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UMass student dead after fall by Leigh Faulkner Massachusetts Daily Collegian (U. Massachusetts-Amherst) (U-W1RE) AMHERST, Mass. — U n iv e rs ity o f M a s s a c h u s e tts sophomore Andrew B. Sala, 19, of M endon died on the m orning of M arch lO1” after allegedly falling from a window in Cashin Residence Hall. S ala’s body was found on the first-floor ledge of Cashin at ap proximately 8:30 a.m. According to a press release is sued by the University News of fice, UM ass police were notified about the incident by a Resident A ssistan t and they im m ediately called the Amherst Fire department for an ambulance. “Ambulance personnel were un able to assist due to obvious signs o f death. At that time, the medical e x a m in e r w as c a lle d and p ro nounced him dead,” the press re lease stated. Very little information was known about Sala’s cause o f death Tues day night. “He was found this morning. A residen t o f Cashin aw akened to raise his shade and saw A ndrew’s body there. At this time we have no indication o f how long he may have been there,” Dean of Students Jo-Anne Vanin said in a press con ference last night. Although it has not been deter mined that Sala fell out his fifth floor room window, Vanin said the w in dow s in Sylvan residence halls “are split windows that open in and out,
as opposed to up and dow n.” Cashin resident, freshman Mel issa Johnson, who lives on the sec ond floor, said screens exist on the bottom part of the windows but not on the top. Johnson said she w oke up be fore 9am to commotion outside her window.
“I heard police officers and their walkie talkies. So I got up to look out my window and I saw him lay ing on the first floor balcony,” she said. U M ass P o lic e C h ie f Jo h n Luippold would not com m ent on the investigation, however cam pus and state police are w orking to
gether to investigate the incident. No foul play is suspected. The U niversity is waiting for re sults from the M edical Exam iner’s Office for the cause of death, Vanin said. Follow ing investigations con ducted yesterday, Vanin said there See Umass Death, Cont. to pg2
Massachusetts academy teacher to receive presidential award Courtesy o f WPI News Service Joshua Abram s o f R oslindale, M ass., a master teacher o f math e m a tic s at th e M a s s a c h u s e tts Academy of M athematics and Sci ence at WPI, will receive one of the n atio n ’s highest com m endations for K-12 math and science teach ers. He has been selected for a Presi dential Award for Excellence in M athematics and Science Teaching by the National Science Founda tion. Abrams previously was one o f three finalists from M assachu setts to receive a state award. The letter o f notification noted that “your exceptional talent, lead ership abilities and dedication as a teacher are qualities that place you a m o n g th e r e c ip ie n ts o f th e nation’s highest honor for m ath em atics and science teaching. You stand firmly am ong the nation’s b e st s c ie n c e and m a th e m a tic s teachers.” Abrams will be honored in Wash ington, D.C. in June during a four-
day event that will include a m eet ing with members of the executive branch of the government, a din ner cruise on the Potomac, and an awards cerem ony at the National Academy of Sciences followed by a reception and dinner at the State Department. Awardees will also attend seminars and engage in pro fessional d iscu ssio n s w ith their peers and with national legislators and educational policy makers. The award includes a $7,500 grant to the academy for the school’s sci ence and mathem atics program. “T h is aw ard is te stim o n y to Josh’s innovative approach to the teaching of mathematics, and to his relentless goal o f connecting the learning o f m athem atics to real world applications,” said academy director James Hamos. In 1996 and 1997 Abrams served as the conference chair of the First and Second Annual Conference on Mathematical Modeling in the Sec ondary Classroom . Sponsored by the academ y, the M assachusetts Department o f Education, the Alii-
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WPI President Edward A. Parrish
WPI President Edward A. Par rish, in a State o f the University m eeting to the WPI community to day, addressed W PI’s present po sitio n , o p p o rtu n itie s and c h a l lenges in both a local and national context and how costs impact the U niversity’s strategic position. At the luncheon meeting held at Al den M em orial H all, Parrish ad dressed the big question of how can institutions cut costs while im proving quality, maintaining com petitiveness, and m eeting the de m ands o f students and their par ents for the am enities they expect. Parrish also cited the recent Na tional Commission on the Cost of
Higher Education, Straight Talk About C ollege Costs and Prices, and how it m ade convincing argu ments that higher education is a good investment and that expenses are not out o f control. “Controlling costs is a national issue,” he said “and WPI is facing it squarely with aca d e m ic p ro g ra m s re v ie w e d against performance criteria and by addressing our financial aid strate gies. We are also experim enting with Program-Based Budgeting and a major reengineering effort. Last fall, for example, we implemented a W eb-based re g istra tio n system that not only saves money, but also makes the course registration pro cess faster and more convenient for stu dents.” In a separate letter to parents of
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Joshua Abrams ance for Education and WPI, the program featured hands-on work shops by classroom teachers, cur riculum researchers and professors at W PI, M ount Holyoke and Smith colleges. In 1996 he received the M a ssa c h u se tts A sso c ia tio n for S u p e rv is io n and C u rric u lu m D evelopm ent’s Peter Farrelly Edu cator Award for excellence in creat ing learner-centered classrooms.
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W P I s tu d e n ts P a rris h h ig h lighted these above item s and noted a five-year plan for tuition and fees that addresses invest ments in specific initiatives that will im mediately benefit current students. This five-year plan will increase tuition and fees for the 1 9 9 8 -9 9 a c a d e m ic y e a r to $20,648, and to $22,108 the fol lowing year and then closely tie them to the rate o f inflation the final th ree years. R oom and board will increase 5.5 percent for the coming year. The increase will bring W PI’s price closer to its peers and more in line with current program quality. Noting that the cost to educate a single See President, Cont. to pg5
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Volume Twenty-six, Number Seven
Tuesday, March 17, 1998
UMass student dead after fall by Leigh Faulkner M assachusetts Daily Collegian ( V. M assach u setts-A m h erst)
(U-W IRE) AMHERST, Mass. U n iv e rs ity o f M a s s a c h u s e tts sophomore Andrew B. Sala, 19, ol M endon died on the m orning o f March 10lh after allegedly falling from a window inCashin Residence Hall. S ala’s body was found on the first-floor ledge of Cashin al ap proximately 8:30 a.m. According to a press release is sued by the University News of fice, UM ass police were notified about the incident by a Resident A ssistant and they im m ediately called the Amherst Fire department for an ambulance. “Ambulance personnel were un able to assist due to obvious signs o f death. At that time, the medical e x a m in e r was c a lle d and p ro nounced him dead." the press re lease stated. Very little information was known about S ala's cause o f death Tues day night. "He was found this morning. A resident o f Cashin aw akened to raise his shade and saw A ndrew ’s body there. At this time we have no indication of how long he may have been there,” Dean o f Students Jo-Anne Vanin said in a press con ference last night. Although it has not been deter mined that Sala fell out his fifth floor room window', Vanin said the win dows in Sylvan residence halls "arc split w indows that open in and out.
as opposed to up and down. Cashin resident, freshman Mel issa Johnson, who lives on the sec ond tloor, said screens exist on the bottom part of the windows but not on the top. Johnson said she woke up be fore 9am to commotion outside her window.
"I heard police officers and their walkie talkies. So I got up to look out my w indow and 1 saw him lay ing on the first floor balcony,” she said. U M ass P o lic e C h ie f John Luippold would not comment on the investigation, however campus and state police are working to
gether to investigate the incident. No foul play is suspected. The University is waiting for re sults from the Medical Exam iner’s Office for the cause of death, Vanin said. Follow ing investigations con ducted yesterday, Vanin said there See Unuiss Death, Cont. to pg2
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Massachusetts academy teacher to receive presidential award Courtesy o f WPI News Service Joshua Abram s o f Roslindale, Mass., a master teacher o f m ath e m a tic s at the M a s s a c h u s e tts Academy of M athem atics and Sci ence at WPI, will receive one o f the n atio n 's highest com m endations for K-12 math and science teach ers. He has been selected for a Presi dential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching by the National Science Founda tion. Abram s previously was one of three finalists from M assachu setts to receive a state award. The letter of notification noted that “your exceptional talent, lead ership abilities and dedication as a teacher arc qualities that place you am o n g the re c ip ie n ts of the n ation’s highest honor for m ath ematics and science teaching. You stand firm ly am ong the nation’s b e st s c ie n c e and m a th e m a tic s teachers.” Abrams will be honored in Wash ington. D.C. in June during a four-
day event that will include a m eet ing w ith members of the executive branch o f the government, a din ner cruise on the Potomac, and an awards ceremony at the National Academy of Sciences followed by a reception and dinner at the State Department. Awardees will also attend seminars and engage in pro fessional discussions with their peers and with national legislators and educational policy makers. The award includes a $7,500 grant to the academy for the school’s sci ence and mathematics program. "T h is aw ard is testim o n y to Josh's innovative approach to ihe teaching of mathematics, and to his relentless goal o f connecting the learning of m athem atics to real world applications,” said academy director James Hamos. In 1996 and 1997 Abrams served as the conference chair of the First and Second Annual Conference on Mathematical Modeling in the Sec ondary Classroom. Sponsored by the academ y, the M assachusetts Department o f Education, the Alli-
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WPI President Edward A. Par rish, in a State o f the University meeting to the WPI community to day. addressed W IT s present po sitio n , o p p o rtu n itie s and c h a l lenges in both a local and national context and how costs impact the U niversity's strategic position. At the luncheon meeting held at Al den M em orial Hall. Parrish ad dressed the big question ol how can institutions cut costs while im proving quality, maintaining com petitiveness, and m eeting the de mands of students and their par ents for the amenities they expect. Parrish also cited (he recent Na tional Com m ission on the Cost of
Higher Education, Straight Talk About College Costs and Prices, and how it made convincing argu ments that higher education is a good investment and that expenses are not out of control. "Controlling costs is a national issue," he said “and WPI is lacing it squarely w ith ac a d e m ic p ro g ra m s re v ie w e d against performance criteria and by addressing our financial aid strate gies. We are also experim enting with Program-Based Budgeting and a major reengineering effort. Last fall, for example, we implemented a W eb-based re g istra tio n system that not only saves money, but also makes the course registration pro cess faster and more convenient for stu d en ts.” In a separate letter to parents of
WPI s tu d e n ts P a rrish h ig h lighted these above item s and noted a five-year plan for tuition and fees that addresses invest ments in specific initiatives that will immediately benefit curreni students. This five-year plan will increase tuition and tees lor the 1998-99 a c a d e m ic y e a r to $20,648, and to $22,108 the fol lowing year and ihen closely tie them lo the rate ol inflation the final th ree years. R oom and board will increase 5.5 percent for the coming year. The increase will bring WPI s price closer to its peers and more in line with current program quality. Noting that the cost to educate a single See President. Cont. to pg5
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Internet attack strikes computers by Ryan Olson The Guardian (U. Califomia-S.D.) (U-W IRE) LA JOLLA, Calif. — T hou sands o f com puters nationw ide crashed after an Internet-based attack on M onday. The attack affected computers running the M icrosoft W indows 95 operating sys tem and Windows NT - a popular operat ing system among larger com puter n et works. Problem s were reported at all University o f California cam puses and the Lawrence Liverm ore National Laboratory. Other af fected sites included the M assachusetts Institute o f Technology, Northwestern U ni versity and several federal governm ent sites - including some unclassified Navy com puters. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported experts saying that only a deliberate act could have caused the far-flung glitches. It is not known whether the attack was in-
tended to be a prank or a serious effort to com prom ise sensitive data. The attack was considered harmless by experts because users affected could re start their computers without a loss o f data. James Madden, manager o f Network Op erations at UCSD ’s Academic Computing Services (ACS), said about 300 people on campus directly reported their computers crashing. Overall, Madden estimated that the attack struck about 1,000 computers on cam pus betw een 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Monday. “The cause o f the problem is a badly for matted piece o f data, a TCP/IP packet, that is sent to the m achine,” Madden said. “Be cause it is misconstructed, the m achine’s operating system, W indows for example, goes into a loop. Finally, the machine runs out o f memory and crashes with the socalled blue screen.” Madden added that U CSD ’s main com puter servers that provide Internet and e-
Job outlook great for 1998 grads, especially in technological Helds by Alex Ortolani Daily Northwestern (Northwestern U.) (U-WIRE) EVANSTON, 111. — A boom ing jo b market will greet 1998 graduates interested in technology-related fields. A lack of engineering and computer sci ence majors has job recruiters scrambling to find new employees. Current offers for graduating seniors are as high as $50,000 including bonuses o f 10 percent to 20 p er cent. A 40 percent decrease in com puter sci ence and engineering m ajors during a shift from an industrial-based economy to one o f service inform ation increased the d e mand for technology majors, said Bill Banis, NU director of career services. Banis said NU is receiving calls from jo b recruiters earlier than ever before. “If we had more graduates to go around, this would be a record breaking year for us,” Banis said. CAS senior Noah Levine, a computer sci ence major, said that three out of the four com panies recruiting him were aggressive. He was called frequently and given vari ous incentives to join the companies. Levine chose to work for IBM as a tech nological application developer but hopes to move up in the company. “The great thing about being in com puter science is that the m ajor gets you in the door, and then you have room to advance,” Levine said. Liberal arts majors are also benefiting from the demand to fill technological jobs. Job Outlook ‘98, a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Em ployers, said the starting salaries for graduating liberal arts majors has increased 6.5 percent since last year, to an average of $28,875. Companies are willing to train graduates o f all majors to fill open positions, said Cam ille Luckenbaugh, director of em ploy ment information at NACE. “Liberal arts m ajors are attractive to em-
ployers because they come prepared with communication skills and the ability to learn technical skills,” Luckenbaugh said. She com pared the current job market to a trickle-down effect. ‘T h e open slots in the technological mar ket are attracting those who would other wise be going into marketing or business, which creates even more jobs for other graduates to fill,” she said CAS senior and psychology major Phil Jessel recently received a job from Elec tronic Data Systems, a large technological company in Detroit, Mich. Jessel said EDS will pay to put him through a 9- to 18-month training period with a salary of $40,000 to $50,000, plus benefits and relocation ex penses. “My psychology major was completely irrelevant to the jo b ,” Jessel said. The lack o f com puter science majors is causing som ew hat o f a crisis for bu si nesses desperate for experienced em ploy ees. The Clinton adm inistration has re ported spending $28 million in 1997 to train new workers, and the Department o f Edu cation said that although there was a slight increase in com puter science majors, it is not enough. Technological recruiter for ITS Technol ogy Inc., Chad Fengley, said he looks to hire graduates with jo b market experience. “I look for students who have two years or more o f experience with internships or co-oping,” Fengley said. “ Experience in com puter design is also an attractive at tribute.” Fengley said ITS is now hiring an aver age o f one em ployee per month. Only 3 percent o f com panies surveyed by NACE said that they were going to cut back on hiring next year, and Luckenbaugh sees no decline in the near future. “With the way things are going, the de mand for technological jobs will be there,” she said. “ I can’t see that changing in the next 10 years; if anything, it will become even more dom inant.”
mail access were not affected, but com put ers in several ACS laboratories needed to be restarted. Late Monday, ACS operators installed a filter that would detect and rem ove cor rupted TCP/IP packets from incoming In ternet data. M icrosoft released a patch in January that fixed the problem, but did not actively promote the installation of the upgrade until M onday’s incident. M adden said that since Monday, more than half the campus that would be sus ceptible to a similar attack had installed the upgrade.
Despite the best precautions, the chance still remains that another attack could hap pen. “One o f the challenges o f trying to m an age an academic network, like the one at UCSD, is that we want people to have ac cess to stuff that they are interested in,” Madden said. “But along with providing that access comes the possibility that som e one w ill run across som ething that will break their machine.” Madden said that the best way that users can prevent falling victim to a similar inci dent in the future is to install the most cur rent versions of software and to backup data.
Umass death Continued from Page 1 is no reason to suspect suicide. “We have found nothing unusual in terms o f his day and we have found no indication of any distress,” she said. A ccording to his friends, Sala “had a regular day o f classes and had an exam [Monday] night,” Vanin said. She also added that Sala was in good academic standing and had recently made plans to change his major from chemical engineering to management. “This is a very sad time for our campus, these unexpected deaths are very hard to
explain,” Vanin said. Residence Hall staff are working with friends and acquaintances; chaplains and counselors are available for support for all members of the UM ass community. ‘T h e impact on the com m unity o f the death o f a student can be devastating not only for students, but for faculty and staff as well,” Vanin said. In an campus-wide email sent last night to the entire U M ass com m unity, Vanin wrote, ‘T h is is a time for us to reach out and support each other as we reflect on this very sad tim e.”
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WPI LEAP program welcomes new members Courtesy o f WPI News Service Forty-nine W PI undergraduates were re cently welcomed into the university LEAP (Leadership Experience and Practice) pro gram. Thomas Balistrieri, director of the S tu d en t C o u n selin g and D evelopm ent
Center, gave the welcom e address. Created in 1996, LEAP is a four-year, selfassessm ent, education, training and prac tice process designed to help undergradu ates become better leaders, communicators, team members and team builders. The pro gram was designed by Balistrieri and by Yvonne Harrison, director o f W PI’s Career
WPI’s IFC receives six awards at Northeast conference Courtesy of WPI News Service W PI’s Interfratem ity Council (IFC) re ceived six awards at the Northeast Inter fraternity C onference (N EIFC) and the Northeast Panhellenic Conference (NEPC) in Cherry Hill, NJ last week. IFC President Conan Buzby ‘00, from Salcha, Alaska; Sarah Snow, ‘00, Panhel President from Holden, Mass.; Jessica Lowell ‘99, of West Boylston, Mass., from Alpha Gam ma Delta and Jeevandhar Ramapriya ‘98 o f Billerica, M ass., from Lam bda Chi A lpha, repre sented WPI. The event drew more than 700 Panhel and IFC leaders from through out the Northeast. Each year NEIFC honors outstanding councils in the region as a way o f encour aging interfratem ity councils to aspire to
high standards o f excellence in a wide range o f activities. “At the closing banquet of th e c o n fe re n c e o u r IFC re c e iv e d six aw ard s,” says A ndrea Dorow, assistant d ire c to r for student activities. “These aw ards are given to outstanding IFCs in their size categories. WPI is in Division 1: schools with 2-12 fraternity chapters.” This year, WPI won programming excel lence awards in five o f the eight catego ries: com m unity service, leadership and e d u c a tio n a l d e v e lo p m e n t, a c a d e m ic achievem ent, self governance and judicial affairs, and risk reduction and management. A d d itio n ally , W P I’s IFC re c e iv e d the Lunsford Award o f Excellence for overall achievem ent. This is the second consecu tive year that W PI has received this award, which is named for Larry Lunsford, the N EIFC ’s first executive director.
Development Center, and A ndrea Dorow, assistant director for student activities. “LEAP is a cutting-edge program unlike any other in the country,” says Balistrieri. “It gives W PI students leadership oppor tunities few other universities can offer.” Following is a list o f the new est LEAP participants: James Abbatiello ‘01, David Freeman ‘01, Kenneth M air ‘01, Jeffrey Sinnamon ‘01, Jason W alonoski ‘01, M ichael W eber, Jonathan Acorn ‘01, Joy Ann Benedix ‘00, and Jeffrey M oore ‘01, Christopher Bitzas 01, Jason Cardinal ‘01, Zhuo Feng Chen, g ra d u a te stu d e n t, John C ie c iu c h ‘00, Michael Gorse ‘01, Timothy Hogan ‘01, Matthew Lewis ‘01, Jared Hill ‘01, Daniel Lopes ‘01, Edwin Mercado ‘01, Bradford Snow ‘01, M oses McCall ’01, Channarith V anthin ‘01, D iana M arie Suggs ‘01, Brendan Collings ‘00, Timothy Dresser ‘01, Aaron Lopez ‘01, Sarah H ouse ‘01 and Jesse Milton ‘00, Jessica Morgan ‘01, M at thew LeClair ‘01, Jared Auclair ‘01, Clifford D ever'01, Ben Schulkin ‘01, Debra Li ‘01, Ali Durlov Khan ‘01, Kenda Conklin ‘01, and J a c q u e lin e F la to w ’0 1 , P a tric ia DeChristopher ‘01, Nicholas Amaral ‘00, David Silva ‘00, Kenneth J. Fountain ‘01, and Eric Tripodi ‘01, Patricia De Christo pher ‘01, Jan-E ric A hlfors ‘01, Sharad Bhojnagarwala ‘01, Zaheer Kapadia ‘01, and Angie Li ‘00.
WPI/Xerox Collaboration Funds MBA Fellowships Courtesy of WPI News Service For the second tim e since 1996, Xerox C orporation has recognized the quality and value o f W P I’s graduate m anage m ent program s and dem onstrated its com m itm ent to supporting the education o f talented H ispanic students by providing funding for selected graduate students to gain access to the u n iv ersity ’s full tim e m aster o f business adm inistration program. The first tw o-year Xerox/M BA Fellow ship was established with a $60,000 grant from the com pany and recently renewed for 1998-2000. The fellowship provides full time tuition, a m onthly academic-year sti pend, and a paid summer internship with Xerox. Fellows also have the option o f com pleting sponsored research work in conjunction with the MBA program. Candidates must be U.S. citizens o f His panic descent who have com pleted a bach elor o f science in an engineering discipline and will become a full-time W PI MBA stu d e n t. To d a te , tw o s tu d e n ts , Ja v ie r Gonzalez o f Carolina, PR, and Felix Diaz from San Juan, PR, have been awarded Xerox/W PI M BA fellowships. “My sum m er internship with Xerox exposed me to some o f the disciplines that make a busi ness run and was a great supplement to what I have learned in this program ,” says Diaz. “O ur applications-oriented MBA pro gram familiarizes graduates with the ‘big picture’ perspective they need to be suc cessful upper-level managers, as well as with the hands-on knowledge these pro
fessionals need to meet the day-today chal lenges o f the w orkplace,” says Norman Wilkinson, W PI’s director of graduate man agem ent programs. “Our program ensures that students understand how to lead and m anage in high-technology organizations, how to convert technology into new prod ucts and services o f value to the market, and how to integrate technology into the workplace. Our graduates are prepared for leadership positions in organizations in the United States and throughout the world.” Headquartered in Stamford, Conn., Xerox
is a global company that develops, manu factures and markets products and systems designed to make offices around the world m ore p ro d u c tiv e . Paul A lla ire , the com pany’s chairman and CEO, received a B.S. in electrical engineering from WPI in 1960. “As a W PI alumnus, I have experi enced firsthand the value o f a WPI educa tion,” says Allaire. “Xerox is pleased to offer these fellowships as a means o f giv ing talented students access to the quality offered by W P l’s graduate management program s.”
WPI students help those in need by Christopher Welch Newman President As you read and listen to media reports, you could easily assume that all college students headed south to exotic places during their spring vacation. Actually that is not true as many o f us know. A lot of college students give up some o f their spring break to assist people who are not as well off as they are. Here at WPI, spring vacation saw twenty-two o f us give up a few vacation days for our Appalachia in Worcester Project sponsored by the Newman Club. We were the living witnesses that far too often media reports about college students do not reflect what actually we are like. Monday afternoon o f last week saw many of us arriving back on campus and immedi ately , you might say, reporting to the Reli gious Center to gather supplies, etc, for our project. The next morning, Tuesday, saw five carloads of students and faculty headed to Youville House, a shelter for battered women and their children. Once there we repaired and painted bathrooms, offices, kitchens, parlors and hallways of two o f their major buildings. That day alone we did over one hundred and forty hours of manual labor. A supervisor at Youville House said it best when she said it would take a months work ing time of a janitor to accomplish what we did that day alone. Another group of our vol unteers went to the Youville Food Pantry and put every thing in order there. By Wednes day afternoon a few of us had finished the task of putting away all our tools, etc, so that they are in good order for our next project. We are grateful to all those who volun teered their time especially Prof. Brian Stiltner who joined us. The people at Youville House are grateful for our efforts and more impor tant is the fact that we demonstrated to the clients at Youville House that people, espe cially at WPI, do reach out to those down on their luck and give them hope that better days are ahead.
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Burnout afflicts students Ay 7u/iV Pham Daily Californian (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif.— The life o f a college student — ju g g lin g w ork, school and a social life — can be stress ful. F o r fresh m an A u d rey Y ong, th a t stress accum ulated and turned into d e p ressio n . She felt physically and mentally “out o f wack.” “T hings w ere going dow nhill, like I co u ld n ’t get any better and I co u ld n ’t do anything to get out,” said Yong. “I was frustrated w ith school and I d id n ’t see any rew ards when I was w orking hard. People bugged me. I w as getting intoler ant o f certain people and I w ent o ff alone a lot.” Yong’s story is common among UC Ber keley students. For a semester, freshman Nick Livingston said he suf fered from what he considered burnout. “I felt like all the work I had been doing was pointless,” said Livingston. “A lot o f times, I felt like I had been cheated by the classes and the school.” But according to experts, burnout is sometimes a catch phrase for what might ju st be stress. At the Tang C enter, counseling p sy chologist Rick Low said he and his col leagues do not diagnose what is called “burnout” as burnout. “Burnout is not an official label (for feel ing overworked),” said Low. “(Students)
may say, ‘I’m stressed, I feel burned out,’ but it’s more o f just a word we use to de scribe how students feel when they’re over whelmed.” Christina M aslach, a U C Berkeley pro fessor o f psychology and author of the re cently published book, “The Truth About Burnout,” said sometimes burnout “is used as a synonym for stress.” “Burnout is a popular term and it’s easy to a p p ly to ju s t h a v in g s tre s s ,” said Maslach. “But burnout is actually some thing a lot more serious than people ju st being stressed from school.” It is not sim ply a heavy workload that makes people feel burned out. Some people can work hours on end and be perfectly happy be cause they enjoy th e ir jo b , ex p lained Maslach. Actual burnout is a combination o f exhaustion, depression and negative feelings about oneself. These symptoms are triggered by a “mism atch with the per son and the social environment of the work place,” Maslach said. This mismatch occurs more often in work places, where burnout takes a toll on worker morale and productivity, than at school. “For example, one corporate lawyer may be unhappy with his w ork and experience burnout because his m orals conflict w ith those o f his com pany,” said M aslach. “But another law yer m ight work fine in that environm ent. It’s not the fault of the com pany or the law yer — it’s ju st a m is m atch.” How ever, students are also prone to
many o f the same pressures that trap burn out sufferers. The lack o f benefits d espite putting in a lot o f effort, such as w hat Yong and Livingston described, is ju s t one cause of burnout. W hen people do not feel a p p re ciate d o r receiv e rew a rd s fo r hard work, they can becom e fru strated and this feeling, in com bination with other “m ism atches” in everyday life, can esca late into burnout. “We probably can translate burnout to the student experience, but we have to see w hat th e d iffe re n c e s a re a ls o ,” sa id Maslach. P eople who study burnout, M aslach said, are identifying a pattern of jo b stress that occurs prim arily in people-oriented jobs, such as health-care, social service and certain aspects o f the criminal justice sys tem. “W ith burnout, what we identify is a su b c ate g o ry o f stre ss,” said M aslach. “It’s unclear that kind o f phenom enon is the sam e in stu d en ts as in the w o rk place.” Rather than as the actual cause o f a prob lem, Low described burnout as a symptom of many factors. “ Burnout can signal an imbalance in so cial life — too much school, being in too many courses, or not being challenged, like if a student is in the wrong major,” said Low. A lthough Low said signs o f what may be considered burnout vary with each in
dividual, they typically include fatigue, anxiety, loss of motivation, withdrawal from people, a sense o f powerlessness and the feeling o f being overwhelmed. That is how Yong described her bout with stress and depression. “Everything was out o f control,” said Yong. Livingston also experienced total lack o f motivation. “I was unmotivated to go to school, to class. I felt like I was going through the motions, but the efforts w eren’t there any m ore,” said Livingston. Low advises students to take note be tween feeling stressed and feeling burned out. “Stress is fairly normal,” said Low. “It’s when we don’t deal with stress effectively — when we d o n ’t have cam pus resources (or) friends to help us, when we get de pleted, when our energy gets depleted — is when we feel burned out.” Since burnout is con sid ered a catch phrase for stress, the Tang Center keeps no records o f how many students come in com plaining o f symptoms that they think may be attributed to burnout. A lthough burnout research started in the m id-’70s, said M aslach, there has been very little study about the possibility o f student burnout. “Student stress has been looked at (from) m an y d iff e re n t p e r s p e c tiv e s ,” sa id M aslach. “Just not student and burnout together.”
The IGSD Is Extending The Deadline for Submitting Applications To The Australia Project Program! The Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division (IGSD) is still accepting applications from students interested in doing IQPs in Melbourne, Australia during D Term, 1999. While project specifics will not be finalized until June, we expect to be able to support 12 or 15 students. Applications can be picked up at the IGSD’s office in the Project Center, and are due by March. Interviews and student selection will be completed during the early part of D Term. Questions on the Melbourne projects can be directed to Prof. Matthew Ward (CS, matt@cs, FL134) or Prof. Jonathan Barnett (FPEjbarnett@wpi, HL 105). Interested students are also strongly encouraged to examine the web page developed by the IQP team currently in Melbourne at http://www.wpi.edu/~jkonz/australia/.
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Grade inflation sweeps colleges nationally by Angie Tello The Lariat (Baylor U.) (U-WIRE) WACO, Texas — Many major colleges and universities are feeling the effects of the latest academic trend: grade inflation. According to some professors, Baylor has not escaped this trend. A Feb. 18 front-page article in The New York Times reported that grade inflation is on the rise at such prestigious schools as Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsyl vania. The article stated that “A’s and B’s still account for about 80 percent o f the grades at Stanford,” while at Princeton “83 per cent of the grades given between 1992 and 1997 fell between A+ and B-, compared with 69 percent between 1973 and 1977.” Baylor’s Office of Institutional Research and Testing said information concerning grades and grade point averages was not available. Some professors, however, feel that grade inflation is definitely present at the
university. “When you look at the grades and see that two-thirds of them are A’s and B’s, then I think that really indicates grade in flation,” Dr. Howard Rolf, professor of mathematics, said. “I think an A doesn’t have the same value as it used to.” Dr. Rena Bonem, professor of geology, said that grades have inflated across the U.S. and Baylor. “We see this especially now that people are applying for graduate programs here,” she said. “It’s hard to see if they’ve really learned and accomplished all that their grades reflect, and vice versa.” Rolf said the trend can be attributed to several different factors. One factor he sees is the changing culture. “Our society used to be an agricultural one, with people doing work and chores everyday,” Rolf said. “There is really not much of a work ethic.” Rolf also said that professors may not be demanding as much from students as they should be. The value of grades is also debatable,
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Rolf said. “A grade is a crude estimate of what a person knows,” he said. Student evaluations of professors can also play a role in grading, some profes sors said. “Non-tenured instructors do feel the pressure to try to make students like them better,” Bonem said. “However, now I think that the most constructive thing that could be done would be to change the format of the evaluations.” While professors might see this trend at Baylor, some students believe that it is not evident here. “I have never really noticed it,” Kerri Flanagin, an Austin junior, said. “I don’t
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student exceeds $24,300 this year, he indi cated that every student is thus supported by a general subsidy in excess of $5,500 exclusive of any financial aid that may be available. “WPI intends to maintain our longstading commitment to making a WPI edu cation accessible for all qualified students, regardless of their ability to pay,” said Par rish. “WPI will continue to offer need-based financial aid, and we will continue to work with students and their families to assure that our aid packages remain competitive.” Among the specific investments for the upcoming academic year are: adding new faculty members to high demand areas to assure that all students enjoy the high level of contact, collaboration, and interaction that are the hallmarks of WPI’s projectbased education; transforming several tra ditional classrooms to state-of-the-art mul timedia classrooms that use computers, video technology and satellite links to bring the world into the classrooms; in creasing the library budget so that faculty and students have access to materials and technology needed for their work and to
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allow for continued participation in an im portant national digital library project; in vesting nearly $600,000 to increase the speed of residence hall connections ten fold, from 10 megabits to 100 megabits; and expanding WPI’s Global Perspective Pro gram, the most ambitious and successful international program at any American tech nological university, to assure that any stu dent who wishes to take part can do so. In the next two years WPI intends to build a 71,000-square-foot campus center and a 33,000- square-foot academic build ing featuring modem multimedia class rooms and will begin a major capital cam paign to raise funds needed for these and other long-range objectives. Among these are new scholarships to supplement exist ing financial aid. In concluding his remarks Parrish noted that the strategic tuition increases together with the capital campaign will allow imme diate investments that can improve WPI’s position among the top 50 national univer sities, propel WPI to even higher levels of academic excellence, and provide consid erable new resources over several years for the needed investments.
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see it as grade inflation — I just think that expectations are raised and people step up to the challenge.” Some professors still believe that some things should be changed at the univer sity to combat this trend. “I think there needs to be uniformity betw een departments,” Dr. Timothy Johnson, assistant professor o f classics, said. “The grades need to be deflated si multaneously.” Rolf said that grade point average is not the only factor important in job and gradu ate school selections. “It may suggest the better employee,” he said. “However, the gpa doesn’t tell the whole story.”
Fred J. Shuster c/o Paine Webber, Inc. 10 Chestnut Street, #600 Worcester, MA 01608 (508) 798-7100 Members of Newspeak enjoy their fire and Ice sculpture which won the ‘98 Winter Carnival Ice Sculpture contest.
Just before term break and before final exams, WPI students were invited to spend some time outside in the surprisingly warm winter weather at the annual Winter Carni val. Among the many activities associated with the event was an ice sculpture contest on the Quad. Groups of students and stu dent organizations were invited to try their hand at chipping blocks of ice down into some sort of identifiable shape. Although most of the participants were far from Michelangelo’s and Van Gogh’s, some other talents showed through. Seth Popinchalk sculpted a marvelous replica of the Arm and Hammer wind-sock, perched high upon Washburn. The Newspeak sculptures took home the prize however, with their flaming rendition of the weekend theme “Fire and Ice,” a masterpiece that was set ablaze be fore the judge panel (a.k.a. Joe of DAKA).
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Grade inflation sweeps colleges nationally by Angie Tello The Lariat (Baylor U.) (U-WIRJE) WACO, Texas— Many major colleges and universities are feeling the effects o f the latest academic trend: grade inflation. According to some professors, Baylor has not escaped this trend. A Feb. 18 front-page article in The New York Times reported that grade inflation is on the rise at such prestigious schools as Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsyl vania. The article stated that “A’s and B ’s still account for about 80 percent of the grades at Stanford,” while at Princeton “83 per cent o f the grades given between 1992 and 1997 fell between A+ and B-, compared with 69 percent between 1973 and 1977.” Baylor’s Office o f Institutional Research and Testing said information concerning grades and grade point averages was not available. Som e professo rs, how ever, feel that grade inflation is definitely present at the
university. “W hen you look at the grades and see that tw o-thirds o f them are A’s and B ’s, then I think that really indicates grade in flation,” Dr. Howard Rolf, professor o f m athem atics, said. “I think an A doesn’t have the same value as it used to.” Dr. Rena Bonem, professor o f geology, said that grades have inflated across the U.S. and Baylor. “We see this especially now that people are applying for graduate program s here,” she said. “ It’s hard to see if they’ve really learned and accom plished all that their grades reflect, and vice versa.” R olf said the trend can be attributed to several different factors. One factor he sees is the changing culture. “O ur society used to be an agricultural one, with people doing work and chores everyday,” Rolf said. ‘T h ere is really not much o f a work ethic.” R olf also said that professors may not be dem anding as much from students as they should be. T he value o f grades is also debatable,
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Rolf said. “A grade is a crude estim ate o f what a person knows,” he said. Student evaluations o f professors can also play a role in grading, some profes sors said. “N on-tenured instructors do feel the pressure to try to make students like them better,” Bonem said. “However, now I think that the most constructive thing that could be done would be to change the format of the evaluations.” W hile professors might see this trend at Baylor, some students believe that it is not evident here. “I have never really noticed it,” Kerri Flanagin, an Austin junior, said. “I don’t
President: Tuition increases Continued from page 1 student exceeds $24,300 this year, he indi cated that every student is thus supported by a general subsidy in excess o f $5,500 exclusive of any financial aid that may be available. “ W PI intends to m aintain our longstading commitment to making a WPI edu cation accessible for all qualified students, regardless of their ability to pay,” said Par rish. “WPI will continue to offer need-based financial aid, and we will continue to work with students and their families to assure that our aid packages remain competitive.” Among the specific investments for the upcoming academic year are: adding new faculty members to high demand areas to assure that all students enjoy the high level of contact, collaboration, and interaction that are the hallmarks o f W PI’s projectbased education; transforming several tra ditional classrooms to state-of-the-art mul tim edia classroom s that use com puters, video technology and satellite links to bring the world into the classroom s; in creasing the library budget so that faculty and students have access to materials and technology needed for their work and to
allow for continued participation in an im portant national digital library project; in vesting nearly $600,000 to increase the speed o f residence hall connections ten fold, from 10 megabits to 100 megabits; and expanding W PI’s Global Perspective Pro gram, the most ambitious and successful international program at any American tech nological university, to assure that any stu dent who wishes to take part can do so. In the next two years W PI intends to build a 71,000-square-foot campus center and a 33,000- square-foot academic build ing featuring modern m ultim edia class rooms and will begin a major capital cam paign to raise funds needed for these and other long-range objectives. Among these are new scholarships to supplement exist ing financial aid. In concluding his remarks Parrish noted that the strategic tuition increases together with the capital campaign will allow imme diate investments that can improve W PI’s position among the top 50 national univer sities, propel WPI to even higher levels o f academic excellence, and provide consid erable new resources over several years for the needed investments.
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Members of Newspeak enjoy their fire and ice sculpture which won the ‘98 Winter Carnival Ice Sculpture contest.
Just before term break and before final exams, WPI students were invited to spend some time outside in the surprisingly warm winter weather at the annual Winter Carni val. Among the many activities associated with the event was an ice sculpture contest on the Quad. Groups o f students and stu dent organizations were invited to try their hand at chipping blocks o f ice down into some sort of identifiable shape. Although m ost o f the participants were far from Michelangelo’s and Van Gogh's, some other talents showed through. Seth Popinchalk sculpted a marvelous replica o f the Arm and H am m er wind sock, perched high upon Washburn. The Newspeak sculptures took home the prize however, with their flaming rendition of the weekend theme “Fire and Ice,” a masterpiece that was set ablaze be fore the judge panel (a.k.a. Joe of DAKA).
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Men’s crew team trains in Georgia during spring break by Eric Wilhelm Sports Editor Eleven members o f the W PI m en’s crew team travelled to northern G eorgia two weeks ago for a week o f spring training on the waters o f Lake Sidney Lanier. Lake Lanier is located 60 miles north o f A tlanta on the Chattahoochee River. This year was the second year the rowing team has vis ited the lake, site o f the rowing and kayaking venues of the 1996 Summer Olympics. The spring trip is typically the first time the team rows on the water after a long w inter o f strength and en durance training in the team ’s Alumni gym facilities.
W hile in Georgia, the team used two fourman boats lent by the Lake Lanier Rowing Club and by Loyola College o f M aryland, whose row ing team was training at Lake Lanier during the same week as WPI. The W PI team was able to practice twice a day during the week, until injuries began to in capacitate som e o f the rowers. N everthe less, the varsity team has a potentially very com petitive boat ready for the spring rac ing season, which begins the 28th of March on the C harles River, in Boston. In the m eantime, the team will be practicing six mornings a week, from the W PI boathouse on Lake Quinsigamond. A ccom panying the varsity and novice
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Races held at Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, unless otherwise noted. Race distance is 2000 meters, starting at the 1-290 bridge, and ending at the route 9 bridge. Race times vary, generally starting by 9am and ending by lpm. *Date not confirmed.
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Pictured, left to right (rear), Eric Wilhelm, Nate Turner, David Schwalb, Carl Messina, Seth McNear; (front), Rich Nordin, Malinda Danforth, Ana Sellers, Tom Scherpa, Scott Hammel, Jason Nelson. rowers were acting varsity coach Heather Cullen and assistant novice coach, Philip Tongue ‘99. Cullen ascended from novice to varsity coach after long-tim e coach F. David Ploss ‘71 resigned last November, citing employment obligations. The team is currently seeking a replacem ent coach for the coming fall season. Som e sources indicate that the university has also been considering making crew a varsity sport.
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Schedule Mar. 21 Mar. 22 Mar. 25 Apr. 1 Apr. 4 Apr. 5 Apr. 11
Kentucky, 7:35 pm Saint John nb, 5:05 pm Saint John nb, 7:05 pm St Johns nfld, 7 :05 pm Springfield, 7:35 pm Providence, 5 :05 pm Providence, 7:35 pm
Mar. 8 at Adirondack, 6:00 pm Mar. 15 at New Haven, 5:05 pm Mar. 18 at Hartford, 7:00 pm Mar. 20 at Providence, 7:05 pm Mar. 27 at Saint John nb, 6:30 pm Mar. 28 at Fredericton, 5:00 pm Apr. 10 at Springfield, 7:30 pm
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IceCats singed by St. John Flames
St. John Flames goalie Tyler Moss makes a save, stopping the IceCats attack.
Bowling team ends season 3rd in league
The W orcester IceCats faltered nine seconds into overtime giving up a shorthanded goal to the Flam es’ Eric Landry, losing 3-2. The loss gave the IceCats their sixth straight loss while the Flames now have a seven game streak without a loss. First period action saw the Flam es’ Martin St. Louis score two goals, the first ju s t 37 seconds into the gam e. The IceCats made 21 shots on goal, but were shutout in the period. The second pe riod saw a mirror image in term s of scor ing. ‘Cat Stephane Roy scored two goals, one o f them a power play goal, to tie the game at 2 goals. In the third period both goalies were perfect with ‘C at Frederic Cassivi and Flames Tyler Moss making 8 and 11 saves respectively. The IceCats held their ‘T h ird Annual Worcester IceCats Charity Jersey Auc tion” which raised several thousand dol lars for W orcester’s Learn to Swim Pro gram. The IceCats return to home ice on March 21st when they face o ff against j h e J K e n tu c l^ T h c ^
The m en’s bowling team com pleted its 1998 season ranked third in the Tri-State College Bowling Conference, with 204.5 av erage match points. First place was held by Western New England College Royal Blue at 236, followed by W NEC C old at 206.5. Following WPI were West Point at 106.5, Coast Guard Academy at 103, and Bentley, with 48.5 points. Chris Gauvin ’98 won the conference high average trophy for the second straight year. O ver the course o f 36 games, he had a 199 average. Following Gauvin were Matt Burdick ’98 at 195; David M astropasqua, WNEC, 193; and Paul Nuzzo, W NEC, 192. Match point leaders were: M att Burdick ’98,29.5; David Mastropasqua, 29; and Paul Nuzzo and Brian Stromwall, WNEC, tied at 27. G auvin also played the high gam e o f the year at a 279, and sealed up the high average on the final day o f the co n fer ence, rolling 772 and 664, the form er was the league high series. Burdick also rolled a 709 series for second place. The W PI captain. Bob Parette ’99 and Chris Gauvin com bined for 1371, the league leading oubles score. Most improved was captured by Gauvin, who registered a 24 pin improvement over the season, follow ed by Kurt C lark, o f W NEC, who improved by 15. In the W omen’s Division, the top three teams were from WNEC. However, W PI’s Kim Mailhot had the high game o f the sea son, at 246, as well as the two top series.
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Movie guide: Capsule reviews of current releases Courtesy of Los Angeles Times O pinions are by Los Angeles T im es re view ers. R atings by the M otion Picture A ssociation o f A m erica are: (G ) for gen eral audiences; (PG ) parental guidance urged because o f m aterial possibly un suitable for children; (P G -13) p arents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance o f children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 adm itted only w ith parent o r adult guardian; (NC17) no one younger than 17 adm itted. The Big Lebowski - The latest effort from brothers Joel and E than C oen is both irritating and am using. Its incoher ent, disjointed plot about a proto slacker (J e ff B rid g es) w h o ’s co n fu sed w ith a wealthy man is mostly irritating, but some e n g a g in g riffs d o m ake fo r sp o ra d ic laughter. (R, for pervasive stro n g lan guage, drug content, sexuality and brief violence.) The Borrowers - T his film, based on M ary N orton’s popular ch ild ren ’s books, does a superb jo b o f creating a scaled environm ent for its Lilliputian characters, but neither the characters nor the story m atches the in n o v atio n o f th e design. (PG , for m ild peril and som e crude hu mor.) Caught Up - Ex-con Daryl, on a run of bad luck, gets m ixed up with a Tarot-read-
ing vam p, a dubious car service and a w hole lot o f trouble in a movie about as muddled as Daryl. Bokeem Woodbine and C ynda W illiam s star. D irected by Darin Scott. (R, for strong sexuality, violence and language.) Chairman of the Board - Com edian C arrot Top m akes his film debut as an inventor-surfer who inherits a big busi ness. L ittle R ichard and Raquel W elch are am ong the supporting cast. (PG -13, for crude and sex-related hum or and lan guage.) Dangerous Beauty - Based on the b i ography o f a 16th-century V enice cour tesan, this film is all o f the follow ing: a ‘T o m Jones” -styled period sex rom p; a bordello version o f “Rom eo and Juliet” set against war, plague, political collapse and the Inquisition; a costum e dram a; a p e e p s h o w ; a n d a ro u s in g c a ll fo r w om en’s lib from the Joan o f Arc o f postM edieval call girls. (R, for som e scenes o f strong sexuality, and for nudity and language.) Dark City - From the director o f ‘T h e C row ,” an atm ospheric melange o f styles and su b stan ce about aliens, n ig h t and unspeakable acts. Interesting, but m ore than a bit addled. W illiam H urt, Rufus Sew ell and K iefer Sutherland star. (R, for violent im ages and som e sexuality.) 4 Faces o f Eve - A showcase for Hong Kong actress-com edian Sandra Ng com
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M en W ith Guns - In Jo h n S a y le s ’ la te st, a d o c to r’s jo u rn e y in to the L atin A m e ric a n c o u n try sid e b rin g s h im into c o n ta c t w ith h arsh p o litic a l re a litie s. (R , fo r la n g u ag e and som e v io le n t im a g e s .) S e n se le ss - T h e p ro te a n M a rlo n W ayans as an am bitious college econom ics m ajor so financially strapped he b e com es a hum an guinea pig for a senseh e ig h te n in g experim ental drug. B road com edy incorporates scathing social sat ire a n d sla p s tic k n e a r-tra g e d y u n d e r P e n e lo p e S p h e e ris ’ a stu te d ire c tio n . D avid Spade co-stars. (R, for language and sexual content.) Twilight - Paul Newm an has aged bet ter than any star in the business but even his fine work as a retired private eye help ing o u t m arried movie stars G ene H ack m an and Susan Sarandon c a n ’t provide the energy this exam ple o f geezer noir truly needs. Som e nice m om ents, but not en o u g h o f them . (R, for v io len ce and som e sexuality.) U.S. Marshals - Remake, uh, we mean se q u e l to “T h e F u g itiv e ,” fe a tu rin g Tom m y Lee Jones as the m iserable Fed w ith the heart o f gold, and a w hole lotta stu ff that goes boom. W esley Snipes and R obert D ow ney Jr. co-star. (PG -13, for som e scenes o f violence and b rie f lan guage.) T he W edding Singer - A sp ark lin g r o m a n tic c o m e d y in w h ic h A d am S a n d le r and D rew B arry m o re turn on the c h arm full force. A dding to the fizz a re A lle n C o v e r t a s S a n d l e r ’s p a l, S te v e B u scem i and Jon L o v itz (in h i la r io u s u n b ille d c a m e o s ) a n d n o n e o th e r than B illy Idol. (P G -1 3 , fo r sexre la te d m a te ria l and lan g u a g e .)
posed o f four sketches that in substance are fairly conventional but here are given a surreal razzle-dazzle style. The result is som etim es fun, som etim es poignant and som etim es ju s t perplexing and wearying. (U n rated : stro n g v io le n c e , la n g u a g e , som e sex.) Hush - N ot a slasher film , as i t ’s being sold, but a dim descendant o f gothic ro m ances like “R ebecca.” A supposed sus pense film in w hich every tw ist o f plot is laboriously telegraphed. Je ssic a Lange is a social-clim bing sm other-m other who takes an instant dislike to her so n ’s new girlfriend (G wyneth Paltrow). Thrill seek ers should keep on seeking. (PG -13 for so m e v io le n c e , s e n s u a lity a n d b r ie f strong language.) Kissing a Fool - A slight, contrived rom antic com edy involving the eternal triangle — an obnoxious TV sportscaster (D avid Schw im m er); his best pal (Jason L ee), a stru g g lin g n o v elist; and L e e ’s stunning e d ito r (M ili A vital). A good show case for Lee and Avital, if nothing else. W ith B onnie H unt. (R, fo r strong language.) Krippendorf’s Tribe - A truly terrible, tasteless, unfunny farrago about an an thropology professor (R ichard D reyfuss) w ho in v en ts a h e re to fo re “lo s t” N ew Guinea tribe. With Jenna Elfm an and Lily Tomlin. (PG-13, for sexual humor.)
T he M an in th e Iro n M ask “ B r a v e h e a r t” s c r e e n w r ite r R a n d a ll W allace’s directorial debut is a new tell ing o f D um as’ classic starring Leonardo D iCaprio and including the T hree M us keteers (Jerem y Irons, John M alkovich and G rard D epardieu). (P G -13, for se quences o f violence and som e sensuality-nudity.)
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SGA needs help to decrease deficit by Jennifer Dawn Reese SGA President Welcome Back! T he turnover to Senate S es sion V III o ccu rred at the first SGA m eeting o f C-term ‘98 when four new executives and 27 new s e n a to r s s te p p e d up to th e elected responsibility o f re p re senting the cam pus. Before o ffi cially inaugurated, this group for m alized a standard o f resp o n si bilities, a vision, and many goals for the year. SGA’s first m ajor accom plishm ent was the e sta b lishm ent o f clear objectives, ex pectatio n s, resp o n sib ilities and commitments amongst themselves. Many o f the initial goal setting dis cussions happened at a jo in t re treat with SocComm. As a result from the retreat, the two organiza tions reinforced a friendly, w ork ing relationship that is extrem ely visible. M utual goals were also established. Teamwork between the tw o organizations has d efi nitely benefited the campus. SGA and SocComm established a vision for campus unity, one that intends to break the com m unica tion barriers that exist between or ganizations, students, faculty, and administration. Campus unity ide alizes campus involvem ent, sup port, spirit, pride and harm ony. This vision proposes to re-create the enthusiastic, spirited college cam pus. The goals that were cre ated to accomplish this vision were focused around student body con cerns. One of our biggest goals is fa c ilita tin g m ore cam p u s-w id e events. SocComm is working on adding programming while SGA is
result o f student concern that led prom oting broader participation. to SGA investigation and action Students wanted to be informed, and resulted in a comfortable com so SocComm and SGA put up a promise between Residential Ser Campus Calendar in Daniels Hall. vices and the student body. The S tud en ts claim ed there was no willingness to accom m odate the support or spirit at athletic events, student body by institution orga so an SGA senator is working on o rg a n iz ing activi WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE tie s th a t w ill e n c o u ra g e and e n hance the s tu d e n t s p irit at a th le tic STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION e v e n ts . L ack o f nizations was made clear through participation at organizational ac this accomplishment. Faculty, staff, tivities, concerts, productions, etc., ad m in istration, and trustees all continues to be a concern that both want to be involved in student life organizations are brainstorm ing on campus and would respond to ways to overcome. any invitations. We are creating the team for cam Within SGA, The Com m ittee on pus unity. Several campus organi Academic Issues (CAI) insured the zations have joined this team and course reserves and test files were this commitment. The team pro once again updated and organized vides support between the organi to be accessible to students. CAI zations on cam pus. More players also investigated the concerns stu are needed how ever; we need you d e n ts had to w ard p ro fe s s o rs on that team. We want to hear what scheduling a test or class on an your concerns are and what you Institution “ No Classes” day. If a want us to work on. student finds him self in this situa SGA and SocCom m have a re tion, he can receive permission not sponsibility to the students. SGA holding him responsible to attend especially has the responsibility to a class scheduled on a day the In represent and act on behalf o f the stitu tio n h a s d e c la re d as “ No student body. Share this respon Classes,” i.e. Project Presentation sibility by letting SG A know what Day. Perm ission may be granted your concerns are. from the Provost John Carney III. As for last term, several o f our The Com m ittee on Student Life goals we set to accom plish were Issues (CSLI) is another SGA com com pleted in addition to several mittee that has accomplished many stu d e n t b o dy c o n c e rn s . T he o f its goals and several more are in Housing Selection Process was the
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the process o f com pletion. An email terminal was placed in the m a ilro o m as re s u lt o f the com m ittee’s hard work. The Safe Ride program has been established from the dedication o f both SGA and G raduate Student O rganiza tion (GSO). Safe Ride is a partner ship with the Yellow Cab Company such that W PI students can ride within city limits for a fee o f $2. Student must show their WPI ID to take advantage o f this service. The co n tinual m eetings for the D A K A advisory board have in sured that a senator is actively voicing student concerns. Lastly, the discovered $19,093 deficit has reached a plan o f ac tion. The SGA A ppropriations Com m ittee is in the process o f dis cussing the situation with all clubs and organizations. All are asked and strongly encouraged to look over their remaining funds for the year and if the funds are not seen as a need, then they are to transfer them back to SGA so the deficit will diminish. Within two weeks the deficit issue will be re-assessed and appropriate measures will be taken from there. A plan has been established to insure a positive balance will exist on June 30,1998 when fiscal year 98 closes. For a detailed explanation o f how the deficit occurred and the exact plan o f action please consult the SGA w ebpage < h ttp://w w w .w pi.edu/ ~sga>. The appropriations com m ittee has finished preparing the budget for fiscal year 99. A de tailed presentation o f all organiza tional budgets will be delivered at tonight’s SGA meeting by the SGA Treasurer, Chad Tino.
Just be yourself? D uring Leadership Week there was a panel presentation entitled “L eadership Issues for W om en” given by five very powerful women in high positions, including tw o se nior vice-presidents of m ajor cor porations. Each had a different way o f achieving her position, and they lived very different lifestyles. But they all had one m essage in comm on: they got to where they were for many reasons - not the least o f which was being them selves. Sounds simple enough, but how do you “just be y o u rse lf’? The only way to do this is if you first know w ho you are. T he w om en who p resen ted on this panel KNOW who they are. I mean really know. They have taken the time to look inside themselves and
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discover their deepest fears, their wildest dreams, their strongest val ues. The fast-paced world in which we live is not conducive to this task, and yet they did it anyway. These women did not always like what they saw. Som e learned at inopportune tim es that they were in unfulfilling careers: they had al ways pictured them selves in par ticular jobs, earned degrees in the appropriate fields, and built solid careers only to realize ten years later that they w ere not happy. Most importantly, though, is that when they realized they were not happy, they changed their circum stances. They kept searching to find out what was wrong or, more importantly, what was missing. As a college-aged person, how can you learn w ho you are? For one thing, ask yourself if you are comfortable with how you act. A constant feeling o f nervousness or
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irritability probably indicates that you are often outside your com fort zone. Are you doing things you want to do? Are you happy with the direction your life is tak ing? This is certainly not to say that change is bad or that taking risks is not useful. But if you feel as though everything you say or do is a risk, you may be trying to be something you are not. On the other hand, if you are al ways relaxed and have always be lieved the same things and acted the same way — do something dif ferently! Talk to people you other wise w ould not talk to, listen to what o th ers believe and to how they live their lives. Learn to ap preciate the differences in people. D o th in g s that you have never done. Do things that you are suc cessful at, but also do things that you are not so good at. Doing only what you know you do well does
not lend to grow th. Take some risks — you will discover more o f who you are when you fail, you can learn humility. Then, after you have spent time o bserving others and observing yourself, set time aside to really think about who you are. This is espe cially important to do if you are in terviewing in the near future. Your resume will speak to what you have done, but during the interview you’ll need to demonstrate who you are. So spend some time contemplating who you are by writing down what your values are, what motivates you, what qualities in yourself you ad mire, and what you stand for. People who never think about the bigger picture will end up on the treadmill o f life, getting nowhere fast. So spend time alone, or with a friend or a counselor, and consider who you are. You may be surprised at what you find!
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In defense of the appetizing female I’ve been tempted toward bulimia many times. T hat’s b e cause, like many other women, I take my cues from H o lly wood. B ut with Kate W inslet in “T itan ic,” H ollyw ood is finally giving a beauty w ith an im perfect body a p rom i nent role, a rom antic lead, possibly even to test public reaction. And now she has been nom inated for a b est actress Oscar. But poor Kate! Just when she thought she was m ak ing the m ovie that w ould catapult h er to stardom ’s g re at est heights, all that people could talk about was how fat she looked. Review after review o f “T itan ic” was consum ed by rantings o f the zaftig red h ead ’s m oon-pie face and b a l looning curves. To wit, Barbara Shuglasser of the San Francisco E x am iner wrote: “W in sle t. . . ballooned by about 15 pounds from her last scene. For m ost o f the m ovie, h er head is so bloated that no am ount o f tricky cam era angles can m ake her doughy face look interesting. T h ere is nary a c h eek bone on w hich a clev er cin em ato g rap h er could cast a m ysterious lighting effect.” All this talk o f blubber and cheekbones overshadow s young W inslet’s perform ance, w hich d id n ’t get more than a half-sentence m ention from any review er save for G ene
S iskel and R oger E bert, w ho agreed th a t “ w in so m e” L eonardo D iC aprio blew her away. Perhaps they cam e to th is co n clu sio n because they w ere so busy w atching D iC aprio’s every facial tw itch that they forgot to look at W inslet’s stunning perform ance. Perhaps if W inslet w ere shaped less like a woman and more like a 16-year-old boy, she would have stood a better chance o f getting into the tw o thum bs’ good graces. “W hy K ate W inslet?” Larry King asked a stunned Jam es C am eron, the film ’s director. “S h e ’s not drop-dead gorgeous.” Perhaps after eight wives, K ing, too, prefers som ething that looks m ore like a boy. Never mind W inslet’s statuesque beauty and classic porcelain-doll features. Nevermind that her costumes, re cently auctioned off, ranged no farther than size 6 to size 8. Apparently, anything that isn’t the industry size 0 standard is substandard. Being a top actress in Hollywood means inspiring us to want to put an apron on and feed you. Are we expecting such cookie-cutter perfection from o u r movie stars that we are incapable o f detecting beauty through an extra pound? W inslet could gain another 25 pounds and still be exquisite. If anything, she was pleas antly plum p in scenes _ far from displeasing to the eye. In the packed m ovie house w here I saw the film, all eyes
seem ed peeled for the W inslet scenes. Scenes w ithout W inslet w ere spent w aiting for scenes w ith W inslet. In this contradictory state o f affairs, H ollyw ood d e serves congratulations. W e have a clear case o f H olly w ood being sm arter than the review ers. T inseltow n is usually pushing unw holesom e good looks to a view ing p u b lic that has been c o n d itio n e d to ac ce p t M ic h e lle P fe iffe r’s bony tush as the norm . H ollyw ood finally did the right thing and gave us som eone healthy to look at. But som e reviewers think we want the other Kate, w a if K ate M oss, back. The good new s is: N ot everybody is falling for it. Surprisingly, w ith the Internet as their forum, teen-agers w rote in from all over the country in defense o f the appetizing Kate. On a Kate W inslet chat page, Eric J. H enw ood-G reer wrote, “For the record, I am a going-on 17 male from Penn sylvania who thinks Kate W inslet is dam n good looking, and the K ate M oss rave o f the ‘90s irritates me. W hat do people now adays think is 'n o rm a l’?” T han k G od the co u n try is raising an aesth etically sm arter generation, with real people w ho can recognize real beauty when they see it. And may they enjoy all the m ilkshakes their little hearts desire. Julia Gorin Special to the Los Angeles Times
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Law in the raw To the E ditor Streaking. It is a practice well know n by many a college student a c ro s s th e U n ite d S ta te s . It seem s innocent enough — a stu dent o r three com es up with the idea that losing all inh ib itio n s and running au natural in a pub lic place w ould be both a rush, and a thing that you have to do “ at le a s t o n c e ” in y o u r life . W e’ve all heard the stories be fore, handed down through the
years by many an alum ni, but how m an y o f us k n o w th e c o n s e q u e n c e s? M assach u setts state law d ic tates (C hapter 272: Section 16) as part o f com m on law that “Open and gross lew dness and lascivi ous behavior” is illegal, and “a man or woman, m arried o r unmar ried, w ho is guilty o f open and g ro ss lew d n ess and la sc iv io u s behav io r, shall be p u nished by im prisonm ent in the state prison
for not m ore than three y ears or in jail for not more than tw o years or by a fine o f not more than three hundred dollars.” Furtherm ore, the charged is forced to register as a sex offender in their toton o f residence. On Friday night, the three writ ers o f this story committed a crime against the State o f M assach u setts. A thirty-second run around the W PI Q u ad alm o st g o t us thrown into city jail, and labeled
for the rest o f our lives as sex of fenders. M aybe it was a lack o f common sense and the longing for those in tan g ib le trad itio n s that seem to make college that much more meaningful. Both the reader of this article and the WPI campus community as whole should know though, that in fact it was a com promise o f the dignity and reputa tion o f ourselves and WPI. Never make this mistake. For m ore inform ation on M as
s a c h u s e tts s ta te s ta tu te s a n d U nited States law s on indecent exposure, please see: The G eneral Law s o f M assa c h u se tts h ttp ://w w w .state .m a .u s/leg is/ law s/m gl/ State Laws for N aturalists h ttp ://h o m e .a tt.n e t/~ s a r a n / list.htm Sean Dunn, Ralph Tillinghast, an d Seth Popinchalk C lass o f 1998
a rhetorician.” T h e d e m o r a liz e d c a p ta in turned re lu c ta n tly to h is F irst O fficer: “ Spock, p lease. You m ust help m e.” But the im perturbable Vulcan offered little solace. “The logi cal choice, C aptain, is to seek w ritin g help from writing tu tors — strong w r ite rs w h o have had addi tional training in tu to r in g w riting.” Un fo r tunately the E n te r p r is e , d e s p ite a ll o f its te c h n ic a l m a g ic , h ad no p la c e , and Kirk had to beam back in time to our own sm all co rn er o f the galaxy, th e W PI W riting C enter, w here a trained peer tutor helped him. “Let me read this to you, Jim.
Tell me how your writing sounds: ‘SPACE. T he Final Frontier’.” K irk m erely sm iled. His own w o rd s h ad a p le a s a n t rin g to them . T h e tu to r fin ish e d the m onologue, then began: “I re ally like that opening line, Jim — ‘SPACE.’ Great. I ’m not sure exactly w hat your thesis is, how ever.” The d ia logue c o n tin u e d fo r th e h o u rlo n g ap pointm ent as K irk and the tu to r n e g o ti ated Kirk’s thesis and d i s cussed ways to support it. K irk th an k ed the tu to r w ith a know ing grin. “You’ve done a great job, really. I have ju s t one m ore question: W hat about my gram m ar? I still
feel there’s som ething w rong.” “W ell, C ap tain , there is one sm all error. You say, ‘To boldly g o ’ and w hen you do that, y o u ’re splitting the infinitive, ‘to g o .’” “A H A !” [loud Shatner laugh] So I should say, ‘BOLDLY to g o ’ or ‘T o g o B oldly’?” “Exactly. See, you can sp lit an atom and you can split y o u rself into your passive and aggressive natures, but you really sh o uldn’t split an infinitive.” Earthdate M arch 16,1998. The W riting Center, located in S L 134, has a new electronic scheduling system that brings us to the 21st century. You can schedule an ap p o in tm e n t an d a cc ess h e lp fu l w ritin g lin k s th ro u g h h t t p :// w w w .w pi.edu/A cadem ics/D epts/ HUA/WC. W e’re open M T R F 1012; 12:30-4:30 and W 12:30-4:30. You can also ju st drop in to talk in tro d u ctio n s o r tra n sitio n s o r Janeway. We love to talk w riting and to help. And only a few o f us have pointed ears.
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Kirk to visit Writing Center by Lisa Lebduska Director, WPI Writing Center He had traveled through tim e a n d b a c k a g a in , c o n q u e re d tr o u b le s w ith tr ib b le s , v a n q u ish e d rh in e sto n e -e y e d m on sters from a dozen planets. N ev ertheless, James T. Kirk remained an unsatisfied man. He knew the source o f his anguish lay som e w here in his opening m onologue
about the E n te rp rise ’s five-year m ission, but he couldn’t quite pin point the problem . Thinking o f his w riting as “ill” (and here was his first m istake — an inappropri ate m etaphor), he sought a cure for his w orrisom e w riting in Sick Bay. “Bones, can you help? I’ve got so m e th in g w ritte n , b u t it ju s t d o e sn ’t sound rig h t.” “D am m it Jim , I’m a doctor, not
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“Iron Mask”: The Geritol Musketeers by Rita Kempley The Washington Post The Three M usketeers, a rusty trio of m iddle-aged retirees, have all but changed their m otto from “All for one and one for all” to “I have fallen and I ca n ’t get up” in this less-than-rollicking adaptation o f “The M an in the Iron M ask.” But, like the finest o f French bordeaux, the graying comrades have acquired richer, m ore com plex char acters with age. Still, they’re not the D evil-m ay-care sw ashbucklers they once were, and their nostalgia for their youthful prowess and bygone glory days colors this flat retelling o f A lexandre D um as’ tale. W hen Athos (J o h n M a lk o v ic h ), P o rth o s (G e ra rd D epardieu) and Aramis (Jerem y Irons) fi nally brandish their swords, derring is long overdue. Set in France circa 1660, this handsome ep ic ce n te rs on L ouis X IV (L eonardo DiCaprio), an imperious priss-pot who re placed the noble ruler the heroes gallantly
served as members o f the K ing’s Royal Guards. DiCaprio, straight from his rollicking p auper’s role in ‘T itanic,” doesn’t make much o f a lecherous tyrant. (For that, see Billy Zane.) DiCaprio is very m uch the cal low snot, but h e ’s still wet behind the sneers when it comes to conveying mon strous cruelty. With his lust for women and fancy threads, the teen king seem s to need a trip to Paris, all right, Parris Island. DiCaprio is far more comfortable when playing the pure-hearted, right-thinking Philippe, the king’s twin brother. Reared without knowing his true identity, Philippe has had access to less than nothing. Yet he has em erged from poverty and impris onm ent the most com passionate o f men and becomes the key to changing French history. Randall Wallace, the Oscar-nominated w riter o f “Braveheart,” makes his directo rial d ebut w ith this tam e rew orking o f D um as’ novel. The themes and values o f the piece are similar, but they’re presented
w ith o u t th e z e a lo u sn e ss M el G ib so n brought to the brawny kilt drama. T he yarn do es get o ff to a p a n ts-sp littin g start, though, thanks to Porthos, who dem on strates con clu siv ely that there w as no Beano in the 17th century. The boisterous, big-bellied old sot has spent his early retirem ent in the pursuit of wine and women. But neither has replaced the cam araderie he shared with Aramis, now a Jesuit brother, and Athos, who has devoted him self to rearing his son, Raoul (Peter Sarsgaard). Though neither seems to have missed the glory days so m uch as Porthos, Louis’ villainy gradually forces the trio back into the fray. T he a lre a d y u n fo c u se d sto ry b e com es dow nright soap-operatic w ith the addition o f the w oes o f D ’A rtagnan (in trospective Gabriel B yrne). An old friend w ho is now the head o f the Royal Guard, D ’A rtagnan rem ains boneheadedly loyal to the brat king for reasons the M uske teers can’t fathom. Hm m m . Could it have som ething to do w ith the lidded glances
he shares w ith the queen m o th er (A nne Parillaud)? C hicanery am ong the co u rtiers, the k in g ’s insistent pursuit o f R a o u l’s fia n cee (Judith G odreche), P o rth o s’s suicide attem pts: ‘T h e M an in the Iron M ask” d o e sn ’t lack for co m p licatio n s but for sw ordplay. A side from a clim actic clash betw een the heroes and the R oyal G uard, the c u tle ry p re tty m uch s ta y s on the table. W riter-director W allace seem s m ore interested in the inner M usketeer, how each carries the w eight o f the years or adjusts to loss and disappointm ent. The actors, especially B yrne and M alkovich, can sag w ith the resignation o f m iddle age when need be, but they are clearly itching to play w ith their sw ords. Fat chance! B oom ers in bloom ers and plum ed hats spend m ore tim e parrying th eir own foibles than the ty ra n t’s foils. “The M an in the Iron M a sk ” is rated PG -13 for violence, nudity and coarse lan guage.
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CCC updates Novell Network over break. by Debbie Dexter Computer Trainer Novell Network Updates: The College Com puter C enter has made som e changes over break. If you have any questions regarding the included updates/ changes, please contact the Help Desk at: helpdesk@ w pi.edu, call 831-5888 or drop by their office in Fuller Labs, room B 12.
Software Updates and New Installs (D-Term 1998) CCC has recently installed new software and updated older software. The follow ing applications are now available for in stallation or upgrade from W mlnstall: E PA N et v l .l e Ghostview v5.10 Netscape Communicator v4.04 (32-Bit) Netscape Communicator v4.04 (32-Bit) Up grade (from 4.03)
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option is available from W inlnstall. The upgrade will rem ove the previous version o f Office 97 and install the new one. W hile the install should not remove any o f your existing docum ent files, it would be wise to maintain a backup ju st in case. The old version o f Office 97 is no longer available for installation, but CCC will keep the executables of the old version on Novell until the end o f D-term. This should give users sufficient time to upgrade to the new est version of the software.
Adobe Acrobat Available The Adobe Acrobat Reader public archive on Novell has been updated to reflect the newest version (3.01) available from Adobe. Versions for the Macintosh, Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, and Windows NT were up graded. The DOS version of the program has not changed. Also, the Linux version of
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Reminder - “Touch Program” In the February 1O'11issue o f Newspeak we informed the WPI community o f a program called ‘T ouch” that runs during the login process. Since we have received many ques tions about this program, we a«e re-printing the portion that covered it below. Since a failure to obtain a Novell licensed connection will prevent access to rights to use all resources, on Monday February 9, 1998, we will implement a program in the Novell public login script that can evaluate the status o f a Novell connection and warn the user if a licensed connection is not granted. During the login process, a dos prompt will be started to run the program. If the pro gram determines that you have a licensed connection, it will close the dos box and con tinue logging in as normal. If the program detects a non-licensed connection, it will present a warning message and allow you to choose one o f the following two options: (a) Continue using this machine without a licensed connection (Please remember that programs may not function properly) (b) Log off of this machine. You can then attempt to loginto this machine again in an effort to gain a licensed Novell con nection. If you choose option (a) then the machine will continue logging in. If you choose op tion (b), your Novell connection will be closed and you will be returned to the Windows 95/ NT login prompt where you can attempt an other login. We will have added 250 Novell licenses to the WPI network by the time this script is activated, so there will be fewer license ac quisition problems, but this script will give a the warning if a license is not granted, letting you know that you may have problems in a session.
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Foothills Theatre & WPI: The story of Dr. Faust with augmented fantasies Courtesy o f WPI News Service A first-time ever collaboration between a professional theater and a technological university to utilize virtual reality technol ogy was unveiled at the Foothills Theatre in Worcester, Mass. on M arch 8 with the production o f The Story o f Dr. Faust. This will also be a world prem ier o f a new play written by Foothills Theatre executive pro ducer and artistic director Marc P. Smith w h o a d a p te d th e sto ry fro m v a rio u s sources. The play will run through March 29. W orcester Polytechnic Institute’s T he atre and Technology Program is pioneer
ing the use o f technology with virtual real ity. They first utilized this technology in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in N o vem ber 1996 when they modeled worlds within the com puter and projected them on stage. A refinem ent o f these techniques was used in a recent W PI production o f M edea/M edia w here the technical crew created an extensive texture library as well as various scenes. W PI’s technique differs from traditional virtual reality programs, which place the audience in the virtual world. W PI’s ap proach places the actors in the virtual worlds by using them as an extension o f the “virtual w orld” o f the stage set. Dean O ’ Donnell, an affiliate instructor of Drama
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and Theatre at W PI and initiator o f the WPI program, refers to W PI’s approach as “augmented fantasies.” The Faust legend and folklore began in Germany during the Middle Ages and first appeared in literature in 1587. According to this narrative Faust made a pact with the devil, called M ephistopheles, by the terms o f which the devil increased Faust’s knowledge o f magic and also gave him 24 years o f pleasure and power, after which Faust’s soul was to belong to the devil. N oted w rite rs C h ris to p h e r M a rlo w e , Johann W olfgang von G oethe, H einrich Heine, Thom as Mann and others all produced works about Faust. Charles Gounod’s Faust, one of the more popular operas in the world, follows the story line of Faust selling his soul to the devil in return for transforming the aged scholar into a young man and satisfying his longing for pleasure. Gounod’s Faust devel ops a romantic relationship between Faust and the innocent Marguerite. For the Faust production, O’Donnell with the assistance o f two WPI students, Mike Darling and Steven Hocurszak, developed three worlds. The first world will demonstrate that Faust is a great magician by showing him flying over the city o f W ittenberg. O ’Donnell will populate the city with digital people who will look up and see Faust flying. The technical crew will utilize drawings and photos of Wittenberg in the augmented fan
tasies. The second virtual world will take Faust from Wittenberg to the palace o f Charles V in Vienna. Faust will be taken down for the third world where the stage will be shown running with blood. “Foothills Theatre presents some chal lenges,” says O ’Donnell. “The theater is smaller and the computer projector will be closer to the screen measuring 12 feet wide by 18 feet tall.” The WPI students, Darling and Hocurszak, will run the virtual worlds during all the performances. Writer and director Smith noted that “o f all the mysteries of the universe, among the most intriguing are the questions surround ing the fate o f individual human beings. Is there an afterlife? If so, what part do the ideas of good and evil, reward and punishment, and restraint and tem ptation play in this penultimate conundrum?” “The Story of Dr. Faust is able to deal with these questions,” says Smith, “because it accepts the central concept o f each person’s having a soul, and therefore responsibility and ownership o f his or her deeds. Could there be anything more frightening?” Smith’s challenge as a writer was to take ideas and questions from the original Book o f Faust and from the many interpretations over the years to make a play that was comprehensible to a contemporary audience without losing its fascination, ter ror, and intriguing puzzles.
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The Roxy (Boston, MA) Harvard University Sanders Theatre (Cambridge, MA) Joan Baez/Richard Shindell — M arch 23
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Leisure reading benefits by Ben Freedman Ka Leo O Hawaii (U. Hawaii) (U-WIRE) HONOLULU, H aw aii— Ob serving my frien d s’ leisure h abits, I find that hardly any o f them read for fun. Does the sam e go for the rest o f our age group? R ead in g seem s to be a th in g o f the past. Not required reading, but opening up a book for the pure jo y o f it. W hat exactly am I getting a t? Well, com pare the num ber o f m ovies you’ve seen in the past y ear to the am ount o f leisure reading you’ve done. U nless you liv e in a m o n a s te ry y o u ’ll p ro b a b ly choose the former.
A s te c h n o lo g y ra p id ly p ro g re s s e s , m ore o f life’s practical tidbits becom e vi su ally -o rien ted . I t’s no w onder hum an beings lean tow ard optical entertainm ent o v er the w ritten word. I’m guilty o f the sam e deed. It is said that by 2000, 1 out o f every 4 people in the U.S. w ill be illiterate. That i s n ’t a lto g e th e r b elievable but it does m ake you wonder. So what can be done to encourage people to read books? W hatever it is, it has to start quick, or th at figure regarding illiteracy m ay b e com e true. I think one o f the principle issues is e n te rta in m e n t valu e. A lot o f p e o p le
now adays d o n ’t realize how fun reading can be. Books aren ’t so bad. A ctually, a good book is m uch m ore inv ig o ratin g than a m ovie. Right now m ost o f you probably think I ’m a few colors short o f a rainbow for say in g that. H ow ever, th e re are som e fa irly g o o d re a so n s w hy an e x c itin g novel can be preferred over a m otion pic ture. F or starters, when w atching a m ovie, you are seeing the d ire cto r’s interpreta tion o f the story. If you d o n ’t like the w ay a ch aracter looks o r is portrayed, tough noogies. W hile reading a book, how you visu-
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alize a character or a scene is all up to you. T h e a u th o r’s w riting is sim ply the yam fo r the re a d e r’s im aginary fabric. Inherently, reading stim ulates your brain and develops creative thinking. If I ’m not m istaken, reading is also a su p e rio r m ethod for broadening o n e ’s vocabulary. N ow adays, the ability to ex p ress y o u rs e lf w ith a la rg e r a rra y o f w ords is in d isp e n sa b le . W hat so u n d s better, “a bit con fu sed ” or “a tad p e r plexed” ? Okay, m ovies can invoke your im agi nation and widen your vocabulary. In ei ther case, not nearly as much as reading does. A novel can achieve what a m ovie plainly isn ’t capable of: go into vivid and precise detail. Take G eorge L u cas’ Star W ars. N ot only does Lucas create such a vast uni verse w ith unforgettable characters, he gives us a story line which we quickly becom e perpetually engrossed in. The Star W ars trilogy is a legend be yond com pare. As good as all three m ov ies w ere, not everything Lucas brought forth in his books could not be converted to the silver screen. H ow m a n y o f y o u k n o w th a t C hew bacca is bound by honor to Han Solo because Han freed Chew y and his race o f w ookies from slavery? Intricate details like that can ’t be ex tracted from the books into the m ovie be cause there sim ply is n ’t enough tim e. L et’s not forget that the Star Wars series com es after the books involving a young A nykin Skyw alker who becom es Darth Vader. I’m not trying to preach ab stin en ce from m ovie-w atching. I enjoy a good one as m uch as the next person. A good m ovie is like a roller coaster. It sucks you in and d o esn’t release you until the very end. Look at it this way: through a m ovie, you can e sc a p e the real w orld fo r a couple r ~ hours. W ith a novel, you can escape i* ''ood ten to twenty (D epend ing on how fast a reader you are). T he great thing is that it d o esn’t have to be classic literature to be a learning e x p e rie n c e. A good S tephen K ing or Dean K oontz book does w onders for the brain. So if you have some spare time on your hands, d o n ’t be so quick to flip on the TV. O pen up a book. You know how the saying goes — you never know until you try.
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Review of The Wedding Singer by Sarah Walkowiak Associate Editor T he W edding Singer is a m odem ro m antic com edy starring A dam Sandler as R obbie H art, a w edding singer who gets his ow n heart broken w hen he gets left at th e altar. A diversion from his typical roles, S andler proves that he can pull o ff a role as a sensitive, rom antic lead. T he hum or in the film doesn ’t require intense philo so p h ical thought, but is a step up from S a n d le r’s usual style. U nlike m ost rom antic film s which are aim ed at couples, “The W edding Singer” , has so m e th in g to o ffe r fo r e v ery o n e. R o b b ie ’s descen t into b itterness is a b solutely hilarious, and w ill lighten the em otional load o f anyone suffering from loneliness. The film is also great at being sy ru p y w hen it n eed s to, but d o e s n ’t
overdo it. The film , set in 1985 is an en te rta in in g fla sh b a c k in to the 8 0 ’s. If you’re not old enough to rem em ber the 80’s, you may not understand a lot o f the jo k es, but if you are, then you’ll get a lot m ore out o f the film . T he creators o f the film did a great jo b o f authentically recreating the 80’s. O ne o f the c lu b scenes le ft me w ondering “W here did they find som eone who still know s how to breakdance?” T he soundtrack to the film is also au thentic, except for the cover o f “Video K illed the R adio S tar” . The soundtrack in clu d es a lot o f g re at 8 0 ’s tunes and S an dler’s ow n “Som ebody Kill M e” , one o f his tw o songs in the film. The Wedding Singer is a light and fun trip back into the 1980’s. Definitely a great tim e, especially if y o u ’re sick to death o f that overdone disaster m ovie...
CD Review: Natalie Imbruglia’s Left Of The Middle A New Voice In An Ocean Of Female Artists: by Natalie Chin Newspeak Staff Natalie Imbruglia (pronounced Im-broolee-ah) was introduced to the entertainment industry when she left home for Sydney, Australia and before she became a star on an A u s tra lia n so a p o p e ra c a lle d Neighbours, she completed several com m ercials. W hen she left the show she m oved to London in 1996. After experi en cin g w hat L ondon had to offer, she found herself wanting to leave and to pur sue something else. That something else turned out to be her singing and song w rit ing career. She finally moved to Los Angeles to start her ascension into the music indus try. There she signed a deal with RCA and started to write songs w ith w ell-know n songw riters and producers. Nigel Godrich produced her debut song ‘T o m ”. H e is also credited with producing R adiohead’s OK Computer album. Im bruglia’s “country-tinged songs about twenty-som ething w om anhood” has made
it to the airw aves and people like her. Im bruglia sang her debut single, ‘T o m ” on the March 7* airing o f Saturday Night Live. Her music video for ‘T o m ” (directed by Alison McClean) has been playing on MTV for the past 2 weeks or so. Even though the song ‘T o m ” was never written by her, the other tracks on her album that were, are just as good. “Big Mistake” is her other single that is defining what kind o f artist she is. Im bruglia’s sound has been com pared to v eteran s sin g er/so n g w riters such as Alanis M orissette and Shawn Colvin with an Euro-popish tw ist to it like Robyn. The lyrics have the “penned up hurt” kind o f feel to them, but she didn’t want to give o ff that kind o f feeling. Surprisingly to some it gave o ff a feeling o f wantonness o f rom ance and love. Instead when she wrote the lyrics she wrote about her men tal state o f her early adulthood life. This fresh new voice has been added to the ocean o f artists and she sounds very prom ising. H opefully we will hear m ore o f N atalie’s songs on the airwaves soon.
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CD Review: Blitter's “Oh No Not The Comfy Chair” by Jon Barlow Class o f ‘99 They say that plants like music. I would have to agree. My plants love B eethoven’s 9th and R E M ’s “Night Sw im m ing.” My plants did not care much for Blitter. Blitter’s first solo album, Oh No Not The Com fy C hair, sprang forth from boxes, boxes with knobs and dials, switches and slides, and one Super Cow. There w asn’t a real instrument in sight, but hey, if the Japa nese can do it, why not B litter? Voice snippits m ix with N intendoesque noises like presidents and interns - all is fine as long as you don’t pay attention. That may be the problem, Comfv Chair doesn’t allow you to not pay attention. When all the boxes play in synch with each other, Blitter makes some music that the com mon ear might almost enjoy. Unfortunately for the common ear, this does not last long. The music itself kept me on my toes and shak ing my head. Most people make music you can hear w ithout really listening to, but Comfv Chair screams, “Listen to me!” and you can’t help but do so.
The premise behind the album is, in the words o f the artist, “Faulty Electronics.” Imagine that you have ju st bought a little C asio keyboard and a dnim machine. You record a drum beat and a little song on the respective m achines and then set them off. For about 8 measures it sounds kinda cool - in a Casio keyboard kind o f way. Then, after the 10th measure it falls apart, the C asio and the drum m achine go out of synch and your little tune is ruined. If your com puter was spitting out every noise it had on top o f that, and if you w ere drink ing tea at the time, you would have a feel o f what Comfv Chair is all about. I played Blitter in my building last week. He got mixed responses, but all w ere in the sam e direction. One person w alked by my room and thought that I had a vacuum cleaner running. Another speculated that I was playing the data track o ff o f a CD ROM. Some people would walk in, start bopping their heads to the beat, and then get all flustered when the head-bopping beat melted and was replaced by asynchro nous drum beats, beeps, and buzzes. In the words o f Andy, “Very bizarre.”
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Cl u b Co r n e r Christian Bible Fellowship Greetings and welcome back from our spring break. I hope all o f you are ready for this term, the last term this year before our summer break starts and we all go in different ways. I hope that you will come by and visit us this Friday at FNF in the lower wedge at 7 :00, or come to Tuesday Night Prayer down in Founders study at 9:30. Even if you haven’t come all year, come now! Also, don’t forget about the Navigator’s Spring Retreat com ing up later this term. For information on that, contact cbf@wpi.edu. “My dear brothers, take note of this: Ev eryone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” James 1:19-20 (NIV) A lot o f times we find ourselves not doing this because it is too easy to not listen to someone and argue. When we do this, we are not living the righteous life that God wants us to live. So instead o f arguing and
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Newman Club JazzGroup This Wednesday, March 18th, the WPI JazzGroup will be hosting the IAJE Jazz Festival. This is a competition for the high school ja z z groups o f M assachusetts. It will include both Jazz choir and combo com petitions. It is a very important event for the high school jazz musicians, and we are honored to host them as always. W e also just got back from our tour in Spain. We w ent to M adrid, T oledo, S egovia, and Avila, and our performances went extremely well. It was a great experience both cultur ally and musically for everyone. T his term we will have many performances that we will keep you informed about, and w e hope
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Well we had a great Appalachia in Worces ter Project. Twenty - two students plus Prof. Brian Stiltner restored two major buildings at Youville House. We spent the last Tuesday of our Spring Break at the project site. Actu ally some o f us worked Monday evening getting all the m aterials ready and then cleaned up everything on Wednesday. Jen tried to sell off Chris, our president, but all she would get was an offer o f five dollars. She figured he is worth a little more than that. Greg M. put more paint on his shoes than he did on any wall with the net result that he began the day with black Nikes and ended the day with a white pair. He tried to take up a collection for a new pair of Nikes but failed. We ended up the day by going to supper at Arturo’s Ristorante where Jeff’s sub com mittee of the club decided to hold their first meeting of the term. Nothing like doing it with class, Jeff reported. Our Lenten Masses have started and they are Monday thru Thursday at 10:00 PM and Fridays at 12:00 (noon) in the Religious Cen to*. We voted Greg. Macleod as our new presi dent, Maureen Upton, Tom Vogtman, and Kristiferanne Dreyer as our new vice - presi dent, Jason Roas as Treasurer and Charlie Homic as Secretary. They installed as offic ers on April 17th. Our Executive Board will meet next Monday night, March 23 at 9:00 PM in the Religious Center.
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Well... This really is the wire. Matt G and I went to visit our friend Cheryl at Deerfield last week. She showed us a magazine that looked all right. It could have used some better pieces and a cool looking cover, but it would pass. And then we saw Pathways. It was a very impressive looking magazine with a nifty cover and a really cool design scheme. We thought to ourselves, “This must have been done by professionals,” and then we remembered that we had done it - with your help. So as we speak the presses on Grove Street are busy churning out 500 copies of the best creative arts magazine this campus has ever seen. Pathways will be hitting the stands and the wedge in about two weeks,
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A toolfo r human disease gene discovery by Kim Mix Bioclub President The Bioclub is sponsoring an inform a tiv e p re s e n ta tio n on th e fie ld o f bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is a devel oping technology that em ploys com put ers to approach biological problems. This technology is used to analyze DNA se quence inform ation and identify human disease genes. Dr. M ark Osborne from Genom e T hera peutics Corporation will be presenting at 7pm tonight in Washburn Shops, room 229. The title of his talk is “Bioinform atics: a tool for human disease gene discovery.”
Greek news by Ryan F ournier Class o f ‘00 Each year at the annual conference, the N o rth e a s t I n te rfra te n ity C o n fe re n c e (NEIFC) recognizes outstanding councils in the region with the p resen tatio n o f aw ards. Through this presentation, the NEIFC seeks to encourage Interfratenity C ouncils to aspire to high standards o f excellence in a wide range o f activities. All NEIFC members are encourages to apply for awards in one or more Program Catego ries and for the Lunsford Award. The pro cess o f preparing for an awards application in and o f itself will assist the council in evalu ating its programs and services to member chapters. The submission o f an application and supporting docum entation gives the council an opportunity to have its various programs evaluated by outside experts who will provide the representatives of the coun cil written and vert>al feedback and sugges tions at the annual conference. The Lunsford Award: The Lunsford Award is named for Larry Lunsford, the first NEIFC Executive Di rector. The Lunsford Award may be pre sented to one council in each division dem onstrating excellence in overall operations in each o f the eight programming categories. A council wishing to be ju d g ed for the Lunsford Award must submit information and documentation in all eight o f the program ming categories. Individual Programming Excellence Awards: These awards may be
H e w ill be g iv in g an o v e rv ie w o f bioinform atics and providing insight on how to prepare for a career in this field. The entire W PI com m unity is invited to attend tonight’s presentation. Osborne graduated from W PI in 1988 with a B.S. in biotechnology. He contin ued his studies at Princeton University, where he received both his M.S. and his P h.D . d e g re e s in M o le c u la r B iology. O sborne w orked as a post-doctoral re search associate at Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. He is currently a Senior Scientist at G enom e T h e ra p e u tics C o rp o ra tio n in W altham , w here he investigates human bone disease using bioinformatics.
presented to councils (in each division) whose applications in a particular program ming category indicate outstanding achieve ment. A council may apply for as many Indi vidual Programming Excellence Awards as the council desires by submitting informa tion in one or more of the eight programming categories. Awards will be presented to all councils that qualify in each programming category. Programming Categories: 1. Academic Achievement 2. Leadership & Educational Development 3. Risk Reduction & Management 4. Judicial Policy/Self Governance 5. Membership Recruitment/Retention 6. Public Relations 7. Community Service 8. Council Management Divisions: Awards are presented to coun cils in the following divisions Division 1Councils with 2-12 member chap ters Division 2 Councils with 13-23 member chapters Division 3 Councils with 24 or more mem ber chapters At this year’s conference, WPI had an ex cellent showing in Division 1. WPI won the Community Service, Leadership & Educa tional Development, Academic Achievement, Self Governance & Judicial Affairs, Risk Re duction & Management Awards; and in ad dition the Lundsford Award of Excellence. Great jo b IFC! Keep up the good work!
The Ad Club of Boston Presents the 1998 Communications Career Conference College Juniors and Seniors Invited to Leam About Careers in Marketing Commu nications. The Advertising Club o f Greater Boston will host its first-ever Communications Ca reer Conference for college students inter ested in pursuing a career in the marketing communications industry. The event will be on Thursday, March 19,1998, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street, Boston. Admission is $40 per person, with a group rate of $350 from 10. The conference will feature more than 30 speakers from many o f Boston’s top market ing communications companies. Students
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will hear about the successful Volkswagen advertising campaign from one of its creators, Jon C astle o f A rnold C om m unications. Breakout sessions will include discussions on life in marketing communications agen cies, account service, creative, interactive, media production and event marketing. Rep resentatives from Arnold Communications and Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc. will close the day with tips on how to get a job. Students will also be able to have their resumes critiqued and have a chance to meet on-on-one with representatives from a vari ety of marketing communications disciplines. Space is limited. Call (617)262-1 lOOforreservations and additional information.
by Kathryn D. Negri Worcester State College T h e v a s t m a jo r ity o f s tu d e n ts at W orcester State C ollege are w om en. The large num ber o f fem ale stu d en ts is one reason why the Student E vents C om m it tee and Third W orld A lliance have joined forces to help W orcester State celebrate M arch, W om en’s H istory M onth. The two student organizations have put to gether a series o f events aim ed at illus trating the history o f the w o m en ’s m ove m ent and the diversity o f the fem ale gen der. The program s also seek to explore cu rren t issues facing w om en now and into the future. T h e festivities began M arch 4, 1998. The first event, W om en’s W isdom and Quilt Making, will run from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm in the Student C en te r Exhibit Area. D uring this time all those inter ested are invited to decorate a piece of cloth that w ill becom e a sq u are in the W om en’s H istory M onth Q uilt. All sup plies will be provided free o f charge. Quilt pieces can reflect feelings a n d /o r experi ences about w om anhood o r they can be dedicated to a woman who has had a pro found im pact on the life o f the designer. W SCW will be playing m usic by female artists throughout this tim e. O n Tuesday, M arch 17, 1998 Exposure M u sical R ev ie w s w ill b e sto p p in g at W orcester State to perform th e ir “M usi cal Ladies” show in the Exhibit Area. The tw o 45-m inute sets will fe a tu re m usic form several genres and histo rical peri ods, along w ith descriptions o f the con tributions these m usicians m ade to the w om en’s m ovem ent. The first show is at 11:30 am and the second will begin at 1:30 pm . A dm ission is free and so are the refreshm ents that will be provided. T he follow ing day, the “C olored Ladies S ociety” w ill perform a play in the Ad
m inistration Theater, on the second floor o f the A dm inistration building, b egin ning at 10:30 am. Adm ission to this event is also free and the program should run approxim ately one hour. Bev Sm ith, o f B E T fam e, will be the host and m odera to r o f a tw o p a rt panel d isc u ssio n on W ednesday, M arch 25 in th e S tu d en t C enter B lue Lounge. Part One will begin at 11:30 am and w ill focus on issues sur rounding dating, body im age and eating d isorders. The panel will include stu dents involved in athletics, residence life, and student activities. Part Two will b e gin at 1:30 pm and includes historical aspects o f the w om en’s m ovem ent as well as a look at its influence on the various roles held by professional wom en today. Panel m em bers include W orcester State adm inistrators, faculty and alumni as well as professional wom en from the W orces ter com m unity. E veryone is invited to attend eith er or both parts o f the discus sion, to ask questions and to share in sights. The final event in the W om en’s H is tory M onth series will be on M onday, M arch 30. The film “Soul F ood” will be show n free o f charge in the N orth/South A uditorium o f the Student C enter at 2:00 pm and 6:30 pm. A free “soul food buf fet” will be held during the second show ing beginning at 6:00 pm. Food is limited and will be available on a first com e, first served basis. A great deal o f work has gone into the planning o f this m onth o f events. It is the hope o f the W om en’s H isto ry M onth C o m m itte e that m any people, both men and w om en, will par ticipate in these entertaining and educa tional events. M ore inform ation about any o f these events can be obtained by calling M elinda W icks-D oherty or Kate N egri in the Student A ctivities O ffice at W orcester State C ollege at 929-8073 or by em ailing knegri@ w orc.m ass.edu.
The IGSD extends deadline to submit applications for the Australia project program T he Interdisciplinary and G lobal Stud ies D ivision (IG SD ) is still accepting ap p lica tio n s from stu d en ts in te re ste d in doing IQ Ps in M elbourne, A u stralia dur ing D Term, 1999. W hile p ro ject specif ics will not be finalized until June, we expect to be able to support 12 o r 15 stu d e n ts. A pplications can be pick ed up at the IG S D ’s office in the Project C enter, and are due by M arch. Interview s and stu
dent selection w ill be com pleted during the early part o f D Term. Q uestions on the M elbourne projects can be directed to Prof. M atthew Ward (CS, m att@ cs, FL134) or Prof. Jonathan B arnett (FPE, jb arn ett@ w p i, HL 105). In te re s te d stu d e n ts are a lso stro n g ly en c o u rag e d to exam in e the w eb page d eveloped by the IQ P team currently in M e lb o u rn e at h ttp ://w w w .w p i.e d u / -jk o n z/au stralia/.
WPI Gordon Library Exhibit for March Taking Shape, Part Two: Paintings by Carrie Crane Inspired by the ceramics o f Anne Elliot Dates: M arch 9 - April 12,1998 Reception: March 20,5:30 - 7:30 pm. In taking shape Part One, (O ctober 1996) Anne E lliot created pottery inspired by Carrie C rane’s egg tempera paintings. Taking Shape Part Two is Carrie Crane’s turn to create paintings inspired by A nne’s ceramics. Hours: m-f: 8 a m - 1 lpm ; Sat: 9am -9pm ; Sun: noon-1 lpm. Phone:(508)831-5410
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Community Service Events for D term The Student Activities Office is being flooded with requests for volunteers for M arch and April. Get involved by signing up for events in the Student Activities Office or by calling x5291. Events include: Lego Project - WPI students will coach a team of middle school and assist them in building a ride or attraction out o f Legos for our Theme Park. We also need people to judge the projects. March 24 Daffodil Days - This is the American Cancer Society’s fundraising event. Volun teers with cars are needed between 8 and 9 a m . Volunteers will pick up daffodils at the American Cancer Society and deliver them to one or two locations in Worcester. March 25 Bumcoat M iddle School - Team captains are needed between 2:15 and 4:30. Judges are needed at 3:45 for about 45 minutes. April 2 Satellite School - Team Captains are needed between 2:30 and 4:45. Judges are need at 4:00 for 45 minutes. April 4 W orcester College Clean Up - Each year students and faculty from the Consor tium schools gather to kick off Worcester’s Operation Clean City. The day will begin with the participants meeting at Perreault Hall at 9:00am. We will then transport participants throughout Worcester to clean up our city. The clean up ends at 1:00pm with a BBQ. All participants will receive a t-shirt. Please sign up in advance. April 8 Forest Grove M iddle School - Team Captains are needed between 2:30 and 4:45. Judges are needed at 4:00 for 45 minutes. April 18 MS Walk - Walkers and volunteers are needed to make this event a success. Contact Student Activities for more information. April 25 Pleasant Street Clean U p - Members o f the community and W PI will be cleaning up Pleasant Street. For more information contact SAO. April 26 March o f Dimes Walk America
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Gordon Library conference for research Topic: Researching Projects And Sufficiencies: Hands-on Sessions Using Library Re search Tools When: March 16th- 19th, 1998 11 A.M. - 12 Noon Where: Sessions are held in the ‘T raining Room” (G L 114) located inside the PC Room on the first floor o f Gordon Library. How: Please sign up in advance at the Reference Desk. Space is limited. These sessions focus on research tools available through the library’s web pages (http:/ /library.w pi.edu/): the library catalog; databases and indexes such as U nC over and FirstSearch; and access to other libraries. Printed sources are discussed as well. Students receive a detailed handout sum m arizing electronic resources covered in the session and im portant printed sources, such as m ajor indexing and abstracting tools. Students currently engaged in project or sufficiency work, or those who will be soon, should attend. Questions? Please com e to the Reference Desk on the main floor o f the library, or send mail to library-questions@ wpi.
WPI AthleticHall of Fame Nom inations for the W PI Athletic Hall of Fam e will be accepted until M arch 23rd. Any member o f the W PI Com m unity may n o m in a te su ita b le c a n d id a te s . W PI coaches, staff and alumni are eligible. WPI
athletes become eligible for adm ission to the Hall o f Fame five years after gradua tion. Nomination forms are available in the Physical Education and Athletics Office in Alumni Gymnasium.
Auditions for Seniors Baccalaureate and Com m encem ent Speakers and M usical Performers Wanted!!! W h a t: The Class Board o f Directors invites all seniors to audition to speak or perform at Baccalaureate or speak at Commencement. W hen: Musical Performers: March 18 Speakers: March 19 W here: Alden- Spaulding Recital Hall Time: 5:00pm Prepare an inspirational speech to prepare your fellow classmates for commencement If there are any conflicts, questions, o r concerns, e-mail: janine@ wpi.edu
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In your Dreams!! by Sumedha Ahuja Newspeak Staff Hello Star Search fans!! How are you all doing today? I hope you all had a wonderful, and fun break! I know I sure did, though it was a bit short... Any ways, let’s continue with today’s column, shall we? This week, I de cided to bring forth a new topic for your en tertainment! Have you ever wondered what your dreams mean? I know I have! Well, this is what the topic of this column is today; dream analyzation. A few of my readers en couraged me to write about this particular topic, and like I said, I need your insight! So here I present just for those people and for all o f you, the questions they had regarding their dreams, and the answers that yours truly provided for them! Enjoy! Hi! What does it mean to be buried alive in on e’s dream? I have had this dream quite often, and I would like to know what it means! Signed, Just curious Dear Just curious, Being buried alive in one’s dream is actu ally quite a common dream. This normally indicated that you are feeling suffocated somewhere in your life, perhaps in a relation ship, family, or a career. Besides suffocation, it can also be an image o f restriction. Per haps, there is something you desperately wish to do, but there is someone or some thing stopping you. You are desperately struggling to gain your freedom from one thing or another. If you resolve this matter, and you get this “freedom” that you want,
this particular dream will most probably stop. Dear Sumedha, OK, now I always have this particular dream and I would love to know what it means. Its like this. In my dream, / always go somewhere, and then I realize that / forgot to feed my pets (birds, dogs, basically every thing!). Then it hits me that I haven’t fed them fo r days! I then travel back to my house to check on them, but when / get there, they are fine. What is the meaning o f this?? Signed, Just me Dear Just me, Sigmund Freud once said that every dream is either a fear or a wish! According to him, your dream would mean one o f the follow ing: 1. You are starving when you sleep. 2 You really want a pet. 3. You are in love w ith your mother. And that is why I do not follow Sigmund Freud! Anyways, this dream actually means, that you really feel like you want to take care o f something or someone. There is a “paren tal” feeling rising within you. Perhaps, there is someone or something which used to need your care, but no longer doesn’t? It is pos sible you are even feeling disappointment that you are no longer needed in this case. Once you learn that you must let go, and go on, this dream should term in ate soon enough. I hope you all enjoyed this week’s colum n! Unfortunately that is all we have room for this week! Until next week, sweet dreams! Q u e stio n s? C o m m e n ts? E -m a il sahuja@wpi.edu
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P o l ic e L o g Friday, March 6 1:19am - Assist: W PD requests presence at Wachusett St. re: assault. 1:00pm - Assist: family member must reach judge at science fair.
Saturday, March 7 4:26pm - Access: Alumni, 2 students w/ key to fitness center.S
Sunday, March 8 12:19am - N oise complaint: Boynton & Salisbury Sts., function at Armenian Church Hall; referred to W PD. 1:01am - Disturbance: Report o f large group on Schussler Rd., possible fight. 1:15am - O fficers & W PD clear Schussler Rd., group dispersed. 2:31am - Suspicious persons: West St. lot. 1:36pm - Alarm: Higgins House, Intrusion. 1:38pm - Arrival: Officer, broken window, children inside. 1:49pm - Notified: Lt. regarding Higgins House, Officer returned to take pictures. 2:08pm - Contacted: Parent o f one o f the children, coming to station to get child. 2:16pm - Contacted: Boyfriend o f parent o f two o f children, mother will come to pick up kids. 2:5 lpm - Lockout: Atwater Kent, Professor, call deferred to next shift. 3:05pm - Access: Atwater Kent, Professor.
1 1 Exhibit - W inslow Homer: By Land and By Sea, W orcester Art Museum (thru March 22) 6:30-9:00pm - WPI VentureForutp, Kumicyt^Hall, Registration 6pm 7:00pm - “Bioinformatics: A tpol for hum an dufease gene discovery” Mark Osborne, Ph. D Washburn 229 " ^ '* / 8:00pm - 10:00pm - W PI Jazz Ensemble, Sahara Restaurant 8:00 pm - Concert, “Stuttgart, Hochschule for Music”, St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, Holy Cross
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Monday, March 9 1:48pm 2:50pm 5:28pm 6:30pm
- Animal control: Dog loose by Library lot, animal control called. - Animal control: no show. - Notify Sewer Dept.: West and Highland spillway clogged. - Attem pted B&E: Elbridge, nothing taken - referred to WPD.
2 0 l 2 OO - “Jazz at Noon” , 5 :3 0 p m -11:00pm -Free Bowling, Alumni C
Tuesday, March 10 1:43am - Notification: W PD notified re: missing juvenile possibly spotted crossing Park Ave. at Elm Park. 1:44am - Noise complaint: Regent St., loud music. 3:27am - Suspicious person: Officers report out with suspicious person at Dean St., checks OK 3:41am - Building checks: Boynton, basement flooding under control. 12:47pm - Accident: by Sole Prop., 3 cars involved, W PD notified. 8:03pm - Listing: Suspicious activity on the Quad.
Wednesday, March 11 12:08am - Building checks: Higgins Labs, odor o f smoke in fire safety lab checked & OK 10:43pm - H ang up: D aniel’s em ergency phone.
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Thursday, March 12 8:00am - MV damage: Quad, barrier fallen on car. 11:32am - Notice: Project C enter Emergency Phone - wind noise. 11:35am - Arrival: Project Center, nothing found. 11:36am - Notice: Project Center Emergency Phone - wind noise. Will notify Frank. 1:15am - Notice: Frank replaced Project Center Emergency Phone, additional calls received at 1207,1236,1244,1253. 6:07pm - Suspicious odor: M organ 4lh. 9:22pm - Suspicious person: Non-student in Gordon Library requesting books.
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