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MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Pleasant, partly cloudy, 42°F (6°C) Tonight: Becoming cloudy, 30°F (-1°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Possible snow, 33°F (J 0c) Details, Page 2 Volume 119, Number 6 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, February 19, 1999 .GSC l\lonnts Email Campaign .Protesting Dormitory Delays By Jane Yoo Housing and Community Affairs cent. Students living off campus and Karen E. Robinson Committee. have to pay for Internet access, 'l' STAFF REPORTERS laundry, and extra storage, In response to fears that the pro- Off-campus housing a problem Davenport said: posed construction, of a new gradu- Graduate students want the "Finding off-campus housing is ate dormitory on the corner of administration to "help develop a a nightmare," said GSC Housing ~ Sydney and Pacific Streets may not sense of community among gradu- and Community Affairs Committee be funded in the near future, the ate students by providing 'affordable Chair Kelly Davenport. Graduate Student Council recently housing alternatives close to cam- According to Hohnke, the city of .., mitiated an email campaign to "let pus," said GSC president Brian 1. Cambridge would also like to see the administration know that [gradu- Schneider. MIT bui Id more graduate student ate students] were concerned that MIT graduate students regularly housing. "MIT, by not providing the project was slipping in the spend up to 50 percent of their adequate housing, is putting 'undue " administration's priorities," accord- income on housing, while the pressure on the low-income market ing to Carsten D. Hohnke, GSC Department of Housing and Urban treasurer and past co-chair of the Development recommends 30 per- GSC, Page 21 'Sig Ep Reorganized by National, 'Majority of Brothers Kicked Out . By Frank Dabek tions . council decided which members of ... NEWSEDnrJR While the house is not fully the house would be reinstated. As a result of the recent reorga- occupied, the fraternity is renting According to Meredith, the nization of the MIT chapter of space to graduate students. board chose to reinstate members ,. Sigma Phi Epsilon, 30 members of "who are interested in the founding the fraternity have been expelled or Decisions follow interviews principles of the fraternity" and who WANYUSOF WAN MORSH/DI-THE TECH " suspended. Only 11 members cur- All SigEp members were sus- "understood that times are chang- Bob Moser '00 spikes the ball past his opponents In a volley- '( rently live in the SigEp house at 518 pended when the reorganization. ing." The house "can't have an ball match Wednesday In duPont Gymnasium. Mil lost the ~ Beacon St. The chapter itself will began. Following a questionnaire, 'Animal House' atmosphere" any game 0-3 to Roger Williams University. remain under the advisement of an interview and optional appeal for alumni board for at least one year. each member, an alumni advisory Sig Ep, Page 19 ., The reorganization, which began # iri late November'and firiallycon- - Nobel eluded this month, was prompted by Laureate Professor Dies in Diving Tragedy ~. a "failure to meet expectations and a '. general level of operations," accord- By Brett Altschul Kendall died while scuba diving of physics and great contributions to Institute Professor Jerome I. ing to Sigma Phi Epsilon Alumni _N/_G_HT_E_D_ITO_R _ in Wakulla Springs State Park in a variety of humanitarian causes, he Friedman, ~ho shared the Nobel Board President Shaun L. Meredith Nobel Laureate and Professor Florida, where he was taking under- never stinted in his devotion to prize with Kendall and Richard G. of Physics HenryW. Kendall PhD water photographs with a friend undergraduate education," said Taylor of Stanford University in An incident in which pledges '55 died Monday. He was 72 years from the National Geographic Professor of Physics Marc' A. 1990. from the MIT chapter brought alco- old. Society. At about 5:00 p.m., other Kastner, the head of the physics At the Stanford Linear hol to another SigEp chapter imme- 'Kendall was a renowned experi- divers found him floating in water department. "We have always taken Accelerator, Kendall, Friedman, and ...,.d;ately preceded the reorganization, mental particle physicist. He was less than 10 feet deep. He was flown great pride in telling potential MIT Taylor did pioneering work on deep but Meredith said that this incident also deeply involved in questions of to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital undergraduates that our freshman inelastic scattering from 1967 to only "characterized that behavior" nuclear waste dangers and disposal, where he was pronounced dead on laboratory was taught by Nobel 1973. They scattered very high ener- which led up to the reorganization as well as being a major nuclear arrival. prize winner Henry Kendall." gy electrons off protons, neutrons, " and included other alcohol viola- arms control activist. The Wakulla County medical, In the 1980s and early 1990s, and nuclei, to resolve the inner examiner found that Kendall had not Kendall taught Experimental structure of nucleons. Previous drowned. The Boston -Herald report- Physics I and II (8.13 and 8.14), investigations, from atomic elec- '} - ed that the physicist had been using the required physics department trons and lower-energy scattering nonstandard, less wasteful scuba laboratory subjects. Kendall intro- had indicated that the charge on gear, and that he had failed to turn duced special introductory experi- nucl~ons was spread relatively uni- on his oxygen supply correctly, suf- ments into 8.13 to help students formly. ,. focating him. master elementary skills and ease In 1968, Kendall and his col- them into the course, which is con- leagues found the first direct Nobelist in touch with undergrads sidered very demanding. Kendall experimental evidence of quarks, As a physicist, Kendall was "really emphasized the basics," the charged constituents of nucle- both a prolific researcher and a Robertson said. ons that were predicted by Murray dedicated teacher, heavily involved Later, Kendall moved to oversee- Gell-Mann of the California in the undergraduate physics cur- ing the Freshman Physics Institute of Technology in 1964. riculum at MIT. "He was one of the Laboratory, where students in the Gell-Mann used the quark model last real hands-on professors," -said advanced versions of Physics I and to predict the existence of a new David Robertson, a technical II (8.012 and 8.022) did three two- particle, the Q-, a heavy particle ' instructor in the physics depart- hour experiments each term. similar to the proton and the neu- ment, who worked with Kendall for In the freshman lab, Kendall was tron. Gell-Mann won the Nobel many years in the Freshman known for his friendliness with rela- Prize for Physics in 1969, after the Physics Laboratory. tively new M!T students. "He really discovery of the g-, but the ques- I)' In 1991, after winning the Nobel did it very well," Robertson said. tion of whether quarks actually prize, Kendall was named to the Kendall also used the laboratory existed or were merely mathemati- Julius A. Stratton professorship, time to emphasize both the danger cal tools was not resolved. which carried no teaching obliga- and usefulness of radioactive mate- Kendall, Friedman, and Taylor tion. However, he continued to teach rials, a major subject of interest to worked with very fast electrons that in undergraduate laboratories volun- him. were able to penetrate into nucleons. WAN YUSOF WAN MORSHID/-THE TECH tarily. He taught for "the pure love The electrons appeared to scatter off Jason Miller '99 demonstrates his strength and grace In his of it," Robertson said. Quark researchers garner Nobel pointlike charged particles, rather routine on the parallel bars at a gymnastics competition "I would like to emphasize that "Henry Kendall's death is a terri- than the broad, smeared-out charge Wednesday In Rockwell Cage. while Henry, Kendall made great ble loss to MIl', the scientific com- contributions to our understanding munity and the world ~t large," said Kendall, Page 20 ''''''hh'''':'''''' __ ............ __ M ............ ...... ...... ~ _. __ Professor of Physics Kenneth A. Comics After only one week, newly World & Nation 2 Johnson dies of cancer. appointed FSILG adviser Opinion 4 Barbara Treadway resigns. Arts 6 On The Town 9 ,. " TechCalendar .14 Page 10 Page 12 Page 16 ~~~ : .: : : : . .',.~. : , 24 II~' '. f' , i '~~"'!"""'~.,~~~~'!'(-,....,.l"Y'!. ~~. ~. ,'I')J)"M~ ,"1'1.,m,,~••l":"'M', ,~ •• ~: ~'o •• , ~ 'f .. )- i " ~ ~ ,.. ~ ~ • <> ~ ¥ ~ • J:Ii ~ .Ai J f'.. ~ I. ( t I. , _ .. Co Page 2, TIJ~ TEC:II r F~,~~~ry 19, 199.9. ______________________________________________________________________WORLD & NATION .-'L.oJ France Extradites Convict to Pa. LOSANGELES TIMES U.S., Allies Renew Threats of PARIS A French appeals court Thursday agreed to extradite convicted murderer Ira Einhorn to the United States, on condition that he be Airstrikes Against Milosevic ...~ tried again and that the death penalty not be applied if he is convict- ed. The state of Pennsylvania, where he would be returned, already By WIlliam Drozdlak including F-117 stealth fighter jets from positions in the Aegean Sea. In has promised to meet both conditions. THE WASHlNGrrJN POST and B-52 bombers, are ready to addition, U.S. Army troops in '" The ruling - which is subject to further appeals - overturned ear- BERLIN launch punitive bombing raids if the Europe, who will make up the bulk lier court refusals to extradite Einhorn, whose case has become a cause With the clock ticking toward a Serbs reject an agreement. The of the 4,000 American troops that celebre on both sides of the Atlantic because of his former fame as a noon Saturday deadline, the United NATO bombing would begin by would take part in the peacekeeping . 1970s cult figure, the brutality of the murder for which he was convicted States and its European allies com- knocking out Yugoslav air defense mission, began training for possible~) in absentia in Philadelphia and the back-and-forth over his extradition.