MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Rain and Sleet, 45°F (7°C) Tonight: Windy, cloudy, 38°F (3°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, 48°F (9°C) Sfitahl Details, Page 2 Volume 114, Number I Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, January 28, 1994 BI~~~~~~~~~ i~~~~~~~iP I i Il~~~~~~~~~ A~~~~~~~~~~BP I B I P · ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.~~- Wastoid iumphs Over Robot Pirates By Hyun Soo Kim ocean (a six-inch wide, two-inch NEWS EDITOR deep ditch in the table) to pillage the After over nine rounds of dou- opponent's ship, or stay on their ble-elimination play, "Wastoid" own ship (side of the table). emerged victorious in the 1994 A complicated point-scoring sys- LEGO Rob-ot Design contest tem allowed for flexibility in strate- (6.270) Tuesday night. gies, as robots could play in either Benjamin A. Calderon '96, offensive or defensive roles. A team Yishai Lerner '96, and Mihir Shah lost points for any blocks or bottles '96 designed Wastoid, a robot that were tipped from theirh;pright which had a unique feature - a cat- positions or were knocked off of its apult that threw foam blocks as far side. A team could also earn points as five feet across the playing table. by picking up the bottles and blocks It raised the audience in 26-100 to and either storing them in the robot their feet in excitement. or by transferring them to the home This year's contest was named side of the table. Robo-Raiders, as the pirates Robots also had the option of (robots) sought to collect treasure pushing a dinghy or a plank into the chests (foam blocks) and drink ocean to help get across- pirate punch (plastic bottles). The pirates could choose to cross the Contest, Page 15 Judge Serves Velez 20-Year Prison Term Daniel C. Stevenson prosecution, at 9:45 p.m. on the ASSOCZIATE NIGHT EDITOR night of the crime, Raustein and Alfredo Velez, an accomplice in Arne Fredheim G, both students the murder of Yngve K. Raustein from Norway, were walking east '94 on Sept. 18, 1992, was sen- along Memorial Drive near Hayden man- Students participate in Charm School in Lobby 7 last week. Courses taught included table tenced to 12 to 20 years in state Library when they were confronted ners, buttering up big-shots, how to get a date, etiquette, and manners. I prison last Wednesday. In atten- by Joseph P. Donovan, then 18, I I __ _ dance were Raustein's parents and Velez, then 17, and Shon McHugh, Velez's mother and young wife. then 16. Identified Superior Court Associate Justice Donovan, apparently without Fernald School Subjects Robert A. Barton explained to Velez provocation, punched Raustein, Radiation Testing the rights he would sacrifice by knocking him to the ground. Dono- Litster Testifies before Senator Kennedy's Hearing on entering a guilty plea. The Assistant van then robbed Raustein while conducted by Senator District Attorney read the following Velez robbed Fredheim. By Jeremy Hylton headed the investigation. She used hearing Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) at account of the evening in question CHAIRMAN the Fernald School's records about 10 School on Jan. 13. for the record. According to the Velez, Page An ongoing investigation of its mentally retarded patients, infor- the Fernald 1950s, the late Professor human radiation experiments done mation from Harvard University, In the Robert S. Harris studied by MIT and Harvard University and MIT's records, which included of Nutrition absorbs calcium and researchers has identified the sub- the height and weights of the test how the body feeding 125 patients of the jects of at least two 1950s nutrition- subjects, to determine the dosages iron by School milk and cereal al studies involving radioactive trac- each subject received. Fernald tracers. ers. "It's a detective story because laced with radioactive public According to Professor J. David we have bits of information, and The tests were first made Energy Secretary Hazel Litster PhD '65, vice president and they have bits of information, and when thousands of dean for research at MIT, the sub- the Rev. West has been playing O'Leary declassified about radia- mentally retarded patients detective. I'm amazed she has put government documents jects were last from the Walter E. Fernald State together all the pieces so quickly," tion and radiation testing late School. Litster said. year. Rev. Doe West, coordinator of In addition to working with the After reading a story in the Dec. the Massachusetts Task Force to state task force investigation, Litster 26 Boston Globe about the tests at Human Subject Research and Francis X. Masse, MIT's radia- Review Radiation, Page 14 and chaplain at the Fernald School, tion protection officer, testified at a M= Safe Walk to Offer INSIDE * Edgerton flooded by On-Campus Escorts sprinkler break. Page20 By A. Arif Husain said. The service will run from 10 STAFF REPORTER p.m. to 3 a.m., and students desiring Starting Feb. 13, students will to use the Safe Walk service will be a Kronos Quartet plays have the option of enlisting security able to contact a dispatcher at the chamber music with a escorts to accompany them after information desk in the Student dark. Safe Walk is intended to pro- Center. Students may also call x2- modem edge. Page 7 vide students with a safe means of 1300 for an escort. getting to areas on campus not cov- The trial period will serve to a Gilbert Grape is a wel- ered by Saferide. "see what the response is," Ipri said. Safe Walk was founded by Ken- Funding is also a limiting factor, come break from sweet neth M. Porter '96 and Susan L. Ipri and the group needs to work the Hollywood fair. Page 9 G in reaction to the recent upsurge bugs out of the system, she said. in crimes on campus, Porter said. The project is focusing on pub- licity and recruitment, with a booth subplots con- Safe Walk will be offered three a Complex days per week - Sunday, Wednes- set up in Lobby 10 yesterday. "It fuseBlink. Page 11 day, and Thursday - over a trial Safe Walk, Page 19 i period of the next semester, Ipri L - -- I t Pace 2" THRE.TECHt? ' '*. ' * 1 - i * * '; i *, ' Janu.ary;,-, 1994 RLD&NATION I * I I. I ..... , ssL~-, ,., , , , *-l --- W0T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~ w r 4. Aftershock ROCKS Ls Angeies II Senat+n oitre+s rn T Lf Eimbarg After 4-Day Lull LOS ANGELES TIMES I LOS ANGELES On Trade Vith Vietam who had been declared KIA/BNR A magnitude 4.5 aftershock to the Jan. 17 magnitude 6.6 temblor Thomas W. Lippman Vietnam held hundreds more U.S. iI Thursday morning broke a four-day lull of only scattered mild after- THE WASHINGTON POST prisoners of war than it acknowl- were indeed killed as reported." WASHINGTON edged. Intelligence analysts from E shocks in the magnitude 3 range, but scientists reiterated that such The Senate vote Thursday fol- cz E moderately strong earthquakes are to be expected. The Senate voted by aa wide mar- several departments concluded the lowed hours of sometimes passion- Iir "The aftershocks are following a very normal pattern for Californ- gin Thursday to urge Pre,sident Clin- documents are authentic but their ate debate Wednesday afternoon. ian earthquakes," said a statement by four institutions actively study- ton to lift the U.S. embarrgo on trade information cannot be correct. The basic argument was this: ing the geology of the Northridge earthquake - the California Insti- with Vietnam. The documents are riddled with Would lifting the trade embargo tute of Technology, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Southern War veterans, coInservative "inaccuracies, inconsistencies, exag- encourage Vietnam to continue California Earthquake Center at the University of Southern California Republicans and memtbers of the gerations and fabrications," accord- making remains, documents and and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Armed Services Commiittee joined ing to the report, prepared by intelli- artifacts available to U.S. teams gence analysts from the Defense "If the aftershocks continue at this rate, the probability of a mag- some liberal Democrats to approve searching for those still missing, or a nonbindingg resolution Department, CIA and State Depart- nitude 5 aftershock in the next week is about one in five," the institu- by 62 to 38 would it remove all leverage and i ment Bureau of Intelligence and tions said. "We expect one or two more aftershocks of magnitude 4.5 sponsored by Sen. John McCain, R- reward Vietnam even as it continues Ariz., who spent nearly ssix years as Research. or greater in the next week." to avoid telling the truth? Thursday morning's aftershock, which authorities said would a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and One of the so-called "Russian prompt some reinspection of buildings for damage in the area near its Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mlass., a dec- documents," found in Moscow But in a larger sense, the debate was about whether the war is finally north San Femando Valley epicenter, was the 36th between magni- I orated Vietnam veterani who later archives by Harvard-based tude 4.0 and 4.9 since the Northridge earthquake. turned against the war. researcher Stephen Morris, purport- over or not. Kerry argued that more The lineup could pr:ovide sub- ed to be a Russian translation of a than half of Vietnam's 70 million stantial political cover forr Clinton as Sept. 15, 1972, briefing of the Hanoi people are under the age of 24 and Belarus Likely to Replace he weighs a recommendlation from politburo by Lt.