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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

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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. Schanberg, whose Cambodia mem.- account for the fact that consumers respond to the rising prices of Thailand from the Cambodian jun- In Phnom Penh, which was cel- oir produced the movie "The Killing many items by shifting to lower-cost substitutes~ the Bureau of Labor gle Thursday night and said he had ebrating the end of the Khmer new Fields." Statistics announced Thursday. no doubt that Pol Pot was dead. year's holiday, officials demanded U.S. State Department The announcement marked the end of a series of changes in the "He's dead," Thayer said in a tele- to see Pol Pot's body before accept- spokesman James Rubin said that consumer price index that were begun in 1995 to correct for the CPI's phone interview. "That was Pol Pot. ing the news of his demise. Local Pol Pot's death should not end tendency to overstate the actual rise in the cost of living. The changes There was no question that was Pol Cambodian radio and television car- efforts to bring other Khmer Rouge affect the vast majority of Americans and the budgets of governments Pot." ried no reports about Pol Pot's leaders to justice. at all levels because the CPl is used to determine cost-of-living Thayer said he spent several death, and those Cambodians "The senior leaders fully share adjustments in benefits such as Social Security, and for adjusting fea- hours questioning Pol Pot's wife informed about the news by journal- responsibility for what occurred and tures of the income tax such as standard deductions and tax brackets. and daughter: as well as Ta Mok, ists seeking comment were mostly those responsible for. crimes of that When the change announced yesterday is incorporated into the the Khmer Rouge commander who skeptical, saying they had heard it kind should be prosecuted," he said. CPT next January, the cumulative effect of all the revisions will be to replaced Pol Pot as head of the out- too many times before. His death comes on the eve of trim the annual increase in the index by roughly eight-tenths of a per- lawed guerrilla group, and said he Fueling the skepticism was the the April 17, 1975, anniversary of centage point. believed the Khmer Rouge reports extraordinary coincidence of his the Khmer Rouge takeover of The latest change, which will shave about two-tenths of a per- that Pol Pot, 73, died of natural passing, which came as the Clinton Phnom Penh. The government of centage point from the reported inflation rate, is designed to reflect causes". Thayer also said he inspect- administration was gaining interna- Thailand said that it had been plan- shoppers' natural tendency to alter their purchasing patterns when the ed the body, poking it several times, tional support to put Pol Pot on trial, ning to announce Thursday that price of an item rises faster than an available substitute. and saw no outward evidence of with the remaining Khmer Rouge Bangkok was ready to enter into foul play. troops seemingly ready to turn over further discussions with Washington Starr Declines Pepperdine Job "He'd been fleeing for the last their longtime leader. on apprehending Pol Pot. THE WASHINGTON POST WASHI GTON Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr said Thursday that with Re~archers Find Way to Fight "the end not yet in sight" for his investigation, he has scrubbed his plans of eventually taking a post at Pepperdine University. Facing reporters on the steps of the federal courthouse, Starr also fired a shot back at the Justice Department and asserted that his office Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria could more credibly investigate an Arkansas woman's claims that \ By Thomas H. Maugh II "The implications are pretty reached, indicating that the bacteria Whitewater witness David Hale received money from conservatives LOS ANGELES TIMES enormous," said Dr. Scott Harkonen are becoming crowded, the protein trying to discredit President Clinton. A revolutionary way to combat of InterMune Pharmaceuticals Inc. triggers the release of toxins, which In a letter Thursday to Attorney General Janet Reno every bit as deadly antibiotic-resistant "super- in Palo Alto, Calif. "We need some destroy tissue and make more room pointed as the one he received last week from Deputy Attorney bugs" has been developed by breakthrough approaches to control- for the expanding bacterial colony. General Eric H. Holder Jr., Starr wrote that while his office has "at researchers at the University of ling these infections." Balaban reasoned that removing most the appearance of a conflict of interest" in investigating the Hale California, Davis, perhaps paving Physicians have been in a life- RAP from the bacteria's environ- claims, the Justice Department "may have not only an appearance the way for a new class of drugs to and-death race with bacteria since ment would prevent toxin release. " e problem but multiple actual conflicts of interest." supplement antibiotics. penicillin was first used during "If you take this molecule from the Starr's unusual news conference was the first of what he and his The researchers have made an "World War II. As soon as bacteria, they always think they are new public information counselor, Charles Bakaly, said wiil be more end-run around the ability of bacte- researchers introduce a new antibi- in bliss," she said. "And if they are regular sessions with reporters. Starr said he increasingly saw the ria to resist antibiotics by attacking otic, bacteria b'egin developing , in bliss, they don't have to release need to respond to what he called "misinformation" about the inde- the mechanism through which they resistance to it. Often, the useful life toxins and cause disease." pendent counsel's office, even as he tried to conduct the investigation release toxins, rather than killing the of an antibiotic may be as little as She confirmed her suspicions by in secret. bacteria. It is these tqxins, rather 10 years. comparing cows that have had staph than the bacterial infection itself, S. aureus is a particular prob- infections with cows that had not. that destroy tissues and impair vital lem, because it can be so deadly and The healthy cows had naturally organs, leading to serious illness because it is common in hospitals. occurring antibodies against RAP, WEATHER and death. In recent years, physicians have while those that were infected had Working with the bacterium found several strains of S. aureus none. "Staphyloccus aureus," which that are resistant to all drugs except She and colleagues at Davis, the Long Weekend Lowdown infects as many as 500,000 hospital- a powerful antibiotic called van- University 'of Maryland and ized Americans yearly, they have comycin. " Panorama Research Inc. in By Marek Zebrowski identified a key protein that enables Last year, they began to see Mountain View, Calif., then immu- STAFF MET£OROLIGIST the micro-organism to release its infections that were resistant even to nized mice with RAP before inject- Spring showers and thunder are likely ahead of a vigorous cold toxins. Immunizing mice with this vancomycin, leaving them virtually ing them with a virulent strain of S. front approaching our area from the west during Friday. A small cell protein protects them from the lethal helpless in treating the patients. aureus that produces lesions on the of high pressure will then build for Saturday and early Sunday, bring- effects of a staph infection, the team Even though more powerful drugs skin called cellulitis. Seventy per- ing clearing skies and noticeably cooler temperatures. However, as reports Friday in the journal than vancomycin are in develop- cent of the mice developed no the aforesaid cold front stalls, bisecting the Southeast, a new distur- Science. ment, it appears that the mutational lesions, and the remainder had bance will form in deep South and proceed alongside, entering the And because the treatment does ability of the bacteria may be out- lesions that were much smaller than Ohio Valley by late' Sunday. As this low continues to move slowly not kill the bacteria, as do antibi- running the innovations of chemists. normal. . towards the northeast and, eventually, offshore, the unsettled weather otics, it is unlikely that they will be Balaban's team has taken a The team also studied a mutant, will return for Marathon Monday, with chilly rains and biting able to develop resistance to it. completely different approach to nonlethal strain of S. aureus and onshore winds. More cool weather will follow the passage of this "This opens a whole new strate- controlling the infections. found that it produces a different _ weather lowlight as the long weekend ends. gy for treating or preventing one of Several years ago, while work- protein, called RIP, that binds to the -- Today: Mostly cloudy with a few sunny breaks possible. Warm the most serious hospital infections ing in the lab of microbiologist bacterium and prevents it from rec- and becoming windy, with fresh southwesterly breezes. Some down- we contend with," said infectious Richard Novick at the New York ognizing RAP. Injections of this pours and strong thunderstorms will cross the area in the afternoon. disease specialist Julie Gerberding Vniverslty School of Medicine, protein in mice also prevented them High 70°F (21°C). of the University of California, San Balaban discovered a protein called from developing lesions. Tonight: Cloudy, with showers ending late. Winds turning to Francisco. RAP. Each S. aureus bacterium The approach is so promising northwest. Low 48°F (9°C). Other bacteria, furthermore, secretes a small amount of RAP that the N 'onal Institutes of Health Saturday: Becoming partly to mostly sunny and pleasant. High almost certainly use an identical or continuously and has receptors on last month gave Panorama a 64°F (18°C). similar mechanism for releasing its surface that measure the amount $100,000 grant to begin developing Sunday outlook: Increasing high clouds; winds slowly turning their toxins, noted Dr. Naomi of RAP in its environment. a vaccine for humans. But Balaban onshore. Highs in low to mid 50s (II-13°C), lows in mid to upper Balaban of UC Davis, so this As the bacteria proliferate, the cautioned that it could be several 40s (6-9°C).- approach might work across a broad amount of RAP increases. Once a years before clinical trials of a vac- spectrum of infections. critical concentration of RAP is cine or a drug might begin. April 17, 1998 WORLD & THE TECH Page 3 e t a Clinton Hails Chilean Partnership THE WASHINGTON POST SANTIAGO, CHILE _...."...."..e In the same presidential palace where socialist Pre ident Salvador c e Allen'de died in a CIA-encouraged military coup nearly 25 years ago, By Lois Romano Clinton's alleged behavior may and financial supporter who wish President Clinton Thursday hailed the "tides of change" that have THE WASHINGTON POST have been 'boori h and offen ive" to harm the president." converted Chile into a "partner and friend for the United States." DALLAS but did no$ con titute exual harass- White House aides aid they Clinton met at La Moneda palace with Chilean President Eduardo A teary Paula Jone , barely able ment. Jone aid nothing in the were confident the appeal would do Frei at the start of a state visit focused on themes similar to those he to compose her elf, announced wake of Wright's decision until little to Clinton's political standing pur ued in Africa last month - trade, education, the environment Thursday that he will appeal a fed- Thur day, when he and her lawyer because the public already has made and acce s to credit for aspiring entrepreneurs. eral judge's ruling that her sexual made clear they would continue to its judgment on Jone and her alle- With Chile and other Latin American states, as with Russia, harassment case against President pre the legal battle urrounding gation . "Politically, it's over," aid Vietnam and Angola, Clinton has sought to rethink the nature of U.S. Clinton ha no merit. Pre ident Clinton's personal life to pre idential counselor Paul Begala. relations with other countries. As he travels the world now, Clinton "I have not come this far to ee the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of "I don't want to speak ill of the dead the president sounds much like Clinton the candidate stumping the the law let men who have done such Appeals as he finishes his remaining and this case is dead." . United States in 1992, stressing economic opportunity rather than things dodge their responsibility," 2 year in office. . In Wright's April 1 ruling, the strategic alignment as the key to stability. In Frei, he aid, he has said Jones. "I believe what Mr. While many legal experts said judge maintained that Jones had found a leader who fully shares his views. Clinton praised "the aston- Clinton did to me was wrong, and Jones faces an uphill battle, the case failed to prove that she was dam- ishing record established by Chile in the last few years in economic the law protects women who are could make its way again to the aged - either personally or profes- and political terms." Frei said his visit to Washington last year and subjected to that kind of abuse of Supreme Court, which already set sionally - by Clinton's alleged Clinton's reciprocal visit here "reflect the new level of maturity that power." one precedent last year by decreeing sexual overture, meaning that there relations between our two countries have achieved," It was one of the few times the that the Jones lawsuit could proceed were "no genuine issues for trial." public has heard Jones speak since while Clinton was in office. The case had been scheduled to go she alleged in a 1994 civil lawsuit Clinton's attorney, Robert S. to trial next month. Repair Proposal Is Extended that Clinton had dropped his pants Bennett, issued a statement repeat- Wright diminished the encounter and asked her for oral sex in a Little ing that Clinton "unequivocally" as a single incident that fell far Beyond 1WA Flight 800 Jets Rock, Ark., hotel room on May 8, denied Jones' allegations. "We are below the legal standard needed to LOS ANGELES TIMES 1991, when she was a low-level confident that the appellate court establish a "hostile workplace" in a Fixes to prevent the sort of fuel-tank explosion in 1996 that state employee and he was governor will not permit Paula Jones and her harassment case. brought down Trans World Airlines Flight 800 - a Boeing 747 of Arkansas. supporters to pursue this case," he "There is no 'one free flash' rule jumbo jet - were proposed Thursday for another Boeing jetliner, the U.S. District Judge Susan said. "It is unfortunate that our legal recognized in the law," responded widely used 737. Webber Wright threw out Jones' system can nonetheless continued to Donovan Campbell Jr., Jones lead The estimated cost of complying with the proposal to rework the case on April I, saying th~t be abused by Mrs. Jones's political attorney. fuel-sensor wiring systems on 1,140 of the U.S.-registered, narrow- body 737 jetliners is about $41 million. The FAA said that an order mandating the repairs and installations on 737-100, -200, -300, -400 Congo Massacre Probe Pullback and -500 series planes probably would be handed down in about 45 days. Once the order is issued, airlines then would have a year to com- plete the work. About 2,800 of the 100 through 500 series 737s are in Seen as Human Rights Setback use around the globe, making them the most widely used transport By Craig Turner that the effort had been a failure and to cooperate in the U.N. human- aircraft in the world. Last week, the National Transportation Safety LOSANGELES TIMES said it illustrates "how difficult it is' rights investigation and cracked Board, reacting to suspect wiring found in the wreckage of TW A UNITED NATIONS to get to the facts, to get govern- down on peaceful opposition to his Flight 800 and on some other 747s, urged the FAA to order inspec- The decision to pull back a U.N. ments to cooperate in these situa- rule. Recent reports by the United tions of fuel-sensor wiring systems on about 650 of the wide-body investigation into the massacre of tions where human rights are at Nations and private human-rights jets. refugees in the Congo - after the stake. We_will probably have to groups have compared his human- The NTSB still has not determined what touched off the center government there refused to cooper- think of other sorts of creative rights abuses to those carried out by fuel-tank explosion that tore Flight 800 apart a few minutes after it ate with it - deals a setback to the means to get to the truth." Mobutq. had taken off from New York: killing all 230 on board. However, Clinton administration's Africa pol- The reversal comes as the American and European govern- NTSB investigators have said that a power surge in normally low- icy and. to U.N. efforts to put human administration has drawn new atten- ment officials have warned Kabila voltage fuel-sensor wiring that somehow had been stripped of protec- rights. at the center of the interna- tion to'its Africa policy with that economic aid to the country tive insulation might have caused a spark that triggered the blast on tional agenda. President Clinton's recent visit to may be conditioned on his coopera- the 747. The Congolese obstruction of the the continent. tion with the agreement. investigation came despite the ., Richard,son was Washington's In appointing the U. . inves- efforts of Bill Richardson, U.S. point man in the move to embrace tigative team last year, Annan took Study Uncovers Wide Gap Between ambassador to the United Nations, Kabila last year as his rebel army the unusual step of replacing the who traveled twice to Africa last supported by forces from neighbor- expert already appointed to conduct Races in Internet Usage Levels year in attempts to get President ing ~wanda 'and Uganda overthrew the proQe because Kabila had LOS ANGELES TIMES Laurent Kabila of the Congo to _ longtime dictator Mobutu;Sese objected to his presence. Annan was At a time when the Internet is growing faster than any other com- cooperate in the probe. It also is a Seko. Richardson met with Kabila accused by human-rights groups of munications system in history, there is a "troubling" racial divide in blow to U.N. Secretary-General even before he had displaced caving in to U.S. pressure to accom- how readily blacks can access the global computer network, Kofi Annan, who changed U.N. pol- Mobutu, and, according to a senior modate Kabila. researchers said Thursday. icy in an attempt to overcome U.S. official, helped establish an According to U.N. reports, In the first survey of its kind, a team of Vanderbilt University Kabila's objections. ongoing US: communications link Congolese officials intimidated wit- management experts compared whites and blacks of equal education The United Nations began with- with Kabila's forces during the final nesses, organized demonstrations to and income. They found that whites were much more likely to own a drawing its 26-member team drive to the capital of Kinshasa. block investigative access to sus- home computer and to use the World Wide Web regularly. Wednesday and expects to make a After Mobutu's fall, State .pected mass graves and delayed The digital divide was greatest among high school and college formal announcement Friday after Department officials characterized providing necessary security and students, the Vanderbilt researchers found. the Congolese government officially Kabila as one of a new generation transport. Christopher Harland, a "The gap is huge," said Stanford University telecommunications is informed. Ann'an said the inquiry of Central African leaders support- Canadian member of the team, was expert Francois Bar, who studies Internet access. "It reinforces will continue but will be based at ive of market economies and plural detained overnight by authorities. inequalities. " the U.N.'s European headquarters in istic societies, if not enamored of U.S. and U.N. officials have The study found that white students were more than twice as like- Geneva rather than in the Congo. - multiparty democracies. expressed concern for the safety of ly to own a home computer, even when household income was taken "The search for the truth will But Kabila has broken his witnesses who have talked to inves- into account. Less than one-third of black students owned a home continue," Annan said. He denied promises to Richardson and Annan tigators once the team is removed. computer, compared to almost three-quarters of the white students, according to the study, which is published Friday in Science. And white students who did not own a home computer still were 1980 Philip_Morris Memo Outlined more likely to access the Web from other locations, the researchers said. They were three times more likely to have used the Web recent- Need to Conceal Nicotine Studies ly than black students in the same situation. , By Saundra Torry low profile-." a drug ... long before we did." Jewish Student Accuses Hanrard THE WASHINGTON POST "The psychopharmacology of , "Here you have a memo that lays Fifteen years before the Food nicotine ... is where the action is for out them saying it (nicotine) is a Newspaper of Religious Bias and Drug Administration made its those doing fundamental research drug" and that "they have to cover it THE WASHINGTON POST controversIal move to regulate ciga- on smoking, and from where most up," Kessler said. "The hard thing to Through the years, they have grappled with problems of gender, rettes, industry giant Philip Morris likely will come significant scientif- understand, in light of this memo, is race and even income when sizing up their staff. But as editors at the already was strategizing to hide ic developments profoundly influ- how the lawyers for the industry Harvard Crimson took stock of things last fall, they were confronted studies that might encourage what it encing the industry . Yet it is where have denied the fact that nicotine is with a debate about whether their editorial page staff was too heavily feared was th~ government's inten- our attorneys least want us to be," a drug." For years, the industry has Jewish. tion, according to a 1980 document he wrote. argued that nicotine as it 'natunilly Editors at the I25-year-old student newspaper found that eight of introduced in Minnesota's' lawsuit Since the FDA moved in 1995 to occurs in tobacco should not be reg- the daily publication's 10 columnists were Jewish, a figure they saw against the industry. regulate cigar~ttes as a combination ulated as a drug. as evidence of the Crimson's failure to represent the full range of ,/ The document - one of a cache drug and drug-delivery "device," The 1980 memo to Robert a. views in the university community. Their solution: Hire editorial of hotly disputed papers unsealed by the industry has argued that the Seligman, a former company vice chairmen with a commitment to diversity. The new bosses later the Supreme Court last week - dis- agency does not have jurisdiction, in president, also states that industry . expanded the number of columnists to 16 and added more space for cusses a company legal strategy' to part because cigarettes do not fit the attorneys have advised against opinion pieces, which allowed for new Muslim, black and female conceal research that might aid statutory definition of drugs or drug- research into the health risks of voices on the editorial page. efforts to transfer tobacco regulation delivery devices as defined by the smoking because it likely would be But those decisions, made in the name of inclqsiveness, have to the FDA, which "was known to Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The used 'against cigarette makers in ignited a small furor on the Harvard campus after junior Justin have interests and powers antitheti- industry's challenge to the FDA's lawsuits by the heirs of de'ceased Danilewitz claimed he was rejected for the prestigious post as chair- cal" to the industry's interests. proposed set of regulations is pend- smokers. man of the paper's five-person editorial board because he is Jewish. _ Although the document, written ing before a federal appeals court. Philip Morris scientist William Although the two students chosen for the job coveted by by a leading Philip Morris scientist Former FDA commissioner L. Dunn, the memo's. author and a Danilewitz are themselves Jewish, he believes they were selected to a top company executive, indi- David A. Kessler, who initiated the leading expert on the effects of only because they shared the view that too many Jewish opinion writ- cates that some of the studies would agency's move to regulate tobacco, njcotine, describes the industry's ers is not a good thing. Danilewitz aired his views in the current issue go forward, it adds, "Our attorneys, said the memo was "stronger than general legal defense strategy this of the American Jewish CommIttee journal Commentary, drawing however, will likely continue to anything else I have seen," appar- way: "We within the industry are national attention to his cause. insist upon a clandestine effort in ently indicating the industry' "knew ignorant of any relationship between order to keep. hicQtine the .drug in and.acknowledgedlbat nicotine was smoking and di ease:'. p y lcohol Policy Earlier thi week, the admini tration congratulated it elf Other recent group have achieved ucce in contacting a through a Tech Talk article which aid that a dialogue between large percentage of the tudent body. The Dining Review tudent and administrators ha led to a return in normal campu Working Group vi ited every dormitory and everal fraternities affairs through th new alcohol policie . la t year, gaining valuable input by vi iting student where it Chairman Shang-Lln Chuang '98 We do not believe that the matter most - in their living group. Member ofthe group time for congratulation ha arrived working on alcohol policy could gain far more valuable input ditor in Chief Editorial becau e, in fact, a dialogue has not from a better cro - ection of the In titute by moving their Dan McGuire '99 yet occurred. The admini tration meeting to dormitories, fraternitie , sororities, and independent Du ine anager has made an effort to educate student about the current alco- living groups. When the meeting are clo e to where they live, Joey Dieckhan '00 hol policy through open hou e and question and answer e - tudent will attend them more often, ions, but an information e ion can never replace substantive Moreover, members of the group need to understand better anaging Editor conver ation. To hold an authentic dialogue with the entire the undergraduate experience in general. The article notes the Josh Bittker '99 MIT community, administrator need to olicit input on what return of alcohol to campus and ays that student life has been E ecutj e Editor the policies hould be. They have not done thi . Instead, tu- improving over the past few months. Yet the new alcohol policy Jennifer Lane '9 dent have a ked que tion and administrator have answered ha made it more difficult to hold events, both with and without them. While thi proces ha .led to some changes in the alco- alcohol, and no other subst.antive step have been taken to NEWS STAFF hol policy, tudent have played no role in the decision-making improve the campu social life. The'admini tration' claim Editor: Brett Altschul '99, Frank proces . sounds like nothing but ~lf-promotion. Dabek '00, Douglas E. Heimburger '00, The Dean' Office has done little to encourage discussion. The Tech has consistently said that there are important Zareena Hussain '00; s ociate Editors: Over the pa t few months, there have not been publicized alcohol-related issues that need to be dealt with in the coming Carina Fung '99, Jean K. Lee '99, Jennifer meeting to solicit input on the interim alcohol policy, months. The confidentiality of medical transports, the vague Chung '0 I, Kri ta L. iece'O I; taff: Orli G. Bahcall '99, hawdee E hghi '99, Eric implemented in January. For effective dialogue to occur, the punishment guidelines for alcohol offenses, and the need for it '99, Aileen Tang '99, May K. T e '99, Dean's Office must extensively publicize meetings between more on-campus events all require frank discussion between harrnin Ghaznavi '00, tuart Jack on '00, tudents and administrators and actually take student input into students and administrators. The discussion is not yet over, and Dudley W. Lamming '00, usan account when making policies, Without visible progress on we are disappointed that the Dean's Office has decided to con- Buchman '0 I, Katie Jeffrey '0 I, Dalie alcohol policie , students will not have any rea on to attend gratulate itself on. the progress of the dialogue. This is just Jimenez '0 I; eteorologist: Michael C. open meetings. rhetoric: true dialogue requires that parties come to the table Morgan PhD '95, Gerard Roe G, Chris E. Dean mu t also consider the way in which they hold meet- with open minds and prepared to make concessions ..The Dean's Forest, Marek Zebrowski. ings. To date, the forums have been at best sparsely attended. Office needs to stop making unilateral statements of policy and PRODUCTION STAFF Members of the Dean's Office need to make a significant effort tart discussing these issues with students, so that campus life in As ociate Editors: Moksha Ranasinghe '99, to under tand, and participate in, student life. general can improve. Erica . Pfister '00, Ryan M. Ochylski '01; taff: Kevin Fu '98, Saul Blumenthal '98, Jason C. Yang '99, Francisco Tanudjaja '00, Letters To The Editor Kevin Chao '0 I, Roxanne Lau '0 I, Steve K. Lim '01, Agnes Borszeki. Housing Booklets fellow students call home. The American we are open to every memb.er of the MIT OPINION STAFF Nuclear Society, Mechanical Engineering community, our members are mostly graduate Graduate Association of Women, and students, -meaning that we have to turn to the Editors: Anders Hove G, Dan Dunn '94; Cheat Pre-Frosh Associate Editor: Naveen Sunkavally '01; Women in Chemistry also received funding GSC to support our many events. Staff: Stacey E. Blau '98, Mitali Dhar '99, Well, it looks as if Residence and Campus from the GSC this year. These organizations Thanks to GSC funding we are able to Wesley T. Chan '00, Jim J. O'Donnell '00, Actiyities has already started to cheat next play important roles in nurturing the academ- fund activities such as a welcome barbecue Seth Bisen-Hersh '0 I, Andrew J. Kim '01, year's freshmen out of a fair, sane housing ic and professional development of MIT stu- for 150 people each fall and movie nights and Michael J. Ring '01. selection. Why should putting together a com- dents. concert tours which easily draw a total of sev- . prehensive housing booklet be such a hard The Graduate Christian Fellowship, eral hundred people evet:y semester. All of SPORTS STAFF thing for MIT to do? If our administrators say Graduate Hillel, and the Muslfm Student these events are open to all graduate students Editor: Shao-Fei Moy '98; Staff: Wendy that they're committed to making nexfyear's Association provide supportive environments and the strong attendance shows that - Yu '98, Chris Brocoum '00. process better, now is exactly the time to for piritua1 expression. The Graduate Soccer believe it or not - graduate ..students, like ARTS STAFF show us they're not going to get bogged down Club, Men's Rugby Football, MIT Sloan Crew, undergraduates, enjoy participating in Editor: Joel M. Rosenberg '99; taff: in tough decisions like whether dormitories and others organize ~thletic events for a wide . extracurricular activities. . Thomas Chen G, Vladimir V. Zelevinsky G, should be left out to save the prefrosh from "a range of interests. Or at least they'd like to: Every semester, Teresa Esser '95, Teresa Huang '97, David crateload of papers." Believe me, baby, These groups manage to organize an we (along with many other graduate student V. Rodriguez '97, Mark Huang '99, Yaron there's more on the way. impressive range of activities with an unfortu- clubs) have to make do with only part of the Koren '99, Steven R. L. Millman G. . Baruch P. Feldman '01 nately small amount of money. While the money we applied for due to lack of funds,

PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF GSC would like to fully fund worthy organi- This problem has forced us to downsize some Editors: Gabor Csanyi G, Gregory F. zations and events, we receive requests for of our events, even as demand is growing. Kuhnen '00; taff: Rich Fletcher G, GSC Makes Many funding that total many times our budget. While the majority of students at MIT are grad- Jonathan Li G, Wan Y. W. Morshid.i G, Consequently, the GSC works hard to uate students, their clubs receive only a fraction Gabriele Migliorini G, Thomas E. Contributions locate additional sources of funding in order of the funding allocated to undergraduate stu- Murphy G, Arifur Rahman G, T. Luke to facilitate the efforts of these groups to dent.clubs. Therefore, we strongly support the Young G, Tiffany Lin '97, Dennis To Student Life enrich MIT community life. In so doing, we efforts of the GSC to ensure a fair allocation of Yancey '97, Adriane Chapman '98, Ahmed In the April 14 issue of The Tech, its edito- hope our advocacy of graduate student groups funding for student activities to graduate stu- Ait-Ghezala '99, Dan Rodriguez '99, David rial board comments, "In the wake of is not mistakenly portrayed as whining but dent clubs. Tarin '99, Wendy Fan '00, Rita H. Lin '00, provost's long-sought allocation to student rather is recognized as the united, firm voice Maximilian K. Riesenhuber G Karlene Rosera '00, Cornelia Tang '00, activities, [Graduate Student Council] whines of graduate student~. President, MIT European Club • Chun Hua Zheng '00, Ajai Bharadwaj '01, it wants more of the pie... " We are not clear Carsten D. Hohnke G Courtney Clench '01, Ying Lee '01, on what prompted a portrayal of graduate stu- GSC Treasurer-Elect Rebecca Loh '01, Amy Yen '01, Miodrag dent concerns as "whining," but, in any case, .Lighting Already Cirkovic. would like to take this opportunity to make clear the contributions made by the many Graduate Student -Good FEATURES STAFF organizations that are made up of graduate Wow, here is a new low in The Tech: a Anthony R. Salas '91, Pawan Sinha SM '92, students, who represent a majority of MIT stu- Clubs Deserve More column by Elaine Y. Wan '01 ["Let There Be Hugo M. Ayala G, Calista E. Tait G, Katy dents. "In the wake of provost's long-sought allo- Light,~ April 10] that basically says MIT King G, Zachary Emig '98, Solar The GSC helped fund dozens of student cation to student activities, [Graduate Student Olugebefola '99, Jessica Wu '99, Jennifer should improve its lighting by joining the Dimase '01. groups this year. The Arab Students Council] whines it wants more of the pie," Environmental Protection Agency's Green Organization, Canadians Club, European reads the Institutional Wisdom Watch from Lights program. Of course, some of us BUSINESS STAFF Club, Lebanese Club, Sri Lankan Students the April 14 issue of The Tech. As the remember that MIT completed the Green Advertising Manager: Jennifer Association, and Singapore Students Society President of the MIT European Club, I must Lights program a few years ago. Koo '00; Operations Manager: Satwiksai all received significant funds from the GSC. say that I can only hope that their "whining" The lighting was changed nearly every- Seshasai '0 I; Staff: Amy Cai '0 I. These organizations (and many others like will get the GSC and thus graduate student where on campus, including in lecture halls and EDITORS A T LARGE them) provide a wealth of cultural enrichment clubs their fair share of the pie. . libraries as Wan suggests. If I recall correctly, Contributing Editors: David D. Hsu '98, to the MIT community. The European Club, with 800 members, is one area that was not redone was the fourth Venkatesh Sat ish '98; Color Editor: Dances, films, theater presentations, sem- one of the largest and most active student floor of the Student Center, because student Indranath Neogy '98. inars, picnics featuring ethnic foods, and groups on campus. We average about two activities (probably including The Tech) want- many other events entertain us and educate events per week, ranging from movie nights ADVISORY BOARD ed at least one relaxingly dim place on campus. us about the diverse communities that our over parties to ra~ng and skiing trips. While J. V. Michael Bove '83, Robert E. Malch- Richard Barbalace '97 man '85, Thomas T. Huang '86, Deborah A. Levinson '91, Reuven M. Lerner '92, Josh days before the date of publication. Hartmann '93, Jeremy Hylton '94, Garlen C. Opinion Policy Leung '95. 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It non-minority "qualified" candidate with a less clas es. . bear many little tentacle that probe and prod "qualified" minority candidate. But what Thi i where affirmative action comes in. atlon at our value and emotion . It ca t lingering exactly i a more "qualified" candid~te? It provide a way to compensate those minori- doubt, rai es su pi- In univer ity admis ion, e pecially at UC ty applicants who usually attend poorer cions, and engender Berkeley, a more qualified candidate has high- schools and have fewer opportunities. It is a Dan Dunn fierce diatribe. early er Schola tic Achievement Te t core, chal- noble endeavor in this aspect. 30 year after the lenges himself or herself by taking more However, affirmative action would be a I am a white boy. I know, when you look a assination of Martin advanced clas e and u ually attend a better more noble endeavor if it compensated appli- at the picture I look like a wooden Pinnochio Luther King Jr., the high school. But those who attend better cants not ba ed on their race but on their boy, but trust me, I'm white. As you have i ue provide a perfect schools are necessarily predominantly white, poverty level. Clearly, a wealthy black tudent probably noticed, test of America's racial since those who attend better chools have who attends an elite school should not be Boston, and the rest of climate and progre more income or live in more wealthy neigh- given preference to a poor white student who ew England, is pretty Recently, the borhoods that upport better schools. These attends a less elite school. Ideal affirmative white, too. University of better schools usually offer more opportuni- action would work to improve not the racial But all of this is California announced ties for tudent advancement, and those stu- status of those accepted but the wealth di trib- changing. We, as a statistics about students who applied for dents who attend better schools have better ution of tho e accepted. The results of ideal group, are becoming admission thi fall at UC Berkeley and chance for advancement. affirmative action will invariably be the same Dominican. New University of California at Los Angeles, two The SAT, though more of a test of one's as affirmative action now, since poorer stu- England is known, in of the best public educational institutions in test-taking skills, is still the most valid test of dents are also more likely of the minority than some circles, as Red the nation. At Berkeley, the number of black education America has today. 0 other alterna- not, but the system of admissions - from Sox ation. applicants dropped 50 percent from the year tives have come up to replace it. But the SAT acceptance based on race to acceptance based Let me describe before, while the number of Hispanic appli- tests only knowledge gained from extensive on wealth - would change dramatically. Red Sox ation to you. It is a term to describe cants dropped 40 percent. At UCLA, there reading and math preparation, not innate intelJi- I agree with opponents of affirmative the millions of people who are waiting for that was a 4'3 percent decline in black applicants gence or potential. Thus an average student action that universities should admit the most day when the Red Sox reclaim their World and a 33 percent decline in Hispanic appli- who attends a better chool - a student who is "qualified" students. But the more "qualified" Series. The members know every player and cants. The change in applicant numbers was also more likely to be white - will more likely student is one who demonstrates more acade- listen to every game. They have opinions on brought about by a statewide vote the year perform better on the SAT than a student who mi~ potential, not performance on SAT tests, every person, every decision, and every play. before to ban affirmative action from employ- attends the poorer school. Moreover, less advanced classes, etc. "Qualified" applicants, They go though life waiting, waiting, waiting ment and college considerations. As a direct "qualified" applicants usuany tend to spend according to the reformed definition, are dis- for The Year. result, numbers of minority students attending more time working on the job, recouping finan- persed within the population in an income My grandmother is a member of Red Sox these universities has also declined. cial aid and loans, than on studies. levels, and a university should endeavor to Nation. She sends me letters every so often Is such a distribution fair? Is this a value that Is it fair for more qualified students - find the most "qualified" applicants from all - she only lives a few miles away, but you California - and the American government, as who through no merit of their own - attend these levels. And ideal affirmative action, know how it is. Three pages will be about a consequence of accepting Cali~ornia's deci- better schools to be favored over less "quali- though its goal is not improving diversity, the Sox, and one' about my new cousin. We sion - seek to uphold? What price diversity? fied" applicants who through no fault of their would have the added benefit of improving have our priorities, and Red Sox are number To assess affirmative ~ction, one must first own attend poorer schools? Clearly, intelli- diversity since those from poorer classes are one. form a concrete definition of"intelJigence," or gence or what i~ "qualified" must be defined necessarily more likely to be of the minority. Red Sox Nation .includes Maine, ew Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Regulating Malicious Motorists on Mass.Ave. Massachusetts, and parts of Connecticut. stronger commitment from the Campus Police motorists from being involved in another Michael I,Ring to the zealous enforcement of traffic pedestrian tragedy. The low speed limit regulations would vastly improve pedestrian insures the protection of those crossing the Can you see the grandparents, A local legend purports that the first safety in and around campus. street, especially those crossing busy and even great-grandparents, surveyors in Boston were cows. Back in the Unfortunately, there are few. other highways. As there is no street more traveled 17th century, claims the tale, the cows would solutions which MIT can implement directly in Cambridge than Massachusetts Avenue, who only want to see the enjoy grazing on the , to avert another senseless pedestrian accident. and as the pedestrian traffic at MIT remains at Common. At the end The Institute has a serious responsibility, high levels all day, only a 20 mph speed limit Red Sox win of the day, the bovines however, to lobby the City of Cambridge and can properly safeguard those of us whose would blaze curving, the Metropolitan District Commission to take livelihoods depend on safe passage across that before they die? narrow paths leading all actions necessary and proper toqav rt street. • back to their respective another tragedy. The following proposals On Memorial Drive, pedestrian traffic is barns. The city later would satisfy these goals. lighter, but the need remains for a speed cut to Som'ewhere, there is a line in Connecticut decided to pave over Crosswalk safety must be augmented on tame the monsters lurking behind the wheel. where the evil Yankees begin to hold sway. th'e cow paths, thus both Massachusetts Avenue and Memorial Perhaps a speed limit of 25 mph is more Red Sox Nation encompasses a lot of people, . ~ forming the Drive. Our best solution is to borrow a French appropriate there. but, now, in all its "whiteness," it is finding a metropolitan street initiative used to tame that country's The flnal, and perhaps most radical, step I whole new way to look at things. a&~~ - ~ grid. notoriously aggressive drivets. In France propose is to restrict general traffic to one lane Pedro Martinez is in town, and he is here While the steady hooves of those ancient many crosswalks are placed on the top of a in each direction on both Massachusetts to stay. The Red Sox spent $75 million to cattle do seem apparent in some quarters of wide, gently rounding speed bump elevated Avenue and Memorial Drive. Besides further bring this man to Fenway. He appeared for the the city, our immediate environs elicit the about a foot from the street. This elegant slowing traffic, this solution will make other first time on Saturday, and the event was pure entirely opposite observation. Massachusetts device is effective in slowing the flow of transportation alternatives more attractive to electricity. Avenue, a fun six car-widths wide from the traffic at busy street crossings,. improving the the motoring public. First of all, the man pitched a game of Charles River to Lafayette Square, rends the safety of those traveling by foot. Such devices On Massachusetts Avenue, the right lane complete dominance against the Seattle Institute asunder. Likewise, the in both directions between Mariners. He pitched all nine innings without speedway parallel to the river the Charles River and giving up a run. Moreover, he only gave up known as Memorial Drive Lafayette Square should be two hits - neither of which was much to look severs the MIT community restricted to buses, taxis, at. This 160-pound weakling kept 1997' s from the banks of the Charles. and high-occupancy highest scoring team locked in a cage, and he With two pedestrian fatalities vehicles containing three or made it seem effortless. and a litany of smaller more people, leaving all Can you feel the hope that this man brings accidents on these other traffic in the left lane. to Red Sox Nation? Can you see the grandpar- thoroughfares in this academic This solution will not only ents, and even great-grandparents, who only year alone, it is intuitively reduce the speed of traffic want to see the Red Sox win before they die? obvious that major traffic- by constricting the general They have new hope. Pedro is in town. calming work is in order. flow to one lane, but it will Second of all, he brought a new crowd to While much of the present also vastly improve the Fenway. The stands were filled with discussion has focused on timeliness of the MBT A Dominicans, screaming their lungs out. Pedro improving safety on Memorial buses. The T vehicles will got a strikeout; the crowd went wild. Pedro Drive, 'enhancing safety on be offered unimpeded flow got an out; the crowd went wild. Pedro fin- Massachusetts Avenue is just as from University Park to ished an inning; the crowd went wild. Pedro important. Those of us who Memorial Drive. Their stood up; the crowd went wild. inhabit west campus must improved efficiency will And not only would the fans scream and traverse this cavernous artery at render them more attractive shout, but they would also wave Dominican least twice a day, and most of for the people living and flags wildly in the air. I have never seen us will need to make four working along the corridor, anything but a few Fourth of July flags in crossings. Daily pedestrian thus further cutting the total the park. But Saturday, Fenway was a sea of traffic numbers in the daily vel1icle volume. red, white, and blue - and not in the usual thousands, and the ever- Various low bridges and order. common speeding motorists or crossings prevent buses This is Pedro's biggest effect. He is bring- guerrilla drivers attempting to from traveling along ing about the merger of the Dominican sneak through a red light could be even more Memorial Drive. There is no reason, however, Republic and Red Sox Nation. This is not an of a danger on Massachusetts Avenue. . should be implemented at the crosswalks on why the inner lanes in both directions could easy task, but can you imagine the result? One immediate solution that would greatly Memorial Drive, as well as the heavily not be restricted to taxis and high-occupancy Hundreds of thousands of a formerly white improve our ch~nces of avoiding a third traversed crosswalks at 77 Massachusetts vehicles. Such a constraint will encourage people, now a part of a multicultural people. It disaster is to increase police patrols on both Ave. and Massachusetts Avenue at Amherst carpooling, again resulting in a decline of is something to watch. these streets and vigorously enforce the Street. traffic volume. I grew up in New Hampshire, where my current traffic laws. The Campus Police can As pedestrian traffic is extremely heavy These ideas will only work if there is a father was from. My mother is from Boston. I do a much better job in enforcing the current in the area, speed limits of 30 mph and commitment from the law enforcement was born in Cambridge and have lived my life traffic laws governing the streets traversing above are simply inadequate to protect the community to enforce these new regulations in New Hampshire. That makes me a Red Sox campus. It seems that not a day goes by when safety of those walking in the area. The and punish the offenders. With such a fan, and it makes me white. (Some claim that I fail to see an officer ticketing vehicles speed limit on Massachusetts Avenue from pledge, however, pedestrians in and around both of these are birth defects, but I prefer to without parking permits on Amherst Street. the river as far north as Vassar Street should the Ins itute may be assured that the think of them as features.) Yet just as frequently, I see a speeding car on be reduced to 20 miles per hour. This is initiatives detailed above will tame the I am going to the game again today with Massachusetts Avenue pass a red light consistent with Massachusetts law for speed I scofflaw motorists and make Memorial my fraternity. I have bought a new posses- without repercussions. limit in a school zone. Drive and Massachusetts A venue less sion. I will display it while screaming wildly. Are moving violations less of a priority to The reasoning for such an action is simple: • intimidating and safer, pedest ian-friendly I will be waving a flag of the Dominican !~e. ~al1'!pus Poli~,: th~,! p~r~ing t!ckets ~re7 ~. ~ lower speed limit would help prevent thoroughfares. Republic. April 17, 1998

Pap-culture icons energy keeps it popular By Vladimir Zelevlnsky summary of the plot. The time when Danny STAFF REPORTER and Sandy are falling in love i not chronicled Starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, (the' opening shot finds them parting on the Stockard Channing beach, presumably after a summer spe &reenplay by Bronte Woodard, based on the together). During the rest of the movie, one stage musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey would expect them braving the barriers. Directed by Randal K/eiser between them, but that pretty mucfi'isn t shown either. There are a couple of minor ease is the word, or rather, Grease is quarrels between them (Danny is afraid to he world. A hugely popular movie admit his affection to Sandy when surrounded when first released in 1978, a force by arcastic pals; however, very shortly, he behind the best-selling soundtrack for apologizes, and all is forgiven), but this is def- the 20 years since, very successful now in its initely not your usual "boy meets girl, boy anniver ary rerelease (no, there are no com- loses girl, boy gets girl back" type of story. puter-generated characters making cameo Frankly speaking, Grease i,s not much of a appearances; only the soundtrack was rem as- story at all - a couple of conflicts are not tered) - Grease exists in the rarefied strata of enough to propel the plot forward, and those pop culture, simultaneously primal and highly conflicts are minor as well. For example, postmodern in its appeal, as artificial as the some (not much) screen time is devoted to milieu it depicts. Danny's leather-wearing, fast-ear-driving, The time is the 1950s, the location is Elvis-haired pals fighting another group of Rydell High School, the characters are a leather-wearing, fast-ear-driving, Elvis-haired group of high school seniors (gamely played guys, who are bad because - let me think - by a mi matched array of 30ish actors), the because, I guess, all of them are chewing gum genre is musical. Danny (limber John and none of them is played by John Travolta. Travolta) meets sweet Sandy (Olivia Newton- This subplot crops up sporadically and is John) over the summer, then, when the classes resolved almost off-handedly, which is, actu- start, peer pressure keeps them apart - at ally, true in the case of all subplots. least until they work it out and get back No, the force that drives the movie forward Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta star In Grease. together. The above is a highly exhau tive is something completely different. Grease is a . musical, and it's not a classic-story- with- songs-added-Iater type of musi- cal, where the songs are important but not essential. It is an outright, con ceived-as-such, owning-the- birthright, ~otta-sing-it-or-else type of musical. Song 'n' dance numbers are frequent, eye-grabbing, nOt highly memorable, but very energetic (per- haps too much so; I would like to hear a couple of slower ones, like "Hopelessly Devoted To You" with- .... out the underlying bass beat) . These days, no one makes movie musicals; it seems that the audience can't swallow characters suddenly

bursting into 'song. Th.e only ex~e'p- 'i tions, of course, are animated musi- f.- cals where, quite likely, the overall .artificiality of what's happening onscreen helps to suspend the disbe- OVER lief to such a degree that it doesn't really matter that sometime, yes, ! 60 some singing's got t

OViE REVIEW groaners like "Robot, let me tell you about stand what's really happening, which is dis- friendship... tracting at first and actively annoying later. What about pecial effects? After all, this The fact that this motion picture is edited into Lost In Space is a big budget Hollywood production, and, as oblivion (most of the shots are around three such, it should have killer special effects. seconds long, and no longer) also doesn't Lost before it gets off the ground Well, yes and no - the effects, admittedly, help. look extra-cool (although some of them also At least Lost In Space is lively and never By Vladimir v. Zelevlnsky ter ). look extra-fake). The level of detail and. actually boring; I was highly entertained by STAFF REPORTER The other people on board include Major sophi tication on di play here is quite stagger- this mess. Of cour e, I should have expected Directed by Stephen Hopkins Don We t (Matt LeBlanc, who actually man- ing - and prove to be way too much. something like this from a movie which has Written by Akiva Goldsman ages to do some acting), flirting with Judy; There's 0 much going on in nearly every 12 producers and is written by the screen- Starring William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Lacey evil Dr. Smith (Gary Oldman, in hi third nut • effect filled shot that it's impo sible to under- writer of Batman and Robin. bert, Heather Graham, Gary Oldman, case villain role in a row), Jack John on, Matt LeBlanc going about mumbling and calling him elf evil, and, If you are a non-business major and you want to improve your marketability, he year is 2058, the Earth' resource finally, there' al 0 the are depleted, and the plan'et's govern- Robot, who is uppo ed to ment sends out a group of intrepid be highly intelligent but is The Haas School of Business explore,rs (who just happen to all clearly a few microchips at the University of California Berkeley belong to one family) on the interstellar short of an abacus. Oh, I paceship Jupiter 2 to the only habitable star forgot, there's also a com- Summer BASE Program IS FORYOU! system outside Earth to build a second door- puter-generated monkey, way to a controlled wormhole or something which can change colors, Learn the fundamentals of: (the first one is being assembled in this solar looks utterly fake, obvious- • Accounting • Marketing system), so humanity can colonize the uni- ly cost a lot to render, and verse. The brave Space Family Robinson has utterly no reason to be • Finance • Organizational Behavior blasts out into space and gets lost. in this movie, since it has • Hands-on market & financial research Severely lost. I'm not talking weird new absolutely nothing to do. • Business related computer applications worlds, remote star systems, decrepit space- On the other hand, the same & ship wrecks, or even bubbles of space-time applies to all female cast as • Effective communication presentation skills irregularity (although all of the above are in well, so I shouldn't feel so • Prepare for the corporate recruiting process sorry for a computer-gener- j " plentiful supply). The Robinsons get lost in I' the reused, reduced, and recycled stolen and ated monkey. Sophome,;.,es,Juniors, and Seniors will benefit from this rigorous, six-week summer borrowed plots of old science fiction movies, Let's not think about the novels, and TV shows (Lost In Space is, of characters. Let's think curric~ 1 that will include lectures, case studies, company visits, guest speakers and course, based on the 1960s TV show of the about dialogue - or maybe student se ' ns. ~~t; . ;t same name, but it mines a much bigger load not. While there arc a cou- of cliches). ple of nice lines, most of it For more information, contact our website at: Let me see what I can list off the top of is either meaningless tech- haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/base.html my head (and I have to hurry, since the plot Star nobabble (even Classic or via email at [email protected] is rapidly draining from my memory). To Trek was more realistic), or begin with there's a attack on the , 'ice station (Star Wars); then ere's an encounter with a malevo- lent robot (The Day The Earth Stood Still); then we get oodles of technob- abble which goes on and on and on, remaining totally meaningless (Star Trek); after encountering a mysteri- ous abandoned ship, the crew explores it and - surprise! - encounter some goo-dripping thing lurking there (Alien); then it's time to explore a mysterious forest on a forbidding planet (The Empire E Ink is a highly visible start-up founded by MIT graduates to Strikes Back); and, finally, the crew revolutionize displays and printed' media. We are developing novel has to deal with nothing less than a full-fledged space-time paradox displays by printing proprietary electronic inks onto all kinds of (Back to the Future). . Not only is the script derivative to flexible and rigid surfaces. Our technology has the support of leading the highest extent (this extent being 100 percent), it also makes an impres- corporations and has been described in major publications worldwide. sion that nobody bothered to go through it more than once. This sorry If g~nuine innovation interests you, we have immediate openings for excuse for a story rumbles along with plot holes in its wake, without a sin- creative, energetic people in courses 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 18. gle concern for any kind of thematic coherence, character development, plot are, or internal logic. The ships, Colloid Engineers and Scientists Product Design Engineer which we are told are out of fuel, can We have multiple openings in the' area of colloid engineering Design, engineer, and build devices based on electronic ink. suddenly make hyperspace jumps. We are looking for a creative and energetic, hands-on person Humans can walk through the rup- and chemistry to develop novel inks for electronic ink dis- es in the time continuu'm as easy as plays. We desire people with skills in one or more of the fol- to help create product prototypes. Strong skills in product through cling wrap. The evil Global lowing: processes for the production and stabilization of col- design and development are required, as is knowledge of Sedition Group' (consisting of loidal systems; expertise in the chemical and physical modifi- electronics, materials, and optics. Experience in proto typing mutants, of course) is introduced in cation of colloidal surfaces; nonaqueous colloids; or the for- and manufacturing are a plus. BS/MS in mechanical engi- the first five minutes and totally for- gotten after half an hour, and the mulation of paints and coatings in highly-loaded systems. neering or equivalent. group is, evil, because (gasp!) they MS/Ph.D. in chemistry or chemical engineering.. intend to go out into space and colo- nize it, which is 'exactly the same Chemists thing the main characters are bent on Molecular Electronics Chemist Join our research team in developing microencapsulation pro- doing. Develop novel conductive polymers and composites for use in cesses and materials for electronic ink. Background in organic Let's not think about the plot, display -devices. The successful candidate will have demon- chemistry (synthesis plus characterization). Must be able to which I'm sure the filmmakers hoped work across traditional boundaries, with the ability to create we would ignore anyway. Let's strated ability at the state-of-the-art in the synth~sis and char- extend this courtesy to them, and acterization of organic-based conductors, semiconductors, and and evaluate innovations in electronic ink displays. Experi- think about something else - the related devices. Ph.D. plus postdoctoral experience in chem- ence with microencapsulation is desirable but not necessary. characters, for example. But, on the istry strongly preferred. BS/MS in chemistry or chemical engineering with 3+ years other hand, let's not think about those experience preferred. either, because there are no characters in this movie - at all. Knowing one Electrical Design Engineer thing about a person on screen Design and build circuits to control displays based on elec- Scientists and Engineers doesn't make him/her into a charac- ter, and the viewers are strongly tronic ink. Responsibilities include helping produce product Openings for energetic people in the areas of chemistry, denied anything more than that. prototypes that utilize electronic ink, involving work in new chemical engineering, physics, and materials science. Work Professor Robinson (William product design, testing and pilot production support. Good closely with our team of chemists and design engineers to Hurt, an Oscar winner, believe it or communication skills are desirable. Must have the ability to develop electronic ink and novel display products. Wide vari- not) ignores his son and has a beard. is wife (Mimi Rogers) is, uh, interact with outside vendors to specify and outsource devices ety of opportunities, including display construction and • male; I didn't catch any more char- and systems. PC board design experience is a must. Exposure evaluation, electro-optical testing, environmental testing, ad- acter details. His elder daughter Judy to product engineering and manufacturing methods is also vanced laboratory instruments. Good organizational and (Heather Graham, so good in Boogie desirable. BS/M.Eng. preferred. communication skills important. BS/MS in relevant fields. Nights and so utterly wasted here) is either a physicist or a physician (they call her "doctor"). Younger daughter Interested? Thesefull time positions offer attractive compensation including Penny (Lacey Chabert) keeps a diary, health benefits and employee stock options. Send your resume to where she records statements like, and I quote verbatim, "Wow!" Will [email protected] with reference to the position you are seeking or fax it to Robinson (Jack Johnson), the E._ youngest kid, is ignored by his dad 617-868-8089. For more information, visit us at www.eink.com (well, I guess, they thought this fact is sufficient to flesh out two charac- H' Page April 17, 1998 Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, and Whistler. 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Apri I .:1. 7 25 The Sculpture of Arthur Ganson"; "lightforest: The Holographic Fleet Center Rainforest"; "Holography: Artists Tickets: 931-2000. Compiled by Joel M. Rosenberg and Inventors"; "MIT Hall of July 13: Page/Plant. $50, $35. on to ottftthe-tech.mtt.edu or by Interdepartmental mall to "On The Town," The Tech, W20-483. Hacks," chronicles of MIl's his- On sale 4/18 at 10 a.m. tory of pranks, wit, and wizardry; Aug. 21: Celine Dion "In the oUght Sculptures by Bill Parker"; Round" + Andre-Philippe Gagnon. Osbourne + Tool + Megadeth + "Math in 3D: Sculptures by $60, $40. On sale 4/20 at 11 limp Bizkit + Soulfly + Coal Morton G. Bradley, Jr."; a.m. Chamber and 7-Dust + "MathSpace," a hands-on explo- MDC Hatch Shell Motorhead + The Melvins + ration of geometry. April 25: WBOS 5th Annual System of a Down + Snot + Through June 14: "Piranes; in EarthFest '98, featuring Paula Incubus + Ultraspank + Kilgore. Perspective: Designing the Icons Cole + Glenn Frey + 10,000 $42 reserved, $28.50 lawn. On of an Age." Maniacs + Marc Cohn + Abra sale April 11 at 9 a.m. Moore + Dog's Eye View + July 8: Spice Girls. On sale April Ust Visual Arts Center Chantal Kreviazuk + Max Carl & 19 at noon. Big Dance. Info: 787-0929. Wiesner Building, 20 Ames St. July 18 (sold out), 19: Metallica 253-4400, Tuesday through + Days of the New + Jerry Thursday, Saturday through Somerville Theater Cantrell. $43 pavilion, $31 lawn. Sunday, noon-6 p.m.; Friday, Davis Square, Cambridge. JUly 22: Rod Stewart. Info TBA. Tickets: 628-3390 or 931-2000. noon-8 p.m. Free and open to JUly 23: An Evening with Michael April 17: String Cheese Incident the public. Crawfort. $55, $45 pavilion, $25 + Jiggle the Handle with Kellar Through June 28: "Mirror lawn. On sale May 17 at noon. Williams. Images: Women, Surrealism and July 24: Smokin' Grooves. line April 23, 24: Guster + Emmett Self-Representation." A sirveu pf up TBA. On sale May 2 at noon. Swimming (23), Mysteries of life [aomtomg. sculpture, photogra- July 25: Steve Miller Band + (24). phy, and installation work by 22 little Feat. 30 pavilion, $22.50 April 26: Jonatha Brooke + Dee women, Surrealist or Surrealist- lawn. On sale April 25 at 9 a.m. Carstensen. $20. inspired artists from the 1930s July 30: HORDE Festival 1998, May 8: Babatunde Olatunji + to present. featuring Blues Traveler + Abdoul Doumbia and his West Barenaked ladies + Ben Harper African Drum Ensemble. Rhode Island School of Design + Alana Davis. $25 all seats. On 224 Benefit St., Providence, RI. sale April 25 at 10 a.m. The Orpheum Theatre Museum of Art. 401-454-6502, July 31: Allman Brothers Band. Hamilton Place, Boston. Tickets: Wednesday through Thursday $38.50, $28.50 pavilion, 423-NEXT. Information: 679- and Saturday through Sunday, $23.50 lawn. On sale April 11 at 0810. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.-8 11 a.m. April 24: Medeski, Martin, & p.m. Admission $2, $1 for Aug. 8: Deep Purple + Emerson Wood + DJ logic seniors. lake and Palmer. Info TBA. May 5, 6: Bonnie Raitt + Keb Through April 19: works by Aug. 18: Shania Twain. Info TBA. Mo. $36, $26. Geoffrey Beene. Aug. 26, -28, 30: Jimmy Buffett Through April 26: "Artistic and the Coral Reefer Band. All Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt star In As Good as It Gets, showing Saturday and Paradise Rock Club Expressions from the Human shows sold out. 967 Commonwealth Ave., Sunday at LSC" Spirit: Selections from the Nancy Sep. 15, 16 (sold out): $26.50 Boston. Tickets: 423-NEXT. Sayles Day Collection of Modern all seats. Information: 562-8800. April 18, 19: Chuck Mangione. perspective. The piece explores West Wing open Thursday latin-American Art. " Sep. 19: Allman Brothers Band. April 17: Superdrag + Apple in April 22: Monsters of Folk, fea- fear and loss, longing and' alien- through Friday until 9:45 p.m. Ongoing: "Color and Form: 20th $38.50, $28.50 pavilion, Stereo + Tuscadero. turing Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Tom ation, and, of course, the story Admission $10, $8 for students Century American Paintings from $23.50 lawn. On sale April 18 at April 18: Chapter in Verse + Ben Russell, Dave Alvin, and Chris of Jerry and the cog. and seniors, children under 17 the Permanent Collection." 11 a.m. Swift Band. Smither. are free; $2 after 5 p.m. Woods-Gerry Gallery, 62 Prospect St. Monday through April 22: Lilith Fair Acoustic April 23: John Pizzare"i Trio. Thursday through Friday, free Harborllghts Pavll/on Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Talent Search. Interested female April 24, 25: New York Voices. Wednesday after 4 p.m. Monday fronted acoustic acts send Fan Pier, Boston. Tickets: 423- through Friday, free with MIT 10. Sunday, 2-5 p.m. Through Feb. NEXT or 423-6000. demo, att: Lilith Fair Contest, 36 Introductory walks through all 15: "Sculpture Department Aug. 26: Vince Gill. $38.50 and Dance Bay State Rd., Cambridge, MA collections begin at 10:30 a.m. Exhibition. " $28.50. 02138. Alvin Alley American Dance and 1:30 p.m.; "Asian, Egyptian, April 23: Formula + Radio & Theatre and Classical Walks" begin at Professor & Mission. Theater Amarelo April 17 through 19 at the Wang 11:30 a.m.; "American Painting April 29: The Slip + Dr. Didge. and Decorative Arts Walks" Theatre-Studio, Inc., 750 8th Center. Info: Call 482-6661. April 30: Fool's Progress. begin at 12:30 p.m.; "European Ave, Suite 200 (near 46th St), Tickets: 931-ARTS. Wang MIT Music May 2: Robin Trower. Classical Music Theatre, 270 Tremont St., Painting and Decorative Arts New York, NY. (212) 719-0500. May 3: The Call + Ramone Silver Boston. $50, $45, $42, $35. Walks" begin at 2:30 p.m.; MIT Chamber Chorus Boston Symphony Orchestra April 4, 18 at 8 p.m., April 19, + Harrod & Funck. Different performances each Introductory tours are also April 17: William Cutter, conduc- Symphony Hall, 301 May 3 at 2 p.m., May 2 at 5 night as part of "Ailey Week" in offered Sat. at 11 a.m. and 1:30 tor. William Byrd, Mass in F Massachusetts Ave., Boston. p.m. $12. The MIddle East p.m. Minor for Four Voices with origi- A pl~ by Paulo A. Pereira '95, Boston. 472 Massachusetts Ave., 26~1492, 26~1200. Tuesdays, nal psalm settings and introits directed by Charles Armesto '97. Ongoing exhibitions: "Beyond the Cambridge. Information: 497- Thursdays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; by Mil student composers; Amarelo tells the tale of Mark Morris Dance Group Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 0576. Fridays, 1:30 p.m. $23-$71; Samuel Barber, Reincarnations; Conceicao, a passionate woman Emerson Majestic Theatre. April 16th and 17th Centuries";' "The April 17: Rippopotamus + Down rush seats $7.50 day of concert, Johannes Brahms, liebeslieder from the Portuguese Azores 21 at 7 p.m., April 22-25 at 8 Art of Africa, Oceana, and the low Connection + Rype (mem- on sale Fridays from 9 a.m., Waltzes, Op. 52. Noon, Killian Islands who struggles to achieve p.m., April 26 at 2 p.m. $33- Ancient Americas. " bers of Chuck & Chucklehead). Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 Hall. Free. her dreams through the unex- $45. Info: 482-7570. Tickets: $7. p.m. Free tickets for Mil stu- dents Tuesday evenings and pected joys and sorrows of her 824-8000. Computer Museum April 30: Amazing Royal Crowns. MIT Chapel series Friday afternoons. Call 638-9478 life. In this play about hope, 300 Congress St., Boston. 423- $8. April 23: Sounds of a Royal for ticket availability. loss, and holding on to one's 6758 or 426-2800, Tues.-Sun., May 1: Groovasaurus. $8. Flute: Eighteenth-~entury Music April 23, 24, 25, 28: Gandolfi, roots, we see her story unfold 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission $7, May 9: Jiggle the Handle, from the Dresden and Berlin 'Points of Departure"; Mozart, magically as we sail through time $5 for students and seniors, free Rockett Band. $8 advance, $10 Courts for Rute and Harpsichord. from Conceicao's life in Sao for children under 5. Half-price doors. Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, Exhibits Works of Quantz, B.ach, and K.488; Strauss, Suite from 'le Miguel, Azores, to New Bedford, admission on Sunday from 3-5 May 23: Skavoovie & the Graun. Mary, Oleskiewicz, Bourgeois Gentilhomme.' Robert Massachusetts. Museum of Science p.m. Tours daily of "Walk Epitones + Pressure Cooker + Baroque transverse flute; David Spano, conductor, Maria Joao Science Park, Boston. 723- Through Computer 2000," a Edna's Goldfish. $7. Schulenberg, harpsichord. Pires, piano. Blue Man Group 2500, Daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., working two-story model of a PC. Great Woods Noon, MIT Chapel. Free. 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday through Museum features a collection of Rt. 140 South Main Street, Walter Pierce Tribute Concert Charles Playhouse, 74 April 26, 3 p.m., Symphony Hall, Warrenton St., Boston. 426- Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. vintage computers and robots. Mansfield. Tickets: 423-NEXT or Mark Harvey and the Aardvark 301 Massachusetts Ave., 6912. Playing indefinitely. Admission $9, $7 for children with over 150 hands-on exhibits 423-6000. Jazz Orchestra Boston. $65, $55, $45, $30. Curtain is at 8 p.m. on 3-14 and seniors. Free with MIT illustrating the evolution, use, May 30: KISS Concert. Listen to April 25: A retrospective of origi- Tickets: 26~1200. Wednesday and Thursday, at 7 10. Admission to Omni, laser, and impact of computers. the station for details. nal compositions by Mark Harvey Special performance in honor of and 10 p.m. on Friday and and planetarium shows is $7.50, Featured exhibits include "The May 31: WBCN River Rave. inspired by Duke Ellington, John Boston impresario and former Saturday, and at 3 and 6 p.m. $5.50 for children and seniors. Hacker's Garage," a recreation listen to the station for details. Coltrane, Gil Evans, Jimmy Executive Director of the on Sunday. Tickets $35 to $45. The Museum features the the- of a '70s hacker's garage with June 3, 5 (sold out). 6: James Giuffre, Kip Tiernan, Fela BankBoston Celebrity Series. It would be difficult and unfair to ater of electricity and more than such items as an Apple I and Taylor. $36 pavilion, $20 lawn. Anikalupo Kuti, and Aung San Featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, catalogue fully the antics of the 600 hands-on exhibits. Ongoing: Pong, "The Networked Planet: June 12: Stevie Nicks + Boz Suu Kyi, and the premiere of a Jean-Pierre Rampal, Dubravka Drama Desk Award-winning trio "Discovery Center," "Investigate! Traveling the Information Scaggs. $53.50, $38.50 pavil- new composition for jazz orches- Tomsic, The Julliard String of cobalt-painted bald pates who A See-For-Yourself Exhibit," Highway," an electronic tour of ion, $25 lawn. On sale April 18 tra. 8 PM, Kresge Auditorium. Quartet and Robert Mann, Isaac have settled into long runs Off "Welcome to the Universe." the Internet; ~Robots and Other at 9 a.m. Free. Stern, Bolcom and Morris, and Broadway and at the Charles Through April 26: "Balancing Smart Machines," an interactive June 14: The Moody Blues with This concert concludes the 25th Judith Jamison and Nasha Playhouse. They begin their Acts." exhibition of artificial intelligence Festival Orchestra. $38.50, Season of the Aardvark Jazz Thomas-Schmitt of Alvin Ailey delightful and deafening evening Through May 3: "living on the and robots, and "Tools & Toys: $28.50 pavilion, $21 lawn. Orchestra. Aardvark has record- Dance Theater. of anti-performance art beating Edge." Feb. 18, at 7 p.m.: The Amazing Personal June 19: Allman Brothers Band. ed four CD's for the leo lab and drums that are also deep buck- "Reminiscences: McKinley- Computer"; "People and $38.50, $28.50 pavilion, $21 Nine Winds labels. The band ets of primary paint, so that Matterhorn-Everest," lecture by Computers: which Milestones of lawn. has performed for Rrst Night, at sprays of color jump from the Bradford Washburn. a Revolution," explores a num- June 20: B-52's + The the Hatch Shell, the Museum of instruments like breaking surf, Now showing in the theaters: ber of ways computers impact Pretenders. $31 pavilion, $21 Fine Arts, the DeCordova and end by engulfing the specta- "laser Space Odyssey," Friday everyday life. lawn. Jazz Music Museum, Jacob's Pillow Dance Regattabar torship in tangles of toilet paper. through Sunday, 5:30 p.m. Through May 31: "Wizards and June 21: WKlB Boston Country Festival, Wesleyan and Princeton Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St., "laser Grateful Dead," Sunday, their Wonders: Portraits in Festival, featuring Randy Travis + Universities, the University of Harvard Sq., Cambridge. Info: Albee's Men 8 p.m.; "laser Rage Fest," Computing." Joe Diffie + Martina McBride + Maine at Augusta, and on the 661-5000. Tickets: 87~ 7777 . Presented by ART New Stages at Thursday through Saturday, 9:15 lee Roy Parnell + Jo Dee Autumn Uprising and Boston April 17, 18: The Abdullah the Hasty Pudding Theatre, 12 p.m.; "Pink Floyd: The Wall," Isabella Stewart Gardner Messina. $28.50 pavilion, New Music Harvest Festivals Ibrahim Trio, 8pm. + 10pm. $14. Holyoke Street, Cambridge (547- Friday through Saturday. at Museum $18.50 lawn. among others. June 24: Ani DiFranco. $25 pavil- April 21, 22: The Peter Parcek 8300), through Aug. 11. Curtain 10:30 p.m.; "Laser Doors," 280 The Fenway, Boston. 566- The lydian String Quartet ion, $22 lawn. On sale April 16 Quartet, 8:30pm. $B. is at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday at 9:15 p.m. 1401. Tuesday through Sunday. April 26: Marcus Thompson, at p.m. April 23: The Titilayo Ngwenya Saturday and at 2 and 7 p.m. on 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission $10, 7 viola. Haydn, Quartet in E-flat July 1: Further Festival, "The Ensemb(e: 8:30pm. $10. Sunday. Tix $25 to $35. Museum of Fine Arts $7 for seniors, $5 for students Major, Op. 20. No.1; Schubert, Other Ones" featuring Mickey April 24, 25: Don Byron's Bug Actor Stephen Rowe, a founding 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. with ID ($3 on Wednesday), free Quartet in A Minor, Op. 29; Hart, Bruce Hornsby, Phil lesh, Music, 8pm. + 1Opm. $14. member of the ART, in collabora- 267-9300, Monday through for children under 18. The muse- Sessions, Quintet for Two Bob Weir, Dave Ellis, Stan Sculler's tion with three-time Pulitzer-win- Tuesday, 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; um houses more than 2500 art Violins, Two Violas and Cello Franks, John Molo Hot Tuna 400 Soldiers Field Rd., Boston. ning playwright Edward Albee and Wednesday, 10 a.m.-9:45 p.m.; objects, with emphasis on Italian + + with Marcus Thompson, viola. Tickets: 931-2000. Information: director Glyn O'Malley, has com- Thursday through Friday, 10 Renaissance and 17th-century Rusted Root. On sale May 2 at 4PM, Kresge Auditorium. Free. 11 a.m. 562-4111. piled this one-man show explor- a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday through Dutch works. Among the high- JUly 7: Ozzfest, featuring Ozzy April 17: livingston Taylor. ing Albee's world from the male Sunday., 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. lights are works by Rembrandt, On The Town, Page 9 pril 17, 199M THE ARTS THE TECH Page 9

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DAVID TARJ -THE TECH The Chamber Music Society practices Brahms' septet No.1 on the third floor balcony of Lobby 7 on Tuesday night. . Wednesday, April 22, 1998 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. E51-095 Faculty Discuss ewDegrees 70 Memorial Drive By elaine Wan attempt to strengthen ties between winner of this year's prestigious STAFF REPORTER faculty and students, Vestproposed a . Edgerton Award for research and Cambridge The faculty met to consider new program which would have fac- teaching. Leeb received four degrees motions to create two new masters ulty members to call incoming fresh- at MIT and has done extensive programs in Comparative Media men. "To make a phone call makes a research on polymer gels and mega- OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Studies and a joint degree program great deal of difference,"he said. tronics. Leeb was described by ponsored by the Center for International Studies in Ocean Engineering and, Marine Professorof ManagementRichard M. Environmental Systems. The facultY Edgerton Award Presented Locke PhD '89 as a "cracker jack" Co-sponsored by Peoples and Slales Seminar and will vote whether to approve those Professor of Electrical teacher. Leeb has taught Circuits and Program in Women's Sludies programs at the next faculty meet- Engineering and Computer Science Electronics, Signals and Systems and ing. President Charles M. Vest also Steven B. Leeb '87 was named the the AdvancedMegatronicsLab. discussed the ongoing efforts result- ing from last year's sense of the fac- ulty resolution on freshman life. "I've seen the future of Media Studies at MIT and it works," said Professor and Director of Film and Media Studies Henry Jenkins. Th.e program was created in'response to the development of new technolo- NATURALLY, gies in the media environment. "MIT should take responsibility for educating the next generation of scholars, teachers, journalists, politi- cal and corporate leaders for the WE HAVE HOSPITALITY decisions that will shape media and

society in the coming century," the I• pr posal said. The Masters of Science in Comparative Media Studies Program AND COMFORT would fall within Department of. Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: The program will examine the history and future of mediated communication and emphasize the DOWN' TO A .set ENCE. "impact of cultural and social factors on media studies," Jenkins said. Professor Jenkins said that he expected the program to attract stu- dents of diverse backgrounds, from - Computer Science to Management. The design of the courses offered in the program will encourage collabo- ~tion among different disciplines. . • Similar programs have been The proof lies in University Park Hotet. at developed at othex educational institutions like University of Wisconsin-Madison, New York MIT, opening in the summer of 1998 and University and the University of South Carolina, he said. certain to be one of the area's most preferred New engineering Masters pushed The Department of Ocean hotels. Here you will find we.ll-appointed Engineering and the Department of Applied Physics and Ocean Engineering at the' Woods Bole guest rooms with state-of-the-art amenities, Oceanographic Institute -proposed creating a Joint Degree Program in Ocean Engineering and in Marine such as dual telephone lines and data ports. Fine American cuisine and seasonal Environmental Systems which would lead to a Masters of specialties at the avant-garde Sidney;s Grille. Twenty-four hour room service. And Engineering in Ocean Engineering. The program will train "students in the understanding and managing an'idyllic out.door roof garden. Located in the heart of Cambridge academia, the complex systems and focus on the multidisciplinary nature of ocean- related environmental problems," hotel is also conveniently close to both Boston and Harvard Square. We invite you the proposal said. Also, at the meeting President to put our hospitality to the test. For more information or to make Vest presented an update on the amended sense of the faculty reso- .. tion on freshman and undergradu- //"j"1\; ];:.~ a reservation please caU 617.,577.0200 or fax 617.494.8366 . ate life passed in November. Vest stressed that "an introduction of {: .J.:_ \'._._ : freshman to MIT should be charac- i e terized by a proper orientation to the rH" OS Y Institute's academic environment." lit rk ~et ~ i atMIT II! 1 He said that the focus of next year's Orientation will shift away In A Class Of Its Own from residential life to academic life. He said that the program would bal- 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 ance a number of interests and pro- e-mail :[email protected] w~bsi te:www.univparkhotel.com vide new students with a view of liv- ing and learning at MIT. In an Aprii ') , 99

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ident of Fenway hou e who spoke on behalf of the council, said that the group was not prepared to release a fonnal statement at this time.

Relationship with IFC an issue Duane H. Dreger '99, president of the Interfraternity Council, said that he was aware of the group but that they "haven't contacted the IFC yet." Dreger said that the IFC is "waiting for them to approach us." When the group does formally approach the IFC, both groups will need to decide how they will work together. Dreger said that the IFC might treat the group in a manner I April 27th - ay 1st 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. similar to how the Panhellenic Association is treated, and give the Get your student discounts @ the SOURCE beginning April 20th- ILGC a seat on the IFC's executive committee. To make such a change would questions ??? lUllclzweek@ I1zit. edu require amending the IFC's consti- tution, a process which requires a three quarters majority vote of the IFC Presidents' Council. The IFC must decide "if the ILGs are just a special inter~ group" or if there is a clear distinc- tion from other IFC members, said Charles R. B~oderick '99, vice pres- ident for internal affairs of the IFC, who has been sitting in on some of the preliminary meetings of the group. :'Unfortunately, there is some crossover" as living groups associat- ed with national fraternities are also considering associating themselves APRIL 13- 15,1998 with ILGC, Broderick said. Increased representation one goal (r Dreger acknowledged concerns that the interests of the ILGs are often lost in the larger IFC. "There ate times when their interests get steamrolled over by the IFC," he said. There are approximately six ILGs on the 38-member IFC. While acknowledging these con- cerns, Dreger said that the ILGs "have to realize that they are an extremely small minority of the IFC ) )) community." Broderick also agreed that increased r~presentation is a goal of the council. He said that the ILGs are seeking a "stronger opinion 1

the IFC. ". Broderick said that 1 believed that the group would remain within the IFC, however. "I don) see [the ILGs] leaving the IFC at all." Apart from interests in the IFC, Broderick called the council a "focal point" for ILG interests and THURSDAY, SATURDAY, Alpha Phlea Market said that he saw increased commu- 3 p.m. - 6 p.m., Student Center nication as one of the group's major APRIL 23 APRIL 25 goals. "I think it's great" for stu- Steps dents to organize, he said. . UA Study Break Speech by Senator Kerry Mr. Spring Weekend Schuster said that gaining 9 p.m. - 10 p.m., Lobdell 11 a.m - 12 p.m., Kresge increased repres_entationi.nthe IFC To benefit the Boston Area is not "a major concern." East Campus Picnic Women's Rape Crisis Center Neal H. Dorow, assistant dean 8 p.m. - 11 p.m., Walker for residence and campus activities Begins at 12 p.m., East Campus and advisor to fraternities, sororities ATO Bachelor Auction and independenfliving groups, said Amherst Alley-Rally that it was a positive for "any International Fair OJ -WBCN ~DanceParty groups that share a common inter- 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Kresge Oval 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. To benefit the Cambridge Youth est... to get together." Dorow said that the houses Guidance Center Spring Concert Carnival Games involved in the council "have not 8 p.m - 1 a.m., Lobdell been ... active players" in the IFC. Funk Festival featuring Maceo 2 p.m. - 5 p.m., Amherst Alley "If this is a way for them to get Parker, Fishbone, and Five ????'S more involved ... that's wonderful," Fingers of Funk Whopper Eating Contest he said. 7 p.m. - 11 p.m., Johnson 2 p.m. - 3 p.m., Student Center. [email protected] However, Dorow downplay Steps the need to create an entirely sepa- rate forum for ILGs. "Having [the ILGs'] interests heard is what meet- ings are for," he said. "They have an ample opportunity" to be heard in the current democratic structure of the IFC, he said. Tentative as the state of the new council may be, Dreger seems hope- ful. "If they come up with something that will improve [their situation in the IFC] I'm all for it," be !iaid. pril 17, 1998 THE -T CM Page -17

E.-..-.--.. ewbury, from Pag 1 the existing hop in C ntral quare by about a third. [at MIT]," Dree e said, but the The nature of the MIT ec omics" of the situation make it Computer Connection has also unlikely that the tore will remain in changed in recent year , but it i the tudent Cente . likely to retain its showroom space LaVerde's and the Coop have in the tudent Center basement. exclusivities on a lot of products," The location is vital" to the tore's Dreese said, including MIT insignia goal of supporting the products rec- clothing, meaning that other stores ommended for use by Information in the tudent Center may not sell ystems, said Joanne Hallisey, those products. These monopolies, manager of the MCC. 'The show- as well as the 'very fixed markef' at room and consultants are still here," MIT, have resulted in the decision she said. She said that that students, not to renew their space. faculty, and staff can stm visit the "I hope that whoever is looking store for information, even though at the space will have the students' all actual sales are now conducted interests in mind," Dreese said. online. ''The Student Center is an important The Source (Student Center), place [for student life]." Future space allocation uncertain It is not yet certain what will Other companies may also leave take the place of the stores that are the Alumni Office (10-140), or Newbury C

of a "decrease in conference activity Market and BankBoston or to MIT tI) * networking with alumni and guests ~ at [the west] end of campus," said departments. MIT Medical Services, ~ * be the first to congratulate graduating seniors ary Leen, the Director of the MIT for instance, administers MIT useum. "When Kresge was more Optical, while Information Systems ~ * have fun! heavily utilized for conferences ... controls PC Services. people shopped in the Student Some of the profit from the rent Center," she said. When the confer- paid on the sites g~es to support the ence business started moving to the Institute's endowment, Walsh said. Tang Center a year ago, sales began One of the Alternative Spring April 22nd is the deadline to submit an application to drop off and the store became Break groups has been conducting a uneconomical, she. said. . survey to assess the service needs of and sign up for an interview outside 10-140. Leen said that the MIT Museum_ MIT students. "We ourselves have was considering setting up a small not been comfortable" as to what Interviews will be conducted on Tuesday April 28. presence at the new University Park the students want in the Student hotel. She said that the Mu~eum's Center, Walsh said. The results of proximity to the hotel would proba- this survey, which are not yet avail- . bly also increase traffic. According able, may help to clarify students' to Garcia, there are plans to enlarge needs. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL Robert Bruce Wallace Lecture

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Won also ed in the Engineer's Cup at championship in Women's Air Pistol Matt Duplessie '99 also earned first College in Maine on Saturday. With placed a clo e econd in the 3,ooOm Worce ter Polytechnic Institute. RPI and helped MIT to team honors. Second team selec- 02 points, MIT finished comfort- race. Robin Evan '99 joined Won won the competition with 92.5 points, SIflOrts tJ:teteam air pis.tol tions for the men were Evan bly ahead of Bates College with 80 in the 1,500rn. In her first attempt at while MIT was easily second with 73 '.t' title along WIth Efstathiou '00 in sabre and Ali points and the Univer ity of this di tance, he ran an excellent points, followed by WPI with 24.5. rl". "'rts teammates Hattie lbraham in '01 foil. Additionally, Southern Maine with 72 points. time of 5:12, mi ing qualifying for At the meet, several members of SIW Gruneisen '00 and MIT head coach Jarek Koniusz was Colby and Bowdoin College, both the ew England Championships by the MIT team competed in events Jane Sohn '98. All three women named the ortheast Fencing track powerhouses, led the field with only one second. other than their usual ones. French were named to the inaugural Conference Coach of the Year. 253 and 155 points, respectively. In the day's longest event, the won the javelin throw with a per- Women's All-America team, which Ravi Sastry '98 had an outstand- The competitive meet led to 5,OOOm,co-captain Janis Eisenberg onal best 95 'I". Won had a very was selected following the champi- ing meet in last weekend's quad many outstanding performances. '98 placed third with a time of busy day, starting off by coasting onships at the Wolf Creek Olympic meet victory over Bates, Bowdoin While a few key team members 19:40. Jantrue Ting '00 ran 20:53, through the 5,OOOm. Immediately Shooting Park in Georgia. Ho scored and Colby Colleges. Sastry not only were missing because of injuries, almost a 30 second improvement afterwards she competed in the a 91.4 out of a possible 109 in the won three events, but he set person- the rest of the team performed bril- over her best time. 1,500m, placing third with a 5:07.0 .. final round to take the title over two al bests in each. Sastry took the long liantly in all the events of the meet. MIT's deep field of 800m run- She then ran the 400m intermediate shooters from the U.S. aval jump (22'2.5"), the 100m dash In the 4x 100m, newcomers ners led by speedster Leah ichols hurdles for the first time and fin- Academy and a competitor from the (11.0), and 110m hurdles (14.9), Deepa Patel '01 and Sapphire Jillian '00, racked up points in their event. ished the day with a fourth-place U.S. Military Academy. and placed third in the 200m dash '99 teamed up with more experi- ichols placed fourth with a time of finish in the 800m. Swimmer and chemical engineer and the high jump. enced runners Elaine Chen '99 and 2:30.26. She was followed by Evans Evans also scored in the 800m, major Deirdre Dunn '99 has been Even though football season Mia Heavener '00 to place third. in eighth. finishing in 2:34 for third place. Chen named to the GTE College Sports ended in ovember, Brad Gray '98 Alyssa Thorvalsen '00 showed her In the throws, Crystal Harris '00 placed second in the 100m with an Information Directors of America continues to garner awards. The strength and speed in the 100m high was the leading point scorer for excellent time of 12.9 and second team Academic All-District defensive tackle has recently been hurdles as she three-stepped her MIT, placing third in the discus Thorvaldsen won the 100m high hur- for the FalllWinter At-Large team. named the male winner of the way to victory in 16.53, breaking (31.24m), and eighth in the javelin dles in 17.3. Harris qualified for New The ortheast Fencing Walter Byers Scholarship, the high- her own school record. In the same (93 '). Though hampered by injuries, England Championships in the shot Conference recently handed out its est honor bestowed upon a student race, Lila French '99 set a personal Jen Elizondo '99 placed 7th in the put with a throw of 34' 1/2" and post-season awards and MIT was athlete by the National Collegiate record with a time of 18.59. hammer, throwing 34.20m. Harris, threw a personal best of 99'1" in the strongly represented. On the Athletic Association. Gray was one Co-captain Elaine Chen outdid Janine Buseman-Williams '0 I, and discus. women's first team were epeeists of four male finalists from all herself both in scoring points for the Nicole Justis '00 all competed in the The team's final meet before the Meredith Rising '98 and Nora Sasz NCAA divisions throughout the team and improving her personal shot put, scoring enough points to NEW 8 championships is the '99, and foil fencer Aimee Wiltz country and is the first MIT student record. Besides running the 4x 100m put MIT comfortably ahead of Fitchburg Invitational on Saturday. '99. Second team honors went to to win the prestigious award. relay, she placed fourth in the 100m Bates. . ith a time of 13.34. She also came In the 4x400m, Chen, Smith and fourth in the 200m, breaking her Thorvaldsen joined mid-distance Thebiggest threat school record, and qualifying for sev- standout Nichols to run one of the The Council for the Arts at MIT eral post season competitions. Chen fastest relays in MIT history. Chen to depression is your offers added even more points to her days took the lead from the beginning and. awareness of it. total in the jumps, taking sixth in the Nichols and Smith maintained it. In the long, with a mark of 14'11.5" and last 200m of the, the speedy anchor FREE TICKETS third in the high jump, clearing 4'10". from Colby challenged the lead held UNTREATED Natq1ie Smith '00 scored in the by the lady Engineers. However, for MIT students 200m, placing eighth with a time of Thorvaldsen was able to hold off the DE PRE SS/ON http://WVJ\'J.save,org 28.31. Patel ran her best time ever competitors as she helped MIT to a to in both the 100m and 200m. In the first-place finish. Though placing Boston Baroque's 200m, she broke her season record fourth, the 4x800m team of Cosman, ,. by running a 29.90. Wilbert, Won and Evans, ran an MIT Thi in MIT Hillel Holocaust Commemoration HClassical Masters: April 22 and April 23, 1998 Mozart and Haydn" Wednesday: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 7:30pm Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364,for violin, viola, & orchestra Hillel Center, WI1 Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618,for chorus & strings Screening of the film Schindler's List Franz Josef Haydn Thursday: liThe Ten Commandments" and other canons Missa brevis sancti Joannis de Deo ("Little OrganMass") 9am - 2pm Lobby 7 Soloists: Stephanie Chase, violin Remembering the Genociae Shoe Collection Display Marilyn McDonald, viola

Memorial Vigil tt A program of contrasts. The brilliant Sinfonia Concertante is the ~iant of Mozart's string concerto writing, while the Ave Verum Corpus of Haydn's Organ Mass are works of 3:30pm - 4:30pm concentrated devotion. The canons display Haydn's MIT Chapel contrapuntal genius and well-known wit. But is it really Memorial Service true, as tradition has it, that he humorously stole the melody for the 7th Commandment, "thou shall not steal"? "The Story of the Little Kettle" by: Dr. Maurice Vanderpol,Holocaust Survivor Friday April 24, 1998 8:00pm Jordan Hall New England Conservatory

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By Christopher Uu could not match Yale' team depth race. Yale won the race in a time of oe e '00, Jeremy Hui '99, Shawn pulled out to a one length lead by the TEAM MEMBER and 10 t to both fours. The four was 6:22 with IT following at 6:36. Hwang '99, and ahar Aminipour halfway point in the race. The The lightweight crew team suf- rowed by Huge Liu '01, Kevin The junior var ity quad rowed '00 at cox wain. Engineer had difficulty with the fered a di appointing 10 s to Yale Chao '01, Ben Zotto '01, Andy well technically but was no match The var ity squad fared best technique in the third 500 meter , University last Saturday in the Ko toulas '01, and Eric Lee '01 at for Yale's power. The Yale boat had against Yale, but was still beaten by allowing Yale to extend it lead annual Joy Cup Regatta. cox wain. Yale's first freshman four an open water lead early in the race 15 second . The quad rowed well in Yale fini hed the race in a time 0 Yale was coming into the race finished in 7:40, followed by their and MIT could not catch them. The the fir t 500 meters despite a 6:05 to MIT's 6:20. MIT's lineup with a big win over Harvard second four in 7:51, and MIT in JV team fell to Yale in a time of jammed slide that prevented the bow was Kri Kendall'9 , Dan Fri k '99, University the previous week that 8:09. 7:02 to Yale's 6:22. The squad con- man from TOwing several strokes. Eric Bevan '99, Paul Oppo]d '99, put them in the .top-seeded position The freshman eight fared better sisted of Kartik Mani '00, Steve MIT rowed stroke for stroke with Joel John on '98, Chri Liu '98, among the Eastern Association of against Yale but still could not gen- Huang '99, David Manz '00, Ben Yale and stayed even. Yale began to eth ewburg '00, Garrett Shook G, Rowing School . This wa no sur- erate a win. The eight, manned by Boehm '99, Stu Jackson '00, Marc move in the second five hundred and and Joe Irineo '98 at coxswain. prise to many ince Yale has tradi- Melahn Parker '01, Adam Reynolds tionally been very fast early in the '01, Stephen Carr '01, Lou season. ervegna '01, Eric Ferreira '00, The racing began at 7: 15 a.m. on Rich Hanna '01, Kevin Schmidt en~ uck and Field Dominate the Charles River with the freshman '01, and Melissa Light '01 at fours event. Yale entered two fours coxswain, gave Yale a good race in thi race against MIT's second but could not stop Yale from creep- 'Pponents Despite a Slow Start fre hman four. The fTe hman squad ing ahead through the course of the By Matt Potts start because of a dropped baton in while Sohail ran a persona] record TEAM MEMBER the 4xl00m relay, MIT took charge 4:10.10. In their last home meet of the when Mike Parkins '99 won the Even more points were being season, the Engineers posted an 3,OOOm steeplechase with a ew scored in the field and sprint events. UPCOMING HOME EVENTS impressive performance, defeating England Division III leading time of Captain Ravi Sastry '98 walked aturday, pril 18 Colby College, Bowdoin College, 9:28.5. Freshman Mark Strauss away with victories in both the long Heavyweight Crew - Compton Cup vs. Princeton University and and Bates College and improving placed fourth in only his second jump (22'2.5") and the 110m hur- Havard University, 8:30 a.m. their record to 4-1. This comes attempt at the event. dIes (14.9). Junius Ho '01 placed a Sailing - Invitational, 11:45 a.m. ju t one week after Tech's heart- LeifSeed '99, Chris McGuire '00, solid fourth in the 110m .hurdles breaking loss to Rensselaer and Sohail Hu ain '98 then put the with a personal best of 16.24. Monday, April 20 Polytechnic Institute in the hammer down in the 1,50Om by plac- Sastry then went on to embarrass Baseball vs. Clark University, 3:00 p.m. Engineer's Cup. ing first, second and fourth respec- his opponents in the 100m dash Although they got off to a slow tively. Seed led with a strong final lap with a time of 11.0. Before the day was over he also scored two third place finishes in the high jump imd 200m dash to score a total of 18.. ~ points. Ka]pak Kothari '01 produced the biggest upset of the meet by victimizing Bates' NE Division III Indoor Champion in the triple jump with a jump of 42'6.25". Sam Thibault '00 brought in a fourth in the triple jump with the second best jump' of his career (40'8.75"). To push MIT even further ahead of their opponents, Sean Montgomery. '0]' and Neil Karchem 99 ran strong races in the 400m dash to place third and fourth with times of 5].2 and 5].7. Joe] Ford '98 and John Biesiadecki '01 crushed the 800m field with times of 1:58.4 and 1:59.6 to finish first and second. Seed raked in his second victory of the day in the 400m hurdles (56.64) to give MIT a 22-point lead over their oppo- STARRING nents. The lead only widened as Sastry and Todd Rosenfield '0 I both posted persona] bests in the MACEO PARKER 200m dash to place third and fourth. . Clinching the triple win f~ MIT was Thibault with a huge vi