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Sports update................ 4 The Year in Review........ 12 Turkey dies in crash......14 T u e s d a y , A p r il 2 9 ,

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Update on the infamous Campus Center What is being done to bring us closer to having one? by Lisa Bartee C o-E ditor-in-C hief

The last thing most of the WPI community heard about the Campus Center was after the February Trustee’s meeting, when it was an nounced that they would set the date for the ground-breaking for the center at their Octo ber meeting. What is being done to bring us closer to having a Campus Center during the interim? A major part of building the Campus Cen ter, a more apt name for which is actually the C am pus and R ecreation C enter, is fundraising. It is important that money be raised so that the cost of the center, approxi mately 16 million dollars according to Janet Richardson, will not have to be applied to debt for WPI. The Capital Campaign is in charge of raising this money. Right now, they are in a “silent phase.” This involves initial fundraising and the setting of a goal of the amount they hope to be able to raise. The time between February and October allows the Campaign time to determine this goal.

Roily Wester, from the University Relations office, is heading the campaign team of fund raisers. This involves creating materials for use in fundraising, such as brochures con taining artist’s renditions and proposed de signs for the Center. It also involves deter-

Right now , they are in a “silen tp h a se.” This involves initial fundraising and the setting o f a goal o f the amount they hope to be able to raise.

mining possible “naming gifts” in the build ing and finding contributors for these gifts. Naming gifts are parts of the building that could be named after significant contribu tors to the Campus and Recreation Center fund. Possibilities include the proposed swimming pool or the student activities sec

WPI/Mass Academy FIRST team earns two trophies in competition by Eric Clinton ‘99, Siu Ng ‘99, a n d Derek Bond ‘99

At the recent national FIRST competition in Florida the WPl-Mass Academy team gar nered yet another trophy. Previously, the WPI-Mass Academy team had won the Proc tor and Gamble Creativity Award at the Johnson & Johnson Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition held at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The most recent trophy from Florida was for being the Number One Seed out of the 113 teams competing. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a robotics com petition that pairs corporations and high schools together to design and build a re mote controlled robot to compete in a double elimination tournament. In W PI’s case, a university is teamed with a high school. Three teams compete on the field at a time, and each match lasts only 2 minutes. Every year, the playing field, scoring rules, and gen eral robot size and parts lim itations are changed to yield a whole new competition. The robot limitations this year were similar to last year’s. The initial ‘kit’ of parts was a

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collection of components. Assorted pneu matics, electronics, and other various pieces of hardware could be used on the robot. An additional budget of $425.00 dollars was also allocated to help build the 120 lb. maximum, 3’x 3 ’ x 4 ’ high robot. This year, the playing field was a hexagon with a goal in the center and adjoining hu man player stations. The goal was free rotat ing on its fixed central axis. The goal’s base was a four foot equilateral triangle topped with three steel pipes joined at the apex some eight feet above the ground. There were three radial pegs on each steel pipe, evenly spaced along the edge of the resulting pyra mid. Teams scored by placing inner tubes on any of the nine pegs or on top of the goal itself. Point totals could be doubled by a vertical row o f tubes on one edge of the goal, and for each on the apex. Robots and human players could do this in any fashion so long as certain playing field borders were not vio lated. WPI-MA’s robot, Extensor, utilized a top hat style scoring platform that was loaded by the human player. It would then

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1997 Senior Class Pledge: Donations appreciated

tion of the building. Although the Campus Center is the admin istrations “top priority”, it will not necessar ily receive the first 16 million dollars raised by the Capital Campaign. Some donors con tribute with the specification that their money go to something particular (for example, fi nancial aid), which may not be the Center. Other donors do not specify a use for their contribution, while others may specify that their money be used specifically for the Cen ter. John Miller, Director of Physical Plant, and Janet Richardson, Assistant VP for Student Affairs, are working with a group to choose an architect for the project. At this time, they have solicited general information from a group of between 15 and 20 possible archi tectural firms. Those firms that were inter ested, approximately 16, submitted informa tion regarding their past experience in de signing buildings of the type needed for the Center. The chosen firm will need to have experience in “phased construction”, a build

This year, The Alumni Office is taking a new approach to generating money for the benefit of the WPI community. Despite WPI’s excellent standing academically, WPI is lack ing in student donations in comparison to other institutions. In fact, in the last couple o f years, the amount of money donated by graduating seniors has been quite disappoint ing indeed, due to the lack of organization in collecting funds from seniors. In order to reverse this trend, the Assistant Director of Annual Giving, Mr. Joshua Pahigian, created the 1997 WPI Senior Class Pledge Fund and a committee to organize its activities last December. Staffed by Mr. Pahigian and nu merous dedicated students, this committee endeavors to raise funds from graduating seniors and to foster a tradition in WPI

See Center, continued to page 6

See Pledge, continued to page 6

by Sany Zakharia Newspeak S taff

Cats stumble over Baby Bruins

During the ’Cats Wednesday night game against the Providence Bruins, IceCat goalie Jamie McLennan stops the attack of Bruin Kirk Nielsen. See page 4 for a complete review of the game.

See FIRST, continued to page 7

Contents West Street House .............................. 14 Computing ......................................... 15 tetters to the E ditor ............................15 Newspeak’s Year in Review ...... 12 & 13 Club C om er ...................................... 20 Police L og ..........................................24 ■ i m " - ......' ' . ".v mm

This week: An encore edition of

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Year in Review

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News beyond the farm A weekly e-m ail news summary _________ W ORLD EDITION _________

F o r the week preceding this Saturday, A pril 26th, 1997, here’s what m ade the News Beyond the Farm: Things just keep getting worse in the upper midwest. On Apr 20th, anyone remaining of the 50,000 residents of Fargo ND were ordered evacuated as flood wa ters flowed throughout the town. A fire broke out over four square blocks of the town, including the historic newspaper offices, which firefighters had trouble ac cessing because o f the ground-level wa ter. President Clinton toured the area by helicopter Apr 22nd and approved $488 million in aid for North Dakota and Minne sota. Some residents were allowed to re turn to their homes starting Apr 23rd. The hostage crisis in Peru reached a dramatic conclusion Apr 22nd when the Peruvian army launched a surprise raid on the Japanese embassy while the Tupac Amaru captors were playing soccer. In the ensuing battle, all fourteen of the captors were killed, along with two Peruvian sol diers and one hostage. The other 71 hos tages escaped; some had to be taken on stretchers to a local hospital because of injuries of varying severity. Despite not being informed of the impending raid on Japanese soil, Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hasimoto stated that he “under stood” why the Peruvians took the action they did; no diplomatic protest was filed. Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori gained in political popularity by ordering the raid, but late reports that soldiers may have killed captors attempting to surrender have raised questions about the motives of the military action. After months o f partisan wrangling, the Senate finally ratified the Chemical Weap ons Convention Apr 25th with 71 “yes” votes. The turning point came Apr 24th when Republicans led by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) failed in an attempt to add a set of “killer am endm ents” that would have placed the US language out of agreement with the international treaty. Majority leader Trent Lott (R-MS) also came out in full support of the treaty Apr 24th. The CWC takes effect Apr 29th and will ban chemical weapons from the globe in ten years with a new enforcement agency. By ratifying the treaty, the US (which authored it) will be able to participate in that process. Oppo nents did not want the US to give up its anti-chemical weapons technology as re quired by the treaty and also had concerns about the regulation of US companies pro ducing potential precursors of chemical weapons for legitimate purposes. They’re Talking About It: Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller, who made racially insensitive statements last week, withdrew from all tournaments and said he would not play golf again until Tiger Woods accepted his apology for the comments. After sev eral days o f Zoeller in tears on national television, he finally got through to Woods Apr 24th, who did accept the apology.

Woods, who became the youngest winner ever of the M aster’s earlier this month, has an African-American father and mother of Philippine extraction.

In Shorts: • On Apr 20th, workers de cided to strike the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company as a test case in the industry. • Hong K o n g ’s alm o stcom plete Tsang-M a bridge was the victim of extreme vandalism Apr 20th which may delay its opening. • The wreckage of the miss ing A - 10 airc raft was found near Veil CO Apr 20th. Because of its remote location, parts could not be taken to positively identify the craft until Apr 24th. The body of pilot Capt. Craig Button was found on the site Apr 25th. • Gennady Zyganov was re-elected head of the Communist Party in Russia Apr 20th. • Mexico’s Popular Revolutionary Army took over the southern town of San Pedro Yolase Apr 20th. • Thousands turned out Apr 20th to pro test in Melbourne, Australia for allow ing asylum to East Timorese refugees. • More bomb threats plagued England Apr 21 st, aimed at all major airports and the docks at Dover. • French President Jacques Chirac called elections for May 25th and Jun 1st in a shocking announcem ent Apr 21st. While Chirac’s conservatives are behind in opinion polls, the surprise of the an nouncement may be enough to jum p start their campaign. • It was revealed Apr 21 st that the “Sami” person behind the electronic terroriza tion of a family in Emeryville ON, which had its lights turned off and on seem ingly at will and its telephone tapped, was the family’s own 15-year old son. • Iraq flew helicopters to the Saudi Ara bian border in defiance of the no-fly zone Apr 22nd. The US criticized the move but did not respond in any other fash ion since the flights were to return Mus lims physically weak after their Haj to Mecca. • In India, new National Front leader Kumar Gujral [note the correction in spelling from last week] won a vote of confidence in his new government Apr 22nd. • The Clinton administration acted Apr 22nd to ban all investment by US firms in Burma. • The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose a surprising 173 points to close at 6833.59 Apr 22nd. • A 63-year old woman admitted Apr 22nd having given birth late last year. She had lied about her age to get fertility treatment. The birth made her the old est mother in recorded history. • Jury selection in the trial of Timothy McVeigh ended Apr 22nd; the trial

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started and an audio tape o f the blast was played in court Apr 25th. A strike started at the General Motors plant in Pontiac MI Apr 23rd. President Clinton met with the Dalai Lama in Washington Apr 23rd. • A tornado in Rainsville AL caused enough dam aged to bring out the Na tional Guard but no deaths Apr 23rd. • 93 people were killed in a rebel raid in southern Al geria Apr 23rd. Another massacre the next day in Omaria killed 42. • Five faction leaders in Sudan signed a peace agree ment with the government Apr 23rd, but chief rebel leader John Garang still refused. Chinese President Jiang Zemin, while visiting Moscow Apr 23rd, issued a joint statement with Russian President Boris Yeltsin calling for containment of the United States. Ralph Reed announced he would resign as head of the Christian Coalition Apr 24th. The Supreme Court decided that it would hear the Federal Line- Item Veto law Apr 24th. A huge scare occured at the B’n aiB ’rith headquarters in Washington DC Apr 24th, as a package marked as having chemical agents appeared to be leaking. It turned out to be a hoax. A Federal judge North Carolina ruled Apr 25th that the Food and Drug Ad ministration may regulate tobacco as a drug and cigarettes as a drug-delivery system. However, the defeat for the in dustry was not complete, since the rul ing also stated that advertising could not be regulated. Two more bombs were found in England Apr 25th in the Birmingham area, as the

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IRA attempt to disrupt the May 1st elec tions continues. Massachusetts Governor William Weld (R) agreed Apr 26th to take the role of Ambassador to Mexico. Zairean rebel leader Laurent Kabila flew to Kisingani Apr 26th to discuss the status of about 100,000 refugees who have abandoned camps in eastern Zaire but who (the UN claims) are being pre vented from returning to Rwanda by Kabila’s troops. US Air threatened Apr 26th to start lay ing off employees Jun 30th if agreement is not reached with its unions. Accusations surfaced Apr 26th that Hong Kong businessmen may have given huge donations to the Republi can party.

Finally: Is the ultimate funeral in outer space, let ting one’s ashes mix with the vacuum of deep space? Star Trek creator Gene Roddenbury and 60s radical Timothy Leary apparently thought so. They, and about twenty others, paid $5000 to have seven grams o f their ashes launched into space. The launch took place Apr 2 1st as part of a commercial satellite launch, and the ashes have safely been taken out of the atmo sphere. Perhaps legitimate space agencies should get in this market; at almost $1000 a gram, anyone could make money! And th a t’s what made the News Beyond the Farm . Sources this week included All Things Considered (NPR), the Associated Press newswire, the BBC Newshour (BBC/PRI), the Christian Science Monitor, KCBS ra dio news, M arketplace (PRI), the News Hour with Jim Lehrer (PBS), Newsdav (BBC/SW ), N ew sdesk (BBC/PRI), and Reuters newswire. Compiled by: Lance Gleich, Stanford CA

This is the last edition of Newspeak for D Term 1997. Have a great summer, and maybe we will see you in the fall!

Attention Clubs and Organizations Club Photographs for the 1997 Peddler are currently being scheduled.

Email strick@wpi.edu to arrange a time for your group to be photographed.

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Capstone performance by Landry Courtesy o f Hum anities and Arts Dept.

P. Thomas Landry, tenor, will perform a recital on May 2nd to fulfill his capstone performance requirement for his minor in music. He will be performing music dating from the 17,h century to the present. In cluded pieces are Francesco Tosti’s Luna D ’E state. S chubert’s Ave M aria, and Stephen Soundheim’s Johanna from the musical “Sweeny Todd” . The performance will take place in the Spaulding Recital Hall in the basement of Alden Hall. The perfor mance begins at 7:00pm and will run ap proximately 45 minutes. Tom will be ac companied by his vocal instructor Ruth Cooper. Preceded by Michael Driscoll, Tom will

become the second student to perform his capstone for a minor in music at WPI. Tom has been a member of the WPI Glee Club for four years, and a member of the recently formed WPI Chamber Choir for one year. He has been featured as a soloist in both groups and has been hired and asked to perform by outside parties. Tom has been training his voice with in struction from Ruth Cooper, an affiliate of the WPI Glee Club, for just over one and one half years. Ruth’s instruction has done much in improving/enhancing the quality of Tom’s voice, as she has done for countless others. Tom is a chemical engineering major in the class of 1997. He is also one of the elders in a secretive society of modern age Vikings, and a member of die infamous Tiger group.

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Reviewing “Dick for a Day” As one might suspect from the title, Dick for a Day: What Would You Do if You Had One? (edited by Fiona Giles) poses the inter esting question o f what women would do if they had a penis for a day. The question was posed to a large number of writers, feminists, scholars, performers, and artists and the re sponses were compiled in this book. There is poetry, stories, collages and cartoons on the subject, each more interested than the last. There are essays submitted by both gay and straight women (one interesting point was that most of the lesbians who wrote ‘tested’ their new organs with other men). Some of the submissions are quite erotic, some very humorous, and some bordering on the bizarre. The ways in which the women acquired their new dicks was also quite var ied. Some found them on the street, others sent away for them, still others were surprised to wake up with them one morning. Some

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dick-recipients changed into men after receiv ing their new appendages, others remained women, but with a surprising addition. The size o f the new addition varied, as did the color. Some women found their penises gave them a new sense of power, others thought they were sort of a pain in the neck. Most were glad to get their own familiar parts back at the end of the day. Two of my favorite essays are by Sarah B. Weir (“Daily Agenda”, 1. Wake up with wood... 4. Create copious steam and soap scum... 25. Plan all-male trip to forest area with guns...) and Diane Di Massa (no title, I’d put it in a hot dog roll, let my cat smell it, see if it fit in my underwear...). I thought they were terrifically amusing. This book would probably be more appre ciated by women than by men. A few o f the men I showed it to found it offensive and thought it was making fun of men and their genitalia. All the women who saw my copy thought it was hilarious. Each to his (or her) own, I guess.

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P. Thomas Landry, tenor, will perform a recital on May 2nd to fulfill his capstone performance requirement for his minor in music. He will be performing music dating from the 17,h century to the present. In cluded pieces are Francesco Tosti’s Luna D ’E state. S chubert’s Ave M aria, and Stephen Soundheim’s Johanna from the musical “Sweeny Todd”. The performance will take place in the Spaulding Recital Hall in the basement of Alden Hall. The perfor mance begins at 7:0()pm and will run ap proximately 45 minutes. Tom will be ac companied by his vocal instructor Ruth Cooper. Preceded by Michael Driscoll, Tom will

C0tiCEJZT Foxboro Stadium 7/1 and 7 /2 -U2 Great Woods 5/21 - O ffsp rin g , M ighty M ighty Bosstones, L7, Bim Skala Bim, Tree and AFI 6/6 - Indigo Girls and Ulali 6/12 & 6/13 - Dave Matthews Band and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones 6/14 - OZZFEST 97 featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath with origi nal members Ozzy, Toni Iommi and Geezer Butler, Pantera, Type 0 Nega tive, Fear Factory, Machinehead and Powerman 5000 6/23 - Rush 6/26 - No Doubt, Weezer, Face to Face 6/30 - Smokin’ Grooves 97 Featuring Cy press Hill, Foxxy Brown, G eorge Clinton & Parliament, Funkadelic & The Mothership, The Pharcyde, and the Roots 7/6 - Bush with special guests Jesus Liz ard 7/8 - Lollapalooza 7/10 - 70’s Supershow featuring The Vil lage People, KC and the Sunshine Band, Kool and the Gang, Vickie Sue R obinson, T helm a H ouston, The Tramps and Motion. Hosted by Deney Terrio! 7/11 & 7/12 - Aerosmith 7/20 - Counting Crows with special guests The Wallflowers 7/25 - Santana with special guests Rusted Root 7/26 - Steve Miller Band with special guest Eric Johnson 7/30 - Live 7/31 - The Who 8/8 - The H.O.R.D.E. Festival starring Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Blues Trav eler and other artists Centrum 5/9 - No Doubt The Meadows in Hartford 5/7 - Marilyn Manson w/ special guest Helmet

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Reviewing “Dick for a Day” As one might suspect from the title, Dick for a Day: What Would You Do if You Had One? (edited by Fiona Giles) poses the inter esting question of what women would do if they had a penis for a day. The question was posed to a large number of writers, feminists, scholars, performers, and artists and the re sponses were compiled in this book. There is poetry, stories, collages and cartoons on the subject, each more interested than the last. There are essays submitted by both gay and straight women (one interesting point was that most of the lesbians who wrote ‘tested’ their new organs with other men). Some of the submissions are quite erotic, some very humorous, and some bordering on the bizarre. The ways in which the women acquired their new dicks was also quite var ied. Some found them on the street, others sent away for them, still others were surprised to wake up with them one morning. Some

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Weekly sports update: Results from April 18th to 24th by G eo ff Hassard, Sports Inform ation Director

M en’s Track (4-4) The m en’s team hosted Springfield, Bowdoin, Colby, Fitchburg State and Worcester State on Saturday the 19th. The Engineers ended up finishing in fourth place behind Springfield, Bowdoin and Colby with 99 points. Leading the way for WPI was weight man Mike Pockoski (Day ville, CT) who won the hammer, placed second in the discus and took fifth in the shot put. Other multiple event scorers were David Hawes (Seal Harbor, ME), Brian H agglund (U n casv ille, CT) and Ted Manley (Salem, MA). Hawes placed third in the 100-meter dash and fifth in the 400meter intermediate hurdles. Hagglund was fourth in the long jum p and sixth in the 400-meter dash. Manley finished second in the triple jump and third in the long jump. Single event scorers for WPI were, Dan Sadowski (Ashfield, MA) who was third in the discus. Aaron Korthas (Gloucester, MA) finished fifth in the hammer. Ken Otto (Ellington, CT) was sixth in the discus. Dan Atkinson (Dedham, MA) was third in the pole vault. Mark Brito (Lowell, MA) was fifth in the pole vault. Steve Vallee (Lewiston, ME) was sixth in the triple jump. Nick Cottreau (N. Attleboro, MA) placed fifth in the long jump. Brian Kennedy (Ballston Lake, NY) finished sixth in the 3,000-m eter steeplechase. Liam Kelly (Shrewsbury, MA) was third in the 1,500meter run. Bill Freed (Stockton, NJ) placed fifth in the 110-meter high hurdles. Pete Manolakos (Peabody, MA) finished sec ond in the 400-meters. Keith Levesque (Nashua, NH) was third in the 400-meters. Rick Crispo (Andover, MA) was sixth in the 800-meter run and Dan Nashold (Rocky

B lum w ent the distance to even his record at 3-3 on the season. Baseball (13-11, Final) Townsend, The baseball ended the regular N oonan and J a season winning three out of their son K atz last five gam es as they split a (Merrimack, NH) couple o f doubleheaders with w ould do the Springfield and Clark while pick d am age in th is ing up a single game win over one as Townsend Anna Maria. had a couple o f On Sunday the 20th WPI trav h its, two RBIs eled west to meet Springfield Col w h ile sco rin g lege in a CAC doubleheader. In th ree runs. the first game WPI ace Guy Miller N oonan w ould pitched a three hit gem as the En have a couple of gineers won 1-0. Miller went the hits while scoring distance, striking out six as he th ree runs and raised his record to 6-0 and low driving in one and ered his earned run average to Katz would have 1.69. The games only run was two RBIs. In the scored when Adam Abrams (E. The Engineers easily won an April 21st game against Anna Maria college, 13-6, second game the Bridgewater, MA) drew a walk W PI bats would with the bases loaded in the top be silenced as they could only manage Springfield would finally retire the side. o f the sixth inning. three hits as they were shutout 1-0. Down The following day WPI would host In the second game Springfield got to ing would pitch well as he pitched the Anna Maria in a single game. This game WPI starter Jeff Ross (W. Bridgewater, whole game, but he would be outdueled would be over early as the Engineers MA) early to take a 5-1 lead after two in by the Clark starter. jumped out to a 10-0 lead after three in nings. Springfield would increase their lead Last Thursday WPI was home for the nings enroute to a 13-6 triumph. Mike to 9-3 entering the top of the seventh when first round o f the CAC tournament as they Hager (Shrub Oak, NY) would pick up the WPI would rally. The inning would start hosted Babson. All w as going w ell win in his second start of the spring while with a walk to Adam Clark (Holden, MA) through the first inning when the flood Nate Cote (N. Attleboro, MA) would pick which was followed by a single by Pat gates opened. Five WPI errors led to seven up a save after pitching four strong innings Noonan (Houlton, ME) and another walk Beaver runs in the top o f the second and in relief. Miller had two hits and four runs to Scott Townsend (Hollis, ME) to load the the Engineers never recovered losing 18batted in on the day while Jason Merry bases with no outs. The Engineers would 2. The lone bright spot for WPI in the game (Latham, NY) cleared the bases in the third still have the bases loaded with two outs was Katz’s two hits and two RBIs. The inning with a double to drive in three runs. when Miller drove in a run with a single. encouraging thing about this team is that The next day, WPI would host Clark in a C onsecutive walks to Justin Downing they are all coming back and they finished make-up of their postponed doubleheader (Leominster, MA) and Chris Vandette (N. with the first winning season in ten years from the previous Friday. WPI would win Attleboro, MA) would make the score 9-6. at WPI. the first game 8-1 behind a strong pitching Abrams would then drive in two runs with See Sports, continued to page 5 performance by Jim Blum (Marlboro, MA). a single to close the gap to one before Hill, CT) finished sixth in the 200meter dash.

IceCats lose series to Providence Bruins 3-2 by Edward J. Cameron, Jr. Co-E ditor-in-Chief

The Worcester IceCats dropped three games in a row to the Providence Bruins after leading the first round series two games to none. The losses on Wednes day, Thursday, and Saturday brought an end to Worcester’s most successful sea son in franchise history and postponed the coming of the Calder Cup to Worcester for at least another year. Wednesday’s game saw the Baby Bru ins defeat the IceCats by the score o f 4-2 on Centrum ice. Providence scored a power play goal late in the first period off the stick of Jean-Yves Roy. Providence lit the red lamp again early in the second with Clayton Beddoes’ shot at 1:12. The IceCats started to fight back though with Rob Pearson scoring at 2:20 with assists from Jamie Riv ers and Justin Hocking. Jason Zent lit the lamp with an attack of his own at 6:04 with help from teammates Terry Virtue and Jamal Mayers. Providence regained the lead late in the period with Barry Richter’s goal at 17:52. The only goal in the third period was an empty net power play goal at 18:41,

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team pull out a double overtime win 5-4. The first period saw each team score a goal. The first was for Worcester off the stick of

Rob Pearson, the second was by the Bru ins’ Clayton Beddoes. The second period scoring favored Providence as they took a 3-2 lead scoring two goal to Worcester’s one. Third period action saw the opposite of the second and the teams went into over time tied at 4. The first overtime period failed to produce a victor so they battled for another five minutes. This time Provi dence would manage to split the pipes cour tesy o f Barry Richter. The Providence vic tory tied the series at two games apiece and sent the scries back to Worcester. Saturday’s game saw IceCat Jamal Mayers do all the Worcester lamp lighting scoring two goals. Providence lit the lamp three times to send them to the second round of the AHL Calder Cup playoffs. Mayers first goal was a power play goal at 1:58 of the first period with assists from Rory Fitzpatrick and Jason Zent. Providence didn’t score until the sec ond period where they split the pipes twice courtesy of Ken McRae and Scott Morrow. Mayers also scored his second, assisted this time by Terry Virtue and Libor Zabransky. The Bruins would add Landon Wilson’s power play goal to their total in the third and come away with the series victory.

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Volleyball teams challenged at East Coast Asian Volleyball Tourney by Sany Zakharia Newspeak Staff

Last Saturday, on the 19th, the annual East Coast Asian Volleyball Tournament was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The tournament, sponsored by M IT’s Chinese Students’ Club, attracted 21 men’s and 10 women’s team s from colleges and universities around the East coast. WPI, which has competed 4 times in the last 3 years in this com petition, was represented by two

teams, m en’s and women’s, from the Chi nese Student Association (CSA). A total of 10 men and 6 women battled it out with their very experienced adversaries between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Ultimately, however, the victors o f the tournam ent where the Montreal Freemasons A Team, whose men and wom en’s team both clenched the first place cash prize of $400 and $300 respec tively. Unfortunately, both WPI teams lost almost all games in both men’s and women’s divisions. The m en’s team suffered 8 losses and 0

wins while the women’s team, which did slightly better, had 7 losses and 1 win. The single victory was against Tufts Univer sity, which was quite an accomplishment for the women’s team considering it was the first time that they had performed alone (previous games used to be coed). The Team Captain, senior Antonio Lai, believes that the other teams are improving while the WPI players’ skill level remains the same. He attributes this to the fact that the other school’s teams are much better es tablished than W PI’s, which consists of

club players. Nonetheless, this is the first time that the CSA officially sponsored the WPI teams, which previously used to com bine with those of Clark University for com petition. Thus the WPI teams are slightly more established this year and can hopefully look forward to more victories in the fu ture. Although the CSA’s teams were de feated quite badly in this tournament, they have become much more experienced and more importantly, had a great time. Good luck to both teams next year!

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Softball (5-21, Final) The softball team also played back-toback doubleheaders on Sunday and Mon day against MIT and Smith as they closed out the regular season. They only one one o f the four as they split with MIT and were swept by Smith. In the first game versus MIT, WPI pounded out 16 hits while scoring a sea son high 18 runs enroute to an 18-12 win. Sonja Farak (Portsmouth, RI) led the of fensive attack with four hits and four RBIs. Lyn Dubois (Cumberland, RI) also had four hits while scoring three runs. Jami Walsh (Bellingham, MA), Lara Currie (C oncord, NH), C arrie Seigars (R ich m ond, ME), Steph Torrey (W orcester, M A) and Holly Weymouth (Abbot, ME) all scored two runs in the game. Currie and Walsh each added two hits apiece. In the second game WPI tied the game at 4-4 in the top half o f the fifth inning. MIT cam e back with a run in their half o f the fifth and added another in the home half o f the sixth to win 6-4.

In the doubleheader the next day against Smith, the Pioneers won the first game 9-0 on the power of a six run sixth inning. T he Engineers registered four hits, two coming off the bat of Dubois. In the nightcap, WPI played in their first extra inning game of the season. Smith had a 10 lead until the fourth inning when Walsh knocked in two runs to give WPI the lead. Smith would tie the game in the sixth and we would head to the eighth at 2-2. Smith managed to score their runner from sec ond to take the lead 3-2 in the top half of the inning and then prevented WPI from pushing the tying run across as they held on for the win. The softball team also hosted Babson last Thursday in the first round of the NEW 8 tournament. Unfortunately the result was the same as the Beavers held off a two out WPI rally in the bottom of the seventh in ning to win 3-1.

Western New England on the 19th. The tournament was held indoors due to the weather and WPI was matched against Coast Guard in the opening round. Un fortunately the day would be short for the Engineers as they dropped a 5-0 de cision and were eliminated from the tour nament. On the fo llo w in g M onday, W PI hosted UMass-Lowell and ended up los ing a tough 4-3 decision that was decided in the doubles matches. The Engineers came through the singles with a 3-3 tie as Alex Narvarez (Guayaquil, Ecuador), Wes Marcks (Hingham, MA) and Carl Neilsen (Plymouth, MA) won at #4, 5 and 6 singles respectively. In the doubles, Mike Borek (N. Smithfield, RI) and Brad Foulkes (W orcester, M A) won th eir match at #3, but W PI dropped the other two to give Umass the one point and the victory.

M en’s Tennis (2-5) The m e n ’s tennis team began their week w ith the CAC Championships at

Golf (1-0-1) The w eather has certainly w reaked havoc on the spring golf season this year,

but the squad has been able to get in a few matches lately as well as participate in the Massachusetts Open. In their first match of the season WPI traveled south to Connecticut to take on Wesleyan. The match ended in a 3-1/2 to 3-1/2 tie in match play. Low scorers for the Engineers were M ike W illock (Rockland, MA) with a 79 and Jamie Carlson (Wethersfield, C T ) with and 83. WPI then competed in the M assachu setts Open at Stow Acres and placed 14th of 17 teams with an overall score o f 352. Haig Altoonian (Medfield, MA) finished tied for tenth individually with a score of 79. Last Monday WPI w ent to Dudley, Mass. to play Nichols. The Engineers brought home the win as they beat the Bison 336-350. Carlson had another solid day as he scored a 77 to be low man on the day. Last Thursday WPI com peted in the Worcester State Invitational at Sterling Country Club and placed sixth out o f eight teams with a score of 337.

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WPI ranks 28th in Wired Colleges survey by A m y M arr Web Coordinator

The May issue of Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine lists W PI as the 28th “most wired college” in the U.S. This ranking is based upon W PI’s responses to a sur vey conducted earlier this year. The sur vey asked questions like “What percent age of courses have a web page?” and “Are the dorms wired?” Also, the per centage of students and student organi zations with personal web pages weighed heavily in the ranking. Three hundred colleges were selected by Yahoo! to participate in the survey, and 100 of these were ranked based on their responses. Only one other college in the Worcester Consortium was ranked - Holy Cross placed 22nd. Other notables were Renssalear at #4 and M IT at #1. WPI ranked higher than five of the eight Ivy League schools; only D artm outh (#5), Princeton (#12) and Penn (#27) ranked higher. The Social Web (social.wpi.edu) cre ated by W PI’s Troy Thompson, earned WPI a place in “The Top 5 Wired Party Schools - notable for their leisurely use

o f the ‘net” . While overstating the num ber o f “friends and lovers” that have met through its matchmaking feature, Yahoo! accurately cited the Social Web as unit ing the ten campuses o f the Consortium “socially online.” It should be noted th at the rankings are based solely on the responses given by college administrators and technical staff. Yahoo! did not verify any of the responses received. O f the 100 most wired colleges: 100 offer students access to online library catalogs, 99 offer stu d en ts unlim ited access to the web, 98 o ffer students a default e-m ail account, 87 o ffer stu dents Web space for a hom epage, 85 host a cam pus-based new sgroup hier archy, 71 supply a p o rt for every pil low, 43 allow students to view tran scripts online, 29 allow students to reg ister for classes online, 28 allow stu dents to add/drop c la sse s o n lin e, 11 require Internet training, 3 supply ev ery student with a PC. T h e c o m p le te is s u e o f Y ahoo! Internet Life m agazine is available on the web at http://w w w .zdnet.com /yil/ filters/to c/cu rren tto c/h tm l

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among the graduating classes in donating funds. So you’re wondering how a senior, who is still scouring the earth for a job and whose wallet is in recession, can afford to donate some money? Well, the 1997 Se nior Class Pledge Committee has some very good reasons why and has devised an easy way to do this as well. Students may do nate money ranging from $75 and upwards, in five-year installments, starting from as little as $5. For example, a $75 dollar in stallment starts off with $5 for the years 1996-1997, and increases by merely $5 each year until the year 2000-2001. One could also donate $600 starting with $40 this year, and increasing the donation value by $40 each year over the next five years. Quite simple. This donated money can be funneled into six different categories. Schol arship Aid, Faculty Support, Student Life, Academic Programs, Library Services, and Undesignated. Money donated to Schol

arship Aid helps financially assist those students that cannot fully pay their own tuition. Money donated to Faculty Sup port helps assures that outstanding fac ulty members continue to be duly compen sated. Donations to Student Life are redi rected to assist the various student clubs on campus including other student activi ties. Donations to Academic Programs help develop the curriculum at WPI in or der to make sure that students continue to receive the most effective education. Money given to Library Services helps maintain the quality of service of Gordon Library and helps fund modernization and automation programs for the library. Fi nally, for those who are undecided, money donated under the Undesignated category is placed into a pool and then channeled into the any one of the previously men tioned categories that require the funds most. Other than helping WPI in the pre viously mentioned ways, donating money

helps offset the rise in tuition. When the Institute does its budgeting, it fills its op eration costs through funds collected from tuition as well as its many other sources. One of these sources includes donations collected from funds such as the 1997 Se nior Class Pledge Fund. So, the more money WPI gets from other sources, the less money they need to collect from students in the form of tuition in order to meet the operation costs of the college. In order to create awareness and inter est in donations, the Fund committee has set up tables at various points on campus which provide information and accept do nations, has created fliers, organized phonathons, and other activities includ ing a Senior Class Gift Appreciation Re ception scheduled for May 19th, 4-6 p.m. at the President’s house, which is spon sored by the GOLD Council (Graduates of the Last Decade), followed by an evening at Jillian’s Billiard Club between 6:30-9:30

p.m. Through these activities, the Fund council hopes to reach their goal of 50% senior participation in donations, or around $20,000. So far, only a week after launch ing their campaign, the committee members have managed to get 15% of the senior class involved in donating money, or rais ing approximately $3000. The Fund com mittee would also like to foster some friendly com petition am ong the future sen io r classes as to which class donated the most money. A plaque will be created in order to acknowledge the amount donated from each class. So, if you feel like giving a little back to the community and want to acquire a donation form, or if you just require more information, you can reach Mr. Pahigian at (508) 831 -5697, or pahigian@wpi.edu. You may also want to speak to one of the stu dent C h airs, S uzanne B erry, (berry@wpi.edu) who would be happy to answer any of your questions regarding donations.

Venture Forum’s Hokanson named Mass. Media Advocate of the Year

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Robert Hokanson. Courtesy o f WPI News Service

Robert E. Hokanson of Boylston has been named by the 1997 Media Advocate of the Year for the Commonwealth of Mas

sachusetts by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Hokanson was cited for his outstanding coverage of small business issues. He was nominated by William Purcell, executive vice president of the Worcester Business Development Center. His award will be presented at the Mas sachusetts Salute to Small Business Din ner to be held at the Sheraton Tara in Framingham on June 5 during National Small BusinessWeek. The Massachusetts Small Business Advisory Council is spon soring this year’s tribute with attendees representing a cross section of small busi ness owners and advocates from through out the state. Hokanson works for WTAGAM radio as a news anchor and producer of public affairs programs. He is also an independent broker of insurance and finan cial services. Hokanson has been actively involved, since its beginning, in the WPI Venture Forum, an organization that promotes the spirit of entrepreneurship and brings ad vice, support and education to those who engage in technology-based entrepreneur ial enterprises, first as a member of the pub lic relations/marketing committee and later

Center: Plans are in the making Continued from page 1

ing process in which parts of the building remain open for use while other parts are under construction, experience in design ing campus as well as recreation centers, and with designing historic buildings since Alumni Gym is in the historic registry. Sev eral of the firms have had past experience w ith b u ild in g s on the WPI cam pus, Founders and Riley Halls for example. Last Friday, a meeting was held to nar row the selection of architects to four. This number will later be cut to two, each of which will be hired to do design modeling for the center. WPI community input will be one factor in selecting the final design and architect. The selection of the architect will be fol

lowed by a 12 month design phase. Dur ing this period, a “distilling” of programs will occur to decide what the WPI commu nity really needs in a Campus and Recre ation Center. Plans will be refined to in clude as many of the campus’s needs as possible. A Campus Center web site should be up and running soon, hopefully by the end of the school year. This site is being put to gether by Craig Hansen, Amy Marr, and Janet Richardson. It will include an artists rendition of the center, which is one archi tects conception of how the Center might look, several presentations that have been made regarding the center, and time tables for completion of different aspects of the centers construction.

as a member of the executive board. He was instrumental in developing the WPI Venture Forum radio show on WTAG-AM radio in 1994. The call-in program usually airs on Saturday afternoons from 5 to 7pm. Hokanson serves as executive producer and occasional host. “Bob’s leadership in developing the WPI Venture Forum radio program has helped a

large segment o f the Central Massachu setts population understand what is means to be an entrepreneur in these changing economic times,” says Norman T. Brust, Venture Forum chair. “He is a valued mem ber of the Forum’s executive board and has been very instrumental in helping us carry out our mission o f supporting technologySee Hokanson, continued to p a g e 7.

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based entrepreneurial activity.” Hokanson is a lifelong resident of Mas sachusetts and a graduate of Assumption College with a major in foreign affairs and a double minor in economics and geogra phy. His broadcast career began immedi ately after college as a news reporter at Worcester public radio station WCUW. He later worked for WSRS doing news, an nouncing and public affairs programs. He has produced shows for Boston’s Chan nel 5, WCVB-TV. Hokanson has worked with the Massa chusetts State Grange for more than 20 years and has headed the local Grange for the past 7 years helping with its charitable activities and in promoting agriculture. He has also been active with the National Association of Life Underwriters coordi nating local agent education seminars and classes. In 1993 he was elected president of the Worcester association, the second largest in the state, and founded its first “sales congress,” a large trade show and educational event for professionals in the insurance agency. He later went on to es tablish “Life Insurance Week” in Massa chusetts. He was recognized in 1994 with the Association Achievement Award by the M assachusetts Association o f Life Underwriters.

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lock onto the goal, and raise a fireman-like ladder that had a maximum extension of fourteen feet. For defense, the robot ro tated the goal, preventing other robots from scoring. The W PI-MA team was also at the Manchester, NH, for the New England Re gional. The team’s showing there was not very spectacular, being our first time out, but it was a valuable experience. At the Mid-Atlantic Regional, Extensor made it to the quarter-finals, but was stopped by GM ’s Powertrain Group and their high school partner. The team was awarded the Proctor & Gamble Design Creativity Award for the robot’s arms, which would grab the goal and allow the robot to rotate it as a defensive tactic, and for the robot’s relatively small budget o f $300.00. More than one foolish robot was mangled at the goal by our bloodthirsty controllers. Fi nally, at the National competition held at Disney’s Epcot the team succeeded in scor ing the most total points while still remain ing undefeated, in the seeding matches. This Number one Seed ranking bought the team a two-round bye and into the matches just before the quarterfinals. It is quite possible that WPI-MA would have won the N ationals, if not for a strange electronics failure, which even tually destroyed the extension ladder in the loser’s bracket match on the day of the competition. Overall, WPI and Mass Academy have done exceptionally well this year, coming away with two trophies, and the title of First in the Nation for a day.

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T h is D a y i n H i s t o r y April 29 1813 Rubber is patented 1945 U.S. liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany 1954 Jerry Seinfeld born, comedian 1957 First military nuclear power plant dedicated. Fort Belvoir, VA 1971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration 1975 U.S. military forces pull out of Vietnam April 30 1789 George Washington inaugurated as first president of U.S. 1798 Department of Navy established 1803 U.S. doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase ($ 15 million) 1945 Adolph Hitler and wife Eva Braun commit suicide 1970 U.S. troops invade Cambodia May 1 1707 England, Wales, and Scotland form UK of Great Britain 1863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers 1869 A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord, OH 1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight 1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap May 2 1519 Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67 1863 South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson killed by his own men 1892 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen born, (the Red Baron), German W W I ace 1919 First U.S. air passenger service starts 1945 Russia takes Berlin 1946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, five die May 3 1765 First U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia 1926 U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua, stay until 1933 1949 First firing of a U.S. Viking rocket, reached 80 km 1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days

May4 1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England 1927 First balloon flight over 40,000 feet, Scott Field, IL 1942 Food first rationed in US 1970 Four students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister of England May 5 1430 Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica on his second voyage 1916 U.S. Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 1925 John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee 1948 First air squadron of jets aboard an aircraft carrier 1965 First large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam

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WPI Class of 1997 Senior Week Activities M ay 19-24

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Senior C lass G ift A ppreciation R eception, 4-6 p.m . at the P resid en t’s house Jillian ’s B illiard C lub, 6 :30-9:30 p.m .

Trip

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Student/F aculty Softball G am e, 2 p.m .

Want to play? Contact Greg Snoddy (e-mail: gsnoddy@wpi or x5291) C om m encem ent Rehearsal, 4 p.m., at H arrington A uditorium B arbecue on the H iggins H ouse C o u rty ard , 5 p.m. follow ed by an evening at G om pei s

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A scavenge of the city of W orcester in search of som e very special items. Specific tim es and locations to be an n ounced.

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11 a.m . L ine-up in front o f Boynton Hall at 10 a.m . In the e vent o f rain, line-up will be form ed in the Alum ni G ym nasium and the cerem ony in the H arrington Auditorium.

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Bio for Boobs: Not even close to what it used to be by Jane lie Evans Class o f ’98 What do you think when you hear a friend is taking “Bio for Boobs”, the out of major introductory biology course? Prob ably something along the lines of “what a slacker taking such an easy course to lighten his or her course load.” Right? Well, not any more. Bio for Boobs got... dare I say it... HARD. Perhaps it was out of vengeance and spite for the class’ nickname that the Biology De

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partment decided to alter the material learned in “Bio for Boobs”, but as of right now, the class test averages are a’plummeting and people are actually racking their brains try ing to get a decent grade. As a Biochemistry major attempting to help some poor Electri cal Engineering majors understand the con cepts that are being shoved down their throats, I was appalled to see the content of the material that they were expected to “un derstand.” Or is it more accurate to say memo rize with hopes that the same pre-test ques tions will be on the real test?

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exams for them because even though they regularly attend class, they just don’t get it. Looking at the last exam, here is an example: LDH stands for lactic acid dehydrogenase, yet in this tissue it cannot remove hydro gens from lactate. A) Liver B) Heart C) Skel etal Muscle D) Liver and Heart. Well, even I don’t know that! And I have been through the Biochemistry sequence! Basically all I am trying to say is that Biology is fun, and instead o f making it a hellishly time consum ing course, maybe the professors involved in creating the course should reconsider the material they are providing now. Don’t you want people to be interested?

I applaud the Bio department for its at tempt to show that Biology is not major about which to joke or call a “girly” sci ence, but in all seriousness, you are caus ing utter hatred towards Biology among out of major students. An introductory Bio course is ju st that... intro, nothing more, nothing less. This course, however, is trying to teach four years o f biology in seven weeks. No one really knows what is being taught, and very few people are even remotely enjoying themselves. I have had bribe offers from many students to take

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Quadhazard threatens to be an event for everyone W hat Ls Quadfest? Q uadfest is a massive campus unity event entirely conceived, organized and run by students. The idea for a Quad Festival came out of a retreat held by members of the 1993 SocComm Executive board. At that time there was much talk (and little action) by people about the WPI community and how to improve it. Unfortunately, the student body is split into groups which don’t interact much: on-cam pus students, off-cam pus stu dents, commuters, greeks, and grad stu dents. These groups of students only interact academically, with very little so cial interaction.

surprise, and urgency, participants will also be excited, and will have a great time at Quadfest. As with any theme, it is important to have events which are them e-related. This year, we will be having a Scrambler carnival ride during the day, a dunk tank sponsored by the Student Government Association, and Velcro Olympics. At night, the WPI Social Committee’s Major and Special Events Committee will spon sor HAZMAT, an evening o f fun head lined by Laser Tag and Virtual Reality. The fe stiv itie s end with P roject B urning Night, where people can bring their Suf ficiency, IQP, MQP, or thesis drafts, or other class work, to a bonfire and get rid of their stress as their hard work goes up in flames. Inidefest, a SocComm Pub Committee concert in which WPI bands play, will take place during ihe day and night.

W hat Ls Q uadhazard? Quadhazard is the fifth incarnation of Quadfest. The idea behind the theme is that by exhibiting an image of hazard, excitement,

What next? Look for a Quadhazard schedule, which you will find in your mailbox later this week. And get ready...

By Dave Koelle EdUor-in-Chief Emeritus Q uadfest 5: Q uadhazard is happening this weekend at a Quad near you!

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1996-97: The Year in Review Com piled by D avid Koelle Editor-in-C hief Emeritus

If there has been one thing that was similar about the big news stories of this past year, that would have to be change. A new president. A new director o f student activities. West Street was transformed into Reunion Plaza; Riley Hall and Salisbury

Labs were renovated. Of course, there are other distinguishing qualities besides change in this year’s top news stories; there arc triumphs as well. Jason Wenning getting the gold at the Paralympic Games. A new campus in Waltham. Four greek organizations winning excellence awards. Breakthrough theater techniques involving virtual reality. Finding a bug in a widely used software product. Showing support for the campus center - and getting one.

Here are the top news stories of the 1996-1997 academic year: September 10,1996

WPI athlete shines in Atlanta’s Paralympic Games Jason Wening ’97 competed in the Paralympic Games in Atlanta, winning a gold medal and beating his previous world record in the 400-meter freestyle swim. Wening, a belowknee amputee, now has two gold medals, one from Atlanta and one from Barcelona.

WPI opens new campus in Waltham WPI formally opened its new Waltham campus on August 22. The facility occupies a floor-and-a-half in an office building located off Bear Hill Road near Route 128 and Inter state 495 and conveniently located near high tech industries. The Waltham facility offers a wide range of graduate and continuing education programs. September 17,1996

Six million poured into this year’s campus improvements WPI spent approximately $6 million for the various construction and restoration projects on campus. Apart from the visible changes to West Street and Riley Hall, resto ration and construction work has been done to Alden Hall, Alumni Gym, Boynton Hall, Founders Hall, Goddard Hall, Harrington Auditorium, Kaven Hall, Salisbury Labs, The Grill and Washburn Labs. The $3.3 million spent on Riley Hall was the largest single expenditure on any of the projects. In June, a new 1600 square foot, quarter million dollar bio-chemistry lab was constructed in the basement of Goddard Hall. This lab was de signed and constructed by WPI graduates Jordan O’Connor and Matt Colangelo. September 17,1996

The First Most Spirited Student Competition The first-ever naming of Most Spirited Student happened at Homecoming 1996. The idea behind the Most Spirited Student competition was to being back the Homecoming King and Queen, but in a way that would be widely accepted. Winners were chosen not for their looks but for their school spirit. The winners of this year’s award were Jennifer Lowell, Matthew Dowling, Francesca Escoto, and Laura Bielitz, all class of 1997. The winners were asked, as an honorary task, to lead the crowd in the “E-to-the-X” cheer at half-time.

September 24,1996

President Parrish inaugurated

Edward A. Parrish, WPI’s 14lh president, was inaugu rated on Friday, September 20, humanities Professor Hanlon put the presi dential medallion around President Parrish’s neck, ^ f>J0 and mechanical engineering Professor Tcrwilligcr ‘88 ^ gave him the charter o f WPI. Dr. Parrish then gave his Inaugural Address, “Making a Difference.” The guest speaker was Dr. Claire L. Gaudiani, President of Connecticut College. The day also featured a major symposium, “The New Liberal Educa tion for the Age of Technology.’’

Four greek organizations earn prestigious awards Four WPI fraternities recently won awards from their national chapters for the 1995-1996 academic year. Alpha Gamma Delta’s Zeta Zeta chapter won the Five Star award for its commitment to scholarship, leadership, standards, quality, quota, and initiation total. Theta C hi’s Epsilon chapter won a number of excellence awards from their national chapter in cluding the Howard R. Alter Award for chapter excellence, the highest award that can be given to an active chapter. Zeta Psi’s Pi Tau chapter was honored with the most distin guished award in Zeta Psi, the Comstock Award, as well as the Outstanding Chapter Award. Tau Kappa Epsilon’s Zeta Mu chapter won the TOP TKE award for the fourth time in the past five school year for the Northeast region.

October 1,1996

SGA discusses and approves SocComm’s Movie Channel funding request The WPI Social Committee recently re quested special funding from the Student Government Association to purchase new video equipment for the SocComm Movie Channel. The request was first approved, then reconsidered, leaving SocComm members confused about the fate of the movie channel. The fund ing request, with some alterations, was approved the next week. tl

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1996-97: The Year in Review November 5,1996

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WPI Web gets five-star rating

New policy for recognition of student clubs to start

In the book, “NetCollege 1997,” written by Michael Wolff and published by Wolff New Media, WPI’s web page was given a perfect rating of five stars. This book is used by students looking for colleges.November 5,1996

Welcome Greg Snoddy! Greg Snoddy joined the Student Activities staff as the Director of Orientation Programs and Student Activities. His focus is to make people feel comfortable about going to the Student Activities Office, and encourages feedback from the students. “The most impor tant thing is that this is a team effort, a partnership,” says Greg. “Let us know if you have any input or concerns.”

Dedication of West Street The area formerly known as West Street was officially dedicated, with many WPI digni taries in attendance, including President Parrish. The new fountain area was christened Reunion Plaza. Construction was scheduled to be wrapped up before snow started to fly.

November 19,1996

Breakthrough theater to be performed at WPI Masque presented WPI’s finest stars in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, written by Ken Kesey. This production has an extra spccial touch which promises to be a spectacular merge between theater and technology. With the use of a scrim (translucent screen) placcd above the set, the audience was taken into a world of virtual reality (VR). Throughout the play Chief Bromdem has a scries of speeches that could be otherwise awkward, but the VR world allowed the audience to see more into the character’s reality. The audiencc got a better feel for the meaning of Bromdem's words as well as witness the newest thing in theater technology. The VR world was created by WPI students using a Duke Nukem editor to create rooms in which a “Virtual Actor” will navigate through, as it is projected on stage. Dean O ’Donnell ’86, visiting instructor of drama/theater, states that, “ This is a totally new approach - so new we only know of one other place that is doing it.”

Those looking to start new organizations on campus should obtain a copy of the new policy for recognition of student activities, which contains many changes from the these changes will affect new sports clubs, old procedure. Many of related requirements being in with many more safetymanual. corporated into the new The new recognition p ro c ess may not go into effect until this coming Fall, at least six months later than was initially forecast by the Student Activi ties Office. Applica tions for recogni tion were no longer accepted after the end of A Term, ef fectively putting a stop to the or gan iza tio n of new clubs on cam pus until the new pro J°n Sveiife cess goes into effect. ° th e r Pi'rfa,

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Steering Committee works to bring WPI into the 21st Century President Parrish addressed the faculty and a small number of administrators at a special faculty meeting, as well as a group of students at a special meeting. The topic of discussion was the future of WPI, and the necessity for action. This is directly related to the Stra tegic Steering Committee, chaired by Prof. Weininger, created early this a c a d e m ic year. The p re sen tatio n addressed the p re sid e n t’s thoughts on where W PI now stands, the current status of the education field in general, and the reasons stating the need for change. Parrish stated that WPI cmbodies everything the industry is lo o k i ng for, even if they don’t know it yet. The Iarg est problem however, is that times il a v e changed, and if WPI wants to remain the cutting edge of education, some amount of action is required.

Over 400 students show support for Campus Center Support for the proposed campus center was strong as over 400 students attended an open campus meeting while nearly 1000 students signed a petition calling for the imme diate construction o f the center. The fevered attitude at the meeting sent a message to the committee in charge of, among other things, authorizing the campus center. The committee agreed with the students that a campus center should be a high priority.

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Philler Natural Oils and Stolen Ideas - There’s a Buddha on my Monitor travel. Here’s the idea: at great the workers, coincidentally, were expense, design a high-traffic area; from. Documentary evidence has Well, we’re back -just like a bad force the people to travel through suspiciously been removed from rash (you know, the sort of rash it from a variety of routes; do this our files. A reward has been of that persists, like, a really long time, for long enough that everyone is fered. but it’s in one of those places where 3. We, that is, us, sabotaged the trained to use them; then, during it’s difficult to scratch on your own, D -term , when students are entire project because they re and you don’t have any friends stressed-out and dazed from a met fused, repeatedly, to christen it that would help you, so you’re ric butt-load of work, place an ob “Philler Phountain.” Ourarch-nemforced to rub up against practically ject right in the middle of this esisin this is n o n e ev e ry th in g , in cluding your other than densely traveled area, that forces & (am room m ate’s turtle. Oh, maybe persand), everyone to avoid it at peril of en that’s just us...). If memory serves countering severe who was us correctly, and goodness knows alw ays e x w e t that it usually doesn’t (that’s why n ess. c e e d in g ly we keep archives of our articles), T h is , greedy and we said that we would write an m alicious. on the other article when something really, And after w h o le , colossally amazing happened. We all w e’ve is d as assumed this was gonna be after a done for ta rd ly . reasonable time, such as when they him... We apfinished the fountain. Most signs 4. An prove pointed to our triumphant return w h o le cient ru in B-term. As you can see, this is 0 ins were Snail Mail: Philler do Newspeak Box 2700 D-term. Missed it by... that much. discovered buried N ot that e-mail: newspeak@wpi.edu Ok, let’s attack this problem like Web Site: http://www.wpi.edu/-tbt/PhiUer/ under the site, but we like to engineers. First, raid the vending annoy people, far no one cared too machines, [insert sounds of shuf from it. We just applaud the psy much. This only actually delayed fling feet and coins here - use your chological messing-up of people’s the project about half an hour. imaginations people] Next, make a minds. Now that’s a biiiig practical 5. The Big A was talking B-term. list o f stuff so your boss thinks joke. Now you know how with dogs you you’re working. (Laurel’s the boss have to multiply everything by Since we’re in fountain-mode, - I just work here.) Right, so the let’s talk about some things that seven? Well, we like to call this things that prevented our timely are wrong with it, what we offer as Administration years, only they return to the world of Newspeak improvements, and a few other use a fa c to r of are as follows: observations about the whole of 785469232#$$#sd34503ds, and es 1. The unexpected advent of Reunion Plaza. First, an observa timating completion dates becomes WINTER in the middle of the con tion. F reshpeople, go ask an rather confusing. We won’t bore struction timetable. you with the details. upperclassperson about this, hut 2. The complete lack of adequate we think the “benches” bear a strik Despite all the factors working {com m unication betw een the against the eventual completion of ing resem blance to some other people who paid for the fountain rather hard, boxy, uncomfortable, the fountain, it only took them un and accompanying walkway, and bench-deviccs. Starting to ring a til D-term - not too shabby. And the people who actually had to bell (why, is it dinner time?)? Ever hey, it works great... well, as in build it. This we regard as result wonder what happened to the old tended, at least. The WPI commu ing from an obscure time zone nity now has the joy of walking wedge benches? Ever wonder why anomaly in the general vicinity of dirt smells like sweet pickles after around yet an o th er stran g ely the quaint, little village where all heavy rain? Now you know what placed thing in the normal path of was under that brown carpeting. No, not pickled dirt - the really hard W e st S tr e e t H o u se stone things that resem ble benches. Quit putting words in our mouth (collective, ewwww). And now for a word or two about improving the lovely, but not quite Go for a jog or a walk. as useful as it could be, fountain. by the Student D evelopment and First of all, the soaping is kind of Call a friend, stand on your head. Counseling Center Staff silly. It was neat the first time, and Contemplate a rock. A week to g o ... it’s over. tradition demanded that someone Much to do between now and did it, but the smell of Downy Fab Write some fiction, watch a film, then— ric Softener is just annoying. Let’s Go out for a drive— don’t drink. Papers, projects, quizzes and tests; be more creative. We’re engineers, Find a big old tree and watch it It’s crunch time once again. grow. dammit, not laundry technicians. Unclog the bathroom sink. The only possible good that could How to maintain one’s sanity— come of soaping the fountain is Perspective, that’s the key; that it cleans the underside of pass It’s ok to escape, but while you’re Taking a trip around your world there, ing emergency vehicles, but this is To see what you can see. not quite enough of a reason to Take some advice from me. keep the same old same old. We Appreciate all of the world you find. Turn on the music, read a book, need variety. Doesn’t everyone? Perspective... that’s the key. by Laurel a n d Guinevere

Perspective: That’s the key (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)

Chemists, this one’s for you. Be creative. What things do really neat stuff in water? Don’t do any thing downright dangerous, or de structive, but things like pyrotech nics always add to the ambiance of any college campus. We’re talk ing lots of neat-o colors and other fun stuff. Please stay away from neat-o smells, though. Mechanical Engineers, do your worst. Design attachments for the fountain to make it more interest ing and exciting for passers by. The water only goes up and down now - what about sideways? What about a nice thin layer of water jet ting out across the entire plaza, providing everyone with cooling, soothing w ater at their ankles. Spinning, pelting waiter would be ok with us, too. Set it to music. Give Disney a run for their money. heartedly. Double Es, we want high-tech stuff. Infrared sensors that con trol the height of the fountain. “Hmmm, it looks off. I guess it’s safe to walk though. OH NO! AHH, I’M ALL WET!” You get the idea... Remote controls are al ways an option for the amusement of professors with windows over looking the plaza. Humanities majors. Ah... write som ething cool. Sonnets and stuff. Ode to a Fountain. Biologists... No. Don't touch it. No experimental biospheres. Just watch the carnage from Salisbury. Everyone else, think o f your own ideas. We’re just columnists, and don’t get paid much. But we will think for food. Chocolate’s good. Some people complain that the fountain ju st looks like a faulty pipe. With some slight modifica tions, the fountain could become pretty practical. You could control the fountain height with a simple foot petal, and use it as a drinking fountain (or “bubbler” if you’re one of those people who use terms like that). However, some enter prising young engineer would, of course, “rewire it,” and then the fun would begin. Three cheers for prac tical jokes at other people’s ex pense. We understand the area formerly known as West Street is still a emer gency route, so nothing can be put there that would prohibit travel, but that makes the fountain so boring. Can’t we engineer something bet ter, like a break-away fountain? Or maybe one that quickly zips into the ground whenever a car is ap proaching. Or one that is really flex ible and could spring back up after See Philler, cont'd to page 15

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Removing network drivers from your PC More news from the CCC... Time to get your computer ready to leave, too. by D ebbie Dexter Computer Trainer

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remove all the network drivers from your pc. Their web page is at: http:/ /ccc-shop.wpi.edu/. Under the “Novell Setup” section is listed in stru ctio n s for in sta llin g and uninstalling network drivers so check it out before you go! Viruses! Don’t you just hate them! Well, protect yourself from these viruses by installing the latest version of McAfee VirusScan (v3.0.1 for Win dows 95) before you go. The in structions to do so are listed on the CCC Info Pages newsletter at: http://w w w .w pi.edu/~training/ News/newsletter.html. Speaking of viruses, there is an internet mail virus m aking its rounds to the world. Check out the inform ation for it at: h ttp :// ciac.llnl.gov/bulletins/h-47a.shtml.

Here’s the summed up version of what it can do. You get an email mail message that has a file at tached to it called AOLFREE.COM so you open the attachment and wham! Suddenly, all the files on your hard drive are deleted! You lose everything on your pc, EV ERYTHING! ThisAOLFREE.COM file is actually a program that once executed, starts the procedure to remove all files from your C:\drive. Now if you use a UNIX mailer to read your mail, you won’t be able to open the attachment. But if you download it to your pc and then run it, you’re in big trouble. If you use a Windows mailer, you can see the attachment embedded in the m essage. D O N ’T D O U B LE CLICK IT! Just delete the message all together. If you happened to open it, pressing CTRL C (Control

key and the letter C sim u lta neously) immediately may save some of your files, but don’t get to this point! Any program can be given a name and sent as an attachment to any internet address, so it’s not just this AOLFREE.COM file that you should worry about. Make sure you watch out for “foreign” mail, or better yet “free” programs. Nothing is for free in this world! If you want reliable programs via the internet, go the business’ web site to download pro grams. Play it smart! The College Computer Center wishes everyone a great break. If you want to keep in touch with what’s happening at the CCC, check out the newsletter web page (http:// w w w .w pi.edu/~training/N ew s/ newsletter.html). It will be updated over the summer months.

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In a Higgins House ceremony held on April 17, the following twenty-four students were hon ored with the Crimson and Grey Award for their “dedication, com mitment, and unselfishness in the enrichm ent o f student fife at WPI.”

Death of Todd turkey D ear friends:

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news. On Friday, an innocent life was snuffed from the face of the Earth. At approximately 10:40am, April 25, 1997, Todd Turkey lost his life. Attempting to get food left at the American Antiquarian Soci ety, Todd was crossing the inter section of Park Ave and Salisbury Street when he was struck by a

white Nissan Sentra (Driver un known). A kind citizen removed the broken body to the side of the road while others watched on in horror and dismay. Todd was a true asset to WPI and symbolized everything it meant to be a student here. He will be sorely missed. So, say a little prayer for our dear departed. Thank you. Dan Hebert ‘97

Kim Belli Kim was a transfer student in the Fall of 1993 and got in volved im m ediately at WPI which made a difficult transition much easier. Her involvement and leadership within the Social Committee has put the organi zation in the position to con tinue to move forward. One sig nificant improvement that Kim has made as SocComm Presi dent was to get the group to work more as a whole organiza tion than just a set o f commit tees by emphasizing communi cation and collaboration. She increased the recognition of in dividuals donating a great deal of time and energy to the orga nization, and has w orked to bridge the gap between several different departments and stu dent organizations. Laura Bielitz A senior M echanical Engi neering major, Laura has a high

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The students honored with the Crimson and Grey Award two weeks ago. level o f involvement in a variety of areas on campus. Laura is not content to be a mere member o f different organizations, but has co n sisten tly been involved in some kind of leadership role. She has participated in athletics in W om en’s Soccer, Softball, and Basketball. She has worked with her sorority, Phi Sigma Sigma, and served as Panhellic Scholarship Chair. Laura worked with the Ori entation program for three years and has been actively involved with programs sponsored by the Admissions Office. Her ability to balance athletics, students orga n izatio n s, and academ ics has been truly rem arkable and has made her an effective role model

for many students at WPI. TVacey Cronin Tracey has been actively in volved in many important as pects of student leadership dur ing her years at WPI. In her work as both an O rientation Leader and Orientation Assis tant, Tracey has helped new students to successfully launch their career at WPI. As a mem ber of the Residential Services staff, Tracey has worked hard to provide quality programming opportunities for upperclass students. Tracey has also been active in the Student Alumni So ciety. See Award, cont 'd to page / 7.

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Matt Dowling If all the world is a stage, Matt Dowling has shown himself to be more than a mere player. Matt has made outstanding contri butions to the cultural life at WPI through his work with theater productions, both as actor and director. He has been actively involved with the leadership of his frater nity, TKE, and has also served as a Peer Learning Assistant. Matt has also had broad based participation in campus life including Social C om m ittee, Student Alumni Society, Skull, and as a member of the Campus Hearing Board.

dures. Mami served as chair o f the SGA Committee on Academic Issues, advocat ing for the student body with faculty, staff, and trustees. Mami is an outstanding stu dent and will attend graduate school in the fall. Edward Hallisey Ed, a senior majoring in Computer Sci ence, has given his heart and soul to the Undergraduate Student Government. A tireless advocate of students, he has served as a senator and senate committee member pursuing academic policy issues and the campus center.

Matthew Freimuth Matt, a junior majoring in Chemical En gineering, is an outstanding student, in terms of both his academic record and lead ership abilities. Matt, who received the 1997 President’s IQP Award, has served as SGA Committee Chair, interim SGA VicePresident and this past year, Student Gov ernment President. Matt is a member of Tau Beta Pi Honor Society and has served as a peer learning assistant.

Francesca Escoto Francesca has accom plished a great deal in her time at WPI. She has been involved with numerous groups and has taken on leadership roles. Her experi ences as a leader have inspired her to want to help develop those skills in oth ers. This led her to create, organize, and even secure funding for the Engineering Leadership Program last year. This im portant step in leadership development for WPI students served as the base for the LEAP program. The source of some o f Franchy’s greatest achievements are through EMSEP and SHPE. She helped found the local organization and serves as a national board member. In all she does, Francesca motivates others to achieve through her contagious enthusiasm.

Dan Hebert Dan is a senior who will be attending Tufts Veterinary School next year. Dan’s most significant contributions at WPI have been in music and Greek Life. Dan has been actively involved in the music association, concert band, wind ensemble, and the Sym phonic Council. Through his involvement in IFC, Dan had helped the Greek system realize the need to collaborate with other organizations and ofices. He has led by example and shown his fellow Greeks that they need to be involved with the larger WPI community. He revised the IFC con stitution, judicial procedures and alcohol policy so that the Greeks could be self gov erning. Through his leadership, the IFC won the Northeast Interfratemity Council’s award for the outstanding IFC for 1996-97.

Mami Hall Mami is a senior, double major in Chem istry and Policy Studies. She came to WPI as a transfer student and im mediately jumped into a leadership role in campus life. Mami was elected as a Student Gov ernment Senator, and became a member of the SGA Committee on Policies and Proce

Sashe Kanapathi Sashe is an electrical engineering major. He is past International Student Council secretary and current Vice President o f the Indian Student Association. Sashe has been involved in organizing numerous pro grams for both the ISC and ISO and also actively participates in the Indian Society of Worcester’s celebration of Indian Festi vals. He is maintaining an excellent aca demic record and also serves as a Peer Learning Assistant in the Mathematical Sciences department. Naod Kebede Naod is a Ph.D. student in Chemistry and B io C hem istry D epartm ent and was awarded the 1995/96 TA of the year award. He has served as the GSO Vice President for Orientation. Naod is an excellent role model for WPI undergraduate students. He is very supportive o f and an active partici pant in programs organized by the Black Student Union and the International Stu dent Council. Chris Neumeier Chris is a junior Civil Engineering major. As a Resident Advisor for the past two years, Chris’ quiet and thoughtful presence has allowed him to gain the confidence o f residents and thus address their needs and concerns. He has also been actively in volved in the leadership of his fraternity, See Award, continued to p a g e 18.

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Lambda Chi Alpha and an active mem ber o f APO, the service fraternity as well. Chris is also a member of the Crew and Track team, and is a Board o f Trustees Mentee. Unfortunately, Chris was unable to be at the awards ceremony since he is in Puerto Rico working on his IQP. Jeremy Olszewski Jeremy is a senior Actuarial Science ma jor, who has combined his love o f math and sports by seving as the statistician for WPI football and men’s and women’s bas ketball. As a three year veteran of the Resi dential Services staff, Jeremy has grown in skills from a quiet leader to one who confi dently and adeptly fills the leadership role. He has actively participated in Student Government as a senator, and has also

served as a member of the Strategic Plan Steering Committee. Jon Packard Jon has channeled his boundless energy to building strong, unified communities in his work as a member of the Residential Services team. Jon is an active participant in the Student Alumni Society and received recognition as the outstanding freshmen. Jon has also been active in his fraternity, and is a Board o f Trustees Mentee. Jimmy Pai A senior CS major, Jimmy is past chair of the International Student Council. Jimmy is a member o f Skull and is active in the Chinese Student Association. He is always willing to assist fellow students and has been actively involved with the

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Winter Carnival. Jason Papadopoulos Jason is a MIS major currently on co-op with Stratus Computer. Jason is chair of WPI’s International Student Council. Dur ing his tenure as ISC Chair, he has worked on the ISC homepage, the International Student Handbook and several new ISC program s including the very popular monthly coffee hour. Jason is also on the Newspeak staff as news editor. Enzo Scalora Enzo is a junior civil engineering major and is Vice President o f American Society of Civil Engineers. As a two year member of the Resi dential Services team, Enzo is an organized and motivational leader who has planned cre ative programs and activities that have en hanced students residential experience. Enzo has also been active in the intramural pro gram and the Karate Club. Greg Snow Greg is an outstanding student who has shown commitment to improving the quality of academic and student life at WPI. He has been actively involved in SGA, having served as treasurer, senator, and on various commit tees. Among his accomplishments in this arena are his leadership on the Study of Aca demic Honesty at WPI as well as his monu mental contribution on Budget and Policy. Greg has been a member of the Residential Services staff for two years, where he has worked to build strong residential communi ties. Greg is a member of Tau Beta Pi Honor Society and in his spare time, he is the author of infamous top 10 lists. Flavia Souto Flavia has worked intimately with stu dents as a orientation leader for two years and as a Resident Advisor for one year. Her dedication to creating a positive resi dential experience for students is evi denced in her efforts to improve the physi cal conditions o f the residence halls as well as re la tio n sh ip s betw een resid en ts. Flavia’s diverse involvement on campus has included the Student Alumni Society, Hispanic Student Association, Interna tional Student Council, Big Brother/Big Sister. A solid student academically, Flavia has also served as a tutor. Nathan Towne-Smith Nathan is a senior Humanities major whose aspirations are to become an electrician at a

theater and eventually become a lighting designer. For the past four years, Nate’s in volvement and leadership in Lens and Lights has been crucial to the success of most stu dent programs on campus. During his presi dency, Nate has worked tirelessly to improve the reputation of Lens and Lights on Cam pus. Being an officer in an intense position, Nate was constantly on beeper, which is a huge time commitment with few rewards. Nate has also been active with Masque and Sigma Pi Fraternity. Myles Walton Myles has distinguished himself as both a scholar and a student leader during his four years at WPI. He has been actively involved in his fraternity, Theta Chi, the Student Alumni Society, served as the President of Skull. Myles is on his class Board of Directors and is also a skilled musician. For the past three years in Resi dential Services, Myles has shown a dem onstrated ability to build strong communi ties which create a positive residential ex perience for students. Myles will be at tending graduate school at MIT in the fall to study Aerospace Engineering. Sarah Wilcox Sarah has been active in community ser vice during her years at WPI as a member of Alpha Phi Omega, Bacchus and on the executive board of Habitat for Humanity. Sarah has worked in residence halls for two years, and has been very dedicated to serv ing students and creating a positive resi dential experience for them. Sarah has also worked as a member o f the SNaP staff, and is a member of Skull and the Women’s Crew Team. Sarah is a civil engineering major and is also a member o f ASCE. Sarah will be a teaching assistant next year here at WPI as she pursues her graduate studies. Jennifer Yambert Jennx, a senior double major in Civil Engi neering and Social Science has done it all! She is a peer learning assistant, a Writing, Calculus, and Physics tutor, a laboratory re searcher, and member and vice president of Alpha Phi Omega. Jennx has served as sec retary of Student Government, member of the Campus Hearing Board, secretary and rower of crew, performer in WPI’s theater program, and a member of the Pre-Law society. She is an outstanding student academically and is a member of Tau Beta Pi Honor Society. Jennx plans to attend law school in the fall at North eastern University.

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Mu Sigma Delta Mu Sigma Delta, WPI’s Pre-Health So ciety, recently held elections for next year’s officers on Tuesday, April 22. We are pleased to announce the following new ly-elected o ffic ers: P resident Samantha Halden, Vice President - Debby Marcroft, Secretary - Leigh Perry, Treasurer - Holly Weymouth, and Assistant Trea surer - Katie Thorsen. We are looking for ward to next year and developing a more active organization on campus. And don’t forget to stop by our table at Quadfest!

Fellowship As the year is drawing to a close, I pray that all of us may be able to see how God has drawn us closer to him self and to each other this year. This Friday at 7:00 in the Lower Wedge will be our last FNF o f the year. To mark the occasion, our graduating seniors will be sharing with us their stories of how God has touched their hearts through out their years at WPI. Then, it’s the last Saturday m orning sports at 10:30 in Alumni. “So do not throw away your confi dence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to perservere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has prom ised.” Hebrews 10:3536 (NIV). The year is coming to an end. Begin to ask God to show you what He has in store for you during the next few months. Will you have the confidence to boldly do the will of God and remain in Christ or will you throw away your confidence in your faith at the first signs of worldly pres sures ? The above verses in Hebrews tell us that our confidence will be re warded if we do not throw it away. By perservering in doing the will of God, we will receive the promises he made to us. I challenge everyone to hold on to your confidence this summer and perservere in whatever God calls you to do. May God bless all of us this summer and may His love sustain us until we come to gether again in the Fall. In His time, we will all receive what He has promised. Amen.

Lens and Lights What to say, what to say... New Voices 15, the closest you can come to an acid trip without being stoned, is behind us. Hopefully you got a chance to see those wonderful plays. If you didn’t, there is still hope for music, merriment, wicked cool lighting, and explosives in your life. It’s Quadfest 5, the biggest thing since Quadfest 4 and Lens and Lights will be there. While everyone else has a little table for their wares, we’re bringing power to the quad, over a ton of sound equipment to Indiefest and a bubble ma chine for the little kid in all of us. When th ings m ove in d o o rs w e’ve got the lights, the sound, and the smoke to make

Newman Club Since this will be our last column for this school year, we would like to thanks all who made this past school year such an exciting one for Newman. Especially do we thank our officers, Ryan Abraham, Jordan Massad, Erin Smith and Mike Olivieri. We say goodbye and good luck to our senior advisors as wish them well as they leave WPI; Joe Ackerman, Carrie Flanagan, Debbie Foley, Tom Hart, Kristen Magnifico, (her brother is coming here next year to replace her) Becky Price, Sue Roosa, Jeff Tenny, John Digiacomo (who tried to be our Italian cook) and Roger Roy. This com ing Sunday we welcome Bishop George Rueger to our campus as he will celebrate the 11:30 am Mass and install our new officers, new chairpersons and new Eucharistic Ministers besides cel ebrating the Sacrament of Confirmation . Our end of the year cookout will take place after Mass at the Religious Center. John D. ,our Italian cook, will preside for the last time over the cookout. You are welcome to join us at the Mass or cookout or both. Have a good summer.

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A nno uncem ents WPI String Ensemble Sunday, May 4,1997 Spaulding Recital Hall, Alden Memorial Hall WPI Campus 6:00 P.M. Free Admission WPI String Ensemble performing Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik’’ WPI Woodwind Ensemble with guest pianist, Olga Rogach, now in Worcester but formerly a teacher at the Lengingrad Conservatory, performing Mozart’s Piano and Wind Quintet.

Library amnesty period April 28 - May 9, 1997 During this time, there will be no charge for overdue or “lost” books that are returned to the library. This offer will never be repeated! NEVER! The only reason we’re doing it now is because the library is switching to a new system this summer. P a y no fin e. O ne s h o t deal. O ffer w ill n o t b e re p e a te d in y o u r lifetim e. This m ea n s you!

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T he D ep artm en ts o f C hem istry and B iochem istry are pleased to announce the follow in g C olloquium s: Industrial Biochemistry: The Large Scale Isolation of Deoxynucleosides from Salmon Milt, by Dr. Joseph A. Toce, ’70, Reliable Biopharm aceutical. Wednesday, April 30, 1997. 11am, Goddard Hall 311, refreshments will be served. “Lizzie Borden Didn’t Dolt (At Least I Don’t Think She Did!)”, by Dr. William L. Masterton, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, University of Connecticut. For years Prof. Masterton has co authored many editions of best selling college and high school chemistry text books and lab manuals. His avocation has been to research the Lizzie Borden case (“Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41!”). A truly outstanding teacher of freshman college chemistry and ad vanced chemical thermodynamics, Prof. Masterton will tell us what he has con cluded from his research into one of the most fascinating cases in the annals of forensic science. Wednesday, April 30, 1997. 4pm, Goddard Hall 227, refresh ments will be served.

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9:41pm-NoiseComplaint: Dean St. 9:57pm - Medical: Laceration to hand, male patient, Morgan 2nd, Officers and EMS respond. Wednesday, April 23 12:03pm - Fire Alarm: Fuller Apts., upper, shower set

off alarm. 3:39pm - Assist: Student seeking assistance, keys locked inside vehicle on Institute Rd. 6:30pm - FYI: Suspicious people around Residential Services, gone on arrival. 7:17pm - Report: Report of students throwing water balloons out third floor window in back o f Riley, RA notified.

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P o l ic e L o g Thursday, April 17 6:50am - Intrusion Alarm: CCC Programming area, officers respond. 7:31 pm - Access: Coach in Alumni locked himself out of his office. 7:58pm - Call Box: Emergency line hang-up from Riley Hall call box. 9:49pm - Noise Complaint: Founders first floor.

Whafs Happening: April 29- May 4 29c ordon Library Amnesty Week Begins 1 lam-DKBRG meeting, Fuller Labs 141 12pm - WPI French Circle, Gompei’s Place 5pm - Honors Convocation, Kinnicutt Hall 5pm - Aerobics, Alumni Gym 7:30pm - Faculty Dinner, Alden Hall (reception at 6:30pm) 8pm - Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Meeting, Kaven Hall 111 8pm - Lecture, “Friendship in the Age of AIDS,” Joel Goldman, T.J. Sullivan, flftfflflpton Auditorium. --------------

Friday, April 18 8:33am - Intrusion Alarm: Fitness Center fire door. 10:4 lam - Temperature Alarm: Higgins basement. 12:43pm - Alarm: Intrusion, Newspeak. 11:56pm - Noise Complaint: Daniels. Saturday, April 19 12:47am - Emergency Box Hangup: Morgan Hall. 6:19am - Alarm: Emergency Fuller Labs, terminal theft, level 2. Alarm failure due to sched uled power outage. 4:20pm - Assist: Nonstudents in Alumni and Harrington. 6:00pm - Assist: Nonstudents in Fuller courtyard. Sunday, April 20 2:40am - Malicious Mischief: Broken window at Boynton St. fraternity. 8:19am - Malicious Mischief: Stoddard Plaza. 8:25am - Call-In: Fraternity brothers to remove pig from Stoddard Plaza. 8:41 am - Code 5: Officers report swine removed. 5:31 pm - Nonstudents: Alumni and Harrington. 9:37pm - Trespassing: 4 skateboarders removed from Boynton area.

2pm - Aerobics, Harrington Auditorium 2:30pm - GTRG Meeting, Fuller Labs 141

11 am - AIRG Meeting, Fuller Labs 246 4pm - Special Faculty Meeting, Kinnicutt Hall 5pm - Aerobics, Alumni Gym

9am - Men’s Tennis, New England Championships 12pm - Aerobics, Harrington Auditorium 1:30pm - SERG Meetings, Fuller Labs 147 5pm - Shabbat Candlelighting and Dinner, Margan A 9pm Movie: Spaceballs on the Quad

Monday, April 21 6:30pm - Gas Problem: On Elbridge, residents complain o f oily smell on 2nd floor. Officers respond. 7:56pm - Malicious Mischief: Police requested by student, see report. 9:44pm - Malicious Mischicf: Water balloons thrown from Riley S"1, officers respond.

QUADFEST! 9am to 4pm - New England Championship Regatta, Lake Quinsigamond 10am - Women’s Track and Field, New England Championship

TUesday, April 22 4:45pm - Assist: Faculty reporting stolen handbag, Stratton. 5:47pm - Suspicious Odor: Daniels Hall, I5' floor. 5:53pm - Code 5: Officers, cause determined and extinguished.

11:30am - Catholic Mass, Alden Memorial 6pm - Catholic Mass, Founder Study Room 6:30 and 9:30pm - Movie, The Ghost and the Darkness, Fuller Auditorium

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Daka Restaurants Present: This Wednesday in Morgan and Founders Commons FuddRucker's World Famous Hamburgers!! Come and enjoy them for lunch this Wednesday From 11:15am to 1:15pm