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Tuesday, March 27, 2001 A Publication of the Newspeak Association Volume No. 66, Issue 8

Front Page
-Creating diversity and culture at WPI
-End of a legacy: MIR falls
-Olin 107 slated for renovation
-Meal plans changing

News
-News Headlines
-WPI takes on England in debate
-Glee Clubs tours Ireland
-The Donors made Campus Center a reality
-WPI/Mass Academy Entry Wins FIRST Contest on Long Island
-WPI appoints two senior executives to Board of Trustees
-Police Log

Opinions
-Afghanistan :blows history to 'smithereens'
-Prison labor cheats society
-The little things...
-The vision
-I like having more money
-Letter to the Editor

Arts & Entertainment
-Saving Silverman: An absurd romp of a movie
-Everclear - Songs From An American Movie Vol. 1 and 2
-African drum ensemble brings rhythm to campus
-What's Happening

Announcements
-Club Corner

Sports
-O'Brien sparks Celtics to playoff run
-Boston College on the path to victory
-More surgery unlikely for Red Socks' Garciaparra
-IceCats take a bite out of Falcons
-Penguins pummel Worcester IceCats

In this issue...


Creating diversity and culture at WPI

Diversity, multiculturalism, and pluralism are not just buzzwords. Far-reaching from the initial minority and women recruitment concerns, which many students hope to see an increase in, a broad range of topics and issues stems from the aspects of diversity. Tolerance, acceptance, and embracement of diversity in the end are highly beneficial to all students at WPI.

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End of a legacy: MIR falls

Late Friday night, shortly after 0600 GMT, the 15-year legacy that was the Russian space station MIR came to an end. Over the past 15 years, the station has been the instrument of a number of space records and firsts. The station played host to 23,000 experiments, was manned by a total of 104 astronauts and cosmonauts, and made 86,320 successful orbits of the earth (about 2.2 billion miles).

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Meal plans changing

Students who decided to live on campus next year were faced with many changes in the Meal Plan. The first change is that there is no longer a 10 meal plan, and the 180 plan was changed to a 190 plan. The Premier Pass was replaced by the VIP plan which allows students to use one of their regular meals that they would use in Morgan or Founders toward $4.75 of a meal in the Campus Center.

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