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,... The Weather Today: Partly cloudy, 80° F (27° C) Tonight: Cloudy, 66° F (19° C) Tomorrow: Overcast, 74° F (23° C) Details, Page 2 Massachusetts 02139 Wednesday, August 25, 1999 Fe Sanctions DKE "In Alcohol Incident '. Fraternity Must be Alcohol Free for One Year For Serving Alcohol to an Interphase Student ,~-, By Kristen Landino assistant dean for Residence Life and ASSOCIA TE NEWS EDITOR Student Life Programs and adviser to Delta Kappa Epsilon is facing a fraternities sororities and independent ,. number of sanctions including a living groups. year long ban on alcohol after an "We wanted to allow time for Interphase student was found intoxi- members of the house to return and cated at the fraternity's house late new officials to be elected," Dorow c, last month. said. The student, a member of the DKE chose to resolve the issue class of 2003 enrolled in the summer administratively and did not request ( program for minority students, was a hearing with Institute officials. found intoxicated in the DKE house The fraternity stipulated to the bulk on the morning of July 25 by Campus of the charges issued; however, they Police, after drinking at a party held contend that the student was not in ,t the previous night at the fraternity. danger, as members of the house Police and administrative officials were with him at all times. declined to. release the student's The fraternity itself proposed a name or any information regarding list of sanctio.ns to which: the IFC. disciplinary action taken against him. agreed - one year alcohol-free, 500 ANNIE S. CIlOI-TIlE TECII hours of community service, TIPS As part of International Orientation, students lounge during a pizza party near East Campus Monday DKE will rush despite incident training for all fraternity members, afternoon. Despite the incident, DKE will be and alcohol liability training. allowed to rush this fall, according to Additionally, fraternity members Patrick D. Kremer '00, Interfraternity must submit a detailed internal risk .•Class of 2003 Arri~7iesonCampusW 1 ,. Council Judicial Committee Chair. management policy before they can 'l Charges' brought against the again have a"lcohol in the house and,' house include: violating MIT stan- O. B· fl Freshmen .once the alcohol ban is lifted, the nentan on edinQ or dards for FSILGs, assisting a stu- house must hold one dry event ~~ . dent in violating Interphase rules, before they can have a party with ~.. failing to cooperate with Institute alcohol present. By Jennifer Chung freshmen will be given the opportu- With 1,056 members, there are officials in an emergency situation, NEWS EDITOR nity to learn about MIT's plethora slightly more students in the class of disregarding the personal safety of a Student reported missing The remaining members of this of residential options, student activi- 2003 than in the preceding class. ,..~ student, engaging in an action which A fellow Interphase student year's incoming freshman class ties, athletics programs, resources, According to Associate Director of in detrimental to the MIT communi- reported the pre-freshman missing the arrive at MIT today for one of the and academics. Since many upper- Admissions for Information Services ty, violating the B.Y.O.B. policy, night of July 24 after a talent show last traditional Orientation Weeks, classmen have not yet returned, and Research Elizabeth S. Johnson, and serving alcohol to a minor. and social held for Project Interphase as the Institute implements policies Orientation also provides the chance there was "virtually no summer j I"• These charges were presented to students. Friends mentioned that the created in the aftermath of the alco- for freshmen to easily meet other melt" for the first time in at least 14 DKE on Aug. 13 and the fraternity student might be at a fraternity party hol-related death of Scott S. members of their class and slowly years, meaning that fewer than usual was given a period of time to respond Krueger '01 two years ago. become acclimated to the Institute's ," to them, according to Neal H. Dorow, Deke, Page 9 During the next two weeks, culture. Orientation, Page 9 Banking Options at MIT Offer Range of Services ,, By Gabriel Daleson of four dollars per month, which can. STAFF REPORTER rise to seven dollars if an account This article is the first in a series holder uses services other than the intended to introduce freshmen to autom~tic teller machine. There is life in Boston and at the Institute. no minimum balance, nor is a Future installments will deal with deposit needed to open an account. othe~ necessities of life at MIT. For students over the age of 18, including long distance telephone BankBoston offers X-Press check services and purchasing textbooks. and reserve credit accounts at the The greater Boston area is home same four dollar per month fee, -, to a number of banking options. which lets students use their ATM BankBoston, which has an exclusive cards for debit purchases, and which right to open new accounts in the offers three hundred dollars of over- Student Center, is the first bank stu- draft protection. If the reserve credit ( , dents will likely be exposed t(>,but is used, a fifteen dollar fee is several other financial establishments incurred for the year. Credit cards exist nearby, including Fleet Bank, can also be obtained. Cambridge Trust, and U.S. Trust. BankBoston also offers the online HomeLink service, proprietary soft- BankBoston ware which allows customers to AARON l!>iIKSEN-T/IE TECII BankBoston, with branches in check balances and pay bills at a sur- The Cambridge Fire Department responded to a small fire at Building 18. A graduate student suf- the Stratton Student Center and charge of$4.50 per month. However, fered minor burns when pentane fumes flashed. down Main Street from the Coop, offers a student plan with a charge Banking, Page 11 .,. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Class of 2003 Orientation differ- Comics Beginning with today's issue, The World & Nation 2 ent from previous years. Tech will publish daily through Opinion : .4 the end of Orientation, Sept. 2. Arts 6 On The Screen 14 o•• On The Town .15 Page 8 Page 12 " ,--------------------------------------------------------------------- August 2S, 1999' • WORLD & NATION Russians Claim Victory in Dagestan THE II'ASIIINGTON POST California Officials Ban Gun, MOSCOW Upbeat Russian officials claimed their forces swept Islamic rebels from high mountain hamlets Tuesday and all but ended the Muslim Ammo Sales on County Land '" separatist threat in the remote southern region of Dagestan. Russian ground troops, however, have not yet occupied the posi- By Jeffrey L. Rabin ammunition on all county property, motion is a thinly veiled attempt to '. tions reported to be abandoned by the guerrillas. LOS ANGELES TIMES including county buildings, beaches, destroy the constitutional rights of a Tuesday was the date set by new Prime Minister Vladimir Putin LOS ANGELES parks, and the fairgrounds in legal entity." to crush the revolt, and it was unclear how much the declarations of Over the vocal objections of Pomona, a city east of Los Angeles. County Sheriff Lee Baca called near-victory were designed to make his deadline appear to have been some gun owners, a divided Los "The biggest gun show in the on the supervisors to halt the sale of ... met. Victory would create an immediate success for Putin, who has Angeles County Board of United States is held right here in weapons and ammunition on county virtually no political track record. Supervisors on Tuesday banned the this county on land owned by the property. A former Marine and Under heavy bombardment from artillery and the air, the rebels sale of guns and ammunition on all taxpayers of this county," he said. member of the National Rifle ~ fled six hamlets whose names had quickly become familiar to county property, a move aimed at Yaroslavsky remarked that some Association, Baca said: Russians during 18 days of intense fighting: Tando, Rakhata, driving the nation's largest gun of the illegal automatic weapons "Unfortunately, in this country we Shodrota, Ansalta and Ashino. Tando in particular had symbolized show from the county fairgrounds. possessed by the gunmen who have a gun industry that hides Russian frustration in uprooting the rebels. Russian forces were The decision on a 3-2 vote came engaged in a fierce firefight with behind the Second Amendment," L.• turned back twice from storming the village, and at least 20 soldiers two weeks to the day after a white police outside a bank in North said the sheriff. Baca testified while died in the attempts. supremacist allegedly fired an semi- Hollywood two years ago were flanked by the local head of the fed- automatic weapon into the North traced back to the Pomona show. eral Bureau of Alcohol Tobcaao and Valley Jewish Community Center in "Enough is enough," he said. "The Firearms and a representative of the .. Chemical Weapons Disposal Delayed the city's Granada Hills district time has come to put an end to this." California Attorney General's TIlE BALTlJIORE SUN wounding three children, a teen-age Karl Amelang, president of office. WASHINGTON camp counselor and a receptionist. Great Western Shows, which oper- The proposal to ban the sale of '* The destruction of aging chemical munitions will be delayed and The alleged gunman, Buford O. ates four gun shows a year at the guns and ammunition drew gun could fall years behind schedule because of congressional budget Furrow Jr., told authorities he later fairgrounds, sharply criticized control advocates and gun owners, cuts, increasing the risk of leakage, defense officials say. shot and killed a postal worker Yaroslavsky's approach. He told the who demanded that their constitu- Charging that the Army's program to destroy the nation's stock- delivering mail in a nearby San board the show and its 2,000 tional right to keep and bear arms be 1.: pile of chemical weapons is rife with lax financial management, Fernando Valley neighborhood.