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Volume 124, Number 6 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, February 20, 2004 Ban Approved Despite Student Protests Course IX By Lauren E. LeBon STAFF REPORTER MIT will implement the recom- Library mendations from the flag committee to ban flags, banners, and other items to the exteriors of dormitories, To Close said Dean of Student Life Larry G. Benedict. By Jenny Zhang The ban was approved just a day NEWS EDITOR after undergraduate students staged The Schering-Plough library of a campus-wide protest against the Neurosciences and Biomedical ban by hanging assorted banners Imaging, located in building E25 and other items outside of their win- near MIT Medical, will close at the dows. beginning of this summer. Most of the Schering-Plough Housing group approves plan materials, primarily books and jour- Benedict heads the housing nals, will be transferred to the Sci- strategies group, which includes ence library, said Mary Jane Miller, Chancellor Phillip L. Clay and Dean director of development for MIT of graduate students Issac A. Col- libraries. bert. On Wednesday, the group The move comes as a direct reviewed the flag committee propos- result of the decision not to move al, drafted by a committee of admin- the library into the new brain and istrators and students in January, cognitive sciences project, anticipat- and chose to adopt the proposal’s ed to open in 2005. two main recommendations. Originally the move was to The first part of the policy clear- scheduled to occur when the brain ly bans the hanging of posters and and cognitive sciences project other items on the outside of dormi- opened, but the date was moved up tories, Benedict said. The second to this summer primarily to cut portion of the policy urges house operating costs, said Howard J. Sil- governments to “develop their own ver, associate head of the science guidelines for materials that may be library. displayed within their residence,” As of now, no decision has been according to the original flag com- made for how to use the space that mittee proposal. Schering-Plough will vacate, but The new policy is not much dif- one possibility is that it will be con- ferent from the existing policy, but verted into office space for those this new policy is written in clearer who currently have windowless language and aims to ensure that the offices in the basement, said director regulations are “consistently of libraries Ann J. Wolpert. enforced,” said Benedict. The original housing regulation Library users give feedback read, “The use of flammable decora- Many of the library users appre- tions, including natural evergreens, ciate its current location in E25 and in any room, corridor, stairwell, believe that it is the ideal location. lounge, dining hall, lobby and other “I think it is the essential source, public areas is prohibited by Massa- everything you could want for chusetts fire laws. The use of non- course nine is at that library and not flammable decorations must be the others,” said Nasheed I. Jamal approved by the House Manager.” ’05, a Brain and Cognitive Sciences major. Students protest proposal “It's very convenient because I'm On Tuesday morning, several an [Health Sciences and Technolo- undergraduate students expressed gy] student and it's closest to the T their disapproval of the proposed station,” said Hui S. Nam G. “I policies by hanging banners and DHEERA VENKATRAMAN come here at least one time a day on A large banner protesting the recently instituted ban on flags and other items hanging outside dormito- other items from their windows, weekdays, I'd prefer to have it ries spanned Briggs Field Tuesday morning. The banner was suspended by a wire running from the 16th floor of MacGregor house and the ninth floor of Simmons Hall. Flag, Page 16 BCS, Page 17 Students Describe the Ideal President Grad Applications Dwindle By Pon-Pon Yeh attended the two recent town hall school should go in, but it needs meetings this past Wednesday and leaders who recognize that they As Fewer Foreigners Apply MIT students gave a varied and last Thursday. Students were enthu- have to pay attention to student often contentious view of who the siastic about having more student- life,” Choute said. By Kathy Dobson however, MIT also received 437 next MIT president should be at two administration interaction, and espe- STAFF REPORTER fewer domestic applications. These recent town hall meetings held by cially stressed the importance of Undecided on race and gender The number of applications to numbers do not include applicants the Student Advisory Group to the having a president that would focus Students considered the idea of a MIT’s graduate programs has from the Sloan School of Manage- Corporation. Many, however, on communicating with students minority or female president with decreased by more than 1,500 this ment or Master of Science in Engi- agreed the new president would and addressing their concerns. mixed reactions. year with international applicants neering from within MIT, and some needed to improve its communica- The “most important quality is Those advocating a female or declining the most, possibly due to departments may still be accepting tion with the student body. that he or she is accessible to the minority president noted that it increased immigration restrictions applicants. This consensus was not present student,” said Dexter W. Ang ’05. would set an important precedent and uncertainty in the economy. Johnson said uncertainty in the in other issues, including gender, “Communication is important if the for women and minorities. There was a 12 percent decline economy was a possible reason for race, and professional background . students hope “to influence change MIT has always “represent[ed] in graduate applicants to MIT this the reduction in applications. She In addition, students expressed later,” he said. the future of the country,” said Hec- year to 11,142 from 12,653 last said that students might be unclear concern about the future of the Insti- Many other students present con- tor H. Hernandez G. “Think of the year, said Elizabeth S. Johnson, what kind of degree they should get, tute culturally, economically, and curred with Ang’s opinion. “I want message MIT would send if they try associate director of admissions. and they may be aiming for a broad- academically. a president that cares about student to get” a woman or minority presi- Much of this decline was due to a er education. opinions,” said Clifford Choute ’04. dent, he said. fall in international applicants, Student communication essential “Student input is a must. I don’t which decreased by 17 percent; Admission, Page 14 A total of about 30 students know exactly what direction this President, Page 18

NEWS Comics OPINION World & Nation ...... 2 Team “TacShot” wins the MIT Bill Frezza ’76 examines last Opinion ...... 4 Soldier Design Competition weekend’s talk by Professor of Features ...... 7 finals, while some protest the Linguistics Noam Chomsky. Events Calendar ...... 12 contest. Sports ...... 20 Page 13 Page 15 Page 5 Page 2 THE TECH February 20, 2004 WORLD & NATION Pakistan’s Military May Have Former Enron CEO Indicted Aided In Smuggling Operations By David Rohde And Eric Lichtblau THE NEW YORK TIMES ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN For Fraud, Illegal Profiting Interviews with Pakistani businessmen and new court documents By Kurt Eichenwald not so much on the specific effect of ordered released on a $5 million filed in the United States suggest that Pakistan’s powerful military THE NEW YORK TIMES any one accusation but instead on the bond and surrendered his passport. may have played a role in the smuggling of 66 high-speed electrical HOUSTON overall impact of a range of activities As part of the charges, the gov- switches from the United States to Pakistan last fall. The switches can Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former over many years. In quarter after ernment will seek forfeiture from be used as triggers for nuclear weapons, according to U.S. officials. chief executive of Enron, a once- quarter, Enron is portrayed in the Skilling of $66 million worth of cash Humayun Khan, the Pakistani businessman whose office address staid pipeline business that he trans- indictment as struggling to find and real estate. It also will seek was the final destination for the triggers, confirmed in a series of formed into a global energy-trading another one-shot technique to lift its assets worth $6 million from Causey. interviews here that he and his father have been suppliers of the Pak- giant, was indicted on Thursday on earnings to meet or exceed Wall Prosecutors hailed the charges as istani military for the past twenty years. But he denied playing any charges that he conspired to disguise Street projections, helping the stock a demonstration of the strength of role in the smuggling of the American-made triggers to Pakistan. the company’s troubled financial per- price continue what had been an their pursuit of wrongdoing at Enron. “I know it’s my address and everything is pointing to me and my formance while profiting from sales almost uninterrupted climb over “The indictment of Enron’s CEO company,” Khan said as he sat in the offices of his firm, Pakland of stock inflated by false earnings more than a decade. shows that we will follow the evi- P.M.E., located a mile from Pakistan’s parliament building. “Frankly reports. With the indictment Thursday, 29 dence wherever it goes — even to speaking, if I want to deal in these things I would never be so stupid Skilling, who pleaded not guilty people have been charged with the top of the corporate ladder,” as to use my own company.” at an arraignment here, is the high- crimes related to the collapse of Christopher Wray, an assistant attor- Yet documents presented by Khan in his own defense as well as est-ranking Enron executive to face Enron, including 20 former execu- ney general, said at a news confer- court papers filed this week in Washington suggest that he is deeply criminal charges in the wake of the tives. Of those, nine have pleaded ence in Washington. involved in covert efforts to supply the Pakistani military. company’s collapse more than two guilty, including Andrew S. Fastow, But, in the first salvo of what is years ago. He was charged with 35 Enron’s former chief financial offi- sure to be a long-running legal battle, counts of fraud, insider trading and cer, who structured a series of off- Skilling’s lawyers lashed out at the Election Commission Ruling Allows conspiracy. the-books partnerships that were prosecution, saying that the charges The range of accusations — from used to manipulate the company’s were the result of a predetermined Groups To Use Soft Money outright criminal violations that sig- financial performance. The Skilling effort to indict their client that was By Glen Justice nificantly affected reported profits to charges were added to an already set in motion when the Justice THE NEW YORK TIMES more subtle earnings management filed indictment against Richard A. Department created a task force to WASHINGTON techniques widespread in corporate Causey, Enron’s former chief investigate the company’s collapse. The Federal Election Commission said on Wednesday that advo- America in the 1990s — depict accounting officer. “From the moment the Enron cacy groups that were established to get around fund-raising restric- Enron as a struggling enterprise that Skilling, 50, surrendered just task force was designated, there was tions in the new campaign finance law may continue spend unlimited grew deeply dependent on account- before 7 a.m. Thursday to agents at a decision to go after Jeff Skilling donations for television commercials and other communications, ing manipulation to maintain its the Houston field office of the FBI. and demonize this company,” said though they must do so under far more restrictive rules. image as a financial powerhouse that Agents then led him in handcuffs to Bruce Hiler, one of Skilling’s The commission’s ruling on so-called “527 committees” could turned in reliable performance. the federal courthouse, where he lawyers. “The government’s role is have profound effects on the 2004 election by helping Democrats, Indeed, prosecutors have assem- appeared before Magistrate Judge to investigate cases, not to create who have been much more aggressive than Republicans in creating bled a case that appears to depend Martha Crone. After his plea, he was cases.” these committees to help the party compete with the Republicans’ overall 2-1 fund-raising advantage. None of this money winds up in the candidates’ hands but can be used to raise issues and attack other candidates by name. Iraq Debate Shifts To Keeping Perhaps the best known of these groups, America Coming Togeth- er and MoveOn.org, gained widespread attention when George Soros, the philanthropist and international financier, pledged millions to each. U.S.-Created Council In Place By Jeffrey Gettleman 2005. ple feel we represent them.” Conference Debates Ways To and Dexter Filkins The Iraqi leaders said the idea of Although council members have THE NEW YORK TIMES enlarging the existing council, not decided yet how new members Confront Anti-Semitism In Europe BAGHDAD which has been in play for weeks, would be selected, several council By Elaine Sciolino As prospects for early elections crystallized Thursday after U.N. members agreed that it would be THE NEW YORK TIMES fade, several Iraqi leaders said Secretary General Kofi Annan important to demonstrate indepen- BRUSSELS, BELGIUM Thursday that they wanted the announced that holding elections for dence from the American govern- Prominent Jewish figures and European officials agreed on Thurs- American-appointed Governing an all-new Iraqi government was ment in order to win the trust of the day that anti-Semitism is a troubling phenomenon in Europe, and Council to remain in place after the impossible before June 30. Annan Iraqi people. called on European Union countries to forge a common strategy to United States transferred power back said he would not object to keeping The move to extend the govern- combat it. to the Iraqi people on June 30, and the governing council in power as ing council’s rule for several months “A European disease,” Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace that plans were already under way to long as it was it was significantly represented another complication in Prize in 1986, told a daylong conference at the headquarters of the expand it. changed. the Bush administration’s vision for European Union. The Iraqi leaders, who include “We have no other choice now,” a quick transfer of power. As late as But the conference exposed deep fault lines that characterize per- representatives from Iraq’s three said Yonadam Kanna, head of the this week, American officials were haps the most painful and emotional debate on the Continent. major ethnic and religious groups, Assyrian Democratic Party and still clinging to an agreement, signed Some speakers said that anti-Semitism today was a playing-out of said that a consensus has emerged to member of the governing council. with Iraqi leaders in November, that the Arab-Israeli conflict in the streets of Europe by immigrants from increase the current council of 25 “We are in the middle of a process called for the governing council to Muslim countries. Others insisted it was a mutated version of anti- people to as many as 125, and to and we can’t have Iraq go in a ran- be replaced on June 30 and a new Jewish hatred that has tormented Europe for centuries. stay in power until U.N.-assisted dom direction. 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Israel Pullback Not To Replace U.S. TV Broadcasts In Mideast Draw Mixed Reviews Peace Roadmap, Sharon Says By Neil Macfarquhar THE NEW YORK TIMES By James Bennet “we must be realistic” and prepare politically — evacuating most of the CAIRO, EGYPT THE NEW YORK TIMES other steps. established settlements in Gaza. He A U.S.-sponsored satellite television station broadcasting in Ara- JERUSALEM But, he continued, “I would like would take that step not as part of bic, probably Washington’s biggest propaganda effort since the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of to stress that this disengagement an agreement but as a unilateral attempts to undermine the Soviet bloc and the Castro government, is Israel courted U.S. support on plan is a security measure and not a measure to draw what he called drawing mixed reviews in the Middle East, ranging from praise for Thursday for his proposal for “uni- political one. The steps that will be “security lines.” He said any Israeli slick packaging to criticism for trying to improve the image of lateral disengagement” from the taken will not prevent the possibility steps would be “fully coordinated” “Satan.” Palestinians, saying that it would of implementing the president’s with the United States. Those watching the station, inaugurated over the weekend with not replace President Bush’s peace vision in reaching an agreed settle- Saying he had not seen “even the an interview with President Bush, find some appeal in the mix of initiative, known as the road map. ment if and when there will be a slightest signs” of Palestinian action news and pop culture. But many remain wary of the underlying In a speech and a three-hour reliable partner on the Palestinian against terrorism, Sharon warned political message. meeting here with envoys from side.” that his plan would leave the Pales- The Bush administration began Al Hurra, whose name means Bush, Sharon said he was commit- Palestinian officials accuse tinians with “much less” than they The Free One, with the announced intent of challenging Al Jazeera ted to the road map. He defended Sharon of deliberately undermining would have had if they followed the and other Arab satellite stations frequently critical of U.S. policy. his plan for withdrawing from most the governing Palestinian Authority. road map. Some differences in tone between Al Hurra and the Arab broadcast- of the Gaza Strip as necessary for They say he wants to avoid negotia- With the plan under sharp criti- ers were immediately apparent, like references to the “coalition forces” Israel’s security should the Pales- tions that might force him to yield cism within his coalition govern- in Iraq rather than the “occupation forces.” tinians fail to abide by the peace more land than he plans to turn over ment and his dominant faction, Instead of Palestinians trying to free themselves from the Israeli plan. “We will not wait for them unilaterally. Likud, Sharon is trying to build sup- occupation, one anchor asked an analyst whether the Palestinians were forever,” he said. Neither side has abided by its port in the Bush administration, ready to abandon their “historical dispute” for the economic prosperity Sharon’s aides had previously first obligations under the road map, which has been seeking a fuller surely to follow. said he would only implement his a three-phase plan for reciprocal, explanation of his plans. He met proposal once he judged that the simultaneous concessions to achieve Thursday with Elliott Abrams, road map had failed. But the Bush a Palestinian state in the West Bank director of Middle East affairs at the Everyone’s a Critic: 5,201 Trade administration appears reluctant to and Gaza and a comprehensive National Security Council; Stephen have anyone make that judgment. Arab-Israeli peace in three years. Hadley, the deputy national security Center Memorial Entries Displayed Warning of a potential “security While Sharon has left the West adviser, and William J. Burns, head By David W. Dunlap and political vacuum” in Palestinian Bank outposts largely alone, he is of the Middle East bureau at the THE NEW YORK TIMES areas, Sharon said in his speech, now proposing a far bolder step State Department. NEW YORK Still not satisfied with pool-filled voids on the site of the twin towers? Count your blessings. It could have been a monumental red Edwards Brings Campaign to N.Y., question mark, a geodesic steel egg, a glowing apple spiked on a tapering spire, two ghostly white airliners with the victims’ names inscribed on the seatbacks or a steel column tilted open like a Pez dispenser to reveal a jumble of mangled artifacts. Hoping To Stop Kerry Momentum Well, actually, it couldn’t have been. A thirteen-member jury By James C. Mckinley Jr. But, after Kerry’s string of victo- moved their operations overseas, his stood between New York and countless submissions to the World and Raymond Hernandez ries across the nation, New York has aides say. Trade Center memorial site competition whose creators were THE NEW YORK TIMES taken on new significance, with He plans to barnstorm the state for unconfined by the bounds of imagination. Or, often, by taste. ALBANY, N.Y. Edwards saying he will focus his five days, appearing on three of those All 5,201 of the entries that the jury sifted through went on dis- Sen. John Edwards brought his efforts to stop Kerry in New York, days in Buffalo, Albany and play at www.wtcsitememorial.org on Thursday. Visitors to the site populist campaign Thursday to New Ohio and Georgia. Rochester, areas that have been par- who signed on to second-guess the jury — “How could they have York, a state that has become an “Who would have ever thought ticularly hard hit by plant closings overlooked that?” — probably left with a new respect for the unexpected battleground that may that the New York primary might and may be more receptive to his jurors’ devotion and patience in going through the entire lot. Visi- offer him a last-ditch opportunity to make or break a candidate,” said message. tors may also have left with a sense that the world cared, no matter slow down Sen. John Kerry’s Charles E. Schumer, New York’s But it is far from certain that how clumsy or inartful the expression. momentum and keep his own bid for senior senator. Edwards’ tactic of concentrating on “Now everywhere and now everyone all over the world has the the presidency alive. On landing here, Edwards, a first- voters in economically hard-pressed opportunity to view the global outpouring,” said Anita Contini, the Edwards landed in New York term Democratic senator from North regions upstate will work, because director of the memorial program at the Lower Manhattan Develop- City and started the scramble for the Carolina, has stepped into a state most of the state’s Democratic prima- ment Corp., which oversaw the competition and created the Web- state’s rich load of 236 delegates by known for its complicated and con- ry voters come from New York City based exhibition. declaring the economy was in a tradictory electoral politics. It is a and its suburbs, political strategists Besides providing a kaleidoscopic perspective on ground zero shambles, in no small part because of state divided north and south, urban say. from 63 nations and 49 states (hello, Alaska?), the Web site also the avarice of multinational corpora- and suburban, with fault lines built In the 2000 Democratic presiden- offers an insight into the evolution of the winning design, “Reflect- tions. around unions, race, religion and eth- tial primary, for example, upstate ing Absence,” by Michael Arad and Peter Walker, competing “It is not good enough to serve the nicity. It has powerful fund-raisers accounted for 30 percent of the entrants who became collaborators at the 11th hour. interests of shareholders and execu- who are sought out by candidates statewide electorate, compared with tives but sacrifice the needs of ordi- around the country and a vast media about 53 percent in New York City nary people who work for a living,” network that is both a curse and and 17 percent in New York City’s New Data Supports View That he declared at Columbia University blessing to those who try to get their suburbs — Westchester, Rockland, on Thursday morning, sounding his message across. Nassau and Suffolk counties. The 70- Black Holes Can Destroy Stars standard promise on the urban cam- In sum, it has tripped up many 30 downstate-upstate ratio was con- By John Noble Wilford pus to end a system of two Americas, homegrown candidates, not to men- sistent with previous primaries. THE NEW YORK TIMES divided by wealth and privilege. tion those who come from places like “The problem with the numbers is New X-ray observations by orbiting satellites have given In recent years, New York has not North Carolina, or Massachusetts. most of the voters in the primary are astronomers their first telling evidence that appears to confirm what played a decisive role in Democratic Edwards has vowed to campaign in the New York metropolitan area,” had been only theory: that a star is doomed if it ventures too close presidential primaries, partly because aggressively in upstate cities and in said Lee M. Miringoff, the director of to a supermassive black hole. its contest takes place late in the pri- pockets of New York City’s outer the Marist College Institute for Public NASA and the European Space Agency announced Wednesday mary season. Not since 1988 has the boroughs where working-class peo- Opinion. “So there is only so much the detection of a brilliant flare of X-rays from the heart of a distant state really mattered in the crucial ple have lost jobs in recent years as you can get statewide by doing well galaxy, followed by a fading afterglow. delegate count buildup. more and more companies have upstate.” An international team of scientists concluded that the telescopes had witnessed the overpowering gravity of a black hole as it tore apart a star and gobbled up a hearty share of its gaseous mass. AIDS Treatment for South Africans “Stars can survive being stretched a small amount, but this star was stretched beyond its breaking point,” said Dr. Stefanie Komossa of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, who led the discovery team. “This unlucky Delayed Owing to Federal Lethargy star just wandered into the wrong neighborhood.” By Sharon Lafraniere out clinics where drugs will be dis- Africans die of the disease each The astronomers estimated that about 1 percent of the victim- THE NEW YORK TIMES pensed, set up a system to track day, but estimates range from 600 ized star’s mass was ultimately consumed by the black hole — con- JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA patients and write training manuals to nearly twice that. sistent with theoretical predictions that the momentum and energy Three months ago, the South for health professionals. After years of questioning of star destruction would fling most of the star’s gas away from the African government promised to “This is a major project,” he whether HIV causes AIDS, the black hole. provide free anti-retroviral medica- said. “We need to make sure we do government of President Thabo tion to people with AIDS, planning the groundwork. We can’t take Mbeki announced in mid-Novem- to supply as many as 1.4 million of shortcuts.” ber that it would more than triple For A Price, Women Add Their them within five years. The delay has drawn furious its AIDS budget to about $1.7 bil- But only last Friday did the criticism from AIDS patients and lion over the next three years. Touch To Adult Toys And Games government solicit proposals from their advocates, who say it may be Much of that is marked for anti- By Mireya Navarro pharmaceutical companies that several months before the govern- retroviral drugs. THE NEW YORK TIMES supply the life-prolonging drugs, ment begins to treat patients. Geffen said the Health Ministry Carlin Ross and Christina Head, a lawyer and a documentary pushing back the start of treatment “There is no excuse for the pro- had at least $14 million on hand that filmmaker in New York, recently teamed up to plot new careers. for thousands of patients. gram continuing to be delayed,” it could use. He said the provincial Among their first moves: Ross, 30, a general counsel to dot- A chart in the government’s said Nathan Geffen, director of the government of the Western Cape coms, this month restarted an adult Web site, cherrybomb.com, plan, released in November, esti- Treatment Action Campaign, which had demonstrated that it was possi- that features “sex and love from a woman’s perspective.” Head, mated that as many as 53,000 peo- lobbies for AIDS treatment. “The ble to act faster to save lives. 26, who has primarily covered subjects like urban youth living in ple would be receiving the drugs money is there. Everything is ready. There, 1,800 patients are being poverty, hopes to produce and direct pornographic films. by the end of March. But the coun- All that needs to happen is for the treated with anti-retroviral drugs at “It’s all about empowering and educating women and, of try’s controversial health minister, government to purchase the drugs. 13 different clinics and hospitals, course, I enjoy sex,” Head said. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, now That has taken way too long.” said Fareed Abdullah, deputy Head and Ross are part of a growing cadre of women who are denies that the government ever South Africa has one of the director of the provincial Health selling sex to other women, in this case what Ross calls “female promised that the program would biggest AIDS epidemics in the Department. In the next year, empowered” adult entertainment — the kind with plots, foreplay begin before April. world. An estimated 12 percent of Abdullah said, the number of treat- and cuddling in the afterglow, the kind that is mindful of Sibani Mngadi, the health min- its population, or 5 million people, ment sites should be tripled, with women’s tastes and suggests new possibilities for women’s plea- ister’s spokesman, said the delay are infected with HIV. No one the eventual goal to treat the 5,000 sure. was caused by the need to check knows for certain how many South to 10,000 people in the province. Page 4 THE TECH February 20, 2004 OPINION Gay Marriage:A National Affair Chairman When the justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial bans on same-sex marriages or establish them as legal. The Hangyul Chung ’05 Court ruled by a 4-3 margin that civil unions fail to grant homo- same tactic was taken in the 1950’s by the NAACP when sexuals the rights entitled to them by the state constitution, they attacking the “separate but equal” policy. Originally, legal Editor in Chief began an important chapter in the teams took districts to court and proved that funding for black Brian Loux ’04 Editorial legal and social history of the Unit- schools and white schools were not equal. Realizing that the Business Manager ed States. The SJC should be effort was too exhausting and ineffective, the strategy changed Roy K. Esaki ’04 admired for its adamant conviction to upholding the principles with Brown v. Board of Education, which argued the very con- of civil rights upon which the nation was founded, but a true stitutionality of separate but equal. Managing Editor resolution of the gay marriage issue can only occur when the Massachusetts has now made a similar move. By demand- David Carpenter ’05 Supreme Court issues a nationwide dictum allowing homosexu- ing that the state must recognize same-sex unions as marriages, als the full benefits of marriage. they demand that they receive both state and federal benefits, NEWS STAFF Certain gay rights activists have compared the recent strug- which runs counter to the federal DMA. This incongruence has News and Features Director: Beckett W. Sterner gle for homosexual marriage recognition to the civil rights already forced the state legislature to debate the issue, but ’06; News Editors: Kathy Lin ’06, Marissa Vogt movement. While the parallel should not be taken too far (advo- because the ruling runs counter to the federal law, it is not ’06, Jenny Zheng ’06; Associate Editors: Waseem cates have not been jailed or physically attacked by law meant to end there. Before all is said and done, the issue should S. Daher ’07, Gireeja V. Ranade ’07, Julián E. Vil- larreal ’07; Staff: Kathy Dobson G, Jeffrey Green- enforcement during rallies), the legal histories between race and have its day in the highest court in the land, and the fate of baum ’04, Eun J. Lee ’04, Michael E. Rolish ’04, homosexuality in America are indeed striking. same-sex marriages can be decided as one nation. Jay K. Cameron ’05, Christine Fry ’05, Sam In 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Defense of We applaud the Massachusetts SJC’s ruling for its leader- Hwang ’05, Issel Anne L. Lim ’05, Jessica A. Marriage Act (DMA), ultimately claiming that states can decide ship in the battle of equality and for challenging the traditional Zaman ’05, Brian C. Keegan ’06, Lauren E. LeBon for themselves whether or not to allow same-sex “marriage” and views of marriage. This decision serves as a reminder that the ’06, Jennifer Wong ’06, Ray C. He ’07, Tongyan Lin ’07; Meteorologists: Samantha L. H. Hess G, that for federal purposes, a marriage is only a union between a definition of marriage, like many things, is not static: in fact, Robert Lindsay Korty G, Greg Lawson G, Nikki man and a woman. Thus 1,049 federal marriage benefits, as views on what is right and wrong on marriage have changed Privé G, William Ramstrom G, Michael J. Ring G. examined by a congressional panel, became available only to dramatically. In America’s past, marriages between two people heterosexual couples. The decision was essentially an analog of of different faiths, ethnic backgrounds, and races sparked con- PRODUCTION STAFF the policy of popular sovereignty seen leading up to the Civil troversy. In fact, many states outlawed interracial marriages Editors: Andrew Mamo ’04, Sie Hendrata Dhar- War, in which states (via popular election) were allowed to until the Loving v. Virginia decision in 1967. Over the years, mawan ’05, Tiffany Dohzen ’06; Associate Editor: choose whether or not to adopt slavery. The U.S. government controversial marriages have become gradually integrated into Nicholas R. Hoff ’05; Staff: Joel C. Corbo ’04, Joy should have realized not to make the same mistake twice. Not legal and social frameworks. It is only natural that marriage, Forsythe ’04, Kevin Chen ’05, Albert Leung ’06, only does Abraham Lincoln’s warning of a house divided still like any other social institution, be adaptive as times change. Jolinta Lin ’06, Jonathan Reinharth ’06, Jennifer Huang ’07, Yaser M. Khan ’07, Y. Grace Lin ’07, apply, but to claim that separate states and not the national According to Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, Sylvia Yang ’07. agencies hold jurisdiction over a human right is preposterous. the state constitution “forbids the creation of second-class citi- That law led to the non-uniform policy across the country zens.” We hope that local lawmakers keep these words in mind as OPINION STAFF seen today. Thirty-nine states declared defense of marriage acts they debate amendments designed to dilute the ruling by allowing Editor: Vivek Rao ’05; Columnist: Andrew C. of their own, Vermont adopted a civil union policy which grants only civil unions. By preventing homosexual couples from marry- Thomas ’04; Staff: Basil Enwegbara SM ’01, gays state benefits of marriage but not federal ones, three made ing, we wrongly continue to subject some members of society to a Gretchen K. Aleks ’04, Ken Nesmith ’04, Atif Z. Qadir ’04, W. Victoria Lee ’06, Daniel Barclay ’07, registries for same-sex couples that do not necessarily imply second-class status. The SJC has paved the way for progress by Ruth Miller ’07, Chen Zhao ’07. any state benefits, and the rest remain undecided. As a result, confronting this injustice and upholding the rights of all our citi- advocacy groups have tried to go from state to state to overturn zens, and it is time for the Supreme Court to follow suit. SPORTS STAFF Editor: Phil Janowicz ’05, Brian Chase ’06; Staff: Yong-yi Zhu ’06. Letters To The Editor ARTS STAFF Editors: Christine R. Fry ’05, Amy Lee ’06; When History Most significantly though for the readers of riage] need to be protected? I think so.” I con- Associate Editor: Kevin G. Der ’06; Staff: Bog- The Tech, I believe that it is an academic tend that we can learn a lot from history; tra- dan Fedeles G, Ruby Lam G, Sonja Sharpe G, Becomes Hijacked tragedy for a faculty member of Professor ditional marriage has allowed civilization to Fred Choi ’02, Chikako Sassa ’02, Jed Horne ’04, This past week, I attended the Dramashop’s Brody’s stature to inject his own political ten- propagate and thrive for thousands of years Pey-Hua Hwang ’04, Josiah Q. Seale ’04, Petar performance of “The Company of Angels,” dencies into his work at the Institute. He was and must be preserved for our existence alone. Simich ’04. written by MIT Associate Provost for the Arts hired to contribute to the student body his In this country, traditional marriage has been a PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF Alan Brody. As I thumbed through the Playbill, great skill and talent in the world of theater, bedrock of society which has permeated into Editors: Peter R. Russo ’02, Brian Hemond ’04, Jina I came upon the end of the “Author’s Note,” a not for his personal ideologies which may con- every corner of the American life. Kim ’06; Associate Editors: Daniel Bersak ’02, short message from Alan Brody in which he stitute his world view. It is truly an inexcus- We are where we are today as a world Jonathan T. Wang ’05; Staff: Marcus Dahlem G, informs the audience that the modern state of able affront to those who survived the Holo- leader in part because of our commitment to Wendy Gu G, Stanley Hu ’00, Scott Johnston ’03, Israel was the focal point of hope for the Holo- caust and to the memories of the six million the stabilizing institution of traditional mar- Miguel A. Calles ’04, Jimmy Cheung ’04, Ben caust survivors, but warns us that we shouldn’t who perished, and a black mark on the prover- riage. People draw from American history and Gallup ’04, Dmitry Portnyagin ’04, Hassen Abdu ’06, misconstrue his play as “an apologia for politi- bial eye of the Faculty of the Arts at MIT. try to juxtapose the issues of slavery and gay Matt D. Brown ’06, John M. Cloutier ’06, Grant Jordan cal decisions being made by that country Chaim Kutnicki ’07 marriage as if the former validates the latter. ’06, Stephanie Lee ’06, Edward Platt ’06, Omoleye today.” He then continues to say that he hopes Yes, our nation has chosen to set people free Roberts ’06, Rene Chen ’07. “the play is a reminder of what it means for any The Sanctity of from slavery to man, and continuing to outlaw FEATURES STAFF people to be homeless and stateless.” If his gay marriage will keep people free from slav- political agenda were not clear enough already, ery to sin and its consequences. Editor: Akshay Patil ’04; Associate Editors: he concludes that he hopes his play “might help Marriage Thirdly, I too believe that “children are far Tiffany Kosolcharoen ’06; Columnists: Bruce Wu G, Kailas Narendran ’01, Ian Ybarra ’04, Danchai the people who see it to understand how impor- I applaud many of the declarations made in better off being raised by two parents — the Mekadenaumporn ’05, Alex Nelson ’06; Cartoon- tant a home is to the Palestinians who have Andrew Thomas’s “Divorcing Marriage” same two, ideally — for their entire develop- ists: Jason Burns G, Jumaane Jeffries ’02, Sergei R. been driven to their experience of despair by [Feb. 13]. Unfortunately, for me to agree with ment, living in a house filled with love.” How- Guma ’04, Sean Liu ’04, Jennifer Peng ’05, Nancy historical circumstance.” these statements, they first had to be taken out ever, I challenge Thomas’s opinion that gay Phan ’05, Qian Wang ’05. The moral implications of that statement of context. (I won’t address whether marriage partners provide “strong benefits to children” are disturbing enough, of placing the onus on should be overseen by the government or the and that “average gay parents are just as capa- BUSINESS STAFF the Israeli people for the suffering of the church here, though I do think the government ble of raising healthy children as anyone.” Operations Manager: Lauren W. Leung ’07; Palestinians with the same moral weight as should have control). Even twenty years ago, research indicated that Staff: Jyoti R. Tibrewala ’04, Lynn K. Kamimoto the unbearable burden of shame which lay Thomas is clearly an advocate of same-sex the average homosexual had between 300 and ’05, William Li ’06, Victoria Fan ’06, Donald H. upon the shoulders of the world community of marriage while I am not. The affirmation that 500 partners (American Journal of Public Wong ’07, Jennifer Y. Wong ’07. silent bystanders after the Holocaust. “marriage should be a sacred institution” is Health, 1985) and that homosexuals were 24 TECHNOLOGY STAFF I also realize that it probably would not very refreshing. “Sacred” means “set apart” or to 48 times more likely to abuse children prove fruitful to begin a discourse on the utter “devoted exclusively to a single use,” accord- (Psychological Reports, 1986). These factors Staff: Frank Dabek G, Roshan Baliga ’03, Daniel fallacy of equating Israel’s policies of self- ing to The American Heritage Dictionary. The don’t exactly scream family values. If I didn’t Leeds ’05, Lisa Wray ’07. defense to the murderous genocide committed very essence of marriage itself is this exclusive want my children to grow up in this environ- EDITORS AT LARGE by the Nazis, an implication of Professor union between a man and a woman, never ment, would you still call me “intolerant” and Senior Editors: Satwiksai Seshasai G, Keith J. 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Once submitted, all letters become World Wide Web at http://the-tech.mit.edu. facsimile. Advertising, subscription, and typesetting rates available. Entire contents © 2004 The Tech. Printed on recycled paper by Charles River Publishing. February 20, 2004 OPINION THE TECH Page 5 The Economic and Social Case for A Lion in Homosexual Marriage Winter society made up of both sexes.” lies are second-class in status. Sean Safford But his comments on the subject conflate That is not only a civil rights argument; it Bill Frezza the relatively limited evidence on gay parent- is an economic one, too. Like all economic Adam Kolasinski offers what appears on ing with the copious research which shows institutions, marriage can be seen simply as a I had the pleasure last Sunday of witness- the surface to be a dispassionate argument that having two parents is better than one. A means of reducing transaction costs. Marriage ing a virtuoso performance by that tireless against gay marriage based on the legal prin- review of the research published in the Ameri- would save gay and lesbian families — and promoter of social justice, Dr. Noam Chom- ciple that the protection of a given minority can Sociological Review indicates clearly that therefore society — the cost of hiring a sky, whose lecture titled “The Militarization group must further a gay parents raise children who are every bit as lawyer to draw up 50 separate contracts cov- of Science and Space” packed Kresge Audi- Letter To The compelling state interest capable on a wide range of measures as chil- ering everything from whether they are auto- torium. Sponsored by the Social Justice Editor [“The Secular Case dren brought up by straight parents. Indeed, matically granted power of attorney in the Cooperative and the Technology and Culture Against Gay Marriage,” because for most gay parents having a child event a loved one is hospitalized to the right Forum, Chomsky was introduced to thunder- Feb. 17]. In short, his claim is that the state requires overcoming numerous obstacles, to securing domestic partnership benefits at ous applause as “America’s Greatest Attrac- recognizes the marriage of a man and a there is evidence to suggest that gay parents work. tion.” In wide-ranging remarks delivered to a woman because doing so encourages procre- are better caregivers. How efficient — economically speaking rapt audience, Chomsky made it clear that ation and that the state has a compelling On the other hand, it is certainly the case — is it to have to run home, open the safe, his principles have not changed one iota interest in ensuring that people reproduce. that, on average, children with two parents do and run back to the hospital to present “evi- since my own student days at MIT 30 years The relationships of gay men and women fall better in life than children that grow up in sin- dence” of one’s “contractual rights” when ago. short of marriage according to this logic. gle-parent households. Children of single par- life and death decisions about one’s child Billed as a 45-minute lecture followed by First, it’s not at all clear that it is in state’s ents, for instance, are 1.7 times more likely to need to be made? Whose interest does that an hour for audience questions, the talk interest to encourage more children. In our drop out of high school. But the reason has serve (other than attorneys’)? From a pure opened with fond reminiscences of the Black own country, 120,000 children are adopted nothing to do with whether those children are efficiency standpoint, it is much more effi- Panthers, the takeover of the Student Center, each year. Worldwide, there are far more adequately prepared to live in a society made cient simply to include gay and lesbian cou- and a resounding call to class warfare children in search of a home than there are of men and women. The “empirically verified ples within the broader institution of mar- between “us” and “them” — “them” being adults willing and able to raise them. To be common wisdom,” to borrow a phrase from riage. “the top ten percent of taxpayers” and “us” coldly analytical about it, increases in both Kolasinski, is that it has everything to do with But casting the argument in terms of pure being everyone else. No less than the “sur- life expectancy and productivity rates mean growing up in loving and financially stable efficiency misses the point of the debate hap- vival of the species” was at stake. I was that far fewer people are needed to make homes regardless of whether those homes are pening across the river. Kolasinski would relieved that no one in the audience carried society run smoothly, not more. headed by straight or gay parents. have us believe that people get married torches and pitchforks. But even if it was in the state’s interest to The fact on the ground is that gay men and because the government wants us to do so. Deconstructing Federal Reserve Chairman encourage procreation, what does marriage women are raising children — according to The truth is quite the opposite: people of all Alan Greenspan’s recent testimony to Con- have to do with whether or not people decide research supported by the American Civil sexualities have been hitching up for time gress, Chomsky explained that the organizing to have children? Most of us are capable of Liberties Union, estimates are between six immemorial. What has changed is the fact force behind America’s political system is procreating just fine without the govern- and 14 million children have at least one gay that more and more gay men and lesbians are ment’s help, thank you very much. parent. So Kolasinski’s arguments regarding doing it openly and with the blessing of their Kolasinski recognizes that the state’s the relationship between marriage and chil- friends, families, and neighbors. The danger deeper interest is in providing children with a drearing are backwards. It is very much in the is that the state will lose touch with the soci- stable, loving environment. Prefacing his state’s interest to ensure that the children of ety it is supposed to reflect. In doing so, it More countries today enjoy the remarks with the insightful comment that “the gay and lesbian parents are raised in families risks losing the legitimacy on which its blessings of liberty than ever differences between men and women go that are as equal as possible to those with claims to regulate society are based, and that beyond anatomy,” he argues that “it is essen- straight parents. The far more serious danger is in no one’s interest. before, but Noam Chomsky has tial for a child to be nurtured by parents of is that, in not recognizing gay marriages, the Sean Safford is a doctoral candidate in the both sexes if a child is to learn to function in a state will enact into legislation that gay fami- Sloan School of Management. his shtick and he’s sticking to it.

that “you have to make rich people happy and Letters To The Editor, Continued poor people frightened to make the economy Continued from Page 4 dently labels “legal.” interesting and that the author may have origi- work.” Claims that entrepreneurial initiative Now, I’m sure there are reasonable expla- nal views and solutions to the Israeli-Palestin- drives economic growth were ridiculed, as ly advocate, like Thomas, that “marriage, as nations for this. Perhaps Zhu didn’t read ian conflict. Maybe she would stress what one were the Apollo astronauts (mere “clowns”) we see it now, can only be saved by taking it recent articles on the case. However, these could do toward resolving this issue, especial- in a passing bit of relevance to the lecture more seriously as [a] pure, idealistic, and glo- players deserve no more than the reputation ly since the role of the civil society was made title. rious union,” but only between a man and a damage commensurate with their actions, or clear by the recent Geneva peace initiative No, stated Chomsky. All innovation virtu- woman who love each other enough to recog- in other words, they deserve contempt and brought about by Israelis and Palestinians ally “without exception” — from the comput- nize this institution as sacred. punishment for their late night carousing, not working together. er revolution to the Internet to modern phar- Sara Vassallo for a false rape charged by an angry woman. I was not only disappointed by the article, maceuticals — has been state sponsored. The Despite it being an opinion column, the but also shocked. The author merely provided taxpayers (presumably he means the top ten misrepresentation of facts has no place any- a synthesis of the propaganda brought by percent of us who now pay nearly two-thirds Clarifying the where in journalism, least of all on the sports extremist Palestinians who deny Israel the of income taxes) bear the cost and risk and page. right to exist and advocate its destruction. The only when results pan out is the benefit hand- St. John’s Case Christopher P. Anderson ’04 article is of course full of inaccuracies that ed over to corporations. I am writing in regards to what I consider demonstrate the ignorance of the author. I Chomsky’s best applause lines were tar- to be a misrepresentation of the facts in Yong- would stress only two. geted at those few capitalist running dogs Yi Zhu’s column [“Sex and the Sports Game: Marriage Criteria? First, the author pretends that Israel is the lurking in the audience. “Corporate execu- Which Obsession Domineers our Minds?”, I really wanted to understand Adam only country in the world to mention the eth- tives are, by law, pathological because their Feb. 13]. Kolasinski’s column [“The Secular Case nicity or religion of citizens on national I.D. mandate is to increase profits and market Zhu wrote, “At least in Colorado, nobody Against Gay Marriage,” Feb. 17], but it left cards. However, this is common practice in all share” and not to serve the public good. In a was disciplined because everything was legal. me scratching my head — at least until it countries in the Middle East, including breathtaking call for the nationalization of At St. John’s, many of the players were sus- dawned on me that by trying to balance this Israel’s neighbors like Lebanon, and is even all industry, Chomsky urged that corpora- pended because it was discovered that they issue on a fulcrum of haphazardly interpreted the case in a secular state like Turkey. It is tions be put under public control, with had hired a prostitute.” economics, he had inadvertently and forceful- also the case in some other parts of the world power vested in the electorate rather than The second sentence doesn’t properly tell ly tipped the case in favor of gay marriage. like Vietnam. shareholders. Aside from prohibiting out- the story. The facts of the case, available to It is true that procreation has traditionally Second, the author pretends that the Zion- sourcing, even automation would be put to a anyone with a web browser, are that several St. been an important consideration in marriage ist leadership was an ally of the Nazis during vote as “automation tends to decreases John’s players attended an adult establishment and perhaps even qualifies as a compelling World War II because of an individual initia- wages.” of some sort, engaged in consensual sexual state interest — but does that justify using it tive of a second-rank right-wing Zionist Except for the claim that the United activity with the supposed “prostitute,” then as a litmus test for whether or not two people activist who contacted a low-level Nazi diplo- States has “probably” been arming the Israeli refused to pay her the $1000 that she demand- should get married? Kolasinski answers this mat in Istanbul during the war. This is ridicu- air force with nuclear warheads, that the ed afterwards. Following this, she accused question when he points out the many poten- lous; despite the measures taken by the British quest to cure cancer is “just a pretext,” and them of rape. After the university’s suspension tial circumstances wherein a marriage against Jewish immigration to Palestine in the that the economic boom of the 1990s was or expulsion of several involved parties, the between heterosexuals does not result in issue. 1930s, Zionist leaders like David Ben-Gurion “nothing much to write home about,” the rest woman’s charge was shown to be false, and If the objective is to deny marriage to supported the British in their war against the of the lecture could easily have been given she herself was charged with prostitution, those who cannot or will not procreate, why Nazis and many Jews of Palestine fought 30 years ago. Come to think of it, it probably attempted extortion, and falsifying a report. not at least take the simple step of asking cou- alongside the British in the Jewish brigade. In was. But since each year brings a fresh crop Now, we don’t know whether or not the ples (note that costly, mind-reading technolo- the meantime, the leader of the Palestinians of impressionable young students to MIT, players knew a priori they were soliciting a gy is not required) what their plans are and spent the war in Berlin, visiting on some occa- why tamper with perfection? The Berlin prostitute. She claims that the players agreed refuse licenses to those who do not intend to sions the extermination camp in Auschwitz. Wall may be a distant memory, communism to the payment beforehand, but the fact that have children? Additionally, since propaga- What is unacceptable in this article is to has been relegated to the dust heap of histo- she falsely claimed she had been sexually tion of society is so important, why not pretend that Zionism and Nazism are the same ry, and more countries today enjoy the bless- assaulted threatens her credibility in my mind. exclude couples who plan on having fewer ideology. This is a shameful attack on the ings of liberty than ever before, but Noam Additionally, the fact that she was not paid than two children? The answer, of course, is memory of the victims and survivors of the Chomsky has his shtick and he’s sticking to makes the idea that they “hired” a prostitute a that we don’t have the moral or legal authority Holocaust and cannot be accepted. it. null one. It is not a crime to my knowledge to to do so and that gay marriage is therefore not It is pointless to discuss these facts with Alas, I was never able to ask Dr. Chomsky have sex with a woman who ex post facto merely an issue of procreation, but rather one the author. You cannot convince someone my question, as 45-minute lecture rambled on attempts to employ herself thereof. of civil rights and equal treatment. who hates. However, I hope that the editors of for almost an hour and a half. Perhaps I can The other important point is that the sus- The biggest danger of following Kolasins- The Tech will not accept such “contributions” ask him now: “Why do you think, Dr. Chom- pensions and expulsions (some of which have ki’s logic to its dubious conclusion is that we in the future, since this one assimilated Zion- sky, that there are numerous holocaust muse- since been upheld) from the Catholic school may enshrine into law the notion that mar- ism and Nazi ideology, while advocating the ums commemorating the murder of six mil- did not come from a supposition of illegal riage exists solely to facilitate procreation, destruction of an established state. lion civilians by the Nazis while there are no activity, but “for violation of team rules and and, worse, that economics has anything I will conclude by sharing with you two holocaust museums commemorating the 100 behavior inconsistent with St. John’s mission meaningful to say about marriage. thoughts. The first one is that a high level of million people who died at the hands of their and values,” according to a school news John Armstrong education, even if it includes the most own communist governments?” Could it be release. advanced degree, is not a guarantee against because the Nazis never had much of a fol- Either way, the situation is far more com- political extremism, and hateful ideology. lowing amongst the intelligentsia, while unre- plex than “they had hired a prostitute.” And in In Defense of Israel Second, as the great Martin Luther King, Jr. pentant Marxists still fill our college auditori- fact, as early as a week before Zhu’s column, When I read the title of the article “How to believed, there is no difference between anti- ums? voices at Colorado were recounting accusa- Bring Peaceful Coexistence Back to the Mid- Zionism and anti-semitism. 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By Mark Liao cessful. So I dedicate this article to anyone it’s the same skin, only on feet. (It tastes garnished with slices of green onion. Some- FEATURES COLUMNIST who has ever felt like dim sum was not for like…feet!) Okay, I give up. It sounds gross, times there might be ginger in it (ew), but on There is a certain nostalgic feeling I get them. but I’ve been eating this since I was young the flip side, you must sprinkle on some white each time I go to dim sum. As a kid, you just I have made a list of dishes that the more enough to enjoy Fraggle Rock. pepper. Oh, and to humor some of the white point and food magically appears. You don’t hardcore dim sum-ers do. Actually, these are Fried Tarot Dumplings (Woo Kwok/ folk, they may throw on some pieces of fried need to know what it’s called; they show it to definitely just as standard as the dishes from Oui toe gyau) — Tarot root: it’s found in poi, wontons. you before you decide whether you want it. last week, it’s just I find that it’s harder to get a Hawaiian dish so please, white people, On my most recent excursion to China However, as with most things, the older I got, people like Nameless to go for them. The fol- don’t be afraid. I guess people are thrown off Pearl, I went with a party of five. We ate till the harder things became. For example, I lowing are the english names in bold, followed by its purple color, but in all reality it’s each of us was brimming and were out the wouldn’t be writing this article had it not have by the Mandarin and Cantonese translations. almost exactly like a potato or a cassava root door about $10 dollars down a person. Person- been for a certain next door neighbor who we Turnip Cake (Lor baak go/ Luo buo gao) (yes, the stuff they make boba out of). So ally, I think that dim sum is a balancing act shall call “Nameless.” — The only reason I put this here is because this dish is tiny pieces of pork and splinters between price and variety of dishes. Since This guy is the most Asian white boy the term “turnip” tends to scare people. In of bamboo encased in tarot root and then most of the dishes have about four one-person you’ll ever meet. He pledged an “Asian frat,” reality it’s not a turnip, but a daikon radish. deep fried. It’s best served when hot. And if servings, my favorite number is going in he listens to techno, and he does the best Think of a carrot and a radish getting together, there’s some “special” one with a huge crab groups of three. That way, you might get two impression of ordering from Quan’s Kitchen doing the horizontal polka, and nine months claw jutting out of it, don’t bother, it’ll cost pieces of your favorite items because there ever. (“Ooooooh we have many different later, out pops a daikon radish. These tiny you a buck more and won’t really taste that might be someone who doesn’t want their types of chi-kan. We have sweet sour chi- squares are a mixture of daikon puree, bits of much better. share. Children…be nice about taking the last kan, sesame chi-kan, General Gau’s chi- meat, and dried mushrooms that are steamed, Preserved Duck Egg Congee (pei dan sau piece. kan.”) then pan fried and served with a thick soy yok joke/ pe dan sau yau tso) — Congee is If you want a good tea, try the chrysanthe- So I expected him to be fine at dim sum. sauce. Again this is relatively tame, and defi- basically fine porridge. For those of you unfa- mum tea (gi hwa tsa). The lady even asked if And of course, I was completely wrong. He nitely standard. miliar with porridge, it’s basically a soupy way we wanted sugar in it. whined and griped about everything and any- Steamed Chicken Feet (Fong Jiao/ Fon to serve rice. With two cups of rice, instead of And the last tip of the day: the chopsticks thing. “Ew, what’s that? I don’t eat pork. Is Tswa) — Mmm, steamed chicken feet. By filling the rice cooker up to the two cup line, at most dim sum places are notoriously slip- this supposed to be sweet or salty?” feet, I mean what they cut off the drumstick. It fill it up to the five cup line. What is a bit dan- pery. You try plucking that last tiny, lil’ pork When we finally found him a piece of is kind of weird thinking you’re eating the gerous about this dish is the preserved duck riblet from its sea of oil with these pseudo- chicken, he wouldn’t eat it because, “it doesn’t skin and tendons and not necessarily meat, but egg. I don’t really want to go through the ivory chopsticks. My point: stab whenever look like chicken.” Taking the swim team to trust me, people, this is very tasty. Be adven- process of how they preserve a duck egg, and possible with one chopstick and fake holding dim sum wasn’t that successful either. Well, turous, go for it, you’ll be pleasantly sur- I’ll admit, its obsidian color is very unappeal- onto the item by making sure the other chop- more accurately, taking the gay Jewish guy prised. I know there are people out there who ing. But quite frankly, it’s really good. The stick touches whatever you’re grabbing. Else, from the swim team to dim sum wasn’t suc- love eating the skin of a chicken breast, well dish also contains slices of pork and should be just ask for a fork. Happy eats. Positive Sinking What’s Next? Catch Them While You Can Mobile Sterility By Ian Ybarra Luckily, Professor Carter manually replied By Akshay Patil another two years he won’t be able to have FEATURES COLUMNIST to my e-mail and agreed to chat with me for FEATURES EDITOR babies anymore!” “I’m too busy.” Next time you use that as 20 minutes. Still wanting to pout about having Aksheezy, You think I’m kidding, but its the reason for not doing something, send e-mail to waited so long to ask, I raised my chin up and Do you know anybody who looks like truth… cell phones are evil like that. Not Professor of Materials Science Craig W. went to his office. Here’s what I learned. Constance Marie? (Also, how do you pro- only does my cell phone try to destroy my Carter. I dare you. The automated response For Carter, many rewards of his work have nounce her last name? It looks like Mah- virility, but it always insists that we’re in will make you think twice about whether your been made possible because, at several times ree, but it could be Mah-ree-eh). Germany. I swear. I turn it on and my “I’m too busy” is actually a reason or an in his career, he simply chose not to limit him- —Mxmx phone friendly greets me with a “why excuse. self. For those of you reading along at home, hello! Wow, it looks like we’re in Berlin! It begins, “It has become impossible to As an undergrad at UC Berkeley, he con- the subject for this e-mail is (and I quote) Well, I better change time zones to German answer all the email I receive. Even if your templated switching his major from materials “No Kids Rapping or Ostriches.” That’s time, since we’re obviously in Germany, email is important, there may be a delayed science to mathematics or physics because of right. Rapping ostriches. No, it doesn’t despite the utter lack of Lederhosen.” And response. I will read email frequently, but only a few classes that he enjoyed. Then he fol- make any sense. But somewhere out there, then it starts talking extra loud to the cell answer urgent and emergency emails immedi- lowed advice that he “should stay in materials there’s an individual who is absolutely psy- phone tower in German, I think. ately. I am grateful for your patience.” science because it’s so flexible that you can do ched (or at the very least, greatly amused) I’m not quite sure what it does… all I That is followed by a brief explanation of as much math and physics as you want to.” that I’m printing their random e-mail. I know is that it does it through my crotch why he cannot reply to all e-mail, a suggestion Years after earning his triple crown from really don’t know what to say about this… and I’m paying for it. Maybe the phone to send him reminder messages if necessary, Berkeley, Carter was working in an industrial other than I can only suspect that it’s “mah- does this because it’s a Siemens (I dare you and a list of seven URLs where he has posted laboratory, performing similar duties to those ree,” since “mah-ree-ah” would imply that to read that word out loud) phone and it answers to FAQs. Personal FAQs? The man is he has now as a professor: doing research, the name ended with an “a.” There, you misses home or something. All I’m saying busy. publishing papers, and managing other excited yet? Whoa, down boy. is, does it really have to take it out on my Reading the auto-reply made me think researchers and funding. But by becoming a I don’t even know who Constance Marie manhood? back to when I sent my e-mail. By pressing professor, he added teaching to that list. is. If I had an Internet connection, I could Maybe my front-pocket isn’t the best the “send” button, I had really just pressed my And when I asked if he could happily con- look it up… but I don’t. Nope, I’m sitting place to keep it, but where else am I sup- luck. I felt disappointment, but only with tinue in his current role or if he still wonders in an airport terminal, waiting to board my posed to keep it? My back pocket? If I put myself. what he’s going to do when he grows up, red-eye flight, trying to be somewhat funny it there, I’ll probably get ass cancer. Well, I Over two years have passed since I was in Carter said, “I think everybody ponders that while I blearily stare at my computer guess that’d be better than my current the Introduction to Thermodynamics class question.” He added, “I would expect that screen. future, but I’m guessing ass cancer proba- taught by Carter (That’s 3.00, which is now many people who stay in academia do so You know, if my cell phone had blue- bly isn’t a walk down candy lane either. extinct). Although I was among those who had because it is more or less not making the deci- tooth or some other wonderful piece of With my present situation, I wouldn’t be distaste for Thermodynamics, I consciously sion.” technology in it, I’d be able to connect to able to make babies, but at least I’d be able exerted more effort in that class than in my Perhaps that’s the answer we should all the wonderful wasteland of weird we call to sit down. others. And I did so because Professor Carter strive to give, regardless of the type of work the world wide web. Granted, it’d be slow I guess I’ll just have to move it to my honestly stated the difficulty of understanding we pursue. For Professor Carter, it involves as refrigerated molasses, but at least the purse. Man, that’ll be a pain, I barely have thermodynamics and consistently demonstrat- teaching and developing ways to compute the ether would drip drip its way into my com- enough room in there for my makeup, eye- ed his passion for teaching it. effects of material properties and processes on puter. But my cell phone doesn’t have any liner, lip gloss, tamp… err. Yeah. The way he spoke about the importance of material behavior. For others it could be thing like that. People still just don’t seem to believe what he was teaching and the new problems enhancing flight simulators or mentoring chil- Nope. Just sits there and emits large that I really do get the e-mails I publish. I that he and his colleagues were exploring dren from broken homes or building a better quantities of radiation which makes me don’t know what more I can do to convince made me sense that he loved his work. And I mousetrap. If we find work that constantly quite nervous since I keep it in my pocket y’all that I don’t have the creativity to man- wanted to hear the story of how he figured out presents new challenges that excite us, we and that’s dangerously close to, you know, ufacture these things and to impress upon what kind of work would reward him. But I might feel like we never endured the stress of certain areas of the male anatomy that guys you, the reader, the fact that I depend on didn’t ask — not until last week. deciding what kind of work we want to do. tend to enjoy keeping in working order. I your e-mails for sustenance. Without your We all run across people whose sheer I was fortunate to hear Professor Carter’s really wonder if people have done studies e-mails to [email protected], my body excitement for their work inspires us to find story last week, and I intend to ask for the sto- as to the effects of keeping your cell phone would go into withdrawal and I would our own callings. We wish we could hear how ries of others who have inspired me before it’s in your pocket… didn’t they show that cell probably die… or turn into a guinea pig. they struggled with their career decisions. too late. I encourage you to do the same. phones caused brain cancer or something? The kind of guinea pig that pees when you Although we learn more from actually doing Catch them while you can, my friends — What about all that time it spends next to... terrify it by doing scary things like look at the work that intrigues us, we can still glean before your e-mail draws auto-replies pointing thingy? I mean, it can’t be good; just sitting it, or vaguely in its general direction. And some transferable knowledge from others’ to personal FAQs. there going, “here I am!” all the time to the then instead of this wonderful grey box of experiences. However, we must ask first. cell phone tower and the cell phone tower “Positive Sinking,” you’d open up The Tech replies, “great! Remember to send large to find a big damp spot in the Features sec- quantities of radiation through some guy’s tion. Oh well, it’d probably mark an sensitive areas!” and the cell phone goes, improvement in column quality. “sweet! Not only am I a digital leash, but in Got News? Call The Tech! Yay for Fridays. x3-1541 or [email protected] Page 8 THE TECH FEATURES February 20, 2004 Sex and the SafeRide Be that Sexy Bitch By Alex Nelson before making a purchase. Dress pants should hit past the Acne and other skin problems are medical conditions that FEATURES COLUMNIST ankles and casual pants such as jeans can be longer, but not should be treated by a dermatologist. Dermatologist-pre- In the world of MIT, fashion is often amiss. Style is hap- too long that you step on them or they drag when you’re scribed ointments and pills can clear up breakouts and pre- hazard at best, with little effort going into a student’s wearing tennis shoes. vent further irritation. These personal hygiene measures help wardrobe, grooming, and accessorizing choices. On the When purchasing pants, look for a straight-leg style or to enhance your natural appearance without changing your social scene, this puts us at a disadvantage. We are already one that does not taper at the ankle. Straight legs are most personal style. stereotypically viewed as nerdy and, heck, a lot of us are. But flattering and fit well over most shoes. When purchasing Grooming follows from hygiene. Although not neces- that doesn’t mean it should be obvious from a first glance. shirts, keep in mind that you want to choose a size that will sary to ensure a healthy body, it can do a great deal of good There are times when nerdy is a good thing, for instance, in fit your body. Too big is unflattering. Too small makes you for your overall appearance. A regularly maintained hair- academics. However, in life, nerdy tends to hurt us. look fat or like a little kid. Improperly fitting clothing is style is easier to manage than a hairstyle that has grown out Let us begin with the basics. Here’s a simple color rule: extremely noticeable. If you’re going to purchase clothing, of style. Black and brown do not go together. Far too many times have you might as well spend wisely. Hair grows at a rate of about a half-inch per month. For I seen a student walking down Amherst Alley on the way to Now please let me address personal hygiene. Hygiene, both women and men, getting a trim is important to keep the an interview wearing a black suit and old, dirty, brown boots. your personal cleanliness or lack thereof, is an accurate mea- ends clean. Split ends occur when hair dries out and begins If you spent the money on a nice suit, you should not ruin it sure of the effort you put into your appearance. Poor hygiene to shear up the hair shaft. Regular haircuts are recommended by wearing brown shoes. I don’t care if you only have one is disgusting. Although you may not realize that showering every 6-8 weeks. Whether at a salon or using a haircutting kit pair of shoes; though that is a problem in itself. This also once a week is not enough, the people around you will smell yourself, haircuts prevent split ends and will give you a pol- applies to belts and jackets. In casual situations, this rule car- you and avoid you. ished look. ries less weight. But by no means is it acceptable to attend a Some basic standards of hygiene involve showering daily Keeping these simple tips in mind can help a person to formal gathering with an uncoordinated outfit. Your lack of using body soap and shampoo. Apply deodorant after show- maximize their attractiveness with little added effort. Not attention to detail reflects upon your character. ering and before exercise to prevent bodily odor. Teeth only will looking great improve your chances for success in Size does matter! I realize you hate to shop for clothing, should be brushed twice daily, to get rid of morning breath love and in work, but it will also boost your confidence level. but please take the extra five minutes to try on your clothing and prevent tooth decay before going to sleep. So what are you waiting for, you sexy bitch?

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N52-118. Sponsor: Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC). 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. – Focus on the Arts: Elena Ruehr. Presentation by Music and Theater Arts 6:00 p.m. – Varsity Pistol Collegiate Sectional. Free. Room: MIT Pistol and Rifle Range in DuPont Lecturer Elena Ruehr, a composer whose works are commissioned and performed internationally. Athletic Center. Annual mid-winter program of the MIT Women’s League, showcases the work of talented women in 7:00 p.m. – Lost in Translation. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. the MIT community and League friends. Bring a bag lunch; dessert and beverages provided. 7:00 p.m. – Chinese New Year’s Banquet. Join the Association of Taiwanese Students in their Reserve your spot. Free. Room: 10-342. Sponsor: MIT Women’s League. Chinese New Year’s Celebration. Dinner and an evening of entertainment will be provided. RSVP 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. – Focus On The Arts. 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Sponsor: Information Systems. 10:00 p.m. – Lost in Translation. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. – Blood Drive. Help the American Red Cross save lives by donating blood. All day – TCC 2004: The First Theory of Cryptography Conference. $130-$280. Room: Grier Free. Room: La Sala de Puerto Rico, Student Center. Sponsor: American Red Cross Team and Net- Room Bldg 34-401B. Sponsor: Conference Services, EECS. Shafi Goldwasser, MIT and Weizmann work, Blood Drives. Institute. 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. – MCP seminar. Cap-and-Trade: What, Why, and When. Denny Ellerman All Day – 2004 Awards Convocation Nominations Open. Executive Director, Center for Environmental Policy Reserach Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- gy abstract. Free. Room: 54-915. Sponsor: Mexico City Project. Sunday, February 22 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. – One Week Early: Observing National Engineering Week. Looking for something unique to do during school vacation week? Come celebrate with us: It’s the week 4:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. – GAME/GA3 Ski Trip. Ski trip to Jay Peak. $37. Room: Jay Peak. Sponsor: before National Engineers Week, and we have activities all week long. All programs spotlight the Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers, GSC Funding Board, Graduate Association of Aero- work, training, and achievements of engineering professors, researchers, and students. Free with nautics and Astronautics. Museum admission. All ages. Room: MIT Museum Sponsor: MIT Museum. 10:00 a.m. – Varsity Women’s Swimming NEWMAC Championships. Free. Room: Zesiger Sports 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. – SSL Seminar (David LoBosco). Topic: Integrated Modeling of the Struc- and Fitness Center Pool. turally Connected TPF Interferometer with Optical Sensitivities from Code-V. Free. Room: 37-212. 12:30 p.m. – Coolidge Nursing Home Visit. Join us as we go to Coolidge Nursing home to visit Sponsor: AeroAstro. with senior citizens. Free. Room: Religious Activities Center, W11. Sponsor: Hillel, MIT, UA Finance 4:00 p.m. – BCS Colloquium - Steven Hsiao, Ph.D. Representation of shape in the somatosenso- Board. ry system. Free. Room: E25-117. Sponsor: Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Hosted by Chris Moore. 2:00 p.m. – MIT Faculty Recital: Jean Rife, horn. With Tomoko Kanamura, piano. Karen Ooster- 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. – On Some Famous Sequences. Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Room 2- baan, violin. Brahms’ Trio, op. 40; Françaix’s “Divertimento,” Hindemith’s “Althorn Sonata,” Scri- 349. Free. Room: 2-338. Sponsor: Combinatorics Seminar. Department of Mathematics. abin’s “Romance.” Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section. 6:00 p.m. – Shabbat Services & Dinner. Celebrate Shabbat. MIT Hillel’s three religious communi- 2:00 p.m. – Gallery Talk. Led by Hiroko Kikuchi, List Visual Arts Center Education/Outreach Coor- ties hold Shabbat services at 6 p.m. A community Shabbat dinner follows at 7 p.m. Cost for din- dinator. Presented in conjunction with “Son et Lumière”. Free. Room: List Visual Arts Center, E15. ner only. Room: Religious Activities Center, Bldg w11. Sponsor: Hillel, MIT. Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center. 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. – GCF Large Group Fellowship Meeting. Praise and Testamony Night - 40 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. – Shivratri Puja. Hindu Religious service for festival Shivratri with Classical Days to a Purpose Driven Life kickoff!! Come for worship, fellowship and snacks. Free. Room: Dance Perfomances by MIT Natya. Free. Room: West Lounge. Sponsor: MIT Hindu Students Coun- W20-306. Sponsor: Graduate Christian Fellowship, GSC Funding Board. cil. 6:00 p.m. – Varsity Pistol Collegiate Sectional. Free. Room: MIT Pistol and Rifle Range in the 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. – Pasta Night. Come enjoy some Free kosher pasta. Free. Room: W11 - DuPont Athletic Center. Religious Activities Center. Sponsor: Hillel, MIT, UA Finance Board. 7:00 p.m. - 11:59 p.m. – MIT Anime Club Weekly Showing. The MIT Anime Club shows the best 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. – Mardi Gras. Open to the entire MIT community!!! FOOD, JUGGLERS, of both recent and classic Japanese animation. Showings are open to the public. Free. Room: 4- DANCING, LIMBO, FACE-PAINTING, CULTURE BOOTHS, MASK-MAKING, BEADS, STEEL DRUM, PEN- 370. Sponsor: Anime Club, MIT, UA Finance Board. TOLACCIA, MUSIC, DRINKS, FRIENDS, FUN, FUN, FUN!!! . Free. Room: Walker Memorial. Sponsor: 7:00 p.m. – American Splendor. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. Caribbean-Club, European Club, MIT, Tech Catholic Community, Colombian Students Association, 7:00 p.m. – Comedy Collage. Professional Comedians providing multicultural humor. Have ARCADE (Assisting Recurring Cultural Diversity Events). appeared on Comic View, Comedy Central, Star Search, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. $2. 7:00 p.m. – American Splendor. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Chocolate City. 7:30 p.m. – The Man on the Train. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. – Shabbat Dinner. The traditional Jewish Friday night meal, in a relaxed and 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. – International Folk Dancing (participatory). International folk dancing. social atmosphere. $3. Room: Ashdown West Dining. Sponsor: GSC Funding Board, Grad Hillel. Teaching and beginners’ dances from 8 to 9 p.m. A mixture of all skill levels from 9 to 11 p.m. We 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. – ACF Large Group meeting - Gospel and Asian American Culture. Wor- will move to La Sala de Puerto Rico on the second floor of the Student Center if it is available. ship, teaching, discussion, food, fun! Prayer meeting at 6 p.m. After Large group event: IHOP. Free for MIT/Wellesley students. Suggested donation of $1 from others. Room: W20-491. Spon- Free. Room: McCormick Brown Living Room. Sponsor: Asian Christian Fellowship. sor: Folk Dance Club. 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. – Friday Nite Coffee House, hosted by LBGT@MIT. FUN WORKSHOP AND 10:00 p.m. – Lost in Translation. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. MUSIC. Open to students from other colleges. Please join us for a fun evening starting with a 10:30 p.m. – The Man on the Train. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. great worshop offered by Dorian Solot and followed up by a performance by a local artist. All Day – 2004 Awards Convocation Nominations Open. http://www.sexualityeducation.com. Free. Room: Student Center Coffee House. Sponsor: Rainbow Monday, February 23 Coffeehouse, lbgt@mit, GSC Funding Board. Student Life Programs Office and Office of Community Development and Substance Abuse Prevention. 12:00 p.m. – MIT $50K Competition - Executive Summaries Due. Free. Sponsor: MIT $50K 8:00 p.m. – The Vagina Monologues. MIT’s third year joining the college campaign in which, since Entrepreneurship Competition. 1998, hundreds of colleges and universities around the world produce benefit productions of “The 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. – Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar. Hadronic light-by-light scattering con- Vagina Monologues” for V-Day, a worldwide movement to stop violence against women and girls. tribtuion to the muon anomalous magnetic moment revisted. Free. Room: Center for Theoretical All money raised to be donated directly to organizations that work to end rape, battery, female Physics. Sponsor: Laboratory for Nuclear Science. genital mutilation, and sexual slavery. For more information about V-Day, see http://www.vday.org. 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. – Biopolitical State from the Margins: Notes on Trajectories of Illness Tickets will be on sale on-line or in Lobby 10 of MIT two weeks before the show. Room: 10-250. among the Urban Poor. STS Colloquium. Free. Room: E51-095. Sponsor: STS. Sponsor: MIT Vagina Monologues. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – TBA. Free. Room: 2-143. Sponsor: Differential Geometry Seminar, Mathe- 9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. – Jungle Party 4. TWO DANCE FLOORS—Salsa—Hip Hop/Techno/Top40 || matics, Department of. FREE SALSA LESSONS by HIPSONFIRE (starts 10pm) || FREE INDIAN AND CHINESE FOOD || Jungle 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. – LBGT & Questioning Support and Discussion Group. Faciliated bi-weekly Juice (Proper ID required) [Sponsored by LEF]. Free. Room: Ashdown House. Sponsor: Ashdown support and discussions for all LBGT and questioning undergraduate and graduate students - not House. just for coming out. Safe and confidential! Free. Room: 5-104. Sponsor: lbgt@mit. 10:00 p.m. – American Splendor. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Mechanics Seminar: “Exact theory of unsteady flow separation.” In All Day – TCC 2004: The First Theory of Cryptography Conference. 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Sponsor: Awards Convocation. 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. – Aga Khan Program in Islamic Archtiecture Travel Grant Presentation. By MIT Graduate Student Recipients of the 2003 Aga Khan Travel Grant Awards. Free. Room: Rm 3- Saturday, February 21 133. Sponsor: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. 12:00 a.m. – 2006 Ring Premiere. Class of 2006 Ring Premiere. Reveals the new ring. Free. 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. – Isshinryu Karate Workout. Traditional Okinawan Karate in a Small Club Room: Walker Memorial. Sponsor: 2006 Ring Committee. Environment. Free. Room: Rockwell Cage Half-Court. Sponsor: Isshinryu Karate-do at MIT. 10:00 a.m. – Varsity Women’s Indoor Track New England Division III Championships. Free. 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. – Meditation and Tea. A wonderful opportunity to cultivate a quiet, clear Room: Johnson Athletic Center. 10:00 a.m. – Varsity Women’s Swimming NEWMAC Champi- and serene mind and conversations. Free. Room: Simmons Hall. Sponsor: Buddhist Community at onships. Free. Room: Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center Pool. MIT. 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. – Graduate Christian Fellowship Bible Study. Currently studying the gospel 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. – Graduate Christian Fellowship Bible Study. Studying 1 John. Free. Room: of Luke. Free. Room: Edgerton Apt. 221. Sponsor: Graduate Christian Fellowship. Ashdown Lobby. Sponsor: Graduate Christian Fellowship. 1:00 p.m. – Varsity Men’s Volleyball vs. Wentworth. Free. Room: DuPont Gymnasium. 8:00 p.m. – Francophone movie night. Free. Room: 1-190. Sponsor: GSC Funding Board, Club 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. – Isshinryu Karate Workout. Traditional Okinawan Karate in a Small Club Francophone. Environment. Free. Room: DuPont Exercise Room. Sponsor: Isshinryu Karate-do at MIT. All Day – 2004 Awards Convocation Nominations Open. February 20, 2004 THE TECH Page 13 Soldier Design Prizes Awarded

By Lauren E. LeBon Matthew R. Carvey ’05 and Ben- criticism from some students STAFF REPORTER jamin D. Smith ’05 and their auto- around the MIT campus. The final judging of the first matic parachute release mecha- MIT’s Refuse and Resist group annual Soldier Design competition nism. The device is designed to hung posters around campus with this Tuesday drew young MIT measure the acceleration and trig- slogans such as “Want to waste inventors, representatives from the ger the opening of a parachute your talent? Join us at the ISN!” United States Army, and a handful accordingly. and “Is $10,000 really worth it?” of war protesters. Other projects included a com- Sebastian Raupach G, a visiting The Soldier Design competition pact cutting tool that can cut physics graduate student from Ger- invited MIT students to come up through chain-link fences and is 75 many, attended the competition, with solutions that American sol- percent smaller than other tools of saying that he felt troubled by the diers face in everyday combat. The its kind. The tool was made by “one-sidedly advertised military contest was sponsored by the Insti- Dennis D. Dillon ’05, Patrick L. research without commenting on tute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Korb ’05, and Chris Mattenberger moral questions.” He cited the Sol- (ISN) at MIT. Over $10,000 in ’06. dier Design competition and the prizes were awarded to the nine Cameron A. Dube ’06, Conor Lincoln Labs as two major exam- finalist teams. P. Lenahan ’07, and David Pitman ples of the focus on military First prize and $5,000 went to designed an LED flashlight that research on campus. Team “TacShot,” comprising Peter extends the battery life of the “While the stress is defensive K. Augenbergs ’05, Chris R. Pen- device and changes from white to research, it misses the point that tacoff ’05, Andrew Heafitz S.M. red light. there might be something funda- ’01, and Frederick S. Gay ’07. The mentally wrong with doing mili- team invented a rocket that, when Thomas praises competitors tary research on campus,” Raupach launched, takes reconnaissance Competition judges came from said. snapshots of the terrain and trans- the United States army, engineer- mits them to a nearby base station. ing and management departments The ISN, established in 2002 at MIT, and manufacturing compa- with a $50 million grant from the nies. United States Army, is a group “Devices from this competition working to create a high-tech bat- could easily end up in soldiers’ tle suit that caters to the needs and hands in the near future,” said ISN comfort of a soldier. director Ned Thomas in a press release. “These are real problems Teams create military gadgets we’re addressing, and if a team Team Surreptiles, a group of comes up with a great design, the five sophomores, all majoring in Army could certainly move it for- Materials Science and Engineer- ward.” ing, took the second place prize “We see dramatic examples in with their hand-arm communica- the news every day of how much tion system. The wearable device danger these guys face in Iraq and allows a soldier to communicate elsewhere,” Thomas said in the about directions, commands, and press release. “I’m excited so other information to fellow sol- many MIT undergraduates, in par- diers by using a series of hand-sig- ticular, have come out for this nals. competition and demonstrated David D. Lin ’05 said his team- some amazing engineering.” mates and he came up with the idea while punting a problem set. Some protest the contest, ISN Third place prize went to The competition drew some Free Food on Sundays

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SEXUALITY, NUDITY, LANGUAGE AND DRUG/ALCOHOL CONTENT COMING SOON TO THEATRES EVERYWHERE Page 14 THE TECH February 20, 2004 Admissions To Drop As Funding Shrinks Admission, from Page 1 in the United States, including fin- gerprinting and an interview. Reduced funds to cut admissions The time it takes to obtain a visa Several departments may have to has also increased significantly, decrease the number of students making it extremely difficult for stu- they admit this coming year because dents to leave the country and return of a decrease in their funding. home. Arthur C. Smith, professor of It is unclear what effect the Electrical Engineering and Comput- decline of international applicants er Science said he expects the will have on the diversity of stu- Course VI department to cut back dents at MIT. As of November of on its admissions from last year last year, international students because “we have more [students] made up 36 percent of MIT gradu- than we can handle.” ate students and 25 percent of all Of the 2,475 applicants received, students. Smith said he hopes to admit about Some departments will feel the 165 of those though there is “pres- impact of the international student sure to admit more.” Smith cited the drop more than others. About half unusually high yield from last year, the students in Course XVIII are over 70 percent compared with the international. usual 60 percent, and the unavail- “We do suffer a lot from these ability of financial support and policies,” said Pavel I. Etingof, PETER R. RUSSO—THE TECH A Cambridge firefighter checks his gear after stepping out of a burning building at 301 Massachu- supervision as reasons for a decline associate professor in the Depart- setts Avenue Thursday night. A 3,000 watt generator caught fire at the headquarters of Bluefin in admissions. ment of Mathematics. “We are try- Robotics, closing off the street for several hours. The Department of Material Sci- ing to help [the students] as much as ence and Engineering has seen a we can” by making sure they can decline of about 100 applicants still register and bending the rules to from last year but also expects to help late arrivers, he said. reduce the number of admitted stu- While graduate applications are dents because of a reduction in fel- down, Sandra Wellford, academic lowship money available, said Kath- administrator of the Department of leen R. Farrell, academic Urban Studies and Planning, said administrator of the Department of that the number of international stu- Material Science and Engineering. dent applicants for the PhD program These numbers are not final, are up. however, since Course III is still She said a possible reason for accepting applications until March, this difference is that “a lot of our Farrell said. PhD applicants are already in the The Department of Mathematics United States” because they are cur- will also accept fewer students rently attending other universities or because of a decline in the fellow- working. ships available, said Etingof. The number of students enrolled in pure Effect varies in other departments and applied math is expected to be The institute-wide applicant decreased to 107 next fall, while it decline has affected some depart- is usually around 120. ments more than others. The num- ber of applicants to the Department International applicants down of Mechanical Engineering dropped The number of international by 200 from last year, after increas- applicants decreased by more than ing significantly in the past two 1,000 this year. years. This year’s numbers were “The number of applicants are “pretty standard,” said Joan Kravit, down across the country,” said senior administrative assistant in Danielle Guichard-Ashbrook, direc- the mechanical engineering depart- tor and associate dean for interna- ment. tional students, mentioning that the According to an e-mail from result is possibly because of an Barbara E. Lechner, academic increase in the number and enforce- administrator in the Department of ment of regulations introduced after Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sept. 11. Course XVI saw virtually no change She said that foreigners may in the number of applications it potentially perceive the United received, despite a 29 percent drop States as a less friendly environment in international applicants. because of the new regulations, and The number of people applying choose to go to other countries to the Department of Physics instead for their education. Howev- decreased by 14 percent from last er, “we don’t have the evidence that year, from 707 to 610, with a 19 that’s happening yet,” Guichard- percent reduction in international Ashbrook said. applicants according to an e-mail The increased difficulties for from Nadia Halhoul, graduate international students are a result of administrative assistant in the increased enforcement as well as physics department. new laws that were created with the The Department of Architecture passage of the Patriot Act and the saw a decline from 684 to 570 formation of Department of Home- applicants, said Donna M. Beaudry, land Security, Guichard-Ashbrook an administrative assistant in the said. Department of Architecture. This She noted several additional pro- decline was a result of about an cedures that international students equal decrease in both international must go through to enter and remain and domestic applicants. February 20, 2004 THE TECH Page 15 Molina Leaving MIT To Establish Center On the Environment By Julian Villarreal missed,” he said. ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Fellow EAPS professor, Ronald Nobel Prize-winning Institute G. Prinn, said that Molina’s depar- Professor Mario Molina will leave ture, “is a large blow to our depart- MIT this summer to join the faculty ment.” of the University of California at San “He [and] Luisa Molina … will Diego. be sorely missed by me, personally, He cited personal reasons as well and by their colleagues across the as a desire to re-focus his work on campus,” he said. environmental policy issues as rea- “We will need to work very hard sons for his departure. to recover from this if MIT is to maintain its outstanding reputation in Molina moves closer to his work environmental science,” he added. “I Molina, a native of Mexico and a am confident that we can do that.” professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences UCSD offers new opportunities and the Department of Chemistry, Molina mentioned that, once at said that his extensive work on envi- UCSD, he will establish a center for PETER R. RUSSO—THE TECH ronmental issues in Mexico made a energy and environmental issues. “You happy? You made me talk — you got it out of me. You got an old lady to talk about her move to UCSD attractive. By leaving MIT, Molina said that ‘Down There.’” Susannah Mandel plays the part of an older woman during the final rehearsal of He said that his environmental he will concentrate less on “basic The Vagina Monologues Wednesday night. The production runs this Thursday through Saturday. science projects in Mexico have put science and laboratory research” and him in a position in which he spends more on the impact of that research “too much time travelling.” and on communicating science and “It’s a very hard thing to do,” he policy to governments in developing said, referring to his exhaustive trav- countries. el schedule. He mentioned some of the policy We Like You!! He said that moving to UCSD issues he intends to work on include would afford him greater proximity “air quality issues, water pollution, to his native Mexico and afford his and energy usage and its effects on [email protected] work more efficiency. the environment.” Molina added that it was “an exceeding difficult decision” to leave MIT. “MIT has treated me very, very well,” Molina said, citing specifically his collaborative work, which he characterized as “very productive.” EAPS regrets loss Chair of the Faculty Rafael L. Bras, also a friend and colleague of Molina, said, “Mario is a good friend of mine, and it’s sad to see him go … He’s an extraordinary colleague and citizen of MIT.” Bras praised Molina for his “gen- erosity and intellectual power.” He said Molina’s situation of travelling to and from MIT frequently is “not uncommon with many MIT profes- sors.” “MIT tries it’s darnedest to keep it’s people, but, in the end, it’s a per- sonal decision” to leave, Bras said. “Mario and [his wife] Luisa will be Monday, February 23rd 5-6:30pm Solution to Crossword from page 11 Room 1-134

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If you have any questions, please contact [email protected] February 20, 2004 THE TECH Page 17 Library Will Not Be In New BCS Project BCS, from Page 1 tion was provided to the Faculty Committee on the Library System, around,” he said. which has two undergraduate and Christopher Moore a BCS assis- graduate student representatives. tant professor, said that he heard Faculty were notified in late about the decision to move the October, and although some were materials three to four months ago, disappointed with the library clos- and “was shocked and dismayed.” ing, Gass said, “I believe that people “It’s a tremendous loss,” he said. thought the decision was rational.” He said that he found the library Gass estimates that the move very beneficial in terms of both its will save approximately $50,000 in focus on cognitive sciences and operating expenses. proximity to his office, which is in the same building. Committee to coordinate move More said that when he heard Many of the details of the move about the move, he met with Gass, have not yet been determined, but who explained the reasons for the two weeks ago a committee was decision. “I understood their argu- formed to plan the move, Miller ments, but I think it’s too bad,” he said. said. Howard J. Silver associate head Denny pointed out that in some of the science library and a mem- ways the move might be beneficial, ber of committee, said that approx- because the science library has imately 2250 books, or 150 much longer hours and the 24-hour shelves’ worth, in addition to 70 study room would be readily avail- shelves of journals or the equiva- able. Currently, Schering-Plough is lent of about 70 different titles, closed on Saturdays and open from would be moved from Schering- 2-6 p.m. on Sundays. Plough. He estimated that 40-50 shelves total of material from Sci- Closing cuts costs ence and Schering-Plough would Steven Gass, associate director be moved into storage in off-cam- for public services, said that origi- pus facilities. nally the library administrators had The decision of what to put into hoped that Schering-Plough would storage is made according to usage, move into the new brain and cogni- Miller said. Materials are routinely tive sciences project along with the put into storage as the libraries need BCS department. to make room for new books. However, the three major groups The Schering-Plough librarians that would move into the new facili- will still have jobs and work at the ty, the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Science library instead, Denny said. department, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and the Library space is lacking Picower Center for Learning and Gass said he thinks the move is Memory, determined there wasn’t only a temporary solution, and space for the library in the new there is a much larger concern of facility. lack of space for both books and Relocation to the science library people. “One-third of our collec- was originally scheduled to coincide tions are in storage, and relative to with the opening of the new project our peers we have a low ratio of to allow easier access, since the Sci- seats [available in the libraries] to ence library is much closer to the people,” he said. building project, but budgeting Wolpert said that having such a issues speeded up the decision, large portion of the materials stored Miller said. off-campus is a costly handicap, “We had a whole series of dis- since it is both expensive and time- and The Tech cussions with the Dean of Science consuming to transport off-campus [Robert J. Silbey] and Provost materials should students request [Robert A. Brown] to handle the them. invite you to a special advance screening reality of budget” constraints, “Several years from now, we Wolpert said. hope to have a new science and “We certainly communicated to engineering library,” Miller said. all of the faculty the intention before “We very excited about the anything was finalized,” Gass said. prospect of a new library” in the Wolpert also said that informa- future Wolpert said.

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For example, Sonali Rudra However, at the same time, the said. said. “A leader must be able to the importance of qualifications over ’04 said she preferred an MIT grad- new president must be involved In addition, this respect should rally all students together as one gender. “Whoever is best qualified” uate. He or she would be able “to with MIT’s internal affairs. The be present in “engineering as well unit.” should get the job, said Stephanie S. sympathize with us” and garner Cavagnaro-Wong ’06. She went on “more respect” among faculty, she to say that currently, there “more said. men qualified than women.” Other students addressed this Interviews to Start in a Month Another point made was that the issue by suggesting that candidates new president would need to feel who have been part of MIT’s facul- that he or she received the job based ty for at least parts of their career By Marissa Vogt are coming from a variety of sources, including fac- on his or her own merit. should also be considered. NEWS EDITOR ulty, students and alumni. “It could be a bad thing to have a The two committees charged with the task of woman if she feels she’s been put Science background encouraged selecting MIT’s 16th president will begin discussions Search involves interview process there because she’s a woman,” said Students’ opinions were also with potential candidates for the presidency within Jerome I. Friedman, chair of the Faculty Advisory Andrea L. Crandall ’04. mixed on the necessary professional the next four weeks, said James A. Champy ’63, Committee to the Corporation on the Presidential background of the new president. chair of the Corporation Committee on the Presiden- Search, said that the committees are working to Challenges for a new president Primarily, students discussed cy. “understand special opportunities and challenges a Students brought up many differ- whether a scientific background was The committee has been meeting jointly with the president at MIT would face.” ent challenges that the new presi- necessary for the new president, Faculty Advisory Committee to the Corporation on Friedman called the search “broad,” saying that dent will have to focus on in the with no uniform opinion presented the Presidential Search since the two committees they were considering a wide variety of candidates. next decade. at the end of the matter. were formed in January. Champy said “the committees will start to narrow Specifically, students discussed Some felt it was essential, while “The search committee is very engaged and hard the candidates to a smaller and smaller pool” eventu- the future of the fraternity, sorority, others saw it merely as a bonus. at work,” Champy said. “We are close to identifying ally, but that point is still “months away.” and independent living group sys- Without a scientific background, people we would like to talk with.” Friedman said that interviews with candidates will tems. any new president would face diffi- Champy said that the committee, which right now provide a “good chance to see what that person’s “One of the biggest problems he culty in monitoring how well the is meeting every two weeks, is “three to four weeks vision is for MIT.” is going to have to solve is the Institute was working according to away from beginning to talk to potential candidates.” “There are certainly some fundamental values” future of the FSILG system,” said Barrett S. Mitchell ’06. As the committee begins speaking with candi- the committees will be looking for, said Champy, Undergraduate Association treasurer However, not everyone agreed. dates, it will also begin to meet more often, he said. including “a belief in excellence and openness.” John R. Velasco ’05. “A science background is not as He also said that he expects they will be meeting with Champy said the committee will also be looking for Another challenge that the new important as the ability to under- students “within two to three weeks.” “skills you would expect from a president, such as president will have to face is pre- stand and promote MIT’s core val- Champy said that names of potential candidates leadership and management.” serving MIT’s distinctive culture. ues,” said Alvin M. Lin ’04. There is a “definite trend away Another consideration voiced from what MIT has stood for and was the desire for the new presi- been,” Cavagnaro-Wong said. dent to have experience in dealing “[We] need someone willing to with a population as diverse as stand up for MIT’s culture and pro- MIT. tect it,” she said. “I’d like to see some experi- Specifically, some students felt ence dealing with racial or diversi- that the new MIT president would ty issues,” said Jacob W. Faber need to be more lenient towards ’04, Undergraduate Association hacks. “They’re kind of cutting vice president. down” on student hacks, said Brian D. Owens ’07, saying that the cur- Students seek person of respect rent policy appears to be “if you’re One important quality of the going to do a hack, register it.” new president, according to the attending students, is that he or No decision on alum requirement she must be able to command the Students expressed mixed opin- respect of others. ions on whether or not the next MIT The president’s job includes president needs be an MIT alumnus “projecting what it means to be or alumna. MIT, to the world,” said Anna L. Students arguing against the Stevens G. necessity of a former MIT student Overall, discussion on the as president cited the benefits of a responsibilities of the president new outlook on the way things work focused on his or her role as a rep- at the Institute. It may be good to resentative of MIT to the world, have a “different perspective,” said and of the world to MIT. Andrea T. Urmanita ’06. Urmanita Recognition at the national and did say that the new president international level was important “need[s] to understand what the cul- to some students. The next presi-

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Above: Maria E. Hidalgo ’04 drives to the hoop around a Babson Col- lege opponent during the varsity women's basketball match Tuesday, Feb. 17.

Right: Karen A. Kinnaman ’06 leaps for control of the ball amidst traf- fic. After a very close first half, MIT eventually lost to the Babson Beavers 43-65.

Photography by Peter R. Russo

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By Paul Dill Mukaddum ’05 led the way with a team, coming off a strong 10-1-0 tender Tom Hopkins ’07 a bit to Alternate captain Nick Fahey ’05 TEAM COACH strong all around performance. His regular season work with. But the game took a assisted on all three goals, and The Varsity Men’s Volleyball 8 kills, 12 digs and 3 service aces against NorthEast sharp turn after Fisher scored the Nick Maietta ’07 and Kyle Team had it's best week this sea- were instrumental in the win. Bob Collegiate Hockey opening goal at 6:37 of the first McKenney ’05 had one helper son going 4-1 to give the team a G. Aspell ’06 also provided consis- Association oppo- period. After killing a tripping each. record of 7–6 overall, tency to the effort with a perfect nents, continued penalty to Brian LaCrosse ’07, A shakier second period await- and 6–4 in confer- zero hitting errors for a .500 hitting their domination another tripping call against ed the Engineers, as Endicott’s ence. The Engineers percentage. into the playoffs as they easily Endicott provided the spark in special teams scored two; one on got the better of Over the weekend, MIT hosted a handled their opponents from MIT’s offense as Vokac scored the power play by Josh Gilbert, Newbury College, tri-match with Elms College and Endicott College in quarterfinal halfway through the ensuing and a shorthanded goal on a Johnson & Wales Rivier College. The Elms match action, ensuring a place in semifi- power play. breakaway by Mark Vaughan. University, Elms College and was truly a team effort as everyone nal play on Saturday afternoon in Adam Shabshelowitz ’06 put But the recovery was quick Lasell College, and only came up was able to contribute to the 3-0 Worcester. on a dazzling display of for MIT, as Vokac and Fisher short against nationally ranked win. McAndrew again led the way Team captain Adam Vokac G forechecking and general pester- combined on three successive Rivier College. with ten kills and five service aces, led the way with four goals, the ing; he got under the skin of sev- goals to put the Engineers far and Against Newbury College, MIT but strong role play by Alex first three all on the power play in eral Endicott players and drew a above the Endicott squad. got off to a slow start losing the first Borschow ’06 with 4 kills and a span of 3:41 in the first period major penalty for hitting from Of note, Endicott captain game, but quickly got on track David Bermejo ’07 with four digs for the natural hat trick, and assist- behind from Endicott’s Mike Adam Partelidis, in what can only behind the offensive power of were key to the victory. ed on two others. Brent Fisher G Manfredi, who also received a be imagined as a repeated attempt Robert M. McAndrew ’05 and Against Rivier, MIT was tipped his own hat and put up all game misconduct on the play, to motivate his team, took several Michelangelo A. Raimondi ’06 who pushed hard. As the #6 ranked three remaining tallies for the which gave the Engineers an trips to the penalty box and led the offense with 21 and 12 kills Division III program in the coun- Engineers, including a beautiful opportunity to put themselves earned a ten minute misconduct respectively. Raimondi also led the try, having already beaten MIT eas- point-blank top shelf over the even further ahead. for arguing with the officials after team in digs with 11 and added two ily in an earlier tournament, Rivier shoulder of shelled but brave It was an opportunity they being called for tripping. service aces to help the team to a came into the match very confi- 3–1 victory. The match against dent. They beat MIT in the first Johnson & Wales started much the two games, but after making same way as the previous match as adjustments in the lineup, the Engi- the Engineers took the first game to neers were able to exploit some warm up before taking control of the match winning 3–1. Kabir Volleyball, Page 19 Amidst the Fuss, Yanks Keep the Game Thriving By Yong-Yi Zhu as to what was going on between SPORTS COLUMNIST Texas and New York until late The Yankees are good for Saturday/Sunday morning? Yan- baseball. kees General Manager Brian I may sound a bit sacrilegious Cashman kept everything under living in the table and under the media’s Boston radar. He, unlike Boston GM Column and toot- Theo Epstein and President Larry ing the Evil Empire's horn, but Lucchino, could keep his mouth hey, I'm no Yankee lover by any shut. Boston might want to learn stretch of the imagination (I hap- a lesson from this and not open pen to be a National League kind its presents before they are of guy, but that's beside the wrapped. The Boston public loves point). All I know is that what's big news, but there is a right time good for the goose is good for the to give it: when there’s actually gander, and what's good for the news to be given. What the Yan- Yankees is good for baseball. In kees did shocked the baseball fact, what's good for the Yankees world because nobody saw it may even be good for the Red coming until it was too late. Per- Sox (more on that later). haps now, Epstein will learn to go The biggest benefit of having quietly off into the sunset search- a blockbuster player (A-Rod) ing for the perfect hitter or pitch- dealt to a blockbuster team is that er (well, at least the one that’s it generates blockbuster media. still available). Just think, did we hear anything That brings us to another point. about anything else this Sunday in Now, Epstein will be forced to the world of sports? The Yankees look for talent instead of just plop- managed to overshadow the NBA ping down mega-bucks for it. He All-Star game, the Daytona 500, will have to use his head, just like the dethroning of Duke atop the Billy Beane in Oakland. Who can NCAA and the first PGA tour win he get at a decent price? And who for John Daly in nine years. It was can he get to beat the Yankees? almost as though this were sweeps Epstein did well last trade dead- weekend and all the different line when he brought in Scott sports tried to cash in with the Sauerbeck and Scott Williamson, biggest episodes. But none of despite the Yankees’ obvious them could beat baseball, not even needs for those pitchers. Epstein President Bush and Air Force might just land Eric Chavez next, One. now that he has the resources, and Don’t get me wrong, the rest can even resign Nomar Garcia- of baseball may not openly say parra. Boston at least now knows Top: Men’s varsity hockey coach Mark O’Meara looks on as an Endicott College player moves the that they like what the Yankees the Yankee lineup: pretty much puck down the ice. have done, but did everyone for- everyone there is under huge con- get about luxury taxes and rev- tracts. What can the Red Sox do to Bottom: MIT center Brent R. Fisher G rushes to the net around an Endicott opponent. Fisher scored enue sharing? I’m sure that the counter? I guess that the Yankees three goals and had one assist during the game. The Engineer’s won the match 7-3, and advance to small market teams like the Devil just bring out the best in the Red the NECHA semifinals. Rays and the Marlins hate the fact Sox. that George Steinbrenner must In fact, what the Yankees have Photography by Andrew C. Thomas pay them millions more because done is simply taken advantage of he now owns A-Rod. No, nobody the league that they play in. likes money nowadays. Oh, by Major League Baseball, unlike the way, the small market teams many of the other sports, does not that have struggled against the limit monopolies. If Steinbrenner UPCOMING HOME EVENTS Yankees will still struggle, and can afford a player, what’s wrong the ones that don’t still won’t; with digging into his own pockets Friday, Feb. 20: you can bet on that. (If the Mar- a little? After all, the A-Rod deal 10 a.m., Women’s NEWMAC Swimming Championships, Z-Center Pool lins, Angels or Diamondbacks are was a sudden strike of unimagin- 6 p.m., Pistol Collegiate Sectional, DuPont Gym going to win again, they will win able proportions; that sounds like Saturday, Feb. 21: even if the Yankees have nine A- the military tactics of George W. 10 a.m., Women’s NEWMAC Swimming Championships, Z-Center Pool Rods.) Bush and Microsoft. And while 10 a.m., Varsity Women's Indoor Track New England Division III Championships, Johnson Center Okay, so some call the A-Rod Bush and Microsoft were benefi- 1 p.m., Varsity Men’s Volleyball, Wentworth, DuPont Gym deal sickening and some call it cial to the US in some ways, they 2 p.m., Varsity Men’s Basketball, Eastern Nazarene, Rockwell Cage fantastic, but after all is said and were also unbeatable. Only time 6 p.m., Pistol Collegiate Sectional, DuPont Gym done, the deal was absolute will tell if the Yankees follow in genius. Did anybody have a clue that suit as well.