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_AM - A.m i ·I - ---- I-- i kAnti.CO se;eks student input 5 - By Linda D'Angelo freshmen. through surveys or expanding the The creation of a freshman The main point of the commit- Financial Board to include a few evaluation committee is now in tee will be to get freshmen think- elected positions are among the I the works, according to Under- ing and writing about issues, pos- suggested reforms designed to graduate Association -President sibly through interviews or logs "give students more say," he Paul Antico '91. The move is one kept throughout the first year, added. of many that will be undertaken Antico said. He saw this new The policies and procedures of by the UA this year in order to freshman committee as an impor- the Financial Board will also be I increase student involvement and tant source of information, as reviewed by a new investigation "pull the UA back on it's feet," well as an opportunity for fresh- committee, Antico stated. In ad- Antico explained. men to "take the bull by the dition to students, independently- The committee was suggested horns and get actively involved." funded activities will be encour- in reaction to last year's UA edu- Antico also plans to renew the aged to participate in the I.. cational reform committee, practice of holding UA meetings committee, "pointing out the . which focused on reform of the in the different dormitories and problems as they see them., freshman pass/fail system, but independent living groups, a Student housing will also be a consisted - mainly of upperclass- practice first established by 1987 "big issue," Antico said. The Ad men who had lost touch with the UA President Manuel Rodriguez Hoc Institute Committee on first year experience, Antico said. '89, in an effort to increase the Housing, established to "look Aside from one upperclass advi- number of students attending the into the current housing system sor, the freshman evaluation meetings. Last year meetings and come up with an alternative committee will consist entirely of -were held in the Student Center plan," is-due to release its report and, sometimes, attendance fell soon, he noted. Antico is anxious David Rothstein/The Tech below the required thirteen. An- to see if this report has incbrpo- Jennifer Harris '90 tensely watches the ball during a tico saw a connection between rated the suggestions made in the tough game against Bates during the MIT Invitational the "cliquish" -atmosphere of UA Housing Committee report this weekend.- See story page 13. these meetings and the UA's diffi- issued last. year. He has also met i culty "in meeting quorum." with Provost John M. Deutch '61 Getting students more directly to discuss the "next steps" in the M IT groups set to hold involved in the search for MIT's housing reform process, Antico next president is also a goal of said. Ra ,e Awa re.ness Week the UA, Antico said. The main In addition, "this is the year" y Neil J. RIoss Scheduled activities will in- vehicle for this student input will that decisions will be made about In an attempt to raise the con- clude a men's forum on Wednes- be a UA report, which will focus the campus food service, Antico sciousness of the MIT communi- day of next week, which is de- on .the qualities necessary in the said. ARA, the catering company ty to the question -of rape, a signed to raise men's awareness new president and the issues he currently contracted by MIT, is week-long event designed to in- of the questions involved. A pan- .will have to address rather than under investigation "based on an volve hundreds of MIT students el discussion focusing on the is- on tlhe actual person to be incredible number of [student] is being organized for the week sue of date rape is also planned. -chosen. complaints," he explained. And of Oct. 2. This Rape Awareness The panel will include Cheryl An effort to make the UA Fi- although ARA has made "some Week is jointly sponsored by the Vbssmer of the MIT Campus Po- nancial Board "more account- improvements ... they need to Association of Women Students lice Crime Prevention Unit and Lisette W.M.. Lambregts/The Tech able" to students is also among show us something this year" or and the newly-formed Rape Ann Russo from the Women's ' UA Presid'nt:-Pau.bel-Antico. this ye.ars-UA goalS, Antico..said.. their. contract -mnay not be re- Awareness and Prevention. Studies Program. Other activities Researching stident opinion newedd-he aded.. Program.; include a self-defense class, a With -broad publicit, (includ- --dance, and-a movie. .-:- ~ 91· w *. E S caZd e. ing a booth in lobby'10) the event This Rape Awareness Week is PresS warns 'dglobal-cli~m-ate:-ch~ange- could provide the same sort of part of a mood of rising concern rallying point for the fledgling over rape on campuses. The FBI By-Brian Rosenberg Rape Awareness and Prevention recorded a 4.9 percent increase in The world climate could under- Program as the April 9 March on reported rapes nationially fiom go severe changes over the next Washington provided for the As- 1987 to 1988. several decades, warned Frank sociation for Women Students, Northeastern University Pro- Press, president of the National according to organizer Michelle fessor William Kay, who was in- Academy of Sciences. But Frank Bush '91. volved in coordinating a series of warned against taking drastic Organizers of Rape Awareness talks by MESA for male fresh- measures- such as economic re-, Week hope to reach the whole men in the School of Criminal structuring and legislative carbon MIIT community, extending be- Justice at Northeastern, noted dioxide production limits - in yond an exclusively female audi- that often programs are aimed at response because of the lack of ence. As Fred Pelka, a founder precautions which inhibit wom- scientific: consensus on the of the Boston/Cambridge Men en's freedom. The MIT event will subject. Against Sexual Assault-(MESA) end with a demonstration, "Take Press, a member of the MIT pointed out, it is important "that Back the Night," highlighting the Corporation and former head of men see other men raising con- restrictions .women feel in city what is now the Earth, Atmo- cerns about rape." Kim Morrison environments. spheric, and Planetary Sciences of the Boston Area Rape Crisis MIT Campus Police have seen Department, gave a lecture yes- Center. also noted that anti-rape the brutal effects of rape, accord- terday on global climate change. campaigns tend to start where the ing to Chief of Police Anne P. The lecture was the first of a job is easiest: that is among Glavin. Glavin, in her 15 years at series sponsored by the Technol- women. MIT, has had to deal with vic- ogy and Culture Semina' which MESA has strong MIT connec- tims. "You are dealing with a focuses on technology and the tions with three out of the ten ac- person in crisis ... [who] feels environment. tive volunteers being MIT stu- violated, victimized, embarrassed -Press cited the results of four dents who participate in the and ... [wrongly] guilty," she I _ --_ x w Be ; i AeA us X2 models developed by researchers educational speaking and presen- said. he described as "a range of re- Jeremy Yung/The Tech tation engagements, according to In order to prevent a repeat of sponsible people." He-stated that Frank Press, president of the National Academy of Science Pelka. these experiences, the Campus by 2050, "most modelers agree Police have been running a night- that the atmosphere will warm to Seidman heads Special Librarnes Assiciation time escort service on campus . .. temperatures possibly higher since the early 1970's, and By Neil J. RIoss portunities to explore the organi- last than [at] any time in the past While she has interests in the year carried out about 7000 es- Ruth Seidman, head librarian zation and its potentials. From million years." computerization of libraries and corts. There are also 18 distinc- of the MIT Engineering and Sci- 1980 to 1981 she was president of According to one model, glob- the impact of technology on the tive blue direct line telephones on ence Libraries, has been appoint- the Boston regional chapter, and al mean temperatures will in- libraries of the future, Seidman campus for emergency- use. ed president-elect of the Special in 1986 she was program chair crease between two and five de- said that the most rewarding part In addition, three out of seven- Libraries Association, a national for the organization's national grees Celsius within five years: of the job was developing staff teen items ox ganization of libraries with annual conference. in the freshman crime The'same model predicts an in- -finding out what their skills prevention package, due to be more than 12,500. individual As part of her duties as presi- crease in sea level between 10 are and developing those skills. distributed after Columbus day, members divided into 55 regional dent-elect, Seidman last week centimeters and one meter within "The most enjoyable part is when are. on the subject of rape. chapters. presented talks at several regional And the next five to twenty years. I meet people who- worked for every female Campus Police offi- This position Will hopefully en- .chapters of the SLA in North These figures have a high degree me and find they are running a cer receives special':-airading able her to work more closely Carolina. Once a student mem- in of confidence, according to' library, or I see they have pub- dealing with rape victims. with leaders-in information tech- ber of SLA herself, Seidman Press. also lished an article," she added. nology and allow MIT to be seen visited two student chapters of Local predictions were less ac- The science and engineering li- as part of that leadership, Seid- the association. curate, with temperatures expect- braries account for over half of man said. SLA; whose motto.is A librarian for over 20 years, ed to fall in the range of three the one million printed volumes "putting knowledge to work," Seidman did not start out in li- ILEw degrees less to ten degrees more in MIT libraries to which 32,911 gives librarians in specialized brary work than at present. Local precipita- but majored in politi- registered library users have bor- settings in the sciences and arts cal science. As a graduate - tion could change up to twenty student rowing rights. A ranking of 100 Author Bob Schwartz an opportunity to share new she examined the Soviet Union in percent in either direction, and ideas.about the handling of university libraries conducted advises readers on depth and it was only some years earlier this year by local soil moisture up to 50 information. .. ' the. Associa-i having, a One-Hour after obtaining her'first master's. tion of percent. Involved in the SLA since Research Libraries placed Orgasm. Page S._ degree that she took a master's in MIT in a tie for 47th place. (Please turn to page 2) 1971, Seidman has had many op- rll mm=mmwmmmlmwm . l...... library science. I

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fifty times greater than the natu-. pol'ics i'ciuded the elliinaion .I I These changes could cause ef- ral change," -Press. said. ,"This- - of chloroflouroCarbons (CFC's) MIT'S FIRST FAMILY WEEKEND, fects as drastic as ua more Severe -raises the question,* he contin- by the year 2000, reforestation, Oclober 20-2 2 : and long-lasting-drought .. . ued, "of 'not, just can' species ;and population control, Press than we experienced in the 193"ss migrate, -but -- can species also advocated reduction of car- [the Dust Bowl]." One 1983 mod- survive? bon dioxode production and wa- el, assuming a two percent in- The effect on human health tep consumption through conser- crease in temperature and a ten should not be underestimated vation and- realistic pricing. "If percent decrease in precipitation Press said -later. He- stressed the we are to manage the global 'com- over the western United States, uncertainty in climactic models mons well," he stated, "we must WANT TO 'ELP WITH predicted a 40 percent decline in due to the nonlinearity of the at- treat planet Earth as a closed runoffj1 in the Colorado River ba- mosphere, and expressed the var- system." 'FAMILY 'WEEKEND? sin- Sea ice levels are expected to ious'predictions in terms of Audience reaction to Press' decline,I and changes in currents could be." lecture varied. EAPS Professor mayI disrupt marine fisheries. Because of this uncertainty, Richard Lindzen objected to Press recommended a series of Press' labeling of uncertainties as "We're predicting a rate of "tie-in" policies which would be high. or low. He considered the changeI of temperature due to the beneficial even without the green- models Press used to be "very greenhouse efect that is ten to house effect. Examples of these poor" and stated that they only gave correct numbers when "tuned ... [i.e.] modified ad Call Alumni Office: 253-0743 hoc." __ _A E[BB_ ~ ; I Thomas Jordan, EAPS depart- maent'head, thought Press pre- sented "very realistic" figures, -but added that "models are noth- Be a Student Panelist! ing more than models." sign up for an Interview at W20-401, .Press himself said afterwards that his lecture "went well ... I or Call: 253-2696 was pleased that [the audience] wasn't bored." JScott Paradise, an MIT reli- gious counselor. who works on the Technology and Culture Sem- inars, thought the lecture was "'the national. controversy -writ Interview will be Wed., October 4. small." He pointed out-the "dif- ferent perspectives from the audi- ence" and thought the series had

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Colombian presidenrrt ur~ged rto \Alhas ithlords dtkidg r~rr'laat.:~n ~ fine rspfric M fn+~ n antintp vn\t;lk tInicr qtIOmolla p reWIUe An rlnlaUW ciuscu tuuLaV c u \wnur --·--- = __, -·L-a - · LC -*- L- I__ I Bush offers chem weapons deal lords, but two politicians say that is what the government Addressing the United Nations, President Bush yester- should do. The mayor of Medellin and the president of Gay Rights Bi day called chemical weapons a scourge and offered to Colombia's House of Representatives say negotiations heads for Senate tor eliminate 80 percent of the US stockpile if the Soviets cut would save lives. And a leading presidential candidate is an equal amount. Bush's proposal is meant to sour a 40; quoted by a newspaper as saying Colombia may have to The Gay Rights Bill has cleared a parliamentary hurdle nation conference in Geneva to ban chemical weapons legalize drugs in order to figt the drug cartels. :n the Massachusetts Senate and is now eligible for floor Outright within ten years. The Soviets say they have a Drug traffickers declared war against the Colombian action. Senate President William Bulger yesterday an- "positive view" of the President's propoW. government is the wake of a crackdown. Since then, more nounced the measure would be released on- Wednesday from the committee on Bill in the Third WRading. The The United States and the Soviet UnSi are the only than 1-00 Mobos have gone off in Colombia, the latest nations to admit having chemical weapons; But experts four went off in Bogota last night. Six people have been bill outlawing discrimination on the basis of sexual orien- say as many as a dozen countries are armed with chemical killed and 130 wounded since the government's crackdown tation had been languishing in that panel since July. weapons or are able to make them. US intelligence offi- began five weeks ago. The House-passd measure won initial Senate approval cials say Libya is buiting the-largest chemical weapons in July on a 24-15 vote. This is the 17th year a gay rights plant in the world. Iran complained several times to the bill has been pending in the Legislature. It failed the pre- United Nations that Iraq had used chemical weapons Syria volates Lebanon cease-fro vious 16 years. But David LaFountaine of the' Coalition for Lesbian against Iranian troops. Iran is-also considered able to A mediator for the Arab League is urging Syrians and make them. Christians to honor a two-day-old cease-fire. Syrian gun- and Gay Rights said there has been an extraordinary f ners violated the truce yesterday by firing more than 80 change in atmosphere on Beacon Hill since 1987 - when shells into the Christian enclave. Police report no casual- the bill stayed bottled up in the Committee on Third Vietnam begins Cambodia pullout ties, and the Christian forces did not return fire. Readings and never made it to the Senate floor. Thousands of Vietnamese soldiers are januning the main highway leading out of Cambodia. Vietnam said it is leaving Cambodia after occupying its neighbor for a de- cade. The departure of Vietnamese troops is worrying Ceslrmbia damaged In accident IIb Cambodialns who fear full-scale civil war with the dreaded NASA officials said yesterday it is too early to assess Khmer Rouge. the full damage to the space shuttle Columbia, which was i, Tentative agreement on accidently splashed by fire sprinklers. The space agency said the accident occurred Sunday after workers had done USSR unveils crisis budget drug war funding reached routine maintenance on the sprinkler system inl the build- The Soviet Union says it will slash military spending by Senate Democrats said last night that they have reached ing where the shuttle was being readied. A Kennedy Space more than eight percent and cut its huge deficit in half in a tentative agreement with the White House on the fund- Center official said he is not giving up on launching the 1990. The government unveiled what it calls a "crisis bud- ing for the 'War on Drugs." The agreement calls for a shuttle as scheduled on Dec. 18. get" yesterday as the Supreme Soviet opened its fall legis- $8.8 billion package financed in part by an across-the- lative session. In an attempt to reduce'shortages of con- board cut in other programs. The agreement provides sumer goods, the Kremlin says it also will increase $900 million more than President Bush had asked for. 198th Farmer'sAlmanac appears factory-made goods by 20 percent. Almost all of the extra money is to be devoted to drug As sure as the leaves turn in New Englanld, the old treatment, education, and prevention programs that Dem- Farmner's Almanac appears every year at this time. The ocrats said were most seriously underfunded in Bush's 198th edition, published in Dublin, NH, is out this week. proposal. West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd called the It is predicting a white Christmas for New England and a proposal a "good first step toward fighting the war on generally mild winter across much of the country. The Al- drugs." manac also predicts the return of four-inch-wide neckties I and short hair for women. S.C. struggles to Rice, Stanley end recover from hurricane F~alw'01 accused of bribery The Jim Bakker fraud trial heard testimony yesterday Red Sox careers Residents of the hurricane-clobbered Isle of Palms off the South Carolina coast got their first look at the dam- that Jerry Falwell offered Bakker $300,000 if he "kept his Two pillars of the Boston Red Sox throughrthe 1970s age yesterday. Retired Air Force officer Tom Harper said mouth shut." Falwell denied the testimony by Roe and 1980s will not be with the team next year. it looks like a battlefield. Another man found his home Messner, who oversaw much of the construction at PTL~s The Red Sox will not renew their option on the contract split open like a melon and tossed about 50 yards. The theme park. Falwell temporarily ran PTL after Bakker re- of outfielder Jim Rice. The 35-year-old Rice would have signled in scandal. pretty island across the harbor from Charleston bore the been paid $2.4 mullion in 1990. After being one of the brunt of Hurricane Hugo's winds. The 400 residents Soldiers, drug dealers most dominant offensive players in baseball from the were evacuated before Hugo hit and had been ordered to mid-70s through 1986, Rice struggled with injuries over stay away. fight gun batthe the past three seasons. He is hitting .234 with three The Caribbean is still struggling to recover from Hugo. Police in Tacoyma, WVA, yesterday doubled their patrols homers and 28 RBIs this year. Rice has belted 382 homers In Puerto Rico, officials have begun handing out $300 in a drug-infested neighborhood where about a dozen off- over 15 seasons. emergency checks to those who lost their homes. Much of duty soldiers anid reputed crack dealers fought a 30-mn Relief pitcher Bob Stanleyy said he will retire after the Puerto Rico and its eastern Caribbean neighbors remain ute gun battle. The Saturday night gunfight erupted be- end of the season. Stanley was valued for his versatility as without water ankd electricity. tween the Army Rangers and 15 to 20 people police a spot starter, long reliever and short man. His best sea- described as gang members. The soldiers had been having son was in 1983, when he saved 33 games for the Sox. But a party at the home of one Ranger in the neighborhood. he is also reviled by some Boston fans for throwing a wild FAA says air securiy is tighter pitch in the tenth inning of gamfe six of the 1986 World - The Federal Anvation Administration said it has tight- Series that allowed the New York Mets to tie the score and ened security since the December bombing of Pan Ameri- Coors makes bid for Stroh later win the game. The Mets went on to win the world can Rlight 103. But a General Accounting Office study A big merger is brewing among two of America's big- title. says the FAA does not know if airlines are meeting the gest beermakers. Colorado-based Coors says it is making new standards. In addition, an Israeli security expert said a $425 million bid to buy Stroh Brewing. A combination US airline companies are not very good when it comes to of Coors and Stroh would control about 19 percent of the Rubes By Leigh Rubin protecting passengers from attack. US beer market. The buyout would end the independence 't3^,Cotuld *"l-Vased Stolfich Mmae suclk Jailed mother ordered freed brands as Stroh's, Old Milwaukee, and Schlitz. A federal appeals court has ordered Washington doctor Elizabeth Morgan freed from jail. She has been jailed for two years for contempt of court, for refusing to produce her daughter for a visit with her ex-husband. She alleged the father sexually abused the child. The father denies it and calls Morgan insane. Congress passed a law last week Feeling fallish to free Morgan. Low pressure will cross the area today aringing with it heavy rains and strong southerly winds. In NASA launches last unmanned the wake of the low, much colder air from central Canada will arrive. The balance of the week will be rocket fronm Caennauerar "fallish" with sunny mild days and clear cool nights An era of American spaceffight came to an end yester- the rule. day. NASA launched an unmanned rocket, its last one to blast off from Cape Canaveral, FL. After a final un- Tuesday afternoon: Cloudy with rain heavy at times manned rocket is launched from Vandenberg Air Force early, tapering to showers -by late afternoon. Base in California in November, the job of sending pay- Winds south 15-20 mph. High 67IF (19'C). loads, unmanned, into space will be handled by private 7uesday night: Clearing, windy, and turning cooler. industry. Winds shifting to northwest. 15-25 mph. Low 48 IF (9 -CQ. Rural bridges in Wednesday: Mostly sunny, breezy, and chilly. A few trouble, report says late afternoon clouds developing. Winds northwest 15-25 mph. High 54°F (12°C). Low The Agriculture Department says nearly half of rural 36IF (2°Ct America's bridges are "structurally deficient or function- 77ursdo.: Mostly sunny and milder. High 64°F ally obsolete." The USDA report shows that Missouri has (18IC). Low around 41 44°F (5-7°C). the most structurally deficient rural bridges, and Texas pcI 1-- kdefIVv Forecast by Michael C. Morgan I'l' be happy to exchange your defective has the most that are functionally obsolete. The depart- boomerang for another one, Sonny. .. ment says neither designation necessarily means a bridge Crr~ll a -~~~CII111-_ -_.- L.- as soon as you bring it back." - is unsafe. Compiled by Nir; S. Desai I

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_ oplnlon~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- - -- - . _ _ E - a. CI I _, I ib·----lr-r-al The romance is gone from a BU dorm Column by Adam Braff F I - -- H504MARE e The Mad Scientist Hypothesis: If you look NOWA0FI(Cr OdmR May I direct your attention to the other side of L_ SIDE 6RR15 across the river at Warren Towers once more, you mawsG DRPG? I the river? On a clear day, you can see a fertile clus- will see that there ter of three brown buildings, the Warren Towers are no similarly tall buildings very close by. In order F residence of Boston University. I'm not in the busi- to sneak into the choicest upper windows, Silber realizes, the libidinous ness of perpetuating stereotypes, but I think it's stu- dents will have to adapt to their safe to say that the residents of Warren Towers are environment. Spe- cifically, Silber E "516WI~CAMV more, oh, romantic than most. That is, they were believes that every man and woman until this term started. at his school will instantly evolve tiny Suction cups i

on his hands and i= Last year, you may recall, there was a minor feet. By predicting this last year in brouhaha over the enactment of parietal rules - in a letter to Stockholm, Silber can guarantee himself this case, an 11 o'clock curfew. BU president John a Nobel Prize in Biology for disproving Darwin. _ Silber, acting against the wishes of the vast majority Darwin thought evolution took a long time. MO SIDE of the students, l The Alternate Mad Scientist I X WTrS. promoted the rule and was quick to Hypothesis: The { b~Sl~glw enforce it. The story, or the legend as it was told to Warren Towers residents, many of them students in me by a student, was that a parent complained to the College of Liberal Arts, will cease to reproduce the administration that her daughter wasn't able to with the fury of previous years. But the HoFo stu- study. The reason, she said, was that her daughter's dents, mating unchecked, will multiply faster than a roommate couldn't control her amorous feelings for Course XVIII grad student on speed. Once again, a number of male students and would woo them in Darwin has egg on his dead face, and Silber has a

Lt.t------| -I her room. A few more parents whined as well, and Nobel. before they knew it, BU students were sleeping e The Hinkley-Foster Syndrome Hypothesis: alone. Last year, the fuming and fussing on Common- My sister, Aimie, is a student in the HoFo (Hotel wealth grew so loud that even Phil D:onahue took and Food Administration) school, many of whose notice. On a special show dealing with the II pm students are housed in a brownstone on Bay State rule, Silber sat in the hot seat and woodenly de- IPaPrP LI4BIIIIL _- _, qi-M I g· , L -- L -Is, - _ _ ,,, r I Road. The brownstones, in stark comparison with flected the impassioned taunts of BU students in Warren Towers, are minimum-security buildings. the audience. More to the point, he was at times Because there is no uniformed guard to enforce the less than five feet away from Donahue himself. 11 pm rule in Aimie's dorm, she has remained rela- Now, Silber's only human, and it's entirely possible tively unaffected by the rule and can offer an objec- that he has a psychopathic infatuation with Dona- tive opinion as to the primordial goings-on in her hue's wife, Marlo Thomas. A crazy rule, some dis- president's head. proportionate publicity, et voild! He is close enough Volume 109, Number 38 Tuesday, September 26, 1989 "Silber's out of his mind," she said. "He has this to her husband to strangle him. Thie problem with idea, and I'm not making this-up, that BU students this theory is that no murder actually took place. Chairman ...... Marie E. V. Coppola '90 are supposed to study 70 hours a week." Perhaps Silber was worn out from one of his 70- Editor in Chief ...... Nira; S. Desai '90, Airnie's analysis, that Silber is insane, is one-pos- hour work weeks. Business Mansager...... sibility. There are Genevieve C. Sparagna '90 six others. o The Most Likely Hypothesis: Undergraduates Managing Editor ...... * The It Worksfor Peter E. Dunn G Them Hypothesis: There is are not-1hle source of donha'foJtios`.~-By appealing to the little doubt that Silber's rule has greatly reduced the interests of a few wealthy parents and alumni, News Editors ...... Annabelle Boyd '90 amount of necking, and so on, in Warren Towers. Silber Linda D'Angelo '90 has sacrificed the respect of his students for It is quite possible that, by simulating Irene C. Kuo '90 the celibate greed. conditions here at MIT, Prabhat Mehta '91 Silber believes he can create The saddest chapter of the 11 pm story, perhaps, a race of geniuses Opinion Editor ...... Michael Gojer'90 at his own school. -is the fadeout of student efforts to resist the m The Don't Sports Editor ...... Sh awnMastrian '91 Forget Me in November Hypothe- change. I asked Belinda, a Warren Towers resident, Arts sis: The rule has greatly reduced the Editor ...... Debby Levinson '91 number of stu- what her friends were doing about the rule which Photography Editors ...... Lisette W. M. Lambregts.',90" dents in BU housing, as shown by the disappear- -threatens to compromise the best four years of their Kristine AuYeung '91' ance this year -of'"nom''ads"c -- students whom BU` Contributing Editors lives...... Jonathan Richmond G must temporarily put up in a nearby hotel until Michael Franklin '88 "Nothing," she said. "We've given up trying to housing can be found. Based on this trend, Silber Ezra Peisach '89 get things back to normal." may have calculated, there will Advertising Manager ...... Lois Eaton '92 eventually be no stu- dents at all in university residences. At this point, he can open a NEWS STAFF chain of discount video rental stores, Adam Bragc a junior in the School of Humanities making himself very Associate News Editors: Gaurav Rewari '91, Reuven M. Lerner popular when he runs for gov- and Social Science, has written sports and book re- ernor, '92; Staff: Neil J. Ross G. Anita Hsiund '90, Miguel Cantillo '91, as is his stated intention. views for The Tech. Seth Gordon '91, Andrea Lamberti '91, Adnan Lawai '91, David Rothstein '91, Aileen Lee '92, Tzielan Lee '92, Dawn Nolt '92, Amy J. Ravin '92, Casimir Wierzynski '92, Paula Maute; Meteor- ologists: Robert X. Black G. Robert J. Conzemius G. Michael C. Morgan G. SPORTS STAFF Michael J. Garrison G, Harold A. Stern '87, Anh Thu Vo '89, Manish Bapna '91, Adam Braff '91, Emil Dabora '91, Kevin T. Hwang '9 1. OPINION STAFF Kai F. Chiang '92. I FEATURES STAFF Jeff Ford '90, W. Owen Harrod '90, Allan T. Duffin '91, Taro Ohkawa '91, Katherine M. Hamill '92.

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The Tech VISSN 0148-9607) is published on Tuesdays and Fridays during the academic year (except during MIT vacations), Wednesdays during January, and monthly during the summer for S17.00 per year Third Class by The Tech, Room W20-483, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-0901. Third Class postage paid at Boston, MA. Non-Profit Org. Permit No. 59720. POSTMASTER: Please send all address changes to our mailing address: The Tech, PO Box 29, MIT Branch, i Cambridge, MA 02139-0901. Telephone: (617) 253-1541. FAX: (617) 258-8226. i Advertising, subscription, and typesetting rates available. Entire contents i 1989 The Tech. The 7ech is a member of the Associated Press. Printed by Charles River Publishing, Inc. -d i I , I ---. - II -era -klB _ -- II d The Tech PAGE 5 _pl I"PILgb-plr - -Ige , ba s-i-a"seg)glLPBBb TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1989 I I --- . .-.. . I'----opmlon I mas Ai~m Lm 9 I 91 Ab k51i81 I · · r - aI -IIII b-CIBI ' ----C-·. IL --- 4e M. Eyewitness says Virginia Beach racism obvious A position can only be respect- After a long standoff, police was clear then that they did not ed if it is founded on an in- were assaulted not -by those on want such a large population of formed basis. As a consequence the street,`but by those on balco- African-Americans in their "lily- of this principle, I would like to nies above. Police on horseback white" resort city. I am a firm be- refute most of the comments rushed the crowd and tossed liever in the rights that I have as made in Dave Atkins's recent let- smoke bombs. Those who resort- a tax-paying resident and law- ter ["Cartoon misrepresented ed to vandalism should have been abiding citizen. I can go where Virginia Beach riots," Sept. 19] arrested and placed in jail. There my money allows. So I went. concerning the Virginia Beach was no need to enforce house ar- I do not hold Atkins complete- Labor Day incidents. rests on those of us staying in ho- ly at fault. Although he did form Regarding the implication that tels on Atlantic Avenue. If you an opinion on the misrepresenta- the bottle of suntan lotion in the were on the balcony and saw tion of facts, he was nowhere cartoon displaying a grinning black youths being slammed to near Virginia Beach during this Klansman was somehow inappli- the ground and to walls, and time and did not become aware cable: the reports of the "Great then saw white people riding of the "facts" until after the fact. White Hope" (Ku Klux Klan), bikes down the same street or He chose to get belated informa- aiding the police in controlling skateboarding alongside two pit tion from "a day late and dollar "anticipated illegal activity" of bulls, how would you perceive it? short" newspaper only to draw those coming to partake in Race was an issue as it was in the certain conclusions that makes Greekfest '89 reached my ear at Sixties. one question his motives. the end of the AT&T phone line Why didn't the police arrest Perhaps he should have done more long before I was enroute to Vir- and jail those who perpetrated the right thing and thought _ L~b~L~~aGeHiS Ba~0~ ~asb~~r~m~s1 1 s~ ~oo~n~Dlh~..:1t4 on Xe~MID ginia Beach. An all-white male crimes and allow the remaining carefully before commenting LEADING KU INhSERIES OF (OMEDIES..." kinship displaying Confederate 99.5 percent of us to enjoy our the issue. Or at least, he could IfANDKAHWS IYAKS flags could be seen. It was a set- break? That is what is done in have talked to people around him ting clear to some of us in the Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach, who may have been involved. South that the Klan was "in Myrtle Beach and other common Who knows? He may live next effect." vacationing places where many door to someone who would be The letter goes on to say individuals conduct similar activi- able to give him an eyewitness "..100,000 black students ties annually during spring break account. looted and vandalized the resort and graduation. Dannefia Gladden G - ----a II It -BRegBB-·sl·41 -'C-- 5--gl`- - city.' If- 100,000people of any I too attended the showing of race, creed, or color engaged in Do the Right Thing on campus Allegations of racism unfounded and insulting such criminal activity, there this summer. Atkins's implication ,-NW been quick to ana- dominately white city of Viragini Those black students who par- would be no Virginia Beach. Ob- that the film may have incited Many have Day riots at Beach, I am offended by any ra- ticipated in the riots have claimed viously, Atkins got too emotional these events was also based on lyze the recent Labor Beach oceanfront cial judgements made by outsid- that the police (annd the Virginia since the problem hit too close to fear and paranoia. While actions the Virginia the actions of ers about Virginia Beach based National Guard) who responded home. in the film may not have been the from afar, judging students anid the police on this single incident - such as to the disorder used excessive While fear contributed to cer- most positive means of dealing both the understanding the mo- the tasteless cartoon published force. Although "excessive force' tain developments, "500 minor with black frustration, they were without of either group. I feel it is recently in The Tech [Sept. 151. is hard to define, escape from it arrests anld citations" were mere effective. As Spike Lee stated tives for a third perspective from While no city is free from racial, is not. The police provided the excuses for being a nuisance to "black people are tired of being time who resides in and sexual, and cultural bigotry Vir- students with ample opportunity police. Hotel owners increased Billed ." someone the city of Virginia ginia Beach can hardly be consid- to return to their hotel rooms, rates and enforced minimum I am also from Virginia. 'V'ir- knows %Yel Beach. ered a racist city. I have been the yet the students chose to con- stays to discourage occupancy. As ginia Beach placed the wheels in instead. As a black student who grew victim-of racial slurs or discrini- front the police if that weere not enough, many of motion for a racial confrontation abound to up in (and still lives in) the pre- nation in California, Alabama, Feeble attempts the hotels issued colored wrist- in 1989 at the 1988 Greekfest. It and New Jersey. But never have I make even the small businesses of bands to identify registered use washable plates ever been openly discriminated Virginia Beach a scapegoat for guests since visitors were only al- ARA should against in Virginia Beach. To these unrestrained students by ac- and all of the stations in lowed in the lobby. Last year I found the campus plates suggest that the citizenry or gov- cusing businesses of overly inflat- supplies. I Organized groups were not al- cafeterias' trend from reusable, Lobdell use disposable ernment of Virginia Beach is rac- ing prices, supposedly to keep the disgusted that lowed to secure establishments washable dishware to disposable am shocked and ist is an insult to me and all of students away. Common sense of an apparently for meeting. Tens of thousands paper and plastic items distress- the food service my friends (white and black) that says that keeping any well-be- can be so of people in a resort city with ing. In Lobdell dining hall there intelligent university make up our proud resort city. haved group of patrons away is the envi- nothing to do can only walk the were very few stations with reus- blatantly offensive to The black students who partic- bad for the bottom line; supply of dying rain streets or ride downs the strip. able plates and bowls, and all the ronment in a time ipated in the riots invented a and demand clearly explains why garbage. When the police began to close cups were disposable. At least at forests and overflowing number of excuses for the con- raising prices during peak periods pay money to off the main strip, most per- the Walker dining hall the hot I am ashamed to frontation, all of which place the is good for it. that supports this ceived this as a last-minute act of meals were still being served on an institution blame on the city and none of The issue of what happened in consideration for the students. china and I found that when I pollution. which I believe is of any merit. Virginia Beach is more complex MIT Approximately an hour and a asked specifically for "real" It is my feeling that either Student leaders and others out- than can be described in a letter half later, the police, on horse plates at the sandwich line, they should demand environmentally side the resort community have to the editor. Videotape of the in- form ARA, or and foot, paraded down Atlantic could give them to me. correct service charged that the government cident has shown clips of police replaced with a Avenue in riot gear. All that was Now, however, the sandwiches ARA should be adopted a confrontational atti- brutally striking students who service. needed was a riot. I know be- in Walker only come on paper more responsible tude. It is true that the city pre- disobeyed police orders inter- David Hogg ?92 cause I was there. pared for the inevitable worst, mixed with shots of rioting stu- but this was clearly justified by dents kicking in store windows black and looting businesses. Neither "Seqreqation"- im# -% - is a response to social problems the animalistic behavior of why does she not address all- during the previous atrocity can be justified soundly, Courtney Moriarta's letter students had moved, the set of students male organizations or feel threat- Greekfest. but I believe both can be ex- ["MIT orientation programs seg- standard freshman literature, years of the ened and disturbed by them? of the black students ar- plained and prevented in the regate students," Sept. 191 makes breakfast with the others who Many Progress does not happen a factor in future. statements about the segregativoi had transferred, and a list of gued that race played -through individual wishful think- they received from Virginia Beach neither needs of students at MIT that I find twenty professors to track down the treatment ing or blending in but through police, suggesting that nor wants another riot like the disturbing. The state of segrega- for signatures. I did not find the the local collective action. white students would have been one that happened that Labor tion does not result from any ma- experience that special. Her plea to the MVlIT communi- differently. I argue that Day weekend. But we who live in nipulation on MIT's part but Moriarta states that conflicts treated ty to "give a little thought" and students rioted the city of Virginia Beach neither rather from a reaction to prob- are always caused when people had 100,000 white then try to "fit in" with the streets, breaking windows, need nor want a group of people lems in the MIT community. So- stick together in groups. Actual- in the Asian and white American men looting shops, and vandalizing - black or white - to destroy cial awareness and integration re- ly, conflicts arise out of intoler- would work if the community the city's reac~tion our peaceful community and quire individual efforts and an ance and disrespect for other property, consisted of weak minds on would have been exactly the then point the finger of blame at mind, neither of which MIT groups usually caused by fear open strong drugs. She asks, "Is it same. US. If Project Inter- and ignorance, not by the mere can provide. really that hard to fit in with Michael B. Williams G to stay in fact they have common traits or Lk-~~~~~~ phase students continue them?" It is not that hard - if it ,-AD~~~~~ll~~~r~~a-·"I - L4P- 1111··r --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~·~~·---~~~~~ -- d- so volun- ideas and have organized around I the same dorm, they do is on their terms! Groups form them. The attitudes expressed in Editorials, marked and printed in a distinctive format, are the tarily. To say that MIT somehow because they find those terms un- students the letter provide a typical exam- official opinion of The Tech. They are written by The Tech's prevents international acceptable. Why does she place east of Massachusetts ple of this. Her denial of the exis- editorial board. from going such an emphasis on conforming students tence of problems serves to re- Columns and editorial cartoons are written by individuals and Avenue and transfer to the norms defined by this par- because move the legitimacy of these represent the opinion of the author, not necessarily that of the from going west simply ticular privileged class instead of of groups' purposes and needs. MIT has arranged the location promoting some sort of mutual newspaper. housing for Claiming that women's groups The Tech welcomes letters from its readers. All letters are their events and their understanding? Trying to fit in I can- and activities are unnecessary be- subject to editing and are published solely at the editors' discre- that term seems insulting. on unequal ground simply means who are cause she herself has never expe- tion. Authors must sign their letters and include their phone not believe that students hiding and hoping not to get for- rienced a situation where her sex number, and MIT' affiliation, if any, for verification, and able to leave their country or stepped on. After all, Moriarta mer school to attend MIT would was used to her. disadvantage should type letters double-spaced for ease of reading. Letters egocentric. should not have to feel "sheltered not have enough guts to cross seems extremely should be kept under 500 words. The Tech publishes letters these prob- or lucky" that her life has been four lanes of traffic to explore However imaginary anonymously only in rare circumstances, at the editors' discre- women free of sexual discrimination and the other side. lems may be to her, many tion. Bring letters to The'Tech's office on the fourth floor of too real. Why harassment if she truly feels that Just how guilty of special treat- find them all the MIT Student Center or send them to: Letters to the Editor, feel so threatened or inequality has been eliminated. ment are these groups that she should she The Tech, P.O. Box 29, MIT B3ranch, Cambridge MA 02139; or by diversity and organi- mentions? Upon transferring, I disturbed to Room W20-483 by interdepartmental mail. especially when the focus was given housing in whatever zation, is on women. 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8,90B SCHWARTZ. having one-hour orgasms." Both skeptical The technique, described in Chapter SixTHE , An interview with Bob Schwartz,- andcur~ious, Schwartz and his wife decid-: of the book, helps couples examine their Author of The One-Hour Orgasm. ed to sign up for the sexuality course sexual desires about one another. "It themselves and were impressed by forces you to communicate, Schwartz ex- By DEBBY LEVINSON Baranco's work: "The information was so plained."It forces you to talk to your incredible. Not run-of-the-mill, Cosmopol- partner .. it's not about orgasms,it's THE RARE MIT STUDENT WHO FINDS itan-women's magaies-type, or the real about the pleasure-you can have." In fact, himself or herself with an hour technical type; it was just so true, the bulk of the book is devoted to training to spare is no longer resignled to everything he was speaking about." exercises designed to open lines of commu- playing "Tetris' in a musty Athe- Baranco's research of twenty years is nication between husband and wife, par-, na cluster. -According to Bob Schwart, based on thethieory of tumescence, which ticularly on the usually uncomfortable you could be spending your time having a was discussed by Masters and Johnson in topic of sex. Schwartz enthused that"it one-hour orgasm. Schwartz, authoro of the their landmark w~orks on human sexuality. [orgasm] is a side benefit of the best-selling Diets Don't Work, was in Bos- Tumescence -what Baranco describes as philosophy."' ton last Monday promoting his latest female sexual energy -runs inlone-month Although the book's primary audience is book, The One-Hour Orgasm. Based on cycles with two peaks, one during ovula- intended to be married couples, Schwartz the research of More University Professor tion and the other during menAstruation. was mindful of today's shifting mores and Victor Baranco, Orgasm promises to teach Baranco also claims that men suffer from included a chapter designed for unmarried the reader "how to have more fun by in- tulmescence. Symptoms include tension, couples with some sort of long-term rela- HOW TO HAVE MORE FUR BY tensifying and lengthening the orgasmic agitation; or sexual arousal. Unfortunate- tionship. He even offered advice to newly- state for yourself and your parter." ly, the desires caused by tumescence are weds:"Be willing to be open enough to INTENSIFYING & LENGTHENING Schwartz's interest in the subject most easily satisfied by consuming heavy, the possibility that there's something that THE ORGASMIC STATE FOR stemmed from the workshops he held on greasy food, which lead to weight gain. you don't know, that if you know it, the theories behind Diets Don't Work. He Schwartz stated that "the problem was, it would make your lives more pleasurable." YOURSELF MDYOUR PARTNER said "one of our weight-loss clients told made people's hips and thighs grow. Once me that a friend of hers and her husband [people] began to be satisfied totally sexu- went to this university and took this sex ally, that energy level would flatten out. . . course, and the woman lost a hundred it made a tremendous difference in their Cure delivers a purely- mechanical pounds. And I said, 'Well, how did she do sex lives." thaff . . . and she said something about Schwartz offers an analogy in his book for society's taboo against talking serious- concert Saturday-at Great W~oods ly about sex and sexual performance. "What if you were not allowed to play ten- THE CURE The Cure delivered a powerful encore nis, practice it, talk about it, or even use With Shelleyan Orphan. with "Lullaby," 'nClose to Me," "Why the languagge of tennis?' he writes. "Imag- GreatWoods, September 23. Can't I be You?' and "Homesick.' They ine that you were even too embarrassed to closed their third encore byr performing ask someone else. What if everyone else By ALEX SOLIS with their opening act, Shellidan Orphan. pretended that they already knew every- The members of the band played their thing there was to know about tennis and THE CURE HA9VE BEEN ENGAGED IN instruments with outstanding mastery. Par- would make furl of you if you asked? an exhausting five-month world ticularly good were drummer Boris Wil- Then one day you got marred and the tour, and the ennui provoked by liams and keyboardist Roger O'Donnel next day you were to show up at being on the road for- so long is (formerly of the Psychedelic Furs). Robert Wimbledon ad win! " starting to show. In their last American Smith's vocals were faithful to the album "It teaches you a lot about your own show Saturday at Great Woods, the Cure versions of the songs, though occasionally body," -he said of the technique he and showed sparks of inspiration, but on the they lacked emotion. The light show was Baranco claim have produced orgasms up whole they delivered a concert by 'rote. 'quite astonishing and often compen sated to one hour in length. Normal orgasms - The band opened the show with the first for the Cure's utter passivity on stage. consist of -contractions of the sphincter, three songs from their album Disintegra- each 0.8 seconds long, with women having tion, "Plainsong," "Pictures of You," and One of the minor problems with Satur- contractions for 9 to 12 seconds and men "Closedow."-They played most of Disin- day's p erformance wvas that the band rare- for about 6 seconds. The 'simple manual tegration, including "Prayers for Rain" ly created a rapport, wi~th the audience. Af- technique" in The One-Hour Orgasmnpur- and an excellent rendition of the title ter having played the same set for .five ports to extend this to "hundreds, even track. Of their older songs, "Cold," "The months, - the band performed like ma- Lisette W. M. Lambregts/The Tech thousands" of contractions. Walk,` and "A Forest' were outstanding. (Please tum to page 9) 4utho Bo SchwartzR---9999- ~ R999RR 9RgR-29929 * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * CLAiSSICAL MUSIC CONTEMPORARY MUSIC The Somerville Theatre presents Twi GuitaristPeter (:lemewle performs works The B~arbeue BLISS Quintet performs ftiht of the Ceckroaches at 5:30; by Ponce, Brouwer, Mertz, and Weiss at The Wizard of Gig as par of the MIT 7:45, & 9:45. Continues through Sepw 8 pm at the Edward Pickman Concert Thursday Noon Chapel Series at 12:05 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC tember 28. Located at 55' Davis Hall, Longy School of Music. Follen and on Kresge Oval (rain location: Kresge The MITStudent Center Commnittee pre- Square, Somenr~e, just by the Davis Garden Streets, Cambridge. No admnis- Little Theatre). No admis-sion charge. ---- -Compiled by Peter Dunn sents Bestled~live at 8 pm inlKresge Square T-stop on the red line. Adms- sionlcharge. Tclephon: 8760956. Telephone: 253-290. -W4040.0_ _ o o _0010 .04-40 Auditorium. rickets: SS advance, 36 at sion: $5 general, S3 seniors and chil- the door. Telephone: 253-3942. dren. Telephone: 625-1081. THIEATEiR PERFODRMANCE ART Hyde Pot, James Shirley's comedy of ***CRITIC'S CHOICE ** Jole lacksou performs at (Great Consqces of Simple Moving, the cul- The Wailers and Y~ellowman perform at courtship, opens today as a presentation minto of a wforkzshop conducted by The Brattle Theatre continues its Tues- of the Huntington Theatre Company at Woods, Routes. 140 and 495, Mdans- the Channel, 25 Necco Street, near South field. Telephone: 787-8000. Scott deLahunta, is presented at 8 pin at Station in downtown Boston. Admission: day series Showeing Independent Film- the Boston University Theatre, 264 Hun- CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Mobius. 345 Congress street, Boston. making with Dear America: Letters tington Avenue, Boston. Continues S9advance/S10 at the door. Telephone: ** * *CRITIC'SCHOICE * ** Also presned Saturday, September 30. 451-1905. Romee from Vtam (1987, Bill Cou- through October 22. Tickets: S 14 to$29. 'rickets: S81S5. Tdfphone: 542-7416. turie)at 4:30 & 8.0Q and Lon~g Shadows Telephone: 266-3913. * ** CRITIC'S CHOICE** The Pixies and Love and Rockets per- Trash Broadwa, The Tears, and Shoot- (1987, Ross Spears) at 6:15 &9:40. Lo- Big Audio ynitsit performs in an form at Great Woods, Routes 140 and '-FILM St VIDEO Shoot per-form in an 18 + ages show at cated at 40 Brattle Street, Harvard FILM & VIDEO 18 + ages show at the Channel, 25 495, Mansfield. Telephone: 787-8000. The MIT Lecture Series Conmmittee pre- 8 pm at the Paradise, 967 Commono- Square, Cambridge. Admission: S5gen- ***CRITIC'S CHOICE*** Necco Street, near South Station in sents She Done Him Wrong (Lowell wealth Avenue, Boston. Tel: 254 2052. eral, $3 seniors and children (good for The Brattle Theatre continues its downtown Boston. Also presented Shema)sarring Mae Wes and Cary the double feature). Tel: 87&6837. 0 Positive and Crackiclng Cows perform Wednesday series Rlrm in the Cities September 29 and 30 (21+ ages in anIS + ages show at 8 pm at the Par- Grant, at 7:30 in 54-100 and Pille The Martin Simpson performs at Johnny D's, with Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) shows). Admission: $13.50 advance/ adise, 967 Commonwealth Avenue, Bos- Conqueror at 7:00 & 10,00 in 26-100. 17 Holland Street,D~avis Square, Somer- at 3:50 & 7:45 and Chanis; Missing 514.50 at the door. Tel: 451-1905. ton. Telephone: 2542052. Admisson: Sl.50. Telephone: 258-881. ville. near the Davis Square T-stap an (1982, Wayne Wang) at 6:10 & 10:00. the red line. Telephone: 776-9667. Located at 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Ocean Blue perform at 10 pm at Axis, 13 BabesIn Toyland,'The Prime Movers, ***CRITIC'S CHOICE*** CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Square, Cambridge. Admission: $5 Lansdowne Street, Boston, nearKen- Urban Popes, Spears and Arrows and Gang Green, TheQueers Nsivarros, and The MIT Japan Program and MIT * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * general, S3seniors and children (good more Square. Telephone: 262-2437. The Matweeds perform at the Rat, 528 Japanese Language Program present PegsntKing perform at T.T. the Beas, for the double feature). Telephone: 10 Brookline Street, Camnbridge, Just Junn Clffl and Caselberry Dupree Dumptruck, The BlakecBabies, and The Commonwealth Avenue, Kenmore Kenji Wizoguchi's Ugetsu at 7:30 in north of MIT. Telephone: 492 008. perform at Citi Club, 15 Lansdowne Kairos perform in an 18 + ages show at Square, Boston. Telephone- 247-8309. 10-5. Admission: $2 donation. Street, Boston, near Kenmore Square. T.T. the Bears, 10 Brookline Street, Died Pretty, Maria E~x-Commrunikata .- * * 0 Tryci lAnglois, Maxs Pokvchalt, and rickets: $15.50 advace/$16.50 da Th. Harvard Films Archive begins its Cambridge, just north of MIT. Tele- European Cine. Jim Majorowski perform at 7:30 at of show. Telephone: 787-M. Wednesday series of East phone: 492-0082. and Scatterfield per form at T. T. t he The Brattle Theatre presentsIf I Were Neco Place, One Necco Place, near mawith A Generation (1954, Andrzej Bears, 10 Brookldine Street, Cambridge. 'For Real (1981, Wang Toon.) at 4 pm , WaJda, Poland) at 5:30 &8:00. Screen- Dogzill, See No Evil, The Bristos, Sav- just north ofMI £T.Telephone: 492- . 6 pm, 8 pm, & l0pm. Also presented South Station in downtown Boston. Ad- Wffrd anid Tlbreook (from Squeeze) mission: S2.50. Telephone: 426-7744. ings at the Carpenter Center for the Vi- age Gorden, and ClaudeRaines perform * * * ~~Saturday,Scptember 30. Located at 40 * c * * perormn at 8 pmn at the Paradise, 967 sual Arts, Harvard University 24 Quincy at the Rat, 528 Comnmonwealth Avenue, W abingto. Squam eand Big Barn Burn- Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cam- Comnmonwealsh Avenue, Boston. Tele- Street,Harvard Square, Cambridge. Ad- Kenmore Square, Boston. Telephone: ing perform atJohnny D's, 17H olland bridge. Admission: $5 general, S3seniors UK Subs, Ultraman, Hullaballoo, phon: 254 2052. Slauhesh*& Joe, and The Elsz per- niission:$3 general,$2 seniors and chil- 244r7M. Street, Davis Square, Soimerville, near and children. Telehoe: 87646837. form at the Rat, 528 CommonwealthAv- Psasm Slav Danes and Velco Peas dren. Telephone: 495-4700. theDavis Square T-stop on the red line. -_** XannaDon'tt andKXtts; andtCross" enue, Kenmore Square, Boston. Tele- ats perform in an 18+ ages show at EXHIBITS Telephone: 776-9667. The SomenvillTheatre presents Czrivd phone: 247-8309. 10 pm at Adis, 13 Lansdowne Street, perform at Johnny D's,17 Holland *s ** Saabl~of (1962) at5 S5:45, 7 :45, -9:5 Textile Masterpieces, a selection of beau- Street, Davis Square, Somerville, near Young Neal and theV ipers andVince Continues throughO~ctober 4 Located at Boston, near Kenmore Square. Tele-. tiful and important textiles from Europe, CLASSICAL MUSIC phone: 262-2437. the DiavisSquare T-stop on the red line. S haa& thle Ndr'Eses lBluesBand D~avis5 Square, Somervile,just by the The G oifi tic Eambl performs Asia, North America, and Peru, opens Telephone: 776-967. perform at 7:30 at Necco Place, One DavisSqaeT-stop-an the redline. Ad- workes by Elliott Carter, Olly Wilson, ragfs Talig To Animals, Life today at the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 * . * I N cccoPlace, near South Station in mison:S geneal-53 seniors and chil- Mario Davidovskcy, Arlene Zalman, In Between andIlU Piv-Netrts perform Huntington Avenue, Boston. Continues A GershwiDBirthday Program is pre- downtown lBoston.Admission: $5.50 3/ dren. Teiephone: 625 t081. GyorgyKurtag. and David Rakow~ski at at the Chane, 25 Ne=c Sturet, near through December 31. Tel: 267-9300. sented at 8 pm at the Cambridge Center S6.50.Telephone: 426-7744. 8 pm in the Wang Center Grand Lobby South Staion in downtown Boston. Ad- for Adult Education,56 Brattle Street, ** * * Cambridge~~The Cenlter for Adult Educa- 270 Tremont Street, Boston. mission: Sl.01. Telehone: 451-1905. Cambridge.Admission: S3.50. Tele- Cold Sweat performs at 8 pm I : pm,1I at tion continue~s its seriesa FomYA Motters:' Holy Cow performs at Ground Zero, 512 phone: 547-6789. Nightstage. 823 Main Street, Cambridge, FM= ofn the1980's with Les Bons. Dea- Banche Muscle performs at 6 pm at Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. Tele- JAZZ MUSIC just north of MIT. Telephone: 497-8200. ns (Goo Radc, 1981,FEelcs Man- the Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, phonc.492-9545. Dr. Johnand Bl ierad~ks pe~f r- , ^,s,,^, ~~~~kiewiczCaaa). atPM 7 & V p pm.Lo- Boston. Admisson:$5 general, S2.50 se- formnat 8 pmn&II pm at Nightstage, CW fSICA LMUSIC § ctctate stBad S6atree t, Cambridge- niors and studncts. Telephone: 5661401. The So.es La Stand, Th h ** * *CRITIC'S C:HOICE *** 823 Main Street, Cambridge, just north Mezzo-soprano Par Griffin and pianist Adiso : S3.O.Teephore: 54776789. Pat Metbeny Grou.p performs at 7:30 of MIT. Telephone: 497 820. WamaSd perform works by Bar- * e* ' * FILM & VIDEO Lisre Drams perform at the Rat, 528 at the Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton ber. Schumann, and Faur6 as part of the The Harvard Fdm Arc hivcontinues its * RTII ---HIC Commonwealth Avenue, Kenmnore Place. IBoston. Also presented Friday, FILM &~ VIDEO Voicer at Noon series at 12:05KIilian in series 7F *e s of John Cam tes with *h *m of Speed~t CHOIC *mw* Square- Boston. Telephone: 247-8309. Septemaber 30. Tickets: Sl8and $2D). Hall, MIT HaydenM lemorialLibrary Ngunk md Mosldza (1971)at 7:00 Tdlephone: 7 87.M------* * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * The dirctd, anSpdstrrng Mike, The Brattle Theatre continues its Building. No admission charge. Tele. 9:1S.Screings at theC~eter Center Jteno, drctinesdail anstarring M2:45, phone: 253-2906. for theVLszA t, Harvar University, or 8 Won Hears, Septme Reign, Thursday fihn serieFafy Goarlydor 1 i:15,7:3,Jotiue dailyatthe Ww 3O :d, THEATER with *swiixe(1965) at 4:15 & 7:50 24 Qtziacy Steavreet Square. Cxam- Cm 5:15etr,734,&I:Qa Cumnthe Bstccon, and Nine Lives perform at T.T. the AffgoweSophocles's 24year-old dra- Bears. 10 Brooklne Street, Cambridge, andLes Co:&iws (1963) at 6:10 & * * * ClllnCS rl~lbridge. bngsAdmisson ognus].$ ,S2seniors oneaThemre, 34quare. go otn rnaof conscience, updated to the moral 9:45. Located. at 40 BrattleStee, I just northof MIT. Telephone: 492^0082 dilemma of the crisis in the Middle East, The BostoSyponySyolheotra Obeture. andephow.en495-4r70D . dubc * * * Havr qarer Cqamride. Abdmis-A Seiji Ozawa conducting, and T lte tue Ttp* 495?0 H alis and PIftcui Metpos opens today as a presentation of the New The Hiarvard Film Archive begn its sion:$5 general,$3 seniors and chil- TaglodFestival Cehtom s, John Te VDhAWLrI o pens Tuesday sres hmtes of Womenl on Fdm performn at Johnny D's, 17 Holland Boston Theatre at The Performance dren (good for the double feature). Place, 277 Broadwayr, Some nle. Con-~ Oliver conducting, perform then Bedrli- d ThebFs Libarugd itlv - aotosnt with D. W. Grfih's **m ose_ Straet, Davis Square, Somervi, near I Telephone:9766837. finues through October14 wfith perfcr- oz Requiempat 2 pm in Symphpyo~ 8 CwAlo preenedeteme 30ande)a (1919) x2 5:30 & 8:00. Screenings at the the Davis Square T-stop on the red line. Hall, comer of Huntigon and Mas- Oco8 pm. Alsoae atee53 Marlboro 30gan Carpne Cantr for the nuwal -Arts, Telephone: 776-9667. mances, Thursdlay-Saturday at 8 pin. sachusetts Avenues, Boston. Also pre- Ocoe1.Ltdat3 ruh Hiarvard Uoivcrsity 24 Quincy Stet .ri:ew S10g $,q3j students. Tdele sented Saturday,S sptember 30 at Street,. Boston. Admissioni S4. Tele- phone:623551. CRITIC* CHOTICES0a Harvard Square, Cambridge'. Admn on: The Movs Abtin Afth an h TheMuseumn of Fine Arts begis its 8 Tickpm. lcs:S15.50 to S41el. Tde-o 26643bone 3S1 S3 general. 2 seniors andcilde. Tel- Old School perform at 7:30 at Nacco, retrospctiv of AnnaM agnani films pone:266-1492.. A~ oJohnPidmir's religious .P Th Museum of~u- fFineArts oxftil its' a phonc: 495-700. Plac, One Necco PI=c, near South Sta-' m~eq ~a, pCDStodayas a presen- with MYNamle A.is hbu L~~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~ tion in downtown Bosto.dissio.-^ ItioOf ine Acor'5~ i Members' (18,his8 Chri emorck,elgum ati~m)a ** * * rerospctveofAm Mmam fim4_s The Institute of C:ontemporary Art prv $3.SO.Telephone: 426-7744. P t30 at the Leland Center, Boston 6.pmand Opwl City (1945, Roberto 7 BoTon UivesityUnsyito SYIlOr 0 witham18W ey(Yt8,p4(X9S8, R set hsI Ou Home, It Is Not For Gzbllwfor t~heArs, 539 Tremont Street, Roselnitay l~)at 8 pmaSrteni Scni d~r, Seiji Ozawac onducting, per- telani. Italy) at 6 a :00ndUMM h Sakfi 11987, Jon Schwartz) at 3 psn Lo Tlle Bmiort andU ~slQ S perform BLs CA~ues through Octber !s infn is Auditorirm.MEA 46 Hu A, u forms'works by Beethovens,Schoenberg, (1962 Pier Paolo P UO _sliiM&0 cated at -955 }}ayltn Svet:, IBoston. at 9 pmat 1 .istp8;23 Main Street. aishlPafefmances TusySaturaa tintoAeneBotn A~drDissihon. :iin adDoand at Pin at 8Tpmai TPaiormQ~a= 1 ScmniqRe~,AdtoAd in il_ Adifo: SS gencral, S4 IC:A members, Camolg, just north of MIT Tek- Cner.Boton, Uotnivrsxivaty,$.6 Common-8 4 Zi u# Aenc M Su~f madame at 2 pm.Tickts: general,S4S33.J MA members, se- wealth veS3.SO50A .sb* * =ig add -sftd --TcL. 2_66-5M- - -- 'L AAMW .I -and aAAe_ aJ, _ -- ~t" ~~ss- Tedephone:-3 3S3334 5. slos n o shdett Tel l .. ISS·SLP -- naq "'-tiirf~rt~vcr-D-ia~or-o -118 ags--rlll ·-19. · )- - -icin I'M- I'--16'.-DA-r-- 0, " 111111.1 -- g-I T tar · , _~-L ~ ~ ~~~~saom"' I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~UCUt,StAY, 'btr· I tLbt Z , - 165 -neEAetc3 n murAit;U· aIbW ·% - · -------- -" ----i--P-=- ., A-''R- T IIR'I I I- --i; -- ---i--3e --- - ' = ---' ------` la~~lL IL ~~ L_ X A . _ _ _ _ ,A wverse reacti'on'.rorn c, e~u~texveritnentw v t I * ozar NEW ORCHESTRANEWORCHESTRA OF BBSPBN it d~espitee OF BOSTONein mightmost asbite if he were scared the instrument the Symphony a pleas- complete lackhim. But it was not Eigen's This No. 33 in B-flat, K. 319. some homework done. to the work, of imaginationr which performaatfnces.was arguably the best of the three Bul this Manfred Eigen, piano soolost. Ongle member of the antly chirpy conclusion t(, nondescript f he caused the most ajud~i- wbas nonpetheless a mostly and Pleart of offense: at least a bland ence th Bi-Natonal Coloquiumof the was at least sufficiently relaxed to Alexand~~i~rervon Hmbold Founation performance provides an opportunity get uninspired interpretation. read a Ibook, ~d~ay-dream ,9_k.dydr"or even sleep. to It b ~ ~ ~ BI JII A~~ml c~~P1 di"Alblavolt~ w~as higen's sheer clumnsiness and -lack of -1 tic B~~S.C3 tuat ebg$C L;UIIL~4 vf-t1 By JONATHAN Rh~ICHMO~MND erythingany notion he of didmusicianship ugly hand lw painful thatfpoaiiy~ to made the ear.~nacrigtev- ANFRED pa e 8srcl EIGEN'S PERFOR- Ee y tl u mance of Mozart's Piano codn t h aso rbblt bp Concrroo. 1 in , K.414found one would have expected Concerto No. a few more him to have(Cniudfopae8RbrtSthsevieadjstmtrsi n1 12 in A, K.· 0 the c414 of the notes as indicated N1~l s dis on the score. chines. They(otne sounded 1d a u d y ng t w s a rmpgright, but they did his strange-im accent n t f .l rn * )Rbr ~~+that 1~I her\Ell+ is gettingk;k - n11 tirecthnirtOh it - - A +- A^ 01 Meh-I %-UFC nihi dRU LndL CHQ UV gra;ce which noL xcet sagnt. i ney seemea= urea, as -n r vsvh th n nC513L utmtesic~ L ULInKIRULLQh should never Inave been al- theYr just it they can go much lowed to happen. The New Orchestra did show wanted to get it over with. In further musically. Othter Eigen received the Nob~el a greater fact, the members of the EPrize for~Chemistry ability than Eigen to technically band didn't seem to really loosen band say thaat Smith1 is al-- in 1967 and his con- the interpret uP until waybs that way cert with the score, but t'here was little interesting the second part of the show. Not and thlat hris pessimism NI~ew Orchestra of 1Boston was ~srsrisingly, keeps him sane, billed as about their performances. The t~hey got the moast feedback but he looks like he "a meeting of the worlds of sci- Mozarte Di- from means enceC vertimento, K. 136 with the crowd on their last few songs it more and mrore. and music." To judge frolm Eigen's which the pro- the and inability gram began sounded thin encores. to hit even a fair proportion and scrappy. -The To put it bluntlyr, the notes of There was a lack-of precision Cure have been together for over Saturdaay's show was right, hte'd be better offi in future to the play-- ten -Y~ears. m~ediocre-. Ilt satisfied,, to stick ing, and certainly no style or The~hy have threatened to b~reak but it wats not ne~ar- to the test tubes. grace. When uP should ly as good as the The the music didn't come across they ever achieve popular suc- one ona their prev~ious notes he dlid manage to identify sluggishly, it cess, Mforeover tour., Better by far coffectly just sounded plain harsh. they haPve declared that the to see thle Cure separate on the keyboard sounded wood-- Prayer -Tour will at the heighnt of their en; his approacha be their last tour. W~bhenl career than to watch was prissy - it was al- The all-M~ozart concert -concluded wi~th questionede~ aboutt their standar~ds i ------P-------- the future, band leader fall. I B pP o P~BPILB~L~-PP a ~P QQ PI P P P PP oil ~o PBPP P -Ad Rgppp2 ae2 2-geoog pp p- p p g p p Ogpa R LPP n a n 9 no P g P P O P2 A DANCE THEATER~E0 CLASSIICAL An M~USIC Evesing with bft*t Twlain, with Stan Travesties, Tom Remo Campoplano: In Residence, fea- Playwright's Platform presents Pianist Andrew GilL, continues indefinitely Stoppard's mix of doc- turing a room-size CRITIC'S CHOICE a Fanl Rangell performs The at the Boston tored history. political and installation including Company FCestivid of One-Acts, including Goldberg Variations by Baked Theatre. 255 Elin. artistic de- a coffee-table landscape Karms with Sabulro, Te- Smolker's Irving J. S. Bach at Street, Davis bate, and literary burlesque, continues inhabited by a shfggawara perform Bury Me Not, Dean O'D~on- 6 pm at the Gardner Museum, 280 Square, Somerville.. Performances through colony of live ants, continues through as a presentation nell's Legwork,, Fenway, The Thursday-Frklay are September 30 as a presentation November of D~ance Umbrella at 8 and Ctint Coffins's Jet Boston. Admission: $5 general, at 8:15, Saturday at of the- 19 at the List Visual Arts pm at Emer- Lag at 6 PM at the $2.50 seniors 7:00 & 9:15, Nora, Theatre Company at the Center, son Majestic Theatre, 217 Tremont Cambridge Center for and students. 'T'elephone: anda Sunday at 3:00. Tick- Theatre at the MIT Wiesner Building E15. Gal- Adult Education, 56 Brattle 566-1401. ets: $11 to $14 general, Harvard Union, Quincy lery hours are weekdays Street, Boston. Also presented Sep- Street, Cam- $2.50 discount to and Harvard Streets, 12-6and week- tember bridge. Also presented Sunday, seniors and students. Cambridge. Perfor- ends 1-5. No- admission 30 at 8 pm and October I at Octo- FILM & VIP88DEO Tel: 628-9575. mances are Thursday-Saturday charge. Tele- 3 pm. ber 8. Tickets: $6 general, $3 seniors The at 8 pm. phone: 253-4680. Admission: $15 and $20,- se- and Harvard Film Archive continues Tickets: $12 to $15. Tel: 720-343~4. niors and students children. Telephone: 547-6789. Tuesday its Grand Hotel, The Muscal receive 15% d~is- series Imagesof Women on RIMil through continues counts on day of with Flesh October 7 at the Colonial Nunsense, Still Performance: Rimma and performance. Te~le- -FILM-&I VIDEO and the Devil (1927, Clarence atre, The- depicting the talent show Gerlovin, Valery phone:. 492-7578. The Brown), starring 106 Ek*-L-ton Street, Boston. Per- staged by collaborative photographs by MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- Greta Garbo and John formances the Little Sisters of Hoboken the Soviet sents The Gilbert, at 5:30 & 8:00. are Thursday-Saturday at in order to raise ernigr6 artists, continues Seventh Sign at 7:00 &:9:30 in Screenings at the 8 pm with a 2 money to bury four of through October 26-100. Kd-mission: Carpenter Center for pin matinee on Saturdayy their number currently 8 at the List Visual Arts I $1.50. Telephone: the Visual Arts, Tickets: $20to in the convent Center, MIT 258-8881. Harvard University, 24 $45. Tel: 42&;9366. Wiesner Building E15. Gal- Quincyr Street, lery hours are weekdays Harvard Square, Cambridge. Admission: 12-6 and week- CONTEMPOARY-MUSI $3 general, KM~~8 s Head, Seam Shep~ard's ends 1-5. No admission i $2 seniors and children. monologue charge. Tele- CRITIC'S CHOICE Tele- about an imapending electrocution, phone: 253-4680. The phone: 495-4700. con- Brattle Theatre: continues its Sun- I: .day filim series OFF CAMPUS A Tribute to Laurence The Brattle-Theatre-continues its-Tue-- Video Against Olivier -withHenry V day AIDS, a provocative se- (1944, Laurence series Showcasinlg Independent Film- ries of 22 independently Olivier) at 2:00 & 7:15 and Richlar- making with produced tapes d MI(1955, The Stupid Tears (1988, on AIDS-related issues, continues Laurence Olivier) at 4:35 Alyson Mead) at 8:00 through aCRITIC'SC CHOICE S & 9:45. Located &r9:45. Located at September 29 at the Institute The Poguesi~ at 40 Brattle Street, 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Contemporary of perform rat 7:30 at the Harvard Square, Cambridge. Cam- Art, 955 Boylston Street, Opera House, Admis- bridge. Admission: $5 general, $3 Boston. Rotating 539 Washington Street, sion: $5 general, $3 seniors and seniors schedule of screenings. Boston. Tickets: $18. Tel: and chil- duildren. Telephone: 876-6837. Telephone: 266-5152. 787-8000. dren (goodl for the double feature). Telephone: 876-6837. Chris CRITIC'S CHOICEEa Burden: A Twenty-Year Survey, The Cavedogs, Button io+** conceptual Kings, and Manta Image and Imaginations: 150 Years installations, sculpture, Rays perform at T.T. the Bears, Photography. of ventions, in- Brookline 10 OtaaRITIC'S an exploration of the and relics from the artist's dar- Street, Cambridge, just north CHOPICE Bedroom evolvement of ing performances of MIT. The Harvard-Epworth Farcce, Alayn Ayckbouurn's the technology of pho- of the 70s, continues Telephone: 492-0082. Church pre- award-winning tozgraphy, continues through through October I at the sents King Vidor's The Crowd comedy of marital dis- Decem- Institute of at (1928) ccird, continues -trough- ber 31 at the MVIT Museum Building, Contemporary -Art, 955 Boylston .Willie Ak~~tnder,, The Outlc",s, Spom. Lomcged at 1555 Massachti- qctober 22 at_ 265 M Boston.- Street, C-ondo setts Avenue, the Lyric Stage;'54 Charles Street,'U~os- assachusetts -Avenue, Cam.! Institute hours-'are Thursday- Pygmies, Johnnpy and the 'Jumper -Cambrid~ge;'just north .ton. bridge. Museurn Saturday bles, -Ca- of Harvard P~erformances are Wednesday- hours are Tuesday- I 1-8 ind Wednesday &Sunday and Dixie Cinema perform at Square. Admission: $3 Thursday Friday 9-5 anad Saturday-Sunday 11-5. Admission: Rat, the contribution. Telephone: at 8:00, Saturday at 5:00 &~ 12- -$4 general, S3 stu- 528 Commonwealth Avenue, Ken- 354-0837. -8:30, and 4. Admission: S2 reque~sted dents, $1.50 seniors and children, more Square, Sunday at 3:00. Tickets: donation, free to Boston. Tel: 247-8309. $13.50 to $17. Telephone: free to MIT community. Tclephone: MIT students. Telephone: 266-5152. The Harvard 742-870-3. 253 4444. Film Archive continues its * * *a CRITIC'S series The Films New Works New Technology, on-the- CHOICE * * * of John Cassayetes with The cusp Peter Case The Killing of a Devil Amongst Us, an audience- art by Amy Fisch SM '86, performs at Johnny D's, Ohinese Bookie (1976) at participation Holography: Types stud Applications, Garvey SM'82, Greg 17 Holland Street, D~avis 4 pm & 7 prn. The HFA also murder mystery, continues drawn from Jennifer Hall SM '86, Square, its Non-Fiction continues indefinitely the work of MIT Media Terry Maxedon, Somerville, near the Davis film series with The Mans at the Mystery CaN,, 738 Lab's Spatial and Joan Shafran Square With Massachusetts Avenue, Imzaging.Group, continues SM '80, continues through t-stop on the red line. Telephone: a Movie Camera (1928, Dziga Ver- Cambridge. Per- at the MIT Museum, October 9 at tov, USSR) formances are Thursday 265 Massitchusetts the a.k.a. Skylight Gallery, 43 776-9667. at 5pm in Room B-04. & Friday at' Avenue. Museum hours Street, Charles Screenings at the 7:3b, Saturday at 6:00 &r 9:00, and are Tuesday- Boston. Gallery hours are Mon- Carpenter Center for day Sun- Friday 9-5 and wee~kends 12-4. day-Friday the Visual Arts, Harvard at 6:00. Ticket~: $24 to $28 (includ- sion: Admis- 9-6. Telephone: 720-2855. Boston Baked Blues University, 24 ing meal). $2 requested donation, free to MIT Band and The Quincy Street, Harvard Square, Telephone: 262-1826. community, Amazing Nudshark perform bridge. Cam- Telephone: 253-4444. Style and Science: Examining 4t-1:30 at Admission: $3 general, $2 seniors a Polykeli- Necco Place, One Necco Place, and chrildren. tan Sculpture, examining the South near Telephone: 495-4700. Forbidden Broadway 1989, the latest ILahore: The City Within, portant most im- Station in downtown Boston. Ad- dated version up- an exploration sculpture in the Wellesley College mission: of Gerard Alessandr~ini's of the cultural, artistic, and architectural Museum S5.501$6.50. Teh: 42&-7744. COMEDY~~ musical comedy center collection; Giorgio Vasari's revue, crontinues indefi- of Parkistan, continues through Holy Family: Master CLASSICAL nitely at the Terrace Room, December 17 at and Pupil in a Re- MUSIC81 Boston Park the MIT Museum, 265 naissance Workshop, examining Flutist Alan Weiss, Plaza Hotel. Performances are Massachusetts Avenue, a Re- pianist Martin Arm- Friday Tuesday- Cambridge. Mu- naissance masterpiece; and 150 lin, and obocist Ann at 8pm, Saturday at 7 prn seum hours are Tuesday-Friday Photography, Years of -Marie Rosandichb 10 pm, &' 9-5 and Part 1: Invention all con- perform works by Marjorie and Sunday at 3 prn & 6 pm. weekends 12-4. Admission: $2 requested tinue through Merryman, Tickets: $16.50 donation, October 22 at the Welles- John Goodman, Ralphi Vaughna-Wil- 2o $24.50 depending on free to MIT community. Tele- ley College Museum, lianis, Henri performance. Telephone: 357-8384. phone: 253-4444. Jewett Arts Center, Dutilleux, and Aaron Cop- Wellesley. Museum hours are Monday- land at 8 pm at the Tsai Performance Saturday 10-5 Center, and Sunday 2-5. No ad- Boston University, 685 Common- mission charge. Telephone: -wealth Avenue, 235-0320 Boston. No admission ext. 205 1. charge. Telephone: 353-3345. To The Limit continue: through ber Octo- THEATERE n at the Mugar Onud Theater, Bos- Playwright's ton Museum of Platform presents a Fall Science, Science Park, Boston. Screenings are Tuesday-Sunday II am, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8 pm, and Saturday- Sunday 4, 5, 6 pm. Admission: $6 gener- al, $4 seniors and children. Telephone: 589-0100. * * * * Ceramics/Jewelry 1989, works by Vaughan Smith, Jacqueline Cohen, Hirata, Arni Gayle Prunhuber, Shirley Dre- vich, Celia Landman, Michele Krespi, and Christine White continues through November 5 at Ten Arrow Gallery, Arrow 10 Street, Cambridge. Gallery hours are Monday-Saturday 10-6, Thursday 10-9, and Sunday 1-5. Tel: 876-1117. CRITIC'S CHOICE Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, major 23 color prints shown in groups of up to nine versions, continues through November 5 at the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Telephone: 267-9300.

Lucas SAMMIL Objects and Subjects 1969-1996 continues through Novem- ber 12 at the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Telephone: 267-9300.

CRITIC'S CHOICE Computer Art in Context: GRAPH SIG. 189 Art shoPw, featuring two- dimensional works. moving sculpture, Iinteractive environments, animation, and P01Y-di-ensional works on video. tape, continues through January 4 at CRITIC'S CHOICE The Computer Museum, 300 Con, Fiddler on the Roof, the 25th1 anniver- gress StrMe, Boston. Museum sary production hours krMth acclaimed actor are Tuesday-Sunday 10 am-5 pm. Topol, opens today at the Wang Cen- Admission: $5 general, $4 ter, 270 and students T'remont Street, Boston. Con- seniors, free to children under 5. tinues through October 8 with perfor- Telephone., 423-6758. mances at 8 pm and matinees Thursday, on Saturday, and Sunday at 2 pm. Tickets: $18 to $33. Telephone: '482-9393. aaQgl 1AR Jo Cocker petition Winner, performs at 3 pin at the at tawcll Mentorial Aaudito- Gardner museum. 2808 The Fenway, riumn on ton. Bos- Steel Magnonas OctoberS. Roshm B~~lk per- Admission: S5 general.- $2.50 seniors Robert Harling's off- forms PjmvA* and students. Broadway play about the end Ja~let at the Wang Telephone. 45661401. lives of six Center, October 12 . 0-0 * women in a small Louisiana town. to 22. Bob Dyba at to~tday at the Wilbur Theatre-, opens the Opera House on Octobe The Portland Sftft 246 Trt- 2, 24, ouadet ilid pianist moat Street, aund 25. Ixvid Rynt at the orpheum Paul Poasak perfo=a~ works by Boston. Coklinues, through Theare oIn Blec~h, Ernest October 22 with performance October 26 and 27. utars Mozart, and chopin at 5:30 at Tuesday- Grdb~s- Dance'Connaanw theFogAr Saturday At -t PM with matinees at the Wang haisem., 32 Qurincy Street. Thursday an ClCtiri October27 to29. &tSaturday at 2 pm and Sun- The E.wy&t- -g~mt-- ikhjr-kxAmft m~a~~sat -th,~'-W*Tvvacr Crwmtrm seniors a students. Tel: lw - r Fm oL- 495-4544. Telephone: 426-936&- Sieptet-be 28 andi 29. November 7. HAnr. r_- I. -A -l _. l__e·- _r _, -. .b · _ _1_~ -~ ~ ~~~~~~~- I -B1811_ - ._AGE 1.u . The Tech - TUESDAY,- SEPTEMBER 26, 1989 _ I l W~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _ ------___ -- I A-- T3 Pr Cl g . . p ~ ~ e--~~~·------5 - -'-tQ · -

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$48 SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR ONLY $121 * ,: -' ';: f ' !~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Tech Performing Arts Series is flexibility of approach. Subscribers The MIT subscription price is -pleased to.-invite the MAIT community are invited to meet the pianist and only $12 for a subscription normal I: to subscribe to the'exciting new Sins conductor at a post-concert reception ly priced at $48. For orders of 10 foNova season at. a very special low at a nearby hotel (location to be subscriptions or m .ore on one form, the price is $11 per-subscrip- rate. announced). January's program is highlighted tion - ideal for living groups. The rnew season begins on Octo- This offer is-not being made avail- ber 27 with Steven Lubin joining by a performance of the Haydn Cel- lo Concerto by Soviet cellist able to any other college or group; the orchestra for a performance of it's being made available to us be- Souren Bagradouni, who made a Beethoven's Piano Concerto Noo. 3. cause of the terrific response by the big impact during the Soviet-US Lubin's recent recordings of the com-- MIT community last year. So, please Exchange Festival held in Boston plete Beethoven piano concertos with send your subscription form and last year. His tone is fabulous,, his check made payable to "SinfoNsoa" the Academy of Ancient Music, con- interpretation subtle. In April an- ducted by Christopher Hogwood are for $12 per subscription ($d1 each for other Soviet virtuoso - Vladimir 10 or more subscriptions) to Jona- spellbinding. The Penguin CD guide Krainev---will -be in town to play has rated his recordings first choice than Richmond at MdhIT Room 1-090, works by Shostakovich and indicating your MIT affiliation (under- above several famous name pianists. Schnittke. graduate student, graduate student, Lubin's n.cording of-the third pi- The three 'programs are filled out faculty or staff). Subscription forms ano concerto is particularly touch- with other works by Beethoven, Wag- are available at The Tech and.Tecth ing and beautiful., and this is the ner, Mozart, Webern, Strauss, Komi- nology Comnmunity Association and work he'll be playing here. The re- tas and Dvorak. SinfoNova won two the first floor information center in the cordings are on perio'd instruments awards last season; we hope, you'll Student Center, In the Music Library, he'll be performing on a mnodern- subscribe for a new season which and fro-m the Wiesner -Building, piano in Boston, showing his will be at least equally enthralling. Room El 5-205."

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REFORM (M. LT. Chapel) Bates ends volleyball streak. Friday, September 29, 8:00 pm MIT Saturday, September 30, 10:(0 am BY David Rothstein beat the first two teams may added a point to its side, before a By the end of the long wom- have contributed to a flat perfor- second solo block by Nungester CONSERVATIVE (Kresge Little TFheatre) en's volleyball season, Saturday's mance against Bates. spurred another three-point run loss at the hands of Bates College "We didn't have to sustain any by the Engineers. Ffiday, September 29, 6:30 pm may seem like small change. But energy [over Gordon and ENCJ," Kills by Tonya Parker '90 and Saturday, September 30, 8:30 am & 7:15 pm for now, it remains a disappoint- said Altman after the Bates Nyla Hendrick '92 and a Bates Sunday, October 1, 8:30 am & 7:15 pm ing end to a modest early-season match. defensive miscue brought MIT to win streak of four games. MIT started slowly against within. one, at 12-13, but that was Bates, MIT played its worst game of losing the first two games, as far as it would go. A Plante 4-15 the early season against a strong, and 6-15, as the team's pass- roll shot brought the game and ing although beatable, Bates team in and setting was erratic. match winning point to the visit- the deciding match of this year's The third game turned into a ing Bobcats. Holiday meals will be served in the Kosher Kitchen, located in tug MIT Invitational Volleyball Tour- of war, but in the end it was Co-captain Cecilia Warpinski Walker Hall Room 50-007. one step forward and two nament. Last year, MIT won the back E'90, whose passing and hitting in MIT Food Service requires for the Engineers, who lost, 15- reservations, which can be made Invitational, beating Bates in five the third game kept MIT close to at the Koosher Kitchen (253-2987). games. 12, to a well-executed BtatesI Bates, ended the match with 16 offense. kills, while Parker had seven. Bates and M[IT finished first After falling behind, 0-3, in MaIT travels to South Hadley, and second, respectively, in this the third game, the Engineers MA, this evening for a year's tournament, held Friday New En- tied the score on a Debbie Nun- gland Women's Eight Conference and Saturday in the DuPont gester '90 solo block. SPONSORED BY MIT HILLEL, 312 MEMAORIAL DRIVE, Gymnasium. natchup with the Mount Hol- 263-2982 Bates' Laurie.-Plante then, yoke College Rams. L- served her team a~ -4 , to an 8-3 lead, I . - . . . o e which then went to 10-5 on a ser- q vice ace by teammate Julie Roche, pfro-mpt--.h an M-IT- timeout. During that timeout, said Alt- man, she and assistant coach Da- vid Insley reminded their team to be patient. Facing a 6-12 deficit, MIT be- gan a slow comeback, winning R three points back on strong serv- "r, ing by setter Jenny Harris '90, and patient play in a long rally for point number eight. Bates

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o Karl Reid from IBM, presenting the design, features, and impact of IBM's Micro Channel Architecture for PS/2 computers. Thursday, September 28, 8-9:30pm.

o Dan Wagner from Prodigy, presenting a demonstration er

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1 -ISpO"ts-· Ml crushes StonehillS; OS in season opener . By Shawn Mastrian came as tackle Mike Ahrens- '90 er, and waltzed into the endzaone. stuffed Strachan on a third-and- Once again, the Stonehill of- It was expeted before last Sat- one play for no gain,. forcing a fense stalled on three plays. The urday's football -game that the punt. This play acted to fire-up punter, obviously tired from his Beavers would have a pretty good the special teams as they blocked rigorous workout on the day, team this year. This prediction the punt and gave the Beavers the shanked a mighty seventeen-yard came true, as MIT won. Stonehill ball on the Stonehill 36. Unfortu- punt, which gave MIT the ball at College, their opponent, figured nately, the offense was unable to it's own 39. The offense at this to test them in what was expected capitalize as they had to punt time was revved up and needed to be a close game. Well, one out three plays later. only one play to score. Lapes caught a sideline pass in stride, shook off a tackle, and never looked back as he rambled 61 yardsfor ffthetouchdown. The Beavers were firmly in control. The first quarter ended as Rick Buellesbach '90 struck Strachan for a six-yard loss. The second quarter proved no kinder as Stra- chan fumbled on the first play, giving MIT the ball once again in Chieftain territory. LaHousse then ran four of the, next. five plays for MIT, gaining 32 yards, and setting up yet another first and goal situation for the Bea- vers. This time, a clipping penal- Michael Franklin/The Tech ty forced them back to the twen- Anthony Lapes '90 catches a sideline pass and runs 61 ty, but this didn't really matter as touchdown during Saturday's victory his yards for MIT's third on third down Day rolled to over Stornehill. left and found Lapes, who squirmed into the endzone after .fortunately for Drake and the Strachan for a five-yard loss. MIT. Chieftains, Loh is curre,ntly en- The MIT starting offense then being hit, making it 28-0, to Stonehill then became desper- rolled as a student at I dlT,- not realized that they were going ate. -Shin Hirose '90 stuffed the Stonehill. get a fourth quarter vacation. weary Strachan for no gain on a Once again, the Beaverrs moved Eager for the time off, LaHousse swelled situation, but as the ball with ease, on ly being grabbed a short pass from Day of two isn't bad. Defensive momentum third-and-short it into a 56-yard The Beavers demonstrated that as the Chieftains pulled off a the Chieftains were so far be- stopped because the nnormally and turned to go for sure-handed Lapes dr(opped a touchdown, .running untouched they will definitely be a force in not-so impressive three-play, mi- hind, they were forced defense once it. They succeeded this time, but touchdown pass, probab ly out of through the Swiss cheese the Eastern Collegiate Football nus one yard, drive. Ahrens earned the this year as they de- made the key play as he three plays later Buellesbach pity. Freshman Dan McGahn of Stonehill. This Conference again as starting offense and defense the molished the Chieftains, .45-13, sacked the beleagured Chieftain broke up a pass play, denying showed his value to the team a first down and giving he kicked the first field goal the rest of the game off in their season's opener at Stein- quarterback on a third-and-two Stonehill Chieftains to MIT jumped This allowed the brenner Stadium. formulate some sort of offense out to a 21-0 lead after one quar- and to produce misleading statis- ter and 38-0 after three en route tics in:Sunday's Globe. A long to its most impressive. win in drive was knifed when Prather, years. who lead.the team in tackles as -Stonehill won the openiing coin usual, jumped nearly 73 feet into toss - the only thing they did the air and sacked Drake for a right all day - and elected to re- loss. ceive the kickoff. This afforded After the Beaver offense the- Beaver defense an opportuni- stalled, Stonehill scored a touch- ty to show that the bend-but-not- down. MIT showed its depth, break defense of last -year had however, as it marched down the evolved into a don't-even-bend .length of the field and scored defense. After Stonehll-'s Frank- with it's back-up players. Jeff Strachan- ripped off ~i ten-yard- Drbohlov '91 ran for 30 yards on gain on the first play, the MIT the drive and second quarterback defense stiffened and forced a John Hur '93 busted out on a 38 Chieftain punt just three plays yard rumble to fuel the drive. later. lMoose plowed in from eight Now it became the offense's yards out to ice the game. turn to shine. Punishing runs by The only question left at the Garret Moose '91 pushed the ball Wey Lead end of the game was what didn't into Stonehill territory and gave work. The offense was unstoppa- the Beavers two first downs. The MIT marching band performs during halftime of Saturday's game. ble, the defense impregnable, and Quarterback Tim Day '89 then Beavers have made sine:e the ice the soecial teams were solid. Day with his favorite tar- situation. The punt gave MIT the MIT the ball. going 10 for hooked up The rest of the first half'went age, putting MIT uup 31-0.- had a great game, get of a year ago, Tony Lapes ball on the Stonehill 35. - six of his 15 for 232 yards, three touch- The offense would not stall back and forth, with the Beaver .-'-McGahn also made all '90, on a 35-yard pass which set down Stonehilt- extra points on the day. downs, and one interception, situation on twice in a row from this close, defense shutting catches for 178 up a first-and-goal ,compIetely-and the offense mark-r $tonehill's second p1ossession, Lapes had seven the four. Tailback Shane La- however. Lapes caught a-pass on et with di- yards, fourth best among all col- easily on the left sideline for a fourteen- ing:;time until the half. i - . not surprisingly, also me on Housse '90 then scored -- MIT elected to kick the ball to saster. After just five pllays, MIT legiate receivers at any level a sweep left in a hole my elderly yard gain, Moose ran through the middle for three, and-Lapes o6pen the second half, fighring - grandmother could have run way the Chieftains. made it caught another pass over the there was no through. The extra point c:ould march down the entire- . '7-0; L-field-and score. This proved to be 'i The Chieftains then ran off an Stonehill -quar- which a-wise choice as ill-fated five-play drive terback Mark Drake threw a per- moved them only 19 yards down- fect strike to Fred Loh '92. Un- field. The key defensive play

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