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Volume 120, Number 16 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, March 31,2000 KSAvoids Admission Sanctions Tougher One Brother Blamed For 2004 InTrashing of House Reduced Class Size By Frank Dabek EDITOR IN CHIEF Adds to Competition Kappa Sigma emerged unscathed from their latest brush By Laura McGrath Moulton with the Cambridge Licensing ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Commission. The competition to gain entrance "No disciplinary action was to MIT was fiercer than ever this taken on charges stemming from a year, with only 15 percent of appli- January 23 incident in which the cants earning admission, making the first floor of the fraternity's HELENAFU class of 2004 the most selective in Memorial Drive house was trashed "Jonathan Sheffi '03 asks a panel of UA candidates about their views on activities funding during MIT history. and a smoke detector activated. We~nesday's UA Presidential Debate. . This year's applicant pool of Commission members accepted 10,681 applicants was also the KS's explanation that a house largest ever, an increase of 17 per- member, acting alone, was respon- Candidates Probe Issues at Debate cent over last year's pool. sible for the damage. "We had a strong applicant pool. A campus police incident report UA Presidential Hopefuls Discuss MIT Culture and Incorporation of the UA There were people not admitted this presented by Campus Police Lieu- year who would have been admitted tenant Stephen Joiner at the CLC By Efren Gutierrez by a panel composed of Tech culture must be protected. Guide- in past years," said Betty S. Johnson, hearing on Tuesday night reported STAFF REPORTER reporters and the current VA presi- lines need to be implemented, such Associate Director of Admissions. that upon arrival officers "discov- Candidates for VA President dent, Matt L. McGann '00. The can- as my proposed Student Life Honor A combination of factors con- ered the entire first floor to be a sparred over issues ranging from didates also questioned each other Code, so we can bring back trust to tributed to the competitiveness this . complete catastrophe." The report MIT culture to student representa- and fielded questions from the audi- MIT." year, according to Johnson, includ- stated that "tables and chairs were tion in an ence. ing a reduced freshmen class size, knocked over, food thrown all over Incorporation of the VA increasing yields and a talented the floors and walls, and kitchen ~~~~~~:~~~t:Guarding the MIT culture Smith's platform includes the applicant pool. products and barrels were also all Presidential .All the candidates agreed that incorporation of the VA, turning the over the floors." Debate the VA President must defend MIT body into a legal corporation with Class size,yields restrict admissions A portable fire extinguisher was IJEI.ectionsA Wed n e s day culture against internal and external legal rights and standing distinct In an effort to relieve the hous- discharged in the house, activating night. Spon- attacks. from a student group. The idea ing crunch, MIT decided this year to smoke alarms. sored by The Tech, the debate Rao, Berk, and Shulman all sug- became a hot issue in the debate reduce its freshmen class size to Contradicting previous state- showcased"the candidates' aspira- gested bringing those who attack when a panel member questioned its 1,000 students. As a result, only ments to The Tech, members of the . tions as well-as their talents, which . MIT's culture to MIT to see what validity and expressed doubt that it 1,604 students were admitted to the fraternity testified that the condition includedjuggling and singing. our culture is about and to improve could be accomplished within one class of 2004. of the first floor was a deliberate Each of the presidential candi- relations. Rao went on to suggest year. Increasing yields - the percent- action to continue a lapsed house dates, Jennifer C. Berk '01, Sanjay dinners between faculty and stu- In defense of his plan, Smith age of admitted students choosing to tradition of giving underclassmen K. Rao '02, Peter A. Shulman '01, dents to improve relations on that said that incorporation will "mobi- attend MIT - also contributed to and Chris D. Smith "01, presented front as well. the smaller number of students Kappa Sigma, Page ~O their platforms and were questioned Smith said, "Students' rights to UA Debate, Page 9 admitted this year. "Last year we had a yield of 60 percent, and '" that was up by 5 percent" (rom the previous year, Johnson said. "We do anticipate a higher yield" this year, she said. Johnson said she expects fewer than 1,000 students to choose MIT, allowing the admissions office to use the waiting list to achieve the 1,000 student goal.
'Good matches' for MIT chosen Johnson said that the strength of the applicant pool also made choos- ing the class of 2004 very difficult. "We were trying to pick people who would be good matches for MIT, who best fit the culture of MIT," Johnson said. "We were looking for people who had done something in high school that had an MIT-ness about it," such as being involved in research or pursuing an interest at an unusually high level, Johnson said. The composition of the admitted students does not differ greatly from recent years. Male students make up 52 percent of admitted students this year, Johnson said. She said that the percentage of underrepresented minorities was consistent with past years at 18 percent. Students were admitted from all 50 states and 61 countries, Johnson said. The admitted class includes I05 international students.
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ew York Senate Race s .&.&'-Ji~""" oeial ecurity for ew d-· ing , ,VEWSDAt' NEW YORK e Upgraded In a race on course to shatter the all-time enate campaign spend- ing record, ew York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani raised an By Glenn Kessler boom retirement crisis, when the mine efforts to put the two programs unprecedented $7 million in contributions in just the last three THE WASHINGTON POST number of workers per beneficiary on a sounder financial footing. months, while Hillary Rodham Clinton took in 4 million, their cam- A booming economy and a slow- is expected to drop from 3.4 today "Extending the solvency of paigns said Thursday. down in Medicare spending has to just over 2 in 2030. Medicare and Social Security for a The Giuliani campaign has raked in $19 million overall, some of extended the financial life of the Baby boomers, who were born couple more years does nothing to it with the help of direct-mail specialist Richard Viguerie, who also old-age health program from 2015 between 1946 and 1964, will begin modernize the structure of both worked on Oliver orth's campaign. to 2023, the most upbeat assessment to retire by the end of the decade, these vital programs and, in fact, The Clinton campaign's $4 million brought her total to $12 mil- by the program's trustees in a quar- and the Medicare report projects reduces the sense of urgency that lion since she began running last year. ter-century. enrollment will double, to 81 mil- improvements need to be made soon Each candidate seems to benefit from deep reservoirs of feelings The report - and an almost lion, by 2035. When that happens, to protect the 77 million baby about their opponent - both anti-Hillary and anti-Rudy sentiment, equally positive evaluation of the the trustees warn, the cost of caring boomers who start retiring in the Adler said. "The only thing that raises money more than love is hate," Social Security trust fund - could for those retirees will overwhelm next 10 years," Breaux said. he said. "These mountains of money are being built by hate." increase pressure on Congress to the system as it's now structured. Sen. Bill Prist, R- Tenn., -another add new benefits to the Medicare "There is one downside to this proponent of restructuring program without bothering to tackle year's good news," said Health ana Medicare, suggested the new sol- Russian Think-Tank Director Hails fundamental changes that would Human Services Secretary Donna vency projections might make it deal with the looming retirement of Shalala, one of the trustees. "It easier to add prescription drug ben- Putin's Economic Reform Strategy the baby-boom generation, lawmak- invites complacency, and compla- efits to Medicare but urged that LOS ANGELES TIMES ers said. Democrats and Republi- cency is a prescription for disaster." they be tied to more fundamental MOSCOW cans alike have offered competing President Clinton, speaking to reform. Russia will push forward swiftly with radical economic change bills that would provide a prescrip- several hundred people at an event "Prescription drugs and reform under newly elected President Vladimir V. Putin, the man in charge tion drug benefit to the Medicare at the Selfhelp Austin Street Senior must still go hand-in-hand if we are of setting the new policy said Thursday. program. Center in Queens, N.Y., said the to weather the upcoming democratic At a Moscow news conference, think tank chief German O. Gref. The Medicare trust fund, which reports demonstrated progress but shift and take full advantage of promised an ambitious strategy to continue Russia's transition to a pays hospital costs for 39 million also pressed for hia plan to provide breathtaking advances in medicine market system, including tax reform, banking system restructuring, Americans, gained eight years in its a prescription drug benefit to and technology," he said. land privatization and reform of the justice system and the army. projected solvency in the past year. seniors. If anything, the trustee reports - "Our task is to accomplish a transition to a normal, market-orient- The Social Security fund is project- . But Sen. John B. Breaux, D-La., which surprised many budget ed state within the shortest possible time," Gref said. "(The strategy) ed to last until 2037, an increase of a leading advocate of major over- experts - show how good econom- provides for a breakthrough scenario of Russia's development and three years. haul of the big entitlement pro- ic news and a little luck can radical- the implementation of as radical reforms as possible to enable us to Administration officials and sev- grams, warned that prolonged sol- ly change the financial-picture of the make Russia's economy manageable and market-oriented." eral members of Congress warned vency does nothing to address these retirement programs, which Gref s group is looking at banking reform, with hundreds of Russ- that the reports should not delay long-term needs of Medicare and account for nearly 40 percent of the ian banks effectively bankrupt. Putin ordered the Central Bank on action on dealing with the baby- Social Security, and could under- federal budget. Wednesday to come up with a plan to reform the banking industry. Clinton Administration Official House Approves $12. 7 Billion Blasts Panel on Internet Tax NEWSDAY WASHINGTON Bill to Fund Colombian Anny The Clinton administration Thursday criticized a federal panel studying Internet taxation for allowing political infighting to stymie By'Eric Pian in other proponents said the adminis- nomic, humanitarian and policing its work, resulting in a controversial report to Congress. THE WASHINGTON POST tration's initiative is essential to assistance. Clinton would have had Stuart Eizenstat, deputy treasury secretary, blasted the Advisory WASHINGTON reducing the flow of illegal drugs to begin withdrawing troops in Commission on Electronic Commerce for failing to achieve the com- The House on Thursday into this country. June under the proposal offered by - promise necessary to convert its proposals into "official recommenda- approved a $12.7 billion emer- The final vote was 263-146, Budget Committee Chairman John tions" with the support of 13 of 19 commissioners. gency spending bill that includes with 143 Republicans, 119 Democ- R. Kasich, R-Ohio. The panel deadlocked again Thursday in a 40-mmute telephone funds for a Clinton administration rats and one independent support- Under the overall measure, conference that many saw as a last-ditch effort to break the impasse initiative to train and equip Colom- ing the measure. Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru will between the two sides: business executives and tax opponents who bia's army in the war against The House averted a showdown share in $1.3 billion of anti-drug support a proposal aimed at rolling back some current levies, and Latin-American drug traffickers. with President Clinton by rejecting funding, with Colombia getting the state and local government officials worried that revenue losses will The spending package includes an amendment that would have majority of funds - including lead to cuts in police, fire protection and other municipal services. funds to cover military involve- required him to withdraw U. S. about $388 million to purchase 28 The proposal, written by six executives of major telecommunica- ment in Kosovo, hurricane disaster peacekeepers from Kosovo unless Blackhawk helicopters for the tions and high technology companies, calls for extending the current relief, a big boost in routine mili- European countries deliver more of Colombian Army. moratorium on new Internet taxes until 2006 to give state and local tary operations and scores of other the aid they have promised for the The assistance is aimed at help- governments the time to simplify tax codes. It also would repeal the 3 projects and programs. Yugoslav province. ing the. Colombian government percent federal levy on. telephone use and exempt from sales tax Despite warning by critics that By a 219-200 vote, lawmakers gain control of drug producing books, videos and music, regardless if they are sold in digital or hard- the government was being drawn rejected a bipartisan proposal to regions in the south, increase drug copy versions. into an open-ended commitment to use the threat of withdrawal to interdiction efforts and beef up the the Colombian government, House pressure the Europeans to deliver Colombian national police. Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and millions of dollars more for eco- WEATHER Spring Ahead on Sunday Situation for Noon Eastern Standard Time, Friday, March 31, 2000 r3~ r?~ rS~ Weekend Outlook Today: Mostly sunny with scattered clouds, high of50oP (10°C) Tonight: Clear, low of 38°P (4°C) .-.. .. Saturday: Sunny during the day, clouding over in the evening. Weather Systems Weather Fronts Precipitation Symbols .. Other Symbols Snow Rain 0 1"= High around 60 P (l5°C) _ Trough Fog High Pressure H Showers Sunday: Clear, high of 62°P (16°C) - - V V· - Thunderstorm ····WannFront * ~ Light Monday: Increasing cloudiness, high in the mid-50s (14°C) L Low Pressure (X) Haze ...... ColdFront · Modemte * .. Compiled by MIT § Hurricane ** Meteorology Staff ..... Stationary Front Heavy '* ..· and The Tech March 31, 2000 WORLD & NATION THE TECH Page 3 Bush Presents ew Proposal Aging Process Is Propelled by Cell Duplication Failure, Study Says To Increase Teacher Training LOS ANGELES TIMES The wasting that comes with age - wrinkled skin, weakened By Kenneth J. Cooper block grants that states could use for and broadcast on a local radio sta- bones and nagging physical complaints - may result from genetic THE WASHINGTON POST a variety of training programs for tion. mistakes that begin in midlife as cells lose their ability to reproduce MlLWAUKEE teachers already in the classroom. "Education reform is empty if it properly, a new study concludes. Texas Gov. George W. Bush Although members of teachers does not take account of the needs The new research, published Friday in Science, offers a tantaliz- Thursday proposed to improve the unions constitute a core constituen- of educators," Bush said. "Teachers ing - and tentative - explanation for the physical ravages of time. quality of the nation's teachers, cy of the Democratic Party, and are not the object of education If confirmed in subsequent studies, it suggests a single underlying which polls show to be a big issue Republicans regularly bash them, reform, they are the engine of edu- factor at work in degenerative diseases ranging from Alzheimer's dis- with voters concerned about educa- Bush seemed to go out of his way cation reform. They have a high ease and arthritis to gum disease, cancer and heart disease. tion, by calling for nearly $3 billion Thursday to convey in his words calling, and we must respect it." From the moment of birth, the human body is under assault by the to recruit and train teachers and give and new proposals respect for teach- The biggest proposal Bush natural chemistry of the world we inhabit, by the radiation from the them a tax break. ers and an appreciation of their cen- offered was a $2 billion increase sun that nurtures us, from the repetitive stress of moving muscle and Bush's new proposals on teacher tral role in improving public over five years in federal spending bone against the force of gravity. Yet for decades, the body's cells quality shored up the Republican schools. to recruit and train teachers, particu- can shrug off ill effects and flawlessly replace themselves, until presidential candidate's stance on an The leader of Houston's teachers larly in the academic subjects that inevitably and mysteriously they begin to fail. education issue that Vice President union, an affiliate of the American they teach rather than instructional Seeking clues to why the human body wears out over time, Gore has addressed with a more Federation of Teachers, met the methods. The additional $400 mil- researchers at the Scripps Research Institute and the Novartis elaborate and costlier set of plans to Tex-asgovernor at a middle school lion a year would more than double Genomics Institute in La Jolla, Calif., found that as the years add up, provide college scholarships, incen- here and joined him in a roundtable the amount that the government cur- so do the genetic mutations that occur when critical cells lose their tive pay and salaries for teachers. discussion of education issues led rently dedicates solely to teacher gift for making perfect copies of themselves. Previously, Bush has supported by a conservative talk show host training, $335 million. Germany Sets Up Anonymous Drop Contractor To Begin Restoration Boxes for Unwanted Infants LOS ANGELES TiMES HAMBURG. GERMANY Foundlings left on the doorsteps of churches, orphanages or for Of Recovered E-mail Messages kind benefactors have been sent to better lives by desperate mothers at least since the days of the Bible, when Moses was floated down the By Robert L. Jackson messages are relevant to investiga- investigating. The topic is of contin- Nile to safety. But in a wealthy country such as Germany, with one of LOS ANGELES TIMES tions of the Clinton administration uing interest to Republicans because the best social security nets in the world, few thought to look so far WASHINGTON by congressional panels or indepen- activities of Vice President Al Gore backward for a solution to the disturbingly recurrent problem of Presidential counsel Beth Nolan dent counsels. figured heavily in that inquiry. unwanted newborns being abandoned to cold and hunger. assured a congressional committee "The backup tapes of e-mail Nolan said that then-WhiteHouse With Friday's inauguration of Germany's first designated Thursday that copies of thousands records are secure," Nolan testified. counsel Charles F. C. Ruff, her foundling drop-off site since the 1700s, child welfare workers hope of White House e-mail messages "We have already begun the process immediate predecessor, "never the option of a safe and anonymous abandonment will save lives that were missing for two years are that will enable us to search these understood the full extent of the among the 40 or so castoff newborns found nationwide each year, secure and intact on backup com- records, and we will do so as quick- problem" when he learned of the most dead of exposure. puter tapes, but she said efforts to ly as possible." "computer glitch" two years ago. But Project Findelbaby - or foundling - is little more than a night restore them will take nearly six Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., chair- Ruff and others immediately sought deposit box with a warm bed beyond the delivery slot and a sensor months. man of the Government Reform to correctthe problem, she said. that alerts caretakers of an arrival. The brainchild of social workers in Under questioning by skeptical Committee, demanded to know why Nolan insisted that the break- this port city that has long been a magnet for prostitutes, runaways Republicans, Nolan said the work his panel was not immediately noti- down was unintended and stressed and drug addicts, the receptacle in the ground-floor door of a day-care will be done by an outside contrac- fied in June 1998 - when the prob- that 7,700 e-mail records dealing center allows the hand-over of unwanted infants with no questions tor who has estimated that the job lem was discovered - that some of with campaign finance found on the asked. will take 170 days. 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Still, the strength of Berk's and Wasfy's back- Chuang '02 for Undergraduate Association President and Vice ground demands that students looking for an experienced team President. Shulman and Chuang offer the right combination of consider this ticket. Chairman Satwiksai Seshasai '0 I idealism and pragmatism, and Sanjay K. Rao '02 and Brian A. Pasquinelli '02 have suc- would be the strongest, most effec- cessfully led the active Class of 2002 this past year. However, Editor in Chief Editorial Frank Dabek '00 tive advocates for the student body. we believe their vision underemphasizes the important issues - We believe Shulman is the presidential candidate best housing, advising, academic policy - facing the UA' at this Business anager capable of handling the student body's concerns of the coming time. Their proposals, such as having LaVerde's accept the MIT Jasmine Richards '02 year. While he is relatively inexperienced, his running mate Card or converting the first-floor space in the Student Center to Managing Editor Chuang has spent two years in class and UA office. The candi- a lounge, are popular with most students, but they do not Ryan Ochylski '01 dates grasp that distrust between the students and the adminis- address the housing quagmire and reforms to the advising Executive Editor tration is a severe problem which must be rectified for other process. • Gregory F. Kuhnen '00 initiatives to succeed. The outgoing, affable Shulman would be Chris D. Smith '01 and Patrick D. Kane '03 offer the most a UA president students could approach with their concerns radical platform. Smith and Kane advocate incorporation of the NEWS STAFF and know that the student body president would give them all UA, a legal step which would make the organization indepen- Director: aveen SunkavaJly '0 I; Editors: Rima Arnaout '02, Kevin R. Lang '02; due consideration. dent of the MIT administration. But as MIT controls the UA's A sociate Editors: Laura McGrath The decision between the ticket of Jennifer C. Berk 'Oland' funding and Student Center space, incorporation could .bring Moulton '0 I, Sanjay Basu '02, Dana Jason H. Wasfy '01 and that of Shulman-Chuang is a difficult hardship if the administration looks unfavorably on the idea. Levine '02, Karen E. Robinson '02, Mike one. Berk's three years of service on UA and Institute commit- The UA could be left without an office or a bank account. Even Hall '03, Matthew Palmer '03; Staff: Anna tees sharply contrasts with Shulman's recent involvement in UA if such a doomsday scenario didn't happen, the energy spent in K. Benefiel '00, Zareena Hussain '00, Jennifer Chung '0 I, Kristen Landino '02, affairs. Berk's experience in housing issues and Wasfy's knowl- laying the foundation for incorporation would divert the VA's David Bailey '02, Efren Gutierrez '03, edge of academic issues ensures their administration would time from other more pressing issues such as housing and advis- Cristina Roussel '03, Aurora Schmidt '03; have the necessary skills to tackle these two concerns. ing. We believe that the next UA executive team should focus Meteorologists: Veronique Bugnion G, Peter However, Berk does not present herself as a leader around on solving these problems and not making such extreme struc- Huybers G, Greg Lawson G,BiIl Ramstrom G, Chris E. Forest, Marek Zebrowski. whom students can rally. The position of UA President tural reforms to the UA itself. PRODUCTION STAFF requires outspoken leadership and the ability to engage the Most importantly, we urge every undergraduate student to Editors: Mary Obelnicki G, Ian Lai '02, public. 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Cows injected with rBGH are days has never been open to peer review. that. Their far-reaching presence can be feIt several incriminating facts about rBGH and its more likely to develop an infection of the Were improved research techniques not only on American farms with the geneti- effects on human and bovine health, as well as udder known as mastitis, causing pus to accu- responsible for rBGH's rapid approval? How cally altered (and absolutely unnecessary) Monsanto's efforts to keep these facts sup- mulate in the milk. The infection must then be about a sudden sympathy for the rats? Recom- Roundup soybeans, but across the world as pressed. Somehow, Monsanto became aware treated with antibiotics that end up in the milk binant bovine growth hormone was approved well. During the Vietnam War, Monsanto, of the content of the story and wrote Fox urg- along with the pus and the IGF-I hormone. so quickly simply because employees of Mon- along with five other chemical companies, ing them not to air the story as it was. The What could an increase of a hormone that santo (namely, Monsanto's attorney, Michael supplied the United States with a generous report was then pulled, two days before it was stimulates cell production mean to the average Taylor) went to work for the FDA, approved amount of Agent Orange to dump on the to be broadcast, at which point Fox's execu- person? There have in fact been plenty of stud- the hormone and then went back to work for forests of Vietnam. tives asked the two reporters to rewrite the ies that link higher levels of IGF-I hormone Monsanto. Of course, what Monsanto didn't want story. The executives, unhappy with any of with increased risk of cancer. One such study Well, just let me know what milk comes people to know is that dioxins are the most the reporters' 80 revisions, wrote their own was conducted at Harvard University. In a from cows injected with rBGH and what milk toxic substances known to humans, that the watered-down version of the original story. sample of 15,000 white males, those with IGF- is "rBGH-free," and the problem is solved, dioxin level of the Agent Orange sent to Viet- Included in the final revision' is the replace- I levels in the range of 300ng/mL-500ng/mL right? o. Monsanto has a vested interest in nam was 1,000 times more concentrated than ment of the word "cancer" with the phrase were four times more likely to develop making sure you know nothing of the origins in domestic herbicides. And Monsanto really "human health effects." Not quite doubles- prostate cancer that those with IGF-I levels in of the milk you drink. They've fought tooth didn't want people to know that the II million peak - but a good effort nonetheless. The the range of 100ng/mL-185ng/mL. Other and nail against rBGH labeling by suing dairy gallons of Agent Orange dropped on peasants executives then offered two reporters a bribe research suggests potential links between farms that label their milk "rBGH-free." And and soldiers alike were responsible for the to keep silent about the changes made to their increased IGF-l hormone in the body and an Monsanto has been winning. They've paid . awful deformities, sicknesses, and cancers report, which the reporters refused . increased likelihood of breast, colon, pancreat- members of Congress to kill bills that would after the war. Monsanto went to great lengths Evidently, Monsanto didn't want informa- ic, and lung cancers. require "rBGH-free" labeling. They've even to prevent any link between health and diox- . tion about the health risks of their product to You would think that the FDA had already gotten the FDA (read: Michael Taylor) to reg- ins when a lawsuit was brought against the be known to consumers. Of course, what com- investigated the links between increased IGF- ulate against "rBGH-free" labeling. company in the early eighties. Monsanto pany would? Still, Monsanto hasn't threatened I in the system and increased growth in cells Why do you have a right to know what ended paying a nominal out-of-court settle- me yet (or paid me off, for that matter) so I before it was approved for general use - you drink? If you did, it could damage Mon- mentso that no potentially damaging informa- . have no qualms in discussing their truly crimi- before they allowed us to consume milk with santo and by all means, don't hurt Monsanto. tion (to Monsanto) could be brought to light. nal behavior. increased IGF-l. This was not the case, how- Feed the public potentially cancerous food, Further research has since established the dan- In the eighties, Monsanto developed a ever. The FDA approved rBGH in the early but for gosh sakes maintain the profit margin. ger of human and environmental exposure to bovine growth hormone that could indirectly nineties for commercial use amid very suspect .What does all this mean to you? Do you dioxins. Well, glad that's over. increase milk production by stimulating . circumstances. Most studies by the FDA stop drinking milk now? Do you accept the But it's not. Monsanto is again in the busi- another hormone called Insulin-Like Growth require tests on several hundred rats for at fact that companies like Monsanto are putting ness of repressing pertinent information about Factor I, or IGF-l. It is this second hormone least two years before approval can be grant- things into your food you don't want, need, or their harmful products. Yes, now Monsanto is that stimulates the milk production in cows. ed. The bovine growth hormone was tested for know about just for their profit? Are you a lit- trying to halt any attempt for information The problem is that humans naturally have the 90 days on just 30 rats. Actually, the study tle weary that the FDA is controlled by the regarding bovine growth hormone to be dis- IGF-I hormone in their bodies; it is exactly was i80 days, but Monsanto has kept hidden very people it is supposed to regulate? Wel- seminated to the public. the same IGF-l hormone as is found in cows the files regarding the last 90 days. Why? come to the politics of the biotech industry. Two distinguished investigative reporters, and it is not destroyed by pasteurization. So Towards the end of the first 90-day period, Long live Monsanto. ~The Buried Truths of Martin and Malcolm This is significant, considering the mass of Guest Column Rights party. It seems painfully obvious that mant for the FBI. Interestingly, this fact was evidence suggesting that there was in fact none of these men had any interest in the truth first discovered by an author who later died Brice Smith another shooter. A former FBI ballistics expert behind King's assassination. when the brakes on his car failed while he was testified that not even the most skilled gunman Finally; we have the House Select Commit- driving to a studio where he was set to begin With the 32nd anniversary of the assassina- could have made Ray's shot. Adding to that, a tee on Assassinations. When the HSCA first shooting a film documenting the conspiracy tion of MartinLuther King Jr. comingup on reporter uncovered an unpubJished Associated convened it was headed by Richard Sprague. .surrounding Malcolm X's assassination. April 4, J wanted to take a little time to look Press photograph showing tree branches Early in the investigation, Sprague ordered all Ali, openly hostile to Malcolm X, was seen back at what we know and. what we don't blocking the view from the window Ray relevant intelligence files be turned over to the at a rehearsal speech given by Malcolm just know' about what happened to the civil rights allegedly used. Those trees were ordered cut committee, and that lie detectors be used when days before he was killed - at which a scuffle movement. down by the City of Memphis shortly after the taking testimony from intelligence sources. broke out, similar to the one that would break The political and social climates at home assassination. In addition, witnesses across the Sprague was immediately removed by Rep. out on February 21, 1965, distracting the and abroad were quite different in the sixties street report having heard a shot coming from Henry B. Gonzalez. The new lead council, G. crowd just long enough for two men to walk than they are today. Social movements, while ground level, and only one witness, Charles Q. Robert Blakey, was far more lenient in his up and shoot Malcolm X at point blank range. producing great leaders' who sought to fight Stevens, has ever identified Ray as the man demands on the intelligence community, and Strangely enough, all of the other speakers that government injustice, also greatly distressed seen running from the room after the shooting. the committee engaged in a tightly controlled night had canceled at the last moment, leaving the powers that be. The United States govern- Stevens did not make this identification for investigation, the evidence from which was Malcolm to carry the evening. It seems clear ment turned to the FBI and 1. Edgar Hoover. several days, not until after the FBI paid off immediately sealed for fifty years, and wilJ that nothing may have been able to save him, The FBI, so successful at battling World War more than $30,000 in his bar tabs. Also, therefore not be seen until the year 2029. but Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, one of the II sabotage, designed a counter-intelligence Stevens had been passed out drunk on. the Recently, the Tennessee sate prosecutor Bill finest medical institutions in the city, did not program which recent Freedom of Information couch at the time of the murder; two other wit- Gibbons told an Associated Press reporter that respond to the request for help despite being Act requests have begun to reveal was intend- nesses, neither of whom was drunk at the time, he wants Congress to unseal the records of the right across the street from where Malcolm ed to destabilize "radical" groups, mostly said that Ray was not the man seen running HSCA. Despite the bias of the investigation, was killed. civil-rights organizations.' By late 1967, the from the room. the information it gathered still remains one of As a final footnote, one of Malcolm's top key target of the FBI's southern offices was Shortly thereafter, one of the witnesses was the best hopes for uncovering the truth. aides went to the FBI about ten days after the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. illegally committed to a mental institution, and The assassination of Malcolm X occurred assassination and told them that he felt there It was also during this time that politically the Memphis prosecutors removed her records just over three years prior to that of Martin was a larger conspiracy, incorporating ele- motivated assassinations began to proliferate. I from the hospital. The gun Ray was supposed Luther King Jr. Malcolm's human-rights trip ments of the U.S. government, involved in don't 'claim that government was responsible, to have used was found neatly bundled up next to Africa and the Near East had made him a Malcolm's death. He was found dead a few but thanks to the lack of investigation and the door to the boarding house less than two min- much larger threat to the United States govern- days later at the age of 32 in his Boston apart- FBI's covering up of evidence, we may never utes after the shot that killed Dr. King. The fin- ment than he had ever been before. After the ment. Initially the death was classified a sui- know the entire truth behind any of these mur- gerprint found on the gun was not identified meeting of the Organization of African Unity cide, then it was changed to a drug overdose, ders. for more than two weeks. The bullet that killed the State Department and the Justice Depa - and finally it was ruled natural causes. It is no coincidence that Martin Luther Dr. King has, in fact, never been conclusively ment began investigating his activities. In fact, The brief treatment I have written raises King Jr. and Malcolm X were killed when they linked to the rifle. his activities were of such concern to the gov- many disturbing questions that have yet to be were. Both men were killed within one year of Shortly before his murder, King's security ernment that CIA director Richard Helms answered. There are numerous press releases making a profound extension of their goals detail was reduced from eight officers to just instructed his agents to do everything they from prosecutors and congressmen addressing and their personal Ideologies - Dr. King's two, on orders of Frank Holloman, Public could do to "monitor" the activities of Mal- some of these issues, but without a competent, civil-rights views led him to openly oppose the Safety director of the Memphis police depart- colm X. I don't think it takes much to pass that all-encompassing, impartial investigation, the war in Vietnam; Malcolm X's increased focus ment. He was a retired 25 year veteran of the through the spy-speak decoder ring, especially truth will forever be hidden from us. As much on human rights discredited the American gov- FBI who had previously been in charge of run- when you realize that M lcolm X is then mys- as these two men meant to this country, it is a ernment. ning the office of 1. Edgar Hoover - the same teriously poisoned during his trip to Egypt. and national shame that we have let the truth There is far more than speculation and cir- Hoover that had called King the most danger- barely leaves the country alive. remain buried as long as we have. cumstance, however, that raises questions as to ous man in America, and a few months before Malcolm X's home was firebombed' not Brice Smith is a graduate student in the what really happened to these leaders. Take the assassination had distributed an internal only was the perpetrator never caught, but the Department of Physics. King's case first. Two days before King's fate- memo calling for King's removal from the . police actually blamed Malcolm and claimed ful arrival in Memphis; a man claiming to be national scene. Finally, the police insisted on he firebombed his own house to make it look as Are you .... an advance man for ICing switched his hotel waiting for a city ambulance and would not if he was being targeted by someone. In fact, reservation to a room that had a balcony allow the private ambulance that had arrived Malcolm had been targeted for heavy surveil- exposed to sniper fire. No one in the King earlier to transport Dr. King to the hospital. lance - one of his own bodyguards was actu- organization matched this man's description. Now, all of this is circumstantial and could ally an undercover agent for BOSSI, New York mad'::. At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, King fell, mor- have been one giant set of coincidences. So the City's organized crime and anti-Communist i1 tally wounded from a single bullet fired from a next logical question is who is to blame for our unit. BOSSI was being pressured by the FBI to high-power rifle. As soon as he was shot, Mar- not knowing the whole truth. First we must infiltrate the Organization of Afro-American rell McCullough was the first to point to the look to the FBI investigation - which was Unity, which was set up by Malcolm X after he window of Bessie Brewer's boarding house, headed by Cartha Deloach, the very man who broke with the Nation ofIslam. Write a a,letter to from where James Earl Ray allegedly shot had been in charge of toe FBI's surveillance of It is this undercover cop that is often seen King. It turns out that McCullough had been in Dr. King. in the photographs giving "CPR" to Malcolm the military police, and was hired by the III th Next we have Ray's own lawyers. Ray's X, which, as any first-year medical student Military IntelJigence Group in 1967. At the first lawyer viewed the civil rights movement will tell you, is the worst thing you can do for time of King's death he was working for the as a communist conspiracy. His second lawyer a person with as many massive chest wounds Memphis Police department's Intelligence accepted the rights to any books about Ray in as Malcolm suffered. It is also worth noting Division, but still reporting directly to the exchange for legal fees. Ra~'s third. lawyer that the treasurer of the Nation of Islam at this ello. My name is Dan and I'm a Jerichoholic. In fact, I do tend to talk about it rather openly, but this my first admission in a mainstream publication that I've been watch- ing professional wrestling for years. I still watch it, and I love it. There are two spring movie releases associated with wrestling this year; Ready To Rumble, a David Arquette comedy endorsed by the accelerating downward spiral that is WCW, and Beyond The Mat, an unauthorized documentary about the wrestling industry and its employees. I'm going to discuss the one that isn't a complete waste of time. Barry Blaustein's Beyond The Mat comes with more acclaim than one would expect from a wrestling film. Since documentaries aren't all that accessible, the Oscar committee designates a list of ten films that voters in the category must view for eligibility. BTM made .that list, although it was not eventually nominated (allowing me to throw all my support behind Buena Vista Social Club). Truth be told, the film focuses primarily on the lives of wrestlers outside of wrestling, specifically those Blaustein worshipped growing up. This gives the exchanges an inti- mate atmosphere, but at the same time makes the movie occasionally feel like an episode of FANatic. I'm still not quite sure what Blaustein was trying to do structurally with the movie. On the one hand, he achieves a nice effect by exploring many different levels of wrestlers, including the current superstar (Mick Foley), the recent retiree (Terry Funk, who has retired "for good" on at least five separate occasions), the young trainees, and the washed-up veteran (Jake Roberts). On the other hand, Blaustein throws eclectic footage into the film in the order that he encoun- tered it, creating more of a short-term autobiography than a concenttated study. MTV's recent documentary "True Life: I Am A Pro Wrestler" juxtaposed the stories of three wrestlers at com- pletely different stages of their careers with very powerful and engaging results. Blaustein has an even greater variety of material, but he doesn't use it as effectively as he could, and the out- come is disappointing. .. There are numerous guides to the inside world of pro wrestling available DOW in multiple formats (the best by far is Mick Foley's best-selling autobiography, Have A Nice Day), but Beyond The Mat scores .over the others in its coverage of two major issues. The centerpiece of the movie comes from a chilling sequence with Jake Roberts who frankly discusses his cocaine addiction and his inability to communicate with his family often through muddled rantsthat are . even more, frightening (and more compelling) than. his notoriously spooky character interviews. The coverage of risk -taker Foley is also compelling: Blaustein's footage of Foley's wife.and children watching one of his most violent matches at ringside and crying is poignant; his footage of Foley watching the tape and suddenly realizing how his career is affecting his family is positively heartbreaking. Foley finally made the decision to retire this year; judging from his scene in Beyond The Mat, it's quite possible the film provided motivation. It's hard to say how much exposure you need. to professional wrestling to really enjoy Beyond The Mat. The faint of heart should probably steer clear: Funk, Foley, and New Jack are three of the most masochistic wrestlers working today, and all are shown in action with copious amounts of blood. The uninitiated fan may find the movie interesting, but there are too. many names pitched too quickly with too little thematic structure to really leave any lasting impres- sion. At the same time, the seasoned wrestling aficionado will most likely be disappointed with the shallow coverage, and while it's interesting to see the lives behind the wrestlers, the film is just too disorganized and covers too much previously explored territory to be satisfying. There are some interesting stories told in Beyond The Mat, and plenty of opportunities for adolescent fans in the audience to entertain themselves by acknowledging the Rock or identifying the Blue Meanie. But if you're searching for a study of professional wrestling with depth, look somewhere else. Blaustein's research and adventures in the wrestling world are diligent and exhaustive. It's too bad that he doesn't really have anything to' say about them . • At campus.HotDispatch.com. The Depamnent of ArchitectUre Is your brain full of HTMl, Java, or C/C++? 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(See campus.hotdispatch.com for details.) - 387, Of send e-mail 10 yammieOmlf.edu. March 31, 2000 THE ARTS THE TECH Page 7 o T 5 C - BY THE TECH ARTS STAFF - The following movies are playing this week- Room turns out not to be as thrilling as it bit of filmmaking of 1999, even though it has from top-notch animation, but feels too child- end at local theaters. The Tech suggests using claims to be. - Jumaane Jeffries nothing to do with the rest of the movie. - ish to be enjoyable. - EB The Talented Mr. Ripley Wonder Boys <***) (***) Wonder Boys, director Curtis Hanson's DA VlD LEE-NEW LINE CINEMA A lot to recommend: a first film since L.A. Confidential, is an endear- Ben Affleck (left) and Giovanni Ribisi in New Une Cinema's drama, Boller Room. complex plot, accomplished ingly offbeat comedy that takes its sweet time acting (Matt Damon and Cate developing, though most of that timeit is a American Beauty <*Y2) at all, but something with instantly recogniz- Blanchett especially), and gorgeous visuals; delight. Michael Douglas stars as the An extremely. annoying movie: this dead- able humanity and an overall impact that can especially impressive is the degree to which unshaven, over-the-hill writer and professor pan black tragicomedy is- a laughable failure hardly be ignored. Credit this mostly to lumi- the audience gets to understand and identify Grady Tripp. Tobey Maguire and Katie as a work of art, being pretentious, simplistic, nous acting and the screenplay's understated with the film's immoral protagonist. A bit too Holmes play Tripp's students, with Maguire and self-important. Excepting a truly remark- emotional, complexity. - VZ slowly-paced, though. - VZ stealing the spotlight as a darkly enchanting able performance by Kevin Spacey John F. Kennedy Library Public Forums At the John F. Kennedy Library Ie and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston/Free. For more info., call AXIS 617-929-4571. Next: 423-NEXT, 617-262-2437 13 Lansdowne St. Robert Frost: The Nation's Poet Apr. 2, 2 to 4 p.m.: In his recent Apr. 8: 3 Doors Down. Apr. 10: Methods of Mayhem. biography, Robert Frost: A life, Apr. 18: Tracy Bonham, $10. Jay Parini analyzes the conflict Apr. 20: MXPX, $12 in adv., $14 between Frost's artistic need for- day of. solitude and his desire for expo- May 13: Petra, $20 in adv., $25 sure to the general public. After day of. 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Filmmaker Ellie Lee brings us 9478 after 10 a.m. on the day of info., call the Boston Cecilia nature unfold. A blend of comedy and Boston Public library Dog Days (24 min.), the story of Aor. 4: Mariah Carey, Sold Out. concert. office or visit and tragedy, Fat Men in Skirts is Murals." an emotionally hardened subur- Jun. 8, 9: Tina Turner, Sold Out. Sam Adams Boston Ale, -all deliv- tive," said McCluskey. "Any possi- HELENA FU-THE TECH ered to your door within the hour by ble scenarios would be opposed." UA Presidential candidates Jennifer C. Berk '01, Sanjay K. Rao '02, Peter A. Shulman '01, and Chris D. Kozmo.com, forget it. According to McCluskey, Smith '01 face off on issues ranging from representation and student culture to UA incorporation. Kozmo.com, an on-demand Kozmo.com has permanently. deliverer of snacks and entertain- removed their application and will ment, withdrew its application for not submit it again. Talent Section Amuses Audience a liquor license last week after Kozmo.com has also filed for pressure from regional college liquor licenses in other cities, but officials and the Boston Police has yet to gain approval anywhere. UA Debate, from Page I MIT students. counts." Department. Citing his experience in class Kozmo.com spokesman Ken MIT uninvolved in protests lize the student body from just council, Rao said, "I would use the Humor, talent at debate Frydman refused to comment on The Institute has not had the 'thinking things' to making them techniques I have used as President While not a typical feature of the matter beyond confirming the opportunity to come up with a happen. Caltech incorporated in one of the the class of 2002. I would use debate, the talent competition withdrawal of the application, stat- stance on the issue, said Dean of year. Why can't we?" the MIT spotlight on the web for enlivened the event. Berk juggled ing that Kozmo.com has entered a Student Life Margaret R. Bates. However, fellow candidate Shul- half a day to get input from the stu- while offering an animated account "quiet period" following a recent "To the best of my knowledge, man asked Smith, "Why incorpo- dent body. I would also just try to of how she learned the skill. Rao filing for an initial public offering we weren't contacted [to join the rate? And what would happen if go out there and meet a diverse presented a piece of rhymed prose of stock. protesting colleges]," said Bates. MIT shuts funding?" group of people." about his passion for MIT which Although MIT students would have Smith responded, "We need it Shulman said, "I will go door to incorporated most of his platform. Warehouse leased from Harvard been able to buy liquor online had (incorporation) for legal standing, door through all of campus. All I Shulman performed a parody of Administrators at Boston Uni- the application been approved, and so that we will be seen as a need is for you to let me in, but seri- Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in versity, Boston College, and Har- Bates said that the protesting uni- respected committee by MIT. If ously I'll go out there and listen to which he stated what he intended to vard University filed protest letters versities "were involved for specific MIT should shut down funding," the MIT community." . do as U A president. Smith said he following Kozmo.com's applica- purposes." Smith said, students would have a Smith, returning to his refrain of was "talentless" but presented an tion. MIT was not directly involved. Bates said that there are clear variety of choices. "We could incorporation, responded, "Because oration of Patrick Henry's "Liberty . Harvard, the landlord of lines of responsibility established choose not to attend classes so that of incorporation, there will be more or Death" speech. Kozmo.com's Allston warehouse, with traditional means of alcohol we can open the communication involvement from the MIT student Voting for UA President and was the most adamant opponent. purchase. "The troubling thing is channels. We could also get funding community and so varying opinions Vice-President will begin online at "The proposal was a dramatic that [online ordering] blurs the lines from alumni, or in the worst sce- will be expressed. I would make a midnight Monday, April 2, and will change in their lease," said Kevin of responsibiliry," said Bates. nario possible impose a student UA newsletter and use the interde- last until midnight Thursday, April McCluskey, director of community Despite the failure to include [activities] tax." partmental mailing system to reach 6. A paper ballot will be held Fri- relations for Harvard University, liquor on their menu, Kozmo.com people" day, April 7, in Lobby 7. adding that Harvard would oppose continues to grow. In 1999, Representing the student body Berk said, "It's kind of impossi- The Tech win also be sponsoring using their property for any alcohol Kozmo.com's number of registered All participants in the debate ble to get everybody's opinion, but the first Vice-Presidential debate distribution. users grew at a monthly rate of 30 returned frequently to the need for as long as we get a diverse amount Sunday on the first floor of the Stu- According to The Boston percent, according to its IPO filing. the U A president to represent all of response then that's what dent Center. Globe, Kozmo.com sought to The company offers free one-hour reach a compromise by delaying delivery of videos, DVDs, music, the process and considering alter- snacks and other items to residents of natives such as banning alcohol major cities such as Boston, New Midterm Blues? Call Nightline! delivery to college campuses, York, Washington D. C. and Los restricting beer deliveries in cer- Angeles. All orders are placed on its tain zip codes, or limiting the num- website, . PRESENTS DEBATE We're hiring RCCs! for Undergraduate Association VICE President Do you live in a dorm? Watch the UAVP candidate teams Are you interested in computer networking? writhe at mind-bending questioning from EACH OTHER, and ask questions of your own! http://web.mit.edu/rescomp/www /hiring.html UAVP Send your resume to [email protected] S Attend a MANDATORYintroductory session and technical diagnostic on Monday,·April3rd N42 Demo Center 5:15-6:45 come to see the candidates, st~ for the MIT Information Questions? Email [email protected] Systems FREE FOOD! Page 10 THE TECH March 31, 2000 Sum t Fees. By Kevin R. Lang sity used their activities fees to troversial activities has been raised bothers me," said EC resident Supreme Court. Both courts ruled NEWS EDITOR support groups they opposed. Wis- in recent months. Mary Ann Rasku '00. "I don't that the mandatory fees were a Perhaps East Campus residents consin charges all students an Most student activities at MIT think stripping should be out- form of compelled speech that vio- can cite Supreme Court precedent activity fee to support student are directly funded by the Institute, lawed," Rasku said. "I just think lated their First Amendment rights. when planning next year's stripper groups. However, only a small per- with funds distributed by the [event sponsors] should go off- The Supreme Court overturned party. In a unanimous ruling last centage of the fee was questioned Undergraduate Association campus and use their own money." the appellate ruling. In his opinion, week, the Supreme Court ruled in the suit. Most of the fund, which Finance Board. Finboard currently The Times reported that the Associate Justice Anthony M. that the First Amendment protects totals several hundred dollars funds a broad array of student Supreme Court ruling could serve Kennedy wrote that while the stu- student activity funding. annually, goes to student medical activities, including cultural, reli- as a precedent for similar debates dents did have First Amendment The Court ruled 9-0 that public services, intramural sports, and gious, and special interest groups. over mandatory student fees at pri- interests at stake, "recognition universities can collect mandatory other uses not questioned in the However, dormitories charge a vate universities. must be given as well to the impor- activity fees regardless of students suit. mandatory house tax for activities Katharine Lyall, president of tant and substantial purposes of the who object to particular activities. About twenty percent of the fee and house events. Last November, the University of Wisconsin sys- university, which seek to facilitate The Court stipulated that the is distributed among some 200 stu- some residents of East Campus tem, called the ruling. "a landmark a wide range of speech." groups given the money must be dent groups. questioned a house-funded party decision for higher education in "The university may determine chosen without regard to their The three students represented featuring strippers in Talbot this century." In a Times interview, that its mission is well served if views. As a result, the Court found conservative groups who claimed a Lounge. Ms. Lyall said that the decision's students have the means to engage fault with a minor aspect of the constitutional right to keep their Four female strippers were pre- importance lay in its "ringing in dynamic discussions of philo- Wisconsin public university sys- money from supporting gay rights, sent at the party, and some in endorsement of the idea that uni- sophical, religious, scientific, tem which allows a student refer- women's rights, the environment attendance were uncomfortable versities are special places for the social and political subjects in endum to grant or deny funding for and other causes. with the intensity of the strippers' free exchange of ideas, no matter their extracurricular. campus life student groups. performance. Some of those how controversial." outsidethe lecture halL If the uni- The New York Times reported Ruling does not directly affect objecting to the party made an versity reaches this conclusion, it last week on the case, which cen- MIT argument similar to that in the Lower courts forced higher is entitled to impose a mandatory tered around three University of While the decision does not Wisconsin case, claiming that their appeal fee to sustain an open dialogue to Wisconsin-Madison law students directly affect MIT because the residence fees should not be used Two lower-court decisions sup- these ends." who sued the school's Board of Institute is privately funded, the to fund activities they oppose. ported the law students, and Mike Hall contributed to the Regents, claiming that the univer- issue of mandatory funding of con- "It's partially my money and it appeals brought the case to the reporting of this story. 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" they want to participate in tests, child is suffering from a rare dis- Biodevastation protest rocked biotechnology. Annas called the current lack of "not some attorney at Harvard," he ease and is seeking gene therapy, Boston, a group -of high-profile accountability and lack of penal- said, looking at Annas. denounced Annas, saying she pundits on biotechnology gathered Panelists speak about issues ties appalling. Sheldon Krimsky, the last could judge what was best for her in a public forum to discuss gene Mickelson began the evening Annas decried the use of chil- speaker, allied himself with Annas child. "I am a physician and my therapy and its implications. with a speech about the differing dren in experiments. "Babies can't with his observation that scientists husband has a PhD in biochem- . Tuesday night's Technology roles of various government over- consent. Children can't be used as in the private sector, blinded by istry," she said. and Culture Forum featured pan- sight committees, including the guinea pigs," he said. Annas said commercial possibilities, tend to Stephen Heywood, the ailing elists with a variety of perspec- Food and Drug Administration that humans also should not be hype biotechnology to outrageous brother of James Heywood, who tives. James Heywood '91, whose (FDA), the Office of Protection of participating in Phase I tests, extremes. was a member of the audience, ailing brother inspired him to Research Risks (OPPR), the Insti- because they are uninformed and Researchers are less likely to also railed against Annas. "What found the ALS Therapy Develop- tutional Review Boards (IRBs), do not realize that the tests are report the adverse effects of their makes [gene therapy] not real sci- ment Foundation, was pitted and the Institutional Biosafety merely for toxicity. experiments, Krimsky said. And in ence?" Heywood asked. against George Annas of the Committees (IBCs). Heywood, on the other hand, journals, such as Scientific Ameri- Later, a woman affiliated with Boston University School of Pub- Mickelson pointed out that said that current government regu- can, research scientists write about Biodevastation 2000 asked the lie' Health, who favors a moratori- number of requests for gene thera- lation was slowing down the biotechnology without revealing panel why gene therapy was um on gene therapy. py trials in recent years has sky- process of finding cures. He their affiliations to biotechnology receiving so much funding when Claudia Mickelson, chair of the rocketed - 91 last year, and 23 in likened the situation to a burning companies. ther.e are so many solvable dis- .Recombinant DNA Advisory the first two months of this year. building, in which scientists are eases in the third-world related to Committee in the National Insti- Of those trials, 61 percent are firemen trying to save the lives of Two emotionally charged diet and nutrition. Mickelson tutes of Health, spoke about the related to cancer, she said. the diseased. moments responded by saying that only 65 government's role in oversight of In response, Annas said, "We "Gene therapy is treatment," Two dramatic emotionally percent of gene therapy was fund- biotechnology, while Professor need heavy-duty oversight, which Heywood said. It is not cloning, charged moments occurred later in ed by the government. Sheldon Krimsky in Urban and is non-existent in the United genetic engineering, or playing the question-and-answer period of We put the SEA into our RESEARCH Freshman Open The MIT Admissions Office, House Office of the Arts and Concerts Office invite you to participate in: Wednesday, April 5 3-5 pm in Room 5-314 ARTS STAGE Find out about Careers in OE '.in Lobby 7 Meet faculty and students See displays of current projects ENGINEERING Learn about UROPS in OE Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8 (Campus Preview Weekend 2000) M In ITJ In ~ Participation open to aUMIT Matza Ball student, faculty and staff Soup! Sign up sheet posted outside the Office of the Arts, E1S-20S Passover • • IS coming ... Do you know For more information, contad MarY Haller in the Office of the Arls, x3-4006 or . where you [email protected] Wl11·be eating? All Passover Reservations are due by Thursday April 6 Reserve today! Passover Seders April 19 & 20 Passover Dinners April 24-26 Contact MIT Hillel for information, 253-2982, Bldg W11 lower level Page 12 THE TECH March 31, 2000 contest that involves caling a wall, but they would be excellent at something like MIT triv- ia, which has been an event in the past." Past events include various relay races, team sack- races, "Howard Sez,' a game played like 'Simon Says", MIT trivia, and many others. Jonathan Sheffi '03, who participated in 1991 with his father, who is a Course I profes- sor, recalls a game where "we had to run a relay race up to a table with orange halves on it. Each person would run to the table, squeeze two orange halves into a glass, -and run back. The first team to fill the cup won." Other examples of events can be found in the video clip of the 1991 Games, on the Johnson Games website at munity members. not particularly athletic can very easily partic- the President, Vice- President, Chancellor •t According to organizer Ted Johnson, asso- ipate. We are encouraging people to bring ana Provost are dubbed the "Yest'Pos-k;ef ,.. ciate director for programs and director for their families." Protectors." --. • OVRTESYMl'f1lIDEO SERVl community services, "There was always the Vice President Kathryn Willmore, added Registration for the Johnson Games began A student struggles through tires in an hope that events of this kind would happen at that "there really is something for everyone. Wednesday, March 29, and will continue until obstacle course at the last Johnson least once in every student's academic life." For example, older faculty and staff members Wednesday, April 5 at 11 :00 p.m. on the Games, held in 1991. However, eight years passed without a may not be the team members chosen for a games' website. Dear Dr. Do It and s, Emotion: 'they are equipped to "deal with the lifestyle1pat What is your take on the older woman- they have established. I would suggest that younger man/older man-younger woman. I am these couples define some guidelines to help a graduate student thinking of pursuing an keep the relationship progressing at an appro- undergrad. (He is much younger.) Should I? priate pace. Only eat one meal together per day - Robin Cradle and eat the others with your friends or in a big group. Make "dates" for the weekend and Ms. Emotion: I think your first concern spend the-rest of your weeke with your should be whether or not this could interfere friends or studying and ~oing chores by your- with your studies. If you and he are at the o self. Only sleep over, on the weekends or after same school and in the same major it might be a "date." Andtty to do things with your friends best to keep things platonic. You couId end up instead of always just the two of you. being his TA one day. If, however, you are at This is a block" a few Lastly, if the relationship does come to end, different schools, or in different majors, then I column in which times and have try to think about your friends. Hopefully you think: the only issue is whether you feel com- we address ques- seen their share of haven't alienated them .from your life while fortable with the age difference. tions and topics o.f situations involving you were involved, because you will need them An age difference could pose several prob- all kinds concerning relationships and sex. now. When you go to your friends for comfort, lems. If you're looking for a relationship, then sex and relationships. Dr. The opinions of Dr. Do It remember that they are also your ex's friends, you probably want someone whom you can Do It and Ms. Emotion do and Ms. Emotion do not neces- and he will need support too. You might need relate to, who understands where you're com- not claim to be experts in the sarily reflect the opinions of this to have some distance from your ex for a ing from, who may be going through or has fields but have been "around the publication. while, but eventually, if everyone is mature gone through some of the same things that about the situation, both you and your ex can you're dealing with now. If your love interest of the relationship. However, it is common the rest of the ball, and the relationship always hangout with the group at the same time. is much younger then he probably won't be that the less experienced person in a relation- progresses very quickly since they're basically Dr. Do It: Sometimes people end up enter- able to fill this role. Another consideration is ship may end up giving up more control than living together. When these couples broke up ing into a relationship with people on their the lifestyles that you both lead. If your frat he or she should and in the end this will not it created a lot of tension on the hall and their hall out of convenience. It can be really party days are long past, and he still talks work. If both people in the relationship friends felt like they had to take sides. It really unhealthy to do this, because of what you have about "the brothers" on a regular basis, you respect each other's concerns and are comfort- divided the hall up. described, causitig alienation of friends and may wish to reconsider. College is a time in able with them then the relationship has a bet- - Hall Monitor the potential for dividing up the hall by our lives when we go through a lot of changes ter chance of working out. friends taking sides when a couple breaks up. - and everybody progresses at a different Notice that I have said all of this with out Ms. Emotion: This is an interesting scenario However, it can work out if two people really pace. He may be very experienced and mature bringing in age. It can be argued that the older that I'm sure many of our readers have also seen are compatible. It is difficult to have a rela- for his age. Only the two of you can know person in a relationship typically has more happen. I think it's inevitable that when people tionship where almost all of your free time is whether the differences between you are too experience and will have more control in the live near each other and become friends, that spent with your significant other because you significant for the relationship to work. direction of the relationship, but this is not a couples will form. And I think we should keep will find yourself getting on each other's Dr. Do It: Ms. Emotion, I see what you're hard fact across the board. I have also heard an open mind about these relationships. They nerves. One definitely needs "alone" time saying but I think that you might be going a bit that women mature more quickly than men may come with their own unique set of obsta- away from the significant other, which helps overboard. What the hell does it matter what . when it comes to relationships, but this is not cles, but that doesn't mean they can't work. keep the relationship healthy. This can be dif- major you're in? Regardless of age differences always the case. I have met very mature Couples who find themselves in this posi- ficult both people in the relationship share people come from all kinds of different envi- teenagers and very immature thirty-something tion need to be wary of the too fast, too soon exactly the same circle of friends. ronments. So you may not like dating a "frat year-olds, both men and women. So it really relationship trap. Because they live so close The best way to overcome these problems guy", but that is independent of age. The more comes down to the bottom line as summed up together, it's hard to keep the relationship pro- is not to date anyone in your hall and force important aspect is whether you feel that both in Ms. Emotion's last statement, which I do gressing at a "normal" pace. Sleeping over and yourself to expand your horizons by meeting of you are at similar maturity levels in order agree with: only the two of you can know real- eating all meals together becomes a given, and new people outside of your hallway. But if you for the relationship to work. While you both ly whether the differences between you are too privacy and space become minimal. It's natur- really do find yourself attracted to someone in might be different stages in your lives, also significant for the relationship to work. al, especially in the beginning of a relation- your hallway, then at least realize the implica- consider that it's more relevant what experi- ship, to want to spend all your time with your tions associated with it, and be prepared to ences each of you has had and what either of Dear Dr. Do It and Ms. Emotion: significant other. When you don't live on the deal with them. you is personally looking for in the relation- I was wondering what your opinion is on same hall then you're forced to have some ship you are pursuing. intra-ball dating. I've seen several of the peo- healthy time apart, but when you live together Ifyou have any questionsfor Dr. Do It and Good relationships entail an relatively even ple on my hall begin and end relationships and you often spend more time together than you Ms. Emotion or topics you would like them to balance, where both partners in the relation- it's never pretty. Since they live so close should. A couple may behave like they've been discuss, please send e-mail to If you/re a poet and know it, e-mail WE DYGU- The music library offers some of the best amenities in the MIT library system, accented by a musical score decorating the upstairs railing. By Katie Jeffreys FEATURES EDITOR The Lewis Music Library, which was renovated in 1996, offers a much more aestheti- cally pleasing environment than other libraries. Peter Munstedt, music librarian, said that "the use has doubled since we opened." The main reading room is well lit, with large widows overlooking the patio which sep- arates it from Hayden Library. The furniture is comfortable, most notably the adjustable couches which have backs that fold. Upstairs are 23 study areas equipped with turntables, cassette, laser disc, video and DVD players. The media players are available for use by any students who wish to study at the desks, but "we do give priority to people studying for music classes" said Munstedt. Also on the second floor are conference rooms, one of which is a group viewing and listening room. According to Munstedt, the library holdings include about 25,000 scores, 10,000 books, and 20,000 recordings. These pieces are from many genres: "Classical is the core collec- tion, but we have jazz, film music, electronic music and world music," said Munstedt. The library staff is also available to provide support to students. "We. help them find music and do research," said Munstedt. Additionally the library provides "handouts peo- ple can use to guide them in starting research." These pamphlets are available online as well at with special guests Friday,: April 28 - Johnson Athletic Center - 7:30 p.m. Tickets on sale NOW at The Source in the. Student Center $7 MIT Community $12 Guests of MIT Community with College ID Sponsored by UA, GSC, DonnCon, web.ntit.edu/spring with assistance from CACPB, IFC, ISA, LSC, The Tech. An MIT Metal Detector Event 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology • April 27-30 Page 14 THE T CD FEATURE March 31, 2000 o 2 ·E S. Viewpoint Famous U.S. Womens' Alpine Ski Team Diet What qualities are you looking for in a UA president? 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Eloranta Summer Refreshment in Room NW1~1112 at 3:00 p.m. Open. More info: Call E. Parmelee " Fellowships proposals must be submitted to the UROPOffice in 7-103 by 5PM on at 253-3801. Emall parmeleeesmtt.edu. Rm 3-133. Friday, March 31, 2000. Sponsor: UROP. 1:00 p.m. - Clinical Implications of the Dopamine Transporter, Bertha K. Madras, 10:00 a.m. - Being John Malkovlch. An out of work pupeteer goes to work at an Ph.D., Chair, Dlv of NeurochemjNE Regional Primate Research Ctr. Open. More odd office in New York and discovers that his office has an even odder feature- a info: Call Les Stein at 253-6732. Email [email protected]. Rm E25-401. portal into the brain of actor John Malkovich. Admission 2.5. 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. 3:30 p.m.- Third Annual Page Hazleg,ove Lecture on Glass Art, James Carpenter, 12:10 p.m. - GABLESMonthly Lunch. A social get-together of the MIT Gay, Bisexu- (BFA glass sculpture, RISD 1972), James Carpenter Design Associates, archl- ai, and Lesbian Employees and Supporters group. Contact David Fitzgerald at 258- teets, NYC. While at Corning Glass Works, Carpenter developed new glass materi- 0235 or [email protected] for more information about this month's lunch. To be als including photo responsive glasses & various glass ceramics, developing the announced. Sponsor: GABLES. field of interference coatings. Open. More info: Call Prof Michael Cima at 253-6877. 5:00 p.m. - AMP (Advanced Music Placem~nt) Student Recital. Rachel levinson Web: http://web.mit.edu/mjcima/web/Lecture_Page.html. Rm E51-WongAuditori- '01, violin. Svetlana Shnitser (G), piano, Beethoven's Sonata for Violin and Piano, um. OPt 12 No.1; Ravel's Tzigane: Massenet's "Meditation" from Tha6s; Bartok's 4:00 p.m. - Architecture and Devices for Computing Near the Thennodynamlc Romanian Dances. Admission O. Killian Hall. Sponsor: Office of the Arts. Umlt,' Professor James R. Heath, UCLA, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry. 7:00 p.m. - BeIng John Malkovlch. An out of work pupeteer goes to work at an odd Refreshments available at 3:45 pm in Room 13-2137. CMSE is funded by the NSF office in New York and discovers that his office has an even odder feature - a portal Materials Research Science & Engineering Centers Program. Open. More info: Call into the brain of actor John Malkovich. Admission 2.5.26-100. Sponsor: LSC. Carol Breen, CMSE at 253-6850. Email [email protected].·Web: 7:00 p.m. - MIT Anlme Showing. 4 episodes of our primary series: Nadia; 2 . http://web.mit.edu/cmse/www/. Rm 13-2137. 'episodes of our secondary series: Seriat Experiments Lain; feature anime: TBA. Up- 5:30 ,p.m.- Strengthening Local Gov:and Decentralizing Develop.: Evaluation of to-date schedules at http://web.mit.edu/anlme/www/mitanime.html. Admission O. the Palestine Rural Dev. Program, Prof. Farokh Afshar, University of Guelph, Cana- E51-345. Sponsor: 'mime Club, MIT. da and President of Development Workshop. Open. More info: Call Aga Khan Pro- 7:30 p.m. - Bombay Boys. Asian Aim Series: India Three "hyphenated Indians" gram at 253-1400. Email [email protected]. Rm 3-133. meet shortly after arriving in Bombay. They come to. Bombay to rediscover their Indi- 7:00 p.m.- Media and Imagination Science Fiction Readings, Ben Bova, author of an foots but are met by the Bombay underground. (Comedy). Admission 2.5. 10- "Return to Mars". Open. More info: Call Chris Pomiecko at 253-3599. Email 250. Sponsor: LSC., [email protected]. Web: http://media-in-transition.mit.edu. Rm 56-114. 3:00 p.rn, - Artificial Internal Organs: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Clark K. Colton, MIT, Dept of Chemical Engineering. Receptions held before seminars .at :ruesday's Events 2:45 p.rn, Open. More info; Call Arline Benford at 258-7031. Email [email protected]. Web: http.://web.mit.edu/cheme/www/. Rm 66-110. 7:30 p.m. - Coming Out Support Group. a friendly, supportive, confidential place to 4:00 p.m. - Structural Health Monitoring a Condition Assessment Using Quasi- meet other people, to share experiences on the coming out process, and to learn static Electromagnetic sensor Arrays, Dr. -NellGoldfine, Jentek sensors. Refresh- about resources available to the MITlbgt community. GaMIT(Walker, 3rd floor). ment at 3:30. Open. More info: Rm 1-350. - Sponsor: GaMIT. "9:30 p.m.- Director of Bombay Boys, Ka1z8dGustad, Independent Film Director. 11:30 a.m. - Responding to Technology-Created Market Niches: Do IndusUy-5pe- 'KaizadGustad will hold a Q/A session after LSC's showing of his film Bombay clallzed Assets Facilitate Entry1, Professor Andrew King, Stem School, New York Boys. The session win begin after the fUm (approxlrnatey 9:30pm) in 10-250. Open. University. Sponsored by the International Center for Research on the Management More info: Call Bennett landman, LSC Classics Director' at 253-8759. Rm 10-250. of Technology (fCRMOT),Sloan School of Management. Bring your lunch; beverages and dessert wi1lbe provided. Open. More info: Call1CRMOTat 253-7991. Email icr- Saturday's Events [email protected]. Web: http/yweb.mit.edu.ztcrmot/www/. Rm E56-270. 12:00 p.m.- Wlgner Phase Space Distributions: Watching Optical Ripples, Adam 9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. or sailing Regattas. Sailing Team regattas held at local Wax, MIT.Refreshments served follOWingthe seminar. Please see venues. MIT, BU,-Harvard. Cheer on the Sailing Team or just enjoy a spring day by web.mit.edu/spectroscopy/www for more detail. Open. More info: Call Alison Hearn the-river.'MlT/Harvard. Sponsor: MIT NauticaJAssociation. at 2534881. Email [email protected]. Web: http://web.mit.edu/spectroscopy/www/. 7:00 p.m. - Galaxy quest. The crew of actors elect to go into space because some Rm 37-252. aliens mistook one of them to be true galactic battle heros instead of the actors 12:00 p.m. - Sports and Parents, Art Taylor, Center for the Study of Sport In .that they are. Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman. Admission 2.5. 26-100. Society, Northeastern University. Open. More info: Call Family Resource Center at Sponsor: LSC. 253-1592. Email [email protected]. Web: http://web.mit.edu/personnel/wwwjfrc/. Rm 10:00 p.m, - Galaxy Quest. The crew of actors elect to go into space because 16-151. some aliens mistook one of them to be true galactic battle heros instead of the 2:30 p.m. - Simulation of flows with free surfaces: Bubble dynamics, cavitation actors that they are. Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman. Admission 2.5. . and splashing, Dr. Stephane Zaleski, Unlverslte Pierre et marie Curle (University 26-100. Sponsor: lSC. ." of Paris VI). Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM in Room 2-349. Open. More info: Call John Bush at 253-4387. Email [email protected]. Rm 2-338. Sunday's Events . 4:00 p.m. -. Gigabit Ethernet over Unshielded Twisted Pair Cables, Kamran Azadet, Bell laboratories, Lucent Technologies. Refreshments in Room 3~101 at 11:30 a.m. - Sailing Regattas. Sailing Team regattas held at local venues. MIT, 3:30 p.m. Open. More info: Call Debroah Hodges-Pabon at 253-5264. Email BU, Harvard. Cheer on the Sailing Team or just enjoy a spring day by the river. [email protected]. Web: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/. Rm 3~101. MIT/Harvard. Sponsor: MIT Nautical Association. 4:00 p.m. - Computational and Biological Studies of Mechanical Prophylaxis 6:00 p.m. - Grains of Rice: A Celebratlon'of AsIan Cultures. Second annual Asian against Deep Vein Thrombosis, Mr. Guohao Dal, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Culture Show at MIT, featuring performers from MIT Asian student groups as well as MIT. Refreshments served. Open. More info: CaHDonna Wilker at 253-2021. Email a cultural feast with Asian dishes. $8 pre-purchase (lobby 10 the week prior to the [email protected]. Rm 5-234. event). 'Walker Memorial. Sponsor: Office of the Arts. 4:30 p.m. - Mlcroscale Silicon Heat Exchangers, Mr. Shaun Sullivan, MIT- 7:00 p.m. - Being John Malkovlch. An out of work pupeteer goes to work at an odd Mechanical engineering Departrllent.Refreshments served 4:15pm. Open. More office in New York and discovers that his office has an even odder feature - a portal info: Call..Lori Martinez at 253-2481. Email [email protected]. Rm 31-161. into the brain of actor John Malkovich. Admission 2.5. 26-100. Sponsor:'LSC. 4:30 p.m.- What's New About the New EcOnomic Geography?, Professor Paul 8:00 p.m, - ""About Time.". Play written and directed by SCienceTechnology & soot- Krugman, MIT DePt ;of Economics. A session of the tnter-Uriiversity Seminar on - etygraduate student -Chen-PangYeang. Admission O. 'Kresge Littl~ Theater. Spon- International Migration. Open. More into: Call laurie Scheffler at 253-3121. Email 'sor:. Office of the Arts. . .. I~([email protected]. ~rri E38-714. 10:00 p.m. - Galaxy'Quest. The crew of actors eject to go into .space because' 6:30 ,p.in.- Non 5equIturs, Diller a Scofldlo, artlstsjarcblt~, Princeton Un ver- some aliens mistook one of them to be true galactIC battle heros instead of the sIty, 1lIe Cooper.Unlon. Department of ArcNtecture ,Lecture. Open. More info: Cal~ ~ors that ~ ,are.Tim'Atleo, Sigourney Weaver"A!8,n Rickrna.~..Adrni~Sion 2.5 ...,.' ,pept of Architecture at 253-7791. Rm 1Q.:250. .' 1·6-1C>q. Spons~: lSC. \ ' _'~~.' ,': >' '~' ... - - ~'. ..~ :7:00"p.m.- ihe~~.... s of ~;'George"8I~er, author, "Afte~rBat»el:~spects of I l' ...... a Tquistatlolr" Part of1he 50th anniversQfYcelebration of the School of 1 Humanities, AJ:ts. Sponsored.,by Dean's Office, Sghoot of Humanities and Social Sci- ence. Open. -More info: Call Dora KeUeat 253-4771. Rm 4-237., - 5:00 p.m. - AM~ (Advanced Music Perfonnance) Student Recital. Robert Zhang . 7:30 p.m. ,- Finding Meaningful Work In the Wortd, Jill Soucy, Public Service '02, violin; Tom'oko Inui (G), piano. Br~ghtSheng's The Stream Flows; J.S.:Bach's Center. Snacks and refreshments will be served. Closed. More info: Call Van Chu Sonata No.2 in A minor, BMV 1003; J. Brahms' Sonata NO.3 for Violin and 'Piano in at 258-0691. Email [email protected]. Web: http://web.mit.edu/arc/tnb/tues- o minor, Op.l08. Admission O. Killian Hall. Sponsor: Office of the Arts. days.html. Baker House, Dining Halt. **** **************************** ********** Crossword Solution * CAMBRIDGE PALM. CARD * * Psychic Studio and CRYSTAL READINGS * * ~ fj- Do you have any questions regarding Love. * * ~I~''''£.I\..*', Life. Business or Health? Dream * * Interpretation? Wehave the answers ... * 1-: The answers that could change your life! * * ''. 275 Western Avenue. Cambridge. 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Bingold '01 told Tilly refused to comment. responding officers that Tilley was Richard Scali, executive director responsible for the condition of the of the Commission, said that the house. commission members were "very Bingold was the highest rank- happy that they [KSl took some. ing fraternity officer at the house action on their own." at the time but not an eyewitness to The Commission praised the the event. The report says that he house's proactive work in punishing told officers that it was a tradition Tilly during the hearing. of the house that "seniors of the Peikert said that he was pleased "house would go around and make a with the decision and credited the mess for [underclassmen] to clean favorable outcome to the CLC's it up." recognition that the house dealt According to the report, Bingold effectively with the situation by said, "Tilly ... decided to destroy evicting Tilly. the house on his own," While the house was not sanc- Bingold told The Tech that his tioned, this incident will remain in knowledge of the situation was sec- the commission's records and will ond hand at the time he spoke to come up again if KS faces the board CPs. However, he said that Tilly in the future, Scali said. made a full confession of his KS has been before the CLC actions. three times in the recent past. They Both Bingold and Peikert said will begin serving a 30-day sus- that, other than this incident, the pension of their housing license work week tradition of vandalizing this fall during rush. That suspen- the house had not occurred during sion stemmed from the hospitaliza- their time at MIT. tion of a partygoer who was drink- KS sanctioned Tilly by revoking , ing at KS. Degrees of Freedom .;,,,,."l!' . London. ~•••$348 Open ho se Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics :'~~-:::' 2f1'I NewIu'y stnwt 5764623 8& Mt. AuIu'n 51. ",v-.ms.- limTRAVELI Monday, April 3, 2000 Egg Donor wanted 3:00 - 5:00PM Bush Room: 10-105 $7500-+ expenses ooking for healthy, energetic, attractiv oman between the ages of 18-33 with Lab Tours Leave Rm. 10-105 igh IQ. Prefer straight blonde/light brown at 3:30 & 4:30PM hair, green/blue eyes, fair complexion. Medical students a plus. Should be 5'4" or Find out what Un-tied Engineering is ·ke aller. Please send all pertinent information with See the exciting opportunltles in Aero/Astro hotos to: Yo 00 can e a rocket sc·e tist! March 31, 2000 THE TECH Page21 Weymouth Activist Blasts Polire Methods By Julia Steinberger and Saurabh Asthana The MIT campus is covered with fliers advertising parties and events and raising consciousness about var- ious social issues. In the South Shore town of Weymouth, however, high school students and a local activist were arrested and charged Censstas with "tagging" for putting up posters advertising an event in sup- 2000 port of Mumia Abu-Jabal last fall. The legal battle since that event pro- vides perspective on current ten- MICHELLE POVlNELLI-THE TECH sions between local activists and Nick "Red" Giannone, an police. activist from the South Shore Last September, two high school town of Weymouth, was arrest- students and Weymouth activist ed for "tagging" local telephone Nick "Red" Giannone were poster- poles with rally announcements. ing telephone poles on Route 3A to EARN $15 an hour advertise a forthcoming high school event, and then on the actual day of walkout in support of death-row the walkout. WORKING FROM YOUR DORM prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. "We kept on promoting the Although garage sale advertise- walkout anyway [despite the tag- APRIL 17 TO MAY 1 ments and local elections were pub- ging charges]," Giannone said. licized on the same telephone poles Police were waiting at the high 8 to 20+ Hours per week without incident, the students who school when he arrived and Gian- posted the fliers for Mumia Abu- none took several photographs, he Jamal were arrested by the Wey- said. "One of the cops said 'We'll mouth police. . be taking your picture too, you us, and INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS may apply! moron, when we arrest you.' That's Bias alleged in arrests before I had done anything. That Giannone, 24, said he believes just shows they had already isolated their arrests were politically moti- me ... It was a premeditated arrest," Email: [email protected] vated. Giannone, the principal said Giannone. Boston area organizer of the activist Giannone and two students were group Refuse and Resist, has long arrested at the walkout for trespass- protested police brutality. He is also ing on school grounds and disorder- an advocate for Mumia Abu-Jamal, ly conduct, and three other students an African-American journalist were later summoned to court on the who many believe was framed by same charges. The high school stu- the Philadelphia police for the mur- dents involved were offered proba- der of a police officer. tion on the condition that they com- Recalling his arrest for tagging, plete hig~ school. Giannone said, "[The Weymouth police] brought us to the station and, Giannone jailed for ten days you know, gave us the, 'What are Giannone faced charges in Quin- you guys doing? You guys weren't cy District Court, where he even born when this happened.' appeared with his court-appointed They actually referred to us by lawyer at a February 7th surrender racial slurs. They called us the n- hearing. His lawyer had prepared to word. All .of us were white, by the argue against the legitimacy of the way, but that. just shows the open arrests . on First Amendment racism of the police." grounds. The tagging law Giannone According to Captain Jim was accused of violating has been Tho~as of the Weymouth Police declared unconstitutionally vague in Department, Giannone's arrest was a Charlestown court. unrelated to the cause he was advo- Despite this precedent, Gian- cating. Thomas said, "I'm sure the none's lawyer was not able to pre- content of the fliers had nothing to sent his defense. "My lawyer said it do with the arrests." might take an hour to argue the case. Thomas also said that he was [Judge Coven] said 'You're proba- redwood certain the police had followed all bly going to lose, your client will do the required guidelines in the subse- six months jail time.' ... The judge quent arrests and charges. said I was going to lose before hear- CATALYTIC CONVERTERS WANTED ing the case," Giannone said. Police made arrests at walkout Giannone's lawyer decided to FOR HIGH WIRELESS ACT. At the time of his arrest for post- strike a deal with the prosecutor ing fliers, Giannone was on proba- rather than argue the case before a tion for a prior disorderly conduct hostile judge, Giannone said. He Redwood Investment Systems, Inc., located in the heart of charge stemming from a 1998 eventually accepted a sentence of 10 protest against police brutality. He days in jail and maintains he is cer- downtown Boston, is passionate about revolutionizing the way also helped to organize opposition tain that he is being singled out for to a proposed police "emergency his political beliefs. money is managed globally. Our Web-centric products capture the response unit" which he believe Among those who agree is a par- complete investment process and are poised to dramatically elevate raised opposition to him among the ent of a high school student who police. participated in the walkout. In a let-' the quality of decision-making and dialogue for investment Giannone did not believe that his ter to the Patriot Ledger (Quincy), probation could be violated by orga- Bill DeTellis wrote "Prosecuting professionals worldwide. nizing a walkout at his old high someone for putting up fliers on school in Weymouth. 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Check us out at www.redwood.com. .. n Page 22 THE T CD March 31, 2000 .-..-.--."..-.eCan y Be One Pheiffer Sicks with umber One Seed Michigan State University By Rory P. Pheiffer consistent playing time. ine play- is the reason for the first two, and STAFF REPORTER ers scored for them against Okla- the last, has to be Coach Dick Ben- What started as a calm, relatively homa State and ten scored points nett and his team's style of play. upset free March adness has against Duke. Florida runs their The story of much of this tourna- turned into a complete debacle. opponents into the ground. They ment has been defense. Wisconsin, While the apply intense defensive pressure for more than any other team in the /l l opening forty minutes, and keep coming at tournament, has shown just what a \./0 umn round fea- you, with fresh legs from the bench. great defense can do for a team that tured only If they can keep their games close, does not stack up talent wise against one upset,in the following rounds, they will certainly be the freshest teams like Arizona and LSU. Wis- the NCAA tournament surely lived tearn in the closing minutes. consin's defense has held all four of up to the hype of March Madness. their opponents to 60 points or less. No analyst could have foretold what C Tar Heels They create turnovers and don't the Final Four has to offer. A one- The Tar Heels have been under- give good looks at the basket. Then, seed, the Michigan State University achievers all season long. Finally, to top it all, they have been hitting Spartans, a fifth seed, the University they have strung together some clutch shots, namely three pointers. of Florida Gators, and a pair of eight good basketball and used it to march seeds, the University of North Car- their way into the Final Four. Led Final Four olina Tar Heels and the University by their senior point guard Ed Cota After two weekends of surprises, of Wisconsin Badgers. Each team and freshman sensation Joseph what can we expect in the tourna- had a different and interesting road Forte, the Tar Heels showed fans ment's last weekend? More of the to the Final Four. that they can still same or will the low seeds finally play basketball come back-to earth? In onesemifi- Spartans with the big boys. nal, the Gators will be facing the MSU was Had you thrown They had con- Tar Heels. The Tar Heels had three expected to be vincing wins over opportunities to beat the Blue Dev- here in the late WISconsininto yourfinal the likes of Stan- ils this season, and couldn't get it stages of the four picks at the beginning ford, Tennessee, done. The Gators only needed one NCAA tourna- and the surprise chance and they ran the Blue Devils ment. The Spar- of the seasonpeople would Golden Hurri- into the floor. I like Florida in this tans got here by canes from Tulsa. game. Their depth and defensive excelling in have calledyou aaz~ People sus- pressure will be enough to end the crunch-time situa- pected a team Tar Heels run. Ed Cota should be FIONN S. DAMDAR-THE TECH tions. In three of from Tobacco able to keep his team in the game, MIT men's lacrosse captain Mike Rainey '00 moves In to their four games they found them- Road would find their way into the but Florida will prove too much in score one of MIT's 23 goals against Nichols college last Tues- selves in a tight battle before pulling Final Four, but nobody thought it the end. day. MIT won the game 23-9, leaving the Engineers with a it out in the end. Against Syracuse would be these guys. In the other semifinal we see an season record of 1-1. they trailed by as many as fourteen Despite a lackluster regular sea- all-Big Ten matchup, pitting Michi- . in the second half, but they fueled a son, North Carolina has all the mak- gan State up against the tenacious 17-0 run while the game was tied in ings of a championship team. They Wisconsin Badgers. These two the last five minutes to beat the have great talent, both young and teams know each other well, having Orangemen. old, a big man in Brendan Haywood, , faced each other three times. already Iowa State was also up on the and a leader in Cota. Guthridge has this season and the result here will UPCOMING HOME EVENTS Spartans late in the match, but lead UNC to the Final Four before, be the same: the Spartans know how Michigan State used a 23-5 run to so he has the experience. to beat the tough Wisconsin D. Featured Upcoming Home Event close the game and seal their bid to From there, I'm going to stick the Final Four. The word that best University of Wisconsin Badgers with my pick to win it all. At the Saturday, look for MIT on the water. On west side of describes the Spartan's road to the Had you thrown Wisconsin into beginning of the tournament I said Harvard Bridge, women's crew takes on Dartmouth, Uni- Final Four is perseverance. Peter- your final four Michigan State versity of New Hampshire and Smith College. Six races son, Granger, and Cleaves have all picks at the begin- was the team to will take place from 9:35 a.m. to noon about every half taken their turns providing the key ning of the season beat, and they hour. On the opposite side of the bridge, the sailing team plays that Michigan State has need- people would At the beginning of the still are. While " will be in competition starting at 9:30 a.m. in Boston Dinghy Club Cup. ed in the clutch. They were the have called you tournament 1 said other top teams The Cup continues on Sunday as well. Since the winter season break, favorite coming in, and they have crazy. The Bad- have choked this weekend will be the first time to watch the sailing and crew teams been the only high seed to prove gers have been Michigan State was the under pressure, compete on home water. their ranking. extremely impres- the Spartans sive in the tourna- team to beat, and they have turned it up Friday, March 31 University of Florida Gators ment. They fin- still are. a notch when it Women's Tennis vs. Wesleyan University, 3:00 p.m. Florida is a very talented young ished 8-8 in the really matters. Women's Softball vs. Wentworth Institute of Technology, 4:00 p.m. team. They go ten deep and can cre- tough Big Ten, They have the ate difficulties for any team with and probably got drive, talent, Saturday, prill their full-court press. Florida has in the tournament after late season experience, and the destiny to cut Men's Outdoor Track and Field - Engineers Cup, 1:00 p.m. been ranked no lower than thirteen wins over Indiana and Purdue, but down the nets in Indianapolis, and Women's Lacrosse vs. Wellesley College, 4:00 p.m. in the polls the entire season, so to think that they'd still be hooping that's just what they will do. their five seed was certainly a little it up in April was beyond anybody's Mateen Cleaves came back for his Sunday, April 2 low. Regardless, not many people wildest dreams. senior year just for this moment, Sailing - Boston Dinghy Club Cup, 9:30 a.m. thought they had the abilities to get First the Heisman Trophy, then and his dream will come true as National Table Tennis Championships, 9:00 a.m. this far, I know I didn't. The Gators the Rose Bowl, and now the Final the Michigan State University are well coached: Billy Donovan Four? This has been quite a year in Spartans become the NCAA cham- uses all of his talent. Ten players get sports for the Badgers. Ron Dayne pions in 2000. Women's Water Polo Wms Three Baseball on Win Streak By Alvan Eric P. Loreto innings in the fifth and seventh to TEAM MEMBER notch two and three runs, respective- Games But Can't Overoo e IIamlrd After a frigid start in suffocating ly. The Engineer bats never awoke, By Jeffrey J. Colton Wesleyan. Arriving at the pool at 8 that's all that matters." South Florida heat, the MIT baseball as the Lions' pitcher Casoli kept Tech a.m. for warm-up, MIT would face MIT's third game followed the team has suddenly become red-hot in off balance with a decent fastball and The Engineers took second its hardest competition of the tour- same night against Wesleyan, who the cool spring air of a tricky curveball. place in a round-robin tournament nament. Harvard, ranked 18th in proved to be no match for MIT. New England. Led by Monday, March 20, MIT this past weekend in which they the nation, dominated the game Dominating the whole game, MIT the bats 'Of captains dropped a doubleheader to Colby-. won four out of five (18-1). Harsanyi scored the Engi- had a 9-0 lead heading into the Kevin B. McKenney Sawyer (NH). Before the game MIT games. Despite won- neers' only goal. final quarter and ended the match '00 and Ethan T. Goetz learned that it would be without the derful Florida and The following game would be 12-4. Wesleyan was missing top '00 and the reliable services of captain and No.2 starter Hawaii vacations, difficult for MIT to bounce back as starter Emily Hagar, and the Engi- arm of David M. Piho '00, the Engi- Ahren M. Lembke-Windler '00, most of the team Connecticut College came to the neers had no problem taking neers have won four straight after whois expected to be sidelined for a returned early from tournament with a lot of intensity advantage of this as they cruised to opening the 2000 season 1-6 against month after suffering a dislocated spring break showing great dedica- and a desire to earn respect. "It was victory. some stiff competition. . left elbow. The news seemed to tion to the team. a close game," assistant coach Wes The following day, opponent dampen the team's morale, and the The tournament started off Fri- Chao stated. "I don't think we Bates College, a first year team, Rough Florida trip opens season Engineers came out flat in 5-0 and day night and was a great start for played well. The whole weekend made the competition easy for the MIT opened the season on Sun- 11-4 losses to the White Mules (4- their weekend. Starting off with a was tough coming off spring Engineers. This allowed "a lot of day, March 19, by dropping a 5-1 0). The lone bright spot for MIT was seven-goal lead in the first quarter, break." Missing starter Yihvan our lesser experienced players to decision to the College of New Jersey third baseman Christopher J. Middlebury was no match for Vuong '03 made this game a lot step up and fill rolls they are not Lions in Homestead, FL. TCNJ (4-0). Albrecht '00, who went 3-for-5 with MIT. Captain Andrea Harsanyi '02 closer than it should have been. accustomed to, which is really Pitcher Jason E. Szwninski '00, who one run scored for the day. and Jen Eppig '03 led the team as However, the women's team tri- nice. But we still need a lot of continues to receive considerable The Engineers notched their first the entire bench got some playing umphed in their first overtime work," Chao said. The fmal scored attention from professional scouts 'win against of the season against time. The game ended 17-0 record- game 11-10. "Both teams were ended up 9-3 as MIT fmished up after an all-star summer stint with the Massachusetts College, but not ing MIT's first shutout of the year. missing people due to spring the tournament 4-1. This puts their semipro Rhode Island Gulls, turned before dropping a heartbreaker to The next day the Engineers break," commented head coach Jeff season record at 7-1 (3-0). The in a solid complete-game, seven Ramapo (NJ) that morning. A two- would host three games against Ma. "But the squad' we brought Engineers are currently ranked 8th strikeout performance. However, the Harvard, Connecticut College, and beat the squad they brought and in division TIl nationally. Lions strung together three-hit Baseball, Page 23 March 31, 2000 PORTS THE TECH Page 23 MIT Tops WSC.in Close Game Devaraj Strong on Epee . ~ Fencing, from Page 1 last year to a bona fide A strip in a matter of months. He finished 24th depth with a very respectable t 3th at CAAs. place finish overall. Gray, who "It was a great thrill to see four began fencing only a year and a half of our hardest-working fencers com- ago, managed victories over some pete so ably at a national level," of the be t collegiate fencers. " he said oach Jarek Koniusz. "I am fences very well ... I am very especially happy for Caroline, who impressed with [ appy's] progress," has been an anchor for our women's fellow aberist Purcell said. Gray team all season. By finishing up as plans to continue to sharpen her the second best Division III school skills on the non-collegiate circuit and 14th best in the country, our next year, as she fencers made a will be graduating statement about this year. the strength of MIT's strong ''ff he gets people who our program and contingent of their own dedica- sabrists was com- want tofence, he'll tion." plemented by Phil turn them into great Purcell and Miller on the men's Captain Evange- GREG KUHNEN-THE TECH side. Despite a athletes. " los Efstathiou Ethan Goetz '00 makes a frantic retreat to second base after Worcester State's pitcher caught him number of ups and -NCAA Champion '00 will continue leading off. Aggressive play and a few stolen bases bought the Engineers an extra run, winning Mon- downs, Miller fm- competing this day'S game 3-2. ', ished a very Caroline Purcell '02 weekend at a respectable 19th in tournament of Baseball, from Page 22 center fielder Mike Eaton. innings. Leadoff hitter Goetz went 3- Men's Sabre with the best sabre The Engineers finally showed for-4 with one run scored and' one six wins in the fencers in the out single in the last inning by fatigue under the blazing Florida sun RBI to ignite the MIT offense. tournament. He eagerly anticipates world. A combined total of ten MIT catcher John J. Kogel '03 brought in their Wednesday afternoon game, In the second game the Bobcats another chance to compete next year. foil, epee, and sabre fencers will be home Alvan Eric P. Loreto '01 from a 9-0 loss to perennial New England hung tough, but a l-out, 3-run triple Proving that MIT is more than competing at a U.S. Open in Cleve- second, but Ramapo center fielder powerhouse Williams College (MA). . by Loreto in the 4th broke a 2-2 tie, sabre, Neal Devaraj '02 also quali- land, Ohio the following weekend. Jeff Matvienko threw out Ryan S. Nykiel-Furgala registered another eventually making a winner out of fied to fence at the NCAAs in the Balter G at third base to end the outstanding complete game, giving Tech pitcher Albrecht. Men's epee tournament. Devaraj Ming- Tai Huh contributed to this game, securing a 2-1 victory for the up only four hits and two earned runs Monday the Engineers hosted made incredible strides this year, article. Roadrunners (4-1). Lack of offense while striking out eight. However, the regular ECAC Tournament invite from being a second string starter . by MIT spoiled a complete-game MIT defense faltered, making seven Worcester State College (8-5), and gem by up-and-coming pitcher errors that led to seven unearned runs the result was fast-paced, error-free 'Nationals consist of the 24 best in the country competing in. each Brian S. Nykiel-Furgala '02, who for the Ephs (2-2). Williams senior baseball. A WSC run in. the top of weapon. Over two -days, theyfence in a round robin format 0/23 five allowed just' one earned run and four pitcher Mark Daoust stymied the T's, the first was answered by an MIT tow;h bou/$,fr()m which the top four finishers fence direct eliminaUou hits for the game. scattering seven hits over his seven run in the bottom of the first, and bouts jIJ as:emi,.jinats and finals. The squad and team ran/dngsare More strong pitching was turned shutout innings. the game remained knotted until the determined by the sum ofvictoiies of individual fencers, Division I, II. in by Piho against Massachusetts MI1 closed out its springtrip fourth. An RBI single by Billing (2 and III programs do not have separate Nationals -all schools wh() College (6-4), but this time the Tech Thursday, March 23 against Bowdoin hits) and an RBI double by Goetz (3 qualify fencers compete at the Division [level. • offense finally broke through for ten College (MA), another strong New . hits) gave the T's a two-run lead, hits in the 7-1 afternoon victory. England baseball team. Riding a but Lancer left fielder Jason Grenier Loreto and McKenney scored early masterful 7-hit, 8-strikeout perfor- scored in the fifth to bring W orces- to stake Piho a lead. Piho only mance by ace Szuminski, the Engi- ter State within one. allowed two hits and no earned runs neers left South Florida on a high The score remained 3-2 into the over the course of the game. A three- note with a 4-2 victory over the Polar final inning, where Tech pitcher Piho run double into the right-field comer Bears. Strong offensive showings provided late-game drama by picking by Matthew R. Berger 'Olin the sev- were put on by Piho (3 hits, 2 runs off Lancer runner Keith Bianchini Somethi gto _ enth capped the win. scored), Loreto (2 hits, 2 runs before retiring the side to give the scored), and McKenney (2 hits, 3 Engineers their fifth victory . feel good aDout •Lembke-Windler's a~sence hurts RBi), while second baseman Goetz Behind the solid hitting of On Wednesday morning the T's displayed solid defense in making McKenney (.400 BA, 14 hits), Goetz landed a rematch with the College of several key plays to smother late (.364 BA, .475 OBP), and Piho (.364 New Jersey, and the Lions streaked Bowdoin rallies. BA,5 doubles), MIT (5-6) now looks to their ninth straight victory with a forward to a three-game road trip to Unlli dway 19-4 thumping of MIT. As expect- Three game winning streak conference rivals WPI and Clark and ed, the Tech pitching staff wore thin The T's returned to Cambridge, tough nonconference foe Brandeis. in Lembke-Windler's absence, and opening a 4-game homestand with a TCNJ took full advantage with an doubleheader last Saturday against offensive explosion that validated Bates College (ME). The Engineers amazon.com their lofty national ranking. The swept, 8-1 and 5-3, to keep the Bob- Lions crushed ten extra base hits off cats (0-4) winless on the year. In the MIT pitchers Berger and Jeffrey J. first game, MIT's Billing evened his Billing '01, including two doubles record to 1-1 by allowing five hits and a towering grand slam by senior and one earned run over seven You can make Women's'Tennis Wms history here. OVer Tough Skidmore Creating something special isn't easy. 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