed on recycled paper since January. 1991 Masthead designed by Troy Thompson for Newspeak s 21st Anniversary.

All articles should be typed and include the author's name and box number Copy may be sent to WPI Box 2700 or brought to the Newspeak office (Riley 01) Articles may also be submitted via e-mail All copy is due by 5 00 p.m. on the Friday preceding publication Letters to the Editor must contain the typed or printed name of the author as well as the author's signature, telephone number, and box number for verification Students submitting letters to the editor should put their class after their name. Faculty and staff should include their full title Letters deemed libelous or irrelevant to the WPI community will not be published All Club and Greek comers must be submitted via e-mail and be 275 words or less All ads are due by 5:00 p.m on the Thursday preceding publication Any submissions received after this time will be sub|ect to a flat $15 late fee per ad.

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Just A Thought Getting A Little Respect

by Stephen Brown Protestant Campus Ministry This month on HBO, the cable n et­ work is show ing one o f its own p ro ­ ductions, The Tuskegee Airmen. If you have cable and get HBO, or if you have a friend who has it, make a point o f seeing this movie. It is very much worth w atching as it catches all o f us up on a bit o f our American history that most o f us d id n ’t get in school.

The Tuskegee Airm en is the story o f the first A frican-A m erican men trained to be com bat pilots in W orld War II. It is a saga o f men who faced incredible odds to become part of the Army A ir Force and fly combat against the G erm ans in the European Theater.

Learning to tly was hard enough for anyone, white or black. I grew up listening to stories my father told of how he w ent to flight school and had to leam calculus, and not having had it in his one y ear o f college, had to promise an upper classmate that he (my father) w o u ld w rite lo v e le tte rs to th is up p erclassm an ’s girl friend in e x ­ change for teaching my dad calculus.

T rue story. A lso true was the abuse and overt racism th is first class o f T usk eg ee A irm en faced in learn­ ing to becom e pilots. A lm ost every w hite o ffic e r begins his relationship with th ese men w ith th e b elief that A frican-A m ericans are ju s t too dum b to learn how to fly. M ost white officers an d w hite p o litician s believe

this “ex p erim en t” was doom ed to fail and a w aste o f tax p ay er m oney.

The T uskegee A irm en are seen as a bad jo k e and are best kept out o f real com bat where they cannot h u rt the real w ar effort.

In one o f the best scenes in the movie, two o f the T uskegee graduates com e the rescue o f a w ounded B-17 bom ber (the kind my father eventually flew) and shot down tw oG erm an fight­ ers while getting the bom ber safely home. When the pilot and co-pilot o f the bom ber (both white) seek out the fighter pilots who rescued them , they were shocked to discover that they are “colored”, as the two white pilots call them. “That just can ’t be” , one o f them protests. They are further as­

tounded to learn that the Tuskegee w in g had n e v e r...N E V E R ...lo st a bom ber it escorted.

T h o se tw o w h ite p ilo ts w ere shocked, and undoubtedly racist, but they were not altogether dum b. W hen later in the was the first air attack on B erlin is planned, an attack that was sure to cost the A ir Force several fi­ n ’s (ten m en crew s) the very pilot w ho was so bigoted at learning his life and his crew w ere saved by a “co lo red w ing”, now insists that this sam e wing be his escort for this d an ­ g ero u s attack on Berlin.

T he bom ber p ilo t’s sudden sw itch from disdain to respect rem inded me o f w hat Jesus once said about honor and respect. Jesus alw ays suggested

sitting at the back o f a banquet so you could be invited .to m ove for­ ward and not the other way around.

Jesus explained, “For all w ho ex alt th em selv es will be hum bled, and those w ho hum ble them selves w ill be ex alted .”

W hen it cam e tim e for the w hite bom ber p ilot to protect his ow n b e ­ hind, his racism and condescension d is a p p e a re d q u ic k ly and he ate h u m b le p ie a n d a d m itte d th e T uskegee A irm en were best at p ro ­ te c tin g b o m b er flig h ts. In fa c t, th ro u g h h u n d re d s o f flig h ts, the T u s k e g e e A irm e n , 9 9 th F ig h te r W in g , n e v e r ...N E V E R ...lo s t a bom ber it escorted. T ruly the hum ble were exalted.

Common sense struggles to come to life...

by Brian Parker Editor-in-Chief This past spring there was an inter­ esting book called The Death o f C om ­ mon Sense, which stated, among other things, that the problem with govern­ ment is that policies are often overdefined and poorly thought out. In an attempt to make the system fair, rules have replaced the ability to deal with a problem and that the current system of contracts and “rights” for every group represent the death of common sense.

G overnm ents are tricky things, if they are not watched carefully by all m em bers o f the represented group, elected officials can make promises that they do not intend to keep. Or, upon taking office, they might just find that it is too hard to buck the system and instead, they go with the flow and just keep passing new laws and rules and give up on their dream s of reforming the system.

Take our Student Government Asso­ ciation, I'm sure that none of the people in that organization would have felt,

upon taking office, that it is far better to rule by “ policy and not practice.” But this is one o f the few topics touched upon at their August 29th meeting. If you truly want to know, I feel that here is a dedicated group of students, who do not get enough attention for what they do and this seems to be bad.

W hen they do som ething that has a positive impact, it goes largely ignored or unpublicized. W hen they put pam ­ phlets in everyone’s mailbox, they just get thrown away, like so much junk mail. T he average student seems to think thal SGA passes budgets for their clubs and has a photocopier, which is true, but not the whole story.

Let’s take a trip back to a cold night last February, when I can almost assure you that you were not at the debates for SGA officers. There couldn’t have been more than thirty people there, which is not saying much for student involve­ ment, but there was a sense of promise, o f new beginnings. Greg Snow was running unopposed forTreasurer and he said that “ SGA can’t forget who it repre­ sents, it is the voice of the student body.

but too often this is forgotten. SGA tends to be an elitist group which hinders the cam pus.. .1 can’t work alone, we need a change in organization and leadership, we need accessible leaders w ho will work with the students.”

Kirsty Reidy, Vice President said that SGA needs to get “more input from undergrads. . .SGA Senators should take comments, write to students and find out what people think.” She added “ 1 don’t see that happening now .” And neither do I, not in D term when these officers took office and not yet, if not now, why not?

There also was some concern about the committees and how they are never heard from. They seemed to be dis­ couraged at their lack o f ability to gel things done and this could also stem from little publicity and little student interest.

Cathy Connelly started her debate by saying that she has been involved in SGA for three years and that it “ hurts me when people say that SGA does nothing, the only thing that w e’ve done is get better.” She stated that is was

S G A ’s role to: “be an advocate for the student’s needs, to get out there and be visible and the let people know where to go and to try to solve problem s.”

It was clear on that night that SGA was headed in a new direction and w hen these candidates won, it appeared that SGA was opening the door to a new era. S tudents w ould be a p ­ proached and their feelings would be m ade know n to the senators, w ho w ould go back and report the feelings o f the com m unity to the senate and act accordingly. But all that I have seen (and I have been looking) is senators in the SGA office, which is easy to get to, but a bit intim idating, it is not the sam e as senators writing to students, m eeting in Riley C om m ons, dining halls or on the Q uad to solicit opin­ ions.

I am disappointed, I feel like the candidates that spoke to me may not have been telling me what they in­ tended to do when they were speaking.

I feel like I was told what they thought I would like to hear. If three of the executive officers ran on campaign plat­

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Meeting called to order at 6:00pm.

Attendance: E x e c u tiv e B o a rd : C a th y C onnelly, President; K irsty R e id y , V ic e P r e s id e n t.; C hizzy U chendu, Secretary; G reg Snow , Treasurer.

Senate: H eatherC leary , Shelly Ann C ote, Ryan Daly, S h a n ­ non F inley, M att Frcim uth, Beth G entry, Marni H all, Ed H allissey. Rebecca H offm an, M ichael M arks, Amy Plack, D ave S m ith, Kristen Stagg, Tim T u lly , Cindy V ollaro.

A bsent: activities fair. M entioned that A lf r e d A n d ra d e .

P a u la any n o n-senator can n o t hold B r e z n ia k , S im b a D u toffice hours until new leg is­ M azum bar, Seth K intigh, Ja ­ lation is ratified. C oncerning son M ickey (excused), JerRiley Hall renovations: the e m y C D C and a d ­ Olszewski m issio n s ofWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ( e x ­ fice w ill not cu sed ), m ove in to J o h n R ile y H a ll.

P i e p c r, W est street is J e f f c lo s e d . A ny Spaleta. ideas o f what P a r 1i a to d o F re e ­ STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION n ie n ta rman Plaza or ian: G reg M arr (acting Par W est street area talk to John liam entarian) M iller. The cam pus C reed, w hich has been p assed by President’s Remarks: SGA and G SO has not been P resident C o n n elly co n g ratu ­ passed by the faculty yet. lated the senate on a great

stu ffed in to ev ery cam p u s m ail box and there was a table at the activ ities fair that w as su c c e s s fu l.

SGA C o m m ittee’s m eeting tim es and locations are needed in order to fulfill the students requests.

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-Institute C om m ittees C om m ittee on A cadem ic O p ­ e r a tio n : C o m m itte e R ep B utland stated that the c o m ­ m itte e m e e ts F rid a y s at 2:30pm . She also rep o rted that for the past few w eeks they have heard student p e ti­ tio n s . T h e y a p p ro v e d th e M a n a g e m e n t’s D epts. p ro ­ posal for a M inor in m anage­ m ent In fo rm atio n S ystem s.

Now it has to be approved by the faculty.

T hey are also looking at for: m inors in E ntrepeneurship , L aw an d T e c h n o lo g y and C oncen tratio n s in the C h em i­ cal E ngineering dept, many m ore proposals for m inor and con cen tratio n s will be co m ­ ing up in the future.

Vice-President’s Remarks: V ice-President R eidy is w ork­ ing on better integration o f academ ic com m ittees.

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Secretary’s Remarks: S ecretary U chendu discu ssed m atters pertaining to the sen ­ ate such as: O ffice H ours.

Term Schedules, C om m ittee Sign up sh eets. C om m ittee R ep o rts, A g e n d as an d the Info. Book.

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Vice President Reidy and T rea­ surer Snow presented infor­ m atio n fro m the S u m m e r C onference. A full report can be found in the SGA office.

S enator D aly m otioned to su s­ pend R o b ert’s rules o f order.

M otion passed.

D aly w a n ts to sta rt settin g goals. W ants to develop the co n cep t o f the third tow er w hich m eans com m unity.

R obert’s rules o f order w ere rein stated .

Treasurer’s Remarks:

VII. Committee Reports: SGA Vice President Kirsty Reidy and Treasurer Gregory Snow present information on a conference they attended over the summer at SGA’s first open meeting, which was held on August 29.

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-SGA C om m ittees Public R elations: C h air Stagg reported that k ey -ch ain s were placed on keys o f incom ing class, SGA p am p h lets were

C razy People Planes,Trainsand Automobiles Naked Lunch

Thursday, Sept. 7th Ghostbusters Philadelphia Airplane!

Friday, Sept. 8th Forrest Gump The Chase My Life

Saturday, Sept. 9th Prelude to a Kiss Sleepless in Seattle

IQSunday, Sept. 10th The Shawshank Redemption (no channel films)

Monday, Sept. 11th M alice My Life Days of Thunder

Tuesday, Sept. 12th Total Recall Speed The Chase

VIII. Special Orders:

T reasurer Snow asked ev ery ­ one to refer people w ith q u es­ tions about the p h otocopier contract to him. An a p p ro x i­ m a tio n o f th e re s e rv e s in C lasses I& 2 and 3& 4 were given.

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forms of opening up the government, then where is the change that seem ed so promising.

Perhaps this frustration is rising again in the senate, Ryan Daly rose to speak last week and he stated; “SGA has many enthusiastic people, who are try­ ing to m ake a difference, but we have a strange way of losing our ideas and losing our vision. We start setting goals, but often fall short.”

This is disappointing and no num ber o f pamphlets in my mailbox will fix this problem, but perhaps the bigger ques­ tion is, does SGA want to fix its image?

Only they know for sure, but we will all find out in the months to come.

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M eeting adjourned at 7:15 p.m.

Movies start at 6PM and continue until around 2AM. The first movie of the night will repeat following the third movie. The third floor lounge in Fuller Labs has been set aside for off-campus students to watch the channel until the last movie o f each night ends.

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Chinese Student Association W elcom e hack, fello w CSA m em bers! I hope lhat everything has gone well for all o f you. Since this is the first Club C orner article for the CSA th is year, it may appear to be dull. It could be a heck o f alot better, but no one w anted to help! So, d o n 't blam e me if this stu ff bores you to death.

H m m ... L e t's sec. H ere’s w hat w ent on for last week. The first m eeting o f the year was held last W ednesday. For those certain som eones that d id n ’t attend (*cough* my room m ate *cough* J a c k 's two room m ates *cough*) we basically, went over the cu rrent financial situation o f th e club, the upcom ing events wc have planned, sports ev en ts, and the special tutoring th in g we arc trying to do.

A fterw ards, we skipped out on D A K A and had d in n er al Peking W ok.

N ow that wc went o v e r the history, lets go onto the future. The tw o most im m ediate events are the w elcom ing party (som etim e next w eek), and the start o f the C S A ’s new vollyball season (the d ay after labor day).

W e’re going all the w ay this year right?! O f course, we are. I'm ju s t filling up space in this article.

W ell, I’m hungry an d I’m going to lunch, so until next w eek. I 'll still be w ondering. “ D oes anybody read th is?"

Christian Bible Fellowship H ello! W elcom e b ack , or for som e, w el­ com e. W ith a new sch o o l year, we are faced w ith new opportun ities and new difficu lties.

Praise G od fo r the o p p o rtu n ities. Pray to Him fo r help w ith the d ifficu lties. Join us fri. night at 7:00 in the L o w er W edge for a lim e o f fellow ship and p raise. A lso on lues, night at 8pm in the M organ A for Prayer and Share, an d /o r Sat. m orning in front o f A lum ni at 10:30 to play Sports. F o r those o f you in ter­ ested in Bible Study, b e on the look o u t for tim es and m eeting places. “ Let us not give up m eeting to g eth er, as som e are in the habit o f doing, but let us encourage one ano th er - and all the m ore as you see the Day approaching." Hebrews 10:25 (N IV ).

Mu Sigma Delta

Newman Club

Hey all! W elcome to the first club corner o f the year! I hope you are well-rested from the sum mer and are ready for a term o f fun-filled e x c ite m e n t an d w o n d e rfu l new experiences...sorry about that, I am working on a few hours sleep here and it will take a while to gel back into the swing o f this com er thing!

Major im portant new business is our up-ancoming m eeting, this Monday Sept. 11 at 7:30 in H L I 16!!! T his is a very important meeting so BE THERE, or you will have to answer to pooh and squirt (it’s not that had when you think about it)! For those o f you returning clubcorncrreadersthe word o f th e week is TON GU E, ask me about it later.. That is all I have to say, but DO NOT forget about the meeting! Have a great week -g

The N ewm an Club began the celebration o f its 80 (h year on campus by having a cookout at the Religious Center on Sunday, A ugust 27th.

The Club applied for recognition by the school in the fall o f 1907 but formal recognition was not granted until the fall o f 1915. It has been in continues existence since then. About 100 club mem bers attend the cookout. T he year long celebration will end on Sunday, April 21st when Bishop Daniel Reilly will com e to cam ­ pus to install next year’s officers.

On Monday night last week, the Newman Executive Board met and planned the following events for Term A: pasta and movie night on Sept 8th at 5:30 pm in the Religious Center, apple picking on Saturday, Sept em ber 16th, a Tie-Dye T Shirt activity on Sept 24 after the 11:30 Mass( since Fr. S does not understand that activity, he will be assigned lo do grill the hamburgers that day),freshman dinners on Sept .13 & 14. and a committee was formed under the leadership o f Erin Smith to research either a retreat or day o f recollection during Term C. By the way Ryan Abraham and Jim Pavalat are in charge o f the Die T Shirt event and that leader­ ship should be something to watch. Newman is trying to field a club basketball team this year and if you are interested , send Jordan Massad know. In the nest few weeks more activities will be announced as various com m ittees are work­ ing on their project presently. Hope to see all of you at Pasta and Film n ig h t, Sept 8th at 5:30 pm

Muslim Student Association A ssaalm -O -A laikum B rothers and S isters, M asha-Allah we are all back and hopefully in good health. MSA w ishes all the m uslims on campus a hearty welcome. This year In shaAllah will b e a very fruilfull year for the MSA. W ith a very am bitious executive com m ittee.

MSA will strive to organize lots o f events for the muslim com m unity on cam pus. We are looking forw ard lo working hand in hand with the newly arrived brothers/sisters and older enthusiastic mem bers. This years executive c o m m itte e in c lu d e s , B a c h a r a l- K h a tib (b k h a tib @ w p i) , A b sa r H u sa in K azm i (k a z m a n @ w p i), A li Sayed S h a ra f (sharaf@ w pi), Enith C arolina (enith@ w pi) and Bilal M ehm ood (bill<e>wpi). If you have any questions regarding anything or want to know about MSA feel free to em ail us. Also every­ body is invited lo the First G eneral Body M eet­ ing. The details o f the m eeting will be provided to you soon. Please check yo u r em ail and your mailbox for further information. We are look­ ing forward to an exciting y ear and have lots o f new ideas. W e will be discussing the details o f the upcom ing year at the general body m eeting so we will hope to see you all there. Any ideas form the general body are also welcome and we will address them at the m eeting. Hope to see every body there!!!!!

A ssalam -O -A laik u m

Pathways Q: What is Pathways?

A: Pathways is a W PI’s own creative writing and Arts magazine. We publish original poems, stories, random musings, b& w photography and artwork by mem bers o f the WPI community.

We hold meetings on Tuesdays in our office, in the basement o f Riley Hall. T hey’re supposed to be at 8 pm but som etimes we start a little later so no need to be super punctual. This week we are going to be working on our Web page ( so any o f the computer types on our mailing list who missed last w eek’s meeting may want to show up) This will likely be a long process, requiring the creative (and typing skills) o f all o f us. And it’s a great chance to leam html. Jeff wants a coffee table and coffee maker for our office.

Anyone interested in donating such items can email us at pathways@ wpi. This w eek’s quote from a m ysterious source i s : “Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table.slept in my arms and fingered my playing heart, 1 scarcely know you: we have not known each other. For all the fierce and casual contacts, som ething keeps us apart.” For the complete version o f this (and author’s identity) email us.

Info on subm itting to us will be com ing soon...

Pre-Law Society The pre-law society is a group o f students interested in current legal issues, preparing for the LSAT and applying to law school. We will have our first meeting on W ednesday, Sept. 6th at 4:30 p.m. in the conference room o f the Social Science departm ent in Atwater Kent. Things to be discussed include, but are not limited to: possible outside speakers dealing with current issues in the law; acquisition o f prep tests for the LSAT; excursions to some local law schools; group rates for prep classes like the Princeton Review ; and other various “house-keeping" items (budget, club structure etc.). If you have ever thought o f becoming a lawyer, o r would ju st like to find out a little more about this organization, we would encourage you to attend (all class years are welcome), if you have any questions, com m ents or suggestions, please con­ tact Professor Kent Rissmiller (kjr@ w pi.edu).

See you all W ednesday!!

Society of Medieval Arts and Sciences Just a q u ick ie this w eek....P ractices are looking good. K eep it up!

U pcoming events will be posted to your mail­ boxes, and quickly, because we w ould like you to get into the swing o f the eventing season before it’s over.

King R ichard's Faire! Those o f you here last year rem em ber me pulling out my hair trying to get everyone a ride. Well, I’m ready (and stupid enough) to try it again. I’ve called the Ticket O ffice, and group tickets will be S I 2 this year.

P lease start flo o d in g the SM A S acco u n t (realm s@ w pi) with mail saying you want to go!

Practices arc as usual, M onday and T h u rs­ day, 7:30 on the Quad.

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A forthe plunge -the second floor. Something's wrong - real wrong but I don’t know what it is! Julz, have some cranberry juice, it will keep you afloat....um, I think there arc some major smoke problems in the kitchen. Hey Pucci, where are you going this weekend?

Lee, Sarah, Spank, T, and Julz, we heard you had fun in the sun in Maine. Erica, how is Sweet Lu? Speaking of Shanz, Becca, how are your F IJI fans? Last but not least, we’ve all heard the news of the summer, Chris got her own man?! That’s all this week, have a great A-term, get phsyked for Rush!! LIT P !

A r A Hello Girls. Hope everyone had a great little holiday because that’s the only holiday we get off here at good ole W P I! But hey that’s alright. Hmmm... There aren’t any birthdays this week. Happy Day then to everyone. L e t’ s see a few reminders, tomorrow’s meeting is informal. There’s a rush workshop thursday at 7:00. Everyone bring your great ideas. What was that Franchy? Dinosaurs and strip teases? Yeah that's a good idea! To deb, we know you were gone D term, but you do have to wear that hat everyday! To last yrs pledge class, well to the sisters still brave enough to do the dirty work! Great jobon being stealth, thanks to our fearless leader for organizing. Tip of the day, leave your bright red pods at home, amy... Just kidding with ya but I ’m sure Stacy would lo've to give you some helpful dressing tips. The black hat is key! Don’t forget dues this week to Karen and remember to be gathering money for the JD F walkathon.

Rush is almost upon us and rules are in effect, so don’t break any. Go meet the freshman and encourage everyone to R U SH !! That’s it for now... A D O V E L IN G

LA E Welcome back to another great year at W PI. Hope everyone had a great summer.

None of us had an easier time than Jamie finding things to keep us busy; nothing like a refreshing jog through the park. W e ’d like to send out a get well to Basil, we hope this will teach you to keep your mouth shut in the A F showers. In other news Stubert started off strong this year, he must have learned some of those moves while on tour with his fellow seamen. Willock, your house bill just went up, the added money will be used to rent you your own crossing guard. Moc you showed room 13 the wrong stuff Tuesday night. And finally a congratulations to all of the new house officers.

Five Apples

AXA First of all, since I missed last week’s paper.

I'd like to welcome all the brothers and A M ’s back to wonderful Worcester. At least now we have an awesome house to come back to. Well guys, summer’s over and it’s back to the grind.

Hope everyone had a relaxing summer. The house is looking better and better every day.

Even Jeevan and myself are ready to move in by now. (Or at least we should be by tomorrow.)

There's still a lot of work to do but we’ll get it done. Intramurals start up soon, so be ready to support K A G L and LCA on their way to the Cup! Two final thoughts for this week: Even though the house has risen to greatness, other great things must fall from their high pcdistal.

I am stepping down from GC writer. Don’t worry. I'll appoint some else to write it. Have fun. Now on serious note, as you all know, our advisor Gene will be leaving his position. We should all keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

We all know that he has found everlasting happiness with us and Lambda Chi Alpha. We owe him a great thanks!

Has anyone seen Bob, you know, Bob from the band? How goes it everyone? Has anyone “ lost that lovin’ feeling” this week­ end on the quad? Hey Dinky, how’s your education going this year? How ‘bout those professors and the lessons they teach?

Wiffleball rages on as the tournament contin­ ues. Hey Cotrufo, how come you always wear that helmet around everywhere you go?

Congrats to Miah for the first awesome parly of the year and if you went home and missed it, well then you probably weren’t there.

Hey, my big brother is a civil, that’s how I know these things. Hey, remember, the house meeting is tomorrow night 6:15pnv From now on, no one can deny the power of the BFI dumpster dude. Ok, major case of verbal constipation here so let’s do a top ten list...the Top Ten Things You did the First Week of School 10) Sleep through your 10:00am class if you’re Hector 9) Case studies in 12oz increments 8 ) Skip classes altogether 7) Be introduced to Getta 6 ) Watch Reservoir Dogs 100 times at least 5) Stand in the middle of West street waiting to be hit by a car 4) Win the gold in an ancient greek contest 3) Get down over The Weekend 2) Punt a class I) Wake up real early, say hi to Spam, cheer dumpster man, passout in class because you got up so early, and recover before lunch.

You liked the nuts and bolls...a-ba-bye.

o z z Welcome back everyone, hope y ’all had a great summer. First off. Happy Birthday to Kim Scofield on the 6th and Elana and Cindy Mitchell on the 8th. Looks like we have some celebrating to do girls!! Happy B-day to all of those summer babies too, we didn't forget you! Excellent job cleaning the house, look­ ing good. Standing O’s go out to all the Phi Sig athletes - keep up the hard work and kick some bum!! GO TEC H !! Hey Tapley, thanks

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CSAB accredits Computer Science program In late June, W P I’s computer science pro­ gram received full accredidations from the Computer Science Accredidation Commis­ sion of the Computing Sciences Accredidation Board (C SA B ). The C S A B made the deter­ mination after a full review of the program.

New Committee on Governance chair named Chemistry Professor Stephen J. Weininger is the new chair of W P I’s Committee on Governance. The committee oversees the entire faculty governance system, conducts elections for faculty committees, and pro­ vides a major forum for faculty-administration interaction. The chair is one of two faculty members (the secretary of the faculty is the other) who are invited to attend meet­ ings of the Board of Trustees. Weininger will serve for one year.

Robert Thompson, professor of chemical engineering, has been appointed interim head of the Chemical Engineering Department suc­ ceeding Professor Anthony Dixon. Thomp­ son, who appointment was effective July 1, will serve through Dec. 31. He was previ­

W P I’s Department of Management will host a fall barbecue and get ac­ quainted session for all of the Department’s majors. If you are major­ ing in Industrial Engineering, Manage­ ment, Management Engineering, and Management Information Systems, please contact the Department of Man­ agement (831-5218) for more details.

ously interim head, with Professor David DiBiaso, in 1990-91. Thompson is filling the post while Professor Albert Sacco is training for his mission aboard the space shuttle Co­ lumbia, which is scheduled for liftoff Sept.

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Mental focus and relaxation group Through various activities and discussions we will be exploring the techniques of mental self-control and self-manipulation to accom­ plish the following goals: - Stress Relief - Relaxation - Getting to know yourself and others - Mental expansion - Open mindedness The methods lo do so will involve deep relaxation exercises, thought sharing discus­ sions, meditation, and massage as well as mul­ tiple exercises used in conjunction with each other. This group will be made up of anyone who needs to relax and clear the mind of stress

or for anyone who wishes to enjoy the company and relaxing effects of others striving for the same goals. We are not looking to support or contradict any religious beliefs. While we are not particular to any religion we will be open minded and will consider attaining our goals through the experience of the participants. We would expect all of the participants to be very open minded. We will meet on Thursdays evenings at 8:00. Meetings will be informal and last from a half hour to two hours.

Our first meeting will be Thursday, Septem­ ber 7th at 8:00 PM in Fuller Residence, apart­ ment 3. It will be an organizational meeting.

Contact Dave Koelle (dkoelle@wpi.edu) or Jed Miller (brotherj@wpi) for more information.

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WPI wins national educational fund-raising award courtesy o f WPI News-Service W P I was one of 98 colleges, universities and independent schools across the U.S. to win Council for Advancement and Support of Education (C A S E ) 1995 Circle of Excel­ lence in Educational Fund-Raising Awards.

The awards were presented at C A S E ’S an­ nual assembly in New York City in July. “ We were one of only eight recipients in the private research/doctoral institution cat­ egory recognized for outstanding fund-rais­ ing results,” notes Ronald Baird, interim vice president for university relations. The others were Brown, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Stanford, Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago. “ This is an honor of real conse­ quence,” says Baird. “ We could not have done this without the generous support of our many donors who stepped forward to invest in our unique institution. The entire W P I community can be justifiably proud.”

A 13-member panel of fund-raising veter­ ans selected winners in all award categories.

Judges based their decisions on their analysis of data submitted to the Council for Aid to Education (C A E ) through its annual Volun­ tary Support of Education Survey. The sur­ vey is co-sponsored by C A S E and the Na­ tional Association of Independent Schools.

All educational institutions that returned the survey data to C A E for each of the last three years (1991-92, 1992-93 and 1993-94) were eligible for consideration. “ This year’s winners represent a broad spectrum of educational institutions and serve as models of outstanding fund-raising prac­ tice,” said C A S E President Peter M cE. Buchanan. “ Their success is an enormous credit to their staffs, volunteers, and donors.”

The judges considered many factors, in­ cluding patterns of growth in total support

(or adjusted total support), program areas, alumni and other individual donors; factors that contributed to the total support figure; breadth of program areas; impact of the 12 largest gifts on total support; total support in relation to alumni base; and each institution's type and size.

1995 Awards F u n d Raising

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W P I was recently awarded a 1995 Circle of Excellence Award for Educational Fund Raising. 97 other colleges, universities and independent schools across the United States also received awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (C A SE ).

Fletcher, Satin awards honor two faculty members courtesy o f WPI News-Service

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8A) and 8A( (Smiles and Frowns) by members o f Newspeak staff who showed up to layout this paper on Labor Day Those of you who have seen the Cheers and Jeers in T V Guide or Conventional W is­ dom in Newsweek will catch onto this new column real fast. It won’t appear in every issue, just when we all have the time to sit down and talk about issues surrounding our campus, the Worcester community, our coun­ try, or even the world. If you have any ideas, feel free to drop your smiles and frowns in box 2700 and we’ll print them next time the column appears. From the home office in the basement of Sanford Riley Hall, Newspeak's Smiles and Frowns for the week of Septem­ ber 3rd, 1995: 8A) to the Worcester City Council for approving the closure of West Street on Au­ gust 1st. W e ’re all much safer and happier for it...

8A( to W PI Dining Services for closing both the Grille and Gompei’s Place for the Labor Day weekend.

8A) to Judge Ito for his ruling that the jury will hear only two of Mark Fuhrman’s racial slurs on tape. The Simpson defense is really grasping at straws now, calling Ito “ irrespon­ sible...”

8A( to Russia for its pathetic “ condemna­ tion” of N A TO ’s bombing campaign. We don’t see them offering to help solve any­ thing over there...

8A) to lormer Chicago Hope star Mandy Potenkin for leaving the show. His reason?

To be with his family. What a guy...

8A) to SocComm for putting on a really great show this week -Top Gun on the Quad.

If you missed it, you get a 8A( ...

Two W P I professors were recently hon­ ored for their teaching and scholarship.

Philosophy Professor Roger S. Gottlieb has been named W P I’s new Paris Fletcher Distinguished Professor of Humanities. The two-year professorship, which carries a sti­ pend, was established in 1985 by the George I. Alden Trust. It is awarded in recognition of fine teaching and to enhance opportunities for scholarship and research. Paris Fletcher, who died in 1990, was a longtime community leader, lawyer and friend of education.

Gottlieb received a B.A. and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. A member of the W PI faculty since 1981, he is the coordinator of the Institute's Humanities/Environmental Studies curriculum which enables students who are interested in humanistically oriented environmental studies to major in the hu­ manities with concentrations in literature, philosophy and religion, or history. The pro­ gram prepares graduates for careers in law, business, government service, environmen­ tal activism and journalism, and for graduate study in the humanities.

Gottlieb has also chaired the W PI Campus Committee on Environmental Affairs, which has worked on a range of campus environ­ mental issues, including the need to find ways to reduce paper use. He is on the steer­ ing committee of the Religion and Ecology section of the American Academy of Reli­ gion and is the editor of Capital. Nature.

Socialism, an international environmental journal.

Gottlieb has written widely on social theory, the Holocaust, contemporary spiritu­ ality and environmental theory. Among his recent books are Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust and Marxism 1844-1990: Origins. Betrayal. Rebirth. He is the editor of This Sacred Earth: Religion.

Nature. Environment, a survey of traditional religious myths, creation stories and concep­

tions of nature from Jewish, Christian, Na­ tive American, Indian, African, Chinese and indigenous texts and commentators. Con­ tributors focus on religion in an age of envi­ ronmental crisis.

During the second half of the 1995-96 academic year, he will be on sabbatical to complete Holocaust and Ecocide, an exami­ nation of three critical similarities between the Holocaust and humanity’s current treat­ ment of the environment. “ The book,” Gottlieb says, “ will describe the despair that takes the form of a rejection of spiritual forces or meanings; the public despair that arises when the full scope of Jewish resis­ tance is absent from public commemorations of the event; and the political despair prompted by the way humanity as a whole has created an environmental crisis that in some ways mimics the Holocaust on a global scale.

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P o l ic e L o g Wednesday, August 23 12:08am - Suspicious person/vehicle: Einhorn Rd. Officers respond.

12:10am - Officers clear Einhorn Rd. 1:58am - Lock Problem: Riley, officer requests locksmith.

6:38am Intrusion Alarm: I Drury Lane, officer responds.

6:45am Officer clear, alarm accidently activated by resident.

2:25 pm Nonstudent: Report of nonstudents in gym, officer responds.

2:30pm Officer reports six nonstudents kicking locker. Left gym and headed for West St. 4:17pm - Smoke alarm: Daniel's 4th RA reports smoke alarm in room malfunctioning, electri­ cian notified.

7:25pm - Disorderly students: reported on Higgins House lawn, officers respond, 7 or 8 youths lice upon arrival of officers.

8 :15pm - Noise complaint: complaint of excessive music from the PA system on Alumni Field.

Thursday, August 24 12:12am - SN A P reports call box outside Stoddard B not working.

7:37am - Sign removed: grafitti, sign removed from Alumni field near softball field by Park.

7:48am - Car removed: Ellsworth lot, car blocking cnterance, cannot be moved. Tow truck called.

5:58pm - Maintainance: Project Center toilet running in women's room top floor.

7:00pm - Trespassing: Youths on skateboards on steps of Atwater Kent. Officer responds.

Friday, August 25 12:04am - Disturbance: Salisbury Apartments, officers respond.

12:10am - Officers clear Salisbury Apartments.

4:55am - Strange Odor: West St. Officer responds.

4:58am - Clear: officer reports odor from skunk.

7:52am - Odor of gas: ROTC in Harrington, officers, plant services respond.

8:07am - Basement aired, plant services to stay.

3.15pm - Lockout: Bravo's Cafe, officers respond.

3:35pm - Officers clear from Bravo's 3:55pm - Access: Gate on West St. for contractor, officer responds.

6:00pm - Medical: EM S to Quad for a knee injury, per officer.

6:10pm - Transport. From Quad to Memorial.

Saturday, August 26 1:23am - Noise complaint: Salisbury St. Fraternity, officers respond.

1:29am - Officers clear Salisbury St. Fraternity, situation rectified.

1:34am - Disorderly persons: Officer reports disturbance at Salisbury Estates.

1:44am - Officers report foot patrol of Salisbury Estates area completed.

IO:23am - Morgan Hall Dining Services reports garbage disposal problems. Plant Services not reached at this time.

4:26pm - M VA: Officer reports M V A on corner of Highland and Russel, involving two vehicles, requests dispatch to call WPD. 5:26pm - Noise disturbance: student complaining of noise disturbance at Fuller Apts, officers respond.

5:30pm - Officers clear area, music has been turned down.

7:49pm - Suspicious vehicle: Motorcycle seen "racing around campus," officer spoke with gentleman.

9:16pm - Emergency Phone: Dispatch receives call from emergency phone behind Higgins, Dispatch hears loud banging noises over line. Officer responds to area.

9:19pm - Emergency Phone: Officer arrives on scene. Area appears normal and secure at this time.

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What's Happening

Wednesday, September 6 Graduate Classes begin Saturday, September 9 1:30pm - Football vs. Ursinus College. Alumni Field 3:00pm - Men’s Soccer - City Tournament at Clark University Sunday, September 10 12:00pm - Men’s Soccer -City Tournament at Clark University 6:30 & 9:30pm - Film: “ The Shawshank Redemption,’’ Perreault Lecture Hall, $2.00 Monday, September 11 Birthday (21st) - Amy Plack, Features Editor 4:00pm - Women’s Soccer vs. UMASS-Lowell, Alumni Field 7:15pm - Field Hockey vs. Assumption College, Alumni Field

Sunday, August 27 2:04am - Assist/check on welfare: Individual in front of West St. Apt. Officers respond.

3:40am - Officer request W PD to Wachusett St. re: intoxicated individual, unable to provide requested escort.

7:50am - Officer reports skunk with head struck in plastic food container in Library parking lot; Worcester Animal Control notified.

8:16pm - Vandalism: People vandalizing cars in front of Regent St. apt. Officer responds.

8:26pm - Officer clear, no vandalism found.

Monday, August 28 7:00am - Bracelet found in Wedge area, by custodial personel.

8:19am - Escort from Stoddard complex, female student with ankle problems to Health Services.

Officer responds, student only needed an escort to Morgan Hall.

10:08pm - Alcohol found and disposed of. Institute Hall.

Tuesday, August 29 11:57am - Accident: Salisbury and Park, Officer responds.

Wednesday, August 30 12:56am - Suspicious vehicle/persons: Student reports being approached by suspicious vehicle on Dean St. Information relayed to patrols.

1:03am - Noise complaint: Resident of Salisbury St. reports excessive noise from fraternities on Salisbury St. 1:07am - Medical response: Daniels, intoxicated student passed out, officer, E M S respond.

I:l-lam - Officers clear 1st Salisbury St. Fraternity with W PD , out at 2nd Fraternity.

2:00am - Noise complaint: Report of group disturbing in Stoddard courtyard, officer responds.

2:05am - Officer reports group gone upon arrival.

8:40pm - Reckless driving: White Honda in Quad area, officers respond.

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