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Volume 120, Number 5 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, February 15, 2000 Deadlock Ends: Mayor Elected Hartard JPSuroives Fifth Ballot Is the . diverse coalition consisting of coun- ciation members Braude and Davis. Impeac hment ThO tes cillors James Braude. Henrietta Councillor Kenneth Reeves com- .I.~ (./1t ,,(, Charm for GallUCCIO Davis. David Maher. Michael Sulli- pared this election to the 1998 elec- van. and Tim Toomey. Maher was tion of Francis Duehay. In that elec- By Frank Dabek elected as vice mayor by a unani- tion, CCA members failed to rally By Sanjay Basu ade stand he had used during the EDITOR IN CHIEF mous vote. behind one candidate for mayor. ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR campaign. In a dramatic turn of events An emotional Galluccio said resulting in the acrimonious defeat Harvard's Undergraduate Coun- Burton's opponents, visibly frus- Anthony D.Galluccio was elected as after his election that his "door will of Katherine Triantifillou. cil voted not to remove Vice Presi- trated with their first loss, quickly the new mayor of Cambridge early be open" to all councillors and that The election was "as treacherous dent John A. Burton '01 from office moved to discuss the infringement this morning. he hopes that Cambridge will be a as could be." said Reeves. who cast in an impeachment hearing last Sun- on BGL TSA rights. But the Galluccio's election on the fifth better city at the end of his term. his vote for fellow progressive day. alliance's chairman Michael A. Hill ballot came during a turbulent Fellow Councillor Reeves said Born. "The CCA is an embarrass- Burton was accused of taking '01 testified that any of the candi- evening which saw a number of Galluccio "will bring his gifts" to ment to itself again." buttons from the school's Bisexual. dates could have used the group's councillors switch their votes and the council in the upcoming term. Leading CCA candidate Born Gay. Lesbian. Transgender and Sup- buttons. Anyone can "just come in the rise and fall of several potential The coalition which elected the had declared her candidacy early in porters' Alliance during his cam- and take one," he said. coalitions. moderate and independent Galluc- the election process and built a paign without permission from the Erica A. Farmer '0 I, a Burton Supporting Galluccio was a cio included Cambridge Civic Asso- coalition of four votes in early bal- group's members and of having supporter, said that Hill's testimony lots only to see Braude and Davis later lied to the Council's Election ensured the defeat of the first defect to other camps. Commission. Despite these charges. impeachment article. Braude. who voted on the fourth Burton remains in his seat because However, Sterling P. A. Darling ballot for a resurgent Reeves. said his opponents failed to garner the '01, one of Burton's chief oppo- that he was motivated to change alle- necessary two-thirds needed to nents, said that the buttons likely giances to encourage the timely elec- remove a sitting VP. gave Burton and Driskell an unfair tion of a mayor. "The search for a advantage during the election. perfect mayor is over." Braude said Council splits on vote "Do you think this was a fair after the fourth ballot. "[Cambridge] The first article of impeachment election?" he asked a hissing crowd. needs a mayor imperfections and all." against Burton, which said that he "Those buttons could have made all Decker. who switched her vote had lied to the UC Election Com- the difference ... how would you twice during the evening, said that mission about his use of funds, was feel as another candidate?" there was "a lot of uncertainty here opposed 47 to 33. 38 of the Coun- tonight." Decker, who cast votes for cil's 79 voting members also voted Future problems anticipated Reeves and Born. said that she was against a second article of impeach- Given the Council's ambivalent "committed to having the very best ment, which claimed that Burton vote on Burton's removal and the chair of the school committee." had infringed upon the rights of the widely differing opinions members Under Cambridge's charter the BGLTSA. have on its leadership, some DC mayor chairs the school committee All three members of the DC's members have wondered how the and is a voting member. Both Born Election Commission voted against Council will perform. ROBERT SUMNER-THE TECH and Reeves could provide commit- the first impeachment article, claim- "It makes you wonder what's Anthony D.' Galluccio was elected mayor early this morning on the tee leadership, Decker said. ing that Burton had not lied to them next for us," said Fentrice D. fifth ballot, closing a marathon Cambridge City Council meeting. about his use of funds for a lemon- Driskell '01, current UC President. Driskell ran with Burton during December's presidential elections Old Firehouse To Make Way for Inn and has been Burton's key supporter Seth L. during the impeachment debate. But several other supporters Cambridge City Council Sells Firehouse to Bed and Breakfast Company made their presence felt at Sunday's Karon '01 By Sanjay Basu attempting to sell the firehouse and 1997." meeting. Some members of the Har- ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR its surrounding lot ever since the Mary Presntiss owners finally vard student body wore yellow rib- The ancient and degenerating station was closed seven years ago. bought the property for $1.35 mil- bons to express their disgust with firehouse situated in the center of "The city first attempted to sell lion, excluding annual taxes. But the impeachment articles. Others Kendall Square will soon be the this property in 1994 and that was the inn will move into a costly coined the slogan, "Down with But- host of a new bed-and-breakfast inn. unsuccessful," Peterson said. "Then The Cambridge City Council elect- began the second process to sell it in Firehouse, Page 19 Harvard, Page 20 ed last month to sell the firehouse to Mary Presntiss, a company that intends to develop the plot into a fully operative inn. But instead of destroying the crumbling building, which was Seth L. Karon '01 died in built during the early 1800s, Mary his hometown of Plymouth, Presntiss managers reportedly will Minnesota, last Wednesday in restore the firehouse, move the a suicide. He was 21 years old. entire building forward toward Karon, who had a long- Main Street, and build an addition- standing battle with depression, al extension away from the street had been on a formal leave of and toward MIT's Whitaker Col- absence from the Institute since lege of Health Sciences and Tech- August, said Dean of Students nology. Robert M. Randolph. The 65-room inn even boasts a He majored in Chemistry first-floor restaurant and an under- and was a member of Tau ground parking complex. Epsilon Pi. In addition, he Some Cambridge citizens have was a gifted photographer wondered why the firehouse can't and writer. simply be destroyed. Lisa Peterson Funeral and prayer services of the Cambridge City Manager's for Karon were held on Friday office said that Mary Presntiss man- and Saturday in his hometown. agers had intended to use the exist- The Chemistry Department is ing building as a foundation for working to arrange a depart- their hotel. ment-wide gathering to pay The firehouse "will be totally tribute to him. restored," Peterson said. "They even Karon is survived by his plan on replacing a hose tower that parents, Robert and Stephanie, had been removed." . JAMES CAMP-THE TECH and a brother, Jason. Presntiss Inn planners were not Ice sculptures line the sidewalk outside Johnson Athletic Center Sunday afternoon. The seulp- exactly in fierce competition to buy tures were carved during a competition sponsored by MIT Hillel. the property. The city has been
FEATURES Comics MIT Dining Services prepares for World & Nation 2 This Week in MIT History: summer renovations of Networks Opinion .4 Student impersonates NAMBLA restaurant. Arts 6 member on the Morton Downey Features 10 Jr. show. Sports 24 Page 10 Page 12 Page 15 Page 2 HE TECH February 15, 2000 D& McCain Accuses Bush of 'Savagery' y flit W.~SIl/.\(;TO,\' POSf ey Ang re Gore's A DER ON, S.c. Sen. John McCain, defending his pa t vote for public financing for congressional elections, accused rival George W. Bush of "sav- Care Plan Attacks agery" in attempting to find contradictions in the Arizona senator's voting record. By Matea Gold episode he should ashamed of." sive attack on the environmental "They've got 200 staffers trying to comb John McCain's voting and Richard T. Cooper The former ew Jersey senator, record of Gore and the White House record," the candidate said of the Bush campaign. "I'm sure they'll LOS ANGELES TIMES a longshot in national polls leading for being "long on promises and find some contradictions, but the overall record is clear." up to the next voting in the Democ- short on actions." McCain was peppered by reporters on his bus with questions the A visibly angry Bill Bradley ratic presidential primary on March Speaking before about 100 peo- Bush campaign had raised about his voting record, particularly vari- lashed out at Al Gore on Monday, 7, defended his health plan as one ple, Bradley promised to make pro- ous votes for public financing of elections, which McCain says he blasting the vice president for dis- that would preserve existing ser- tecting the natural environment his opposes. (His aides distributed a list of 11 votes against public financ- torting his health care plan and com- vices for those living with HN and "first principle" if elected president. ing of elections.) mitting the "worst use of scare tac- provide even more money for com- "It's impossible to look around McCain said some of his votes in favor were necessary compro- tics I have seen in many years." munity health clinics. this magnificent state - with its mises. "That's the essence of legislation," he said, arguing that Bush Bradley's wrath was triggered by "Making sure that AIDS and sweeping coastlines, its majestic is doing the same thing to him that Steve Forbes did to Robert J. Dole an interview with Gore published in HIV patients have access to health mountain ranges and stark deserts in '96. the San Francisco Chronicle on care is a prime part of what I'm try- - and not want that beauty to But he acknowledged his positions have evolved on some issues. Monday in which the vice president ing to do," he said. remain for our children's children," "Total rigidity of position over 17 years in Congress would be fool- said Bradley's health care plan Gore, campaigning on education he said. ishness," he said. McCain said that if he were president, he would would "devastate tens of thousands issues in New York City Monday, Gore flew from Washington to make the abolition of soft money his top campaign-finance measure, of people with long-term debilitat- issued a statement defending his northern New York Monday to but he would also "revisit every abuse of the campaign-finance sys- ing diseases such as AIDS." comments in the interview. It pitch an educational message he tem," including the provisions in his original McCain-Feingold legis- Bradley said the interview repeated that Bradley's health plan hopes will appeal to hard-core lation. "made my blood boil" and, after "will not begin to cover the many Democrats and independents alike. months of criticism on the topic services required by people with Gore, for whom a victory in the from Gore, he decided to respond in HIV/AlDs." March 7 New York primary is criti- Judge Blocks Defense from Seeing a news conference where he was "Instead of addressing the legiti- cal, stepped back from the sharp- joined by San Francisco city offi- mate concerns about his health plan, edged exchanges with Bradley that Memo in Death-Penalty Trial cials and gay leaders. Sen. Bradley today launched anoth- had marked the New Hampshire pri- LOS A'yCELES TIMES "You can only take it so long," er negative personal attack on Al mary. LOS ANGELES said Bradley, pausing several times Gore," the statement said. Later "My opponent, Sen. Bradley, is a A Los Angeles federal judge Monday denied Buford O'Neal Fur- to gather himself as he angrily Monday, in an interview with a good man. But I believe he is a row Jr. access to a prosecution memo recommending whether he defended his plan. "This is just New York television station, Gore good man with plans that leave out" should face a death-penalty trial. another example of the kind of declared "I have never attacked Sen. college tuition aid, support for Furrow, an avowed white supremacist, is accused of murdering a meanness in politics that is funda- Bradley personally." expanded preschools and increased Filipino-American mail carrier, a capital offense, after wounding five mentally destructive of an open dia- Bradley's angry reply came after federal aid for public elementary people in August at the orth Valley Jewish Community Center in logue about issues, about the direc- he delivered a speech at the Sierra and secondary schools, the vice the Granada Hills section of Los Angeles. tion of the country. Frankly, today's Club where he launched an aggres- president said. The final decision on whether to seek the death penalty is up to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. She has until Feb. 22 to make that call. Under Justice Department protocol, before any decision is made, a Charles Schulz Dies on Eve defendant is allowed to present mitigating evidence to local prosecu- tors and to a special death-penalty committee at the Justice Depart- ment in Washington. Of 'Peanuts' Farewell Comic NTSB: Alaska Airlines Rethought By Renee Tawa draw "Peanuts," the most widely ters - such as Peppermint Patty LOS ANGELES TIMES read comic strip in history. At the and Woodstock - joined the cast). Changing Parts on Crashed Plane The death of Charles M. Schulz, request of his five grown children, "I think in a lot of ways, this is TflE WASIII.VGTON POST whose anxious and joyful heart his syndicate contract stipulates that probably what he wanted - once WASHINGTON infused the world's most influential no other cartoonist draw the strip. the strip was over, he sort of fig- Alaska Airlines determined in 1997 that critical parts of the air- comic strip, dovetailed with the Son Monte Schulz said doctors ured, that was that," said Amy craft that crashed Jan. 31 should be replaced but reversed itself a day publication of his last original gave his father another six or seven Lago, executive editor at United later when further tests showed the parts fell within maximum toler- "Peanuts" on Sunday - the way he months. But his dad was drained by Feature Syndicate. ances, the National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday. might have scripted it. A master sto- the chemotherapy and the effects of Sunday was officially Charles The board, in a late-night statement, emphasized there was no ryteller to the end, Schulz's good- strokes that left him partially blind "Sparky" Schulz Day in St. Paul, determination whether this had any bearing on the crash of Alaska bye message to more than 355 mil- in one eye and unable to read or Minn., his hometown - a tribute Airlines Flight 261, which dived into the Pacific off Los Angeles, lion daily readers worldwide draw. that had been planned before his killing 88 people. became his own epitaph. "He felt old at 77," said Monte, death. In Santa Rosa, his Redwood However, the information is significant enough to spark a major On Friday, Schulz, 77, had a last 48. "He had already lived to an Empire Ice Arena was closed for the review of all the airline's maintenance records on the accident air- skate around the ice rink he owns. older age than either of his parents, day, its flag at half-staff. Fans left craft, a McDonnell Douglas twin jet MD-83. On Saturday, he died in his sleep and he felt like it was his time to piles of flowers outside the Warm The parts in question, the jackscrew and a gimbal nut that fit about 9:45 p.m. at home in Santa go." Puppy snack shop. together to raise and lower the horizontal stabilizer, have been found Rosa, Calif., with his wife, Jeannie, The last daily "Peanuts" ran Jan. "All of my fears, my anxieties, to have evidence of damage that might have occurred before the by his side. 3; previous "Peanuts" strips will run my joys, and almost, even all of my crash and that could have come from grinding between the two. In December, after being diag- indefinitely (starting with strips he experiences go into that strip," nosed with colon cancer, Schulz drew in 1974, a time when Schulz Schulz told "60 Minutes" in Octo- announced that he would no longer was at his peak and newer charac- ber 1999. WEATHER A Touch of Spring in the Air Situation for Noon Eastern Standard Time, Tuesday, February 15,2000
By Robert Korty and Peter Huybers STAFF METEOROLOGIST With warmer temperatures and a touch of sunshine this week, solid ground will resurface from beneath the crust of snow that lingered with us this month. Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the 40s and lows just below freezing. Expect breezes out of the NW to reach 15 mph. Tomorrow will be slightly warmer with a high of 45°F, giving way to a cooler Thurs- day and Friday in the upper 30s. The possibility for more snow exists on Friday's horizon. Much of the Northeast finally lost some of the winter's snowcover yes- terday. Philadelphia recorded its third longest period with at least one inch of snow on the ground. But as a strong low pressure system barrelled towards the East coast, warm (and strong!) southerly winds on the eastern side of the storm advected spring-like temperatures into southern New Eng- land. Boston's high of 56°F (l3°C) was just three degrees Fahrenheit shy of a record high for Valentine's Day. All good things must end, though, and behind the storm strong westerly winds will pull cooler air into the region today. Today's high of 43°F (6°C) may pale in comparison with yester- day's, but Boston will be spared a repeat of the Arctic intrusion witnessed during January. Much of that bitterly cold air remains locked over the Hud- son Bay region of Canada.
Today: Mostly sunny, high 41°F (5°C), low 29°F (-2°C) Weather Systems Weather Fronts Precipitation Symbols Other Symbols 1 Snow Rain Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, high 46°F (8°C), low 28°F (-ZOC) _ Trough - Fog High Pressure Showers 1:*V Thunderstorm Thursday: Partly cloudy, high 36°F (2°C), low 25°F (-4°C) Warm Front V "R Light Friday: Possible Snow, high 39°F (4°C), low 31°F (-1°C) Low Pressure ~ 00 Haze Cold Front * Moderate i ** Compiled by MIT § Hurricane Meteorology Staff Stationary Front Heavy . 1*** .. and Th~ Tech .. February 15,2000 WORLD & THE TECH Page 3 GOP Candidates Get Ready Russia May Issue Arrest Warrant For Journalist It Handed Over THE BALTIMORE SUN For South Carolina Primary MO cow By Ronald Brownstein at hi fir t stop, in Ander on in the Bu h opening a commanding lead It has been nearly two weeks since Russian authorities announced and Maria l. La Ganga northwest corn r of the tate. among outh arolina's conserva- that they had handed over a captive Radio Liberty reporter to LOS A GELES TIMES Bush meantime, scored big ova- ti e voters, McCain spent the day Chechen rebel, and now, amid the international outcry and skepti- GREE tions by pu hing his familiar theme trying to shore up his standing on cism that have followed, they say they want him after all. After toying with their style and of local control of school , tax cuts the right. At a lunchtime rally in The whereabouts of Andrei Babitsky, who was shown on a Feder- tweaking their strategie , John and increased military spending. Greenwood, he unveiled an al Security Service videotape being delivered into the custody of a McCain and George W. Bush were • It's not the government's money endorsement from South Carolina masked man described as a Chechen fighter, are unknown, The back to basic Monday a they when we're talking about a sur- Secretary of State Jim Miles who Chechen government of AsIan Maskhadov says it doesn't have him. opened the final few days of cam- plus," the Texas governor told sup- had chaired Steve Forbes' campaign. His supporters believe he may still be under detention by Russian paigning before South Carolina's porters in orth Augusta, near the in the state. Forbes dropped out of special services, or by a Chechen group allied with Moscow, or by a crucial GOP primary. Georgia border. "It's the people's the race last week. Chechen kidnapping gang. Amid a flurry of new polls show- money. I've been a tax cutter in McCain promised to curb "pork:' The general prosecutor's office is considering issuing an arrest ing him narrowly trailing Bush, Texas, and a tax reformer and I'll barrel" spending in Congres . The warrant for Babitsky if he doesn't turn himself in, the Interfax news McCain returned to the core themes be the same thing in Washington, third Republican in the race, Alan agency reported Monday. of political reform that helped him D.C." Keyes, traveled to Bob Jones Uni- Having claimed with some satisfaction that they gave him away, forge his landslide victory in ew Asked by a black man about the versity in Greenville - a school Russian law-enforcement authorities now say that Babitsky is wanted Hampshire. controversy over the rebel flag that that bans interracial dating - and for questioning. They plan to ask Interpol to help arrest him, Interfax Appearing before large crowds flies atop the South Carolina state- said religious and racial intolerance reported. in Anderson and Greenwood, the house, Bush drew cheers from the must end. "There are folks who told In his years with the radio station, financed by the U.S. govern- senator from Arizona highlighted mostly white audience when he me I shouldn't come here because I ment, Babitsky earned a reputation for fearless reporting. He enraged his decision last week to puli from gave his stock states' -rights answer: am a black man and, I say it with Russian officials with his accounts from Grozny, the Chechen capital. the air his TV ads criticizing Bush. "This is an issue in your state that is pride, a Roman Catholic Christian, He, was among the first to report that more than 100 Russian soldiers "Whether we win or lose, we will only going to be solved by the peo- and I would not be received in that had been killed in the city at a time when Russian generals were not run any negative ads in this ple of your state." place on that account," he said to denying troops had been sent in. campaign," he said to loud applause With recent surveys showing the Founder's Amphitorium, He was supposed to be on his way to Moscow; then it turned out he was being given over to someone in exchange for three Russian prisoners, as if he were a hostage. Then it was for two prisoners. NASA·Plans to Land Research Then the army said it wasn't an exchange at all, but the Interior Min- istry said it was. Craft on 'Eros ASteroid Monday Brain Activity, Ability to Think By Curt Suplee Spacecraft have encountered something went wrong with the THE WASHINGTON POST several other asteroids at a distance thrusters. The spacecraft accelerated Hurt by Lack of Sleep, Study Says An airless lump of rock that since 1991, and the NEAR probe abruptly, started tumbling, locked THE WASHINGTON POST looks like a mutant spud is about to itself got within 750 miles of a dark, itself down into "safe" mode and When people don't get enough sleep, researchers have long become one of the scientific celebri-. porous, carbon-rich blob called 253 refused to take calls for 27 hours. known, their ability to think suffers. But it has been unclear exactly ties of the solar system. Monday, Mathilde in June 1997.,But the Eros When mission managers regained how sleep deprivation affects the brain. Now a study has examined NASA's NEAR spacecraft is sched- visit is intended to be up close and control, the NEAR probe snatched, this question .-:...-andhas come up with some surprising results. uled to reach the asteroid, called extremely personal. only a couple hundred drive-by J. Christian Gillin of the University of California at San Diego and 433 Eros, ending a dogged, four- Over the next 12 months, images of Eros, getting no closer colleagues conducted brain scans on 13 subjects while they per- year pursuit with a rendezvous 160 ,NEAR's instruments will measure than 2,378 miles. formed word memory tasks after 35 hours without sleep. million miles from Earth. 'Eros's mass, shape, surface charac- The rock is scientifically fasci- As expected, activity in a part of the brain involved in verbal If all goes according to plan, the teristics, gravity field, elemental nating for many reasons. For one memory known as the temporal cortex was reduced. 1,775-pound spacecraft - about the content, mineral composition and thing, it is a representative of about But another area known as the parietal cortex, which synthesizes size of a highway toll booth topped magnetic field, among other things. 800 known near-Earth asteroids information and is inactive when the brain is rested, became more "by four solar panels - will ease up The probe is scheduled to descend (NEAs) - those whose orbits take active when the subjects were sleep-deprived, apparently to compen- to Eros at 33 feet per second, fire its, gradually until it hovers 1,6.00 feet them within about 30 million miles sate. braking jets, andsnuggleinto orbit above Eros's .surface, and might of. Earth. Only a fraction of those But even more surprisingly, the prefrontal cortex, which plays a around the asteroid. eventually 'attempt to land on, the have diameters exceeding 1 kilome- role in short-term memory, also became more active. The sleepier the "That would be a major first," itinerant mini-world, which is about ter, or six-tenths of a mile. subjects were, the more active it became. said Robert Farquhar, mission direc- twice the size of Manhattan. Eros, which orbits the sun every "These findings show that there are dynamic, compensatory tor for NEAR, short for Near Earth Originally, NEAR was supposed 643 Earth days, was the first NEA changes in cerebral actiyation during verbal learning after sleep Asteroid Rendezvous, "No one has to cohabit with Eros in January observed, in 1898. It's 21 miles deprivation," the researchers wrote,in the Feb. 10 issue of Nature. ever orbited a small body in space." 1999. But during the approach, long, 8 miles wide and 8 miles deep.
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mall Step on Grad Housing MIT's decision to convert Building 30 into graduate de erves consideration. Ortiz worrie the conversion ofNW30 housing is a positive tep toward accomplishing MIT's oft- may be happening only because MIT anticipates the need to delayed goal of increa ing Institute provided graduate housing hift graduate students if the opening of the new undergraduate Chairman unit . However, pressure on the dormitory is delayed. Given MIT's track record in this area, Satwiksai Seshasai '0 I Editorial administration must continue in which-includes the use of Tang Hall for temporary undergradu- ate housing, his concerns are unfortunately justified. A sistant Editor in Chief order to ensure the hou ing needs Frank Dabek '00 of graduate students are met. Director of Planning Robert K. Kaynor says the impetus of the While the conversion of W30 from warehoui e to donni- project is "a desire to provide more graduate housing," We hope Busines anager tory will provide housing for 125 graduate students, the project the administration shares Kaynor's feelings regarding the con- Jasmine Richards '02 is no substitute for the long-awaited construction of a graduate version of the warehouse and does not again choose to 'use grad- anaging Editor dormitory at Sidney and Pacific Streets in University Park. That uate students as pawns in a housing chess game. Ryan Ochylski '01 project, which could house over 500 graduate students, is essen- The conversion ofNW30 to graduate housing is a step in Executive Editor tial toward meeting MIT's stated goal of housing half of its the right direction, but it is a small step. MIT must not let this Gregory F. Kuhnen '00 5,600 graduate students. The administration must redouble its project substitute for the planned dorm at Sidney and Pacific, efforts to finally begin this critical project with all due speed. and it must not use this project as an excuse to shift graduate NEWS STAFF A second concern over the conversion ofNW30 raised by students out of other dormitories to expand undergraduate hous- Director: aveen Sunkavally '0 I; Editor : Graduate Student Council President Luis A. Ortiz G also ing capacity. Rima Arnaout '02, Kevin R. Lang '02; As ociate Editor: Laura McGrath Moulton '0 I, Sanjay Basu '02, Dana Levine '02, Karen E. Robinson '02, Mike Hall '03, Matthew Palmer '03; taff: Anna K. Benefiel '00, Zareena Hussain '00, Jennifer Chung '0 I, Kristen Landino '02, Da id Bailey '02, Efren Gutierrez '03, Cristina Roussel '03, Aurora Schmidt '03; Meteorologists: Veronique Bugnion G, Greg Law on G, Peter Huybers G, Bill Ramstrom G, Chris E. Fore t, Marek Zebrowski. 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American consumption shows no igns of sequestered in oil form into the atmosphere Michael Borucke slowing. Why should it? We don't see the as gase . These gases have not only burned a V-Day landfills; they have an infinite carrying capaci- . hole in the protective ozone layer they have The ingle greatest threat t6 the future of ty as far a the producers (or consumer ) are also contributed to the increase in tempera- human existence is the way our culture concerned. ture of the planet. • Veena Thomas views it elf and it relationship to the Earth. Corporation such as Menards and Home But the industry contributing the greatest Our culture ha believed for millennia that Depot have harmed the Earth through the amount to the destruction of the' planet would Valentine's Day has passed us by once man has domain over an living and non-liv- clear-cutting of old growth forests. It took have to be the oil industry. Aside from the air more. All of those boxes of fancy chocolates ing things. It's apparent in our culture's thousands of pioneer several decades to strip pollution caused by the burning of fos it fuels, which once so prettily adorned store windows exorbitant consumption habits. It's visible in the United States of it once vast forest cover. there is also the issue of oil extraction. As oil will be relegated to the "50 percent off' bins our farming practices and the experiments t has taken a few lumber companies less than reserves dry up in the usual wells, companies of your local discount stores. Dozens of roses, we conduct on animals. The fundamental a decade to accomplish destruction that is explore for more oil in the worst possible so overbred that the stems can't even support texts of our civilization (i.e. The Bible, The orders of magnitude worse, Why do they do locales. BP-Amoco, for example, is attempt- the weight of the blooms, will rot in florist Constitution), afford rights to (civilized) this? Because they can and of course they ing to extract oil from the Alaskan ational shops everywhere. Those little Necco hearts man that are not bestowed on any other can turn a profit doing it. The amazingly. Wildlife Refuge, which will have devastating will be forgotten until next year, when the species. rapid destruction of the rain forests (for the impacts on the environment as well as the commercialism begins all over again. With the problems that plague the Earth purposes of cattle grazing) has lead to a wildlife. Similarly, Occidental Petroleum will I've grown somewhat tired of Valentine's - today - the greenhouse effect, the depletion greater rate of species extinction than during soon begin drilling on the lands of the U'wa. Day, when all of the immature, ill-matched cou- of the ozone layer, the destruction of forests, the time of the dinosaurs. Why? Well; people This irresponsible action in the war-torn ples walk around dewy-eyed and he showers the extinction of plants and animals - we are need to eat, they have to eat meat, the meat nation of Colombia will destroy the environ- her with gifts, which the rest of us think were to beginning to realize that we do not have own- needs to eat, so why .not chop down unneces- ment in addition to the U'wa culture, and make up for the way he treated her the rest of ership of the Earth: that the control we sary plants? The animals living in those most likely the U'wa themselves. All this the year. I've always wanted to do something thought we wielded was illusory. We cannot plants? Well, we don't eat them, so we wipe destruction to keep gas prices down? subversive, like dress all in black and hand out pollute and consume as much as we want them out. These examples of corporate-driven red gummy worms. The holiday can bring out without significantly impacting' our chances Of course, our abuse of the planet is not destruction of the environment are not a the cynic in everyone. for survival. confined merely to land. Companies have secret; everyone is aware of them. What I Some argue that greeting card companies But why is this only becoming apparent achieved record-breaking levels of water and would like to propose is that these examples and florists created Valentine's Day, for obvi- now if we as a culture have been thinking this air pollution in just a short period. Countless . will-not disappear if left alone. Indeed, gov- ous reasons. Others protest that Valentine's way for ages? Because the largest and most bodies of water have become so toxic due to ernment can't be trusted to solve these prob- Day is one of the sweetest holidays: a day destructive manifestation ofthe idea of own- chemicals and sewage being dumped into lems (note that the current environmental con- where you show your loved ones just how ership/control over the Earth - the corpora- them that they are no longer safe for human ditions are a result of government regulation), tion - has only come into its full glory within use, not to mention the use of those species and certainly the corporations can't be trusted the past one hundred years. that used to live in the water. And those bod- to lessen their horrible impact on their own; of Before the Industrial Revolution, the peo- ies of water that haven't been polluted have course, they want you to think they're trying. [Valentine's Day] grows ple of our culture knew how to pollute and been over-exploited, as fishermen off Cape Yes, the more harmful a given company is to destroy the Earth, but with the advent of the Cod are becoming aware. the environment, the more it will try to make splashier and more elaborate corporation, our culture became a lot more And then there are purely astounding itself out to be "environmentally friendly," each year. efficient at it. . feats of abuses. Companies have -'actually . with websites full of environmental facts and Today, companies such as Coca-Cola, colluded to destroy the earth both on land pictures of children. (What is an oil company equipped with the finest technology, are able and in the air. For example, the auto. indus- like BP doing with pictures of children on its - to produce more waste than our forefathers try, in conjunction with the oil industry, has website?) much you care about them, and celebrate your ever imagined by simply not using recycled been able to not only extract billions of tons If these powers will not stem the tide of lives together. From what I've seen recently, material in their bottles. This unprecedented of metal and oil from the Earth, but also environmental devastation, then to whom can however, I'd have to argue a different point. level of pollution only promises to increase, as force carbon that would otherwise be we turn but ourselves? To many, Valentine's Day is an occasion to show the entire world, coincidentally includ- ing your significant other, that you are the greatest gift mankind has ever seen. ,A _Billion~Dollar Big I?ig Blunder The holiday grows splashier and more elaborate each year. Both men and women i . with data; Authority. As long as Kerasiotes is running compete to outdo each other with 'thoughtful' And federal transportation officials have the Big Dig, any figures coming out of the (read: expensive) gifts and outlandish procla- made it crystal clear they are fed up with project must be regarded as untrustworthy. mations. Interestingly, many of these gestures The Cellucci administration is out of con- stonewalling on the Big Dig. 'The Department 'His failure to come clean in October with at aren't intended for their love after all, but trol. of Transportation claims project officials least a ballpark estimate of the cost overrun rather, for everyone else watching. Last week a firestorm erupted over revela-. withheld information during an audit last year, undermines the Big Dig. Throughout the pro- Take a case in point. The other day on the tions that the Big Dig, the' massive public and- is threatening a subpoena to obtain the . ject, Kerasiotes has unleashed venom on pub- radio I heard an ad for special bears which works project to bury Boston's Central documents it wants. The Department of lie figures such as. ex-state Tresaurer Joseph could be personalized and given to someone Artery, will cost $1.4 billion more than previ- Transportations inspector general now Malone who argued the Big Dig was not "on special. After raving about the many selling ously expected, bringing the price tag to a believes the revised cost estimate of $12.2 time and on budget," to use the administra- points of the bears ("Decorate it in her -whopping $12.2 billion - for now. And billion is $1 billion too low. tion's mantra. But Malone and Company favorite colors! Customize it for her profes- James Kerasiotes, the acerbic head of the 'The Big Dig has become such a big mess, were right after all. The project needs a leader sion! Nurse Bear! Teacher Bear!"), the ad Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, the agency the crisis du jour has spilled over into presi- who is completely. and totally honest and continued, "And best of all, have it delivered that oversees the Big Dig, was quoted in the dential politics. The pork-busting candidate forthcoming with the' bondholders and tax- to her office so that everyone can see what a Wall Street Journal' as calling one of Celluc- and· Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) may rein- payers, and Kerasiotes has not been that terrific guy you are!" ci's political aides a "moron", the new he~d of troduce a bill to-yank $150 million of federal leader. Before a fraternity formal, a friend of mine -theMassachusetts Port Authority a "reptile", • funds from the project. Additionally, any reluctance. on the part of was picked up by her date, carrying an armful and even suggesting that Governor Paul Cel-,' The cost overruns and swirling allegations Cellucci to take swift, harsh action against the of beautiful flowers. She thanked him and : lucci is afraid of him. are only half the problem surrounding the Big Turnpike chairman only makes Kerasiotes' s tried to place them ill water so they wouldn't All this, remember, is on top of the Jane Dig. The restof the problem is the' leadership . claim that he governor is afraid of him look die, but he told her that she was supposed to . Swift scandals - babysitting aides, taxpayer- vacuum in the corner office on Beacon Hill. true. bring the flowers with her to the formal. Who funded helicopter rides, and a general disre- The governorship of Paul Cellucci has 3. Publicly, unequivocally state that the were the flowers really for - her, or for all of 'spect for the public of the Commonwealth of been unimaginative. His brand of steady, $12.2 billion tag is notfinal, and costs could his brothers so they could see how well he Massachusetts.' don't-rock-the-boat leadership is fine when again increase. Everybody knows that more treated his date? A large part of Valentine's The Swift scandals were trouble enough state affairs are humming along, but the Big likely than not, costs will go up again. From Day appears to be showing off to others. "So because of the extreme contempt showed for Dig is In big trouble. - Day one of this project, the cost has been what did you do for Valentine's Day?" people working parents by the lieutenant governor, The first solution floated to solve this crisis consistently underestimated. This creativity ask each other the next day. You'd best have who sought special privileges to take care of was both discriminatory and too small to with the numbers helped sell the project to a done something terribly impressive. He slaved her daughter. But the new crisis unfolding solve the funding gap. Accelerated toll skeptical public, but if the administration in the kitchen all day to cook you dinner? around the Big Dig - a billion dollar blunder increases on the Massachusetts Turnpike, refuses to concede further increases the vot- "Oh, how sweet," some haughty people say, • - is much more serious and damaging. Kera- Tobin Bridge, and harbor tunnels would pun- . ers of this state - and federal officials all the while thinking that he must not have ,( siotes has conceded that as. early as October, ish a small percentage of the state's popula- examining the project's aid - will be even enough money to take her out to the Top of he knew the old $10.8 billion price tag was tion (and in the case of the Turnpike, a seg:-.. more skeptical. the Hub. incorrect. Yet he refused to come clean pub- ment which bardly uses the Central Artery) 4. Institute tolls on Interstate 93. and the Dinner reservations for Valentine's Day at licly with the extent of the overrun until his while giving other commuters a free ride, Southeast Expressway. These are the two the top Boston restaurants begin filling up in hand was forced by State Treasurer Shannon Additionally, the $.1.4 billion funding gap is expressway approaches into Boston which are January, as people vie for the most impressive O'Brien. Now the federal governmentis cir- so immense, toll increases alone would barely currently untolled, and these are also the locale available. Some people spend fortunes cling above the Big Dig, demanding answers do anything to close the cavern.' approaches which benefit most from the Big on seemingly inconsequential little gifts, for what is happening. to all that money· That solution has been discarded in favor Dig, which is essentially a north-south project. while ensuring that their loved ones know thrown into those seemingly bottomless pits of reinstituting motor vehicle registry fees. It's only fair that the heaviest users of the cor- exactly how much money they cost so they along Atlantic Avenue. This solution is more equitable as everyone ridor pay for it themselves instead of having can brag to 'their coworkers the next day. It's The Treasurer's Office has confirmed pays the same fee, butstill registry fees alone their use of the highway subsidized by other at once biological and primitive, part of an that the federal Securities and Exchange cannot cover the wide shortfall. drivers. elaborate mating ritual: people compete for Commission is now investigating the state's For Governor Cellucci to regain control of Paul Cellucci barely won the governor's the brightest, showiest plumage in order to bond issues over the past several months. the Big Dig - and his administration - he office by continuously hammering themes of show their desirability. Why should your love The state did not detail expected Big Dig . needs to take the following. steps immediately. fiscal responsibility. Now is the time to for someone depend on how you appear in the cost increases in papers relating to the 1. Postpone his quest to reduce the state deliver on those promises. The Big Dig's big eyes of others? issuance of those bonds. And a .recent income tax tofive percent. Cellucci's tax cut, mess is testing the fiscal competence of his I prefer a more understated kind of love increase in the state's bond rating is also which will likely appear as an initiative peti- administration, and the early grades are not myself: a quiet declaration, a poem he wrote. now under suspicion. tion on the 2000 state ballot, is simply irre- good. The buck should stop in the governor's A friend of mine told me about how he If Massachusetts lied to or misled sponsible with a potential federal investiga- office, and Cellucci must come up with a fair walked around for hours, searching for the investors, public officials responsible for the tion and billion-dollar crisis hanging over the plan to cover the Big Dig shortfall and perfect restaurant for Valentine's Day. That's omissions could face fines or other punish- Commonwealth's head. Postponing this reassert control of the project. Anything less devotion. The flowers will fade, and the fancy ment. Even more seriously, the state could be attempt at a tax cut for several years will pro- and his remaining relevance will be dinner will be digested. Only the depth of the ..sued by bondholders, just as several investors duce the revenue desperately needed to cover destroyed, and the governor will have noth- feelings between two people, immeasurable to in the construction of Denver's new airport the Big Dig shortfall. ing to do but count the days until a Democra- anyone else, remains. For in the absence of sued when that project turned into a boondog- 2. Pressure James Kerasiotes to resign as tic governor takes the oath of office in Janu- such emotions, even the approval of her gle and officials were less than forthcoming chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike ary 2003 .. cowo~ers cannot save you. Page 6 THE TECH THE 1'8 February 15,2000
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he Pooh everyone knows and loves is ingrained in our consciousness little visual puns, because of the quality animation like Tigger actu- T which Disney Studios put out in the ally finding his 1960s, which scored the Pooh bear an Acade- real family tree. my Award. The sketchy watercolor back": Of course, in grounds evoked a storybook charm which . the end, T'igger- sought to remind us of our own childhoods. realizes that his I was really hoping that the new Pooh film, real family is The Tigger Movie, would open like some of comprised of the other old Pooh adventures, with a live those friends action shot of Christopher Robin's technicolor which have been bedroom, and the Winnie the Pooh book com- with him all ing down off the shelf whilst the baritone nar- along even if Winnie the Pooh, Tlgger, and the rest of the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood return' to the big screen for the rator magicallyturns the animated pages. they don't look firSt time In 17 years in The Tlgger Movie. Alas, the new movie cuts the live action bits like him, act like out and jumps right into the animated story him, or even like him (in the case of Rabbit). makes the film a little difficult to endure at energy. The voice talents in the film are also book (at least they kept that partl). Disney's last foray into the heterogeneous times if you are older than eight. well done, which is to say everyone's voice is As some of you might remember from toy families theme was Toy Story 2. In that The film raises some questions which it as you remember it. other Pooh adventures, the wonderful thing well-scripted tale, the toys Buzz Lightyear and just doesn't answer: if Tigger is wondering The only big drawback of this film is a about being a tigger is that Tigger's the only Woody learn to live happily as a family with who his family is, why doesn't his little psychedelic song and dance number which one. This playful little ditty from a past Pooh other toys from different manufacturers. The buddy Roo ever ask his single , ~--"'"' jumps out at you in the middle of the adventure is the catalyst for the entire film. Tigger Movie is sentimental and coy, never pro- mother Kanga who his own film. Tigger gets more excited than Tigger tries bouncing around with Roo, only to viding the characters' awareness of their role as father is? This glaring usual and starts to sing about what dif- find he is pretty much the only one who can toys. Like the stars of Toy Story 2, plot hole had me ferent members of his family must be really bounce. This observation leads Tigger finds family unity, but his wondering throughout like. He imagines his family tree must Tigger to decide there must be other frame of reference stays tightly the whole film when include ancient Roman tiggers, ancient tiggers out there, somewhere in the wrapped within the Hundred Acre the little kangaroo Egyptian tiggers, punk skateboarding tig- Hundred Acre Woods, and he has Wood and the pro- would apply Tigger's predica- gers, Jerry Springer tiggers (I'm not to find them. jected imaginings of ment to himself. If I was making this one up), astronaut tiggers Along 'the way, there are a Christopher Robin. eight, I suppose this sort of ... you get the idea. For a film which I number of different Pooh And because of thing might not faze me. always thought was basically Christo- adventures, which invari- this, it is sweet for The animation in this feature pherRobiu's imagination projected ably involve honey and maintaining its is top notch, with attention paid onto stuffed animals, this scene was honeybees, changing sea- innocence. to small details like Tigger's dark really, really out of place. But over- sons, and being friends It also stripes, which are inked in all, The Tigger Movie offers a senti- with everyone and with broad strokes that shake mental return to the Hundred Acre everything. There are in every frame, giving him an Wood and all its furry inhabitants. also plenty of cute appearance of continual kinetic
. FILM REVIEW Tony Clifton (in a very special appearance as so brilliantly is that there's a complex theme at himself). work all the time, taking the seemingly discon- Jim Carrey is certainly effective when he is nected scenes and forming a profound theme, Man on theMoon being Andy Kaufman, doing some spooky each scene introducing a new twist to this mimicry (he clearly feels some affinity to his theme, each building on the previous scenes. As subject, given their common origins as stand- a result, the seemingly lackadaisical plot gradu- Being Andy Kaufman up comics and even the shared birthdate, Janu- ally reveals a beautiful and elegant story. It's no By Vladimir Zelevinsky . But as they demonstrated in their previous ary 17th); he's less effective when he has to act accident that Kaufman's first popular perfor- ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR . two movies, screenwriters Alexander and Andy Kaufman. Carrey still seems to associate mance was an Elvis impersonation, and his Directed by Milos Forman Karaszewski have the talent to glean an ele- seriousness with lassitude; if the few dramatic antics in Carnegie Hall aren't random, either. Written by Scott Alexander and 'Larry gant structure. from something as messy as moments had the same energy as the plentiful Man on the Moon (in a great final shot, Karaszewski ' real life. As opposed to Topsy-Turvy, where funny scenes, they would have worked better. which is simultaneously very subtle and With Jim Carrey, Danny De Vito, the same back-and-forth rhythm seems to sap On the other hand, the widespread critical com- almost triumphal) ends up postulating the , Courtney Love, 'PaulGiamatti some of the story's energy, here it's startling- plaint that Carrey doesn't show what makes immortality of art, and, by extension, the ly effective. On the surface, Man on the Kaufman tick frankly makes no sense to me. immortality of an artist. All that, and it's a Jim he jawdropping combination of a two- Moon is, basically, Andy Kaufman's Greatest One can understand what makes a human being Carrey comedy, too. time Oscar winner Milos Forman (the Hits: 'a series of elaborately recreated perfor- tick in the same director of One Flew Over the Cuck- mances, practical jokes at everyone's way one can T oo's Nest and Amadeus) and the ex- expense, and abrasive stunts' (such as cross- understand why a pet detective Jim Carrey really makes quite a gender wrestling), Every little bit here is joke is. funny or bit of sense. Most, of Forman's films deal with priceless, from fragmented lip-synching to the internal work- the creative individual battling the system, the Mighty Mouse theme song, to an ings of a frog: you whether it's Larry Flynt or McMurpliy or just impromptu reading of The Great Gatsby in its just have to be. about anyone in Hair; In this way, Forman's entirety, to a very public feud with the South- willing to have the take on the late comedian Andy Kaufman is 'em wrestler Jerry Lawler (playing himself, .subject die as a almost as inspired and. profound as his inter": and very well, too). result of your II pretation of Mozart's life: it's a riveting story Then there's Kaufman's private life, and investigation. ef a true artist, fighting a take-no-prisoners it's slightly less effective. Danny DeVito In any case, battle with the indifferent system, for the sake- does his usual lovable grouch thing: he's . what makes Man' of immortal art. The fact that this immortal art . good but, compared with the rest of the on the Moon work in this case is merely stand-up comedy does- . movie, entirely too ordinary. n't diminish the achievement of Man on the On the other hand, whenev- Moon; after all, it's a step up the ladder of er the film feels in danger of liST MINUTESPECIALS respectability from Flynt's occupation. becoming too ordinary, One main difference .frorn Amadeus there is an instant jolt of ONSPRII II (which this film is similar to in many ways) is energy from a colorful sup- that Man on the Moon is, actually, a very sim- porting character. Courtney ple (albeit not simplistic) film. Its narrative Love, in particular, is lumi- structure, courtesy of Flyn't and Ed Wood nous; this part is a far cry. scribes Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszews- from her searing turn as ki, is as straightforward as they come, and Althea Flyntfit's much less doesn't differ much from its main stylistic ,flashy and not as big), but inspiration: the concert films of the 1970s and Love nails every second, 1980s. Other than the wondrously inventive and her character feels like a prologue (three minutes in black and white, fully-fledged individual, during which'} laughed more than during any despite the fact that she has other film oflast year); it has the regular stop- only around four relatively and-go rhythm of a straightforward biopic. brief scenes. We have a scene of Andy performing, fol- There's also the curious lowed by a scene backstage (backstage of the and peculiar relationship club where he performs, or backstage of his between Andy Kaufman and life, it doesn't matter; when Kaufman is con- the Mozart of all lounge cerned, life is truly a stage). singers, the very talented Mr. Page 8 THE February 15, 2000 FL
mentary film crew (nice plot film, Trainspotting?). The B'tf} Tease device) and heads for fame. MacKenzie finds him elf urrounded with When acKenzie di cov- the 'middle people" of the Los Angele movie ers that he is OT in the com- scene: other hair tyli ts, make up arti ts, ~ Missed by a Hair petition, but merely invited to agents, and limo drivers. The ca t is remark- • u.J attend, he becomes deter- ably B-movie quality. The woman in charge By Erik Blankinship mined to compete of the Platinum cis ors competition was last C- STAFF WRITER regardless. He visits seen as Howard tern's wife (now ex-wife) in Directed by Kevin Allen every contact he has try- Private Parts. MacKenzie's rival is played by O Written by Sacha Gervasi and Craig Fergu- ing desperately to find a the actor who played ledgehammer on the son way in. Using his television show of the same name in the ~ With Craig Ferguson, David Rasche, and Scottish accent, 1980s. The cast is a collection of should- UJ Mary McCormack he even imper- haves, would-haves, and could-have-been . sonates Sean David Hasselhoff makes an appearance in the a- cotland's recent export, The Big Connery to win movie, playing himself. He too.is an amazing- Tease, arrived in America last Friday favor (anyone ly untalented actor who fits in well with this o and will attract the ame fan of the remember this collection of half stars, but in his case, he illy Australian comedy Strictly Ball- from the last ironically plays himself. room. In both of these films, English-speak- Scottish indie But this collection of bad actors plays to the > film's strengths, one of which being actor Craig ing foreigners with funny accents compete in ::::> some obscure competition against eccentric Ferguson. He is fun and energetic on screen, J- competitors to win some large prize. In and shines in contrast to all of the other actors. Strictly Ballroom, the foreigners were Aus- The film's mock documentary style tralian and were competing in ballroom becomes quite bothersome as the implausibili- • > dancing. In The Big Tease, the foreigner ty of MacKenzie's situation draws on. I found ::::> is Scottish and the competition is hair myself wondering where the cut shots in the styling. It seems like a new formula film were coming from ... since the crew only J- film is being concocted and I doubt brought one camera. The editing is also this will be the last film to follow annoying as the editors simulate film slipping LL. the recipe. . from the projector's sprockets to give it that u.J Crawford MacKenzie, played "rough" look way too many times. by Craig Ferguson, is a Scottish 4 Despite the poor cast and bad editing, the o hairstylist who gets, an invite to the . end of the film is really funny and over the Platinum Scissors competition in top, as the fmal hairstyles are truly remark- e Los Angeles. So MacKenzie packs' able ... I haven't seen anything like them since up his scissors, gels, and a docu- Queen Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I. This space donated by The Tech
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Anna and the King (**%) Chow Yun Fat is an Oscar-worthy scene- stealer with riveting screen presence as the Thai King Mongkut; the only other three- dimensional character is played by Bai Ling in a passionately sincere performance. Jodie Fos- ter disappoints for the first time as the British governess Anna Leonowens. See the movie for the stunning visuals: gorgeous, sprawling epic sets, beautiful details, and the regal Chow Yun Fat's performance which keeps lighting up the screen. - Zarminae Ansari
Being John Malkovich (***112) DEMMIE TODD-TOUCHSTONE PICTURES A film so different, so whacked-out, so The art and theater world of 1930's New York City is the backdrop for Touchstone Pictures' drama, Cradle Will Rock, starring original, and totally unlike anything else out (from left) Philip Baker Hall, Susan Sarandon, and John Cusack. there - like Monty Python at their most dead- pan hilarious. An unconventional mixture of acted, and consistently hilarious tapestry of art . mances and a complex underlying theme make be enjoyable. - EB comedy, satire, and frighteningly deep rumina- set in the 1930's, weaving together characters this comedy a must-see. - VZ tions on the nature of personality. - VZ from John Cusack's Nelson Rockefeller to Topsy-Turvy <***> Emily Watson's homeless street performer. A The Talented Mr. Ripley <***) Following the trials and triumphs of The Big Tease (**) perfect opening sequence, a perfect closing A lot to recommend: a complex plot, Gilbert and Sullivan as they create their mas- A foreign film in the tradition of Strictly, shot.- VZ accomplished acting (Matt Damon and Cate terpiece The Mikado, Topsy-Turvy holds and Ballroom, this import' follows Scotsman Craw- Blanchett especially), and gorgeous visuals; keeps the audience's attention. But it's the ford MacKenzie as he stops at nothing to partic- Galaxy Quest (**112) especially impressive is the degree to which breathtaking final five minutes that make the ipate in the Los Angeles Platinum Scissors hair Not quite the,Star Trek parody that it starts· the audience gets to understand and identify film worth seeing. - VZ cutting competition. The film suffers from lack- out like; more of a Star Trek rip-off, with the with the film's immoral protagonist. A bit too luster casting and bad editing, but the final hair- same stupid computer graphics, fake sets, plot slowly-paced, though. - VZ Toy Story 2 (***112) .styles are truly remarkable. - Erik Blankinship holes -(all of the above rather irritating), and . An instant classic, one of the most cre- general air of amiable nonsense (very enjoy- The Tlgger Movie (**~z) ative and fun movies of the year, this com- The Cider Bouse Rules (***) able). It's also neat to see' a bunch of good Pooh, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, and of course, pletely computer-generated sequel about the Despite the fact that the protagonists' actors having fun. Rather stupid, really; at the Tigger return to the big screen in the newest adventures of a bunch of toys is clever, name is Homer, this film ends up feeling same time, rather cute. - VZ Disney animated adventure. This story of Tig- funny, complex, and, most surprisingly, less like a Homeric epic and more like a ger's quest to find other tiggers benefits from deeply emotional. - VZ Norman Rockwell painting: hardly great art Girl, Interrupted (**112) top-notch animation, but feels too childish to or even art at all, but something with instant- Exploring the struggles of a teenage girl ly recognizable humanity and an overall in a mental hospital, Winona Ryder manages impact that can hardly be ignored. Credit the lows but not highs of her character effec- this mostly to luminous acting and the tively, creating a somewhat skewed view of screenplay's understated emotional com- the movie. However, Angelina Jolie and ,plexity. --.:..-VZ Brittany Murphy are excellent supporting actresses and serve to balance the movie, Cradle Will Rock <** *112) while the rest of the acting is lukewarm. A 'rich, visually .inventive, amazingly- Additionally, the dramatic details, such as , the lighting, create moods and scenes that are compelling, but that do not make up for the lack of plot. - Amy Mead- ows,
Magnolia (**112) A::. sprawling inco- herent mess of a movie, with a story and characters that manage to be both jaw-droppingly obvi-o ous .and make no sense whatsoever. On the other hand, the DISNEY ENTERPRISES AND PIXAR ANIMA nON STUDIOS annoying narrative Woody comforts a hapless squeak toy named Wheezy, who has been relegated to the bombast is compen- dusty upper shelf in Andy'S room in Toy Story 2. sated by great-visual verve, and the cli- mactic sequence is simply the most wild- ly creative bit of film- making of 1999, even It's a connected world." though it has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. - VZ Do your share. Man on the Moon (***'lz) The talents of director Milos For- man, writers Scott Alexander and Larry For 30ways to help the environment, write Earth Share, Karaszewski, and 3400International Drive,~ Suite2K (AD4), actor- Jim Carrey com- bine in the remarkable l1li Washington, DC 20008. Man on the Moon, a ~~ Earth Share ANDREW COOPER-TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX film about late come- Anna (Jodie Foster) and King Mongkut (Chow Yun-Fat) share a dian Andy Kaufinan's quiet moment in Anna and the King. life. Great perfor- This space donated by The Tech ,. I ,-, 1 Ji Page 10 T February 15,2000
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This column addresses questions con- how you feel about it at any time, you erate of their feelings as you go through this difficult process: cerning sex and relationships. Dr. Do It should let the others know. I don't think the problem is that people. aren't committed to and Ms. Emotion do not claim to be At the same time, this would be a their relationships, but that they are inconsiderate and imma- experts in the field but have been good opportunity to find out what fan- ture when it comes time to end the relationship. "around the block" a few times and have tasies she has had. you can find out what The other. source of the problem may stem from the nature seen their share of situations involving she would really get a kick out of doing of the beginning of the relationship. If we want to generalize, relationships and sex. The opinions of Dr. and see if the two of you could orchestrate there are three basic types of relationships that I can think of: Do It and Ms. Emotion do not necessarily one of her fantasies as well. The obvious serious relationships, casual relationships, .and purely physi- reflect the opinions of this publication. perfect match would be if the two of you end cal relationships. I have no problem with any of these, as long up having the same fantasy but that is rare. both people in the relationship are clear on what the other Dr. Do It, Through exploring your fantasies and trying new person wants. If one person wants a casual relationship, 'but I desperately need your advice. Ever since things you can definitely spice things up and keep it the other person wants a serious relationship, there will be watching "Wild Things," I've. been overcome with a interesting. problems. I think we owe it to- each other, and to ourselves, to fantastic need to watch two women "get it on." eve be completely honest when entering a relationship. There's no Campbell and what's-her-name sure know how to make a Dear Ms. Emotion and Dr. Do It, way to know if a relationship will work out in the long run, guy hot. Woo! Don't you agree? . I am wondering how we can encourage more commit- but it.won't even have a chance unless both people are on the Anyway, here's my question. I've been dating this girl ted dating relationships? In my experience, as well as in same wavelength from the beginning. You seem to be sug- for a couple months. She's bisexual and has a couple of many of my friends, time and time again, I see a dating gesting we should choose our partners carefully. While this hot lesbian friends. Should I ask her to invite one of her relationship end in a bad breakup or ok breakup. But is important, you can only know so much about someone friends over and let me watch? for the most part, the breakups cause much pain and before you begin to date them. I think it is more important -USSVoyeur heartache on both. sides. Then, I wonder why .we want that we are honest and open with whomever we choose. to date so badly? Are we that in need of love or intima- Dr. Do It: If you can get that to happen, excellent. And cy? And if we are seeking love or intimacy, .should we Dear Ms. Emotion, invite me over! But seriously, I can understand the intrigue as .not be much more careful in who we decide to date or How many of your submissions are real? I must admit it is definitely one of my fantasies. You could get involved in a sexual relationship with? Well, I hope -Anonymous possibly broach the topic of sexual fantasies with your girl- you can help me out, and through this column I hope friend and discuss what you are really interested in. If she that you can encourage people to be more committed in Ms. Emotion: Dear Doubtful, all of our submissions are seems very receptive or even eager about the idea, then their dating adventures. real, and even if they weren't, do you think we'd tell you? ' you're most of the way there. However, don't count on it, as it -Mr. Wanting to se.e more commitment in dating relationships Dr. Do It: Just chill for a second, Ms. Emotion. I think I takes a certain kind of personality to be into exhibitionism. understand why you ask this question, Anon. I am pretty sure One of the main things to think about though is whether Ms. Emotion: The whole point of dating someone is to that many of those columns in other publications use made- you guys are serious or exclusive in your relationship and figure out if you are right for each other. More often than up questions and experiences. When we decided to write this whether both of you are comfortable with this type of activ- not, and I don't think this should be a surprise to anyone, two column we wanted to make sure we did not contrive ques- ity. It still is possible to participate in these activities even if people are not right for each other. As soon as you realize tions, even to start the column out. So for the first column at you are in a committed relationship. You must make sure this, I think the best thing you can do, both for yourself and least we asked people we knew about any interesting ques- that neither of you will feel threatened by the experience. your significant other, is to end the relationship. Now this is tions about topics or events in their life that they wondered Even with all this said, sometimes people have issues with it where we run into trouble. Breaking up is never easy. Some- about. So from those questions they had we generated our either during or after the experience. The over-arching thing one always loves someone more, misunderstandings come out first column. The subsequent columns have come from reader to remember is for both of you (as well as the potential third into the open and cause pain, and generally someone gets. questions like yours. In the future we may also take a ques- person) to communicate openly about it if you do consider hurt in the end. How can we avoid this? Well, I'm not sure tion and expound upon it in detail if it seems to warrant more going through with it. Also, make sure everyone's true feel- we can. Hopefully, if you care about the person you're break- attention. In future columns, we may also talk about other ings about it are out in the open. And if any of you changes ing up with, then you'll treat her with respect and be consid- i~teresting (and maybe even a bit spicy) topics at length. Sub- Submit poetry to
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On Campus Intervievvs while drastically expanding and The renovations to the physical changing the menu and service building will include replacing the Monday, March 6th style. furniture and cabinets and updating "Generally what we're trying to much of the kitchen equipment. The do is to create an environment that Office of Dining Services has hired is faster and more visual," said the architecture firm Perry and Rad- Engineers/All Majors Director of Dining Services ford to design the new etworks Richard D ·Berlin, who engineered Cafe. the plans." etworks was original- ly designed as a sit-down restau- Students offer input to redesign rant. We want to maintain that Although engineered by Berlin, unique restaurant image while the process has included a signifi- Startec, a global telecommunications speeding things up." cant amount of input by members of Currently, a budget has not been the UA dining advisory committee. company headquartered in Bethesda, Mo will be set for the renovations, although The committee plans to hold meet- . on campus to interview students on Monday, Berlin believes that they will be ings between once and twice a done on a somewhat "limited bud- month. At the meetings, Berlin will March 6th. We are a fast get." Work should begin shortly discuss his ideas for the renovations . . after commencement, and will most , with students and receive feedback. growing, fast paced company looking for likely continue through the summer. "A lot of times administrators go off and do their own thing without intelligent, hard working individuals who want to A "grab-and-go" serving system talking to students," said McGann. The major component of the ren- "The plans will really be in the grow with our company. ovation will include a modification preliminary stages for the next two of the food-serving system, includ- months," Berlin said. ing the installation of "grab-and-go" Student suggestions have includ- Full-time positions and summer internships are supermarket .style cabinets contain- .ed ensuring that there are enough ing a wide variety of prepared vegetarian options on the menu and available in all departments foods. running a contest to choose a new "This should get rid of the things name for Networks. "We would like that people like to make fun of,'" to remove the stigma that the name said Undergraduate Association Networks carries," McGann said. .Sign up via Jobtrak at the Career Center. President Matthew L McGann '00, The Networks renovation comes referring to the infamous number as one of the first steps in a massive calling system. overhaul to the campus dining sys- Rather than placing orders and tem. Berlin noted that as breakfast is waiting for a number to be called, the meal with the smallest atten- students will be able to select a meal dance, the new Networks could and have it cooked immediately. serve breakfast instead of Lobdell. Under the n~w dining system, stu- In addition, Networks may serve dents will be able to assemble a typ- items from its breakfast menu all ical meal consisting of a salad and day long. "I think that a lot of peo- an entree cooked to their -specifica- ple like to have breakfast late at tions without having to wait for a . night," Berlin said. HOT SPOTS/HOT DEALS! VERy INTERNATIONAL! . 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