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Tuesday, February 20, 2001 A Publication of the Newspeak Association Volume No. 66, Issue 6

Front Page
-Housing selection in full swing
-Coping with complexity: System Dynamics provides tools to understand our world
-Computer viruses and worms at WPI?

News
-News Headlines
-Enduring legacies: The stories of gifts that built a university: Part 1, John Boynton's founding gift
-Doctor disciplined for letting resident start surgery on wrong hip
-Bill would make it a crime not to report a fire
-Police Log

Opinions
-MP3s and the RIAA: the heart of the case
-Knapp's claims about environmental cause are unsupported
-The Pit
-The Little Things
-Philler (external link)

Letters to the Editor
-Student Pugwash discusses effects of deforestation

Arts & Entertainment
-Napster and other wants to sell music online, but how?
-Boston Public has dual lesson plans
-Animal rights groups criticize 'Survivor' pig killing

Announcements
-Club Corner
-Crimson Clipboard

Sports
-IceCats 3, River Rats 2
-Score Board
-Upcoming Contests

In this issue...


Housing selection in full swing

By February 14th, students interested in living in on-campus housing next year submitted a housing application and $100 deposit. Each of these students' names will now all be given to the CCC, which will use a computer program to randomly pick a lottery number for each name. Those lottery numbers will then be appearing in those students' mailboxes on the 21st.

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Coping with complexity: System Dynamics provides tools to understand our world

As The world becomes more complex many find themselves bombarded with more problems to solve, less time to solve them, and fewer chances to learn from their mistakes. Professor John Sterman underscored this lesson in an on-campus lecture Tuesday night as he presented an overview of problem solving tools to students at WPI.

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Computer viruses and worms at WPI?

Computer viruses (or worms) make their rounds every so often. WPI was hit with two email viruses/worms just recently. Luckily, the CCC staff was able to stop the spread before too much damage was done.

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