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On Saturday, March 27, approxi mately one-hundred WPI students attended an all day Leadership Ex perience and Practice R etreat at W orcester’s Crow n Plaza Hotel. The students ranged from fresh man, or first-year leaper’s, to ju n iors, or third-year leapers. The days activities were planned by LEAP co o rdin ato r’s Thom as Balistrieri and Rosalyn Eaton. The d a y ’s activities opened at 9:00am with opening remarks from Provost John Carney III. After Pro vost Camey had completed his re marks, the LEAP students went onto the first group activity o f the day. T h is activ ity w as e n title d , “LeaderShop: A Leadership Simula tion G am e.” This workshop got groups o f students working together to form their vision of a perfect leader. The activity started off with each group receiving $5000 in “donkey” money. Then the groups had ten minutes to decide which qualities, out o f a given list o f qualities, they would purchase. Then they had an o th er tw enty m inutes to p u r c h a s e th e q u a litie s fro m the “LeaderShop.” O nce they com pleted the purchasing the teams had ten m inutes to figure out which qualities they would like to negoti ate for. N ext the g ro u p s spent tw enty m inutes n eg o tiatin g for qualities, they didn’t originally pur chase, but had wanted for their ideal leader. Finally the groups presented the qualities they had picked, and de fended why they made their choices. After the workshop was complete they had a guest speaker who talked about entrepreneurship. The guest speaker who was cho sen was Mr. Larry Abramoff, the Owner o f Tatnuck Bookseller. His entrepreneurship adventure started when he decided to move from New York City, where he was working. He realized that if he was going to succeed, he would have to try new things, and be willing to fail at them. In 1991, his staff at Tatnuck Book seller, expanded from forty to over on e-hu n d red in literally w eeks. Then in 1996, he was approached by WPI to run the campus book store. W hen the bookstore opened it was such a success that his origi nal three-y ear co n tract w as ex tended to a fourteen-year contract. During his years in business he saw management restructuring and turn over. He also stated, “Leaders need to have a vision.” He closed out with a final thought: “The differ ence between a good idea and a

Last Tuesday, Bill Nelson spoke on the topic o f Sexism and Gender Roles. When I first arrived, I ex pected the typical WPI lecture setup - a few rows o f people in nearlyem pty room . W hen I got there, Alden was about 3/4 full, and the remaining seats were filled quickly. The audience was about 90% male. Realizing that this was a lecture on w hat a re ty p ic a lly c o n sid e re d “W omen’s Issues,” I wondered if I was in the wrong building. I checked the flyer again, and confirmed that I was in the right place. Prior to the presentation, it was revealed that most of the men in the audience were Fraternity mem bers, and that the event fulfilled a requirement. This explained the audience, and I was in terested to see how a roomful of guys would react to such a presentation. Bill Nelson was interested as well. He noted that he usually lectured to groups o f w om en, and stated that the circum stances gave him a unique “ o p p o rtu n ity to address men.” His lecture focused on why (statistically) men com m it crime more often than women, and ways to improve relations between men and women. He brought the issue of rape and violence closer to the audience by disproving false myths and stereotypes about rapists and criminals. According to Bill, people who think that rape will never hap pen to them, or their loved ones and friends, are putting them selves in danger. Most people often expect

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The WPI Glee Club spent their vacation in the Czech Republic (oddly, he couldn’t make the con certs). In four cathedrals through out the Republic, all extraordinary and magnificent in their own right, the men o f WPI performed every thing from the sacred Latin to secu lar works from some of our contem poraries. The conclusion of every performance included, much to the amusement o f the Czech nationals always in attendance, a rousing ren d itio n o f a p o p u lar C zech folksong, sung in Czech. B etw een p erfo rm a n ces, the Club saw what the open country side had to offer. South o f Prague C esk y K ru m lo v , a tow n th a t thanks to preservation laws has changed little in the last five cen turies, showed off its magnificent arch itec tu re and w inding city

by Jeff Haynes President, WPI Glee Club There is an unwritten precedent regarding the Presidential office in the C zech R epublic, form erly C zechoslovakia. Traditionally, Presidents have been theologians, playwrights and also incarcerated before achieving the seat held to day by Vaclav Havel, a former in mate and poet himself. It seems to be something o f a prerequisite to the office. In the spirit of that time-honored tradition, the WPI Glee Club em barked on a spring tour o f the Czech Republic. While avoiding incar ceration (just barely), the Glee Club did on several occasions deliver musical presentations that would have im pressed Vaclav him self

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rapists to appear as dark shadowy figures behind a street com er, but the m ajority o f rape victim s are raped by someone they know. B ill’s next question w as then “W hy do men rape w om en?” He was careful to state that “the ma jority o f men are not rapists, but the majority of rapists are m en.” Most ra p ists are m o tiv a ted not by a w om an’s appearance o r overactive horm ones, but by pow er control. Bill com m ented on this myth by making comparisons between the treatm ent of men and wom en in so ciety: “ ...2 2 guys at the line o f scrimmage and I bet nobody says ‘Hey, look at those tight pants - I bet he wants to be raped.” Some of Bill’s comments were out landish or silly, but also useful in showing how ridiculous it is to treat women as objects, and to help the men in the audience see how nega tive treatment and violence affects women. My favorite moment was when he asked for the audience mem bers to send him any pornographic posters, videos, etc. they had so he could bum them. He even offered to send back a videotape o f the burning. Bill also presented some serious material, including a highly unset tling tape of a 911 call o f a woman being burglarized and raped. He used the audience re sp o n ses to show how society has a tendency to accept blaming the victim in rape cases. Throughout the p resen ta tion, he offered a series o f “attitude checks,” such as this one, to make the audience members more aware

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N e w m a n C lu b g o e s t o Y o u v ille H o u s e f o r t h e ir a n n u a l p r o j e c t selves in five cars making their way to Youville House for their annual project. Once there the group re paired and painted two large recre ation rooms, two large hallways and a few doors. All total they gave over a hundred hours of manual labor. They all agreed that it was worth giving up a day o f term break to help people whom are down on their luck right now. More important it helped them to reach out to our fel low human beings and show them that there are people who care about others. Later that night, all sixteen o f the group, one got lost in traffic, went to A rtu ro ’s R estaurant for supper and to celebrate the spirit o f community. Wednesday morn ing found a few o f them back down at the Religious Center to put away all the tools, paint brushes, etc. until they would need them again at the next project. The Newman Club is grateful to all those who volunteered their time

by Amandio Hilario Rua Class o f ‘99 For those o f the Newman Club involved in this year’s Appalachia in Worcester, it meant that keeping an eye on the weather reports on Sunday, March 14th and Monday, M arch 15th. They also received weather updates via e-m ail from Father Scanlon. Luckily for all, late M onday night the e-mail message came that the snow had stopped in W o rc e ste r an d A p p a la c h ia in W o rcester w as g o ing a h ead as scheduled on Tuesday, M arch 16. However, the end o f the storm in Worcester still left five o f the group members stranded in various air ports around the country and they were not able to fly into W orcester until late Tuesday. Despite this, seventeen Newman Club members reported to the Reli gious Center at 9:00am on Tuesday m orning and soon found them

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The Newinan Club stands in front of Youville House where they held their annual Appalachia in Worcester project. especially Jen Hardy for setting up the project and Amandio Rua for being crew boss. They know that the people at Youville House arc

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grateful for the caring students at WPI. More than one o f them said “ God Bless you and thanks” as they left them.

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Sp o r t s W P I e le v a te s c r e w Courtesy of WPI News Service W PI Director o f Athletics Ray Gilbert announced today that the university will offer m en’s and w om en’s crew as varsity sports beginning w ith the 1999-2000 aca demic year. The addition o f the two crew program s will bring the total o f intercolle giate athletic varsity teams at W PI to 21, 11 for men and 10 for women. “The rowing programs have been part of our club sports program for more than 25 years,” said Gilbert. “Varsity status will provide our students with increased inseason opportunities and, more specifically for the women, an opportunity to compete for a New England Women’s and M en’s Athletic Conference Championship against MIT, Mount Holyoke College, Smith Col lege and W ellesley College. From its earliest beginnings in 1941 when interested W PI students borrow ed boats from Shrewsbury High School, the m en’s team has enjoyed many years o f success at the club level. The crew program reemerged in 1965 when James Raslavsky ‘68 and mathematics instructor Dick Olsen re established the program to accomm odate those students who wanted to com pete in the sport. Since then the men have rowed at the U.S. N ational Championships and the Dad Vail Regatta and have reaped the rewards o f their hard work. Last fall the m en’s four finished fourth at the Head o f the Charles Regatta and last spring they were New England Champions as well as W orcester City Champions. Heather Cullen, acting director o f row ing, has been with the men’s team for 4-1/2 years and is looking forward to the chal lenges and excitem ent of building a var sity program. “Everyone associated with both crew program s are excited to see this day com e,” said Cullen. ‘T h e elevation to varsity status is the culmination o f a lot o f people’s efforts and many years o f persis tence. Our goal is to develop a well rounded program at WPI with the hope o f adding more com petitive boats as time goes on.” Cullen also stated that both teams are rela

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to v a r s ity tively young, so the nucleus o f rowers is already in place to have an impact immedi ately. The w om en’s program at W PI got its start in 1973 when three classmates from 1975, N ancy W ood P o p inchaulk, Sue Dawson and Beth Poulin brought their lead ership to the front and established a club team. Twenty-six years later the women have experienced strong participation and have had success as well. In 1984 they com peted and finished third at the U.S. National Cham pionships along with hav ing won numerous W orcester City Cham pionships. The team will call Lake Quinsigamond its home as it has since the beginning and will start the program with a varsity 8 boat fo r b o th th e m en an d w om en. T he D onahue Rowing C enter, which houses shells and other equipm ent for the area colleges and high schools, was facilitated by a g e n e ro u s c o n trib u tio n by Irv in g James “Jim ” Donahue ‘44. Donahue was team captain and stroke for the first crew team at WPI and has remained a staunch

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Baseball (7-4) The baseball team used another late in ning rally to capture their northern season opener last Thursday against Nichols. Fresh man Jared Birmingham (Concord, N.H.) hit a two-out, three-run home run to win the game in the home half of the eighth inning. T h ro u g h the first seven innings the W PI bats were silen t as they had only three hits. Birm ingham opened the eighth with a single and that was follow ed by a tw o-run hom e run by Justin D ow ning (L eom inster, M ass.) to put W PI on the b o a rd . S te v e H o rs m a n (A b in g to n , M a ss.) h it a s in g le and R ob B u sb y (Andover, M ass.) drew a walk to put run ners at first and second. H orsm an ad vanced to third on a flyout to centerfield and Busby stole second to put tw o run-

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ners in scoring position. M ike Scanlan (Littleton, M ass.) then hit a soft line drive over the second basem an to knock in H orsm an and advance Busby to third. Scanlan took second base on the throw to third base to keep tw o runners in scor ing position. Busby scored on a ground out w hile Scanlan advanced to third as the tying run w as 90 feet away w ith two outs. Eric T hiboutot (N ashua, N .H .) was hit by a pitch to put the w inning run on. Jason Katz (M errim ack, N.H.) then came through w ith a single to score Scanlan and tie the gam e at 5-5. B irm ingham was the next b a tte r and he cleared all the bases w ith a shot o v er the centerfield fence and the 8-5 win. M ike R eiter (Ce dar G rove, N .J.) pitched seven innings and struck out eight batters with no de c is io n . A n th o n y B e rry ( F a lm o u th , M ass.) p itc h e d a sco reless top o f the eighth to pick up the w in in relief.

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Softball (1-4) The softball team picked up their first win o f the season as they opened their northern schedule with a 7-3 victory over Anna Maria. WPI capitalized on a couple of Amcat errors in the first inning to jum p out to a 40 lead. Sonja Farak (Portsmouth, R.I.) had the big hit in the inning with a single to drive in Lara Currie (Concord, N.H.) and Janice Narowski (Southington, Conn.). The Amcats battled back to within one run at 4-3 entering the home half of the fifth. Leah Henry (Paradise, Pa.), who reached on a fielder’s choice advanced to second when Farak drew a walk and scored on a solid single by Julie Bolduc (Westport, Mass.). Marina Carboni (Leominster, Mass.) and R achel M altais (W estport, M ass.) each scored in the bottom o f the sixth for the 73 final. Currie pitched a complete game striking out four to pick up the win.

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by Bree J. Schuette The Daily Free Press (Boston U.) (U-WIRE) BOSTON, Mass. — Adm in istrators at the M assachusetts Institute of Technology acknowledged last week they have systematically discrim inated against female faculty for decades, a bias they said has had long-term negative effects on pro fessors and the university. The admission came in response to a se ries of com plaints lodged by female fac ulty members over the past five years and will be detailed in a report to be released later this month. Only 15 o f M IT’s 209 tenured science faculty, or 7 percent, are women. N ation wide, 26 percent o f tenured faculty are women— the vast majority in the arts, hu manities and social sciences. To redress this problem, the school has agreed to increase pay for female faculty by an average o f 20 percent and adjust re tirement packages retroactively for some women to reflect what they would have been paid if salaries had been equal, Dean o f the School of Science Robert Birgeneu said in a written statement. “Some small steps have been taken to reverse the effect o f decades o f discrim i nation, but we still have a great deal more to accom plish before true equality and equal treatm ent will have been achieved,” Birgeneu said. Administrators have also shuffled class assignments and given female faculty more office and laboratory space. “Using the word discrimination makes it sound deliberate,” said Nancy Hopkins, an M IT professor of biology who was among those who brought com plaints to the ad ministration. ‘T h e cause is unconscious, but it has tangible results.” Women have been paid significantly less than male professors, and the university failed to match salary offers from outside schools for female faculty, according to Hopkins. Although issues like office space and laboratory assignm ents seem minor, they can make a dramatic difference in people’s jo b satisfaction, Hopkins said. “Anything that makes it even slightly harder adds up over the years,” she said. After m ore than 26 years at the univer sity, Hopkins said it is the little things that stand out to her. She said acts o f overt discrimination— such as pin-ups o f women

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in faculty offices— no longer occur. She added that male faculty members have be come more sensitive to issues facing fe male professors. Victoria Kaspi, an assistant professor of physics, said tenure decisions are often complicated by gender. “It’s a fact that the tenure clock happens to coincide with the biological clock,” she said. The female faculty committee presented administrators with several cases o f women who hid the fact that they had children from their tenure-review committee or delayed having children until after they had been reviewed. In fact, only 50 percent o f tenured fe male faculty at M IT have children— sig nificantly less than the national average. Birgeneu has suggested forming a com mittee to address maternity concerns, al though no proposal has been finalized. Despite such positive steps, Hopkins ex pressed concern that the benefits may be only temporary. “.It’s extremely fragile because there are so few women involved in the process and so much has depended on the work o f one dean (Birgeneu),’’ Hopkins said. Few untcnured female faculty have ex pressed interest in the discrim ination is sue, Hopkins said, often times because they are preoccupied with other concerns, such as generating funding and producing re search and academic papers. “It requires a long education process, and even then we can’t educate everyone,” she said. “The non-tenured faculty are too young to understand it because the young people are busy trying to get along with the system .” Hopkins said it took her years to realize the problems she experienced at M IT rep resented systematic discrimination and not merely isolated personal incidents. MIT President Charles Vest said the uni versity recognizes the advances may not last without a concerted effort by the ad ministration and male faculty members. “We can take pride in the candor o f dia log that these women have brought to this issue and in the progress that we have made, but much remains to be done,” Vest said in a written statement. “Our rem ark ably diverse student body must be matched by an equally diverse faculty. Through our institutional commitment and policies we must redouble our efforts to make this a reality.” Although MIT is the first school to ac knowledge institutional discrimination, it is not the only one to come under fire for its treatment of female faculty. A c tiv ists and fem ale p ro fe s s o rs at Harvard University have com plained for years about the school’s below -average number o f tenured female faculty, despite

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highly publicized efforts to attract and re tain women professors. The sm all num ber o f tenured fem ale faculty at H arvard is even m ore striking than at M IT because o f H arvard’s strong h u m a n itie s tr a d itio n , a c c o r d in g to Hopkins. Significantly more females graduate from arts, humanities and social sciences pro grams than from science and m athematics programs, she said, meaning that universi ties have more choices when hiring women

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professors in these disciplines. Harvard officials declined comment for this story. Charges o f gender-based discrimination have also ex ten d ed to M a ssa c h u se tts’ community colleges, according to Andrew Linebaugh o f the M assachusetts Teach ers Association, which represents faculty at 28 public institutions. The schools recently settled a five-yearold complaint and agreed to exam ine the issue in-depth, Linebaugh said.

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Name: Shadowgate Classic Platform: Gameboy & Gameboy Color Publisher: Kemco Rating: 7.5 The release o f the Gameboy Color intro duced a system functionally on par with the original 8-bit Nintendo, prompting many com panies to port NES classics to the handheld for a new generation of gamers to enjoy. One such game is Kemco’s Shadowgate Classic, which, despite showing its age, is still mod erately fun. Long ago, the council of sorcerers known as the Circle o f Twelve banished one o f their own, the evil Warlock Lord. Now, centuries later, he has freed him self from his im prisonm ent, and only you, a proph esied descendent from the Line of Kings, can bring ruin to his dark schemes. Journey through Castle Shadowgate in a first-person perspective, a room or scene

I n d ie fe s t by Kathy Pacheco Pub Chair o f SocComm Are you in a jazz band? How about a ska band? Punk, rock, funk or rap band? As a tradition here at WPI, Indiefest has allowed students to show off their musical talent. As part o f Quadfest 7, Pub will be holding it’s annual Indiefest on the quad on May 1st. An array o f bands will play all day long. In the past, there have been vari ous acts perform with diverse m usical styles. Original to covered m aterial will liven up the afternoon and ju st m ight make you want to get jiggy with it. There is still time to enter into Indiefest ’99! Grab an application from the SocComm office and return it with a dem o by Friday, April 2nd. At least one member of the band must be a WPI student. The m ore bands that enter, the m ore fun it will be to decide w hich bands w ill represent this y e a r’s showcase. So come one, com e all. If not to play, then to listen. If you have any questions about this event, feel free to contact the Social Committee Pub Chair, Kathy Pacheco (kpacheco@ wpi.edu). O r call the SocComm office at x5509.

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at a time, similar to Myst. An action, such as “look” or “use” , is chosen from a menu, followed by an item in either the player’s inventory or in the current scene. There are puzzles to solve, items to acquire, and foes to defeat before reaching the final confrontation in this puzzle genre rarely seen in the last decade. The graphics are more colorful than the NES version o f Shadowgate. Since the scenes inspected are still-life, there is no action or moving sprites. Some secret items or passages are observable only to the keenest o f eyes, due to a lack o f size or detail; but mostly the gam e’s puzzles are

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well-represented by the graphics. The music is simple, repetitive, and oc casionally grating. The tune changes when a monster is encountered, or to warn that your torch is guttering and needs replace ment. Sound effects are minimal, as there is little action for them to accompany. The interface was obviously designed for the computer. Moving items between inventories is tedious, and the cursor con trol is sometimes imprecise, despite its slow speed. However, the design is simple, and does provide som e handy shortcuts, so playability doesn’t suffer. The m o st f ru s tra tin g a s p e c t o f

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by Eric Rackliff Newspeak Staff What do you get when you mix hours of great music with flames, fireworks, and a 12foot tall mechanical creeper? The answer is the spectacular concert that Korn and Rob Zombie recently put on at the Worcester Centrum Center. The Centrum was filled to capacity with fans hoping for a great show and they were not disappointed. From the time Zombie erupted onto the stage between huge columns of fire for his first song until the time Kom finished their final encore, the crowd was on its feet. Rob Zom bie proved his skill as a show man w hile playing songs from his hot new album , Hellbilly Deluxe. His stage was u tterly am azing w ith its sculpted backdrop, three huge screens with vid eos playing on them , scantly clad danc ing w om en, m ulti-colored flam es, and o f course the 12-foot tall creeper. The re sulting show w as an audio and visual experience that I will never forget. Zom bie even took som e time in the m iddle o f the show to talk to what he called his “hom etow n crow d” . Zom bie also dished out som e old W hite Zom bie songs for the fans because as everyone knows, no Zom bie concert would be com plete w ith out “M ore Hum an Than H um an” . This left Korn with a hard act to follow but not surprisingly their show was ev ery bit as im pressive as Z om bie’s was. The stag e was set up as a m ulti-stage prison w ith som e lucky fans occupying

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Shadow gate is the lack o f sense to the puzzle solutions. Scene obstacles are over come by using the proper item from the inventory, but the interaction between the two has neither rhyme nor reason. It usu ally comes to trying everything that may (or may not) work, or consulting an answer book. Apparently such logic was uncom mon in puzzle gam es o f Shadowgate’s era. For those w ith patience, Shadow gate Classic remains the entertaining game it alw ays has been, w hile giving gam ers something to eagerly await: this sum m er’s release o f Shadowgate: The Trials o f the Four Towers, for Nintendo 64.

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W ORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A v a lu a b le F ren ch Im p re ssio n ist painting stolen from a Worcester hom e 20 years ago may soon be returning to the city. Two O hio businessm en are of fe rin g to d o n a te th e p a in tin g , C a m ille P i s s a r o ’s “ B a ss in s D uquesne et Berrigny a Dieppe, Tem ps G ris,” to the W orcester A rt M useum as part o f a lastm inute settlem ent before a trial to determ ine the p ain tin g ’s ow ner ship was scheduled to begin to day. The painting was the most im portant o f 10 works o f art stolen in July 1978 from the home o f the late Robert and Helen Stoddard. They bought it for $7,000 in 1951 from a t io n a l

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the M. K noedler Gallery in New York; its currcnt value has been estimated between $400,000 and $2 million. The painting had turned up in O cto b er at a C leveland auction gallery ju s t w eeks before Helen Stoddard died in N ovem ber at the age o f 94. The ag reem ent to donate the painting to the m useum is part o f a settlem en t being negotiated for subm ission today to a ju d g e in Cleveland, the Telegram & Gazette o f W orcester reported. The proposal also calls for the W orcester Art M useum to reim burse L iberty M utual Insurance C o . th e $ 9 0 ,0 0 0 it p a id the Stoddards for the loss o f the paint

ing 20 years ago. The m useum would pay the com pany from a special art acquisition fund estab lished by the Stoddards. The businessmen, Daniel Zivko and K enneth Bem ent, said they bought the painting in 1997 from Jennifer Cornell, identified only as a resident o f Massachusetts. Their lawyer, George R. Oryshkewych, said Cornell acquired the painting through a divorce settlement with her former husband. FBI officials say they are still in vestigating the theft. Z ivko and Bem ent consigned the painting to a Cleveland auction house where it was seized Oct. 22 by the FBI just as it was about to be sold.

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o rc e s te r New England College in Spring field. W hen fully o p erational, the Worcester campus will accommo date 300 pharmacy students, 100 physician students and 50 fac u lty and s ta f f m e m b e rs, the school said. Robert L. McCarthy o f Shirley, an a s s o c ia te p ro fe s s o r at M CPHS, has been named dean o f the new sch o o l. P ro fesso r Ronald A. DeBellis o f Oxford will act as assistant dean. M C PH S w as e stab lish ed in 1823. It offers undergraduate and g r a d u a te d e g re e s in se v e ra l health care disciplines.

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston will open a college o f pharmacy and phy sician assistant studies in Worcester. The move, announced Friday, in volves the purchase o f a building in downtown W orcester that will un dergo $ 11 million in renovations prior to the college’s scheduled opening in August 2000. M C PH S P re sid e n t C h a rle s F. Monahan Jr. said the new college, which has yet to be named, will al low for the expansion and relocation o f a pharmacy program the College has operated for more than two de cades on the cam pus o f W estern

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by Gillian Flynn Associated Press Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Pro testers opposed to the bombing in Y ugoslavia chanted and w aved signs in Kennedy Plaza, several hours after three NATO officials explained the air raids to Brown U niversity students. T h e 20 p r o te s te r s g a th e re d T h u rsd a y in fro n t o f the federal b u ild in g th at h o u se s the U .S.

D istrict C ourt and c h a n te d “hey hey, ho ho, N A TO ’s w ar has got to g o ” as p a sse rsb y and rushh o u r c o m m u te rs h e ad e d hom e from work. Jam es M cL aughlin o f P ro v i dence brought his daughter Sarah, 7, to the gathering. NATO has no business bombing a sovereign na tion, he said. “When my wife and I have a fight in o u r h o u se, i t ’s none o f my neighbor’s business,” he said.

P r o p o s a l w o u ld by Jean McMillan Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) - With the aim of ensuring that children across the state can enter the com puter age, the state Legislature is consider ing a bill that would pump $50 mil lion in com puter aid to cities and tow ns. “Three years ago, we began to m ove M assachusetts out o f the basem ent. W e’re up to average. Now we need to move M assachu setts from average up to where we ought to be as a high-tech state,” said Beth Lowd, coordinator o f Business & Education for Schools and Technology (BEST), a coali tion o f business, education and labor organizations.

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S he sa id th e B ay S ta te has moved from a state ranking o f 48th to 30th, based on the num ber o f students per computers. Lowd was among those testify ing Wednesday at a hearing o f the H ouse and Senate S cience and Technology Committees on the bill, which would provide $35 million in m atching grant m oney for local school districts to buy new com puters or pay for training. It also would direct $ 10 million to link schools, town halls and other p ublic en tities w ith high-speed Internet service, and devote $5 mil lion for computer learning centers in public housing developments. “The bill is terribly im portant because it continues the m om en tum,” Lowd said.

Tim M cK ee, a Green Party o r ganizer, said he was concerned that NATO’s actions could lead to larger conflict in Europe. The rag-tag group o f protesters also included several Brown U niver sity students and m em bers o f the International Socialist O rganiza tion, all o f whom had different reasons for opposing the bom b ing. M eantime, the NATO officials met no opposition at Brown. They

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by a sin g le b u lle t th a t passed through h er body and punched through a wall, according to wit nesses. T he wound was not be lieved to be life threatening and the woman was being treated at a local hospital Thursday night. Cam pus officials w eren’t Sure whether the woman is a student. Police said the description o f the shooter an Asian man in his 20s, about 5-foot-5 and wearing a dark baseball cap turned backw ard was sim ilar to descriptions o f the at tacker that em erged Thursday as witnesses came forward. That gunman fired single shots in

fearful that the atrocities could sp ill o u t o f the B a lk an s into neighboring counties. “ If you ask any Czech citizens of any possibility of a third world w ar, they w ould a n sw e r 'th e Balkans,’” he said. U .S N av y C ap t. G e o rg e H oderm arsky said the m ission could take time. “The real sign o f success is when we have a peace to keep,” he said.

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The legislation is being spon sored by Sen. David Magnani, DF ra m in g h a m , and R ep. L id a Harkins, D-Needham, chairs o f the committees. More than 100 law m akers have also supported the bill, which would need approval from the House and Senate before heading to the governor’s desk. ‘T h is is one area in which the governor and the Legislature have been in stro n g a g re e m e n t,” Magnani said. He said $90 million in bond allo cations have been devoted to tech nology in the schools within the last three years. Magnani said he was particularly excited about the $5 million for the com m unity centers because he said he didn’t want computers to

C a m p u s s n ip e r s tr ik e s s e c o n d tim e in tw o d a y s T U R L O C K , C alif. (A P ) - A w om an was shot in the back at C a lif o r n ia S ta te U n iv e rs ity , Stanislaus by a lone gunman very possibly the same man who opened fire twice at Modesto Junior Col lege one day earlier and wounded a man, police said. M odesto police detectives were al the Turlock shooting scene late Thursday while other officers did a room-to-room search of the new P ro fessio n al S ch o o ls B uilding, where the shooting took place. T h u rsd a y ’s victim , identified only as a 36-year-old woman, was hit in the left side above her waist

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visited cam pus as part o f a briefing scheduled m onths ago to discuss NATO history and its role in inter nal relations. “Everyone had agreed the time had come to be there. No one wants to see the B alkans turned upside down any more than they have,” said British Lt. Col. Jerome Church to a small group o f stu dents. Maj. Pavel Hosa o f the Czech Re public Air Force said his country is

two different areas of the Modesto campus about 20 minutes apart. The first bullet, fired in the agriculture building hallway where two stu dents were walking, slammed into a door. The second, fired into the art complex courtyard, hit Zachary Smith, a 20-year-old student, in the arm. Thursday’s attack at Stanislaus State happened about 5:50 p.m. on the second floor of the Professional Schools Building, which houses many faculty offices, some computer labs and a few classrooms. T he u n iv e rsity has p o ste d a $5,000 reward for information lead ing to the arrest of the shooter.

become “the enem y” o f children o f m ore modest means. He said students were receiving more and more assignments that di rectly or indirectly rely on com put ers, but not all students have access to com puters at home. A m o n g th o se a lso te s tify in g W ednesday were Education Com m issioner David Driscoll and stu dents and teachers from Needham and the Hampden-W ilbraham school districts. ‘Technology is the great hope in truly providing equal opportunity to all children in this comm onwealth,” Driscoll said. Barbara Knight, technical coordi nator for Hampden-W ilbraham, said ap p roxim ately 80 p ercent o f her district’s roughly 350 computers are 2

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considered obsolete. S he sa id the e le m e n ta ry schools in the 3,500-student dis trict average one com puter per classroom. The Needham students talked ab o u t the ex te n siv e use they make o f computers. ‘T h is money will only speed the already quick process o f pro pelling our state to one o f the top technological states in the coun try,” said David Volante, a senior at Needham High School. Lawmakers complimented the students and asked if they were still waiting to find out what colleges they had been accepted to. Volante said he p lan n ed to log on to Villanova’s Web site Friday to find out if he had been accepted there.

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GRAYSLAKE, 111. (AP) - T\vo Col lege o f Lake County administrators who oversaw the use o f a tiny spy camera hidden inside a staff lounge have lost their jobs. CLC Board President W illiam M. Griffin on Wednesday confirmed the decision not to renew the contracts o f Dean Yost, director o f facilities and campus safety, and Greg Witt, the college’s environmental services su p e rin te n d e n t. T he C LC board voted unanim ously to dism iss the adm inistrators Tuesday night. “T h ere w ere m any th in g s in-

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volved in the decision not to re new their contracts,” Griffin said. “(The use o f cameras) was one of them.” Yost, an eight-year employee, had authorized the use o f the camera and a listening device, a school spokeswoman said. Witt, who had been with the college for nearly 12 years, supervised the installation and monitoring of th e h id d e n e q u ip m e n t, the spokeswoman said. On Jan. 28, a m a in ten an ce

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In your letter, you refer to national media stories about greek life, which I agree, have a tendency to be misleading. Here at W PI however, most o f the on-campus publicity I’ve seen has been positive, and has focused on the con tributions Greek students have made to the com m unity at WPI and beyond, or on solving problems when they have arisen. I don’t think there are a lot of problems here, but I think relations between greek and independent students could still be improved. In som e ways, it can be ju s t as difficult to be outside o f the G reek system as to be involved in it. F or those o f us, m yself included, whom have chosen not to jo in , the Rush process can feel like a lot o f unnecessary p res sure. A fter freshm an year, when Rush is no longer an issue for m ost students, there are social pressures and disadvantages that can still becom e a problem . A dm in istrators, faculty and staff m em bers all seem to have a better im pression o f G reek students than o ther students,

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R e sp o n se to In a school that fosters and en v iro n m e n t re p le te w ith g ro u p work, the thin line betw een ap p ro p ria te p ro c e d u re and a c a demic dishonesty is made even thinner. T hus, it is very im por tant to m aintain clear guidelines o f what specifically constitutes academ ic dishonesty. Equally as

“ n o n -to le r a tio n ” don’t want to be snitches. I’m doing research on what other schools think about the meaning of the word “honor”. During my re search I stumbled across a web-site that’s run by Vanderbilt. Its about an organization that they have called

im portant is the strict adherence to those guidelines by the adm in istration, faculty, and students. I w ould m ost certainly report any incident o f academ ic dishonesty, as I hold m yself accountable for any dishonest actions that I may be subject to com m it. Being a stu dent o f this institute, I expect a fair grade for the task perform ed,

I would like to respond to the article “W hy do everyday words have to change because o f a PC w orld?” T he au th o r expresses frustration to the changing o f lan guage to accomm odate the popu lation as two genders instead of one. He stated several points of concern. I would like to respond to his opinions about the change o f com m onplace words such as “Policeman to police officer and “chairmen” to non gender associ ated ones. First I would like to pose a few questions: Why does this upset you so much? Does including oth ers in society mean that you are a “ sucker” ? A re wom en not in cluded in your acceptable list of “groups fighting for their rights to increase their power in society” ? Lets explore your rationale with

a little scenario. W hat if the m ajor ity of the “Am erican m en” were somehow shipped o ff or kidnapped for years. The opportunity presents itself for women and heaven forbid the “people o f color” to share in the responsibility o f running the country. Businesswom en conduct the majority o f business. Fires are fought by firewomen. The mighty force o f Secret Servicewomen pro tects the President. H ow ’d this be fo r a c o u p de g ra c e if th e W hitehouse were renam ed “The President’s H ouse” to accom m o date the first “person o f c o lo r” President. W hen you return can you a s sim ilate into the w orld in which th e ro le o f p o w e r h a s b e e n sw itched. The basic rules o f so c iety rem ain the sam e but the w ords like policem an and repair man seem out o f place in a world

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and I also expect that no one else has been given an unfair advan tage (such as th ro u g h d ish o n esty). If A cadem ic H onesty is to be taken very seriously, a greater aw areness o f what is and is not dishonest needs to be instilled in every student.

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should such a clause say. I ’m writ ing in response to that article to suggest a possible solution. I think that if a student feels there is something wrong then he or she should report it. I d on’t think most students do how ever because they

Last w eek’s issue o f Newspeak had a com m entary by a Professor asking students if there should be a “non-toleration” clause for stu dents th at are caught v iolating W PI’s honor code and if so what

even those who are involved in several activities or o r ganizations. I d o n ’t think it is intentional, but we are left to w onder if we d id n ’t get that scholarship, the adm inis trative okay for funding an organization project, that jo b interview , our voices heard... because w e’re not part o f the G reek system. We could “sim ply” join the Greek system to gain these advantages, but I don’t think that is the answer. As you stated, “Greek life isn’t for everyone”, especially those who don’t want or need to be a part o f it. You mentioned that Greek life teaches “time management, communication skills, and increases your chances for academic success.” You also cited research stating that greeks are more likely to become financially successful. The sense of community provided by the Greek system and the availability o f sup port would seem to validate the research, but the research doesn’t say that you must be in a fraternity or sorority in order to be successful financially or academically. Differ

ent people have different ways of learning academic skills, and while these skills may be obtained through joining the Greek system, it is not the only way. Some people already have these skills going into college, while others learn them through self-interest, student organizations, books, per sonal experience or other means. College students have a variety o f lifestyles, and instead o f trying to debate why one particular lifestyle is the best, we should work towards accepting the differences between different lifestyles, and learning from each other. Doing so would help minimize negative stereotypes for everyone. Negative stereotypes can be targeted at any social group, not just Greek students. In order for Greek and indepen dent students to understand each other better, we need to understand these differences and keep the lines o f com munication open. I hope this letter has begun a dialogue that can be continued.

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c la u s e the “Honor Council” . (See http:// www.vanderbilt.edu/HonorCouncil/ honor.htm) Apparently the Honor Council is group that deals with com plaints about academic dishonesty. If students at Vanderbilt suspect that someone is being academically dis honest then they report it to the Honor Council who conducts an in vestigation. If they decide that there has been a possible academic integ rity violation then it gets brought up before the Honor Council who votes on whether the person is guilty or innocent, and if guilty, votes on a punishment. They’re sort o f like our Campus Hearing Board except that all they vote on is issues concern ing academic integrity. I think that this is a good system

because it removes the blame for what might happen to a particular suspected violator from the stu dent who reported the problem, and places it on a group o f elected stu dents instead. That way people might be more willing to come for ward about any issues they have. I highly recommend that anyone who is concerned about this issue should read this web site. It would be interesting if something like this were done at WPI. I don’t know if having a group like this here would make people come forward 100% o f the time but there will probably alw ays be people who w ill not come forward anyway.

person. Inclusion does not mean exclusion; perhaps you are the one who needs to wake up. We are m em bers o f huMANity how ever a portion o f M ANkind has elected to use themselves as the basis for defining society. The language ju st reflects the attitudes that have been prevalent through

out history. To accept 52 percent as an equal by trying to include them in our language is the first step toward CIVILization. Once again I ask you why does it bother you so much?

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To the Editor: I was disheartened to read last w eek’s letter to the editor from a young man that thought that the word “man” was being erased from the world today. T here was no acknowledgem ent from him that the word woman has been missing from nearly all job titles since... w ell, forever. T he reason that words like “Chairperson”, “Police Officer”, and “Postal Worker” are

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being used today is because they are in clu siv e o f both men and women alike. It does not exclude men but rather includes women where they have often been ex cluded. I, like many other men and women, value companies, schools, and governm ents etc. that are in clusive. A fter all, I may have a daughter one day that would like to be a police officer and because we do not speak o f this jo b as

solely being a policem an’s job, she will know from the start that she can do this jo b and be w elcom ed as a police officer. And if I have a son? He will know too, that he can be a police officer. D o n ’t be frightened by this change. It may help your loved ones som e day as well.

noon and continues until 4 in the afternoon. T his means, you can drop in and sam ple the wide vari e ty o f n a tio n a l d is h e s fro m around the globe around lunch tim e, o r for that afternoon snack that m akes the w eekend so much fun! W hy not choose from a hun dred d ish e s from all o v e r the w orld? If you think only the C hi nese can truly cook, there will be many dishes to select from the Peoples R epublic, or from nearby Vietnam, for exam ple. This year, som e o f us are hoping there will be kibbeh from Arabia; it left us crying for m ore last year! The gourmet cuisine o f Europe w ill be a v a ila b le in bite-sized chunks. The French, German and Italian nationalities arc planning food exhibits. Last year, there were wonderful exam ples o f German sausage, cheese from Germany and Holland and from Italy, there bread

and p asta from Italy. L atin America, especially from Colombia, also weighed in w ith som e rice d ish e s th a t ta s te d h e a v e n ly ; maybe there will be something simi lar this year. Then there are the crafts! From Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Africa, there were lots o f examples o f handicraft and other kinds of souvenirs to buy last year. I sup pose we can expect to find similar crafts this year. The festival will be the ideal place to find a gift for that special so m e o n e on your shopping list. The most im portant elem ent o f the festival is the people, often in native custom s, that m ake up the most interesting and creative part of the festival. It is a w on derful and exciting way to spend a Saturday afternoon. C om e and bring som eone else. You w on’t regret it!

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by Billy D. McGowan Director o f ESL Hear ye! Hear ye! The annual Cultural Festival is coming and it promises to be more fun than ever! That is, if all the planning, the no tices o f meetings and all the efforts at organizing indicate the depth the actual product, then this year will

probably be the best ever! Check the five day w eather forecast and come on out to Alden Hall where one o f the biggest happenings o f the year is to take place on Satur day, April 3, 1999. There is nothing like dance to revive the spirit and rejuvenate the soul. If you rem em ber the per form ance o f the fem ale Chinese

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dance troupe at the International D inner back in D ecem ber, then you cannot forget how stunning their performance was. This time, they will be back bigger, m ore e n e rg e tic and v iv a c io u s th an ever! What more, there will be Jamaican calyso and Latin merengue and salsa! And perhaps the m ost invigorating dancing form o f all, from India, there will be dem onstrations o f this suprem e art form. T here are rum ors that there will be some A frican drum ming as well. And if dance or drum m ing is not your forte, how about som e d e m o n stra tio n s of m a rtia l a rts to s tr e tc h y o u r m uscles and alleviate any linger ing back pain earned from shov eling too much snow?! Well, if n o th in g e ls e , you can sim p ly w atch like m ost o thers will be doing while the experts take over! T he Cultural Festival begins at

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Well we are in the middle o f Holy Week and ju st let us remind you when and where are our Holy Week Services being held. Tonight (Tuesday) and tom orrow night (W ednesday) M ass is at 10:00pm in the Religious Center. Holy Thursday Mass will be at 7:00pm in Alden and Good Friday Services will be at 7:00pm in the Religious Center. On Easter Sunday the only Mass on cam pus will be at 11:30am in Alden Memorial Chapel. Everyone is welcome to attend any o f our services. This should be a quiet week for our club members as we have scheduled no events due to the na ture o f Holy Week. So we do wish every one a Holy and Happy Easter and espe cially do we wish our Jewish brethren a Happy and Holy Passover.

Hi everyone. This past week was a big one for the Student Alumni Society. Celeb rity Squares went very well on Tuesday. Thank you to all o f you who helped pull th in g s to g eth er. D ennis, y o u ’ve been named our resident chef. Chrissy, excellent job on the set. Questions anyone? And of course, set-up crew rules! If any “Squares” are reading this, thank you again - you were all wonderful! Also this week, the new Executive Committee members were an nounced. Congratulations to Fred Tan SAS Chair, Matty Denicourt - Senior Ad visor/Publicity Committee Head, Andrea Emery - Programs Committee Head, Den nis Tappin - Membership Committee Head, and M elissa Wright - Social Committee Head. Traditions Day Planning is under way. If y ou’re not already working with a com m ittee, please contact Chrissy or A n drea E. T here’s plenty to do - Candlewalk/ Reception, Exhibits/TOT, Pennant Rush/ C ageball, Jeopardy/A lm a M ater, and of course Publicity. It will be a blast, so join in on the fun. Speaking of joining, the next SAS m eeting will be in Forkey Conference Room in Harrington on Wed, March 31 at 4:30pm . Bring a friend or two! If you have any questions about SAS or Traditions Day, email sas@ wpi.edu.

Science Fiction Society Greetings to all the freaks, aliens, and nor mal people who read this. Last week I said I’d post the scavenger hunt winners here, but I’ve just realized that I don’t have the com plete team names. Don’t worry, you’ll all get your 15 seconds o f fame next in next week’s club comer. Come to the SFS meeting, this and every week, at 7:12pm, in Olin Hall, room 107. Be there or be a lemming.

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hell o r high water, one will not go back on one’s word. W ithout the ideal of the sa credness o f an oath, argue the defenders of the single sanction clause, one slips down the slope o f compromise that even tually makes a mockery of any pledge to academic honesty. On the other hand, most institutions do not use a single sanction, thereby recog nizing different degrees of culpability in acts or repeated acts of academic dishon esty. Advocates o f different types o f pun ishments for different acts of academic dis honesty argue that the single sanction rule is insensitive to the fact that people can learn from their mistakes, and moreover, such clauses undermine support for the honor code by not recognizing that most people understand and tolerate simple human errors in good judgment and good behavior. W hat do you think? In a W PI Honor Code, should there be a “single sanction” clause expelling any student who breaks his or her word that they will not know ingly commit an act of academic dishon esty or should there be a variety o f pun ishments depending upon the nature o f the violation?

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by Dave Howland Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) - Starting this fall, some young science students will be using a new kind o f textbook one that directs them to re lia b le , u p d ated in fo rm a tio n on th e Internet. U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley on Friday helped unveil new chemistry and environm ental science books, which in clude directions to pertinent Web pages in its margins. “I ’m excited about this,” Riley told an audience at the annual convention o f the N ational Science Teachers A ssociation, w hich runs the Web site. “ Im agine the excitem ent o f a child who studies about the so lar system and then goes online to learn about the M ars P ath fin d er M is sio n .” W hile the Internet has been around for y ears, and som e school books already contain individual Web addresses, orga n izers say this is the first p rogram to m aintain a site geared directly to school textbooks. C a lle d S ciL in k s, the site is fu n d ed through a partnership with the publisher o f the books Holt, Rinehart & Winston o f A ustin, Texas. The company is introduc ing the high school chem istry and envi ronmental textbooks this fall. Gerald Wheeler, executive director o f the s c ie n c e te a c h e rs a s s o c ia tio n , sa id he hopes other school book publishers will join in by adapting new editions o f their books to accommodate the Web site. U sing a com puter set up at the Hynes Convention Center, Peter Tam, a 10th grader at N orth Q uincy High S chool, d em on strated the system to his science teacher, Mary Young. O penin g the chem istry tex tb o o k , he found a section on elements and typed a five-digit code from the book’s margin into the SciLinks Web page, a sophisticated search tool with pre-approved sites oper ated by universities, governm ent agencies and businesses. Up popped a list o f Web pages, includ ing one with three-dimensional molecular m odels of vitamins. “You know how we have our periodic tables in the classroom ?” Tam asked. “Yeah, they’re all outdated,” Young said. Tam struck a few more keys. ‘T h is site has the latest,” he said, call ing up a colorful periodic chart listing all 109 elem ents known to science. In the environm ental science book, a section on tem perate forests refers the reader to five separate Web pages with maps, color photos and explanations about

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E -m a il m e s s a g e s fr o m by William Schiffmann Associated Press Writer SAN FRA N CISCO (AP) - Her face is a m ystery, but the e-m ailed w ords o f a 16y e a r-o ld g irl stru g g lin g to su rvive in K osovo paint a stark picture o f life in a land torn by war. H er w ords, if not her voice, have been heard by m illions o f N ational Public R a dio listeners as Finnegan H am ill, 16, a reporter for Berkeley-based Youth Radio, sh a re s e -m a il from th e te e n -a g e r he know s as Adona. At tim es, there are light, personal m o ments she tells Hamill the music she likes (The R olling Stones, REM and Sade), and is searching the Internet for colleges to attend. But then the w ar creeps in. “You d o n ’t know how lucky you are to have a norm al life,” the young ethnic A l banian w rote in February. “I used to hang out w ith my friends,” she told Hamill in another note. “We were never safe on the streets, but now w e’re not safe in our own hom es.” “If you w ere the ones to taste this bit ter and cruel part o f the world, you would understand me and my im agination,” she wrote. “ You would also understand the luckiness I feel ju st being aliv e.” A d o na’s words are read on the air by B elia M ayeno Choy, another Youth R a dio reporter. H am ill, a high school junior, said he got A d o n a’s e-m ail address from a peace w orker who visited his church after a trip to K osovo, and they’ve exchanged more than 40 m essages via the Internet. “I started e-m ailing her and we d evel oped a friendship through our e-m ails,” he said Friday. The letters blend the per sonal and the political. “T h ey are h alf pen-pal stuff, things you w ould talk about with your friends, and h a lf re a lly heavy, liv in g -in -th e m iddle-of-w ar stuff.”

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will be maintained for at least 15 years. W heeler said the web site was devel oped with technical help from NASA, in cluding a $210,000 grant. The publishing company will fund its upkeep with proceeds from textbook sales. Paging through the textbook for the first time Friday, Richard Guzowski, an environ mental science teacher at Springfield Cen tral High School, said he likes the idea of enabling students to research textbook topics on the Internet. He said he’s always

emphasized current events in his class. Som e of his students have already done it on their own, but have found searching the open Internet for specific topic a diffi cult process. In a separate speech, Riley told science teachers he supports measures to better equip and train them to keep pace with the rapid changes in technology. Riley was scheduled to head to Harvard University for a conference on community schools later Friday.

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Ellin O ’Leary, who founded Youth Ra dio in 1992 and produced the series, says it has had a huge impact. “W e’re getting e-mail from kids all over the w orld w anting to be in touch with her,” she said. O ’Leary said Friday they went to great lengths to verify that A dona was real, speaking to her by telephone and talk ing to tw o p e o p le w ho h ad been in K osovo and met her in person. “T he m ost am azing thing about this g irl is that she has no in v e stm e n t in this w ar,” O ’L eary said. “ She d o e sn ’t h ate S erb s, she w ants to be frie n d s, she d o e sn ’t hate C h ristia n s ... she ju s t w ants a norm al life .” H am ill said he hoped to m eet Adona soon, and said they had received offers

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A day after an em barrassing disclosure about a secret offer from Microsoft Corp. to settle its antitrust trial, the lead attorney general for the 19 states in the case wasn’t taking any chances. Emerging from a private meeting Thurs day in W ashington to discuss upcoming M icrosoft negotiations with the other at torneys general, Iow a’s Tom M iller de clined even to confirm that the subject o f their meeting was, in fact, Microsoft. There was only one problem: Someone e ls e had ta p e d a sig n on the d o o r, “Microsoft M eeting.” The challenge facing Miller and the other attorneys general to negotiate strictly in confidence will only get worse early next week, as both Microsoft and the govern

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worker found a camera with a lens the size o f a pen point embedded in the lace o f a wall clock in a staff lounge. The discovery sparked a furor among union representa tives for the college’s custodian, m ainte nance and faculty workers. The college owned seven spy cameras and an audio baby-monitoring device that

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teroffer but didn’t disclose details. “All settlement talks involve proposals and c o u n te rp ro p o s a ls ,” said M a d rid , elected last November after the trial started. The attorneys general met at a dow n town hotel this week to discuss a four-page proposal M icrosoft sent in its opening bid to settle the case. Odds of any settlement remain slim. LiEe the in itia l v e rsio n s o f its s o ftw a re , M icrosoft’s first proposal was described as less than adequate. An industry axiom holds that the co m p an y ’s products are unusable until their third generation. C alifornia A ttorney G eneral W illiam Lockyer dismissed M icrosoft’s proposal as “a minimalist offer” and called it “far from what anyone in our group would expect to be adequate” before M iller and others urged him not to discuss it further. Microsoft has indicated it would consider changing some of its most controversial agree ments with computer makers and Internet pro viders, such as letting computer companies hide easy access to the Internet software bundled with its Windows operating system.

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Continued from page I streets all cradled in the waters o f the Vltava and seated beneath the foreboding fa?ade o f Rosenberg castle. Although neglected during the age of Stalin, the post-communist years have done much to restore any dam age done to the heritage of this medieval town. Further on, the famous Macocha lime stone caves provided a scenic side trip into (literally) the mountains of Macocha. A part from three concerts spread be tween Prague and Brno, the two largest cities in the Czech Republic, the Glee Club had a marvelously successful performance in a small town outside of Brno. The town o f Kromeriz which houses the chateau por trayed in the opening o f Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, is also home to a women’s school where the G lee Club shared a night o f song and dance with their gracious guests. Af ter the concert and a night o f drinking, the men left with gifts from the students in hand S e x is m :

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in addition to a few phone numbers. After a week o f traveling and singing and with three days remaining before departure, members of the Club were permitted a leave of absence to do as they wished. Many mem bers traveled across the southern border of the Czech Republic into Austria and south to Vienna. Others returned to Prague to try and witness as much of the beautiful city as possible in so short a time. Some traveled North to Terezfn, for a sobering tour of a Nazi concentration camp, which is left as it was the day it was evacuated at the end o f WWIi. In the final night o f its all-too-short visit, the WPI Glee Club sailed down the center of Prague on the fabled Vltava River, throne of the Charles bridge and subject o f classi cal works by Smetana and Dvorak. The food was good, the air was fresh and no one fell overboard. It was the perfect end ing to a time and place the men of the Glee Club will not soon forget.

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in fo rm s W P I Overall, the presentation was powerful o f their attitudes about women and rape. and informative. Hopefully, the other audi Bill completed the presentation by giv ence members learned something, and will ing some tips on how to break down gen give more thought to their treatment of der biases. H e discouraged the use o f rape women, even though the presentation was jokes, pornography, derogatory language required. Except for one or two lewd com toward women “A chick is a small bird,” m ents overheard from the audience, it and imposing gender stereotypes on chil seemed like most o f the people were inter dren with tips such as: “Buy your niece a ested in B ill’s message, and were able to truck, buy your nephew a doll.” leam something from it. T h e

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great idea is that a great idea is a good idea that worked!” The next item on the day’s agenda was a talk by Wayne Morris. Mr. M orris has vis ited WPI in the past to give such talks as: “Steven C ovey’s, Seven Habits o f Highly Effective People.” He talked to the leaper’s about what leadership is and what they

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could do to become more productive lead ers. Then there was a final workshop. This workshop was run by six members of Andersen Consulting. Four of the mem bers were graduates o f WPI. The work shop covered topics such as, “Four Steps to Creating Teams”, ‘T h e Benefits of Ef fective Teams”, and ‘T eam Effectiveness Areas.” The workshop concluded with a

situational team building exercise, entitled, “Sea Survival Situation.” This exercise was used to compare the leaper’s personal views, to the groups view, and finally to the “expert’s” view. The idea was to take the leaper’s individual views and generate a group response that was agreed upon by the entire group. The group was supposed to attempt to use the points that

were made earlier in the workshop by the members o f Andersen Consulting. The d a y ’s events closed o ff w ith re marks by the chairman o f the Leap Board. He pointed out several key facts that were and w ould be successful to becom ing a successful leader. Ted Trusty closed off with one final remark: “A leader knows the way, shows the way, and leads the way.”

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