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Student Govt, impacts quality of campus life

by Brian Parker Associate E ditor The Student G overnm ent A sso ­ ciation met last T uesday, the 23rd in the low er w edge. O ne o f their first orders o f busin ess was to support the funding o f $5000 for the upcom ing W inter C arnival, w hich w ill be held on February 9th and 10th. SG A assum ed responsibility o f the even t, as an o n-cam pus organization is re ­ q u ired to do for lia b ility issu es.

A nother reason for this move w as to expedite the funds, as having an ­ other group as sponsor w ould have required an o th er m eeting before a senate com m ittee and tim e was ru n ­ ning short.

W hen the funding issue w as re ­ solved. the Senate m oved on to a n ­ other question w hich cou ld have had an im pact on the upcom ing election.

A bill was introduced w hich w ould have linked the p ositio n s of P re si­ dent and V ice President; much like in our national elections. T here w ere strong feelings on both sides o f the

c a n d id a tes e lec ted sep arately can ner could not overcom e. T here was question. stand on their own m erits, she voted concern that som e goo d candidates The senators in support o f the bill to reject the bill. m ight not run for office if they had to felt that il w ould act as a guarantee T w o m ore bills: the Student G o v ­ find a running mate. T he question o f that the senate w ould have ex e c u ­ ernm ent B udgeting A m endm ent and what happens if tw o friends win an tives who cou ld w ork w ell together. the R eserve R estructuring A m end­ electio n and then have a falling out T here were strong feelin g s that u n i­ m ent were quickly passed. They were cam e up; there is no w ay to g u aran ­ fication o f the tw o positio n s w ould for the m ost part a follow up elim inate co n tro v ersy and o f the S G A ’s m ove from that “ diversity is not n ec­ O C FC class III last fall and essary am ong lead e rs.” If W ith th e r e c e n t a d d i t i o n s o f W in te r C a r ­ they needed to be passed to the P re s id e n t an d V ice n i v a l a n d Q u a d f e s t to t h e l i s t o f th i n g s straighten out a few issues.

P resid en t had ag ree d to The final bill o f the night th a t th e s o c i a l f e e is s u p p o s e d to s u p p o r t . work together w hen they w as the Social Fee R estruc­ decided to run for office, th e f u n d is d r y i n g u p . turing Proposal. This p ro ­ they w ould surely w ork as posal was offered as an alter­ a team to carry out th eir native to the social fee in­ goals. A final point was crease w hich w as proposed last fall. tee that tw o people w ill agree on all m ade that this might help to g enerate As there w as little support for the issues. more excitem ent for the elec tio n s increase in fees, this proposal was In the end the senators deadlocked and the senate as a w hole, w ith one looking to m ove som e o f the ex ­ o v e r the issue, 10 to 10 w ith several m em b er p o in tin g o u t th a t m an y penses from the social fee to the absten tio n s am ong those who had people had show ed up to the m eet­ institute. heard the debate but w ere apparently ing, only to leave after the W inter C u rren tly , social fee m oney helps still confused. Vice President Reidy, C arnival received its funding. to pay som e o f the A ssistant D irector w h o w as p resid in g fo r P resid en t T hose who spoke against the bill for Student A ctiv ities' salary as well C onnelly (w ho was ab sen t), had to seem ed to feel that there nev er had as for a service contract o n the film cast the decid in g vote. A pparently been a c o n flic t am ong the execu tiv es projectors in Perreault Hall. The sid ing with those who believed that that m aturity and a professional m an­

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projectors were g iven as a gift to the institute and the proposal indicates that the institute should be resp o n ­ sible for them , not the students.

T he social fee is sm aller this year than last, as the n um ber o f u n d er­ graduates has d ecreased. A dded to this is the fact that SG A established a capital reserve last fall, the M usic A ssociation moved into OCFC class III and WPIR is b ein g added to the groups thal receive funding. W ith the recent additions o f W inter C a rn i­ val and Q uadfest to the list o f things that the social fee is supposed to support, the fund is drying up.

T he bill was w ithdraw n before a vote cam e up, but SG A is still c o n ­ sidering ways to support student a c ­ tiv ities as best they can. One p ro b ­ lem w ith the proposal is that it w ould require money to com e from so m e­ w here else in the in stitu te’s budget; at a tim e when every departm ent on cam pus is feeling the need to cut expenses. W ithout raising incom e o r cutting expenses som ew here, the roughly $20,000 ju s t c a n 't be found.

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Discussion of Campus and Recreation Center focus of open meeting b y D ave K oelle E d ito r-in -C h ie f On T uesday. January 23, an open m eeting w as held to discuss the fu ­ ture o f the C am pus and Recreation C enter.

Janet R ichardson, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean o f student life, began the meeting by discussing what has been done so far in the effort to get th e. center on

Gordon Library to hold open house Feb. 7th

by Kathleen Watt Gordon IJbrary Acquisitions A ssociate The George C. Gordon Library Open House will be held on W ednesday, February 7th, from noon until 3 pm.

Members o f the WPI community are invited to stop in to leam about the library and its services.

T he R eference D epartm ent w ill present a W W W demonstration. The third floor gallery will feature the library's Invitational Art Show and voting will take place for “ Best of Show .”

President Parrish will be our fea­ tured speaker at 1:00. Stop by and meet our new president. At 2:00pm we will have a short presentation by Professor Joel Brattin of the Humanities D epart­ ment. Prof. Brattin has been instru­ mental in bringing the Fellman C ollec­ tion o f Charles D ickens’ materials to WPI. The staff will be available to meet members o f the WPI community and answer questions. There will also be fresh, home baked refreshments. The first 100 guests to register at the open house will receive a limited edition Gordon Library mug.

cam pus. T his w ork has been broken dow n into three stages. The first stage, w hich took pace tw o years ago, included ascertain in g w hat goes into a cam pus center, looking at c e n ­ ters on o ther cam p u ses, and finding out each c e n te r’s strengths and w eak­ nesses. O ne o f the m ost im portant things the cam pus cen ter com m ittee learned w as w hat not to do w hen our cen ter is built. A sking q u estio n s such as, “ If you w ere able lo build your cam pus cen ter all over again, what w ould you do d ifferen tly ?” were very im portant and in form ative.

The prim ary objective o f the sec­ ond stage, which took place last year, was finding a site for the center. Last year, surveys listing possible sites were sent out to m em bers o f the WPI com ­ munity, who were asked to rate the possible sites according to such crite­ ria as centeredness, acceptability, time, and cost. U ltim ately, a site was cho­ sen which w asn't one o f the sites pre­ sented on the survey.

This new site, the present A lum ni G ym nasium (w ith an ad dition ex ­ tending tow ards Higgins L aw n), co m ­ bined the qualities o f som e o f the sites that w ere on the survey. T his site com bined two projects, the n ec­

essary rem odeling o f A lum ni G ym, and the building o f the cam pus cen ­ ter, thus g etting two im portant things done at once and in creasing the po­ tential for donations. Al that point the focus o f the b uilding changed from solely a cam pus center, and added the recreational aspect to il as w ell.

The third stage is go in g on now.

T h is stage is co n cern ed with d e ter­ m ining w hat w ill actu a lly go into ihe center. Som e o f the things in the plans m ight have to be cut (for e x ­ am ple, offices for studeni publica­ tions and for student life will not be going into the cen te r), and others m ight have lo be reduced. The ca m ­ pus center com m ittee will present th eir determ inations at next m onth’s trustee m eeting.

At the end o f the meeting, Chris Jachim ow icz, assistant dean of stu­ dents, talked about ihe various sec­ tions that are in ihe current plans for the center. These sections include areas such as the following: a mail room , a new pool, dining areas, ath­ letic facilities, a bookstore, a conve­ nience store, and lounge areas. Q ues­ tions from those at the meeting were entertained.

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Chris Jachimowicz listens to a question from a student at the campus center open meeting last Tuesday in Perreault Hall.

Student Government Association elections now underway Student Government Association Press Release The Undergraduate Student Govern­ ment is pleased to announce that the 1996 C-term elections period has begun.

As always. Student Government is look­ ing for dedicated members of the under­ graduate student body to run for office.

There are three Senator-at-Large posi­ tions available in the Senate. In the executive branch, the positions o f Presi­ dent, Vice-President, Treasurer and Sec­ retary are available as well.

To be eligible for any o f these posi­ tions, students must meet the following

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criteria: he or she must be currently enrolled at WPI, not a second semester senior, and in good academic standing as determined by Institute regulations. Any student that meets these criteria is en­ couraged to stop by the Student Govern­ ment Office and pick up a nomination petition. All petitions must be returned lo the Student Government Office no later than 12:00 noon on Wednesday, February 7.

Electron ic voting on the Col lege ComputerCenter Unix system will take place from Thursday, February 15 through Sunday, February 18. Paper ballot vot­ ing will be held in the lobby o f Daniels

Hall on Monday, February 19. Student Government encourages al I undergradu­ ate students to vote and show their sup­ port for the candidate of their choice.

If anyone has any questions about the

elections, or would like to find out more about running for office, please contact the Undergraduate Student Government at 831 -5565, or stop by our office lo­ cated on the first floor o f Daniels Hall.

Prof. Sacco to appear on sitcom Chemical Engineering Department Head and astronaut Albert Sacco Jr. will be featured with fellow Columbia crew m em b ers Ken B o w erso x , C ady C olem an, Fred Leslie and Kathryn Thornton on the Feb. 13 episode of Home Improvement. The team traveled to Burbank, Calif, last month lo take part

in the program, which stars Tim Allen.

The episode includes in-orbit footage shot especially for the show during the space shuttle’s mission last fall. A de­ scription of the program, along with a photograph of Sacco and Thornton in­ side the shuttle, appears on page 5 of the Jan. 20 issue of TV Guide.

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Visiting professors are ambassadors of good will courtesy WPI News Service A nyone w ho thinks that d istinguished a ca­ dem ics tend to be dull and totally devoid o f ap peal and hum or has never met P rofessor Ju h a M. N asi and his w ife, P rofessor Salm e E. N asi, o f Finland, who are spending a year as v isitin g p ro fesso rs o f M an ag em en t at W orcester Polytechnic Institute.

A handsom e, en erg etic 40ish couple - he is b lo n d with a ruddy com plexion and she is brunette and fair-skinned - they let you know that at this m om ent W PI is exactly the place th ey want to be. “O ne reason we chose W PI is that we are friends o f McRae B anks, the h ead of the M anagem ent D epartm ent,” says Ju h a , a professor o f business ad m inistration and head o f the D epartm ent o f E conom ics a n d M a n a g e m e n t at th e U n iv e rs ity o f Jyvaskyla. “ He w as a professor at M issis­ sippi State U niversity w here we cooperated on research, w hen Salm e and I w ere there as v isitin g professor in the 1980s. A nother reason we chose W PI is that after stints at M ississippi State and M cGill U niversity in M ontreal, we w anted to do research and teach on a sm aller cam pus. W PI seem ed ideal.”

Juha cam e to WPI after w inning a senior p ro fesso r’s research grant com petition sp o n ­ so red by the A cadem y o f Finland. He is currently a special scholar concen tratin g on strategy and entrepreneurship research. W hile h er husband pursues his interests, Salm e, an associate professor o f accounting at the U ni­ versity o f Jyvasky la, has been teaching a c la ss in accounting at the Institute. She is also scheduled to teach some classes in F in ­ land during the academ ic year. “ 1 expect to go back a couple o f tim es,” she says.

T he N asis bring to WPI rich academ ic

back g ro u n d s and im peccable reputations as scholars. A m em ber o f several international scien tific o rganizations an d an active p artic i­ pant in m anagem ent education and executive program s in Finland, Ju h a received his Ph.D. from the U niversity o f T am p ere. He is the author o f The Wisdom o f M anagem ent A rt (1987) and he is the editor o f Arenas o f S tra teg ic Thinking (1991). He edited and Salm e contributed chapters to U nderstand­ ing Stakeholder Thinking (1995).

Prior to jo in in g the sta ff at the U niversity o f Jy v ask y la in January 1995, Salm e was an asso ciate p rofessor o f b usiness ad m in istra­ tion and acco u n tin g at the U niversity o f O ulu.

T he first w om an to receive a Ph.D . in a c ­ co u n tin g in F inland, she g radu ated from the U niv ersity o f T am pere. A m ong her areas o f research are Finnish history o f accounting, financial and cost acco u n tin g , and public secto r accounting. She has also conducted research on business, society and e n v iro n ­ m ental issues. In 1995, she con trib u ted a ch ap te r on the history o f financial reporting and au d itin g in Finland to European Finan­ c ia l R eporting and a sim ilar ch ap te r lo the European Accounting G uide p ublished in the U.S. by H arcourt Brace.

Settled in Holden, M ass., since last summer, Juha and Salme and their daughters, Ella, 19, and Anni, 12, and their son, Altti, 16, have been adjusting to New England life. Ella is a student at Clark University. Anni attends Mountview School in Holden and Altti goes to W achusett Regional High School. “ It has been a rather easy transition for the children because they speak English quite w ell,” Juha explains. “They couldn’t wait to come back to America. They were with us at Mississippi State in the 1980s, as well as at McGill just five years ago.”

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Sports

Weekly sports update - results from January 19th through 25th

by G eoff H assard Sports Inform ation D irector

M en’s Swimming (1-4) T he m en’s swim team got back into action last week with a meet at UM ass-Dartmouth.

They got some strong perform ances from a few individuals, unfortunately they were defeated 152-122. Captain Jason W ening made a trium ­ phant return to the pool by w inning the 1000yard freestyle. Sophomore Jam ie Murdock was a triple w inner in the 200-yard individual medley, 200-yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke. Junior Teak A ckman won the 50yard freestyle while sophom ore Jon Prusak won the 50-yard backstroke.

Women’s Swimming (0-6) The w om en's team competed against U MassDartm outh last week also with the sam e result as they were beaten 149-88. W inners for WPI were senior captain Katie Snell in the 100-yard freestyle while classm ate M onika Lehky won the 500-yard freestyle. Others who contributed p o in ts in the m e e t w ere c a p ta in B ecky K upcinskas, Cathy Connelly, Jen W right and our diving duo o f Kim Scofield and Connie Pappagianopoulos.

M en’s Basketball (7-6) The men entered last week riding a fourgame w inning streak as they faced o ff against cross-city rival C lark and new conference foe

Springfield College.

In the game versus Clark, WPI fell behind early and although they outscored the Cougars in the second half, still were defeated 105-92.

Captains Jim N aughton and Mike Shannon had career nights as they both had their best offen­ sive showing with 29 and 26 points respec­ tively. Naughton also grabbed 15 rebounds. In Springfield last Thursday night the Engineers were playing the first place Pride who had won II o f their last 12 gam es. It was the first meeting in many years for one o f W PI’s older rivals. On this night it was not m eant to be as Springfield won 86-71. Naughton had 26 points to lead the Engineers while Jeff C ayer had 18 in the loss.

Women’s Basketball (11-5) The w om en’s squad had a 1-1 week as they defeated Pine M anor at home and lost to Amherst on the road. They now embark on their NEW 8 conference schedule which prom ises to be exciting and tremendously com petitive. Against Pine Manor, the Engineers were all over the Gators as they jum ped out to a 20-point halftime lead. In the second half they continued their swarm ing defense and dom ination as they took the easy 78-45 win in front o ff one o f the largest home crow ds o f (he season. Danielle Batey led all scorers with 24 points as three other Engineers registered double figures as well. Kim Landry had 18 points. Jenn Lovin grabbed 13 rebounds to go with her 10 points and Becca Rubenstein added I 1 points in the win. The guard trio o f Jen Plante. Kerri O ’C onnor and Laura Bielitz continue to play well for WPI as well.

Last Tuesday WPI was on the road to face an

always strong Amherst squad. W PI battled back from a three-point haltim e defecit to take the lead, but A m herst showed their strength and pulled out a 56-52 win. Landry led all scorers with 22 to go w ith 11 boards.

Wrestling (5-2) The w restling Engineers enjoyed a solid week with a 3-1 record as they sw ept a tri­ match with T rinity, W illiams and M IT while dropping one to Plym outh State. W PI has lost a couple of key w restlers in their lineup, but others have stepped in and filled the spots.

In the Trinity match the Engineers took advantage of forfeited weight classes as they won 33-18. Dual match winners were Mark Simon at 134 lbs.. Matt M arino at 150 lbs., Jeff Stearns at 158 lbs., and Andy Funk at 190 lbs.

The Williams match pitted the two w inners o f the 94-95 N ECCW A Tournament against each other for the first time since last season. In a classic match it was tied going into the heavy­ weight division. Craig Howitt did not give up as he pinned his opponent to give WPI the 2418 victory. O ther w inners for WPI were Rob Polin at 118 lbs., Joe T ucker at 142 lbs., Dan Hugaboom at 150 lbs., Stearns, and Lance Baden at 167 lbs. V ersus MIT. WPI handled them easily going on to the 32-15 victory.

Taking firsts fo r WPI were Polin, Dave G ardner at 126 lbs., Paul Hainmerslrom at 134 lbs..

Tucker, Hugaboom , Baden, and Stan Farrell at 177 lbs. The foil wing W ednesday the Engi­ neers traveled to New Hampshire to take on Plymouth State. Unfortunately WPI could not extend their w inning streak as they fell to the Panthers 24-12. W inners for WPI were Polin, Tucker and Baden.

IceCats win two in a row at home, still struggle on the road

by A ndrew M arsella Associate E ditor

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WPI’s Jeff Cayer scores in a game vs. Coast Guard last Saturday.

Men’s Indoor Track off to good start

by H eather M azzaccaro Sports Editor The m en’s indoor track is proving to be a strong team this year. At the last meet, held at MIT, they placed third overall beating Umass/ Dartm outh and Colby. Both M IT and Coast G uard overcame the WPI runners outscoring the team. So far, the men have a w inning record for the first half o f the season.

At the meet, first places were clinched by Steve Labranche ( ’96) in the 1000m with a time of 2:34.18; Marc Lefebvre (’96) with a 6’02" leap in the high jum p; Dana Schlosser (’96) with a throw of 17’3/4" in the weight; and the 1600m relay consisting o f LaBranche, David Hawes, Peter Manolakos, and Jeff Coleman with a time of 3:32.6.

Hawes (’98) also took second in ihe 400m

and third in the 55m dash. M anolakos (’97) added to his point total with a third place finish in the 400m . Also placing high were Doug Martin ( ’97) who took third in the 55m high hurdles; Dave Bowler ( ’98) who took third in the pole vault; Rich Person (’96) who took fourth in the 1500m; and the 3200m relay team o f Person, Tim Caldw ell, Rich C rispo, and Liam Kelly which placed fourth overall.

Also turning in scoring perform ances were C aldw ell (5th in 800m), Crispo (6th in 800m), Dan A tkinson (5th in pole vault), Dave Lafleur (6th in shot), M ike Pockoski (8th in weight), and C olem an (5th in high jum p, 8th in long jum p).

The men just finished a meet at C oast Guard in which the w om en’s team also competed.

Results from that meet will appear in next w eek’s issue.

Regional sports update

by H eather M azzaccaro Sports Editor January 22 to 26

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UM ass remains #1 in the A P Poll UConn moves up to #4 and extended the longest winning streak in a season to 17 by edging Pittsburgh 69-63

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Toronto Raptors 97, Boston Celtics 95 LA Lakers 124, Boston C eltics 107 G rant Hill edged out M ichael Jordan in AllStar voting

A fter struggling through a tough w inter schedule during w hich the W orcester IceCats won only 6 games out of 23, the ‘Cats finally netted consecutive hom e wins for the first time since Nov. 1st.

On W ednesday (the 24th), W orcester beat the Hershey Bears for the first time ever on C entrum ice, snapping a hom e game goal drought with a score o f 3-1. M ore im pressive still was the fact that the IceCats went up against the N H L’s Philadelphia Flyers goalie sensation Dominic Roussel, who was in net for the Bears on a reconditioning stint. Freddie Knipscheer had a goal and an assist to lead the IceC ats’ attack, w ith Alex V asilevskii and Andreas Johansson adding goals for the final victory. St. Louis B lues’ goalie prospect M ike Buzak earned his third win betw een the pipes for W orcester, stopping 42 of 43 shots on goal, and was named the #1 star o f the game for his outstanding effort.

K nipscheer’s w ork in the Hershey gam e resulted in his long-expected call-up to the NHL affiliated Blues on Friday (the 26th), and his departure sure left an im m ediate mark on the IceC at’s scoring strength. T hat same night, the ‘Cats traveled dow n the Mass. Pike to face off against the Northern division leading Spring­ field Falcons, and were ham m ered with a 5-0 shutout. It was the third shutout against W orces­ ter in their previous five gam es, and although they played a tough game, the ‘C ats were sim ­ ply over-powered by the Falcons. One of the reasons for this is the fact that the IceCats have been subjected to about 60 transactions this season between parent clubs St. Louis Blues and the New York Islanders. R ecently this has

left the C ats’ roster seriously depleted o f their top players, and the Springfield gam e was the first ever that the IceCats w eren’t able to dress 18 players for the game. Many of the younger players who haven’t been getting as much ice time are now being called upon to play more seriously.

Fortunately for the ‘Cats, several of these players responded on Saturday night (the 27th), and proved that they can win gam es - and big gam es at that! The Providence Bruins arrived in W orcester and were handed their third C en­ trum loss of the season with a score o f 4-2. The game was especially important because the ‘Cats, who trailed the Baby B’s by one point in division standings before the gam e, jum ped back into second place in the Northern Division (below Springfield). Rookie defensem an Ja­ son Strudwick tallied his first point as an IceCat, and defensem an Ken Sutton potted his first goal, while Jarrett Deuling, Terry V irtue, and Craig Darby com bined for the other W orcester scores. M ike Buzak w as back in net for the ‘Cats, earning his third straight victory while stopping 41 o f 43 shots (including a beauty o f a save on a penalty shot by Bruin sniper, M itch Lamoureux).

The IceCats play next in Providence on W ednesday night (the 1st) before leaving on a four game road trip through the M aritimes. The ‘C ats return to the C entrum on Friday, Febru­ ary 9th versus the Portland Pirates, follow ed by a game on Sunday the 11 th against the Falcons.

The Falcons gam e is also WPI night with the IceCats - so d o n ’t make plans! Tickets are only 5$ for WPI students, and it should be a great game against the most vicious IceCats rival in the league! F or more information about tickets or the game, contact C hris Jachim ow icz in the Student A ctivities Office.

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East beat W est in the A ll-Star Game on Saturday, January 2 1 ,5 -4 Ray Bourque, defensem an for the Bruins was aw arded Player o f the W eek and also M VP o f the A ll-Star Game for scoring the gam e-winning goal in the final minute o f play.

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News beyond the farm A weekly e-mail news summary WORLD EDITION For the week preceding this Saturday, January 27th, 1996, here’s what made the News Beyond the Farm: C am paign ’96 is underw ay. W hen P resi­ d en t C linton gave his third State o f the N ation speech Jan 23rd, m ost analysts ch aracterized it as his first cam paign speech. C linton em ­ phasized econom ic grow th in his speech, and pointed out six d ifferences b etw een his vision and the R epublicans’. H ouse R epublicans had planned to w alk out o f the speech, but th eir leadership convinced them to rem ain in attendance and sit on their hands. In the R epublican response. Sen. Bob Dole (K S), exp ected to be C lin to n ’s opponent in the fall electio n s, accused C linton o f obstru ctin g a b alanced budget and o f being a lover o f big governm ent. Most analysts w ere not im ­ pressed with D ole’s rough style o f delivery.

Y assar A rafat is now , in a very real sense, the President o f Palestine. In elec tio n s held in P alestinian-held areas Jan 20th, A rafat won 88.1 % o f the presidential b allot, crushing his only opponent, S am iha K halil. A rafat’s PLO w ill dom inate the new Palestinian parliam ent as w ell, w ith about 60 o f 88 seats. N early one m illion P alestinians cast a ballot in the e le c ­ tion.

H illary R odham C linton was subpoenaed to testify in front o f a G rand Jury in v estig at­ ing the W hitew ater affair Jan 22nd. A fter appearing as a w itness Jan 26th, she stated that she had been happy to explain her side o f the story on why certain docum ents relating to the case had suddenly appeared earlier this m onth. No other w ife o f a president had ev er testified in court w hile her husband sat in office.

on B lack E n tertain m en t T elev isio n (B ET).

He re -ite rated the state m e n ts o f innocence th at had com e out during his trial. For the rest o f the w eek, h o w ev er, he w as again in court, testify in g as part o f the civil trial against him b ro ught by the fam ily o f R onald G oldm an.

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H aris S ilajdzic announced Jan 21 st that he w ould step dow n as the prim e m inister o f B osnia. He cited disagreem ents with the ruling party on rebuilding policies. Hassan M urasovich was elected his successor.

T he p ris o n e r e x c h a n g e b e tw e e n th e B osnians and the Serbs finally took place Jan 27th. 176 B osnian civilians w ere released in exchange for 110 Serb c iv il­ ians; the Bosnian governm ent com plained that no Bosnian soldiers had been re ­ leased w hile 350 Serb soldiers had re ­ turned home.

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T he oil spill o ff the co ast o f R hode Island reached P oint Ju d ith Ja n 21st before b e­ ing con tain ed .

C h ech en reb el lead er S alm an Rudayev was rep rim an d ed Jan 2 1 st for going too far in the recen t en c o u n te r w ith the R us­ sians. H is su p e rio rs ru led he had acted beyond his au th o rity in taking R ussian priso n ers.

The P entagon revealed Jan 22nd that the US retain s 3 1,000 tons o f chem ical w eap­ ons from its Cold War arsen al; plans are in place to dispose o f all o f it w ithin ten years.

6 0 ,0 0 0 ab o rtio n o p p o n e n ts m arched in W ash in g to n DC Jan 22nd.

T an zan ia closed its border with B urundi Jan 22nd, fearing a refugee crisis; the b o rd er reopened Jan 24th.

R u ssian H u m an R ig h ts C o m m issio n er S ergei K ubayov re sig n e d Jan 23rd, jo in ­ ing the ex o d u s o f o ffic ia ls from the Yeltsin a d m in istratio n .

R e p o rts s u r fa c e d J a n 2 3 rd th a t S un M icro sy stem s is in n eg o tiatio n s to buy A pple C om puter.

P resident C lin to n n am ed Army G eneral B arry M cC affrey the new head o f his an ti-d ru g p rogram Jan 23rd.

A fter S p eak er o f th e H ouse Newt G ingrich (R -G A ) stated that a budget deal was possib le Jan 24th, a deal to avert another Federal shutdow n w as ag reed to by P resi­ dent C lin to n Jan 25th. The seven-w eek deal pro v id es 75% funding to disputed program s. A final b u d g et is still pending.

M ichael N ew , the A m erican soldier who refu sed to serve u n d er th e U nited N ations ban n ed , w as giv en a bad-conduct d is­ ch arge Jan 24th.

T he Food an d D rug A d m inistration a p ­ proved the fat su b stitu te o lestra Jan 24th.

C h in a an n o u n ced Jan 24th that it w as prep ared to g o to w ar w ith T aiw an fo l­ low ing elec tio n s in M arch, cau sin g a m a­ jo r fall in T aiw an ese stock m arkets.

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C o lo m b ia n P resid en t E rn e sto S am per called for a referendum on his presidency Jan 24th. M eanw hile, a variety o f adm in­ istration o fficials resigned Jan 26th, leav­ ing his governm ent increasingly under­ staffed.

Polish Prim e M inister Jo z e f O lesky re­ signed Jan 24th. He claim ed innocence from charges o f spying for R ussia, but felt that resigning w ould be best for the c o n ­ tinuity o f the governm ent. His resigna­ tion w as accepted Jan 26th.

C hechen rebels who escaped to their hom e­ land still holding R ussian hostages re­ leased 46 civilians Jan 24th, but kept 14 policem en in custody.

T he C ouncil o f Europe voted to admit R ussia Jan 25th.

A girl rum ored to be found pregnant at the age o f 10 Jan 25th actually turned out to be 14. H er adult b o y frien d is being charged w ith statutory rape.

E ighteen people were k illed w hen a rocket barrage hit a Pakistani installation in K ashm ir Jan 26th. Pakistan blam ed India for the incident and show ed the scene to foreign reporters Jan 27th; India denies any responsibility.

U tah executed convicted ch ild m urderer John T ay lo r by firing squad Jan 26th, w ith protesters from around the w orld in attendance.

On Jan 26th, A ustralian Prim e M inister Paul K eating called elec tio n s for Mar 2nd.

H eir to the Du Pont fortune, 57-year old John du Pont holed up in his m ansion with an arsenal o f w eapons Jan 26th, appar­ ently after killing O lym pic gold m edalist w restler Dave Schultz. Du Pont was still standing his ground, surrounded by po­ lice, Jan 27th.

A riot in Port Au Prince, H aiti, killed six and left hundreds hom eless Jan 27th.

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France conducted h is'six th , and presum ­ ably final, nuclear test in the South Pa­ cific Jan 27th.

Finally: H arry G lass w as giving a safety p resen ta­ tion at a construction site in P asadena, TX Jan 23rd. O ne o f his key points was the im por­ tance o f w earing a hard hat at all tim es. For em phasis, he took o ff his hard hat to display for the gathered w orkers. At that m om ent, a bird prom ptly dropped its excretions right on Mr. G la ss’ head. Yet another reason to w ear a hard hat...

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Who says there’s no women at WPI by m elt lebb C on tribu tin g W riter W PI Pub hosts a plethora o f acts each year.

The Pub show s offer an escape from the often

d eso late WPI Friday evenings and en lighten the tech mind w ith new sights and sounds.

T he F riggs were not ju st a bunch o f giutartoting wom en. They w ere an experience.

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brand o f G o -G o ’s flavored alterna-punk, to h eavier num bers, the Friggs put on a show that W PI will not soon forget. T hey w ere m usically tight and played fun m usic that anyone could enjoy.

And did I m ention that PE O PL E A C T U ­ ALLY CA M E! W ell, they did. The crow d filled Riley com m on and w ith a bit of help from the Pub com m ittee itse lf they all had fun. T he show featured opening artists S it’n 'S p in , a New Jersey band (also all fem ale) w hose m usic incited people to do the tw ist, the sw im , and the buffalo b o u n ce?!? The crow d m oved and so did I. It w as great! They gave aw ay free stuff!

The bottom line: The F riggs are a great band. S it'n ’Spin w as an unexpected treat.

W PI was grateful.

T hank you F rig g s...

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The Friggs played in Riley Commons last Friday night to a throng o f screaming and enthusiastic students. The show was put on by SocComm’s Pub Committee.

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Thursday, Feb. 1 Losing Isaiah She’s Having a Baby Forget Paris

Friday, Feb. 2 Rising Sun Drop Zone Stuart Saves His Family

Saturday, Feb. 3 Sugar Hill N obody’s Fool In the Line o f Fire

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Hey, you — do you have a question?

We get som e pretty bizarre articles and press releases at Newspeak. Som e o f them express the a u th o r’s view o f society, religion, o r p olitics. A few are blatent ad v e rtise ­ m ents transform ed into a press release. We generally d o n 't run these in the n ew sp ap er for tw o reasons: we d o n 't think they w ould appeal to the com m unity, and th eir content is usually m ore like a com m entary o r an adverisem ent, not a press release.

The point o f this editorial isn ’t about the unso licited press releases wc receive. It's about asking. I d o n ’t know what thoughts are going through the au th o rs’ mind as they send their press release to new spapers around the country. 1 im agine they must realize that not too many n ew spaper associations w ould print th eir article. The point is: they asked to have th eir piece printed. If they h ad n ’t sent it to us, we w ould never know that it exists. At least by sending us their press release, no m atter how o pinionated or com m ercial

it is, the author has the p o ten tial to gel his m essage out to a com m unity.

T he m essage I want to send to all o f you is the follow ing: It nev er hurts to ask for som eth in g ! Y o u 'v e probably heard this m any tim es before, but th e re 's nothing w rong with repeating it. I have found th at you have lots to gain from just taking the tim e to ask a sim p le q u estio n , w hether it is for inform ation, services, or p ro d u cts. A w hile back, a friend and I w ondered why Fig N ew ton com m ercials m ade a point o f statin g that Fig N ew tons a re n ’t cookies, yet the p ro d u ct’s package refers to them as co o k ies. We were ju s t having fun — we totally d id n ’t expect a response. In a couple o f w eeks, we receiv ed a letter thanking us for our interest in their product, and an ex planation and history o f the nam e "F ig N ew ton.”

On a more practical level, I read a story in which a couple who had just started a self-esteem program in their com m unity

wanted to go to a conference which was taking place on the other side o f the country. All o f the im portant people in this field would be there. U nfortunately, the couple couldn’t afford plane tickets and other costs. By asking the right people in a variety o f com panies, they were able to get adm ission to the conference, airline tickets, a hotel room, and a rental car donated to them . All because they asked! W hat’s the worse that can happen? The person you are asking can say “no.”

T hai’s a much better fate than never know ing what the answ er would be in the first place! And of course, it never hurts for you to ask a question in lecture, or during a professor’s office hours. T h at’s what they're there for!

O f c o u rse, d o n ’t turn into a nagging pain in the butt.

R ealize thal asking a questio n is okay. You may find out som ething y o u ’ve alw ays w anted to know , or you may be able to do som ething you w o u ld n ’t be able to do otherw ise.

You m ay even get your press release printed in N ewspeak.

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by Stephen Brown P rotestan t C am pus M inistry In case you have not noticed, we are in the midst o f a Presidential cam paign year. O k, ok, hold the groans dow n please! I know that many o f us w ould rather go to the dentist than suffer through a year o f political co m m ercials and broken prom ises. But the C on stitu tio n says we have to, so hold your nose and let us plunge ahead.

Much o f our relu ctan ce I believe is due to the field o f candidates we have to choose from . L ooking at them and trying to m easure their overall quality, o n e docs not know w hether to laugh o r cry. On the R epublican side, we have an old W orld W ar II veteran who has been in the Senate forever, a new spaper publisher with m illio n s o f dollars and only one idea, som e true blue isolationists, and a few o thers lo o k ­

ing for th eir 15 m inutes o f fame.

On the dem o cratic side, wc have the incum bent P resident as the only choice. President B ubba is running for re-electio n , w anting us to give him four m ore years to make the changes in go vernm ent he b elieves need to be m ade. O r told w hat changes have to be m ade, ll seem s President B ubba cannot m ake a m ove or give a speech w ithout talking to his co n su ltan ts, listening lo the lat­ est focus g roups, o r reading the new poll in USA T O D A Y . T herein lies my problem .

Four years ago w hen C andidate B ubba first ran for President, I got excited about the possibility o f his being elected. For the first tim e, som eone my age, a genuine Baby B oom er w as going lo be President.

Al last, som eone who loved Bobby Kennedy as m uch as 1 did w ould have the reins o f p ow er and finally bring peace and ju stic e and equality

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by Jesse Z b ik o w sk i N ew spea k S ta ff Now that w e 're well into the new term and the new year, it’s about time for a new T F M colum n. It’s been w hile since the last one cam e out. All 1 can say is, what these colum ns lack in frequency, they do make up for in period (heh).

Som ething I’ve been w anting to talk about is an interesting o rg an iza­ tion on cam pus called the A ssocia­ tion for C om puting M achinery. The WPI ACM is a gro u p o f com puter e n th u s ia s ts w h ic h m eets se v e ra l tim es throughout the academ ic year, and o rg an izes m any c o n tests and ev e n ts w ith a c o m p u tin g th em e.

Y ou’ve probably seen som e o f the m em bers on cam pu s proudly sp o rt­ ing th eir u ltra-h ip ACM T -sh irts, bearing geeky m essages. I’ve been an active m em ber o f the ACM for some tim e now , and I thought I’d take this w eek’s colum n to let ev ery ­ one know som e o f the stu ff th e y ’ve been doing and how you can join .

This term , the ACM is presenting tutorials on several com puter-related topics. T he ACM gives tutorials on things w hich are useful to learn, but generally d o n ’t get covered in c o m ­ puter science classes here. T his S u n ­ day at lp , A C M P re z . T o m S eid en b erg w ill g iv e a tw o -h o u r w orkshop on B eginning Perl p ro ­ gram m ing, follow ed by an Interm e­ diate Perl session from 3:30 - 6.

Next w eekend there will be a GNU Em acs tutorial (not by m e), follow ed by one on using E m acs Lisp; check ou t th e w p i.a c m n e w sg ro u p fo r schedules. Pizza will be provided for all.

T he ACM sponsors a w eekly p ro ­ gram m ing contest, in which m em ­ bers are invited to subm it solutions to a tricky program m ing problem via

em ail. T h e re ’s a cash prize at the end o f each term for the person who ac ­ cum ulates the most points. T here will also be an afternoon-long P ro ­ gram m ing C ontest later this sem es­ ter, com plete with pizza. The w in ­ ners o f the w eekly and sem ester c o n ­ tests will get to be on W P I's p ro ­ gram m ing team w hen they com pete against o th er schools next year.

O ther stuff: the A CM and CS d e­ partm ent hold a jo in t B ar-B -Q ueue tw ice a year, in the w inter and in the spring. T he ACM also holds help sessions for many u ndergraduate CS classes. T h is term there are A CM people in the Zoo lab several days a w eek lo help w ith CS 1005, CS 2011, and CS 2135 assignm ents.

R ight now ACM m em bers are busy w orking on d esig n s for this y ea r’s ACM t-shirts. Past designs have featured snippets o f kOOl kOde and U nix-ism s. All m em bers are w elcom e to subm it a design; voting is scheduled to take place on the W eb. The w inner w ill receive (you guessed it) — a free T -Shirt! Tshirts from previous years can still be purchased from the ACM for $ 10.

No word yet on w hether the “ACM T -S hirt D esign C o n te st” will be fo l­ low ed by a “ W et ACM T-Shirt C o n ­ test,” but I’ll keep you posted.

M em bership in the WPI ACM is open to stu d ents o f all d isciplines with an interest in com puters; c o m ­ p uter science and co m p u ter e n g i­ neering are especially enco u rag ed lo jo in . Dues are $5 a year. You can find out m ore about the ACM by lo o k in g at th e N a tio n a l A C M hom epage, h ttp ://in fo .acm .o rg , and th e W PI c h a p te r ’s p a g e , h ttp :// w w w .w p i.ed u /~ acm . A lso check out the ACM C lu b C orner (h opefully) in this w eek’s paper. Em ail acm(s>wpi if you have any questions.

the way we B aby B oom ers alw ays dream ed.

Except. E xcept he broke my heart.

M any tim es. It seem ed every tim e there was a cru cial issue to be faced, he w obbled. President B ubba had a chance to allow gays and lesbians to serve freely and equally in the m ili­ tary; instead he caved and w ent w ith the "D o n 't A sk, D o n ’t T ell" policy.

He had a g o ld en chance to finally give us a national health insurance that w ould giv e ev ery o n e a m ore secure future and cam e up with such a com plex proposal that it died o f its ow n w eight. And as thousands o f B o sn ia n s w ere m u rd e re d by th e S erbian m ilitary. B ubba fiddled for tw o years until he finally did the right thing to b ring a ceasefire and a

chance for peace to that troubled land.

L ately, we have discovered his tru e m odel for le a d e rsh ip is not B obby but T rick D ick. C an you im agine if any o f us had been su b ­ poenaed to turn o v er som e papers and it took us tw o years to find them and they turned up next lo o u r b ed ­ room that we w ould be believed!

O nce again, we have people in the W hite House w ho believe that they are “above the law ." I d o n 't believe there was any crim e com m itted in W hitew ater or T ravelgate, but the appearance o f scandal, the app ear­ ance o f not being forthcom ing and honest harm s the President, harm s the D em ocratic party (m y party if you have not guessed by now ), and

harm s the p eo p le’s trust.

I guess I sh o u ld n ’t be so surprised.

For if you can only give a speech or pursue a policy because your polls or your staff tell you its a p opular one right now, then how can you expect honesty and integrity to be a natural behavior?

M aybe we expcct too much. But I do expect m ore. Not alw ays su ccess w ith every policy and speech. M aybe I want w hat the ancient prophet w anted in the book o f Micah. “ He has told you. O m or­ tal, w hat is good; and what the Lord requires o f you but to do ju stic e , and to love kindness, and w alk hum bly w ith your G o d .” Justice, m ercy, h u ­ m ility. T hat is all G od w ants from any o f us. Just once, I w ould like to find it in a President.

PCism sucks!

by B en F isch er F eatu res E d ito r W hat? W hy w ould I say such a harsh and un-P C thing, you m ight ask? O kay, p icture a student on a Friday afternoon, typing aw ay on a paper, when all o f the sudden the pupil stum bles o v er a w ord. “G osh d a rn -it,” the stu d en t sarcastically u t­ ters and proceeds to grab the handy d andy thesaurus to locate a more p re­ ferred word to utilize in the paper.

He opens the book, w hich opens to page 53 o f R oget ‘s 2 1st C entury T h e ­ saurus, 1992 ed itio n . Im m ediately the p u p il’s ey es fall upon the w ord “ assassin .” Interested at looking at the related w ords, the e ag er learn er continues to read the follow ing re ­ lated words: butch er, clipper, d ro p ­ p er, e lim in a to r, e n fo rc e r, e x e c u ­ tioner, guerilla, gun, gunm an/w om an.

hatchet m an/wom an, hit m an/w om an, killer, liquidator, piece m an/w om an, plugger, slayer, soldier, torpedo, and trig g er m an/w om an.

I d o n ’t view m y self as a racist, a sexist, or anything like that. In fact, I am very conscious o f other p eo p le’s v ie w s , b e lie fs , r e lig io n s , b a c k ­ g rounds, attitudes, and feelings. I am like this not because I am PC or anything like that, but because I’m educated, w ell-traveled, have friends from all over, and because I care.

T he big thing about being "P o liti­ cally C o rrect” is to phrase sensitive w ords and phrases in a non- offense m anner. I d o n ’t need it and neither do you. We are all on our m erry little way tow ard becom ing educated pro­ fessionals in this w orld. B eing PC today is nothing m ore than being sensitive and caring about the people that you are around. It’s not hard.

I’ ve been doing it all my life. It's ju s t that PC term s have arisen to replace other more offensive words.

I d id n ’t m ind it at first, in fact I w as for all o f it. A fter years o f it PC term s have surfaced that com pounded the issue. N ow they have term s that replace w ords that w eren’t deem ed to be offensive, that change w ords that have been around for a long time that d o n ’t need to be changed, and w ords being changed that are ju st plain silly. Most o f the relatively new PC term s are useless, u n n eces­ sary, and ju s t confuse the listener to w hat one is really trying to say. I guess what 1 am really ju s t trying to say is just be your kind loving sin ­ cere self around people and if by chance som ething does slip out, they w o n ’t care because they will have noticed your sincerity and know that your heart is in the right place.

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Unofficial M in u tes o f the U n d e rg ra d u a te S tu d en t G o v ern m en t A ssociation for the meeting of January 23, 1996 Held in the Lower Wedge I. M eeting called to o rd e r at 6 :17pm.

II. Roll C all E x ecu tiv e B o a rd : Kirsty E. Reidy, Vice-President; Amy L. Plack, Secretary; Gregory R Snow, Treasurer.

Senate: Alfred Andrade, Shawn A yube, T ara C arrie, T anya Corrado, Matthew Defronzo, Matthew Freimuth, Mami Hall, Ed Hallissey, Mickey Lacroix, Ja so n M ic k e y , Je re m y O lszew ski, Sundeep Reddy, Jennifer Reese, Michael Scott, Derek Sickman, Justin Sprague, Kristen Stagg, Tim Tully,Cindy Vollaro, Kenneth Volock. Ja­ son Willey, Adam Woodbury.

Absent: Heather Cleary, Seth Kintigh, Cathy Connelly, Presi­ dent.

P a r lia m e n ta r ia n : Je n n ife r Yambert Needed for were sixteen (16), twenty-four (24) were present at the start o f the meeting.

III. A pproval o f the m inutes for Ja n u a ry 16,1996 The minutes o f were approved without changes.

IV. Vice P re sid e n t’s R e m ark s Vice-President Reidy had no re­ marks ai this time.

V. C o m m ittee R eports SGA Committees Committee on Academic Issues Chair Hall had no report.

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Also, they will be posting for com m ittee had met and dis­ the provost search and also for cussed several o f the bills on elections. The new meeting the floor and would offer the time will be 5:30 on Tuesdays. com m ittee’s recom mendations Institute Committees when they cam e up.

Committee on Academic Opera­ Committee on Student Life Is­ tions (CAO) sues VP Reidy read Representative Chair Freimuth reported that the Butland’s report. The com m it­ committee had met but that at­ tee heard more student peti­ tendance was, once again, low. tions and tabled the proposed He will meet w ith Bemic Brown b io m e d ic a l e n g in e e rin g this week regarding the liquor courses. They approved a new license in G om pei's and also manage ment course desc ri pt ion with the manager o f the book­ store regarding the p o licy o f lea v in g WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE b ag s at the door.

There are many is­ sues left over from last se m e s te r, on which he hopes to act quickly.

Elections Committee C h a ir S p ra g u e re ­ ported that lhe elec­ STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION tion schedule for Cand title change and also mi­ term is complete and posted in nors in social science. CAO the office. meets Mondays at noon.

Policies and Procedures Com­ Committee on Academic Policy mittee (CAP) Chair O lszewski reported that Representative Sprague reported the com m ittee had met and that the minutes from the last made recom mendations regard­ meeting would be available in ing several o f the bills on the the office later in the week. agenda, but saved his remarks Committee on Student Advising for new business. The com m it­ (CSA) tee will meet again on Monday Representative Hansen reported at 6pm. that the comm ittee met and cre­ Public Relations Committee ated two subcom mittees, one C hair Stagg deferred to Senator focusing on evaluating advis­ Reese to make the report. Sena­ ing at WPI, the other on advjstor Reese reported that the coming/program planning on the miltee posted assistant provost WWW. The subcom mittee on search information to the cable advising evaluation will meet bulletin board and to the net.

Sprague, who moved to limit debate to three speakers on each side with no more than three minutes lime for each. It was se c o n d e d , and the m otion passed. During the course of d iscu ssio n , debate was e x ­ tended by one speaker on each side. Once the debate ended.

Senator Freimtith requested a vote by roll. Secretary Plack read the roll: Ayes: Defronzo, F re im u th , H all, H a llisse y , L a c ro ix , S c o tt, S p ra g u e , V olock, W o o d b u ry , Snow .

Nays: Ayube, Carrie. Mickey, Reese, Sickman, Stagg, Tully, Vollaro, Willey, Plack. Ab­ stentions: Andrade, Corrado, K intigh, O lszew ski, Reddy.

Vice-President Reidy cast her vote o f nay to break the tie; motion failed.

Bill S. 16 Student Government Budgeting Amendment Senator Defronzo moved to sup­ port the bill and was seconded.

After discussion, the motion passed.

Bill S. 17 Reserve Restructuring Amendment Senator Freimuth moved to sup­ port the bill and was seconded.

After discussion, the motion passed.

Bill S. 18 Social Fee Restructur­ ing Proposal Senator W oodbury moved to re­ fer the proposal back to the Appropriations C om m ittee for two weeks so that it could be rewritten to reflect recent de­ velopments. It was seconded and, after discussion, passed.

Bill S. 18 will appear on the agenda for the meeting o f Feb­ ruary 13.

Friday, and the WWW Advis­ ing subcom m ittee will meet with Registrar Kari Blinn the following Friday. Questions or concerns should be emailed to pjhansen@ w pi.edu.

Educational Development Coun cil Representative W oodbury had no report.

Web Committee Representative Plack had no re­ port.

Provost Search Committee R e p re se n ta tiv e Snow re ­ ported thai the third o f the four candidates would be vis­ iting on Thursday, Dr. G or­ don C. Nelson. The open meeting will again be from 45pm.

VI. O ld Business There was no old business to discuss.

V II. N ew Business Senator Woodbury asked for unanim ous consent that the Senate hear the items out of order on the agenda, beginning with Bill S. 18. With no objec­ tions, his request was granted.

Bill S. IS Winter Carnival Ap­ propriation Act o f 1996 Senator Sprague moved to sup­ port the bill, and was seconded.

A fter d is c u s s io n , S p rag u e moved the previous question, it was seconded, and the bill passed.

Bill S. 15 Election Procedures Amendment Senator Defronzo moved lo sup­ port the bill and was seconded.

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VIII. Treasurer’s Remarks Treasurer Snow had no remarks.

The Personal Lie Peter is a ju n io r at a very c o m p eti­ tive liberal arts college who co n sid ­ ers h im self “ pretty norm al.” He is attractiv e, has a girlfrien d , and has a good num ber o f buddies with whom he can hang out. His friends say he is gregarious and enjoys going to par­ ties. He plays soccer and tennis for his college and is active in student governm ent. Peter is an ab o v e-av er­ age student, receiving his best grades in subjects that he likes and finds easy . P eter’s professors say that he is a bright student w ith potential; how ever, he could do m uch b etter if only he applied him self.

If you asked him , Peter would tell you that h e’s happy. E xternally, he appears happy. H ow ever. Peter has a secret lhat he h asn ’t shared with a n y ­ one. He is terrified o f w riting his sen io r thesis. He has a gut-w ren ch ­ ing fear that he does not have the intellectual capacity to research and w rite a scholarly piece o f literature.

D espite all evidence to the contrary, Peter has held this secret fear as long as he can rem em ber. W henever he gets an A on a test o r paper, his im m ediate thought is, “The test was easy . The professor d id n ’t grade very hard.” O r, “ If 1 got an A on this, then either the professor gave ev ery ­ one an A o r he is an idiot for not seeing w hat a piece o f ju n k this paper is.” W hen people congratulate him for playing a good m atch in tennis, he thinks, “The other person m ade a lot o f m istakes, th a t’s all. It d id n ’t lak e any real skill lo do what I d id .”

He devalues anything lhat he does that takes intellectual effo rt because deep dow n inside he believes that.

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really, he is fu ndam entally stupid and has ju s t been g ettin g by for all these years fooling people. Peter lives w ith an insidious, nagging fear that som e day his tru e, stupid self is going to be exposed and everyone will see that th ey ’ve been duped.

Peter is not fully aw are that he thinks he is stupid, lt is a very deepseated b e lie f that he holds about him ­ self lhat plays in his head m uch like a rep etitiv e tape. He has heard this nagging voice o v er and o v er for so many years that it has becom e a natu ­ ral part o f the way he ex p erien ces his w orld. T his unconscious b e lie f m ani­ fests itse lf in subtle and not-so-subtle w ays. B efore P eter attem pts to do som ething that h e ’s never done, he finds h im self th inking, “ You fool.

You w o n ’t be able to do this. You c a n ’t figure this ou t. Y o u ’re too stu p id .” If he is u n d e r pressure to do som ething, such as w inning the final gam e o f the tennis m atch, he begins to sw eat and often m akes a m istake.

Then he beats on h im self u nm erci­ fully, tellin g h im self how stupid he is, how he can n ev er do anything right, how he knew he’d blow it.

M ore o b v io u sly , b ut still u n c o n ­ sciously, Peter tries to o v erco m p en ­ sate for feeling in tellectu ally inad­ equate by using com plex vocabulary and by saying things to put dow n his frien d s’ intelligence, such as, "Y ou d id n ’t know that? I thought ev ery ­ one learned that in the third g rad e!”

Many o f us have these unhealthy “personal lies." The personal lie is the most dom inant negative belief that we have formed about ourselves lhat we have com e to believe through the years o f repetition. This thought is the foun­ dation upon which wc construct our realities. Lots o f people say negative things to them selves on occasion. Af­

IX. Secretary’s Remarks ter a relationship breakup L aura may tell herself that she’s ugly, and that’s what caused the breakup. If Jim loses his wallet he may berate him self by saying that he never does anything right. You may ask, "B ut I have sev­ eral negative thoughts o f m yself. Are they all personal lies?" The im age that I like to borrow from Sondra Ray, author o f the book Loving Relation­ ships, is that the personal lie is the hand that holds all o f the balloons of smaller beliefs. For exam ple, Laura may think, " I ’m ugly” or “ Nobody likes me" or “ My boyfriend doesn’t really love me. he’s ju st putting up with me.” These are certainly nega­ tive beliefs, but if she asks herself, “ Why am I ugly? W hy doesn’t anyone like me? Why d o esn 't my boyfriend love me?” she might come to see that on a deeper level she truly believes that “I am unlovable.” This is the “ father lie,” so to speak. Because she feels unlovable, she will believe other negative beliefs about herself.

O ften, the way we behave in the w orld is a d irect result o f the way we think about ou rselv es. We m ay not even be aw are that the personal lie is affecting everything we do. W e can eith er com pulsively act out the per­ sonal lie, or we can project it onto others. We may act in w ays that cause o thers to validate o u r fears about ourselves. Peter believ es he is stupid; therefore, he expects him self to do or say “stupid th in g s.” Laura thinks she is unlovable, so she ex­ pects people to reject her. Even if they d o n 't reject her im m ediately, she know s it is only a m atter o f lime before they realize that she d o esn ’t deserve th eir love and attention. She w inds up acting as though she is unw orthy and, even tu ally , m en re­ ject her. Scott’s unconscious personal

lie is that he’s a burden, but instead of feeling as though/if is a burden, he gets exasperated with people in his life who are close to him and finds them to be burdens. These unconscious patterns only reinforce w hat we already believe to be true!

If, despite y o u r desires, the re ­ su lts you are seeing in your life are n ot w hat you w ant to be seeing, you m ay be the victim o f an unconscious p ersonal lie. A sk yourself, “W hat is the thing I am m ost afraid for other p eople to see about m e?” and “The reason 1 c a n ’t get what I want out o f life is...” Y our answ er m ay turn up a personal lie. W hat do you do once y o u ’ve discovered this negative b e­ lief? The first thing is to realize IT IS N O T T R U E !!! Take your lie and co n v ert it to the truth: its exact o p p o ­ site. For exam ple, if you discover that you have been saying to yo u r­ self, “ I’m bad" or “ I’m not good en o u g h ” or “ 1 c a n ’t...” o r “ I d o n ’t d e s e rv e to be h e re ,” tu rn th o se th o u g h ts a ro u n d to: “ I ’ m g o o d e n o u g h !” and “ I can!” and “ 1 am w orthy o f b ein g here!” Say your new truth to y o u rself as a m antra — w hen you look in the m irror, while you are d riving, when you feel dow n.

It is very effectiv e to w rite your a f­ firm ation 10-20 tim es a day. Life is d ifficu lt enough. We d o n ’t need to m ake it harder by treating ourselves unkindly. L earning lo treat yourself g en tly , to love yourself, will bring s u rp ris in g , p o sitiv e resu lts. G et R eady!

If reading th is article has raised som e questions or concerns that you w ould like to discuss, please feel free to contact me at the C ounseling and S tudent D evelopm ent C enter, x5540, o r via e-m ail at: daw nfitz@ w pi. I look forw ard to hearing from you!

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S ecretary Plack en co u ra g e d senators to find replacements when unable to attend office hours and stressed the im por­ tance o f keeping the office open all day. She also reminded com ­ mittee chairs to turn in their reports.

X. Vice-President’s Remarks VP Reidy reported that she will be interviewing senatorial ap­ plicants this week. Anyone with any input should talk to her.

XI. Special Orders - Hazing Policy VP Reidy and Secretary Plack read the Hazing Policy.

XII. Announcements XIII. Roll Call & Adjournment Executive Board: K irsty E. Reidy, Vice-President; Amy L. Plack, Secretary; G regory R. Snow, Treasurer.

Senate: Alfred Andrade, Shawn A yube, T ara C arrie, T anya Corrado, M atthew D efronzo, Matthew Freimuth, Mami Hall, Ed H allissey, Seth K intigh, Mickey Lacroix, Jason Mickey, Jerem y O lszew ski, Sundeep Reddy, Jennifer Reese, Michael Scott, Derek Sickman, Justin Sprague, Kristen Stagg, Tim Tully, Cindy Vollaro, Kenneth Volock, Jason W illey, Adam Woodbury.

Absent: A lfred A n d ra d e , Heather Cleary, Ed Hallissey, Cathy Connelly, President.

Parliamentarian: J e n n ife r Yambert Needed for were sixteen (16), twenty-three(23) were present at the end of the meeting.

Agenda for the Meeting of January 30, 1996 I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Approval of the Minutes for January 23, 1996 IV. President’s Remarks V. Appointment of new Senators VI. Committee Reports SGA Committees Institute Committees

VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV.

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ACM Do you rem em ber w hen was the last tim e you saw an article from the A ssociation o f C om puting M achinery in N ew speak? W ell, neither do we. A nyw ay, for those who d o n ’t know who we are, we are an org an izatio n for people w ith interests in com puters and c o m ­ puter science. You d o n ’t have to be a CS to jo in . A nyone who has an interest in c o m p u t­ ers can sign up. Some o f our activ ities are help sessions for students in introductory C S courses and com puter science tu to rials on Sundays. This w eek ’s tutorial is b eg in n in g and advanced Perl. Perl is a hot new p ro ­ gram m ing language for the Unix and o th er operating system s. It will be in the Z oo lab o r in the OS lab dow n in the F uller su b -b a se­ m ent. The tim es are 1 to 3 PM for beginning Perl and 3 : 3 0 - 6 PM for the advanced se s­ sion. Pizza and refreshm ents will be served.

If you w ould like to attend, jo in ACM , o r just have any questions, e-m ail acm@>wpi.

Alpine Ski Team Hey, it’s been a long time, hasn’t it? Well, the team has been busy. First of all, about 8 o f us spent all of Christmas Break training out at Berkshire East. It was a good time, and we made some HUGE improvments in our skiing. And getting 20 days on snow before the season starts.... Also, running GS with UMass Amherst was pretty nuts, too. Then there was camp, starting New Year’s day. Everyone made it on time, amazingly. That week, plus time trials on Saturday at Ragged M ountain, helped decide the traveling team for this year: In no Particular order: M E N 'ST E A M : G lenG aebe, Brad W right, C hrisT utlis, W oody H araldsen, Joe Scherpa, Aaron Jones, Dave M axon, Joe Charpentier, Dave Cahill, Jaim ie Kramer, Barett Perchuk, John Toscano, and Jay H a m e lin . W O M E N ’S T E A M : G ra c e B uzanoski, Sarah Arsenault, Jill Baryza. W e placed fourth at our first GS race, with Brad and C hris turning in some great times, and C hris Placing 5th in the First Slalom. Pico m ountain was less than helpful, but Jer made up for that by helping all weekend. When W E set a course, it will take far less than 4 hours. By the time you read this, we will already have beat G M C in both races at Loon Mt. Remember, practice on W ednesday nights, everyone is welcome. $16 dollars for 4 hours o f skiing. The vans will

leave right at 4:30 from the wedge. Once again, everyone is invited to come and ski some gates and meet the team and coach. Control is not the issue, Speed is!

APO W elcome O lsters, and now an im portant message : IT IS T IM E FOR ONE OF TH E M OST IM PO R TA N T EV EN TS O F T H E SEM ESTER-RU SH Yes, this is the week we use to find possible new brothers. And what are we doing this week, well...

There are tw o informational m eetings on February 1 and February 5 at 7:30 (PM o f course) in the low er wedge. B rothers should be there at 7:00 PM so that we can set up the slide show. T here is a Rush party som ew here in W orcester at som e time on February 2. A nd last but certainly not least, there is a service project on February 3. For more info, contact Tim , or just come to the meetings. During last week, we had a great time at M ustard Seed helping the hom eless, and we had a great time w ith the Super Bowl party. (Actual details will come next week). O th erev en ts for February, UMOC is com ing up. The pictures for the candidates will be taken betw een February 4 and February 7. The actual contest will be from the 12th to the 16th, and all the proceeds will go to charity.

We are going back to Mustard Seed on Febru­ ary 12. And finally, there is a sm all dance planned for February 10. For m ore info, con­ tact Brian. P.S. Coon dog, oops, I m ean Rudy, still has his contest open for the nicknam es for the officers. And remember. B rother M eetings, 6:00 PM (soon to be 6:30), M onday, GH 227.

ASCE We w ill m eet again on W ednesday this w eek, but hopefu lly this tim e to m ake som e progress on the concrete canoe. T he tim e is 4 :30 and the place is dow nstairs in the co n ­ crete lab. It sh o u ld n 't last too long, an d food will be p ro v id ed , so hope to see you there!

BiLAGA H ello, ev ery o n e! N ews o f the w eek is: Our m eeting time has changed. Mail us for details.

W e’d like to take this opportunity to extend a

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big THANK YOU to all o f our non-m em ber friends am ong the faculty, student body, and alum ni of WPI for your continued support. In other news, there have been recent additions to o u r library (donated by Healthy A lternatives — Thanks!) which will hopefully soon be listed on o u r Home Page (http://w w w .w pi.edu/~bilaga).

T o our list mem bers and supporters, we have a surprise for you in the com ing weeks so keep trickling in to meetings. To rest o f the com m u­ nity: As alw ays, if you have any questions/ inform ation requests, if you have any issues to bring up, if you have som ething to say, o r if you ju s t have a desire to talk to som eone. Please., em ail bilaga@ wpi.edu to get in touch w ith our officers. W e’re more than happy to assist.

BiLAGA is the Bisexual, Lesbian, and Gay Alliance at WPI! M em bership is confidential.

Chinese Student Association Hello Everybody! Sorry about last week, 1 hope you guys aren’t too disappointed about it.

I know it’s hard enough to live w ithout daily Newspeak CSA Club Corner, but things just got mixed up. Anyways, 1 hope that everyone had a really good vacation and a very good start on classes this new year.

Well anyways, As you all know we had our first meeting of the term two weeks ago. We had a really good tum out of about a million people.

Among the things we talked about was the Chi­ nese New Year Dinner. This is probably the biggest event o f the year for our club and it is good to see that a lot of people signed up to be on the committee. Even if you are not on the committee, you can still contribute your cool ideas to dragon, if you have them. The most important thing, is for you to spread the word to others and attend the dinner. This way you can celebrate a very impor­ tant part o f the Chinese culture with your friends.

Another thing is, if anyone knows of any “Chinese new-year” related entertainment we can get for the dinner, please tell us. Another thing is the homepage competition. Remember to update your pages and vote at http://w ww .wpi.edu/ -dragon. Ahh... Next is my favorite. That’s right... you know what I’m talking about. The yearbook needs to be produced and I was wonder­ ing if there is anyone interested. I know, I know....

If you were you would have signed up. But we are still in need of help and if you could volunteeryour time it would be greatly appreciated. In closing, I want to remind you all to spread the word about the New Year Dinner. Good Luck in your classes and stay cool. Until next tim e.....

Newman Club Well our retreat went very well on Saturday and everyone will admitted that the idea o f women

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speakers was a good idea. We enjoyed being joined by members o f the Clark Newman Club and maybe we can expand on that idea. This coming Friday, February 2nd , we will have our first Ground Hog Day Party which begins with Pasta at 5:00 PM in the Religious Center. A video will follow and our president, Becky Prince and her cabinet will pick out the video. In addition to all o f that John D. and Roger are going to wake up early Friday morning and according to John D . , they have a new method of checking to see if the ground hog saw himself on that day. They prom­ ised to reveal the method and the results during the meal that evening. Also don’t forget to save the evening o f Tuesday, Feb. 13th for a Vigil Valen­ tine Party at the Center beginning at 5:00 pm. So we hope to see all of you, even non members are always invited, this Friday evening for pasta and video. Feel free to come to both parts o f the evening or just one part. Also know that if you come late, our great Italian chef, John D. is always on hand to offer you a special serving. Meanwhile our club basketball team under the careful eye of Jordan Massad is playing over 500 ball. That may be a first for the club. The Executive Board o f the club will meet on Tuesday evening, Feb. 6th at 6:30 pm in the Center. Feel free to come and offer your ideas to the Board.

Newspeak T hanks to everyone w ho has helped out w ith this w eek ’s issue, especially our new m em bers! N ew speak could alw ays use an ex tra hand, so if y o u ’re interested, em ail new speak@ w pi. C on g ratu latio n s to Ben, o u r new Features E ditor! T hanks to Jason for the new com ic strip. W ell, th a t’s all for now.

Pre-Law Society H eeeyyyy yyyooooouuuuu g u u u y y y y ssss!!!!! M eeting this T hursday (the first) at 12:00 in G o m p ei’s for lunch. If you d o n ’t see us in the m ain section, ch eck in R iley C om m ons. We w on’t know about next y e a r's budget until the end o f M arch. N o th ­ ing else to say for now. H ope to see everyone on T hursday!

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AXP I do believe these weeks are flying by. Two words: Jello Bowl. Sunrise, Sunset (don’t worry it shouldn’t make sense). Here is a quick note on the event to come. Everyone is lookin forward to the annual century pizza fest up in North Adams.

Ladies love engineers. Luke P., your prayers have been answered! We thank Orion for a great performance. Everyone should also thank soonto-be elected Fire Marshall Mario for his routine fire door checks. Each postulant should be proud o f their nearly completed project. Keep it up, you guys have done a helluva job so far, don’t give up now. BEAV1SS! On a lighter note, Stewait was nominated for best gonzo perfor­ mance. You should avoid watching his clip though. See ya next week Crows!

A rA Happy belated birthdays to Paula (29th) and Tanya (24th). Also it’s Valerie Schmitt’s birthday today so if you think of it, email and tell her happy birthday! Congratulations to all the newly elected panhellenic officers.

Good job Jen for planning the ice skating trip, even if we couldn’t go to a pond! If anyone has anymore ideas get them to jen.

Thanks to SAE for the social. To the pledges, start studying the sisters will be quizzing you! Moms, study with your kid! Thats all for this week. ADOVEL1NG

out do we do first?Stairs? Lisa- Did we walk in on something? Liz and Lynie- shaving cream anyone? Misa-Hi little Sis! Con-Nice Shiner-real “sly”- a good match!! Have a good week, LITPH!

in Storytime... There were rumors o f another Scud-missle attack on the Pi, and I still can’t get the smell out of my couch. By the way, think I might have lost a finger. We were all ‘shocked’ to see so many pople in Uuuuuuhriches room last Tuesday. Too bad Eric had his head in a bucket, and probably doesn’t remember any of it. Maybe the Green dimension will be cool again after a year and a half. The pledges livedin last week, and there was even a sighting of them on city-side. Maybe if you guy’s hurry up and find your Paddles... (Next time there’s a choise between Spanky and Jackson, Take the one you Don’t need ten people to lift). Oh, and hey, Bret... here’s your coat. We had a great holiday on Thursday. Little, don’t think your room escaped. I hope Jim didn’t do anything

while he was cooking dinner. But that poor cat.

Fury. Nobody deserves to be that close to any part of Bootar’s body. Hey Chris... Mom would be proud, It does look just like an umbrella, and and don’t ever bring anything like that to a meal again. Dah Dah Daaaaaahhh... See you next Tuesday

TKE Well it’s me again. Dink, from the pits of Goddard Hall. Life would be good, if I didn’t have to take ORGO, but enough about my prob­ lems, let’s talk about yours. Remember, this week’s house meeting is tonight, it may be pretty long since we have the Pylortes election (New Members are expected to attend this meeting).

This weekend is the RCB, let’s all have a rockin’ good time, and remember, if your going stag bring Cigars, many, big, stinky Cigars. The Generations party last weekend was a blast. In fact I haven’t seen that much polyester since my uncle Ralph left town. Well here’s my little moral booster for the New Members this week.

Never get discouraged and keep doing a great

job. Take PRIDE in yourselves and whatever you do. Well I guess it the time you’ve all been waiting for, this week’s top five list. This week the top five list comes to us from the deepest crater o f Uranis. The top five reasons why having six fingers, on each hand, would suck.

5.) Cuca could never count to ten again. 4.) You would have to buy all new gloves. 3.) Try to tie your shoes with an extra finger. 2.) People would freak out everytime you try to shake hands with them. 1.) You wouldn’t have a middle finger. Well, well, well, I guess it’s time to leave. Do you know Rocha. TKE PRIDE.

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ATO Huck cruised up once again. Why doesn’t he just come back for good? A 15 hour car ride doesn't sound like all that much fun.

Kervin played Sir Morgan’s Cove. Fresh Traks. Budha and Marcus Camby now have something in common and I don't think it’s a good thing. Beaton on his twenty-first birth­ day: I’m so glad I didn’t puke. Me: What’s thal in your hair? Justin that night: Duuudc u can’t pass out here (Elm Park) or we’re gonna die. I’m serious dude. Lang and Aviv devised a new and diffrent dart game. Ask them about it. Right. Update: Slade bought his first new shirt o f the year and he vows to acutally wear it on the first of every month.

Leo you got to do better than that. For all you in the 8:00 class spot, those things got to go.

Weed will come up and I have no idea what he will do tonight at T and G. God Bless.

When your down and out try doing the gyro to some fresh 80’s trax. All the cool kids arc doing it. (Greek)

FIJI Hi Boys, guess what, only 7 more months till our next party. I can’t hardly wait. You know there’s only one thing that I hale more than the Latin King, and that’s the certain group o f people who read Greek Comer’s other than their own....BEAT IT!!! Keeny, I know that you wanted to get some bush, but did you really have to go and pull shrubs out o f the ground. And Bob, if you wanted to be Superman so bad, how about changing in a phone booth rather than punching one. Con­ gratulations to Lambs who aparently was the only one who didn’t foul out of the game last Thursday night. And how about Harrod’s big news, what a “shocker" that was. Zeke’s STD count has fallen to 6 thanks to the latest breakthrough in Syphilis. Thanks to Palmer for only blasting that new Dave Mathews’ CD he got only 4 nights this week...Beat It!!

And now the moment that we’ve all been waiting for, the all knowing SWAMMI. Swammi says,’’Zeke’s Pepper, a type o f tool, and thanks to her only 2 sig ep Virgens left” “on fire, a plier, Viar” Swammi says,’’Hooked on Jade, not length but..., and the life Gove leads” “Smith, width, and a myth” Swammi says,”An incline, to walk around depressed, and Mona's boy” “Slope, mope, and Dope” Swammi says,’’Amy, Koski, and praying Big Bird visits soon” “Greg’s gal, Kijak’s pal, and Fat A l” Swammi says,”Harrod’s spe­ cialty, can't fit in a suit, and upTitus’ dumper” ‘T o chug. Big Doug, and a Plug.” Come again...

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R eport, suspicious persons going through dum psters near H iggins Labs.

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Friday, January 18 3:04am - N ote, D aniels foyer carp etin g lifting, hazard.

3:25am - M alicious M ischief, D am aged m irrors noted on D aka vans on Quad.

4:48am - W orking Fire, small fire on Institute Park Rock, extinguished.

5:25am - L oitering, several in dividuals loitering on Founders loading dock.

6:31am - Intrusion A larm , Student A ffairs, set o ff by Plant Services.

7:25am - V andalism , Mail room.

7:30am - A larm , Problem with alarm s in D aniels, both in Student L ife and Student A ffairs.

10:21am - Sent thru m ail, for Lost and Found, one black ladies glove.

11:59am - M edical, Fem ale Student, F uller Labs, Second Floor near elev a to r, fainted, back-neck pain.

2:36pm - R eport, theft o f property from D aniels.

6:53pm - A larm , F ire/S prinkler F u ller Upper.

9 :14pm - M edical, F ounders for cut arm.

1 1:15pm - T ransport, M em orial H ospital to cam pus.

11:55pm - H azardous C onditions, co m p lain t o f extrem ely slippery co n d itio n s on drivew ay betw een Riley & D aniels.

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W om en’s Basketball vs. Clark.

W restling vs. Coast Guard.

Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Meeting, Kaven Hall 311.

M en's Basketball vs. Norwich.

Thursday, February 1 9:00pm - Department o f Chemistry: “Enzymatic Aspects of Adietic Acid and Taxol Biosynthesis: A dhesives and Anti-Cancer Drugs from Conifers,” G oddard Hall 311.

11:00am - AIRG seminar. Fuller Labs 246.

7:00pm - W om en’s Basketball vs. Brandeis.

7:00pm - W om en's Swimm ing vs. Brandeis.

7:30pm - M en’s Basketball at Suffolk.

Friday, February 2 11:00am - Forum: “W orking With C orporations and Intellectual Property Issues,” Higgins House Library. Lunch and reception at 12:30pm.

7:00pm - W restling vs. Wesleyan.

Saturday, February 3 1:00pm - M en’s and W om en’s Sw im m ing at Keene State.

2:00pm - W om en’s Basketball vs. MIT.

Saturday, January 20 12:06am - N oise C om plaint. E llsw orth, loud music.

1:08am - Lock Problem , Institute H all south en trance, work o rd er filed.

1:51am - W ater problem , pump op eratio n in F uller 10 checked and ok ay .

3:08am - S uspicious Persons, O ffice r out with tw o subjects, S alisbury Estates.

7:42am - Intrusion Alarm , H iggins Labs 236.

9 :35am - Lost and Found, pick up prescrip tio n bottle from Pow erhouse.

I 1:24am - Fire A larm , Fuller A partm ents.

I 1:33am - M edical E m ergency, 17y/o male, injured/lacerated finger.

2:55pm - R eport. Loud noise and steam com ing from boiler in Riley n e a r G o m p ei’s.

Sunday, February 4 6:30pm and 9:30pm - Movie: "Strange Days,” Perrault Hall. $2.

Monday, February 5 7:00pm - M en’s Swimm ing at Brandeis.

Sunday, January 21 12:28am - A ssist, W PD calls re: d escription o f suspects w anted for larceny from H ighland St. H oney Farm s.

12:37am - N oise com plaint, Riley, loud m usic.

3:52am - N oise com plaint, R iley, loud m usic.

I 2:25pm - Possible B&E in E lbridge House.

4:42pm - T resspassers. 20 non W PI students rem oved from H arrington and A lum ni G ym .

9 :22pm - M edical, Freem an Plaza.

10:45pm - W orking Fire, 15 E lbridge.

1 1:58pm - M edical response, E llsw orth, eye injury due to fall.

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2:40am - Open do or, o fficer reports garage d o o r al Prescott St. garage partially open, alarm panel not set.

2:51 am - O fficers clear P rescott St. garage, o fficer advises alarm panel has been reprogram m ed.

7:14am - A larm , 157 West Street, nothing found, possibly custodian.

11:04am - Fire A larm , D aniels H all, 4th floor detector.

11:20pm - Possible drug v iolation, M organ Hall.

Tuesday, January 23 4 :51pm - Investigation, O fficer at K ingsbury Street, w/ W PD w ith individual involved in a p o ssible cam pus con.

Monday, January 22 1 2 :18pm - S uspicious Persons, call from D aniels RA regarding three subjects who had been

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