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Volume 123, umber 21 Cambridge, Ma 02139 Friday, April 25, 2003 Crowding to Return Undergrad hiFall, But Sparsely S1llVey By Brian Loux crowded rooms completely. That A aelATE FEATURESEDITOR goal was billed as one of the benefits Administrators say it is likely that of the newly-constructed 300-bed Releases there will be a small amount of immons Hall dormitory and the crowding next year in undergraduate "Senior Seque" early move into grad- dormitories, despite previous vows to uate housing for juniors. First Stats the contrary. Last ovember, Benedict and But the number of students Chancellor Phillip L. Clay PhD '75 By Christine R. Fry housed in crowded rooms, currently were far more confident about keep- NEWS EDITOR zero, will still be vastly less than the ing crowding, considered to be Fifty-six percent of seniors who historical levels of 200 to 300 stu- nonexistent this year, out ofMIT dor- responded to a March survey said dents, measured by this year's desig- mitories for next year as well. they were "very satisfied" with the nations of nonnal room capacity. "Overcrowding is not an option as athletic facilities on campus, com- "There will be a handful at most far as I'm concerned," Benedict said pared with only eight percent of of crowded rooms," said Dean for then. There will not be crowding next seniors in a survey last year - Student Life Larry G. Benedict. year - "not if I'm going to work before the eptember opening of the "That is, unless something drastic here," he said. $55 million Zesiger Sports and Fit- happens ... and most of the variables But the hard numbers of students ness Center. are on our radar screen." indicating they plan to move out to The survey, sponsored by the It is those variables, though, and fraternities, sororities, and indepen- Office of the Provost, was adminis- the number of them, that "make it dent living groups have forced a tered in March on the Web to stu- really hard to tell right now" if retreat from that confidence. dents enrolled as undergraduates dur- crowding will occur, said Denise A. ''To the best of our abilities, there ing the Spring 2003 semester. Vallay, the assistant director for will be no crowding," Benedict said The office has begun preparing undergraduate housing. yesterday. JONATHAN WANG -THE TECH initial results from the survey. Com- "I believe we won't be certain ... This year's elimination of crowd- Daniel R. Feldman '02 finishes 25th In the 107th Boston parisons of MIT responses to those at until May," Benedict said. ing was accomplished through a Marathon. With a time of 2:30:27, Feldman nearly qualified other schools, and a more extensive Administrators have had to retreat for the Olympic marathon trials. See photos, page 14. analysis of MIT's results, were not from their vows to eliminate over- CroWding, Page 25 yet available. Forty percent of undergraduates who responded to a survey of current Three Crimes at MIT, But No Big Security Changes students rated their overall educa- tional experience at MIT as "excel- By Emily M. Craparo House Manager Joseph F. Gra- No EC resident has reported changed much after the arrest. lent" and almost 47 percent rated ham Jr. placed'a call to the MIT missing the. item, and Cambridge Driscoll said that MIT dormitories their experience as "good." A Cambridge resident sleeping in Police at approximately 7:30 am, Police have not received any such were already "in pretty good shape" Lydia S. Snover, the provost's the basement of East Campus will and police responded quickly to report from a local business. Driscoll where security is concerned, and that assistant for institutional research, face trespassing charges after his arrest the intruder, who admitted to said that campus environments are keycard entryways are effective in said that in the past, MIT had not arrest last Thursday. Two days later, having no MIT affiliation, Driscoll generally a "good target of opportu- keeping non-residents out. been anxious to survey the student the MIT Police were called to inves- said. nity" for larceny, and urged that lost Following an armed robbery in a body on their satisfaction. But once tigate an armed robbery in the vicin- McKenzie was found to possess items be reported to the MIT Police student's room this past fall, Next MIT fmally administered a survey, ity of Bexley Hall, and yesterday a "small, s,uspicious box" containing immediately. House decided that desk workers she said, students turned out to be as morning, the police reported a sec- an expensive piece of electronic Currently, McKenzie is being had been too lax in bypassing the happy as students at other schools. ond armed robbery near the MIT equipment, Driscoll said. The police charged with trespassing, although keycard system to allow non-resi- Museum. declined to describe the item further, these charges may be upgraded dents entrance. 28 percent had more than 5 drinks Cambridge city resident Noel saying that might hinder efforts to pending a larceny report. Efforts to After the theft, the dormitory's Twenty-eight percent of students McKenzie was discovered sleeping detennine its original owner. reach him for comment were unsuc- security was temporarily increased answering a question about binge in the East Campus boiler room last McKenzie was unable to prove cessful. by requiring any non-resident to drinking said they had consumed week by the house manager, said ownership of the device, which is show an ID card and sign in. This "five or more alcoholic drinks" on at John E. Driscoll, deputy chief of the valued at approximately $1,300, and Only small changes to security MIT Police. it was confiscated by the police. Security at East Campus has not Arrest, Page 26 Survey, Page 21 SafeRide Tracking Project Nears End of Beta Testing
By Calvin G. Sizer presentations of their progress.
The Shuttletrack project, which Program already in u e provides real-time tracking of the Students have already begun to locations of SafeRide and Tech use Shuttletrack while it i in beta Shuttle on the Internet, is nearing testing. the end of its beta testing. "I think it's really good when it's The project, sponsored by the up," said Stephanie T. Yeh '06. Microsoft-MIT iCampus Alliance, "Simmons is so far. I use it when is currently available for use at I'm in my dorm and running a little http://shuttletrack.mit.edu. late. It helps save time." "We have solved the biggest Phillip W. Hum '06 said, part of the challenge," said Krish- "Yeah, I'm lazy. I use Shuttle- nan Sriram G, a member of the track, and that makes me even project. "Shuttletrack gives a more lazy. If you time it just right, rough idea of the time vans will you can run down right when it show up at a particular stop," he comes out." said. Sriram said that he encourages Beta testing should be complete students to use Shuttletrack while it WAN YUSOF WAN MORSHIDJ within the next few weeks, he said. is in beta testing. "We would like to Loud, early morning construction at the old New England Confectlonary Company site on Albany "Our hope is May 6 " said Salil have people visit the site and send Street has been a nuisance to Edgerton House, a graduate residence, with complaints ranging Soman G, also a member of the pro- comments and corrections on how from shaking walls to hearing problems. See story, page 13. ject, referring to the day when iCampus projects will give public Shuttletrack, Page 23
Wallflowers Comics OPINIO World & Nation 2 gave a rockin' Moshe Alamaro SM '01 says Opinion 4 show Monday MIT's Mechanical Engineering Features 6 in Brookline. qualifying exams are akin to haz- Arts 9 ing. Events Calendar .19 Page 9 Page 16 Page 5 Sports 28 Page 2 ECH pril 25, 2003 WORLD & NATION WHO Makes SARS Advisory . Korea Announces Nukes, Against Travel to Toronto THE BOSTO GLOBE In a warning that could have devastating economic consequences Beijing Talks End Day Early for Canada's largest city, the World Health Organization advised Wednesday against all nonessential travel to Toronto. It was the latest By David E. S nger were referring to two nuclear bombs ton in mid-May. Japan's prime min- effort to curb the global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome, THE NEW YORK TIMES that American intelligence agencies ister, Junichiro Koizumi, is also the killer virus better known as SARS. orth Korean officials told believe they have possessed for a expected to come here in May for The advisory was especially stunning because it indicated that American diplomats at a meeting in decade, or whether they were over- consultations on the Korean crisis. authorities regard the outbreak in Canada as posing as much of a dan- Beijing on Thursday that they stating their nuclear capabilities in a On Thursday night, however, ger to world health as the disease's march through southeast China already possess nuclear weapons deliberate effort to deter any attack administration officials were still and other parts of Asia. and have begun making bomb-grade Bush may be contemplating on their trying to determine what parts of the China's capital city, Beijing, and Shanxi province were also added plutonium, officials of the Bush nuclear facilities. orth's assertions were true, what to the health organization's list of regions with levels of infection administration and several informed Powell, answering questions parts were bluff, and what parts high enough to warrant the unusual advisories. Earlier this month, the Asian nations said. after a speech here, said that while were calculated negotiating posi- Geneva-based WHO warned against travel to Hong Kong and the The Beijing talks ended a day Bush still believed a peaceful solu- tions. southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where SARS is believed to early on Thursday, and Secretary of tion to the Korean nuclear crisis The CIA has long believed that have originated in ovember. State Colin Powell said it was was possible, all options are on the the North probably reprocessed unclear "when and if' they might table. That appeared to be a refer- enough nuclear material prior to its resume. On Thursday evening, Pres- ence to the possibility that the 1994 "freeze" agreement with the Muslim Immigrants Fear Deadline ident Bush told BC News that United States could take military United States to develop two orth Korea was "back to the old action or might resort to what more nuclear weapons during the first To Register With U.S. blackmail game," and insisted he hawkish members of the adminis- Bush administration. But the evi- THE NEW YORK TlMES would not be intimidated. tration call Bush's "Plan B," enact- dence has always been murky, Over the last five months, nearly 130,000 predominantly Muslim "This will give us an opportunity ing strict economic sanctions based partly on an assessment of the male immigrants and visitors have been questioned in immigration to say to the orth Koreans and the intended to topple the orth Kore- North's technical capabilities and offices, airports and border crossings in the largest effort to register world we're not going to be threat- an government. what one former senior intelligence immigrants in decades. Officials say they have caught and detained ened," he said. But he gave no indi- The White House said Bush official recently called "a good deal 11 suspected terrorists; they also say they have arrested more than cation of what his next step might would make no decisions until he of supposition." 200 criminal suspects, caught more than 9,000 illegal aliens and gath- be. fully consulted with allies, including ''The only surprise here was that ered a wealth of detailed information about immigrants here lawfully. It was also nol clear whether the South Korea and Japan. The new they admitted it," one senior admin- "I regard this as a great success," said Kris Kobach, general coun- North Koreans, in their remarks dur- South Korean president, Roh Moon- istration official said on Thursday. sel for the Justice Department. "Sept. 11th awakened the country to ing the closed negotiating sessions, hyun, is expected to visit Washing- "That fact itself is hardly new." • the fact that weak immigration enforcement presents a huge vulnera- bility that terrorists can exploit." But in the glass and steel government building here, where immi- grants with pounding hearts answer questions about their bank Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq accounts and previous addresses, many people say the registrations have also deepened the fear and disillusionment among law-abiding Muslims still reeling from the arrests, detentions and deportations after the terrorist attacks of Sept. II. Surrenders to American Forces "I love America so I have to respect the law. But we are not ter- rorists. We are coming here as law-abiding people to work," said By Jane Perlez and John Kitner exile who arrived in the capital Mohsen Zobeidi, took little heed of Sameh, who parks cars near a shopping mall in suburban Maryland THE NEW YORK TlMES before Garner and has been assert- Gamer's presence on Thursday. A and was No. 50 in line at the crowded immigration office this week. Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi deputy ing himself in the last 10 days, was day after he was brusquely rebuffed prime minister who often served as not the coalition's official candidate. by the chief American military offi- the public face of Saddam Hussein's Despite Gamer's ass.urances, the cer here, Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, Amazon Books Big Sales but government, surrendered to Ameri- political situation in the capital and Zobeidi was nonetheless the center can forces on Thursday, U.S. offi- throughout the country was murkier of attention at a gathering of hun- Returns to Red Ink in 1st Quarter cials said. than ever. dreds of people at a tribal sheikh's LOS ANGELES TIMES Aziz, who had been in hiding . Political unrest simmered in the luxurious villa in the southern Daura After its second profitable holiday season, online retailer Ama- since the fall of Baghdad, is one of Kurdish areas in the north, where district of the capital. zon.com Inc. returned to red ink in the first quarter, despite a 28 per- the few Iraqi leaders widely recog- Arabs were expelled from their Of the new government body, cent jump in sales driven by a free-shipping promotion. nizable in the West because of his homes by Kurds, and in the south- Gamer said: "It will have Iraqi faces The Seattle-based company on Thursday posted a $10 million history as a diplomat at the United ern city of Kut, a Marine command on it. It will be governed by the loss, or 3 cents a share, on sales of $1.08 billion. The results, which Nations. post was shot at in two incidents. Iraqis." Of Chalabi, he said: "Mr. surpassed Wall Street projections, were better than those in the same As American troops searched for No one was hurt, according to a mil- Chalabi is a fine man. He is not my period last year, when the company lost $23.2 million on $847.4 mil- other survivors of the fallen Iraqi itary spokesman, but the shootings candidate; he is not the candidate of lion in sales. government, the American adminis- followed a stand-off on Wednesday the coalition." Amazon's shares lost 31 cents to $25.12 in regular Nasdaq trading trator of Iraq, Jay Garner, between protesters who support a Despite Garner's words about before the earnings were released, but climbed as high as $28.73 on announced that an interim Iraqi gov- local ayatollah, and a convoy of 20 Chalabi, he was having dinner with the news in after-hours trading. ernment would be in place next U.S. military vehicles. him on Thursday night. "They just keep putting together solid quarters where they beat week. In the capital on Thursday night, One of the main arguments in expectations," said Dan Geiman, equity analyst with Seattle-based In his announcement, the admin- bursts of automatic weapons fire - Washington, where the details of a broker McAdams Wright Ragen, which does not conduct business istrator, a retired lieutenant general, much more than on other recent new Iraqi government are being with Amazon or own the company's shares. declined to specify how the interim nights - sounded through the city debated, is the role of Chalabi and Of the 28 percent increase in sales, about 6 percentage points body would be chosen. He did, as darkness fell. whether he should be granted a resulted from favorable foreign exchange rates on overseas sales. however, make a point of saying The man who had appointed him- prominent position or one alongside that Ahmad Chalabi '65, the Iraqi self mayor of Baghdad, Mohamed many others. 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((' :> (' r;..~ T "'"'''"' '3"T (' ,..~~CJ pri125,2003 WORLD & NATIO THE TECH Page3 Areas of Beijing Quarantined Nigerian President Defends Integrity Of Elections But SARS Epidemic Continues THE NEW YORK TIMES President Olusegun Obasanjo has defended the elections last Sat- By Joseph Kahn having severe acute respiratory ill- Organization reported that the num- urday that awarded him a second term, saying he was disappointed THE NEW YORK TIMES ne s, or SARS, forcing the isolation ber of new cases had begun to slow. with international election monitors who criticized the vote with China carried out a sweeping of the facility. But Beijing continued to report "generalizations" about fraud and intimidation. quarantine on Thursday on thou- 'We're stuck here and it feels the most new cases, at 89, down "I feel the election went very well," Obasanjo said on Wednesday sands of Beijing residents who have very lonely," Shen Danhua, 42, modestly from the 105 new cases night, sounding upbeat in an interview at his residence here. "1 will had contact with suspected carriers deputy head of the pathology depart- reported the day before. The capital not accept anybody undermining the integrity of the election. I will of a highly infectious respiratory ill- ment, said by telephone. She said now has a total of 774 confirmed not. Because that would be dangerous for democracy in this land." ness, as the communist government she was isolated along with the rest SARS patients, with many hundreds Asked what he would say to Nigerians who complained of being began a resolute campaign to com- of the staff, though her department of others suspected of having the unable to cast their votes, he said, "1 would say that's a great pity." bat a national health crisis. has no SARS patients. "It's a strong disease. "That anybody has been intimidated," he added, "that again I Isolation orders were imposed on step but maybe they should have The figure is nearly 20 times would say is unfortunate." homes, factories and schools where been this serious earlier," she said. higher than what Beijing was report- The tone of his remarks was in sharp contrast to the alarms raised people who developed SARS symp- The new measures contributed to ing five days ago, when the central earlier this week in varying degrees by several international observer toms lived, worked or studied. Com- a growing sense of alarm around the government frred two top officials groups over fraud, intimidation and other improprieties that they said munist Party cells in work units and capital, as residents stocked up on and vowed to begin to report accu- had compromised the credibility of elections in certain states. The neighborhoods ferried food and basic goods as if preparing for a pro- rately. observers also noted that the elections were largely free of violence other basic necessities to people longed siege. Reported deaths and While SARS infections and even and that in many parts of the country they were orderly and proper. confined to their homes, while moni- infections continued to rise sharply, the broad quarantine orders on rela- Under Obasanjo's predecessor, Gen. Sani Abacha, igeria was toring them to ensure they did not and dense crowds of temporary tives or associates of suspected virtually a pariah state. Since his election in 1999, Obasanjo, a former flee. laborers descended on major train SARS patients probably do not military ruler, has sought to bring the country back into the good Authorities wrapped white-and- stations seeking emergency passage affect more than about one-tenth of graces of the international community. At stake is not only the coun- yellow crime-scene tape around a out of the city. one percent of the people in this city try's image and his own legacy, but the foreign investment Nigeria city block in northwestern Beijing, Nationally, China reported 125 of 14 million, the disease had ended desperately needs to aid its economy. sealing more than 2,000 health more cases of SARS on Thursday, any semblance of business as usual. workers and patients inside the Bei- for a total of2,422, the world's high- National and local news broad- jing University People's Hospital est. There were four more deaths, casts were devoted almost entirely to Suspected Taliban Attack Mghan complex. Medical personnel there bringing the total to 110. However, SARS news and advice on how to said by telephone that more than 70 in Guangdong province, where prevent the disease. Shop fronts Government Outpost staff members were suspected of SARS originated, the World Health were shuttered across the city. THE NEW YORK TIMES Two Afghan government soldiers were killed in heavy fighting in southeastern Afghanistan late Wednesday when suspected Taliban Ashcroft Decides U.S. May Detain fighters attacked their district offices with rockets and automatic weapons, the local governor said Thursday. It was the second Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan this week. megal Immigrants Without Bond The fighting raged for four hours until reinforcements arrived, By George Lardner Jr. general said his decision was based and Naturalization Service, appealed Hamidullah Tokhi, the governor of Zabul Province, said. Three Tal- THE WASHINGTON POST on the danger that release of Joseph that decision to Ashcroft. He pointed iban fighters were killed and one was wounded, he said. He estimated Broad categories of foreigners and other Oct. 29 migrants "would out that he retains his authority over that about 80 Taliban fighters attacked the district offices, and said who arrive in this country illegally tend to encourage further surges of "questions of law arising under that after several hours they escaped to mountains nearby. can be detained indefinitely without mass migration from Haiti by sea, those statutes." The attack began as President Hamid Karzai was returning from a consideration of their individual cir- with attendant strains on national A Justice Department spokesman two-day state visit to Pakistan to demand more cooperation in stem- cumstances if immigration officials and homeland security resources." said the decision "will serve as a ming the cross-border attacks. Karzai said the attacks represented the say their release would endanger Ashcroft said such migrations binding precedent on BIA judges for gravest threat to the stability of his government, and he warned national security, according to a rul- have "heavily taxed Coast Guard other cases where national security Islamabad that if they were not stopped, such terrorists would ing by Attorney General John capacity and capabilities," limiting interests are presented by the become a danger for Pakistan too. Ashcroft. its responsiveness in other mission Department of Homeland Security." Zabul Province, which shares a border with Pakistan, has been a Ashcroft released the far-reach- areas. "Y ou would think the Attorney cause of concern for some time because of cross-border movement by ing decision Thursday in denying He also invoked the Sept. 11, General would have better things to Taliban and other opponents of the Afghan government. The remote bond to Haitian David Joseph, 18, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying they'd do these days than target an innocent region is thought to serve as a transit route for rebels coming from who scrambled ashore at Key Bis- increased the necessity of preventing Haitian asylum seeker," said Cheryl Pakistan into southern and central Afghanistan. cayne last Oct. 29 with more than undocumented aliens from entering Little, executive director of the 200 other refugees. the United States "without the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, The order means that groups of screening of the immigration inspec- which represented Joseph. "It is such Iraqi Leads Troops to War Papers asylum seekers and other aliens - tions process." a waste of precious resources." LOS ANGELES TIMES in this instance Haitians - can be Immigration advocates She said detentions of an earlier Alerted by an Iraqi who said he had worked for Baath Party and locked up without hearings and denounced the 19-page ruling as a boatload of Haitians, almost all of Republican Guard officials, U.S. troops Thursday discovered thou- without recourse to release on bond. huge stretch of the national security them deported by now, cost the gov- sands of documents describing war plans, computer security and mili- Ashcroft rejected claims that deny- concept and a waste of the federal ernment $12.5 million over a six- tary bonuses. ing them bail on broad national money. Dated April 17, it over- month period. 'The Iraqi led a U.S. special operations team to safes and a docu- security grounds would violate their turned a decision of the Board of Eleanor Acer, director of the asy- ment-storage area in buildings once occupied by senior Iraqi military due process rights. He said it wasn't Immigration Appeals (BIA) , which lum program at the Lawyers Com- and government officials. clear they had any such rights. held last month that Joseph should mittee for Human Rights, called the In the storage area, located in the basement of a concrete building Until now, the government has be released to an uncle in this coun- decision "deeply disturbing" that had been a military headquarters, the American team found thou- . jailed individuals or groups seeking try on $2,500 bond since he didn't because it invokes national security sands of documents stored on shelves and in cabinets. In a suitcase asylum for long periods, but hasn't pose a danger to the community or a to deprive "large numbers of asylum left in a small alleyway, the soldiers found Republican Guard papers asserted the right to indefinitely flight risk. seekers of the chance to prove to an titled "Emergency Planning for War." detain whole classes of illegal immi- Homeland Security officials, who immigration judge that they, in their The documents, some dated as recently as March 10, discussed grants as security risks. took over administration and individual cases, present no risk to where to position three Republican Guard divisions, according to In overruling an appellate panel enforcement of immigration law national security and merit release Jamal Jamal, an Iraqi translator working for the U.S. military. The of immigration judges, the attorney after the breakup of the Immigration on bond." papers, which bore the Republican Guard seal and letterhead, also detailed a plan dated Feb. 27 and never carried out to store fuel in the Tigris River. Only 40% of-Suspected SARS Cases In a computer room in the basement, the team found files describ- ing how to build computer frrewalls to prevent Iraqi citizens from hacking into the military's secure network. Other documents dis- Show Presence ofVll1IS in New Study cussed training soldiers in computer security. By Lawrence K. Altman ing the WHO's conclusion. He said experts said. They include: The THE NEW YORK TIMES he was "reserving judgment" coronavirus is not the cause of the Mexico, U.S. Agree on Border Canada's main virology labora- because it was too early in the disease or is not its sole cause; tory has found the SARS virus in course of the investigation of the specimens tested were collected at Security Pact only 40 percent of probable and new disease, which was first detect- the wrong stage of the disease or LOS ANGELES TIMES suspect cases of SARS, or severe ed only five weeks ago, to be cer- were taken from the wrong part of Setting aside bitter differences over the war in Iraq, the United acute respiratory syndrome, a sur- tain about many findings without the body; and flaws in the laborato- States and Mexico resumed Cabinet-level contacts Thursday with an prisingly low rate that puzzles the further study and independent con- ry testing. agreement to improve border security. But Mexico's top law laboratory's scientific director and firmation by other laboratories. Plummer's team in Winnipeg enforcement official used the encounter at this frontier crossing to other health officials. On Wednesday, the WHO said it has tested about 3,000 specimens revive another thorny issue - how the United States treats undocu- Also, for unknown reasons, the continued to believe that the new from 95 probable and 90 suspect mented Mexican migrants. proportion of recent cases that are coronavirus is the cause of SARS cases in Canada and in Asia. His "The migration issue is one that cannot be left out of our discus- testing positive for the SARS virus and is following the developments team identified the SARS virus in sions," Interior Minister Santiago Creel told a joint news confer- is declining and a number of people at the National Microbiology Labo- about 40 percent of the probable ence here with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. "Today who are not suspected of having ratory in Winnipeg, Canada, where cases and 35 percent of the suspect more than ever it makes sense to put this topic forward as the frrst SARS are testing positive, said the Plummer is scientific director. It is cases. priority." director, Dr. Frank Plummer. one of the 13 laboratories in an Plummer said he was surprised The two men announced new steps in a year-old, $25 million Plummer described his team's international network that the U.N. to find the virus in about 20 percent "smart border" program that employs high-tech scanners and com- findings as "weird." He s~id that agency created to investigate of an additional 250 people who puterized databases to speed the flow of legal goods and travelers they had the potential to weaken the SARS. were not suspected of having SARS across the 2,000-mile-long U.S.-Mexican frontier while trying to fil- link between SARS in Canada and But Plummer's data "is trou- but who were tested because they ter out terrorists, criminals and contraband. a previously unknown member of bling and we don't understand it," had returned to Canada from affect- But questions about Iraq and the fate of the estimated 4 million the coronavirus family that the said Dr. Klaus Stoehr, who is scien- ed areas in Asia or who had mild undocumented Mexicans who live and work in the United States World Health Organization tific director of the WHO's SARS symptoms not thought to be SARS. dominated their public appearance here on a platform overlooking a announced last week was the cause investigation. If the coronavirus "is the whole noisy customs inspection yard for truck cargo crossing from Tijuana. ofSARS. There could be a number of and only explanation, which is cer- Ridge said he and his Mexican counterpart discussed migration Plummer emphasized in an explanations for the low positive tainly possible, there are a lot of briefly during more than three hours of talks that began Wednesday. interview that he was not challeng- test rate, Plummer, Stoehr and other weird things about it," he said. Page 4 pri125,2003 OPINION
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Tec~ Pri~ 011 ,«)!'CIeri J'fIP'" by Cltorla RiYv PwbI/SJU"K. April 25, 2003 OPINION THE TECH Page 5 Questionable Qualifiers Lawsuits ....,.------photo flashed on a slide.) a world-class scientist, academic, or research Moshe Alamaro The wildcard in the qualifying proces is engineer. Presumably, a good correlation the thesis presentation, which is required in should exist between success on the PhD Against The PhD qualifying exams at MIT vary addition to oral and written exams on qualifying exam and eventual success in from department to department in terms of mechanical engineering subjects. The student engineering. However, no such evidence scope, format, style and success rate. How- presents a thes' s, usually on the same subject exists, and neither the ME department nor Genocide ever, the spectacular failure of the system in as her PhD thesis, to faculty from her advi- Professor Sonin have requested a study to the Department of Mechanical Engineering sor's specific division. Failing the thesis pre- examine the relationship between the qualifi- demands special attention from the adminis- sentation results in failing the qualifier - er and subsequent career success. Obviously, Mindy Chao tration - and special scrutiny by potential regardless of the student's performance on failure on the qualifying exam becomes a applicants for the PhD program in Mechani- the objective tests. According to a faculty self-fulfilling prophecy for most students, no Individual Falun Gong plaintiffs in the U.S. cal Engineering (ME). member who is disturbed by the process but matter how bright. have filed a lawsuit charging Jiang Zemin and The ME qualifying exams take place wishes to remain anonymous, the failure rate evertheless, let's take a look at two of other top officials in his "610 Office" with twice a year, in January and May. A doctoral is often close to 50%. For example, in Janu- the many students who failed the test. The genocide and torture. The 610 Office is an student can take the qualifier up to three ary of 1998, 33 students took the qualifying flIst is Theo de Winter, who left MIT after agency specifically created to persecute Falun semesters from commencement of the PhD exam. Only four students clearly passed, failing the qualifying exam to start the Mag- Gong, one that has absolute power over each program. Most students wait the full three while another 13 were "negotiated." Sixteen netic Corporation of America. At one point, level of administration in the Party and all other semesters, as familiarity with the MIT cur- students failed the test altogether. his company had 200 employees, developing political and judiciary systems. riculum is necessary to pass. Those who fail Let's look at one wayan exceptionally superconductors for the then-new MRI Lawsuits are soon to follow in other coun- the test can take it for the second - and last bright student could fail the qualifier as a industry. De Winter sold his company to tries, as a worldwide coalition is forming to - time a semester later. Because a second result of the thesis presentation. Students do Johnson & Johnson and for the past 20 years bring Jiang to justice. According to Swiss attor- failure is final, it is possible for a graduate not normally have control over their thesis has had a successful academic career as a ney Philip Grant, the persecution of Falun Gong student to find himself out on the street a full topic; his or her advisor almost always con- professor at Boston University - all without violates the 1948 Convention on the Prevention two years after beginning the program. In ceives it. In many cases, the chosen topic is aPhD. and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, fact, it is not only possible, but also highly highly speculative and sometimes even Even more spectacular is the case ofNam which China signed and ratified. The persecu- probable. The failure rate, guarded closely by bizarre. A naIve but daring student may be P. Sub, who received his S.B. and S.M. from tion also violates the United Nations Covenant the department, is estimated to be as high as enticed by a professor's promises and com- the MIT Department of Mechanical Engi- on Civil and Political Rights, to which China is 35 to 50 percent. Potential PhD applicants mence research on one of these topics before neering, but then twice failed the PhD quali- a signatory. deserve to have more information about the funding is available, particularly if the pro- fier. Sub left MIT to work for United Shoe What is the nature of this persecution? qualifying process and their chances for suc- fessor is initially enthusiastic. Machinery Corporation, a struggling shoe Since July 1999, the Jiang regime has directed a cess before applying for the ME doctoral That same enthusiastic professor may manufacturer that could not compete with brutal campaign to eliminate Falun Gong, a tra- program. change his mind about the merit of a particu- foreign imports. Sub single-handedly saved ditional self-improvement system originating in The secretive nature of this qualifying lar thesis idea. In some cases, a professor the company from oblivion by diverting its China and freely practiced in over 50 countries. process has led to numerous conflicting - may become embarrassed by a topic that he manufacturing to plastics. Eventually, Sub and confusing - rumors. Statistics on the introduced a year or two earlier. The easiest completed his PhD at Carnegie-Mellon. He qualifier in ME are not made available to way to erase any reference to an ill-con- subsequently became a professor at Universi- students or to some of MIT's deans. Writ- ceived topic is to get rid of the PhD thesis ty of South Carolina, where he also "reorga- The persecutionof Falun Gong ten explanations for grading and pass/fail and its corresponding doctoral student - nized" the College of Engineering. In a twist thresholds are not made public. Successful thus eliminating any need for a professor to of poetic justice, he returned to the MIT violatesthe 1948 Convention on students are given no information on their take responsibility for his ideas. The profes- Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Preventionand Punishment passing grade. When a student fails, his sor may simply fail to support the student at was until recently the Department Head, a advisor is not allowed to discuss the exam the faculty qualifier results meeting, regard- position he held for ten years. of the Crime of Genocide. results with him. This "ritual" task is left to less of the student's performances on the While it's nice to see that Sub rebounded Professor Ian Sonin, Mechanical Engineer- objective tests. from his initial rejection, it is profoundly ing's longtime qualifier "Don," or graduate Other students fall prey to the profession- troubling that as department head, he did not officer. al rivalries and disagreements that so typify fmd it necessary to challenge the qualifier Also known as Falun Dafa, the practice The most troubling aspect of this enig- the ME department. A professor may object system that failed him earlier. Clearly, those includes meditation and exercises with teach- matic process is that success on the exam is to the research agenda of another professor, who were hazed yesterday do not have prob- ings based on the universal principles of Truth- highly dependent on factors other than a stu- but he can't do much about this. However, lems hazing others today. Surprisingly, the fulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. dent's academic abilities. Professor Rohan when this agenda is presented in the qualify- strictest defenders of the ME qualifier system Jiang outlawed the practice after govern- Abeyaratne, the ME Department Head, ing exam as a PhD thesis topic, it is simple to are those who have their PhD' s from other ment estimates put the number of practitioners frankly states that the working relationship express objection by failing the student. universities and never experienced this acad- as high as 100 million, which outnumbered between a student and his advisor is as This happened to Ashish Krupadanam, an emic hazing themselves. It is time for the Communist Party members. Unable to crush the important as passing the qualifier. (As will exceptionally bright PhD student who pre- MIT administration to investigate the quali- spirit of millions who had experienced positive be shown in subsequent articles, a student's sented his thesis topic in January 1988. Pro- fying process in the ME department to life changes from Falun Gong, the regime inten- advisor must also have a good relationship fessor Hogan from the control division ensure that it is fair, transparent and effective sified its propaganda campaign to turn public with his peers in order for a student to quali- expressed his objection to the research agen- in educating and nurturing successful engi- opinion against the practice while imprisoning, fy). To pass, a student needs a faculty mem- da of Ashish' s advisor by failing Kru- neers. torturing, and even murdering practitioners. ber to strongly advocate him/her in the facul- padanam .. Moshe Alamaro SM '01 is a visiting sci- Amnesty International, Human Rights ty results meeting. (Apparently, the ME There's no question that doctonil students entist at the Department of Earth, Atmos- Watch, the U.S. government and many other faculty meets immediately following the must possess both a grasp of scientific funda- pheric and Planetary Sciences. He can be reputable sources have documented hundreds exams to review each student, identified by a mentals and solid research skills to grow into reached at [email protected] of deaths by torture of practitioners detained in China. Since China treats information on Falun Gong deaths as state secrets, the true number may never be known. In addition, Come One, Come Apart thousands of practitioners have been forced into brainwashing centers, mental hospitals, there were very different. Justin Lin's Better was clamoring for a Puerto Rican/Chicana! and labor camps. To prevent the Chinese peo- Philip Burrowes Luck Tomorrow is an American film Colombian ensemble piece, or because ple from learning the truth, the regime spreads through-and-through, and thus at least had Eduardo Verastegui thought he was making lies through its state-controlled media while it Wish those women on The Real World hopes of appealing to the mythical Asian- an adaptation of Tres Mujeres. It was blocks hundreds of Internet web sites that would just get naked already, but feel guilty American audience. Paramount Classics did because, quite frankly, FOX hoped Anglos report favorably on Falun Gong or expose the watching Girls Gone Wild? Then New Line the actual distributing, as it's too artsy for would want to see Sofia Vergara's breasts. persecution. Most recently, the world has wit- Cinema has the movie for you. Yes, you, MTV, but some spots for what is essentially The film didn't even crack the box office top nessed this same tactic in the cover-up of the males 18-25, can go see Tht! Real Cancun a Sundance film have promoted the MTV ten after premiering last weekend, but it also SARS epidemic. this Friday, because reality TV just isn't real angle. Better Luck Tomorrow, already given opened in relatively few theaters. Perhaps The regime also commits substantial finan- enough. If you're too young to get an R- critical acclaim, has thus generated fmancial Hollywood will learn its lesson, and Latinas cial resources to sustain this systematic persecu- rated ticket, or too old to ogle the barely heat, and it's poised for performance similar will be relegated to roles as attractive but tion, which is carried out by officials from all post-pubescent (in to - if not better than superficial sidekicks in action movies, where levels. It affects millions of Falun Gong practi- public), then sorry. - Bend it Like Beck- they belong. tioners, their families, friends, coworkers, Besides, you had your ham. If a "Latino" fJ1m is an economic failure, neighbors, and classmates. Such an extensive respective turns with Big, targeted movies aren't Given the extent to despite the small-scale success of any Asian persecution requires a huge expenditure for Agent Cody Banks which Asians in the films, the chances of big-budget domestic police, detention centers, construction of new and Old School; it's made for the target audience U.S. are stereotyped productions along the same vein are small. labor camps, the 610 Office, and security somebody else's turn itself (not counting Chris within and without of Big, targeted movies, after all, aren't made agents, both at home and abroad. It requires to have the vicarious the media, it's nice to for the target audience itself (not counting major expenditures for all branches of the pro- fun. Rock~ Head of State see two films about Chris Rock's Head of State because, let us paganda machine: radio, television, newspapers, No ad campaign Asians that don't use all remember, he's rich). The biggest "cultural" events, and systems for blocking would be that targeted because, let us all remember, the same tired roles, grossers of the year have so far remained overseas broadcasts and computer networks. that openly, but the he~ rich). let alone successful those that have offered something for The Chinese people are entitled to know the effect will be the ones. There is a flip "everyone," from the cross-cultural conflict facts of the human and fmancial cost of this same. Don't expect side, however, to pub- of Bringing Down the House to once incon- campaign against its own citizens. any significant lic awareness of ceivable screen duo of Jack Nicholson and In recent history, communist regimes have crossover with the Confidence crowd. That's greater dramatic potential for Asians. Yes, Adam Sandler in Anger Management. We suppressed China's own cultural traditions and the way it should be, right? Better something something worse than another American Jet will see in the summer if Balkanization is values as well as any popular movements or for everybody than one thing for a few. Li movie. truly the way to go, or if the mass-appeal practices. The world has witnessed the Cultural Some of the material that comes out of Look no further than the travesty which movies will still rule. Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, the suppres- niche marketing may be not only worth- has befallen Latinos since the mid-nineties, For this summer (which starts May 2nd sion of the pro-democracy movement that cul- while, but blessed with crossover appeal. when the rest of America realized that if you with X-Men 2, as far as Hollywood is con- minated in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, British hit Bend it Like Beckham, for exam- pretend they were an actual coherent group, cerned) will have its own share of targeted and now the persecution of Falun Gong. ple, seemed doomed fmancially in the U.S. they would be very large. To America, you fare. Will throwing more women into The Can we learn from history? Being proud of for being about another country, starring a' can look at some one and tell that the person Matrix or Terminator emasculate the franchis- our Chinese heritage does not mean blindly giv- novice South Asian-Anglo actress, and cen- is Latino. Furthermore, in an ignorant resur- es like it did Star Wars? Can Disney and ing our allegiance to whoever occupies the tering around (Association) football, so Fox rection of the pre-Castro Latin Lover stereo- Dreamworks still pull off animation for every- highest seat of power. It's been nearly four Searchlight sat on distributing it here for types, those people will be "hot." While the body? Does ILM feel ashamed about working years. This lawsuit will require Jiang Zemin to months. Eventually, Fox had the faith to days of George P. Bush or Ricky Martin on The Hulk? Or will it be more age-distin- answer for the crimes he has committed against actually push up the film's release, and it has may be behind us, the days of Shakira and J- guished flicks like The Lizzie McGuire Movie the Chinese people. It will restore China's dig- since posted the best per-theater averages by Lo are not. So why not make a movie about or Rugrats Gone Wild (not another spring nity and virtue as well as social stability built on far, and its weekend take has increased. "hot" Latinas? break movie) that pull off a surprise? Either justice and human rights. MTV didn't take nearly as long to distrib- Chasing Papi was thus born. Not because way, most of it will probably be exploitative Mindy Chao '05 is president of the MIT ute its own "Asian" ftIm, but circumstances the mythical Latino ethnolinguistic group garbage that we'll faithfully lap up. Falun Dafa Club. Page6 THE TECH pri125,2003 FEATURES Campus Profile Pius A. Uzamere II VA President-Elect
By Brian Loux The Tech: Why is daytime SafeRide such a VA is doing its job perfectly, then ILTFP short-run is to facilitate interactions between ASSOCIATE FEATURES ED/TOR priority when it is mostly a problem of conve- should be superfluous as an organization. disparate groups without imposing a large, Ask Pius A. Vzamere II '04 any question nience for Boston residents? I plan to increase the student body's confi- additional time commitment. about MIT, politics, weather, or sports, and Uzamere: Daytime afeRide is a service dence in the effectiveness of the VA and One concrete step in this direction is the you're likely to get the same response: "Hold that many undergraduates have wanted to see thereby increase the likelihood of undergradu- framework I am working on, tentatively enti- on, I'm busy." implemented for years. If the VA ignores ates to give their valuable input to the UA tled the Cultural Groups Coalition. The CGC Most of Uzamere's days are spent dashing issues that students care about just because committees, officers, and senators who are is a framework for encouraging the cultural about not just from class to class, but from they are simply matters of convenience, then charged with representing their interests. groups on campus to regularly support the meeting to meeting in each of which he efforts of the others and co-host will likely hold an important leadership events. Many students already spend position. many hours participating in cultural ince coming to MIT, Uzamere has groups. By harnessing this already been a vice president of the Institute of present time and energy ... Ibelieve Electrical and Electronics Engineers, we can make great strides in on the student board for the Coop, a improving the cultural climate on resident a sociate advisor, a MedLINK, campus. and an Undergraduate Association The Tech: It's often been said that councilor. Come this June, he will add MIT has a bright and energetic body the title of UA president to that list. but is subject to a lethal apathy Miraculously, The Tech was able to about politics and policies. Many sit down with Uzamere recently and people in the past have tried to discuss his plans for his upcoming change that. Do you hope to? term. Vzamere: Of course I hope to change it. I think that much of this The Tech: Were you equally involved apathy will be broken down by mak- in office before MIT? ing people [see] the VA as a strong, Uzamere: I was very involved in my effective organization. This image high school as well. change will be a great source of The Tech: Are you worried that your empowerment for students who history will make you appear as more want to make MIT better and will of a politician than a man with the pub- attract the interest of these apathetic lic interest in mind? students who have traditionally Uzamere: ot at all. stayed out of the government simply The Tech: Do you think as a dorm because they are not convinced that resident that you can serve as a suc- their efforts will make a difference. cessful spokesperson for the Fraterni- The Tech: With such a bold state- ties, Sororities, and Independent Living JTNA KlM - THE TECH ment as "We guarantee that after a Groups at such a crucial transition and Outgoing Undergraduate Association President Josiah D. Seale '03 talks with Presldent-elect Plus Uza. year ... no one will answer the ques- why? mere II '04. tion 'What has the VA done for me Uzamere: Absolutely. Issues that lately?' with a blank stare again," ar~ affect FSILGs impact all MIT undergraduates the UA has lost its way. I consider it the UA's The Tech: When you accepted the MLK you at all nervous that your term will not be in some way or another. It's absurd to think job to make life better for students. oratorical prize, you mentioned that the cam- able to accomplish that high a standard? that one has to be a member of an FSILG in The Tech: You and your running mate have pus is self-segregated and seemed to conclude Uzamere: Not in the least. Jacob and I order to effectively serve that community. been involved in the ILTFP campaign spon- that the answer will reside with each individ- have talked for years about the things we want Jacob [W Faber '04] and 1 are weU versed in soring dorm rush. How do you plan to push ual making a consciouS choice to change that to make better: This is our chance to iccom- all campus issues, and we are currently work- for their goals as president? or discuss it openly. How will your views plish these things and we are very focused on ing on improving the lines of communication Uzamere: ILTFP is a lot broader than fight- carry over into policy? doing our jobs well. We will take input from between the UA and the students so that ing for dorm rush. ILTFP is about increasing Vzamere: Self-segregation is a hard prob- the students, present a clear set of goals, dis- everyone feels that they are properly repre- student input in administrative decisions that lem to solve anywhere. I think that the most patch the VA's resources as appropriate, and sented by the government. affect student life at MIT. In my view, if the feasible way to approach the problem in the keep the students abreast of our progress. 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By Brian LDux a half mile behind the starting line, there test of will and more of a hunt for sustenance. I In an almost knee-jerk fashion, I flicked him off OClATE F£A1VRES EDmJR extends a line of corrals for e ery thousand run- started measuring things in distances to the next and kept running. Most of the people around 4:48:35. ners, then behind tho e is a flood of humanity water table and mapped my immediate route by were families and gasped and booed as if I had It's a number I hope to carry with me for the known as the bandit runners. We were lucky to looking for the kids handing out orange slices. kicked a small puppy. But you know what? I rest of my life. Unless I ever get a faster time. get pretty clo e to the last corral by weaseling didn't care. If you've gone 25 or so miles and Last Monday, I ran my first marathon - my ih. Then came perhap the long st hour of my It' all uphill from here people still want to bust your balls, they deserve first road race, for that matter - ever and was life: the waiting. As the energy is finally surg- Eventually, we hit Wellesley college and the a paintball to the exposed throat. exceptionally pleased with the results, although ing, you're forced to wait and occupy your time. "scream tunnel, ' where the entire school lines Rounding the corner, I could see the finish my back and legs have yet to congratulate me. I spent it looking for other MIT runners and up to egg the runners forward. ow if any of line, and a rather insane smile cros ed my face. They'll get over it. looking for funny shirts. you harbor feelings of resentment towards the I slowed down to remove my penny and wear it The Adidas billboards around the city pro- As we started off 26 minutes and 27 seconds school, I ask you to get rid of it now because like a cape behind my back. The chants of "Go mote the seven stages of marathon: ritual, after noon, I tried to soak up the cheers of the quite frankly that was the easiest part of the race MIT Lacrosse!" changed to "Go Superman!" shock, denial, isolation, despair, affirmation, crowds. I noticed that our school is not as recog- and got me past the psychologically crucial and had just the right effect on me. Deciding to and renewal. These were obviously meant to get nizable as I had hoped. Most of the people in halfway point. use every last reserve with the line finish line in a chuckle out of the veteran runners and fool the the outskirts of Boston cheered on "Mitt The euphoria was relatively short lived, sight, I decided to dash the last tenth of a mile. I layperson. Only two of them even imply pain! Lacrosse"or "Meat Lacrosse" as I went by. I however. In about 2 miles, the screaming fans started encouraging/yelling at those who were The stages for the laypeople go more like prepa- also realized that I did my first mile in nine min- became fewer and further between and gave sputtering to get to the finish line, pointing to ration, overconfidence, pain, pain, pain, painful utes, or about two minutes faster than my me plenty of time to listen to the screaming of the grandstand mere yards in front of us. Time: success, and returning to a fatty food diet in planned pace. My partner was still quite confi- my legs. Unfortunately this was also the 5:16:02. I was too busy grunting to subtract the pain. dent that she could do the rest at such a pace, beginning of Heartbreak Hill, the series of five 26:27 start delay until after I grabbed my food Will I do it again? I don't know. It's really and I was quite confident I could do three more hills we were supposed to climb. I began to and space blanket. hard to think back upon it when the memories miles at such a pace. wolf down everything that was thrown at me in I'm not sure if the realization that I finished are so dim. Your brain has to go numb at some For the first few miles, there was a good hopes that I could regain enough energy to jog ever fully hit me. Even now, when I say, "I ran point, else you won't be able to get through it. crowd of runners relieving themselves on the the hills. A few feet up hill one and I realized the marathon," there's still a twinge of self- And as pain subsides, there's little left to help sides of the course. They should have taken care that the effort was in vain. In disgust I threw doubt on my voice where I almost feel that I'm judge whether you can or cannot do it. Which, I of that earlier, I thought. The males had their act down the Powerbar Energy Paks we'd been lying. would guess, makes each marathon as challeng- together for the most part, accurately judging given and briskly walked the rest of the hills ing as the last. the distance for decency. But many of the and jogged the flats. This was probably when I Aftershock This is not an attempt to trumpet my accom- female runners, presumably due to lack of expe- most considered quitting, as I stopped flat out Once I had finished, I was supposed to meet plishments. It is not an attempt to replicate April rience, considered a two foot shrub with no three times to stretch and consider if I wanted Amanda after the race at the Tortoise and the 21st, nor is it an attempt to encourage people to foliage as ample cover for their business. to go on. Hare sculpture, which I thought was at Park participate in the marathon next year. This is A lesson to the wise, folks: a marathon is not What won me over occurred after the last Street Church. This is about a good mile and a simply a recollection of my thoughts as 1 took the place to pick up chicks. Women are not hill. A few hundred yards after the hill, yo'u're half away from the finish line, and I had half a part in the marathon, and is by no means meant going to remember your phone number you treated to your first sight of the Hancock Tower mind to roll there instead of walk upright. The to carry any sort of message. This is only meant wrote on your shirt and they certainly aren't and Prudential Center looming on the horizon. I sculpture, however, is actually right next to the to possibly entertain. You may turn to another going to fall for your pick up lines. But I tip my felt like a general first laying eyes on his Prudential Center. The only stones at Park Street page if you'd like; I won't be disappointed. Peo- hat to those who tried. There was a runner who enemy's capital. Furthering that metaphor, I Church are in their graveyard. Amanda waited ple do that anyway. dashed in front of two ladies and turned around started babbling to the other runners as if I was at the sculpture for over an hour thinking that I to run backwards. "You know, you look as good telling them to ready the siege. As far as I was had collapsed on the course somewhere. She Smokey ~d the Bandits running from the front as you do from the concerned, if you can see it, you can go to it. even got sick from the rapidly falling tempera- Preparation began a good six. months ago, back," he said. This brought on some humoring Once again I picked up my feet and headed tures. when I committed myself to running the giggles. After the man introduced himself and towards the buildings. My second wind had As for me, I took the T (they were letting the marathon. My training regimen was hardly proceeded at a faster pace, the two ladies kicked in. runners onto the subway free of charge) back to strict, and the furthest I had run was 9.7 miles. laughed their heads off. Kendall. The pain still shot through my body, Still confident, I laid out what I wanted to wear After seven miles, I probably reached the Bringing it home but it would subside. I left the T and began to the night before. An MIT lacrosse penny, a isolation stage Adidas talked about. That was The last few miles almost felt like my first. walk that long hard road that probably gave me Boston Red Sox cap, and a sharpie to write because my partner blew the doors off me The energy, the crowds, and people that recog- the idea that I could do the marathon in the first "Yanks Suck"on my leg. I hit the sack around (though I'd eventually learn that I'd passed her nized MIT was not "meat" all were there. I even place: the walk. from Kendall to ext House. midni~t and tried to force ~self to sleep. I somewhere do}Vllthe line). . started to see a few of my friends and fellow When I reached the infinite corridor in my I arrived at Hopkinton around 11 a.m. with I also began to crave a replenishment of students. Then, just before the last segment, I weakened condition, the hallway looked daunt- my partner, Arilanda K. Sorenson '04. For about energy. The marathon stopped being a race or a passed a Harvard guy who said, "MIT sucks!" ing. But not that daunting. Ask SIPB
Want to read various computer media, like CDs and your floppy. RWs on Athena? DVDs, on Athena, but weren't sure how? In this week's col- umn, we cover reading media on Athena. Question: How and where can I read from CD-ROMs and Answer: The software necessary for writing to CDs is DVD-ROMs on Athena? available in the cdrecord locker. The readme file located in Question: What kind of media can I use on Athena? ImitJcdrecordIREADME provides detailed instructions. Addi- Answer: The process for reading CD-ROMs and DVD- tional information, including writing to audio CDs, can also Answer: You can use floppy disks and CD-ROMs on all ROMs on Athena is the same. The exact method, however, be found in lafs/sipb.mit.edu/projectl Athena machines. The black Dell and ffiM workstations have depends on the machine platform you are using. On Solaris, doclicdr/icdr. txt. CD-RW drives. The Sun Blade 150 and a few of the Sun run volcheck and then access the drive under Icdromlwhatev- Blade 100 machines have DVD-ROM drives. Some Sun and er. On Linux, run mount ImntJcdrom instead, and access the Question: How can I write to DVDs? What DVD formats Linux workstations, located in the W20-575, 4-035, 12-182, drive through ImntJcdrom. are supported? 37-318, and 56-129 clusters, have Zip 250 drives capable of reading both Zip 100 and Zip 250 disks. Some other clusters Question: How do I play audio CDs on Athena? Answer: While no public cluster machines can write to may also have Zip drives. DVDs, there are a few resources available at MIT. Answer: You can use the xmcd program in the sipb locker. The New Media Center, located in 26-139, has several Question: How do I use floppy disks on Athena? To start the program, type machines with DVD-RAM drives. To learn the combo to this Macintosh cluster, type athena% tellme nmccombo. Once Answer: For DOS (or Windows) floppies, do "add athena% add sipb; xmcd & thre, you can use Roxio Toast or iDVD to write to your DVD- mtools." The most common commands are "moo a:" to see RAM media. the files on a floppy, "mcopy a:file_name" to copy file_name Several other programs are available for use on Athena. SIPB, located in W20-557, also has a DVD writer capable from the floppy to your Athena account, and "mcopy You can find them listed on the GNOME panel. of writing DVD-R and DVD-RW discs. To use it, simply file_name a:" to copy a file to a floppy. You may also find the come into the SIPB office and ask us. The actual burning is graphical user interface '~mtoolsfm" useful. For more infor- Question: How can I watch a DVD movie on Athena? the same as that for a CD-R, except that you want to use mation, see the OLC Stock answer at cdrecord-1.11 a II +dvd and mkisofs-l.ll a 11 instead. http://web.mit.edu/answers/workstations/ws_dos.html.Be Answer: On an Athena machine with a DVD-ROM drive, aware that many of the Dell Athena machines have faulty you can watch a DVD movie by using the ogle program in Question: How do I watch Quicktime or other movies on floppy drives. If you discover such a machine, send mail to the outland locker. To do so, type: Athena? [email protected] the machine's name. Alternatively, on Sun machines, you can run volcheck and athena% add outland; ogle Answer: You can use the xine program in the outland. To then use Ifloppy. You can then access the disk drive as you start it, type athena% add outland; xine. would normally through Athena. Other options for playing DVD-ROMs include mplayer Also the building 37 Windows Athena cluster has and xine. xine is also available in the outland locker. If you To ask us a question, send e-mail to [email protected]. We'll machines running Windows with which you can easily access have a personal Athena machine, you can also download and try to answer you quickly, and we might address your ques- PC floppy disks. install mplayer locally. tion in our next column. Copies of each column and pointers For Macintosh-formatted floppies, do "add hfstools." to additional information will be posted on our website: Then, "xhfs" will start a graphical user interface to access Question: How and where do I write to CD-Rs or CD- http://www.mit.edu/-asksipb/
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It was dead on to the original, Richling, who for the entire concert seemed to cert Dylan seemed to be singing with either his with Dylan ripping the vocals and hitting all be genuinely excited about what was happen- Dean Delray, Ron Sexsmith, eyes closed or with them focused on something the right inflections. Jaffee added excellent tex- ing. Perhaps with either more touring, or with a and the Wallflowers other than the crowd. Although Dylan is known ture with organ and piano, playing both at the decent break, the Wallflowers can rediscover Paradise Rock Club to be somewhat aloof during concerts (he actu- same time with one hand each. the joy that is playing a sold out venue. April 21, 8 p.m. ally turns around and plays to the drummer Right before during solo breaks), he was especially detached "Everything I eed," albums0 and three personnel changes from the crowd at this performance. Dylan was presented after their major hit "One Headlight," During the second song, "Three Marlenas," with a rose and cards the Wallflowers are still cranking out I noticed that the rest of the band seemed to be from audience mem- 11solid songs. The band, fronted by enjoying themselves more than Dylan. Bass bers whom he singer/rhythm guitarist/songwriter Jakob player Greg Richling was grinning and looking thanked graciously. Dylan, gave a rockin' show at the Paradise at the audience most of the time. I could almost During the song, Rock Club in Brookline this past Monday see a thought bubble coming out of his head Dylan actually forgot Night on the second leg of their Red Letter saying "I love my job." Then again, perhaps he the words - twice. Days Tour. was happy because of the Corona he had been However, the rest of Before the main act hit the stage, a couple sipping between songs. On this song, guest the band didn't miss a of opening bands warmed up the crowd. Dean lead guitarist Yogi Lonich really impressed me beat, and vamped Delray, a bleach-blond, heavily tattooed half with a guitar riff that sounded something like a while Dylan smiled to musician, half stand-up comedian, interacted Third Eye Blind part - it oddly worked for the the audience, trying to with the audience by taking requests, though he song and Yogi seemed to enjoy playing it. jump back into the didn't play all of them. When I requested the I was still singing along (and alone) to all song. Foo Fighters' "Everlong," he politely rejected the songs by the time the Wallflowers played In the encore, me. Dean Delray did know Guns & Roses and "Josephine," a slower love song. Keyboardist Dylan and Jaffee ACDC, but when he tried to get the audience to Rami Jaffee's seeping organ was a highlight of played the musicbox- sing, it was apparent that they didn't. The best this song - it flowed in and out smoothly. I like "Babybird." part of his performance was when he did an also enjoyed Yogi's vibrato-style guitar, and Dylan introduced the impression of the fictional band The Tom Cats guest drummer Malcolm Cross' drumming song, saying that (think Tom Waits and The Stray Cats com- during the bridge, which was heavier than on tomorrow was his bined). the record. It impacted the powerful words that son's birthday and Ron Sexsmith, the other opening act, also Dylan sang. that since he couldn't had an acoustic guitar, but was Delray's polar A few songs later, Dylan actually looked at be with his son, he opposite. Soft-spoken Sexsmith was mellow, the crowd, saying "Well, now we're going to wanted to play this sounding like David Gray. The lyrics to his playa song we haven't played for a long time." song. This statement songs were poetic - I especially liked "Cheap I got really excited, since I thought that maybe suddenly hit me as Hotel" for its story-like quality. But for all the the band had decided to play "Skinny Lips," a perhaps the reason poetry in the world, Sexsmith couldn't hold the rare song that I had been requesting all night. why Dylan looked audience's attention. Instead of psyching up the Nope. The band broke into their good 'ole hit distracted throughout audience as an opening act should, his lullaby- "One Headlight." The song actually was one of the concert. After two sounding songs made people yawn and look the best that evening. The audience sang and other encore songs, sleepy. clapped along. The entire band, including the full band played After a half-hour break filled with back- Dylan, looked more relaxed and seemed to "The Difference." I ground music of Lifehouse (a subliminal pro- enjoy playing - Dylan even looked at the felt that with this final motion by Paradise for upcoming concerts), the audience a few times. Although I don't like song, the concert had Wallflowers came on ,stage and attempted to "One Headlight," it definitely was the high come full circle, start- wake up the audience with "Everybody Out of point of the concert. ing out with tired, AARO D. MIHAliK-THE TECH the Water." As usual, Jakob Dylan sang to the My favorite song of the evening was the tour-weary musicians Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers perfonn last Friday night at the far end of his microphone as if a mini-audience Elvis Costello cover of "Peace, Love, and and finishing with Paradise Rock Club In Boston.
RESTAURANT REVIEW After watching me gawk at the bubbling of the sauces. The sauces, served in a trio of fondue suspiciously, the waiter decided to liber- small black cups, turned out to be spicy red ate me from my primitive ways and explained chili, sweet and smoky barbecue, and roasted how to eat fondue. The bread is picked up by sesame and soy liaison. The chili was tasteless, Dreaming ofFondue the fork, swirled in the molten cheese, and then with too much mayonnaise, while the barbecue eaten. Or, in my version, the bread is swirled in was far from spectacular, reminding me of a the cheese, falls off the fork, and then searched bottled sauce. The soy liaison, however, had a Just Don lDauble-Dip at Swissotels Cafe Suisse for by random jabbing in the pot. pleasantly sweet but salty taste which comple- ByAmyLee senting a basket of bread and glasses of water. Nevertheless, even with my fondue unso- mented all of the meats. STAFF WRITER There were two types of bread, a white roll phistication, the taste of the cheese was star- Like the cheese, the meat fondues involved . Winter Fondue Promotion and a wheat roll, both of which were served tlingly delicious. The Swiss was a creamy col- much searching of dropped items in the broth. Through April with small balls of butter. The latter had a ored blend of Gruyere and Emmental cheeses, My fondness of the meat fondues was more Cafe Suisse, Swissotel Boston pleasantly nutty taste, with a sesame covered while the carroty tinted Mediterranean had mixed, however, than my reaction to the cheese. $12 to $34 crusty outside and a sunflower-seed flavored specks of red from the pesto, basil, and sun- The salmon and chicken were also too softly doughy inside. This was more to my prefer- dried tomatoes added to the aforementioned textured for my liking. The enormous scallops any's the long night I've dreamed of ence, since the former was rather bland, with a cheeses. Both also unexpectedly had hints of made up for all of it though, with their fresh cheese - fondue, mostly." If Robert strangely porous texture. wine, as I rapidly discovered from my first taste and ideal amount of chewiness. However, Lewis Stevenson had been to The The dinner then began with two cheese tangy taste bud jolt. I must admit that the best part of the meat MSwissotel's Cafe Suisse, he might courses, a traditional Swiss cheese fondue and After the fIrst shock, the fondue quickly courses was being able to say, "get mea beef' have started Treasure Island with that line. the Mediterranean cheese fondue. The fondue became quite enjoyable, my favorite being the without sounding like a redneck. The restaurant is hidden away on the third experience was like a sacred ceremony, with the plum tomatoes dipped in the Mediterranean. I was beginning to fall into a food-induced floor of the Swissotel. The atmosphere is sub- waiter successively placing down alcohol burn- The sharp, gooey cheese contrasted effortlessly state of drowsiness when the waiter brought the dued, an eclectic mixture of music faintly play- ers, plates, three-pronged forks, baskets of with the sweet, cool inside of the tomatoes. final two courses of chocolate dessert fondues. ing in the background as mini lamps flickered bread chunks, plates of vegetables, and ending The lighter taste of the Swiss definitely suited Both fondues, "Toblerone" and «Malibu,' were on the small tables. The waiter started by pre- finally with the divine pots of cheese. the bread more since it was less overpowering. served with plate of banana, pineapple biscot- Next came three meat courses, the ti, and strawberry slices, along with fluffy chicken chinoi e, beef sirloin shabu marshmallows. shabu, and three jewels of the sea, Fon- On the first bite of a strawberry covered with due Chinoise, all of which were served the "Toblerone" chocolate, I quickly woke up. with bowls of Jasmin Rice and three The dark chocolate was smooth, with a slightly types of sauces. The rice had a full, bitter taste that kept it from becoming too woody taste that I would have appreci- intensely sweet. Dipped in the "Toblerone" the ated more if my tummy hadn't been so marshmallows were mouth-wateringly reininis- preoccupied with the tantalizing jumbo cent of making smores around a bonfire on the shrimp brought for the seafood fondue. Olympic Peninsula beaches in Washington For the meat courses, the fondue state. process was much different, resem- The "Malibu" was a velvety, almost translu- bling the Asian hot-pot tradition more cent blend of white chocolate rum, and coconut than something the Swiss would do which went best with the already sweet after a day of skiing on the Alps. The bananas. Both chocolate fondues were so infat- table was slightly crammed with two uation-incurring that my photographer decided pots of broth, each with shiitake mush- to drink what was left in the pots after the fruits rooms and spring onions a plate each had all been savored over. It was possibly the of thin chicken and beef slices, and a first time I've seen anyone gulp down molten fish-shaped plate with large sea scal- chocolate. Aside from the pineapple slices, lops, salmon cuts, and shrimp. I began which were so acidic they couldn't even be by using my two forks to leave a piece saved by the to-die-for chocolate, everything of beef and a jumbo shrimp in the broth else was better than a Chocolate Orgasm. to cook. After just about a minute, Although 1 had constant troubles with losing both were ready to eat. my food in the fondue pot, now that I've experi,.
WENDY GU-THE TECH The shrimp was unsettlingly chewy, enced fondue at Cafe Suisse I definitely knoW Ylyan Jiang '06 (left) and Lynn L Ngo '06 delightedly dip fruit Into melted white chocolate dur- but the beef was perfectly tender and what I'd dream about if I were shipwrecked on Ing the sweet conclusion of a fondue meal at Cafe Suisse last Friday. flavorful, even without addition of any an island. Page 10 THE ECH ARTS April 25, 2003 SPICE Ladyfingers, Schmadyfingers! Tiramisu: TheLow-Down on Yaur Favorite Sticky Dessert
By Marissa A. Cheng lllramlS1l1: he last time I made tiramisu for a menu, one of my friends ended up Adapted from Emeril Lagasse's recipe eating the two-day-old leftovers po eC I th lDasaU1M~D' when the layers had all mixed togeth- er into tiramisu sludge, and practically lick- I cup milk Combine the espresso, ter, and Grand ing the one-foot-by-two-foot pan to boot. 2 tbsp butter Marnier in a bo I and set aside. Combine I am a tiramisu purist. I do not believe I cupjlour the mascarpone and rum in a large bowl that one should make tiramisu with ladyfin- I tsp baking powder and beat with an electric mi er until gers. It's cheating. You have to make the 3 eggs smooth. sponge from scratch, and that's the only way I cup sugar Ina medium bo I,beat together your tiramisu is going to blow people away. 3 eggyolks yolks and 3 tbsp of sugar until slightly Mine did, much to my genuine surprise ... thickened. Set the bowl 0 er a hot water although it may have been the rather large MallCUpoD,e C bath IIld beat for 3 minutes, until light and amount of alcohol in the recipe I used. I cup + 2 lhap espresso coffee (regultu foamy. Remove from heat and beat into the Tiramisu, which means "pick me up" instant coffee will do) masaaq:Nme mixture. ("tirami-su"), is a dessert that was created in I cup + 2 ihsp hot water Whip the cream to stitT fold a restaurant in Treviso, near Venice, called 3 tbsp Grand Manlier . vaDiIJa. Fold in third of Le Beccherie. The women who worked in a I cup mascarpone cheese mi tare into the hipped cream ia two nearby brothel used to eat the tiramisu for a 2 tbsp dark rum a • ions, then fold the whipped cream refresher between visitors, which is suppos- 3 eggs, separated . ture. 0 the . IDg mascarpone edly where the name came from. 6tbspsugar A dessert similar to tiramisu is zuppa J cup /rem,' cream inglese, which was created in Siena for a I tsp vanil14 visit by the Grand Duke Cosimo de Medici cocoapowder lor sprinkling III. It was named zuppa del duca, or "duke's powtleretl sugarlor gtll7lis/r soup." The duke liked the dessert and brought the recipe back with him to Flo- rence, where it was pounced upon by Eng- lish courtesans living there, since it was sim- ilar to their version - the English trifle. I was lucky enough to fmd a recipe that I loved right off the bat. It's absolutely the most wonderful tiramisu recipe I've had, second only to tiramisu made fresh in the motherland (Italy). While looking for recipes, I found one by Emeril Lagasse - his recipe is, quite simply, perfect. Make sure you use real mascarpone cheese, good rum, and Grand Marnier (unless you're under 21, of course). I promise there won't be any leftovers. OPERA REVIEW Students Shine in 'Idorneneo' .1; But Faculty Inadequate in BO's Production of Mozart's Comic Opera By Jonathan E.D. Richmond Using period instruments is extremely help- There was one star performance from the ADVISORY BOARD ful at getting to the soul of Idomeneo 's musical singers (who made up the second of tw.o.casts ' Idomeneo drama. The instruments of Mozart's time pro- who sang in this production). Georgia Pickett Boston University Opera Institute duced raw sounds of greater clarity and direct- really knew what Elettra was about. Elettra is in Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ness than the smooth sonorities of the modem love with Idamante, who in turn loves Ilia. Pick- Libretto by Abbot Giambattista Varresco instruments of today's mainstream orchestras. ett brought brilliant characterization to depict Directed by Sharon Daniels The legatos of the nineteenth century had little Elettra's hopeless jealousy. Her performance of Conducted by William Lumpkin place in the eighteenth, while the ability to pro- the aria, "Tutte nel cor vi sento," showedenor- Boston University Theatre, Mainstage vide detailed coloration was of far greater sig- mous stature, as Elettra' s lovesick sighing and Apr. 18, 19,21, 7:30p.m.; Apr. 21,5:00 p.m. nificance. Idomeneo can be produced effective- viperous rage were both conveyed in a display ly with modem instruments, nonetheless, if the of great control. Showing both eloquence and he program for the Boston University performance is informed by the practice of piquancy, Pickett showed she had a command- Opera Institute's production of Mozart's time. ing stage presence as well. Mozart's Idomeneo includes extensive Such knowledge was clearly lacking in the Amy Feather sang adequately as Ilia, but Tbiographical information on faculty BU production, where orchestral sound had projected a shallow personality. Giavanna Ker- members involved, but tells us nothing about blurry edges, and it was often impossible to dis- sulis did have a few winning moments as the student performers. This vanity is especially tinguish individual instruments. Mozart often Idamante, and much of her singing was fluent, unfortunate since the students demonstrated uses a wind instnunent to make a striking dra- but her performance was too often dull in an substantial potential, while the teaching and matic statement about the state of mind or heart unschooled manner that suggested poor prepa- direction provided by faculty appeared to be of a singer in mid-aria. If the sound of that ration by BU faculty rather than of a lack of . quite inadequate. instrmnent cannot be heard distinctly, the effect potential. Idomeneo predates Mozart's great comic is lost. Strings should often sound abrasive, Arturo Chac6n-Cruz, however, was way off operas such as The Marriage of Figaro and is a conveying the power of the ocean that is never the mark as Idomeneo. His singing was in a striking dramatic work which both looks back distant from the action of the opera, but this high-powered bel canto style inappropriate to to the world of Gluck and projects a modernity effect was lost because the strings had apparent- this opera, where in~ coloration is so much . that Mozart was to never revisit. Mozart was ly not been taught the appropriate bowing tech- more important to bringing the internal world of familiar with Gluck's music, and the unbroken nique. Much of the playing was of a high stan- Mozart's music to life than the misplaced brute sequence of Idomeneo 's musical numbers fol- dard but the conductor; William Lumpkin, power Chacon-Cruz produced. His acting was lows Gluck's practice, in the French tradition, seemed to have little understanding of what the thoroughly wooden, too. and provides for a continuous dramatic tension musical world of Idomeneo was about. Not only The chorus clearly included some great unrestrained by the Italian practice of breaking should the orchestra have been prepared techni- singers but, like the solo singers and musicians, the flow with alternating arias and recitatives. cally, but should have been made to connect appeared to be inadequately prepared either Idomeneo's great storm scene appears to be pat- actively with the drama on stage - their sounds musically or dramatically, and their perfor- terned after the one in Gluck's Iphigenie en drive the audience's understanding of the mance had little impact. Tauride, and the chorus also takes a central role, action, so they must be a part of it. Such an Sharon Daniels' direction lacked imagina- as in Gluck opera. The dramatic effect is engagement was almost entirely lacking. tion. There were a lot of cliched gestures and intense, and at times both raw and jarring, with Musically, the great storm made for the random whirling around, but little that was the emotional impact going well beyond the poorest scene of all. The power of clashing either graceful or telling. In particular, little conventions of Mozart's time. The key to deliv- waves should dominate, and the audience connection was made between music and ering that impact is an understanding that the should feel a great evil monster depicted by a action. Luckily, the sacrifice scene did come musical instruments are as much characters as dissonant-sounding piccolo, rising from the together better than the rest of the performance. the singers on stage. It is their sound that tells us waves. The piccolo could hardly be heard', and Finally, there was some communication of what is going on in the hearts of the protago- the string sound was muddled. Worst of all, the emotional intensity that should run through- nists playing out the great Greek tragedy crude sound effects were used to convey the out the opera. But too much of the rest of the Mozart relates, a tale of a foolish father, Idome- power of the storm, but had an impact that was evening was lost in weak direction, and the feel- neo, who promises to sacrifice the first human dissipated because the immense psychological ing at the end was one of a lost opportunity. he encounters in return for a safe return home, impact Mozart intended to convey must come BU's students seem to be extremely talented- and who sees first his son, ldamante. entirely from the music. it's the faculty that needs to do its homework.
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DMITRY PORTNYAGlN - THE TECH Vitally Pereverzev '05 retums the ball In a match against WIlliams College. Pereverzev and his partner Andrew V. Kolesnlkov '03 won their doubles match, but despite other MIT victories Williams College won the competition 4-3.
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Visit and add events to Events Calendar online at htfp:/ /events.mlt.edu Friday,Aprll25 SUnday,April27 7:30 a.m •• 8:30 a.m. - CRE Association Breakfast 5ertes. Ms. Abigail F. McCarthy, Director of Industry Informa- 11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. - Breakfast WIth Movements. free. Room: T{;lub lounge. Sponsor: Movements in Time. tion, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). free. Room: W31-305. Sponsor: Center for 12:00 p.m •• 5:00 p.m. - Greek Orthodox Easter. Traditional Greek Easter food, including lamb, pies, appetizers. Real Estate. $12. Room: Wellesley College. Sponsor: Hellenic Students' Association. 8:00 a.m •• 9:00 p.m. - Rm Intematlonal Symposium on NanoManufacturtng. see registration details. Room: 1:00 p.m •• 8:00 p.m. - Opening celebration: "Colli Ion 5, the next dimension." ATat (arts and technology at The Hotel @ Mil. Sponsor: First Intemational Symposium on NanoManufacturing. The National SCience founda- tech) celebrates the meeting of technology and art, featuring kinetic sculpture, digital video, interactive installa- tion, CIRP, SME. tions, live electronic music, robots, and more. Artists include Jack Bachrach, Nell Breyer, Aaron Edsinger, Jason 10:00 a.m. - AdmIssIons Infonnatlon 5essIon (Followed by the Campus Tour). Admissions Office Information Fiering, Henry Kaufman, Brian Knep, Dan Paluska, Amanda Parkes, Hayes Raffle, John Stedl, and Fran Trainor. Session gathers at the Admissions Reception Center (10-100). Enter MIT at the main entrance, Lobby 7, 77 Part of the 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival. free. Room: Compton Gallery (10-150). Sponsor: Graduate Student Massachusetts Ave (domed building with tall pillars). Proceed down the center corridor to Room 10-100 on the Council, arts and technology. MIT Museum. right. Following the Admissions Information Session is a Student Led Campus Tour which begins in Lobby 7 (main 1:00 p.m. - April Madness 3-on-3 Basketball Toumament. Annual Chocolate City and Black Students' Union entrance lobby) Groups over 15 people need to make special reservations. free. Room: Admissions Reception April Madness 2-Day Basketball Tournament. Final Rounds. free. Room: Rockwell Cage. Sponsor: Black Students' Center, Building 10, Room 10-100. Sponsor: Information Center. Union, Chocolate City. Weekends@MIT. 10:45 a.m. - Campus Tour. Student Led Campus Tours are approximately 90 minutes long and provide a general 2:00 p.m. - Clue: The Musical. Based on the popular board game, CLUE: THE MUSICAL brings the world's best- overview of the main campus. Please note that campus tours do not visit laboratories, living groups or buildings known mystery suspects to life on the stage, and invites the audience to play along to solve a mystery. $10, $8 under construction. Groups over 15 people need to make special reservations. Campus tours start at the conclu- MIT community/other students/seniors, $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Musi- sion of the Admissions Informations Session. The Campus Tour begins in Lobby 7 (Main Entrance Lobby at 77 cal Theatre Guild, MIT. Massachusetts Ave). free. Room: Lobby 7 (Main Entrance Lobby at 77 Massachusetts Ave). Sponsor: Information 3:00 p.m. - MIT Music Faculty Concert: Peter Child 50th Birthday Recital. "Concerti no for Violin and Chamber Center. Winds" (2002) with Dawn Perlner '01, violin; Fred Harris, conductor and MIT students and guests MSonatina for 12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - wrtters Group. New writers are invited to join our weekly Writers Group (sponsored by Oboe" (1986) with Theodore Baskin, oboe; "Bleak Light Four Poems of John Hildebidle" (2001), with David RilT the Writing and Communication Center). Share a piece of your writing with other interested writers. free. Room: ley, baritone and Arlene Kies, piano "Duo for Piano, Four-Hands" (2002) with Evan Hirsch, Sally Pinkas, piano 14N-417. Sponsor: Writing and Communication Center. "Fantasia" a new work for harpsichord performed by Mark Kroll MPrayers from the Ark" (2001) with Sue-Ellen Her- 12:00 p.m. - MITAC Special Event: Tulip, Daffodil Ie Bulb Workshop. Welcome springl With a special noontime shman, flute, Theodore Baskin, oboe, Bruce Creditor, clarinet, Jean Rife, hom and Stephen Walt, bassoon and tulip, daffodil, and bulb workshop hosted by MIT florist Bill Aannery. Leam more about what makes these colorful Alan Brody, narrator. free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section. and spectacular annual blooms a welcome and reliable addition to any New England garden. Space is limited. 3:00 p.m. - BSU General Body MeetIng '5. BSU Nominations for next week's elections followed by Reception. Limit 2 tickets per person with one MIT ID. Pick up tickets in the MITAC Office (50-005) by April 18th. free. Room: free. Room: Student Center (after April Madness). Sponsor: Black Students' Union. Emma Rogers Room, MIT Campus. Sponsor: MITAC. 4:00 p.m. - N.,.,1e Manjunath, Camatlc vIoHn. With Sreemushnam Raja Roo, mridangam. $18, $14 mem- 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - CIPO Friday 5emInar. Matt Haggerty President of Product Genesis will be speaking. bers, $10 students. Room: Wong Auditorium (MIT Tang Center, 2 Amherst St). Sponsor: MITHAS (MIT Heritage of Room: E60-255. Sponsor: Center for Innovation in Product Development. South Asia) in cooperation with Sangam. 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - ExcavatInC Civil War Naval TecMoIoCY: the Hunley 8nd MonItor Projects. John Broad- 6:00 p.m. - Two Towers. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. water, Director of the USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, and Maria Jacobson, conservator for the Confeder- 7:00 p.m •• 10:00 p.m. - Romanian Easter Dinner. Orthodox Easter Dinner featuring traditional Romanian food ate submarine H.L. Hunley, will speak about ongoing effots to conserve these innovative vessels of the Civil War. (cooked by genuine MIT students:). $3 at door. Room: West Dining Room, Ashdown House. Sponsor: Romanian MIT STS Professor David Mindell and STS PhD candidate Brendan Foley will discuss the wider historical context Students Association. of these vessels and Civil War navies. free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: DeepArch. 10:00 p.m. - Catch me If you Can. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Race, Science, Ie Cutture In 20th Century East AsIa Ie AmerIca. The goal of this work- - HeavyweIght Crew vs. Boston College. free. Room: Charles River. Sponsor: Department of Athletics, Physical shop is to explore issues in racial and cultural diversity, with a focus on perspectives on issues of identity and Education and Recreation. cultural change in areas including Chinese history, Japanese history, Asian American history, U.S. history, and the history of science. Workshop is free and open to the public. Rsvp to Kris Kipp ([email protected]) if you would like to Monday, April 28 attend. The workshop takes place at University Park Hotel@ MIT, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, beginning at 1:00 9:15 a.m •• 4:00 p.m. - It' Not Just Google Anymore: BIogs and the Latest In search EngInes. Have you found p.m. on Friday, April 25th, and ending at 2:30 p.m. on saturday, April 26th. free. Room: University Park Hotel @ yourself in a Google rut? Sure, Google is great, but what other tools for finding information on the web are you MIT. Sponsor: History Office, STS. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. missing out on? Our speakers will address the latest developments in search engine technologies and the rapid p.m. - Room: Ubrary 48-409. Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering. 1:02 DUC MeetIng. growth of "blogs," aka weblogs. Also, get Ideas on how you can use blogs to communicate and share information p.m •• p.m. - M ... Friday Weekly congregational prayer for Muslims. People of other faiths 1:10 1:50 1m Prayer. within your own community. $55 ASIS&T Members, $65 Non-Members, $30 Student/Retiree/Between Jobs. welcome to attend. Email [email protected] for more information. free. Room: Wl1-110. Sponsor: Muslim stu- Room: Bartos Theater, El5-070. Sponsor: New England American Society of Information SCience & Technology dents' Association. (NEASISn. 2:00 p.m. - AdmIuIons Information SessIon. free. Room: Admissions Reception Center, Building 10, Room 10- 10:00 a.m. - Admissions information 5essIon. tree. Room: Admissions Reception Center, Building 10, Room 10- 100. Sponsor: Information center. 100. Sponsor: Information Center. 2:45 p.m. - Tour. free. Room: Lobby 7 (Main Entrance Lobby at 77 Massachusetts Ave). Sponsor: Infor- campus 10:45 a.m. - Campus Teu. free. Room: Lobby 7 (Main Entrance Lobby at 77 Massachusetts Ave). Sponsor: mation Center. Information Center. 3:00 p.m •• 4:00 p.m. - The AI8n S. MIchaels ~ LectureshIp In MedIuI .... BIoIoCkaI fICII...:.c. 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Blood Drtve. Come help save lives by donating blood or volunteering to help with our • MAfter the Genome: Systems Biology: free. Room: Bartos Theater in the Media Center E-15. Sponsor: Chemical drivel see our web page for more information or to make an appointment to donate. free. Room: Student Center- Engineering. La Sala de Puerto Rico. Sponsor: American Red Cross Team and Network, Blood Drives. 4:00 p.m •• 5:00 p.m. - PSFC ~. Recent studies of solar coronal structure and dynamics from TRACE. 12:30 p.m •• 2:00 p.m. - HIiItorIcaI PerspectIves on BulIdllC Technoloa: Hot/AIr: Some HIstodc8I QueatIons free. Room: NW17-218. Sponsor: Plasma SCience and Fusion Center. about the Comfort ZonL When a set of indoor thennal norms called the .Comfort Zone" was calculated in 1923, 4:15 p.m •• 5:15 p.m. - $c.-I ... Models of Real-WOItd Networks. Reception 3:30 PM in Room 2-349. free. ~ating and cooling engineers believed they were on the verge of a technological solution to humanity's long Room: Room 2 38. ponsor: Combi atorics seminar. Department of MathematiCs. quest for indoor climates that would be healthier, pleasanter, and more efficient than nature and outmoded shel- 6:00 p.m. - Two Towers. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. ter technologies could provide. What they succeeded in doing was creating new battlegrounds, at home and in 6:00 p.m •• 1:00 a.m. - 5prInc WeeMnd Party •. $-P. free. Room: Sidney-Pacific Graduate Residence. Sponsor: work and public spaces, where one man's shirtsleeve comfort becomes another woman's shivering complaint. Graduate Student Council, Sidney-Pacific House Council. Thermal comfort is both elusive and contentious, forcing us to probe the limits of technological problem-solving. 17:00....m •• 11:59 p..... - MIl AnIme Club: appIWItIce ..... mystic knWIts In modem Tokyo; bumbIInC T..... Historically, it has put into play highlych,arged issues of who, or what, can define and control the bodies of the n8tors a.ck troin the futuIe.. Join us as we show a mixture of brand new and classic works from Japan's fabled Mbody politic .• free. Room: 1-431, AVr. Sponsor: Building Technology. animators. Tonight we'll be showing more of the adventures of apprentice ninja-doofus Naruto; some episodes of 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - W~ ParkInC- paper prototype test of web based parking application. free. X TV (mystic knights and cosmic forces converge on modem-day Tokyo); and more Generator Gawl (three young Room: N42-286. Sponsor: Usability at MIT, Information Systems. men come from the Mure to avert a crisis). Films about giant robots and big hair, but also films about romance, 2:00 p.m. - AdmIuiona Infonn8tIon SeaIon. free. Room: Admissions Reception center, Building 10, Room 10- growing up, and some truly bizarre comedy. free. Room: 6-120. Sponsor: Anime Club, MIT. 100. Sponsor: Information Center. 7:00 p.m •• 12:00 a.m. - Prototype Party. A social for All MIT grad and Undergrad in celebration of inventive pro- 2:00 p.m •• 3:15 p.m. - Center for TheoretIcal Physics - Particle Theory (Research ). "G_2 manifolds: totypes: with top quality food and two live bands with DJ. Creative custumes are more than welcomed. 5$. Room: on dualities and unification." free. Room: Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Roor Seminar Room. Walker Memorial Hall. Sponsor: Architecture Student Coucil. Large Event Funding. Sponsor: Laboratory for Nuclear SCience. 7:30 p.m •• 9:00 p.m. - BIble Study. Is there more to life than grad school? We believe the answer is "YES!." 2:45 p.m. - Campus Teu. free. Room: Lobby 7 (Main Entrance Lobby at 77 Massachusetts Ave). Sponsor. Infor- Come study the word of God with us. There will be dinner provided and games afterward. free. Room: 1-150. mation center. Sponsor: Asian Baptist Student Koinonia Graduate Division. 4:00 p.m •• 6:00 p.m. - "EmereInC MedIa: InncMItIon In OnlIne Newspapers". Program in SCience, Technology, 8:00 p.m. - Clue: The Musical. Based on the popular board game, CLUE: THE MUSICAL brings the world's best- and Society Colloquium. free. Room: E51.Q95. Sponsor: STS. known mystery Suspects to life on the stage, and invites the audience to play along to solve a mystery. $10, $8 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - VIauaI Arts Procram l.actuIe on PublIc Art by GeorIe Baker. free. Room: Rm 1-190. MIT community/other stUdents/seniors, $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Musi- Sponsor: SChool of Architecture and Planning. MIT Visual Arts Program. cal Theatre Guild, MIT. 4:00 p.m •• 5:00 p.m. - CMSE CoIIoquIwn. Title to be announced. free. Room: von Hippel Room, 13-2137. Spon- 8:00 p.m •• 11:30 p.m. - sanc-n MovIes. SCreening of popular movies. Please subscribe to sangam- sor: Center for Materials SCience & Engineering. [email protected]. free. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, Sangam. 4:00 p.m •• 6:00 p.m. - TomorYOW'. 5hIppInc Induatry: FacInC the financial 8nd 0penItJ0n8I ChaIIerCes of New 10:00 p.m. - Two Towers. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. ~. An argument will be presented for the shipping industry to organize itself into a more recognizable indUStry and to deal with the demands of regulators and politicians by being more transparent about ownership satunIay, AprIl 26 and operations. This is particularly important as the shipping industry currently faces the resulting uproar from the 7:30 a.m. - LJeIrtweIaht C... vs. R1ftCers University. free. Room: Charles River. Sponsor: Department of Athlet- Prestige as well as concerns from financiers and investors. free. Room: ~314 (OE Conference Room). Sponsor: ics, Physical Education and Recreation. 13SEAS. 8:00 a.m •• 9:00 p.m. - Am Intemational Syrnpoalum on NanoM8nufacturI see registration details. Room: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Mechanics 5eIM1ar. "ContInuum description of profile In nanostrueture decay." The Hotel @ Mil. Sponsor: First Intemational Symposium on NanoManufacturing. The National SCience Founda- Abstract TBA. free. Room: 3-370. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering Dept. tion, CIRP, SME. 4:00 p.m •• 5:00 p.m. - -...... tor products on .yrnpIectIc F10er cohomoaogy." free. Room: 2-143. Sponsor: Dif- 9:00 a.m. - Women'. C... vs. Boston ~ Ie URI (LWT). free. Room: Charles River. Sponsor: Department of ferential Geometry Seminar. Department of Mathematics. Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation. 4:15 p.m •• 5:15 p.m. - NucIMr .... p.ucle PIIysIcs CoIIoqukn. "Results from Kamioka." free. Room: Kolker 12:00 p.m. - AprIl M-... 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament. Annual Chocolate City and Black Students' Union Room, 26414. Sponsor: Laboratory for Nuclear SCience. April Madness 2-Day Basketball Toumament. Free for MIT affiliates with ID and all fans. Room: DuPont. Sponsor: 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - DeMe Granut. Row. Reception at 3:30 PM in Room 2-349. free. Room: Room 2-105. Black Students' Union, Chocolate City. Weekends@MIT. Sponsor: Real World CollOQuium. Department of Mathematics. 4:30 p.m •• 1:00 a.m. - TMRC BuIld TIme. These are our normal meetings, where we build the layout. free. 5:00 p.m •• 7:00 p.m. - L88T ...... Group DInner MeetInC. Issues Group meetings are open to any member of Room: N52-118. Sponsor: Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC). the MIT community interested in helping create an LBGT-friendly environment. As the last meeting of the year, we 7:00 p.m. - Catch me If yoU can. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. will discuss priorities for 2003-04. Dinner provided - please RSVP to [email protected]. free. Room: West Lounge 7:00 p.m •• 1:00 a.m. - SAlSA Y SABOR III. Salsa DANCE PARTY and Showcase. Featuring New York's SANTO (2nd floor, Student Center). Sponsor: Ibgt@MIT. RICO DANCE COMPANY!! and local talent from Salsa Y Control Dance Co., Hacha Y Machete Dance Co., and the 5:30 p.m •• 7:30 p.m. - "Brotherly Love": The SafavId Household 8nd the Index of 8eIonCJng. free. Room: 3- MIT Casino Rueda Group. Beginners SALSA LESSON 7-8. DANCING 8-1 with DJ HERNAN spinning the BEST salsa 133. Sponsor: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. for dancersll free with MIT ID, Non-MIT $5 before 9 PM, $10 after 9 PM. Room: La Sala de Puerto Rico. Sponsor: 6:00 p.m •• 7:30 p.m. - Stock Market Reculatlon: the drtve towards a Eul"OfMNWlSEC? In September 2002, Mr MIT Casino Rueda Group. weekends@mit, The MIT Fund. Nicolas Veron created ECIF (Etudes et Conseil pour !'Information Financi~re), an independent consultancy dedicat- 7:00 p.m. - Toy Symphony US PremIere. Written by MIT professor and composer/inventor Tod Machover ~nd cre- ed to financial information issues. Mr Veron was formerly CFO, Multimania (later Lycos France) and has been a ated by his team at the MIT Media Lab, this radical model introduces kids to musical expression and creativity Senior Advisor for Corporate Matters to the French Minister of Labor and Deputy Prime Minister. Talk hosted by using high-tech Music Toys they designed, including Beatbugs, Music Shapers, Hyperviolin and Hyperscore. Per- Professor Peter Wysocki, Sloan SChool of Management. free. Room: E51-361. Sponsor: MIT France Program. formed by BMOP, PALS Children's Chorus, children of Boston, and Cora Venus Lunny in gala opening event of the 6:00 p.m •• 7:00 p.m. - ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND VENTURE CAPITAL "What a Lone StJw1ge Trip It'. Been." 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival. Concert preceded by Open House with hands-on demonstrations of Toy Sympho- It's good to have plans, but one never knows what opportunities life will dish up. Engineer, entrepreneur, journal- ny technologies- 5:30-7pm, Kresge Lobby. Interactive reception in Kresge Lobby follows concert. free but tickets ist, and venture capitalist, Bill Frezza, MIT '76, will discuss his experiences in the real world (so far) and the role required. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Media Lab. that education, ambition, friends, and luck play in molding of one's career. Biographical sketch of William Frezza: 7:30 p.m •• 12:00 a.m. - Jurassic 5 with Ok Go. Spring Weekend Concert featuring Jurassic 5 with Ok Go!! TIck- Bill is a general partner of Adams Capital Management, Inc., a national venture capital firm with offices in Austin, ets are $8 for MIT Community; $10 for College Students from Boston Area SChools. College ID required at the Boston, Palo Alto, and Pittsburgh. Adams Capital manages $700 million and invests in first-stage semiconduc- door, no exceptions. Please go to the Spring Weekend Website for admission information. No bags or cameras tor, telecommunications, and information technology companies. Before joining Adams, Bill was president of allowed in the venue. Thank you!. $8 MIT Community; $10 Select Boston SChools (see website for list of Wireless Computing Associates. Prior to founding Wireless Computing, Bill was director of marketing and busi- schools). Room: Johnson Auditorium. Sponsor: Student Life Programs. ness development at Ericsson, Inc. Bill has held engineering and product management positions at General 8:00 p.m. - Clue: The MusIcal. Based on the popular board game, CLUE: THE MUSICAL brings the world's best- Instrument Corp. and Bell Laboratories and has been involved in several start"p ventures. Bill obtained his BSEE known mystery suspects to life on the stage, and invites the audience to play along to solve a mystery. $10, $8 and MSEE, along with a BS in Biology, from M.I.T. He holds seven patents and serves on several private company MIT community/other students/seniors, $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Room: Kresge little Theater. Sponsor. Musi- boards. free. Room: 6-120. Sponsor: SCience and Engineering Business Club, MITEntrepreneurshipCenter, Sloan cal Theatre Guild, Mil. Engineering and Business Club. 8:00 p.m •• 11:30 p.m. - sancam MovIe SpecIal. Movie SCreenings. Emails are typically sent out if you subscribe 7:00 p.m •• 9:00 p.m. - "My Low-Tech Art." Talk by Cai Guo-Qiang, Artist-in-Residence. free. Room: Rm 10-250. to [email protected]. free. Room: 2-105. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, Sangam. Sponsor: Office of the Arts--tda Ely Rubin Fund. 8:00 p.m •• 11:00 p.m. - Patrol. Travel to strange new classrooms. Meet interesting, unusual people, and kill 9:00 p.m •• 1:00 a.m. - Trhte NI&ht at the 1Nnty Ear. Every Monday is Trivia Night. Bring a team and compete theml Patrol is a high-action game of live combat with rubber-dart guns. Shoot your friends, then watch out as for great prizes like DVDs, CDs, sports tickets, movie passes, and MOREll The Thirsty Ear Pub is located in the they try to take their revenge. free. Room: 36-115. Sponsor: Assassins' Guild, MIT. basement of Ashdown House. Enter through the courtyard. Free. Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: Graduate 10:30 p.m. - e.tch me If you can. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. Student Council, The Thirsty Ear Pub. Page20 THE TECH pril 25, 2003 First Issue for Prometheus, ew Monthly Newspaper By Frank Dabek Prometheus becau e its "scope is tising. STAFF REPORTER narrow .... The Tech has to cater to Emily E. Cofer '04, the presi- Prometheus, a new monthly a lot of people" she aid. dent of DormCon, said that the newspaper on campus, published it Prometheus will publish once a council gave about 250 to chnei- first issue yesterday. month including issues in May and der to publish the first issue. Scott D. Schneider '00, the edi- August. DormCon felt that the "focus of From the tor in chief of Prometheus, said that the paper is ... relevant to all dorm akers of he created the paper to highlight the recognition not forthcoming members," Cofer said. Cofer said culture of "responsibility and free- Although Prometheus has pub- that DormCon is not likely to fund Orientation dom" that exists at MIT. lished its first issue, it has yet to future issues of Prometheus once 2002 ••• The official position of the paper obtain recognition from the Associ- the group obtains A A recogni- Re ldeuce eI don report will be to promote that culture. ation of tudent Activities as an tion. ge it balf ri bt. 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IIIkblI.lL.AI_~_ =...~~-::::.~c:': ...*-"" ...... ,..~,.....a.-.-.. -..- ...... -.-...... c..-.._,....=~r:n~=:-:~~ Prometheus' "Issue 0," featuring front-page articles on the Resi- dence System Implementation Team's February report and the use of propaganda leaflets In the war In Iraq, appeared on MIT news- stands yesterday. MIT's only newspaper with footnotes Is available on the Web at http://web.m/f.edu/prometheus/www. What have I gotten myself into? Life at Mil can be overwhelming but it doesn't have to be. Connect with us and we'll help you find the balance you want in your life. Make an appointment. It's free. Appointments scheduled promptly, including evenings. Weekday 2-4 pm walk-in hours for urgent care. 24-hour emergency care. Mental Health Service http://web.mit.edu/medical/service/menthlth.htm 617..253.2916 It's smart to reach out. ~ Ifttttl MIT Medical April 25, 2003 THE TECH Page 21 MIT Students More Satisfied with Dining, Athletics Survey, from Page 1 been no change. ments," Redwine said. Snover said that they also added MIT to reduce the number of surveys least one occasion over the previous Robert P. Redwine, dean for MIT -specific questions about topics given to students. two weeks. undergraduate education, said that it urve 100 at all a pee of lifi such as the Undergraduate Research The survey was not administered Sixty-nine percent of students is understandable that students may The undergraduate survey ques- Opportunities Program and environ- to find specific problems at MIT to who responded said that they spend be frustrated, but that it is unlikely tioned students on all aspects of mental conservation measures at change, Snover said. 16 or more hours per week on home- that a foreign language requirement undergraduate life, including class- MIT. "They're not going to reduce work. Fifty-nine percent of respon- would be instituted. room experience, faculty interaction, Snover said that she tried to gath- your homework on the basis of this dents said that they spend between 'The balance we've always faced interracial interactions, and academic er survey questions from many dif- survey," she said. "We don't go into five and 15 hours per week socializ- is not to have too many require- experiences. ferent offices and departments at this with an agenda." ing. The purpose of the survey was Fifty-five percent of respondents Undergraduate Satisfaction (mean scores) ''to understand what [undergraduate] said that they spend between zero 4,..------..,-----.,.------,------..,---..,------,------, life is about" and to determine and four hours per week partying, ''whether we're meeting their needs and 26 percent devote no time to par- and expectations," Snover said. tying each week. Of the 4,066 registered under- graduates, 43 percent responded to Dining better, language worse the survey, Only 25 percent of seniors said "For MIT, [the response rate] is they were "very dissatisfied" with great," said Gregory A. Harris, the MIT's food services this year, com- provost's office's data analyst. pared with 45 percent of seniors last As a reward for filling out the year, when almost all food on cam- survey, 197 students were randomly pus came from Aramark Corp. chosen to receive a 25 gift certifi- Snover said that at most schools, cate for Amazon.com, TechCASH, food services are poorly rated by stu- or the Coop. Additionally, five of dents. these students were chosen to have a "We've made significant tour of the Stata Center construction progress," said Richard D. Berlin ill, site and eight were chosen to have the director of campus dining. "I'm lunch with Chancellor Phillip L. very encouraged by the progress that Classrooms Library facilities Athletic Food Student health Student Student Clay PhD '75 and Redwine. we're making." facilities services services housing housing office, MIT was one of several schools facilities services Berlin said that the next year will to run the survey, developed by the bring a new dining facility in the .2002 Senior Survey Consortium on the Financing of .2003 Enrolled Student Surve senior re~=se=s cc.::.LL_----' Stata Center, the new computer sci- Higher Education. The consortium is ence building. He said that he hopes made up of 31 universities including • this will improve dining options on This graph compares the results of the 2002 senior survey to the responses of seniors to MIT, Harvard University, Wellesley the east side of campus. the 2003 enrolled student survey in March. Students were asked about their level of satis- College, Northwestern University, Thirty-nine percent of respon- faction with various university services and facilities. Students ranked their satisfaction on and Bryn Mawr College. The pur- pose of the consortium is to conduct dents said that their foreign language a scale of one (very dissatisfied) to four (very satisfied). The mean score for each entry is skills have weakened since they first research on institutional and academ- shown. ic policies and other topics that are of arrived at college and 35 percent of SOURCE: PROVOST'S OFFICE the respondents said that there has interest to the member universities. N 16HTL I NE DEF TUU TUU OPER OPER I GHTL I E Yom Hashoah • April 29, 2003 • 27 Nisan 5763 What they gave wasn't money. It was time. Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day for the MIT Community They volunteered their skills to people who needed help doing their taxes. And it made them feel great. Presented by MIT Hillel They weren't necessarily accountants. They were people, like you and your club or group members, who have a basic aptitude for math and a desire to help others. You know, you can help make someone's tax season less taxing. And you'll be amazed by the return you'll get from helping people with what taxes them. To find out about the free IRS training program that will teach you '1'1 '1'J and your organization the ins a...o...-...I A Public 5eMce oC rm it--.- and outs of preparing taxes, TWs Publication & 1 _ .... call 1-800-424-1040 now. .... Fro eneration t era .0 This space donated by The Tech Tuesday, April 29 M X T.....------I e JO u as we commemorate the Holocau t in a eflection and hope. Dora oreH, author and locau t survivor, will speak about her experiences rviving the Nazi death camps, and will explain the MeaLinks impor ance of passing her story on to different generations, Students Promoting Health at Mil including her granddaughter (MIT '04). Find Jour nearest link at Photo exhibit 10 am-3 pm Lobby 10 Memorial Service 5pm MIT Chapel • and Reflections from Holocaust survivor. Vegetarian Dora Sorell Supported by Finboard, Grad Student Council, and Jewish Student FOOD FAIR Projects of Greater Boston. Monday April 28, 2003 Monday, April 28 at 9:00 pm Film screening of Tibor Jankay - The Art of Survival 11 :30am 1:30pm Sidney & Pacific Seminar Room Thursday, May 1 at 9:00 pm Film screening of Sophie's Choice Walker Dining, Building 50, First Floor Sidney & Pacific Seminar Room Page 22 THE TECH April 25, 2003 Who done 1t? Where? and ith what? THE MUSICAL IIABll:D UPOIf 'I'D PAUD UO'!'BD lIClUD Q.UIII Book by Music by Lyrics by Peter DePietro Galen Blun Tom Chiodo Wayne Barker Vinnie artucci ~SGE LITTLE THEATER h to April 25 and 26 and May 1, 2, and 3 $6 McrT/Wellesley students at 8 pm. $8 KIT Community, Seniors, Students $9 General community April 27 at 2 pm. in Kresge Little Theater For tickets and informatioD: 617-253-6294 or _tg-ticket.e.dt.edu or http://www.Ddt.edu/_tg I pril 25, 2003 THE TECH Page 23 Parking Office to Run Project Shuttletrack, from Page 1 interface with this project." may have other uses.' huttletrack the site works on different browsers The MIT parking and transporta- also creates a lot of data that may be and platforms," he said. tion office has plans to maintain the used for transportation research pro- huttletrack project. jects," he said. Shuttletrack ready for next year 'It will be put on our We site," As the Tech huttle and The Shuttletrack designers said said Lawrence R. Brutti, the opera- afeRide are subject to the local Go that they look forward to seeing the tions manager for parking and trans- weather and traffic conditions, pos- project continue after they gradu- portation. Brutti said that MIT will sible ideas for using the data include ate. take over maintenance and further tracking when and why the shuttles 'We're hoping for a sustainable improvement of the project some- do not always arrive at their stops model, so that the project will con- time in the next year. on time. Tickets Almost tinue in the future," Sriram said. "It will be a valuable tool for Sriram said that Shuttletrack "We hope students who are interest- SafeRide and Tech Shuttle users," could provide interesting data that ed take on the project, fine-tune it, he said. may be useful in understanding dif- and add more creative ideas that Sri ram said that Shuttletrack ferent transportation patterns. Sold Out! April 26, 2003 Doors at 7:30 p.m. Johnson Athletics Center, MIT Tickets are $8 for MIT and available at The Source in the Student Center WENDY GU-THE TECH Students can now monitor the location of SafeR Ide vans using the online shuttleTrack, which uses a GPS system to track the vans. You can take ~photos for The Tech! Just come to a photo meeting, 6 p.m. Sundays, W20-483. No experience necessary. Friday, April 25 Kresge Auditorium Show starts @ 8PM Doors open at 7:30PM ~OA.I . ..-. '., y/ ~ Admission: $5 ..'1-17'/ ~_ • All proceeds benefit The M~owell Colony & Bridge Over Troubled Waters. Spvns()r-ed bY Alp-ha £hi ()lDeaa. L .. e I:vent r:undlnll. ~ ~p ..inll Weekend. age24 THE C April 25, 2003 MIT' s Christian Dance Group, presents: or Lm ,. 1_ .._ J. --+-_ _ A night of praise and,worship .to our Lord through.dance This Friday, April 25,2003 ., MacGregor Multipurpose Room , (next to the convenience store). 6:00 - 8:00 pm FREE' Refreshments will be provided sponsored by VA Finboard I t'hhr' j r ~'" -('~ ~q April 25, 2003 THE TECH Page 25 Amount of Crowding Still Unclear for Fall Crowding, from Page 1 overcrowded rooms next year, depending on th size of th crowded combination of the construction of rooms and the freshman clas siz . Simmons, the Senior Segue program, Twenty-fi e undergraduates have and the redesignation of some histori- yet to complete the online hou ing cally crowded rooms as 'traditional confirmation form. crowds." Benedict said that he and others enior Seque ha mixed r oIt successfully discouraged the Enroll- allay said that although 105 ment Management Group, headed by juniors ha e applied for enior Dean for Undergraduate Education eque, some of the graduate dormito- Robert P. Redwine, from aiming for a ries were oversubscribed and that not 2006 freshman class of 1040 to 1050. all of the students may be able to be The class size is expected to be closer moved into graduate housing. to 1000. "A lot more people applied for Benedict also discussed other Sidney-Pacific and NW30, so not options, such as accepting fewer everyone got it," she said. 'We sent DMlTRY PORTNYAGfN -THE TECH freshman from the admissions wait- e-mails to ask [those who did not Nicolas Mellhan G tackles a member of the Old Gold Rugby Club at a match on Briggs Field. Mil .ing list, for alleviating crowding. receive their pick] if they would con- caught up from behind and surged ahead after blocking a kick to win 25-10 over Old Gold . "My biggest concern," Benedict sider Ashdown or Tang." said, "is a year from now with the fall [fraternity, sorori~, and independent living group] recruiting. Hence, it is important that there is a successful FSILG recruitment period next fall • and spring." umbers still Subject to change 30 minutes of c I chat The numbers for on-campus hous- ing have inched closer to [mal, but still have a ways to go. The sum of dormitory residents who have indicated they will not stay in undergraduate housing (785 or gets you free pizza. 761) the number of juniors who have applied for Senior Seque (105) and the number of currently vacant rooms Volunteer at the MITICambridge Science Expo! Talk to junior high kids (80) leads to a prediction that roughly 50 to 150 students will be housed in about their science.projects. 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S1425.00-S1575.oo http://web.mit.edu/bsuiwww Integrated Real Estate 705 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02141 [email protected] I."\m n' -Page 26 WyliE .....CD Ho DoYou easure the Gro of A Child? 1\\70 ed Robberies Near MIT Arrest, from Page I with MlT, reported that 60 in cash about the occurrence, but could not nfort\lJlatelY for dtm and a credit card were tolen from recall any organized effort to infonn U living in some of the poorest COUDtJ'ies in the- policy has since lap ed. him by a white male, approximately the residents of it. world, it tak more than Graham, the EC house manager, 5 feet 10 inches and 200 pounds f1lding on • wall. said that an effort is being made to with scruffy facial hair. The Armed robbery of MIT students CIliIdreacl\. ODe of ensure that entries remain locked, assailant wore black pants, a denim Most recently, a second armed the 0 child sponaorship • and that the dorm staff is "keeping jacket, and a red hat. robbery occurred in the MlT area. organizatioos. an eye out" for suspicious activity. The robber approached the vic- Two MIT students, who were not growth by the ownbeY" of ~ Th for EC Vice-President Emily E. tim asking for a "donation" and then initially identified, were walking dean waicr. and self-help Cofer '04 said that although "a few produced a knife, the police said. down State Street near the MIT programs we build in Museum early yesterday morning, plU1ilclsbip with the proud people have concerns," the majority The incident occurred in the alley CamiIies and ()OITIIQUDities of East Campus residents do not between Bexley Hall and the Stu- the MlT Police said in a bulletin, wbcle our sponsared seem to be disturbed by the occur- dent Center plaza, where the victim when two men, one of whom was c:hildtenlive. was sitting in his parked car. carrying a handgun, approached the Childrcacb is not a rence. quiet fix or a handout. Mateusz K. Malinowski '04, the o suspect has been named, but victims from behind and demanded h is child spollSlmbip EC president, wrote in an e-mail that MlT Police said they are working their property. at its be$l:--4 caring. colJliJllling tdatioo 'p residents were generally ''unphased closely with the Cambridge Police The robbers took credit cards, 1bat leads to meisurable. by the arrest." Residents joked about Department to develop possible sus- $40 in cash and a laptop, the bulletin pI'OgJ'llSS over time. the incident at a house meeting pects. said They were described as a black So ",,'hen yOU become a Cbildreach spomor and recei e pictures and leners Wednesday night. Bexley residents seemed even male, 18 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches thAt speak of hope., you 'U kno less concerned about the knifepoint and 165 pounds, wearing a grey !hat yuu have: hclped to a real Armed Bexley suspect still at large robbery than EC residents were hooded sweatshirt and black pants; differax;e in the lives of a needy child, family. and community overseas. At 11:38 a.m. on April 19, the about the arrest. and a second black male, also 18 MIT Police received a report of a Many Bexley residents were years of age, 5 feet 6 inches, 140 daylight robbery with a knife that unaware that the incident had hap- pounds, wearing dark baggy clothes Driscoll said was ''very unusual." pened. Bexley desk worker Leslie A. and possible also wearing a hooded Royal Bengal (India) The victim, who is not affiliated Robinson '04 said she had heard sweatshirt. Boston's only authentic Bengali Cuisine restaurant You can e-mail [email protected] 313 Mass. 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Vassar Streetscape Trees removed as part of the new security/landscape enhancement project near Buildings 39, 13,31, and 24 will be replaced with new trees as well as added landscaping, irrigation, teak benches, new lighting, and side- TIE FRST SPRING BREAK walks. Pedestrian traffic has been moved next to Building 38 to allow for I I construction of new sidewalks near Vassar Street. Work is underway on REALITY MOVE! the north side of the street. All major crosswalks and driveways are accessible; crosswalks will occasionally shift as work progresses. NO SCRIPTS. NO ACTORS. Brain and cognitive sciences project Demolition of Building 45 is scheduled to begin the week of April 28. NO RULE5. Driving of test piles will take place Saturday, April 26, through Monday, April 28. Installation of trailers between Building 44 and the railroad is in progress. Fencing of the construction site will begin soon. Removal of an abandoned steam pile from the Vassar Street sidewalk will begin soon and continue for two weeks. MDC Memorial Drive Rehabilitation Project The MDC will hold a public meeting on Thursday, May 1, at 7 p.m. in the FROM THE PRODUCERS OF THE REAL WORLD Brown living room at McCormick Hall to discuss the proposed landscape design of the park area that is part of this project. Work on roadway drainage reconstruction will take place through April 25. For information on MIT's bUilding program, see http://web.mit.edulevolvlng This information provided by the MIT Department of Facilities. / April 25, 2003 SPORTS THE TECH Page 27 Look for Unexpected Taekwondo Wins in Manhattan bert '03, Whitfield) advanced past of growth and accomplishments, two rounds before meeting YU taking first place at five of the six In Fantasy Baseball ::o:~~:o:n:~:::hUPand B 1 in the fmals to fmish in second league tournaments, and placing Janowicz, from Page 28 sive at the plate. Honorable mention: faced a larger experienced oppo- place. The women's B teams fol- Park and Sinn on the 2003 INCTL Carlos Lee of the Chicago White Sox. nent. The score remained close at lowed the men with the B2 (Lien, All-Star Team. some winning streaks. Pitching: Pedro Martinez of the 2-2 for most of the match, until Kim, Dean) and B1 (Baochi T. The team continues to train Boston Red Sox. Pedro is back. Sinn kicked out of the clinch to guyen G, LeCocq, Cho) teams hard and hopes to gain recognition Fantasy Report The past week, he has two wins and take the match in the fmal seconds that each advanced to the semifi- as an official club sport to repre- Now it's time to take a little look 11 strikeouts with a 0.00 ERA and a with a score of 3-2, giving the nals to finish in third place. sent MIT next year. Park and Sinn into the world of fantasy baseball. 1.00 WHIP, or (Walks + men the gold. The win adds to the continuing will travel to Kansas City, Mis- As a fantasy owner who drafted Hits)/(Innings Pitched). ow that Picking up the momentum from success of the Sport Taekwondo souri on May 3 for the Collegiate Milton Bradley, Dave Roberts, Raul he has run support, he'll become the the black belts, the men's beginner Club, the first team in the history ational Team Trials that will Ibanez, Mike Sweeney, Jose Vidro, Pedro of old. Honorable mention: and intermediate teams advanced of the I CTL to snap Cornell's determine the US Team to the and Scott Rolen, I know what it's Jorge Julio of the Baltimore Orioles. the medal count as well. undefeated streak. This victory World University Games this sum- like to t~ke risks. (What kind of Utility: Dave Roberts of the Los The women's beginners teams brought to a close an amazing year mer in Daegu, South Korea. team named MIT Tony Batistas Angeles Dodgers. I've said it before, proved to be dominant in their doesn't have Tony Batista?!) Some and I'll say it again. This guy is the division, as the C1 team (Alicia Y. owners might be disappointed that best lead-off man in the league. The Zhou '06, LeCocq, Dean) Pat Burrell and Bobby Abreu aren't past week alone, he is batting .476 advanced past one round to the producing anything as of late, but with six stolen bases. He just needs semifinals, where they were really, what kind of manager would Lo Duca to start hitting the ball in defeated by YU to take the have these guys on his team? order to pick up the Dodger offense. bronze. On the other side of the With Randy Johnson on the DL Honorable mention: Nomar Garcia- bracket, the C2 team (Lee, Kim, and Curt Schilling recovering from parra of the Boston Red Sox (game- Yu) defeated Columbia and Buffa- an appendectomy, top pitchers are winning home run, spinning play to 10 before meeting YU in the hard to come by. For those short rob Eric Hinske of an extra-base hit, finals to take the silver. The men's term solutions, I'd recommend and beat out a double play to spark a C1 team (Kam, Terry Y. Koo '03, Runelvys Hernandez (if you don't big Red Sox inning last Sunday). Petaj isto) moved through the have him already), Ricardo Boner of the Week: Danys Baez brackets against Columbia and Rodriguez, or Josh Beckett to fill the of the Cleveland Indians. Sigh ... Cornell to fmish the day in second short term hole. I'd keep Beltran What can I say? You have bad place, behind the undefeated Har- benched for a week until he gets his weeks sometimes. Sometimes, you vard C 1 team. swing back. Also, rising stars right just have to give up five runs in the As always, the strength of the now are Ramon Hernandez, Paul Lo bottom of the ninth without getting intermediate teams could not be • Duca, Karim Garcia, and Travis an out. Sometimes you let Mike matched, as both the men's and Hafner, so watch for those guys. Cameron hit a walk-off grand slam. women's B teams dominated their Crazy things have happened so This week, Baez has 0 K's, with a brackets. Despite being a two-man far this season, so look for more 23.63 ERA and a 3.75 WHIP. team, the men's B2 team (Kam, unexpected stats to pop up. Bounce back, please. My fantasy Petajisto) advanced with quick team and my Indians need you. footwork from Kam and two Jano awards Honorable mentions: Armando knockouts from Petajisto, whose Batting: Carl Everett of the Texas Benitez (perpetual winner) of the matches against Buffalo Bland REGINA CHEUN THE TECH Rangers. Despite getting clocked with New York Mets and Jim Reynolds, NYU B 1 only lasted a total of 20 Christina S. Park G spars with an opponent at the final Ivy/North- a cell phone from the stands, Everett first base umpire who said that Roy seconds. Lacking a heavyweight, east Collegiate League tournament. The Sport Taekwondo Club homered in five straight games. He Halladay didn't step on first base, they were stopped in the semi- placed first at the tournament and overall for the year, snatching batted .429 with 7 runs, 6 RBIs, and when everyone else at Fenway saw fmals and fmished in third place. the League cup from Cornell. one stolen base. He may be explosive him slide his foot across the whole On the other side of the brack- in the clubhouse, but he's also explo- bag. et, the B1 team (Ren, Joshua Neu- MIT's Interruption By Elk: Rosenblatt 'PORTS COLUMNIST Few would argue against Michael Jordan being the best basketball player of all time. His records are stunning, he led a team to 6 champi- onships, his great performances are beautiful to watch, he defmed clutch. He has the will, the talent, the heart, IT l mn the cool nickname. 1I0 U He did not only do a lot for the Bulls but also for basketball, bringing so much atten- tion to it that kids in Europe all had Bulls caps and jerseys in the 90's. I once heard that "Jordan' was the most recognizable name in the world. True or not, Jordan is a legend. Wizards home games have ne er been so crowded and Wizards away tickets are the most sought after in the • league. Everyone wants to see him, bear him, wear him, be him. When Jordan came back to basketball a couple years ago to play for the Wizards he made it very clear to everyone that we was coming back to help other players and his team succeed. He would be a teacher and a MELANIE MICHAUX -THE TECH mentor. At the time my prediction was that Mike would embarrass him- Cheryl A. Texln '06 bunts and heads down the first base line In Saturday's double header self on the comt, up against all the young guns of the league like Kobe against Clark University. and AI, but would lp his team an enormous amount inpreparation for the future. What I see now, after two years, is the complete opposite. Jordan has been putting up the nmnbers that still rank him as one of the top players in the game while his team isn't in the playoffs and perhaps worse off mentally, and certainly publicly, than when he joined. One of the problems is that no one questions His Airness. Through- out the season Mike was criticizing his teammates openly (while often complimenting himself, something you never used to see). At one point he did it after almost every game of the week. When they won, 'every- one was playing hard." When they lost, "he was playing hard." All of his teammates were put on the defensive as the media ques- tioned them and there was little they could do about it. After all, they could never say Jordan was wrong. Instead, they were all made to look like untalented, unmotivated slackers and as a result did even worse on the court. Imagine what it was like playing with Mike on your team. One of Jordan's qualms was that no one was ready to take the big shot on his team. But how could they be ready with Jordan next to them? Everyone in the world wanted to see Jordan take the big shot and sink it. The All- Star game was a joke this year for this reason. Every play at the end was drawn to have Mike shoot to win the game. With everyone wanting to see Mike hit the big shots why would a player want to take them? Miss or make you stole it from the great one. Jordan's '23" was recently retired in Miami. Many people are now saying that this should be done in all NBA arenas. To me, these teams are just trying to bring attention to themselves by using Jordan. It would not be honoring Jordan but honoring themselves - by association with Jordan - to retire his number. Jordan always being booed in Madison Square Garden is more of an honor than getting his jersey placed on the rafters in Miami. Let Jordan be remembered for his glory days and as one of the great- est athletes of all time. But also let Jordan understand that what he did to AARON D. MIHALIK-THE TECH his team was anything but constructive and that he too can leam from • Michael J. Houlihan (left) and Michael S. Broderick vie for the puck during an Underwater Hockey others (Ihave never seen TMac or K.Gcomplain about their teams, who scrimmage on Tuesday. The SCUBA Club holds the Underwater Hockey scrimmages every Tues- are posslbly worse and are in the playoffs). And leave "23" to the day from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Zeslger Sports and fitness Center. . BuDs. Page 28 THE TECH pri125,2003 SPORTS e Epidem"c He enbrand, omar, Monster Continues Figure in Weekend Jays Series By Phil Janowicz :PORTS COLV. /ST I b lie e that epidemic I was referring to la t week has decided to infect clo ers now. Cliff Politte ga e up a walk-off homer to home- town hero omar Garciaparra. ike acDougal got roughed up against Minne ota - did he remind anyone ei e of Rick aughn? Kazuhiro asaki and Golu m n Danys Baez got rocked in turn on Tue day in the ame game. rrnando Benitez ... well, he was himself being sure to blow his fourth a e this year and also gi ing up a run hen he recorded hi lone a e this week. Rocky Biddle ga e up six in a relief appearance against the Braves. Poor att Anderson has only had one opportunity to save a game this year, but has converted it. Keith Foulke blew the ave Tuesday. Perhaps a clos T by committee should be instated with more teams because it seems that some hitters ha e the e closer figured out. But no matter what Eric Gagne is till unbeatable. The Red So are doing quite well winning eight of nine, includ- ing a heroic alk -off horne run by omar Garciaparra on unday. Pedro has bounced back well from his opening day shellacking. Kevin MiJlar hasn't produced the same numbers he did earlier in the season, but he's learning how to hit in the five spot in the lineup. Also, the committee is learning how to function properly and will hope not to fall below the Mendoza line. EJ ewhere, the Royals continue to dominate the AL with hot hit- ANDREW C. THOMA THE TECH ting, but most of all with great pitching. Jeremy Affeldt is on the DL Shea Hillenbrand hits a double down the left field line In the Patriot's Day game against the Toronto with blisters, but now Carlos Beltran is back in the lineup. Although Blue Jays. The Red Sox were unable to complete a sweep of the visiting Jays, who won 11-6. he hasn't produced anything, he needs time to get his swing back. In the NL, the Expos blanked the Diamondbacks in their home Andrew C. Thomas Neither the team nor the crowd Chris Woodward drilled a pitch into opener in Montreal. The D-backs participated in their fourth home OPINION ED/TOR would quit, though, as the Sox the Monster seats with a man on to opener this season and dropped to 1-3. 36,879 fans watched Jose Last weekend's series against the slowly climbed their way back to a bring the score to 7-0, making him Vidro for 3 for 4 with a triple shy of the cycle. Torno Ohka pitched a Blue Jays showed that baseball at tie, when Nomar Garciaparra the only non-superstar in recent great game to allow these Expos to keep their winning ways. Fenway Park is many things: excit- delighted the crowd with a walkoff memory to have his home run Look out in the NL West for the Padres. On Wednesday, Adam ing, mercurial, and in desperate home run into the newly christened cheered at an enemy ballpark. Eaton, making his return after Tommy john surgery, pitched seven need of change. Green Monster seats to win the By the end, the bullpen by com- innings and gave up five hits and two walks and struck out twelve Cubs The weekend opened up with game 6-5. mittee couldn't hold things together to outlast Kerry Wood. Even without Trevor Hoffman, the Padre the Red Sox twice routing the Jays The seats, priced modestly at for a Red Sox comeback, which at pitching staff is shaping up to be a high-class staff. They also have the 7-3 and 7-2. With all the momentum $50 a pop, give a great view of the one point brought the score to 9-6. offense to back-up these guys. Look for the Padres and Dodgers to get going into Sunday's game, it was a infield; only those in the front row, After starter Burkett's shellacking surprise when the Blue Jays though, can see left and center field of 7 runs in less than 3 innings, Janowicz, Page 27 shocked the crowd by taking a 5-0 with a minimum of obstruction. Steve Woodard allowed 2 in long lead on starting southpaw Casey They do make the building seem relief, including another Monster Fossum. more complete. At the very least, 'shbt by Vernon Wells. Backup utili- we can now see the wave go all the ty man Dave Berg and catcher Greg way around the park without i.1~ter- Myers each hit long shots off ruption. Ramiro Mendoza and Brandon Monday's game was scheduled Lyol). _' ,~1I 1 • ..~ to begin at 11:05 am, to accomodate . Notab e in both games was the the horrendous scheduling difficulty excellent play of Shea Hillenbrand at of the running of the Boston third base. Nomar was rewarded with Marathon, whose final leg down Monday off, after the game-winning Commonwealth Avenue was two home run and excellent defensive blocks from the game. play on Sunday. He was seen in the To signal the beginning of the on-deck circle in the eighth on Mon- marathon, a pair of F-15 fighter jets day during a threatening offensive looped overhead in formation, but didn't see the inning last long which drew immense applause from enough for him to come to bat. the sellout crowd at Fenway. The Manny Ramirez went 4-for-5 Mon- gesture didn't help the team; as the day, though only managed to score flyby happened, Blue Jays shortstop once and drove none in. Sport Taekwondo Wms Big At Northeast Tournament By Christina Park Grace P. Tan '03 and Margaret H. TEAM CAPTAIN Cho '04 repeated their perfor- On Saturday, April 12th, the mance from Yale and took 1st and Sport Taekwondo Club sent a 35 2nd in the women's red belt divi- member team to New York for the sion, while George C. Whitfield final Ivy/Northeast Collegiate '03 took the silver in the men's Taekwondo League (INCTL) tour- division. Antti I. Petajisto G also nament of the 2002-2003 season, advanced the medal count with a hosted by Columbia University. second place finish in the men's After a long day of competition, green belt division. the MIT students emerged in yet another landslide victory, clinch- Advanced teams begin sparring ing the fITst place tournament vic- The women's Al team (Tan, tory, as well as the overall first LeCocq, Park) were seeded into place title for the season. the quarter-finals where they The tournament day began with advanced past Cornell A2 with a forms competition, where the stu- close 11-10 win from Tan and an dents dominated by capturing near- 18-0 shutout from Park. LeCocq ly half of the available medals, anchored the team past NYU in the including a sweep of women's semifinals, and the team fell only green belt forms (Cecile E. Le to Cornell Al in the finals and fm- Cocq G, Delphine M. D. Dean G, . ished in 2nd place. Grace Y. Kim G), and a near The men's A 1 team (William sweep of both men's and women's R. Sanchez '05, Conor F. Madigan white/yellow belt forms by Ryan G, Richard J. Sinn '06) sailed easi- B. Huang '06, Brandon R. Kam ly past Columbia Al and Princeton '04, Sandra M. Yu '06, and Al into the fmals against Cornell Stephanie K. Lee '06. AI. In an exciting neck-and-neck Timothy R. Kreider '04 and matchup, Sanchez won a 5-5 tie Christina S. Park '02 took third decision on superiority to take the place in the men's and women's lightweight spot. black belt divisions, and Bobby Sinn bumped up to heavy- Ren '05 and Jaime Lien '05 each placed second in the men's and women's blue belt divisions. Taekwondo, Page 27