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WPI Web receives a five-star rating Book for prospective students cites WPVs site as one of the best universities which received the perfect score, and it’s clear that W P I is in good company. Not only does the elite list contain our engineering rivals M IT and R P I, but also some of the big guns, in cluding Duke, Harvard, Princeton, C o l lege o f W illiam and Mary, and Johns Hopkins university. In all, 36 schools received the perfect “ W ire d rating,” which was based on “ the quality o f a school’s entire web site: its accessibil ity, design, and ease of use.” “ Gener ally,” W o lff writes, “ the schools with the most facilities and hard w are receive the best representation on the Web.” W o lf f cited W P I ’s computer to student ratio as being 3 to 1, numbers only a hand ful of schools could beat. Page 395 is entirely dedi cated to W P I, in c lu d in g the U R L s and email addresses for Admissions and Financial Aid. In “ The Usual Tour,” W o lff lists the U R L s of W P I ’s V irtu al Tour, student clubs, sports, academic departments, Greek life, the Library, and our publications. The “ Skip the Brochure” section is a handful of interesting, off-the-beaten track pages that separate the college from the rest of the pack. For W P I, W olff lists the Lens and Lights Club, citing their technical expertise, the Autocross Club (which has since lost its account),
by Am y L. M a n WPI Web Coordinator Searching for the right college has taken a new twist in the past few years. Rather than comb through catalogs in the o ffices o f guidance counselors, many high school juniors and seniors are turning to the Internet to aid in their searches. Most colleges and universi ties in the U S have extensive World W id e Web sites serving up information on academ ics, campus life, and, o f cou rse, a d m is sions to prospec tive students all over the globe. So, it’s no sur prise that a guide to finding colleges and universities on the Web had to surface at some point, and now it’s fin a lly here. W hat’s more: the writer gave W P I ’s Web a perfect rat ing - five out of five. T h e book is called N etC o lleg e 1997 w ritten by Michael W o lff and published by W olff New Media, the creators of the best-sell ing NetBooks and Your Personal Net, an adaptive website ( www.ypn.com). It contains general information for pro spective students on how to do their college search on the Web. It also sum marizes each U S college’s website in a page, giving each a rating on a scale of one to five. The book lists all the colleges and
Rarely seen paintings on exhibit at Higgins Armoiy
and the W P I Social Committee. M any schools are now offering re quests for applications online, but W P I is one of a handful with the entire appli cation available for filing out on the Web. The online application is a key feature for prospective students, who can have portions o f the application saved in a database for them until they return to finish off the application. This is a very important feature, as many don’t have all the information on hand when they begin filling out the applica tion. According to Director o f Admissions Robert Voss, 114 of the 141 applications for next year’s freshman class received so far have been submitted through the Web. W h y so many? Sim ple - the Ad missions Office waives the application fee for those who apply online - a big incentive for prospectives to use the technology available to save them (and their parents) the $50 fee.
The Higgins Armory Museum is the only m u^ ,rn devoted to collecting arms and armor in the United States. These collections are justifiably renowned, but other parts o f our holdings are less well known. The Museum was opened by John Woodman Higgins in 1931. John Woodman Higgins was generally inter ested in steel-making, an industry in which he had made his fortune. A n y thing to do with steel drew his atten tion, as the Museum’s innovative steel and glass building attests. But Higgins’ interest as a collector extended beyond arms and armor and metalwork to include works o f art in a variety o f media, rang ing in date from Pre-History through Classical Antiquity, the M iddle Ages, the Renaissance, Modem Art, and A p plied and Industrial Art. The Higgins Armory Museum is a
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Grad School Fair to be held Wednesday The Colleges of Worcester is spon soring a Graduate School Fair which will be held on Wednesday, November 6, 1996 at A ssu m p tio n C o lle g e , 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, M A in the Hagan Center Hall, from 10am to 2pm. Over 70 graduate school programs from New England, New York, N ew Jersey and Pennsylvania (see attached listing) w ill attend the event. Participating in stitutions represent a large variety of
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graduate school programs including business administration, policy, manage ment, law, education, communications, liberal arts, engineering, health sciences, medicine, veterinary medicine, optom etry, physical and occupational therapy, psychology, social work, public admin istration, etc. The Fair is open to students from the Colleges of Worcester as well as the general public.
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WPI, meet Greg Snoddy! by Dave Koelle Editor-in- C h ief I f you visited the Student A c t iv i ties O ffice this past week, you may have seen a new face. Greg Snoddy has joined the Student A ctivities staff as the Director o f Orientation P ro grams and Student A ctivities. Greg grew up in Ohio, and earned his un dergraduate degree at Ohio U n iv e r sity. He got his M aster’s in C ollege Student Personnel at B o w lin g Green,
and his Ph.D . in Higher Education A d m in istratio n at W est V irg in ia University. Before coming to W P I, he worked for six years at the U n i versity o f Alaska at Fairbanks, and served as Associate Dean o f Stu dents at Salem-Teikyo University in W est V irg in ia, a school o f about 1000 students, where he coo rd i nated orientation programs and was in v o lv e d in s u p e rv is io n W h e n asked what he thought about W P I See Snoddy, continued to
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