MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Cloudy, 58°F (14°C) Tonight: Rain, 50°F (lO°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: More rain, 57°F (14°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 120, umber 50 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, October 17, 2000 UA Debates Physics Kappa S·g To Face CLC Again Clll8sroom Proposal After Latest Drinking Incident By Melissa Cain of the Student Center so that it may By Laura McGrath Moulton event. If the drinking was related to STAFF REPORTER accommodate a new physics pro- NEWSEDlTOR the event and if he continued drink- Dean for Undergraduate Educa- gram. A Kappa Sigma brother has been ing after is still up in the air," Scali tion Robert P. Redwine presented a The purpose of the program, suspended from taking part in house said. proposal at last night's Undergradu- called rEAL (Technology Enabled activities and ordered to attend Scali said that the CLC, the ate Association meeting to renovate Active Learning), is to make MIT Alcoholics Anonymous after his Cambridge Police, and the Campus the reading room on the fifth floor students "more personally engaged" role in the first alcohol-related inci- Police are conducting investigations in the experience of learning intro- dent at the house since it was which they will report at the hear- ductory physics, Redwine said. Red- ordered to completely dry for two. ing. "This is a fact-finding hearing," wine said that faculty and staff years by the Cambridge Licensing Scali said. "We want to find out believe the current system of teach- Commission. what happened." ing physics is "not fully successful. The CLC is reviewing the inci- According to the model that dent and will hold a hearing about it Incident was isolated, K.S says Redwine brought to the UA Coun- on November 14. Kappa Sigma brother and Inter- cil, TEAL would be housed in two The incident occurred early in fraternity Council Rush Chair classrooms, each containing twelve the morning of September 30,. when Dakus S. Gunn '01 called the inci- round tables. The teacher would sit brother Kevin T. Weston '03 was dent "isolated" and indicated that no at one table while nine students transported to the MIT Medical one but Weston was involved. would sit at each of the other tables, Center for intoxication at 12:46 a.m. Although he has not been each of which would be equipped Weston is under 21 and Kappa TECH FILE PHOTO expelled from the fraternity, Weston Kappa Sigma has come under with three laptop computers. Sigma's rush chair. will not participate in house activi- review by the CLC for Its latest The basic proposal is to renovate According to CLC Executive ties such as 1M sports until he has alcohol Incident In which the fra- the reading room on the fifth floor Officer Richard V. Scali, Kappa completed an Alcoholics Anony- of the Student Center so it can be Sigma's Housemaster Jeffery Z. ternity's underage rush ehalr mous program as well as communi- was taken to the hospital. used for the TEAL program during Snyder G dealt immediately to the ty service. Gunn said that Weston PEDR L. ARRECHEA"-THE TECH the day ''when the room is not heav- crisis, staying up most of the night between Snyder's account and the accepted this action "voluntarily" Dean for Undergraduate Educa- ily used," Redwine said. helping the fraternity formulate a police reports of the incident. and is willing to work to prove to tion Robert P. Redwine outlines While much of the Council sup- response. Snyder met with Scali the "There are issues about when the fraternity that he no longer has a the future use of the Student ported the proposal, there were a Monday after the incident and filed and how the alcohol was obtained problem with alcohol. Center reading room on the 5th few representatives that were a letter describing the incident and and who knew alcohol was present. "When someone living in the floor as 'a temporary physics strongly opposed it. the fraternity's response in detail. It looks as though this one gentle- house feels they can't function with- classroom •.' However, Scali said, the CLC .man [Weston] was obtained alcohol UA, Page 25 found several "discrepancies" and was drinking before a dinner Kappa Sigma, Page 21 Activities Target Domestic Violence NAS ief Offers A Hint By ShefaliOza - people across campus." and purple ribbons." O)~Upcominq me,al.nolo1ny STAFF REPORTER Stop Our Silence is "holding an :J VJ 1/ ~. t.l11t 84 Yesterday marked the first day Ribbons promote visibility event to represent those affected by of Domestic Violence Awareness AXO will be selling flower-' sexual violence in our community," By Eun Lee ,MIT System Design and Manage- Week at MIT. The week, which grams in Lobby 10 from 9 a.m. to 5 Erwin said. ST.::.:..:..::'AF:..;.F-:;8E=:;...;PO:..;.R;;:.;TE:;::.:R-=-- _ ment Progam' s Distinguished Lec- will feature several events and is' p.m ..uiltil Thursday. The carnations Stop Our Silence will be hand- Students packed Wong Auditori- ture Series. sponsored by Alpha Chi Omega and irises will be .delivered to stu- ing out colored ribbons in the Stu- urn on Monday night to hear NASA "I'm not going to talk about the and the student group Stop Our dents'this Friday. AXO will donate dent Center this week for students Administrator Daniel Goldin give a past today. I'm going to talk about , Silence, falls in the middle of all proceeds to the Boston Area to "represent themselves and how lecture on complex systems entitled the future," Goldin said. His talk National Domestic Violence Rape Crisis Center. they are or were affected by sexu- "The Technology Base for the 21st outlined what may be in store for Awareness Month. In addition, Fong said, "We're Century." NASA and systems technology in "Domestic violence affects giving out pamphlets at our booth Awareness, Page 28 This talk was the second in the the coming decades. everyone, and it is our community's Goldin described the future of responsibility to, respond and aerospace systems and the revolu- attempt to prevent it. The MIT tionary and key technologies which community is' not immune to will ultimately be used to achieve unhealthy relationships and domes- advancement in science and engi- tic violence," said Jennifer A. neering. Erwin '0\ treasurer of Stop Our "Hopefully in this decade it will Silence. The group is devoted to come together where we don't take awareness and prevention of sexual things apart" to understand them, and domestic violence. but use that understanding to "build "Awareness 101: Domestic Vio- them up," Goldin said. lence in College" is an AXO spon- sored talk being held tonight in Autonomy key for future systems Baker Dining Hall at 8:30 p.m. Looking ahead to exploration of Speakers "from the Boston Area Mars and other distant destinations, Rape Crisis Center will talk about Goldin stressed the importance of domestic violence and give an reliable systems which function overview of [it]" at the event, said efficiently and adapt to changing Hiu-Fai Fong '02, co-chair for plan- conditions without constant human ning AXO's events this week control. In addition, Detective Sergeant In the twenty-first century, Mary Beth Riley of Campus Police Goldin said aerospace systems will will teach a self-defense seminar. require several innovations, includ- The president of Stop Our Silence, ing the autonomy to think for them- Radha K; Iyengar '02, will "talk selves, resiliency to withstand harsh about how domestic violence is conditions as well as to, self-diag- related to college students," with nose and repair damages, and the an emphasis on dating violence, ability the evolve in terms of form Fong said. ERIKA BROWN-THE TECH and function to meet increasing President ofAXO Catherine Amlr Rasowsky '02 shared his thoughts on peace In Israel with close to a hundred students who demands. Gutierrez '04 said, "We are expect- gathered last night for a-peace vigil In the MIT Chapel. See' story, page 17. ing a large turnout from a variety of NASA, Page 32 FEATURES Comics Jane Maduram reviews Professor World & Nation 2 MIT students participating in the Alan Lightman's book, The Diag- Opinion 4 CambridgelMIT program share nosis, a finalist for this year's their experiences about England. National Book Award. Features 7 TechCalendar 12 Arts 13 Page 8 Page 10 Page 16 Page 2 October 17, 2000 LOS ANGELES TIMES Tens of thousands marched in a peaceful, celebratory crowd that ccessi stretched from below the steps of the Capitol to the Washington By aggle Farley been considered neutral in the Mid- role this week is so precious." Monument, promoting the strength of the American family. LOS ANGELES TIMES dle East. For both Israel and Pales- It was aU. resolution that par- The gathering was called by ation of Islam leader Louis Far- UNlTED xno s tinians to consider Annan an honest titioned Palestine into Jewish and, rakhan and took place on the fifth anniversary of the original men's At first, his presence in the broker is the result of a concerted Arab halves in 1947; and a series of march. The rally seemed smaller than the Million Man March - Mideast peace talks was a matter of campaign on his part to win Israel's U .-brokered cease-fires have which also took place on a Monday - but it is believed to be the lucky timing. trust. stopped fighting in the decades largest gathering of black Americans since. U. Secretary-General Kofi As the fragile peace between since.