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IB -- ~_ %III~--, ~-~1 -~Y~4~ 1~1~2s~8ge~e~I ~P~- ~"~~w~rm~ss~1sr B~l PAGE 2 The Tech - The Year In Review TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1990 NIIT seeks -new leader as Gray resigns By Reuven M. Lerner According to members of the country. During the entire presi- Corporation and faculty search faculty committee, input has dential search here at MIT, there' committee members spent the been sought from all members of have been numerous reports of better. part of 1989 looking at the MIT community. A forum Deutch's candidacy for the presi- possible successors to President held on Dec. 20 provided a medi- dency at Johns Hopkins Univer- Paul E. Gray '54, who an- um for those on the search com- sity in Baltimore and at Carnegiq' nounced last March that he will mittee to update the comnmunity Mellon University in Pittsburgh. step down on July I of this year on their progress to date, and to Deutch was in fact one of two fi- to become chairman of the MIT field questions from the audi- nalists at Hopkins until he pulled Corporation. Gray will replace ence. Many of the people in at- out of that search in the middle David S. Saxon '41, who is tendance expressed dissatisfac- of January. retiring. tion with the selection process, The provost's aggressiveness Saxon immediately announced and criticized the lack of student has often been regarded as both a the appointment of Carl M. participation. liability and an asset. One faculty Mueller '41 as chair of the Cor- There was also a great deal of member remarked that "resent- poration presidential search com- concern about MIT's connections ment [of Deutch] is at a fairly mittee. The faculty chose a presi- with the Department of Defense. high level and is felt by high dential search committee of their Students -and faculty alike criti- numbers of faculty." own, chaired by Professor Robert cized the closeness of the two M. Solow. Though the faculty bodies, and one student went so Deutch's controversial tenure committee is technically on~ly an far as to say that MIT had "no as provost has been marked by a advisory group, the two commit- social conscience." major initiative onL educational tees have been meeting and work- reform, the hasty 1988 disman- Prominent candidates ing together during the entire -tling of the Department of Ap- leave the race search process, according to plied Biological Sciences, and in- members of both groups. There is a great deal of uncer- timiate involvement with national The Corporation is expected to tainty even now concerning possi- defense interests. approve the committees' choice ble candidates, due in large part It is still unclear exactly who at its March meeting. to the resignations of two of the the remaining candidates are, Solow said that the committees most likely candidates. both with~in and outside of MIT. Tech file photo have received over 200 sugges- Professor David S. Baltimore Science magazine reported last Provost John M. Deutchl '61 tions for candidates. Of these, a '61, a Nobel laureate and direc- month that candidates included large number went through initial tor of the Whitehead Institute for Dean Eastman, a vice president tute of Applied Technology; and PhD '49, National Academy of interviews. The search commit- Biomedical Research, announced at IBM; James F. Gibbons, dean Nobel laureate Arno A. Penzias, Sciences President Frank Press, tees have reportedly met with in October that he had accepted of engineering at Stanford Uni- from AT&T Bell Laboratories. Iand Bell-Laboratories Executive people from MIT, from other the presidency of Rockefeller versity; Donald Kennedy, presi- The Boston Globe has addi- Vice President Solomon J. universities, and from industry. University, a biomedical research dent of Stanford; Thomas E. tionally mentioned former Secre- Buch~sbaum as -po'ssible One committee member said that center in New York City. Balti- Everhard of the- California Insti- tary of State George P. Shultz candidates. '; many more candidates are "from more had been considered a lead- outside, but that is because there -ing candidate in part because of are many more people outside." his prominence in the scientific Members of both committees community and for his Deficit fores tuition hike have repeatedly denied' the exis- administrative skills. tence of a "short list,X' or a final Provost John M. Deutch '61 list of candidates from which the had been considered the most By Andrea Lamberti costs particularly for health Lat $4billon; 'MIT has about final choice will be selected, but likely candidate until he an- MIT's budget deficit continued pare- and increased unrestrict- $1-.2-1 .3 billion. `Ho'wever, you must relate absolute endowment other sources within MIT claim nounced two weeks ago that he to rise inl 1989, prompting the ed fund. support to meet full un- to size of that such a list already exists. would not become the next presi- Corporation to approve, increases dergraduate need. inlstituition. [Taking into in tuition and the self-help account the number of -faculty One committee member acknowl- dent, but would instead return to level Largest increase and to limit members and graduate students], edged that they are no longer academic life aft-er -resigning faculty salary in five years looking at new candidates, but from his post on June 30. increases. -MIT is 20th-36th,:" he explained. Gray are narrowing the field from Deutch's aggressive manage- These measures will distribute The 7.2 percent increase in tu- also said that the "self- help level, had to within one set of candidates. ment style and his many years of the burden of the deficit among ition for this year was the larxgest increase," and Committee members refused to experience as an administrator faculty, students, and staff, Pro- in the past five years. The total students should not have expect- confirm or deny the candidacy of have placed him on short'lists for vost John M. Deutch '61 said in increase in tuition,- room and ed a permanent ceiling of $4900. individuals. leadership positions around the October. . board was $1295, making the to- "The increase in the costs [of at- "If we can adhere to these pa- tal cost of attending MIT $19,335 tending MIT] has to be bo rne by ramneters, the budget problem this year. Tuition -rising from both families and the Institute," _r should be eliminated in a couple $13,400 to $14,500 -accounted he said. of years, said Vice President for for most of the that increase. The decision' to maintain a Financial Operations James Y. MIT's' self-help level, the constant self-help level for the I Culliton. amouint of money a student re- past four years was "carried out News Arts The Corporation actions came ceiving financial aid is expected one year at a time,' said ILeonard in response to the recommenda- to contribute through loans or V. Gallagher '54, director of stu- in theater ..... 12 Introduction ..,...... 3 The year tions of an ad hoc committee ap- work-study, grew by $400 after dent financial aid. "We were Presidential search ...... ,,2 The year in f-ilm ...... 13 pointed by Deutch to address the remaining at $4900 since the warned each time that it would Budget deficit ...... 2 The year in music-...... 14 budget problem. 1985-1986 academic year. have to go up the next year.' Pass/no-record grading 3 The ad hoc committee predict- The rise in se'lf-help to. $5300 At an unprecedented tuition Freshman housing ...... 3 ed that its plan would reduce the once again created a gap between forum last February, students Excerpt of housing report ...... 9 Sports deficit from its fiscal year 1989 the self-help level at MIT and asked Gray if he thought the tu- Anti-trust investigation... 4 level of $5.4 million to $3 million other schools with comparable ition increases would drive quali-: Interphase controversy. 4 Womnets sprs wrap-UP1 this year. In FY 1991;' the comi- expenses. According to -President fied. to students to other schools. Admissions policy ...... ,4 Men's sports wrapup ....19 mittee projected a break-even Paul ED. Gray '54, the Corpora- Because so many factors are in- MIT/industry ties...... 5 Men's volleyball ...... 20 budget, with a small surplus like- tion Executive Committee held volved in a student's decision to Food senice complaints .5 Women's volleyball ...... 20 ly the following year. the self-help level constant during attend a college or university, it is Cambridge politics ...... 6 Indoor track ...... 20 Some of the reasons Culliton the past four years to allow other difficult to assess the impact of I David Baltimore ...... 7 Outdoor track ...... 20 I cited for the continued deficit in- institutionsto, catch up to MIT. higher tuition -costs, Gray re- i C old fusion ...... ,7 Football ...... 20 cluded the growing need to pro- Gray blamed MIT's endow- sponded. Men's basketball ...... 20 vide competitive salaries, espe- The distribution by family in- mI ment for the increase inl the self- Ia cially for the faculty, a reduction help level. "MIT's endowment is come across~the national income I L - -L. . . a in the number of overall stu- substantial in absolute terms, but quartiles has been stable,- he add- i Photography dents, and a lower research base it is not large in the context of ed. "There ha's beent a steady up- m r. growth. MIT," Gray said in February. ward trend in the lowest income ff The year in pictures ...... 10 Other factors enlarging the "In absolute terms, thie size of quartile, and a' downward trend m The year in sports ...... a...... 16 m deficit, according to Culliton, MIT's endowment rankcs Miound 'n the highest income 'quarfiles" FE -. . - . '",.. _ _a-, LI Ui were increased employee benefit seventh. Harvard has the largest, Gray said. m r I m p

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I ~L b ~ ~d · ~ , Bk-L- Qc C WIIL·I -- ~-L-I~ Tt A, JARY 6, 10 The Tech-The Year in Review PAGE 3 L_- -I - I -- _I--- L- - __ __ Introduction Today marks the 110th year of publication of The Tech. We in- clude this, the fifth annual Year in Review supplement, to provide a comprehensive review of the issues and events of the past year. The past year may well be remembered a's a time when MIT concluded a period of major change and prepared-for the chal- lenlges of a new decade. A fitting symbol of the new era will be the inauguration of MIT's 15th president in July. Questions of MIT's role in society will have to be addressed as the Institute searches .for direction in a post-Cold War world. Defense department cut- baclcs and federal budget constraints will undoubtedly put a dent in MIT's large government grants, forcing a review of research goals. In part, that review has already begun. Critics of MIT's links with industry ignited a debate which went to Congress in June. Paul Gray was "ambushed" there by questions of technology transfer to foreign companies involved in the Industrial Liaison Program. David Noble, one of the most outspoken critics of the Institute's links with industry, continues his three-year tenure suit, claiming that he had been rejected because of his views. A larger issue of concern to those involved in the presidential search has been MIT's future role in public affairs. The MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity completed a book in May calling for a new emphasis on science and technology in educa- tion. Stemming from a growing concern over American competi- tiveness, recommendations of this nature will likely generate con- siderable discussion. Closer to campus, the end of an era was marked by the conclu- sion of debate on key educational reform measures and a retreat from admissions liberalization. Lisette W. M. Lambregts Attention has shifted to housing -likely to become the most important and volatile issue in the next few years -and the mounting deficit and tuition problems. With the specter of a Jus- tice Department anti-trust investigation looming over the heads of Faculty votes to keep P/F administrators from here to Stanford, the problem of bloated tu- ition costs may soon turn into a battle for financial survival be- By Prabbat Mebta eliminated because many fresh- the definition of the basics in sci- tween The faculty struck down a pro- men used it to- takce extremely ence has changed to include parts high-p'riced universities and near-broke parents and posed measure which would have heav y loads, neglecting subjects of biology," the SEWG report students. eliminated pass/no-record grad- that serve as the basis for later stated' Singular events also played an important part in shaping the ing in the second term freshman studies. The committee noted 'Professor Anthony P. French, year that was. Nobel laureate David Baltimore '61 announced that year, thus'enin~g one of the most that .45 percent of second-term a member of SEWG, went as far he would leave his'position as head of the Whitehead Institute to important edtiational reform ini- freshmen took more than 55 as to say that "it would be a become president of Rockefeller University. Hundreds of activists tiatives to date. The faculty did, units in a recent year while only crime" to graduate without any participated in two marches on Washington, DC, in support of a however, approve other,-less dras- 12 percent of sophomores did so. exposure to modern biology. woman's right to choose. ."I don't think that pass/fail SEWG suggested a two-stage tic changes in the curriculum- But perhaps the most emotional and painful event of the year including a. tougher minimum should be meant to mask poor plan for implementation of the was the death of MIT's beloved professor, Harold E. Edgerton SM passing standard for performance,' said CFYP chair integrated sequence. The group pass/no-re- '27. His pioneering technological accomplishments cord marking and an addition to Kenneth R.t Manning at open fo- hoped that the course would be and his contri- the Institute Science Re- rum in February. finally adopted by the 1991-92 bution to the education of the many hundreds of students who quirement. The spreading out of the pass/ school year. passed through his laboratory and classes are immeasurable. no-record subjects was intended 'Although students and faculty . The. staff of The -Tech hopes that this issue will help you to bet- orAt the beginning of the spring to improve flexibility in the un- in general concurred on the ter understand these and other stories of the past year and prepare "erm last- year, the Committee on dergraduate curriculum, which growing importance' of biology, you for the next. the Undergraduate Program pre- was seen as too rigid and uni- (Please turn to page 8) Prabhat Meh~ta sented two reports to the faculty form'. Committee members for review: tlie Committee on the hoped that under the plan stu- First Year Program's evaluation dents would feel easier in taking of the pass/no-record system and more time to complete the Sci- FHC calls for housing changes -curricular flexibility, and the Sci- ence Core requirement, leaving ence-Engineering Workinlg open more options in the fresh- By Niraj S. Desai Students would be able, under implementation of most of its Group's of study science edu'- man year for exploration. A controversial recommenda- the FHC plan, to pledge inde- recommendations appearing cation. tion to hiouse all freshmen in pendent living groups and so- dim. SEWG notes growing The CFYP report called for the dormitories provoked rorities or make a choice imaportance of biology sharp de- Indictment of residential system elimination of both pass/nlo-re- bate in the fall about the future among, dormitories only to- cord grading in the second term The SEWG report called for and objects of MIT's residential wards the end of the first year. Charged in September 1988 of the freshman year and the the development of a two-term system. They would move into their with studying the impact of res- two-subj ect pass/fail option integrated course which would At the heart of the debate new living groups with the start idence life on the undergradu- available to juniors and seniors. combine chemistry, materials sci- was the question of whether of-the sophomore year. ate experience, the FHC re- In place of the old system,. the the ence and biology. The course Critics turned a strong indictment of committee recommended that present method of residence se- immediately jumped should be added to the Science the present residential students after their first term be lection contributes to a sense of on the FHC's analyses and rec- system. Core to replace the existing community at the Institute and ommendations, saying that While MIT prides itself on able to take one course on a chemistry requirement, the report pass/no-record basis per term. to the university's intellectual choice in residence selection is a the diversity of its student stated. To offset the- extra term, objectives. unique and valuable part of body, the ho using system en- In addition, the plan called for the Science Distribution Require- The Freshman MIT's undergraduate educa- courages undergraduates to seg- raising pass/no-record's mini- Housing Com- ment should be lowered from tion. Many also questioned regate themselves to art-extent, mum passing level after mittee answered that it does first term three to two courses9, the report the freshman year from a D letter not, and the FHC's November whether the plan would be FHC found. Freshmen, further recommended. worth the damage that would asked to select a living group grade to a C. The report also A desire to include biology in report called for the most sub- likely be done to ILGs, espe- within their first few days at .suggested that some of the pass/ the core curriculum was the pri- stantial change in MIT's hous- MIT, do so on the basis of no-record courses taken after the mary reason behind the integrat- ing system since 1966. cially all-male fraternities. "4preexisting tastes first 'term be allowed to satisfy ed course idea. "During the last The committee uraged that in- Though its report prompted and values Institute and departmental re- 25 years, a revolutionary change coming freshmen be dispersed a reexamination of MIT's resi- rather than a direct experience quirements. in biology has occurred, inl which throughout the dormitory sys- dential policy, the FHC plan of MIT life and exposure to its The6 CFYP argued that second the faculty of MIT has fully par- tem by being preassigned to seemed to lose momentum by ideals and values." The result is term pass/no-record should be ticipated. .. It is evident that specific dormitories anld rooms. year's end, with the chances for (Please turn to page 9)

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. , , PAGE 4 The Tech - The Year in evlew TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1990 ______I r - 1· 9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~C9-I~~~~.I----- 1 :Justice Departm-ent launches, investigation of universities to hl for antimtrust violations

Prompted by public concern over the rising costs' of educa- fros in tion at America's top private universities, the Justice Depart- ment launched an investiga'tion of. 55 universities and col- fal te rn lege's -including MIT -fo r possible anti-trust'violations. Last fall, the Justice Department- began a: study of the pro- By Irene C. Kuo cess used by the universities to make .admissions and finan- A new fall-term program was cial aid decisions for evidence, of price-fixing and collusion appended to Project Interphase to keep-tuition artificially high. as a result of a compromise The department has remained silent about exactly what it reached by Dean for Student Af- is looking for in its investigation, or' what it intends to do' if fairs Shirley M. McBay, faculty any conclusive evidence of collusion is secured. -¢ members, and students on May According to James J. Culliton, vice president of financial 23. The creation of Program XL operations at MIT, the, investigatio n is "scary". because none came four days after 50 students of the schools involved "have any idea what the Justice De- conducted a demonstration on partment wants with them.": the steps of 77 Massachusetts Av- Like several of the other schools under investigation, MIT enue to voice opposition- to the has run a budget deficit for the past few years;. MIT main- original program proposed by tains that the deficit is the prime reason-for its tuition hikes. McBay. Lerothodi-Lapula Leeuw/Thte Tech However, in an article in The. Chronicle of Higher Educa- Student representatives said the Students protest proposed changes to Interphase on the tion, the range of tuitions of many of -the schools under in- dispute over Interphase, a sum- steps of 77 Mass Ave. vestigation was shown to be quite close, with no more than a mer program which provides $2500 separation between -the highest -tuition in the group newly admitted minorities with groups throughout the first term ments and worried that the study and the lowest one.: academic and social preparation, while taking a prescribed set of groups would "fragment" the mi- The focus of the Justice Department investigation revolves arose from a breakdown in com- courses: Calculus I (18.01), Phys- nority community. around a 23-school consortium called the-Overlap Group. munication between the adminis- ics I (8.01), a non-writing human- In contrast, Program XL is Members of the Overlap Group -including MIT -meet tration and students. Too often ities class, and an undergraduate voluntary and open to all fresh- afte'r admissions decisions have been. made to compare. fi- administrators assume that if stu-- seminar. Students who did not men, though had it been oversub- nancial aid packages and other information on students. All dents are not complaining, they participate in the fall term phase scribed (it could accommodate 60 23 schools in the consortium -including the Ivy League - are satisfied, said Edward L. of the program would not receive students), priority would have are under investigation. Jones '89. 12 units of writing credit that the gone to Interphasers and other' Like, the other institutions under investigation, MIT has Motivated by concern about others would. underrepresented minority stu- had to keep a team of lawyers and hire special-employees to low grades and graduation rates The proposed program came dents. It is administered by the sift through financial documents and decide which ones need among minority students, McBay under criticism from former In- Office of Minority Education. to be sent to the Justice Department. originally proposed that students terphase participants who dis- "Program XL has fewer re- liked the rigid fall term require- remain in their Interphase study (Please turn to page 6) m ----- · - I I -rp __ y --______ -_ c ·I Test scores rise in response to concerns

By Andrew L. Fish lack of faculty input . . . has from over 400 to about 225. tions for the future of MIT" In 1989 the MIT Admissions resulted in a situation where-the The report said more emphasis apd-'suggested thiat the faculty Office selected a freshman 'class implicit weighting in admissions was placed on stu~deqts!-'ti~nte -"""should discuss "the proper di- with significantly higher stan- decisions does not reflect the lectual promise"Ahis. year". rection for MIT." dardized test scores than in pre- views of a sufficient number of At the May facqult5v meeting, At October's faculty meeting vious years. This move- came in facullty_ with regard "to what Belinke'explalified that comn- Professor Vera Kistiakowsky response to faculty concern constitutes an excellent appli-- plaints from faculty had. played .stressed that MIT should focus about declining student perfor- cant for MIT."; axroI6 in-the change.' "The ad- .on: attracting-,"diverse, think-).- mance, as expressed in a report This perception was brought- mission staff picks up signals ing, -caring human beings." of the Committee on Under- into focus in a report prepared from the community and tries None of the standardized tests graduate Admissions and Fi- by Professor Antho-ny P. to act on them, " he said. measure the 'potential to be- nancial Aid. French in .1988. French found Blut Professor Robert M. Fo- come a good research scientist, CUAFA asked the Admis- that over the past 20 years the gelson of, the Department of she said.-- sions Office to place greater freshman class has had a pro- Urban Studies and-.Planning Also, Professor Hartley Rod- weight on standardized test gressively smaller fraction of cautioned that the CUAFA re- gers Jr. noted that by using scores and grades, saying that J'., ," Fj, " students with math and science port offered "striking conclu- standardized tests, the faculty "non-academic activities, tal- achievement test and SAT sions based on interviews with was delegating part of the ad- ents, and personal qualities Z, , I 11 scores between 750-800. The few faculty members." H~e not- missions process to the Educa- should be considered mostly as .1 CUAFA report revealed that ed that the committee's "recom- tional Testing Service. With a means of distinguishing Georgina A. Maldonado/The Tech when applicants were grouped mendations have great implica- (Please turn to page 8) among individuals of compara- Michael C. Behnke into various categories based P. I ------c- · IIQII I ble academic ability." on their grades and test scores, Director of Admissions Mi- placing more weight on the per- a similar phenomenon was chael C. Behnke said last spring sonal qualities of applicants in found -more applicants in the Mean Scores of Accepted Students that the CUAFA report "ilent recent years. The report implied "stop" and "high" ranges were urgency" to the process of "get- that this change has led to -"a denied admission to MIT, espe- 1988 1989 -Change ting the top math and science growing sense amiong the MIT cially between 1986 and 1988, talent." Indeed, the number of faculty . .. of a decline in stu- the first three years of B3ehnke's SAT math mean- 727 -741 +14 applicants admitted with SAT dent performance in those sub- tenure. math scores between 750 and jects that demand the interest The trends noted in both of SAT verbal mean 636 640) +4 I 800 jumped by 224 to 972 stu- and ability to deal with topics these studies were reversed this ACH math mean 739 753 +14 dents. Such students comprised in quantitative terms." year. The number of admitted 51 percent of the accepted The report also recommend- students with math SAT'scores ACH science mean .681 697 + 16 E pool, as compared to 42 per- ed greater faculty involvement of at least 750 Jumped form i-= cent last year. in the admissions process. 748 to 972, and the mean SAT ACH English/foreign The CUAFA report, issued Speaking at last May's faculty math score rose 14 points to language/history mean 636 644. after a year-long study of the meeting, CUAFA Chlairman 741., The number of applicants +8 admissions process, said the Keith D. Stolzenbach '66 said, with "top" or "Shigh" profiles Admissions Office has been "We have concluded that the who were rejected dropped -- --C-- ----I r----r _ L --- __--C -- I

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By Annabelle Boyd tion in ILP -the largest pro- stronger business-university ties vate interests sponsoring the 1989 witnessed growing con- gram of its kind in the nation'- as ways to help US competitive- Whitehead Institute. MIT's re- cern that new corporate ties at was flawed because American ness, and he maintained that the sources, he said, were a result of MIT were interfering with tradi- companies that do not belong to establishment of an ILP office in decades of public funding. Since tional academic norms and the the program are free to contact Tokyo proved that the program they were bought with taxpayers' public interest.-- MIT faculty members about their was working against that goal. dollars, the resources were not In mid-June, a congressional research.- "Are you at all -concerned that MIT's to sell, he argued. subcommittee singled out MIT's Gray argued that the results of American taxpayers are paying Development of the institute at --Industrial Liason Program as a all MIT resear ch are-in the public for research whose results are' be- MIT was proposed i n 1981 by technology transfer operation domain. "The ILP does not pro- ing sold to (Japanese) industries millionaire industrialist Edwin which -was selling the results of vide exclusive access, privileged that will not necessarily benefit Whitehead. Duke University had federally-financed research to access or private access to those the American public? " Weiss previously rejected a similar pro- foreign firms. results," he said.. "it does provide asked Gray. posal from Whitehead after three At a, hearing on June 13, Rep. facilitated access." .Gray, said -he was not con- years of negotiation. Duke Theodore S. Weiss (D-NY), chair- The 287 corporations phrtici- cerned, and explained that the claimed that the relationship be- man of the Himan Resources pating in the program include Tokyo office had been set up not tween the university and the pro- Tech file photo and Intergovernmental Relationls 170 American and '57 Japanese to solicit Japanese firms, but for posed institute would be of little David F. N\oble subcommittee, -asserted that. firms. Each pays between the convenience of MIT faculty benefit to t he university, while Whitehead "has acquired the though -MIT's ILP is open to $10 000 and over $100,000 per members visiting Japanese mem- providing Whitehead with valu- prestige of MIT, perhaps the both US and foreign companies, year 'for access to MIT research ber corporations. able access to D~uke's personnel most respected technical institu- the foreign firms _'particularly in its areas of interest. Company "If your concern is the extent and facilities. tion in the world. It represents an the Japanese - are its biggest- executives may visit MIT, and to which federally-funded re- In a 1986 book, Biotechnolo- accumulated social investment users . participating faculty members search is exploited by other coun- gy: The University-Industrial that could not be duplicated for a MIT President Paul E. Gray may visit company offices. Exec- tries, you shouldn't focus on ILP Complex, Martin Kennedy out- thousand times what Whitehead '54 heralded foreign participation utives may also receive copies of or programs like it at other uni- lined the MIT agreement: It is spending." in ILP, praising the program as research published by MIT facul- versities," Gray told the subcom- called for Whitehead to appoint Noting that the biology depart- one of the first attempts by a uni- ty members and "preprints," mittee. 'You'd have to change David Baltimore '61 as the insti- ment received substantial govern- versity to link research and -comt- copies of papers that have not yet th6 whole context in which uni- tute's director and to appoint sev- ment support when the great ex- mercial applications. He claimed been published. versity research and graduate eral corporate board members to plosion in- biotechnology took programs like ILP were crucial to Faculty participation is volun- education take place and put it the institute's board. place, Noble raised an important education and research at Amneri- tary, but those who join receive under wraps." Whitehead would provide di- public interest question: "Are points, can .universities eager to learn worth $35 each, for the Noble tenure trial puts rection'to MIT's biomedical re- MIT's resources -and reputation, work they do. about foreign research and cor- A phone conversa- Whitehead in question search by appointing 20 MIT bi- created largely at public expense, porate. practices. tion with a company representa- ology department members and really MIT's to sell? In return for Both men's remarks were made tive, for example, is worth 2 One of MIT's fiercest critics would own all inventions and in- money and operating expenses, during'an ongoing. congressional points. The points may be re- with regard to corporate ties is tellectual property produced by the Whitehead Institute receives investigation of universities, the deemed for office furniture, com- David F. Noble, a former asso- those members. In return, MIT privileged access to -and a fair National'Institutes of Health, puter equipment, or professional ciate professor at MIT who was received a $7.5 million endow- measure of control over -pub- and the National Science Founda- travel. The average amount re- denied tenure in 1984. Noble ment as well as $5 million annu- licly created resources. tionI. The subcommittee inlvesti- ceived by faculty members partic- claims that the position he took ally until 2003, and $100 million Despite the controversy, MIT gated possible conflicts of inter-. ipating in the-program last year against MIT's ties to the White- upon the death of Edwin agreed to the Whitehead partner- est in the relationship between was $665; the average among the head Institute for Biomedical Re- Whitehead. ship in February. 1982. universities and industry. Of par-' 10 faculty members with the search influenced his tenure As the proposal circulated, When a court ruling is finally ticular concern was MIT's ex- highest point totals was $3600. review.. many MIT faculty members were passed on the Noble tenure case, change of research anld-techhol- Weiss said that ILP records Noble filed a suit against MIT critical. But -while others com- the issues on1 which he and MIT ogy with foreignq companies. show that of 25 MIT faculty concerning his tenure decision in plained that the partnership was disagreed will remain unresolved. Officials at MIT and other uni- members who received more than 1986. The ongoing court battle simply a bad deal, Noble's argu- But Noble hopes that his case versities have argued that tech- $1 million in federal grants in re- - which has yet to go to trial - ment against the institute was far will send a strong message to stu- nology transfer. programs like cent years, 80 percent "had more has attracted further publicity to broader: the partnership was a dents and other professors to ILP are needed to 'improve the contacts with foreign corpora- the issues which he and the Weiss serious violation of the public "fight back - to uphold the productivity and competitiveness tions than American ones." Weiss subcommittee have raised. trust. principles that historically univer- of American industry. recalled that Gray had repeatedly' MIT, Noble argues, has been Noble summarized his argu- sities have. expressed -freedom Gray said that W~eiss' assess- called both for greater federal selling its base of knowledge and ment in the Feb. 6, 1982, edition of inquiry and diversity of ex- ment of- high foreign participa- funding- of research and for its research capabilities to the pri- of The Nation. H~e wrote that pression."

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By Linda D'Angelo to appoint a Blue Ribbon Com- Animals The past year marked signifi- mittee on Laboratory M. Moses, the chair cant victories for rent control (BRC). John forces and animal rights activists of MIT's animal care committee, served on the BRC with Animal in the city of Cambridge. Legal Defense Fund president Proposition 1-2-3, a referen- Steven Wise and veterinarian Stu- dum which would have allowed art Wiles, who was appointed to tenants to buy their rent-con- the panel as an agreed-upon neu- trolled apartments, was defeated by an approximate 2-1 margin, tral arbiter: The recommendations of the and the city council gained a 6-3 B3RC formed the basis for the majority in support of rent con- legislation, which required the trol after the November elections. appointment of a commissioner Over the summer, the council of laboratory animals to "oversee set a nationwide precedent when the care and use of animals" by it approved an ordinance regulat- performing unannounced inspec- ing animal experimentation in all tions. The ordinance further universities and private institu- specified that the CLA should tions in Cambridge. "~possess an understanding of ani- Had it passed, Proposition 1-2- mal welfare, physiology and psy- 3 would have allowed "any ten- chology," yet not be "aligned ant who has occupied a rent-con- with an anti-vivisection or re- trolled unit for at least two years search institution." . . . to buy it ... if the tenant Under the ordinance, all uni- and landlord both agree." This versities and private institutions would have modified a 1979 city in Cambridge are required to reg- ordinance prohibiting tenants ister with the CLA and provide from buying their rent-controlled him with information such as the Tech file photo apartments without a city remov- "number and species of animals The animal research ordinance approved by Cambridge this past summer affets un'iversi- al permit. used" and the "result of all feder- ties and other city institutions that use animals in laboratory testing.' Supporters of 1-2-3 contended al and state inspections concern- that the referendum would in- ing animal care and use in the recent years, the policy had sur- as-signing committee posts and crease the stock of low- and 5-4 vote. previous year." vived by a chairing city council meetings. moderate-income housing avail- As the "representative of the The election marked a decisive Rent control, a "very impor- able for ownership and pointed Cambridge Civic public,". the CLA would also victory for the tant issued' will be Wolf's main to a provision in the referendum pro-renlt "bring information back to the Association, a liberal focus. She-promised to- "keep it a which would have established a control group which secured its public," according to Russell. 'strong system," hoped the city fund to provide money for af- since This reporting feature would first city council majority would "not have -a decrease in af- fordable housing. Opponents, "provide assurance to the city 1972. CCA actively opposed *fordable housing," and called at- however, argued that the referen- that the requirements were being Proposition 1-2-3 -and endorsed tention to the opening, of -three dulm would have reduced the councilors. Ac- adhered to'> as well as provide a six of the elected affordable housing units in stock of rent-controlled housing vehicle for any questions raised cording to pundits, strong CCA Cambridge. by promoting the conversion of the many by the public, according to a support was a result of such units into condominiums. to look statement by MIT. spokesman "tenant" voters who, came to the Wolf also urged MIT the the issue of low-cost: housing Animal research Ronald P. Suduiko last July. polls expressly to vote against into ordinance approved Lastly, the ordinance made all referendum and, while there, vot- itself, calling it "an ongoing candidates who sup- to relate institutions in Cambridge subject ed for the problem that MIT-has The animal research ordinance, has land to federal and state regulations. ported rent control. to." Noting thiat "MIT approved by the council on June the said she Previously, privately funded insti- The election of Reeves, to put housing on," Wolf 26, set a national precedent and on the tvhe construc- w o _ A tutions which did not use cats, only black repr~esentative would not -oppose represented "the first time that allayed concerns would -.photo by Joan Alber~t or primates in their research new council, tion of -new housing if it any legislature decided that ani- dogs were excluded from these regu- about the lick of,minority repre- not interfere with other Cam- , Mayor Alice Wolf mal research needs greater regu- bridge residents. lations. sentation on the council. Saundra lation," said Ken Russell, assis- the ordinance height- Graham, who served as the only tant director of the Cambridge While awareness of the is- minority representative on the Committee for Responsible ened public. Program XL established after sue, it will not result in any ma- council for 18 years, did not seek Research. in the regulation of reelection. The unanimous approval of jor changes dispute -over Inte phase changes MIT laboratories, Suduiko said. Reeves, a Harvard College the ordinance ended, a two year In the past, animal research at graduate and lawyer who ran un- process that began in May 1987 (Continuedfrom page 4) MIT has been monitored by an successfully in the 1985 council could be substituted for the XL when the city council banned cer- ev- animal care and use committee, election, was the only minority strictions and complements math study group. The Exposi- tain animal research procedures which conducts a monthly review representative to win a seat. He erything that exists at the Insti- 9tory Writing (21.730) seminar commonly practiced in the city's of animal research proposals and had been considered the front- tute," Yonald Chery G said. "It was open only to students who 13 research institutions. The facilities. And since it is federally runner. because of his support takces advantage of campus re- had participated in Project Inter- Draize test, used mainly in the in funded, MIT has always been from Harvard students, blacks sources,- so that students will be phase and completed the 'writing testing of cosmetics, was banned, subject to annual federal and the church community, tenants hearing talks on topics ranging component of the summer as was the LD50, in which and white liberals. from nutrition to study skills to state inspections, Suduiko said. program' groups of animals are poisoned On Jan. 1, Alice Wolf was the meaning of an MIT degree.' Reflecting revisions made in without anesthesia until half of of Cambridge by a Participants this past year were New council elected, elected mayor Interp'hase under Professor Ar- them die. 6-3 vote of the city council. A 19- take no more.than program's Wolf chosen as mayor encouraged-to thur P. Mattu-ck, the This move, "the first time any year veteran of Cambridge poli- 54 units, of which six came from faculty coordinator, XL sessions research procedure had been Of the nine members elected to tics, Wol'f served four terms on XL. They met four hours a week, encouraged individual participa- banned because it was considered the city council, Alice Wolf, Fran- the school board, with one as under the guidance of a "facilita-' -tion and skills in oral presen- cruel and unnecessary," led the cis H. Duehay, Walter J. Sulli- chairperson and another as vice tor," as well as regularly with tation. CCRR to sponsor the initial ordi- van, William' Walsh and Sheila chairperson. She weas also vice their advisors to discuss their ac- Interphase, which celebrated nance, Russell said. But fearing Russell were incumnbents. The re- mayor under former Mayor Al- ademic progress -and career inter- -its 20th annversary in 1989, un- the promises of MIT and other maining members, in order of fred Vellucci. ests. Discussions involving distin- derwent some revisions. research institution officials to number of votes received, were Wolf is -the 25th mayor and gu'ished minority role models IStudent representatives ex- actively fight the proposal, the Ed Cyr, Ken Reeves, Jonathan second woman to be chosen un- were also. offered throughout pressed misgivings about the ret activists aborted a move to put it Myers, and Timothly Toomey. der the city's Planl E charter. Unl- XL. moval of -chemistry from the cur- to a referendum on the city The newly elected city council der the charter, the city council Participants could have en- riculum, but said that they would ballots. contained a 6-3 majority in favor chooses a mayor from its mem- rolled in two optional seminars examine the performance of In- These events, coupled with a of rent control (Walsh, Russell bers to serve in a largely ceremo- offered in conjunction -with. the terphasers in the fall term chem- "tremendous outpouring from and Sullivan are the three mem- nial capacity, while a hired city, program. A mathematics seminar istry subjepts- in order to gauge Cambridge citizens and stu- bers who have been critical of the administrator wields most of the (18.091) helped students taking the effect -of their exclusion from dents," led Mayor Alfred Vellucci current rent control policy). In power. The mayor's job includes calculus master the subject and the summer session.

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lBy Reuven M. Lerner "not affect the conclusions of the House subcommittee said, "I'm For Whitehead. Institute -Direc- paper.", not sur e we're in favor of legisla- tor and Nobel 'laureate -David MIT, Tufts University, and the tive solutions to the problem. It's Baltimore '61, 1989 marked the National Institutes of Health in the institutions' best interest to end of a controversial and diff-.. soon began inve stigations to de- police themselves before the fed- cult period, and the beginning of termine whether the errors -had eral government steps in." The a bright, new future at the helm been made deliberately. Both.' the investigation also left unclear of a' prestigious research insti- MIT and Tufts committees de- what junior scientists should do tuition. clared Baltimore innocent of if they disagree with the findings Allegations of fraud have sur- fraud. of their superiors. rounded the biology professor The NIH released its report ever since a paper he co-authiored last February. It too fou'nd "no MIT, Rockefeller consider appeared in the journal Cell in evidence of fraudi conscious mis-r Baltimore for presidency 1986. The paper, which discussed representationls, or manipulation changes in the production of of data' in the article. The com- Baltimore was widely consid- ered a candidate to to. a replace antibodies ill genetically altered mittee attributed the errors -to a Lisette W. M. LambregtslThe Tech mice, depended on data collected lack of "understanding and com- President Paul E. Gray' '54, who David Baltimore '61 by Thereza Imanishi-Kari, an as- munication." -announced his resignation last sociate of Baltimore's. Margaret The House Subcommittee on spring'. Speculation continued but changed his mind after their follow Baltimore to Rockefeller. O'Toole, a member of Imanishi- -Oversight and Investigation, through October, when The Bos- Board of.Trustees voted unani The last class that Baltimore Kari's research team, was unable which had been -looking into in- ton Globe described him as the mously to offer it to him again. taught at MIT, AIDS: Scientific "principal rival" to Provost John to duplicate her superior's re- stitutional responses to charges Baltimore described his deci- Challenge and Human Challenge sults, but was told that the differ- of scientific fraud, became inter-. M. Deutch '61 for the job. The sion as "very difficult," and add- (7.00/15.60J), discussed the bio- ences were insignificant. The Ipa- ested in the Baltimore case, and. 'article also said that Baltimore ed that "~the remarkable success logical and sociological problems per published in Cell contained asked. the paper's. authors to tes- "is applauded by many faculty of the Whitehead Institute and associated with the AIDS virus, a not only Imanishi-Kari's contest- tify in mid-February. Secret Ser- members who feel that he stood my own eventful and enormously subject which Baltimore has ed data, but some results written vice investigations suggested that up for science against an assault satisfying career at, MIT, now in spent considerable time research- 'ofpoliticians." Kildow denied the by Baltimore based on the data. dates anid data in the scientists' its 21 st year, caused me to think ing. Baltimore revealed his opin- O'Toole claimed, that Balti- notebooks were changed in sever- rumors, saying that the MIT long and hard about this oppor- ions on many issues relating to more was obstructing -her at- al places. Alfred Kildow, a presidential search "is not really tunity." the disease, including his satisfac- tempts to correct errors, and Whitehead spokesman, said that a factor in [Baltimore's) mind." But not everyone was excited tion with current FDAi testing threatened to publish a rebuttal. the examinations did not 'relate Less than one wleek later, Balti- about Baltimore's move. Some procedures for new AIDS drugs On Nov. 18, 1988, Baltimore at all to the data in the Cell more put all speculation to an members of the Rockefeller fac- and his concern for teenage girls and his colleagues published a paper." end by 'accepting the presidency ulty were upset that they had not prostituting themselves in order letter of correctionl in Cell. Ther Concern spread among scien- of Rockefeller University in New been told of the offer before Bal- to buy crack. He warned that a letter described "inczidences of tists and legislators about the use York City. Baltimore had de- timore had announced his accep- large number of men and women misstatement" -in the original ar- of outside agencies to monitor clined a previous offer from the tance. Other faculty figures wor- involved in this activity will even- ticle, but added that they did fraud in .science. An aide to the biomedical research institution, ried that negative publicity would tually contract AIDS. Cold fusion claims disputed I --- I -_L_ I k - _ _- · · -Y By Niraj S. Dessi - Soon after two -University of Utah researchers announced a breakthrough in the decades-long quest for fusion energy, scientists worldwide including several MIT teaims rushed to repeat their experiments. But in the fol- lowing weeks, hopes for "cold fusion" greatl dminise n the claims of Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons -were largely discounted. - . In1 late March, Fleisch~mann and Pons told a press conference that they had achieved nuclear fusion at room temperatures with Tech file photo a relatively simple apparatus. Associate Professor Peter L. Hagelstein '76 The announcement immediate- support for the cold fusion re- fusion. ly caused an international sensa- search. At an April 26 hearing, But by early May, the failure tion, holding out as it did the the two researchers and Universi- of independent teams to repeat promise of a clean, limitless. ty of Utah President Chase Peter- the cold fusion experiment all but source of energy. Fleischmann son called on1 the Congress to ap- ended the initial excitement over and Pons went so far as to assert propriate $25 million to cold fusion. MIT scientists were that, if commercialized, their commercialize the purported dis- among the: most vocal critics of technique could produce enough covery. the method. heat and electricity virtually to This prompted Associate Pro- Plasma Fusion Center Research eliminate oil, coal and nuclear fessor Ronald G. Ballinger SM Scientist Richard D. Petrasso power. '82 to charge the University of said that PFC researchers had The initial reaction in the sci- Utah and others with stampeding dealt a heavy blow to claims of entific community was one of the scientific review process. He cold fusion, failing to find evi- skepticism, but research labora- called on the Utah researchers to dence that a nuclear process was tories throughout the United make their experiments public. at work. No other MIT teams de- States and, in foreign -countries Even as experimentalists failed tected signs of nuclear fusion in sought to confirmm the results. to confirm the Pons/Fleischmann the Pons/Fleischmann method Their efforts were hampered, results, Associate Professor Peter either. however, by the reluctance of L.,. Hagelstein '76 worked out a Despite indications in the fall Pons and, Fleischmann to release theoretical explanation for cold that there may be some basis for details o'f their experiment. fusion. He submitted four papers the cold fusion process, most of The lack of, independent con- describing his theory to Physical the scientific community has by William Chu/The Tech firination did not deter-the Utah Review Letters, and MIT applied now dismissed the cold fusion Construction of the addition to the Rotch library began team and their university from for patents in connection with his controversy as an example of in October of 1989. pressing Congress for financial theoretical model of cold nuclear pathological science. I re L i --I ------· -- -- I I -I I I

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m m from the student body and gener- (Continuedfrom pages3 men [abuse pass/fail] is exceed- m ated an intense debate among the many faculty members feared ingly flimsy," stated Professor m that the sequence would end up a faculty. At campus-wide forums, James T. Higginbotham at the WE 0 loosely defined survey course. "I students continually blasted the April 19 faculty mxeeting. w really don't think it can all be proposal to eliminate second Others cited pass/no-record's Im a done in two terms," said Profes- term pass/no-record. At East role in easing pace and pressure Daniel S. Kemp Campus, Sarita Gandhi '90 and helping students of varied sor of Chemistry 0 last spring. called the CFYP's reasoning that backgrounds work to eliminate w Mark S. Wrighton, also of the a student only needs one term for differences they might have upon 00 chemistry department, said, academic adjustment entering the Institute. "A full i "There has been- a tradition at "laughable." year of pass/no-record grading E MIT that core subjects are an in- The Undergraduate Associa- has for a long time served a hu- w troduction to the discipline. He tion moved slowly at first, citing mane purpose.... Let it be,' m 00 about the propos- m felt that the integrated course "reservations" said Undergraduate Academic m Fm might fail in providing adequate al but offering no substantial Support Office head Travis Rt. depth of coverage. challenge. But with an April vote Merritt. Some students also found fault nearing and the results of a refer- Those who sought to'limit with the course, noting that it endum taken in mid-March indi- freshman pass/no-record argued would further restrict the curric- cating a 72 percent approval rat- that students have indeed been ulum. ing among students for second abusing the system. More gener-- In spite of the criticism, the term pass/no-record, the UA ally, some argued that allowing faculty approved a gradual im- Council adopted a resolution to students choice in taking courses U plementation of the integrated se- makce a concerted effort to save on pass/fail allows them to stra- quence, and last fall over a hun- the status quo. Efforts included a tegically avoid harder subjects-or Lisette W. M. Lambregts dred members of the Class of petition drive, increased commu- to "get them out of the way" by justment at many universities At that 'meeting, the faculty ap- 1993 expressed interest in Chem- nicationl with faculty members overloading during the freshman where there is no. pass/fail." proved a revised proposal which istry, Materials Science, and Biol- opposed to pass/no-record elimi- year. As the voting date approached, preserved pass/no-record for sec- ogy (SPOI), a pilot version of the nation, and publicity ef forts "it sends a very wrong message several proposals for- amending ond term freshmen. course. The three departments aimed at bringing students to the to freshmen,"5 said Professor the CFYP plan were presented. The -proposW also raised the administering the course will faculty meetings. John L. Wyatt Jr. '68, one of the ,One, co-sponsored by Wyatt and minimum passing grade in pass/ evaluate the success of SPOI and Meanwhile, faculty members in most vocal critics of pass/no- Professor William T. Peake '51, no-record to a C; lowered the its spring counterpart, SP02, in favor of and opposed to the record. called for even further restriction freshman credit limit to 54 units order to assess the desirability of pass/nlo-record system squared Claude R. Canizares, a mem- on pass/fail grading. Itwas nar- in the fall and 57 ine the spring, turning them into a core re- off on the issue over a series of ber of CFYP, criticized the argu- rowly defeated by'a vote of 66S51 and redesignated the junior/se- quirement. four faculty meetings. ment that students needed more at the April 19 faculty. meeting. nior pass/fail option to pass/no- Many supporters of pass/no- time to' adjust to the academic The protracted debate on April record - thereby allowing all CFYP proposals blasted, record argued that there was in- and social pressures of college 19 forced the faculty to postpone students who take non-graded P/F elimination dies sufficient evidence as to whether life. "Everyone agrees that there a vote on the proposals;- A spe- classes to eliminate- them from The CFYP plan received an students abuse the current sys- is a hard adjustment in the first -cial meeting had to be arrangedd their records in the event of overwhelmingly negative response tem. "CThe evidence that fresh- term, but then there is a hard ad- for May 3 to resolve the' matter. failure. I- I ~~----rPI I I ------II I -·II - I~~ CUAFA urges higher test scores in (Continuedfrom page 4) neering and science which once mh Year nority students who will be able students of such educational characterized nlearly all MIT to succeed at the Institute. The promise, this delegation has undergraduates." It said that report expressed concern about some risks, he said. while students were still major- the "individual experiences of IThe CUAFA report said ing in engineering and science, minority students who may. find "faculty op'inions about student they were more likely to distrib- it particularly difficult to suc'- .performance are mixed."> The ute their intellectual energies ceed at MIT"s but offered no committee found that about more evenly between technical suggestions to change affima- A supplement to The Tech Tuesday, February 6, 1990 half of the, faculty the commit- anld non-technical subjects. One tive actions policy. It did note tee consulted expressed no ma- mathematics instructor quoted that support, services for minor- Editor in Chief ...... Prabhat Mehta '91 jor concerns with students' aca- lin the report said his students ity students have not expanded Executive Editor ...... "...... Linda D'Angelo '90 dem'ic performance and have were just as bright but not as at the same rate as the minority News Editors ...... Annabelle Boyd '90 detected no troubling changes interested in the subject as stu- population, creating a possible over the long or short run. But Andrea Lamberti '91 dents were five years ago. mismatch between '

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(Continued from -page 3) in order "to enhance quality of tion added its voice to the clam- hat students choose, to live life and to increase support, es- or against the proposal by issu- Lmong and -build friendships pecially for freshmen." ing a statement labeling the vrith people like themselves rath- For its recommendations to be FHC's main recommendation ,r than seeking out other ele- fully implemented, the FHC that all freshmen be housed on nents in the community, ac- said the-Institute would need to campus as "untenable to MIT -ording to the FHC report. acquire additional undergradu- undergraduates ." dormitory space -between At the same--time, the FHC ate Members of the ILG residen- and 500 beds. Questioneid whether Residence/ 350 tial system - 27 fraternities, Orentation Week constitutes an A barrage of criticism five coed houses, and one all-fe- introduction to the male house -especially reacted appropriate re- inttt.The week is dominat- Soon after its November with concern to the FHC report. FHC proposal ran ,d by residence selection and lit- lease, the ILG members feared that. many -into strenuous opposition which :le time- is'left for -an introduc- fraternities would not be able to implementation to 'academic life and seemed, to make bear the financial strain of los- :ion on Traditional orientation matters, of its main recommendation ing their freshman membership. freshman housing unlikely. , ;he FHC said. Faculty members generally re- The FHC acknowledged that Moreover, having residence acted negatively to the plan its proposal would have serious ;election, 'especially fraternity when it was discussed at the No- detrimental effects on ILGs. and sorority rush, during R/O vember faculty- meeting. Assoy Committee chair Mary C. Potter Oyeqk means that students, 'Ye-. ciat&Professor James -L. Kirtley speculated that, the 1percentage in' MIT wmith an inherently in- '67 said he was "caught by sur- of undergraduates housed b~y -galitarianl experience," Rush prise" by the' housing report, ILGs would go down from 30 FWces freshmen to compete with and called it a "lousy idea." percent to 25 percent. fine another for the approval of At a late November open fo- But the FHC argued that a ilpperclass students, and sub- rum attended by more than 200 decline in the size of the ILG jects those who do not receive .people, many students attaclke~d system would not be inconsis- bids to feelings of failures ac-' the housing report's findings tent with the lower number of -o.,rding to the FHC report. "At and recommendations. Rather male students in the MIT stu- a university, the relevant basis of than increasing diversity and in- dent body in recent years. -valuation and a~hevement is teraction', the proposal would 'Working groups formed intellectual, not social; the simply take away the choice stu- ideals are democratic, not exclu- dents currently enjoy in resi- Provost John M. Deutch 561 sionary. . .. 'Having been ad- dence selection, the students- appointed two working groups mitted to M-IT, freshmen should charged.' after the release of the FHC re- begin~ college as, equals." . One of the reasons why I se- port. One, chaired by Associate Its proposed chaniges in the lected MIT was because of the Provost Samuel J. Keyser, is residence -system would, the housing system," Jason B. Sli- studying ways to improve under- FHC argued, broaden under- beck '91 told the forum audi- graduate life in the dormitory graduates' experiences by -pro- ence. He said that he was "treat- system. viding a first year in which they ed like an adult.' The other is examining. in de- would be exposed in their living Others challenged the FHC's tail 'the practical problems of groups toga diverse selection of premise that the current system transition and implementation the -student body. At the same fosters isolation and limits di- should a final decision be made im'e,' by" removing residence se- versity. "It's very open here,' to move to a system where lection from orientation, week, one student said. freshmen live on campus. the FHC plan sought to elimi- Many -students claimed that A group of students, wanting nate problems the committee R/O Week reduces stress by giv- more input in the process, Wa identified in R/O Weeks. ing freshmen "unfettered days formed the Student Housing The -committee alsos recom- to look for housing." One per- Working Group towards the end mended studying possible son felt that moving rush to the of the year. The SHWG plans to in- change i rgrams, faculty. spring would extend the burden examine problems in the present volvement, and in student gov-. of looking for a place to live. residential system and recom- erniance in the dormitory system 'The Undergraduate Associa- mend indepenldenlt solutions.

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geuntlevpoaeet waps ttihe embodiment of aesthetic beauty in the Gilbert and A bewitching moment in the Dri-mashop Spring Sullivan Players' Patience. ~~~~~~~~~~production of Parts. - __m TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6.1990 The Tech -The Year In Review PAGE 13 __ _I___ I ______By Michelle Perry, Kristine An Yeung, Annabelle Boyrd, and Debby Levinson What follow's is our "lucky" thirt'een - 13 movies of the past year we all en- joyed. They are listed in alphabetical order. -Batman More than just a cinematic treatment of a comic book hero, Batman brought depth and starkc realism to both its main character and its, futuristic set- ting. Director Tim Burton's dark fable about a man whose obsession with his .parents' murder forces him to vent his' anger through becoming a vigilante had all the power of a Wagnerian epic. As tortured millionaire Bruce Wayne,. Mi- ,chael Keaton, delivered the finest per- formance of his career, but it was Jack Nicholson's maniacal Joker who stole the show. mrk-,,_ eilvk Princess'Ariel with her friends Sebastian the crab and Flounder Born on the Fourth of July in the Disney fil m The Little Merm~aid. Oliver Stone's gripping reprisal of the- life of Vietnamn war veteran Ron Kovic my Award nomination for his support- cuts and blatant propaganda, it's an ex- explores the price the Vietnam war ex- ing role as a runaway slave who joins cellent primer on how bureaucratic ig- tracted f rom a -generation.. Tom the 54th. norance and red tape can unwittingly Cruise's brillant, bitter portrayal of Ko- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, cause human suffering. The filmmak- vic gives the film enormous visceral im- A fitting conclusion to the Indiana er's efforts to garner an interview with pact. In depicting the gut-wrenching Jones trilogy. Who better to play the General Motors chairman Roger Smith transformation of Kovic from eager adventuring archaeologist's father than in the hopes of convincing Smith to young soldier into crippled head of the ever-so-macho Scan Connery? Plen- tour Flint, Michigan, where GM layoffs Vietnam Veterans Against the War, ty of action to keep'the audience on the of almost 30,000 workers nearly turned Stone has created his most complicat- edge of its seat, plus a very interesting the city into a wasteland, are both sad ed, powerful film to date. love triangle between father, son, and a and funny. Over a scene showing the Dead Poets Society mutual friend. The lovely ride into the closing down of AutoWorld -an in- Although this was billed as a vehicle- sunset indicates that Spielberg is serious door theme park devoted to the car in- for Robin Williams, it was really naew- about not doing a fourth; perhaps the dustry and designed to help rejuvenate comer Robert Sean Leonard who was box office receipts will help to change Flint, Michigan's floundering economy the star of 'this drama about achieving his mind: - Moore dryly comments: "Some peo- .personal independence. Williams 'plays ple don't like to celebrate human trage- Thie Little Mermaid dy on vacation." Anid though the film's John Keating, a boarding-school En- This time the princess who falls in love glish-,teacher 'Whoseloose-limbed- lectur- viewpoint is decidedly one-sided, the is a mermaid. Ariel, King Triton's story it tells about the downside of the ing styje and philosophy of carpe diem youngest daughter, longs to become hu- -Latin for 'seize' the day',*-inspires Reagan era is a necessary one delivered man after rescuing the handsome in a palatable way. his students to challenge authority and Prince Eric from drowning during~a -learn to think for themselves. Leonard, storm at sea. Villainous Ursula the A Taxing Woman2 who plays Keating's eager pupil Neil, is seawitch tricks Ariel into trading her More biting-in its satire, the sequel to full of a refreshing youthfulness that voice for the chance to NOil her wish. A Taxing Woman is not only better promises great things from him in the The true Disney idealist is not disap- than the original, it is the best film Jap- future. Do -the Right Thing Spike Lee's controversial third film ,;-challenges audiencs to re nize. the- deep-seated nature of racism in Ameri-, can society. Do the Right Thing is won- derfully non-committal;, it is not a preachy fihn. Instead, it employs the- atre-like techniques and real-life ambi- guity to makse its audience re-think and re-define racism. Drugstore Cowboy .. Gus Van Sant's clever film traces the exploits- of Bob Hughes, a drug addict who supports his habit by knocking off drugstores 'with his girlfriend Diane. Matt Dillon does a fabulous job with the character of Bob, playing him as a sensitive, cocky thief 'Who hides his worst fears under a thick layer of bra- vado'. Kelly Lynch is equally impressiver as the rebellious, doomed Diane. Through its gentle humor an-d innova- tive photography, Drugstore. Cowboy tenderly addresses the human frailties that push dope into veins. Glory .Edward 'Zwick's tribute to the heroic 54th -Regiment of the Massachusetts The War of the Roses stars Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas Volunteer Infantry, the first black regi- as a couple whose divorce becomes ane exercise in destruction. ment- recruited in the North for the Civil War. A fine performance by Mat- pointed though, for once again true anese director Juzo Itarni has made in love conquers all (with help from Se- his career. The plot spans religion, tax- rthie* Btoderick in his first mature role. bastian, the singing Calypso Crab who es, corporate finance, bribery and poli- r Dnzel Washington deserves an Acade- easily the film's best character). -With tics in a probing view of contemporary The Little Mermaid, Disney continues' Japanese social realities. to prove that its forte lies in making War of the Roses fairy tales come to life. A horrifyingly funny black comedy Pelle the Conqueror from the twisted mind of Danny De- Adapted from the first of four volumes Vito. The story of the birth, life, and of an epic by author Martin Andersen death of the Roses, played by Kathleen Nexo, Pelle the Conqueror is intelli- Turner and Michael Douglas. As told gently made and stands out as a fine by a divorce lawyer (DeVito) to a Po-~ example of luxuriantly unhurried story- tential client, it is the story of a fairy telling-. The film stars Max von Sydow tale courtship, a bitter marriage, and -and Pelle Hvenegaard as Lasse and his an inexorable plunge into the darkest young son Pelle, who come to Den-' pit of despair and hatred. Creative cin- marlc with the hope of being hired as ematography enhances the emotional cheap labor for the harvest season. The rollercoaster 'ride. pair finally find work and begin to eke When Harry Met Sally.. . out their harsh existence on1 the appro- Nora Ephron's witty script and Rob priately named Stone Farm. Superbly Reiner's careful direction were a strong directed by Bille August, Pelle the Con- foundation, but it was really the inter- queror neither obscures nor romnanti- play between Billy Crystal and Meg cizes its subject and leaves the viewer Ryan that made this movie the success hungering for more at the end. it was. The humor of antagonism that Roger & Me turns to friendship and slowly matures Michael Moore had never made a film and blossoms into love made this one Denzel Washington plays Trip before Roger & Me, and while his inex- of the happiest movies about relation- in Edward Zwick's Glory. perience shows in the -movie's rough ships seen in 1989. II ~-' I 1 -P dCI~ t I -L I7 I-_1 Ls~C--

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ing to those of u's who don't like purchas- ing albums for just one-track. Christmas'- Ultraprophets -of thee Psykick Revolution-. By far the strangest album~of The Year these -twenty, ~Christmas' Ultraprophets was -a trip back into 60's bubble-,gu'm psychedelia A la Donovan and "Mellow'Yellow." Complete with 'double-exposed cover art and the back-cover advice, "We recommend you listen to this album in the nude," Ultra- prophets included odes to sex ("Human Chain") and frankfurters ("hot Dog"). A tast6 of the strangeness, from "Hot Dog": "[hot dog']. . doesn't have to sit on a ship's guard rail/or anticipate having ex- ternal feet." Elizabeth Cox's vocals are, a little thin, buit the guitar and bass back-up by the Cudahy brothers is taut and never overbearing.,s Elvis Costello -Spike While this is hardly Costello's best album, .bad Elvis is better than no Elvis at all. Not that there weren't good songs on Spike- the gospel flavor of "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror," the sad comments on se- nility in "Veronlica," -the, creepi- ness of "Miss Macbeth" - but the album is long, and it drags a vided itself into splinter groups. (LeadI little to-wards the end. At least singer John Stabb's Weatherhead seems to _Costello is back to his old snotty be the only one with wself on the vitriolic "Tramp any real potential, the - however.) - ~Dirt Down," -about Margaret Local music had another banner yearr Thatcher: "And whe n they finially lay you with the release of the Pixies' Doolittle in the ground. . .1'11 tramp the dirt down." and the Throwing *Ouch. Muses' Hunkpapa andI - the signing to major labels of Heretix andI 1 Terence, Trent e D'Arby -Neithier Fisha nor the Raindogs. Doolittle's aural assaultt Flesh - brought the Pixies the national attention expected success of quirky, bouncy single An album that mixed D'Arby's funkier F they deserve, "Love Shack," the B-52's with Black Francis spitting suddenly made side with his calmer, more soulful one, - out his the jump from alternative cynical lyrics over the hardcore radio to top-40.. Neither Fish nor Flesh lacked the urgency crunch of "Monkey IThe rest of the album is as irresistible Gone to Heav'en" and as of his debut, Introducing the HardlineAc- "Wave of Mutilation." !the sin'gles from the subtle The popularity of beat of "Dry cording to. . . But Neither is merely a dif- Throwing Muses' sinuous "Dizzy" helped LCounty" to the sugary girl-group harmo- ferent, more complex album. Oddly, the - By Debby Levinson, push them nies of "Roam." along a successful UJ. S. tour. most appealing tracks here are not the Marie And perennial c E. V. Coppola, favorites Heretix and the Big Audio Dynamite -Megatop Phoenix faster ones, but the gentler ones, like "I and Raindogs used Annabelle Boyd their newfound major label The concept of an ex Clash member pro- Have Faith in Thes'e'Desolate Times"5 and support to release, respectively, A. D. and - * SLEW OF NEW, bYOUNG BANDS ducing such blatantly commercial music "To Know Someone Deeply is 'to Know Lost Souls. /\emerged in 1989; sadly, most - .still disturbs me, but B.A.D. -hasn't pro- Someone Softly." duced funk so solid like Skid Row and the Bullet since their debut al- Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians- s ~Boys - were bum. Megatop Phoenix sub-mediocre is more free-form i= This is hardly a, definitive list; these Queen Elvis heavy metal groups. Pennsylvania experi- are in format than a'nything else, with sonlgs - merely our -persoxW-,,-preferences for the Wthile Queen-bElvis was obviously the al- enced a brief moment of fame with the -flowvingidiectly fintoieach othcr~or bridged. top 20 albums of 1989. bum A & M Records wanted to make Ro- - Ocean Blue (now involved in a high-profile Their follow.,in al-' ,by -Don ;Lts..lve amples. "James phabetical order. byn Hitchcock .a star (Hitchcock even per- tour with w Brown,"ith isrical and, muicail nods e the Mighty Lemon Drops) and formed on "Late Night with David the 10,000 Maniacs-ish Innocence Mission. THE TWO to thie Godfather of Soul (and -his current BEST ALBUMS OF Letterman"), the musician's unmist~akeable - But the two best newcomers incarceration troubles) and "Contact" of the past 1989... are weirdness still shone through. A Hitch- year were definitely Toad the two of the best dance tunes of the Wet Sprock- Bob Mould- Workbook year. cock short story about the dead -making et, a folk-rock group from Santa Barbara, When Huisker Dii imploded,. fans and David Bowie -Sound and Vision' telephone calls appears with the record, and Poi Dog Pondering, a seven-piece critics alike mourned the death of one of This beautifully- packaged box set contains and songs about,< traveling -through the band specializing in folk tinged with Ca- the most introspective, philosophical hard- everything the loyal Bowie fan could possi- veins of Queen Elizabeth 'aren'tex~actly go- - ribbean rhythms and Talking Heads-style core punk bands around. And since Hfisk- bly want, including a Gramm~y Award-po- ing to appeal to the 'average top4O listen- lyrics. Toad, who released their first al- .er also had the reputation of being one of tential booklet of liner notes by former er. For those of us who are die-hard Hitch- - bum, Bread and Circus, on an indepen- the nation's most abrasively hardcore Rolling Stone editor Kurt. Lode'r. The col- cock fans, though, Queen Elvis was a fine dent label just after singer Glenln Phillips' bands, former lead singer Bob Mould sur- lection is worth the hefty price tag alone return to form and possibly graduation his strongest from high school, managed to prised everyone by releasing Workbook, a for the Germnan-language version of "He- effort since Fegmania. attract is the attention of CBS Records. They relatively acoustic album that still man- roes" and Blowie's sparse, uncertain demo so impressed the label that they were al- aged to pack a powerful lyrical punch. Fed of "Space Oddity." Joe Jackson -Blaze of Glory - lowed to re-release Bread and Circus with- on the venom surrounding the Hufisker In Blaze of iGtory, his most musically var- out any re-mastering or further pro- split, the songs on Workbook seethe with ied album yet, Jackson's introspection re- ES duction. Mould's bitterness and regret about the- flects an acce~ptance of the inevitability of _ . Poi Dog Pondering, on the other hand, breakup. Yet the album's strength lies not aging thait sharply contrasts with the wish- gained exposure through a summer tour in its acidic nature, but rather in the na- ful thinking of "Is She Really Going Out with Robyn Hitchcock and Winter Hours. ture of its more sensitive, emotional songs With Him? " The album is a song cycle Their mixture of ska, folk, Hawaiian, and that characterizes the maturing attitudes -"See a Little Light"X and "CHeartbreak a E any other musical style they could appro- Stranger" are practically easy listening of a young man, beginning with the hope- priate was an engaging one. Their self-ti- next to Hfisker's "Crystal." Workbook is a ful, forward-thinkcing "Tomorrow's tled debut album was equally charming. beautiful album, raw with Mould's pain World," then chronicling his' first romnance Lured by the promise of very large tickc- but full of his hope, too. It's more than a (and first break-up), finally mellowing into et sales and merchandise tie-ins, the Roll- fitting elegy for Huisker Diu. "XinTee orevr-. A highlightL of the sec- ing Stones and the Who re-formed and ond side is "Discipline." Kirsty started touring. These tours were by far MacColl -Kite Nick Lowe - asher: The Best - the most profitable of the year -perhaps Long sought-after as a backup singer by of Nick Lowe . even of the decade -a depressing fact the likes of the Pogues and the Smiths, The equivalent of two full-length - considering that both groups practically Kirsty MacColl finally came out with a albuns, Basher is a treat for fan~s'of Lo"we's' catchy took out full-page ads in The New York full-length album of her own in 1989. A1^ pop-Tockabilly--mnix. - Times declaring that they were only though MacColl had released some singles It's 'got 'every. Lowe in it tune one could possibly 'want: "fR&igefa- for the money. Yet while the dinosaurs in the U. K. -most notably covers of the re- tor' Loved "Cruel 'to be Kindan turned to. walks the earth (and stalk Smiths' "4You Just Haven't Earned it Yet,, the "Heart," his old Rockpile song dollar), some younger groups fell by the Baby" and Billy Bragg's "A New England" wyith Dave Edmunds. Onle of 19 89s'fio st fun'album's. wayside, at least temporarily. Guns 'n she was still relatively unknown to' U. S. audiences, a situation Roses broke up for about four days after that was not Nine Inch Nails -Pretty helped by Kite's unusually high price Hate-Machine lead singer W. AxI Rose walked off the tag As. aggressive as and its limited distribution. It's Ministry, and as abrasive stage during a concert, citing drug and al- well worth as '.Husker Dd, Nine Inch the effort to search it out, Nails have re-- cohol-abuse by band members as the rea- though; Mac- leased an album true CoIN' silky, sweet delivery to their name:.-listen- son for his discontent. is the ideal ing to Pretty Hate Machine counterpoint to her frequently is-like feeling Rappers Public Enemy are also in -a acerbic, a giant rusty nail being driven witty lyrics. Kite's -influenlces are directly into state' of flux. After firing "spokesman" mostly yourwskull. A hybrid folk ones, with nods to the Beatles of keyboard. techno- Professor Griff (controversial for his racist pop- (early New Order) and hardcore fury and ("Dancing in Limbo') and the Kinks (a anti-Semitic remarks), Public Enemy Kate Bush'- The Sensual World (Black Flag), Nine Inch Nails leave an in- broke up in protest cover of "Days"). A tip to CD buyers to what they consid- ,Bush's most graceful, and yes, sensual al- delible, if sometimes painful, impression. ered hostile industry reaction (good luck finding the CD on this side of to outspoken bum to date, The Sensual World opens The roughness of "Down in, It' is shock- black groups such as themselves. the Atlantic): the CD version of Kite con- Public with its lush title track, the theme and lyr- ing and refreshing, and the lyrics of Enemy is set to release tains three extra tracks, including "You their latest album, ics of which are based on Molly Bloom's "Head like a hole"- "Head like -a hole/ Fear of a Black Planet, Just Haven't Earned it Yet, Baby" and two in late February. speech in Ulysses.-Not, quite as eclectic as black as a soul/I'd rather die/than -givre The only group songs in Frencfi. of last year who seemed Hounds of Love, The ~Sensual W~orld has you control/bow down before the one you to have broken up definitively was Gov- . . . AND THE REST OF THEM an evenness of tone to it that makes it serve/you're going- to get what you de- ernment Issue, one of the most popular B-52s - Cosmic Thing both unified and accessible. The inclusion serve" -,are, as one Tech staffer put it, punk bands in the country. The band gave Their first album si'nce Bouncing off the on -this album of "This Woman's Work," full of angst. a jam-packed farewell performance at Satellites proved to be the surprise main- her sorrowful contribution to the sound- Tom Petty -Full Moon Fever, Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club and has di- stream hit of the year. Buoyed on the un- track of She's Having a Baby, was gratify- Petty's first solo effort. is even more satis- - I bl-_lll· e IpeL, e I --%II _-I 11----I TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1990 The Tech - The Year In Review PAGE 15

I m ---- I- · · bR fying than his' already fine work with the Heartbreakers. He owes a large debt to the folk-rock of the 60's, a debt he repays with his stellar cover of the Byrds' "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better When You're Gdone." CD There isn't a weak track on the album, and if this is an -example of Petty's most CD 1 mature work, his next -recording -with the Heartbreakers should be spectacular. The Red Hot Chili Peppers-Mother's Milk A driving, passionate album, Mother's Milk 'marks the resurgence of 'the Red -Hot Chili Peppers after the death of guitarist .y Hillel Slovak. Sqn~gs 'sich- as "Higher Ib Gr'ounfd" 'afid'_Tisti ih6p~ coPne' death-obsessed, insightful lyrics- with, the bass 'and horns that are the Chilis' X trademark. This Rfieplacements -Don't Tell a Soul Don't" Tell a Soul is- the Replacements' third major-] i-llei'album and 'their first with new guitarist Slim Dunlap (replacing Bob Stinson, 'who was fired two 1lbums ago after succumbing -to alcoholic ex- cesses). Consequently, it's got a slightly differentt sound from their last recor'd and a very different- sounld from their -first 4.. punk masterpiece,- Sorry Ma,' Forgot to Take out the Trash. Paul Westerberg's lyr- ics are developing -even further, but the original themes are still there; fear, insecu- rity, and a brash front to cover up the fear and insecurity . Always afraid of- being Lq- II -s· I ----· dragged into the limelight (after all, Wes-, terberg is the man who sang "One foot in the door/the other one in the gutter/the sweet -smell you adore/well, I thinky I'd soundtrack was superb. A sampler of the rather smother" on the Mats' last album), best in Australianl music, Young Einstein the Replacements achieved success in spite includes songs by Mental as Anything, of themselves with Don't Tell a Soul. The Saints, Icehouse, the Lime Spiders, and; the Models. My personal favorite is The Rolfing Stones -Steel Wheels Paul Kelly and the- Messengers' "Dumb Unlike the, Who,- who didn't bother re- Things," a song with an irresistible chorus cordinag a new album before embarking on and harmonica line. Even if you can't a mnulti-million dollar 'tour, the Rtolfing bring yourself to spring for the two dollars to rent the movie, live a little -spend the i Stonles overcame their mutual differences I long- enough to produce their finest album eight or ten bucks for'the soundtrack. It's since Tattoo You. "Sid Sad Sad" recalls worth it. the days of 'Honky Tonk Woman" and "Start Me UP." and despite a-not-so-sub- tle pun in '"Mixced Emotions" ("Mick's Emotions"'), Steel Wheels is as tight an al- The Waterboys- FishermanIs Blues bum as the Stones have released. The Waterboys have always been com- pared to UJ2. Both bands are Irish, both appeared at about the same time, anld I The Smithereen - 11 both feature lead singers who are more Their third full-length recording, l1, fea- poets than traditional lyricists. Yet while tured more. of the Beatlesque pop for U2 have veered more towards the political which the Smithkreens have become fam- side of things, the Waterboys continue to ous. They're more than just imitators of sing about love and sorrow. And while the -Fab Four, however; songs -like 'Yester- singer Mikce Scott doesn't have much of a day Girl" -and PA Girl Like You" bring a voice -like Bob Dylan, his scratchy, na- much-needed hard edge to their style. sal vocals are an acquired taste -his lyr- While 11 will nearer touch the pure pop ics are as romantic as ally poem by Byron glory of Especially for You,, it's a record- or Keats: "Your beauty is familiar/and -ing that can stand on its own and a go od- your voice is like a key/It opens up my introduction to a band that deserves more soul/and torches up a fire inside of me," ailay. Scott sings in Fisherman's best song, "When You Go Away." It's an inspiring Various artists -Young Einstein and compelling album full of the vitality Even if you didn't like the movie, the, of life. I i -- Ilr c~ L r· -~-M-·r r - ' PAGE 16 The Tech - The Year in Review TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1990

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-- C- '' -·e ---r --- lc- The I E.i Sports Hoops most improved team in New Eltoland Volyal vn NEV F (Continued from page 20) tions to the program. (Continued from page 20) season, handing the Engineers The team was also well-recorded in the National Colle- to thePioneers the year before. It three of their four regular-season giate Athletic Association statistical books. The defense was the Engineers' second N.EW8 losses.. Aside from the NEW8 chdinpionship, perhaps the stron- held its opponents to a mere 42.6 percent shooting, in the title since the conf6rence's incep- tion three years ago. gest indication of the team's cali- top 20 in the nation. This led to the 13th fewest points ber came in Winning the Albany allowed, only 63.3. The most impressive statistic, howev- Along with the championship'1p, State tournament in late October. er, was MIT's + 12.5 per game rebound margin, which MIT was honored by the selection put them fourth in the nation. of senior co-c'aptain Cecilia War- Altman will have -to count on a As for MIT records, Fraser scored his 1000th point on pinski as NEW8 Volleyball Athlete number of freshmen next fall and the year. The team set a school record for points in a -of the Year and Karyn Altman '78 the continued improvement of this game during a 112-61 bombing of Emerson. The win-loss aiC-oach of the Year, year's underclassman if she expects her team to match MIT's success record itself was only bettered by the 1965 team, which was also named to Warpi"hsl(i of the past few years, for the En- posted a 19-7 record. the all-tourn -ament teams in the Salem State and Eastern Connecti- gineers gradu'ate five -seniors in The New England Basketball Coaches Association June. named the team as the most improved. The Associated cut University Invitational tourna- Press and the United Press International named Osgood men its. Senior co-captain and, 'set- Most sorely missed, perhaps, as New England Division III Coach of the Year, and the ter Jenny Harris made the Eastern, will be Warpinski, an excellent National Association of Basketball Coaches named him Connecticut all-tournathent team passer and outside hitter, and Coach of the Year. Only eight such accolades were award- as welf, and later was named a along with Harris, a spirited team GTE All-American, an award giv- leader. The,. loss of Harris will ed across the nation. en -for athletic and academic ex- The season itself was highlighted. by a late-season eight leave the team weak at the7 setting game winning streak. During the streak, it looked as cellence. position, and experienced middle though the only way the team could lose was when they Competition from other NEW8 hitters like Debbie Nungester '90 team's was notextraordinary. Bates are always. hard to come by. wanted to. Unfortunatel ' just as the team was peaking, Tonya Parker '90 also departs the season came to an end. College, a school outside the con- Mrichael Franklin/The Tech ference, was the only team which after an',effective season at the As the team failed to qualify for postseason play, its outside hitting spot. full potential was never realized. Team MVP Doug gave MIT trouble throughout the 11414 un vvin ilIn r en I .e Basketball Fencingg Soccer Swimmaing -

The basketball team improved The fencing team qualified for The soccer team provided the The record -of the swi m. team from a dismal three-win season the New England Regional 'most pleasant surprise of the'sea- was 5-4i but the real story was in 1988 to a respectable 7-13 last Championships, with Alice son as they captured the NEW8 Yvonne Grierson '90. . Grierson year. Maureen Fahey '90 was the Chang '90-and Laura Armstrong Championship, rising. from the won the NCAA Division III key to the turnaround, scoring an '90 qualifying for individual number seven seed to upset the championships in both the 100 MIT single season record 386 championships. Chang was also- -top three teams in the confer- butterfly (for the second consecii- points. Fahey, averaging 19.3 named first-team All-New - En- ence. The team wound up i 1-7 tive year) and 100 freestyle. She points per gl-me overall, averaged gland, and Armstrong was MVP. on the year, with all seven losses now owns or shares an incredible 22.1 points per -ame within the ------ironically coming within the con- 11 school records, 'and was a conference to lead it, and 13.4 re- ference. four-event All American. For bounds to finish second. Her All three victories in the cham- these amazing efforts, she -was. overall rebound totals gave her a pionship were by 1-0 scores. The named NECAC Division III Fe- 25th ranking in the nation. team had expected 'a quick. exit male Athlete*-of -thd'Year".' Tough defense also contributed against a potent Mount Holyoke The team finished a.best-ever to the turnaround; The team al- squad which was ranked second 16th at nationals. lowed only 54.9 points per game, in the conference. Riding highaf- among the 20 lowest averages in ter the upset, the team ground Tenrnis the nation. out another winner against third- ranked Wellesley, and thenupset In the spring,, the tennis team defending champion and top- concluded its-Season ranked 20th CrewM Fielld - HIockey seeded Smith. - in Division'-III. Fiona Tan '91 The team set school records ranked '47th individually. for goals and wins. Lorainne Cir- In the. fall, the team finished at Crew posted an impressive 8-5 Under new Head Coach Carol illo '90 was All-Conference 'and 3-9, 2-5 in the conference. mark in dual meets, culminated Martin, the field hockey team by a fourth place finish in New second-team All-New England. Dheera Ananthakrishnan '90 was finished a strong 8-8-1 and won She scored the game winning named to the All-Conference Englands. one tour nament game beforebe- goals against Mount Holyoke Laura Opsasnick "90 was the team. ing eliminated. Susie Ward '92 and Wellesley. Julie Ask '90 net- most. lauded performer on the Compiled by Shawn Mastrian, was named All-Conference for. ted the winner against Smith. with assistance fromStu SchmiH team. Her abilities led her to be her play, and Karlin Anderson one of 24 people in the nation se- and Roger Crosley of the '91, Kirsten Domingo '90, and Sports Information Office lected to the National Develop- Sandy Owen '91 were all selected ment Camp, which is used as a to play on the New England Col- aP ·· -y · - --- ,ICS.C- 1 Y -C--Cs 0-L-- preparation for the Olympics. leges team. GymPnastics

Despite a 3-5 record on the season, the gymnastics team made their presence known in' post-season tournaments. They. finished second in- the New En- gland Championships, and then went on to finish fifth in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Con- ference Division III champi- onships. Lisa Arel '92 was the lifeblood

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even bars events at New En- F. glands, while finishing sec ond in r. SoftballD 5: the vault and third on the floor. F. Cross CountiQry At the National Collegiate Gym- nastics Association Champion- Despite unimpressive numbers on paper, the softball team put eat deal ships, she finished fourth all- MIT also enjoyed a gre up impressive numbers where it y.In the around, third on the floor,' and of success in cross-country counted - on the scoreboard s Eight fifth in both the balance beam New England Women's and uneven bars events. - and in the record book. Tough Championships, the En,,igineers pitching by Lynn Albers '92 and, finished fourth overall. ',Theresa Lisa Johnson '92 "kept us in the Fuentes '91 finished fiflfth and Skii-ng game," said Head Coach Jean Chris Goh '92 finished sixKth, and Heiney. She also commented that both were named NE'%V8 All- The ski team finished with a the team 'played smart enough Stars. In the MAIAW Chaampion- respectable 23-27 record for the to win," and they did just that in William. ChU/The Tech ships, Goh finished fifth -and Fu- season. Rebecca Emerson- '89 posting a 9-6 record. Dianne.Di- entes sixth, with Gabriellee Rocap won an award for lettering all Massa G was named All-Con- '92 coming in tenth. four years while at MIT. ference. na IL~~~RR BI II L_~~~~~ - I ~~~ I~lr~~~rdPB~~ JI ~~~JL ~~-ab~~~ L IY_ pla -~~~~~g -rr~ ,.rIA XarnStuntA 'la--7 1nIT _:*_n -. -D__, _VS' _ A-gWl §.9.- .,-' ,.4 *< TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1990 The Tech - The Yeasr In Review PAGE 19

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more impressive was the way that 'Neirinckx also received Honor- I.Baseball Hockey: -they won the Eastern Intercolle- able Mention All-American giate Skiing Association Division awards for his l13th-place finish II championships. Considering in the 200-yard individual medley For the first time in its history, Being -an undersize, club, the that the top Alpine skier fell on and his 16th-place finish in the the MIT baseball team qualified hockey team had trouble against both his runs in the champion- 200-yard butterfly. for post-season plays finishing most of its.foes. The team record ships makes this feat quite re- with a record of 17-12. Though was a.A-isappointing 6-10. The *markable. the Engineers did not advance in I highPoint of the season was an Steven Bull '90, Terry Tote- Tennis the- tournament past the first |-impressive 19-goal outburst at the meier '91, and Tim Sulzbach G round, the 17 wins marked a high Iend of the season against Gordon were selected as All-East in the history of the The tennis team finished the in~the 41-year |College. cross-country event, while Greg program. season at 13-10, ranked 16th na- Montonaga '89 was named All- Head Coach Fran O'Brien won tionally. Kai-Yee Ho G was the East Alpine skier. his 200th career victory duing Lacrosse top individual on the team, the season. Catcher Tim Day '89, season'play. Joe Sang G. T. K. ranked 40th, and Ho and Brian Brown '89 were the top doubled third baseman Mike Murray '90, Wong '89, and Joe Harrington G -There was rarely a dull nmo- Soccer and pitcher Fran Patterson '89- each won their events in the'New tandem, ranking 23rd nationally. ment wshen watching the lacrosse As a team, the Engineers quali- received the highest accolades. England Intercollegiate Champi- team. The team set MIT records I The soccer team finished the fied and went on to the NCAA Day was the second leading hitter onships, competing in the, sabre, for scoring all season long. as -season an all-together average 6- Division III Championships. in Greater Boston' League play, foil, and epee. Their ef forts they compiled a 6-7 record (4-3 in 7-3. Stephen Feldgoise '92 was hitting .516, made second team helped MdIT earn second place in the Pilgrim League). Dave Chang the leading scorer for the second All-New England, and was rated the tournament. '89, a first-team All-Leag ue se- year in a row, while Michael Water Polo in. the top 50 hitters in all of Di- Harrington went on to earn lection, set MIT records for Dorsch '90 was named MVP. vision III. with his .420 averag'e. eighth place in the Intercollegiate points in a season (78), assists in Murray wvas also named All-N~ew- Fencing Championships, where a season (33), and assists in a ca- Water polo was another, sport England,. making the third team, MIT finished 11th overall. Sang reer (81). Pat Nee '89 set an MIT Squash experiencing a rebuilding year. and -Patterson had the third best .went on -to take ninth place in the career record' for goals scored The team, which finished at 6-15, took sixth place at the New En- ERA in all of Division III,. allow- NCAA's, meriting him an All- with 102. As a team, the Engi- ing only six earned runs in 441/3 America honorable mention. neers broke a school record as Despite an unimpressive-look- gland Championships. innings' while -compiling a 5-1 they, swished in 12.2 goals per ing l11-14 record, the squash team record. Golf game. was nonetheless potent. The team Chang finished tied for fifth in wound up ranked 17th in the na- Division III for most points per tion. Alec Litowitz '89 was the Gdolf is played in bothi the game, and PIIth in goals per team's top performer., becoming spring and fall. The Engilineers game. Phil Kimn '89 joined him as MIT's first All-American as he. finished the spring season arn im- a first-team All-League selection. made the second team. pressive 11-4, winning theI Engi- neers Cup to conclude the reteIgular season. The team placed It 8th in Pistol Swimming the New England Inltercollelegiate Golf Association ChampI 25th Pistol has consistently bbeen The swim season was also one ships. The fall-team finishedl ips. one of the top teams at MIT,; and of the greater accomplishments in in the NEIGRA Championshi Wrestling lp- this year was no exception. The MIT sports this year. There were team placed. highly in all tihree national championship qualifiers events at the national level, ad in five events and four All-Amer- The wrestling team tied a best- Gymnastics individual team members dirstin- 'cans. The team finished sixth in ever performance at the New En- guished themselves quite well.l. New England Division III (the gland Wrestling Association The men's gymnastics team Eric Blau '91 'was the nmost best performance in five years) Championship, finishing fifth outstanding team mernber. Heand 14th in nationals. and scoring an MIT best-ever finished second in the air pisSEtol, Marcos Fernandes '90 was the 87.5 points. Five wrestlers turned earning him All-American staItus, top performer, earning two All- in finishes in the top four. Crew and fifth in free pistol, malLking 'American awards and three Hon- Scott Schwartz '89 had the him an Honorable Mention. All- orable Mention All-American most impressive performance, a American in this event. His per- honors as well. Fernandes fin- culminating a 26-0 season with The crew teams, unfortunately, spot ished third in the nation in the victory in the l134-pound divi- did not experience such good for- i formance also earned him a on the US Junior National Air 100-yard backstroke and was a sion, which sent him to nation- tune. Both the heavyweight and member of the-seventh-place 200 als. Alec Franz '90 finished sec- l Pistol team. lightweight crews had what could ond in the l190-pound division, | ~~The team itself finished seecond medley relay team; he also took best be called a "rebuilding. year." in I th-place in the 50-yard freestyle while Matt Long '91 took third l in air pistol (to Navy), thirn The heavyweights opened with my), and participated in the 16th-place at 150. Fourth place finishes were strong. pre-season, winnling free (to Air Force and An a *De' 200 free and 14th-place 400 free turned in by James Lombara 590 I in standard. Ken their Club 8 division going into and seventh '91 at llCanio '90 and Fredric Chong g,o relay teams. Fernandes set several at 167 and Josh Ertischek the Head of the Charles. During tv-new MIT records; he now owns heavyweight. the season, however, they com- finshe 23rd and 24th respect 1y' in air pistol, while DeO 'noor shares seven. Head Coach Tim Walsh won piled with a disappointing 0-9 -re- his 100th career match victory finished 18th in standard pisl tl Peter Neirinckx '90, -Dinesh cord, though several of the losses Lathi '92, and Andrew Knoedler last year as well. were by just fractions of a sec- '91 were also members of the All- Compiled by Shawn Mastriant, ond. Captain Chris Neils '89, Rifle American 200 medley relay team, with assistance from Stu Schmill MVP Jay Best. '89, and Rick .wsas not able to test itself to the -as well as the Honorable Mention and Roger Crosley of the Franklin '89 all rounded out their fullest, due' to a funding prob- 1 :1, +u- -+Lk 1* +. 200 and 400 free relay teams. Sports Information Office careers as three-'year letter lem. Their fourth place finishl in Like tne otner shooting team, winners. New England qualified them' for the rifle team also enjoyed a The lightweights fared little, the Nationals in California, but a great deal of success. The team Menus solleyball ends at 23-1 1 better. They compiled a 4-6. re- lack of money kept them home. was 6-8 in air rifle, but finished cord on the season, but all -four- The team finished the season an amazing 19-9 in the smallbore (Continued from page 20) But the Engineers could not beat victories were outside the league, at 4-2, ranked sixth in all of Divi- event. The highlight of the year was out on maternity leave the East Stroudsburg, then ranked against weaker crews. Nonethe- sion. Ill. ,Eric Reifschnleider '89, came when the team won the previous year and has passed up 17th nationally, another time, less, they were victories, giving Mark Malonson '89, and Alan Mid-Atlantic Conference Cham- on coaching the 1990 squad after and the season was over. the team hope for the future. Nash '89 all- qualified for .the pionships. a -second son arrived in Five freshmen joined the vol- The best news for the crew Eastern- Colleges Athletic Confer- November. leyball program, and they will teams came from outside the en'ce -Championlships. Reifsch-- The 1989 Enginleers finished a likely all play a critical role in boathouse, as Jim Pierce, a 1981 neider was the 1989 winner of the Sailing strong second in the early March MIT teams to come for the next graduate, made the US National K~ispert Award, given to the MIT EIVA Open Tournament, but did three years. Middle hitter Allen Rowing Team. male senior scholar-athlete of the the Concordia hitters Faris This year marked the retire- not- do so well at Peyrat and outside year.' He won an. NCAA post- Navy Tournaments Hitti and Tom Klemas saw varsi- ment of Head Coach Hatch Classic and graduate scholarship for being an ty action in their first year, and Brown from the sailing team. His later in the season. Cross country outstanding scholar-athlete as The regular season ended with setter Jim Szafranski and outside efforts led his team to be chosen well. to Springfield College, hitter Andreas Calderon started Club of the Year by the Massa- a 3-2 loss was which put MIT's chances of qual- for the junior varsity. The cross country team chusetts Bay' Yacht Racing ifying for the NCAA playoffs in All five make up an important ranked often in the top lo in Union. The award was both for New England Divi-sion III jeopardy. But Roger Williams part of this year's varsity, which the club's efforts, on the Charles 0- College, the only other EIVA made it to the semifinal round of throughout the season, so their and in the community. 3 record belied their abilities. The team to beat MIT, defeated the 1990 New England Collegiate team finished strongly in multi- Springfield, which allowed for Volleyball League Open Tourna- t school meets, often losing only to MIT to advance to first-round ment last weekend at MIT. The the Division I clubs. Skiing NCAA competition. team is competing without Playing without Tang, a strong Rocafort, who is out for as much The ski team turned out to be outside hitter who had broken his -as half a season with an ankle . Fencing about as tough as one could pos- wrist, MIT faced East injury. sibly expect. The final match re- Stroudsburg University of Penn- (David Rothstein '91 is a The fencing team was well cord for the team wag 43-7, im- sylvania, against which MIT held member of the men's volleyball lauded for their exploits in post- pressive in itself. What was even a 1-2 record during the season. team.) Ir, -- - ~ rP~pBI~ltp I rs~-~~ rsas p-bM PAGE 20 The Tech - The Year In Review TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,19.90

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By David Rothstein Allen D~owney and junior Roland uni a eated- The men's volleyball season, Rocafort. marred by early and late injuries But Marin went down with a -in conference. to key players, marked an end to serious ankcle sprain just before .By Davi Riothstein . the Marin Era. It also heralded a the season began, and 'wasunable MIT, once, again -reig-ned su- new beginning with the addition Ao return to action until well into preme in the New England, Wom- of five freshmen, who apparently- the season. It was a. difficult en's Eight Volleyball Conference, will define the course the team setback for team and captain capturing the conference title, -and follows for the next three years. alike. .both athlete and coach of -the-year The team, which finished the MIT embarked on a somewhat awards. The Engineers went' on to season at 23-11 (6-2 in the East-- difficult schedule without-Marin, 'their fifth appearance -of the 19.80s in the, NCAA Division' III' play- ern Invitational Volleyball Asso- playing with no great consistency. ,offs, but lost to Calvin College 'in ciation Conference), Against was under the better teams, MIT the first round of regional play in the command of Edwin Marin fared well, but lost to some Ada, OH.-' - '89, a fine passer and outside weaker teams that perhaps it The Engineers were undefeated hitter, and the squad captain. should have beaten, according to in NEWS play (8-0) and posted a Marin had been a starter on the coach Karyn Altman '78. 25-5 record-Tor the-season. In the varsity since his sophomore year Altman in fact spent what NEW8 conference finah7. MIT blew' and was expected to lead an ex- these days seems a- rare season by Smith College in three 'games:to perienced team that included se- coaching the men's team, as she regain the title, which it had lost niors Charles Lee, Joe Tang, (Please turn to page 19) Tech file photo (PIease turn to page 18)

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-By Shawn Mastrian This -meant that if MIT were to the4 post-g'radu ate scholarship win' -Before the football 'season. beat, Bentley, 'they would win the which accompanies, the award.. It.'ak started, good things were prpedict- inaugural conference title. MIT As.-records-go, nobody~ set .::se so c Erg ed for the Beavers. Lineman Rob has historically had trouble with more than 1Day -did; this year. -He Kupbens $90 was a Division III the Falcons, and this time proved set records for most touchdowns pre-season All-American third no exception. Despite a heroic .thrown inl a season -and 'a-career, team, and running basck Shane comeback -effort, driving' thle ball most- passes -completed iii ar-sea- I,, :..,,.1 son, arndcaredr aiid zud IX g-l-over. "t. LaHousse '90,'wide receiver 90 yards with about one minute lip as -40 Tony Lapes '90, and linebacker left for a touchdown to put MIT the. ECVC's top,-rated pas'sdr.-,-Ht ...... was teamed Conference-Ofebsire I 7:7. 0 al Darcy Prather '91 were all honor- within one, the Beavers fell as the able mention. These players and tw-pint conversion attempt Player of the' Week once, and. fIn- tgpg ithWsk"6&fil their teammates did not disap- failed. 21-20 was the. heartbreak- ished- 24th amon Division III point as the team rewrote the re- ing final score, two points away quarterbacks inll passing ef fi- cord book in their. 4-3-1 season'. from the' title. ciency. .-- Playing in the -newly formed The last game was at WPI, and LaHo"usse set -MIT records of I Eastern College Football Confer- given the circumstancees the team his own,, breaking the -existing eneX the Beavers announced that performe~d admirably. The final marks' for poits-im'a -season, they would be a force, stomping score of 35-10 was more respect- yards -in, a career, ,and tying the conference rival Stonehill 45-13 able than it would-look. existing mark for'pointsnilla'ca- in the season's opener. The game It was by no- means a season of reer. He was 'the'conferenfc'e's- sec- was more one-sided than the "it could have been" for the Bea- ond leading rusher and leading score would indicate, as MIT vers; it was a season of accom- scorer (points per game), finis4- dominated both offensively and plishments. Quarterback Tim ing 27th in this,-category in the defensively. Day '89, Lapes, Kupbens, center nation, and he was niamed-Con- -Western New England was to Don Euwart '90,.Moose, line- fe~rence Offensive Player of the be MIT's next victim. W~hat start- backer Rick Bulle'sbach '90, de- Week once. ed out as a see-saw contest-result-- fensive tackle Mike Ahrens '90, Moose was the conference's ed in the Beavers pulling away, and Prather were all selected a's third leading rusher, and Ahrens and a last gasp effort by' WNEC All-Conferen ce ..performers, anmd was named Conference D~efensiver made the score respectable at 39- that was just the tip of the Player of the Week once. Lapes 34 in favor of MtIT. While the de- iceberg' finished as the conference's fense experienced a- few -prob- Prather and Lapes were both fouirth-leading receiver. -lemns, the offense was consistent', Academic All-District selections - Team high in tackles went to almost, scoring at will. The Bea- as well as GTE CoSIDA Academ- Prather, and he tied Fred Loh '92 vers were undefeated and riding ic All-Americans, with Lapes for' the team lead- in intercep- high after the second week. .making the first team and tions. Ahrens led the team in Then came UMass-Boston. Prather the second. sacks:, -followed by Prather, and Outdoor trac%^k still on top The defense solved the problems- Lapes also took the Woody Larry Donahue '901, who lead the of the previous game, but the of- Hayes Award,. given to only one team in tackles for losses., Bulles- .By David Rothstein The teams MIT faced in regu- fense went away from what Division III male (enceompassing- bach -defended -against the most These are the golden years for lar-season dual and tri-meets - worked best for its- punishing every sport). This -was the highest passes on the team, followed by the MIT track and field team, even Division I Holy Cross Col- the opposition with LaHousse honor ever given to an MIT ath- Brian Teeple' '91. and only injuries limited the per- lege and St. Lawrence University and Garret Moose '91 through lete. In addition, he was nlamed- a formances of the 1988-89 indoor -were overwhelmed by Tech's the middle. The result was a -14- National Football Foundation As a team, the Beavers set squad. strength on almost all fronts. So 14 tie which left a bad taste in and Hall of Fame Scholar-Ath- highs for average yards per gamnie, By season's end., MIT's unde- the Engineers' success remained the mouths of all involved. lete Award winner, o ne-of II Di- total. yards in .a season, and feated streak in dual and triangu- to be measured at the champion- Thiis left the team on a down- vision II and III students granted points scored (210). lar meets stood at 56. The Engi- ship meets. ward. slope, facing an improved neers placed higher than ever At the GBCs, MIT lost Singh- and sure-to-be-upset Stonehill before in the Greater Boston ose to a hamstring pull _an d squad the next week. The result Cagers post successful season Championships and the NCAA missed fourth place by only half was a 42-20 Joss, the -Enginleers' Division III Championships in a point. Still, it was a strong fin- first-of the season. figures to lead the team im scor- addition to running away with ish- paced by firsts by Dunzo By Shawii Mastrian A muddy field at'Siena proved ing. Mike Casagrande '89 pro- the Eastern Coast Athletic Con- (400 meters) and Scott Deering to be a cure for Tech's slide. The vided -a sure outsid feren~ce Championships in early '89 (35-pound weight throw) - season was, in a word, e shot and March. against tough Division I schools defense dominated the hapless amazing. team leadership, and, Dave Del-' The only great disappointment like Harvard and Northeastern. Saints, and the offense found a Head Coach Leo Osgood di- laGrote '90 handled the ball came in failing to win the New At the national championships way to score in the mucks just rected his troops to a 14-8 re.; adept ly at point- guard, adding England Division III Champion- in mid-March, the Engineers once. It was all the Beavers need- cord, the best -that. MIT has his expert defensive skills at the ships, something that MIT had gained an individual crown in ed to 'return to their winning seen in 20 years, and almost led other end-of -the court. Dave accomplished for four consecu- Deering's first place 35-pound ways, 6-0 MIT. the Engineers-into the playbffs Tonflinson. '91 provided a spark tive years prior to this season. weight throw. Singhose placed 'Homecoming is the Su'per fr: the first time since h-x ,and extra scoring punch off the But the Engineers were missing third in the pole vault, and the Bowl of MIT's football season,, bench. Basically, the team -had and tinction of the.,dinosaurs. M-IT. leading scorer Bill Singhose '90 1600-meter relay team of Kevin the 49ers, I mean- the Bea- the chemuistry to win. vers, kept the home fans anid Ve- was ninth 'in line for the eight and sprinters Mark Dunzo '91 Scannell '92, Paul McKenzie '90,, Team. MVP was- given to and Karim Roshd '89, all of Dunzo gas happy. Assumption came to playoff spots. -. - and Douglas Cornwall '89 Cornwall. Shattuck wag the top whom were out with injuries. earned a sixth place. These six town at the wrong time, and left An offense with unlimited The week after the New En- earned All-America honors for with a little less dignity. MIT weapons and a tenacious de- rebounder. DellaGrotte was 'give gland Championships, buoyed b~y their performances. rolled up a school-record 56 fense were the. keys to, victory en the best defense award and the return of Singhose and MIT finished ins a tie for sixth points, and the defense yielded ,for the Engineers.. Ttad Shat- another -for dedication and -hus- Dunzo, MIT racked up 140 place at the nationals, its highest only a. last-miinute touchdown to tuck '90 (14.3), Jay Fraser '89 tle.. Casagrande -won the-Larry points to win the ECAC title finish in the five-year history of the lifeless Broncos, I mtean (14.2), and Doug Cornwall '89 Grabin award for-his contribu- convincingly. the meet. Greyhounds. 56-6. Beavers., (13.5) all averaged in -double- (Pleage. turn to page 18) 1111 1 _1 I1