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Key may lie In legal Interpretation of pub license Reactivated Pub Council's role is uncertain by Jim Diemer reporting directly to our (OSA) office." om mend expenditures from the Pub Associate Editor Faculty council member, Pat Dunn, Reserve Account to the school A dlscuaslon about the type of license l'he recent Pub Council meeting re- challenged OSA's interpretotion of the Brown acknowledged that these re- the pub possesses was pursued by Pat sul~ed In a deadlock debate on the role advisory role of the board. He then sponslbilitles were assumed by the Dunn. There are two types of liquor which. the council wlll assume In Its referred to a later memo from George board at that time, but since then the licenses available. A "club" license per- future dealings with the operation of the Hazza~d dated Decembers. 1977 which council went Inactive. During this lnac- mlt~ an organization to distribute ale~ pub. Dean Bernard Brown, representing specifically tests the resoonslbiltties of live period, the drinking age wy raises! hohc _beverages whlle a commercial the Office of Student Affairs presented • ----- eatabhshment would have a "commer- OSA's views on the role of the council. "How the edmlnlatretlon wlah• to define the council end how we .,. c1al'' license. No one at the meeting Referring to a memo written by former legally defined. I'm efreld of • contradiction thlt we hfte cet1aln legel knew what type of license the pub was president George Hazzard, 1n Septem- ' "ponslbllltlet but OSA hu ell the power " currently operating under. Tom Keil ber 1977, Brown stated "The Board Is a • mentioned that when he was Involved recommending body on policy "He also - Pet Dunn, Pub Council with the Pub Council In the past, the pub pointed out the fact that since the last the council as .... partlclpati·on . the d b f h ff was operating under a club license. m th bo d · 111 an ecause o t e e ect this had on the nn t' ed Ith hi th t1 e e ar was active (about four hiring and supervision of the Pub Man- ti f h ou con 1nu w s concern opera on o t e pub, the structure of the "Th 1· 1 1 11· at years ago) the fob description of the age( .. It also states that In consultation Pub was reorganized Now Brown says e icense may P ace respons b ity on manager has now been completely with the manager. the council will "S uperv1 s 1 on ( o f the Pub) is under the· the council but the council has no rewritten. "It has the pub manager tablish o erational oli i · " (continued on P-. 4) The 1tudent n... paper of Worcnter Polytechnlc lnltltute Volume 10 Number 6 Tuesday, March 9, 1982 The Plan: is it working? by lngrtd Slembek program may be that due to the econo­ Newspesk staff mic conditions in the late 1960's and the The Plan. The WPI Plan. An edu­ corresponding decrease in demand for cational phenomenon with which all engineers by Industry, students hesi­ students are intimately familiar after tated to apply to a strictly technical lour long years? Perhaps II was ten school Therefore, the change not only years ago In January that the first made the program more 1nv1t1ng to the element of the Plan. Intersession '72, prospective student. 1t also made the was actually introduced to WPI stu­ graduating engineer more attractive to dents. If one wished to place the Plan m industry due to the practical experience proper perspective for further evalua­ gained through pro1ect work. tion 1t might be helpful to ask these Now, what was the Plan originally questions why was the Plan initiated. conceived to be? At the outset there was what were the original obreollves of the a division among the faculty over the Plan, and what has the Plan become drastic change ln programming. Some today? were dead set against change. feeling ll would be best to start off with a brief lhat the traditional program was sound background WPI ran a traditional pro­ and served its purpose. Others. Who gram of required courses and no pro1ect were idealists, looked at the Plan as a work through the early 1970's The first way of de-emphasizing the classic mo~ement toward a change came in "measuring sticks" of education-the 1965, according to William R Grogan, grades and the courses-using them "as Dean of Undergraduate Studies A plan­ the means to an end instead of as the nmg committee was formed in 1968 to end itself," says Professor Thom Ham­ produce a proposal for a new program mond. an original proponent of the Plan. and in 1970 the faculty voted to adopt A compromise was reached, establish­ the Plan It took one and a half years of ing the "grades" of AO and AC using the ThomH Kell. - Keith Apr. preparation but in January 1972, the first NA (no record) as a means of indicating Intersession was conducted. to the registrar that the course was not to ready enrolled to elect the Plan II they used to be. Professor Thomas Keil Why the change from the traditional be recorded on the student's transcript chose. though new students were put on thinks that the Plan as it was originally program to the Plan? It was thought al Courses were supposed to serve only as the Plan. conceived has died. He points out that the time that the program was so rigid support for project work and not as the Whether one can state that the Plan there now exists a required curriculum, that it Inhibited the development of stu­ main focus of the program Heavy "worked" lrom the beginning depends as there used to be, though 1t may not be dents as people, explained Dean Gro­ emphasis was put on "inforll)at1on syn­ on how the Individual interprets Its worded as such. Keil, Grogan and gan. The communication skills and the thesis and the transfer of concepts from original ob1ectives. The three educators Hammond expressed their feelings that awareness necessary to a good engin­ one area to another" and the ability of a interviewed for this article were initially the IOP and MOP are very positive eer could not be developed by a student student to take the material learned in all strong backers of the program and elements of the Plan, though Keil point­ 1n a traditional curriculum. These skills several courses and apply 11 to prorect agree that rt worked for at least a few ed out that too many trivial projects are can only be acquired and honed through work. Learning material independently years. One faculty member, also an allowed Hammond indicated that many the practical, and more importantly. ect­ and building self-confidence were also original proponent of the Plan, refused professors have reverted to a tradiltonal lve, experience obtained in a project· major factors during the design of the to speak with this writer because of his "system of numeric or letter Qrades. later problem oriented environment Another new program. The Plan was Introduced strong negative feelings on the subject translating them Into AD, AC, or NA. He reason for the drastic change In the In stages, allowing those students al- Some feel that the Plan Is not what It (continued on page 2) Financial Aid Committee meetings Student concerns addressed by Lisa Longwell ent status A student 1s considered dependent 1f he received $750 or more Newspeak Editor For the past two weeks, the Financial support from his parents, was claimed a Aid Committee has been addressing dependent on parent's rncome tax, or student concerns The main topics of lived at home for six or more weeks. discussion have been the acquisition of These questions apply to the previous independent student status. the distrl· two years. Assuming a student Is a butlon of scholarships to selected lndl· typical high school graduate, during the vlduals, and the requirement that infor­ last two years of high school. the student matton comes from both parents who in can't ltve at home for six or more weeks. receive more than $750 from parents, or some cases, may be divorced or separ­ ated. be claimed on parent's income tax to be For WPI aid, only those students admitted as an independent If a student must be independent, although he fs admitted as independents may be deter­ denied WPI aid, he can seek federal aid. mined independent. Those students However, independent student's earn­ entering as dependents cannot change their status and still be eligible for WPI ings and savtngs are taxed at a much aid The only exception to this rule is a greater rate than those of the parents, therefore the student Isn't guaranteed student who becomes a ward of the state or who 1s orphaned while at school Six more aid (continued on page 10) questions on the FAF define independ Wltllem R. Grogan. TuHdey, March 9, 1982 P-.2 NEWSPEAK SocCom is hard at work intelligent crowd with well defined attitudes is not an easy task By offering by Mark Skinner d 111 e1se h1gh-qualtty programs we hope The two chairpersons of WPt s social to expand the a11erage student's committee, John Lally '84 and Kevin awareness o f and exposure to other Cavanaugh '83 (along with Glen types of entertainment Ma1or shows are Deluca, social committee advisor> 1ust one facet of what we do. Bringing In recently flew to Chicago for a the Rolling Stones or The Who 1s simply convention of the National Enter­ beyond the scope of our budget.

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