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Homeeoming Preview

Fri., Oct. 11 8:00 p.m. - Todd Rundgren - Harrington

Sat., Oct. 12 11:30 a.m. - Soccer - WPI vs. Cl1rk

12:00 Noon - Cross Country - WPI vs. Bates

1:30 p.m. - Football - WPI n. B1tes

After Game - Fr. • Soph. Rope Pull -Institute Pa,..

1:00 p.m. - Niaht Club - Harrinpon -ShiHons, Norman Biaelow

Saturday's Paddle Rush Action

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oncerned Students Meet With

Pres. Committee n M. FitzPatrick

committee of Con~ students had its first

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of the meeting in~ a review of last

activities. Hazzard em­

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tion. Most corn­went to Jon

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of the PUB. topics which were

were the Snack Salisbury I and ial Affiliates. A

snack bar will be in the wedge ad~ to the renovated

hall. With respect to , Dean Bole

student feedback on for the proposed

faculty lounge. Hazzard praised

111\eslat~ntial Affiliates in the dorms.

the area of com--··"· ,.. the isolation of

tion will be relieved by the new

areas in Morgan Hall. The WPI

is making headway Russ K~v h~c: !:a n

assistant, allowing him to devote more time to the journal. The "Greening" of the campus is unfolding before our eyes. We still await work on the closing of West Street. The Greening Committee will continue open forum type sessions where students can state their OplDIOnS and suggestions.

A new committee has been added to the Com­mittee of Concerned Students - Women's Af­fairs. It's objectives are to meet the present needs of women at WPI as well as to promote an environment to attract women in the future.

Chairman, Don Taddia, squeezed in a few words between interruptions. He thanked the President's Commmttee for their time and effort in listening to and acting on the request of last year 's Concerned Students.

President Hazzard concluded the meeting by asking the Concerned Students for imput on how to make the WPI campus a better place to learn, not only educationally but socially as well. The president would like to raise lhe levels of intellectual concerns at WPI.

Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1974 Vol. 2, No. 14

Seniors and Graduate Students

Job Situation Looks Excellent by John FitzPatrick

Job opportunities for engineers graduating are very good according to Jeff Shaw, Director of Graduate and Career Plans. As a matler of fact this year there will be 38,000 graduates "competing" for 52,000 jobs. Jeff says this year should be "the best employment situation for technical people in the past four years."

In a run down on in­dividual majors, Jeff stated the ME's were in the best position to be hired, followed by ChE's, EE's, and Civil's. Computer Science has excellent

prospect in a rapidly growing market . Management Engineers should face a promising situation. On the other hand Math and Physics majors seem to be left in the dust. Life Science and Chemistry are difficult to predict.

Statistics from last year show WPI ta be an excellent shape when matched up against other schools. Only one school <CCNY> in the Northeast held more offers than WPI. The average starting salary for last year's WPI graduates was $12,000-yr. The average projected salary for 1975 is

Correotion: The page 5 article in last week's NEWSPEAK was a

reprint of an article that appeared In the August 31 Issue of BUSINESS WEEK under the same title.

Also, the Ford Foundation Grant to WPI mentioned in the first paragraph of the Page 1 article on President Hazzard was for S180,000, not $18,000, as it was misprinted.

Don't Forget Homecoming Queen

$1000 to $1100-month. There will be 175 to 200 companies on the WPI campus this year compared to 152 last year.

The job picture indeed looks good. For those who find nothing on campus, the off campus situation is open to one's imagination and ambition.

WPI Newspeak will keep the WPI community up­dated on further in­formation regarding placement. For anyone interested in graduate school, please note that on campus interviews and GRE'S are starting soon.

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Editorial: ; EDITORIAL POLICY:

Forced Bussing lsn 'L it wonderful how our

democratic government copes with racial disciminiation . For in­stance, what betler an idea than to bus children across town in order to maintain that racial balance in schools. After all, we all want the youth of today to grow up wilh open minds.

The success of forced bussing is easily observed in cllies such as Boston. Ten days into the school year the newspapers were still reporting scattered incidents of rock throwing and arrests.

We are convinced that such ligislative action is totally divergent from democratic beliefs. More importantly. we find it ab· solutely downgrading telling children where ant with whom they may go to school. The government may argue that forced ingegration will guide our youth to avoid the same prejudices which

exist amongst our present adult generation. Somehow, a twelve year old black throwing stones at a group of whites or a roup of whiles beating a black student does not indicate to me that integration of schools is a step in the right direction

If we are going to promote in­tegration why not go all the way -bus Jewish and Protestant children to the Catholic schools Cdon't forget Seventh Day Adventists, Atheists. etc.>.

Seriously, lets stop all this nonsense. Why spend all kinds of money and aggravation doing something that nobody wants, espec1ally when the results are deteriotaling the values of our youth Lets bring peace back to once playful plac:es called the bus stop and the playground.

The Editors

Ill editorials are si&nad br the editor (s) whose

opinion is reflected therein.

lnr editorial si1nad ''THE EDITORS'' has bean si1ned br two thirds of the editors present oil Sundar. I

etters --Let's Be Reasonable •••

To the Editor: I hasten to reply to t.he comments

of Mr. Dunn, lest he spend any more time flogging a non-existent dead horse.

For lhe sake of the record, I wash every day, pay my bills and stand four-square in favor of dreaming and the creative use of the imagination. I never said anything to the contrary, as any careful reader would have ob-served. •

As to the matters of Ia > reasonable confidence in generally recognized expertise, and 1 b) decisions about what is truth <always a relativistic maHer which I assumed was so obvious that it scarcely needs mentioning to a college audience), 1 note with Interest that Mr Dunn will take a lollipop from a child because <a> he accepts the opinions of nutritionists as valid, and (b) assumes that the need for protein intake Is a reasonably well established fact. In both cases he is playing the odds just the way all the rest or us do every day.

So it seems to me that he and I are in total agreemenl.

There are several points about dreaming, intuition , inspiration and the knotty problem of how ideas come into Leing - an area of psychology about which volumes have been written - that are worlh making.

Let's take the. Kekule case. Now Mr. K knew that benzene was c6 H 6 and he knew certain symmetry aspects of the molecule. On the bard rock of these facts -and never forgetting the parameters or the problem for a moment - he came up with a solution valid within the framework of known facts. Several other chemists - Dewar and Ladenburg - suggested other structures that were equally valid at the time Later work showed

that Mr. K's proposal was the correct one.

Darwin started off in life with the classical Biblical view of the history of life on earth. He was forced logically, step by step, to modify this view - using in­telligence, a strict regard for observed facts, and reasonable inference <is this imagination?) To the best of my belief, he never lost his religious faith , and to the end marvelled at the way the Creator had arranged matters - and was grateful for the opportunity that had fallen to his lot to clarify matters for his fellow man.

I do wish to re-emphasize that what I thought was the main point I was trying to make : that the irrational can be put to evil and anti-social ends, and we must guard against this. We have recently seen tbe tragedy of the murder of Martin Luther King's mother by a person who claimed that God bad ordered him to do it. This kind of irrationality was the basic impetus that led to the Crusades, possibly the most dramatic case of monstrous brutality that history records. It happens that Newlon, Bach, Joan of Arc and Albert Schweitzer got different messages, and con· sequently are more socially ac­ceptable.

So I am sure that Mr. Dunn will agree with me that faith alone, like a blow-torch , has enormous capacity for good and evil.

And t have a cherished illusion lbat nobody can lake from me ; I believe in the Inevitable progress or humans towards kindliness and rationality. Very lflUe in the dally paper provides a factual basis for this faith . But don't bother me with facts, my mind Is made up.

So unpack your bags and stick around a whUe, Mr. Dunn - we both have lots of friends here!

David Todd

CULTS OF REASON The word, objectivity. is cliche,

especially so when used by a scientist. We, as scientists, often are proud of our objective f: -:ts, and forget that lhe laws were at their origin subjective. An example that comes to mind is Keluke, who while silting in his study and puffing on his opium pipe, saw snakes and said, "Ah, benzene!" Examples of this type are countless. Indeed, there is no argument that our science is the work of individuals who have applied insight. Furthermore, the foundations of our science are the work of people who can be called mystics Who are these people? They were the pythagoreans of theorem fame, whose magic triangle was the telraktys. Out· doing the Greeks in many fields, were the Islamic scientists of the middle ages, al-Razi in medicine, ibn-ai-Haytham in optics and Omar Khayyam in mathematics, to name a few. Kepler was an astrologer, his work was to im­prove astrology by simplifing its calculations, which resulted in the begining of our science of astronomy. Astrology is a clock, a clock of social time. And then, of course, there was the Rosicucian, Ben FrankHn.

Science, like art, religion and the crafts is a subsystem of logic. a

number of parking places by some four percent. By present standards a reduction of only four percent must be considered a luxury as the Environmental Protection Agency is requiring most large cities to reduce the available parking by a full twenty-five percent. With the energy problem that we face, the reduction of the amount of parking can only help because it will foster formation of car pools whenever possible, and in general reduce the amowtt of unnecessary use of our automobiles.

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Dear Sirs :

President Hazzard's comments in the past issue of Newspeak has brought up an issue to which I addressed myself l.asL May. The building of a parking lot on the Wggins Estate behind Olin Hall and the Alumni and Harrington Gyms is both unnecessary and

contrl\ry to the "greening" of caJ'l'l;...Js. The use of the Higgins Estate for a parking lot represents a loss for U:e W.P .I. community

The need for additional parking has yet to be established in many minds of the W PI community . Over the past year changes on the campus have decreased the

The blacktopping of such a quiet and beautiful area as the Higgins Estate seems to be a misplacement of values in light of the current campaign to "green ·• the campus. The "greening" of the campus has succeeded in turning two large areas, the rear of Atwater Kent and the extension or the Library parking lot, into blacktop deserts

connecting principle. All are in­corporated in the sreater system. The g!'eater system is the preceptual frame we share as a community. It is the common ground for communication of ideas. Thus, when an individual wishes to communicate an idea, he must choose a vehical, a sub· system of logic This choice Is made according to the prevalent situation.

The ideas are in mcorportated m such a way, so they may be un· derstood. In other words, one does not speak German in England. We must nol be quick to criliz.e any vehical, even lht nosl seemingly absurd. As Jalaludin Rumi said, "Do not look al my outward form but, take what is in my hand. •· IL is the ideas that are important. It Is not how or why. but what. Like L. Ron Hubbard has said about Dianetics, "It works", and that is what matters.

U reason is anything, il is knowing oneself and not believing anything without question. One is limiting ones knowledge if one believes all that Dervishs do is whirl. Most certainly, it is the ignorant who say, " I've heard this all before, and it is the wise who say, "Yes, but that's not the way it was said before ... "

Gregory Lawler

while a few smaller patches or grass have been added to the campus plus the addition of a "walking mall" largely made of concrete. Is this what one calls the "greening" or the campus? Wh1le the closing of West St., if approved, would decrease the amount of noise in some leaching sections of the campus, no attempt has been made to add or maintain leisure­lime quiet space for the W.P.I. community. With the level of noise in our cities doubling every decade, this should be a prime consideration in allocating what little land available to W.P I

The use of the Higgins Estate for a parking lot is unwarranted and very foolish. If we allow this waste, we will have fallen victim lo the logic of the 60's, one or catering to our gas guzzlers and forgetting our pedestrian ways.

Leo J . Letendre '75

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• • Worcester • • • • Boston OPERA Wore. Art Museum

Irish llirectlons nC lhe 70'5 Thirty-eight works m paintmg,

ttulpture and tapestry by 18 leading Irish contemporary ar· lists. Through October 20 Gallery talks Wednesdays and Saturdays II I :30 p.m.

~tw 1-A\gland Grave Rubbings A newly acquired portfolio by lhe

esteemed Ann Parker and Avon Neal, long regarded as experts in Ibis field in technique and ocumenlation. Through ovember 3 in the Higgins ucalion Wing.

Special View Mexican Prints Clhrough

November 3) - Galleries 213, 214.

Foothills The Worcester Foothills Theatre

CDmpany is curt'ef'ltly seeking lllbecriptions and dooalions. The 81eatre, endorsed by the Chamber

Commerce, also offers classes in

Photographs by E:adweard Muybridge llhrough October 27> -Galleries 114, 117.

"The (;o-Uetween" Tuesday at 2:30, 6:15 and 8:30

p.m , Wednesday at 6:15 and 8:30 p.m Starrmg Julie Christie, Alan Bates and Michael Redgrave in a truly romantic film , a recalling or the boyhood of the landed Ed· wardian gentry, told wilh biting truth.

William S. Sargent Memorial t 'oncert

October 6 at 3 p .m . featuring Joseph Payne who will perform selections for harpsichord.

Theatre acting, playwriting, etc.

Collece students' reduced ad· mission to perlormances is $2.50. Foothills Theatre is located on Chatham Street in Worcester.

The Red Bam Rt. 9, Westboro

TheShiltons - Ocl.1 · 6 Dark-Horse -Oct. 7

Tht! Springfield Family - Oct. 8 • 13

Friendly House The Specialized Child Care

Program at Friendly House, an alter school program for Special Needs children , Is in immediate teed or vohmteers to act as ~havior technicians for a behavior modification program. 111is job requires a commitment of 2 hours once a week, observing dlildren's behavior. This type of work can be used as a resource for

students in education and psychology. However, anyone willing to devote a litUe lime can be trained. If you are interested, please conlacl:

Sharon Rinkus Friendly House 36 Wall Sl. Worcester, Mass. 01604 Tel. 755-4362

Herbie Hancock and Minnie Ripertone

Worcester Auditorium Sunday, Oct. 6-7:30 p .m. Tickets: $6.00. $5.00- $4.00

On Sale - Steinerts, 308 Main St., Worcester and Worcester Auditorium Box. Office, Oct. 6.

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ASSOCIATE ARTISTS OPERA COMPANY. Boston's own repertory opera, today announced the program ror its 1974 • 1975 season at the National Theater of The Boston Center For The Arts. On November 15 & 16, 1974 at 8:00 p m., the company w1ll present the American Professional Stage Premiere of Antonio Salieri 's comic opera, FALSTAFF. Based on the popular Shakespearean theme, the work was composed in 1799 by the man who reputedly poisoned Mozart. Researched by Robert Willoughby Jones, thls new production will be partially made possible by a grant from The National Opera Institute.

The company's aMual Family Ouistmas Special, Gian Carlo Menotti 's AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS, will be given two performances - at 2:00 and 5:00 p.m . - On Saturday, December 14, 1174. Group rates and family discounts are available for this perennial favorite. The seuon will continue with an unusual English version of Gioachinno Rossini 'a comic masterpiece, CINDERELLA, on January 31 and February 1, 1975 at 8:00p.m .

Prior to the opening or the season, a Gala Benefit Concert and Champagne Reception will be held

on Sunday. October 20. 197-1 to inaugurate the company's annual fo,und Raising Campaign. Th1s season's e ntire roster of singers will present an evening of "Favorite Opera Selechons.'' This special event will be sponsored by the Associate Artists Opera Guild. Olher events of the current season w1ll include a production of Engelbert Humperd1nck 's HANSEL AND GRETEL. to be presented in collaboration with The Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra on December 8, 1974 at the Cape Cod CoUiseurn. The company will also participate in "The Lively Arts Parade" spon· sored by Tbe Metropolitan Cultural Alliance to twing the performing arts and workshops to suburban audiences.

The World Premiere per­formance of MARY DYER. an American opera by composer, Richard Owen, and base on the life of the Quaker heroine who wu hanged for her faith on ao.ton Common, will be presented as a collabor~tive effort of A.aociate Artists Opera Company, The Mayor's Office of Cultural Allain and New York producer, Martin Smith. This special Bicentennial event Is tentatively scheduled for June of 1975 at the Hatch Memorial Shell. Other operas ln the com­pany's bicentennial season will

tnclude. Robert Ward's THE CRUC IBLE. based on Arthur Miller's grtpping drama of the Salem Witchcraft trtals: and the World Premiere presentation of Louis Gruenberg's completed version of EMPEROR JONES. based on the Eugene 0 'Neill play by the same title. Allhough the opera's world premiere was gtvet at the Metropolitan Opera in 1933. ll has never been performed in tts compleled version including the ··war Dance" written by Mr. Gruenberg at a later date .

In an errort to attract the opera audiences of tomorrow. Associate Artists Opera Company will continue to offer Collece Student DiscOlml tickets through Campus Ticket Agencies. It will also con· tinue a program or Preview Dress Rehearsals for groups of Grade through High School students and their teacher-chaperones - a program which is made possible throuah funding from the Massachusetts CoWlcil On The Arts It Humanities. 1be school programs will be coordinated by Michael Barnes.

For further details or for an illustrated brochure or this season's program . write to : Associate Artists Opera, 551 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. 02116.

WILBUR THEATRE Due to popular demand and

crllical acclaim, "Lady Audley's Secret", a de1ighlful mus1cal spoof, has been extended to run through Saturday, Oct. 12; at the Wilbur Theatre.

This is the fourth production in the current Trinity Square Repertory Coml>(lny Series being presented m Boston for the first lime.

"Lady Audley" is played by Barbara Orson. Other members in the Trinity Square Resident Company appearing are: Robert J .

Colonna, Joseph t;apelli, Timothy Crowe, William Damkoehler, David C. Jones . Richard Kavanaugh , Joan Kelleher, Bruce McGill , Margo Skinner, Cynthia Strickland, Daniel Von Bargen and Cynthia Wells.

Adapted by Douglas Seale from this novel by Elizabeth Braddon, with music by George Goehring and lyrics by John Kuntz, the Trinity Square production is directed by Word Baker with musical direction by Richard

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

Cumming. In addition to numerous other productions . including 8 world premieres. Mr. Baker is well known for his staging of the original New York production of "The ~,anlasticks •·

Scenery design is by Robert D. Soule, with lighling by Roger Morgan and costumes by Sunny Warner. Miss Orson's costumes are by James Berton Harris.

Performances are Monday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m ., With matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2 p.m

In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, film Is presented by 1he Department of Public Education as a vital component of the Museum's larger program for the exposition of twentieth century art. At least three malor film series are scheduled throughout the year and these are reinforced by a variety of additional film showings and educational events such as ledures, courses and meetings such as 1hls symposium. Since 1969, film audiences In the Museum have a1tended Important programs Including Japanese cinema, American Independent films, American and French films of the Thirties, and film treasures from Eastman House. They have also seen major retrospective of the work of Alec Gulnness, Charles Laughton, Luis Bunuel and, now Greta Garbo.

For further Information on the UFSC and other projects In Its Research Program, write or

call: Peter Feinstein University Film Study Center Box 275 Cambridge, Massachusetts

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lent State - "Fire!" (CPS> - As the long

awaited criminal trial or several Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for the 1970 shootings at Kent Stale University approaches, their commandtng officer has confirmed earlier reports that one of lhe indicted men ac­tually gave ~n order to fire. Unitl now, National Guard officials have consistently maintained that no order Lo rlre had been given.

Lt. Col. Charles Fassinger made the disclosure in a sworn deposition filed recently in a civil case in which he and more than 50 other persons are being sued for their roles In · the Kent incident which left four students dead and nine wounded. Fassi.tiger. who was the highest uniformed officer on the scene of the shootings, tesllfied that an order to fire had been given by Matthew J . McManus.

It was not clear from Fasslnger's deposition whether McManus gave the order before or after the shooting began or whether McManus told the troops to fire at or over the atudenta.

A Justice Department summary of an 8000-page FBI report on the shootings corroborated Fasainger's story, but said, "Sgt. Me· Manus stated that after the firing began, he gave an order to 'fire over their heads. •" The Justice Department summary states, "There was no Initial order to fire."

A source close to the case, however. emphasized that the swnmary was only of in· formation uncovered in the months immediately foUowing the shooting and Is by no means the final word on the matter. It is expected that the question of an order to fll'e will be more closely pursued as additional witnesses are in­terviewed and during sub­sequent court proceedings.

McManus Is one of eight formeT guardsmen indicted by the federal grand jury which investigated the shootings last winter (after then-Attorney

General Elliot Richardson overruled the decisions or his predecessors John MitcheU and Richard Kleindienst forbidding such a grand jury investigation>. McManus himself has taken the Fi£lh Amendment in response 'lo quesllons about lhe shooting.

The criminal trial of Mc­Manus and the seven other indicted guardsmen is scheduled to open in Cleveland in mid ..OCtober. The grand jury that indicted them has not been discharged, and-it is posstble, although unlikely, that there could be more in· dictments as more in· formation about the shootins~ · emerges.

Meanwhile, independently of the criminal cases, the civil cases are also proceeding. The civil cases are brought under the federal civil rights laws. which provide money damages for persons deprived of their constitutional rights under color of law. All nine of the injured ·studenta, plus the parents of all four of the students killed at Kent, have such eases pending. The cases have been consolidated and wm be tried in federal court in Cleveland in April 1975. The lengthy process of pre-trial discovery is oow going on, and it was in the COUI'M of thls diacov~ry process that Fasslnger disclosed his lmowledge about McManus' order.

The discovery process had been interrupted in 1970 when a federal judge dismissed the ci vU cues. In April of this year, however, that dismissal wu overturned by the US Supreme Court.

The most significant featurf of Lhe civil cases is that they name as defendants not onl) the enlisted personnel who fired their weapons into the students on May 4, but also the National Guard commanders and officials who were responsible (or placing the troops In the situation with loaded weapons and under orders to disperse peaceful assemblies.

David Tom a IS, to say the least. a unique individual. A policeman in Newark, N J ., where he grew up. for 18 years, he accumulated a record or about 10,000 busts and a 98 per cent conviction rate. H1s methods involved disguises and undercover work, and he is especially proud to be able to say that he has never fll'ed his service revolver on duty. His methods have also gotten him shot, stabbed, and landed him in the hospital thirty times. His style, his personal battle against the Mafia, and his stubborn Individuality have gained him international recognition.

Toma is now a man with a message. Rising as he has from the Newark ghettos to one of the world's most successful cops to Hollywood, he has an unshakeable confidence in the potential or the individual His message touches many areas, from drugs to Hollywood politics, but it all centers around his own success.

He takes a particularly firpl stand against drugs. He denies that any drug is harmless, but his reasons go deeper. He has four nephews whose lives have been messed up by drugs, including heroin, and he fought his own way back from an addiction to tranquUizers. To him the saddest thing about drugs is their effect on

the individual. He particularly cbaJlenges the current popularity of martjuana .. "Where the hell are they going, high'?" he asks.

Holywood seems significant to Toma in that he was able to resist the pressure not to be "different" and be vindicated by having his TV show finish its fl.rst season in the top ten . But Toma is apparently most disgusted by celebrities and media executives who choose to forget about a world full of real, living people. He feels that celebrities should share their status with those who want it; that is, the people who put them where they are.

For this reason Toma will not go back to police work. He has made a name for himself and now plans to use the power of that name to get his message across . He has something to say to the world, and 1s taking advantage of every chance he gets to put his message across: "Keep your mind clear and listen to it; you are as good as anyone else."

"Be a dreamer; everything is attainable ... if you are willing to pay the price."

One day the teariest thin• about cancer may be the needle that makes you im. mune to it.

The theory: build up the body's defense to fight off the disease naturally.

Already, scientists are working on mechanisms to make the body reject cancer.

And the promise for the future is staggering.

Wouldn't you feel good knowing you contributed to the research?

Please contribute. Your dollara will help further tJJI our cancer rese1arch.

! We want to wipe out can• cer in your lifetime.

Ameran Cancer Society

ll1utea, Fr••• Eleotleaa, Ceaatlfltl•• lefor•

Student Government Minutes to Student Government Meeting

Prr Jnt; Denise Gorski, Tom Tantillo; Bill Giudice, Norton Bonaparte, Jim Hall, Mike Severino, Bill Cunningham, Mike Irwin, Ken Dunn, Paul O'Brien.

First on the agenda was the appointment or students to the committees of Student Ufe and Financial Ald. After an ex­planation or the powers and dutit>JS of each committee, short speeehes were heard by students interested in ser;ving on the committees.

The ~point.ments were then made by the Executive CounoU to the following committees: Financial Aid - Lynne Buckley and Dan Carfi, Student Life -Lindsay Joachim.

Second on the agenda was the request of $1800. by the Pistol Club to the S.A.B.. The reason for tbe request was due to a three·fold increas.e in membership. After a lengthy discusaion, a deciaion was made to return the request to obtain an itemized breakdown of lhe cost for upkeep of the range.

Third on the agenda was the procedure and dates for the Ftesb· man elections, and the vote on the reform of the W.P.I. constitution.

One of the dvil defendant& is Sylvester Del Corso, a war hero and former prison warden who became Ohio's Adjutant General in 1968. It was Del Corso who lm· plemented the extraordinary policy of sending Ohio guardamen into routine clvU disturbance duty with live ammunition loaded in their weapons - contrary to regular Army practice - and under permissive rules regarding the use of fire­pow~.

Prior to the 1970 shootings, Del Corso had urged Ohio guardsmen to write letters in support of the war, and had publicly stated his belief that Communist conspirators were behind the campus protest movement.

Another of the civil defendants is James A.

The Freshman Class elections will be held Thursday, October 17 and the voting on the Constitution will be held Tuesday, October 15.

NOTICE TO FRESHMAN

Freshman elections will be held Thursday, October 17, 1974. Needed are the offices of; President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Class Representative. The Class Rep. will serve on the Executive Council, representing lhe Fresh­man Class in many important issues.

Any person wishing to run for any or the above offices must start a petition indicating which office he <sbe> is running for and must attain 50 signatures from members of the Freshman aass. Freshmen may sign only one petition for a specific office, but may sign more than one petition. Petitions m~t be turned in by October 11 to either Denjse Gorski box no. m or Tom TantiUo box no 2085.

Let's show a tittle psyche, Fresh­men, and get Involved now. Show that W.P.I. hu more than just the best students, show that we have the best leadership also.

Rhodes, who was Governor of Ohio in 1970, and who had appointed Del Corso. Late in 1989 aod in 1970, Rhodes had made public vows to end disruptions on Ohio Cam· puses. During Rhodes' ad­ministration the Ohio Nallonal Guard saw more duty in civil ditorders than the National Guard of any other state in the union.

On the day before the Kent sltootings, Rhodes had held a press conference In the city, denouncing the groups whom he presumed responsible for the disorder and vowing to "drive them out of Kent."

A former guardsman who was in charge of the Guard's presS relations al Kent State has testified in his deposition in the civil cases that at a cl<...ed meeting preceeding his press conference Rhodes had

Constitution Reform Over the summer and in

beginning weeks of the term, W .P . J. Constitution has revised to better suit the alU'uelllaaJa

The biggest change is in the Committee, where under the Constitution this committee eluded the Food Committee With the addition of the EUswo~ Fuller completes a change needed to separate the two mittees and have IP.at1@1MIIllio

them both. Both of will have the same t>h~•innan

In order to ratify these cnans•-. a general election must be where a two-thirds majority vote needed.

The election will be held Tuesday, October 15. Copies of new Constitution can be read at following locations; Library, Bookstore, R.A'S, Stoddard Lounge, l..()cal ·Ftaternity Houa, or by local hot yits like OB.

There will be an open forum anyone interested in the changes o1 the Constitution, and the dale, time, and place will be in tile next isaue of Newspeak.

For a better representation ol the student body's opinion, everyone should get out and u· press his or her own opinioD by voting on this issue.

given orders that the Guard should d.iaperse even peaceful assemblies on the campus.

Rhodes is currently out or office, but he is running as the Republican candidate for Governor or OhJo again this fall.

More light on the 1970 shootings is expected to be shed as the months or depositions and other discovery in the civil cases proceed and are made public. Principal attorneys for twelve of the thirteen Kent civil "lainUffs are Steven A Sin· dell, a young Cleveland lawyer, and David E. Engdahl, a Univerisly of Colorado law professor long involved In the litigation who has taken a leave of abs~ce for lhe trial The remaining plaintiff Is represented by lawyers of the American Civil Liberties Union.

lsi seric seri year by I co lie That tbeit cons in c Profl didb tried front lor studi NegE Teet stOO. prob

Tbl ls'ae 'nley atO\I leelil'l Eng) trUth arro1

1. ·1 q7 4 WPI Newspeak

1ews On The Middle-East Profe:>sor Al\'ln WeH;s has JUSt

returned from his Sab· tn Israel. He taught at the

of Negev during his The University is much hkc Four thousand are enrolled.

thousand in tcchnologtcal . The University is more

........ m,at than Tech but has recently liberalizing their system·.

!lave JUSt gone from school on basis to semesters, and

comtemplating other changes.

Israeli students are much more about education, almost too They have lo put in three

In the military service and the lime they are going to

they are usually married. means, they must keep up

studies, support a family , and '-'~ ....... y be on military reserve

war breaks out. While •~ressor Wiess was 'teaching, war

out. Some of his students to get homework done or the . A lew even commuted back lectures. Academically, the

They thought the} were un· beatable. The Yom Kippur war came as a shock to some Israelis

The military bungled the JOb . The Israeli Intelligence kneY. of the planned attack, but did nothing about it. When the attack came, the Israelis behaved in a typical American mid - sixties manner. They blew it. They sent troops to the wrong places and overall stumbled over lhere own feet. The Yom Kippur war demonstrated the Israel could win <somewhat ironically) a blitzkrieg type war. but could not slug it out for even sixty days on a war standing

Israelis had hoped The Israeli go\ernment IS v.eak nov. and a break rna\' come soon. ma\be even a revolut~on . ·

The Suez Canal : an issue man v Amencans are fond of bringmg up.

is hard)) even an issue m the Middle East. It is no longer ecomonically viable The super tankers can not go through and the people who wont il mosl are the Russians, who would like an easy portal from the Medilerranlan to the Indian Ocean So the canal will probably never by opened again.

Professor Weiss left the Middle East. a land in nux. The Middle East is a land with canal full or s unken ships, and traditional enemies which become more alike.

S B Fine

Clubs •denlls and the Unaversity of

1--11•ev are about even with WPI. A

After the Six. Day War, the Middle Eastern situation began ever so slowly to change. Israel slowly evolved into a slightly more Arab-like state, and lhe Arabs began to industrialize in a Western manner. Both the Arabs and the Israelis have learned to tolerate each olher, if not to accept each other. But the crucial problem for which the wars have been fought still remains. The Palistinians still want a piece of lsraed and the Israelis stiU will not give it to them. The Arabs are starting to develope industry and farming. And lhey refuse to be assimilated as the

and other organizations

send us news

c. ve til n-•d

of ag )0 ;e

student and University couJd exchange. The only

•lblem would be language.

of your activities. Sabras <native born ) are very nationalistic.

k very little English. <As In Israel, one gets the

that all the Israelis speak ~15mou . This is really far from the

.> The Israelis developed an -.. ... cr!lnN• after the Six Day War.

Happy Succoth!

Graduate School

Recruiting Schedule

OCTOBER 3 - Graduate School of Business Administration Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. '

Interviews will be held at Clark University 9:30-12:00 noon. CaU the placement office at Clark for appointment.

OCTOBER 15- Univenlty of Denver, College of Bualneas Administration, I :00-2:30.

OCTOBER 21- Columbia Univenity Graduate School of Business, 2:00-5:00.

OCTOBER 30 - Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College. MBA Program. 2:00-5:00.

NOVEMBER 4-Stanford Unlvenity School of Engineering. 9:00.12:00.

NOVEMBER 7 - Boston Uni~ersity School of Management. MBA Program. Group Information &etslons. 9:30-10:30- 11:06-12:00.

NOVEMBER 7- Northeastern University Graduate School of Business. 9:00-3:00.

NOVEMBER 25- Northeastern University Graduate School of Engineering, 9:00-4:30.

DECEMBER 4- Babson CoUege, 1:00-4:30.

Appointment& may be scheduled at the office of Graduate and Career Plans from 9:00·5:00 dally.

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WPI Bridge Club Elects Officers

The WPI Bndgt- Cl ub ha!l recently electt•d new ofrt<·ers Elected to the prestdency was Ken Bradford, \'ice presidency, Garv Bujauctus. and secrelan:. treasurer Steven Ftne. The Brtdgt> Club plays every Wednesday mght at 7 31T p m. In the Wedge. They also play on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.

The Bridge Club is arriliated wtth the Ameircan Contract Bridge ~ague and therefore is entitled to give out master points to winners. The club also sends three different teams to the Cavendish Club (One

nt the largest brtdge clubs tn the nat ton I for competition. Currently the Tuesday night team is un· defeated .

. The club is open to all members of the WPI community. Dues are two dollars a year and card fees are 25 cents a night. Card fees for non ·members are 50 cents a night Lessons for beginners are free .

S.B. Fine This weeks br1dge club winners

I V Karani - R. Kay : 2. K Bradford T Gourkas : 3. S Stadhaur - G. Kinglsy.

FLU VACCINE

Available at

Health Office

MONDAY thru FRIDAY

Hours : 10:30 a .m. to 12 noon 1 p.m. to 5:30p.m. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Cost 52.00

Hawe An Accident? <CPS - CUP)- A man hired by a construction company was asked to fill out the details of ah accadent that put him in the hospital after less than an hour on the job.

His job was simply to carry an excess of bricks from the top of a two story house down to the ground This is his meticulous report :

"Thinking I couJd save time, I rigged a beam with a pulley at the top of the house,and a rope leading to the ground. 1 tied an empty barrel on one end of the rope, puJled it to the top of the house, and then fastened the other end of the rope to a tree. Going up to the lop of the house, I filled the barrel with bricks."

"Then I went back down and unfastened the rope to let the barrel down. Unfortunately the barrel of bricks was now heavier than I, and before I knew what was happening,the barrel jerked me up in the air. I hung onto the rope, and hallway up I met the barrel coming down, receiving a severe blow on the left shoulder."

" I then continued on up to lhe top. banging my head on the beam and jamming my fingers in the pulley. "

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"When the barrel hit the ground, the bottom burst, spilling the brrcks. As I was now heavier than the barrel, I started down at high s peed. Halfway down I met the empty barrel coming up, recei\ing severe lacerations to my shins. When I hit the ground, I landed on the bncks. At this point . I must have become confused because I let go of the rope. The barrel came down, striking me on the head, and I woke up ln the hospital . I respectfully request sick leave."

Each year at the first home football game, Skull awards a trophy

to the most outstanding freshman of the

previous school year. The Freshman Skull

Award (class of '77) was awarded to Eric Hertz,

Honorable Mention was given to

William Cunningham and

Daniel Funk. Congratulations!

\ Page 6

lfPDA.TE ON ENERGY

Energ Crisis 'l4 At WPI by Neal Wright

It was at about this time last year that the term " Energy Crisis" first made its real meaning apparent in our lives . New England was particularly hard hit due to the combined effects of the economics or skyrocketing petroleum prices , no regional refinery , and an unfavorable olitical position with the powers

•'1st were in Washington . \s an institution, WPI, is a

JIHI ticularly large user of all forms or energy and so felt the crunch more acutely than the average individual. Consequently, a Ourry of suggested alternative courses of action were considered. De­signed to reduce overall energy consumption, these suggestions ranged from the sublime to the absurd. The extreme was the

proposal to shorten the school year and close down In January and February. with no mention of reduced tuition or of the average academic effects or such an action .

Fortunately, a detailed tern · perature record of all campus buildings and a study of their thermal qualities enabled WPI to achieve a considerable savings in energy consumption by closer re· gulalion of temperature at a lower level. Through this effort, WPI reduced its use of fuel oil by 35 per cent and electricity by 11 per cent over the year before. However, even with this conservation program. energy costs exceeded budgeted allotments by $18,000. due to rapid price increases. Had the program not been in e(fect, an additional expanse of $87,000. would have been incurred.

For this year, Buildings and Grounds people have checked all heating valves and mechanisms in all buildings and instituted a system of reporting temperatures. All buildings will be kept at 68 degrees F when possible Riley may even get some storm windows this year!

However, the most important element in this effort is the aware and concerned individual at WPI who will practice energy con· servation as a daily activity and submit suggestions, for further efficient use or energy. The energy crisis and a society of scarcity are a reality which will undoubtedly change our llfe styles and values, in some ways as yet unforeseen.

Perhaps this is best reflected in the following reprint from the Worcester Telegram.

People Just Using Too Much BJ Stan Benjamin

Worcester Telegram August 30, 1974

The energy crisis is here to stay, and you're not going to like it.

Over the next 10 years you can expect enersy to raise prices, change lifestyles, provoke en · vironmental batUes and hamper economic progress.

But don 'l blame the Arab nations too much, even though they cut off oil to the United Stat~ last wlnter and led a tripling or foreign oil prices.

The fact is the U.S. energy crisis is largely a crisis of demand. Americans want it all: plentiful energy. clear environment, a booming economy. But from now on, those demands will mean making tough choices if, Indeed, the choices remain open.

Would you rather selUe for a small car and a 55-mUe speed limit, or pay higher gaeoline prices? Sorry, you may have to do both.

Would you rather turn off lights or put up with massive strip mining? Take your chances with atomic power or let coal-burning plants add air pulluUon? Send billions of dollars abroad for foreign oil or allow drilling off Atlantic beach resorts?

Sorry again, you may have to do all of them .

Report Due to President Federal Energy Administrator

John C. Sawhill has until November 1 to analyze the choices and propose to the President a "blueprint" for meeting U.S. energy demands while ending the risky, expensive over«pendence on foreign oil .

Sawhill Is still In the midst of nationwide public hearings on this "Project Independence Blueprint" but the National Adademy on Engineering bas already provided an eye-opening preview.

To put things in perspective, the Unjted States bas built an average or three nuclear power plants per year since 1957; opened about one big new coal mine a year in the

1960's and drilled about 82 wells a day in 1973 in search or oil and natural gas.

Compare these estimates derived from the academy's report :

+ It would take the opening or a major new coal mme every 48 days plus the drilling of 114 oil and gas wells a day for the next 10 years, merely to keep domestic energy porduction up to its 1973 levels.

+To replace 1973-level oil im· ports with domestic energy would take another big coal mine every 89 days, 31 more oU and gas wells dally, and six large atomic plants per year.

+To support economic growth would push energy expansion to Its limits, requiring another 14 oil and gas wells daily, a major new coal mine every 24 days, and 24 nuclear plants each year.

+And even that all-oul development effort would permit a growth rate of only 2.4 per cent, compared with previous forecasts of a 3.8 per cent trowth rate.

+1o save that mucti energy and close the gap could be achieved, the academy estimated, by such steps as the 55 mUe.an· hour speed limit, a big switch to small cars, additional tran ­sportation improvements, and energy-saving measures in homes, businesses and industries.

All that, plus about $600 billion, is what It would take to balance the nation 's energy budget without foreign oil, by 1985, the Academy estimated.

Such advanced sources as solar energy and atomic fusion can't even make a dent that soon , the Academy saJd.

or course, the United States could continue Importing foreign oil and the question then becomes : How Much?

Before the Arab embargo, the United States was importing some 6.6 million barrels of oil dally,

about 18 per cent of total U.S. eneabt

ll could limit its future oil Im­ports to something similar, avoiding a dangerous physical dependency, but the cost would be high.

In 1973 the United States paid some t7 billion for foreign oil : in 1974 the same amoWlt or oil would cost f23.5 billion at the tripled world prices.

Less Demand on U.S. On the other hand, keeping up

the 1973 level of imports could eliminate the need for those 52 big coal mines, 60 atomic plants and 11 ,000 oi1 and gas wells per year lt would take to do without Imports.

Another alternative might be to cut U.S. energy demand even more drastically than the Academy envisioned, and again the question becomes : How much?

Sawhill has said the growth rate of energy demand should be cut in half, to around 2 per cent a year, but be admits: "1 still don't know bow rapidly we can do that.

" I don't know how rapidly we can get people out or their automobiles and Into public transportation," he said in an interview. "How quickly can we get people to improve homes with better insulation? Row quickly can industry develop new processes?"

Like energy imported. energy saved reduces the need for mines, wells and power plants.

And energy saved also reduces environmental damage.

''The energy-environmental trade-off& will be important." Sawhill said. " Its going to come down to SpecifiCS."

"How much should we relax the Clean Air Acl in order to permit the burning of high-sulfur coal? That's going to be a big battle."

Sawhill anticipates protests and conflict over efforts to begin petroleum operations off the shores or the AUantic and Gulf of Alaska, as well as continued debate over the safety of nuclear power systems.

In The Public Inter by Ralph Nader

The great energy gouge has replaced the contrived energy shortage of last winter just as predicted by a number of close observers of the oil industry. Now. however, toe hordes of reporters who dally covered William Simon and his Federal Energy Office have gone back to other duties . G<>uges are not as exciting to report as crises - including the long gas station lines earlier this year.

Recently we made an inventory of what Simon's successor, John Sawhill, and the Federal Energy Administration <FEA> was doing Here is a summary :

1. John Sawhill, despite wide public criticism, continues to hire former oil industry executives for key policy positions. Exxon paid one of his latest recruits, Me1vln A. Conant. $90,000 in a lump sum just before he took the FEA job <he has to be confirmed by the Senate> as compensation to ease the hardship or his $36,000 government salary . The " Houston-to-Washington" oil industry shuttle continues to control energy policy.

2. Although lhe former Cost or Living Council's own documents show that there was no production cost justification for the CLC's notorious decision last December to raise the permitted price of domestic "old oil" from $4.25 to $5.25, John Sawhill won 't reverse this $2-billion-plus raid on the consumer . Those same CLC documents also show no evidence that this price rise would stimulate more production nor reduce demand.

3. Mr. Sawhill frequently preaches conservation of energy and wears a tieless shirt without jacket at work to show how lighter summer wear can reduce the need for heavy air conditioning. But his agency is reluctant to press for mandatory auto fuel economy standards for new cars, among numerous other ways to speed up energy savings In the design of consumer products. What is most astonishing Is how the FEA has avoided highlighting the early results of its modest federal energy management program.

If we are to believe FEA' compilation, in the nine months ending June 30, 1974, federal agencies reduced their anticipated energy demand by almost 25 percent with a saving equivalent to 75 million barrels of oil worth $600 million Wby is this record of achievement no hsghly publicized? ...

4 One possible answer is that If waste prevention were really pushed In the private sector by the FEA, it would place the utilities In a • difficult financial situation . Waste of electricity is essential to keep revenues up, as millions of consumers learned recenUy when they w~re Informed that the reward for their conserving last winter was higher rates. SawhJII instead takes the corporate way out by vigorously pushing the state utility agencies to approve higher rates faster and to permit op ... ratlng cost increases and automatic passthroughs like the fuel adjustment clause. He hu

even hlntt"d that federal may be necessary to prop mismanaged, wute utilities. 1l seemc; that citizen, already rates by far than large users, ls going to be taken consumer and as a

5. There are lhousandl dependent" oil producen country ready to production but they enough well casing pipes. Guess who is tubular steel? The giant - Exxon, Texaco, Mobil, others. Although tra~ were pointing out the tubular steel shortages October, 1973, the FEA efforts largely to mild and avoids asking Conll'll• mandatory allocation The FEA 's survey in showed that 8 major oil held the bulk of the ventory of these steel sharp increases In leading to continuous the " Independents" or Once again, big business over small business.

6. As an economist, knows of the concentrated a few large corporations natural gas industry - a restricted to production pipeline dominance. Yet vocates deregulation or prices by the Federal Commission which In months itself has substantial price incrlajloral Sawhill 's deregulation would triple the price gas within a year and, non-competitive indust lure, would not production. Besides, waste or natural gu use wiser and more efficient But then again, if went to town on this waste, companies' revenues down.

Pick an l88ue and the side of big bualneell. power? Sawhill is all licensing of this dangerous and capi energy source. The fusion of nuclear plants lhe country is worrying most steadfast advocates. of strip mining? SawhUl even the compromise the House of Rell)l'esentatllft mining bill and eJUtggera .. projected loss of

When the FEA 's fairs director, Lee resigned last month in the agency's inrtlim•~•ru't! sumer interests, t::: ... .,hn_..m nounced that he was strengthen the consumer omce. I have asked Mr. whether, at the least, he J'rant the oew director. t<oUins, a charter to object or challenge which harm consumer he declines to go that toward consumer show in a big way formance can 'l be hrely to a nice, who is obliged to porate line in a big ministration .

ay, Oct. ~, ~t9i7 14

Dirtr Pictures U.S. E nvironmental Agency is trying to root

Pornography in New England. are concerned with eco·

; dirty environmental that are offensive to the

sound and smell. efforts by private groups

• s tate and federal there are still areas

degradation in state region.

trying to document these eyesores by carrying

Dirty Picture Program ·•. program is open to all

photographers in New • We are seeking black and

color pictures that ........... ~ record areas that are

abatement and IMn!mPtnai cleanup.

hope that these photographs as a stimulus to bring

Improvements. They will as an educational tool by

cally demonstrating the for continuing programs or

protection. are interested in par· in this program we ask

you read the rules carefully then send your entries to :

Picture Program", Public Division, U.S. Environ·

Protection Agency , Room J .F.K. Federal Building,

Mass. 02203.

All amateur photographers in England are eligible to

3. Color and black and white photos will be judged separately. You may enter a single photo or as many pictures In each of the two categories as you wish.

4. Original slides of any size, or prints may be submitted. Any type of camera or !llm may be used ; we ask, however, that the original negative accompany each print. Prints must be unmounted and may be no larger than 8 by lO in­ches. Minimum size is 31, by 31'1 inches.

5. Each entry must be ac­companied by the following in­formation : lhe date and exact location of the subject, the name of the photographer, and complete address Cincluding telephone number >. Failure to include all of the requested information will disqualify the entry.

6. Winners wiD be selected by a panel of judges to be appointed by EPA. Photographic quality, creativity and nature of the subject will be the criteria used to select winning entries.

7. Plaques and certificates will be awarded to the winners of the program. Winners will be notified during the month of December.

8. Deadline : All entries must be postmarked oo later than Nov. 15, 1974.

9. The Environmental Protection Agency and others designated by EPA shall have the right to use the winning pictures for the purpose of publication , illustration , and exhibiting in any manner. All entries will become \.be property of EPA.

k

Rutland Heights Hospital Volunteer Program

l. Adopt-A-t'allent Program The goal .. : which Is to establish

on a one-to-one basis, indepth volunteer-patient contact to : meet the socioiogical -psychological­physical needs of the palient <s> by serving in a s imilar capacity of a relative or a fr iend ; augment patients' therapy goal and per­sonal interests by therapeutically designed " fun" activities which volunteer adopter work on with the pallent(s) ; promote rehabilitative growth for the patientes > and a more meaningful volunteer-patient relationship. Patients included in this program are those who have no relatives, or who have relatives unable to visit, and who have needs which can be met by an adopter.

2. "Creative Workshop Pro· gram"

The purpose of the Workshops is to provide an atmosphere con· ducive to individual and-or group creative expression , inner ex­ploration and learning. Workshops are :

a) Arts and Crafts Workahop -to include areas such as: painting, design, color (color In dally living>, drawing, etc.. jewelry making, soap carving, leathercraft, knit­ting, watch repairing, etc.

b) Drama-Skit Produellon Workshop - Theatre Guild - the purpose of the Guild is to stimulate self-expression, Involvement , group cooperation , sense of

achievement and self-worth . Members learn and operate props. lighting , stage preparations, formulate their own publicity. as well as act. Use of auditorium and stage.

c) Music -Entertainment Workshop - There are many talents in this area, in addition to many of the pati•nts who would benefit by and enJOY this form of outlet. Ranges Include : Music Therapy to organizing a players group, ward singing groups , patients' entertainment shows, etc. Utilizing intercable radio station and auditorium .

3. Radio Program <R.H.I.B. -Rutland Heights Inter-cable Broadcasting l

The hospital Is equipped with a fully operational broadcast station including speakers on an wards and earphones for bed patients.

The goal of the Radio Program is to provide through diverse and interesting programs, a catalyst for greater patient com­munication , socialization, ad­justment and involvement. Patients are encouraged to share and participate live and-or on tape, their talents, interests and opinions ; patients, staff and community members are in­terviewed; news of patients, hospital an.d co~munlty are part of

the broadca s ting program in ­terspersed with musical variety. New programs are in continuous need of development.

4. Therapy Rudlng Group Program

The goal of which is to actively involve patients in a socially oriented learning program. Patients who attend are In need of a socially oriented and learning atmosphere. 4 - 5 patients per group <group hours · 3:30 · 4 :30 p.m • weekdays>. Each group may choose one or more authors and-or topics. supported and developed by the group facilitator employin& alternative readings and In· strumental materials. Depending upon the Interests and abiiJtles, patients read , discuss and-or work on related projects. The group facilitator (volunteer) encourages patient Involvement wblle serving as a guide and assimilator towards a sharing and learning experience for all the members.

Additional Areas l11clade : Coordinator of Volunteer Speakers Bureau, Exhibits Aaaistant and Coordinator of School lnlonnation Program.

Contact : Mrs . Laura Jakubauskas, Director of Volunteer Services at 886-4'711 , ext. 214.

Emancipation Admission to WPI lthletlo Contests

Faculty and starr. plus ll\tl\1EDIAT(o; FAMII.Y !\11-~M­

BERS. may w admitted to aU hom~ football and basketball gamH upon presentation of a WPI 1.0 . card.

to' or family us~ . lf desired. on~ <nun-transferablel t"aculty-Staff season ticket can M obtalnrd from the Athletic Department. TillS TI('Kio~T 4S FOR ADMISSION o•· IM­MEDIAT•; •• AMII."a' MEMBERS ONl.V AND Wll,l. HI-: ( 'ONI-' ISCATI-:D n· USED to' OR ADMISSION OF ANVONI-: t :LSE. by

Tickets un be picked up at Ute Athletic Office nn every weekday. 8: 30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Case A11inst The Dr1ft (Part II) WPJ I.D. 'sand Faculty-starr tickets are nut' a lid f•~r any Tournament or non-WPI game. ·

the draft is indefensible be rejected on those

. (The ends do not justify > However, in the in·

completeness, the of its abolition should

_ .. , .. ,...., first , with respect to to defend itself,

regarding the effect of law on society.

trend among In­is to rely on

technology such as radar-guided bombers

laser-guided missiles In war , malting armies

of masses of armed virtually obeolete. Fur­,· It is the strategists who

determine the success of a defensive effort. proper function of a

anny Is to defend ita against an lnvaaion by a nation )

most effective and dedicated man is one who Is

sometblng he values, properly and freedom. This guarantee that a military

well -manned , both in and ability . The

n Revolution , for • was fought by a

army of farmers with guns and light artillery the might of the most

milJtary force in the The victory was not a

of numbers or training - It the result of clever strategy the determination of men

for their freedom. the draft makes military

urlsm IJke our involvement lndo-Olinese and Korean

possible. It Is abominable to a person to defend a country

In which he bas no interest whatever and whose governme11t 's claim to legitimacy is tenuous at best. Situations of lbls type foreshadow a foreign policy reminiscent of Nazi Gennany's search for " lebensrawn."

When a government is conceded a claim on the lives and services of its citizens like conscription, the extension of that policy into other areas Ia only a matter of tlme. A recent proposal is to require all males to spend two years doing social work. <It was justified by saying that it is unfair for eome to be drafted Into two years military service, while others are free to pursue their own goals.) Senator Edward Kennedy recently proposed that doctors be forced to practice medicine for two years in slums or isolated rural areas when they graduate from medical school. <Of course , more " moderate" senators, whose motives are not as obvious as Senator Kennedy's, want the medical students to "volunteer" for their enslavement. See the Nation section of the September 22, 1974, Boston Sunday Globe.)

Conscription is the first step on the road to totalitarianism. In the name or freedom and rights, It must be abolished.

(There was a disastrous misprint in the last installment of this column. The statement should have read : "Since there can be no such thJng as the right to violate rights, the initiation of force must be banned from human relations.")

<The opinions expressed In this column are those of the author alone. Questions, opinions and obj~tlons should be addressed to Box 588).

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OK now, who was the liponsor or the ··sky Kmg" show7 Now try th1s one. Who i. playmg at the Friday the 13th Coffee House on October 4?

No\1. let me tell you that the f1rst question 1s or common knowlt!dge. and we all know that common knowled~te tof hllle worth or 1mportance1 1s known as trivea. The liecond question. wh1ch we would all like 10 have as common knowledge, is not a triveal question becauM~ il is of some worth or importance.

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Now let me g1ve you some common knowledge. On Oct. 4, The Tri\'ia ~1asters will be performing at the Fr1day the 13th CoHee House. Doctors of Triviology and Masters of the Mundane are Joe Albiani and Denis Galden. nus trivia duo has been around for a while and they also mastermmd weekly trivia bouts on WMEX Rad1o. Boston . That Friday night Joe and Denis Will carry on with our audience. The Lnvia team w11l try lo stump you . However, 1f you win. you get to try to stump Joe and Denis. If you succeed in this, they get to ask you a supertr1v1a question . II you are lucky enough to get th1s one, you arc awarded the "Trivia Expert Diploma". Big deal.

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Also that Friday evening at the CoHee House you will have the l> elage and pleasure to hear the origmal songs <and nonsense> or John LoL s Ronna. as performed by C J , Ross Greenburg. Ben Stevens, and 1\('\ "\Kelly. Thats correct folks, right ore of your own campus .

.:vmething tells me that the Coffee House 1s running on a low budget . :\ow back to our rirst question . Do you know the answer'! tr not, I 'm sure ~ou w1ll d1e when I tell you. NABISCO~! R1ght, now you have 11. You do rt-member. don't you? But then. does tl really maller?

J .L.H

Rules For Trivia Before we get into the rules of Trivia, 11 would be helit to define

Tnvia . Tnvta IS any fact whtch had wide·spread d1stnbution and ex· posure to a large percentage or the audtence. Once the answer loa Trivia question ts revealed, it should evoke a mental respose or "Ohhh Yaaaahhh'.!

For example .the name of lhe Lone Ranger's horse <Silver l IS Trivia. because 11 was mentioned every week for years. The number of hairs on Lmcoln'a beard or the largest prWle m the world IS not Trivia, becau~ 11 1s not sometmg lhatts recogmzable to much or the aud1ence.

The ruleli of Trivia are ~umple, as are I he Trivia Experts : 1. The Tr1v1a Team will throw out a simple Trivia quest ion. Whoever

is called upon tries to answer the question . 2. If suct'essful, the contestant tries to slump the Trivia Team with his

nwn lrtvla question c the contestant must know the answer h1mself>.

3. If the Trivia Team is stumped they w11l ask lhe contestanl a SLIPER TRIVIA question. If the contestant is right h~ wins the Trivia expert Dlpl<1ma which will probably swell his head ; if the conlestao't is ~rong the queshon is open to the first person in the audience who 1s recongimzed, and it will coWlt as his entry question.

GOOD LUCK!

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Got Any Talent??? Talented students now have an op­

portunity to entertain at The Goat's Head Pub. Suggested types of entertainment are: Singing, banio and guitar playing, magic and comedy. For more information, leave a note with your name, box number, phone number and type of entertainment, in box No. 2149.

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Review-World. to Reston, "Nixon amnesty because he as a repudiation of his policies and because offers too much of a trast between war .. 6 .,;•••

the Watergate conspira and himself."

James Reston, Jr. wiU speaking on October 2, at 8:00 in Hall.

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Spectrum Presents Speculum Musicae londaJ - Oct. l

IIden Hall 8:00p.m.

The greatest problem (acing contemporary composers is the lack of performers who can deal with the special problems raised by some of the more progressive styles. This, no less than audience resistance, is a major reason symphony orchestras play so little new music; orchestra members' training is still likely to be from conservatories where tonal thinking and nineteenth-century instrumental techniques are still regarded as standard. With few exceptions - Gunther Schuller at the New England Conservatory, Ralph Shapey at the University of Chicago and an avant-~tarde hotbed at the University of california in San Diego - largely unexposed to contemporary musical thinking.

That is why a new chamber ensembel called Speculum Musicae is so valuable an addition to the musical scene. Formed two years ago by sixteen of the bright young freelance musicians in town who live [rom gig to gig - a TW commercial one day, a pick-up baroque ensemble the next - the Speculum has addressed itself entirely to becoming a performing body for new music. Its concert last week at Tully Hall - which, I'm ashamed to admit, was the first time I had heard the group on its own - was a beauty.

The problem with some new· music groups that have come and gone in the past bas been a certain provincialism in their outlook. The Group for Contemporary Music at Columbia, for example, had by the

D.S.T. Well folks, life down here at

Delta Sigma Tau couldn't be any better. So far we have had two parties this year which have been considered very successful. From whatlcan remember anyway. We, lbe Brothers of Delta Sigam Tau, will be having another party. Saturday October 5th from 8-~Admission will be 50 cents with aU the beer you can drink. Mixed dnnks will be served at 50 cents. It should be a real good time so so if you're not doing anything, come on down to 8 Bovnton Street

Oh yeah,ALLFRESHMEN-we are still offering Adademlc Help Sessions from 6-9 - Mon. -Thurs .• so if any problem arises In any or your courses, feel free to come on down . Drop down even if you don 'I need any help. The Brothers and 1 are always around to give tours

And now this quick look at !-iports. Our volleyball team afler I wo consecul ive losses got back on

lime or its break-up become the captive of the academics. The Speculum, if the program I heard is any sample, has chosen a broader overview of the music of this century Their playing is that o( a group of awesomely talented young people who hear everything without prejudtce and with superior musical insights The program began with the Opus 22 Quartet of Anton Webern and ended with the Second Quartet or Schoenberg, both of them seminal pieces for the music or our time, but both by now so deep into our consciousness that their sound is romantic and comfortable. In between were three new pieces: Luciano Serio's Chemins for viola and nine instruments, a chaotic and unappealing work that seems

to me. for once among Serio's output. mere noise: Donald Martino's Notturno. a truly stunning piece that gives off great assurances and. in tls hard-edged, prismatic way, has great depth and order: David Saperstein's Sextet. a not very vertebrate Stravinskian exercis~. Everything on the program was performed with great elegance and a brim­ming musical energy that came across to a lively and receptive audience: it was, in a way, an tdeal program of new music, both in the layout or the program and the way it was played.

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CorDer the winning trail again w1lh a win over ATO 2nd. lt was quite a comeback in Lhe first or a 3 game set which we are quite proud of. Nice going, guys. Our next game is against KAP so we hope the good Lord is on our side as we try for an upset.

Well, in conclusion. J will only mention the Open House is still in effect for all Houses and il would be wise fro all freshmen to visit ALL the Houses and find out what each fraternity is like .. We wiH be hoping to see you all at our next party Sat. Oct. 5. Till then BE SMOOTH!!

Edward J . Smith PubJiclty Committee Chairman

S.A.E. This past weekend Mass-

achusetts Delta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was host to a Regional Leadershtp School held at Barlin Farms Retreat Center in 'Worcester . Modeled somewhat after the S.A.E . National

Leadership School in Evanston, Illinois, this was the firsl Regional Leadership School on this scale in the area Approximately one hundred brothers from fifteen chapters throughout the East cand as rar south as Virginia) par­ticipated Ideas were exchanged between naUonaJ , province. and chapter represcntaUves In work sessions conducted throughout the weekend. Among the many topics covered were rush. pledging , chapter administration, the role or women with fraternities, and the role of alumni. The weekend was wrapped up with a big party Saturday night, and a good Ume was had by all. uverau the weekend was a great success and coordinator Nick Baker and the brothers of Mass. Delta did a fine job.

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Chairman

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HISTORY OF WPI '~~ Editor's Note: The following is the fifth in a series of twelve articles on the History of WPI edited by Jon Anderson from Two Towers on sale at lhe bookstore.

Ichabod Washburn did not live to defend his dream of "practical education." On the last day of 1868, a little more than a month arter the school opened, Mr. Washburn died after a long and distressing illness. In a meeting of the Institute trustees just before the funeral service, Dr. Hill told of his visit with Mr. Washburn just before rWdlUaU a few hours before bla death. "He had had a peculiarly happy day," rememberect Dr. Hill. "Jle bad been driven out to the scientific school and spoke with especial pleuure, meltin& as be spoke." Mr. Washburn had lqed to see the sbop completed. "Oh let me but live to see that!" be bad weakly exclaimed . .. How would I llke to beat out the fint piece of iron in that buildinl." ·

A ip8dal meetJna of tbe tnl8tees was hurriedly called to name Kilton Hiaina tbe offleial superintendent of the Wubburn Shopa.

1'bil choice bad been a rorecone eoncl.ton for leVel'a1 montbl, since the youna man's graduation from Dartmouth 'a Chandler Scientific School tbe previous June. Heartily recommended by Jobn Woodman, professor of engineeri.ng at Dartmouth, Mr . Higgins bad made such a good impression in Worcester that arrangements bad been made for bim to work at the wire mill ID'Itil the shops at the school were completed.

In March or the following year I Mr. Washburn's estate was set­tled; by April the shops were completely equipped and named the Washburn Shops. There was much speculation about their role, but by 1882 the arguments bad p(nmded out a workable pattern . Now the shop practice was not optional, but obligatory for all mechanical engineering studeota. It had been so aooo discovered that boys could not learn bow to make saleable products in the rew hours available during the school year that an apprentice time of five months had been added to the original three-year course. The program was actually a revised version of apprenticeship, whereby paid workmen did the bulk of the work and apprentices the heavy learning The main difference was that the apprentices were not paid the usual flfty~ents-a-day wage.

From the beginning the Shops were a commercial venture, producing a line of lathes, machine tools, and school apparatus. The main products were adjustable drawing stands and twist drill grinders designoo by a young journeyman, Oakley S. Walker. For many years there was con· siderable anxiety because the Shops did not meet expenses, but by 1882 the Shops had a credit balance wbich eventuaJiy rose to

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This new prosperity was largely due to the success or Mr. Higgins' hydraulic elevator. Elevators run by steam had been in use for several years in America, but they were palnfuUy slow, very ex­pensive, and used only for freight. In search for a product which would not compete with local manufacturing, Mr. Morgan (the trustee chairman in charge of the Shops> suggested that Mr. Higgins design an elevator and let the boys build some of the parts. Adaptiol his ideas from a hydraulic crane whieh be had aeeo in operation, Mr. Higina made his elevator with a lone piuocer to IO down into tbe ground as far as it went up into tbe air. The fint elevator made at the Sbope, installed at Washburn and Moen Company, bec:ame tbe best publicity tbe scbool ever bad.

Mr. Higina and bia venture of the S1:Jo.- became 10 well lmown tbat be wu lavtted to etltablith limUar Ol*'atioaa for the Georlia Institute of TectmolocY and the Miller Manual Tralniag Scbool in Vir&inia . For tbe venture in GeorJia bla lnleparable frieod, George Alden, accompanied him, and there Worcester's future bad ooe of ita narrowest eteapes wheo the two men were invited to stay in the south. Fort\mately for the City, they botb decliDed.

Mr. Alden, always the scbolar, had not lost his interest in scientific study. Along with hla teaching be had manaaed to write and publish several books of a technical nature. He also had developed a dynamometer, unrivaled for measuring large units of power. When the school had first opened, Mr. Alden had taught physics and machine drawing in addition to being ln charge of civil engineering and mechanical engineering. But by 1882 the staff had been in· creased to seven professors and two instructors. Mr. Alden's in­terests were now centered primarily in mechanical engineering. Serious himself, be expected everybody else to be, believing more in practice than in precept and talking as little as possible in his claaaes.

The successful procedure by which mechanical engineering students learned the relationships of theory and practice soon in· fluenced all other departments of the school. "Practice" became the popular term long before the word laboratory was used except for chemistry . At least six hundred hours a year were prescribed in the five departments. Whereas mechanical engineering boys buill engines and lathes, the boys who took architecture worked with architects of the City on actual building projects. The civil engineers surveyed the campus or laid our imaginary railroad tracks. The chemists had their own small laboratory and the designers their drawing room; that is, when they weren 't out on sketching ex·

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peditiona in tbe City. Usually the drawiJII excundoos ended at the Oread lutitute. n wu ., pk­ture~QUe, the boys arped, and even Profeaaor Gladwin bad to agree.

Profeaor Gladwin, wbo bad become a full-time teacher, was a fine art.iata and had the tem· perament to match the talent. ''Converge! Converge! Make tboee lines converge!" he would insist when the boys became restless. When be found the tongue of his class beU mlssing or his black· board sketches altered, be would withdraw into burt dignity and declare: ''There Is a boy in lbe class." Of sudden noises he was terrified. This the boys knew, and sooner or later one of them would deliberately drop something at his feet . He would mutter between his teetn: " I want you to know that I am on my edge." Finally a l~d crash would come from a comer of the room, his eyes would blaze, his hair fly , and he would scream : "An attempt on my life. An attempt on my life! "

In addition to drawing, tbe scbool offered in 1882 four courses in all of which a student could earn a degree - mechanical engineering, civil engineering, chemistry and physics . Language and mathematics were considered auxiliary departments. The teachers abifted the load from one to another, periodically hiring part-time ins~tors, and con­stantly endeavoring to keep a motley brood of subjects under their protective wing.

In 1869 Professor Thompson had significantly increased his staff by adding John E . Sinclair, a classmate at Chandler Scientific School. Mr. Sinclair had come to Worcester with his two mother-less litUe girls and the assurance oi less salary but with the promise that he could rent a big house in which there would be spare rooms Cor Institute boys.

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'"lbere's no such thlnl u nearly ri&ht, ·• Profeuor SiDdalr would say qain and apia. "U you IOlve • problem comdly I I mark you perfect; if there Ia the slightest error, I mark you zero." As be wanned up to bia subject, bia voice would climb tbe tcale. "U an engineer builds a bridge and has a decimal point wrong in his figuring - well (and here bla voice would break with the drama of it all) the bridge falla I"

Graduation in 1882 followed much the same pattern as bad all such previous occasions. The engraved invitations had gone out wllb their usual courtesy "desiring the advantage and the pleaswe of your presence," a wording which was used on aU standard notices, even for committee meetings. SuCh forms were always printed, with the school's printing bill often amounting to more than that for maintenance.

One of the speakers was Henry P. Armsby, a graduate of the Institute's first claas and now president of an agricultural college. His presence in this capacity was a tremendous satisfaction to Professor Thomp· son.

Afterwards the clus marched to the north side of the campus to plant their elm tree, " the ladies being prettily grouped on the shaded hillside overlooking .the site." the usual orations and poems were read, a song written by one or the mothers was sung, and everyone was loudly cheered , especially the janitor and han·

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Engineer Loss, 17 - 15 ae 1974 home football opener was a sad one for WPI. The Engineers

a 17·15 deciston to the Polar Bears of Bowdom, m one of the ling games ever wttnes!;ed by WPl fans, if not the most

started off with a bang as Bob Simon took the opemng kickoff -·•t.t1•rP.Jtklrtll!99 yards for a score. Bob Aubreys' extra point gave the

lead. came back however, and scored first on a 32-yd field goal by

Wemty midway through the first quarter. Al th1s time, the offense was noundering as they could manage only one first

their first three possessions. Bowdo1ns' offense was clicking, , and they moved easily down the field for a score early tn the

quarter. The touchdown came on a ntne yard run by Tom DeLois. scored again in the secona quarter aner recovermg a tumbled

. T'hls score came on a 4 yd. pass from Bob Kbacki to Leo WPI moved the ball into Bowdoins territory but lime ran out. with

showtng a 17-71ead in the f1rst half. half was a different story as WPI dominated play. Bowdoin

backs against the wall the entire half but turned back live scoring threats. The rirst one came on a fourth and one situation

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b.\ H .\' . Th1s week Intramural Volleyball

League game~> were completed with no major upsets.

In Division 1. priviously un· defeated Riley 3 was handed tis Ctril defeat by an improved Morgan 3a team . The rest of the div1sion completed their games for the week with no exciting results. Ftrst place PKTIAI keeps rolhng along not finding any competition in 1ts d1v1sion . Although they have not played the second place Celts or Riley 3 .

Unlike Division 1, Division 2 has had some more good action w1th 5 or 6 teams evenly matched . SPE leads the dwtston with an un· blemished record. Close behind 1s SAP. PGD. LCAU >. Somt> btg games are coming up this week and should decide who is tops m this di,.ision.

three yard line. WPI could not pick up the first down and was a score. The defense held tough and WPJ got the ball back on

twenty yard line after a short punt . From here the Engineers in with Dave McCormick scoring on a one yard sneak. A bad snap

center cause-d the extra point to be missed and WPI now trailed 17-

tunes in the last quarter WPI marched inside of Bowdoins' ten nne but could not score. The first time a holding penally pushed the

back,then a fumble on the two yard line, then an interCP!'1!:; .. , one yard line. Each lime the defense held and forced Bowdoin to

WPI picked up two more points on a safely when Bowdoin decided IIIICnu•llnilluy down the ball in their own end zone. rather than risk a

This strategy a lmost backfired, however as McCormick moved the to Bowdoins' two yard with consecutive passes to Bob Gray,

Hefeash·e standout Dan (.'ordella stops Bowdoin ruanlaJ batk af~r shurt gain. IFe)dman l

ln Division 3, ATO (l I. PSK, and CA VX lead the pack. All three teams are still undefeated. They are closely followed by sA•~ and KWT PSK and the CAVS have not yet played each other nor have they played SAE or KWT. These games should be the best of the regular season and should not be

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Walker, and Jim Grasso. There were now only 30 seconds left and bad no time outs Bob Aubrey quickly came on the field to attempt woUld have been the game wmrung ueta goat. Hts attempt was wide left, however , and the last minute heroics were spoiled.

City and Engineer's Titles missed. . .... ...-----• ··--IM \'OI.U•;YHAI.I.

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The cross country team started the season out with two successful efforts last week . The team has been hampered by injuries and entered the season without the services of co-<:aptain Dave Fowler. out wtth a knee problem. Eventhough the team was not at full strength It had to open its seasoR on September 25th .

The farst meet was the City Championship, m which WPI meets Worcester State, Clark. and Assumption . This race is always important to the squad and they showed it with a big victory over all three opponents. The team was led by Alan Briggs and co-captain Chris Keenan who both tied for first. They were followed by Pete Kane and Jeff Wnek who took fourth and fifth respectively . The scoring for the engineers was rounded out by George Cooper 17th), Steve Sweeney <8th>, and Frank Leahey <9th>. The final score was WPI, 19; Worcester State. ~ : Assumption, 74; and Clark, 109.

On Saturday , the 28th, the team traveled to Boston to race MIT and

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wntten Sunday morning so I am unable to see tbe resulta of the pro games. Therefore, you will have to wait until next week to see my entire record. As far as college games go, I had a rough week, 5 • 6 for a .4S5 percentage. There were a couple mild upsets though, that I am sure threw everybody off. At least no one can say it was beginner's luck. Here ,.e go for next week's games:

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RPI. Th1s was an 1mportanl meet since the winner claims the Engineers' Cup, which has only been won by WPI once before, in 1972. The race was also the first important test for the squad. The results of the meet were im· pressive, WPI took the meet with a solid margin of victory. The final score was WPI 24, MIT 38, and RPI 70. The squad was paced by Chris Keenan C2nd>, Alan Briggs C3rd) Pete Kane C4th), and Jeff Wnek C6th). An impressive performance was turned in by freshmen Georse Cooper who placed 9th and was our fifth man in. With this victory, the team took back the Engineers' Cup for the second time in history .

A J .V. meet was alto held at Franklin Park between the same schools . WPI faired well in this race with Dennis Legnard taldng second and Mark Steblin third. The team place second over au.

This week the squad will meet Wesleyan on Tuesday in the first of only two home meets. On Friday, they travel to Dudley to meet Nichols and Lowell Tech in a lri­meet.

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Soccer Team Splits

by Steve •·alrbankl

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The varsity soccer team split 1ts pair of games last week. over· powerang AIC by a wide~ margin,and then dropping a close decis1on to a huatling Tufts team by a score or 2·1 .

The Engineers had their offense clicking last Tuesday as they combined for five goals against AIC. John Maxouris and Alan King each collected a goal In the first half to give WPI a 2.0 lead at the end of the first stanza. Kings' goal was a nice shot from out front : whtle Max.ourts drilled in a head shot off a cross from the wing. Tech once agam dominated play m the second half. finding the net three more times. King and Maxour1s each netted their second goals, and freshman Wayne Martin scored his first college goal in the final minutes of play The Bolters defense was solid throughout the contest. holding the AIC attack to only a few weak shots on goal. Although WPI was victorious, the locker room was subdued after the game as Tech learned that standout wmger George Op1go a ''ita I part of the WPI offense, had received a broken leg during the game. and will be out indefinately.

In Saturday's 2· 1 loss to Tufts, the lone scorer for the Engineers was inside John Maxouris, who tall1ed midway through lhe first half. However. Tufts fought back in the second half with two goals, which was ~nough as Tech was unable to increase tbeir 1~ lead. Before the Tufts game, the Booters were ranked 12th in New England, while Tufts was rated 18th. Techs next home game is Tuesday Oct. 1 st. at 3:30p.m.

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hat's Up? OCTOBER 1974 INTERSESSION REGISTRATION

FORMS ARE DUE IN THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE BY 4 P.M. OCTOBER 16.

Tue 1 WPI BUSINESS WOMEN'S CLUB, Janet Earle Room, noon. +SOCCER, vs. MIT, 3:30 p.m. +CROSS COUNTRY, vs. Wesleyan, 4 p.m. +CINEMATECH, The Learning Process, "La Chinoise" and uzero de Conduite," Alden Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Wed 2 +SPECTRUM SERIES, ''The Issue of Amnesty and Watergate," James Reston, Alden Aud., 8 p.m.

Thu 3 ALUMNI WIVES CLUB, Pot luck Supper with Faculty , Higgins House, 6:30 p.m.

Fri 4

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CROSS COUNTRY, at Nichols with Lowell Tech, 4 p.m. COFFEE HOUSE, "The Trivia Masters," Joe Albiani and Denis Golden, 8 p.m.

ROTC LEADERSHIP WEEKEND, Fort Devens.

4-11 ALUMNI ROMANIA TRIP, meet in. Harrington Lobby, 7 p.m.

Sat. 5 +J V CROSS COUNTRY, vs. Wore. Academy, 10:30 a.m. SOCCER, at U.Mass., 11 a.m.

Sat. 5 J V SOCCER, at U.Mass., 11 a.m. FOOTBALL, at Middlebury, 1:30 · p.m.

Sun. 6 +JACK D'JOHN TRIO, Harrington Auditorium, 2 p.m. +LENS & LIGHTS MOVIE, "Day of the Jackal,'' Alden Aud., 8 p.m.

Mon 7 J V FOOTBALL, at Nichols, 3 p.m. +SPECTRUM OPENING, "Speculum Musicae," Alden Aud., 8 p.m.

7-25 GORDON LIBRARY EXHIBIT, "Models of Inventions by Leonardo daVinci,'' IBM Touring Exhibition.

Tue 8 .CROSS COUNTRY, at Tufts, 4 p.m. CIN EMATECH, Committee Selections, "The Great McGinty," Alden Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

+Events open to the public.

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This Week:

Update on Energy, p. 6 Spectrum Series Debut, p. 9