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David Harvey earns Community Hero Award Courtesy o f WPI Media Relations

WPI sophomore David Harvey of Worcester, Mass., has been named Community Hero for his work as a Big Brother volunteer by the United Way of Central Massa chusetts and BankBoston. Harvey, a civil engineering ma jor, has spent two-and-a-half to three hours a week with his Little Brother, Joe Biladeau, 12, of Worcester. Harvey’s commitment has amounted to approximately 160 hours of time all told. "We’ve gone fishing, and he’s come to WPI to see basketball and football games,” Harvey said of his Little Brother. “He likes to play soc cer with the guys here.” Since Joe has developed an in terest in college life, Harvey feels

that also has been a good influence. Asked why he got involved in this com m unity-service program , Harvey recalled going to a Big Brother presentation about four years ago. Something just clicked for him. “I thought it would be a good way to give back a little bit because I have been very fortunate,” he said. “I’ve learned a lot from Joe - I’m sure as much or more than he’s learned from me.” The son of Carol and Steve Harvey of Worcester, he has been involved with Big Brother since junior year in high school. Last year he was fea tured in the United Way ad campaign, “The Power of You.” At WPI, he has been a member of Phi Kappa Theta fraternity and Crimson Key, the tour guide association, and has served as co-captain of freshman crew.

COURTESYOFWPI MEDIARELATIONS David Harvey and his Little Brother, Joe Biladeau, posed in the fire lab in Higgins Laboritories. Harvey worked approximately 160 hours with this boy doing things like playing soccer, and basketball.

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Internet Radio: WWPI now on the Web by Jony Laplante General Manager

I’ve heard it for years now. “I can’t listen to WWPI because I don’t live on campus”, “I don’t

spend any lime in academ ic lounges where the TV’s on”, or “I don't have access to the campus cable system.” While our goal of broadcasting in the traditional sense is still in the process of be

ing realized, WWPI can now be heard anywhere in the world via the web! You can still listen to us on your TV or stereo in your dorm room or in the academic lounges (anywhere on the WPI cable sys-

WPI names new Assistant Director of Student Activities University of South Carolina Of fice of Disability Services. She received her undergradu ate degree in business from Babson College and a Masters of Education in Student Personnel Services from the university of South Carolina. She served as a graduate assistant in the Office of Alcohol and Drug Education and worked in the Office of Student Discipline and Office of the Vice President of Student Affairs while attending the University of South Carolina.

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Tracey Pakstis-Claiborne of Worcester, Mass. Is the new as sistant director of student activi ties for WPI. Tracey began work on Jan. 4 and will be working with the Greek letter organizations and community service programs as well as coordinating the Parent’s Day program. “We’re pleased to have Tracey here to assist stu dent organizations,” said Gregory Snoddy, director of student ac tivities. Tracey replaces Andrea Dorow who left WPI in August. Tracey comes to WPI from the Colleges of Worcester Consor tium where she was the program coordinator for College Connec tions. She previously worked as

tem). But now, you can listen on the web as well, since most of us spend more time wasting away in front of our computer screens anyway. To listen to WWPI on the web, sta rt at our hom epage (w w w .w pi.edu/~radio). Once you’re there, click on “Listening to Us”. There, you’ll be able to link to the Microsoft webpage and download their Media Player. Make sure to download the ver sion appropriate to the browser y o u ’re using (N etscape or Internet Explorer). If you’re us ing the most recent version of W indows, th e re ’s no need to download the player, since it is al ready included. Once you have the player downloaded, simply click on the “Listen to Us” but ton. The show currently in pro cess will be displayed as well. To view our current programming schedule, just click on “schedule”

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A financial aid application packet forthe 1999-2000academic year will be placed in your WPI mailbox during the monthof Janu ary. These application materials need to be completed In order to apply (orfinancial akJforthe 19992000academic year

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Library Training Online! Now you can sign up for the instruction sessions you want to attend online! Forget all that time you used to spend lum bering over to the library. It’s as easy as...

Tracey Pakstis-Claiborne a supervisor, Integrated Worksite Program, and as an intern at the

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Pan American Collegiate Championship Courtesy o f WPI Media Relations

The Dallas Morning News re ports that the WPI chess team tied for third place in the Pan American Collegiate Chess Championship at the University of Texas just before New Year’s Day. The four-day com petition attracted teams of chess players from colleges and univer sities throughout the U.S., Canada, Central and South America and the Caribbean. The event is effectively “the College National Champion ship.” There were 21 teams entered. WPI’s team included Ben DeanKawamura, Peter Minear, Max Pistilli and Don Asher playing boards 1,2,3,4 respectively. DeanKawamura is a freshman computer science major from Rochester, N.Y. Minear is a senior mathemati cal sciences m ajor from W yomissing, Pa. P istilli is a sophomore biotechnology major from Philadelphia, Pa. and Asher

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is a freshman computer scicnce major from Fredericksburg, Va. Harvard University, the Univer sity of Chicago and Stanford Uni versity tied for third place with WPI. The University of Maryland Balti more County a-team was a repeat first place winner while the Univer sity of Pennsylvania took second place. WPI finished with a 4-2 record (the same as Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago) and because of tiebreak rules came in an overall 6th, according to Minear. “But,” he reports, “our team took the prize for being the top team with an average rating under 1800.” Minear also won a prize for the top individual score on board 2 at 5-1. The Pan Am Collegiate Chess Championship was sponsored by the University of Texas, the Dallas Chess Club and the U.S. Chess Fed eration. Their web site is at www.neosoft.com/~george/chess/ PanAm.

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David Harvey earns Community Hero Award Courtesy o f WPI Medio Relations

WPI sophomore David Harvey of Worcester, Mass., has been named Community Hero lor his work as a Big Brother volunteer by Ihe United Way of Central Massa chusetts and BankBoston. Harvey, a civil engineering ma jor. has spent two-and-a hall to three hours a week with his Little Brother. Joe Biladeau, 12, of Worcester. Harvey’s commitment has amounted to approximately 160 hours of time all told. “We've gone fishing, and lie's come to WPI to see haskethall and football games." Harvey said of his Little Brother. "He likes to pluy soc cer with (he guys here." Since Joe has developed an in terest in college life, Haney feels

that also has been a good influence. Asked why he got involved in this eom m unity-serv ice program , Harvey recalled going to a Big Brother presentation about four years ago. Something just clicked for him. "1 thought il would be a good way to give back a liiile bit because I have been very fortunate.” he said. “I've learned a lol from Joe - I’m sure as much or more than he's learned from me.” The son ol'Carol and Steve Harvey of Worcester, he has been involved with Big Brother since junior year in high school, l ast year he was lea lured in the United Way ad campaign, ‘The Power of You." At WPI. he has been a member of Phi Kappa Thcta fraternity and Crimson Key, the tour guide association, anti has served as co-captain of freshman crew .

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I've heard it for years now1. "I can't listen to WWPI because I don't live on campus", “I don’t

spend any tim e in academ ic lounges where the TV's on", or "I don't have access to the campus cable system.” While our goal of broadcasting in the traditional sense is still in the process of be

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David Harvey and his Little Brother, Joe Biladeau, posed in the fire lab in Higgins Lahoritories. Harvey worked approximately 160 hours with this hoy doing things like playing soccer, and basketball.

ing realized, WWPI can now be heard anywhere in the world via the web! You can still listen lo us on your TV or siereo in your dorm room or in the academic lounges (anywhere on the WPI cable sys-

Courtesy o f WPI Media Relations

Tracey Pakstis-Claiborne of Worcester, Mass. Is the new as sistant director of student activi ties for WPI. Tracey began work on Jan. 4 and will be working with the Greek letter organizations and community service programs as well as coordinating the Parent’s Day program. “We’re pleased to have Tracey here to assist stu dent organizations,” said Gregory Snoddy. director of student ac tivities. Tracey replaces Andrea Dorow who left WPI in August. Tracey comes to WPI from the Colleges of Worcester Consor tium where she was ihe program coordinator for College Connec tions. She previously worked as

lemj. But now, you can listen on ihc web as well, since most of us spend more lime wasting away in front of our computer screens anyway. To listen to WWI'I on the web, start at our hom epage ( u w w. wpi ,edu/~radio). Once you're there, click on "I istening to Us" There, you'll he able lo link to the Microsoft webpage and download their Media Player. Make sure to download ihc ver sion appropriate to the browser y o u 're using (N etscape or Internet Explorer). If you’re us ing the most recent version of W indows, th ere’s no need to download the player, since it is al ready included. Once you have the player downloaded, simply click on the “Listen to Us" bill ion. The show currently in pro cess will be displayed as well. To view our current programming schedule, just click on “schedule” See WWPI. continued to page 3

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The Dallas Morning News re ports lhal the WPI chess team tied for third place in ihc Pan American Collegiate Chess Championship at the University of Texas just before New Year's Day. The four-day com petition attracted teams of chess players from colleges and univer sities throughout the U.S., Canada, Central and South America anil the Caribbean. The event is effectively “the College National Champion ship.” There were 21 teams entered. WPI's team included Ben Dean Kawamura, Peter Minear. Max Pi st i 11i and Don Asher playing boards 1.2.3,4 respectively. DcanKawamura is a freshman computer science major from Rochester. N Y Mincar is a senior mathemati cal sciences m ajor from W vom issing, Pa. Pisiilli is a sophomore biotechnology major from Philadelphia. Pa. and Asher

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Pan American Collegiate Championship is a freshman computer science major from Fredericksburg. Va. Harvard University, the Univer sity of Chicago and Stanford Uni versity tied for third place with WPI. The University ol Maryland Balti more County a-ieam was a repeat lirsl place winner while the Univer sity of Pennsylvania took second place. WPI finished with a 4-2 record (ihe same as Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago) and because of ticbreak rules came in an overall 6th, according to Minear. “But,” he reports, “our team took the prize for being Ihe top leaiii with an average rating under 1800." Minear also won a prize for the Ion individual score on hoard 2 al 5-1. The Pan Am Collegiate Chess Championship was sponsored by the University of Texas, ihc !) i!las Chess Club and the U.S. Chess bed eration. Their web site is al www.neosoll.com/--gcorge/chcss/ PanAm.

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Pentagon Says Y2K Glitches In Defense Computer Will Be Minor by Robert Burns Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon o f ficials say all computer systems criti cal to U.S. national defense, including those linked to nuclear weapons, will be safe from program bugs before 1999 changes to 2000. “We will be 100 percent ready by the end of the year,” Deputy Defense Sec retary John Hamre said Thursday. As of Dec. 31,1998 the Pentagon had cer tified that 81 percent of “mission criti cal” computer systems were ready for the arrival of 2000, he said. President Clinton had asked all gov ernment agencies to reach the 100 per cent ready mark by March 1999. The Defense Department will be at the 93 percent mark by then, Hamre said. The Defense Department “went into hyperdrive” with its Year 2000, or Y2K,

work after realizing last August that it was moving too slowly in preparing the approximately 2,300 crucial computer systems, Hamre said. In all, the Penta gon has about 10,000 computer sys tems. Hamre said minor glitches are likely to crop up on Jan. 1, 2000. “I think it’s going to clearly be in a category of nuisance,” he said. “I’m very confident we won’t have major problem s.” The Y2K problem begins when com puters try to add or subtract dates us ing only the last two digits of the year 00 in the case of 2000 which may con fuse computers into reading the date as 1900. Larger, older mainframe com puters used by governm ent and big corporations for many vital functions are particularly vulnerable. The bill for fixing the Pentagon’s computers and testing them will reach $2.5 billion, Hamre said.

Special attention is being given com pu ter system s that affect the U.S. nuclear arsenal, he said. Hamre said that in December the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, ran a three-day series of about 30 simulated missile attacks to en sure that its Y2K-compliant computer systems would run properly in provid ing attack warning and assessment. “In every case the systems worked as designed,” he said. Some individual nuclear systems, in cluding Trident submarines carrying nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballis tic missiles, already are certified as ready for 2000, he said. By the end of this year, all other U.S. warfighting commands worldwide will run their own tests to evaluate the com pleteness of Pentagon computer fixes that affect them, Hamre said. The deputy defense secretary said

U.S. officials are working with the Rus sian government on its 2000 prepara tions, but he indicated that Moscow has been moving too slowly. Hamre acknowledged “some nervous ness” in Washington about potential computer problems in Russia. “They don’t seem to have the same level of ur gency that we have had over it,” he said, while adding that there is little worry about accidental Russian nuclear launches. Separately, a Russian expert on the Y2K problem said Thursday that “the problem with strategic weapons has been solved,” but that questions re main about Russia’s air defenses and early warning systems. Andrei Terekov, director o f a firm helping Russian companies with the Y2K transition, said it was unlikely Y2K would cause warheads to deto nate or missiles to be fired by mistake.

Microsoft appeals federal judge’s ruling in Sun case Courtesy o f Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp. appealed a federal judge’s ruling that ordered the software giant to rewrite parts of its Windows 98 operating sys tem, calling it overly broad. U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte or d ered M ic ro so ft in N ovem ber to change Internet Explorer 4.0 and other software incorporating the Java pro gram m ing language including W in

dows 98 or stop shipping the products within 90 days. The ruling was in response to a law suit filed by Palo A lto-based Sun M icrosystem s Inc., which claim ed M icrosoft designed a W indows-only form of Java that is incompatible with ri val software. Sun has tried to promote its form of Java as a universal program ming language that can be used with any software. M icrosoft filed papers Wednesday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,

accusing Whyte of wrongly ruling that compatibility requirements Sun had im posed on Microsoft’s Java limited how Microsoft could distribute Sun’s tech nology. Whyte “abandoned (his) role by ignor ing the plain language of the agreement,” Microsoft’s lawyers wrote. The Redmond, Wash.-based company also said Whyte’s order was so broad that it restrains Microsoft from distrib uting other unspecified products that make no use of Sun’s copyright material.

“Sun is effectively given control over future Microsoft products in which it has no in tellectu al property rig h ts ,” Microsoft said. Sun said Whyte had ruled correctly. “The ability to maximize compatibility and minimize switching costs is a central value of the Java platform millions of developers and users rely on that value,” Sun said in a statement Thursday. “They would be best served if Microsoft would come back into compliance with the Java specifications.”

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What was that Green Survey all About? by Jon Barlow Class o f ‘99

For the past few years, CBF (Christian Bible Fellowship) has been taking informal surveys of the student body to help judge the spiritual climate on WPI’s campus, as well as to help make some contacts with new students. This year, surveys were taken in the wedge and Founder’s Hall lobby during B-Term. The surveys con sisted of nine different questions on God, Christianity and the Bible. A few ques tions asked students whether they felt it was important to seek God, what they would ask God if they had one question, and if anything about the Christian faith bothered them. Over the course of three days, 145 total surveys were returned from students representing all years and stu-

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on our sidebar. There will be the names, and sometimes a brief description, of the shows we offer and when. Any member of the WPI community can be involved in WWPI (including fac ulty and alumni, we’d love to see profes sors do some shows!). Organizations with information to publicize are encour aged to submit a public service an nouncement either by emailing it to radio@wpi.edu, leaving it in our mailbox in the student activities office, or by go ing to our webpage at www.wpi.edu/~radio/campus.html and filling out the form found there. If you have any questions about the radio station, want to be put on our mailing list, or are interested in becoming a DJ, email radio@wpi.

dents living both on and off campus. Find ings from some of the survey questions are below. Wh e n asked if it was impor Replies about Jesus tant to 17% 1 - Not at all relevant seek God 16% 2 or under 15% 3 - Somewhat relevant stand God, 28% 4 57% re 24% 5 - Very relevant sponding said yes, 24% said no, and 19% said maybe. Eightysix percent of the people responding indi cated that they had read at least part of the Bible. Students were also asked to rate

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how relevant Jesus and the Bible were to them today on a scale of 1 to 5. (see sidebar) The most popular re sponses to the question “Is Replies about the Bible: there anything 18% 1 - Not at all relevant about C hris 19% 2 that 28% 3 - Somewhat relevant tianity bugs you?” 23% 4 were that it is 12% 5 - Very relevant ___________________ ^ outdated or not applicable and that there are too many rules to follow. When students were asked what question they would ask God, their replies varied widely. Some responses were, “Why al

low evil?” “When are you coming back?” and “What’s up?” The incentive for taking the survey was a mountain bike. One survey was drawn at random from all those received and the per son whose survey was selected won a moun tain bike that was donated to CBF This year’s winner was Alexis Gomes, a freshman from New London, Connecticut. Alexis chose his bike before Thanksgiving and received it before the end of B-Term. As a result of the surveys, two different groups met informally near the end of the term to discuss some of the survey ques tions in greater detail. Plans for similar dis cussions this term are currently being made. Contact cbf@wpi.edu for more info.

In The Swing Courtesy o f WPI Media Relations

Robotic golf presented a whole new challenge to students in WPI’s me chanical engineering 4815 class. At a Dec. 20 tournam ent, Tina Casamassina, Massimo Giorelli and Oraya Anannit watch to see if their robotic program sinks the putt. Stu dent teams competed to make the high est score, and there three won with 204 points, 131 more than the secondplace finishers. The students had to calculate the slopes and obstacles of the green and devise programs to sink putts - all within three minutes. The winning team earned 20 extra points for their final lab grade. In addition to a computer, robotic golf included an autom atic tee, sensor and return mechanism.

PHOTOBYNEILNORUM This robotic golf model competed for accuracy in a robotic golf tournament.

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Weekly Sports Update: From January 7th to 14th by Geoff Hassard Sports Information Director

Men’s Basketball (2-6) The men’s basketball team has dropped three straight to open the new year. They lost to Worcester State at home and then dropped two road games at Wentworth In stitute and Springfield College. To open the second half of the season WPI

hosted cross-city foe Worcester State. The Engineers cut a 16-point halftime defecit to 6 points with just over ten minutes left in the game before the Lancers closed out the game with a 17-2 run for the 74-60 win. Freshman Greg LaCamera (Lakeville, Mass.) led WPI with 16 points and Ryan Thomas (Bangor, Maine) added 12 points. Two days later WPI was on the road at Wentworth for a meeting with the Leopards.

The Engineers trailed 31-30 at halftime, but the hosts outscored WPI 44-32 in the sec ond half for the 13-point win 75-62. Gregg Burnett (Phillipston, Mass.) led WPI with 18 points and LaCamera and Thomas scored 14 and 12 points respectively. Last Tuesday WPI opened their NEWMAC conference schedule against Springfield on the road. A late second half run by the Engineers was not enough to over-

WPI Outing Club conquers Midstate Trail by Seth Maciejowski Class o f ‘00

Perhaps the group of equipment laden individuals that tend to appear in the early mornings of the weekends has drawn your attention. Maybe you noticed a sodden party of adventurers returning from a week end on the snowy slopes of some distant mountain. If you were lucky enough, you might have even heard mention of the Campground Bandits. The question of who would be crazy enough to rise in the wee morning hours of the weekend to exhaust themselves with strenuous outdoor activ ity can be answered with one name-the WPI Outing Club. With hiking trips occurring nearly every weekend one may easily find

an outlet for all of their outdoor desires. In the recent history of the club, a group of determined individuals has been gnaw ing away at the 96 mile midstate trail. The trail, beginning at the Mass-NH border and ending on the RI-MA line, crosses the prominent massifs of Mt. Wachusett, Mt. Watatic, Crow Hill and countless other less significant landforms. On Sunday Novem ber 15 the club conquered the first 14 miles of the trail, nearly reaching route 2. Every one was quite impressed with the aban doned chevy truck lying abandoned in a picturesque meadow. With the summit cone of Mt. Wachusett lurking temptingly in the south, everyone pushed further on ward. After a few more hours of being pursued by a pair of local german shep

herds, the group of rugged travelers en countered the small, but bustling metropo lis of Ashburnham. After dashing across route 12 amidst speeding locals, the no mads hiked with renewed vigor. Coming across the poorly named muddy pond, that is in reality quite nice, The hike came to an end. With sore feet, everyone still looked forward to the next section eagerly. The outing club is always looking for anyone interested in “hardcore” outdoor activities whether it be hiking, biking, camp ing, climbing or just about anything else you can think of. Many new trips are be ing planned for 1999 so come to Riley com mons on Tuesdays at 12:00 to get in on the action! Drop by sometime and see what the great outdoors has to offer!

come a poor first half of shooting as they lost 64-59. John Lehane (Marlboro, Mass.) was top scorer with 18 points. Thomas had his third straight double figure game with 14 points. Women’s Basketball (6-5) The women’s basketball team opened the new year by hosting their first ever tourna ment, the Ptovident Invitational. The other three teams joining WPI were John Jay Col lege, Bates College and MIT. The Engineers faced John Jay in their opener and won easily 78-36. A 31 -4 run in the first half put the game out of reach for the visitors as WPI had a 42-13 lead at halftime. Captain Beth Gilbert (Killingly, Conn.) led the Engineers with 15 points followed by Lynn Michalenka (Lincoln, R.I.) with 11 points. Freshman Erin Jabs (Preston, Conn.) pulled down 13 rebounds in the win. In the championship game WPI ran into a tough Bates squad that was relentless on defense as they forced 43 Engineer turnovers. The Bobcats were able to turn 24 first half turnovers into 14 points as they built a com fortable halftime lead of 41 -18. Bates would win the game 88-45. Michalenka was the only player to reach double figures with 10 points, and along with Gilbert, was selected to the All-Tournament Team.

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Cellucci Unveils Budget Numbers by Leslie Miller Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) - The budget Gov. Paul Cellucci will send to the Legislature for consideration in two weeks includes $4.4 billion in direct aid to cities and towns up $200 million from last year. Should the Legislature approve that amount, it would be the largest appro priation for local government in the commonwealth’s history. Cellucci planned to give a preview of his budget Friday in a talk at the Massa chusetts Municipal Association’s annual meeting in the hopes that mayors, plan ners and selectmen would be happy with what they see. If approved, the budget would be good news for Massachusetts’ cities and towns, said Geoffrey Beckwith, the association’s executive director. “While times are good in Massachu setts, and the state is running a surplus, local communities find themselves still having to work enormously hard just to

make ends meet,” he said. Beckwith said municipal officials were most interested in hearing w hether Cellucci proposes to fully fund the Edu cation Reform Act, return all the profits from the Massachusetts State Lottery to communities and fulfill promises made for local road projects. Cellucci is proposing to make good on the big-ticket item, funding for education reform, according to a copy of his speech that was made available to The Associ ated Press on Thursday. F ully funding ed u catio n reform means a $262 million increase to the more than $3 billion the state sent back to schools from July 1, 1998, to June 30, 1999. The next fiscal year will be the sixth in the state’s seven-year program to gradu ally increase aid to local school districts. It’s also the fifth and final year of phasing out the cap on Lottery rev enues. C ellucci’s budget will call for sending at least $34 million back to cit ies and towns.

Former Boston Globe Columnist Returning To TV Program by Paisley Dodds Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) - Mike Barnicle, who was forced to resign from The Boston Globe after being accused of fabricating a column, is headed back to work for a TV program on a Boston station. Barnicle will return on Jan. 18 as a com mentator and contributor to “Chronicle,” said Paul LaCamera, general manager of WCVB-TV. “M ike’s distinctive voice and style have been missed,” LaCamera said Mon day. Barnicle, 54, took a leave of absence from “Chronicle” in August after he was accused of fabricating a column in the Globe. He also admitted never reading comedian George Carlin’s best-selling book “Brain Droppings,” which he rec ommended on Chronicle.

“In a spring 1998 episode, Mike rec ommended for summer reading, a book for humor which he later acknowledged he had not read. Mike has expressed his regret for this lapse, an apology which we have accepted,” the station said. Barnicle said he was looking forward to returning to Chronicle after a leave he took partly because of health problems. He recently had heart surgery. “It’s great to be back at Channel 5 af ter a few very strange months,” Barnicle said in a statement. Barnicle resigned from the Globe at the paper’s request after accusations that a tear-jerker column he wrote about the families of two children suffering from cancer was partly fabricated. B arnicle the passionate voice of Boston’s working class for 25 years has maintained his sources for his 1995 col umn in question do exist.

Municipal officials at Friday’s meet ing were also to get some unexpected good news: Cellucci planned to an nounce communities would receive a windfall of about $35 million in extra Lottery funds. Cellucci also wants them to get free consultation from the Division of Lo cal Services and Information Technol ogy Division to make sure that their computers can make the transition to the year 2000. Peabody Mayor Peter Torigian, who has served longer than any other mayor in the state, said he was concerned about spending for local tran sportation projects. Critics have complained the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel project is eating up funds for local road and bridge programs. ‘It appears to be putting them, whether

by design or not, on a very slow track,” said Torigian. Cellucci did not include in his prepared remarks a figure for local road and bridge projects. Torigian, like many mayors, was also keenly interested in Cellucci’s proposal for the School Building Assistance Bu reau. The bottom line: Cellucci will propose to budget $41 million for the SBAB pro gram to help build 58 new schools. He will also ask the Legislature to spend an extra $ 12 million for after-school programs. The governor also announced he would propose $54 million in water and sewer rate relief, $1.9 million in local drinking water projects and expanding clean water project assistance by $7 mil lion.

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Harvard Russia Aid Program Reportedly Being Investigated Courtesy o f Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) - Two Harvard University staffers who took part in a federally funded program to establish capitalism in Russia are being investigated to determine if they prof ited from stock investments there at the same time, according to a published report. Andrei Shleifer, an economics professor, and lawyer Jonathan Hay both worked for the Harvard Institute for International De velopment, which was paid $43 million by

the U.S. Agency for International Devel opment (USAID) to advise Russian Presi dent Boris Yeltsin and his economists. Federal investigators want to know if Shleifer and Hay violated federal law by profiling from investm ents made in Russia’s stock market by Shleifer’s wife and Hay’s girlfriend, The Boston Globe reported Friday, citing anonymous sources. USAID’s own investigation already con cluded that Shleifer and Hay gained influ ence over Russian capital markets they were helping establish, and had “abused

the trust of the United States government by using personal relationships ... for pri vate gain.” USAID canceled its contract with the institute in 1997 and eliminated the final $ 14 million of a $57 million grant. The Harvard institute’s rules prohibit em ployees or members of their families from in vesting in the country they are advising. Shleifer and Hay, who were dismissed from the institute, have denied the allega tions. Shleifer’s wife, Nancy Zimmerman, and Hay’s girlfriend, Elizabeth Hebert, de

nied any conflict of interest in their invest ments. Among the allegations: that Hay in vested in Russian government securities while advising the Yeltsin government on capital markets, and the he helped Hebert establish a Russian mutual fund. Hay is no longer associated with Harvard; Shleifer is still a professor. Shleifer’s lawyer, Earl Nemscr, acknowl edged that there is an investigation, but said he understands it does not involve his client.

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As ‘Civil Action’ Opens, Pain Lingers For Woman Who Sparked Case By Alexis Chiu Associated Press Writer

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) - Anne Ander son can walk into movie theaters across America and see her story on the big screen. It’s a story she was paid for, one that allowed her to mingle with celebrities like John Travolta and Robert Duvall. But the celebrity is derived from the most painful of places. For if her youngest boy hadn’t died at 13, she would forever have remained in boring, blissful obscurity. Jimmy Anderson died in 1981 of leuke mia his family believes was caused by drinking water contaminated with pollut ants from several big corporations. The story of how Anderson and seven other Woburn families fought to hold the companies accountable and the flashy, risk-taking lawyer who took on the gargan tuan case became the basis for “A Civil Action,” a best-selling book by Jonathan Harr and a Disney movie that opened na tionwide this weekend. Far from the red carpets and star-stud ded galas, Anderson still lives in the same modest East Woburn home where Jimmy spent most of his years shuttling between the living room couch and the hospital. She is 62 now, and a grandmother of six, working as a law librarian at Woburn Dis trict Court and nursing decidedly ambiva lent feelings about the renewed focus on the case that, for Anderson, started when her little boy got sick.

“I get frustrated when I hear how long the trial took, or how long it took Harr to write the book,” she said in a recent inter view. “It took Jimmy nine years to die. Those were nine horrible years for him and for us. That’s not remembered enough.” The book and the movie focus on the legal battle fought by attorney Jan Schlictmann against corporate giants W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods, accused of im properly disposing of toxins that may have contaminated drinking water in the com munity just north of Boston. The case dragged on for more than five years, and the trial for 78 days, leaving both the lawyer and his firm bankrupt. Schlictmann has come to be known as the ego-driven lawyer who lost his flashy car, and almost his sanity, in the fight to prove the companies were responsible for six leukemia deaths and to capitalize on the millions he believed a winning verdict would bring in. In the end, a jury never found the com panies responsible for the “cancer cluster” in Woburn. Beatrice was found not liable, and W.R. Grace settled with the families for $8 million but did not admit any wrong doing. After going to Hawaii for several years to decompress from the stress of the case, he now practices law and lives in tony Beverly Farms on the coast. “Jan can talk about how he went to Ha waii to replenish himself. I just had to pick up the pieces and go on,” said Anderson.

“I give him credit for all the hard work. But it wasn’t just his work; it was ours too.” Schlictmann agrees. “She has been, and always will be, an inspiration to me,” he said, bristling at the suggestion of bad blood between the two. “She was the originator, the one who got the families to come together, not only to deal with common tragedy but to become apolitical force.” Indeed, long before she met Schlictmann, Anderson raised her poisoned-water theories and often was dis missed as the hysterical mother of a sick kid. But she persisted, calling on everyone from environmental officials to the media for help. She pushed for a study by the Harvard School of Public Health that ended up show ing an association between the contaminated water and Woburn’s high leukemia rate. She also helped lobby for legislation creating a state version of the federal “Superfund” law to clean up toxic-waste sites. After the case was over, Anderson re ceived more than $300,000 from the setUement. But the money has done little to ease the loss even with the passage of two de cades. “It’s just still so raw,” she said, weeping. “(Jimmy and I) were so close. He gravitated to me, as I did to him.” The pictures hanging on Anderson’s walls chart the growth of her three children Christine. Chuck and Jimmy, the baby of

the family. As kids, they playfully mug together for the camera. They sit stiffly before a blue backdrop for school portraits. They lay carrots out for reindeer the night before Christmas. Then Christine and Chuck shoot ahead: high-school, weddings, new babies of their own. Jimmy, however, never grows up. “Most of his life he was sick, and he was very accepting of that because he didn’t know anything else,” she said. “Knowing that they would do unspeakable things to him at the hospital, he never balked ... never even cried. He just did it.” And now, nearly two decades after he died, Anderson continues to crusade on behalf of environmental causes, as she has since her son became ill in the early 1970s. Later this month she will participate in a panel co-sponsored by Harvard University Law School, where fellow speakers will in clude Schlictmann and lawyers for the com panies she holds responsible for her son’s death. The movie, in which she is played by Kathleen Quinlan, promises to throw Anderson again into a limelight she never sought. But over time, she says, she has come to accept that the Woburn water story is part of her own. “Maybe that’s what Jimmy’s life was meant to be to make the world a little safer because he was in it a short time,” she said. “I have to believe that.”

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Hunt in the Jurassic period with T\irok 2 by Ken Gagne Newspeak Staff

Name: TUROK 2: SEEDS OF EVIL Platform: Nintendo 64 Publisher: Acclaim Rating: 9.2 What moron would defeat a land-threat ening evil - only to inadvertently awaken a universe-threatening monstrosity? Leave it to Turok, the dinosaur-hunting hero of Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, a Nintendo 64 game from Acclaim. Played in the tradition of first-person shooters such as Doom, Quake, and Gold eneye, Turok sets players in a land of di nosaurs bent on the freedom of the ancient Primagen, a creature with the power and desire to destroy all existence. Gamers must be swift of foot and linger to overcome the many trials and master the many weapons of Turok, a game based on a comic book series by Valiant. The stages are huge and often nonlin ear, leaving the player to explore, or to de termine the proper sequence of events. Each stage has a set number of goals, which must be accomplished before leaving the level. There are also various items to find, such as keys to other levels; pieces of the ultimate weapon; and talismans, granting new abilities. As Turok grows, revisiting past stages is necessary to find everything. Players need not worry about making the many precision jumps required by the first Turok. Unfortunately, also gone is the fre quency of wilderness settings and human opponents, leaving players to fight a vari ety of intelligent dinosoids in cities, temples, and catacombs. Settle in for long gaming sessions with

Turok: the save points are few and far in between, making the quest more difficult and frustrating than it need be. And be sure to clean out your memory paks, as Turok game files eat a whopping 90 pages. The control has many more features and options than the original Turok. Basic movement is possible through two configu

rations, satisfying both Turok and Gold eneye veterans, and weapons can be cho sen by the standard scrolling method or a new quick-select. Functions are assigned to every button, which may require some inconvenient reaching; fortunately, this is seldom necessary in the heat of battle. The graphics are some of the best in the

biz, especially if Nintendo’s Expansion Pak is plugged into your system, giving the game the added memory (RAM) required to run in high-resolution. In this mode, the frame rate occasionally suffers, but the letterbox high-res mode relieves this ail ment. With or without RAM, the graphics are smooth and shaded. Gone is the rampant fogging, obscuring most of the levels. There is some slowdown when occurs huge explosions or large battles, including fourplayer multiplayer. Music dwells in the background, some times aiding the atmosphere but usually letting the action speak for itself. The sound effects of scurrying spiders or rav enous raptors do a better job, keeping the player on his toes. The multiplayer mode is nearly on par with Goldeneye’s. The stages arc more nu merous but smaller in scale, and more weap ons arc available per bout. Various charac ters, each with strengths and weaknesses, can be chosen as your avatar. A special “Frag Tag” somewhat emu lates Goldeneye’s “Capture the Flag” mode: one player is “it” and turned into a mon key, unable to wield weapons, until he ei ther finds the gate that turns somebody else into “it”, or he is “lagged” - by being blown lo smithereens. It’s frantic, furious fun! Turok gives players much to do, whether its hunting down all the switches, keys, and items in the massive one-player mode, or fragging and tagging their best friends in the endless multiplayer mode. A long, action-packed quest with great graphics and control - time to take the safety off your shotgun!

WPI’s LEAP Makes a Rainbow Connection January 22nd Courtesy of WPI Media Relations

This month you can enjoy a concert and build a playground, all at the same time. WPI’s LEAP (Leadership, Education And Practice) group has organized a talentpacked concert featuring six a capella groups: WPI’s Simple Harmonic Motion and Interstate 8, the Clark Bars from Clark University, and Boston-based House

Blend, After 8 and Ball in the House. The concert takes place Friday, Jan. 22, at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30) in Alden Me morial. Tickets are $4 in advance or $5 at the door for this outstanding family event. All proceeds will benefit the Rainbow Child Development Center, located in Plumley Village East, a low-income residential area in Worcester. The center hopes to use the funds to build a new playground. “Their previous playground had to be

torn down because it did not meet safety guidelines,” said WPI junior and concert organizer Sonja Farak. WPI’s LEAP program, which celebrates its first graduating class this year, assists students in developing leadership skills through internships, training and commu nity. “LEAP’s job is to build leaders,” Farak said. “Besides helping the community we are learning about teamwork, communica tions and organizational skills as well as

the development and completion of a project.” The Rainbow Child Development Cen ter is a perfect choice for a service project, she added, since its purpose is also com munity-oriented. The center provides child-care, preschool and after-school pro grams for at-risk children from birth through age 12. For more information about the benefit concert, please contact, please contact Farak at 508-798-0948.

A Piece of Americana, Offspring Style by Sarah Walkowiak Features Editor

Often just the word “Americana” brings to mind idealized images of the American dream - Norman Rockwell, happy mar riages, 2.5 kids, a minivan in the driveway, the white picket fence... But what happens when that same dream that many of us grew up with becomes distorted with dysfunc tion and chaos? The new Offspring album, Americana, is a collection of stories about such a nightmare come true. Like other Offspring albums, Americana takes a cynical view of the world that is occasionally hopeful at the same time. This

is seen in the lyrics to “Staring at the Sun” - “If I seem bleak/Well you’d be correct/ And if I don’t speak/it’s cause I can’t dis connect/But I won’t be burned by the reflection/Of the fire in your eyes/As you’re staring at the sun.” Americana doesn’t pretend to ignore the problems that exist, but at the same time refuses to let the apathy of the rest of the world bring it down, at least most of the time. Songs like “The Kid’s Aren’t Alright” deal with a sense of longing for a simpler past. This song, also featured on The Fac ulty soundtrack, is about a neighborhood where all the kids have grown up and aban doned their big dreams for “the crudest

dream, reality,” consisting of drugs, sui cide and dropping out. Unlike the last two Offspring albums, Americana features a couple of upbeat, cheery songs, whose lyrics are ironically the opposite. “Pretty Fly (for a white guy)” is an amusing song about a rapper wannabe - even more amusing is the unlisted version at the end of the CD with a Mariachi band and Late Night with David Letterman's Calvert De Forrest on vocals. The melody of “Why Don’t You Get a Job” reminds me a lot of “Oh-bla-di Oh-bla-da” by the Beatles, which I’m al most certain was done on purpose, since both songs are about idealized relation

ships, or the lack thereof. The irony is hilarious. Also featured on the CD is a Multimedia CD-ROM portion, which features “The Offspring Karaoke Bar”, where you can sing along to three songs from the album - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy), Why Don 7 You Get a Job, and Staring at the Sun. There are also a few videos from Ixnay on the Hombre, a clip from “ The Offspring Home Movie Am ericana” and other random video clips of the band members. Overall, the album is a good listen, mostly what I would’ve expected from the Offspring, with a few nice surprises.

now and then. Downey, as serial killer Vivian Thompson, the grown-up version of the boy struggling for air, is the bright spot. With stringy long hair and deep black circles under his eyes, he is truly terrifying a man-child who wants something but isn’t sure what. His screen time is probably less than five minutes, but his is the face you carry with you from the theater. Is this a thriller? A horror movie? A psy chological drama? “In Dreams” tries to be all of them but succeeds at none. It grows ever more implausible as the story unfolds, and, though some of the editing is near genius, a few poor editing choices at crucial junctures confuse things even further. Some parts of the plot are simply dropped with no explana tion. Metaphors gradually grow tiresome. Bening, a good actress, makes for a be lievable Claire, but the script keeps putting her in situations that undermine her

character’s credibility. At one point, after sev eral other near misses, she escapes from a mental institution and immediately causes a multi-car pileup from which she emerges un scathed. By the time it winds circuitously toward its conclusion, it feels like a bad adaptation of some Edgar Allan Poe story with a truly preposterous ending reminiscent of one of the less adept “Elm Street” sequels. The best psychological dramas about the murderous mind Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Michael Powell’s “Peeping Tom,” Brian DePalma’s “Dressed to Kill” and, most promi nently, Fritz Lang’s 1931 classic “M” evolve and unfold as information is released. “In Dreams” feels more like an amusementpark ride: It looks really good and feels vis ceral, but in the end it takes you nowhere. “In Dreams,” a Dreamworks SKG release, was scripted by Jordan and Bruce Robinson. Elliot Goldenthal wrote the music. It is rated R.

At the movies: “In Dreams” by Ted Anthony A P National Writer

The images grab the imagination. An en tire New England town abandoned and sub merged a generation ago to create a reser voir. Underwater images of desolate homes, streets, even a forlorn graveyard. A boy, trapped, forever struggling to reach the sur face. These are the opening scenes of “In Dreams,” the new film from Oscar-winning director Neil Jordan (“The Crying Game”). Annette Bening plays Claire Cooper, a mother plagued by dreams of children disappearing and, ultimately, dying. Claire sees through the eyes of a killer and insists she needs a dream interpreter. Her nightmares even fore tell the death of her daughter, but she cannot prevent it. “He’s feeding me dreams, bit by bit,” she says. An intriguing concept for a film. Add stun

ning cinematography by Darius Khondji and one of the most unsettling scores in recent years. Throw in Oscar-nominated producer Stephen Woolley and a worthy cast that in cludes Robert Downey Jr., Stephen Rea and Aidan Quinn. Great yam, right? Sadly, no. “In Dreams,” full of beautiful, ghostly tableaux with only the thinnest of narratives to unite them, is proof that all the right ingredients don’t necessarily add up to something appetizing. The movie clearly wants to be a “Night mare on Elm Street” aimed at the literati. Claire explores both deep psychological dis turbances and her relationship with her airlinepilot husband (Quinn). Dr. Silverman (Rea), the dream interpreter, acts merely as an obstruction, dismissing Claire’s violent and overwrought visions of the future (Claire-Clairvoyant. Coin cidence?) with psychobabble. A benevolent detective (Paul GuUfoyle) bodes to be an inter esting plot device but simply wanders thnxigh

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The student reaction to PIC by Maureen L Upton Class o f ‘00

At the Student Government As sociation meeting on November 17th, the senate expressed their opinions and concerns about the Planning Implementation Committee’s (PIC) strategic docu ment. At the end of the meeting, SGA voted not to endorse the PIC proposal in its current form. The proposal was again discussed at the December Is*meeting where a number of faculty and administra tion attempted to clarify some points made in the document and voice general opinions about it. As a result of this discussion, SGA decided to immediately take action by making an amendment to the proposal. At the first senate discussion, many senators spoke on various

initiatives that they would like to stressing that although increased see implemented and others that research opportunities would bring generated concern. Overall, stu a new realm of opportunities to dents favored initiatives concern WPI, the focus of the institution should remain on undergraduate ing improvements to the library, building a campus center, an ex education. Students consistently tended Global Opportunities Program and increased student _ WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE housing. They also made sug gestions for additions to the overall document including ex- ® tensive enhancement of biol ogy labs, constructing a new life science and engineering “ STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION building, renovation of Stratton Hall to accommodate more said that they made WPI their students and increasing the num choice for undergraduate educa tion because of the innovative ber of computer labs open twentyfour hours a day. However, the stu project based curriculum with sig nificant contact to professors. Stu dents were unclear on a significant portion of the document that ad dents feared the possibility that an increase in research could take pro dressed increased research and the fessors out of the classroom. The first year experience. Students felt the document needed clarification, second major concern was the be

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lief that any experiments conducted to adjust the first year experience should be available to all students in the class and not only to a subset of them. This type of division could ultimately create a two tiered sys tem and competitive division among the students. Students ap preciate the WPI educational sys tem where competition between * students for class standing does not exist. WPI has a learning en vironment where all students can succeed with help not only from faculty and staff but also from fel low classmates. Implementing edu cational programs, especially if they could later be perceived as honors programs, available to only a selec tion of first year students is not con gruent with the WPI environment. The extent of this discussion as well as the one at the 12/1/98 meet ing lead SGA to amend the PIC pro

posal to incorporate the stu dents’ concerns. The amend ment directly addressed the two major concerns outlined above as well as clarification and edit ing. At the December 3rd faculty meeting, SGA president Jennifer Reese proudly presented the amendment with the hope that the WPI community could reach a compromise on the document. After many revisions to the amendment an acceptable com promise was reached and ap proved by the faculty. The amended document directly re flects the specific student con cerns addressed by SGA and many faculty members. The voice of the students had a direct im pact of the future of WPI. SGA feels very fortunate to have par ticipated in this important move ment for WPI.

tucket. “Each day it’s something a little bit different to do,” he said. “You always have problems to work out. You have to keep improvising as you go along.” Jean Konnerth, 74, is an artist by trade and a whale skeleton assem bler by marriage. Her woodcut stu dio is two doors down from the mu seum, though she only gets there on weekends because of her whale work. Vertebrae from the whale’s middle and lower back were so oily that they were sent to a Providence company to be treated with solvent and degreased. Jean Konnerth recalled that one lower back vertebrae weighed 65 pounds before it was treated. “When we brought it back, it weighed 25 pounds,” she said. Thousands of spectators from all over New England were drawn to Sachuest Beach to watch scientists and volunteers carve the flesh away from the whale’s skeleton last March. Scientists from Mystic Aquarium in M ystic, Conn., perform ed a necropsy on the animal and con cluded that it was alive and in good health, judging by its blubber thick ness, when it was hit broadside at

the surface by the ship. The remains were buried at New Bedford’s Shawmut Avenue land fill for a month and a half to allow the natural process of decomposi tion to help clean tissue off the bones. Then the bones were placed in cages and submerged for five months in the Acushnet River near Popes Island to allow hermit crabs, plankton and other marine life to clean the bones. Andrew Konnerth said he has been fascinated by skeletons since he was a boy and used to collect animal skulls he found in the woods. He put together his first whale skeleton, a pothead, while working at Woods Hole Oceano graphic Institute. The skeleton was in pieces and taking up space he needed on a shelf. He hung the skeleton from the ceiling in his of fice until the insutute director took notice and decided it looked good enough to display in the lobby, where it still hangs. Konnerth has also assembled a right whale for the New England Aquarium and whales for the Nantucket Whaling Museum and the National Aquarium in Balti more.

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Couple piece together blue whale skeleton by Janine Landry The Newport Daily News

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) The smallest piece of the puzzle that Andrew Konnerth is working on right now is about the size of a peanut. The largest weighs more than 2,000 pounds. When Konnerth and his wife, Jean, finish putting it together, hopefully by summer, they will have assembled the 65-foot, 7-ton skeleton of only the second blue whale found on the eastern sea board since the late 19th century. The Mattapoisett couple are on exhibit themselves each weekday in the museum’s downstairs gal lery, where they work in a ropedoff area repairing the whale’s bones and putting them in order. Visitors can get close to watch them mend bones and even ask questions. Storyboards with photographs are posted telling the story of the dis covery of the whale stuck to the bow of a tanker off Newport’s Brenton Point in March 1998 and the efforts to salvage its remains. In the air lingers a stale, saltyfishy scent. One sign reads: “A skeleton of a 65-foot juvenile whale

is responsible for this authentic smell of a 19th-century Whaling City.” A shelter built outside the mu seum to house the giant whale’s skull has a window inviting side walk passersby to look inside. Museum officials placed a giant Santa hat on top of the skull for the holiday season. Andrew Konnerth said the skull weighs 3,470 pounds, counting the two tusk-like mandible bones that each weigh 640 pounds. It took all of four days for scien tists, volunteers and public works crews to salvage and remove the young male whale’s remains when it was towed onto Sachuest Beach in Middletown, R.I., last March. But the task of rebuilding its skel eton at the New Bedford Whaling Museum will take the Konnerths several months. The museum intends to display the skeleton in a new $6 million entrance lobby set to be completed in the fall of 2000. Construction is scheduled to begin in April. The National Marine Fisheries Service chose the museum to re ceive the rare skeleton over the Smithsonian National Museum of

Natural History in Washington, D.C., and the University of Mas sachusetts at Amherst because it had a place to put it on public dis play for free. Plans for the entrance lobby began in 1994, said Execu tive Director Anne Brengle. On a recent m orning, the Konnerths were repairing the whale’s first and second vertebrae, which were damaged when the ani mal collided with the tanker Botany Triumph and was killed around March 1, 1998. They fashioned chicken wire and copper wiring to replace missing bone and coated it with epoxy. A vertebrae on loan from Harvard University from a blue whale that washed up on the New Jersey shore in 1891 is used for reference. There is no instruction manual for assembling whale skeletons, said Andrew Konnerth, a 76-yearold biologist who specializes in skeletal comparitive anatomy. The blue whale is his second work for the museum. He reassembled the museum’s 35-foot humpback whale skeleton when it was moved in 1987. That skeleton was from a humpback that had washed ashore in 1932 on Noman’s Land, off Nan

State prepares to expand newborn genetic testing, questions arise by Erica Noonan Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) - A feud over who should test new babies for a series of genetic disorders in M assachusetts has overshad owed the larger issue of whether the tests are necessary and can be kept private. Most parents may have never heard of the disorder medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase or MCAD an inherited disorder that hinders a body’s capacity to break down certain fatty acids. But starting Feb. 1, their baby’s blood will be tested for it. With a single needle stick to an infant’s heel, the state will screen for 10 medical disorders the high est number of tests mandated by any state. All the disorders are potentially treatable. Parents will also be asked if they would like their child to be screened for cystic fibrosis as well as 20 other genetic disorders. The change has some worried that the results of genetic screen ings which are supposed to re main confidential might be used by insurers as a prerequisite for coverage. Of the 80,000 children born in

M assachusetts each year, roughly 85 babies test positive for the nine disorders that are currently screened for. The change is a necessary medi cal step, said a geneticist who helped formulate the regulations. “This will help families in the Commonwealth,” said Dr. Harvey Levy of Children’s Hospital. “We see children all the time with these disorders and the parents and doc tors could benefit from this knowl edge.” But, Levy said the state has no intention of initiating tests for ge netic disorders that have no known cures such as Huntington’s dis ease, Alzheimer’s disease and mul tiple sclerosis until treatments arc discovered. “That knowledge won’t help the child or the family,” he said. “It’s just not appropriate.” The battery o f tests, old and new, will be paid for by most insur ance companies or by the state if a mother is uninsured. The potential for even more ge netic testing will likely increase in the future, with technology to iso late fetal cells in mother’s blood less than 10 years away, Levy said. Fetuses could then be routinely screened for dozens of defects

early in pregnancy, much like amniotic fluid is currently tested for Down syndrome and other disor ders. But a fight over who will perform the current tests has occupied state officials for the past six months. P ittsburgh-based Neo Gen Screening sued after the refused to allow it to bid for a contract to perform the tests, saying it could do them for just $25 per child, compared to the state’s fee of $42. But the state has exclusive rights to conduct the testing, and the case was thrown out last month by U.S. District Judge George O’Toole, who said the state cannot be sued in federal court. Neo Gen has an appeal pend ing. DPH Spokesman Mark Leccese said the state is best equipped to conduct the newborn testing, be cause it can coordinate in-hospi tal education programs, as well as referrals. “The state keeps birth records, and we can regularly match and make sure we haven’t missed anything,” he said. The controversy has drawn at tention to the tests themselves, raising questions over whether an

infant’s genetic workup could be demanded by insurance companies as a prerequisite for membership. Some critics argue that state is better than a private company such as Neo Gen because it can keep the results confidential. But Neo Gen president Edwin Naylor said the company which cur rently screens more than 250,000 newborns in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and the District of Colum bia is not allowed to freely distrib ute private medical information. Federal regulations bar Neo Gen from giving the results to anyone but doctors, parents and hospitals the same outlets to which DPH says it would give the information, Naylor said.

Patients are the only ones who can authorize release of the re sults, said Naylor. In fact, the larger issue of con fidentiality is no different with newborn screenings than with other medical tests ranging from pap spears to biopsies. This means health insurers could theoretically drop families because of newborn screening re sults just as they could for a mother’s cholesterol level or a father’s heart condition. “Medical centers send tests to private labs all the time,” said Levy. ‘The theoretical access is the same. (Health insurance) is a major national issue that needs to be dealt with.”

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Peter Piper’s Peppers are in a Pickle: The Impeachment of the President What does it mean to lie? “3lie n : something said or done in the hope of deceiv ing : an untrue statement” -Page 285; Webster’s Elemen tary Dictionary; Merriam-Webster Inc., Publishers He lied. Clear and simple, the President of the United States lied under oath. He lied in the hope of deceiving the United States government and the Nation. He made a statement that was deceiving to the court. I personally don’t care that he cheated on Hilary, that issue is between them. The issue that he was unfaithful to the Nation... well that is clearly between him and this Nation. The House of Representatives impeached him and the Senate trial is underway. He still proclaims his innocence; he still stands by the statement that he made about doing nothing wrong. Now is this a person we would want to have to lead our country? I have to admit that I admire President Clinton for standing by his opinions and views, but come on! A group of elected government officials (“his peers”) basically found him guilty of lying under oath, an offense against the very articles that guide this Nation through life. Rules, laws, and procedures are created and imple

mented for a reason. They are there to learn from, pro tect, and follow in everyday life. The checks and balance system was created and implicated for a reason, to pro tect the nation from having one body of government take sole control of the country’s welfare. Well in this time of national crisis, that system is being put into use to the fullest extent. The Legislative and Judicial systems has checked the Executive branch and what they found has offended the system. Now it is the Legislative side to balance out the Executive’s improprieties while the Judi cial system presides over the trial. There is a possibility of censuring the president as a possible verdict in the trial besides guilty or not guilty. What is that? Why is that? From what I understand, cen suring the president would be like what some parents do to their child when they misbehave, they reprimand them and then ground them until they have paid the conse quences. Would you do that to your employee? Would you reprimand your employee for abusing his powers to further his own agenda and send him off to his office? What the President did not do is tell a little white lie, he told a lie that intended to cover up his misconduct while

on the job. He did not act professionally and because of that, he compromised his position as a paid employee of the nation. The job of the president is a non-stop (24/7), four years, and all benefits paid deal. He is paid to be competent, confident, and well conducted the whole time he is president. A verdict in this trial can only come out to be one of two things, guilty or not guilty, certainly there is no room for censure in this trial. The founding fathers didn’t write it into history, why should we? Public officials not only act as a representation of this country’s population, but also as role models that sets the standards. Having the President lie under oath and getting away with it not only undermines the law of the land, but it also undermines the integrity of this country and what we stand for. Why would we ever acquit or censure a person if they undermined the integrity of the job that they held? Author’s Note: All opinions and ideas in this article are based on information from news broadcasts and media discussions. What also contributed to my perspective on this event are discussions that I’ve had with other people with the same and differing views on the subject matter. Natalie Chin, Business Manager

From the Outside World... This just in, there is a world outside of WPI. I know it sounds scary if not terrifying to imagine people not con sumed with Sufficiency, IQP, and MQP but indeed there are those beyond our cozy campus with other thoughts. In fact there are a lot of other thoughts in this world. This is to help you so when someone says something ‘worldly’ at the dinner table you can better pretend you have some idea of what they are talking about. Wall Street is that happening place in New York where money flows. Lately it has been much more like a sine wave than usual. It is important to note though that even if the market loses say 200 points it is still a small per centage of the total market. The market is based a lot on predictions or hopes that is why this past Thursday the market plummeted due to Brazilian devaluation i.e. Bra zil was a place of new growth now that their economy is shaken the market reacts. So now you know. Did you know that President Clinton was impeached?

Yes, he is still in office but a quick check at the consti tution will confirm that impeachment is much more like an indictment and as of now the President is pn trial. The general consensus is that the House of Represen tatives vote lo impeach was highly partisan whereas the Senate has had more of a bipartisan and calmer atmo sphere. Judge Rehnquist, from the Supreme Court, is the presiding judge for this impressive trial. Now a somewhat interesting, often times questioned and even more often denied coincidence is the Iraq parallelism in time to the grand jury, impeachment, trial. Just so you know, the United States has had a military presence in the Persian Gulf region for some time. For most of us. Op eration Desert Shield/Storm occurred before college, but did you know about Operation Desert Fox? This opera tion was basically in response to a report for the UN that Iraq wasn’t fully cooperating with UNSCOM, the people who make sure Iraq can’t nuke, chemically incinerate, or

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infect his neighbors or enemies. Then there is the ‘No Fly Zone’ stuff - Iraq lost Operation Desert Shield/Storm so they in turn can’t fly over certain parts of their coun try. Well, they haven’t been playing by the rules lately and tension, manpower, and threats have escalated in the past few weeks. Those are the major events in the world. Of course there are crisis’s in other parts of the world. Blood sup ply is low across the country, snow and ice have repeat edly blasted the North, the Olympic committees associ ated with choosing of Salt Lake City have been under the microscope for deeds few would have expected from an organization which for most resembles goodness and a hope for world peace. So if you are sitting in DAKA, in your apartment or waiting for class to start and someone starts discussing events of the world go ahead and throw in a thought or two. Jennifer Cooper, Photography Co-Editor

Problem of leftover embryos vexes fertility clinics Courtesy o f Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) - Fertility clin ics are wrestling with a vexing ethical dilemma: what to do with the th o u sa n d s o f em bryos abandoned in cold storage. One clinic is trying to resolve the qu estio n o f unused em bryos that aren’t implanted into the m other’s uterus. Boston IVF of Brookline will require its patients to sign a contract taking responsibility for the embryos, either by pay ing for storage, agreeing to have them destroyed or taking them elsewhere. “The patients need to give us new direction,” says David L. Printy, chief operating officer for Boston IVF. “T hat’s what w e’re going to trigger.”

The Wall S treet J o u rn a l’s New England section reported W ednesday that there are an e stim a te d 2 5 ,0 0 0 em bryos stored in clinic storage tanks, some more than 10 years old. The leftover embryos are a testament to the success of in vitro fertilization, or IVF. In that treatment, a woman takes drugs to stimulate her ovaries to pro duce many eggs. A doctor then rem oves the eggs, and com bines them with sperm in a lab. Some of the resulting fertil ized eggs are implanted in the woman’s uterus in hopes she’ll carry the child to term. Any leftover two- or four-cell embryos are then put in IVF sto rag e, in case the co uple wants to try again to become pregnant. When the c o u p le d o e s n ’t

want to implant the embryos, but can’t bring themselves to d estro y th e ir p o ten tia l o ff spring, doctors are left with the ethical dilemm a of how long they can keep a fertilized egg in suspended animation. Ellen Glazer of Newton coun sels infertile couples. “A lot of couples just sort of leave them there, and don’t ad dress the situation,” she says. Insurance companies usually pay for the storage for three years, and then, after five years, some lawyers say embryos can be d isc a rd ed as ab an d o n ed property. But few clinics have the stomach to do that. “We know what people go through to make these embryos, and if there’s any chance they might want them back, we don’t want to throw them out,” says

Elizabeth Ginsburg, medical di rector for the infertility program at Brigham & Women’s Hospi tal in Boston. “You don’t want to make a m istake.” Printy, of Boston IVF, agrees. “We don’t think of embryos as abandoned p ro p e rty ,” he says. “They’re potential chil dren for families. They’re very valuable.” But they also cost money to store, and they take up room. The Fertility Center of New England in Reading recently had to knock out a wall in its lab to expand. New England Cryogenic Cen ter Inc. in Boston began as a sperm storage facility, but is now “overflow ing” with em bryos, President John Rizza said. And they a re n ’t being paid for all of them.

Boston IVF hasn’t decided what it will charge for storage. Other clinics charge from $120 a year to $600. Clinics are also looking into whether couples with extra em bryos have options other than destroying them, such as donat ing them for research, or allow ing them to be adopted by other couples. But those choices don’t ap peal to everyone. Valerie Shaw of Lexington doesn’t want to see her 11 fro zen embryos be grown and dis sected by researchers. Shaw, who had four children through IVF, said she also has reserv atio n s about donating her embryos to another couple. “I wouldn’t want my children to be brought up by somebody else,” she says.

One conviction on thirty-four charges in Worcester mob trial Courtesy o f Associated Press

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) The nine men were painted by prosecutors as renegade mem bers of a New England crime family, desperate to seize mob control. They were charged with stag ing a bloody battle to get what they wanted. But jurors didn’t buy it, or, at the very least, couldn’t decide which side was telling the truth. After a lengthy federal trial, only one of the men who had been charged with 34 criminal counts ranging from racketeer ing to murder was convicted of any crime. Jurors found Anthony Ciampi of East Boston guilty of illegal gam bling specifically, poker games.

Two o f his c o -d e fe n d an ts C hristopher Puopolo o f East Boston and Paul A. Decologero of Burlington were exonerated Tuesday. But Ciampi and six others will likely find themselves back in a co u rtro o m . Ju ro rs c o u ld n ’t reach a decision on more than half of the counts, and prosecu tors said they plan to retry those portions of the case. Jurors seemed to have par ticular trouble with the rack eteering counts. With the ex cep tio n o f P u o p o lo and Decologero, the jurors couldn’t reach racketeering verdicts for any of the men. “It was very difficult to get 12 people to come to the same c o n c lu s io n ,” ju r o r L inda M cM anus o f West B oylston told the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester.

“We ju st tried our best to come to agreement, and it be came impossible to do that,” she said. None of the jurors contacted by the paper would discuss the specifics of the deliberations. Prosecutors had attempted to prove that the men all reputed rogue m em bers o f La C osa Nostra, literally “This Thing of O urs” had waged a five-year plot to w rest control o f the Patriarca crime family. When they were in d ic te d nearly two years ago, prosecu tors said they were taking a big chunk out of organized crime. Prosecutors argued the ring leader was Robert F. “Bobby Russo” Carrozza of East Bos ton, a so-called “made” member of the family. A u thorities contended the suspects tried to kill reputed

mob boss F rancis “C adillac Frank” Salemme outside an In ternational House of Pancakes in Saugus in 1989, and later succeeded in killing three of his alleged associates. M ost o f the v io le n c e o c curred over an eight-month pe riod in 1994. “ Kill a few of them (Salemme loyalists) and the rest of them will scatter,” Carrozza allegedly told two other defendants, ac cording to court documents. T he ju ry in U .S. D istric t Court in W orcester, however, c o u ld n ’t reach a finding on th re e ra c k e te e rin g -re la te d charges for Carrozza. He was acquitted of a firearms-rclatcd charge. M uch o f the governm ent’s case centered on five in fo r mants. “These verdicts represent an

eloquent rejection by the jury of a prosecution based on the testim ony of inform ants that was motivated by coercive plea a g re e m e n ts ,” said a tto rn e y Martin Weinberg, C iam pi’s at torney. Jurors began their delibera tions on Dec. 17, although their discussions were interrupted by the holidays. They had to sift through 34 criminal counts and nearly three months o f testimony, including 100 witnesses and 300 exhibits. The jury either acquitted or couldn’t reach verdicts in the cases of five other defendants: Michael Romano of Wakefield; John J. Patti III of Revere; Eu gene A. “G ino” R ida Jr. of W orcester; Vincent M arino, also known as “Gigi Portalla,” of Nahant; and Nazzaro Ralph Scarpa of Boston.

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Federal officials question Massport spending on Big Dig where the $300 million is being spent. “The proposed use of airport rev e n u e s ... ra ise s q u e s tio n s about M assport’s compliance with the fed eral requirements for the use of airport revenue,” said the letter from FAA New England airp o rts division m anager Vincent A. Scarano to M assport avia tion director Thomas J. Kinton Jr. “Clearly, so long as these roadways serve the airport, the spending is le gal, and we feel will stand up to regu latory or legal challenge,” Crockford said. The challenge comes just as the Big Dig the largest public works project in the nation has been criticized in the wake of a report that showed spend ing on the project was taking money away from other capital projects across the state. Federal money for the $ 11 billion un-

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BOSTON (AP) - Federal aviation of ficials are questioning w hether the money Massport is contributing to the Big Dig is being used for airport needs. The M assachusetts Port Authority defends the spending, saying it is go ing for roads that are necessary to the Logan Airport. M assport is contributing $300 mil lion on the Central Artery/Third Har bor Tunnel project known as the Big D ig. M assport spokesm an Jerem y Crockford told The Boston Globe the money was for road connecting the Ted Williams tunnel to Route 1A, air port ramps and a service road. Last week, the Federal Aviation Ad m inistration asked Massport to prove it. They want docu m ents show ing

dertaking, which will eventually move now-raised central artery underground, was slashed last year, and the state has had to make up the difference. The FAA inquiry stemmed from a sta te a u d it last y ear th at said M assport’s spending on the Big Dig would lead to higher costs to travel ers. “Our basic interest in requesting the information is to ensure use of airport revenues is in compliance with FAA grant assurances and the applicable regulations,” said FAA spokesman Jim Peters. He also said he wanted to make sure Massport which is in the middle of its

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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - When Robert Kraft decided to pack up his Patriots and go to Hartford, football w asn’t the only thing the Bay State lost. Kraft has also apparently decided to expand his cardboard company in Con necticut rather than M assachusetts, according to a published report. The Wall Street Journal’s New En g land sectio n rep o rte d that K raft p u lle d out of talk s w ith M assDevelopment, an economic and real-estate development agency, where he was negotiating a deal to consoli date his company’s operations at the former Fort Devens military base. “We were within days of finalizing a purchase and sale,” Michael Hogan,

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Clu b C o r n e r Christian Bible Fellowship Welcome back! I hope that everyone had a really good Christmas vacation and I hope everyone does well in the upcoming term. On Tuesday night, we will be having prayer time in Founders 213, and on Friday night, we will be having an Open House Fellow ship at 7:30 in the Lower wedge. Anyone interested in any of these activities can email cbf@wpi.edu for more information. “Blessed are those that dwell in your house; they are ever praising you. Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.” Psalm 84:4-5 (NIV) How close is your relationship with God? This Psalm states that those who have a close relationship with God are truly blessed. It gives two characteristics of a close relationship with God, putting our strength in God and dwelling in His house. When you put your strength in God and follow him, He is able to use you in a way that is pleasing to Him. This in turn will build a closer relationship, and you will be blessed as a result. Another way we can have a close relationship with God is by dwelling in his house. Praise, Prayer, and reading the Bible are a few examples of how we may dwell in His house. The gift one receives from being blessed by God, and having a relationship with him is incredible, and is worth more than the effort that we could ever put forth on our part.

Concert Choir Hey everyone, and - as I’m sure every club is saying - welcome back from break! Our first rehearsal went well, but be sure to make it to all the others, especially if you weren’t there last week. We have much ground to cover and new music to learn before our end-of-the-month concert at RPI in beautiful Troy, NY. And let’s not forget the concert our thoughtful director has scheduled for Valentine’s Day! Rehears

als, as always, are every Wednesday at 6:30 pm, and Sundays at 7:00 pm, in Alden’s J.E. room.

Newm an Club Well we had a great ending to Term B . Over three hundred students came to our Christmas Mass on campus. So we would like to thank Chris Welsh and Armandio Rua who arrived in Alden at 7:00 PM that night to make sure Alden was set up prop erly for Mass. Our folk group under the direction of Jason Boudreau and Jonathan Graham did a fine job and we owe them a word of thanks also. One of the great mo ments of the Mass was when one hundred students put their gifts under the Christ mas Tree for the children of Youville House. It was rather nice to see students walking across the campus that night bearing Christmas gifts. This past Tree Giving project was the best ever and the Newman Club was very proud of what it did. Also a word of thanks to Tom Pfeiffer who was in charge of the project. Also thanks to our officers for a great reception/party after the Mass. However we cannot rest on past laurels. So our advisory board will be meeting this week to set the agenda for our Executive Board Meeting on January 25th. Our two big projects this term are our retreat on Saturday, February 20th and our Appala chia in Worcester Project during the term break. More news on these projects will be forthcoming in future editions of this pa per. Do not forget that our prayer and dis cussion group meets every Wednesday night at 8:30PM in the Religious Center.

Pathw ays Well, by now the deadline for submissions to this year’s mag has passed. Guess what, some people woke up and sent us stuff they had written and drawn and taken pictures of, so we just might get to put out a reasonable sized magazine. If you’ve got a little ditty

that you think would be smashing in Path ways, we’ll be nice and still let you submit it - if you get it to us soon. The selection process will commence shortly, followed by layout, then printing, then elections, and then we will all sit around in a circle and enjoy the magazine we’ve made. It’ll be a hoot! The staff will be alerted as soon as selection starts for those interested mem bers. Happy C-Term, I hope your room doesn’t flood.

W PI Linux Association Happy New Year, everybody! Welcome to the wonderful, gentle magic that is Cterm. If you’d like to brave the cold, you are as always invited to the WPILA meet ing in its new location: Fuller labs room 311, starting this Monday. There are some important items to take care of this term, so you’d better show up! First off, it being 1999 and all, beware the computer clock problem! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, 2038 is just around the comer, and we’d better be ready! Also, WPILA’s officers are all nearing the end of

the term. That leaves the WPILA mem bers two options—crack the officers’ heads open and turn back the odometers, or elect new ones! As much as we like being officers, I think I speak for everyone involved when I say the second option is probably better. Brains are icky. Ask any doctor. Finally, there’s plenty of cool crap planned for this term, including ( ‘bout bloody time) the T-shirt orders, yet-another-pizza-video-games-and-moviesmeeting, presentations on how to work ef fectively in Linux, and lots more. So hey, if you’re an active member, a lurker, or just someone with an interest in computers, come on down, talk shop for a while. The Linux Association meets every Monday at 7PM in Fuller 311, and has larger meetings about once a month together with the Worcester Linux Users’ Group. The weekly meetings are very in formal forums for members to discuss computer technical problems and current events in the world of free software. The larger meetings often include speakers and presentations, lots of other neat stuff like that. Everyone is welcome. 324 Grove St, Wore. (Across from Jillian's)

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WASHINGTON, DC, JAN 1 5 Senate Vote.com (www.senatevote.com) launched on January 15th as thousands of college students logged on to the Internet to speak out to their senators on the impeach ment trial of President Bill Clinton. SenateVote.com was created by IntellectualCapital.com (www.intellectual capital.com) and Policy.com (policy.com) as a forum for students, and all citizens, to send their opinions on the impeachment trial to their senators. SenateVote.com collects mes sages that constituents post on their sena tors’ pages, prints them, and then sendsthem directly to the senators’ offices throughout the trial, ensuring that all opinions registered at the site get to their destination in the Sen ate. In addition, the site’s content will be recorded and stored on CD-ROM to capture the state of the nation during this historic event, the first time an elected president has

been impeached and tried. This history-making trial comes at a time when the Internet and e-mail theoretically provide a unique opportunity for virtually all citizens to voice their opinion to their senators. Yet, many question what happeas to the e-mails they take the time to write and send to their senators. Some question whether they are ever received. Most importantly, recent studies have documented that e-mail has the least impact upon a member of Congress. SenateVote.com was created to provide citizens with a more effective voice in the Senate. In addition to collecting and deliver ing messages to the Senate, SenateVote.com serves as a resource for up-to-date news and information about the impeachment trial. Student organizations with Web sites are encouraged to participate and provide their audience with a voice in the Senate by plac ing a SenateVote.com icon on their homepage that links to SenateVote.com. Go to SenateVote.com at www.senate vote.com and voice your opinion to the Sen ate now!

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IM M E D IA T E PO SIT IO N S A V AILA BLE!! Are you interested in a job with flexible hours and good pay? The Annual Giving Office has immediate openings for students interested in our telemarketing program. Our students enjoy talking with alumni, and at the same time having fun raising money for WPI! Hours are 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., 2 nights a week or more, and the pay is $6.00 per hour. If you are interested, contact Dan Petrocelli at ext. 5697 for a brief phone interview.

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COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR MAY-DECEMBER 1999 SHOULD ATTEND THE CO-OP ORIENTATION MEETING TUESDAY, JANUARY 19 th 6 :3 0 TO 7 :3 0 P.M. HIGGINS LABS 2 1 8 • Find out how to jum pstart your career through fu ll-tim e paid employment • Get ready fo r on-campus interviews with GE, Kiewit, Quantum, and more! I f you cannot attend th is meeting, you should stop by th e Career Development C tr., Project Ctr.-Lower Level by Friday January 2 2 nd.

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HELP WANTED Get Involved! The Annual Giving Office at WPI is look ing for volunteers to partici pate in the 1999 Senior Class Gift Fundraiser. We need strong leadership to help make this the best Senior Gift ever! Interested? Please contact Daniel Petrocelli in the An nual Giving Office, ext. 5697 to schedule an interview. Student Supervisor Needed. Student Supervisor needed to provide support to the As sistant Director of Annual Giving in all aspects of the telemarketing fundraising pro

gram. The WPI telemarketing program raises operational support for the University from alumni and parents of WPI. Duties would include (nightly): preparing the phone room for calling, providing support to callers during the course of the phoning, evalu ating callers’ performance and deportment, and assisting the Annual Giving Staff by research ing information for reporting and data correction. Further duties include completing nightly reports on calling per formance, and other tasks as assigned. The student supervi sor would have to become con versant with all caller-training

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WPI 1999-2000 Financial Aid Courtesy o f The Financial Aid Office

Attention All Undergraduate 1999-2000 Financial Aid Appli cants: This is to inform you that a fi nancial aid application packet for the 1999-2000 academic year will be placed in your WPI mailbox during the month of January. These application materials need to be completed in order to apply for financial aid for the 1999-2000 academic year If you are off campus (i.e. CO OP, Project Center, cm- exchange) during taro C99’, our office will at tempt to direct your renewal appli cation materials to your parents’ address. Financial aid application packet includes the following: • WPI Upperclass Financial Aid Application (Pink) • CSS (College Scholarship Ser vice) Renewal PROFILEAppli cation • Checklist of application require ments (yellow sheet) Please Note: In addition to the above materials, you will also be required to complete a 1999-2000 Renewal FAFSA in order to apply for financial aid. In past years, WPI’s Office of Financial Aid has mailed this form to your WPI mail box. This year, however, the Fed eral Department of Education will be mailing the FAFSA or EAC (electronic access code) directly to your home address between No vember 23,1998-January 8, 1999. The FAFSA or EAC will be mailed to the address that was reported on your 1998-1999 FAFSA. Mailing EACs to students is new for the 1999-2000 academic year. Because of this, our office has pro vided the following questions and answers to help explain this new procedure: What is an EAC and how will I know if I will receive a 1999-2000 Renewal FAFSA or EAC? The EAC is an electronic access

code which the Department of Edu cation created for you in order to access your 1999-2000 Renewal FAFSA data on the world wide web. The Department of Educa tion will mail an EAC to only the following group of students: If you filed your 1998-1999 FAFSAor Renewal FAFSA viathe world wide web, you will receive an EAC forthe 1999-2000academic year. Students who did not file their 1998-1999FAFSAor Renewal FAFSA via the world wide web will receive a paper Renewal FAFSA What if I receive an EAC from the Federal Department of Educa tion, but I do NOT want to file my Renewal FAFSAviathe world wide web for the 1999-2000 academic year? If you prefer to file a paper ver sion of the FAFSA, you will need toobtain a 1999-2000FAFSA from WPI’s Office of Financial Aid; you will never receive a 1999-2000 Re newal FAFSA from the Federal De partment of Education. What if I want to file my 19992000Renewal FAFSAviathe world wide web, but did not receive an EAC? You will need to access the De partment of Education’s FAFSA website (www.fafsa ed.gov) and follow the instructions to obtain an EAC. What if my mailing address is different than the one I used for my 1998-1999FAFSAor Renewal FAFSA? If your mailing address is differ ent from last year’s address, then you will not receive a Renewal FAFSA or EAC from the Depart ment of Education. You will need to request a FAFSA from WPI’s Office of Financial Aid. In any event, if you do not re ceivey a r Renewal FAFSAor EAC by late January, please contact WPI’s Office of Financial Aid to obtain a 1999-2000FAFSA If you have any additional ques tions, please do not hesitate to contact our office.

Library training sessions It was a dark and stormy night. The ice hung on the trees like molasses in January. I had been working on this case for the past two weeks and had no leads. I didn’t know where to turn. Was at a loss. Up a creek without a paddle. What was I to do? And then it hit me... Never start your sufficiency, IQP, or MQP before coming to the library! This term we’re offering three sections of the now legendary “Researching Projects and suffi ciencies I: A Library Introduc

tion”. And this time you can sign up online at www.wpi.edu/+library/training/ Sessions will be held Monday, January 18: 9-lQam Tuesday, January 19: 11am-12pm Thursday, January 21: 3 -4pm In this session you’ll learn how to find books and locate periodi cals in the Gordon Library, find books and locate periodicals in other libraries, actually get books or periodical articles from another library (ILL WILL UnCover), and search electronic databases. All injust 45 minutes! Case closed. Ain’t life grand?

materials. Candidates should have good leadership skills so as to provide alternate authority in the phone room in case of the absence of the Assistant Director, and for occasional Sunday calling. Must be available at least C&D term. Pay: $7.00 per hour — Hours: 12+ per week, mostly evenings. Please contact Daniel Petrocelli, Assistant Director of Annual Giving, at ext. 5697 to schedule an interview.

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P o l ic e L o g Friday, January 8 9:57pm - Water Leak: Large amount of water coming from Loading Dock at Morgan, leak coming from ice machine. Saturday, January 9 6:05pm - Water Problem: The toilet & pipes are leaking sewage into the cellar. 6:36pm - Arrival: Officers, Student tenant from Fuller called and stated that it was his shower that set it off. WFD advised of update but still responding. 6:39pm - Arrival: WFD Per Officer it is the shower that set it off. 9:55pm - Call In: Officer request crew be called in for sanding, all roads ice, 4 people be called in. 10:36pm - Arrival: Officer, student with frozen locks on her car. Escort given to Hackfeld Rd., car will be there overnight. 10:43pm - Past Break: Hackfeld tenant believes someone may have broken earlier in the night. 10:52pm - Code 5: Officers, no break, tenant left door open by mistake. Sunday, January 10 3:08am - Assist: Worcester EMS requests officer to Boynton Street to assist EA with 23 yealr old female having asthma attack. 4:15pm - Larceny: 12 yr old child outside of Harringon states he is being beat up and someone was trying to steal his money. 4:50pm - Code 5: Child will go home to speak to his parents, one dollar was taken. 8:28pm - Atwater Kent: Room 120 C-D-A Heating system 90-100 degrees, HVAC needs to be called in. 8:59pm - Vandalism: Stoddard B 3"1floor was vandalized with a black marker. Monday, January 11 5:50am - Intrusion Alarm: Harrington - ROTC. 5:10pm - Elevator Alarm: Recording someone trapped in elevator Daniels. 5:15pm - Code 5: No one in elevator at Daniels everything is working O.K. Tuesday, January 12 7:50am - Icy Conditions: Boynton Hill, Library Ramp. 3:50pm - Properly Check: Per Athletic Dept., someone on track shoveling with metal snow shovel possibly damaging track. 5:30pm - Heating Problem: RA in Stoddard B states no heat, electrician to be called in. Wednesday, January 13 10:18am - Accident: Plant services and Airborne vehicle behind Boynton. 3:16pm - Unknown Problem: Male wearing green hooded jacket, doubled over by tree on access road between the Athletic Field and Morgan Hall.

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16:30 pm Co-op Orientation Meeting for May’Dee. ’99, HL 218 6:30pm WPI Venture Forum. “Up-front Exit Strategies!; Climbing Mount Everest - The Journey’s Summit,” Kinnicutt fjatl (re^istratidh 6:00pm)

o n # # 7:00pm Concert. “Sing tor Swings,” $5, Alden 8:00pm MW Repertory 10lhAnniversary Show, Riley Commons

12:00pm Women’s Basketball, WPI vs. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Harrington 4:00pm Men’s Basketball, WPI vs. Babson College, Harrington 8:00pm MW Repertory 10"' Anniversary Show, Riley Commons I L11:30am & 5:(X)pm Catholic Mass, Alden 6:30pm & 9:30pm Film. “Rush Hour,” $2, FLAUD

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3:19pm-Code 5: Student was just waiting for some frie«ds, no problem. 9:03pm - MV Accident/Leaving Scene: Student reports vehicle drove up into Freeman Plaza driving over barriers. States w/m young, blond hair got out vehicle and stated, “I drank too much,” then drove off. 9:05pm - Arrival: Car gone on arrival but obvious damage to barrier on Freeman Plaza, per Sargent call WPD and Millbury PD (vehicle’s registered owner has address in Millbury) to alert them of possible drunk driver. 9:07pm - Notified: WPD of possible drunk driver. 9:10pm - Code 5: Vehicle gone on arrival, will do follow-up. 9:16pm - Cancel: President Parrish called to cancel escort to Providence in the morning.

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Friday night, LEAP sponsored “Sing for Swings”, an a cappella ben efit concert for the Rainbow Child Development Center. The RCDC is a licensed, non-profit child care center in Worcester, and is raising money to build a new playground. The tour-de-force of six collegiate and professional a cappella groups started twenty minutes late as tech nical difficulties in the sound system were experienced. The show even

tually opened with Simple Harmonic Motion, exhibiting five songs previ ously enjoyed at Interstate 8’s Road Trip concert. Favorites included Ethan Deneault wishing “If I Only Had a Brain”, sans Wizard of Oz skit; and “Run Around Sue”, with both soloist Jay Ingalsbc and new chore ography. Another twenty-minute delay en sued as the wall of microphone tow ers, seemingly separating the sing ers from the audience, were removed, to be replaced by six wireless handhelds.

The audience was next introduced to House Blend, a professional all female group, save for one confused gentleman. The six singers produced a contemporary, folky pop sound, with songs such as “Stay”, “Shambala”, “Sunny Come Home”, and Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Tom”. Another six-member group fol lowed, starting with a loud rock-pop sound favored by the professional group Ball in the House. The volume was pumped up for an excellent ren dition of Bryan Adams’ hit from the Eighties, “Summer of ’69", and stayed

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up as the audience clapped along with “Gravity Buster”. Never heard before was “Giving You Me”, an origi nal by one of the group members. After a brief intermission, the sec ond act was followed by the Clark Bars of nearby Clark University. The coed group, numbering more than a dozen, performed their final concert with some of their members, while welcoming back new ones. Sting’s “Shape of My Heart”, Bare Naked Ladies’ “One Week”, and “Tom” (again!) partly comprised their rou tine. WPI’s own no fella a cappella group, Interstate 8, was the fifth group to perform, again serving up hits from their last concert. Heather McCusker stood in for Jen Waite, forming a duct with B.J. Boettcher for “ Sweet Dreams”, and “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, according to soloist Julie Rob erts. “Dreams" and “If I Ever Fall In Love” rounded off their repertoire. 0 The final performance of the nighi was given by After 8, a Bostonbased professional group. A bass boasted of his... extraordinary talents in “Sixty Minute Man”, followed by a tune familiar to SHM fans, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love". After 8 ex hibited some promising skills as a dance troupe in “Deo (The Banana Boat Song)", as they performed a wide variety of imitations, including people, actions, and tools. The audi ence was encouraged to participate, though chances of it appearing on a live album recording seems unlikely. The evening ended with voices and spirits high, everyone having had a good time and having benefitted a charitable society. The performers were skilled and song variety wide. Be sure to attend WPI’s fifth annual A Cappella Fest, April 10th, as vari ous groups from far and wide yet again entertain WPI for an evening.

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