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Tuesday, April 1, 1997

Volume Twenty-five, Number Eight

Top Sufficiency students to be given awards Courtesy o f Humanities & Arts Department The H um anities & Arts D epartm ent’s an­ nual cerem ony for the Class of 1879 Awards, given to the best Sufficiency Projects com ­ pleted in 1996, will take place on Thursday, April 3, at 4:30pm in H iggins H ouse. At the cerem ony, the 58 entrants in the co m ­ petition will be recognized and the 19 H on­ orable M ention winners will be given c e r­ tificates.

A highlight o f the ceremony will be the announcement o f the year’s top three win­ ners, who have been selected from the Hon­ orable Mention group but whose names will be kept secret until the April 3"1event. These three winners will be given cash awards and cited on a plaque in the Humanities and Arts Department. The faculty who advised the winning projects will also be honored at the awards ceremony.

Each year approximately 550 Sufficiency Projects are completed. The 58 entrants for the aw ard this year represent all the disci­ plines of the Humanities & Arts Department: History, English Literature and Writing, Phi­ losophy/Religion, Music, Art History/Archi­

tecture, and Foreign Languages. According to Professor Laura M enides, Chair o f the Awards Committee, “it was a pleasurable task to read the pro jects subm itted for these awards. They are the good, better, and best projects, and they demonstrate the high qual­ ity of work performed in humanities and arts at WPI. The Class of 1879 Award, surpassed in lon­ gevity only by the Salisbury Prize, is the sec-

A highlight o f the ceremony will be the announcement o f the year’s top three winners, who have been selected from the Honorable Mention group but whose names will be kept secret until the April 3rd event. ond oldest award given to WPI undergradu­ ates. The prize was originally given by the Class o f 1879 for the best essays written by WPI students. Several years ago, the D e­ partment of Humanities & Arts restructured the aw ard com petition to honor the m ost outstanding Sufficiency Projects com pleted in each calendar year.

T his y e a r’s Awards C om m ittee has made further refinem ents by announcing H on­ o rable M ention w inners b efo re the cer­ em ony and by keeping secret until the ac­ tual event the names o f the top three win­ ners. Professor M enides said, “we thought to add some more suspense and excitem ent to the event in this way.”

The Awards Committee, which in addition to Professor M enides, includes Professors Steven Bullock and Roger Gottlieb, has an­ nounced the following as Honorable Men­ tion winners o f the 1996 competition: • Greg Amiro, “The Rock ‘n ’ Roll Renais­ sance” • N athan Berube, “ Anim al R ights” • Slade Brockett, “Gad Hammarskjold and the Congo C risis o f the 1960s” • Stacie M arie C osta, “ Philosophy in the M artial A rts” • Nate Cote, “The U-boat: W hat Was and W hat C ould Have B een” • Brian Dannaker, “T he D evelopm ent o f Am erican M ysticism in N ature” • Sandra Davis, “Oui, on le veut: The 1995 Quebec Secession Campaign” See Sufficiency, continued to page 7

Students win prizes for hitting the mark in recent design competition Courtesy of WPI News Service Four WPI student teams built award-win­ ning vehicles that hit the target in Tau Beta Pi’s Design Competition on March 22. Par­ ticipants were challenged to construct a ve­ hicle that could deliver a set of “bom bs” to m arked scoring regions via a cable that stretch ed from the first balcony to the Harrington Auditorium floor. Each team was given 2Vi hours to build their contraption from a bag of materials that included a mouse­ trap, coat hanger, soda bottle, rubber bands, foil, string, foam board, and a ruler, dowel, duct tape, hot glue, clothespins and utility knife. The projects were then presented to judges from Lockheed Martin, which pro­ vided the prize money. Contestants were See Design, continued to page 7

Organizations lend a helping hand better the community.

After a successful Christmas giving tree this winter, the Newman Club recently sent The past few months have been a great 19 enthu siastic students to the Y ouville success for community service at WPI. The house to paint three stories of corridors.

G reek s and o th er cam pus g ro u p s have The Youville house is a family shelter that proved to be a great force lor WPI in helping provides a transition stage for mainly hom e­ less women and their chil­ dren to get them back on their feet. The shelter is emergency housing when hom elessness cannot be avoided, allowing approxi­ mately 15 families to live there for three to n ine months.

The Newman club has been fixing up the Youville h ouse for a few y e a rs now, and Youville is happy to see them return every March.

Other positive accom ­ p lish m e n ts have co m e from Zeta Psi, Theta Chi, As part of an ongoing community service campaign, some of the and Lambda Chi. After brothers from Lambda Chi Alpha painted the dining room of a local See helping, continued Veteran’s shelter, above. to page 7

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If, while walking home from last Sunday night’s movie, you noticed that the moon was disappearing, don’t worry. That night was a relatively active night for celetial happenings, as one could see the comet Hale-Bopp, lunar eclipse, and Mars all in one night.

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News beyond the farm A weekly e-mail news summary _________ WORLD EDITION _________ For the week preceding this Saturday, March 29th, 1997, here’s what made the News Beyond the Farm: Thirty-nine people were found dead in a palacial home in Rancho Santa Fe CA near San Diego M ar 26th. T he tw enty-one women and eighteen men had died over the three days prior to the discovery, sub­ s ta n tia lly fro m d rin k in g a fatal phenobarbitol and alcohol mix. All were m embers o f the Higher Source cult, led by M arshall Applewhite. They believed that a UFO follow ing the H ale-Bopp comet would take them to a higher existence than humanity, according to a web page con­ structed by the group, which funded itself in large part through a com mercial web page business. The deaths represent the largest mass suicide in US history and are being thoroughly investigated.

After three years o f isolation, India and Pakistan re-opened peace talks M ar 28th with a meeting between mid-level ministers.

Earlier, on M ar 23rd, Pakistan released 38 Indian children who had been held over the territorial dispute in Jammu and Kash­ m ir as a goodwill measure.

A rough transition took place in Papua New Guinea over the week. Brigadeer Gen­ eral Jerry Singirok demonstrated M ar 23rd that- he was still in charge o f the military, despite having been fired by civilian Prime M inister Julius Chan. Chan had attempted to use m ercenaries to put down a rebellion on the island o f Bougainville, but the army refused to work with them and ultimately killed many o f them, prompting Chan to order Singirok to resign. On M ar 24th, troops surrounded the parliament building in an effort to put pressure on parliament to force Chan out of office. That motion failed by 19 votes M ar 25th, and the mili­ tary withdrew. However, civilian pressure continued and Chan finally chose to re­ sign M ar 26th.

They’re Talking About It: The IRS is now being investigated for possibly treating conservative political groups unfairly. Some Republicans believe that groups with conservative politics, such as Operation Rescue, were singled out for audits strictly for political reasons.

After the accusations were made, the IRS requested the study, and the Justice De­ partment soon started work on the case.

In Shorts: •

14,000 took to the streets in Minsk, Belarus M ar 23rd to protest President A lexander L ukashenko’s pro-Russian policies, leading to clashes with police.

• American diplom at Serzh Alexandrov was expelled from Belarus M arch 23rd for alleged spying. The US recalled its ambassador to Belarus Mar 25th for con­ sultations and expelled Belarus’ First Secretary in the US, Vladimir Bramyka Mar 26th. j • Five people committed mass suicide in T o ro n to M ar 23 rd when th e S olar

Temple Cult decided to end its existence on Earth.

The Dalai Lama attracted thousands when he spoke while visiting Taiwan, especially for his first public speech Mar 23rd. His visit, which an­ gered the m ainland C hi­ nese, ended Mar 27th.

14-year old Texas native T ara L ip ik si w on the W orld F ig u re S k a tin g C h a m p io n sh ip in L ausanne, S w itzerland Mar 23rd.

The Supreme Court ruled Mar 24th that cable opera­ tors must fully scramble po rn o g rap h ic p ro g ram ­ ming; most operators cur­ rently only partially scramble for non­ subscribers.

T he M is s is s ip p i R iv er c re s te d at Vicksburg MS M ar 24th six feet above flood stage as the midwest flooding fi­ nally started to recede.

400 people marched on the police head­ quarters in Wilmington DE Mar 24th to protest the use o f excessive force, as racial tension in that city continued.

Independently-produced films (“Indies”) dom inated the Academy Awards Mar 24th, including “The English Patient” which earned nine Oscars. Much was also made o f the Best Actor award which went to Geoffrey Rush for portraying the main character in “Shine.”

The Federal Reserve increased the Fed­ eral Funds Rate (for overnight loans be­ tween banks) .25% to 5.5% M ar 25th.

O hio’s Supreme Court declared its pub­ lic school funding system unconstitu­ tional Mar 25th for not allowing districts in depressed property-value areas to raise enough money.

Hundreds of people turned out to pro­ test in Hebron, West Bank for a fifth straight day Mar 25th.

Vice President A1 Gore visited China as

part o f an extended Asian trip M ar 25th. uled to begin after Albanian approval O.J. Simpson appealed his conviction expected Mar 30th. in the civil case against him M ar 25th.

• Tornadoes in Tennesse and Kentucky The attempt to execute Pedro Medina destroyed 150 homes M ar 29th.

Mar 25th resulted in his flesh burning.

• An Israeli soldier killed a Palestinian • US envoy Dennis Ross protestor in Hebron M ar 29th, the first arrived in the m iddle east to such incident in ten days o f protests try to jum p-start Israel-Palover Israeli construction in East Jerusa­ estinian talks M ar 25th; he lem. left after accom plishing no • Rebels in Zaire were accused by the UN break-throughs M ar 28th. o f blocking aid supplies from reaching • M o n te n e g ro ’s P rim e refugees Mar 29th.

M inister Milo Djukanovic • Seven were killed and 25 injured when resigned after losing a vote two bombs exploded during an anti­ of confidence M ar 25th; his governm ent dem onstration in Phnom pro-western policies had an­ Penh, Cambodia Mar 29th. g e re d S e rb P re s id e n t • Fifteen people were killed by a bus Slobodan M ilosevik. bomb in Jammu, India M ar 29th.

• President Clinton named a Health Panel M ar 26th, charged with Finally: spending one year to com e up with a The end o f this publication has become “patient’s bill o f rights” to guide future more expensive. The Cost o f Laughing In­ health care reform. dex, as tracked by Mad M agazine, which Rail traffic in northern England was dis­ keeps track of such things as the price o f a rupted by two bomb explosions Mar rubber chicken and comedian performance 26th blamed on the IRA. fees, was up 3% in 1996. However, most of Form er President G eorge Bush para­ the increase came from the price o f sitcom chuted from a plane Mar 26th. scripts for television, which were up $300 C an ad a on M ar 27th ch arg ed Hani over the course o f the year. Long-time sub­ Abdel-Rahman Hussein as a suspect in scribers may also note that this is the sm all­ the bombing o f the US installation in est increase in the COLI since News Be­ Saudi Arabia. yond the Farm ’s inception. Rest assured James Earl Ray formally denied killing that the cost of this feature will remain con­ Martin Luther King Jr. M ar 27th. stant: free.

A shootout w ith police in Deshawar, Pakistan resulted in the deaths o f six And that’s what made the News Beyond Islamists Mar 27th. the Farm.

Algerian troops killed fourteen people M ar 27th in clashes with Islamists.

Sources this week included All Things Quaker Oats decided to sell the Snapple Considered (NPR), the Associated Press brand o f drinks M ar 27th to the makers newswire, the BBC Newshour (BBC/PRI), o f RC Cola for $300 million, about 30% the Christian Science Monitor, the Con­ o f what they paid for the line originally. nection (W BUR), M a rketplace (PRI), A boat of A lbanians capsized and sank Morning Edition (NPR), Newsday (BBC/ M ar 28th, leaving at least 15 days.

PRI), Newsdesk (BBC/PRI), the Reuters Italy started preparing to lead a m ulti­ newswire, and WBZ radio news. Compiled national force to protect aid efforts in by: Lance Gleich, Stanford CA [But wish­ Albania Mar 28th; the mission is sched­ ing he were anywhere else]

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600 high school students perform at WPI-hosted conference

by Sundeep Reddy Class o f (98 On March 8th and M arch 12th, there were approxim ately 600 high school musicians combined who performed at WPI. The WPI M usic Association with the W PI jazz d i­ rector, Richard Falco, hosted its 310 annual IA JE (International A ssociation o f Jazz Educators) festival for the M assachusetts chapter.

On the 8,h, twenty-one big bands from all across M assachusetts cam e to compete.

These groups were selected and invited to

play from previous festivals and com peti­ tions. There were four hundred of the best perform ers in the state who came to play their jazz.

On the 12lh was the competition for the jazz choir and jazz combo groups, which also consisted of tw enty-one o f the best high school groups. O ver two hundred students w ere present on this day to per­ form and compete.

T he IAJE com petitions w ere judged by a total o f tw elve internationally recog­ nized ja z z artists. As experienced from these festivals and from previous ones,

Clinic and spring concert with jazz pianist Dick Odgren on Friday

by Sundeep Reddy Class o f ‘98 On Friday, April 4,1997, jazz pianist, Ri­ chard Allan Odgren will be conducting a clinic with the WPI Jazz Ensemble. It will take place in Spaulding Recital Hall in Alden Hall and will begin at 4:30pm. It is free and open to all.

On Sunday, April 6,1997, the WPI C on­ cert Band and Stage Band will be holding their annual Spring Concert in the main hall o f Alden Hall. Mr Odgren will be perform ­ ing with the Stage Band on a music chart, called “O llie”, composed by Phil Woods.

The concert will start at 4pm and is free and open to all.

Dick Odgren was bom in Worcester, MA, on O ctober 9, 1947. He graduated from Auburn High School, Class o f 1965, and attended W orcester Junior C ollege from 1965-1967. He was arranger and pianist with

the United States Navy band from 1967’71 and was on an overseas tour which in­ cluded Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, Japan, H o n g K o n g , T h ailan d , and V ietnam .

Odgren attended Berklee College o f M u­ sic in Boston, MA from 1972-’75 and re­ ceived a Bachelor of Music in C om posi­ tion (M agna Cum Laude). He went on to teach at Berklee from 1976-’81 and ‘86-'93.

H e c o n d u c te d n u m e ro u s a m o u n ts o f Berklee On The Road clinics and master classes in Japan and California. He started teaching ja z z piano at Clark University in 1990 and continues to do so. He has per­ formed and/or recorded with a great num­ ber o f artists such as Mike M etheny (trum ­ peter), Pat M etheny (guitarist), Bill Frisell (guitarist), Gary Burton (vibraphonist), the fusion band, ICTUS, Jim Porcella (vocal­ ist) and most recently with trumpeter, Emil Haddad, who just last year did a clinic with the Jazz Ensemble.

the level o f jazz perform ers was outstand­ ing, as these p erfo rm ers w ere only in grades 9-12.

By hosting these festivals, high school students can come and see the high inten­ sity o f the jazz and music programs that W PI has to offer. W PI was again proudly asked to host the IAJE festival next year,

Concert Lirtingi New Haven Coliseum 4/11 - Bush with special guests Veruca Salt

Foxboro Stadium 7/1 - U2 7/2 -U2 Centrum 5/9 - No Doubt Fleet Center 4/7 - Celine Dion 4/12 -B ush!

Gosman Center At Brandeis University 4/1 - Beck/Cardigans The Meadows in Hartford 5/7 - Marilyn Manson w/ special guest Helmet Mullins Center at UMASS 4/26 - Stone Temple Pilots Providence Civic Center 4/5- Metallica Worcester New Auditorium 4/27 - Silverchair, Local H and Handsome

FREE SPRING CONCERT; Sunday, April 6 4:00pm Alden Hall Concert Band, Stage Band, Ensemble Guest pianist, Dick Odgren, will perform “Ollie” and other pieces with the Stage Band.

For more information contact Richard Falco @ 831-5794 • sap?

making it for the fourth time.

S p e c ia l re c o g n itio n g o e s to M ike Andrews who served as the executive di­ rector, in charge o f sound and set-up. Spe­ cial thanks also goes to Kim James, Ben Nawrath, Tara Halwes, John M arko, Will B u c h a n a n , B ran d o n H a lle n , H eath Therrien, and Viginia Jerome.

Avalon 4/5 - They Might Be Giants 4/11 - Fiona Apple and Morcheeba 4/12-The Samples 4/13 - The Samples 4/19 - Morphine 4/24 - Prodigy Axis 4/9 - Motor Booty, Affair 4/23 - Jeru The Damaja 4/29 - De La Soul Lupos Heartbreak Hotel in Providence 4/1 - Grip Inc. 4/13-The Samples 4/16 - Leo Kottke, Iris Dement 4/17 - The Samples, Guster 4/21 - Soul Asylum Mama Kin Music Hall

Downstairs 4/1 - Insane Clown Posse 4/3 - Sick Of It All, Snapcase 4/6 - Ignite, Weston 4/10-Elliot Smith

4/11 - Quintaine Americana 4 /1 2 -Orbit 4/13- Powerman 5(XX) 4/14 - Jane Jensen 4/25 - Archers of Loaf

Upstairs 4/4 - New Radiant Storm King 4/8 - Art Alexakis of Everclear 4/15- Phono-Comb 4/16- Labradford 4/17 - Richard Davies 4/23 - Harry Pussy (Silt Breeze) 4/23 - From Good Homes 4/24 - The Warmers 4/25 - Karate 4/27 - Olivia Tremor Control The Paradise 4/1 - Patty Rothberg, Matchbox 20 4/1 - Radio Phly Er, Sugar Valore, Jane Mitchell Band 4/2 - Percy Hill 4/10 - The Greyboy Allstars 4/11 - The Bogmen 4/12 - Lisa Germano, Mellisa Ferrick 4/15 - The Fountains of Wayne 4/17 - The Cheese String Incident, Moon Boot Lover 4/18 - Mistle Thrush - CD Release Party 4/19 - Belizbeha, Agents of Good Root 4/20 - Mojo Nixon 4/25 - Angry Salad 4/26 - Sonvolt 4/29 - The Toad Liquors The Rat 4/2 - Grip Inc., Cause For Alarm, Bloodlet, Coal Chamber 18+ 4/3 - Sick Of It All, Snapcase TT THE BEAR’S 4/2 - Red, Red Meat, Zumpano & Push Kings 4/2 - Zumpano, Push Kings 4/3 - Pendulum Floors, Plumtree & Orans 4/4 - Kevin Salem, The V-Roys, The Sterlings 4/5 - Bedhead, Windsor For The Derby & Wheat 4 /9 -Fluffy 4/11 - Buttercup 4/12 - Count Zero w/ Permafrost 4/13 - The Slackers, Skinner Box 4/18 - Laurie Geltman 4/19 - Papas Fritas, ditch croaker, Prickly 4/20 - The Silos & Lincoln ’65 4/26 - The Lyres & The Honeydogs

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Swim Team finishes season with record performances

by Jason Wetting Class o f ‘97 The men’s varsity swim team finished one o f its best seasons in several years with an outstanding performance at the Division III New England Swimming Championships.

The team’s top nine swimmers spent three days from February 28lh to March 2nd at Wil­ liams College in Williamstown, MA, compet­ ing with 25 other schools.

While at Williams, two members of W PI’s humble contingent set new school records.

Junior Jamie Murdock added the 200 back­ stroke to his school records in the 1650 and 1000 yard freestyles. He cut 2 sec­ onds off the previous school record and finished 18lh with a time of 2:00.79. An­ other Junior, Adam Terio cut an incredible 0.6 seconds o ff o f his best time to set the school record in the 50 yard butterfly with

a time of 25.33. “After my seeing my 50 fly tim e in the medley relay, I knew I had a shot at the record,” said Terio.

Team captain, Jason Wening, finished his W PI swimming career with one of his best meets ever. The highlight o f his weekend was cutting 15 seconds off his best time in the 1650. Tim Connolly demonstrated that he will be a force to reckon with next year by dropping an unprecedented 12 seconds off o f his time in the 200 freestyle.

WPI sent two freshmen, Jeff Alcorn and Steve Sacovitch, to New England’s. WPI’s upcoming 100/200 breaststroker and 50/100 freestyler, respectively, showed great poten­ tial to lead WPI a winning season next year.

Matt Ducey, R.K. Marsland, and Jon Prusack also contributed to a great weekend for WPI’s men’s swim team.

Coach Whit Griffith said that this was one o f programs best showings at New England’s

in several years. The coach o f the best team at New England’s to train in a twenty yard pool attributes the improved performance o f WPI’s swimming program to an increase in the number of freshmen joining the team.

The men’s team finished the season with a

4-5 record. Two of the meets were lost sim ­ ply because the team does not have a diver.

If WPI gets another good group of freshmen swimmers next year, like it has in the last two years, expect the team to finish the ‘97-’98 season with a winning record.

WPI vs WPI: The varsity competition

by Heather Mazzaccaro Sports Editor This Sunday, varsity team s at WPI will be com peting against one another to be declared the winner o f the first annual Poly Club Challenge Cup. This contest is being co-sponsored by the Poly Club, which is the sports booster club o f W PI, and the Department of Athletics. Its purpose is to celebrate National Student-Athlete Day, a day in which the efforts of more than 24,000

college students who juggle both school and v a rsity sp o rts sc h ed u les a re c e l ­ ebrated.

The festivities will begin at 11 am on April 6th. At various spots around campus you might be able to see a volleyball game between the football team and the swim team, a bowling match between the m en’s soccer team and the wrestling team, o r a basketball shoot-out between the w om en’s track team and the wom en’s soccer team.

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Applications Now Available for Summer 1997

The Outreach Programs Office is seeking energetic students to work with middle school, high school and new students. Several openings are available including:

Resident Assistants Program Activity Assistants WPI Summer Programs includes: Frontiers in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Strive for College and Career in Mathematics, Engineering and Science Camp REACH: Reinvesting Engineering and Creating N ew Horizons Excellence in Mathematics, Science and Engineeing Program (EMSEP)

July 12 - July 25, 1997 July 12 - July 25, 1997 July 28 - August 8, 1997 August 9 - August 22, 1997

Applications are available from the following offices: Minority Affairs and Outreach Programs, Boynton Hall Residential Services, Ellsworth 16 Student Activities, Daniels Hall

Deadline for application submission is April 11,1997

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Weekly sports update: Results from March 21st to 27th In the first game four Engineers had mul­ tiple hit games led by a trio with three hits a p iece.

S o p hom ore Ju stin D ow ning (Leominster, MA) led the hit parade with two doubles while scoring two runs. Junior Pat Noonan (Houlton, MA) and freshman Jason Katz (Merrimack, NH) each had three hits as well in the game with junior co-captain Scott Townsend (Hollis, ME) contributing two hits.

by Geoff Hassard Sports Information Director Baseball (5-4) The baseball team began their northern schedule with a conference doubleheader at Coast Guard on the 22nd. They ended up splitting with W P I taking the first game 10-4 and dropping the second game 16-9.

Junior Adam Abrams (E. Bridgewater, MA) and senior Adam Clark (Holden, MA) each drove in a pair of runs. Junior Guy Miller (W. Barnstable, MA) went the distance in pick­ ing up the complete game victory allowing only five hits and striking out eight batters.

In the second gam e W P I’s d efe n se haunted them as they made seven errors, many in the second inning, allowing Coast

Guard to score nine runs. They made a come­ back with five runs o f their own in the top half o f the sixth, but were not able to over­ come the runs they had given away. Down­ ing had another solid game with two hits and three runs batted in. Noonan and Miller each chipped in with two hits a piece. Junior Alex Bartkin (N. Reading, MA) had two RBI’s on two sacrifice flys. Starting pitcher Jim Blum (Marlboro, MA) never registered an out in the second inning and was replaced by class­ mate Nate Cote (N. Attleboro, MA) who pitched three strong innings only allowing two earned runs while striking out six.

Last Thursday WPI hosted Nichols in the 1997 home opener. Mil ler certainly was not a gracious host as he went the distance and recorded a four-hit shutout while striking out 13 Bison batters. Clark’s one out single in the fourth inning drove in two runs which proved to be all that was needed. Abrams had two hits, a stolen base and scored one o f the two runs.

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In celebration o f National Student Athlete Day, the Department o f Athletics and the Poly Club will be co-sponsoring the first Poly Club Challenge Cup competition. It will be this Sunday, April 6 beginning at 11:00 a.m. and will be a competition amongst our varsity athletic teams in six different events to deter­ mine an overall champion. The six events are bowling, basketball shooting, soccer goal kicking for accuracy, volleyball, an obstacle course and a 4x 100 relay race. Wc invite the WPI community to come out and watch and checr on your favorite team as they try to become champion of an event that will be­ come an annual ritual o f spring for our var­ sity teams.

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The WPI m en’s bowling team won the Men’s Division in the Tri-State Bowling Con­ ference this season. To accomplish this feat, the team had to defeat Western New England College, UMass Lowell, West Point. Bentley, and the Coast Guard Academy.

The team was lead by junior Chris Gauvin of Sutton, MA, who also captured the high average trophy o f the conference. He main­ tained a 209 average over 48 games. Man Burdick ’98, and Bill Roberts '99, also had strong performances throughout the season.

Sophomore Bob Parette also ended up with the high game of the year with a perfect 300.

In the doubles category, WPI only man­ aged a second place with the duo o f Gauvin and Rob King, '97, finishing behind the doubles team from UMass Lowell.

The women's bowling team came in third in the W omen’s Division, finishing behind W NEC and UMass Lowell. Junior Kim Mailhot had a leading average o f 171 for the team and had the fourth highest lead­ ing average in the conference.

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Worcester IceCats clip Falcons’ wings

by Edward J. Cameron, Jr. Co-Editor-in-Chief The first place IceCats battled the second place Falcons Friday night at W orcester’s Centrum C en­ tre. The IceCat victory was their l(X)lh franchise win and their 40th o f a re c o rd s e ttin g seaso n . T h e IceCats entered the game with a record of 3-1-2 in their last six gam es w hile the Falcons had a record of 3-0-2 in their last five.

Springfield took the lead in the first period with Juha Ylonen beat­ ing IceCat goalie Mike Buzak at 5:32 on a power play. The Cats evened the score with a power play goal o f their own from Rory Fitzpatrick w ho w as u n a ssiste d at 10:13.

However, the Falcons’ Chad Kilger would swoop down to score two more goals before the buzzer. Kilger struck at 10:55 with help from Chris Longo and Deron Quint and again at 16:52 with an assist from Brent Thompson. At 17:32 IceCat goalie M ike Buzak was pulled in place o f

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Travis Scott. Buzak had blocked 10 o f 13 shots. T he second p erio d saw the IceCats light the red lamp once more while holding the Falcons at bay. Dan Guerard split the pipes at 1:10 o f the second with a ss is ts fro m Bob Lachance and M ar­ quis Mathieu.

T he th ird period b e lo n g e d to B ob L a c h a n c e and the IceCats. The C ats sco red fo u r g o a ls with three o f them co m in g o f f o f the stick of Bob Lachance. Lachance NEWSPEAK STAFF PHOTO / El) CAMERON struck at 1:16 with a IceCat Chris Kenady tangles with Falcon goalie Manny Legace after making a shot that power play goal with Legace successfully blocked. h elp fro m C h ris Kenady and Marquis M a th ie u . T hen at 5:45 B ob from Maneluk. a shorthanded goal with an assist Lachance made another strike with The IceC ats have only th ree from Mike Maneluk. Two minutes more home games in the regular later at 7:39 the combo o f Lachance season facing the Portland Pirates and Maneluk made a repeat per­ tom orrow night at 7:05 and the formance with Lachance scoring a Providence Bruins and Philadelphia shorthanded hat trick. Konstantin Phantoms on the weekend of April Shafranov put the icing on the cake with a goal at 17:32 with an assist 5,h and 6lh.

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c/o Student Activities Office 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609 Phone: (508) 831-5464 F ax: (508) 831-5721 Em ail: newspeak@wpi.edu H om epage: http://www.wpi.

edu/~ newspeak Co-Editors in Chief Lisa Bartee Edward J. Cameron Jr.

Editor in Chief Emeritus David M. Koelle

News Editor Jason 0 . Papadopoulos

Features Editor_______ Alison Keach

Sports Editor_________ Heather

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Associate Editor_______

Brian Pothier

Advertising Manager

Brandon Ngo

Business Manager Ken French

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IceCat Daniel Guerard makes a shot that gets by Springfield goalie Manny Legace in the second period.

Other events will include a soccer goal accuracy contest, a 4x100m relay, and an obstacle course.

At the end o f the day, one team will be named the overall winner and will be awarded a traveling tro­ phy and have its name engraved upon a standing trophy to be kept in H arrin g to n A u d ito riu m . It

should also be noted that in this competition both male and female teams will be competing at the same level and against one another on equal footing. So come down and cheer on your favorite team, sat­ isfy your curiosity in seeing the football players bowl, and show your support for the student-athletes at WPI.

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Photography Editor Circulation Manager Christopher B. Stank

Web Development Troy Thompson Josh Huber Jeff Ouellette

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G r a d u a t e St u d e n t O r g a n iz a t io n

Elections, Campus Center update, and upcoming events The GSO has elected its new of­ ficers last month. Here arc the re­ sults: • President: Charles Buer • Vice president o f Activities and Graduate Life: John Sgammato • Vice president o f orientation: Naod Kebede • Vice president o f public rela­ tions: Sonny Mark • Secretary: Fred Souret • T reasu rer: M onica P achecoTougas • Vice p resid en t policy: A m it Vaswani Last week, the new officers were

running for their first general GSO meeting. The president opened the meeting by stating that the new GSO executive is well aware of the s h o rtc o m ­ ings of the cur­ rent WPI Gradu­ ate S tu d e n t C o n s titu tio n and some modi­ ficatio n s are g o ing to be done soon. He also gave a brief update on news concerning the new WPI Campus center.

Designs for the center are cur­

rently being submitted by various architectural firms.

The VP of orientation elaborated on the duties o f Department Rep­ resentatives. He stated that nomi­ nations for these positions are cur­ rently being ac­ cepted, and that these can be submitted electroni­ cally to gso@wpi.

The VP of Activities announced a “Dinner and a Show” special deal for grad students on April 3rd: $20

for a full dinner at Blackstone’s and a ticket to “Blackbirds o f Broad­ w ay” ; interested parties should contact the gso by e-mail.

The VP o f public relations stated that the GSO will try to organize an ongoing series o f guest talks on different topics.

The GSO also gave five tickets to the G lo b etro tte rs gam e this w eek-end to students present at the meeting. We also thank all the graduate students who came to the rec ep tio n last W ednesday. We hope to see more people the next meetings... Have a good week.

Advertising Assistant Peter Recore

Writing Staff__________ Wes Jones Sarah W alkowiak Sany Zakharia

Graphics Staff________ Photography Staff Steve

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Emily Brunkhorst Jim Strickland Adam Woodbury Adam Young

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