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MIT’s The Weather Today: Sunny skies, 70°F (21°C) Oldest and Largest Tonight: Mostly clear, 42°F (5°C) Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, 60°F (16°C) Newspaper Details, Page 2 Volume 127, Number 23 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, May 4, 2007 DAPER to Charge $40 Fee For Summer Use Facilities No Longer Free in Summer By John A. Hawkinson ing that, “costs go up,” and that in STAFF REPORTER the past five years, “we’ve raised fees This summer, for the first time, on every other category of member- the Department of Athletics, Physi- ship.” DAPER has struggled to bal- cal Education, and Recreation will ance its budget, Moore said. charge students a $40 access fee to Moore said that DAPER would use its facilities. The new fee was be putting up flyers and posters about listed in DAPER’s IAP/Spring Rec- the change. reation Program Guide, published in During the academic year, student January, but no attention was called access to DAPER facilities is covered to the change. by a portion of the $200 student ac- According to Tim J. Moore, man- tivities fee that enrolled students pay. ager of the Zesiger Center, the fee was Although the new fee is listed in approved by Dean for Student Life the fee schedule on DAPER’s Web Larry G. Benedict. Moore suggested site, no formal announcement about that around 2,000 students might pay the change is there. the $40 fee, resulting in $80,000 in Further down, the same Web additional revenue for DAPER. page, http://web.mit.edu/zcenter/ BRian Hemond—THE TECH Moore was unable to provide an gen_info/cs_membership.html, still A fire beneath the Longfellow Bridge on Tuesday evening shut down the bridge and partially de- estimate for how many students used states that students “may use DA- stroyed communication lines providing Internet access to MIT’s Boston-side fraternities, sororities, DAPER facilities last summer, to PER facilities during the summer at and independent living groups. Additionally, MIT’s external connectivity was affected. Information predict how many might be discour- no additional charge.” Services and Technology’s 3DOWN service reported that all connectivity was again functional by aged by the new fee, or to put the Stephen D. Immerman, the in- 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 2. revenue estimate in the larger con- terim head of DAPER, was traveling text of DAPER’s budget. Thursday and could not be reached Moore justified the new fee say- for comment. Marilee Jones Did Receive Degree COOP Board Announces Former Dean Received Bachelor’s Degree, But From Different Institution By Marcella Bombardieri Second, an MIT official said yes- revelation of the more recent embel- THE BOSTON GLOBE terday that Jones embellished her lishment could complicate. Student Election Is Void The mystery of Marilee Jones, the credentials a second time after MIT The news that Jones has a degree former MIT admissions dean who hired her when she added a degree from Saint Rose raises the question Candidate Votes Using Her Supporters’ Credentials recently admitted to lying about her from Albany Medical College to her of whether her past inspired her to By Michael McGraw-Herdeg had nominated as many MIT stu- academic credentials, has deepened. résumé. The later misstatement ap- lead a crusade to convince parents STAFF REPORTER dents as it is required to. First, despite having falsely pears to contradict Jones’s account and students that a famous college An election to choose the eleven The Coop’s board of directors claimed three degrees she did not last week that she made the false isn’t the only ticket to success. student members of the Coop’s board controls the cooperative’s high-level have, it turns out Jones does have a claims at the same time — 28 years “The truth is that success and of directors was declared void by its business decisions such as opening college degree — from a school she ago. happiness are states of mind and have stockholders, and a new election branches or setting the amount re- did not list on the résumé she gave Jones, 55, has not responded nothing to do with where one goes scheduled, after it emerged that a funded from the cooperative’s profits MIT when she first applied for a to repeated attempts, including on to college,” wrote Jones in the 2006 candidate had voted using the cre- to its members annually. Eleven of job there, in 1979. The college also Tuesday, to reach her. book she coauthored, “Less Stress, dentials of several of her supporters, the Coop’s 23-member board of di- does not appear on biographies from Jones was beloved for her car- More Success: A New Approach to with their consent. As the second rectors are Harvard or MIT students. her many national speaking engage- ing, engaging personality and her Guiding Your Teen Through College election’s closing date loomed, it All student Coop members are eligi- ments. She earned a bachelor’s de- national campaign to combat the Admissions and Beyond.” “Many of remained unclear whether the vote ble to vote to fill these positions; the gree in biology in 1973 from a small stress of college admissions. Some us did not go to top-tier colleges and tally would reach the minimum num- second election ends today. Catholic college in Albany, the Col- friends have rallied to her side, eager have managed to lead happy, suc- ber required for student input to be The second election, which be- lege of Saint Rose, according to MIT to forgive her for a one-time mistake counted. It was additionally unclear and Saint Rose. made in her youth, an assessment the Jones, Page 12 whether the Coop’s governing body Coop, Page 13 Summer Housing Results In, Some Rooms Still Available By Valery K. Brobbey ing in New House may be one of ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR the reasons why New House will be The results of the undergraduate filled to capacity. summer housing lottery were re- Not all student rooms are avail- leased this past Tuesday, with over 96 able for students to stay in during the percent of students who applied for summer because some of the rooms summer housing receiving their first are reserved for participants in MIT choice of dormitory. In all, 685 stu- conference programs and some parts dents applied for summer housing, of dormitories may be closed for mi- with 35 cancelling so far. Last year, nor renovations during the summer. 750 people applied for the lottery. However, Assistant Director of Students who had entered the lot- Housing Robin Smedick said that tery were notified of the results by e- “Our priority is to house our own mail. Senior Segue results were also students,” and added that Housing sent out, with 75 out of 77 juniors was still accepting summer housing receiving graduate housing. applications from students. New House was the only dor- Rents for summer housing ranges mitory that filled all of its summer from $1,784 to $2,257 and covers the housing spots. Undergraduate Hous- time period from June 11 to Aug. 12, ing Coordinator Carol Bailey said but students with summer housing PETER RIGANO that the availability of air condition- do not have to move off of campus New York Times columnist David Leonhardt (right) and MIT Economics Professor Jonathan H. Gru- on Saturday, May 26, the designated ber ’87 speak with a group of students following Leonhardt’s talk on Wednesday, May 2. Leonhardt spoke to a group of students and professors regarding the role of economics in the public sphere. In Short Housing, Page 14 ¶ An F-15 Flyover, in honor of the annual ROTC Joint Service MTG delights in NEWS Pass-In-Review, will be conducted World & Nation ����������������������������� 2 today at 10 a.m. A pair of F-15 A Funny Thing Massachusetts Congressman John Opinion ���������������������� 4 Eagles from the 102nd Fighter Happened on F. 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Page THE TECH May 4, 007 WORLD & NATION An Iraq Watchdog Comes Meeting With Syrian Minister Under Scrutiny By James Glanz THE NEW YORK TIMES Marks Shift in Bush Strategy A federal official whose investigations of waste and corruption in Iraq have repeatedly embarrassed the Bush administration is being in- By Helene Cooper Egypt, before Rice arrived — and with Moallem as “professional,” vestigated himself by an oversight committee with close links to the and Michael Slackman apparently before eating. adding, “I didn’t lecture him, and he White House and by the ranking Republican on the House Government THE NEW YORK TIMES At the day’s luncheon, attended didn’t lecture me.” Moallem, for his Reform Committee. SHARM EL-SHEIK, EGYPT by diplomats from 60 countries, Rice part, said he hoped that the meeting The investigation of the official, Stuart W. Bowen Jr., originated with Secretary of State Condoleezza and Mottaki did exchange pleasant- was the start of something more. He a complaint put together by roughly half a dozen former employees who Rice met Thursday with her Syrian ries. Rice’s decision to meet with asked that the United States return appear to have left his office on unhappy terms, said several officials counterpart in the first high-level the Syrian foreign minister and seek its ambassador to Syria; the most re- familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because diplomatic contact between Wash- out the Iranian seemed to confirm cent ambassador, Margaret Scobey, the investigation is still going on.