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Volume 121, umber 44 Cambridge, Massachu etts 02139 eptember 1 ,2001 Foreign MIT Students MIT Dedicates Reflecting Wall
By W.S. Wang Not Called Back Home STAFF REPORTER The Reflecting Wall at MIT wa By Christine Fry international students back into the dedicated Friday evening as several country. Northeastern's fall term hundred students, faculty, and taff Following the September 11 ter- begins eptember 20, and some stu- placed flowers, candles and me sages rorist attacks on New York and dents were on international flights last by the monument for the thousands Washington, D.C., international stu- week that were diverted to Canada. of victims of last Tuesday's terrori t dents at several local universities Boston University officials could attacks. The memorial is 'located have been told to prepare to return not be reached for comment. along the wall behind the MIT to the Middle East. chapel. Danielle Ashbrook, Director and ot all students affected Assistant Professor of Architec- Associate Dean of the MIT Interna- Not all students from a particular ture John Fernandez designed the 12 tional Students Office, said she was country have been asked to return. by 25 foot wooden structure to match unaware of any MIT students being The possibility of returns "doesn't the dimensions of the World Trade asked by their sponsor government seem to be across the board," Ash- Center's outer wall. Fernandez said to return in light of last week's brook said. Nothing has officially that his purpose was to "establish a attacks. Rumors had been circulat- been declared by foreign govern- place sacred, quiet.and resonant with ing on campus that MIT students ments. "Everyone's afraid to make the experience of the people at the were being recalled. generalities." towers." However, Ashbrook has spoken to Mohammad B. Kaleem '02, Following the dedication, a vigil HE RYHlLTON officials from Northeastern University president of the Muslim Students was held to reflect on the recent MIT dedicated a reflecting wall representing a piece of the World and Boston University who confirmed Association, says he has not heard tragedies. MIT chaplains addressed Trade Center's exterior Friday evening. Member of the MIT commu- that some sponsored students have of any MIT students in his group the crowd, and led a group prayer to nityleft flowers and written prayers at the wall as part of the dedi- been contacted by their governments. being called back. He 'Said that he close the ceremony. Attendees were cation ceremony. However, Northeastern's Internation- did not think students would want to clearly moved by the memorial ser- ed to the Reflecting Wall with except time, but it is a nice gesture," al Student Office declined to com- go home because "the- administra- vice, with some breaking into tears as reserved enthusiasm, but its presence said Coo A. Marianetti G. ment. Northeastern Spokesman tion has .done a lot to promote they wrote their thoughts onto cards certainly has not escaped their atten- Edward E. Klotzbier denied knowl- understanding [and] harmony." to drop in the boxes at the bottom of tion. "Even when you aren't intend- Chaplains stres MIT unity edge of any affected students. Klotz- Basel Y. Al- affouri '02, a gov- the reflecting wall. ing to look at it, it stands out," said Amy cCreath, MIT's Episco- bier says that Northeastern's main After remarks by the Reverend Carolyn B. Chen '02. pal chaplain, feels that the reflection concern at the moment is getting Middle East, Page 23 Paul A. Reynolds, MIT's Catholic Camila Chaves Cortes, a former wall was unique to MIT in that "the chaplain, attendees placed red roses research fellow 'in Course XI, said MIT community did omething around the memorial and lit candles that the wall was a place where she comfortable for them which is to to place in the moat. Unfortunately, a can "take a breath and allow things build something." Frosh Begin Campaigns stiff afternoon breeze extinguished to slow down, not like being bom- Jewish Chaplain Miriam Rosen- many of the candle in the moat, but barded by the media." baum said the wall wa almost anal- ~ FSILGs Represented in '05'Elections by evening, the light from the candles However, some students ques- ogous to the Western Wall in shone brightly. tioned whether any gesture could Jeru alem. The Reflecting Wall, she By Jennifer DeBoer the rule ." suitably counter the emotion and said, is also a poignant pace for pri- Undergraduate Association Elec- Students appreciate memorial stress of the September 11 disasters. As candidates prepare for next tion Commission rules governing Most MIT students have re pond- "I'm not sure if anything helps Reflecting Wall, Page 19 _week's Class of 2005 elections, the campaigns are simply in the posters are beginning to clog bul- "spirit of campaign," as the Election letin boards up and down the infinite Commission has no power to punish Lack of Funding Delays SafeRide Plans corridor. violators, Punitive action must be By Kevin R. Lang' and administrative hurdles have acceptable,' eneviratne aid. Most candidates feel that the carried out by the UA Judicial EWSEDITOR delayed the formation of new However, Immerman said that elections have been relatively clean Board. Although the Graduate Student routes. the budget cycle for next year is so far. "It's all been pretty friendly The few problems that have Council donated $15,000 last The G C received no formal already underway and the adminis- competition," said Sheila M. Krish- arisen thus far have come from out- spring toward the purchase of a new promise that service would begin tration is "looking at what our na '05, candidate for secretary. "A Safe Ride" van to serve the this fall, but GSC Pre ident Dilan A. responsibilities are and how to think "Everybody pretty much respects Elections, Page 20 Inman Square area, additional costs Seneviratne G said that "We are about deploying [SafeRide] for the hoping that it will be up and running campus." as soon as po sible, becau e there Specifically, the impact of the are lots of tudents who commute new graduate dorm at 70 Pacific from that area." Street is being evaluated, since it For graduate students who live will shift 700 graduate students in north Cambridge, transportation closer to campu . Immerman said to or from campus can be a chal- that MIT' fir t responsibility was to lenge particularly at night. The area cover the campus, and 70 Pacific is not served by ubway lines, and Street will increase demand for bus service doe not run directly to what Immerman referred to as an MIT. already "overburdened" system. tephen D. Immerman, director "Within the next month or so, or of enterprise service ,ha been les, we should be in a position to investigating the necessary budget know much more clearly what we allocations to begin service. In addi- can do short term," Immerman said. tion the funds required to purchase a "I know that the demand is there new van estimated at 25,000 for a from tho e students." new vehicle, maintenance, staffing, However eneviratne said the and operational costs could exceed Cambridge orth route would be $100,000 annually. necessary regardless of 70 Pacific "If you're going to pend Street. Students living in the Inman $100,000 in one area, that mean Square are mostly second-year stu- you ~an t spend it somewhere else," dents who would be living there Immerman aid. "Those are hard anyway, Seneviratne said. Inman decisions. ' quare is one of the more affordable areas in Cambridge, and has tradi- G C explores funding option tionally been home to many gradu- One pos ibility to get the new ate students. afeRide route established perma- RICHARD FLETCHER nently would be to include it as a afeRide purpo e questioned Smoke from the remains of the World Trade Center rises along with the sun over the Manhattan new budget item for next year, but Immerman said that MIT is skyline. Cambridge has seen a number of responses to last Tuesday's attacks; photos, page 25. this would delay the program's start until fall of 2002. "That is not SafeRide, Page 22
Sprite strips 'l 't1'4lf11lc rr IS sooo Comics OPINIO •..-'tI:t-KT4Nt.! 1ij~ h~Tf blend humor AN. J.,l~ lo.,-rtf'T Christopher D. Smithcaution World & ation 2 iHA'f .~l)... with classic - against violating libertie in the Opinion 4 characters. name of security. Event Calendar 8 Arts , 11 Page 14 Page 7 Page 5 Page 2 WORLD & NATION e op r Prot ...... ses Do Plunges Seven Percent o ebuild ade NEW DAY NEW YORK Mter Four-Day Long Hiatus . Le than two months after closing on the lease to the World Trade enter, Larry ilver tein promi ed Monday to rebuild the By Paul Blustein ut rate . But while analy ts aid the erve their dwindling cash, and de troyed Twin Tower. and Carol Vinzant Fed' action m y have helped brake industry executive pleaded for fed- Speaking through tear, ilver tein aid he told ew York Gov. THE WASHl GTO, POST the mar et fall it did not keep eral a si tance. I 0 hard hit were George Pataki that ''we have an obligation to our children and our hare prices from inking immedi- retail, financial, oil, media, auto and grandchildren' to rebuild the complex. joint ffort by a hington, ately after the market opening, tech stocks. Only defense contrac- sking the help of lender , in urer the government and the Port all treet and orporate merica which got off to an emotional tart tors, metal stocks, ecurity firms Authority of ew York and ew Jer ey, which owned the to ers to buoy the U. . tock market failed with two minute of ilence and the and some communications is ue ilverstein aid not rebuilding would be a win for terrori m. I per- to keep a wa e of elling from bat- singing of 'God Ble s America on resisted the selling. . onally commit to the rebuilding of the orld Trade enter" he aid. tering hare prices as the Dow the floor of the ew York tock The Dow's 10 s was well below Earlier this year, ilver tein, 70 won a hard-fought battle for a Jone industrial average dropped Exchange. the 22.6 percent drop of the 1987 99-year lea e on the Twin Towers and two other building in the 6 4. I point or 7 percent on the Pre ident Bu h ignaled around crash. Market officials voiced relief complex, a well a the retail mall. He paid 3.2 billion the most first day of trading since the ept. noontime that he was prepared to that trading functioned smoothly, ever for a parcel of ew ork City real e tat . 11 terrori t attacks on the W orId support a new tax cut to boost the without the panic or disruption In the late 1980 ilverstein had developed 7 World Trade Center, Trade Center and the Pentagon. economy as well as a bailout of the many had feared after last week's which al 0 collap ed in the attack. Hi private company, ilver tein The Dow' plunge, it worst beleaguered airline industry - yet four-day hiatus, the longest since Properties, has developed more than 10 million quare feet of office point loss in hi tory came despite stocks continued to piral downward. the Great Depression. pace, primarily in the financial district and along Fifth venue. an unprecedented bid by the Bush Amid record volumes of more But the benchmark Dow ended admini tration the Federal Reserve, than 2.3 billion shares on the NYSE, the day at 8883.40, its lowest level Wall Street executives and major the selling pressure gathered since December 1998. The Nasdaq Priorities on Capitol Hill Shift U .. corporations to prop up the momentum throughout the day, composite index also fell about 7 market in the hopes of sending a despite announcements by compa- percent, closing at 1,579.55, down . But Approaches Don't mes age that the U.S. financial sys- nies pledging to buy their own 115.83. The broader Standard & LOS A GELES TIMES tem could shrug off the terrorist stock, and exhortations by top U.S. Poor's index. of 500 stocks lost Reverberations from last week's terrori t attacks are not only rear- assault. policymakers, notably Treasury almost 5 percent. ranging Washington' immediate priority list, but also re haping the The Fed provided the market Secretary Paul O'Neill, who pre- . The markets were reflecting long-term political climate on debate as diverse a the budget, with a plea ant surprise shortly dicted that the market would soon widespread forecasts that the defen e spending and immigration reform. before it opened by cutting short- be headed for new records. already-slowing economy would In ongress, both parties are shifting their focus toward issues term interest rate by half a percent- Airline stocks got clobbered, weaken further because of the such as an airline bailout and airport security while downplaying ear- age point - the eighth reduction by with most tumbling 40 percent to 50 weakened confidence of American lier concerns such as creating a patient ' bill of rights. the Fed this year - and central percent as carriers announced they' consumers and on industries such as The radically new environment has left both ide crambling, but banks in Europe and Canada also were cutting flights and jobs to con- airlines and travel. the upheaval i placing congre ional Democrats in a particularly dif- ficult position. They are reluctant to argue with Pre ident Bush about virtually anything during a national crisis but they are equally reluc- tant to simply give him everything he wants on issues uch as pend- Bush Warns of War Casualties ing or the internal ecurity package the admini tration is preparing. Beneath the broad promises of bipartisan cooperation, that con- By Dan Balz doer" and "barbaric people." Those with it as a scourge upon civiliza- cern is producing a subtle conflict between the partie : Republicans THE WASHINGTON POST harboring bin Laden and his net- tion and go after it," he said. are pre sing for quick action on an array of admini tration priorities WASHI GTO work, Bush said, should be "on U.S. official continued their while Democrats are looking to defer deci ions not essential to the President Bush warned the notice" that they will not escape the intensive diplomatic campaign to immediate re ponse. nation Monday to prepare for U .. wrath of the United States and the build international support for mili- military casualties in the coming international coalition his adminis- tary actions and other moves as they war against terrorism and, in his tration is working to build. awaited word on a Pakistani delega- "-! ...... c,....,. Germans Pur ue bluntest language since last week's Secretary of State Colin L. Pow- tion's trip to Afghanistan to urge attacks on ew York and Washing- ell said "the first round" of the war that the Taliban leaders tum over Accomplices in U.S. ton, said he want Osama Bin Laden against terrorism will be aimed bin Laden. TilE "ASH! 'GTO, POST brought to justice "dead or alive." specifically at those who launched Powell plans to meet Wednesday HAMBURG, GERMANY ''We will win the war and there last week's attacks. He emphasized or Thursday with Prince Saud German police are hunting three suspected accomplices in the will be costs," Bush said after a that it is "becoming clear. with each Faisal, Saudi Arabia's foreign min- ew York and Washington terror attacks, government and university meeting with Pentagon officials that passing hour" that the al Qaeda ter- ister, as investigators reported that officials said onday. All three of the men being ought are former was described as a review of his rorist network i the prime suspect 14 of the 19 suspected hijackers or current students of Technical University here, where two of the earlier decision to call up 35,000 and that "all roads lead to" bin have links to that country. Calling hijackers studied. military reservists to help in air Laden, the organization's leader, the Saudis, friends of the United Another Hamburg chool, the University of Applied Science , patrol around major cities, intelli- "and hi location in Afghanistan." States, Powell said of the foreign said Monday that Ziad Jarrahi, a 27-year-old Lebanese national who gence gathering and engineering But Powell aid the nation minister, "I expect he will be forth- is a uspected hijacker aboard the United Airlines plane that crashed project . He said the military "i should be prepared for a "long-term coming and I expect he will be com- in Pennsylvania, studied aircraft engineering at the chool. ready to defend freedom at any campaign" against worldwide ter- ing with a message of support and The University of Bonn said one of the hijackers had studied Ger- cost." rorism that will include legal, politi- commitment." man there before moving to Hamburg. Ona day when Americans went cal, diplomatic, law enforcement .A another sign of the growing It now appear that six or more of the hijackers and tho e who back to work, the stock markets and intelligence-gathering compo- intensity of preparations, White worked with them studied and lived in this prosperous port city reopened and Major League Base- nents - as well as military action. House officials said Bush will dis- which is reeling from the daily revelations about terrorists who lived ball re umed play for the first time "What we have to do is not only cu s the crisis at a working dinner here. since the terrorist attacks, Bush deal with this pre ent instance but Tuesday night with French Presi- described the perpetrators as "evil- the whole concept of terrorism, deal dent Jacques Chirac. The president WEATHER Fair Skies Persist a Little Longer Situation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Tuesday, September 18,2001 rS~
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For Aiding U.S. With Retaliation THE WASHINGTON POST WA HfNGTO By Maura Reynolds form Afghani tan's northern border. The pace of U .. -Russian con- _ LOS ANGELES TIMES Russia operates several military sultations has quickened in recent Airlines Monday cut flights and thousands more jobs to preserve MO cow facilities in the region and has days. On Wedne day, Ru sian For- their rapidly depleting cash, but the moves did little to calm investors Russia is conidering variou 10,000 troops in Tajikistan - an eign Minister Igor . Ivanov i who massively dumped the stocks of U.S. air carriers, sending prices forms of cooperation with the Unit- entire motor-rifle division and about cheduled to confer with ecretary plunging so dramatically that President Bush promised federal sup- ed States in a possible military 5,000 border guards. of State Colin L. Powell in Wash- port for the industry. assault on terrorists based in As recently as Friday, top Ru s- ington. Airline executives said in order to survive through the first half of Afghanistan, and is conferring with ian officials were expressing doubts America's potential military next year, the industry will need 24 billion in federal assistance, its Central A ian allies U.S. and about cooperating with the United action in Afghanistan puts Russia in more than the 15 billion ongre ha been considering. And some Russian officials said Monday. tates. But that appeared to shift a delicate position. If it cooperates analysts warned that even that amount could be insufficent to save "They have not ruled anything in Monday, with President Vladimir V. with the United State , its traditional some of the weaker airlines, like Arlington, Va.-based U Airways. or anything out" Undersecretary of Putin holding telephone talks with friendship with a number of Mu lim US Airways, with major operation at Reagan ational Airport State John R. Bolton said after Central A ian leaders and di patch- and Arab countries, including Iran, which remains closed, announced it was laying off 11,000 of its meeting with top Russian official . ing his top security advi er, Security Iraq and Syria might be threatened. 46,000 employees and cutting back on routes. Its stock, which was Russia's cooperation could be Council chief Vladimir B. Rushailo, However, the Rus ian public trading a high as $48 ithin the last year, closed at 5.57 cents a critical to any U.S. military action in to the region. appears to approve of orne form of share, down 6.05 for the day. Afghanistan, Three of Russia's clos- "We will hold consultation and support for U.S. mi-litary action, as The hijacking and crashes into the World Trade enter and Penta- est allies and neighbors - the for- negotiations ... to discuss effort to long as any campaign closely tar- gon last Tuesday - which grounded all airplanes for two days - mer Soviet republics of Tajikistan, coordinate activities in combating get specific terrorist facilities and sent the airline industry into a dizzying financial tail pin that has Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan - terrorism," Rushailo said. avoids civilian casualties. made it difficult for carriers to raise money. FBI Asking Whether Detainees Logan Airport Security Chief Had No Aviation Experience LOS ANGELES TIMES Planned Other Failed Hijackings BOSTO Among the surprises to emerge from last week's terrorist attack is By Dan Eggen who commandeered four aircraft. land. the fact that Logan International Airport's chief of security had no THE WASHINGTON POST Two men taken off a train in U.S. officials stress that their background in aviation before assuming his job. WASHlNGTO Texas were found with box-cutter investigation is .still in its early Former state trooper Joseph Lawle s, 43, was then-Gov. William The FBI is investigating whether knives like those used by some of stages and it is unclear what roles, if F. Weld's personal driver eight years ago when Weld tapped him for some people detained as part of the the hijackers. Another 'Was carrying any, the various detainees might the $ 125,OOO-a-year job. probe into the Sept. 11 attacks on a pilot's jacket and suspicious pho- have played. But FBI officials said "On paper, you can laugh about (Lawless) being a driver, but he the Pentagon and W orId Trade Cen- - tographs. A fourth tried to breach nothing is being ruled out, and that was a state police guy, and he had done investigative work. It wasn't ter may have been planning other security at John F. Kennedy Interna- some of the circumstances sur- a ridiculous idea on the face of it," said former Weld adviser Martin hijackings that somehow went awry, tional Airport last Thursday with a rounding the detainees are trou- Linsky, now a lecturer at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Gov- according to law enforcement offi- false pilot's license in his sock, bling. ernment. "But it is hard to defend in retrospect." cials. authorities say. "We are dedicating ubstantial Massachusetts Port Authority officials would not permit Lawle s The examination so far has cen- A fifth man, Habib Zacarias resources to that very question: Was to be interviewed. But with international attention focused on tered on five foreign-born men now Moussaoui, had been held by immi- there more to this plot?" said one Boston's busy airport, Lawless suddenly became a media presence. being questioned by the FBI in New - gration officials in Minnesota since senior U.S. government official. Hours afer two planes that left Logan Airport crashed into ew York, all of whom were detained or Aug. 17 after he tried to get com- Robert Blitzer, a former FBI York's World Trade Center last Tue day, a stone-faced Lawless told arrested under circumstances that mercial jetliner training at a flight counterterrorism official, said the Massachusetts residents about increased subway service to help authorities consider suspicious. In academy near Minneapolis despite a question of whether other attacks remove stranded passengers at Logan. Lawless assured the common- each case, there were similarities to . lack of experience or skills. He were in the works would be central wealth that airport admini trators were working closely with the Fed- the attacks that the FBI said were reportedly was interested in learning to any investigation like the one eral Aviation Admini tration, the FBI and state police. He announced committed by 19 suicide hijackers to steer airliners, but not in how to now underway. a "dramatic" increase in police presence at Logan.
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hairman In re ponse to r. HaJI [' Th Terror of thought to con id r ju t why anyone would American oldier in I lam's holy land, and America's unconditional support of an I rael Jordan Rubin '02 ot Knowing,' eptember 12]: do uch a terrible thing a what happened on urely he need to be reminded that Tuesday or ha he cho en not to because of armed with American weaponry. ditor in hi f 'tho e coward " e caped any ort of retribu- the rather ordid hi torical que tion that How many of these injustices are per- Dana Levine '02 tion by sacrificing their own live. ow is would tum out to be? ceived and how many are fact i for each of Bu ine 'lana r the time to trike back?' Ho ,again t Ha it not occurred to him that the u to determine in the careful study of hi to- Huanne T. Thomas '02 whom and to what effect? Far b tter that we 'familiar name : Iran Iraq, yria, udan, ry and informed debate not in the fatuous hould learn the hard truth that violence fghani tan' (not to mention Pale tine) pronouncement of a pre ident and his well- ana ing ditor begets only violence - to ' trike back" in have suffered bombardment destruction, heeled, and bedecked courtier seeking $20 ric J. holankeril 02 the udan or Lebanon or Iraq leaves a burn- starvation suffering and 10 of life running billion from the Legi lature and a narrow EWS'FEATURES STAFF ing hatred in many quarter of the world that into the million of people because of the con trual of the Bill of Rights from the Judi- Director: Rima rnaout '02; T, ditor : makes such acts as the ew York tragedy foreign policy of the U and its direct allies? ciary. Ke in R. Lang '02, Jennifer Krishnan '04: seem almost nece ary. Indeed, I could extend thi list of countries We should honor Tue day's dead by ociate e Editor: Eun J. Lee '04, Brian And worst of all would be to "strike with a dozen more, each of which has been ensuring the cycle of violence i ended. Thi Lou '04; ociate cience ditor: ancy back' again t members of our own commu- ubject to military attack by the U in the can be accomplished only if the United L. Keu s '04, hankar Mukherji '04; taff: nity who happen to be Arab or u lim We name of Democracy and not one of which States replaces its corporate sponsored Frank Dabek G, Daniel C. teven on G, have all, at some level experienced the hor- now has a government regarded as democra- , national/strategic interests" as the operative aveen unkavally G, anjay Ba u '02, onali ror of waiting that Mr. Hall delineates 0 tic. principle abroad (and increasingly at home) Mukherjee '03, lice . Wang '03, Diana . powerfully. I can only pray that we will Craighead is right to identify the symbol- with one sympathetic to the founding of this Cheng '04, Jeffrey Greenbaum '04, Vicky H u draw from it another, quite oppo ite, le son ic importance of the World Trade Center as country and drafting of its constitution. One '04, Pey-Hua Hwang '04, Pallavi are h '04, more like that contained in the prayer the target of the attack, standing as it does which affords individuals the rights to life, Rubi Rajban hi '04, aria Wang '04, ascribed to t. Francis: "Where there is for the phenomenal wealth accumulation , liberty and happiness on terms their own. Wang '04; eteoro)ogi t: eronique hatred let u sow love." concentrated in one country that reigns eco- One which suggests others' grievances be Bugnion G, Peter Huybers G, Rob Korty G, nomically, militarily and ideologically heard with an understanding uncolored by Greg Lawson G, Bill Ram trom G, Efren John Hildebidle upreme throughout a world whose inhabi- corporate and military appetite. Gutierrez '03. Profe or of Literature tants urvive on a few dollars a day. Answering violence with violence will PRODUCTION STAFF Asked on "60 Minutes" [May 12, 1996] serve-the United States as well as it has Editors: Gayani Tillekeratne '03, Joel Corbo '04, 1. war I'wo.(*)rl n [ME werre, Jr. 0 F, whether the cost of the lives of over half a Israel and the Palestinians. It will only fur- Joy For ythe '04; ociate Editor: Andrew fro OHG werra confusion, strife; akin to million children' was acceptable in order to ther our foes' increasingly rabid demands amo '04, hefali 0L.a 04, Tao Yue '04; taff: OHG Xwerran to confuse, L verrere to get rid of Saddam, Secretary of State for justice - a justice which is invariably Ian Lai '02, Anju Kanumalla '03, Virnal Bhalodia sweep, sweep away] 1a1: a state ofusu. Madeleine Albright (then Ambassador to the confused with the unspeakable enormity of '04, Andy Leiserson '04, Eric Tung '04. open and declared armed hostile conflict ) replied that it was "a hard choice [...] revenge. OPlNIO STAFF between states or nations but we think the price is worth it." Is this ditor : K.ri chnee '02, Jyoti Tibrewala '04' We are not at war. We are not at war any what Craighead means when he says "we Duncan Kincaid ociate Editor: Veena Thomas '02; more than we were in 1995, when Timothy must never allow the complaints of other Master of Architecture 1997 Columni t : Philip Burrowe '04, Roy E aki McVeigh and Terry ichols slaughtered 168 nations to endanger our country's interests"? '04, Ken e mith '0 , Ak hay Patil '04; American citizens in a sen eless lashing out I for one am curious to know whence, for I am absolutely appalled at the response taff: Basil Engwegbara G, Michael Borucke against a sy tern they could no longer sup- Craighead, the great distinction between of so many in the MIT community in regard '01, Kevin Choi '01, Chri topher D. mith port. We did not declare war against disaf- guerilla terror and US state terror arises. For to the recent events involving the attack on '01, Jason H. Wasfy '01, Matt Craighead '02, fected white middle americans. We did not the first time, people in this country are able our country. You put five people in a room Daniel L. Tortorice '02, Gretchen Alek '04, declare war again t the the army that trained to take a glimpse into the reality' of war: not together and nobody can agree. Do you real- hristen M. Gray '04. them, the towns that harbored them, ·the packaged into news about some faraway ly think you can put six billion people dozen of groups and thousands of people country, but here, real misery, where it's our together and agree on something? Of course who share their views, or the angry own friends and family that are dying, not. Peace is a noble ideal, but not an actual teenagers who to this day view them as mar- injured and homeless. We should direct the option. No matter-how badly many may tyrs. adness and rage that it has generated, not want peace, we can't make others want it too ditor : Devdoot ajumdar '04, Annie . Choi; To declare war even to fight as though we into revenge, but into preventing a recur- - at least not by using peaceful methods. ociate Editor: Fred Choi '02, Sandra M. were at war, is to give in to fear, xenophobia rence of this tragedy, here or anywhere. And wanting peace at any cost, even at the Chung '04; taff: Erik Blankin hip G, Lance and racism. To attack all those who we .per- expense of justice, is incredibly dangerous. athan G, Bence P. Olveczky G, onja harpe ceive as different and therefore threatening is Alan Donovan If we try to keep peace at any cost, both G, Vladimir V. Zelevinsky '95, Bogdan Fede- to prove we are no better than the cowards MIT Laboratory for Computer Science peace and justice will be sacrificed in the les '02, Jumaane Jeffrie '02, Jacob Beniflah who launched this attack, that we have end. Playing Chamberlain only puts off the '03 Daniel J. Katz '03 Jane Maduram '03, learned nothing from decades of bloodshed. Despite the Administration's boasts and inevitable while permitting events to esca- Amy Meadow '03 Jeremy Ba kin '04 Chaitra If we initiate if we kill more innocents in jingoistic rant, America has as much chance late. Chandrasekhar '04, lzzat Jarudi '04 Chad er- response to this attack, then we have no of winning its war on terrorism as it has in I.don't advocate firing off cruise missiles rant '04, Jo eph Graham. need to declare a war, because we have winning its war on drugs. Where there is in a huge macho attempt at revenge, either. PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF already lost. Those responsible should be demand, one can expect supply. Where there. Blasting a bunch of people who don't even Editor: athan Collin G, Wendy Gu '03' brought to justice. The world should see that is perceived injustice there is inexhaustible support our assailants and who already live taff: Erika Brown G, Krzy ztof Gajos G, we are reasoned people, even in the face .of catalyst for action. in the Stone Age back to pre-Paleolithic Garry askaly G, Karlene R. a kaly G, great terror. To respond in kind to this Rather than accepting Washington's tidy, times certainly won't accomplish anything. ichelle Povinelli G, Bob umner G, amu- provocation is to take one fateful step closer self-serving truths delivered in daily sound- We should rely on and emphatically' support dra Vijay G, Gregory F. Kuhnen '00, Wan to the horrific vision espoused by people bites to a sycophantic press, we Americans our Intelligence to methodically seek out the Yusof Wan Mor hidi '00 ephir Hamilton like Ann Coulter might do well to consider for ourselves the responsible parties and to do whatever is '01, ii Dodoo '01, Kailas arendran
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long to sober analy is of the America'scapa- explosion and wailing parent become a Chri topher D. Smith bilities the capabilities of international terror- common as California earthquake . Public Sweat, And it, and our collective de ire - nay, our courage and the collective will to acrifice are The central theme of the epic film trilogy enduring historical duty - to further the the only weapon that matter against an 'The Godfather" i family and the extent to worldwide spread of the values of American enemy this brutal and determined. 0 one can Cash which men will venture in order to protect liberal democracy. say for sure whether the 21st century Ameri- their familie and the traditions. The trilogy' Unfortunately, the ju tified conventional can public, long coddled by economic pros- central character Michael Corleone, begin as wisdom that the United tates is the most perity and licentious culture, and inexperi- an idealistic, young, World War II veteran powerful nation in the world mean very lit- enced in homeland warfare, have the ' right Roy Esaki who rejects his powerful father' old-world tle in a war against terrori t shadow warriors. stuff' to endure the coming darkne s and to conservative ends-justify-the-means way of Terrori m is a type of long-distance guerilla prevail. On Friday night the country was covered thinking for an enlightened embrace of the warfare, and the central aim of guerilla war- As a crutch, many in our society wilt with millions of omberly lit candles. On at- liberal virtues of the American Creed. The fare is to pass-up phy ical defeat of the encourage further restrictions on civil rights urday BC howed an L rerun from the trilogy ends with Michael, now a graying enemy in exchange for a more total and per- and libertie . Already, the U .. Senate has 70 . Last week the media was desperately try- mafia boss crying over the death of hi manent psychological triumph. Americans pa sed a bill es entially eliminating the need ing to come up with flight numbers and to daughter (after a failed assasination attempt have experienced the dubious attraction of for the FBI to procure a warrant prior to initi- e timate the order of magnitude of the casual- on him), and struck with the ultimate terror of guerilla war - it enables dwarf to topple ating surveillance of web-surfers and email- ties. But now portfolio managers, diligent one who has lost that which he has spent his giants. During the Revolutionary War, ers. The siren call of security must not be students, and coupon-cutting shopper are life trying to protect. The ironic tragedy of Americans victoriously fought a crude, large- allowed to induce us to forsake a two-hundred straining their eyes to pinpoint the econd Michael's life is that after year' of "going to ly guerilla war against British Army regulars year tradition and culture of freedom for fleet- decimal place again. For most of us, life goes the mattresses" to eradicate his family's ene- - then the world's mo t powerful and ing afety and a culture of fear. For if Ameri- on, as it must. But Dave Barry wrote an elo- mies, Michael is unable to protect his own feared. More recently, the U.S. military, then cans concede their liberty, they shall end up as quent column that moistened my eyes, and family from the effects of his rationalized the world's most powerful, lost a guerilla did Michael Corleone, having destroyed that cnn.com still makes me very very sad. For all thirst for vengeance. In short, MichaeFs quest war to the orth Vietnamese Army in a cost- for which we struggled and cared for the of u , the shock i still there, the grief ongo- to save his family sows the seeds of its ly and psychologically-scarring figbt to . most. In order to be successful, we Will have ing, the anger ever growing. But there are destruction. stave-off the spread of communism in south- to find the courage and resourcefulness to use new problems that we need to addres and After the terrorist bombings in ew York, east Asia. . our freedom to fight terror. solve, if only to move past feelings of help- Pennsylvania, and Washington, this week has As seen first-hand last week, terrorists will Lastly, in taking our fight abroad against lessness. witnessed the greatest outpouring of emotion be aggressive and unyielding in bringing war terrorism, we cannot use means which would There's a lot of anger, rightfully so, toward I have ever seen. Almost instantaneously, to American streets. Terrorism need not be so bring discredit to the values yve claim to repre- whomever is responsible. But there's al 0 a Americans arrived at a startlingly universal sent. Our focu should lot of misdirected anger towards other people, consensus that extraordinary means were remain on doing as other victims. Generalized discrimination urgently necessary to protect the nation. A much as is required to against all persons of certain ethnicities, reli- cavalcade of pundits and public officials have Terrorists will kidnap and torture Americans defend the United gions, or countries is easily recognizable and inveighed passionately for a broad, cathartic States and its interests, reproachable as wrong. Hopefully, should we military "response." The post-tragedy fervor overseas.They will blow up our children but no more than is come aero s any occurrence of such behavior has given birth to a popular sentiment that necessary. To launch we'll have the conviction to voice our con- demands that the U.S. should "root out" as they sleep. Even qfter we hunt down the scorched earth, demnation against bigotry, for it is with the every vestige of global terrorism by any and destroy them) they will keep coming "no-holds barred" war tacit acquiescence of bystanders than such means. Indeed, many - including certain that many are advocat- behavior grows. notorious leaders of the MIT College Repub- until the sound of explosions becomes ing can only serve to More insidious is the tension that develops licans - have even advocated that the U.S. escalate the means between people with differing views regard- lead Western Civilization to a clash with as common as California earthquakes. which terrorists will ing the "proper course of action.' Some want politicized Islamic fundamentalism, as if it use against the Ameri- swift and forceful vengeance, while others were not only within its capability but also its can homeland, and want to seek peace and understanding. People historic duty. Like Michael Corleone, our will succeed in undo- are very passionate about defending these love of our national family eems as if it will open and dramatic as hijacking and crashing ing a half-century' worth of work to rid the convictions, be it through conflicts over - inexorably lead us to go to any lengths to pro- airliners. In fact, terrorists traditionally prefer earth of the barbarous tactics which character- poster , adamant dialogue on the Lobby 10 tect it. more subtle means. The terrorists will explode ized world politics for centuries prior to the memorial banner, or fervent writings in the These proposals for missionary warfare are bombs in dance clubs and they will assassi- emergence of the United tates on the world's paper. easily understood given the emotional and nate our public leaders. They will kidnap and stage. We owe a duty to our fathers and our This passion is understandable, and heated psychological impact of last Tuesday's terror- torture Americans over ea . They will blow forefathers to ensure that the US remains a argument is defended both by the First ist acts. To a limited extent, they make sense up our children as they sleep. Even after we beacon of life, liberty, and good will, and to Amendment and by the legitimacy of free dis- as short-term prescriptions for national hunt down and destroy them in large numbers, not soil the noble accomplishments of the course. If the debate makes people more defense. However, they don't stand up very they will keep coming until the sound of past. understanding and aware of global issues, brings about peace, and develops solutions, then it is useful. But I'm not sure how useful these political or philosophical quarrels are, to Black, White, And Rational ourselve or to the direct victims. If it makes us defend ourselves more angrily and increas- with their uber-gun checks and mandatory psy- door to Indone ia and e tablished more camps es di cord in our own community it makes Brian M. Loux chological analysis for all students, and there. In our anger, we were unable to act one wonder if there's something else to be Republicans with their models for moral edu- effectively. done. Some people compare last week s terrorist cation, and everyone with their police state So should we just turn the other cheek? We can give our blood, sweat and tears. actions to World War II, a time where our schools, all missed something. Lunatic are 0, the political aspects of that are far too Most importantly, we can give our blood. .nation was deliberately attacked by Japan, like cockroaches. 0 matter what you do you dangerous. The attacks on the Pentagon and There' a two-week waiting list at the Red when we in the great American tradition cannot get rid of them all. Even our best World Trade Center were clear victories for Cross Blood Center, but there are other drives responded, persevered, and made the world efforts would not prevent one or two from slip- the terrorists. Showing them that we are inca- at Boston College and Harvard this month, safe for democracy. Because of this, they call ping through the cracks, finding a hole in ecu- pable of reaction win give them another victo- - and there will be blood drives at MIT in us to arms. rity, and causing it to happen all over again. ry and show them they need not fear reper- December and many more after that. To other we are headed for another Viet- And our preventative measures would have cussions for similar action in the future. If we Our chedules may not always work out, nam, when a small group of hawks in the taken away our tax dollars and civillibertie in change our foreign policy to appease their especially considering the long lines, but we upper echelon or' politics acted brashly in vam. desires, it will how them that violence is an can make an effort. re ponse to an apparent attack on our ship in ow look at today. Another horrific event effective way to achieve their goal . It is We may feel helples in other ways, but the Gulf of Tonkin, and while the public cried has, as much as we may hate to admit it, tom impossible to make friends with those who omething everyone can and should do is for peace, our men were sent to be slaughtered the people 'into two zealous parties calling for will say until their death that you are their donate money during this week' fund-raising for reasons unbeknownst to them. Because of war or peace. Anyone with a dissenting opin- enemy and are undeserving of life. drive for the merican Red Cross in Wash- this, they call us to restraint. ion is met with, "Well, don't you want this to As a side note I think Eminem's commen- ington. One can contribute by credit card at Which of these analogies is correct? For never happen again?" And again, they all fail tary on Columbine also parallels the current paypal.com ..if that's more convenient. It' every major war we have been in, including to realize that whatever actions we take cannot situation perfectly. Recall from hi song "I quick:, it' easy, and it's more productive than the American Revolution, the public senti- guarantee that terrorism will never hit borne Am' :' ow it's a tragedy; ow it s so sad to waving a flag around. ment was split each time. Can we use histori- again. Plus, our decisions stemming only from see an upper class city havin' this happenin ' urely, everyone can afford at least several cal events as a reference for our actions our reactions to horrific videotapes will likely highlighting that chool hootings were a com- dollars if not much more. If we can pitch in today? lead to more dangerous complications. mon occurrence in inner city chools and met five bucks for pizza without a second thought, Sure, if we know where to look. We don t War of course has orne deadly conse- with no public outcry. While the terrorist then we can surely donate at least that much need to look just at wars for our understand- quences that should give our leader pause. bombings Tuesday were on a larger scale than to a far more important cau e. How much ing, we need to look at Columbine. Declaring war, especially war on anyone sym- other act of terrorism atrocities with the same exces do we pend? A movie at the theatres, Remember Columbine? Let's review what pathizing with our attackers, validates for motivations and taking the same innocent live a coffee at tarbucks concert tickets, an over- happened. Two students arrived at the conclu- them what is otherwise a false claim that we have gone on in Third World countries for priced lunch. It' a few trifling sacrifices, in ion that everybody hated them and deserved are their enemies. Our motive of justice goes years. What shocked America the most was light of what other go through. I'll try to to die. After plotting for almost a year, they completely out the window, replaced by a the realization that we an advanced nation, are donate ten cents for every person who donates entered their school armed to the teeth and motive of vengeance. What more could these not upon a pedestal but are privy to the arne this next week and e-mails me telling me so; proceeded to kill 13 students and teachers, terrorists ask for? Garnering even more wide- e periences as other countries. I also fear that there are thousands of potential donors. I'm a themselves, and for a time, rational thought in spread support would be no longer a problem many people are not trying to solve thi itua- strapped tudent just like any other, but I'll do America. for terrorist organizations and they could then tion for justice' ake, but so that we can once it ifI can. The nation erupted; emotions raged to an unite themselves with any number of outlaw again be a safe "upper class' nation. Of course there are many other charita- extent parallel with what we see today. Thi in groups and countries to solidify. Do not think: Everyone ay that we want justice to 'pre- ble organizations - U ICEF, the Peace tum brought a tidal wave of hysteria among that just becau e the e attack were rather vail. Unfortunately we need to realize that orps, thehungersite. com - that need an otherwise ane people. Fingers were point- low-tech the organization behind this do not despite our best effort we cannot define jus- donation to help save live and improve ed in all direction . Explanations for the acts ha e the capability to use chemical and bio- tice especially in tough situations uch as thi . welfare; it's just as important that we con- ranged from abortion (George W. Bush in a logical weaponry on us. And what better justi- The clo e t that we can get to real ju tice right sider these as well. If anything, having a C interview) to violent computer game. fication for using them could they have than now is to control the passion that we feel and tragedy 0 close to home would make us all Everyone had a brilliant idea for how to make U .. Special Operation and ground force view our situation at a di tance and with ratio- the more ympathetic to those suffering and sure it never happened again and oddly occupying their homeland? nality. Justice may mean combat, but not a war crying anywhere else in the world. This enough, most ideas contradicted one another. Further complicating members, this would of retaliation. Justice may mean peace, but not fund drive will end, but the need to extend Those who offered opposition to someone s also be the first war where our aggressor is not at any price. Like Columbine, our emotion help to each other whenever we can is eter- idea for the new utopia (including me, many a nation, but a loosely organized group. Who will one day cool and I hope we will realize nal. Politics, philosophy, and rhetoric are times) were frequently met with, "Well don't exactly, are we to attack? As we aw earlier that these olutions were made in the heat of important, but human life - anywhere, you want safer schools?" this week while we were grilling the moment and are not the best way to solve anytime - is more important and far more And of course we all did. But Democrats Afghanistan, bin Laden slipped out the back the complex problems our world faces. real than anything else. Page 6 OP o Th Ahead The United fear of countle s million that hang in the bal- e poused, and orne even fa or their mean . ance. Thi attack hould erve a a wake-up But if crui e mis ile tart triking their call to the world about how much damage town and cities flame of anti- meric n Strength of the e people are capable of orne believe that entiment will be fanned that would well the the only rea on a nuclear weapon wa not ranks of would-be terrorist. The U .. mu t, I am in thi country becau e I belie e u ed on Tue day i that they do not yet have therefore, tread with extreme caution here. America firmly that there are a lot of things America that capability. But they are frighteningly The"y mu t make orne Ie el of di tinction does right. I may not have been born and close. Terrori m ha been a cancer that has between pas ive sympathizer and known raised here, but I am equally outraged by thi killed and affected too many, for too long. terrorist , at lea t a far a military action Eric 1. Plo ky de picable attack on the U .. , it core values Even if the "primary u pect" wa not dire tty goe . The accountability that i lac ing in and humanity itself. There wa a panel di - involved in thi attack, he applauds the act many of these countrie ha to be developed, America' gloriou adole ence ended one cu sion on campu two day ago (organized and ha already committed enough crimes but it cannot be forced upon them with week ago. Until then, we knew only freedom. by the IT Center for International tudie) again t humanity to merit the har he t puni h- bombs. A the ., ferret out and puni h We had the luxury of whim y. We could at which one expert aid, "This i a pivotal ment. harshly those who are clearly guilty of indulge our neuro e . America ha changed, point in ., hi tory. We cannot let thi go Few realized, until now, how far this can- financing or carrying out terrori t activity, and we have all grown immensely, in only unanswered." I agree wholeheartedly. Thi i cer ha pread. The terrorist network runs they mu t find ways to marginalize them even day . . a war that has been forced upon thi country,' deep and trong in 60 different countrie , within their own societie and erode their Our nation no longer looks down on the vul- and now that it fmd it elf thrown on to the panning a myriad of cau e ." The people ba e of support. nerable from its lofty superpower perch. We . battlefield, it must fight. Let me clarify my ha e made life a living hell for 0 many and The re t of the world i olidly behind the too are vulnerable. We have realized that we position by saying that I am in favor of will now be inspired to corne up with their U.. in it ·que t for justice and the horrific are citizens of a dangerou world -:- a world strong and deci i e military action, but a tar- cenes from Tue - about which we have so confidently warned geted and focu ed one. ot indi criminate day played out on others. carpet bombing of a country ravaged b TV screens every- In that world last week, treets and newspa- year of civil war. It i not just American lives and American security where have per racks stood empty. All conversation were I am from India, and although we won our that are at take here) but rather global peace itself and already achieved the same. Fighter jets roared overhead. Thou- independence from Britain largely on the some degree of sands lay dying, dead, their ashes scattered. Our strength of Gandhi's principle of non-vio- freedom from fear of countless millions that marginaliza- usual business was no longer usual, and whimsy lence and pas ive civil di obedience that phi- tion. The U.S. evaporated into a new atmosphere of peril and losophy will do irreparable harm if u ed that hang in the balance. This attack may lose that hate. against the 'enemy" we are facing today. advantage by But this nation, born of fire and defiance, of British coloniali ts may have impo ed tough should serve as a wake-up call to the world using "any and all principle and hope, has not broken. The united law on India, but they were human and had a about how mudi damage these people are capable of means at its dis- strength of America is manifest everywhere - con cience. It i clear the e people do not. posaL' Some col- in word, flag, and song. Fire and defiance again They were human once, but the trange way lateral damage is go hand in hand. Who opposes .us? America has of the world have robbed them of their inevitable. Most many enemies - those who resent our free- humanity. In the state they are in, inaction own "grandio e" scheme of terror. And they terrorists live and operate among civilians; dom, denounce our liberty, excoriate our open- will achieve nothing. It will not be een a a will. ooner or later, carry them out unless that is their camouflage. But efforts must be ness. Crowds last week trumpeted our losses gesture of peace and forgivenes , urging them they are all y tematicalJy and methodically' made to minimize such casualties. Whatever and celebrated our dead. The world must know, to give up arms. Rather it will be interpreted wiped out. Every ingle last one of them. restraint the U.S. displays in this regard will however, that anyone who cheers the death of as a sign of weakne and impotence, inviting In all likelihood, this \: ill be a bitter war of bolster the support they have, even from oth- an American is an enemy of America. further attacks with little fear of repri a1. It i attrition. You can be ure that they will 'fight erwise-hostile quarters. Developing consensus Talk of retaliation is not rooted in hatred, precisely becau e of thi inaction that they desperately for urvival and keep killing inno- as they build momentum in this war will be of neither in aggression nor revenge. To endure, have become emboldened to uch a ic and cent . But, if our resolve is stronger, when the paramount importance. we must defend ourselves. We must protect our scary level. The pattern of attacks against thi dust ettle we will have prevailed. This is a In my opinion, the saddest part about this homes and families, endangered as we never country, over the years, make one thing crys- war that I am convinced has to be fought, for whole mess is that circumstances do exist that knew. We must preserve freedoms so fiercely tal clear. The terrorist network behind this the greater good. dri e ordinary people to such depths of des- ha thrown open a challenge to the United That aid, it hould be pointed out that peration and lunacy. The long-term strategy tates. They have rallied their troops, they there are nuance to this war that will make against terrorism does not lie in Cruise mis- ha e sung their war erie and they have waging it rather difficult. Firstly, sile and SWAT teams, but in addressing Our enemies are solely those truck deep at the heart of their declared fghanistan i not the only country harbor- some of the root causes, some of the age-old who wish us evil and would 'enemy. ' It is now time for thi country to ing dangerou element of the kind that may hatreds and fears that dehumanize young men muster the will and resolve to an wer that have hijacked tho e planes. Invading them and women and turn them into suicide have us dead; dress)race)and challenge. This attack was planned for all is not a feasible option. Intense diplomat- bombers .. months, if not year . There was no wavering ic and political pres ure must be brought to Clearly, they are convinced there is no religion are indicators-as reliable bear on the states that, directly or indirectly, other way for them to tum. or hesitation in the mind of the terrori t that COI01; executed thi with cold-blooded preci ion. upport terrofism. They mu t be made to pay Hopefully, someday, we can change that. asfavorite height) and There cannot be any wavering r he itation in n "exorbitant price" (as tated recently by And if we fail in doing so, this cycle of vio- toothpaste preference. our minds as we respond intelligently but Henry Kissinger in the Wa hington Post). lence will last well into our lifetimes, and furiously. But that price cannot be measured in the tho e of generations to come. Furthermore, it is not just American live lives of their innocent ci ilians. I will admit Puneet P. ewaskar is a graduate student and American security that are at take here. It that ignificant ections of their populations in the department of Electrical Engineering won, principles so nobly consecrated. And we is really global peace itself and freedom from upport the arne cau es that terrorists have and Computer Science. shall. We cannot defeat terrori m if we succumb to terror. We cannot defeat hatred if we suc- cumb to hate. America must endure as we knew The Death of Democracy? it, as the ;'great peaceful people" who cherish liberty above all else. If our path must be of safe no alternative to military action? tives (such as investigation, pursuing justice repression or dangerous freedom, we must Cue t Column Without full knowledge of who was . through the international courts, and a com- choose the danger, and stand against tho e who Julia teinberger involved in the events, and careful considera- 'plete review of our foreign policy) are threat- would challenge our resolve, in the name of all tion of all possible alternatives, what are they ened physically and verbally, told to keep we have always upheld. La t Tuesday' terrorist attack on America basing their deci ion on? quiet out of respect for the "patriotism" of America cannot exist as a police tate, a nation has provoked a re ponse. American are gear- The messages from network television has other students. How can you silence someone paralyzed by fear, haunted by death. We may be ing up for war. On television from the mouths been imilarly alarming in it uniformity. and feel patriotic at the same time? If our threatened, but we will not forgo our freedom. of politician , in newspapers, this respon e i Already on Tuesday newscasters were not country is not a strong enough democracy to Storied struggles of America's past uddenly portrayed as unequivocal. A with Pearl Har- presenting democratic alternative but specu- sustain popular debate about these important come alive as we realize we are taking our place bor, war ha been declared on America. We lating about military targets. I that the best questions, how can we be proud of it? Other in the history books, beside the Revolution, the have no choice but to re pond with military that we can do as a nation, reach for our guns, students, born with brown skin, are now afraid Civil War, and the World Wars. A new genera- force. Other consideration might give u a striking out in anger rather than justice? If to walk the infinite corridor for fear of the tion is learning what it means to be American. pause if they were not being quietly swept C start an article with "The questions are Muslim-bashers. Our enemies fear reprisals, as they should. under the rug by those eagerly pre ing for only when and where," isn' C is deliber- We also have not heard enough about the Even in the twenty-first century we must trug- war. I n't war and violence preci ely what ter- ately encouraging its audience not to a k other fact that Osama Bin Laden and scores of vio- gle for existence, and we must strain, and some- rorist are after? Rather than pitting our elve question ? As science tudent, houldn't we lent fundamentalist Islami ts were trained in times sacrifice, to emerge vietoriou . Harder again t the Arab-Mu lim world and lumping be disturbed? American-funded camps during the Cold War. still, the American burden includes not just trea- every uslim in with the terrorist, houldn't Possibly even worse i the treatment of Quoting another C article "'Bin Laden's sure and territory but values and ideals, which we draw clo er to tho e elements in the Arab foreign new. ation are seen a "friends' or group grew out of Mujaheddin guerrilla war- cannot be protected with tanks or missiles. Our world that reject terrori m? 0 t importantly, "foe " based solely on their willingness to riors who were trained by Pakistan Secret Ser- hearts and minds are our only safeguards. houldn't we attempt to fully under tand why contribute to the military effort. Paki tan, sud- vices and the Pakistani military with funding Adult America may forget its whimsy for a America was targeted? Do American truly denly willing to allow U troop to use its ter- and financing by the United States,' said Mag- time as it considers important new questions of appreciate the role of the nited tate in the ritory as a base, has become a friend. nus Ranstorp of the Center for the Study of security, urveillance transportation, and preju- iddle Ea t? re our politician and new The European countrie , who expressed Terrorism at St. Andrews University." Most dice. Answers must be thoughtful, not rushed; media attempting to increa e our understand- strong grief and support from the beginning, Afghani people did not want to be ruled by passionate, not convenient. Our own fears mu t ing of event in the iddle Ea t before we but are not following the U into war, are iud- the Taiiban, but the Taliban had American be quietly dispelled. plunge headlong into war? one of the e denly threatening. Prime Mini ter Jo pin of military training and equipment, and they won Prejudice against ourenemie may pull on que tion are being addres ed. France tated that for France, there is no 'war the civil war. Are we as a democratic nation our hearts but cannot be allowed to infect OUf Thi i why the pa t few days have been 0 again t I lam or the Arab- u lim world." willing to accept that our foreign policy has minds. Our enemies are solely tho e who wi h terrifying. cata trophe can happen to any Why have we not heard tatements like had ometimes disa trous consequences, and us evil and would have us dead; dress, race, and nation but a democracy requires thoughtful thi from members of Congre s? Why i the to scrutinize our military aid recipients and religion are indicator as reliable a favorite debate and expo ure to the nece ary informa- peeved to hear that "our humane, political allie more clo ely? Or are we forging for- color, height, and toothpaste preference. tion before a democratic deci ion can be and functional olidarity with the nited ward full of patriotism po sibly creating new As never before, America speaks with one mad. To quote Repre entative Lee of Cali- tate doe not deprive u of our overeignty mon ter that future generations will have to voice with which we reas ure our OWIl a we f; rnia 'We' e got to bring the e perpetrator and freedom to make up our own mind "7 face? plan for the future. To the friend who will pers to ju tice. But I m aying that I have not yet Why i the U insi ting on unconditional mil- If we are really patriotic, and trul y believe in haunted tone , "I don t want to de ign een the e iden e. nd until then, in C n- itary upport from other countries? Do the e in democracy, we must not avoid unplea ant bomb ," we mu t say 'And you won't." To gre ,v e mu t ho re traint.' Repre enta- ountrie not ha e the overeign right to fact about our country. There is nothing more tho e who worry that life will never be the arne, ti e Lea the only Repre entative ho decide what to do with their territory and dangerou than blind patrioti m. If we are real we mu t answer as be t we can with the truth . oted again t authorizing military force on re OUIce ? Do the citizens of these countrie patriot , we hould become fully informed Life may never be the sam . But of till we Frida . Thi fa t alone i hocking nd hould (when they are democra ie ) have no VOice in and think before we act. Please as Americans can be ure: America will never be a nation of be worri orne. Where i the demo ratic debate eciding their participation? let u have debate rather than division. terror and of hate. hoever our nernie and when, a ant 4 day after the event , all oreover. in our wn university, tudents Julia Steinberger is a graduate student in whatever the challenges may be, America shall ongre decide or the nation that there 1 rave enough to point out peaceful alterna- the department of Phy. ics. prevail as we have alway done. September The 18,2001 Tech
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TechCalendar appears in each issue of The Tech and features events for members of the MIT community. The Tech makes no guarantees as to the accuracy of this information, and The Tech shall not be held liable for any losses, including, but not limited to, damages resulting from attendance of an event. ec Ca endar Contact information for all e ents is a ailable from the TechCalendar web page. Visit and add events to TechCalendar online at http://events.mit.edu Tuesday, September 18 Council, International Film Club. 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - MIT ICAT Lab eetmgjSeminar Series. "Airport Air Traffic Demand - Cutaneous Grooves". A showcase of the research on tactile composition conducted by Management - Inevitability and Select Experiences Worldwide" by Terence PC Fan. Graduate graduate student Eric Gunther at the MIT Media Lab. Essentially a concert for the skin, it is a Research Assistant, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. MIT International Center for Air dance you feel instead of see - by hearing music and feeling choreographed vibrations Transportation. against your skin. The concert includes pre-composed musical/tactile pieces as well as a Refreshments will be served .. free. Room: MIT, Rm. 33--206. Sponsor: AeroAstro. real-time improvisational sonic-tactile performance. This project has been made possible in 12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - Dreamweaver Quick Start. Dreamweaver 3.0 is a powerful tool for part by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT. Seating is limited; tickets issued creating and managing complex web sites. This Quick Start introduces users to the on a first-come, first-served basis. Shows will take place evenings at the MIT Media Lab (E15). Dreamweaver interface and give a brief overview of web publishing practices at MIT.. free. Info/ticketing, go to Web Site. free. Room: Media Lab (E15). Sponsor: Media Lab. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. Thursday, September 20 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Se f-Adaptation in Vibrating Systems: From Strings to Soap Films. 11:45 a.m. -1:30 p.m. - Working Group on Support Staff Issues. Monthly meeting of Working Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM in Room 2-349. free. Room: Room 2-338. Sponsor: Group on Support Staff Issues. Our guest, Toni Robinson, of the Ombuds Office, will speak on Physical Mathematics Seminar. Department of Mathematics. "Empowerment". The Co-Conveners, JoAnn Sorrento and Olga Parkin, issue an invitation to all 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Energy Globalization & the Emerging Technology Renaissance". A interested support and administrative staff members to attend. Please email special presentation by Dr. Yoram Shoham Vice President, External Relations Shell ([email protected]) if you plan on being at the meeting .. free. Room: 34-401A. Sponsor: International Exploration and Production Inc.. free. Room: Wong Auditorium. Sponsor: Center Working Group on Support Staff Issues. for Environmental Initiatives. Earth Resources Laboratory, Laboratory for Energy and the 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Element K Hands-OnWorkshop. Is web-based training for me? Environment, Industrial Liaison Program. Spend an hour in an instructor-led workshop. Learn how to get started using web-based 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - LIDS Colloquium. Ad hoc wireless networks: Analysis, protocols, training, explore what is offered and ask questions. For more information, go to: architecture, and convergence. Ad hoc networks can provide a total traffic carrying capacity http://web.mit.edu/is/training/wbt. free. Room: W89-125. Sponsor: Information Systems. that scales as the square root of the number of nodes in the network. The operation of ad hoc 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Windows 2000 Quick Start. This session demonstrates the new networks requires several asynchronous distributed protocols which can adapt to the location features and functionalities of Windows 2000 for the desktop user. Tour Start Menu and number of nodes in the network, and to the traffic demands. We present three such enhancements; compare differences between the new My Network Places and previous protocols for problems arising especially in wireless networks - power control (COMPOW), Network Neighborhood; meet the Active Desktop, Power Management, and Windows Update. media access (SEEDEX),and routing (STARA). See how many Control Panel functions have been consolidated, where NT profiles and We also comment on some architectural issues important to the next phase of the Administrative Tools now reside, and how to set up a printer. We will explain why Active information technology revolution, the convergence of communication, control, sensing and Directories are not currently allowed at MIT and make some recommendations for operating in actuation. P. R. Kumar is Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering this new environment. (System administration not covered.) . free. Room: N42 Demo Center. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests are in wireless Sponsor: Information Systems. networking, distributed real-time systems, wafer fabrication plants, and machine learning. free. 4:15 p.m. - M.l.T. Physics Colloquium. "Growing the Human Body on a Chip - Step 1, Liver" Room: 37-212. Sponsor: LIDS Colloquia. . free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Physics Department. 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - GTl Seminar. Methodology for Characterization of Distortional and 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Sloan Automotive Laboratory/Energy Systems Seminar Series, Fall Stability in High-Speed Multistage Axial Compressor. free. Room: 31-161. Sponsor: Gas 2001. "Assessing the Effects of Retarded Spark Timing on Engine Combustion, HC Emissions, Turbine Laboratory. and Fast Catalyst Light-Off". free. Room: 31-161. Sponsor: Sloan Automotive and Reacting 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - MIT-Italy Program Orientation. Presentation of MIT-Italy program to Gas Dynamics Labs, Sloan Automotive Laboratory. grad. and undergr, students from all departments who are interested in 3-12 months paid 4:15 p.m. - HST Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series. The Harvard-MIT Division of Health internships in Italy in 2002. Refreshments will be provided. free. Room: E-38, room 714. Sciences and Technology(HST) presents the second of four seminars on biomedical optics, Sponsor: MIT-Italy Program. focusing on the multidisciplinary research at MGH's Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine. Wednesday, September 19 Brett E. Bouma, PhD, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and MGH's Wellman 12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - Orientation to Computing at MIT. This seminar provides basic, non- Labs, speaks on "Optical Coherence Tomography." . free. Room: E25-111. Sponsor: HST. technical information about the MIT computing environment. Topics include: telephones and 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Analytic Center Methods, Mixed Integer Programming and voice mail, operating systems, supported software and recommended hardware, the campus Variational Inequalities. aRC Fall Seminar Series. Seminar Followed by reception in E40-106 .. network, security computer-related health issues. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: free. Room: E56-270. Sponsor: Operations Research Center. Information Systems. 4:30 p.m. - Women's Soccer vs. Bridgewater ST.. free. Room: Steinbrenner. Sponsor: 12:10 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - "Physical Oceanography Sack lunch Seminar. TBA. free. Room: 54- Department of Athletics. 915. Sponsor: Physical Oceanography. 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Meet the SEBC. Come meet the members of the SEBC organizing 3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - spouseS&partners@mit: Art Walk at MIT. Learn more about the team. Learn about the exciting events we have planned for the year and how you can get campus by joining us for a guided tour of MIT's outdoor public sculpture collection. Meet in the involved. Also meet and network with representatives from some of the Sloan clubs. free. atrium of the List Visual Center (Building E15) at 3:15 P.M.. free. Room: Atrium of List Visual Room: 1-190. Sponsor: Science and Engineering Business Club. Center (Building 15). Sponsor: spouses&partners@mit, MIT Medical. 5:30 p.m. - MASSACHUSETTSSPACEGRANT CONSORTIUMSUMMER JOBS FAIR. How 3:30 p.m. - MIT Faculty Meeting. free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Faculty Chair. would you like a job this summer at one of the major U.S. Aerospace companies? Every year, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - anostructures Seminar Series. "Nanomechanics of Cartilage: MASGC(Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium), places students in these prized summer Measurement of Glycosaminoglycan Intermolecular Interactions Via High Resolution Force positions. Come meet the Aerospace companies that will be hiring and to learn about the Spectroscopy". free. Room: Edgerton Hall, 34-101; Refreshments served at 3:45 pm.. application process (partial list): Aerospace Corp., Ball Aerospace, Boeing, Honeywell, JPL, Sponsor: Nanostructures Laboratory. Lockheed-Martin, NASAGoddard Summer Academy. Informal Dinner will be provided.. free. 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Border Strips, Snakes and Codes of Skew Partitions. Refreshments Room: MIT Stratton Student Center - West Lounge - Room 201. Sponsor: AeroAstro. will be served at 3:30 PM in room 2-349. free. Room: Room 2-338. Sponsor: Combinatorics 5:30 p.m. - Brenda laurel - Utopian Entrepreneur. Please join us for an enlightening Seminar. Department of Mathematics. evening with media pioneer Brenda Laurel, whose newest book,_Utopian Entrepreneur_, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Truman Scholarship Informational Meeting. Considering a career in has just been published by The MIT Press. In this appearance, Brenda Laurel will be government, education, or other public service sector? Find out how you can apply for a joined by MI1 Professor Henry Jenkins for a unique investigation into her work and $30,000 scholarship during the fall of your junior year. Scholarships are awarded to juniors thought.A heady hybrid of critical thinking, personal narrative, and economic analysis, and to qualified seniors. Applicants must be U.S. citizens .. free. Room: E51-275. Sponsor: _Utopian Entrepreneur, is a field manual for those who want to do socially positive work History Office. in the context of business. One of the few Silicon Valley veterans who participated in all 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Germany Program Orientation. Go to Germany - find out about 3--12 four of the major computer tech bubbles-games, multimedia, virtual reality, and dot- months paid internships in German companies, research institutes and universities. corns-Brenda Laurel is known for injecting humanistic values into computer-based Refreshmen s will be served .. free. Room: E38-7th fl. conference room (292 Main St.). media .. free. Room: MIT 34-101, 50 Vassar St., Cambridge. Sponsor: authors@mit, The Sponsor: mit-germany program. MIT Press Bookstore. 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Renaissance Dancin,g. There are many forms of Renaissance Dancing 7:00 p.m. - Creating Design Research: From Bauhaus to Marimekko. Architecture lecture by that we practice. From Italian balli to courtly pavans to English country. We dance them all with Jane Thompson, Thompson Design Group. Co-sponsored with SPNEA/Gropius House and flair and fun. Dress is common street clothing. 0 experience necessary; instruction is Docomomo/NE .. free. Room: Rm 10-250. Sponsor: Department of Architecture. provided. free. Room: W20 (Sala or 407 or 491). Sponsor: Society for Creative Anachronism. 8:00 p.m. -10:30 p.m. -IFilm Movie seminar. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: Graduate Student 8:00 p.m. -10:30 p.m. -IFilm MOVieSeminar. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, International Film Club.
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PUT AM INVESTMENTS CORPORATE PRESENTATION AND RECEPTION SEPTEMBER 26,2001 7: 0 0 P.M. - 9: 00 P.M. ROOM 4-159 September 18 200 1 THE TECH Page 11 THE ARTS MUSIC REVIEW ing tar and I thought of this / You're turning FILM REVIEW all of your good ideas into doubts / Through * the darknes there is a pure vi ion / Keep it keeping on / Right on." Burgess in Wonderful Wonderland is a leap toward optimism, Read the happiness, and pleasure for the Charlatans. Funk Rock This attitude is a positive change for the group, whieh simply needs to work harder at By Erik Blankinship "The Belle and the Butterfly," an outlier on tying new sen ibilities into a more coherent Book STAFF WRiTER the album, capitalizes on some of the Chemi- mu ical package. Their upbeat B-side Sleepy cal Brothers' dance sound and techniques. Little Sunshine Boy marks a more refined step The Musketeer as we've Charlatanse UK, a main tay of Brit- Burgess' new hobby is scratching records as a in thi new direction. . pop, have just delivered their seventh DJ; "Butterfly" is evidence. "The Ballad of The Charlatans usually put on a good live seen it before album, Wonderland. Wonderland the Band" samples a woman nearing orgasm show characterized by a frenzy of crowd l1marks their fir t serious change in while lead singer Tim Burge s sings "Keep on urfing and high fives from the band. Their By Jennifer L. Ford style, an important shift. For the last ten years Ii tening / You will find your beat / You'll scheduled appearance in Boston this week- the Charlatans have been clo e to, if not at the find all the pretty women dancing at your end was cancelled in light of travel restric- Directed by Peter Hyams core of, the British sound. Long after the feet." tions; an unfortunate decision, ince review- Written by Gene Quintano Stone Roses split, the Charlatans were still My favorite track, "Right On," exploits the ers of their Briti h gigs were gushing over Starring Justin Chambers, Mena Suvari, Tim rocking, delivering their authentic sound band's best assets: Burgess' lyrics and vocal- the band's new enthusia m. Fans can only Roth, and Catherine Deneuve throughout the 90s and sidestepping Oasis' ization, which speak directly to the listener hope that The Charlatans keep up the posi- PG-13 regressive Beatles covers. Cite as evidence and roll over the guitar melodies like a friend tive attitude, and make it to Boston some lead singer's Tim Burgess being the first to telling you how it is. "Tonight I saw a shoot- time soon. upposedly based on Alexandre join forces with dynamic dance duo The Dumas' classic, The Musketeer is the Chemical Brothers -on their debut album Exit latest attempt to beat some new life Planet Dust, which brought rave culture to Sout of a work that has been redone homes in album form. time and time again to mediocre effect. The The Charlatans' sound for 2001 is funk tale of The Three Musketeers, which has rock. Wonderland has the swanky feel of a been reinvented practically every decade of Jamiroqui release unfortunately matched the twentieth century, has now entered the with a rock band· beat, a combination that twenty-fir t. sounds flat. The band plays most of this The trailer of The Musketeer, which album on the beat, when they should have depicts scenes that look as if they could been playing just behind the beat to 'secure a have been taken directly from Crouching laid back groove. Tiger, Hidden Dragon, vows to show us The In a marked departure from previous work, Three Musketeers "as we've never seen it Burgess sings falsetto a la Prince and the, before." And the trailer is good. People Power Generation on most of the album. clash swords while dangling from ropes, Burgess enters this new vocal territory with precariou ly balanced on ladders, and on top pizzazz and flare. It sounds cool, but it's also of rolling barrels. We even witness D'Artag- a shocking vocal change considering the nan, played by a dashing Justin Chambers, band's shoe-gazing origins. do a butterfly twist off a countertop. Admit- The band's new musical terrain is best rep- tedly, it would be near impossible to live up resented by "You're So Pretty, We're So Pret- to a trailer like this, but The Musketeer does- ty," to which a heavy, swanky bass line pro- n't even try. vides a nice kick. Even with the added energy, But could we really expect anything bet- however, the song comes off as being slightly ter from director Peter Hymas and writer disjointed. While the bass establishes a deep Gene Quintano? Quintano, the creative sound, the piece introduces bridges to the genius behind Operation Dumbo Drop obvi- repetitive chorus ("Show me the money") ously i nt going to do anything great, but without tying .them into the rest of the new when you team him up with Hymas, who sound. brought us the masterpieces Timecop and In an attempt to place the album on the End of Days, we can expect nothing but musical spectrum, friends of mine in England pure, unadulterated trash. And that is exactly placed the first single, "Love is the Key," in the what we get. U2 category. Too upbeat, too silly and too The movie begins with D' Artagnan' broad seems to hit the target, as the band has parents being killed by Febre (played by a never strayed much into this emotional register. tired Tim Roth). Although that isn't exactly in the book, it could be over-looked since it MUSIC REVIEW gives us a suitable bad guy. D'Artagnan is then taken in by a family friend and trained to be a Musketeer. Fourteen years pass, and we see D'Artagnan all grown up and deter- Wesley Willis Live mined to be a Musketeer and avenge his par- ents' deaths. He goes to Paris, and finds the TheMan JWw Cut theMullet Plays Middle E~t Mu keteers in dire traits. orne very one- dimensional versions of Portho , Athos, and By' Brian Loux a great reaction from the audience each time he disagreed, finding his offbeat songs were supe- Aramis, seem to serve no real purpose in ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR said "Rock on, Boston, Massachusetts!" rior to his stage talk, and loved the continual this film except to loosely tie it to Dumas' Wesley Willis, The Shazaam Willis has.released over 14 albums, and pace of the concert. work. He learns of the strife between church T. T. The Bear's toured the country with a band entitled The Willis jokingly announced four separate and state, and vows to protect his king no Friday, September ~4, 2001 Wesley Willis Fiasco, The Fiasco crumbled times throughout the night that the next song matter what. So far this is not unlike the under the tensions of life on the road. During would be his last, keeping the entire crowd on original tale. he chants Of."W.esley!" began even Friday's performance, he stated, "Man, that edge. At one point he seemed to receive a signal Then the movie loses all coherency. before The Shazaam left the stage. A Fiasco band sucked my ass," and the crowd from backstage that his hit "I Whupped Bat- D' Artagnan falls in love with Francesca few minutes later, an obese and appar- laughed along with him. However, his apparent man's Ass" would be his last song, to which he (Mena Suvari), a chambermaid who is some- Tently dirty man shuffled onto the stage. misstep hasn't stopped other bands from court- responded by slowly leaning into the micro- how in the queen's favor. The Queen On his tired face one could see the brown, self- ing his talent: Willis currently plays with two phone and softly whispering, "And now ... for decides to protect France herself, and man- inflicted forehead bump. To some, he seemed other bands back in his hometown of Chicago. my last song." As the crowd laughed you ages to get kidnapped along with Francesca. more suited to perform on the streets outside the Seeing him perform live is the experience of could see the grin on Willis' face, one of that D' Artagnan has to enlist the aid of the Mus- club. But the man's appearance was deceptive. a lifetime. Hearing him perform his lyrics night's rare displays of emotion. It was obvious keteers to save them. They do. They all live He was full of energy, cheerful, and ready to almost ad-lib multiplies by ten the enjoyment then that this man was not a lunatic who happily ever after. Yada yada yada. The plot entertain the sold-out crowd packed tightly into one derives from his music. Some aspects of the crowned himself a rock star, but a true per- is ridiculous, so why even worry about it? T.T the Bear's in Cambridge. performance were less than perfect, including former who loves to entertain. In fact, there is only one good part of the "Everybody say rock!" the man cried. his consistent use of a Rite-Aid slogan for his Willis stayed well over 45 minutes to meet movie, the fight scenes. Action choreograph- "Rock!" they screamed. commercial tag line. In concert, the musical and speak with fans. Willis greeted people by er Xin Xin Xiong shows off his skills, and "Everybody say roll!" interlude portion of each song can seem to drag bumping foreheads, a common practice of his. the fighting is spectacular. The final fight ''Roll!'' on as long as "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," but alter- When asked why, he replied "to get rid of my between D' Artagnan and Febre is something This continued for a good minute, until the natively one can lose oneself in focusing on schizophrenia." He asked for the phone num- that should definitely be seen by everyone man finally said, "Ok, let's rock this thing like a Willis' intense concentration on changing keys bers of orne of his fans 0 that he could visit who likes word-fighting and Hong-Kong Motherfucking Jackass." Wesley Willis was set with one finger. them when he returns to the Boston area. Fans cinema. to perform. To those who have not heard him Willis performed a few songs dedicated to were happy to oblige. Unfortunately, the fights are few and far perform, Willis is almost impossible to the demons in his head such as "Suck a Palomi- After much of the crowd had dispersed and I _between, and they were all shown in the describe. Those who have heard him either love no's Dick" and "Suck a Monkey's Booty." had shared several head-butts with Willis, I trailer. Furthermore, the fight scenes only him or fmd him inane. Willis is a diagnosed Despite the many chants of "USA!" by the finally managed to net a brief interview. He last for about twenty minutes of the two- schizophrenic who claims that a demon exists in crowd, he didn't sing about the recent terrorist believes that rock and roll music is the greatest hour movie, and that leaves a lot of time to his head. His exceptional memory and hand- attacks. He did oblige the crowd with some of "because it is the one that puts you on a joy stare at your watch. Your watch will be the writing lead some doctors to label him a savant. his more famous hits, such as "Cut the Mullet," ride. It keeps you off of the hell ride. It sets you much more interesting than anything taking Take an electronic keyboard and press one "I Whupped Batman's Ass," and "Rock N' Roll on the right path.' He then changed the topic place on screen. Do yourself a favor - of the "rhythm" buttons and you have Willis's McDonalds." He even played a number called completely, asking about various modes of pub- watch the trailer, and then read the book. musical accompaniment. What makes his "Wasted Youth' about kids going to see a Wes- lic transportation in Boston, and whether or not songs special are the quasi-spoken lyrics that ley Willis concert. they were.hell rides. Spring Break.2002!!! Student Express make you laugh or shake your head. Each song i now hiring sales reps. Cancun Willis maintained the how's momentum by Willis aid he would return to the Bo ton features FREE meals and partie @ Fat follows the same format: two verses with a keeping the talk between musical numbers to a area next October, but for now, he is heading to Tuesdays - MTV Beach Headquarters. refrain, a long musical interlude where Will minimum. After finishing each song, he the ew York area. While some critics say that Aeapuleo, MazatJan. Jamaica, Bahamas, South Padre. Florida. Prices carefuJIy changes the key of the music and the promptly went onto the song with no other Willis is a novelty act bound to die out, an 8- from S469 with major airline -. 24,000 final verse, his now famous tagline: "Rock over introduction than "And now, this next ong will year career and last night s concert prove other- traveler in 2001. Call 800-7 7-37F:7 London, rock on Chicago," and then an adver- be..." To some this was a di appointment, far a FREE br hure or email: fans, wise. Willis's fans agreed with him when he [email protected] tisement slogan. While on tour, Willis changes as they consider consider the hilarity of his said, "It was a great show. I rocked it out www.stodentexpre.s!\.com the last line to the appropriate city and he drew speeches to exceed that of his music. Otbers good.' Page 12 TBEARTS
THEATRE REViEw tion, and the atmo phere all three coming but here it i . twic a annoying ince directly from Joy e' short t ry) - and a Gabriel i the lead. Tho e narration , by the p rfe t ab ence of anything re embling the ay are all d li ered while a blui h pot- narrati . light hine dire tly n Gabriel, and after a Dead on Arrival while I developed a decidedly Pa ian 'The Dead' i et at a party and it doe 10 re emble a party, with the rna t intere ting refle by tarting to groan when that bluish Jame Joyce The Dead at the Huntington Theatre people so bu y el ewhere that you can sp nd potlight would fade on. only a fle ting moment ith them and ith Every other part i noti eably better, with By ladimir Zelevinsky and give the actor more of a chan e to do at the rna t obno iou one in e antly ram- a c uple of them being quite memorable: the STAFF WRITER lea t some character war . bling right into your ear. Thi rtainly drunkard Freddy Malins (Paul . McGrane) Anoth r reason hy ong and dance applie to Gabriel Conroy ean ullen): I and fiU ic tudent ichael (Je e Penning- Directed by Richard el on fe 1 more natural i that the play provid don t recall a profe ional theatri al produc- ton) manage to cut three-dimensional har- Based on the hort story by Jame Joyce quite a olid conte t for them: it a ew tion here the uppo edly sympathetic char- acter from the rather meager fabric of th Book by Richard elson ear's celebration (turn of the century - a t r wa quit a irritating. cript. There i al 0 a wonderfully touching Music by Shaun Davey moment when an old lady trie to Starring Sean Cullen, Kate Kearney-Patch, ing a ong, and her voice fails Alica Cannon, Patricia Kilgarriff, Jennifer her. It wa touching, and as uch Piech, Paddy Croft, Paul A. Mctlrane, hay it worked for about '20 minutes Duffin, Brandy Zarle, Gannon McHale, until the cript decided it was a Jesse Pennington, Laura Woyasz time for comic relief, giving the At Huntington Theatre through Oct.14 arne old lady a jaunty jingle (" aughty Girl "which would be here i an awkward contradiction in amu ing if it weren't trying so a lot of mu ical plays, the one that hard to be amu ing . makes them the last bastion of non- There are also technical prob- method acting. I am peaking about lems, none of them major if taken the moment when the musical number tart, separately, but rather dispiriting when th actor have to stop listening to the together. The combination of the inner live of their character and are forced, instruments that are played instead, to listen to the choreographer - a onstage and the music that is fran ition from naturalistic freedom to trict piped through the speakers does tylization. not sound harmonious. A few musi al (The Choru Line and Every character has a micro- Cabaret, for e ample) avoid thi problem by phone, so all the speech comes making the musical number a once-removed out from a single speaker, cen- part of a theatrical world; orne (mo tly tered over the stage; a character- ondheim) di pense with pre-set choreogra- who is supposed to sound like an phy entirely. 'Jame Joyce's The Dead" operatic tenor sounds like a avoids thi awkward conflict in yet another grotesque parody of one: For all manner: by making all stage action - even the talking, singing, dancing, and the ones where the characters are neither narrating, there still is no story. inging nor dancing - strictly forced upon Until the last ten minutes, that everybody on the tage, as if every character is. The last scene has a revelation gesture, every inflection of speech is too that was obvious for the previous important to leave to mere actor. 0 'The hour, the lead character reacting Dead" clearly belong to the traffic-cop in an utterly fake way, and an ele- school of theatre, where the actor are merely T. CHARLES ERICKSON giac finale that did not earn any of pawns, moved around the tage by the direc- James Joyce's "The Dead" comes to the Huntington Theatre as a musical- not a good thing. its. sorrow. Ultimately, the most tor, the writer, and the choreographer. impressive thing about this finale The awkward conflict between the musi- last one, that is - in Dublin) at the house of Robotically moving around the stage, too is the amount of stage snow. cal numbers and the rest of the play is, thus, three music teachers. The guests come, lis- busy to hit his light marks to do any acting, So here you go: a lot of hard work clearly avoided - and the price is merely that most ten to music, sing some songs, dance a few jumping from one fake emotion to another went into transporting audience into a of "The Dead'" two hour feels utterly jig-like dance, and go home - and that's one, providing utterly unnecessary .narration bygone era - but when this was accom- unnatural and fake. ctualIy, the mu ical pretty much it, until the last ten minutes. in a perfectly sleep-inducing sing-song plished, everybody involved in "The Dead" numbers are the one that are more realistic There is a certain gra p of the age, the loca- drone. That would not be good in any case, seems to have decided that this was enough.
;,.~... ,> l~: RESTAURANT REVIEW ~y,.'for" undoobt~y 00e of the ,-ed on the second f'lOot':E)f . is 'fairlY 'dqpping'wi~,~~ Boston s Restaurant ffi?ek plush, ~ the service; ",#' edgeable. acromm~~'e First Restaurant ffi?ekisMi:xed Bag .. importantly, not snDbbyJri' theJ~"' ness, the scene here islald ..~vk: Nofb either; instead, our waiter'" brougltt aU! a~j~e "',, .'. " By Winnie Yang loin; they were suspiciously similar to the ones under the with· asiago cheese ~get cll1ps}~~tzel rolls, '\Y3ln,Jt;·raisUtj';" STAFF WRITER roast chicken my friend was having, with the addition of cinn~on mils, ana pnion fooaCcii\,all still wannfrotn the pommes puree (or mashed potatoes for us common folk). So oven." . fter a tenth successful year in culinary giant ew often, this is the problem with prix fixe menus; the courses , Aujourd'huialso offeredfive choices for eacH'.course, York City Boston-area restaurateurs and chef have seem to be mass manufactured, individual touches compro- while' the other two restaurants had two or. three 'at JllOst finally de ided to follow uit and offer their very mised by lower prices and quick turnover. However, Iwould For. the first COUIse, ,we tried .the portobeHa, mushroom A own Re taurant Week. early forty restaurants in be remiss in failing to mention that the chicken was remark- carpaccio with shallot relish, arugula, and shaved parme- the metropolitan area erved up three-course prix fixe lunch- ably tasty and juicy.' Probably the best roasted fowl in san. It could have used more parmesan, but the mush- es for 20.01 from ugust 20-24. ponsored by the Greater Boston. rooms were deliciously juicy and nicely sweetened by the Bo ton' Convention and Visitors Bureau, American Express, I'll be pleased when this flourless chocolate cake craze relish. The heirloom tomato and fresh mozzarella salad and the Anthony pinazzola Foundation, the list of restau- blows over. Ifind them mo fly boring - with or without the consisted of vibrantly colored slices layered between rants included everything from Bob the Chef's to the Top of molten interior - and this one was no exception. The cake creamy chunks of mozzarella. The aged balsamic vinegar the Hub. I managed to queeze in visits to No. 9 Park, Mai- came in a pool of black cherry and red wine sauce, garnished added both a nice bite and depth, while thefrisee lent on Robert. and Aujourd'hui. with two preserved black cherries. crunchiness. . Famed Southie native Barbara Lynch rests her toque at The following day, we lunched at Maison Robert, just a While both dishes were excellent, the grilled pizza with o. 9 Park, a veritable Beacon HiU institution located at one few blocks down the street from o. 9 Park. The outdoor smoked salmon was deFmitely the highlight. The salmQD end of the Boston Commons, specializing in European peas- seating was lovely here. but the service left much to be combined nicely with the thinly sliced·new potatoes and ant fare (primarily of the French and Italian variety). The desired. True, the sommelier was friendly enough, but he leeks, and the crust was perfectly done~ slightly browned and two separate dining rooms and adjacent bar have an appro- tries too bard to impress, and the servers are just badly crisp, with a nutty wood-fired flavor. . priately Old World sort of feel, with all fabric-covered waUs trained. We were served more of the same cold, unappetiz- Of the main courses, the baked salmon with steamed lob- and mahogany wainscoting. o. 9 successfully removes the ing rolls. ster wontons and Asian vegetables was not all that memo- diner from the hustle and bustle of the Commons, while Our starters were fairly nondescript. The salade verte rable, but the lemon-soy vinaigrette accentuated the subtler maintaining a comfortable, casual atmosphere. Lynch keeps was doWnright disappointing - just a pile of uninspiring flavors well. The grilled mahi mahi was substantial and an entire legion of ervers, who are well trained, jf a little romaine and some grated carrots doused with a little vinai- meaty and the accompanying couscous superb - tender and cold. Unfortunately> the bread here is forgettable; just cold, grette. Maison Robert would do well to switch to a mes.c1un. fluffy, redolent of herbs. The long beans alongside were a pale and doughy french rolls. The vichyssoise was better; the chives added a little depth to tad overcooked and bland, but the melon relish added a o. 9'5 menu for Restaurant Week wa decidedly sum-. the potato base, while the cream of spinach didn't particular- refreshing tang. The roast chicken breast was excellent, mery. To tart, we tried the chilled com soup and the chick- ly stand out. though perhaps not quite as good as No.9 Park's. The en liver pare. The soup was a gorgeous pastel yellow with a Among the main courses, the risotto was a bit bland. accompanying corn mashed potatoes, however. were incred- smattering of tran lucent olive oil droplets, a tiny cutting of Accompanied by roasted artichoke and red pepper, it had ible. The beef tenderloin was cooked perfectly (medium pur lane arranged artfully on top and a couple of the ideal creamy consistency but verged on gumminess. rare) but paled. in comparison to my favorite, the grilled chanterelle wimming in the bisque. The soup had a lovely The salade de canard was a nice idea, but, while the slices sweet potatoes, all richness and warmth wrapped in a slight. creamy consistency, but cold soups have an empba is on of pear and duck breast were delicious on their own and Iy crunchy exterior. lightnes , which more often than not takes away from the with the blackberry sauce, the disparate elements failed to The desserts were really extraordinary. The creme brulee body and flavor. The pate came in an enormous slab, make for a cohesive dish. The pan friend trout. however, arrived at the table in a sizeable portion and had the ideal accompanied sparingly by a lice of grilled french bread, was perfection. With a crispy~ salty exterior and a flaky, yet crackly shell resting atop a light and creamy custard. Panna heavily eeded mustard, a sliced up fresh fig, and several substantially meaty flesh, the fish came with stewed beets cotta with an espresso creme anglaise offered even subtler tiny, highly-acidic gherkins. While quite velvety in texture, that offered a bit of starchiness to the dish, though they flavors. The coffee :8avor was barely discernible through the the richness of the pate was a little too much for the portion were a little bland. . . silky egg custard. Dollops of raspberry coulis gave the erved. We weren't at aU happy to see our desserts sitting out- pineapple upside-down cake a pleasing tartness. The I'd been warned that portions at o. 9 are ridiculously side in the courtyard while we worked on the main course. crunchy chocolate cake consiste,d of layers of an airy mQusse mall but on the contrary everything was just the right size The chocolate cake survived well, fortunately; it was an and a densely intense chocolate cream. Almonds sprinkled in thi age of Cheesecake Factory-excess. The roast iman excellent piece of cake, both rich and tender, but nothing on top provided most of the crunch. Fanus pork tenderloin was smaller than a hockey puck, but a extraordinary. The fruit tart, on the other band, had clearly The most critical aspect of Restaurant Week is consisten- generous two inches thick, and it was very tender and com- been sitting in a refrigerator before being left out in the sun cy, and clearly~ Aujourd'hui wins there. Hopefully this festi- plimented well by the wine-based stock. I was disappointed. (to thaw?). The pastry crust was dense and tasteless, and the val will become an annual event and include more area however by the brai ed vegetables piled under the tender- fruit and cream were not much of an improvement. establishments in foUowing years. THE ARTS THE TECH Page 1
MUSIC REVIEW been circulating around the group, as well as songs to that next level, the rsoni ts paral- taking time out to get the point of thi album lel the art of Cing to the varied style of acros • s the World Burns took to embry- martial arts in "Language rts," making onic state! onogram showed quintuplets but plenty of old kung fu references." illion- Date ofBirth that wa the doctor s honest mistake/rhymes aire" pushe 'the envelope in originality by fertilized the track initiate the poking fun at the popular Regi Philbin Arsonists' Latest Burns Hot transaction/Called for legal assistance to game how, while "Bleep" edits out all push through the contractions." The clever- form of vulgarity in re ponse to complaints By Joseph Gonzalez ful album. ness of the group shine brightest on this regarding such language. "Bleep" is espe- With Freestyle and D-story leaving the album as they take us through a rollercoaster cially entertaining because it starts off inno- with any genre, hip-hop has nder- group, the Arsoni ts have decided to rein- of emotions and different soundscape that cently enough but take censorship to the gone a radical metamorphosi over vent themselves and once again breathe new compliment their fa t-paced delivery and extreme, making fun of those who they ini- the year. From its humble begin- life into hip-hop. Their mind, tate entering complicated rhyme scheme . tially came off trying to appease. " pace A nings in the Bronx in the mid-70s to the arena this time around is of new begin- The first full-length track on the album, Junk" is an experiment in fusing hip-hop its now ever-expanding worldwide audience, ning , and the title of their new album "Stay Lo,' opens up abruptly after the intro and rock and roll; unlike previous attempts hip-hop artist have changed their tyle and by other artists, thi one i actually quite distinctive sound in order to push the enjoyable. Both genres give in a little to the boundarie of creativity and evolve the cul- other and the group makes sure that the ture. However there ha been a slump in resulting blend sounds natural to their creativity and originality; only few acts such unique delivery. Serious tracks also appear as Outkast and Reflection Eternal have kept on the album to a greater extent this time the music scene intere ting. With every around, adding substance to the total pack- release that comes out from a new artist age. Tracks such as "His Hate, Her Love" (a consumers take a leap of faith and gamble tale of an abusive lover), "Alive" (docu- with their money on a potential flop. Every menting the crew's perseverance in spite of now and then, however, a new group comes obstacles), and "Epitaph" (a narrative of along that blows the listeners' minds away their live as inner city kids) offer us a deep- and forces them to recognize a radical shift er look into the hearts of the e people who in the status quo. have brought so much to our culture. Two years ago, the Arsonists, a group The production throughout the album· of five hungry MC , blew away the under- compliments each member's style. Unlike ground hip-hop scene with their fiery full- most artist who release albums indiscrimi- length debut, As the World Burns. Dvstory,' nately, these MCs took their time (nearly two Freestyle, Swel Boogie, lise One, and Q- years) perfecting this CD for the masses, and Unique came with a completely different it is evident that the time was well spent. sound than what was dominating New York Although at times the album attains a airwaves. Theirs was the first album in a omewhat serious tone, for the most part the .long time to boast a talented crew whose playfulness and high-octane energy fOUI1din members radiated energy and a passion for their previous release can be found once the art form that is not generally put forth in more. If anything, their sound has only other hip-hop releases. This group could be improved a their production this time around added to a select few who add something to sounds more finished and polished. Some- the hip-hop culture with every album, as thing that could get them more notice as well opposed to those who detract from it with Artists Q-Unique, Swel 79, and Jise combine to become Arsonists. ·is the fact that they have included all new mindless materialistic content. With their reflects this message. Date of Birth picks up and contrasts the serious tone emitted by Q- tracks on this release, whereas before, half of new release, Date of Birth, the Arsonists right where the last album finished, but Unique in the intro, returning to the signa- the CD was comprised of 12" singles released have been able to overcome a diminished . emerges as a more complete package. Defy- ture sound of the crew. ongs such as "What up to three year before the album's release. roster as well the ever-present danger of the" ing the sophomore slump is a challenge to You Want," «Bum it Out,' and "Wordplay" This is a much more well-rounded product "sophomore slump," a condition where even the most gifted emcee, but for this are classic underground anthems. Having an and can erve as a blueprint for future MCs. established artists lose some of their hunger group, it was expected. In the opening track, album under their belt has not atiated these The Arsonists are the artists are respon ible because they have already put out a success- Q...Unique addresses the issues that have MCs appetites for the potlight. Taking their for bringing fun back into hip-hop.
VIDEO GAME REVIEWe King ofRacers Returns Mario Kartforthe Game Bay AdvanCe By Chad Serrant" place, the race was over. There was no hope for STAFF WRITER you. Toad. would use the mushroom-of-200- Mario Kart: Super Circuit miles-per-hour-kamehameha and would finish By Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance the race before you could blink. Rated E for everyone But those days are over, because now your $29.99 opponents act more like human beings (or Yoshi-like beings) that are out to Win, not has- he kart racing genre is pretty oversatu- sle first place. If you get ahead of them, they rated. Every since Mario and his friends ' won't suddenly get 200 turbo boosts. Instead, graced the Super NBS in go-karts, every they will keep driving and wait for you to T. mascot character (Sonic R and Crash screw up so they can drive past you. If you're " Team Racing) and every cartoon ensemble (The slow and in last place, they will show no Smurfs, Toy Story, even Woody Woodpecker) mercy. They will fight amongst each other, has had a kart racer. And, frankly, mo t of them instead of always against you. You will notice were stale. The raw originality of Mario Kart this and be pleased that Nintendo actually took made it work, and that's what made it so suc- some time to put the "Intelligence" in "Artifi- cessful. cial Intelligence." The intendo 64 v.ersion of Mario Kart, one The game is colorful and bright. The charac- of the most anticipated launch titles for the N64, ters are pre-rendered sprite , just like in Mario lost the magic. It uffered from terrible "rubber- Kart 64. The tracks are as flat as the Super NBS banding" AI (your opponents would mystically- tracks, but that's because the GBA doesn't do speed up towards you if you were in first place) 3D. Every stage has something that makes it and there was no reason to play single player. stand out. Cheese Land has mice, Ribbon Road Well, with the Game Boy Advance (GBA) has gift packages everywhere, Broken Pier has on its way, Nintendo had to make a kart racer, ghosts (Ghost Valley is back, baby!) and Rain- and they definitely learned from the kart racing bow Road (both of them) is actually difficult mistakes of other developers. This is an out- . again, instead of boring (six minutes? You standing game. expect me to go through such a boring track for Mario Kart: Super Circuit (thank you for six minutes?). not calling it Mario Kart Advance) is the latest The sound is top-notch, too. I can't complain kart racer, but now it's on the GBA. You get about the digitized speech, but I don't cringe to pick one of eight Nintendo characters, with when the Mario Brothers say their standard- different weights and speeds. These are issue "Here we go." The music fits the mood of imported from the intendo 64 version, so the stage it's in, and the sound effects are just Koopa Troopa fans are still out of luck. You the way I wanted them. get to choose from 16 courses and race For multiplayer enthusiasts this newest through them tournament style. You can win incarnation supports a single and multiple with pure racing skill, or you can learn to pelt game pak multiplayer. For the single pak, you your opponents with weapons strewn around can race on one of the classic Super ES the track. courses as a Yoshi. Single Pak is limited Once you finish the first 16 courses you get because of the low amount of memory, but it's to access the final four, the ultimate challenge. a great way to share the fun. With multiple Once that's done with, you get a special sur- game packs, you can race on any course you prise: the 20 tracks from the original Super want to and you can play in battle mode with version! In total, you get 40 tracks to me s with. your friend . These modes are what made Yes, I'm very happy. Mario Kart 64 good, and they have been The computer programmed • enemy' i brought to the GBA with no los of fun (Unle greatly improved in this game. nyone who you tried to snipe people from the top of a played Mario Kart 64 knows about the horrible mountain in block fort ... hame on you!) computer artificial intelligence. 0 matter bow To sum things up Mario Kart is on the fast you were, if you were in first, everyone else GBA and is an excellent example of what a kart was faster" If you were in last, though, everyone racer should be. I hope developers of kart racing would low to a crawl until you got back in first games are playing this game. This game clearly place. And if you let Toad or Yo hi get into first demonstrates the dos of kart game de ign, Page 1 TBEARTS
WEBREVEW of it laughs from the quirks of the Final Fantasy game. Like other prite comic, -bit theater's humor often relies on the stereotypes of the characters. The Arts on the UfJb Fighter i characterized as a jo k trong but a com- plete idiot, whose fa orite phrase is 'I like swords." Cartoons: Fun and Spri;te-ly The Thief is a kleptomaniac who will steal anything not bolted to the ground. The Black Mage love By Fred Cool de traction, and the Red Mage is a nerd who ha A 'DC/.lfF; ARTS EDITOR memorized the tats for all the weapons in the game. -bit Theater
CO eERY REVIEW like a guitar; it resembles a keyboard on guitar riffs. stick. Folds jammed on it as if it were a gui- Between stretches of incredibly tight key- tar during "Make Me Mommy," a hilarious board work, Folds bubbled over with laid- Rockin' the Ballroom denunciation of parental authority. Folds back, quirky humor. After some sweaty, introduced "Rockin' the Suburbs," the stage-thumping breakdowns at the end of tongue-in-cheek title track to his new album, "Still Fighting," he stripped down to a Folds Returns toAvalonfor a Solo Success by announcing that "this next song was grungy white t-shirt and proclaimed, "Now I . deemed unsuitable for Boston modern- rock look like a total redneck." When he paused By Sandra M. Chung of "Song for the Dumped." radio." to take requests and an audience member ASSOCIATE ARTS"'EDITOR After' Gone," Ben moved to the front of Everyone in the club cut loose on shouted out "playa song," he responded with Ben Folds Five, Bleu the stage and strapped on his melodica. For "Rockin" ," with Ben turning his hat back- an improvised ditty: "Playa song / Shut the Avalon the uninformed, a melodica is a -small, piano- wards for the hip-hop breakdowns and get- f--- up / Just play a song / You paid to be Saturday, eptember 15,2001 like instrument that sounds orne thing like an ting the audience to wave their hands in the here / So now you think / You can tell me electronic accordion without bellows. Ben's air while Powers and backup vocalist/lead what to play / Put down your drink / Shut the ntroducingthe Ben Folds Bodily Fitne melodica is a red number rigged to be held guitarist "Snuzz" Uzzell ran with the punk f--- up." Three- tep Plan. Step One: Learn to play Folds also took the time to explain the. the piano really well. tep Two: Remove stories behind some of his songs, many of Iyour rear end from the bench. tep which are character sketches. "Zak & Sara" Three: Bang on the keys like a wild monkey is about a girl who goes to an instrument child. Ben Folds is a ma ter of what can only store in 1984 and envisions the future wave be called erobic Piano. When he wasn't of electronica and techno while her boyfriend crooning a slow number or standing up front plays boring 80s music on his guitar. "Fred working the melodica keys, he was treating Jones Part 2" is the sequel to "Cigarette," the Saturday night crowd at Avalon to a which takes its first two lines directly from kinetically furious showca e of the songs the first sentence of an article about an old from his new solo album, Rockin' the Sub- man who works for a newspaper. urbs. The unreleased "Karaoke Supernova" is The opening act, Bleu, is a local up-and- the story of Hiro, a 51-year-old Japanese comer whose popularity has been growing man who left his family for his daughter's steadily as he racks up awards (top prize at be t friend, Yuko. "Yuko understands him," 2001 WEe Rock and Roll Rumble), award Folds deadpanned to the audience, and drum- nominations and radio play. Bleu's voice mer Jim Bogios yelled, "She sucks his cock," trongly resembles that of Folds, though his to uproarious laughter. Folds continued his delivery is decidedly more in-your-face and story: "So they go to a rock concert. They go hi in trument of choice is an acoustic guitar. to see-Jesus perform live on a Saturday night Despite lacking.back-up musicians and jok- and they have backstage passes." Yuko runs ing repeatedly about being a rock-and-roll off with Jesus's drum programmer and act, Bleu gave a tring-breaking, oxygen- leaves Hiro to lament: "I don't want to grow con uming performance that complemented old / Won't you let me explode / In a karaoke the headliner rather well. Bleu performed supernova?" five song from his first original solo album, Folds went for nostalgia with the first three Headroom, as well as " omebody Else,' a encores: "The Best Imitation of Myself," demo available in mp3 form on hi website "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces,"
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THEBo TO c LTI GROUP It's an event that will change the way you see things.
All interested MIT Ph,D. students and postdocs are cordially invited to a presentation given by Ken Keverian, Vice President " A Career in Management Consulting: Demystifying What We Do "
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
6:00 p.m.
Reception to Follow
University Park Hotel at MIT, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge
Amsterdam, Athens. Atlanta. Auckland. Bangkok. Berlin. Boston, Brussels, Budapest, !3i.16f1OS Aires, Chicago, Cologne, Copenhagen. Dallas, DUsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg HelSinki, Hong Kpng. Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Usoon. london, Los Angeles. Madnd. Me/bouma. Mexico City, MI\,;)n, Monterrey, Moscow, Mumbai. Munich, New Delhi, ew York, Oslo. Pans, san Francsco, Sao Pallo. seoui, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm. Stllttgart. Sydney. Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna. Warsaw, Washington, ~i.iflCh September 1 2001 THE TECH Page 19 Second CIS Talk Draws Crowd Choploins Praise Wall Reflecting Wall from Page 1 The wall was dedicated only slight- Expe s D' CUSS Implications ofThesday's ttacks, .. Re ponse ly more than two days after the idea vate prayer and thoughts. was fir t conceived. By Vincent Chen Likewise, Profe or of Urban lead to further such failures of deter- Both MIT religious leaders Helene Lipstadt, a visiting a 0- tudie Balakrishnan Rajagopal rence. tre ed that the entire board of chap- ciate profe sor of architecture who MIT s Center for International tressed the need for "abundant cau- lains worked hard to make all the tudies monuments and their tudies reconvened the di cu sion tion re traint, and a step-by- tep Readine for attack debated gatherings, like the vigil, as inclusive impact, headed a committee of MIT regarding the eptember 11 terrorist re ponse.' Gregory D. Koblentz G a possible. McCreath believes that tudents, faculty, and staff which attacks at a forum ye terday after- "My hope and plea is that addre sed the i ues of the chang- "this i uch a gut-wrenching and organized the project. noon. re ponse to these attacks will not ing need of dome tic prepared- horrible event that whether people are The request for a temporary space "We began last week to try to always be a violent one, but one of ness. He stre ed the fact that this of faith or not, they will be looking for reflection was fir t voiced during make ense of what eems to be a international law," he said, sugge t- has opened our eyes to the possibil- for meaning and something to do." the MIT -wide community meeting new world order," aid CIS Director ing that we should first ask our- ity of new weapons, and new What Fernandez did was to on Wedne day, eptember 12 in Kil- Richard Samuel , elves whether a militaryrespon e attacks on 'soft' targets such as design "a space off the beaten path lian Court. Lipstadt presented the Regarding Osama Bin Laden's is needed, or a "moral" or "societal" kyscrapers, sports tadium, for thought," and the MIT commu- concept of a reflection space to the terrori t organization, Professor of response. power plants, and other high- nity participated by coming together office of President Vest, and they Political Science and international impact venue . Koblentz sugge ted in a vigil "to establish the sacred- turned to Fernandez, who had been security specialist Stephen W. Van Attacks surprise terrorism expert stricter airport security, the harden- ne of that space." doing re earch on the towers, to Evera said, "I believe that the al- Professor of Political Science' ing of oft targets through physical answer questions about the structure, Qaeda organization is a very dan- Barry R. Posen began by expressing defenses, greater intelligence col- Construction a community effort materials, and the reasons for the col- gerous one, and unappeasable ... surprise that such an event had lection and the need to prepare for Fernandez credited Kathryn A. lapse. Thus, the only option is to defeat occurred, voicing the formerly com- chemical, nuclear, and biological Wilmore, Vice-President and ecre- Fernandez had visited the World it." mon viewpoint that large scale ter- terrorism. tary of the MIT corporation, with Trade Center many times, and was However, he stressed the fact rorism was unlikely because it From the audience, Joshua suggesting the memorial site. now "being confronted with images that the United States must estab- failed to serve political purposes. Cohen, Head of the Department of He stre sed that many were of people huddled around the wall." lish legitimacy in the eyes of the "These people are skilled, highly Political Science and Editor of the involved in bui lding "something a To him, the Reflecting Wall erve international community instead of motivated, courageous, and they'll Boston Review, responded to the little bit formal that lasts outdoors, as a reminder of the "last thing that brashly overreacting. "Al-Qaeda try again," he warned, "A big soci- points made by the panel with a and getting it up as fast as pos ible.' many people saw" before dying. may be hoping to bait us into some ety like ours is like a big Maginot statement met with widespread overreaction, some blundering, line, and they'll keep on trying to applause from the audience. - thundering overuse of force," he find a way through." He cautioned "The worst thing that can be cautioned, urging the U.S. to that it was inherently a result of an said about the events of last Tues- instead first make it's case to other active foreign policy that we would day was that it was a slaughter of nations of the world, especially have enemies, and that the only way innocents," he began. He stres ed those that may not see the U.S, to control them could be to destroy - that the U.S. should not respond in point of view. "We have a very them. any manner that involves the inten- strong case to make that we aren't He did however note the -need to tional slaughter of innocent people, making." legitimize any actions we sought to saying that this was not just a cau e pursue, and said that we cannot treat of the U.S., but a cause of all peo- Faculty stress cautious response all states that host terrorists as ene- ple against the slaughter of inno- Van Evera suggested that the mies. Instead, we need to treat some cents. Department of U.S. should conduct a media cam- as allies. He stressed that the United M IT FACILITIES paign to let others know our posi- States needs to give the Taliban a Forum continues to expand tion before conducting a military chance to tum over bin Laden, but Yesterday's CIS forum was CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION UPDATE campaign. Other recommendations that, the Taliban regime also had to held in a packed 26-100, after the VASSAR STREET UTILITIES: Truck and machine work may limit included strengthening an alliance recognize that failure to cooperate first' exceeded capacity in a smaller parking and travel along Vassar Street. Noise in several areas will be with Russia by stopping current could lead to destruction of its gov- lecture hall. 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Blis and Mazor round- sports Ian;' Do vou group running, which led to per an- more conservative 5:30. ed out the top even, fini hing in al records across the board. Jeffrey Both packs used the next two 29th and 3 th respectively. Iida J. Billing G made a race-time deci- miles to get into good position, finished 65th in 29:25 a the ion to run despite having back before making a pu h in the fourth entire team fini hed in the top third like to spend hours problem all week, and went out mile. Fonder led the way for the of the field. with the leaders in a 5: 12 first Engineer in this race, breaking up Although 14 of IT's 16 run- mile. Running just behind him Bates' varsity and fini hing in 5th ners ran personal records, there place with a 26:25, followed by sining on vour b m;l were Carlos A. Renjifo '04, Gre- remains a great deal of work to do. gory P. Fonder '05, and Ian H. Renjifo in 7th. 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Tien used The ater Polo team won their had in the previous two quarter . The omen' Tenni team a erve and volley game to qui kly first home game again t Boston 01- Engineer take lead in econd balf The offen e cored e en goal to improved their record to 2-0 after a 9- win 6-0 6-0. Hall won in a similar lege last Thur day I -15. After the halftime break, IT Be's two. o blowout last weekend against mith fashion. he 10 t no game a he The Engineer appeared to be a new team. The Going into the final quarter, MIT College. e hau ted her opponent with her were lead by junior Engineer defen e wa vastly led BC by a score of 13-11. The accuracy and pl cement. Cichon al 0 Jame C. Brady '03, impro ed and the offense remained Engineers were able- to hold their Doubl ep mitb won 6- 6-0. who had ten teal trong. The defen ive tand wa led lead through the final seven minute The double De pite being hampered by and four goal, enior by sophomore goalie Peter D. Van to win 18-15. matche concluded painful bli ters, Hsing fought hard in captain Daniel s iftly. Julie J. 00 her three- et conte 1. he refused to F. om '02 with five as i t o and Lari a urrender any free points 10 ing by a and three goal , and fre hman Egloff '04 easily won their match - narrow margin 6-4,6- -. Pai used David D. Lohrey '05 with ix 0, while Ann H ing '02 and hima her olid baseline game to out rally goal. Rayej '04 tepped up their aggr ion her opponent 6-2 6-0. mith com- and came IIp with an 8-2 victory. peted very well,' aid Coach Carol IT charged up at game's longside them, Je iea Hall '02 and at uza i.' e really needed to tart Caroline Tien '0 defeated their fo us and be patient." The game opened with a opponents 8-3 by relentle ly charg- two-goal IT charge which ing the net. in an -4 win, Ruby 1. Pai omen claim trong team unity was helped by the large fan '04 and Jaclyn E. Cichon 05 showed MlT advance further into their . turn out and an in piring mith that control and patien e pays fall ea on the women attribute speech from Coach Jeffrey off. much of their succe to their ohe- a. iven and pride. Although we all However BC jumped off to ingle . fi eo' matche play our matches as individuals, we an even better start. soon as In singles action, Koo once again know that we are all out there togeth- MIT showed a weakne s in its implemented her offensive style in a er, united as a team,' aid Koo. The defense, BC's tar players fired 6-2 -5 victory. Rayej used her con- team has 0 ercome inclement weath- in five goal to end the quarter. trolled aggre ion to exploit her er and the somber worldly circum- The second quarter offered YI XIE-THE TECH opponent's weakne es winning 6-0, tance to continue to work hard on a hailstorm of goal for both David D. Lohrey '05 puts the ball in the back of the net as he leads MIT to 6-1. their game. team . Each team scored four an 18-15 victory over Boston College on Thursday. MIT Wms Dartmouth Invitational; MIT's Field Hockey Team en Continue Undefeated Season Preys on Simmons CoUege By Robert Aronstam . the sole score of the contest, was Feldman, olan Lead Engineers to Victory Over Tufts and Trinity STAFF REPORTER assisted by Amy C. Lin '02. The MIT Field Hockey team Engineer goalkeeper Kathleen By Yuval Mazor pitted MIT again t 26 teams . Liu '03, Benjamin A. Schmeck- drowned the Simmons College M. Rubritz '04 helped to maintain TEAM MEMBER including nationally ranked Tufts peper 'OS, and Craig B. Wildman Sharks in last Thursday's non-con- the 1-0 lead going into halftime IT's en' Cro Country and Trinity. '03 were wen within striking dis- ference home contest. with a few kick saves. Additional- team had their strongest showing Daniel R. Feldman '02 went out tance. The win ups the ly, Rubritz subdued an attacking of the sea on, competing in the hard in the first mile, coming As the race progressed, all three Engineers' record to Shark by absorbing a collision and Dartmouth Invita- through in a 4:53, and in the front of groups began moving on their com- 2-1 on the season, trapping the ball simultaneously. tional thi weekend. a mall lead pack. petition. By the third mile Feldman with their only loss MIT's Tsai nearly struck again After two ea y win IT' second group of Sean had dropped the pack, opening up a coming at the hands early in the second half. Tsai to tart off the sea- olan '03 and Sean J. Mont- large lead. Meanwhile, olan and of Bowdoin College. slammed a pass from Esinhart off son IT was ranked gomery G started with a more con- Montgomery moved into the top MIT controlled the match from the side of the goal cage after beat- 12th in the nation. servative 5:03, and settled into the ten Liu, Schmeckpeper, and Wild- the onset. The Engineers were able ing the floundering Shark defense. However, IT had' yet to go middle of the chase pack in 40th man were all in the top 40, and to keep the ball on their side of the Lin had a scoring chance of her again t strong competition. The position. Five seconds behind Brian C. Anderson 04 had started a field during the opening minutes of own a few minutes later, but the field at the Dartmouth Invitational them IT' third group of lbert charge of his own. the first half. attempt was off the mark. At this point, MIT had moved Whe'n Simmon did penetrate into good position, but was still the Engineer defense, strong Defense holds strong trailing Tufts, and possibly Trinity. defensive plays prevented shots on Despite MIT's inability to score, Knowing that it i difficult to make goal. Co-captain Courtney R. Esin- the team defense and overall ball up ground in the last mile IT hart '03 came up with a' key control left the Sharks with little made a strong surge in the fourth deflection on Simmons' third hope. Co-captains Michele C. Ver- mile to put the meet away. Feld- penalty shot. ticchio '02 and Heatherbrooke Sites man dropped a 4:46 mile, all but Although the Engineer defense '03 played pivotal roles in maintain- guaranteeing himself first place. held trong, the offense was unable ing possession and preventing a ot to be outdone, clan ran a to convert on its attempts. MIT had Shark strike late in the match. While 4:44 to beat the field and give MIT the best scoring chance of either Verticchio controlled play over her a 1-2 lead. Montgomery continued team at the 17-minute mark in the opponents, Sites preferred swatting to run strong moving into sixth, first half. After a centering pass the ball deep into MIT's offensive and the third pack surged into the rolled only a few yards in front of end of the field. top 30, with Anderson.hot on their the goal, several Engineers failed Forward Sabrin S. Mohamed heel. to punch the ball past the Simmons '02 expressed her approval of her Very little changed over the last goalkeeper. team's performance following the mile a MIT's top three finished in MIT had another key scoring game. "We're playing an incredi- a very impre sive 1-2-6, with both opportunity 8 minutes later, but the ble [artificial] turf game right Feldman and olan running below result was the same. now," said Mohamed, "I'm really 25 minutes for the five mile cour e. excited about the season." Trinity and Tufts packed most of Tech strikes first The women are away this week, their team between ontgoniery At the 8-minute mark, Lauren E. competing against ichols College and IT's next group, as Tsai '04 ended the stalemate with a and ew England Women's and chmeckpeper and Liu fmished in sharp shot that found the back of the Men's Athletic Conference foe 25th and 26th. Brian nderson goal. The goal, which proved to be Clark University. threw in a devastating 4:57 last mile, placing him 28th, followed closely by Wildman in 31 t, as the entire top 7 broke 26:15. George R. Hanson '03 was MIT' next runner UPCOMING HOME EVENTS finishing with a solid 27: I 0 for 67th place. When the scores were tallied, MIT held on for a very close 60-62 Tbursday, September 20 victory over Tufts, with Trinity tak- ing third at 73. Women's Soccer vs. Bridgewater tate, 4:30 p.m, ot to be outdone by the varsi- ty, IT was equally impre sive in the ub-varsity race. Bate College had mistakenly raced their ub- aturday, eptember 22 STANLEY HU-THE TECH varsity in the fir t race, and Albert S. Uu '02 sneaks a peek at Benjamin A. Schmeck peper '05 entered their top group in the sec- while racing to the finish line in last Saturday's UMass Dartmouth ond race. Women' occer vs. Clark 10:30 a.m Invitational. Liu and Schmeckpeperran personal bests of 26:04.75 Once again' IT had excellent Football vs. Curry College, 1:00 p.m. and 26:04.18 respectively, clinching MIT's victory over 25 other schools in the region. Cross Country, Page 27