MIT's The eather Oldest and Large t Today: Clear, breezy, 50°F (10°C) Tonight: Cloudy, windy, 40°F (4° ) ewspaper Tomorrow: Cloudy, 58°F (14° ) Detail , Page 2 Volume 121 umber 59 Cambridge 02139 Tuesday, ovember 13, 2001 Goosebeary's Closes After Food Poisoning Sept. 11 By Jeffrey Greenbaum ource of food poisoning at MIT. In ing resulted from eating at the that "the kitchen is too tight for the STAFF REPORTER 1997, the Goosebeary truck wa restaurant itself, inspectors closed level of mass-volume busine s since Donations After MIT Medical and Cam- believed to be the cau e of a dysen- the restaurant after discovering a things tack on top of each other," bridge Ho pital treated four MIT tery outbreak affecting half a dozen few alarming unsanitary condition . Vo said. tudents and two member of the students, apparently becau e of a The e included an infestation of the As a result, "we are redesigning Top $23K community for food poi oning last faulty warming oven. storage room, inadequate hand the restaurant so we can have more week, Cambridge In pection er- washing, and poorly washed pots space for the kitchen," Vo said. "We vice closed the Poppa & Goose nsanitary condition discovered and pans. are going to take our time to get it Students Aid Effort restaurant and the Goo ebeary s Inspectors from Cambridge Given the volume of business, right." However, Vo also said that food truck. Inspection ervices vi ited Poppa & the inspector recommended that he hopes to bring the food truck By Kevin R. lang Both the Goosebeary's food Goo e after learning of the illnesse . Poppa & Goose add more space in NEWS EDITOR truck and the Poppa & Goose food Although no cases of food pois- the kitchen. An inspector told Vo Food truck, Page 19 After weeks of collecting on and truck prepare their food in Poppa & off campus following the September Goose' kitchen every morning. 11 terrorist attacks on ew York Inspectors visited Poppa & Goose City and Washington, D.C., MIT re taurant on Tuesday, and subse- has reported a donation of $23,227 quently gave the restaurant a list of to the American Red Cross Disaster sanitation violations. Relief Fund. "This is the worst that any food Donations were solicited from company can experience," said MIT students, faculty, and staff over Tony Vo, a vendor at Goosebeary's. the weeks following Sept. 11. Fundraising efforts were coordi- Four students report illness nated by the MIT Public Service Last Tuesday, four MIT students Center, which recruited the help of and two members of the community several student groups to assist reported cases of food poisoning with the effort. Undergraduate after eating at the Goosebeary' s Association President Jaime E. food truck. All six ordered chicken Devereaux '02 said that the UA teriyaki. approached the PSC at the begin- Although all recovered, some ning of the semester asking for required overnight hospitalization. ways to help on campus, and the "I heard that one chap was in [MIT September 11 relief effort provided Medical] for two nights," said Cam- a perfect opportunity. bridge-MIT Institute exchange stu- "Basically, the PSC contacted us dent Ben Firbank, who stayed at to help promote [the relief effort] MIT Medical for a night and a day. and help get some people," Dev- Two people sought the attention of ereaux said. "We were looking for a the Cambridge Hospital. way to help out." "I think that I will give the food trucks a miss for awhile," Firbank tudent help collect donations said. MICHAEL F. LIN-THE TECH Devereaux and Graduate Student This is not the first time that The Poppa & Goose restaurant on First Street, which provides food to the popular Gooseberry Asian Council President Dilan A. Senevi- Goosebeary's has been the alleged food truck, was closed last week after Cambridge Inspection Services found health code violations. ratne worked with the PSC to orga- nize volunteers at collection sites. Students were involved in staffing Stallman to Receive $830K collection booths in Walker Memor- ial, Lobby 10, and the Student Cen- ter lobby. Takeda Award Promotes Open Computing "They basically needed our help in getting people to work at By Eric Berry will be awarded 100 million yen, the booths and to get the word out N,,",',., ""nt}, las~tll~g Rut1l'¥~Pe!1mutter '04'expec~ed last Wednesday. STAFF REPORTER currently about 830,000 at a cere- that this was there," Devereaux ',''ni~t w~ tg walk i~to a leoture fOOtn and be greeted by 30 people. Software pioneer and MIT mony in Tokyo on December 4. said. ,SttangeJ:yenougA, thesame tliIDg occurredthe next night. research affiliate Richard M. Stall- According to the Takeda Foun- Devereaux said that there was no ,' "1 never illlagiD.ed that w~would be able man has been named as a co-winner dation's web site, this year's award set schedule for collections, but that to eyen get a total of 30 women auditioning of the 2001 Takeda Award for serves to honor "The origination efforts were prepared to go on as for The Vagina MOll%guesr Techno-Entrepreneurial Achieve- and the advancement of open devel- long as people kept donating In total, 64 people auditioned for roles in ment for Social/Economic Well- opment models for sy tem software money. 'MIrs production of The Vagina Monologues. Female students and Being. - open architecture, free software "I know it went longer than faculty were invited to audition for one the of twenty soliloquies Stallman shares this award with and open source software." expected," Devereaux said. "People about female sexuality. "Surprisingly, there were many people just Linux inventor Linus Torvalds and felt a need to be able to help out from the Boston area who came to audition," said Perlmutter the TRO open architecture developer with something." campus coordinator and co-producer of the play at MIT. Ken Sakamura. Each of the winners Stallman, Page 15 The Interfraternity Council was Another co-producer worried that even such an attention-getting also involved in the fundraising performance would go largely unnoticed at MIT. "1 wa nervous that effort. IFC Community Service people would be too busy or apathetic to try out," said co-producer Chair Daniel J. Yoo '03 coordinated Shereen S. Katrak: '04. "Not only was I surprised by the numbers of collections from fraternities, sorori- auditioners,but the passion of performances as wen." ties, and independent living groups, The result is even more impressive considering that other college which were pooled with donations campuses from around the nation were only able to recruit one-third collected on campus. that much support. "1 have heard that most other schools were only able to get 20 to 25 people to come and audition," Perlmutter said. Red Cro s donations top 150 Arizona State University, with a student body of about 50,000 was To date, the American Red Cross the only other school to report auditions totaling more than 60 partici- has collected $153.8 million for pants as of ovember 12. Sept. 11 relief efforts. Approximate- ly half of this money is allocated for Popularity on campus a mystery "immediate disaster relief', which The success of the auditions has lead those close to the play to includes cash grants to familie of question why it became so popular. Some say a highly visible poster- those lost or missing after the ing campaign was behind the surprising interest. Posters around cam- attacks, childcare, feeding, counsel- pus included phrases such as 'Vaginas Wanted" and "Do you have a ing services, and nursing services vagina?" in large bold print. MICHAEL F. LIN-THE TECH for families who had loved ones in Richard M. Stallman, a research affiliate at the MIT Artificial Intelli- the World trade center, and relief Monologues, Page 16 gence Laboratory and founder of the Free Software Foundation, is a centers for emergency workers at winner of the $830,000 Takeda Foundation Prize. ground zero. 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