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SGA hosts President Parrish in an open forum

by Hrian Parker Editor-in-Chief A week ago today, SG A treated the community by hosting a special event, an open forum where President Ed Parrish would answer all questions.

Parrish was able to shed some light on several topics and for the students who attended the meeting, there was a lot to learn.

Parrish indicated that SGA should and does play an important role as an interface between the faculty and the students, and that it is unusual for there to be strong student involvement on faculty/student committees at other schools.

There was a question from the floor in regard lo the recent rankings in U.S. News and World Report, and what can possibly be done to improve our rat­ ing. It was then that the president revealed the hidden truth behind these rankings, which arc based in part on surveys of college administrators.

“They come without instructions, just a numbering system to put the colleges into. One is good, two is second tier.

tigate our Plan and to circulate the as hours in class. A project-based down to four, with a five for ‘don’t results of the study. curriculum like W P I’s will do well know’ it’s like a multiple choice test, On a different note. Parrish said with such an accrediting program. you couldn’t answer it the same way that he was impressed with W P I’s The results of the testing will be twice.” homepage on the World Wide Web. watched by many people in the aca­ Much of the survey depends on He stated that it is a good representa­ demic community, in the United Stales name recognition. Vanderbilt jumped tion of the school and went on to and around the world (Parrish pointed up a year after its basketball team won impress the audience with his the N IT tournament, and knowledge of the internet.

Duke University has simi­ When asked about some of larly done well in recent .. .the [U S News and W orld Report/ ratings the upcoming campus im­ years. W PI does not have fo r the top fifty engineering schools were not provements, like re-designing that kind of advantage. based on hard data. “ W P I should be in the top West Street and building the Parrish commented “ 1don’t thirty on that list, but I d id n 't know that six campus center, he said that he remember where I put W'PI, saw an addition made to the months ag o ." so don’t ask. . .” and went campus center at Vanderbilt. on to emphasize that the rat­ D r. Ed w ard Parrish , W P I President He mentioned the importance ings for the top fifty engi­ of a good fundraising program neering schools were not and said that good fundraising is good out the A B E T is often invited to look based on hard data. "W P I should be in marketing. at schools overseas). He also pointed the top thirty on that list, but I didn't One student was concerned about out that a recent NSF (National Sci­ know that six months ago.” bringing more research money to W'PI. ence Foundation) study found that He is trying to take steps to help Parrish pointed out that money is dry­ schools should offer "more hands-on W PI gain some name recognition. ing up. Sponsors want short-term re­ experience, more teamwork and a more There is a new A B E T accrediting sys­ sults and the number of people apply­ integrated curriculum as well as ex­ tem which will be tried out at two or ing for funds is increasing, making it posing students to a global context and three test schools. The new ratings very difficult to attract money to the giving them a desire to learn.” This is focus on the outcome of the school’s school. One thing that might be done what happens every day at W PI, and academic program and not on the more is to send faculty members out to apParrish intends to invite NSF to inves­ traditional quantitative measures such

ply for the grants and allow them to make their presentations in person.

Recruiting from areas beyond New England was another concern. Parrish mentioned that it is important not to lose the North East region, but that a broader base will help recruiting. One student who comes here and has a positive expe­ rience can go home and share good stories about WPI with lheir friends, which is also good publicity.

He also mentioned that WPI might be able to do more to attract top students from other countries, because some stu­ dents are sponsored by their govern­ ments to come to the United States to go to college. Other benefits of such a program are that the school does not end up spending much on financial aid on these students, yet they increase the di­ versity of the community.

By the end of his time speaking, the president had touched upon many of the concerns of the members of the audience. This type of open session should occur again, as it was a good chance to get to know our new presi­ dent and learn about current commu­ nity issues.

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A Volume Twenty-three, Number Twenty

Tuesday, October 3, 1995

When all else fails, kick with lunar boot

by Brian Parker Editor-in-Chief Last Friday. September 29th. W P I’s SocComm and the Student Speaker’s Fund hosted James Burke, star of BBC productions “Connections" and “ The Day the Universe Changed” among other programs and he amazed a full Alden Hall with his predictions and anecdotes.

His topic for the night was “ knowledge, the ways we redefine it. how it is used and what it does to the way we think.”

He started his talk with a quote from Mark Twain: "In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place at the right time, it is the task of journalists and historians to rectify this situation."

This is what Burke has spent the last

thirty years doing, taking events which have sonic remote connection ("sorry” ) and joining them together to tell a story about technology and its effects.

But Burke has recently come to some realization that the future is in the internet and even though the future is difficult to predict "mainly because it hasn’t hap­ pened yet" he look a stab at it. N iels Bohr said that “ prediction is extremely diffi­ cult. . .especially about the future" and Burke added that all we have to make predictions with at any given time is what we know. W'hen the radio was invented, it was thought it would be used only for ship to shore communication and one former head of IBM at one time fell that the United States would need “around five computers.”

Using the premise that we are cur­ rently under-using data and communi­ cations media, including the one be­ tween our ears, he started with some warm up exercises. Submarine, sand­ wich. lunchbox. kitchen, mother, love, tennis, elbow, grease, Rome, trident, submarine, sandwich. . .another new connection (“ sorry") has been made.

In fact, Burke pointed out. if you had to interpret every syllable that you hear, it wvuld lake up to twelve and a half seconds to interpret a single word "and you aren’t doing that, are you?" Instead, the brain races ahead of the speech and runs scenarios ahead of the speaker, giving possible twists and turns to what See James Hurke lecture, continued on page 2

Transit Trophy comes home

James Burke, host of the B B C show Connections, filled Alden Hall last Friday evening and gave his unique insight into the future.

Salisbury Research receives grant

by Donna Emma Edzards Associate Editor

NEWSPEAK STAFF PHOTO /ERIC W II.IIELM

In the homecoming game versus R P I, W P I junior Brian Learned, #28, scores a touchdow n for W P I. See pages 6 and 7 for more homecoming coverage.

SGA election results See page 2

As many of .you may or may not know, the Salisbury Research Facilities has received the Academic Research Structures Grant for facilities from the National Science Foundation. This is the same grant that allowed for the fund­ ing of the Higgins Labs renovations.

Through this endow ment, Salisbury Labs will undergo a total of 2 million dollars worth of construction (about one million dollars funded through the program, and another million which will be matched

by W PI) to improve its accommodations for research. It provides funding for

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structural improvements only, money is not allotted for equipment.

Since 1992, the Biology and Biotech­ nology Department has been working towards obtaining appropriations for much needed enhancements to the cur­ rent laboratories. Currently, the micros­ copy and fluorescent microscopes are housed with the electrical panel for the Salisbury building with wooden sub­ flooring and the greenhouse consists of a corridor with skylights. Therefore it is not suprising that improvements sched­ uled include a new greenhouse, two common facility microscope suites, re­ search labs for three professors, and two See Salisbury, continued on page 2

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Academic Dishonesty: where do we go from here?

by Brian Parker Editor-in-Chief Last Friday, members of the W PI community participated in a teleconference called: “ Aca­ demic Integrity: The Truth of the Matter." Many stereotypes regarding cheating were discussed, along with some of the common problems and some possible solutions.

One possible solution is an Honor Code such as this one from the University of North Carolina: "It shall be the responsibility of every student at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to obey and to support the enforcement of the Honor Code, which prohibits lying, cheating, or stealing when these actions involve academic processes or University students or academic personnel acting in an official capacity.” The code then has to be backed up with specific punishments for infrac­ tions, steps to report infractions and a good pro­ gram will include methods to eliminate infrac­ tions.

Education is important in such matters. It is necessary to point out that nothing is really gained by cheating, we arc constantly relying on other people's integrity. When you go to a doctor, you expect that he or she is competent and did not cheat their way through school. When you drive over a bridge, you understand that it was designed by competent engineers who took the time to understand the principles involved in design. It is only natural that we expect the same integrity in ourselves.

It was the opinion of the panel that all schools should involve some form of education about cheating in their orientation programs. This al­ lows incoming students to see that there is a special emphasis placed on academic integrity at the school and that cheating is something that is not tolerated.

Student involvement is important also. Al­ though many students might see incidents of cheating, few want lo rat out their friends, whistleblowers are not usually appreciated.

Anonymous reporting should be allowed by the institution, to protect the students and special measures should be taken for students who do come forward. They often need the support of the system to help them feel that they have done nothing wrong. WHien the U.S. Naval Academy had a cheating incident in December 1992, one student who's roommate cheated got threatening phone calls from his roommate’s parents.

The Naval Academy case is a good study in the breakdown of an Honor Code, at least 133 stu­ dents were implicated in cheating on an electrical

engineering exam, six were recommended for expulsion. The conclusions drawn from the case are that il is not always the best idea to tell the truth, (as students who lied, or changed iheir testimony were not expelled, while the six who were told the truth), not enough training in the honor concept had been made and tough penalties for infractions do not work well (Syntax Weekly Report, Feb 14, 1994).

The teleconference panel discussed the prob­ lem of cheating as if it is only marginally worse now than thirty years ago. In a survey of nine schools it was found that 80% of students had cheated at least once (this includes padding a reference list and working in groups on assign­ ments that arc designated to be worked on alone).

A similar survey found that 73% of students were cheating thirty years ago. The alarming thing is that the students who do cheat are doing so more frequently and earlier in their college careers.

Thirty years ago, far more men than women were cheating, but now the rates are pretty much equal.

Because college cannot be the foundation for an individual's ethical development, some atten­ tion needs to be given to a student's background.

There is no evidence that any particular culture is more likely to yield people who cheat, but com­ petitive students and students who are failing classes lend lo cheat more often. It has also been found lhat students who cheated in high school hut go to a college that has a strong honor code or high academic integrity, often break out of the cheating habits. The reverse has also been found to be true, in that students placed in a cheating environment will do what it takes to remain competitive. “ An honor code is not a panacea” remarked one panel member, but only one in twenty stu­ dents cheat regularly at honor code schools, com­ pared to one in four at other schools. The assump­ tion is that if the college holds its students up to a high standard, they will respond by try ing to meet the standard. By educating incoming students about the consequences of unethical actions, they may become better scholars and create a better learning environment.

But academic integrity goes beyond a pledge between students and the school's administration.

It falls, obviously, into the hands of the faculty.

They are the ones giving exams and proctoring, reading essays and correcting homework lhat might look suspicious. It is important that the faculty understand the importance of reporting •violations in the school's code and to be patient with the system. Professors can also be more specific in terms of what they expect from their

James Burke Lecture Continued from page I is being said. In effect, the listener gives the speech (and many possible variations of it) before the speaker does. ‘The brain makes the internet look like a walk around the block" even if no one knows what memory is.

Jokes are interesting to the human brain be­ cause they make new connections ("sorry” ) be­ tween old ideas. The new connection is greater than the sum of its parts, one plus one equals three.

Illustrating this, he dared us to see if we could come up with a link between “ bird" and “ fruit” like the following one. “ A man walks into a bar and approaches the bartender. ‘Excuse me' he says, trying carefully to enunciate his words through the large number of drinks he has con­ sumed. ‘Yes, sir’ the bartender replies. ’Do lemons whistle?’ the man asks. ‘No, I believe they do not’ the bartender replies, curiously. ‘Then I believe I just squeezed your canary into my gin and tonic.’”

Information, on the one hand, has the ability, indeed the qualification, that il causes change. If you are told that the person next to you has a communicable disease, your opinion of them is changed a bit. Language, on the other hand, is just linear garbage and is a good exampleof the under­ use of information. Language is axemaking, long ago when it was necessary to relate all of the steps involved in making an ax, language had to be developed. Those who could make axes could go out and hunt and provide food and therefore, they were valued members of the community.

Because women were not axemakers, they were relegated lo the same role as the “ non­ techies” which was a secondary class. From the beginning, knowledge has been the privilege of the lew. Language spread and was put to other uses, like philosophy and by 1619 Descartes was refining philosophy and telling everyone to doubt everything.

Knowledge is still the privilege of the few and by now, in order lo be the cream of the crop, one needs a doctorate, which proves lhat you know as much as possible about as little as possible. Burke claimed he has a friend who got his doctorate in “ Milton’s use of the comma” but corrected this because it was actually “ Milton’s use of punctua­ tion.” .. ................

In these days, when by the time you’ve read the

manual, the new model is already on the shelves, it is difficult to keep up with all the new technol­ ogy. Life appears to be going against the second law of thermtxiynamics, which states that every­ thing goes from hot to cold, including cups of coffee and intimate friends. Life appears to regard this rule the way “ Italians regard government regulations.” Indeed our species does so well because we can adapt to the environment. The more complex the species, the better the chance that at least some part of it will survive some catastrophe.

Major improvements in media transfer result in information surges, new data can be brought together and innovations occur. People like to organize things, maps made it easier for Europe­ ans to go out and look for cargo. These trips could bring in 600% profits, but required investments, so a land register was developed to give property a value. This brought about the mortgage com­ pany. which brought about the insurance industry to protect the investments. A limited joint stock company allowed people to invest in these new businesses, a national bank had to be invented, which brought about the credit agency, then the invention of the business contract and finally, the Constitution of the United States.

This is the generally accepted view of progress, linear and straight forward. Institutions arc often set up to keep progress from getting out of hand and to protect their own vested interests in keep­ ing things the way that they arc. Conformity keeps the lid on things, the rules may change but institutions arc very good at lighting change.

They are interested in keeping themselves in business and this is one reason that the represen­ tative democracy has not been dusted off since the 18th century, the government has a definite rea­ son to not rock the boat. Einstein said that science can often "say more about scientists than about science itself.”

The current educational system is based on memorization with the promise that it is preparing students for life-long jobs. This often results in mass-produced lives and the daily rates of change, generated by more scientists and technologists alive today than ever in history, that has made us into the wealthiest, healthiest people ever. But too often our mood is like the depressive on vacation who writes home saying " I ’m having a wonderful

students, in terms of group work on homework assignments and also in terms of integrity in general.

Faculty members, in the opinion of the panel, tend to get frustrated by the extent to which due process can be overdone. The reminder that was offered by the panel was “ how would I like to be treated if this was me?”

In general, a strong sense of community helps to decrease incidents of cheating and if the school is relatively tolerant of first offenses, better results are often achieved. This is because people arc more likely to report these cases if they know that someone will not be thrown out of school.

The teleconference was informative and should generate some discussion on campus about the issue of academic integrity as was intended.

Salisbury Continued from page I project labs. Reconstruction has already begun this summer on the biology prep room. Heating and airconditioning, eoldboxes, and fume hoods are just some of the structural elements which are to be added to Salisbury.

Salisbury labs, one of the original three build­ ings on campus, was last renovated in the 1970's.

Unfortunately, that renovation was of a poor, picce-meal quality. Many of the labs arc currently not functional: the heating is poorly structured, there is no distilled w ater capability and the fume hcxxls do not work properly. Thus, they are both disfunctional and unsafe. In order for many of the scheduled improvements to be approved, struc­ tural assessment had to be made of the wood structure of the building. For example, could the wooden floor and beams support the weight of the sea water tanks that are looking lo be added to Professor Dan Gibson’s research labs.

With the dramatic increase of interest in the biology and biotechnology fields, this grant has come at a time where it is much needed. The biology and biotechnology department is cur­ rently ihe fourth largest on campus. In 1987, twelve people graduated with degrees in that area whereas there are now a total of more than 3(X) students are registered as bio-biotech majors! As the number of students grows, so docs the number of projects completed in the area. It was the added interest in project work that helped push this grant through.

Renovations are scheduled to be completed in the summer of ‘97. The Biology and Biotechnol­ ogy Department is"... pleased at this beginning of research support, but the department still needs more.” For example, teaching labs would make a great addition lo this expanding area of interest. In the words of Jill Rulfs, Associate Professor of Biology and Biotechnology, "This isjust the tip of the iceberg!”

time.. .why?”

Ail of this brilliant industrialization has lead lo an increase in carbon dioxide emissions, reduc­ tion of forests and the destruction of 60(X) species of plants and animals which "we cannot tell if it is catastrophic or Armageddon", by the year 2050. the world population will reach its maximum and ifyou consider making less than $500 a year to be absolutely poverty stricken, there are 750,000.000 absolutely poverty stricken people in the world today. So much for progress, it is doubtful that there is a technological fix for all of this.

We must go back to the time before the ax, before constraints were put on the brain. In the near future, people will probably change their careers every ten years or so and even today the office environment is changing. Telecommuting has eliminated suits and commutes and e-mail allows problems to be solved quickly, eliminating the chain of command and replacing it with direct contact with the person best able to help.

There is the small matter of the Third World, some 4.9 billion people out of the 5.5 billion in the world will soon want lo be (finally) heard. The old attitudes like "the thing I like about the Third World is lhat we have the gattling gun and they don’t” and Victor Hugo's “ An African city in flames is the first stcptowardscivilization” won't work anymore.

Neither will the old nine to five shift, where you define your life by what it is that you "do" for a living. The old use il or lose it attitude won’t work anymore as the majority arc brought back into the system. Everyone, it seems, has a brain the size of Einstein’s. We need to start the process of teach­ ing web learning, where problems are worked through by using imagination rather than memory.

The new skills will be following pathways of information, accessing and retrieving data and weaving through problems. Each culture will be able to build its own webs and the “ fuzzy minds” who are no good with linear thinking will be integrated into the culture of knowledge.

Problems will be solved in a virtual environ­ ment, where the.consequences cao be viewed and. decisions made. “The language of specialism

SGA electic>n results i

Following are the results of the SGA elections held last week. A total of 749 students voted, which was 28.4% of the student body. Of those votes, 627 were cast electronically, via “ sgavote.”

On-Campus Senators (12 positions, 13 on ballot) Heather Cleary

264

Timothy Tully Cindy Vollaro

217

Paula Bre/.niak

226 199

Alfred Andrade Simba Dutt-Mazumdar

235

232

Tanya Corrado

216

Adam Woodbury Jennifer Reese

243 244

Tara N. Carrie

227

Kristen Stagg

2 21

Harish Chawla

185

Off-Campus Senators (14 positions, 11 on ballot) Shannon Finley 89 106 M ickey Lacroix Am y L. Plack

12 2

Matthew Friemuth

66

Marni Hall

82 114

Rebecca Hoffman Glenn Avery

70

Kenneth Volock Matthew Defronzo

72

Jason W illey

75

Justin Sprague

99

105

Write-ins (the three with the most votes) 22 Ed Hallissey Seth Kintigh

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Eric Ammon

16

excludes people from the loop.. how long will the unrepresentative democracy last?" The political arena may change, direct representation may be the wave of the future, but will it bring w'ith it mediocrity, the death penalty. Not In My Back­ yard attitudes and a general dumbing down of everything. Will we all suffer along with home videos, untrained artists producing junk and un­ educated scientists? Will it bring mindlessness and self-gratification? In Burke’sopinion,‘‘Yes!” There has always been a dumbing down, when the printing press was invented, the literate popu­ lation feared that the ignorant masses would have access to hooks, thus dumbing down literature.

The haves always want the have-nots to stay where they are.or as Burke stated: “ I don’t like rap because I’m stuffy and British.” Today’s tasteless junk is tomorrow’s old master. There arc always new kinds of vulgar talent, like Mozart or the Beatles, which eventually become accepted.

Burke stated that he would put his money on the changes caused by giving people freedom.

When people are given time to put their ideas onto the net, just as one plus one equals three, the new global synergy is achieved and there will be a move away from rules and regulations towards a crazy free-for-all.

There will be privacy and intellectual property rights considerations, but there presumably will be safeguards put in place to protect people.

"Tilings tend to break down before they break up." The world will go to hell in a handbasket, the new innovations will bring the second class up lo the level of the first class and this change will be global and multi-cultural. You will have to be able to have the talent to deal with change, but the good news is lhat we are the evolutionary success stories. The truth fora long time has been "sooner or later, something will eat you,” but that is the pricc of survival and we will all have to hang loose.

Burke finished his talk and then, after exclaim­ ing "God almighty, look how many people arc here!” He answered a few questions, revealing that his favorite colour is gray, and he gave an anecdote describing what the last resort is when fixing instruments on the moon.

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Open houses to be held for prospective students With the end of A term approaching, and the “ new” freshmen calls not so new any­ more, admissions activities for W P l’s Class of 2000 are in full swing. The Office of Admissions is currently preparing for two open house programs for prospective stu­ dents and their parents. The programs are scheduled for Monday, October 9 and F ri­ day, November 10.

These days are designed to give prospec­ tive students an opportunity to visit our cam­ pus and take a close look at what makes W P I such a unique and special place. Many W P I students, faculty, and staff have volunteered to share their enthusiasm for and experiences at W P I with visiting students and parents.

The activities will begin in Harrington Auditorium with a presentation of the W PI Plan. Visitors will then have a student-con­ ducted tour of the campus along with a pre­ sentation on student activities and student life. Following the tour, participants can select to attend various academic department presentations.

The program will also include a luncheon in Harrington Auditorium with music provided by W PI musical groups under the direction of Dou­ glas Weeks. Lunch will conclude with an Admis­ sions and Financial Aid presentation.

The afternoon will consist of options to attend panels concerning cooperative educa­ tion, career planning and placement and in­

ternational projects and programs. In addi­ tion, visitors may also choose to tour the Wind Tunnel, Chemistry Department, Ro­ botics Lab, Nuclear Reactor, Fuller Labora­ tories, or V L S I Design facilities, or meet with W P I athletic coaches or ROTC repre­ sentatives.

The Admissions Office is expecting about 650 students and parents at each program, so they will be very busy days. Don’t be sur­ prised if you’re stopped on campus and asked for directions or an "insider’s view” !

Anyone having questions regarding the programs or desiring to help with the day’s activities should please contact Joseph Smith, Associate Director of Admissions.

WPI student interns with State Senator Matthew Amorello (State House) - State Senator Matthew J. Amorello (R-Grafton) has announced that Charles G. Prescott, a chemical engineering student at W PI, is currently volunteering as an unpaid intern in his State House office.

The internship is targeted al one of the main doctrines taught al W P I - producing a com­ plete and well-rounded graduate.

MQP lab safety training sessions to be held One of the many responsibilities which any organization has is to assure that all activities are conducted safely and that risks are minimized. To meet these ends, the Office of the Provost and the Campus Safety Committee recommend to each faculty mem­ ber who is advising an M Q P utilizing hazard­ ous chemicals to urge their students to attend a forty-five minute introduction to labora­ tory safety. Dave Messier, Environmental Health & Safety Officer, will be conducting three sessions before the end of A-tcrm. They will be held: October 3 October 4 October 5

11:00am 1:30pm 4:30pm

The Grafton Senator said of the announce­ ment, “ I am glad that the Massachusetts State Senate offers this outstanding opportunity to the young citizens of the Commonwealth.

Through his internship, Charles will receive the acquired knowledge of the inner-workings of Massachusetts State Government, and its direct effect on the residents of this state.”

While at the State House, Mr. Prescott’s efforts will be focused on researching current legislation concerning D.C. Plasma Arc Tech­ nology, and the restoration of industrial mill sites located in the Blackstone River Valley.

Other responsibilities will include attending committee hearings, observing floor action, aiding constituents, and administrative du­ ties. “ 1 am extremely pleased to be afforded this chance to become an active participant in the legislative process,” says Mr. Prescott.

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If you are working on your MQP. and use hazardous chemicals, please choose one of these sessions which fits your schedule. We encourage your participation!

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Professor Sacco’s shuttle launch was delayed last week, because o f a hydro­ gen leak. The launch has b een resch ed u led for T hursday, O ctob er 5.

Watch for an event post­ ing announcing the new p lace and tim e o f his launch party.

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WPI lights up the night with an evening of music

by Heather Mazzaccaro Newspeak Staff What is a college without an aspect of fine arts? Fine arts? At W P I? If you're one of those asking these questions, read on. Forthe majority of the campus, music provides a great diversion from the loads of math and science related homework that needs to he conquered every night. Apparently, many students sought out this type of diversion last Sunday, as they joined parents and relatives for the first concert of the year forthe W PI Music Association’s: Concerto Uno. Those who did manage to find their way into Alden Hall that night were in for a rare treat. All of the W PI music groups were there to display their musical talents and provide entertainment for those who came.

The Brass Ensemble started things off. filling Alden with the sounds of majestic horns and military percussion. They were followed by the Medwin String Ensemble which changed the mood to a relaxing one ending with the allegro from "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3" by Bach.

This piece was reminisent of the Brandenburg Concert they gave last spring. Both of these two groups were conducted by Douglas Weeks.

The next two performances were given by the Stage Band and the Jazz Ensemble, both di­ rected by Richard Falco (Director of Jazz Stud­ ies). Both groups performed a variety of jazz songs highlighted by swinging sax solos and a strong percussion background. One piece that stood out was "Afro Dance” by Thom Mason in which African percussion, a recent addition to the music program, was highlighted.

The Concert Band ended the instrumental part of the concert with two great pieces. The second one. "Incantation and Dance" by John Barnes Chance, was interesting to say the least.

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The percussion provided a weird twist to the composition. Both pieces by the group were well performed.

After a short break, during which some band members took a seat in the audience, the singing groups came on. Alden Voices, the women’s choral group, performed a wide variety of songs including an encore of their annual spring con­ cert, Cabaret, and “ Do Lord” in which solo’s were performed by Linda Cappuccia ( ’98), Melissa Diguette (’97), and Heidi Callahan (’98).

They ended their performance with the tradi­ tional "Blessing” by Katie Moran Bart. Marga­ ret M. Konkol directed while Olga Rogach pro­ vided piano accompaniment.

Alden Voices was followed by a brief mo­ ment of silence before the Men’s Glee Club stormed into place and started singing a W.P.I. fight song. This brought on a good laugh from the audience. The group followed this wilh

some traditional songs. In the midst of their performance, Simple Harmonic Motion, which is an offspring of the club, entertained the crowd with a few upbeat acapella songs. They were definetely a crowd favorite and even got the audience to participate in the fun. The Glee Club ended the night with another song which wel­ comed W PI freshmen. They were directed by Louis Curran.

Overall, Concerto Uno was a great success.

The audience was invited to Gompei’s after­ wards for refreshments and a chance to meet the performers. If you missed the chance to hear your fellow classmates display their musical talents, all is not lost. The annual Pops Concert is coming upon November 4th, and the Holiday Concert will be on November 30th. Come, satisfy your curiosity, take a break from tedious homework, and support W P I’s Music Associa­ tion. Don't let fine arts at W PI fade away.

M W Repertory, W P I’s student theatre group, will present two plays al 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5, 6 and 7, in Riley Commons. Students are produc­ ing, directing, and acting in Salmon Sand­ wiches by Andrew Anderson and Sister M ary Ignatius Explains it A ll by Christopher Durang. Tickets are $2 at the door.

Scenic design discussion Scenic designer Brigitte Altenhaus will present “ Scenic Design in the Professional Theatre,” at 2 pm on Saturday, Oct. 7, in the Alden Memorial Green Room. Altenhaus, who earned a B.F.A. at Concordia University in Montreal and an M.F.A. at Brandeis U ni­ versity, will present her portfolio and address the concerns of designing a show and estab­ lishing a career in the professional theater.

She recently designed the off-Broadway show The Swan and was a scenic design assistant for Beauty and the Beast on Broadway.

The presentation is sponsored by W P I's department of Humanities and Arts, the Drama/Theatre Division and the Office of the Provost. Seating is limited. For more information, call Susan Vick, professor of drama/theatre at ext. 5682.

Sanity Station

by Pamela Kelly Newspeak Staff One more week until the end of the term. I am always amazed by how fast terms go by. And, on that note, since this is the "evil” time, when all the procrastinated work beckons unforgivingly, this is going to be a brief column.

This week's book, chosen in a moment of "what the heck am I going to write about this week,” is Naked Lunch by WilliamS. Burroughs.

Naked Lunch is based on notes and writings thal Burroughs made while he was ajunk (opium and its many derivatives) addict. This an unnerving and graphic talc of one man’s descent into fullfledged addiction, as he travels from New York to Tangiers, and finally into Interzone, a ficti­ tious place where "the forces of good and evil vie for control of the individual and all of hu­ manity." This is an in-depth look at the bizarre and twisted, sometimes eloquent thoughts of an addicted man. I wouldn’t recommend this for anyone with a weak heart for morbid descrip­ tions, but it is aquality work of literature from an author who is overlooked for the most part by

mainstream culture. (Although hediddoacameo in the movie "Drugstore Cowboy” ) I read this book when I was in my "tales of down and out, messed up drug addicts” faze. I also got into Jim Carroll at this lime and Bukowski (he wasn't a junkie, but he still wrote down and out types of tales). This is a good vacation book, and may even help bring out your inner, twisted thoughts (sans drugs).

On a different note, there’s a new exhibit at the W A M . It's called “ John Singer Sargent: Painter of the Gilded Age". It’s a collection of portraits and other works, dating from the late 1800’s, to early 1900's. Get a glimpse of how people in Worcester (some of the por­ traits are of early Worcester social mavens, imagine that) and get some culture at the same time. If you don’t know where the Worcester Art Museum is by now, you should crawl out of your cave and find out for your­ self.

This week’s Sunday night film is "Nell". I can’t decide if this movie looks good or not.

Every lime I see a preview I change my mind.

Only one way to find out. I guess.

Sneak preview on Friday The film Black Is...Black A in't will be shown at 8:15 pm on Friday, Oct. 6 , in Kinnicutt Hall. Black is...Black A in't is the work of Marlon Riggs, a Harvard-educated Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning videomaker who died of A ID S in April 1994.

The film is a powerful critique of sexism, patriarchy, homophobia, colorism and cul­ tural nationalism in the black family, church and other black institutions. The showing is a preview; the film will open soon at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It is part of the Oct. 6 and 7 annual meeting of the Northeast Popu­ lar Culture Association.

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O cto b er 3 -9 Tuesday, October 3 Muppets Take Manhattan The Brady Bunch Movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer Wednesday, October 4 The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Doors Young Frankenstein Thursday, October 5 Candyman Reservoir Dogs Lawnmower Man Friday, October 6 Stephen King Night I Misery Needful Things Christine Saturday, October 7 Stand By Me The Abyss Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sunday, October 8 FILM : "Nell’’ Monday, October 9 Families in Film Niglit The Brady Bunch Movie The Addams Family The Beverly Hillbillies

Movies begin each night at 6:00pm on W P I Channel 12.

The first movie will repeat following the last.

Schedule is subject to change.

For the complete schedule, see http://www.wpi.edu/~soccomm/Films Brought to you by the W PI Social Committee.

You are not ready for SEX if your partner doesn’t know your mother’s maiden name...

by Beatrice Grygo Newspeak S ta ff Alden Hall was a great place to be last Thursday night. You can’t imagine how much fun we had. unless you were there. The queen of the night was Brooklyn native Ellen Goolblatt, who spoke about relationships, problems with them, and offered some valu­ able advice.

The lecture, titled “ Meeting, Dating and Mating - 250 important questions to ask be­ fore you go further in a relationship" was brought to the student body by the Peer Edu­ cation Team. The speaker, a relationships expert and educator, was an excellent choice.

She was not only a great source of informa­ tion. but as a former W A B C talk radio show host and lecturer Ellen was a terrific commu­ nicator and entertainer.

At the beginning she made a very impor­ tant point - without which a relationship is impossible - a positive attitude toward your­ self. How can someone like you if you do not like yourself? Ellen also pointed out a lew differences in preference of the relationship style and expectations between males and females. Have you noticed that men are complemented very infrequently? How of­ ten do men receive (lowers from their com­ panions or lovers? If you are a man and your girlfriend gave you flowers or surprised you pleasantly within the last few days, chances are she was in Ellen’s audience last Thurs­ day.

Ellen also answered questions given to her by the audience anonymously before the lec­ ture. Her passion and enthusiasm towards the topic made her very convincing, and people seemed satisfied with her responses. Ques­ tions ranged from “ how do I attract a man ? ’’ to "how do / dump someone n icely?". There was no question that Ellen could not answer.

It is worth it to mention her great sense of humor which definitely helped her in an­ swering even the most difficult question. To my favorite question of the night: “ when is il a good time to start having sex with a partn er?" Ellen replied “ when he/slie knows your mother's maiden name and where your

ate about doing her job...), had a chance to advertise and sell her book and lecture - both available on tape.

If you are interested in one or the other (the same title as her Thursday lecture), this is the address you can write to and request a tape ($15 each, or with a discount if you buy two, plus costs of shipment):

grandmother was bom ". Getting to know someone before going to bed with him/her may be a good idea, (at least that is what Ellen says, such a decision is always up to you...)

Although there were no more than 80 people present, the night was a success. Stu­ dents were able to listen to someone with experience and greater knowledge about sexualily. intimacy and other issues thal they deal with on daily basis in relationships. They also had a good time.

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Weekly sports update - results from September 22nd through 28th

by Geoff Hassard Sports Information Director M en’s and Wom en’s Cross Country, Men (1-2); Women (1-2) The men and women traveled to Framingham State Saturday the 23rd of September to run against the Rams in a dual meet. Both teams were looking for continued improvement as well as their first win of the young season.

The women came out on top 19-40 behind strong performances by freshmen Sue Shorrock and Vicky Dulac, who finished 1-2 overall, and senior captain Deb Fraser who came in fourth overall.

On the men’s side, they were in complete control as they took the first five places, led by senior captains Rich Person and lan Quinn who placed 1st and 3rd respectively. Senior Bruce Meachani put himself in between the two with a 2nd place finish.

M en’s Soccer (3-2) • The soccer team had its home opener last Saturday, September 23rd, as they hosted the Fighting Scots of Gordon College. The Engi­ neers were looking to continue their winning ways - coming off a big conference win against M IT - and also trying to start off their home season with a victory over a traditionally tough opponent. The first half was back and forth as both teams had their chances. Both goalkeepers were sharp, coming up with some big saves to keep the game scoreless at halftime.

All the scoring came early in the second half.

Gordon got on the board first when they scored five minutes in. W P I now seemed to pick up the pace as they scored just two minutes later when freshman Chris Prueher put in a shot after senior Jim Goodreau hit the cross post. With the score tied, W PI got a little luck when Prueher, who was standing about ten yards in front of the

goalie just defending, deflected a possible clear back into the goal. It was a bang-bang play which caught the goalkeeper by surprise. This goal turned out to be the winner as junior keeper Craig O’ Rourke kept Gordon scoreless over the last forty minutes, making some outstanding saves, to record the win.

Women’s Volleyball (4-4) The volleyball team played a couple of matches last week, one versus Framingham State and one with Mount Holyoke College.

In the Framingham Match, W PI jumped out to a quick two-game lead in the match. In the third game, the Rams battled back and won 157 before the Engineers closed the door in the fourth with a 15-4 win. Throughout the match, coach Nancy Vaskas was able to substitute freely and got some steady play from her re­ serves. Freshmen Alyssa Moyer and sopho­ more Wendy Jobling contributed five kills and senior Patty Panlilio had three kills and a service ace to help in the victory.

Last Thursday, W PI faced a strong Mount Holyoke squad in a New England Women’s Eight Conference match. Even though the final outcome docs not indicate it, the Engineers played a very good match. The final scores were 13-15, 15-12, 3-15, 7-15. Coach Vaskas was pleased with her teams’ effort and is optimistic about the rest of the season.

M en’s G olf (1-8) W PI was host forthe 1995 Constitution Ath­ letic Conference Fall Championships last Wednesday at Sterling Country Club. The En­ gineers finished fifth overall. Top scorer for W PI was senior Jeff Peterson with a score of 83.

Thursday, it was W P l’s turn to host the Little Four at Holden Hills. The Engineers got a great performance from a couple of freshmen as James Carlson and Haig Altoonian were low scorers on

were, Sherman, Buffone, seniorCorinne Kachler and Lafond in singles and the teams of Buffone/ Kachler and Lafond/Ann Sbriglio in doubles play.

the day with an 84 and 86 respectively. In the match though, W PI finished fourth with a team score of 465.

Field Hockey (4-5) The field hockey team had a busy schedule last week with three games versus UMassDartmouth, Tufts University and Nichols Col­ lege.

Saturday, September 23rd, W PI traveled south to play the Corsairs. W P I fell behind early in the first half and were not able to recover as they dropped the game 3-0.

Last Tuesday, the Engineers hosted the Tufts Jumbos in a non-conference game. In a well played game by both squads, Tufts won 1-0.

W PI had opportunities throughout the game, but couldn’t get the ball by the Jumbo goalkeeper.

Thursday, W PI went on the road to play Nichols College hoping to snap their losing streak. In a tight battle, the Engineers prevailed 2-1 on goals from sophomore Jade Gaudreau and junior captain Heather Bryer.

Women’s Soccer (2-5) The women's soccer team has found the road a little rough lately as they try to establish a winning program in its inaugural season. Last week they played Division I Boston University and cross city opponents Clark and Anna Maria.

In the game versus Boston University, junior goalkeeper Lynn Keaman turned in a stellar performance, keeping the Engineers in the game.

She had 17 saves, some of which were outstand­ ing, as she held back the Terriers. An early goal

by BU set the pace, but W PI regrouped and played a strong first half and trailed only 1-0 at halftime. In the second half, W PI wasn’t able to create enough sustained pressure on the oppos­ ing goalkeeper and BU tallied another score halfway through the second half for the 2-0 win.

Last Tuesday, W PI traveled accross the city to play Clark in their first N E W 8 encounter for both schools. This being our first season and it is also Clark’s first season in the conference.

Clark scored two goals early and went on to the 2-0 victory.

The following day the Engineers made an­ other trip. This time to Paxton, which is just on the edge of the city, to play the Amcats of Anna Maria. W PI snapped out of their scoring slump and broke their five-game losing streak with a 31win. Senior captain, Elaine Mongeon, opened the scoring 13:00 minutes into the game, as­ sisted by sophomore Lisa Sorgini. The Engi­ neers continued to pressure the Anna Maria goalkeeper and by the end of the half, they led 30. Junior Karen Scheurer and junior captain Laura Bielitz added two unassisted goals for W PI. Keaman had another solid game in goal with 10 saves.

Women’s Tennis (2-4) The women’s tennis team played three matches last week against N E W 8 Conference foes M IT and Smith as well as non-conference Worcester State.

In the match versus M IT, W PI played well but were shutout 9-0. Junior Alyson Sherman has moved into the #1 singles spot and freshman Jessica Buffone has played herself into the #2 slot.

Last Tuesday, W PI was on the road against Smith. Smith took the match 8-1. The W PI winner was sophomore Michelle Lafond with a 2-1 win over her opponent at #5 singles. She won a second set tie-breaker 7-4 before winning the third set 6-0.

Thursday, the ladies took on Worcester State and came out victorious 6-3. Winners for W PI

IceCats look good for the upcoming season

by Andrew Marsella Associate Editor The Worcester IceCats, Worcester’s A H L hockey team, kicked off their second season last Thursday night (the 28th) with a strong pre­ season victory over the defending Calder Cup champion Albany River Rats. This game, which took place at the New England Sports Center in Marlboro, gave the fans (and the press) an op­ portunity to see what this year’s team looks likeand it was worth it! With the announcement of two NH L affiliations this summer (the St. Louis Blues and the New York Islanders), Worcester’s team roster has undergone dramatic changes, but the new blood and added support of these parent teams seems to be just what the IceCats needed.

Several key players from last year’s IceCats team are returning again this year, including: defensemen Terry Virtue, Roy Mitchell, and Jason Widmer, and forwards Lindsay Valiis, Shaun Kane, and Jarrett Deuling. The rest of the roster, which now numbers twenty-one, includes many promising young players sent down from the St. Louis and New York clubs, highlighted by centers Patrice Tardif and Craig Darby, both of whom have enjoyed success in the N H L as well as the AHL. It was Tardif, in fact, who scored the first goal for the IceCats Thursday night on a shorthanded breakaway from the neutral zone. It didn’t take long for the first fight to start, either, as Terry Virtue and Albany’s Adam Young decided to swap recipes halfway through the first period.

That was just the beginning, and after several major fights and potential brawls throughout the game, it's safe to assume that these two teams have established quite a rivalry already.

In the second period, it looked as if the Rats were going to try and stay in the game when they bounced a lucky shot off of Worcester goalie Mike Buzak and into the net. But towards the end of the period, after both teams had changed their goalies, the IceCats came back with the most beautiful goal I’ve seen scored yet. Worces­ ter center Andreas Johannson (from the Faijestad club in Sweeden) broke up the puck in the IceCats zone, dashed the full length of the rink stickhandling through traffic, split the defensemen and scored while being upended by a River Rat! (Gotta love those Europeans!)

Later, in the third period, the IceCats solidi­ fied their victory when right wing Dan Plante scored on yet another shorthanded breakaway (from Worcester’s blueline), finalizing the score at 3-1. The Worcester team clearly dominated the River Rats throughout the entire the game.

Even better news is that every aspect of the IceCat’ s play that needed work last season seems significantly improved. They pass skillfully, they play extremely well in the comers and along the boards, they’ re aggressive defensively, they’re creative, and they hit - a lot! Mark my words, this team is exciting, and if you didn’t get to see any of the games last year, make every effort this season. They’re regular season be­ gins this Saturday (the 7th) at 7:35 PM against division rival Providence Bruins and should be a wild start to a tremendous season.

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Above: The Women’s Soccer team hosted M IT last Friday on Alumni Field.

Below: The Field Hockey team hosted the Tufts Jumbos last Tuesday, with Tufts just squeezing by, 1-0.

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Engineers battle it out in a close one WPI comes out on top, 21-20

by Amy L. Plack Features Editor The Transit Trophy has finally come home again, after two years in residence with the Rensselaer Engineers. In a fiercely fought battle with “ those other Engineers,” W PI took back the trophy with a 21-20 victory on Sat­ urday.

The game itself was interesting for several reasons aside from the rivalry. Seniorcaptain Ernie Ansah remains 10 yards rushing short of 2,000 - an accomplishment achieved by only three players in W P I’s history. Ansah, who only needed 68 yards going into the game, left the game due to an injury.

Another interesting quirk was the family rivalry between Brian Learned, W P I defensive back, and his twin brother, RPI wide receiver Jim Learned. Both are juniors majoring in mechanical engineering, and both saw quite a bit of playing lime in today’s game. Brian helped the W PI scoring with a 79-yard inter­ ception return for a touchdown, while brother Jim helped behind the scenes for RPI.

The Rensselaer Engineers started the game off right with two touchdowns in the first quarter, leaving W PI to take charge in the second quarter, a call they answered with gusto. A ll three of W P I’s touchdowns were scored in that fifteen-minute period, and Greg Amiro kicked three extra points to add to the cause. At half-time, the score stood at 2 1-14.

W PI. R PI answered back in the third quartei with another touchdown, but a failed fielc goal attempt kept them behind by one point That was all she wrote, as W P I kept th< visitors from scoring again and claimed th( trophy.

The win brings the series to a tie at 42 -4'. with five ties in one of the countries oldes football rivalries, spanning 101 years. Th< close score was no surprise, since most of th< games the two teams have played ended ii close scores or ties. Last year, R P I defeatet us 21 -14, and the last time W P I won, in 1992 the score was 28 - 14.

Next week, the Engineers (W P I, that is> face Norwich here at Alumni Field at 1:30pm.

Clockwise from left: A clown prepares to make a balloon animal for a young child, one of the many who accompanied their alumni parents to homecoming this year... W P I running back Ernie Ansah (Class of ’96) helps to lead W PI to victory over RPI. Ansah is only 10 yards short of rushing 2,000, an accomplishment only completed by 3 players in W PI history . . . The sophomores were victorious over the freshmen, who are shown being dragged into the murky waters of Institute Pond. This event began the traditional freshman-sophomore rivalry. .. A mini-golf hole designed by the Hispanic Students Association gave the challenge of Machu Picchu to all those who played the course . . . Sophomore Jonathan Packard was awarded the Skull Outstanding Freshman Award, and is pictured with Skull members Brian Klauber, Noah Weisleder, Jason Averill, and Karen Goodell,all members of the class of 1996 ... Tailgate parties were abundant on the quad, as many classes, departments, and groups got together to celebrate homecoming. Among the parties were those given by the department of management, and the class of 1958 ... Bill Shields, a member of the class of 1964 works to prepare food for his own party.

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by Amy L Flack Features Editor Homecoming Day was indeed a day for win­ ning, but not just for our sports teams. Several individuals and student groups received various awards: Stoddard A won first place in the Student Alumni Society’s golf hole competition.

Sophomores dragged the freshmen through

the mud in the Freshmen-Sophomore Rope Pull.

Seniors Karen Goodell, Brian Klauber, and Rich Santora received the Coughlin Award for service to the community.

SophomoreJonathan Packard won the Skull Outstanding Freshman Award.

The W P I Football Team won back the Transit Trophy.

Overall, it was a great day for W PI! Con­ gratulations to all the winners!

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Philler Laser Sights and Goats - Sorry, Worcester Joke ... by iM urel and Guinevere So here wc are again. It seems like only last week that we were writing our last column... Um. ANYway, we've been Hooded with mail this week which is always a good thing. Not only are they let­ ters, they ’ re responses to our articles.

Feedback from the masses. The chills, the chills...

Dear L & G. O.K. Everyone, hold on to your hats. I KNOW WHY TH E AM OUNT O F W IL D L IF E HAS IN C R EA SED !

Until recently, the population of the carious rodents and such has been kept down by the loss of life (poor critters) due to traffic accidents that no one taller than I ' 6 " noticed.

West Street was a war zone fo r these little guys, that resulted in West Street Footbridge crossings and other ac­ celerated evolution of these squir­ rels, etc. Now that West Street has been replaced by the region of cam­ pus known as @, the accelerated reproduction that was needed to sus­ tain the population has resulted in a burst of population. Now there's more of them, they're smart, and th ey're AN GRY. W e're in big trouble, people! Is it possible that the closing of West Street may lead to our downfall?

Your concerned reader, Ed Oliveira

For every action, there is an equal and opposite amount of little crit­ ters. (How can something be equal and opposite? That's like cold, yet hot...) Life is funny sometimes, isn't it? It's surprising how often even the best intentions backfire. At your own discretion, you can also add the corollary, "Usually in obscure ways," as is the case here. Who would have ever thought that closing off West Street and forming @ would cause intelligent - ec­ centric - alert - trestle - crossing - angry - reproducing - rodents of - typical - sizes (I. E. A. T. C. A. R. R. O. T. S.)? We bet this is yet another scenario the W PI community didn't think of when they started this project. Socio­ logical Engineers? We think not. Although we're not posi­ tive that Ed Oliveira may be a little too paranoid for his own good, we respect all views here in the world of Philler.

Point 2: Said skunk would there­ fore have the title: The skunk that so heavily traverses the road that until so recently was know as West street, o r: The skunk that so h e a v ily traverses “ @ Point 3: Said skunk would have to have as catchy a name as “ @ ", be­ ing that which it traverses. Namely a SMnbolic name like

namefo r said skunk which is catchy to write and say, but, also, is not detri­ mental to the well being o f said skunk.

Applying all this logic to a seem­ ingly trivial problem(l must be an en­ gineer!), / have derived the following name fo r the skunk: or pronounced "Ampersand" This name is both catchy and safe fo r the skunk, provided no one on this campus knows how to “ ampersand” something to death. / hope this bit will help you in your questfo r the name of the skunk.

Je ff Alderson Class of '98

Only entry? That’s the winner! We hereby christen the skunk “ & ” ... Who forgot to bring the champagne? It’s probably just as well. I think that would have scared the little guy (that’s the skunk, not As always, remember to write to us, Jcff...). We wouldn’t want to because: I . we enjoy the mail, and 2 . if offend them as Ed Oliveira has you write, we don’t have to think much warned us. Very good logic next week. there, Jeff. You’re a double-E, right? W e ’re sure, in time, someone will think of how to turn "Amper­ We usually try not to have a reli­ gious edge lo our commentary (else sand" into a verb, (our roommate can start competition with our commen­ change the part of speech of practi­ tary neighbors who have always been cally any word, it seems) but until compassionate, and considerate, and that time, we’re sure & will have a never call the cops when we get a little fun time romping around @. too loud) but this week, after hearing That reminds us. at this moment in the plight of the W P I community un­ time our research has shown that the der I ’ 6” we have decided to make a intransigent reaction to transcenden­ little exception. W e will leave you talism has obfuscated. Really. It has. now with a little prayer: This makes for a significant amount of uneasiness on campus, which is ex­ Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If l die before actly why it was necessary for the Con­ sortium to post the Shuttle Bus sched­ I wake, / pray the Lord my toys to break, so none of the other kids can ule on a big ole sign in front of Riley use 'em. Amen. -SheI Silverstein Hall. (Our sources say that the funds

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Dear L& G , In reference to your request for a name for the skunk which has been running amok on campus so recently, I decided to use a bit of my roommate Alan's logic, which you already so graciously approve of, in picking a name. Thefollowing is a how I applied Alan's logic to your problem: Point I : The skunk heavily traverses that bit of land known as ",

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Point 4: Although Point 3 is a good point, we must not forget that if said skunk were to be named the pronunciation o f said symbol is "pound", and would possibly lead to the demise o f said skunk by people who would be quick to judge a skunk by the nature o f its symbolic name.

Point 5: Wc. therefore, must pick a

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by Jesse Zbikowski Newspeak Staff Fi rst off, I’d Iike to hope thatall of you out there are disciples of GNU Emacs.

For you misguided heathens who occa­ sionally use "pico" or haven’t got any pictures of Richard Stallman on your fridge, Emacs is easily the most impor­ tant piece of software running in user space. It will handle youremail and your news, help you write, compile, and de­ bug programs, and entenain, amaze, and inform you. Emacs is based on Lisp, a language given to computer science as a gift from the gods. Unfortunately most people aren't interested in learning Lisp just to edit their email messages, which is why GNU Emacs is sometimes said to stand for "Generally Not Used. Except

by Middle-Aged Computer Scientists."

Alas. (You don’t have to know Lisp to use Emacs. You don't have to be crazy, cither, but both help.)

When GNU Emacs 19 came out, it added tremendous support for X Win­ dow System users. In this article we'll take a look at some of the things you can do with Emacs under X. Since virtually every login session involves the use of Emacs, it’s a good idea to start an Emacs window every time you start X. You can do this by putting the line £macs & in your ~/.X 11Startup file. Emacs has loads of command-line switches for customizing the appearanccof your win­ dow. Here are some you may want to try: -name string Specifies the title to give your Emacs window (I recommend “ Praise Emacs!")

-font Ibntname Specifies the font to use. Type "xlsfonts "for the list offonts installed on your machine. Note that you can only usefixed-width fonts, such as " I2x24kana".

-fg color -bg color Specifies the color to use for your text and background, respectively. Check out thefile /usr/lib/ X I l/rgb.txt for color names.

-i Tell Emacs to use the k(X)l GNU bitmap when you iconifs it.

Now that you’ve started one Emacs, you can use it to do all your editing.

There’s no need to start up another. “ But," you say, "I use (elm, tm) to read my (email, news). They start up a new Emacs window every time I want to

send a message!” Yes indeed! But with GNU Emacs, you can make those programs connect with your existing Emacs window instead of starting a new one. All you have to do is start an "emacs server" in your main Emacs window, and tell your shell to have programs use an “emacs client" for editing. Here’s how. a) Add this line to your ~/.emacs file (you do have a .emacs file, right?) (if window-system (server-start)) 2) If you use tcsh for your shell, add this to the end of your .tcshrc: if($’D ISPLA Y ) then setenv EDITOR emacsclient else setenv EDITOR emacs endif If you use the Z-shell (like me), that would be

on-font-lock))) You can customize the colors Emacs uses by using set-face-foreground; ex­ periment with these lines (between the server-start and the add-hook): (set-face-foreground 'bold "pink” ) (set-face-foreground ‘highlight “ LimeGreen") "M-x list-faces-display" shows the different types of faces (bold, highlight, etc); /usr/lib/XI l/rgb.txt has the colors available. The default colors look pretty good on the color displays in the CCC. but in the Zoo some are hard to see.

Well, hopefully this has given you a few things to play around with next time you log on to a workstation con­ sole. Email questions and suggestions to zed@wpi.edu; flames automatically forwarded to/dev/null. Until next time, happy gweeping. and RTFM.

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if U-n $D!SPL.AY || then EDITOR=emacsclient else EDITOR=emacs fi export EDITOR Now you're all set! When you finish the message, do a "C-x #” (not “ C-x Cc" !). Not only do you save time and system load wailing for a new Emacs window, but you can also use the same kill ring and registers for inserting text.

Another interesting feature of Emacs under X is support for syntax-highlighting of source code. You can make comments in orange, literal strings red, keywords in another color. Highlight­ ing is available for many Emacs pro­ gramming modes (C mode, Perl mode.

Scheme and Lisp modes): you just have to turn it on. You can do this w ith "Mx font-lock-mode" inside of Emacs (“ M-x font lock-mode" again to turn it off.) Or you can set up your .emacs file to start font-lock anytime you visit a file; try changing the piece of Lisp code above to this.

for this project have probably already obfuscated, but that's not important right now.)

On a similar note, if you are inter­ ested in using really big words for no apparent reason other than self-aggrandizement, start doing it! What are you waiting around like a one-legged horse in line for a beer at a party somewhere in North Dakota for? Are you trying to think of something clever to say that involves more overly-long words? Try these on for size: deinstitutionalization, antidisestablishmentarianism. and dude. Yes, we here in the Philler Think Tank realize that "dude" is not actually a proper English word, nor is it an exceptionally long word, English or not, but it certainly is more useful than antidisestablishmentarianism ever will be. (However, if you’d like to change this, please press 1 now...)

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Ed it o r

With regard to the September 26 Editorial. ..

Both as an SG A senator and as a member of the Newspeak staff, I was appalled to read last week’s editorial regarding Student Government.

From a writer's standpoint, it is in­ coherent, skipping from one topic to another, with one intent - to bruise the reputation of a dedicated student organization. If you had a point, I might have taken you seriously.

Now, I'm afraid I must do some damage control to try to salvage some dignity, both for me and for the Sen­ ate, since you made several state­ ments that were either twisted to suit your need for harmful insults or taken totally out of context. First, I'll address the first statement of the editorial, that there were no minutes from the SG A meeting in last week’s paper.

It is extremely unfair and unpro­ fessional of you to blame the entire organization for the shortcomings of one individual. True, the Secretaryfailed in his duty to submit the min­ utes to you in time for printing.

That’s once this year, that I know of, that this has happened. How many issues have we had now? It’s one person's responsibility to submit the minutes, yet you make it sound like a cover-up to hide the issues covered at that meeting. Reality check, guys.

Everyone loves a great conspiracy, but 1 assure you, it’s nothing of the sort. In fact, the minutes arc posted in the window of our office for all to see!

Second, you twist a quote from myself so that it sounds like we arc a money-hungry organization. When you quoted me as saying, “ it’s our money to do with as we please," you failed to take into account the rest of that statement. 1 believe I said some­ thing to the effect that we would N E V E R do such a thing, that we had the classification system and bud­ geting process in place to avoid just such an instance, and I explained how the money goes from the social fee to SG A to other organizations.

Tell me. what in the world would we do with $300,000.00? If you have any ideas, let us know...

You then go on to give a brief summary of the rest of the meeting, brushing over the remaining two is­ sues and skip right to "the meeting ended when there were not enough senators in attendance to discuss the upcoming election." What you left out of that is that we had already been there for over an hour debating the issues and the motion to hear new

business passed only marginally. I ’d like to point out here that a majority of the people I talked to knew what was to be discussed should the call for new business pass -the extension of the deadline for senate petitions.

Furthermore, we didn’t feel it ap­ propriate to push the deadline or to even discuss the issue. The deadline was set, we had enough petitions in to hold an election, and pushing the deadline would force the elections schedule off as well. We were not prepared to postpone the elections as we need a full Senate as soon as possible.

The fact that so many people were forced to leave the meeting before its end is unfortunate and highly un­ common. In my year as a senator, I don’t think we've ever had more than two people proxy their votes and leave a meeting. This was an unusual circumstance, one which you generalize in the next paragraph, “ if there aren't even enough senators to attend meetings." W c did have enough senators to hold the meeting, if I may remind you. Quorum count is in the beginning of the meeting.

Without quorum, we don't have an official meeting, period. We had quorum until a senator called for another count, which is perfectly by the book. We had discussed the issues lo our satisfaction, and did not wish to discuss the election petition deadline, since it’s been pushed for the past three years, if memory serves.

You talk about a “ Meet the Candi­ dates Night," an unsuccessful event which had in attendance last year less than ten students. 1 don’t feel that such an event is appropriate: do we have one for normal elections outside of W P I? No. W hy? Because the candidates campaign. If each candidate had written a letter of can­ didacy (only half did this year) and gone out campaigning, it would be a much more interesting race in which students got to know the people for whom they were voting. As I write this, there are still two days left in the election. In the past two weeks, I have met and talked to over 50 students whom I have never met be­ fore, and asked them what they thought the issues were. I’ve gotten feedback. I’ve encouraged people to vote, and on Friday, 1 plan to cam­ paign all day (when I don’t have class) outside of Daniels Hall. I'm not campaigning to win. I ’m doing it to help people.

One of the problems inherent with a "Meet the Candidates Night” is promises. Under the harsh glares of constituents and the stone-cold stares ofjournalists, candidates make prom­ ises that, once elected, they can't keep. I ’d rather not get sucked into that, myself, because it is very easy to promise people what they want to hear, only to get ripped apart in the newspaper when a year passes and I haven’t followed through.

Finally, you state, “ Frankly, we are disappointed in our leadership for their lack of interest in us and we see no other option but to call it to their attention.” Thanks for the fa­ vor, gang, but we’re doing what we can. We know there is a lack of communication between the students and SG A, and we’re doing the best wc can to rectify that. I know that sounds like a load of bull, but all I can say is that it starts with one senator going out and talking to people, perhaps not in the middle of the Quad, but in other places. And it’s being done, folks, because I do it and I ’ve seen other senators do it.

We go to dorm floors and talk to people in their rooms, we chat with people in the lounges, in the library, and in the computer labs. Just be­ cause we haven't come down to your

little office in the basement of Riley Hall doesn’t mean we aren’t com­ municating.

That’sanotherlhing I want to bring up. You say we’re ignoring you, yet you ignore us as well. Sure, you come to meetings, which are open to everyone, but how often do you ask a senator what committee he or she is on and what they’re dealing with?

Have you ever written a news article about an SG A issue? No. You count on us to do that for you. Now, we realize that you don’t have much of a staff, but wouldn’t it have been more appropriate for you to have reported on last week’s meeting than to have written a harmful editorial? I don’t see the City Council writing up and submitting summaries, agendas, and minutes to the T & G , do you ? In fact, I distinctly recall reading news articles that reported the outcomes of those West Street closing meet­ ings. I also remember Newspeak covering that issue, as well - why is there never an article about SG A in this paper?

Perhaps in the future you could help us gel the word out to students by doing the following: I) Don’t print the minutes. They don’t tell the readers anything signifi-

cant. Instead, since you’re at every meeting, write a news article, with­ out inserting your opinion.

2) Talk to senators, not just to execs, because the real work is done in committees, like the Committee on Academic Initiatives, chaired by Marni Hall, or the Committee on Student Life Issues, chaired by my­ self. Meetings are Thursdays at 8:00pm in Gompei’s and Wednes­ days at 7:00pm in the SGA office, respectively, if you are really inter­ ested in reporting the news.

3) Sponsora “ Meet the Senators Night" if you are really concerned that stu­ dents aren’t getting to know their senators. I find it highly inappropri­ ate that we have one at all, but even more so that we should hold one for ourselves, since half the candidates this year are incumbents.

The next time you write some­ thing about SG A, 1 sincerely hope that it will be constructive, cohesive, and appear on the News page, rather than on the Commentary page.

Sincerely, Senator Amy L. Plack Chair, Committee on Student Life Issues Assistant Treasurer for Class III Newspeak Features Editor

A Clarification [Ed. note: Although I realize that it is not entirely appropriate to re­ spond to a letter to the editor in the same issue that the letter appears, / feel that a grave misunderstanding has occurred and do not wish an entire week to pass before / can clear the air. Please pardon this slip of newspaper etiquette in respect fo r the larger good ofdivining the truth. ] Over the past three years, News­ peak has taken me from soccer games to faculty meetings, from guest lec­ turers to every hour of traffic counts to close West St., but I sec no need to respond to personal attacks. I have no intention of showing disrespect to the members of SG A, if I felt they were incapable of keeping their promises, I would not try to hold them to their word. One story I did last winter, at the request of SGA, was to cover an appropriate debate of SG A officers. They presented good ideas to get the message of the student government to the student body. I was eager to see this done, as

most students were at least partially ignorant of what SG A does for them.

When D-term started, I asked when these things would be carried out (assigning senators to students and more contact between senators and the student body). 1 was told to wait until the fall. I waited, silently, until a few weeks ago. 1 tried, in these pages, to remind the officers of their promises, little was done. Be­ lieve me, I keep my eyes open for these things, besides SG A office hours and recent posters from Amy Plack, there is still little being done.

If no one picked up copies of Newspeak, I would worry. If no one knows much about SG A, perhaps I am not out of line to say that you should worry. From what I have seen, SG A is composed of a good number of high-achieving, hard­ working people. Your enthusiasm for W PI is tremendous, 1would rec­ ommend that any student should join the government, or at least find out more about its workings.

I do not feel out-of-line inviting SG A to report on its own activities, as the attention will be positive for the organization. 1 believe that many politicians try to handle their own publicity (correct me if I’m wrong here). 1 also believe that public fig­ ures who speak in open meetings and debates may be quoted. No U.S. House member would say "L e t’s raise taxes, hell we are the govern­ ment," without serious forethought.

My point is that I do not want to start a war of words. All 1ever wanted was to see more publicity and contact on the part of SGA. I thought that you were up to the task. 1still do. If you didn’t mean what you said, that’s too bad and you should have chosen your words more carefully. We all have to live with the consequences of our actions and think clearly before we speak. To not do so is to risk being called to task.

don’t. I don’t blame anyone for what happened (actually I blame Willard K. Weist, 69, of Pennsylvania - the driver ofthe truck, but let's not dwell on it).

I look back on it now and recall that I wasn’t panicked. After some futile attempts lo crawl out the bro­ ken window I realized 1 had to wait.

I tried to help my friend. I held his bleeding hand, tried to talk to him. I gave all the firemen and paramedics all the information I could. I stayed conscious the whole time.

Looking back at that tells me that I have the strength to survive a disas­ ter. That I can go through a catastro­ phe without panic, that I can have a clear mind even with a broken leg. A worthy prize, but a pretty steep cost.

I still have a bum leg. I still have the lump/dent that reminds me of how far away from my tibia that chunk of bone is. I still ache on the hot humid days and the rainy days and the cold damp days. I still have the flashbacks occasionally, and I’m right back in that steaming mass of rended Honda Civic waiting to be burned alive or saved, and they throw the blanket over me and saw the top of the caroff and oh god please don't let this thing blow up and they pull me out and jesus christ it hurts so bad grinding bones and yes they really do grind isn’t it interesting that I've never felt quite this much in pain

before holy shit it hurts, [insert screaming here] Still... it could be worse. I’m still here. I can still walk. I still have a future.

I’m not a hedonist now, nor do I think I will ever become one. If 1 hadn’t thought material things were insignificant before, 1 sure do now.

But neither am I spirtual. People are always telling me I’m going to end up believing in God someday, but you know, I was a hair’s breadth away from death, and it hasn't changed me in that way. Christ, my whole family’s faith has been practi­ cally reaffirmed by my survival “ Boy, you sure had somebody look­ ing ou! for you!” and so forth - and I couldn’t have reacted less.

I guess it all comes back to what’s important. And what is that, you say ?

What is the sacred mystery that I learned from staring death in the face? What secrets were revealed to me?

Take it as it comes. Live every moment to the fullest. Love with every ounce of your being. How many more cliches do you need?

Let me just put it this way... mortal­ ity has a way of sneaking up on you when you least expect it, so you better make damn sure you’re prepared to face it when it comes. Life is what’s important, and living it is the hardest thing you’re ever going to do.

It sure beats the alternative though.

Brian Parker Newspeak Editor-in-Chief

C om m entary

What a difference a day can make

by Mike Caprio Class o f ‘96 Just the other day I found myself being reminded about important dates, and how I couldn’t remember some dates over others. It made me realize what the nature of “ important" was. I used to think I knew what was impor­ tant, but it’s kind of changed for me now. You figure that there are dates in your life that are important -you know, like your high school graduation, or your first date, your prom, shit like that.

But for me - I can’t seem to remember any of the dates.

I can’t remember the first time I drank alcohol. Or the first time I drove a car. I can’t remember the day I lost my virginity or the day I had my first kiss... all these things that I previously might have thought were important, things that “ changed my life forever” ...

Uh-huh.

1 didn’t know what that meant.

Not until Tuesday. December 20th, 1994 at around 1:30pm on Route 12 about a quarter mile away from the Auburn Mall. That day, that mo­ ment - that event is burned so firmly into my head that I am never going to forget it.

I was driving with a friend to pick up my girlfriend’s locket, a Christ­ mas present that I had engraved at the Mall. We had just stopped at

Dragon’s Lair East, a local game and hobby store near Webster Square, and I was reading the comics and gaming materials I had bought there.

The world stopped. Or rather, was jarred off its foundations. It was like a movie, taking the camera and shaking it so hard that the whole image was completely vibrating.

And the sound... like nothing 1 ever heard before, or ever hope to hear again. Crashing, tearing, twisting...

I can barely describe it. Like a tor­ nado, like a train rushing past. I think I must have screamed, but I sure didn't hear it. I looked around, got my bearings, and realized that the car was a smoking wreck.

We had .hit a semi head on. My friend's face was slumped over the steering wheel, covered with bleed­ ing lacerations. I checked myself and noticed that I was intact, not cut badly anywhere... but an omnious warmth in my leg signaled what I knew 10 be true, that I had broken it. “ M y leg’s broken. I can tell.” “ Jesus,” said the paramedic. “ Left leg, lower, it ’ s... jesus... m angulated,” he moaned and coughed.

Mangulated. M y left foot and ankle had broken to the right, pushed aside by the engine block as it sloughed its way through the under­ belly of the car. I didn’t feel any pain then, nor could I see what had hap­

pened to my foot. Gotta love those endorphins.

I know my immediate family’s birthdays: Dad, January 30th. Mom, April 13th. Sis, February 1. I know what day my paternal grandfather died, but that’s because it was on New Year's Eve. I can’t remember when my great-grandfather died, even though I can say I loved him more.

Maybe the dates aren’t that im­ portant. Maybe what’s important are the feelings that I associate with the events, and not the events them­ selves - the dead moments of the past, rustling like old parchment in my head. They’re only subjective memories though, they’re not even close to what truly happened. What difference does a day make? Maybe a bigger one than anybody thinks.

Everything can change in a day. You could go from being happy to being depressed, being rich to being desti­ tute, sane to insane, married to di­ vorced, young to old...

Or from being alive to sucking dirt.

It’s amazing how you can turn a negative experience around if you really want to. I could look back on what happened to me and think - “ If I had been driving, it wouldn’t have happened.” or “ Maybe if I was pay­ ing attention I could have stopped it." or simply “ Why me?” But I

P a g e 10

St u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t A U nofficial M inutes for the meeting of September 26, 1995 Meeting held in the Lower Wedge I.

M eeting called to order at 6:06pm.

II.

Attendance: Executive Board: Matthew Freimuth, Vice President; Chizzy Uchendu, Sec­ retary; Greg Snow, Treasurer.

Senate: Alfred Andrade, Heather Cleary, Ryan Daly, Simha DutMazumdar, Shannon Finley, Marni Hall, Ed Hallissey, Seth Kintigh, Mickey Lacroix, Michael Marks, Amy Plack, Justin Sprague, Kristen Stagg, Tim Tully, Cindy Vollaro, Adam Woodhury.

Absent: Cathy Connelly, President (ex­ cused), Paula Brezniak, Shelly AnnCote, Beth Gentry, Rebecca Hoffman, Jason Mickey (excused), Jeremy Olszewski (excused), John Pieper, Jeff Spaleta.

Parliamentarian: Jennifer Yambert

III.

Approval of Minutes: The minutes of the meeting held 9/19/ 95 were approved with the following corrections: The corrections con be found in the SGA office.

IV .

President’s Rem arks: President Connelly’s report was read

by Vice-President Freimuthandasuminary follows. She appointed Senator Dut-Mazumdartothe Educational De­ velopment Council for the remainder of the school year. She is asking for suggestions on the best manner to go about making an appointment to the Provost search committee. She at­ tended the Academic Planning And Student Affairs as well as the Physi­ cal Facilities subcommittee meetings.

At the A PS A, there was discussion on the impact in admissions due to the USNews and World Report. She brought up the fact that this might have a negative recruitment for jobs.

They agreed this needs to be consid­ ered and will request the CDC to re­ port to them at every meeting. The Provost presented a report on future

s s o c ia t io n directives for the school and Presi­ hung on the foot bridge Friday morn­ ing. Also, a banner was made with dent Connelly will pass the report Professor Sacco’s name on it for the along to the appropriate committee chair. The Physical Facilities sub­ W P I community to sign and this ban­ ner will be handed to him. committee talked about (he Riley Hall Policies and Procedures; ChairSprague Renovation. She brought up the issue of Newspeak space being taken by a reported lhat the committee is work­ ing on the standing rules and any sug­ new elevator and was assured that gestions as to what should be in them adequate space elsewhere is being looked for. The timeline for other are welcome. residence hall renovations were pre­ Committee on Academic Initiatives sented and will be available in the (C A I): Chair Hall reported that the office upon c o m m itte e her return discussed the WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE f r o m H um an ities Florida.

Su ffic ic n c y Architects Transfer for W est Credit Policy.

Street reno­ Furthermore, vations will a vote was be selected taken and a before the proposal let­ Dec. 4th ter was pro­ STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION meeting. duced.

Committee on Student Life Issues(CSLI): V. Vice-President’s Rem arks: Chair Plack reported that the letter to the Acting Vice-President Freimuth re­ library regarding Labor Day hours is marked that the date for the Senate complete and senators should read and retreat has been set but locations are give suggestions. This week the com­ still pending. mittee will discuss the Events office and the scheduling problems.

V I. Secretary’s Rem arks: Secretary Uchendu asked all senators -Institute Committees to log-in when they arrive for their Committee on Academic Operations: office hours.

Senator Pluck read Committee Rep­ resentative Rachel But land's report.

V II. Treasurer’s Rem arks: CAO met last Friday and today and at Treasurer Snow remarked that the these two meeting C A O passed: Con­ Treasurer’s meetings have been com­ centrations for Chemical Engineering pleted. He will proceed to send out majors specifically - Biomedical. Bio­ notices to all those who did not attend chemical, Environmental and Materi­ the meetings. Also, the appropria­ als concentrations. Also passed was a tions committee is dealing with spe­ Minor in Computer Science, a Minor cial funding requests at this time Amy in Entrepreneurship, and Electrical Plack continued by reading a letter Engineering with Concentration in from the Women’s Crew team.

Computer Engineering. Distributions Requirements for Biology and Bio­ V III. Committee Reports: technology were also passed along -SGA Committees with Course changes in the Depart­ Public Relations: Chair Stagg reported ment of Biology/Biotechnology. that flyers were available for the sena­ All of the above motions that have tors to post. She and Senator Plack passed through C AO will go before painted a banner for elections to be the faculty for approval at the October

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SGA This Week

by Amy L. Plack and Kristen T. Stagg So, the minutes bore you and you can’t get any good information from them? Read this column. It's got information about all the SG A committees, what issues they're work­ ing on, and what they are looking to work on in the future. If there’s an issue you want addressed by a particular committee, send it to sga@wpi.edu or stop by our office on the first floor of Daniels Hall between 9 AM and 4:30 PM and talk to a senator. Another good place to find information about committees and issues is the newsgroup wpi.sga, avail­ able to all W P I students.

Committee on Academic Initiatives (C A I) -

M arni Hall, Chair Currently the committee is looking at the issue of transfer credit. The current policy is lhat transfer students can transfer sufficiency credit into W P I if they have 6 humanities classes. The student is not told until after registration that the highest possible grade assigned is a " B ” , regardless of the actual grade average, unless a sufficiency project is done. This is inconsistent with policy that states that the sufficiency requirement is fin­ ished with 6 semester long courses com­ pleted. 3-2 students do receive their actual grade average, including “ A ” grades.

The problem with the current policy is that students are not made aware of the grading assignment policy until after they are regis­ tered. It is unclear and not explicit in the W P I catalog. The current policy prevents transfer students from receiving high distinction and or makes it much more difficult to receive distinction honors. In order to receive high distinction the student would have to do a sufficiency paper, a 1/3 of a credit that the student did not account for when planning the amount of time to be spent at W P I as a transfer. C A I is writing a proposal and will be asking for senate approval, and then it will bring it to the Humanities Council and Com­ mittee on Academic Policy.

Comm ittee on Student Life Issues (C S L I) -

A m y L. Plack, Chair The committee wrote a letter to the direc­ tor of the Library, Helen Shuster, regarding this year’s Labor Day hours. They recom­ mended that the Library open for a shopt time on Saturday antfon’Labor Da^ 'irrtheeteriihg,

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for students returning from the weekend.

C S L I is awaiting a reply from the Library on this issue.

Each C S L I member has been assigned to work with two offices on campus that deal in issues of student life. These offices include Foodservice, Residential Services, the Coun­ seling and Student Development Center, Health Services, Healthy Alternatives, Ca­ reer Development Center, the Office of M i­ nority Affairs, the College Computer Center, the Instructional Media Center, and the L i­ brary. Committee members continue to meet with staff in these offices and report their status to the committee.

The committee also revised the Consor­ tium Shuttle Bus schedule in the hopes that the Consortium will consider changing the schedule for B-term. Currently, buses arrive at W P I simultaneously and on the hour. This schedule does not accommodate W PI stu­ dents in the afternoons, as a student with a 1:30 -2:20 class cannot take a shuttle to another school for a 3:00 class.

Other topics the committee may address in the near future include coin machines in the laundry facilities on campus and the issue of the current difficulties in facility reserva­ tions for student organizations.

Public Relations ( PR ) -

Kristen T. Stagg, Chair The committee, assisting the Student Life Office, made a banner for the community to express their congratulations to Professor Al Sacco on his upcoming space shuttle launch.

The banner reads “ Al Sacco is... OUTTA THIS W O RLD !” The banner is located outside the SGA office with signs encouraging everyone to sign it. The banner will be available to be signed until the morning of the rescheduled launch, so come down to the SG A office to sign in while you can. The banner will be displayed on the rescheduled liftoff day and presented to Sacco upon his return.

PR ’s main focus this week was publiciz­ ing the elections and get a good turn out at the polls. Four different flyers were made and various senators posted them around the cam­ pus. On Friday, a banner was placed on the bridge and 6 large posters placed around campus to remind students to vote.

Elections Comm ittee -

Ryan Daly, Chair " 1 The ‘col'nrrWt&e’^ 'fftciu's' wl'ls’th& ekeCutioh

of the electronic and paper balloting this past week. The sgavote program was made avail­ able from Monday morning at 12:00 AM until Thursday at 11:59 PM for students to vote electronically. The committee also staffed paper balloting from 9 AM -4:30 PM for students to have the opportunity to cast their vote.

At last count, 28.4% of the undergraduate student body had voted in the elections, which is a record turn-out for Senate elections.

Appropriations -

Treasurer Gregory R. Snow, Chair The committee approved a new reimburse­ ment form for use by student organizations.

The form is simpler and more streamlined towards the needs of student groups, includ­ ing a new required signature of an officer different from the one making the request.

This will hopefully put an end to officers abusing their power and knowledge of ac­ count numbers. The form now needs to be approved by the Accounting Office.

The Appropriations Committee also ap­ proved a request for emergency funding for the SG A photocopier account as drawn up by Treasurer Snow. The photocopier account is currently $1300.00 in the hole due to lack of use during the summer months. The lease must be paid each month, regardless of whether the copier is used. Hopefully, level­ ing the debt now with funds from the SG A Treasury will solve this problem for the time being.

A supplemental funding request from the Hispanic Students Association was tabled this past week due to lack of sufficient infor­ mation on which the committee could make a decision. Alfred Andrade, the Class I Assis­ tant Treasurer will ask the officers of the organization for the information needed, spe­ cifically a receipt from Food Services.

The need for an increase in the under­ graduate social fee was also discussed, and Appropriations is working on a proposal to increase the fee to $120.00. The proposal should be solidified by the end of October and submitted to the Student Life Office.

Finally, the need to hear student’s opinions will be realized by a polling of the entire undergraduate student body in late October or early November. Plans include a period of electronic balloting and a couple days of paper balloting, much like th(s pasi week’s elections.

12th faculty meeting. A complete packet of the motions which have passed through C A O and will be brought lo the Faculty at the October 12 th meeting will be placed in the SG A office. If you have any ques­ tions please contact the Committee Representative, Rachel Butland vie email : (sail@wpi),or in person when you see her around.

-Faculty Governance Meetings Extensive reports and information from all Faculty Governance Meetings can be found in SG A in the Information Book IX .

S p e c ia l O r d e rs :

Open Forum with W PI President Ed Parrish.

President Parrish opened the floor for questions. These questions were: 1) What do you consider the role of the SG A in the Institute Committee?

2) With such a poor report in the USWorld News and Report what it W P I’s best move?

3) What do you think about the image we portray on the World Wide Web server?

4) What is your viewpoint on people in this school trying to control what goes on with the World Wide Web 5) What are some of your short term goals that a graduating senior will witness before leaving?

6 ) What are your plans on how to bring more funds on Campus?

The answers to these questions can be obtained by talking to your Senator or by visiting the SG A office.

X.

O ld Business: No Old Business

X I.

New Business: Motion 10a.95 - Senator Sprague moved to Endorse the proclamation to Professor Sacco at read. Senator Daly seconds. Motion passed.

M otion I la .95 - Vice-President Freimuth entertained a motion to ap­ prove the President’s Appointments to the Educational Development Coun­ cil. So Moved by Senator Plack. Sec­ onded by Senator Hall. Motion passed.

M otion 12a.95 - Vice-President Freimuth entertained a motion to ap­ prove the President's Appointment of Jennifer Yambert to the position of Parliamentarian. So Moved by Sena­ tor Sprague. Seconded by Senator Plack. Motion passed.

X II. Announcements -Senator Stagg asked everyone to sup­ port Professor Sacco by signing the Banner that reads “ Professor Sacco is out of this world".

-Senator Plack read a letter from the Major Selection Program. The letter is asking for volunteers who would be willing to talk about their majors to undecided Freshman.

Senator Sprague moves that no per­ sonal election campaigns be printed in the minutes. Finley seconds. Mo­ tion Withdrawn.

Senator Hallissey moves to adjourn.

Senator Finnley seconds.

X III. M eeting adjourned at 7:15p.m.

Fo r complete reports or for more informa­ tion contact the Student Government Office

Agenda for the meeting of Tuesday October 3, 1995 Held in the Lower Wedge I. C all to order II. Roll Call III. Approval of the Minutes for the meet­ ing held September 26th IV . President’s Remarks V. Vice President’s Remarks V I. Secretary’s Remarks V II. Treasurer’s Remarks V III. Committee Reports - SGA Committees -Committee on Academic Initiatives (C A I) -Committee on Student Life Issues (C SLI) - Public Relations Committee - Policies and Procedures Committee - Elections Committee - Institute Committees IX . Old Business X. New Business Motion 13a.95 - Transfer money from Treasury to SGA Photocopier Account Plack Motion 14a.95 - Endorse the letter writ­ ten by the Committee on Academic Is­ sues - Hall X I. Announcements X II. Adjournment

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Diia:ry olFa Closet Computer Gee]k by http://www.wpi.edu/~thethe Hypertext leads you everywhere; tangents are the norm. It is how we think; it is how we live.

And, with that beautiful segue in place, it is how you will find my column to day.

The law was never meant to compensate any­ one beyond the amount they were injured. Win­ ning a court case was never supposed lo equiva­ lent to winning the lottery. Unfortunately, com­ pensatory damage awards (and the lawyers who want to get their share of them) have made the court system into the new lottery system. The idea of awarding compensatory damages is quite simple, punish the wrongdoer by taking from them something they hold dear (i.e. money) in the hopes thal they will work hard to avoid even more costly future punishments. I believe that compen­ satory damages are a reasonable and probably somewhat effective form of corporate (rather than corporal) punishment; no part ofthis money should, however, go to the individual or the lawyer who brought the suit. The damage award is where the wronged party is compensated. I don’t have any perfect solution to the question of where the compensatory damage award should go; I only know that the current system is completely and horrifically wrong. The money should go to a fund distributed on the federal level to improve the quality of life of everyone (vague, eh?), but safeguards must be enacted to ensure thal desire for additional money in that fund never translates into the frivolous lawsuit climate we have today.

1 would not want the federal government to sud­ denly begin prosecuting more often simply be­ cause it wants to fill its own pockets. Anyway, the thought is incomplete.

I don’t know if there are any UFOs or ghosts out there haunting our nights. Nothing has yet convinced me that there are such things, and yet I cannot deny that the world would be infinitely more interesting if there were. The existence of ghosts would mean that life does not end in death, only that it changes form (something that many are willing to believe based only upon faith). The existence of and friendship with the little men in the UFOs could lead to some phenomenal leaps in humanity and technology (savingcountless hours, dollars, and lives); unless they kill us all or something. My only point in mentioning these is that things such as UFOs and ghosts arc generally considered the subjects of lame science and dis­ reputable scientists, despite the fact that the self­ described “ real” scientists have not really both­ ered to investigate the matter. There may be no valid UFO or ghost sightings. I’m certainly not trying to suggest that there are; I can only say that it seems peculiar that an issue which has so many adherents and such far reaching consequences is so little studied by a society some of whose institutions would merrily fork over $500,000 to W PI in grant money to study differential equa­ tions.

And now, back to the supposed point of this column...

The Alps Glide Point ($69) claims to be the next generation in pointing devices. If this is the case, I think I will begin buying up the remaining mice for my own private cache. The design and the idea arc pretty simple. Instead of a mouse thal you roll for miles on a desktop, the Glide Point has

a credit card) on which you slide your fingers.

There arc two buttons below the sensing pad, and one programmable one above. You can almost completely avoid using the buttons, though, by double-tapping your finger on the sensor pad (which counts as a double click). The sensing pad doesn’t sense where your finger is, it senses the movement of your finger. The device is not pressure sensitive. If I remember correctly, it works by setting up thousands of little magnetic fields via an array of tiny inductors (essentially very small wire coils); the presence of your finger affects the nearby magnetic fields that the induc­ tors create and this change in the current going to some inductors gets translated into a coordinate location (it is something like this, anyway). I tried learning to operate this thing with my right foot, thinking that my ability to interlace wilh a com­ puter would just be truly dazzling if I never had to take my hands off the keyboard. When that failed, I figured maybe I'd just try and leam to use my fingers. When thal failed I sent it back to the mail­ order place from which it came. It may be a truly remarkable product. It may just be that both my toes and fingers are somewhat larger than the average Glide Point user (my digits are not freak­ ish or anything, they’re just appropriate for my somewhat above average height). The problem I consistently had with the Glide Point is that it was impossible to get the exactness in control of the pointer that I had with a mouse. 1 could gel the pointer near where I wanted, but never exactly where I wanted. In the end, I would have to try and make minor corrections by rolling my finger/toe.

This method rarely workedeffectivcly. The pointer would always jump around on me, leading to incredible frustration and a longing for my mouse.

The only fair and sound advice I can give is: if you’re really thinking about it, buy it locally, try it out, and don’t get rid of your mouse just yet.

This past spring I bought the Academically Priced Borland C++ 4.50 ($99) from the W PI bookstore. It will probably be the only time in my personal history when purchasing something at the W PI bookstore meant I saved money. I have gotten the two free updates since then (current version is now 4.52). I’ve always liked Borland, since they came out with the then revolutionary integrated development environment (ID E) of Turbo Pascal version 1.0 sometime around 1986.

I’ve used Borland Turbo Pascal, Turbo Pascal for Windows, and now C++ (for Windows, NT, 95, DOS ). 1think the critical thing to remember with any development platform is that they all do essentially the same thing. You can write a program in Visual Basic that can do everything another program written in Borland C++ can do.

There are peculiarities and limitations in each language, but almost all can be overcome. Knowl­ edge of one platform is never a waste; if you become skilled in any one language you can switch to any other fairly quickly. I chose Borland C++ because I had liked their products in the past and I had heard gcxxl things about this one. There is a wide selection of alternatives. The ones I have heard most favorable things about are Microsoft's Visual Basic and Watcom’s C++.

Visual Basic seems to be a good programming language for people new to programming, though its flexibility makes it useful for programmers of

wide range of libraries (V BXs) for developing graphical user interface (GUI) items. Borland C++ and other languages can use these VBXs, but they’re not as easy to implement as in Visual Basic. I have heard of some limitations in the current version of Visual Basic, which includes an inability to directly access dynamically linked libraries (DLLs). There are ways to get around this limitation, however.

Watcom’s C++ is particularly well suited to those people trying to develop identical code for multiple platforms (including Windows NT, Win­ dows 3.x, OS/2 2.x, 32-bit extended DOS, Novell NLM, and more). Those fine people in Waterloo, Ontario who bring us the Maple computer algebra system do all their stuff in Watcom.

If you're going to get Borland C++ and have or can borrow a CD ROM drive, get the CD ROM version of Borland C++. If you’re going to fully

things off CD ROM) you’ll be installing 100 M B worth of data (which is more floppy switching than any sane person would want.to do). The 25 lbs. of manuals are also included on the CD ROM as well as in paper form (which makes searching for things considerably easier). If you’re trying to leam Windows programming, don’t expect the Borland manuals to teach you.

They are only useful once you reach a certain level of understanding. To begin learning about using the Object Windows Library (the Borland approach lo controlling the graphical user inter­ face and all the features of Windows) you might want to take a look al Teach Yourself OWL Programming in 21 days, by Ian Spencer (one of the SAM S' series).

There’s my allotment for the week shot to hell... if you have any comments, suggestions, whatever, please pass them along.

A letter to the freshmen class Dear Class of ’99, The following is some information that I wish I knew when I was starting at W PI, back in ’91.

Places: The Wedge -The space connecting the dorms Daniels and Morgan. TheGrill is there too (used to be called mini-DAKA) -generally better food than D AKA, but you have to cither pay for it or use the extra money on your card.

Riley Commons - Next to Gompei’s (the pizza place) and underneath Riley. Just a big function hall.

Projects / Courses: if you’re interested, look into graduating early - or at least keep track of your credits. W PI allows you to blow one term and still graduate on time - so if you don’t NR any courses you’ll be done by the end of C-term Senior year. Also if you take any summer courses... or start ahead in Calculus you can be done halfway through Senioryear. But even if you want tograduate early, it is wonderful to have a light course load the end of Senior year, especially with a job search and a short attention span.

NR - not recorded! Get below a C and you have to take the class over again. Ouch, Blizzard -This is what your report card looks like when you get 3 N R ’s in one term. One NR is a snowflake.

Punting - When you think you can’t pass a class halfway through and you stop going. 1 did this once freshman year and then found out that 1could have passed with the scale. And you can always use the credit towards graduation even if it is not in your major.

Stiff -(or sufficiency ) -This is your Humani­ ties requirement. My advice -do it as quickly as possible. Don’t get me wrong -1 really like the Humanities, and did Drama for all my four years, but the Suff is something to do right away that will make your course load lighter later on.

People who left it till Senior year weren’t happy.

How to do it - you need five Humanities

classes that are related to each other. Then you choose and advisor and a project. (Most people take the courses freshman year and do the project B term sophmore year.)

IQ P - Usually done Junior year. I highly recommend going abroad - you get the project done in one term instead of three, and its a lot of fun. I went to England. My roommates went to Puerto Rico -and loved it! If you go abroad, they choose your advisor for you, so hope forthe best.

What you can decide about is your partners.

Think about who you want a lot - it can make or break a project. If you stay at W PI to do your project, again, ask around about advisors to find the best one for you.

MQP- Senior year. Too far away. You don’t have to worry about it now -start planningjunior year. My advice - start A-term. Trying to finish your MQP D-term is terrible when all you’re thinking about is graduating and finding a job or getting into grad school.

Graduating with distinction - Getting 18 A ’s OR A ’s on all your three projects. High Distinc­ tion is both. Think about it now because you can get A ’s freshman year that will help a lot. They make your transcript look a lot better.

Clubs I Activities: Definitely do a lot. You'll miss out if you don't get involved. Sports are pretty good, and the Greek system at W PI is huge. Do your homework before you join anything - make sure you can afford the time and financial commit­ ment, and talk to people already involved in it for their opinions.

Email is great - lake advantage of it. If you don't have a clue, go to the CCC and grab someone and they’ll show you the ropes. Every­ one uses it to send messages on campus, and you can send lo friends at other colleges too.

If you have any questions, ask your RA. I loved W PI. and would go there again in a sec­ ond. I hope you find this information helpful.

Good luck and best wishes.

Kristin Sullivan, Class of ’95

Reviving the Goat’s Head Rivalry?

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CDC...

The CDC staff will answer your questions on career and employment related issues.

Questions can be submitted via campus mail to CDC, posted to wpi.cdc or dropped off in our office on the Third Floor of Boynton Hall.

interest to you. Lastly, you will earn $10 to $ 1 2 per hour while on co-op.

Please contact Mary Beth Harrity, Co-op Director, at 831-5260 or mharrity@wpi.edu if you arc interested in co-op. She is still accept­ ing Juniors for the Spring ’96 co-op period.

W hat are the benefits of going on co-op?

I am not sure that I want to delay graduation for six months.

How can CDC help me with graduate school selection, admissions and preparation?

Recruiters who come to hire our stu­ dents consistently tell us that the two most significant items they look for on a resume are pre­ graduation experience and a high G PA .

The best form of pre-graduation experi ence is a cooperative educa tion. More and more employers such as General Electric are using cooperative education as their primary means to bring “ new hires” into their organi­ zations. Within five years, G.E. plans to have 50% of their entry-level hires be former co­ op or summer students.

For six months, you work 40 hours a week using the knowledge and skills you have received from your coursework. Addition­ ally, it makes you more aware of the day-today operations of industry and provides you an opportunity to see what career paths are of

It is never too early to start planning and preparing for graduate school. CDC has graduate school directories and catalogs, reference books on how to increase your chances to be selected to the graduate school of your choice, graduate admis­ sions exams such as G R E ’s and G M A T ’s and workshops thal cover the whole graduate school process.

The “ Preparation for Graduate School” Workshop will be offered on October 3rd (to­ day) at 7:00 p.m. at Kinnicutt Hall.

Career Development Center is located on the Third Floor, Boynton Hall HOURS: 8:30 to 5:00, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8:30 to 5:30 on Wednes­ days PHONE: 831-5260

[Ed. note: The following piece was written by a member of the Newspeak Staff, and does not necessarily represent the opinions o f the entire staff. ] As reported in last week'sNewspeak, six mem­ bers of the Class of 1996 stole the Goat’s Head in an attempt to revive the age-old tradition of the Goat’s Head Rivalry. As a senior, 1 have been appalled at the attention this group has received for their prank and for the numerous crimes they committed in order to obtain the sacred goat.

First off, these individuals stalked a member of the W PI staff and assaulted him in the Higgins House parking lot. They stole both goats, one of which has historical value, and defaced it, hav­ ing the buttocks of the old goat engraved with a 9 and a 6.

Apparently all four of the above crimes, pun­ ishable by law, were forgotten because of the fact that the intent of these indiv iduals was to reignite a W PI tradition. That’s completely irrelevant and beside the point. I am extremely displeased with W PI officials for failure to press criminal charges against the group just because their intentions were good. Remember, “the mad to hell is paved with good intentions.”

I am a member of the Class of 1996. I am not too proud of that fact at this moment, because 1 just watched members of my class, who happen to have been members of Skull, the so-called senior honor society disrupt the singing of W P I’s alma mater by running across the football field at half-time with a banner that said “Class of 1996 has your goat!” I never even saw the goat itself, but as the alma mater ended, no one in the

stands applauded because the singers from the Student Alumni Society and Simple Harmonic Motion had been upstaged by the rowdy seniors.

Now, rumor has it that SA S helped orches­ trate the disruption, but I still find it highly inappropriate. It’s hard enough to get people to leam our alma mater (it’s a bit outdated and stuffy) much less have any respect for it. I was really quite annoyed by the fact that these stu­ dents were not applauded for their performance because of members of my class.

Even more disturbing is the fact that these individuals acted on behalf of my class, in the name of the Class of 1996. A couple friends and I volunteered at the game to assist other mem­ bers of the class in showing the goat at the game, but we were turned away because they “ already had people lined up" for “ the presentation.”

Now, if this “ presentation" was to be by the Class of 1996, why weren’t they glad to have the help? Certainly, if they were afraid of the juniors plotting to steal it, they would have realized that there is safety in numbers!

All I can say is thal I really question the revival of this rivalry if it is to be between a few select members of each class, as it seems to be between members of Skull and the juniors in SAS. It's really not fair to act on behalf of 600 plus people if you’re going to commit four crimes punishable by law to obtain the goal and then pin it on those people.

Of course, most would say that I am just jealous not to be a member of Skull, but frankly, elitist and secretive groups just aren’t my style.

That, however, is another issue,..

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Thanks to all who came to the egg drop on Friday, and congratulations to the winners! The concrete toboggan race will he happening soon, and since W P I A SC E will be hosting this event, lots of help will be needed. Assistance will be needed both in the construction of the toboggan and logistics of setting up the race. Ifyou would like to get involved, email galad@wpi or truebe@wpi and we’ll set you up. It should be a blast!

Como estas? Comment t’allez-vous? Eppidi irukka? Apa khabar? Ni hao ma? Asalam Walaikum? Aap kaise ho? Tomra kemon aachho? Yo Jem Eo Tteo Sae Yo? Si ke qene?

Como vae? kak tii djellaesh? come vai?

Cha~o...oh yeah, and How are you ?

Ok, how many of the above greetings did you understand? What? Only a few? Ok... you need to hang around with more international students... more people from the ISC! We’re really cool, really...you might actually enjoy hanging around us and getting all the free food and participating in cool events and undertak­ ing all kinds of issues and...(I could go on, but we’ll let our actions speak for us)!!!

Ok, as Jimmy would say: Serious Stuff: We have a meeting ( finally!) this week, on Wednes­ day 4th, at 4:30pm in Morgan A. We also had a meeting last week -just the officers of the ISC and the presidents of the member clubs (those that showed up anyway, hmmm <sarcastic cough>). Hopefully, this meeting will lead to bigger and better things in the future.

We could say lots more stuff, such as gossip but we don’t want to offend people. For ex­ ample, we could talk about getting angry, pimples, singing in the showers, and hot air.

But we won't...unlessyouask for it! See you all at the meeting!!!!

ASME Hi Guys! Well A-TERM is almost over— I hope classes are going well for everybody. Not to make anybody nervous, but you now have less than two weeks to get those term projects in. Congrats go out to those of you that sur­ vived your last kinematics project. Well here’s what’s up for the next 2 weeks. We have a meeting Oct. 5 (T H U R S D A Y ) @ 7:30 in Salisbury 105. We have lots to talk about for Bterm, but I promise 1 won’t keep you longer than 20 minutes. We have a pizza studybreak Oct. 10 @ 8:00 in Atwater Kent 219— Rumor has it fifty pizzas are going to be stopping by.

Hope to see you guys at the meeting! Talk to you next week. -John

Chinese Student Association Hiya hiya hiya ! Geee why does it have to be me? Is it fate? Is it Meant-to be? Why am I * writing this week’s article, tell me, how many of you actually read this?

Alright, as usual, 1have to kinda report what happened during the past week. We had 3 volleyball games, we lost one and our oppo­ nents forfeited the other 2. Well, that gives us a record at the first round as.. C SA (A ) 3-1 and C SA (B ) 2-2, hopefully CSA(A) will get into the playoff without any problem. As forCS A (B ), we might need some luck. As heard from our SC, the playoff should be this week, and hey dear CSA members, please come and cheer your own team on. You know, they played so hard to get into the finals, I think we should show some support!

Ok, and now Term A has almost come to an end, So what is CSA going to do?? Well, actually since finals are approaching, the CSA officers think it should be time to study, so the C SA doesn’t really have a lot planned for the rest of the term (except forthe intramurals). But hey... there are rumors spreading saying that the CSA might hold a trip to DC during the AB term break, but hey, remember, it is just RUM ORS, ok? Don’t blame me if it is not true.

But if that is a fact, 1 am sure you will hear something about it real soon.

Oh, our Dear SC wants to tell you that, for Bterm intramurals, there will be basketball, table tennis, and bowling, stay tuned for more info.

T-shirts will be ready soon too, so be pre­ pared to pay!

Oh well, I guess this is good enough... I can sleep now..

ZZZ Z Z ZZ Z Zzzzzzzzz..... *snore snore*.......zzzzzz..... *Ouch* hey who hit me? Oh, it is the Dragon News Letter Committee, Huh? What? Oh ok, I will tell them....Ok, dear CSA members, the Dragon News Letter will be coming out soon, so prepare your mailbox for such an A W E ­ SO M E newsletter.

Good night ! (hopefully, you’ll read this at night) ZZZ Z Z ZZ Z Zzzzzzzzz..... *snore snore*.......zzzzzz.....

Christian Bible Fellowship With a little over a week left of A-term 95, we are on the final stretch. Let us not forget the Lord in this busy time. Rather, let us increase our prayers to Him to help us through this time.

Come Tuesday night at 8:00 for Prayer and Share in Morgan A. Friday Night Fellowship is Friday at 7:00 pm in the Lower Wedge this week, and most every week. This Friday, look for info on the camping trip that will be the first weekend of break. Join us for spOrts Saturday morning at 10:30 in front of Alumni.

This is a time to have fun and relieve stress. “ But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is jesus Christ.” I Corinthians 3:10-1 1 (N IV ). Are you building your life on the right founda­ tion, or on a foundation that won’t hold? If you are on the right foundation, are you using the right building materials? I challenge you to base your life on the foundation God has provided, the gospel of Jesus Christ. I also challenge you lo make sure you arc using the right building materials. Materials that are fitting for the foundation; love, obediancc, servanthood, faith...

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Lens and Lights Well, it’s that time again! Thanks again to all those who showed up to the training event.

It went really well, except for those dam lights!

1would like to thank CardBoard Bob for play­ ing for us. We will try another one next term.

Homecoming! What, no mic on a boat? But that means we can’t test our water on mic theory! Anyway, go freshmen and sopho­ mores. Get that Goat Head! And then party hardy! I think there will be very few sober people on campus.

Get ready for M.W. Rep. All this week you can find the crews laboring in Gompei’s. Stop on by and help them out. They could sure use it. Also, for Oct. 10th, come hang with LnL and chill out before all those nasty finals. We will be set up in Gompei’s playing music for you and popping up popcorn. If you get stressed out, just hop on down and check us out.

Well, time for me to go. If you want to hear more random thoughts, or just want to see what really goes on at an exec board meeting, stop on

by Beckett Conference room Monday at 4:30.

My random thoughts are beginning to get to me. Hope everyone has a nice week, and I ’ll see you all next week.

Masque Come one. come all as M W Repertory TheatreCo. etc. presents: Salmon Sandwiches by Andrew Anderson and Sister Mary Ignatious Explains It All by Chris­ topher Durang Shows are Oct. 5,6, & 7 at 8pm in RileyCommons(Gompei’s). Two great com­ edies to help you cheer up for finals! Also, Clyde Unity Theatre of Edinburgh, Scotland is presenting: A Little Older by John Binnie on Oct 12 & 13 at 8pm in Alden Hall. The Thurs­ day night showing will be free to any of you with a W PI I.D. They will also be holding an Acting Workshopthat Friday, time T.B. A. Lissa LaGreca (lissa@wpi) is in search of freshman who may want to learn the ropes of W PI theatre.

Email her your interests and she’ll pair you up with a mentor with the same interests. We promise we won’t bite. Alpha Psi Omega, our own honors fraternity, is putting on a Masquer­ ade Ball in conjuction with Bilaga Oct. 28 at 8pm. Tickets are $8 advance, $10 at the door.

There will be dancing, free food, and contests.

And, of course, Friday 4:30pm in the Green Room behind Alden Stage!

Men’s Crew Hey everybody, good work in the Textile Regatta on Sunday. Now we’ve got the Head of the Connecticut this weekend, so everyone get to practice this week so we can get in some really effective time on the water. So far still no word on the Head of the Fish in N.Y. so this is probably the last race for varsity. Novices get out and kick some butt in the Halloween Re­ gatta. Everyone check the homepage (http:// www.wpi.edu/~mcrew) out this week, because I plan to add at least 4 new sections in the next couple of weeks. -John

Muslim Students Association Dear Brothers and Sisters.

Assaalm-O-Alaikum, Hopefully everybody is having a great term so far. M SA is busy scheduling events for the ongoing semester.

The deadline for the newsletter articles is com<t ing up. Please submjt*<hcm to the executive

committee as soon as possible. If you can’t turn them in personally then please submit them to my mail box 165. We are still having weekly prayer meetings on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. in Founders basement, so please try to make them.

If any of you are interested in learning arabic, Worcester State is offering an introductory level class for $ 150. For the class to be offered, a minimum of 8 people arc required. Right now only 5 people are registered. If you want to know more contact Enith M orillo at enith@wpi.wpi.edu. Also, brothers and sisters we also need to write articles for Newspeak.

You can submit those to my mailbox also. Best wishes from the M SA Eexecutive Committee.

Wassalam- O-Alaikum.

Newman Club A great time was had by the twenty four members of the Club that went apple picking on the 16th. However more important than the great fun time, was the fact that the apples picked were donated to Youville House , a shelter for battered women and their children. It was great to see the joy on the small youngsters’ faces as they ate fresh apples. On Sunday the 24th. rumor has it that the ladies at the tie-dye T-shirt event voted that Jim Palvat ‘s shirt was the best. We understand that Jim ’s shirt is now in Ct. We are wondering who is the big secret.

The agenda committee met on Tuesday the 26th and planned several events including an­ other pasta and video night plus a trip to LaSallette to see the lights followed by supper at Wright’s Chicken Farm. The latter meal will depend if John D, our chef, makes the reserva­ tions in time.

Freshman dinners have begun, so watch your mail box for your invitation. Fr. S ’s dinner are not too bad for an Irishman, so give them a try.

Oh, yes, the Club members would like to thank Ryan Abrahan and Becky Prine for their work on the tie-dye T-Shirt event and all the cooks that helped, or better still, took the place of Fr. S in doing the cooking.

Pre-Law Society T U E SD A Y , OCT. 3, 4:30 A K I26 N EX T M E E T IN G !!!!!!

Hey everyone!! To those who didn’t at­ tend the last meeting (which was almost ev­ eryone) here are some highlights. A copy of

the constitution was handed out and dis­ cussed briefly. Any suggestions for a new name for our society? If you want a copy, contact Prof. Rissmiller, Wendell Jones or come to the next meeting. (T O D A Y 4:30 AK126!!!) Changes to the constitution will be discussed at the upcoming meeting. The first issue of “ The Verdict” is a go. Prof.

Rissmiller has a few ideas that are going to be put in it. If anyone wants to put an article in, start a column, or just help out contact Prof.

Rissmiller, Charles Prescott or Wendell Jones.

(T O D A Y 4:30 A K 126!!!)

The faculty is going to vote on the minor in Law and Technology at the October 12 meet­ ing. This will very likely be approved, so start signing up for those law courses if you haven’t already. For all of the engineers and others out there don’t forget that a new course in IN T E L ­ L E C T U A L PR O PERTY (Patent) L A W will be offered in D ’96. The Prof. and time is not set in stone yet. Keep coming to the meetings to find out the latest. (TO DAY 4:30 AK126!!!)

Reminder that LSA T registration forms are due October 27 for the December 2 test. There is another test in February, but it will probably be too late if you want to go to law school in the fall of ’96.

Just in case you havn’t noticed yet I’ll give one final reminder— M E E T IN G T O D A Y 4:30!!!!! Even if you have the slightest interest in going to law school or are just interested in law, come and see what we’re all about. See you there!!

Rugby Team Hi, just another column...

Rugby Team Loses! For the first time in two years, the W P I Rugby Team lost a regu­ lar season game. The Ruggers started off slugishly, but rebounded almost in time to snatch victory from defeat when Eddie’s kick sailed wide left in the closing moments. The final score was only 10-8 , but it was the most painful loss in recent memory. It’s hard to recall any highlights in this game, probably because 1can’t remember most of it. On the bright side, the " B ” side had an outstanding game, winning handily. Phil Roy, Johnny 5, Ryan Clement, and Ben Aldrich had strong games in the victory. This week we play UR1 at home for homecoming. Game time is 10 :00.

"Do We Really Want to Resurrect Star Wars?"

Lecture Presentation by Dr. R obert M. Bowman , Lt. Colonel U.S.A.F. Ret.

Dr. Bowman, who received his Ph.D. from Cal Tech, is the former director o f Star Wars operations for Presidents Ford and Carter. A veteran of 101 combat missions, Dr. Bowman is a recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, and twice the Gold Medal of the Society of American Military Engineers. The Los Angeles Times called him "the best public speaker in America."

The Republican Contract with America calls for an expansion and rejuvenation of the SDI pro­ gram of the Reagan years. Dr. Bowman’s lecture will address that issue.

The lecture and slide presentation is free and open to the public. Tuesday, October 10, 1995 at 7:00pm in Kinnicut Hall, Salisbury Labs, WPI.

Funded in part through an award from the WPI Student Speakers Fund.

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G reek C orner axp Rush is already half over! Don’t miss out on going Greek frosh. U definitely shouldn't miss CASINO NIGHT this THURS.. You win all sorts of prizes. But also don’t forget about Saturday’s event -sports in the Park w/ AGD sorority and the bonus event - Wooostah Iceeats @night (first game of the season). So keep on coming down.

The Crow version of pong went bananas as usual this week. Enuf of the moose talk already.

Homecoming went awesome this past weekend.

Many Grads of old came from far and away to sec the ole chapter hall. Everyone was in awe of the nearly completed Semmel Poker table. Thanks goes out to the Grads and Poppish for making this weekend happen.

By the way, Stewart ended up buying a go-cart from the Millbury auction (reason: more leg room than the plastic car). Someone explain to our faithful Nacho officer the "good" friend theory is out the door. Under other yearnings, keep calling up Foster (mmh!?). Speaking of Foster, he lived up to his all mighty cluebagness this week by not only locking himself out of 49, but out of his room - all in one day. Did anyone see peeper’s picture on a milk carton? If he'd stop by, we’d wish him happy bday. Don't taunt happy-fun lampshade dog. Alex decided to open up a new chain of PFC (Portuguese Fried Chicken) after this week’sfried chicken meal. Have a good one. Be men. Another week goes by. Little Martha, take me home.

ATA Homecoming was great! Good to see all the alumnae, thanks to Ange for her organizing of everything. Great job to everyone that helped on the golf hole, I wouldn't really teeter toner on it, but it was very cute. Thanks to KAP for hosting our homecoming social. Congrats to panhell for another great rush info. The ice cream was good too. To all the freshmen, remember rush isn’t a committment, just a great way to meet a whole bunch of people, if you have any questions ask a Rho Chi. Thanks lo Crow for inviting us to their rush event, it was fun, see ya this weekend. Let’s see, Lexie gets a big hug and Stacy gets of course the spirit hat! Keep up the great work. Wow lots of r-notes this week, jill have you ever considered becoming a writer?! And Franchy you might want to get your hearing checked! Just kidding w/ ya! Thanks to Amy and Campus Police for keeping us informed and safe. Thanks girls for

helping out chorale by buying loads of bagels. I think it was pretty sucessful, we’ll have to do bagels again next week! Don’t forget there is a rush wksp that is very very important, 7 on thurs inthecpt. room. The term is almost over and that’s all 1 have for now. PS. Happy unbirthday to everyone whose b-day is in the summer.

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ATQ PK and bugeye buckley were the midnight marauders this past Tuesday night. If Chad gels thal bacteria thing from the water we will all die, never mind those fifty cases in western Mass. Rad and chopper have built a new friendship. Drew named his new lazy squirrel Fatty, after his long lost pal from After Deck. Aviv played the skin flute for the holiday this past week as displayed on the first floor board. Socha and Slade went shopping at Bloomingdale’s for the twenty five percent saleon pumps. Lang, if you want tobe Jim Duggan you're supposed to slam the 2x4 on your shoulders, not in between your eyes. Justin, What's up? What’s up duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude?

Kervin cool Cd, go to bed it’s a school night. 1love and respect all my brothers. 1mean it.(Greek)

the foyer for you. Thunderino you dope stop breaking walls.

LA E RUSH NEW S: This Thursday is S A E ’s trip to the dog track. This is a great time and should not be missed. If you haven’t started rushing yet or aren’t sure if you want to, come anyways. It is a great time to get to know the brothers and for us to get to know you. Monday the 9th is study night and movies. Come down to study, hang out and get help from people who have already taken the courses. Also, feel free to come down for lunch or dinner, or just to hang out.

With rush well under way, you must be think­ ing that the rush chairmen are pretty busy. Well, you would be right. Sal is so busy that he won’t give anyone an inch, or even two for that matter.

Ken is under so much pressure, that he is having a problem balancing out his responsibilities and activities. Good for him that he has an under­ standing roommate who is willing to take care of at least one of those responsibilities for him.

Charlie is also so busy that he has no time for anything else. He once again made it on brown house, third deck’s list...is he or isn’t he? Five Apples

AXA Let’s hear it for the music of Smokin’ Ben Findlen and his band Gepetto. Great Show at the AGD social. Maybe you could play a round of Amazing Grace for Sweetah sometime. Good Retreat, at least I hope it was. 1spent 9/1O’s of it sick in bed. Denny's-John, have you tripped any waitresses lately. SSHHH! It’s 5.0, running three deep. RUSH, all you freshmen had best get down to some of our events. This week’s highlights were Turkey Bowling and Watermelon Smash­ ing. Anybody who grabs a bloody, dirt-covered, half-frozen bird and slides at some pins for fun has got to be cool. As for our other event, in the future guys, maybe we could just fondle the melons?

Devang, that’s some expensive parking. Bills

F I JI Since there are no lawsuits yet we w ill try one more time. Gove next time you want C hinese food do not trade your jacket for it. Fiorino I’d eat it.

Dr. O'brien junior M.E. Mike Busnach i mean Banks what is the special of the day? Tossing a softball around. Titus there isasquawkmonsterin

in Well, well, well... Hey Happy, did you get a battery yet? Hope you make it back from Florida safely. Gonna go next week, too? Hey Freshmen!

Come down and eat! It’sbetterthan Daka, believe me! We’re into the third week of rushing and already we're beginning to fade. Let’s bring the psyche back up, guys!

Homecoming, homecoming, homecoming.

Stay tuned next week for a damage report... of things and people. 30 years! Have we really been around that long? That’s what the composites say.

Come join us for our 31st year!

70’s party! W e’re all getting .... (fill in the blank). Hey, are any of us going to be up to go lo this dinner? W e’ll see. Nobody has to drive.

That’s the smartest thing we’ve done yet! Boy that bus driver's gonna love us. Bring me alumni waisi-bands!

Well, that will wrap it up for this week. The house is looking good. Not much has happened since we’re all working steadily on the house.

Now let’s try not to trash it too quickly, ok? Yeah, right!

See you next Tuesday...

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Buddy has been sent to the halfway house after waking to see his best friend has up and joined the pale frackles from Planet Aquamarine. Lucas watches as the pup is squished into a straightjacket that would choke a shitzsu. lettuce paws for a moment of silence., .enough. This week was a real blast! A team recycled KA P like an overstuffed bag ofstank Nasty Braucans. You just cannot stop the copper lop (mai ne man). Nark defied his name and was spotted wandering the dwelling with bloodshot eyes all last week. Suspicions are that Harris is turning all C M ’s lo the dark side. E E ’s all got caught in a huge bear trap set in Atwater Kent, therefore unable to make it to any house functions. Send food...waffles with cheese, jelly, and a smudge of Huff sounds good. Bruno's got

some good recipes, check w/him. Baker watches long movie and decides to become a vampire, only rising between 10pm and 5am. Yo’, hog sniffas...isn’t this enuff for this week? Yar it is.

Peace, and refried brains.

TKE Here we are again. Apologies for last week’s absence. Lots to talk about this week since Grudge Match must be mentioned since it was the topic of last week’s comer. You loved the mess and the memories will be forever! Good job on the event Don. Thanks to all of the AGD’s who came down for the event, hope you had an awesome time! Also thanks to all of the Friends of the Fraternity who have been to the rush events especially grudge match and casino night. Speak­ ing of which. Casino night '95 a totally awesome time! Congrats to all of the freshmen who won prizes, and thanks for taking the Tron game! Oh whatever will we do without it? Billards and Patriot cheerleaders, you like that! Ohhhhhh Yeeeaaahhhh!!! If you haven’t had a chance to check out T K E yet, come on down, we still have some awesome rush events coming up, and you’re always welcome for a meal. Let's not forget Ray since this is his big two days here! If you haven’t heard already, the T K E 4 on 4 Midnight Volley­ ball Tournament starts tonight and teams can be registered until noon today. $ 100.00 first place prize. Even if you’re not playing, stop by and hang out for a bit, lots o fun guaranteed. To make up for last week, we’re doing two Top Five lists this week: First, the Top Five uses for Grudge Match sludge 5) Shampoo and conditioner in one 4) Cure for jock itch 3) KY jelly substitute 2) Aphrodisiac 1) Quick lunch. Second, the Top Five things to do at T K E Casino night 5) Win the coolest prizes of all casino nights 4) Video gambling, can’t top that! 3) Shower a brother for a few million 2) Bond with a brother while duct taped to a party room pole 1) Have someone pay you millions of cans of Spam to grind with a Friend of the Fraternity Check in again next week, a-ba-bye for now.

An remember...TKE PRIDE!!!

And again...The plague is spreading, I think its time we quarantine our house... Or maybe we should just secede from the union now and start exporting Tie-Dyes and Parties...

Can someone say lntramurals...Congrats to both the A team and B Team volleyball squads for sweeping the week, the A-Team had victories over Kagle and Fiji, while the B Team beat Phi Sig Kap and the ASC. Meanwhile condolences to the football teams...At least we had Ray on our side...

As for rush, how about no brother can come to a rush event unless he brings a freshman...Say is Koelle rushing...

So the plan is we move to hahncmann, T K E moves to our house and the homeless guy moves there. No, no, we move down the block they cross the street and the homeless guy moves into our house...

Its almost term break! Thank God. well. I guess there is nothin’ left to do except sit on the front porch... Any way hope everyone had a good week­ end and solved the mystery of the unknown party?

Next week, finals, fun for everyone. So long for now, I think its lime for a fire drill-Jabba

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Beyond the Farm A weekly e-mail news summary ____________ WORM) EDITION For ihe week preceding this Saturday, September 30th, 1995, here’s what happened Beyond the Farm: [The Week of the Protest?!

Israel and the Palestinian Authority reached a new peace accord Sep 24th. Under the agreement.

Israel will withdraw its troops from unpopulated areas and six major towns in the West Bank. In addition, Israeli troops will withdraw from the West Bank town of Hebron, except in areas occupied by Jewish settlers. PA and PLO leader Yassar Arafat had to defend the plan against criticism from radical elements Sep 25th, and 4()0 Jewish settlers held a protest march Sep 30th in Hebron. The accord was officially signed in Washington DC Sep 28th.

Ross Perot announced on Larry King Live Sep 25th lhat he will be forming a third political party, to be called the Independence Party. The timing of the announcement was designed to allow ad­ equate time to get on the ballot in several states, including California. Perot claims he does not intend to be the party’s presidential nominee, but will provide the funding (about $25 million) for the party to become established. Any nominee of the party would have to support its balancedbudget. term-limit, and fiscal responsibility plat­ form. Colin Powell has not ruled out running as the Independence Party’s nominee.

The President signed a bill Sep 30th which will keep the government running for six weeks of the new fiscal year while budget negotiations con­ tinue. The House passed the emergency measure Sep 28th, and the Senate followed suit Sep 29th. despite adamant statements from Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) Sep 24th that he would only pass 2-3 week extensions. The Re­ publicans are being highly complimented for their willingness to pass the measure and keep govern­ ment from shutting down.

In the Balkans: • The Bosnian government, apparently emboldened by recent military advances, announced Sep 24th that it would not partici­ pate in talks on the form of the future Bosnian government.

• US envoy Richard Holbrooke announced Sep

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25th that the Bosnian government would be rejoining peacc talks after meeting with presi­ dent Alijah Izetbegovik.

All sides in the Bosnian conflict agreed Sep 27th to the form the Bosnian government will take after fighting stops. A joint assembly made up of representatives from the Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Muslims will run a central government.

Renewed fighting was reported around Serbheld Banja Luka Sep 29th.

Richard Holbrooke moved to Serbia Sep 30th after failing in cease-fire negotiations with the Bosnian government.

They’re Talking About It: The Miami Wal-Mart store pulled a shirt which featured a “ woman as president" theme Sep 2 1st, saying lhat it "conflicted with our commitment to family values." After protests from a variety of groups, the shirt was returned to the shelves Sep 25th.

In Shorts: • 3000 participated Sep 24th in a protest of the power-shar­ ing agreement proposed in Sri Lanka.

• A French teen killed eight people before turn­ ing a gun on himself Sep 24th.

• 800 residents of Okinawa, Japan turned out Sep 25th to protest the treatment of three U.S. soldiers who have all but admitted to raping a 12-year old Japanese girl. The US claims it will turn over the three to Japanese custody as soon as they arc formally charged.

• Iraqi Kurds attacked and killed 42 Turkish Kurds Sep 25th.

• Mount Ruapehu roared back to life in New Zealand Sep 25th in an active eruption, though most nearby residents were safe.

• Closing arguments opened in the O J .Simpson case Sep 26th. Marcia Clark and Chris Darden spoke for the prosecution (Sep 26th and 27th). reiterating the scientific evidence, while Johnny Cochran and Barry Scheck spoke for the defense (Sep 27th-29th), prima­ rily painting the case as one of incompetence and racism in the Los Angeles police depart­ ment. After Marcia Clark closed with a re­

w ...it is about tapping an ocean of creativity, passion and energy that, as far as we can see, has no bottom and no shores.

iteration of video footage of an abused Nicole Brown-Simpson Sep 29th, the case finally closed. Jury deliberations finally begin next week.

• Rebels in Sierra Leone killed 1(X) civilians in three towns Sep 26th.

• Gunmen killed 12 people South Africa’s KwaZulu province Sep 26th; about 130 have died in two weeks of ANC-lnkatha violence.

William Guede, a former Intel employee, was charged Sep 26th of selling proprietary infor­ mation to competitor Advanced Micro De­ vices.

• After he testified in hearings about possible campaign funding w. misconduct, Colombian President Ernesto Samper found himself under gunshot fire. Twobody■ \ guards were killed and one law\ yer injured when five gunmen fired at his car Sep 27th. fe ® / ’ The Senate passed a $62 bil' , / lion spending bill slashing ein ironmcntal, housing, and veteran's funding Sep 27th.

• The treasury department dis­ played a new $ 1(X) bill Sep 27th; all US paper currency will receive a makeover before the turn of the century to prevent counterfeiting.

Edgar Nicholas Mariscal. arrested recently for shooting a Mexican Cardinal, denied making a confession Sep 27th.

Timc-Wamer agreed Sep 27th to divest in the Interscope Label which produces rap albums; the move was hailed by right-wing groups.

Mercenary Bob Dcnaro led a coup in the Comoros Islands off Africa Sep 28th. Presi­ dent Mohamed Djohar is being held in prison as Denaro, a veteran of four previous at­ tempts, takes over the country.

Khaled Kelkal was killed in a shoot-out in Francc Sep 29th; he was the chief suspect in many of the recent bombings in that country.

The Senate finance committee passed its Medicare and Medicaid bills Sep 29th.

20,000 people turned out across France Sep 30th to protest nuclear tests.

200 more Palestinians were kicked out of Libya into the Egyptian desert Sep 30th as Libya continues its program of deporting all

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Palestinians; 5000 have been forced out so far.

• Physicist Stephen Hawking admitted Sep 30th that time travel may be possible, but never practical.

• Mexican Zapatista rebel leader Subcommander Marcos came out of hiding Sep 30th to make a brief statement to his followers.

The European community re-iterated that it would achieve a common currency by 1999 in meetings Sep 30th. Corrections: Banja Luka has not been taken by Bosnian government forces; the source of the story was a Bosnian spokesperson who obviously was spreading propaganda.

The'‘Unabomer” has been consistently spelled incorrectly in this publication in recent weeks.

Finally: Larry Walthers decided that a television wasn’t good enough in front of his sofa. Instead, he wanted to see all of southern California. So, the 33-year old attached a hot-air balloon to his sofa and took off into the air around Long Beach, CA. He achieved 10,000 feet of altitude and reportedly made eye contact with several pilots before land­ ing in a field. The FAA plans to file charges against Walthers for his exploit.

And that’s what happened Beyond the Farm.

Sources this week included A ll Things Con­ sidered (NPR), the Associated Press newswire, the BBC Newshour (BBC/PRI), the Christian Science Monitor, Newsdesk (BBC/PRI), the Reuters newswire, and Weekend Edition (NPR).

A special thank you goes to Joshuu Galanter.

Compiled by: Lance Gleich, Stanford CA Beyond the Farm is designed to provide a reasonably short summary of a week's events for people who would otherwise have no chance to keep up with current events. It may be distributed/forwarded/posted anywhere. Com­ ments, criticisms, and requests fo r e-mail sub­ scription additions or deletions should be emailedto “lance.gleich@leland.stanford.edu. ” “ http://w w w .Stanford. edu/~lglitch/btf/ btfhtm l" on the World Wide Web fo r back issues. Congratulations on keeping up with the world around you!

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Ja c k W elch , C E O How would you describe GE’s work environment? Open, inspiring, charged, fast-paced, non-bureaucratic, apolitical. We think you’ll agree these are particularly appealing adjectives.

We believe in being “boundaryless." We’ve taken down walls that divide people, elim inated hierarchies and stripped o u t bureaucratic processes company-wide. And it’s worked. We are a 60 billion dollar global enterprise whose extremely diverse range o f businesses are num ber one o r num ber two in their markets. Others look to us for m anagem ent best practices and our financial results have shareholders cheering.

We want to hear from Bachelor's and Master’s degree candidates. If you are bright, creative, passionate about your work and determ ined to m ake things happen, we want you to know we find these to be particularly appealing qualities.

We’ll be on campus this Fall.

Please check with the Placement Office for more details.

Hnd out more. Contact GE University Recruiting, P.O. Box 55250, Bridgeport, CT 06610. Or visit us on the World Wide Web at: http://wwwcareermosaic.com/cm/ge

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You may obtain singles in the Student Government Association Office (off the Wedge in Daniels Hall) during its normal business hours beginning October 3 through October 10.

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President Ed Parrish, pictured with (left to right) Chizzy Uchendu, SG A Secretary, Jennx Yambert, SG A Parlim entarian, M att Frieniuth, SG A Acting Vice-President, and Gregory Snow, SG A Treasurer, shares his opinions with those present at the open forum sponsored

by SG A which was held last Tuesday in the Low er Wedge.

To Apt. lR Hmmmm looks like there’s another leak or is it normal to have rain inside?

Now hiring exotic dancers, flexible hours, no experience necessary. Call (413) 536-0502

Only in our apt. would water leak from the floor... How odd... (Now shelly this one’s for You!)

BASKETBALL STARTS SO O N !

All new players interested in trying out for the varsity women’s basketball team must contact Coach Champion (x5063) before the end of “ A ’’term

Hey Leslie were your clothes done?!

B A S K E T B A L L M A N A G E R S W A N T ED Responsible individual to help with daily prac­ tices and game management. Work-study is available. Contact Coach Champion (x5063)

Bob next time you want to borrow some koolaid i’m gonna give you a little cup! =) Great golf girls...

... as opposed to a disorderly person who is not disturbing the peace...

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Thursday, September 21 3:58am - Becker PD advises of assault just occured, area of Highland St and Lincoln Sq., approximately 5’ 10” , baggy brown clothing, gray beard, officers check area.

9:20am - CCC top floor, two birds inside, Plant Services notified and they will take care of birds.

10:01 ani -Officer to meet with Worceseter PD re: ATM machine on Institute, workers at site and all secure.

5:22pm - Car trouble, a white Mazda has a dead battery and requested assistance.

6:00pm - Maintenance, Stratton air conditioner leaking badly, called in by professor.

7:46pm - Officer over to Institute Hall re: assault on Schussler.

9:15pm - Maintenance. Toilet, 2nd floor Institute Hall.

Friday, September 22 4:54pm - Report of a disabled vehicle on Institute Rd. near Stoddard.

7:23pm - Report of a very potent odor dominating Alumni Gym. 11:02pm - Becker PD reports fight at West and Highland Sts., Officers respond, W PD notified.

What's Happening Tuesday, October 3 6:00pm - SGA Open Meeting, Lower Wedge 7:00pm - Preparation for Graduate School Workshop, Kinnicutt Hall 7:15pm - Women’s Soccer vs. Mount Holyoke, Alumni Field 8:00pm - Storyteller: Cynthia Payne, Higgins House, $1 W PI, $3 Consortium Wednesday, October 4 Yom Kippur 7:00pm - Men’s Soccer vs. Nichols, Alumni Field

Saturday, September 23 1:39am -Check on welfare, report of intoxicated subject vomiting at Dean St. fraternity, officers respond.

2:50am - Suspicious person, call received from student re: individual encountered on West St. requesting money. Info relayed to patrols.

9:37am - Medical Emergency, 60 year old male, cut hand due to fall, Higgins Labs, Officer and EM S respond.

9:51am - Transport above subject to Memorial.

10:30am-Stray Dogs, Comer of Boynton and Institute, 3 Sheperd mixes, I attempted to bite senior citizen, officers respond. Animal Control notified.

2:00pm - No lights in Harrington, officers respond.

2:44pm - Removed 8 non-WPI students from Alumni.

2:47pm - Crank call from Project Center emergency line, persons believed to be those from Alumni.

3:15pm -Caller informs dispatch of a high pitched alarm or “whistle” coming from Morgan’s basement.

5:24pm - Medical, W PI student complains of sprained wrist while playing volleyball.

8:58pm - Possible drug violation, Morgan 2nd floor, called in by Morgan RA, officer responds.

Sunday, September 24 1:07am - Officers assisting with motor vehicle lockout, Salisbury & Wachusetf Sts. 2:10am - Noise complaint, vicinity of Dean St., loud music, officer responds.

3:54am - Officer assisting with WPD fire alarm at Humboldt Ave. fraternity.

10:48am - Suspicious person, officer with moped operator in Salisbury Gardens, W PD responds.

12:50pm - Plant Services request campus police to notify custodians in Alden to also prepare Riley Commons for function.

4:09pm - Building checks, Harrington 9 non students, Alumni 10 non students removed.

8:20pm - Medical, Student with broken arm at station. EMS. Monday, September 25 8:35pm - Well being of student checked on upon request of parent. Student not located, message left.

10:52pm - Balloons reported thrown from Daniels or Riley, officer investigates.

11:12pm - Employee into station to retrieve item recovered earlier.

Tuesday, September 26 3:38am -Transport of disabled motorist from station to Main St. 9:39am - First floor of Riley, facing Daniels, firedoor key stuck in lock, locksmith notified.

11:50am -Theft report at Alumni office, Higgins House.

1:32pm - Stolen vehicle at Humboldt St. Officers respond. WPD notified.

1:42pm - Vehicle found.

4:33pm - Multiple calls about 3 male teenagers trespassing in Daniels Hall, officers respond.

5:41pm - Possible sighting of Assaulter, Salisbury Estates.

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Thursday, October 5 Rescheduled Launch of Columbia. Watch for details on a party to celebrate.

8:00pm - M W Reperatory Theatre Company, Etc. A-terin double bill, Riley Commons, $2.00 Firday, October 6 11:30am - 1pm - Stammtisch: German lunch table Riley Commons 7:00pm - Men’s Soccer vs. Coast Guard, Alumni Field 8:00pni - M W Reperatory Theatre Company, Etc. A-term double bill, Riley Commons, $2.00 8:15pm - Film Preview: “ Black Is... Black Ain’t...,” Kinnicutt Hall Saturday, October 7 1:30pm - Football vs. Norwich, Alumni Field 4:30pm - Protestant Worship Service, Morgan A 8:00pm - M W Reperatory Theatre Company, Etc. A-term double bill, Riley Commons, $2.00 Sunday, October 8 11:30am - Catholic Mass, Alden Hall 6:00pm - Catholic Mass, Founders Study Room 6:30 & 9:30pm - Film: “ Nell," Perreault Lecture Hall, $2.00 Monday, October 9 Admissions Open House Columbus Day

9:26pm - Electrical problem, Daniels 3rd floor RA need key to reset fuse.

Wednesday, September 27 12:07am - Founders leg abraision, officer and EM S respond.

1:25am - Report of disorderly group on quad, officers respond.

4:1 lam - Officer out with W PD at Elbridge St, re: Loud music complaint.

4:23am -Officers clear Elbridge St., I subject arrested by WPD, disorderly person & disturbing the peace.

6:37am -B & E to motor vehicle. Officers out with vehicle in Stoddard lot. Broken into, items stolen, owner contacted.

11:29am -Trespassing, male, approx 30 years old. tall w ith glasses, while sweat suit, carrying plastic bags, possible bag person. Officers respond.

5:45pm - DAKA, dishwasher temp too low. Plant Services notified.

8:45pm - Assist, turn on lights for intramural football.

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