Ewbury Comics, Use __- to Close Student Center Shops by Krista L
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MIT' The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: loud, howers, 70°F (21°C) Tonight: howers ending, 48°F (9°C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Plea ant, 64°F (18°C) . Details, Page 2 umber 20 02139 Friday, April 17, 1998 ewbury Comics, use __- To Close Student Center Shops By Krista L. Niece has enjoyed over the past few years the company in 1978 'with 2000 ASSOCiATE NEWS EDiTOR they are "changing their business and a comic book collection," For the first time since it was s~ategies," he said. Dreese, who is now Chief Executive renovated in the late 1980' s, the Newbury Comics was started by Officer, said. Stratton Student Center may soon two men affiliated with MIT. John "It certainly has been fun being see some major changes in the ser- Bursger '78 and Mike Dreese, who vices and products offerea. attended but did not graduate, began NewbUry, Page 17 Both Newbury Comics, a CD and variety store, and the MIT Museum store may vacate their ILGs May Form ew frrst-floor retail space. Other busi- . nesses will remain in the Student Center. The moves come because a Council Within IFC majority of contracts between MIT By Frank Dabek ment is expected from the council in and the Student Center vendors are NEWS EDITOR the next few weeks. ''up for renegotiation," said Phillip Several off-campus independent Likely members of the council J.-Walsh, Director of the Campus living groups are in the process of mainly include the living groups tra- Activities Complex. forming an independent council. ditionally called Independent Living Newbury Comics does not plan The council, which will most likely Groups (ILGs): Fenway house, to renew its lease, according to be dubbed the Independent Living Student House, The Women's Walsh. The store is profitable, but Group Council (ILGC), is still in the Independent Living Group, Epsilon because of the growth the company planning stages; a formal announce- Theta (ET), and pika. These groups are not associated with national fra- ternities. Among fraternities, Tau Epsilon Phi (TEP) is a possible can- didate for the council. Erin A. Schuster '983 president. of tu ent House, said that her house was interested in the group. "[ILGC] is just an organization so that we can have more communica- tion among the ILGs." Nathan J. Williams '98, a resi- dent of pika, said that ''we're plan- ning to [join the group] but every- thing is tentative at this point." Schuster said that the group does "have a charter but we haven't had AGNE BORSZEKl-THE TECH an official meeting." Joll Wu (viola) and Timothy Roberts (cello) play selected works Christopher D. Beland '00, a res- of Webem and Dvorak at the Art of Music Chamber Players con- cert yesterday as part of the MIT Chapel series. ILGC, Page 16 ~~..L-_~ -' Ag S"iIrrected, Spring Concert To Lead Off Spring Weekend Events By Zareena Hussain Christine M. Hartmann '98, co- various offices around the Institute. NEWSEDiTOR organizer of Spring Weekend. "A lot of our effort was put in to This year's Spring Weekend "They are definitely full of funk." getting the money," Hartmann said. marks the resurrection of the once- Maceo Parker, a jazz saxophon- Hartmann added that she hoped annual spring concert. The last time ist, who has played with the likes of that some of the $300,000 allocated a large spring concert was held at James Brown and the group PFunk, for student activities funding next the Institute was three years ago, will round out the list of performers. year will be used to help promote when Sonic Youth came to play in "We are really excited about Spring Weekend in the coming Johnson Athletics Center. Two being able to bring back big bands years. years ago, Soul Coughing played to this year to MIT," Hartmann said.. Students may attend the concert a smaller audience in La Sala de The spring concert is being free-of-charge by volunteering to Puerto Rico. underwritten with a $30,000 alloca- help usher for the concert, Tan said. The concert is being dubbed the tion from the Office of the Dean for Funk Music Festival and features Students and Undergraduate A wide variety of events to be held Fishbone, opening act Five Fingers Education, although other sources Spring Weekend, which will be of Funk, and jazz saxophonist of funding from within the Institute, held from April 23 through April Maceo Parker. as well as ticket sales, are hoped to 25, boasts a wide variety events in Fishbone, a funk-band which o offset the cost, Hartmann said. addition to the spring concert. GREG KUHNEN-THE TECH The Princess Puffer (Kathryn A. Getzewlch G) and John Jasper will play second, should appeal to a Last year, a total of just under ext Thursday, the (Ryan J. Kershner '98) find unexpected love °In one of many college-aged audience, said Alicia $5,000 was invested in Spring Undergrad\!ate Association will possible endings to the Musical Theatre Guild's The Mystery H. Tan '99 who is organizing the Weekend, Hartmann said. sponsor a study break in Lobdell. of Edwin Drood, playing last weekend and this weekend in concert. "I think we chose a band The rise in this year's funding is The always popular International Uttle Kresge. that appeals to a large portion of the due to a variety of factors, including Fair will be held on Fri~ay on MIT community." the tenacity of Spring Weekend "They're a little rowdy," said organizers in obtaining funds from Spring Weekend, Page 18 The faculty discuss new Masters The Tech will not publish on Tuesday, World.& Nation 2 April 21 because of the Patriots Day holi- programs in Comparative Media Opinion 4 day. We will resume normal publica- Studies and Ocean Engineering tion schedule on Friday, April 24. Arts 6 at their monthly meeting. On The Town 8 Sports 20 Page 11 Page 15 .', Page 2 April 17, 1998 e-- o ot LOS ANGELES TIMES • WASHI GTO 73 China rece.ntly rebuffed an American arms-control proposal that it aa Age should join the main international organization for limiting the spread By Keith B. Richburg 20 days under very difficult circum- "I don't want to believe that of missile technology when Pre ident Clinton vi it Beijing thi um- THEWASHI GTONPOST tances," Thayer aid. "It would be he's dead, and I don't have time in mer, senior Clinton administration official say. HO GKO G very logical that he would succumb my life to believe Khmer Rouge By not becoming a member of the 29-nation group, known as the Twenty-three years after his because he was a very sick man to propaganda anymore," said Y ouk Mi sile Technology Control Regime, China retains the ability to sell black pajama-clad guerrillas begin with." Chhang, director of the some components or technology for balli tic missiles to countries marched into Cambodia's capital In the last known film of him Documentation Center of such as Pakistan and Iran. and launched one of this century' taken in July, a white-haired Pol Pot Cambodia, which has been compil- Administration officials had hoped an agreement bringing China most horrific genocides, Khmer appeared frail and sickly, suffering ing genocide evidence for use at a into the group could be the centerpiece of Clinton's trip in late June. Rouge leader Pol Pot died quietly from malaria and unable to walk tribunal. A eparate accord on nuclear cooperation was the focal point of Wednesday on a flowered mattre without assistance. "If he's dead, hand over his Clinton's summit with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Washington in a wooden-slat hut. Thai officials in Bangkok had body to the people, don't just take last October. Televi ed footage from the been cautious in assessing reports of photographs," said Youk Chhang, But now that the idea ha fallen through, administration officials Khmer Rouge's jungle haven the death of the dictator deemed interviewed by telephone in Phnom are exploring other themes and lesser deal that might be highlighted Thursday night showed Pol Pot's responsible for the deaths of Penh. "I want to see him handcuffed when Clinton goes to China. One point administration officials say lifeless body, arms at the sides, between 1.5 million and 2 million and pushed into a jail, like his they will stre s, for example, is that Clinton's trip will be the first stretched out on a simple wooden Cambodians. "We are still awaiting cadres did to me 20 years ago." chance for a top-level meeting with China's dynamic new Premier bed, a green blanket partially cover- independent verification, but every- Youk Chhang expressed the Zhu Rongji. ing his legs and his plastic sandals thing points to it being true, that Pol' frustration of many that Pol Pot's at the bedside. The former dictator's Pot is dead," said Kobsak Chutikul, death has now robbed the world of body lay where his wife discovered the Thai Foreign Ministry the chance to force him to answer u.s. to Change the Way it when she went to arrange his spokesman. for his crimes. mosquito netting. Officials in Bangkok sent a mili- "Those who survived and suf- It Measures Inflation American journalist Nate tary team to verify the death reports, fered through his genocide are never THE WASHINGTON POST Thayer, a correspondent for the and they took a handful of Thai really going to have closure," said WASHI GTON Hong Kong-based Far Eastern journalists whose television footage American journaiist Sidney The government's main inflation gauge will be changed to Economic Review, returned to has now been broadcast worldwide.