Drop Date Thursday MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Cloudy, sprinkles, 50°F (10°C) Tonight: Cloudy, cool, 38°F (30C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Partly sunny, 55°F (13°C)' Details, Page 2 Volume 122, Number 20 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, April 23, 2002 Application Deadline Extended After Few Apply for Segue Plan By Jeffrey Greenbaum housing in the same dormitory for said that earlier this month her STAFF REPORTER their first year of graduate school. sorority committed to housing MIT's "Senior Segue" plan, Chancellor Phillip L. Clay PhD '75 between 20 and .25 sisters in Sid- designed to alleviate the anticipated said the target number of students ney-Pacific. housing crunch next year, has thus necessary to prevent any crowding "There is enough of a shortfall far failed to attract enough juniors in undergraduate dormitories is unless something miraculous hap- from undergraduate dormitories between 120 and 150. pens," Clay said. into graduate halls. As of April 20, only 49 students However, he still supports the Accordingly, the members of have applied for this program, said crowding plan, which requires the Short Term Strategic Housing Denise A. Vallay, manager of some 15 percent of the junior class Committee have extended the dead- undergraduate residential services. to move. "We think that this is a line for juniors to apply for the Of the 49 applicants, 20 selected really good deal, and we do not Senior Segue option from this past The Warehouse, 13 chose Tang, 10 need a lot of people to make this Saturday for at least one week. opted for Sidney-Pacific, and six choice," Clay said. "I think that Under the plan, juniors who chose Ashdown as their first choice. fundamentally it is an excellent pro- choose to live in graduate housing In addition, Kappa Alpha Theta their senior year are guaranteed President Sheila Viswanathan '04 Senior Segue, Page 13 Aborted Harvard. Raid Academic Fails to Produce Paw Council By Dan Cho Patrick's Day, March 17. STAFF REPORTER The students gathered in front To Review A large group of MIT students of Building 7 at 7:00 p.m. on Fri- unsuccessfully attempted to recov- day. Dressed like vigilantes in AARON D. MIHALIK-THE TECH er the MIT mascot's stolen paw camouflage and face-paint, they A student Identified as Victor W. Brar '04 prepares to enter the Labor Code Friday evening. Approximately 25 sported enormous water guns and . room of a Harvard student he and other MIT students believed to students participated in a botched carried cardboard signs with defi- By Brian Loux possess the' missing paw from MIT's Tim the Beaver mascot cos- raid on an empty Harvard dormito- ant slogans. NEWS EDITOR tume. The students were unable to locate the paw. ry room, which ended abruptly The students traveled by bus to The MIT student group United when one of the room's inhabitants Harvard Square. From there, they Trauma Relief has petitioned Kirk D. New House Residents-Meet returned. walked to Holworthy Hall, where Kolenbrander, special assistant to the The excursion was organized the paw was allegedly being kept. president and chancellor, requesting by Rhett Creighton '02, who Although Creighton said at the standards for workers who produce Prospective Housemasters announced it through e-mail sent time of the raid that he did not MIT -licensed apparel. to several dormitory mailing lists. .know the name of the Harvard stu- . Kqlenbrander has been in consis- By Helana Kadyszewski out the pancakes fast enough. Food Creighton bid students to take back dent or the alleged thief's exact tent contact with the group and has STAFF REPORTER seems to be the gravest concern, but the foot of the beaver costume that room number, Creighton was given voiced his approval for previous ~~ofessor Wesley L. Harris and he said. was stolen by an unknown drafts of the measure. H.e said he his wife Sandra Harris, potential can- Housemaster, Page 13 male in Harvard Square on Saint Paw, Page 16 would send the proposal to MIT Pres- didates for New House housem~ters, ident Charles M. Vest with his own met residents of the dorm Thursday. personal recommendations "by the The Harrises were invited by cur- end of the week." rent housemasters John M. Essig- The proposal requests that MIT mann PhD '76 and his wife Ellen M. join the Fair Labor Association, the EssigI!lann PhD '80, who will leave a Worker's Rights Consortium, and vacancy behind when they assume establish its own code of conduct for housemaster duties at Simmons Hall, licensees. the new undergraduate dorm sched- "This is exciting for us because uled to open for the fall. the WRC is a step most others have Though the selection process is not taken," said Sanjay Basu '02, one open and no official appoin~ent has of the principal authors of the propos- . been made, currently the Harrises are al. "Earlier, [administrators] were the only known .candidates being con- quite explicit that they were not sidered for the New House house- expecting any more than the FLA master position. Katherine G. O'Dair, membership. This move is really dif- .assistant dean of residential pro- ferent than our peer institutions." grams, expects that the decision Harvard, Stanford, and the California process will be wrapped up by May Institute of Technology' do not belong 1. to the WRC. Sandra Harris said that the event For the petition to officially reach was "a very positive exchange of the Academic Council, MIT's highest ideas and concerns." Her husband, a decision-making body other than the professor in the Department of Aero- MIT Corporation, it must first be nautics and Astronautics, was not accepted Kolenbrander and th~n available for co~ent. Vest. Each administrator has the . NATHAN COLLINS-THE TECH chance to make comments on the Diversity concerns residents Cadet Jude Verge of Salem State College walts as Army helicopters land on Briggs Field. MIT proposal; which will also be present- Harris said the chief concern she ROTC, which Includes cadets from Harvard, Tufts, Wellesley, and Salem State, took part in a vari- ed to' the Acad~mic Council before heard from students was "food - ety of field exercises, Including helicopter training and field drills, last weekend. whether or not we'll be able to turn Labor Code, Page 14 MIT held a Comics NEWS World & Nation '.2 memorial ser- Benjamin J. Zeskind '03 was , Opinion 4 vice for David elected Undergraduate Associa- Events Calendar 8 Epstein Sun- tion Council Speaker l~t night. day. Arts ' 9 Sports 20 Page 9 Page 6 Page 14 Page 2 THE TECH April 23, 2002 WORLD & NATION Socialists' Alliance Wms Majority French Politicians"Angered In Hungarian Parliament IIJS.I.WjU./:S n.\fES BUDAPEST. HUNGARY After Upset Wm For Le Pen A center-left alliance led by ex-Communists won a majority of seats in Hungarian parliamentary elections Sunday, setting the stage By Keith B. Richburg He said that if elected, he would sanctions against member state Aus- for Peter Medgyessy, a former finance minister and banker, to TilE II'ASIIlNGTON POST consider pulling France out of the tria when another far-right leader, become this country's next prime minister. PARIS 1992 Maastricht Treaty that set out Joerg Haider, made a strong show- "So, we have won!" a jubilant Medgyessy declared to supporters Saying democracy itself is in the continent's current economic and ing in legislative elections and his at the headquarters of the Hungarian Socialist Party. peril, leaders across the French polit- monetary integration. "I am not an anti-immigration Freedom Party During a harsh and divisive campaign, Socialist supporters com- ical spectrum Monday launched an enemy of Europe," Le Pen said. "I was invited into a coalition govern- plained that they were often described by Prime Minister Viktor emergency effort to prevent far-right am a partisan of a Europe of nations, ment. Those sanctions were with- Orban and other leaders of his center-right Fidesz-Hungarian Civic leader Jean-Marie Le Pen from turn- a Europe of homelands. But I am a drawn later that year and widely Party not as the opposition but as enemies. ing his second-place finish Sunday determined adversary of a suprana- viewed as counterproductive; there Medgyessy, 59, pledged Sunday night that he will serve all citi- into the French presidency when a tional, federal, federalizing Europe." was no serious talk Monday of zens. runoff is held 13 days from now. Speaking in triumphant tones, Le doing the same against France. "My conviction is that after forming the government, we must Leaders in other European capi- Pen suggested he might make an Haider was one of the few unify the country," he said. "I repeat what I said several times: It's tals expressed near universal dismay issue during the next 12 days of prominent Europeans speaking out my intention to be the prime minister of 10 million Hungarians, not at Le Pen's unforecast finish in th~ campaigning of the financial scan- for Le Pen Monday. In ap. interview two times 5 million. There are I0 million important people in Hun- first round of balloting, saying that dals that have dogged Chirac' s term with ORF radio, he said: "Anyone gary, regardless of whom they voted for." he must not get the presidency and in office. "If he was a company who speaks out against excessive that his views against immigrants chairman, he would leave his com- and uncontrolled immigration or the have no place in the new Europe of pany's annual meeting in hand- abuse of the asylum laws in the con- , President of China's Heir Apparent cooperation and falling.