Goddard Oil Spill
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.. .. The student newspaper of Worcester Polytechnic Institute Tuesday, March 9, 1976 West Street strikes again! Goddard oil spill by Crei'g Vickery amount of oil was spilled but the road was tat week on March 2nd, West Street blocked off and the fire department called lddld another accident to its list. A home as a safeguard. The WPI ground crftW d!t/ittftrv type oil truck owned by Marr Oil spread sand on the glazed road to prevent Mrtumed at the intersection of West end more accidents. Sllilburv streets after skidding down the ley road by Goddard Hall. They driver was The most astonishing aspect of this not hurt, but was taken to the hospital as a accident is that the road was not sanded by piiCIUtion. A Marr Oil representative said the City of Worcester. The City cannot thll the truck skidded down the road possibly sand all of its roads at once, but lideways as the driver attempted to turn certainly it can find time to sand such an anto Salisbury. The truck overturned when 1mportant artery as West St., a road thl wheels hit the clear pavement of deemed so crucial by the city traffic Sllilbury broadside. He also remarked that engineer as to banish any thought of 1111 driver was "lucky he wasn't killed" closing it. The driver of that truck Isn't the blcluae If he had hit the triangle, the stone only one that was lucky. Every student and monument there might have gone through every driver that crosses West St. or uses lhe passenger's side window and "he was Salisbury should be glad they were not In tlwown over on that side." A negligible the path of that truck. From our foreign correspondent Accident scene at West and Salisbury. Photo by Todd S. O'Connell America: parting shots Thanks given \ by JeH Sleeman that time of day must be either loony or It seems that there is no escape from the British (or both) leY grasp of Woopie Tech. When I wrote Collection a success my final column at the end of the Christmas We followed that up by a trip to the top teem, I fully intended that to be my flnel of the Sears building in Chicago, neatly by Mt1rio Wunderlich their contributions, and to Boynton Hall lttempt In these pages. However, I had timed to coincide with one of the worst The students that make up the WPI and the editors of Newspe11k for their full reckoned without a features-hungry editor, snowstorms in years. We couldn't even see Gu&temala Relief Group are very pleased to support toward the success of this cam· ¥tho cornered me as I was trying to sneak the ground, let alone the panoramic views report to the WPI community that In 1ts pa1gn. advertised. In fact, snow seemed destined three day Pffort in the Wedge and Daniels ICtOI1 the quadrangle only hours before flying away to freedom out of Logan airport to follow us all the way to Califorma. My Hall it was able to collect $500.93, an In subsequent editions of Newspeak we illusions of Santa Fe as a sun-baked amount that exceeds by far our wildest 11\d made me promise to send a few words will keep our readers informed on how the ofWilclom from dear old England. So once stagecoach pull-up were shattered as we expectations. Pan American Development Foundation is IQiin my two blistered typing fingers are at drove in to be greeted by a howling bliz· This grand total is made up by the using your money to help rebuild. work. zard, whipped by 50 mph winds. Swapping contributions of hundreds of students and Guatemala. Hete 1n London, spring is definitely on Its our sombreros for Yukon Jack hats and our faculty, and by an extraordinary con ponchos for overcoats, we headed out to tribution donated by Theta Chi, which was lily. You can tell because it only rains 22 1 To all those who are Interested in hours a day now. The birds are beginning the Grand Canyon (needless to say liberally totally unexpected but nonetheless very contributing at this time, you can do so at ID• agam, the daffodils are out, and very covered in snow). From there we struck on pleasant. the office of Public Relations of Boynton to Las Vegas then Death Valley, one of the By this medium we extend our ap ICIOfl the American tourists will be coming Hall. Make your checks payable to the WPI hottest places in the world (though not at IIIIo full flower with their amazing preciation to all those who helped us with Guatemala Relief Fund. 5:00 in the morning 1n late December, I can ~n-patterned shirts, 10 gallon hats tid Havana cigars. They say that British assure you). -.ther 11 the cause of the British sense of Eventually the sunshine of southern Preliminary conclusion llurnor, if you didn't laugh about it, you California began to seep through, and there tauldn't SUNIVe. I was - a lifetime's ambition realized . But travelling out west in the States Sunshine, sea, surfing, miles of golden The Plan is working Wlln't quite the sun· soaked trip I thought it sand, beautiful girls and ... smog7 Oh well. WOUld be. We got off to a good start by Now as I gaze wistfully at the Stars and iledvenantly turning up at Niagra Falls in a Stripes standing m the corner of my room by Rory O'Connor There were some interesting particular lnowstorm at 2 o'clock in the morning, at !makes it look like the local D.A.'s office) This Is more or less tha initial conc1uston conclusaons, also. In terms of competency, \lthkh lime the tourist season Isn't exactly and the cowboy hat on the wall, ' can look of Dr Karen Cohen, who hes been studying WPI under the plan continues to attract Ill full swing. The customs officials at the back with nostalgia at my happy times In the Plan since 1972, under a grant from the freshmen of the same academic caliber as C.nldtan border weren't actually hostile, the Stares and bore my friends to death National Science Foundation. The first part before the plan was implemented. The but tl)ey made 11 perfectly clear that In their with innumerable photos. One dey I will of a ten-year study was recently completed, quality of academic achievement has been btlmation anyone sightseeing at Niagra at come back - this time in midsummer. with another six-year period to begin soon. as good or better than pre-plan days. The Ms Cohun tegen working here four Plan ls also making people here more aware years ago when a search committee at WPI of their abilities and the possibilities for began looking for eiCternal people to e)(pans1on into " non-traditional" areas of evaluate the Plan and its effects on engineering . Students coming here do so ···This is the last c .term issue of NEWSPEAK. Next issue of students and faculty. She was among more for the program offered than other those recommended to the search com· people at comparison schools. Students m1ttee and after Interviews was accepted. here feet that WPI1s " broader. faster, more Her first contacts were with non-plan changrng, less stable, more hopeful", or in NEWSPEAK will appear on Tues., April 6th. Deadline for sub- students, with whom she compared the general more fluid than the comparison plan students she eventually talked to. Each schools. student and each faculty member were mitted material is noon Saturday, April Jrd. asked a fixed set of questions, and were Another interesting fact is that most allowed to elaborate on their feelings about students here seem to be concerned w1th the Plan. The general conclusion that was working w1th 1deas, and are not as con arrived at was that the Plan was working cerned about large incomes as are those It and doing a better job than the program it comparason schools. replaced at attaining its objectives. I cont. to page 51 Page2 NEWSPEAK Tueedly, March 9, Editorials: Generosity Hurrah (almost)! It seems that the spirit of generosity has once again made its Something has finally been done at the intersection of West S presence felt at WPI. While those who worked for the Guatemala fund and Institute Road, namely the installation of four-way stop signs at drive felt that they had done much better than they dreamed, I maintain corners. I applaud this step by the City of Worcester, and the fact that they didn't do nearly as well as they should have. One Fraternity that they saw fit to patrol the area with police for some time the first house contributed about 20 per cent of the total. If each undergraduate days. While this is admirable, however, I still think it is not enough had contribut&d fifty cents they would have double what they do now. waited at the corner for five minutes last weekend and saw It is sad to think that so few could find it inside themselves to do without separate vehicles run the stop sign on Institute. While it is true t a couple of beers to help put some people back in their homes. I guess takes time for people to get used to such things, these people we all learn from our elders, though ... the accreditation committee to take no notice whatever. Certainly, if the City admits that the walked right past the table (after a couple of "I gave at the office" tersection is dangerous enough to warrant four-way stop signs, jokes).