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By Josh Hartmann specific problems until he has dis- CHAIRMAN cussed the situation with the Tlzistle In response to controversy sur- staff. Smith said he may review his rounding sexually explicit material decision after these discussions. in its July issue, The Thistle has ten- "We are not in the business of tatively been excluded from next regulating what The Tech and The summer's mailing to incoming stu- Thistle print," he said. "Whatever dents. Dean for Undergraduate the Thistle wants to say, they can Education and Student Affairs say.9 Arthur C. Smith said he excluded But the issue, Smith said, was the newspaper not merely for its the newspaper's right to be included content, but because the July edition in what he called a quasi-official was part of this year's mailing. mailing. "What they don't have a In a letter provided by The right to is for the Institute to send Thistle, Smith said.the edition "does [the newspaper] out. The Institute is constitute an abuse of the privilege" sending this issue out to this group IJVUUL/IA- . GKLLER-ITLH TEC that does not have the opportunity to President Charles M. Vest makes a "leap of faith" by participatinog in a "trust fall' from the refuse it." Kresge Auditorium stage yesterday. In his decision, Smith said, "While no effort will be made to prevent The Thistle or The Tech Vest Welcomes New Students to MIT from being mailed, regardless of their content, there is an implicit Following is a transcriptof President Charles M. Americans; and I percent of you are Native I assumption that both publications Vest's welcoming speech to thefreshmen and trans- Americans. Together you weave the rich tapestry of

will uphold ethical journalistic stan- fer students, as providedby Vest 's Office. your MIT class. 4 dards." Welcome. And you have come here because you believe in I- In a public Athena forum on the I know what you are thinking. excellence. I worry sometimes that much of this controversy, Sam Grant K. Emison Or if you aren't now, you probably will at other nation has lost its will to excel. But MIT hasn't lost G. a Thistle staff member, said on times during your years at MIT. its will to excel, and neither will you. Whether you ,1 July 24, "I think it is possible The It's a thought that is harbored at one time or have come to study engineering, science, manage- Thistle will obtain the, ist in viola- another by virtually every MIT student, and it's ment, humanities, or Arthur C. Smith not architecture you intend to be i tion of the rules and send out an true: among the best. During your years here, and in the of including unreviewed materials issue next summer with a fiont page You were not admitted by mistake. future, you will be leaders as thinkers, doers, entre- in the freshman mailing, a collection article explaining why we feel justi- You are not the result of a computer glitch, preneurs, teachers, ii or the designers, managers, artists, or of materials from student activities fied in doing so. report of an incompetent educational counselor. You athletes. You will do so in a world that is rapidly which is mailed to incoming stu- "It is very unlikely that we are not here because we needed more architecture changing, increasingly complex, and always chal- i dents each summer. would apologize simply in order to majors or people from Idaho or because someone lenging and fascinating and often beautiful. "The Thistle will not have the have access to next year's mailing," misread your SAT scores. Now people can attain excellence and accom- privilege of including an issue in the Emison continued. You are a member of the freshman class at the plishment both as individuals and collectively. Both mailing to freshmen in the summer "if they mean simple thievery, I Massachusetts Institute of Technology because we modes are important, but I must tell you that the of 1993 unless negotiations which would certainly hope not," Smith believe that you have the intellectual capacity, ener- importance of collective, or team approaches to I may occur in the interim result in said when told of Emison's com- gy, imagination, and personal will to succeed and to accomplishment, is.increasing rapidly in response to renewal of the previously granted ments. prosper and to contribute to this institution. complexity. During the coming days and weeks you privilege," Smith said in the letter. Thistle founder Steven D. Penn You come to Cambridge from every region of the will be considering the balance between teamwork Smith said yesterday that Thislle G referred inquiries to colleague United States. Eight percent of you have come from and individual efforts in many different ways. This I staff members had sent him elec- Archon Fung G, who did not return other nations. 35 percent of you are women; 5 per- will be important to your life at MIT and beyond. tronic mail about his decision. telephone messages last night. No cent of you are African Americans; 8 percent are "They clearly want to talk about it," other Thistle staff members could be Hispanic Americans; 30 percent of you are Asian Speech, Page 9 he said, refusing to comment on reached for comment. L `-I- L- I- -sr _ __ i I-ts

I I'1 Burger Eig Coning Sooon to IbdellEIsewhere ounge Ofers I By Reuven M. Lemer month. The new restaurant, which will NEWSEDITOR The restaurant, which will accept occupy a substantial part of Lobdell, Escape Ai~nttRO Week With thoughts of repeating the ValiDine and be staffed by ARA is the result of an agreement successes of Pizza Hut and other employees, will be a "BK between ARA's national corpora- By Eva Moy "Rush is a really short time," outside vendors, ARA plans to open Expressways," a take-out restaurant tion and Burger King earlier this ASSOCIATENEWS ElDTOR said Interfraternity Council Rush a miniature Burger King in Lobdell that serves a subset of the regular year. According to Alan Leo, MlT's Elsewhere is where we want to Chair Karl L. Yen '93. Several Court at the beginning of next Burger King offerings. general manager of food services, be when we want to get away from houses may be rushing the same ARA looked at a number of other the daily rush of life. people at the same time, adding to national chains, including The around-the-clock Elsewhere the pressure on thie freshmen, he McDonald's and Kentucky Fried lounge, located on the fifth floor of said. Chicken, before the student center deciding on Burger in what is normal- The lounge does not "really say King. MIT's franchise is one of the ly the Reading Room, started 15 anything negative about the rushing first to open under this new policy, years ago as "un-Rush" - the "eye process," Yen added. "It's important Leo said. of the hurricane during Rush," for rushees to get away." Both Leo and Lawrence E. according to Brian A. Rubin '93, Maguire, director of housing and one of this year's coordinators. Elsewhere staffers - there are food services, were pleased with the It has since expanded to include always two on duty - are trained to introduction of Burger King on jigsaw puzzles, graffiti paper, toys, counsel freshmen who are frustrated campus. and games. Freshmen can "play and or who may have been flushed or It will make Lobdell "more like relax and be a kid again," Rubin harassed by members of living a food court -like it was supposed said. groups, said Sara M. Howe '94, to be," Maguire said. Beyond its Play-Doh and Kool- another of the coordinators. They More than that, "it's what the Aid exterior, Elsewhere is also a have also been prepared to handle students want," Leo added. place where freshmen can talk with emergencies, Rubin added. Funding In an interview with The Tech upperclassmen without the over- and training for the lounge and its earlier this year, Leo denied that tones of Residence and Orientation workers comes primarily from thc RWO DOUGLAS D. KELLER-THE TECII ARA was planning to construct a Week. They cannot be contacted by Committee. Coming.soon to a Lobdell near you... Burger King Expressways will living groups while at Elsewhere, he Elsewhere opens tonight at 6:30 be the latest outside vendor to supply food for ARA. Lobdell, Page 7 I added. p.m. and closes at noon on Sept. 4. Page 2 THE TECH August 28, 1992 WORLD & NATION Hussein Vows Challenge as Allies Bush Orders U.S. Military Patrol 'No-Fly' Zone LOS ANGELES TIMES _I_ WASHINGTON Waves of U.S. warplanes began patrolling the skies over southern To Aid Chuicane Relief Iraq Thursday, but Saddam Hussein's government vowed to chal- lenge the allied "no-fly" zone. By Mary Jordan virtually no compliance by federal said. American F-18 and F-15 fighters and AWACs surveillance planes THE WASHINGTON POST agencies with the established relief "It's a federal disaster area, but crisscrossed Iraqi territory below the 32nd Parallel beginning at dusk, plan. it's not a martial-law area," Hall but met no Iraqi aircraft and encountered no resistance from the President Bush responded "Fundamentally, it's Dade said. "Whpn the U.S. military comes ground. Thursday to criticism of sluggish County on its own," Halevsaid, visi- in (overseas) and takes over comn- "There have been no flights by Iraqi aircraft today below the 32- federal relief here by ordering feder- bly upset and warning of impending pletely, you know, basically we take degree line. Only coalition aircraft are flying below the 32-degree al troops to aid the tens of thousands deaths from dehydration. "We are complete -take control." line," Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall said at a midday briefing left hungry and homeless by what all about ready to drop, and the rein- Transportation Secretary Thursday. "There's been no Iraqi reaction." he said may be the "worst natural forcements are not coming in fast Andrew H. Card Jr., designated by U.S. fighter pilots returning to the carrier Independence after fly- disaster this country has ever seen." enough." President Bush to coordinate relief ing the initial missions over Iraq said the skies were quiet and anti- Bush's announcement that he Four days after Hurricane efforts here, spoke to Bush after aircraft batteries were silent. was directing the Defense Andrew leR one in eight families in meeting with openly frustrated state "I don't think the Iraqis will challenge us," said Lt. Cam Department to provide "comprehen- South Miami homeless and endless and local officials here this morning. O'Kuinghuttons, an F-18 fighter pilot from Nevada City, Calif. "In sive" help - from bottled water to miles of devastated neighborhoods, After that session, Card pledged a the past they have shown themselves to be very belligerent in their mobile kitchens to evacuation heli- food and water has been slow in "dramatic improvement" in federal rhetoric, supine in their action. I don't think they want to challenge copters - came toward the end of a arriving. relief response within 24 hours. us, especially after last year." day of campaigning in Ohio. Roadblocks set up to stop looters "We have a horrendous situation Though Iraq's aircraft appear to be grounded, invective continued Earlier, state and local officials here continued to hamper delivery of here," Card said. "We're working to fly from the Iraqi capital. denounced Washington for what emergency food supplies. Truckers together. The rebuilding has begun." Sword-wielding demonstrators in downtown Baghdad shouted they called a life-threateningly slow with emergency food were forced to B'ut' many local residents "Down with Bush! Down with Imperialism!" during a morning response to the devastation caused wait for police escorts after reports demanded to know how the federal protest. Iraq's ruling council angrily promised to confront the U.S.- by Hurricane Andrew, which left that some drivers had been shot and' government could act so decisively led flight ban, but Iraqi leaders indicated that their warplanes would 250,000 homeless in South Florida. beaten by thugs. State troopers in Panama or Kuwait and yet leave not immediately engage the allies in combat. "For God's sake, where are thwarted progress of some private South Florida, where health officials "We shall choose the proper way and the proper time to confront they?" Kate Hale, director of emer- help when they began stopping all say they fear an outbreak of salmo- this outrageous aggression," declared a statement issued by President gency operations in Dade Counlty, trucks entering the state, demanding nella and hepatitis, largely on its Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council, after the Iraqi asked about the federal relief agen- that the drivers show that they and Own. leader presided over a morning joint session of the governing council cies at a news conference. "Get their cargo had been officially "I don't believe this," said and the ruling Arab Baath Socialist Party hours before the ban took those services down here... Sort requested and that they were from a Anthony Gonzalez, a construction effect. out your political feuds afterwards." recognizable organization. worker from Perrine, who lost his The statement hinted strongly that Iraq would retaliate politically Gov. Lawton Chiles also pleaded Throughout the day, the federal home in the hurricane. "Does rather than militarily. for more federal help and better military, stung by criticism that its President Bush only have a map that "We reserve the right to choose the way of action towards this coordination of rescue efforts. troops were better equipped to help has the rest of the world but not the aggressive resolution and the methods of rejecting it," the Iraqi lead- "We've got 120,000 C-ration meals foreign countries than -fellow citi- United States on it'?".: ership stated, adding that Hussein and his council would decide on that are here somewhere, but we zens, said through spokesmen that it Bush made a hurried visit to the matter "in due time." don't know where the hell they are," had been frustrated because troops Florida Monday afternoon and toured South Miami neighborhoods Among Iraq's non-military options for retaliation against the air he said. wanted to help but had not received more shield, according to several analysts in the Persian Gulf region, are a Hale, who warned.that for.Inal approval. .-- by motorcade.. . .. i relief Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall Thursday, after a campaign stop ban on future U.N. weapons inspections and U.N. relief operations on people may die from inept Iraqi territory - both of which have continued since the war's end efforts than from the storm, blamed said there was no fair comparison in Findlay, Ohio, he told reporters last year and are mandated under the U.N. cease-fire resolutions the American Reed Cross for not between military and domestic relief that the Pentagon response would be signed by Iraq. establishing more shelters. She said operations. There are "legal restric- stepped up immediately. "The mili- there had been "problems," which tions on use of the UJ.S. military to tary is movintg, and there are meet- Military analysts said Baghdad's preferred response to the no-fly she did not specify, with the perform functions within ... the ings right now to further enhance zone would be to shoot down any allied planes over its territory, per- National Guard, and that there was boundaries of the United States," he this mobilization," Bush said. haps capturing a pilot as a hostage, but most agreed that Iraq's air defenses, although partially rebuilt since the war, remain crippled by the two-month allied aerial assault on its key facilities that kicked off the fighting. The Gulf War allies, led by President Bush, decided to enforce the 'Lull' Follows SarrOevo's Worst Week ban on all Iraqi flights below the nation's 32nd parallel after pro- By Blalne Harden the hospital moved the wounded in optimism. It has been too long with- longed negotiations with leaders of Arab nations that had supported THE WASHINGTON POST and out of the trauma room in less out some clear results. The war, I last year's U.N.-sponsored military effort to drive Iraq's occupation SARAJEVO, BOSNIA than 14 minutes. think, will never end," said Jamal forces from Kuwait. Those Arab nations are equally critical logistical The slow strangulation of this In the past 24 hours of the lull, Becirevic, a businessman in his bases for the aerial patrols over southern Iraq. besieged capital goes on display the Bosnian Ministry of Health early 30s whose apartment has been whenever there is a lull in the high- reported that 12 people wore killed repeatedly mortared and was recent- Judge Delays Tial of Officers caliber mayhem. in Sarajevo and 80 wounded. Across ly stripped by burglars. Thursday there was what passes the republic, two-thirds of which The United Nations airlift to Involved in einf Bea ing for a lull. Diplomats off in London has been seized by Serbian forces, Sarajevo, which started in June, were promising to revivify Bosnia- the ministry said 31 people were LOS ANGELES TIMES continues, with between 10 and 30 Herzcegovina, committing more killed and 189 wounded. big cargo aircraft landing each day LOS ANGELES troops to escort relief convoys and The daily death toll in the past at the city's airport. People here are A federal judge announced Thursday that he would delay the fed- condemning Serbia as the unrepen- week had been running at nearly not starving. They can find canned eral criminal trial of four police officers charged with violating tant aggressor in the war. twice the average rate fior the war, corned beef and rice, flour and Rodney G. King's civil rights until next year. In the hills around Sarajevo, according to the ministry. At least sugar. Serb gunners chose not to fire their 8,000 people have been killed in At the request of defense lawyers, U.S. District Judge John G. The United Nations began Davies agreed to postpone the start of the trial from its scheduled date big gulls so often at civilians in the fighting here since April, and more streets, Sarajevo's mostly Muslim than I million are homeless. U.S. Wednesday to supplement the airlift next month to Feb. 2, 1993. The extra time is intended to give two - which costs $700 per ton of food defenders backed away from their Senate investigators have estimated new defense lawyers on the case an opportunity to review evidence shipped in -with trucks, which as well as give lawyers on both sides the chance to prepare motions. fivea-ay atem'pt to- Creak out of the that up to 35,000 have died. five-month siege. For the people of Sarajevo, cost $160 per ton. To eliminate the Legal experts said that the delay would also help bolster the costly airlift, the United Nations chances of finding an unbiased jury by lengthening the time between Seizing the lull, which came shelling from the hills and the odd after a week of what residents shrapnel casualty are only part of needs to enlarge its convoy, now at the new proceedings and last April's state trial of the four defendants five trucks per day. and the riots that swept Los Angeles hours after verdicts in that case. describe as the wildest, most unre- the misery. "I need 225 tons a day to feed Los Angeles police officers Timothy E. Wind, Theodore J. lenting shelling of the war, people The city is getting uglier and Sarajevo, and I can get that with 25 Briseno and Sgt. Stacey C. Koon were acquitted on all counts in that emerged from basements and took more uninhabitable by they day, as trucks," said Dag Espelund, a U.N. trial. The fourth defendant, Officer Laurence M. Powell, was found their chances. fires gut buildings of Turkish, logistics officer who works at the not guilty on1 all counts except one on which the jury could not reach It was not a good bet for every- Austro-Hungarian and modern airport. a verdict. The lone remaining state charge will be dropped once the one. A mortar shell killed three peo- design. This week saw the burning federal trial begins. ple Thursday morning and wounded of the main library, on the banks of The United Nations is asking 20 others as they stood waiting at a the Miljacka River, as well as part Western countries to beef up its bread line and a bus stop. After the of the town hall, the Turkish baths truck fleet in Bosnia fromn 66 to 200 attack, loaves of bread lay on the and two rows of 17th century row trucks ,-which would allow it to pro- street, splashed with blood. houses. When firefighters go to bat- vide relief to Sarajevo and most of Another nine residents, who had tle the blazes, snipers shoot at them. Bosnia-Herzegovina. obeyed the government's order to Electricity, intermnittent since While it is uncomfortably hot I p.m. and April, was knocked out completely geat off the streets by under a cloudless sky now, many were sitting inside a downtown cafe, by shelling on Aug. 7. That left Rain on t-he Way relief officials fear they will not be were hit by shrapnel from a mortar most people with no water. N.4 70,4 1. IFkA TI IER SFRI 7CE able to prepare an all-weather relief that landed outside in the strect. Telephone communications to the pipeline before winter sets in. Today: Morning clouds and fog, then hazy sunshine, warm and Bleeding, they were hauled by rest of the world were cut by Serb humid, with a 30 percent chance of an afternoon shower or thunder- private cars to nearby Kosevo forces at the first of August. Repairs have yet to begin on two storm. High in the upper 70s (25°C) at the coast, near 85°F (29°C) Hospital. In the insanity that has With daily life ever more miser- bridges that were blown up by Serb inland. Southeast winds 10-15 mph (6-10 kph). become normal life in the Bosnian able, people here feed what several forces in April on the main all- Tonight: Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. capital, the mortar attack, with no residents Thursday described as a weather highway from Sarajevo to Low 65-70'F ( 18-21 °C). dead and only two serious wounds, creeping loss of hope. the Croatian port of Split. Tomorrows Showers and scattered thunderstorms likely (70 per- was tame stuff, the news equivalent "For months, I thought I could Trucks now must negotiate a cent chance). High 75-80'F (24-27°C). of a fender-benlder in a Washington handle what is happcllilg. But now gravel mountain track that will parking lot. it is more dangerous than it ever become impassable when autumn L i Emergency doctors and nurses at was. There is more fear. This is less rains start, about 7 weeks from now. August 28, 1992 I __ I__ WORLD l& NATION HE TECH Page 3

- - I C - President Assails Clinton Clinton Emphasizes Bust, Economy in Texas Tour On Foreign lrade Policy By David S. Broder kets. Later, Bush told workers at a Findlay, By Cathleen Decker improved the nation's economy. "We're THE WASHINGTON POST Ohio, plant, "We need a policy that creates and Sam Fulwood III losing. We're falling behind ... because ST. LOUIS, MO. jobs, not a tax machine that spits out pink LOSANGELES TIMES we're in the grip of a failed economic the- President Bush, in an attack on the motives slips." AUSTIN, TEXAS ory that we've got to have the courage to and trade policies of his Democratic rival, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater He talked tough, almost like a Texan. change." charged Thursday that Bill Clinton's "oppor- said Thursday's speeches were the first in the And most of his rhetoric was aimed Later, before about 15,000 screaming tunism" is playing to "the darker impulses" of campaign to which new Chief of Staff James squarely at the president who calls this fans on the lawn of the Lyndon B. Johnson the American people by creating fearS of for- A. Baker III and his deputy Robert Zoellick vast state his adopted home - George Library at the University of Texas, the eign competition. made major contributions. "Today was the Bush. As Bill Clinton sidled by bus across Democratic presidential nominee oozed In an address to employees of a company first to bring it all together," Fitzwater said, the eastern flank of Texas on Thursday, he disdain for his Republican counterpart. that exports much of the safety equipment it adding that "we wanted to toughen them [the did more than promise a "can do" presi- "He wanted it to be about trust," manufactures, Bush criticized Clinton's pro- speeches] up" and "be more concise on the dency - he sought to exorcise the ghosts Clinton said. "Here's a guy who said, posal to collect billions more in taxes from differences" between Bush and his opponent. of fallen Democrats in a state that has 'Read my lips,' who promised 15 million foreign-owned companies in the United Clinton's proposal to boost taxes on for- rarely sided with his party. new jobs - he's over 14 million short and States. That would invite retaliation, Bush eign-owned firms by $45 billion in four years On the first day of his bus caravan 90 percent of those that were created were said, and "literally destroy jobs, discourage is a central piece of his deficit-reduction plan. across the state, he wielded two weapons created in government, the thing he always investment and ... threaten to start an econom- It rests on studies by the House Ways and with authority: the economy and trust - rails against. ic war" of the kind that preceded the Great Means Committee suggesting that multina- the character trait that the president con- "He promised to be the environmental Depression. tional firms are avoiding U.S. taxes by such president, the education president, and he tends should give him another four years "By attacking the bogeymen of foreign devices as setting arbitrarily low prices on for- in the White House. And he did it in a state promised us a kinder and gentler country. investors, Governor Clinton hopes to exploit eign-made parts they ship into the United buffeted by high unemployment, failed He wants this race to be about trust? the darker impulses of this uncertain age-fear States for final assembly. savings and loans, a downturn on the oil "Let me tell you something, folks- of the future, fear of the unknown, fear of for- "Governor Clinton says his tax increase patch, defense cutbacks and lost manufac- unlike them, 1 trust you." eigners," Bush said. will crack down on foreign companies," Bush turing jobs. Clinton was fighting for himself, of Bush said Clinton has a reputation "as the said. "But that crackdown is more like an During a boisterous send-off rally in course, but in Texas, more so than the kind of guy who will say anything, do any- eviction notice. And when those companies San Antonio, Clinton worked-in two barbs other big states where the two candidates thing for political gain." But, "those are pack their bags, they'll take their jobs with about Bush's Texas residency: "I know, are vying fiercely, he was also fighting American workers he's putting at risk," Bush them." folks, I don'.t have a-hotel room in against the past image of Democratic pres- said. "The American people simply won't buy Houston," he said. "I know I don't have a idential nominees. it. The proudest people on Earth have never A fact sheet distributed by the Bush cam- plot of land no bigger than this stage to He made the point, in ways subtle and stooped to fear mongers before, and we must paign quoted industry and administration build my retirement home on. But I care direct, that he was not like the others, not not stoop to fearmongers now." economists as warning that such an approach more about people in Texas, the ordinary, like Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Countered Clinton spokesman George to "transfer pricing" would, as Bush warned, people and the problems they've got and Dukakis, for example, who the Bush cam- Stephanopoulos: "The only thing the invite retaliation by other countries and set off the challenges before us." paign ridiculed across Texas in 1988. American people have to fear is four more -a trade war. Campaign aides distributed a statement "l ask you from this front row to way years of lower wages, higher taxes and fewer Stephanopoulos, Clinton's communica- that pointedly stressed Bush is more inter- back underneath that tree and that tree and jobs under George Bush." tions director, said it was "a total red herring" ested in "fighting for the richest I percent" in that tree, that this is a time of new He charged that under the Bush adminis- to call Clinton's proposal a new tax. He said of Americans and has offered 'no help for beginnings, a time when we have to come tration, "companies get a tax break to shift that "illegal 'transfer pricing.' allows 70 per- the middle class."' togetheraas a nation," said Clinton, reach- jobs overseas and callous foreign firms pay no cent of the 46,000 foreign-owned firrs to pay "This administration's sole obsession is ing out to the crowd. taxes at all." no U.S. taxes. "All we're saying is, 'Apply the keeping taxes low on the wealthiest "We have to go beyond the old politics Bush criticized Clinton ini a morning law. V5 Americans," Clinton told several thousand of left versus right, of liberal versus con- address to employees of Public Safety As for threats of retaliation, Stephano- people assembled along the riverfront, servative, to create a new America for a Equipment Inc., a suburban St. Louis firm that poulos said, "Gov. Clinton has been very adding that such an approach has not new world." sells more than one-third of its emergency aggressive in seeking foreign investment, but vehicle warning equipment in overseas mar- he will not be a patsy to illegal practices." I

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NEWSSTAFF Editors: Reuven M. Lerner'92, Katherine L "Be a good sport, Dan. It's just till the convention's over." Shim '93, Joey Marquez '94; Associate Editors: Sarah Keightley '95, Sabrina Kwon '95, Eva Moy '95; Staff: Sabrina Birner SM '89, Alice N. Gilchrist '94, Judy LETrERS TO THE EDITOR Kim '94, Sharon Price '94, Chris Schechter for an example of what formerly might have be a hostile or offensive environment for any '94, Kai-Teh Tao '94, Vinu G. Ipe '95, Tech Distorts been called "bad-mouthing." An example was member of our community. Especially given Jayant Kumar '95, Trudy Liu '95, Ben Reis difficult to come by as many of the statements the national attention that harassment and free '95, Eric Richard '95; Meteorologists: Harassment Policy that might have been called "bad-mouthing" speech have received in recent years, I think Micharl C. Morgan G, Yeh-Kai Tung '93, Marek Zebrowski. In reviewing Thursday's Tech I saw that before (e.g., that a living group is big and that it's important to clarify this to your read- there was a dangerous inaccuracy in your impersonal or a long way from campus or too ers. PRODUlJCTIONSTAFF description of MIT's Rush policy ["Bad conservative or too liberal) are perfectly rea- Congratulations on the first success in Mouthing Rules Change for Dormitory sonable. The example that jumped to mind daily coverage; I'll be looking Editors: Daniel A. Sidney G. Matthew forward to Residents", Aug. 261. It is not necessarily was a deliberate and malicious smear cam- reading die Tech during the Konosky '95, Garlen C. Leung '95; rest of R/O. Associate Night Editor: Chris Council '94; harassment "to accuse a person of having paign accusing individuals of serious crimes TEN Director: Reuven M. Lemer'92. committed crimes" - people who have with no basis in fact. Eliot S. Levitt '89 knowledge that someone has committed a Harassment is a serious MIT offense, and OPINION STAFF crime, for example, should report it to the not just a casual way to prohibit people from StaffAssociatefor Residence Programs Editors: Bill Jackson '93, Matthew H. appropriate authorities. saying unkind things during Rush. The bottom Og.fice of UndergraduateEducation Hersch '94; Staff: Mark A. Smith '92, When the reporter spoke to me she asked line is that we don't want any part of MIT to and Student Afairs Christopher M. Montgomery '93, Jae H. Nam '93, Jason Merkoski '94.

SPOROSSUAFF Freshmen: Stay Alert and Rush Will Be Fine Editor: Dave Watt; Staff: Mike Purucker Column by Bill Jackson harping on their prize-winning A-league OK OK, the serious advice.. Look, if '93, Nick Levit '94. OPINION EDIVO0R Mini Golf team is not your best bet. you're not a drinker, and you walk into a ARTSSTAFF Get your head out of the sand. That's the So flip through that rush book one last house where the entire first floor is taken up Editors: Joanna E. Stone '92, Chris basic idea behind having a good rush. time in between the hours of exams you're by an enormous bar with Rolling Rock run- Roberge '93; Staff: Mark Webster G. Now, this may be much harder to achieve being told to take.- (Pause for chortles of ning from the faucets and richly appointed Manavendra K. Thakur '87, Michelle P. than it sounds because there are many people laughter - I didn't take a single test during leather seating areas and a hi-fi stereo system Perry '91, Sande Chen '92, William Chuang working very hard to keep your head at least my own rush week!) While looking through. built into the walls... WARNING SIGN! -If '92, David Hogg '92, Allison M. Marino partially in that sand. But there are things you the book, tgryto pick out the subtle hint's. you're not into cuteness and you go to the '92, Rick Roos '92, Roy Cantu '93, Brian can do to get a good idea of what's going on Now what? First you'll go to hear the very, sorority party and all of the sisters have decid- Rose '93, Nic Kelman '94, David Zapol '94, around you and to make some good decisions very well-trained R/O Counselors, after which ed to paint letters on their fingernails with Elaine McCormick, Chris Wanjek. about where to live. you'll be in a big photograph, eat ice cream, glitter so that when they stand in a line and This isn't an- article. designed to bash fra- and listen to a lot ofpeopld talk. Then the rush hold up their hands their nails spell out Our PHOTOGRAPHYSTAFF ternities. That's been done-two or three begins. Sorority Is The Best In The Whole Wide Editors: Michelle Greene '93, Douglas D. times. I just want to calm you (the rushees) Suddenly you have hundreds of best World... WARNING SIGN! Keller '93; Associate Editor: Matt Warren down a bit and get you thinking. friends. More if you're male, still more if I'm not kidding here. Physical warning '93; Staff: William Chu G. Morgan Conn G. The first and most important advice I have you're a decent-looking caucasian male. signs like these can indicate your level of Dan McCarthy G, Andy Silber G. David- is to remember that everyone you will talk to So once you're in a house, how can you comfort with a particular house. If you think Henry Oliver '91, Jonathan Kossuth '92, in the nextfew days is a salesman. From the distinguish it from the others? Easy. Try ask- Boggle is aerobic exercise, don't spend a lot Lerothodi-Lapula Leeuw '92, Ben Wen '92, fraternity members who will try to whisk you ing some questions. For example, ask "So of time at the fraternity where you keep trip- Scan Doughery '93, Sang lI. Park '93, Ben to their house after the rush begins, to the dor- how many brothers live here?" ping over the athletic trophies strewn along Gordon '94, Hugh B. Morganbesser '94, mitory folks who want you to place their 1) If the answer is "enough for a scrim- the hallway. If you think Neil Diamond is a Anna G. 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Toke up or leave. the sand. '94. living options the same way you would any III- LJI IL -- LI -- L - I ·1 -I - I'-- s I _I, In BUSINESSSTAFF other product. People are trying to sell you a r Advertising Manager: Haider A. Hamoudi place to live and/or membership in a social '93; Associate Advertising Manager: organization. -sok, _ z ERRATUM Karen Schmitt '95; Circulation Manager: What do I mean by, "get your head out of Pradeep Sreekanthan '95; Staff: Tomas the sand?" Due to a reporting error, an article in yesterday's issue ["Freshmen Arrive on Campus"] Matusaitus '95, Oscar Yeh '95. Freshmen have whined to me the last few misstated the policy concerning taking today's mathematics placement examination. years that there's no way they could possibly According to Margaret S. Enders, assistant dean for curriculum support, all freshmen are CONTRIBUTING EDITORS figure out which living groups are right for expected to take the test, including those who plan to place out of Calculus I or 11 (18.01 or Vipul Bhushan G. Michael J. Franklin '88, them in the short time allotted for rush. The 18.02). Marie E.V. Coppola '90, Deborah A. fact is, anyone can figure out which houses Contrary to yesterday's story, a student's results on the test will not affect which classes Levinson '91, Lois E. Eaton '92, Mark E. and fraternities or sororities are right for them. he or she may take. Freshmen who do poorly will be asked to take the test a second time on I-~aseltine '92, Bcnjamin A. Tao '93, Jeremy It's just a matter of reading a few subtle clues. Registration Day. The UAAO will encourage students who do poorly on the test the second Hylton '94. It starts with the rush booklets. They look time to attend special tutorial sessions during the first part of 18.01. 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Column by MaEthew H. HTersc resemblance to what is actually happening, that the United States so fears escalation that moment, extend the air quarantine to include OPINIONEDITOR however. it will cave in to avoid conflict even when it the entire area of Iraq. He should also extend By the time time you read this column, an Typically, wars of attrition end when the holds a clear military advantage. rules of engagement to allow the attack of all American-led air quarantine over southern level of combat escalates to the point where In the absence of arbitration by larger active air-defense systems and bases that Iraq will have been in place for several hours, one participant no longer wishes to fight and powers, a war of attrition lasts as long as both launch aircraft into the "no-fly" zone. I long enough for Iraq to get a few aircraft in caves in to a negotiated settlement. In the con- sides have ammunition to fight it - and Saddam's reactions have shown us that he the air, attack a Shiite village, or challenge a flict with Iraq there has been no escalation. because Bush is so hesitant to engage his fears forced confrontation more than anything, UN air patrol. My guess is that none of these Bush has been telegraphing his punches by forces in battle and Saddam so unwilling to so we should give it to him. Turn defeat into I things will happen. reacting slowly to Iraq's continued defiance risk losing them, we can expect a standoff for victory. Either Iraq will back down complete- I When it learned of the impending quaran- and announcing sanctions, ultimatums, and air some time. ly, or, within a matter of weeks, its military I tine days ago, Iraq withdrew most of its air- embargoes far in advance of their actual You can't win a war in which your oppo- might will be completely destroyed. We I craft north of the "no-fly" zone. Risking the employment. Instead of forcing Iraq into nent makes the rules. Iraqi forces are able to should listen to the Iraqi lesson: the best way localized contests of military strength, Bush operate as they do because they maintain to win a war of attrition is to fight one of your I remaining planes in an attack on overwhelm- ing allied air superiority would be foolish, and has allowed Saddam to run just in time to bases in the center of Iraq that support their own. Saddam knows this. Should the Iraqis. actually avoid battle. The current air quarantine is a operations. If Bush really wants to defeat The United States cannot win this war by attempt to confront the allied air patrols, the prime example -instead of challenging the Saddam, he should, at the earliest possible waiting around. strikes will be scattered, random, and proba- embargo, Saddam moved most of his aircraft bly unsuccessfusl hit-and-run attacks on patrol in southiern Iraq north of the 32nd parallel. aircraft. An aggressor in a war of attrition seeks In all likelihood, the successful implemen- opportunities to attack his opponent at favor- tation of the the air blockade will be viewed able occasions, cause damage, and run like as a major plus for President Bush. It is not, hell. But Iraq refuses to play along. Instead of however. The United States is waging a war confronting U.S. attacks and loing, Iraqi against Iraq, and we are losing. forces run. Saddam then relies on Bush's fear The United States is fighting a classic war of escalation to hide these forces in safer areas of attrition against Iraq -unable and unwill- of Iraq. When the political heat is off, the ing to commit its total resources to achieving Iraqi forces return -forcing the United victory, this country has chosen to wear Iraq States either to challenge them again or admit down through a campaign of political and mil- defeat. By keeping us unsure, unsteady, and itary harassment. Our hope is that a war- confused, Iraq is waging a successful war of weary Saddam will choose to back down attrition against us. rather than suffer further defeat or risk wider The situation as it exists now is intolerable. "You're still voting for me, right, Dear? Honey? Money Pie? confrontation by retaliating. This bears little Bush continues to send Saddam the message Sugar Plums with a Cherry on Top?" -- I- I I I - -- -- ,, -- I CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

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Speech, from Page 1 ents know this, though they may be Get used to working coopera- and service to the nation and the degrees must be earned. a little scared for you and with you tively within groups You'll get a world: Humor, and especially that The world needs broader and right now. The admissions commit- taste of this right after this session, It is perhaps the primary well- through which we laugh at our- more integrative thinkers and lead- tee knew it, too. You are well pre- when you find out what the spring of scientific and technologi- selves, has a special place on the ers. I therefore hope that many of pared to takce advantage of the riches Orientation Committee has in store cal knowledge and innovation in the campus. The tradition of "hacks," you strive to gain a broad under- that are available to you here. Most for you in the form of something world. that special brand of harmless but standing of the physical, intellectu- importantly, the faculty knows it called Project MOYA. It continually asks, "What are sophisticated humor, is something al, and social universes we inhabit. too. They are one of the best facul- * Learn from and contribute to the most important issues facing that you will be acquainted with. It also needs those important few ties in the world, and you have, in the world beyond this campus. humankind?" Global environmental And where else would you find an with the true spark of individual part, come here because of them. There are enormous opportunities to change? Biomedical advances? endowed professorial chair of genius and creativity. But it is also important for you to do so in this cosmopolitan universi- Industrial productivity? humor? You will notice some things that know that they have come here, in ty and city. You will hear more Communications? Energy? More than any other campus I are very different in this environ- part, because of you -for the privi- about this as the afternoon progress- And it then asks: How can we know of, our system fosters a men- ment from that of your high schools. lege of interacting with and being es. contribute? What research is necd- toring relationship in which juniors One of the biggest differences will challenged by you. ed? What advice do governments and seniors go out of their way to perhaps be a relief to some of you: MIT -a unique institution need? How must we educate our "teach the ropes" to freshmen and On the banks of the Charles River it An end to "Preparation" I have made a few comments students to improve the human con- sophomores. is okay to be a nerd. Depending on what your future regarding how you should go about dition? IAP, UROP, 2.70, 6.001, Course Some of you may be bristling at plans -are, you may still be viewing learning during your first year at * MIT is unique. There is no XVI, Building 16, Lobby 7, ... We that word -some of you have the next four years as a preparation MWIT. Now I would like to turn the other institution like MIT in the even have a nomenclature - a lan- heard it when it wasn't intended as a - preparation for graduate school, tables and tell you some of the world. guage all of our own in which we compliment -. but around here you for medical training, for the day things that I learned since coming Sen. Kennedy said: "If MIT take a perverse pride. will find it becomes at worst a way when you will be the head of a MIT: were for sale, every other nation in But above all, MIT is defined by of gently teasing ourselves about the major multinational corporation, or - Undergraduate education is the world, plus 49 other states, its people - by the quality of its seriousness of our efforts, and at the designer of great buildings, or a considered to be the heart of the would want to buy it, regardless of students, faculty and staff, by the best a kind of term of goodwill. professorr at MIT. Institute. price." importance of its mission, and by its It is a good-natured reminder But I would encourage you. to MIT is a research university. The The student culture is like no unique, pragmatic, hands-on that MIT strongly resp'ects, focused think of these next four years, not as quality of the personal and profies- other. The faculty is like no other. approach to education, research, and intellectual achievement, inventive- a preparation, but as 48 months of sional lives we will share here in The curriculum is like no other. The creative scholarship. ness, and dedication, even as it days filled with present-tense oppor- Cambridge derive from that, but I spirit of invention is like no other. Doc Edgerton said opens to you ever broader worlds tunities. have been delighted to learn that The heritage of scientific and tech- and opportunities. there is a deep and pervasive com- nological accomplishment is like no MIT has a lot of folk heroes, and Getting Started mon understanding that undergradu- other. you'll get to know some of them. Good and Bad How do you. take advantage of ate education is important - l MIT has its own ways. One you won't meet - except in a Now look about you. (Not at the these days of opportunity? indeed, that it is the foundation of We give no honorary degrees, hologram you may wish to take a stage for goodness sakes, but among - Attend your classes. You will the Institute. because our founder, William yourselves.) You will observe an see that there will be some among *MIT is dedicated to leadership Barton Rogers believed that MIT Speech, Page 11 amazing assemblage of people with you who'll try to skip that step. I whom you can connect intellectual- don't recommend it. - I --~ I --- -- I-'------ly. This concentration of brain * Seize every opportunity to power is one of the things that make work in close collaboration with MIT the absolutely unique and faculty members -Frankly they amazing place it is. That is wonder- are unlikely to pop by and invite fil1. you out for coffee tomorrow after- I But it is also troubling in a sense. noon. MIT faculty are leading IIi You are probably accustomed to experts in their fields. Hence they I excelling in every or almost every must balance undergraduate teach- academic activity you undertake. ing, advising, supervising, research' Out of this entering class of 1 147 and consulting. But they are eager students, a third of you were your to know their students, and they're high school's valedictorian. 86 per- not as inaccessible as you might cent of you were in the top 5 percent suspect. of your high school class. The Ask them questions. Seek their rewards for the camaraderie among guidance. yourselves will be great -but, Most of you are enrolled in because you have been used to Freshman Advisor Seminars. In being at the top of everything, the them you can work in small groups competition, my friends, will take with faculty members in their areas some getting used to. Don't overdo of interest . it. Or consider enrolling in one of At this stage of your life, the real the dozens of undergraduate semi- competition is with yourself, not nars, which are available in the fall with others -to stretch your own term. abilities, knowledge, and imnagina- Take an active role together with tion. And frankly, we all need to faculty in UROP - the seek a new balance between the Undergraduate Research individual and the group. Teamwork Opportunities Program. is increasingly important. If you want to be a member of a smaller community-within-a-com- You can do it munity at MIT, look into such alter- IN But rest assured that all of you native programs as Concourse, the can succeed at MIT. Your high Integrated Studies Program, and the school teachers knew this. Your par- Experimental Studies Group.

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Speech, from Page 9 remarkable group of engineers, played a very important role in These two segments are brief months and years. computer scientists, cognitive scien- defining General Motor's electric and packed with interest and sur- We are very proud of MIT - of peek at on the fourth floor of tists, artists, and others work togeth- vehicle that will go into commercial prises. Watch them very carefully. what we contribute to the world, of Building 4 - is "Doc" Edgerton, er to explore and invent the outer production in the near fiuture. [Video Clip 61 how we teach and whom we teach. the father of stroboscopic photogra- limits of media arts and sciences- [End Video Clip] "On the Run" had eight authors, And we are very proud of you men phy, who died just two years ago at computer-based learning, high-defi- Why are robots so slow and including six students, two of whom and women - of your accomplish- age 86. Doc, who worked with stu- nition television, computer-based clumsy while people and animals were undergraduates. ments, talents, intelligence, commit- dents right up until the time he died, music, hyperinstruments, spatial are so quick and agile? The lead student on the robot ment, diversity, and enthusiasm. was always eager to see them get imaging, and other related technolo- This and similar questions have somersault project is Robert Playter, And I look forward at some future going quickly - to see them strike gies. Recently, this laboratory has been posed by MIT engineers who a PhD candidate in Aero/Astro. As date to showcasing work that you while the iron of an idea was hot. demonstrated three-dimensional explore classes of robots that mimic an undergraduate at OSU in 1985, have contributed to. When a student proposed an idea, holographic television. Although it natural creatures in important ways Rob was a key member of the gym- lThe next time that we are all no matter how ambitious or how is very difficult to photograph the - Rodney Brooks' robotic bugs are nastics team that won the NCAA gathered together in a formal way far-fetched, he would never hesitate, holographic images well, this video one example. I am going to con- championship. This gives you an will be in the great Killian Court but would gesture them hastily clip will give you a good sense of clude this talk by joining you in idea how some students combine when I greet you as the graduating toward the strobe lab door, saying, the nature of this developing tech- viewing two brief segments pro- their various talents and interests in class of 1996. That probably seems "Well, let's get started." nology. duced in Professor Marc Raibert's art, music, or athletics with their like a lifetime away. But don't So I would like to get your intro- [Video Clip 41 Leg Laboratory - one called "On engineering or scientific disciplines. believe it. The next four years will duction to MIT started by giving How can we design a product the Run," and the other called "The [End Video Clip) rush by like the twinkling of an eye. you a few brief glimpses of activi- that will please customers unless we Second Chance." This laboratory I hope that these few glimpses of They will be like no others you will ties at MIT. survey them to see what they think has designed and built machines academic activities at MIT will give experience. As you grow older, you The excitement and reach of of the product. But wait a minute - that run, trot, pace, and bound on you a sense of the excitement, glamn- will return to their memory time and MlT's educational and research how can we find out what they think one, two, and four legs. Some can our, and romance of this unique time again. So make the most of activities that drew you here are real if the product hasn't been built yet? regain their balance when disturbed. institution. Of course excitement, them, and they will make the most and pervasive. I want to share with Professor Glenn Urban and his As you will see, they have devel- glamour and romance of science of you. you a few vignettes. Let's begin group in MIT's Sloan School of oped other talents as well. and technology can only be reached Now it is my great pleasure to with the Mechanical Engineering Management have applied some A couple of years ago the group by hard work and mental discipline. introduce Shally Bansal, President 2.70 Design Contest. This celebrat- rather sophisticated new technolo- began to apply the unified set of All of these will be components of of the Undergraduate Association ed course activity, you will tearn, is gies to break this dilemma. control algorithms used for their your lives during the coming - your student government. the MIT equivalent of the Rose Watch the following sequence robots to the computer animation of Bowl, and the student participants and you will catch on. animals. The animator then acts like - I L' -- are our intellectual versions of the [Video Clip 51 a director, indicating simply what American Gladiators. The segment that you have just kind of a gait the animated animal Now you can flame at The Tech electronically! [Video Clip 1] - viewed briefly demonstrates a "time should use, rather than laboriously MIT's greatness lies in the way accelerated" market research tech- specifying how each joint should Write to: that scientific research and inquiry nology developed by faculty and move frame by frame. Let us now of the most fundamenital kind exists students at the Sloan School that observe the results. Ietters~the-tech.mit.edu side by side with the kinds of hands- - bLI-L - -- __ _,,, __,·I _ -- __ - on engineering that yo u have just observed. Physics Professor Ed Bertschinger, for example, studies the universe. He has posed the ques- tion "sHow did cosmic structure arise from the Big Bang?" One of the tools he and his students use is numerical simulation of gravitation- al clustering of dark matter in the expanding universe. The sequence you are-about- to' watch shows the i formation of a massive galaxy in a supercomputer simulation of 1,6.8, I_ million particles. Time is speeded up by 16 orders of magnitude -and ydii W'ill "seesthe,evolution- of, mass within a fixed volume 20 million 1~~~~z light years across. [Yideo Clip 2] The sequence is now repeated frame by frame-at the rate of a mere 1S million years per frame - so that you can see the early stages of gravitational condensation more clearly. The quest to understand the evolution of the universe is bound up in the work of many MIT people - with Alan Guth's inflation theo- ry; with the discovery of uneven- ness in the cosmic background radi- ation by the COBE satellite team headed by our alumnus George Smoot; and in the work of one of Bertschinger's freshman UROP stu- dents who last year ran a simulation that contributed to understanding the implications of nonzero initial temperatures of dark matter. 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Come build Collect clues while hanging out at Venez participer a nos jeux 11:18p: AEI-1. You are getting hun- your strength for tonight's Car 7:00p: Phi Sig. PHI SIG. Our the house and rapping with the afin de vous connaitre ... nous gry. . . You are getting hungrier. Bash.** gourmet BBQ experts will treat "townspeople". We will give out partagerons aussi des "cookies"'!! You cannot resist this AEPI 6:30p: Sigma Phi Epsilon. Interna- you to fresh-off-the-grill delights of $100 in prizes to the top sleuths.** Dans notre salon, 5ieme etage de ribs, chicken, burgers, hot dogs, Daily Confusion notice. . . You tional Food Buffet 8:00p: AKE. Professional Hypnotist New House 6.* will call 247-3170 for a ride to our 6:30p: National Panhellenic. Al- and much more right on our front in our living room. Get hypno- 9:01p: Fenway House. David Alt = steps. Person With Jazz. house, and some *delicious* late pha Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma tized by famous hypnotist David Come hear the night pizza and Buffalo wings. . .* Kappa, and Kappa Alpha Theta 7:00p: O-. Free Silk Screened T- Pendleton.** band. Call for a ride-437-1043* Shirt while you watch. Silk Screen 9:01p: WILG. 11:30p: Phi Sig. PHI SIG. Late invite all freshman women to at- 8:00p: Nu Delta. Hang out on our WILG's serving up the Night continues with stand-up tend the Panhellenic Rush Convo- training for custom T-Shirts can be roof deck and get a glimpse of MIT BEST cheesecake around, made given** by our own master chefs comedy. Come on over as our I cation in room 10-250 immediately from the other side. Tiffany comic, who has been featured in following the picnic. Find out ev- 7:00p: Theta Chi. 8:00p: pika. Now we make sushi. and Pam. Need a ride? CALL I such clubs as Catch A Rising Star, i erything you need to know about ROLLERBLADING *** Take the Not raw fish but yummy rice. 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Come Come enjoy the taste of Europe Mr. Bobohead. allCay orfay time and a change of pace from r can eat a taste sensation! This rush.* C enjoy steak and hors-d'ouvres on the terrace overlooking the is something to write home about. ahay ideray. ourfay-inenay-wota y_ c prepared by our chef George Charles. Join the Russians at the ixsay-oneway-eighthay-eethray. 12:02a: Fenway House. Are you Really. rides at 492-6983* into oral communication? Experi- i Antonio in our newly renovated International Cafe.* 8:02p: Spanish House. You are 9:06p: Number Six. Cafe Six -After I ence dramatic readings from the I brownstone. 7:00p: Chi Phi. Snowball fight in probably dead by now, but i have Dinner enjoy coffee and dessert I 6:30p: Nu Delta. Come by and August?! You bet. Come to Chi the solution: Relax! Come meet to live background music: Salsa, Archie McPhee catalog. 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DING! FIRST BELL! 8:30p: OK@. ROOF BASH-Make 9:30p: E@. LASER SHOW. A home- Guitar-playing 7-9.* 6:30p: pika. Already, the time has Five minutes till dinner at Epsilon your own sundae under the beau- made light and music extrava- 9:00p: United Christian Fellow- come to enter something witty: Theta. Ever heard of Pavlov's tiful Boston night skyline, and soak ganza. Its choreographer calls it ship. Frosh get-together in Chris- Roses are red / Violets are blue dogs? Call 3-8888 for a ride.* in our rooftop pool. 437-7795** 'Ee Candy.' Call 3-8888 for a tian Fellowship Lounge (8-105). / Laurel's making Southwestern 7:30p: National Panhellenic. 8:30p: Delta Upsilon. See Boston Games 9-???* food / Come eat it. Call 492-6983 Sorority Rush Counselors will as you've never seen it from our 10:00p: Zy4. The original Car Bash. for a ride.* be giving tours of Alpha Phi, Al- beautiful roofdeck as the brothers We supply the Oldsmobuick and 6:30p: East Campus. You know, pha Chi Omega, Sigma Kappa, of Delta Upilon kick back and the sledgehammer, you supply the you're reading this thing with really and Kappa Alpha Theta on the 4th listen to tunes up on the roofdeck. muscle. Join us in our annual de- Notices tiny print and all this stuff on it. Rel- floor of the student center. Get House tours as well as pool, molition of Detroit's finest.** ish the absurdity of that for a mo- your foot in the door and find out foosball and darts will also be 10:00p: National Panhellenic. 6:30p: Elsewhere. ELSEWHERE ment. Ok. Now, consider traips- what sorority rush is all about.* happening Sorority rush open house #1 LOUNGE IS ing overto OPEN!!! Come in East Campus for a tour. 7:30p: Random Hall. Dine with 8:30p: E E. 6aquirl Party on the roof ends at 11pmn. Have you had a to relax, It's painless and more fun than a women faculty at hang out, have fun, and MIT - serv- deck. Sip on frozen drinks while chance to find out what we are totally escape the hecticness of Ronco Electric Food Dehydrator.* ing soup, salad, entree (choice getting a bird's eye view of the all about? Stop by the 3rd and 6:31p: AEn. THE RUSH has JUST of quiche, Rush. Elsewhere Is the place bean enchiladas, city."* 4th floors of the student center to where Rush isn't. Open 24 hours.* BEGUN!!! All frosh are now spaghetti carbonara, and chicken 8:30p: Russian House. Come talk to ALPHA PHI, ALPHA CHI directed to the AEPi house at with peaches), and dessert. Veg- 8:00p: Sexual Identity. Queer visit "Moscow on the Charles" and OMEGA, SIGMA KAPPA, and Elsewhere Come hang out in a breakneck speed to participate in etarians very welcome.* enjoy authentic Russian desserts KAPPA ALPHA THETA.* this year's festivities. Come one, 7:30p: Catered lesbigay-positive space. Open Un- 01. Clam Bake on and comedies.* 10:00p: Phi Sig. PHI SIG. I scream, til 2am In room 14E-304* come all! Dial 247-3170 for a front steps including steak, lobster, 8:30p: pika. Come sing along to you scream, we all scream for Phi quick, free ride.* steamers, cclams, clam chowder, TV show tunes! George will lead Sig's famous Sundae Bar. We'll 6:31 p: pika. It's amazing. It's corn on the cob, and more!** you with a lusty rendition of "Green provide the premium ice cream In case of emergency, dial 100 from fantabulous. It's ginchy-gnarly. 7:30p: E@. THANKSGIVING DIN- Acres". TVmobile, 492-6983* and toppings - you'll decide what any MIT phone. Other important It's adjectives we can't even think NER. You've survived the first two 8:31p: pika. "Moon is Giant Space to make. Definitely an out-of-the- numbers: of. It's the bubble machine. Come days as an MIT student, some Creature's Skull", "Alien Endorses ordinary treat. Campus Police: 253-1212 on over and help us figure out how celebrate with us. Traditional Clinton", "Hitler was a Daschund", 10:00p: K1£. Ice cream bar-make Med Center Emergency: 253-1311 to make it work. You can still call Thanksgiving dinner - turkey, "Cow Knocks Helicopter out of the your own sundaes and hang out R/O Center: 253-2500 for a ride. We'll be happy to come stuffing, cranberry sauce...some Sky". Come read these and other with the brothers of Kappa Sigma.* JAAO: 253-6772 get you, even though we were just of it's even vegetarian. Call exciting articles in the Weekly 10:00p: PRussian House. Sweets Nightline: 253-8800 there a minute ago. (Look up there 3-8888 for a ride.* World News! Rides: 492-6983* and movies are still there. Come for the number.) 7:30p: Chi Phi. Why don't you have 8:45p: Phi Sig. PHI SIG. Dine in have fun and meet Russian movie 6:43p: EO. Hey, maybe we should a REAL meal and join us when we southern style at our Cajun Buffet - fans.* The Daily Confusion start a game of Titan.* attempt to devour 40 pies of pizza the closest thing you'll find to New 10:00p: (DKY-. Ziggy Piggy! It's all Editors: Christopher Graczyk, Jose 6:43p: KY. All you can eat barbeque from Supreme's Pizzeria, one of Orleans all of Rush Week.** the fabulous Steve's Ice Cream Elizondo extravaganza.* the best pizzerias in Boston!!!** 8:45p: (DKY-. Come hang out with you can eat at SKULLHOUSE. 6:44p: EO. Maybe not.* 7:30p: East Campus. WOMEN! We the Gnarly Skull Dudes. There Tnake on our resident pigs, Mike NOTE: A single asterisk (*) following 6:45p: Chi Phi. Snow in August? have not forgot about you, come might even be a few ribs and a and Tim. Call 536-3683 for a a listing indicates a coed or female Come over to Chi Phi and find to East Campus for the Women's cold daiquiri for you if you hurry.** ride.** living group. A double asterisk (**) out!!!!** Dinner. There will be steak and 9:00p: Nu Delta. Live Band 10: 15p: Nu Delta. The band is still indicates an activity to which women 6:47p: Fenway House. Random lobster and stuff. And Nummi and Party featuring the infamous rocking the house. Come by and are cordially invited. m Spontaneity begins! 437-1043* Lindi will be playing and they are Bad Apples. see why they're called the Bad m 6:53p: Fenway House. Come spoil really cool.* 9:00p: Senior House. All women Apples. your dinner! Eat chocolate chips 7:31p: WILG. MAMA MIA! YOU A are invited to SENIOR HOUSE 10: 18p: AEll. Things are rockin'and out of the bag at Fenway. 437- TOO SKINNY! Come on over to to build a euphoric sundae with rollin' at the AEPi house tonight. 1043* WILG for a GREAT Italian dinner... Toscanini's ice cream, and then Drop over to 155 Bay State Road I