MIT’s The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Chance of rain, 50°F (10°C) Tonight: Mostly clear, 37°F (3°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Partly sunny, 52°F (11°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 124, Number 18 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, April 9, 2004 Unlicensed Viewings Singh Elected as GSC President, Make MIT Pay $14K, Treasurer Position Still Unfilled By Kathy Dobson and Lucy Wong G treasurer. The from the academic departments and STAFF REPORTER election for treasurer was postponed programs, representatives from the Seek Blanket License The Graduate Student Council until either a special session or the dormitories, off-campus representa- held elections for its 2004-2005 next general council meeting, to be tives, the chairs of the GSC commit- By Marissa Vogt sites and mailed them to MIT,” officials on Wednesday. Barun held on May 5. tees, the ASA President, and some NEWS EDITOR Robinson said. Singh G was elected president, Hec- The candidates were elected by MIT recently paid $14,000 to a He said he did not know the tor H. Hernandez G vice president, current officers, representatives GSC, Page 16 copyright licensing company that name of the company that took the found evidence that several student screenshots, and would not say groups held publicized, unlicensed which student groups had advertised showings of copyrighted movies. the films without a license. As a result, MIT is exploring the The $14,000 that MIT paid was option of purchasing a blanket not so much a fine for not having a copyright license that would allow copyright license, but more of a student groups to legally show back payment for showing the movies, said Thomas E. Robinson, movies in the first place, Robinson program coordinator for student life said. He said that MIT has an estab- programs. Without such a license, lished working relationship with the both student groups and dormitories company, and the payment served to are not allowed to publicly show “both to enforce copyright[s] and films. give us a warning.” He said that the Student Activi- Web sites indict student groups ties Office has worked with both the MIT was notified that three or Association of Student Activities four student groups had advertised and the Intellectual Property Office, showings of copyrighted movies on which dealt directly with the copy- their Web sites. right licensing company to resolve “An outside company went on the issue. student group Web sites and actual- ly took screenshots of those Web Copyright, Page 15 Hackers Fined, Warned Over Wright Bros. Plane FRANK DABEK—THE TECH By Marissa Vogt this and previous times was the Barun Singh G was elected GSC president Wednesday in the only contested position on the ballot. NEWS EDITOR process of a hearing. A group of hackers responsible “What happened to me when I for putting the replica of the Wright was caught before, and in anything CME To See Increase in MIT Participants Brother’s plane on the Great Dome I’ve ever heard of anyone being By Kelley Rivoire Exchange (CME) program. Current- Dean for Undergraduate Education, on Dec. 17, 2003 was recently pun- caught, there was no hearing,” said STAFF REPORTER ly, 28 MIT juniors are studying at said she estimates that approximate- ished. Oliver E. Kosut ’04, one of Kosut. “The fact that there was one Thirty-seven applications have Cambridge University as part of the ly 35 MIT students will attend Cam- the six hackers who were caught, been submitted by MIT sophomores program. bridge University this fall, even said that he was informed mid-Feb- Hackers, Page 18 for the 2004-2005 Cambridge-MIT Margaret S. Enders, Associate though the program can accommo- ruary by assistant dean for student date 50 students from each universi- discipline Carol Orme-Johnson that ty. This is mainly because of a lack the MIT Police had filed a formal of applications from MIT. complaint. MIT sophomores can still apply According to Kosut, he was then to the CME for the 2004-2005 year. told that he would have to go through a hearing process with one Interest different among majors dean and one student, held in mid- In order to make a relatively March. Kosut said he received a $50 equal exchange, the number of stu- fine and was placed on disciplinary dents who can come from Cam- warning, which the Office of Stu- bridge is limited to some extent by dent Discipline’s Web site defines the number of applications from as “written notice that the conduct MIT. Enders said that typically, engaged in is inconsistent with more Cambridge students than MIT Institute policies/standards” along students apply, so it is more difficult with notification “that future viola- for Cambridge students to be admit- tions may result in the imposition of ted to the program. more serious sanctions.” In addition, the number of stu- According to Kosut, a note dents who can come from each describing the punishment was department at Cambridge is limited placed on his official record. The by the number of MIT students from letter, Kosut said, “stays in my offi- each department who attend. Since cial record until I graduate” and aerospace, mechanical, civil, and “stays in the memory of the Com- electrical engineering are all under mittee on Discipline forever.” the same department at Cambridge Kosut would not comment on University, they have more flexibili- the identities or punishments of the ty in choosing the students. other five hackers who were caught. CME had 27 MIT participants in Orme-Johnson said that she could its first full year and 44 in its sec- not discuss the specifics of any dis- ond, making its drop to 28 last year ciplinary case. surprising. PETER R. RUSSO—THE TECH Enders said that she believes Three options involve hearings (left to right) Noe Kamelamela ’05, Sheldon Brown, and Ashley H. Kim ’04 prepare to hold a pic- several factors contribute to the Kosut, who says he has been nic on Mount Olympus in the MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ production of “Thespis.” The pro- changes in the number of applicants caught while hacking before, said duction runs through April 18. that the main difference between Exchange, Page 17 X-statix mixes Comics OPINION World & Nation . 2 a kid feel in Basil Engwebara argues that Opinion . 4 with an adult America’s economic history may Arts . 6 world. remove the dollar from the lime- Features . .7 light of world trade. Events Calendar . .12 Page 6 Page 10 Page 5 Page 2 THE TECH April 9, 2004 WORLD & NATION Five Charged In Bomb Plot Iraqi Gunmen Threaten Lives THE NEW YORK TIMES LONDON British anti-terrorism authorities charged five men on Thursday with conspiring to build a bomb from 1,000 pounds of explosive Of Three Japanese Hostages material to be used against unspecified targets. The charges, along with those leveled in a Canadian court on THE NEW YORK TIMES Fallujah, 30 miles west of Bagh- Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the U.S. Wednesday, connect seven young Pakistani immigrants — six of BAGHDAD, IRAQ dad, is enduring the heaviest fighting field commander in Iraq. “Secondly, them living on the outskirts of London and one living in Ottawa — As U.S. troops battled Sunni since U.S.-led forces swept across everyone needs to understand that with hatching a terrorist plot that, given the amount of explosive Muslim insurgents in Fallujah and the country and captured Baghdad a there is no more powerful force material, could have had devastating consequences. others began deploying south to year ago on Friday. Accounts by assembled on earth than this military The case became public on March 30, when 700 British police challenge insurgents who have reporters accompanying U.S. Marine force in this country that’s backed officers and intelligence officers raided homes and other properties, seized control of three major Shiite units said they were fighting street- up with our naval and air forces in arresting eight men and seizing a half ton of ammonium nitrate, a fer- cities, insurgents kidnapped several to-street on Thursday, taking heavy near proximity.” tilizer compound that can be used in explosives. foreign civilians Thursday and rocket, mortar and small arms fire In a message directed at the Charged on Thursday were Anthony Garcia, 21; Jawad Akbar, 20; threatened to execute them. from factories, homes and mosques. insurgent leaders in Fallujah and at Omar Khyam, 22; Waheed Mahmoud, 32; and Nabeel Hussein, 19. Three Japanese civilians Two U.S. soldiers were killed on Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric appeared in a video broadcast on the Thursday, according to the Central who has led the Shiite insurrections Al-Jazeera news channel blindfold- Command, raising the number of across southern Iraq, Abizaid added: Bush Names Businessman To Halt ed, while their black-garbed captors U.S. troops killed in less than a “The fact that we have been so judi- threatened them with guns, knives week of fighting to nearly 40. cious in the use of this force should Manufacturing Job Losses and swords. Reports from Fallujah hospitals sug- not be lost on anybody. This country THE NEW YORK TIMES A statement by a previously- gested that more than 289 Iraqis had will not suffer intimidation by the CRAWFORD, TEXAS unknown group calling itself the been killed, although that figure United States of America. But those President Bush on Thursday nominated a California businessman Mujahideen Brigades gave Japan could not be independently con- who oppose moving democracy for- to a senior position in the Commerce Department charged with three days to withdraw its 550-man firmed.