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Volume 121, Number 49 Cambridge Massachu etts 02139 Friday October 5, 2001 IFC Elects Recruitment Chair DiF01Ja, Wulnall Begin Yardley Will Work Logan Security Work On New Rush Plans By Sandra M. Chung days, while the Task Force is For Upcoming Fall ASSOClA TE ARTS EDITOR expected to complete its investiga- Acting Governor Jane Swift tion. DiFava i replacing Joseph By Jeffrey Greenbaum appointed Colonel John DiFava of Lawless, who is being rea igned to STAFF REPORTER the Massachusetts tate Police to run security at the Port of Boston. The Interfraternity Council ha the interim position of public safety DiFava will begin his new job at elected Joshua S. Yardley '04 as director of Logan International Air- MIT after the interim period is over. Recruitment Chair for the upcoming port on October 3. DiFava was Ma sport administrators are cur- year, the first that freshmen will no recently announced as the new chief rently facing intense criticism and longer be able to live off campus. of MIT's Campus Police. scrutiny after several alleged lapses Yardley served 'as secretary of Swift al 0 recently chartered a in ecurity since the September 11 the IFC's 2002 Recruitment Com- pecial Advisory Task Force to terrorist attack. Logan Airport, mittee and is a member of the Zeta conduct a thorough investigation of which is run by Massport, has one Psi fraternity. He has also served as the Mas achusetts Port uthority of the wor t security records for secretary of his house and secretary (Mas port). Institute Professor U.S. airports. Massport controls the of the Junior Interfraternity Council. heila E. Widnall, of the Depart- majority of the transportation and "He is really enthusiastic to fig- ment of Aeronautics and Astronau- hipping industries in assachusetts ure. out the new rush plan," said tics, was named to the Task Force and ew England. Daniel 1. Talavera '02, president of Committee. Widnall also served a Zeta Psi. Secretary of the Air Force from Task force to advi e wift Yardley believes that one of his 1993to 1997. The pecial Advisory Task biggest challenges as Recruitment "We want to take advantage of Force on Massport was created last Chair will be to motivate students to the situation to focus on the ways in week by an executive order from live in off-campus housing after liv- which Massport needs to be Swift. According to the official Task ing in dorms as freshmen. improved, ' Widnall said. Force charter, "The government has "There are going to be some kids MiKE LIN-THE TECH the responsibility to realize that a Joshua S. Yardley '04 was elected as the 2002 IFC Recruitment that will be happier in a house," DiFava assigned to Logan ecurity more dangerous world requires a Chair on Wednesday evening. Yardley will preside over the transi- Yardley said. ' DiFava recently resigned his job critical, comprehensive review of tion from traditional rush to the new two week recruitment period Phi Delta Theta President as Superintendent of the Mas achu- . the-culture and structure of Mas - next fall. Matthew P. Van Horne '02 said that sett State Police to begin the tran i- port." this will be specifically be a prob- lived in for a year to move to anoth- process brought up the issue of the tion to hi new position at MIT. He The Task Force's duty is to lem for Boston-based fraternities. A er location," VanHorne said. new recruitment rules, which Yard- was scheduled to begin on October advise and make recommendations significant issue for the Recruitment ley will be responsible for. Yardley 15. to the acting governor on such top- Chair will be "to persuade freshmen ew rush rules more lenient Instead, DiFava will oversee to leave the dormitory that they Debate during the election IFC, Page 15 security at Logan Airport for 45 Logan, Page 16

.D.C. Police 'Ihwart Students, Admins Discuss Meal Plan By Christine R. Fry STAFF REPORTER t .Peaceful Demonstration MIT's campus was abuzz with dining debate this week, as the Undergraduate As ociation pon- sored a forum to discuss the newly This past w~~kend I learnedwhat pepper spray smelled like. proposed mandatory dining plan, It came after we had marched-halfway across Washington, D.C., and the Dormitory Council met with from Union Station to the World Bank Building; had been blockaded President Charles M. Vest. =~~~~~~'~~!!!!!! into a Plaza for nearly two hours, and Students, faculty, and staff came . R.···· .ep.or...... ter» were.being "escorted" - herded like to Ro orn 10-250 Wednesday sheep '"'- to Freedom Plaza. The pepper . evening to voice their opinions and "AT...oteo 00' k spray wasn't aimed at met but.I could a k questions of the administrator 1 "C still taste its bitterness. directly involved with dining issues. I went to Washington to voice my Chancellor Philip L. Clay PhD opinions on war, and came away with deep misgivings about the '75 opened the forum by outlining future of liberties in America ... the plans of the Campus Dining The day began outside Union Station at nine o'clock in the morn- Review Board. Clay said the board V/NCENTCHE -THE TECH ing, When we got there, a crowd was starting to gather. My co-pro- will take input from the community Director of Campus Dining Richard D. Berlin III addresses issues testers ranged from the militant-looking black-clad anarchists to the for 45 days, and explore other din- concerning new campus dining plan proposals. , more peaceful-looking "one-world" advocates. The first thing that I ing options which do not mandate appealing. Pangaea wanted to use the potluck noticed was that almost everyone had a bandanna. Great I thought, student participation. After the "We won't have a system that as an example of an event that let's all just perpetuate the stereotypes about crazy radicals. review period, the board will make will proceed unsati factorily," Clay might be "destroyed" by a mandato- Then my friend pulled a bandanna out of his pocket and said he recommendations to members of the aid. ry meal plan. hoped he wouldn't need it, and it all clicked. The bandannas were upper administration who would Other tudents argued during the more than just style' they were protection in case the police let loose then make the final decision. tudent oppo e new plan forum that any form of a mandatory the tear gas. The details of the board' review everal students expressed con- meal plan might end the freedom of I still wasn't too worried. After all, why would anyone gas a proce s and proceeding have not cern that a mandatory dining plan, choice that attracted many to MIT in peaceful protest? yet been finalized. which IT is propo ing a a com- the first place. A resident of Burton- Clay aid that if the current con- munity-builder might actually Conner said that many students Here come the cops cerns cannot be addre sed by the destroy existing community activi- choose the donn because of the suite On our' way to Union Station, we passed by a bus full of cops. review board, the mandatory dining tie of student and living groups. kitchen , and that mandatory dining They certainly didn t seem to be anticipating a peaceful rally- 1'd plan will be in effect only for next Prior to the forum, multi-cultural would not allow these students the year's incoming fre hmen. Howev- tudent group Pangaea sponsored a option to cook their own dinners. D.C., Page 15 er, incentives would be put in place potluck dinner. Pangaea President to make voluntary participation Jumaane A. Jeffrie 02 said that Meal Plan,.Page 17

Looking at Comics OPINIO World & ation 2 the technol- Matt Craighead ays that religion Opinion 4 ogy behind is to blame for the recent Arts 6 the wrC. terrori t attacks. On the Town 8 Science 9 Page 9 Page 12 Page 6 Events Calendar .13 WORLD & NATION H'-J~ Pakistan Says that Evidence aIami LOS ANGELES TlM£SNE EWYORK Links bin Laden to Attacks ew ark ity economy will n ed more th n 100 billion over the ne t two year to reco er from the orld Trade Center attacks, By Rone Tempest and the beleaguered country, the admin- the material as 'impre ive' and a cording to a preliminary tudy r lea ed Thursday by Ci omp- Marjorie MUler i tration' late t ffort to how it 'weighty.' troller Ian Heve i. LOS ANGELES TIMES concern for the civilian population In London' Blair pre ented to the The e timate, which significantly e ceed earlier projection , e en it targets ghanistan Tal- pecial se ion of Parliament a comes on th heels of new that ew Yor ity' muni ipal go ern- In a ignificant boo t from a key iban regime for po ible attack. dos ier against bin Laden. ment alone i likely to face a billion budget deficit later thi year. Iuslim nation to the global anti-ter- The relief i to be di tributed by ccording to the document, the And it confirms a growing perception that the nation' large t city i rori m campaign Paki tan official the United ation and private aid intelligence ources have confirmed facing an ' economic calamity" Heve i aid. aid Thur day that" ufficient e i- groups uch as the Red Cro . The that bin Laden told associates prior o far, Pre ident Bush and congre ional leader ha e earmarked dence ' has b en colle ted to link U .. military also may air-drop up- to la t month's attacks that he was a little more than 20 billion for combined recovery cost in ew audi militant 0 ama bin Laden to plie into parts of fghanistan. preparing a major. operation in the ark ity the a hington D. ., area where the Pentagon wa the ept. 11 attack on the nited Paki tan' po ition on the case United tate and that they should attacked, and in outh e tern Penn ylvania, where one of four plane tate. against bin Laden is critical to the return to Afghani tan from other hija ked on ept. 11 crashed. The announ ement arne after U. .-led anti-terrori m efforts. The part of the world by Sept. 10. , learly, thi i not enough for e York ity' He e i aid. Briti h Prime ini ter Tony Blair I lamic nation shares a 1400-mile However, Blair gave the law- What the pre ident and ongre have committed i just a down re ealed orne of the fir t details of border with Afghani tan, where the makers few details, saying that evi- payment on what it will take to ensure th t the terrori t don't uc- the international ca e against bin audi is belie ed to be hiding and dence was withheld to protect intel- ceed in de troying not just the two tower , but also Americ ' and the Laden in a peech before Parliament is the last state to officially recog- ligence sources. world's financial capitol." in London. nize the Taliban government. 'There is other intelligence we Blair who will be in Pakistan On Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador cannot disclo e of an even more Friday said that at least three of the Wendy Chamberlin presented a 20- direct nature indicating guilt," Blair Lawmakers Prepare hijacker in the attack on ew page summary of evidence against said. York and near Washington have bin Laden to Pakistani President The dossier cautions that the, To Revamp Spy Services been' po itively identified" a mem- Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan officials information did not' amount to a LOS A GELES TIMES ber of bin Laden' al-Qaida net- aid more documentation was deliv- prosecutable case. But Blair said the WA H GTO work. One of the hijacker, Blair ered Wednesday night. _ evidence was incontrovertible. Faced with a calamitous failure of U .. intelligence, Congre is aid, al 0 wa connected by evi- "We have seen the material that "We have absolutely no doubt beginning to consider how to revamp and reinvigorate the nation' dence to the 199 terrori t bomb- was provided to us by the American that bin Laden and his network were py services in response to the ept. 11 terrori t attacks. ings of U. . embas ies in East side," Pakistani Foreign Ministry responsible for the attacks on Sept. Both ide of the aisle appear determined to upgrade the capability Africa and to the attack last year on spokesman Riaz Mohammed Khan 11," Blair told Parliament. and reach of the nation's 13 known intelligence agencies, and their the U. : destroyer Cole in Yemen. said Thursday. "This material cer- Blair said that bin Laden and his e timated 30 billion annual budget - the true figure is cla sified - And in Wa hington, President tainly provides sufficient basis. for al-Qaida network were able to carry i likely to ri e harply. Bush pledged 320 million worth of indictment in a court oflaw." out the attacks on the U.S. "because The Hou e Intelligence ommittee has taken the lead in the food and medicine to aid Afghan Privately, a senior Pakistan offi- of their close alliance with the Tal- debate. In a provocative report i sued this week, the panel argued that refugees and those who remain in cial was less restrained, describing iban regime" in Afghanistan. - the CIA and other intelligence agencies - which were created during the Cold War to py on the oviet military and other major threats - are ill-equipped to penetrate the hadowy world of tran national ter- rori m and religious fanatici m as personified by Osama bin Laden. Unemployment Relief Expands said Senate Majority Leader Tom the highest level since mid-1992. Koizumi eeks to Ease Concerns Bush Plan Extends Daschle, D-S.D. The figures reflect a wave of lay- Bush's aid package for the offs by U.S. airlines and other China And South Korea VISits Benefits for Jobs unemployed is one of three main industries directly affected by the LO ANGELES TIMES components of the economic stimu- terrorist strikes. TOKYO Lost In Attacks lu plan he wants Congress to Since Sept. 11, 200,807 job cuts Japane e Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi plans to visit China By Warren Vieth and Janet Hook approve. The other two, which have been announced, according to and outh Korea in the corning day in an effort to allay fears that his LOS ANGELES TIMES administration officials are shaping, the outplacement consulting compa- nation is becoming more militaristic as it gears up to upport a U .. - WA HINGTO will feature- tax cuts designed to ny of Challenger, Gray & Christ- led trike against terrorism. Pre ident Bush on Thursday pro- give individuals more money to mas. Layoff announcements totaled Koizumi also hopes to repair the damage caused by a controver- posed a 13-week extension of spend and to provide incentives for 248,332 for the entire month, a sial textbook's treatment of World War II and his own visit to a war unemployment benefits and 3 bil- businesses to invest. record. memorial, which together put relations with Japan' two neighbor on lion more in emergency grants for The president outlined his work- The president outlined a worker their worst footing in year . orne people thrown out of work by er assistance package amid new assistance plan consisting .bf two Chief Cabinet ecretary Ya uo Fukuda said Koizurni expects to the ept. 1I terrorist attacks. signs that the Sept. 11 attacks are main elements: . meet with Chine e Pre ident Jiang Zemin on onday and with South But the expanded unemployment contributing to mounting job losses -A 13-week extension of Korean President Kim Dae Jung on Oct. 15. benefit would be available only in as the U.S. economy succumbs to unemployment benefits, currently Beijing and eoul rebuffed a similar ummit offer from Koizumi the hardest-hit states, and other pro- what increasingly looks and feels limited to 26 weeks, for workers a few months ago. The earlier cold- houlder treatment rai ed fears po als rely on existing programs like a recession. who lose their jobs after Sept. 11 that the prime minister might be nubbed at the summit of A ia and previously appropriated funds. The number of workers filing -An additional. $3 billion for Pacific Economic Cooperation in hanghai, China, later this month, Congressional Democrats said the new applications for unemployment "national emergency grants" to help analysts said. package falls short of what is need- benefits rose to a nine-year high last cover the cost of health insurance They wanted to clear the air before APEC aid Hirokazu Mat- ed to help the growing ranks of week, the Labor Department report- for displaced workers and provide umoto, an independent foreign relations expert. unemployed. ed Thursday. The number of initial income to those who don't qualify "I think we've got to go farther," claims jumped 71,000 to 528,000, . for unemployment benefits. WEATHER A Cold Shower Situation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Friday, October 5, 2001 By Robert Korty STAFF METEOROLOGIST During autumn synoptic weather map often feature trong front push- ing southward through the middle latitude . Today is no exception, as a front lies across the Ohio River Valley and outhern Plains states. Ahead of thi front, southwesterly winds have u hered warm air up the entire tlantic eaboard. High temperature reached the lower and middle 80s F (27-30° C) on Thursday in Wa hington, Philadelphia, ew York, and Boston. Behind the front, a Canadian air rna will move across the ea tern half of the country, making for a chilly weekend. High pres UTewill continue to move offshore today, while outhwesterly wind on the western side of the system will advect warm air into ew Eng- land again today. By aturday afternoon, the cold front to our west should have pushed through Bo ton, bringing cloudy kie and a chance for show- ers. 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Palestinian Gunman Attacks, Fox Pa~ Bush Another VISit LO ANGELES TIMES WA HINGTON Kills Several Israeli Citizens Pre ident Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday tressed the need for continued cooperation on border security, but By Tracy Wilkinson e pres ed sorrow over the 10 of haron fears it would be in orne immigration experts say they're pe simistic that the two can LOS ANGELES TIMES life then shifted to the Afula shoot- exchange for conce sions he is not make any headway while the U.S. administration's attention is JERU ALEM ing. prepared to make. focused on terrorism. Di gui ed as an I raeli soldier He accu ed the Palestinians of haron compared the West's Fox made the brief, hastily scheduled visit to the White House to and armed with an assault rifle a repeatedly violating a cea e-fire actions today with tho e of Euro- demonstrate support for the Bush administration's anti-terrorism Palestinian fired helter- kelter into a declared la t month - a charge that pean democracie before World campaign. crowded bus station in the central Palestinian also Ie el again t I rae I War II, when the udetenland oming three weeks after the ept. 11 attacks, however, the visit town of Afula on Thursday, killing - and said Western democracie region of Czecho lovakia was sacri- under cored how much the climate has changed since Fox was here three Israeli and wounding at least hould stop pre suring Israel to ficed to appease Adolf Hitler. four weeks ago for a state visit that put the two nations' difference 13. negotiate 'under fire" just because it "This is unacceptable to us. over immigration into harp focus. The assailant was hot dead by would satisfy Arab states. Israel will not be Czechoslovakia. Guest-worker programs, legalization of undocumented immi- police, in the latest pasm of vio- "Do not try to appease the Arabs Israel will fight terrorism." grants, amnesty for immigrants and open borders have been pushed lence escalating tensions in the at our expense," Sharon said. Sharon confirmed that Israel has down significantly on the Bush administration's agenda, replaced by region. Keen to push the Middle East suspended its part of a cease-fire measure that include restricting terrori ts' acce s to the United The attack prompted an angry conflict to the back burner, the Bush declared last month, following States. rebuke from Israeli Prime Minister administration has been urging Palestinian violations. If any progres can be made on immigration issues now, said Ariel Sharon - who directed as Sharon's government to open talks Israel will not ease the punishing Cecilia Munoz, vice president for policy at the Latino advocacy much of his wrath at the United with Palestinian Authority President closures that have blockaded Pales- group ational Council of La Raza, it probably would deal with States as at the Palestinians. Sharon Yasser Arafat and to end what it tinian towns and wi II revert to a tightening restrictions on the visas that allow tourist and students to accused Washington of sacrificing called "provocative" actions such as widely condemned policy of hunt- enter the United tates. Israel in the quest to build an anti- incursions into Palestinian territory. ing and killing key Palestinian mili- terrorism alliance including Arab The United States also demanded tants. states. that Arafat work to stop terrorism In the eight days since Arafat Firestone Agrees to Replace Sharon's unusually harsh con- by Islamic extremists. and I raeli Foreign Minister Shimon demnation of U.S. policies came But the Israeli government does Peres agreed to formalize a truce, 3.5 Million Truck Tires during a late-night news conference not want to negotiate while Pales- violence has been on the rise. With THE WASHiNGTON POST called to comment on the crash into tinians are still shooting and bombs Thursday'S attack, 28 Pale tinians WASHf GTO the Black Sea of a Russian airliner are still going off. The United States and five Israelis have been killed in Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. agreed Thursday to replace 3.5 million carrying dozens of Israelis. He wants peace in the region, but that period. more tires, ending a 17-month high-profile government investigation that tarnished the reputation and hurt the bottom line of both Fire- stone and Ford Motor Co., whose popular Explorer sport utility vehi- Bush and Congressional Leaders cles were equipped with most of the recalled tires. The ational Highway Traffic afety Administration announced the recall action, involving 15- and 16-inch Wilderness AT tires made before May 1998, almost 14 months after Firestone agreed to Promise to Help Revive Economy an initial recall of 6.5 million tires. Failures of Firestone tires have By James Toedtman Secretary Robert Rubin. While economists as well as been linked to accidents, mostly on Explorers, that have caused 271 NEWSDAY The bipartisan glow that has politicians have questioned the ade- deaths and more than 700 injuries. WASHlNGTO cloaked almost all Washington dis- quacy of a $60 billion stimulant in a The long-running probe led to changes in auto afety laws after President Bush and congression- cussions since the Sept. 11 attacks $10 trillion economy that most several contentious congressional hearings, where executives of the al leaders pledged Wednesday to persisted Wednesday as the Senate believe has slipped into a recession, two companies blamed each other's products for the accidents. It also develop a $50 billion to $75 billion Finance Committee began dis- Bush and the congressional leaders cost Bridgestone Corp., Firestone's Japanese parent, more than $1 package of tax cuts and new spend- cussing specific options with Trea- took their lead from Greenspan, billion, and Ford more than $3 billion because of its decision to ing to jump-start the U.S. economy, sury Secretary Paul O'Neill. who has urged them to take their replace 13 million Firestone tires last spring. which has stalled since the Sept. 11 The stimulus plan outlined by time and to limit any economic In addition, it precipitated the breakup of a nearly 100-year-old terrorist attacks. Bush was essentially the same as the stimulus effort to $100 billion total, corporate marriage that dated back to the dawn of the auto industry. At a meeting with New York plan being discussed by Senate 1 percent of the gross domestic Each company still faces a rash of personal injury lawsuits and a business leaders, Bush announced Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D- product. By comparison, Congress class-action suit. his support for a plan that is aimed S.D., and Senate Finance Commit- earlier this year approved $38 bil- at encouraging business and con- tee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. lion in tax rebates that have been sumer spending while providing The package's three components delivered. Six Die in Greyhound Bus Crash assistance to those who need health .include: 0' eill faced the sharpest criti- and financial benefits after the -Tax incentives for consumers cism from conservative Republican After Attack on Driver attacks that left nearly 6,000 dead. - a payroll-tax rebate or advancing senators who think the administra- THE WASHINGTON POST Congressional Democrats said they to next year the marginal rate cuts tion should concentrate on tax MA CHESTER wanted to limit the cost to $50 bil- now set for 2004. breaks, not on extra spending. Sen. A passenger on a Greyhound bus sliced the driver's throat and lion. -Tax incentives for business - Don ickles, R-Okla., criticized the grabbed the steering wheel early Wednesday morning, crashing the "We're coming together on a accelerating depreciation schedules, administration for even considering bus and killing six people. Fearful of a terrorist attack, Greyhound plan that I believe needs to get calculating a portion of new invest- a minimum-wage increase, which halted its entire fleet for several hours, resuming business after the passed as quickly as possible," Bush ments as expenses that are not taxed 0' eill said remained an option. FBI concluded that the assault was the random act of a troubled said. "We've now got a reason to do or creating investment tax credits. Already, Congress has approved man. ... what it takes to make sure this -Aid for workers and business- $40 billion for cleanup and 15 bil- The attacker - who died in the crash - boarded the Orlando- economy gets growing so people es affected by the attacks - extend- lion in aid and loan guarantees for bound bus the day before in Chicago, gave no hint of his intentions can find work." ing unemployment benefits or creat- the aviation industry. and acted alone about 4 a.m., said R. Joe Clark, chief of the FBI's Congressional leaders said they ing job training funds. The stock market reacted posi- Knoxville field office. Clark aid the incident was "not an act of ter- were optimistic the package could O'Neill, who said he hoped final tively to the idea of a stimulus pack- rorism" and bore no connection to the Sept. 11 assaults on the Penta- be produced, and they continued agreement could be reached in four age, with the Dow Jones industrial gon and the World Trade Center. their own assessment of the econo- weeks, .also proposed a new system average closing above 9,000 for the But the response to the incident reflected the mood of a nation on my in a private meeting with Feder- of "national emergency grants" for first time since the attacks. edge. al Reserve Chairman Alan states to use as they wished. He did The list of new proposals, State and federal investigators, on alert for a second wave of ter- Greenspan and former Treasury not mention a price tag. though threatens to explode. rori t attacks, raced to the remote stretch of Interstate 24 in Tennessee when a local 911 operator received the call at 4: 13 a.m. Greyhound President Craig Lentzch ordered all company buses off the roads for Drug Company Agrees to Plead Guilty; the first time in Greyhound's history. Lentzch said he acted from a sense of caution. "The world has changed in recent weeks," he told reporters. After consulting the FBI Will Pay Out $875 Million Penalty and the company's unions, he ordered the resumption of business by early afternoon. He said security was being increased; passengers in By Denise Gellene uments relating to Medicare pricing. Columbia. San Francisco, Dallas and Orlando were checked with hand-held LOS ANGELES TIMES The crackdown is taking place TAP President Thomas Watkins metal detectors. A government crackdown on amid a general frustration with pre- said the company regrets the actions Medicare fraud produced its biggest scription drug prices. Spending on that led to the criminal plea and has catch Wednesday when a drug com- drugs rose 14.9 percent in 2000 for taken steps to prevent them in the Scientists Say They've Decoded pany agreed to pay $875 million and a variety of reasons beyond fraud. future. But the company settled the plead guilty to criminal charges that But the government aid Wednes- civil allegations and agreed to pay 'Black Death' Gene it engaged in a kickback scheme day's action signals its resolve to the record-setting fine, to avoid hav- NEWSDAY with doctors in marketing its wipe out Medicare ripoffs, which is ing its drugs dropped from the fed- Researchers have deciphered the genetic code for one of the most prostate cancer drug. believed to cost up to $100 billion eral Medicare program he said. notorious killers in human history, and one that couId again pose a The penalties levied on TAP annually. "The settlement is obviously a widespread threat in the form of biological terrorism. Pharmaceuticals, a joint venture TAP's penalty exceeds the previ- very large number and the size has Yersinia pe tis, the bacterial agent of medieval Europe's Black between Abbott Laboratories and ous record fine of $840 million been driven to a large degree by the Death has revealed some surprising secrets to a team of British sci- Takeda Pharmaceuticals of Japan, imposed last year on hospital opera- threat of exclusion" Watson said. entists who reported on the organism's complete D sequence are the largest ever against a health tor HCA Healthcare Corp. The indictment, unsealed Thursday in the journal ature. Researchers say the completed care company. The government said TAP, based in Illinois, agreed to Wednesday in federal court in sequence could eventually serve as a yardstick for other naturally- criminal fraud against Medicare and plead guilty to one count of criminal Boston, details a conspiracy in evolving or bio-engineered forms of the plague and provide targets Medicaid in the TAP case cost tax- conspiracy to violate the Prescrip- which TAP sales people used an for improved drug de ign. payers $145 million. tion Drug Marketing Act, for which array of freebie , ranging from free "It's still an entirely natural threat to human health as well as the But the settlement does not end it paid $290 million of its total fine. ski trips to VCRs, to entice urolo- other potential angles, , said co-author Julian Parkhill, in an allusion to the investigation of TAP. Additional The government said the size of the gists to prescribe Lupron, a prostate the threat of bioterrorism. But Parkhill, project manager at the Sanger indictments of former TAP employ- criminal fine is also a record in cancer drug with sales of about Centre in Britain, aid the genetic sequence contains' every drug tar- ees and doctors who participated in health care fraud. $800 million last year. As part of get and every possible accine target so you can start to think about the fraud couId follow. TAP also agreed to settle with- the conspiracy, TAP employees rational drug design," he aid. "There's no que tion that it will help." The agreement is part of a broad- out admitting guilt civil charges that gave doctors free samples of Lupron lthough incidence of the plague has declined dramatically since er probe of alleged drug-pricing it bilked the federal Medicare pro- knowing the doctors would prescibe the early part of the 20th century, the World Health Organization fraud. Prosecutors have asked sever- gram and the Medicaid program in the samples for patients and fraudu- reports several thousand case every year. al large drugmakers to turn over doc- all 50 states and the District of lently bill Medicare for them. October 5 2001 OPINION

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PRODUcnO STAFF rotors: Gayani Tillekeratne '03, Joel Corbo '04 Joy For ythe '04; ociate ditor: ndrew amo '04, hefali Oza '04; taff: Ian Lai '02, Anju Kanumalla '03, ur Aida bdul Rahim '03, Eric Tung '04, Tao Vue '04, Hangyul Chung 'OS, Jennifer Fang 'OS, Jame Harvey '05.

OPfNIO STAFF ditor : Kri chnee '02, Jyoti Tibrewala '04; ociate Editor: Veena Thomas '02; olum- ni t : Philip Burrowes '04, Roy Esaki '04, Ken e rnith '04, k hay Patil '04; taff: Ba il Engwegbara G, ichael Borucke '01, Kevin Choi 01, Coo topher D. mith '01, Jason H. Wa fy '01, att Craighead '02, Daniel L. Tor- torice '02, Gretchen lek '04, Christen M. Gray'04.

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ARTS STAFF Editor: Devdoot Majumdar '0 Annie . Choi; ociate ditor: Fred hoi '02, San- Letters To The Editor dra M. Chung '04; taff: Erik Blankinship G, Lance athan G, Bence P. Olveczky G, Sonja Minding Your a sudden and dramatic reaction to a compar- people are ruled by corrupt, tyrannical gov- harpe G, Vladimir V. Zelevinsky '95, Bogdan atively small loss of life?" Mr. esmith ernments. Did they die because we did not Fedele '02, Jurnaane Jeffiies '02, Jacob Beni- Pint and Quarts asks, if "35,000 children have starved to make enough food available? No, they died flah '03, Daniel J. Katz '03, Jane Maduram '03, death on every day since September 11." because we couldn't get food to them because my Meadow '03, Jeremy Baskin '04, Chaitra Re: 'P's and Q's" [October 2]: Maybe, I dare to submit, because it hap- their governments take most of the aid we Chandrasekhar '04, Izzat Jarudi '04, Chad er- Besides this article mis ing the point of pened to fellow people in this country, with give and use it for things like weapons to prop rant '04, Jo eph Graham. etiquette - which as a superficial act is nearly whom, even though we might not have up their police states and luxuries to satiate PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF worthless, but as a reflection of love and known any of them personally, we shared their leaders' greed (think Saddam's palaces Editor: athan Collins G, Wendy Gu '03; respect for one another is very much worth- values, hopes, and ideals. Is it not natural to and chemical weapons plants). What could we taff: Erika Brown G, Krzy ztof Gajo G, while - I think Roy E aki has an incorrect be affected more by what happens to people have done to prevent these innocent childrens' Garry Maskaly G, Karlene R. Maskaly G, origin for the phrase "mind your p's and q's." closer to us? Mr. esmith misses the point: deaths? Nothing short of military occupation Michelle Povinelli G, Bob urnner G, amudra Though there are apparently competing it is precisely because we do share these val- of every corrupt regime in the world would Vijay G, Gregory F. Kuhnen '00, Wan Yu of hypotheses as to its origin, mo t of the credi- ues, and because we are willing to protect suffice. Are we capable of doing this? No. Wan or hidi '00, ephir Hamilton S '01, ble sources I've found ay that it comes from them, that our country is targeted (these val- Would the common people of these corrupt ii Dodoo '01, KaiJas arendran '01, Matthew keeping bar tabs in Pints and Quarts back in ues also, by the way, have - consistently regimes welcome our authority for the good ishrikey '02, Yi Xie '02, Ro han Baliga '03, English pubs. rather than "sudden[ly] and dramatical[ly]" of their children? No, they have national Leonid Drozhinin '03 Ekaterina 0 sikine '03, Adrian Bischoff '03 - made Americans the world leaders in pride, just like us. Matt T. Your t '03, Pedro L. Arrechea '04, donations to charities, giving a total of $175 It is not our duty to rid the world of evil. Our Brian Hemond '04, i ir Botta '04, Jonathan billion last year alone). To belittle the death duty is to protect our own. But we are righteous: Wang '05. Finding of 6 000 in the terrorist attacks as a "com- Out of our generosity we send wheat to paratively small loss of life" is a slap in the Afghanistan even while its government support "Something Lost" face of those grieving over what they and terrorists groups that have promised to destroy My fir t reaction to the piece" omething this country lost on September 11. us. Out of the goodness of our hearts we allow Lost, Something Gained?' by Ken esmith Maximilian Riesenhuber PhD '00 Iraq to sell some of its oil, in the hope that just a [October 2] was that the author should take a tiny fraction of the proceeds will go the people anager: Rachel John on '02; cold shower. "orgasm of mourning?" 'The twin Ken esmith's most recent column, "Some- who need it and not to Iraq's military. These are anager: Ja mine Richard 02; towers in ew York as phallic symbols?" Talk- thing Lost, omething Gained," (October 2] just two examples; out of our benevolence we '03, ing about one of the targets of the terrorist contains far too many obvious naive assertions send aid to every comer of the world, even to attack that killed thousand and the resulting and ridiculous condemnations of America for our sworn enemies. And from World War II, grief in such oversexed terms strikes me as me to address, so I will focus on his only seri- through the Cold War, to this new war against TECHNOLOGY STAFF somewhat inappropriate. However if this article ous argument, that we Americans are wrong to terrorism, we have sacrificed and will sacrifice Frank Dabek G, Kevin Atkin on '02. had only been an example of how hormones intensely mourn our dead from the September the lives of our young men to seriously reduce mess with a young writer's ability to express 11 terrorist attack and not equally intensely the evil in the world, hoping that as a result himself, it'd be briefly annoying before turning mourn the innocent children around the world more people might have a chance to experience the page to read the funnies. who have died of starvation. freedom, which is the key to prosperity. We are 0, what makes this op-ed piece offen- Who are these children and why did they far more righteous than blindly anti-American sive enough to warrant a respon e is what die? You will not find any famine among the zealots like Nesmith think. ADVISORY BOARD comes down the page. "Why, then, was there democracies of this world. 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It is not diffi- Implications andreality has a simple choice: discard faith cult to find example disproving their claim, One of the loudest screams heard in the or di card reality. To the extent he discards such 'a ver e 9.5: " 0 when the sacred aftermath of eptember 11 has been, Don't hi faith he becomes a de facto athei t and months have passed away, then slay the idol-. Of the New blame Islam!" We've heard it from our Pres- can live a normal, if confused life. To the aters wherever you find them, and take them ident: '[I lam's] teachings are good and extent that he discards reality instead, he captive and besiege them and lie in wait for peaceful, and those who commit evil in the become a religious fanatic, inevitably them in every ambush ..." name of Allah blaspheme the name of destroying himself. Of course, Islam is a dangerous religion Dining Plan Allah." And we've heard it from the diversi- The living proof of the fate of these fanat- for many other reasons such as the concept ty police, who warn us that we shouldn't ics can be seen in abortion-clinic bombers of jihad and the explicit belief ill fundamen- blame all Arabs or all Muslims for the and in the letter that the September 11 terror- talist dictatorship. Yet all of these problems Dan Tortorice actions ofa few (as if we didn't already real- ists received shortly before they departed on are simply instances of the root problem: ize that). . their mission of death. faith itself. Belief in any sacred religious text To the dismay of students across campus, But this view of Islam is just not true - it The abortion-clinic bomber believes, will undoubtedly lead to evil; it just so hap- MIT has instituted a mandatory dining plan. is partially to blame. Our President isn't according to his Christian faith, that abortion pens that the Koran is an unusually danger- The plan requires undergraduate students living telling us this because he, like many Ameri- is murder and an unspeakable crime against ous text. Faith leads to ruin in all areas of in dormitories to purchase a meal plan for a cans, suffers from a deep psychological eva- God. It is true that the Bible condemns one's life by eliminating the capacity for substantial amount of money at the beginning of sion. He . evades killing; but in his -independent judgrnent. the term. Many have debated the merits of this because the indictment view, he is not the Faith in metaphysics means the world is plan, but wiU the new plan bring better food? is not limited to Islam. killer, the "abortion- fundamentally unknowable, controlled by a Will the new plan restrict student choice too It condemns all reli- ists" are. After all, the higher power beyond the comprehension of much? Will lunch at Walker begin to be bear- gions everywhere, his Belief in any sacred religious Bible convinced him man; man is controlled by destiny and not by able? It seems that administrators feel the own Christianity text will undoubtedly lead to that a lump of flesh is his own free will. mandatory dining plan will be beneficial to the included. equivalent to a human Faith in epistemology means throw logic community, while students in general oppose it. The essence of reli- evil. Faith leads to min being, that removing to the wind; put your trust in a sacred text; This article isn't about the merits of the plan gion is faith in the that lump of flesh is shut your eyes and pray that a nonexistent directly, but why the plan is problematic even supernatural and the in all areas of one's life by equivalent to murder, God will grant you knowledge you never if it brings good results. unknowable. Faith, of eliminating the capacity and that he ought to took the trouble to seek; and when he says Those who upport the plan claim it will course, is the opposite eliminate this evil. His nothing, rely on your feelings, intuitions, bring better food to MIT. They claim that the of reason. Reason for independent judgment. . views are not far from friends, the will of the majority, anything but declining balance plan doe not provide dining demands that data and the mainstream of the your independent judgment. contractors enough revenue to work with. As a the vigorous application despicable "religious Faith in ethics means give away an your result the contractors cut back on quality, rai e of logic back up every right"; witness Pat possessions and devote your elf to a life of prices and reduce dining option . The end assertion. Faith works in the opposite fashion. Robertson and Jerry Farwell blaming the service and self-sacrifice, since you are irrel- product is the terrible food we must endure at The faithful believe in spite of the knowledge homosexuals, .the "abortionists," and the evant in comparison to the design of God; MIT. However, instituting a mandatory mini- that there is no sense data that backs up their ACLU for bringing this attack upon us. seek forgiveness for your original sin by mum dining plan will create a pool of money, belief; no logic that can prove it. The minds of the September I 1 hijackers prostrating yourself and seeking no values of which will provide enough revenue that dining Most religions have a certain set of doc- were an equal mess, as the terrorists' letter your own; and since you have already dis- contractors will be able to produce quality food trines taken on faith. For example, Islam reveals (you can find the letter's translated carded your judgment, do whatever your reli- at an affordable price. They will give us a requires belief ina God (Allah) who sent a text online). The letter is nothing if not gious leader tells you, even killing millions plethora of dining options, and our every culi- prophet (Muhammad) and divinely revealed pious; it is full of talk about how one must ,for the reason that they do not believe. nary desire will be satiated. Well, not quite, but a sacred text (the Koran). For Christianity, repeatedly say "there is no God but God" And faith in politics means ban abortion, food quality should go up. the names change, but the idea does not. (which supposedly is a wonderful phrase sex without procreation, the pursuit of profit; If the administration really believes this Whenever a man accepts a false assertion because its Arabic letters have no dots in discard the Constitution and the rule of law then they should realize that the plan is unfair. on faith, the consequences ripple through his them), and say supplications of place and as worthless, and put the Bible in its place; H is rare that one can make everyone better off entire life. Eventually, unless the false asser- travel, and have complete faith in Allah and institute an aristocratic priesthood to quell without hurting someone. In this case we are tion is totally irrelevant, it will manifest itself his divine plan. It reminds the terrorists that immorality; and stone to death whosoever making a subset of the population, undergradu- in a contradiction. For example, if he "the women of paradise are waiting"; that even thinks of violating their decree, for ates in dormitories, worse off by taking more . believes that the Bible is literally accurate in they should not kill in revenge, but. solely for theirs is the word of God. money from them and limiting their dining its every word, he will eventually. discover the sake of God; that they should not fear The living proof of all this can be found options. But this is unfair, because the whole - either from a contradiction within the death, for they will be accorded the highest- in modem-day Afghanistan and Iran; and to . MIT community will benefit from better dining Bible itself or from a contradiction between status in heaven, that of martyrs. the extent that the people of the United services. Staff, grad students people who live it and our world - that it is not.' According to many pundits, Islam is a States accept religion, they will find them- in FSILGs will all benefit without paying any- Whenever you discover a contradiction, peaceful religion, and these terrorists are selves on that same road, all the way back to thing. Why should I have to pay to make some- Y0,U have two options. You can either ignore . merely "fringe elements" or "extremists" the Middle Ages. one else's meal better? ow I'm sure that there are some naysayers in the administration who wi II say that the Management Shenanigans undergraduate community will benefit from the ----'------changes, so they should have to pay for it. But in, but the human population that I have lost into thinking there is hope for peace and an this, of course, does not address the point. Yes, Guest Column all hope in. I should confess that I am a hyp- end to the circle of death and violence that undergraduates will benefit and we are paying \ Bukola Afolayan ocrite. If I were not, I would have lost all hope has plagued our history. Alas, it is nothing for it, but other people will benefit without pay- for mankind a long time ago. However I but management, and there is only so much ing for it. There are only two fair solutions to I recently saw a movie titled "Lumumba" bought into the "management shenanigan." management one can do before the problems this problem. The first is to allow individuals with a friend' at the Kendall cinema. As I To put some meaning to my ranting, let break out in the open. Wall Street did a good who purchase the dining plan' to pay a lower watched, I was moved to the point 'of tears. me make' some illustrations. History has job of demonstrating this with the whole price for the food they buy. That way, everyone It is a movie about the .independence cham- shown us that we all have a bloody and dotcom fiasco. who benefits from the change pays. Undergrads pion of Congo (Zaire), Patrice Lumumba, chaotic past. There were (and still are) injus- Weare a doomed species living on bor- pay through the mandatory dining plan while who became Prime Minister after convinc- tices committed by various groups in the rowed time. We will not stop until we staff and the like pay through the regular meal ing the Belgians to leave Congo. His regime, form of slavery, genocide, colonialism, auto- destroy one another. Just look at the Israeli- price. The second possible :fix to this problem however, was undermined and short-lived cratic rule, holy wars, etc. History has also Palestine conflict, the North Ireland impasse, would be to tax people who don't buy the meal because of interference in the country by the shown us that the oppressed group never for- the recent tragedy in YC and DC; the plan, and give money to those who do. But I Belgians, the CIA and the selfish desire of a gets the injustices done to it; never mind that don't see MIT doing that. former colleague named Joseph Mobutu the generations who suffered might already Another problem in the logic of the admin- Sese Seko. Anyone who is familiar with pol- be dead. The sense and need for revenge have istrators is not really a problem, per se. It is itics of the Congo knows the devastation the led to much bloodshed in the past century. The management shenanigan merely a case of their not seeing the obvious country went through under the dictatorial The violence just never ends; it is a vicious implication of their reasoning. They believe rule of Mobutu, who was supported by the circle. If this is so clear, how come many is the ability of our leaders that the community will benefit from a manda- Americans and later the French government. . people choose to be optimists? Well, I am an-dgovernments to manage tory meal plan. That students will benefit from One only has to read the news to know that neither a political scientist nor a psychologist, having meals together in a commons style set- this devastation is not over, but continues but 1 would like to propose two hypotheses. problems we flUe and deceive us ting, which may' be true. But as we all know until today as a war is being waged, rav- One would be that the optimists live in coun- dining halls in McCormick and MacGregor aging the natural resources of the country tries that enjoy fruits gained by oppressing into believing everything isfine shut down when MIT went to a declining bal- and burying the people in poverty and. some other group. Therefore, most optimists and spiffy with the world. ance plan precisely because MIT students despair. live in the west and tend to remain optimists chose not to eat in a commons style setting. To Watching the movie reminded me of the as long as they live in comfort. say that MIT students will benefit from a com- continuous vicious cycle of bloodshed in My other hypothesis is what I referred to mons style dining system is to' say that MIT parts of East Africa and other countries in as the "management shenanigan." The man- whole shenanigan is falling apart at its students will benefit from a system that they Africa. There is a saying that goes something agement shenanigan is the ability of OUI seams. Maybe it is because the managers are would not naturally choose. like, "He who lives by the sword will surely leaders and governments to manage prob- changing in the current age. Am I a pes- A lot can be said about the notion that peo- die by the sword." If this is true, we are all lems we face and deceive us into believing simist? No, I am just a realist when it comes ple, when left free to choose, will choose the doomed, for we are all offspring of violence everything is fine and spiffy with the world. to thinking about the actions of m nkind. 1 best ystem. So maybe MIT students find it and the sword. They do not solve these problems; they just have put my optimism in a more spiritual better for their dinner to be a 11 p.m. sand- Before you label me an overtly pessimistic manage them. Part of the shenanigan process .quest, and I suggest you find something that wich at Laverde's after their code finally com- individual, I should defend myself and say is the United Nations, ATO, the Middle is worth putting your optimism in, because piles than a regular 6 p.m. dinner where they that I am one of the most optimistic people I East peace process, various tribunals and mankind will not fail to show you that your sit down with the people they live with. Then know. I strongly believe in a God who loves courts of justices, and development aids. trust was placed wrongly in the end. again, maybe that lifestyle is unhealthy, and the world and has- a better rosy future for us. With all of these institutions and their Bukola Afolayan is a graduate student in someone should step in and stop us. This However, this is not about the God 1 believe incredible media exposure, I could be fooled the department of Nuclear Engineering. seems to be the administration's logic. But this undoubtedly mean that the MIT adminis- tration ees it elf in a paternalistic role, and that we as students need to be pushed into mandatory choosing what is best, for we can not figure Do you have an opinion on the meal plan? that out on our own. ext time omeone from the administration tells us that the new dining Let us know. plan will create better quality food and more MIT community, remember that this necessar- ily mean that MIT undergraduates will be forced to choo e another lifestyle, and in the process, pay for other people's lunch. Page 6 BE TECH October 5 2001 THE ARTS MUSIC REVIEW suu« siu« as Model Extraordinaire 'Good 'Zoola~ Despite Foregoing Indications Elicits New Level ofLauqhter

ick SideJnik t Times'ItIs By on why no male model live pa the age of file from inside" a computer, to the familiar O. theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Directed by Ben Stiller Zoolander i a atire of the fa hion indu - The ca t gi e e cellent comedic perfor- "Because I GotHigh"- Written by Ben Stiller, Drake ather, and John try. It addre e i ue like child labor in a mance. tiller wrote the role of Derek Hamburg lighthearted manner,and doe a great job pok- Zoolander in uch a way that it couldn't be Buy the Single, Not the Starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wil. on, Will Fer- ing fun at a tereotypically cluele fa hion filled by anyone other than him elf. He deli - rell, Christine Taylor, Mil/a Jovovich, Jerry model who has nothing above hi neck but a ers an animated, acrobatic performan e, pout- Album Stiller and Jon VOight pretty face. ock violence abound . the movie ing one moment and doing kung fu flip down ha everything from break-dance-fighting and the runway the next. By Melissa Kosinski-Collins he new film Zoolander hold the male Fa hion alk-Offs in the manner of treet Ferrell, a Mugatu the modern fa hion fa hion indu try re pon ible for e ery fight to the Razor cooter-touting Han el and de igner give another great performance. ver since its nation-wide release on the major as a sination in the la t 200 playful ga oline brawl . Hi outrageou hair and ridiculous modern Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ound- years. Why male model ? The reasons The antic of the dim-witted model create tyle are very amu ing. Han el, Wil on track Afroman' break-out ingle are simple. ale model are in e cellent hape hilarious ituations one ha to ee to belie e. become a laid-back hippie adventurer. He is E "Because I Got High" has attacked the year round. econdly, becau e of their looks, Derek draw laugh with awkward moment a great match with tiller and the two of them pop/rock chart' all over the United tates. fame, and innate ability to hit it off with pawned by his c1uele nes and a rna tery of play right off one another perfectly. Becoming the most requested song for radio bouncers, they can gain acces to place the the Engli h language compar ble to that of Zoolander i a great night's entertainment. station in such high-maintenance audience average person can't. But, most importantly, Pre ident George . Bu h. Hilarious moment .It' not 0 car material but it' sure to bring regions a ew York, Los Angeles, and San male models do what they're told. arise a and Derek and Han el try to remo e many laughs. Francisco, "Because I Got High" has ultimate- ow the male fash- r------~-~ly been the surpri e single of the summer. ion industry heads need ounding somewhat like a perverse public a new a sassin. ome- service announcement condemning the use of one so empty-headed, drugs only after explaining the consequences completely cluele , of extreme and excessive use, "Because I Got and devilishly hand- High" is hoped by its author Afroman, Joseph orne that he can be Foreman, to "tell the truth and to set you and I brainwashed to do their free." bidding. The song itself lacks true musical value in Enter Derek regards to instrumental or harmonic flair, but Zoolander (Ben does the provide the listener with a catchy tiller) a character cre- sing along-type chorus and a somewhat ated for the 1996 VB 1 humorous view of the life of someone unable Fashion ward. to escape the walls of a marijuana-dependent Zoolander is a hal- existence. Although many different voices low, self-ob e ed seem to drift in and out both taunting and con- male model who ha doning the singer, Afroman is the lone vocal- 10 this #1 model ta- ist as well as the solo musician. "Because I tu to Hansel (Owen Got High" is just one of 10 tracks on Afro- WiI on), the new face man's first album entitled The Good Times, of fa hion. his which he co-produced with Tim Ramenofsky. modeling career Despite the almost instantaneous success appear to be winding of Afroman' s "Because I Got High" single, down, Zoolander is the rest of the album is ultimately a disap- recruited by the fa h- pointment. The underlying theme of just about ion de igner ugatu 'every track on the album revolves around sex ill Farrell) to model and! or drugs and alcoho1. his new line of clothe , The songs themselves are so cluttered with Derelict. Derelict, gratuitous profanities not even remotely however, is ju t a front essential to the topic' at hand that it will be for the fashion indu - amazing if any of the raps will find their way try' new con piracy, onto a mainstream play list like their the a as ination of the "Because I Got High" precursor. Songs like president of alaysia. "She Won't Let Me'F**k," "Let's All Get Slowly but surely, Drunk," and "Crazy Rap" are almost as undy- Zoo lander, with the namic as their titles, dealing with such menial help . of fa hion ·topics as the sexual exploits of the singer and reporter atilda, MELINDA SUE GORDON his controversial travels around the country. begins to discover the Katinka (Milia Jovovich) and Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) meet up with designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell) in The tracks "Palmdale" and "Mississippi" conspiracy and the rea- the film Zoo/ander, are lyrically more enlightening as they remi- . nisce through the childhood of the singer. pro- viding a unique perspective into the life and trials of an African-American child growing- RESTAURANT REVIEW up in a primarily overindulgent Caucasian world. Afroman more than likely drew upon hi's own experiences to compose these two works. He grew-up in a suburb of Los Ange- Johnny's Luncheonette les called East Palmdale, and moved to Hat- tiesburg, Mississippi after he became unhappy A Delectable Breakfast Joint/or TheAM Crowd with life in California. Afroman credits Too $hort, Big Daddy Kane, and 2 Live Crew as By Derek Tang breakfast burritos. There are also a few in-house creations, like influential artists early in his career, and both the cereal-and-nut-coated Crunchy French Toast. Portions are "Palmdale" and "Mississippi" demonstrate Johnny' Luncheonette generous and the basic ingredients are offered up in any combi- this connection with their bold truth mentality. 1105 Mas achusett. Ave. nation you can think of, so you won't find yourself ordering a The most surprising jewel in the album is Brighton, MA 02135 side to get what you want. the song "Hush." A break from the true rap (61 J 495-0055 One of the more interesting offerings was Waban's Frittata, an genre, this track has a gospel-like quality that open-faced bacon omelet topped with mashed potatoes. cheese both awes and inspires the listener. The song reakfast. It tastes 0 good. Even the word is delicious - and scallions that smelled incredible on the plate, but was on the stresses the importance of maintaining a con- all it take is one mention and I simply mi t over and heavy side when actually eaten. On the other hand, the day's spe- nection between the trials of everyday life with drift bJi sfully into a dreamland of sizzling eggs and cial, which was steak and eggs. was presented just the way it's a spiritual link. The creative incorporation of Bsyrup dribbling off of waffles. meant to be - tasty and dripping with greasy goodness. rap and soul is an entertaining, and a refresh- But oh, breakfast, why mu t you be so early in the morning? A Johnny's prides itself on making its food fresh, the pota- ing break from the rest of The Good Times How many time have you lured us out to cDonald's only to toe and yams were hand cut and the sausage homemade. ("Not album, shining light onto Aftoman's potential taunt u cruelly as the counter guy whipped the menu back before .like Applebee's," tbe host assured us.) Sweet potato fries were as an artist as opposed to a one-hit fluke . our eyes? We tudents never had a chance. cri p and tender. and the turkey apple sausage was dry but fla- If you just like the song "Because I Got t least there are still a few pots in this post-mOp city, like vorful and, yes, an option for those few healthy eaters who are High' and are unable to just download the Johnny' Luncheonette, that understand how we feel. Don't be actually concerned with taste. P3, my advice is to buy the single. Afro- fooled by the word c lunch' ; Johnny's boa ts an expansive break- Johnny's also has a good selection of juices and smoothies, man's The Good Times is the first attempt of fast menu with, thank God no trace of the word 'Served Un ti1." which you shouldn't be ashamed to try just because you're hav- an artist who needs to mature before he can Intrigued but wary of another trick, three of the more adventur- ing breakfast. The moothies lean toward the milky side so those truly become uccessfuL Songs like "Palm- ous among u made our ay out last Saturday to give Johnny's, looking for more of a juice blast might want to opt for a juice bar. dale" and "Hush" show that Afroman has the located on Mass. Ave. near Harvard Square, the old college try. General consensus: at least it's better than The Wrap, folks. potential to excel in the pop/rock and rap Doors open at 7:30 a.m. but the crowd at Johnny's is mostly As for lunch we don't care too much for that stuff, but we've worlds, but he needs to move beyond the the four-kid family set until around 11, when the students start to heard good things about the tuna melt. teenager mentality before this is pos ible. tream in. you might gues from the name. the decor aims for Service was generally friendly, and urprisingly fast. Prices ($8- The album posse ses a :fun atmosphere that a 50 diner feel that makes for a cheerful, plea antly noising eat- $15) are on par with Harvard-area restaurants, and the place is a is intriguing the fir t time around', but all-too- ing environment. snap to find (hop off the #1 bus at Crate&Barrel). If it's past oon loses its luster. The Good Times is defi- The breakfast portion of the menu (which extends the retro lunchtime but you're still in the mood for breakfast, Johnny's is the nitely an album that is an asset for any party theme with dish name like Wolfie's and Rascal House) works place for you. It is nearly impossible to try everything on the menu line-up based on it easy-to-remember lyrics overtime to cater to all taste - aside from the tandard eggs and in one sitting, so we might be beading back there ourselves some- and topic choice, but for everyday listening pancakes you'll find items as varied as lox, collard greens and time to check out some of the things we missed the first time around. the album lacks depth and musical merit. October 5,2001 THE ARTS THE TECH Page7 CONCERT REVIEW Long Beach Dub Allstars Simply Less Than Sublime A Mixed ~egacy and a Dearth of Original Music Plagues The Long Beach Dub Allstars, Sublime's Fallout

By Jed Home free ticket and check them out. guy trying to sing dance hall style reggae and nias "a ublime cover of a Grateful Dead S7: FF WRiTER Maybe my e pectations were too high, failing miserably. Thankfully, I arrived a few song which egued nicely into a retrospective kay, I'll admit it. I like ublime, a maybe I wa jaded by the "they-used-to-be- minute late, and didn't catch hi name. of other ublime songs, mostly off 40 Oz. To . band that.unfortunatelY only got pop- good' yndrome (an attitude I get accu ed of The only things he could ay to get any sort Freedom. ular a la Blind ellon when singer ha ing pretty often). of re pan e at all out of an otherwi e lackluster at everything they did was successful. To O Brad owell died of a drug overdose. The e ening didn't tart out too well. I crowd was omething about "getting those ter- get the crowd excited, the band did an instru- On my life's to-do li t-was seeing ublime looked around the Avalon Ballroom, not one rori t before they get u "and a muted "Go mental ver ion of" anteria," and hung a live, but ince that was obviously impo ible, of my favorite club to begin with and Yankees" right before he got off stage. microphone in the crowd so everyone could I was moderately excited when I heard that noticed that they had redecorated. Was that a LBD finally came on, and I enjoyed sing along. It didn't exactly tweak my interest Long Beach Dub Allstars, ublime with a new barn behind the tage? Leaves hanging from myself for awhile. I even got 10 t in the to listen to a bunch of drunk college kids try inger, was playing in Boston. I figured I'd the ceiling? Ididn t get it. . rhythm a few time . The contact high from all to remember the lyrics to a song that even my pretend Iwa a legitimate music reviewer, get Then the how began with. some white the pot that member of the audience were mother liked when Brad sang it. making helped Another misstep was when Opie Ortiz, a little, and I Brad's replacement, draped a flag around him- started to self for the last song. The song was based on remember what the Rodney King riots of April 29, 1992, pre- a great band sumably a low point in American history. Had ublime had the band totally missed the context? What been. a what if does an American flag have to do with burn- their new singer ing down stores and killing cops? And this wa n't quite as coming from a group of obviously well-off good? It was white folks? A little contrived. still fun. But musically, I think LBDA's biggest Eric Wilson mistake wasn't what they did badly, but what and Brad they didn't do enough of - play their own Gaugh, the two songs. Even with two of the original members remaining orig- of ublime, the All tars have had plenty of inal member time to come up with new stuff, and they of the band, have. a why didn't they play them? worth I can't tell if it's that they lost the spark seeing live after Brad died, or if punk rock has finally finally (even a kicked the bucket (a cliche that has been full five years' going around since before Sublime was after Brad around). But whatever it was, I enjoyed listen- died), and they ing to ublime enough that I almost forgot I produced hand- was watching the Long Beach Dub Allstars ily mixed punk and that they really hadn't written that many rock and reg- good songs of their own. gae rhythms I think it's time for them to go the way the like I expected. Faa Fighters and all the other bands-without- -The show start- their-lead-singer should have gone a long time ed off on a ago. Sublime's musical moment has come and TIM SUEN-THE TECH good foot with gone just like grunge rock. Time to grow up The Long Beach Dub Allstars plays music from- the band's new album Wonders of the World. "Scarlet Bego- and get real jobs.

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Museum of Science Science Park, Boston. (723-2500), Daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 9 a.m.-9 Axis p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 13 Lansdowne St., 617-262- dmtsston free with MIT 10, other- 2437 wise $9, 7 for children 3-14 and Sundays: See Avalon below. seniors. Mondays: Static. Gay, casual dress. $5, 18+. The Museum features the theater Thursdays: ChromejSkybar. Pro- of electricity (with indoor thunder- gressive house, soul, disco; and-lightning shows daily) and dress code.$10,19+; $8,21+. more than 600 hands-on e hibits. Fridays: Spin Cycle. Prog. house, Ongoing: "Discovery Center"; 80s.$12, 19+; $10, 21+. "Investigate! A See-For-Yourself Exhibit"; "Science in the Park: Avalon Playing with Forces and Motion"; 15 Lansdowne St., 617-262- "Seeing Is Deceiving." 2424 Ongoing: "Friday Night Stargazing," Sundays: Gay Night (With Axis on A vveek y guide to the arts in Boston Fri., 8:30 p.m.; "Welcome to the long weekends). Featuring hard- Universe," daily; "Quest for Con- core house and techno. $10, October 5 - 1:1.. tact: Are We Alone?" daily. Admis- 21+. sion to Omni, laser, and planetari- Thursdays: International Night. COrrlpil~d by Fred Cho'i um shows is $7.50, $5.50 for Eurohouse. 10,19+. Send submissions to ott@the ..:tech.mlt.edu or by Interdepartmental mall to "On The Town," The Tech, W2G-483. children and seniors. Current Fridays: Ava/and. House. $15, Laser Light shows: Laser Beastie 19+. Boys, Laser Ragefest 3, Laser Saturdays: Downtown. Modern Oct. 8: Explosions In the Sky. Mamma Mia! students with ID ($3 on Wed.), Pink Aoyd: Dark Side, Laser Aero- house, club classics, and Top Oct. 9: Handsome Family, Amor Tickets available free for childr.en under 18. The 40 hits. 15, 21+. smith. Bel hom Duo. through ov. 3, at museum, built in the style of a Oct. 11: Fridge, Charlene, Land- the Colonial Theater 15th-century Venetian palace, Karma Club ing. (106 Boylston St) houses more than 2,500 art 9 Lansdowne st., 617-421-9595 Oct. 12: Scissorfight, Roadsaw. through ticketmas- objects, with emphasis on Italian Sundays: "Current dance Oct. 13: Sleazegriders Wedding ter.com. The thread- Renaissance and 11th-century Other favorites" by guest DJs. Cover Party, bare plot of the latest Dutch works. Among the high- A Studio of Her Own: Women varies. Oct. 17: Ivy, David Mead. . British import (built lights are works by Rembrandt, Artists in Boston 1.870-1.940 Tuesdays: Phatt Tuesdays. With around classic hits by Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, and Through Dec. 2, 2001, at the Bill's bar, modern dance music. Orpheum Theatre ABBA) is: Young bride Whistler. Guided tours given Fri- Museum of Fine Arts. This exhibit $10. 1 Hamilton PI., Boston, 617..f579- Sophie wants her dad days at 2:30 p.m. presents over eighty of the finest Wednesdays: STP. Gay-friendly, 0810 to gi e her away. But paintings, sculpture, and decorative house. $15, 21+. Ticketmaster: 931-2000 her spunky mom - Museum of FIne Arts arts created by women at the tum Thursdays: Groove Factor. House. an ex-nightclub disco 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. of the last century. Drawn equally Fridays: Pure. Drum and bass, Oct. 5: Travis singer named Donna (267-9300), Mon.-Tues., 10 from the MFA's holdings, other guest OJ. $15, 19+. Oct. 10: Judas Priest. - doesn't know who a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Wed., 10 museums and institutions, and pri- Saturdays: Elements of Life. Inter- Oct. 12: Janeane Garofolo. he is. So Sophie a.m.-9:45 p.m.; Thurs.-Fri., 10 vate collections, the exhibition national House. $15. Oct. 13: Gov't Mule. secretly invites three a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 10 includes works by over fbrty artists. of mom's old a.m.-5:45 p.m. West Wing open While some of them are well ManRay Sanders Theatre boyfriends (her possi- Thurs.-fri. until 9:45 p.m. Admis- known, like lilian Hale and Anna 21 Brookline St., Cambridge, 45 Quincy St., 02138, 617-496- ble dads) to her wed- sion free with MIT 10, otherwise Vaughn Hyatt, many others remain 617-864-0400 2222 ding. At first, it's a $10, $8 for students and uncelebrated. No matter the level complete disaster.· seniors, children under 17 free; of their fame, their art represents Wednesdays: Curses. Goth. $2 after 5 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., free Oct. 12: Waifs and Nerisssa and HARVARD OFFICE OF THE ARTS But Donna and her an aesthetic achievement of great Appropriate dress required. $5, Katryna Nields. Radio personality Terry Gross, host of old backup-singer Wed. after 4 p.m. significance and beauty. 19+; $3, 21+. Oct. 13: Four Bitchin Babes. buddies save the day Thursdays: Campus. Popular NPR's "Fresh Air," speaks tonight Nov. 17: Folk Concert With Cris and transform the Mon.-Fri.: introductory walks A Dynamic Duo: Jules Dassin and tunes + House. Gay, casual Williamson. night at Harvard's Sanders Theatre at island into an ABBA- through all collections begin at Melina Mercouri dress. $10, 19+; $8,21+. Nov. 24: Capitol Steps. 8 p.m.; students $10. accompanied silver 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; Oct. 4-0c1.24: The Harvard Film Fridays: Fantasy Factory (First and lami adventure that "Asian, Egyptian, and Classical Archive presents a selection of third Friday of the month. Fea- hailed as Harold Pinter's most Wang Center for the Performing includes' scuba-diver dancers, Walks" begin at 11:30 a.rn.: films examining the works of tures kinky fetishes and indus- important play, this.intense and _ Arts grooms in bridal gowns and cho- "American Painting and Decora- director Jules Dassin and Greek trial rnuslc.) Hell Night (every fascinating drama delves into the 270 Tremont St., Boston 02116, ruses in neon shower caps. An tive Arts Walks" begin at 12:30 actr~ss' and singer Melina Mer- second Friday. 19+. Includes lives of three people, illuminating 617-482-9393 engagingly clever sing-along satire p.m.; "European Painting and couri. Over the course of an Goth music.) 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TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS Why the Towers Fell By Yasmine Abbas Trade Center project, had planned for the possibility that planes could On the l l th of September, the get lost in the fog and hit the towers. twin towers of the World Trade The largest engine the builders had Center, once the tallest on earth, taken into account, however, was were toppled with horrifying effi- . smaller than a 767. everthele s, ciency. Experts continue to ask the the towers did manage to resist the question, could we have limited the sheer impact of the hit. Instead, the scope of the tragedy through tech- complex's Achilles heel was its nological means? inability to remain stable in the face "T oday I found myself walking of the intense heat resulting from to work, about the same time, look- the combustion of the jet fuel on ing down 6th Ave, and there is noth- board the planes. ing," said Erik elson, who gradu- "The heat took down the build- ated from MIT in 1999 with a ing. Structurally, the buildings per- Master of Engineering in High Per- formed well," said elson. "For formance Structures and is now example, when 75% of the column working at ground zero. on the north face of Tower 1 were "There's absolutely nothing destroyed the beams and frame ele- down there but some smoke. ow I ments above could span across the am starting to understand the impact huge opening carved by the 767." and am coming to grips with my Engineer , when making their emotions," he said. calculations, took into consideration ROBI WEINER - WIREPIX Three weeks ago, a fully fueled natural phenomena like wind and The remnants of New York's World Trade Center: an international massacre and an engineering debacle. 767 hit the orth Tower at high earthquakes and human factor such and the external walls were all made aved were it not for the insufficient redundancy.' speed. Moments later a second pas- a height ickne s and office fires. of teel, material which distort and fire protection. Engineers have put forth the idea senger jet sma hed into the 110- While a sprinkler system can protect lose it strength when exposed to till not all experts agree. ' All that the twins could have resisted tory South Tower. By day's end, against small office fires, it wa no such trato ph eric temperature . The material 100 e strength with high de truction if they were built like a the collisions left a pile of rubble in match for the conflagration which protection of the steeltructure that temperature including concrete. nuclear power plant, which is Lower Manhattan. followed attack. delayed the collapsing was made Concrete columns like in the designed to with tand attack from u ing a ubstitute for the carcino- Petronas Tower ... may have lasted incoming aircraft. Critics are quick Heat topples the buildings Debate over to er' performance genic A besto . longer, but there i no way of to point out, however, that the plan The possibility for tragic acci- In the case of each tower, the Some scienti t fear however answer ... without e tensive analy- would not be aesthetically pleasing. dents and potential afety measure , entire tructure, termed a rigid tube that these sub titute , te ted only at is' aid elson. "I would gue s "aybe [they would have sur- however, are alway taken into tructure because it is con tituted of relatively normal fire temperature, that many skyscrapers would have vived], but there would be no win- account when building urban sky- perimeter columns, i dependent on were not as efficient a the original collap ed sooner then the WTC dows!" said elson." gain, the fire craper . The Port uthority of ew the trength of steel. upporting besto . They theorize that per- because of its clo ely spaced i the issue not the strength of the York, which had commissioned the column , the inside frame bolt , haps more lives could have been perimeter columns and its structural structures." Page 10 October 5 200 1 INTERSECTIONS Backytubes Make The Pointe Shoe Fields Th Hidd n Tribula ions Behind Ballet Shoes Waves in Many By Bess Rouse Buckyballs, from Page 9 other hemical molecules. uch open-ended nano traw could pene- When I a twelve, my mother amount of the buckyball under trate into a cellular tructure for too me to Kling' otion nlimit- milder condition cienti t began chemical probing in diagno tic pur- ed to buy my fir t pair of pointe to experiment with different levels poses or could be used as ultra-small hoes. Thi was an event that I had of temperatures for different dura- pipettes to inject molecule into liv- awaited ince I had tarted dancing tion. ome metal particle like ing cell with almost no damage to five years prior. I had een and cobalt and nickel have been known the latter. Perhap these hollow tubes heard about the horror of pointe to help reaction occur at milder can be stuffed with drugs and closed dancing: oozing bli ter , bleeding conditions of temperature and pres- up again, a unique drug delivery toes infected ingrown toenail , et . sure and are widely used in various mechanism that may be coordinated Finally, thi was my chance to find industrial proce e. to use cellular signals in the body to out for my elf. open up when the drugs are needed. After putting on the fir t pair of Buckytubes Yet perhaps most thrilling is Capezio hoe, I under tood. y Scientists tried adding trace what buckyballs really are. They are toes were completely squi hed amount of these metals, separately, carbon - what every component of together and were unable to move. and then together as a mixture, to the living world is made up of. Pre- y feet felt like they had been uc- see if that made buckyball forma- viously the inanimate electronic tion- rapped and then coated in tion any ea ier. It was during one world had monopoly over high ten- metal. ithout the toe ' ability to such adjustment that they stumbled sile strengths and high electrical play and grip the floor my feet upon a novel bucky shape - the conductivities, while the living rocked from ide to ide. Even capped buckytubes. world specialized in complicated tanding on one foot became an When a laser beam was aimed at interconnected machinery on a nano impos ibility. Balan ing en pointe a block of graphite with traces of scale. Now, through these bucky- (on the tip of the hoe) a the cobalt and nickel, the graphite molecules, these two worlds may be only position that eemed at all vaporized at temperatures exceeding united, and the interface between comfortable. The atin that co er 300,000 degrees. ow, when it came the dry and wet worlds may meet. the hoe made the floor feel like an in contact with a comparatively Gadgets whose intricacy rivals that ice rink. AI 0, the ribbons that char- cooler copper collector in a 1200 of living cells, bacteria-size sensors acteri tically cri -cros around the degree Celsius oven, the carbon or drugs whose active ingredients ankle do not come already sewn on atoms appeared to aggregate into resemble tiny, intelligent robots the hoes, 0 the shoe constantly molecular tubes instead of their ball more than ordinary chemicals may slipp d off my feet. I had entered shape. Almost as if the ball had been not be as far off into the future. the world of 'real" dancer . spliced in half, and a belt of another Scientists have discovered the Pointe shoe are upposed to 10 carbon atoms in hexagons added correct conditions that can instigate help the dancer achie e the illusion as a layer in between, followed by carbon atoms to form this extraordi- that he i weightles, that she many more belts layered on, to elon- nary class of molecules, buckytubes. move without effort. The hoes gate the buckyball into a buckytube With the right set of environmental extend the abilities of the dancer' with hemispheric caps at the two variables, can we program the car- foot by essentially providing her opposite ends. Why did carbon sud- bon in our body cells to self assem- with a set of hard toe. With these mouth. At the beginning of my first ple, tried using steam and water to denly opt for such variety in shape, ble into these bucky units? toe, he can look like a gho t kim- pointe cIa for in tance, a clas - mold the toe box, but found that forming these molecular capped Sure, if the 300,000 degree laser ming acres the floor, or a fairy tak- mate (whose older iter had both completely destroy the glue. tubes instead of the balls? pulse doesn't fry the living cells first, ing flight. However, if the hoes fail danced) reached into her giant ballet Rubbing alcohol allows you to Makers of the buckytubes believe claim skeptics. Remember that car- to provide the proper upport and bag, pulled out a huge cigarette reshape the box, but it rehardens that the cobalt and nickel atoms tem- bon stays comfortable in its form as flexibility, he can look like a baby lighter and proceeded to burn the completely. To further break in the porarily lodge onto the dangling graphite or charcoal until it is heated deer learning to wal , stumbling edges of her ribbons. The rest of the box, I hammer the area where the bonds at the sheet edges, and stall the up to the extreme temperature. Only over her own legs. In that first pair clas wa amazed. Our ribbons toe knuckles come into contact with curling up of the sheet long enough when it has the perfect condition, of of hoe , I looked like the baby which we had attempted to neatly the shoe. Besides softening the box, for several belts of hexagons to be high temperature and suitable traces deer. tie around our ankles, had fraying hammering reduces the amount of layered onto the forming hemi- of metals to help it along the way, When pointe hoes are first pur- threads streaming everywhere. By noise the shoes make on stage. sphere. Now it is too late for the only then can carbon leisurely fold cha ed, they are hard, re tricting the next cla s, all of us had our own Many Russian makers, such as forming bucky to turn back into a into the marvelous bucky shapes. and impossible to dance in. The toe lighter and frayless neatly tied rib- Grishko, design shoes with very ball, and it takes the path of least Advocates of biological bucky- box, which enca es the toe , is often bons. pointed toe boxes so that only nar- energy consumption, accepting many tube formation are careful with their made from layer of burlap and Learning to cut the atin off the row toes can fit comfortably. Other more belts and elongating into a replies. They claim that if carbon can paper oaked in glue. This part of tips of the shoes only take a cou- companies, like Sansha and Blocke, closed hollow tube an atom thick. self assemble into bucky shapes at a the hoe must be exceptionally ple of lippery fall to the ground. make square boxes that look clunky What this implies may hold sig- particular set of extremely stringent strong, as it need to upport the However, breaking in the toe box is and unattractive. nificant promise in the study and use conditions, perhaps the same self- dancer' entire weight as he bal- the most challenging part of the In the late nineties, Gaynor Min- of bucky molecules. Given appropri- assembly can be instigated in a bio- ances and maneuvers. The toe box proce s, because a delicate balance den began producing a shoe that ate conditions of extreme tempera- logical system under an entirely mild can be 0 hard that the audience can between maintaining the strength takes most of the gues work out of tures, carbon atoms can self-aggre- set of conditions. Far fetched as this hear the shoes clapping against the to upport the foot and allowing the break-in process. The box and gate into bucky shapes. Tampering may sound, it may not be entirely stage over the sound of the music. fie ibility for articulation is diffi- shank are made of a material, elas- with the conditions can change the impossible. Biological molecules are A hard in ole, the shank, sup- cult to achieve. At some point in tomeric, which never breaks and can fate of the shape that these carbon capable of discharging a wide range ports the arch of the foot a the their dance careers, many dancers be reshaped u ing a hair dryer. The atoms will assemble into. Once we of functions that their inorganic coun- dancer is en pointe. hanks are try using water or rubbing alcohol toe box also has a shock-absorbing figure out the appropriate settings, we terparts in our labs would stumble made of anything from cardboard to to mold the glue that makes the toe panel that reduce noise and pain on can theoretically make buckytubes go and stall at in the absence of extreme steel, depending on the de ired box hard. Al 0, the hank must not impact. Though the shoe is revolu- on forever, into long fibers one atom conditions. There are bodily reactions strength. If a dancer has a weak foot be brittle, but should be both sup- tionary, many dancers still choose to thick. Macroscopically long nan- that take place even under the mild that is flexible, she needs a strong ple and strong. By gently bending carry out their individual break-in otubes. And its exceptional strength, temperature and pressure within our shank to upport her arch. If, how- the shank back and forth, it methods. Preparing the shoes to be thermal and electrical conductivity bodies; made possible by biological ever, her foot is strong and relative- become more limber. ome danced in i ritual. It must be coupled with its atomic scale size can molecules such as enzymes. ly inflexible, a weak shank allows dancer then paint the inside of the learned and perfected to be a ballet make it a truly marvelous material for These same reactions may never the foot to arch without inhibition. hoe with Future floor wax, shel- dancer, and is not easily swayed by a wide range of purposes. even take place in the lab, and may The entire slipper, or boot a it may lac, or uper glue so that the advances in technology. proceed slowly under extreme pres- be more accurately called, i decep- strength is maintained and the shoe The most important lesson, Tubes used in electronics, biology sure and temperatures in the indus- tively covered in delicate pink satin, doe not deteriorate. which I learned through several So what exactly can we use these try. Scientists believe that perhaps hinting at the ideality of softness ince the ultimate goal is to have months of sheer pain, is that your molecular tubes for? On the macro- one day it will be possible to harness rather than the reality of harshnes . the hoe feel as if it is part of your shoes should fit. This may seem scopic scale, hundreds of thousands this remarkable property of biomole- There are ome tricks that most foot every dancer's actual method obvious, but with all the lore that of such nanotubes can be laid side by cules to induce the carbon within dancer use to prepare their shoes for molding the toe box and shank is surrounds pointe dancing, having side or roped into light strong wires living systems to self assemble into for dancing. These technique are unique, as all feet are unique in their your toes squished and uncomfort- or composites. The key to the future bucky tubes, without the laser. generally learned through word of strength and flexibility. I for exam- able seems par for the course. of lightweight vehicles, earthquake There is a nice little trick that resistant buildings, light bulletproof holds much more promise than may ve ts; you name it and the material be immediately apparent. Even with scientists excitedly claim that the their diverse abilities, living cells Chandra Followed Hubble, Compton buckytubes may hold promise for it. invariably take a back seat when it Chandra, from Page 9 regions of space can be measured by the electromagnetic spectrum. They On a microscopic scale, bucky- comes to electrical conductivity. first finding the density of the gases include the Hubble Space Telescope, tubes also seem to hold great poten- Even what electric impulses there fter each explosion remnant from their intensity and the tempera- the now retired Compton Gamma tial. Today, miniaturization of com- are in the body is generated and become a slowly-decaying x-ray ture of the gases from the spectrum. Ray Observatory, and the Space puter chips and other electronic maintained by proteins, enzymes ource. Because of its en itivity Knowing intensity and temperature, it Infrared Telescope Facility, which is parts are severely limited by the size and a host of other complex mole- Chandra can trace the fall-off of x-ray is po ible to find the pressure, which scheduled for launch in July 2002. of the wires that must feed the com- cules interacting in even more intri- afterglows for periods of weeks or can in tum be used to find gravita- By combining data collected by these ponents. Scientists are hoping that cate pathways. months, whereas previous x-ray tele- tional pull necessary to keep the gas instruments and other atellites from the mechanical resilience and elec- If we could code target parts of cope could only track the e after from spreading apart. By finding out Europe and Japan, it is possible to trical conductivity of these molecu- our cells to grow buckytubes, it could glow for a few day. Chandra's the distribution of mas in the uni- answer some of the most basic ques- lar tubes may hold extensive mean the key to treating nerve regen- spectrometer has also picked up spec- verse, it maybe po sible to answer tions of the universe. promise for wiring up nanoscale eration in paralysis cases and in neu- trallines of urprisingly cool iron that questions about whether there is dark 'Right now we are at an incredi- electronic devices. rological diseases. It could mean cor- may provide geometric information matter - particles that interact only bly rich time when there is a lot of Buckytubes seem to excite scien- rection of inadequate signaling on the e plo ion. by means of gravity - in the uni- new information coming in about the tists from a range of disciplines - pathways and may promise a means Chandra is al 0 involved in find- verse, or will the universe continue to big bang, the size and age of the uni- from the 'dry" world of electronics of treating a host of other related dis- ing the amount and distribution of expand forever or end in a 'big verse the amount of matter in the to the "wet" world of life sciences. eases. And laying the groundwork for matter in the universe. In the regions crunch?" univer e whether the universe will Applying electrical fields to the tips such electrical circuitry at the molec- between the galaxie are vast quanti- Chandra is actually the third expand forever or contract, whether of these tubes have been shown to ular level within the living system tie of hot ga that emit a lot of x- installment of A s fleet of great there is dark matter and dark energy," open up the carbon connections, may not be too far off in the future rays. The quantity of matter in the space observatories covering much of said Canizare . allowing the tips to be saddled with with these marvelous bucky shapes. THE T H Page 11

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TechCalendar appears in each issue of The Tech and features e ents for members of the MIT community. The Tech makes no guarantees as to the accuracy of this information, and The Tech shall not be held liable for any loss- es, including, but not limited to, damages resulting from attendance of an event. Events Calendar Contact information for all events is available from the TechCalendar web page. Visit and add events to TechCalendar online at hftp://events.rnlt.edu Fnday, October 5 Sunday, October 7 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.rn. - Soli Behavior and Soft Ground Construction. The Ladd Symposium. Fee. Room: Wong Auditorium Bldg. E51. Sponsor: Engineering & Environmental Mechanics Group. Department of Civil and Environ- 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Ballroom Dancing Workshops. Beginner ballroom dance steps will be taught. There will mental Engineering. also be a new focus on developing techniques as well. Open to everyone. No experiences necessary. No part- 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Architecture Conference: East European Art and Architecture. Co-sponsored by the ners required .. Visit our website for priclngs. Room: Visit our website for venues. Sponsor: Ballroom Dance Club. Graham Foundation; MIT School of Architecture and Planning; and MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social 3:00 p.m. - Ancestrals (Ancestors).. MIT Guest Instructor Isaura Oliveira performs her solo work for body and Sciences. Organized by Prof Mark Jarzombek, MIT Dept of Architecture, MIT, with the collaboration of Juliana voice, interacting with other media and arts. The Afro-Brazilian dancer-choreographer brings to MIT a portion of her Maxim .. free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Department of Architecture. original project created in Fall 1999 with support of La Centrale dell'Arte -International Art Exchange. Ms. Oliveira 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - FlleMaker User Group. The MIT RleMaker User Group (frnug) was formed for people at teaches Advanced Topics in Theater: Atro-Brazilian dance at MIT and has received a Council for the Arts at MIT MIT, from beginners to experts, who are using or interested in teaming to useRleMaker(r) Pro database software grant to do this particular work. Concept, choreography and research by Isaura Oliveira; co- directed by Isaura and related products. After several years of dormancy, the group has been revived to acknowledgeincreasing use Oliveira and Associate Professor Thomas De Frantz; music by Bira Reis, Mathias Grob and Banda lIuBata and tradi- of RleMaker products on campus and to help the user community transition to RleMaker 5 .. free. Room: N42 tional Brazilian repertoire .. free. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section. Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. 4:00 p.m. - Veena Sahasrabuddhe, Hindustani vocalist. $17; $l4-MITHAS and New England Hindu Temple 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.rn. - Electrical Double layers in Uquld Crystals. Department of Chemical Engineering, Uni- members; $1G-students. Room: Wong Auditorium. Sponsor: MITHAS (MIT Heritage of South Asia). versity of Wisconsin. free. Room: 66-110. Sponsor: Chemical Engineering. 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Native American Women Fllmmakers- Video Festival. Three evenings of screenings 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Combinatorial bounds for tist-decodlng, Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM in featuring 12 films by Native American women filmmakers. Curated by Candis Callison and produced by Brandy Room 2-349. free. Room: Room 2-338. Sponsor: Combinatorics Seminar. Department of Mathematics. Evans. Friday, Oct. 5-"The Role of Art in Native Culture"; Saturday, Oct. 6--"Native/Modern Culture Clash"; 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Native American Women Filmmakers - Panel Discussion. Curated by Candis Callison Sunday, Oct. 7-"Sexuality and Gender Issues in Native Cultures". free. Room: Rm 4-237. Sponsor: AISES, and produced by Brandy Evans. Reception follows .. free. Room: Rm 4-237. Sponsor: AISES, Committee on Cam- Committee on Campus Race Relations, Women's Studies Program, Comparative Media Studies, Intemational pus Race Relations, Women's Studies Program, Comparative Media Studies, International RIm Club. Council for Rim Club. Council for the Arts at MIT. the Arts at MIT. 6:00 p.m. - LSC Presents: Pearl Harbor. The motion picture event of the summer comes to LSC! Ben Affleck 6:qO p.rn. LSC Presents: Pearl Harbor. The motion picture event of the summer comes to LSC! Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett star as Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, two childhood friends who dreamt of flying. Both and Josh Hartnett star as Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, two childhood friends who dreamt of flying. Both fall in love with the same woman, Evelyn Stewart (Kate Beckinsale) amidst ever-gathering storms of war. The fall in love with the same woman, Evelyn Stewart (Kate Beckinsale) amidst ever-gathering storms of war. The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and the two are called off on a secret mission to bomb Tokyo. In awesome 35mm Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and the two are called off on a secret mission to bomb Tokyo. In awesome 35mm Panavision (anamorphic widescreen), surrounded by 6 channels of DTS Digital Sound .. $3. Room: 26-100. Spon- Panavision (anamorphic widescreen). surrounded by 6 channels of DTS Digital Sound .. $3. Room: 26-100. Spon- sor: LSC. sor: LSC. 10:00 p.m. - LSC Presents: Pearl Harbor. Replay. See 6:00p listing for description .. $3. Room: 26-100. Spon- 7:00 p.m. ·12:00 a.m. - MIT Anlme Club Weekly Screening. Trlgun (81l6 Q li!). A168' lQA. sor: LSC. Most screenings are subtitled in English. The MIT Anime Club is a non-profit MIT student organization dedicated 10:00 p.m. - Native American Women Filmmakers-Video Festival. Three screenings featuring 12 films by to increasing the awareness of Japanese animation (anime) on campus .. free. Room: Rm 6-120. Sponsor: Native American women filmmakers .. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: AISES, Committee on Campus Race Rela- Anime Club, MIT. tions, Women's Studies Program, Comparative Media Studies, Intemational Rim Club. Council for the Arts. 7:00 p.m. ·9:00 p.m. - Falun Gong Exercise workshop. The Falun Gong exercise is an easy and effective way to relieve stress and improve physical and mental health. Millions of people in over 40 countries practice these Tuesday, October 9 5 sets of gentle movements .. free. Room: 1-242. Sponsor: Falun Dafa Club. 7:30 p.m. - LSC Classics Presents: Twelve O'Clock High. A powerful drama about the men of the Army Air 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Telephone and Voice Mall Quick Start. If you are new to MIT or want to learn more Force who flew daylight bombing raids over Germany in the Second World War. Academy-Award winner Gregory about the features on your telephone and voice-mail, this class is just what you need. Instructors will explain Peck stars as a bomber commander who inspires heroic conduct from his men despite tremendous losses. Win- features which will help you get the most out of these useful tools and talk about the most common problems ner of the 1949 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Dean Jagger) and Best Sound Recording .. $3. Room: and where to go for help. Attendees will learn what features are available on different phones and classes of 10-250. Sponsor: LSC. service. You will also be able to try features on telephones in the classroom .. free. Room: El9- 732. Sponsor: 8:00 p.m. - Ancestrals (Ancestors). MIT Guest Instructor Isaura Oliveira performs her solo work for body and Information Systems. voice, interacting with other media .and arts. The Afro-Brazilian dancer-choreographer brings to MIT a portion of 12:00 p.rn. - 2:00 p.m. - Dlbner Institute Lunchtime Colloquium. The Study of Technological Differentiation: her original project created in Fall 1999 with support of La Centrale dell'Arte - International Art Exchange. Ms. The Case of the 18th--Gentury Electrical Technology. free. Room: E56-100. Sponsor: Dibner Institute. Oliveira teaches Advanced Topics in Theater: Afro-Brazilian dance at MIT and has received a Council for the Arts 4:00 p.m. - Women's Soccer vs. Wheaton. free. Room: Steinbrenner. Sponsor: Department of Athletics. at MIT grant to do this partIcular WOrK. Concept, choreography and research by lsaura Oliveira; co- directed by 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.rn. - STS Colloquium. "The Moral Equivalence of the Scientist: The History of an Idea". free. Isaura Oliveira and Associate Professor Thomas DeFrantz; music byBira Reis, Mathias Grob and Banda lIuBata Room: Harvard Science Center, Room 226. Sponsor: STS. History of Science Department, Harvard. and traditional Brazilian repertoire .. free. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Sec- 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - GTL Seminar. An Inlet Distortion Assessment During Aircraft Departures at High Angle of tion. Attack for an F/A18A Aircraft .. free. Room: 31-161. Sponsor: Gas Turbine Laboratory. 9:00 p.rn. -11:30 p.m. - Native American Women Filmmakers-Video Festival. Three evenings of screenings 4:30 p.rn. - 5:30 p.m. - "The Index theorem for families of elllptJc operators.". Organizers: M. Hopkins, R. Mel- featuring 12 films by Native American women filmmakers. Curated by Candis Callison and produced by Brandy rose, H. Miller and I.M. Singer. free. Room: 2-131. Sponsor: Topology and Analysis of Manifolds with Comers. Evans. Friday, Oct. 5-"The Role of Art in Native CUlture"; Saturday, Oct. 6--"Native/Modem Culture Clash"; Department of Mathematics. Sunday, Oct. 7":-"Sexuality and Gender Issues in Native Cultures". free. Room: Rm 4-237. Sponsor: AISES, 8:00 p.m. - A Free LSC Sneak Preview: Mulholland Drive. From acclaimed director David Lynch, the film that won Committee on Campus Race Relations, Women's Studies Program, Comparative Media Studies, International him 'Best Director at the 2001 Cannes Rim Festival! A woman (Laura Harring) is abandoned on Mulholland Drive Rim Club. Council for the Arts at MIT. • after a car accident and is struck with amnesia. She makes her way to an apartment where she meets an aspiring 10:00 p.m. - LSC Presents: Pearl Harbor. Replay. See 6:00p listing for description .. $3. Room: 26-100. Spon- actress (Naomi Watts) who helps her put the pieces of her life back together. Elsewhere, other stories and char-

sor:'lSC. -e, acters weave into this ensemble piece, including a director (Justin Theroux) with mobster problems, and a man - Native American Women filmmakers-Video Festival. Three screenings featuring 12 films by Native Ameri- whose dream comes true. Also features Michael J. Anderson as a studio executive and Ann Miller as the manager can women filmmakers .. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: AISES, Committee on Campus Race Relations, Women's of the apartment complex). Not scheduled for release in LA and NYC until this Friday, and not in general release Studies Program, Comparative Media Studies, Intemational Rim Club. Council for the Arts. for a week after that! See this movie before anyone else does, at LSC!. free. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

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9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.v- Architecture Conference: East European Art and Architecture. Co-sponsored by the 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Optics. Photonic Devices Enabling Advanced Optical Systems. free. Room: 26-322 Graham Foundation; MIT School of Architecture and Planning; and MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social (On This Date Only). Sponsor: Optics.' Sciences. Organized by Prof Mark Jarzombek, MIT Dept of Architecture, MIT, with the collaboration of Juliana 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Web At MIT Quick Start. Leam how to explore the World Wide Web using Netscape, Maxim .. free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Department of Architecture. and get an introduction to the web at MIT .. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. 1:00 p.m. - The IG INFORMAL LECTURES. If you missed the Eleventh 1st Annuallg Nobel Prize Ceremony held 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Note-Taking and Study Techniques. Learn to get the most out of your lectures, text at Harvard on the 4th, then shame- on you. However, you do have a chance to redeem yourself by attending the books and study time in this workshop .. free. Room: W20-407. Sponsor: Learning Strategies. Qnd Eleventh 1st Ar1nuallG INFORMAL LECTURES at MIT. Please join us for a half-afternoon of improbably funny, 12:10 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - "Physical Oceanography Sack Lunch Seminar. free. Room: 54-915. Sponsor: Physical informative, brief (10-15 minutes each), and high-spirited public lectures by some of this years honored Ig Nobel Oceanography. Prize winners: David Jones (Nature magazine's "Daedalus") will delight and confound everyone and everything. 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - spouses&partners@mit - Delayed Culture Shock. Join us as we discuss this normal The 2001 Ig Nobel Prize winners in the fields of Biology, Medicine, Public Health, Economics, and Peace will and at times difficult response to moving to another country. Learn what culture shock is, and how to integrate attempt to explain Why they've done what they've done. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor people whose achievements the experience in a useful way .. free. Room: W20400. Sponsor: spouses&partners@mit, MIT Medical. "cannot or should not be reproduced." Ten prizes are given to people who have done remarkably goofy things - 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Nanostructures Seminar Series. "Novel II-VI Nanocrystal Gain Media: From Amplified some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. Allig Nobel Prizes activities are organized by the Annals of Spontaneous Emission to lasing.". free. Room: Edgerton Hall, 34-101 (Refreshments served at 3:45 pm). Spon- Improbable Research (AIR). This free event is organized in cooperation with the MIT Press Bookstore .. free. sor: Nanostructures laboratory. Room: MIT 26-100. Sponsor: The MIT Press Bookstore. The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR). 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - MIT ObjectiVist Club general meeting. The MIT Objectivist Club's general meetings. We 1:30 p.m. - Football vs. Bridgewater St .. free. 'Room: Steinbrenner. Sponsor: Department of Athletics. discuss topics in philosophy and how they relate to different aspects of our world today. This term, we will also 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Native American Women Filmmakers- Video Festival. Three evenings of screenings be having weekly study sessions, probably in epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge .. free. Room: 10-280 featuring 12 films by Native American women filmmakers. Curated by Candis Callison and produced by Brandy (Oct. 3),4-144 (Oct. 10-Dec. 12). Sponsor: MIT Objectivist Club . . Evans. Friday, Oct. 5-"The Role of Art in Native CUlture"; Saturday, Oct. 6--"Native/Modem Culture Clash"; 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Renaissance Dancing. There are many forms of Renaissance Dancing that we practice. Sunday, Oct. 7-"Sexuality and Gender Issues in Native Cultures". free. Room: Rm 4-237. Sponsor: AISES, From Italian balli to courtly pavans to English country. We dance them all with flair and fun. Dress is common Committee on Campus Race Relations, Women's Studies Program, Comparative Media Studies, International street olothing. No experience necessary; instruction is provided. free. Room: W20 (Sala or 407 or 491). Spon- Film Club. Council for the Arts at MIT. sor: Society for Creative Anachronism. 7:00 p.m. - An Evening of. Lively Argument with Peter David, Harlan Ellison, and Nell Galman • Peter David, 8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. - IFilm Movie Seminar. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, Interna- Harlan Ellison, and Neil Gaiman ?re a trio of hugely popular authors whose most-recognized works include the tional Rim Club. Sandman comics, Babylon 5, best-selling Star Trek novel Imzadi, and the original script for the legendary Star Trek episode "City on the Edge Thursday, October 1.1. of Forever". Although much of their work has fallen within the science fiction genre, the three men have worked in every conceivable medium: television, film, fiction and 12:00 p.m. - MIT Chapel Concert: Boston Baked Bones. John Faieta, Scott Harman, Maureen Horgan, Julie non-fiction books, short stories, essays and comic books- and have acquired followings in Josephson, Donald Robinson, trombones. Works by Debussy and others. 12noon, . free. Room: MIT Chapel. all of them. Hence, this event will be a panel discussion on the creative process of fictional Sponsor. Music and Theater Arts Section. worKS in many fields. Ellison (whose 50-year retrospective, The Essential Ellison, has just 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p..m. - Element K Hands-On Workshop. Is web-based training for me? Spend an hour in an been published) in particular is known for drawing attention to the art of writing by instructor-led workshop. Learn how to get started using web-based training, explore what is offered and ask performing the fantastic feat of actually creating and executing stories in the windows of questions. For more information about web-based training at MIT, see http://web.mit.edu/is/trainingjwbt .. numerous American and European bookstores- stories that have gone on to win major free. Room: W89-125. Sponsor: Information Systems. awards and literary prizes. (Maybe he'll give a demonstration!) Gaiman, on the other hand, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Java User Group. A meeting of MIT staff members who develop Java software .. free. was a good friend and something of a protege of the late Douglas Adams, and will likely Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. have thoughts to share regarding what Adams taught him about being an author. 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Distinguished Lecturer Series. "On-line Science: The Virtual Observatory as a Prototype Throughout the discussion the trio will interact with the audience in dynamic questions for the New Computational Science:. free. Room: 34-101, 50 Vassar St.. Sponsor: Laboratory for Computer Sci- and answers. Come and savor the antic unsettling imaginations of three outspoken ence. contemporary fantasists, . $4-$16. Room: Kresge. Sponsor: CAC Program Board, Graduate Student Council, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Empirical down scaling as a tool for climate model evaluation. free. Room: 54-915. LSC, Tau Beta Pi, Mass Beta Chapter, Undergraduate Association, Epsilon Theta, Comparative Media Studies. Sponsor: MiT Atmospheric Science Seminars. East Campus, Senior House, Peter de Florez Fund for the Humanities, the MIT Fund, Arisia, Inc., 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Applications of an Implosion Engine. ORC Fall Seminar Series. Seminar followed by Weekends@MIT, the MIT Graduate Students Office, the Department of Literature, and the Council for the Arts at receptiol') in E40-106 .. free. Room: E56-270. Sponsor: Operations Research Center. MIT. 4:15 p.m. - M.I. T. Physics Colloquium. free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Physics Department. 8:00 p.m. - Ancestrais (Ancestors) .. MIT Guest Instructor Isaura Oliveira performs her solo work for body and 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Writing for TV: The State of the Art. The television drama series has been a dominant voice, interacting with other media and arts. The Afro-Brazilian dancer-choreographer brings to MIT a portion of force in our culture for the past fifty years. The advent of cable and satellite broadcasting and the emergence of her original project created in Fall 1999 with support of La Centrale dell'Arte - International Art Exchange. Ms. the Internet have transformed the TV medium in general and its story-telling functions in particular. In this Forum Oliveira teaches Advanced Topics in Theater: Afro-Brazilian dance at MIT and has received a Council for the Arts writer/producers for such innovative shows as The West Wing and Party of Rve will discuss the current state of at MIT grant to do this particular work. Concept, choreography and research by Isaura Oliveira; co- directed by television drama, the commercial realities and artistic possibilities of TV today and in the future .. free. Room: 2- Isaura Oliveira and Associate Professor Thomas DeFrantz; music by Bira Reis, Mathias Grob and Banda lIuBata 105. Sponsor: Communications Forum. and traditional Brazilian repertoire .. free. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Sec- . 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - MIT Teach-Ins on the Crisis. Economic Implications of the Crisis-discussion led by MIT tion. Economics Professor Olivier Blanchard (Informal dinners for interested stUdents, faculty, and staff will follow 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Patrol. Shoot your friends! Travel to strange, new classrooms; each Teach-In) Sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies in cooperation with he Political Science meet interesting, unusual people; Department Boston Review, Foreign languages and literatures Section, Science, Technology and Society Pro- and kill them. A team game of shoot-em-up; guns provided .. free. Room: Building 36, First Floor. Sponsor: gram: Comparative Media Studies Program, Economics Department, and the Dean's Office, School of Humani- Assassins' Guild, MIT. ties, Arts, and Social Sciences .. free. Room: MIT Bldg. 26 Room 100. Sponsor: Center for International Studies. 10:30 p.m. - Women's Soccer vs. Smith • free. Room: Steinbrenner. Sponsor: Department of A hletics. 7:45 p.m. - MIT Women's Chorale: Rehearsal. All women in the MIT community are welcome to join. New mem- - Native American Women Almmakers-Vldeo Festival. Three screenings featuring 12 films by Native Ameri- bers accepted until October 18 .. free. Room: Emma Rogers Room (10-340) .. Sponsor: MIT Women's Chorale. can women filmmakers .. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: A!SES, Committee on Campus Race Relations, Women's 8:00 p.m. -10:30 p.m. -IAlm Movie seminar. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, Interna- S udies Program, Comparative Media StUdies, International Rim Club. Council for the Arts. tional Rim Club. Page I Octob r 5, 200]

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"David Jones (Nature magazine's "Daedalus") will delight and confound everyone and everything. --The 2001 Ig Nobel Prize winners in the fields of Biology, Medicine, Public Health, Economics, and Peace will attempt to explain why they've done what they've done.

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor people whose achievements II cannot or should not be reproduced." Ten prizes ore given to people who have done remarkably goofy things - some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. For more information on the 2001 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony and the Ig Informal Lectures: http://www-improbable.com/ig/ig-top.html

Ailig Nobel Prizes activities are organized by the Annals of Improbable Research. This free ~Yent is organized in cooperation with the MIT Press Bookstore. October 5, 2001 THE TECH Page 15 Yardley Wants Fewer Riot Police Detain Protesters rally in Freedom Plaza. The people "escort" u to Freedom Plaza. In Restrictions on Rush _D.C.,_from_Pag_eI -- who I was with asked how to get other words they blocked us from never een 0 many cop in one there, and we turned back the way all four side , and herded u over to place in my life. The be t part of we came. the Plaza. IFC, from Page 1 addre ,and believe that the com- the picture though was the half- The way wa blocked. On the way, a small group tried placency of fre hmen will be signif- empty bottle of alcohol ne t to the While my companions faced off to break through the police line. said that the IFC will be more uc- icant. "He eemed to addre the bus. with the policemen, I wandered the They were pushed back into the ce ful with rush in 2002 the more i sue addre ed by president ." Riot cops look illy. They have perimeter of the plaza. There were middle of the group, and the cops the rules are relaxed. "Every rule we aid Elizabeth A. Immen '02, presi- more padding than football play- riot cops lining the whole place, and broke out their pepper spray. have i a disadvantage," Yardley dent of the Women's Independent ers,and these funny helmets you'd there was absolutely no way out. Someone wanted to join us from said. Living Group. think exterminators would wear. The police weren't letting people the street. The police shoved him Yardley doe not want to restrict Emily M. Marcus G Epsilon They carry big black ticks and out. They weren't telling us why. away. They eventually let him join the behavior of the IFC members Theta president, aid that the clear hields, and their belt are They wouldn't give out their badge in, but only after shoving him during the three weeks prior to rush recruitment chair must not forget loaded with Mace. numbers. They wouldn't tell us if around quite a bit. by prohibiting letters social events, about the sororitie and the indepen- There were riot cops on foot, riot we were under arrest. We finally got to Freedom Plaza and IFC members' interactions with dent living groups. 'I am a little cops on motorcycle, police cars They had effectively turned the joining over 10,000 others in a per- freshmen. Yardley said that a dry concerned about how the sororities following clo e behind us, and plaza into a temporary jail. mitted rally. We were still surround- rush and the somewhat ambiguous and the ILGs will fit into his plat- police on hOT eback that we met ed by cops, but hey, at least they "spirit of rush" rule are important form and that we will be thought along the way. While our morning Escorted to Freedom weren't shoving us around any for 2002. He hopes to better define of," Immen said. onetheless, she march was flanked and followed by We were detained in the square more. the 'spirit of rush." believes that Yardley is willing and police, I wasn't enormously wor- for nearly two hours. Some people I'm no expert on the laws of He also said that to run a dry able to learn the sorority and ILG ried. They weren't arresting anyone; started up a soccer game; others Washington D.C., but detaining a rush, the IFC will need to define needs despite his lack of familiarity they weren't doing much more than took the opportunity to reiterate thousand people in a plaza without what constitutes a rush event. How- with them. honking at the people marching at their mes ages with sidewalk chalk. really arre ting them or telling them ever, Yardley said that it will be the end of the group. My favorite? "All your street are why doesn't sound very legal to me. unrealistic and unfair to ask houses Greek Week to entice freshmen belong to us." My favorite Yet it happened, in the capital of the to remain dry before rush. Yardley supports the IFC's pre- Under arrest? make hift sign? "Welcome to G.W. United tates, the ''bastion of free- Yardley hopes that freshmen can sent idea to host a Greek Week prior When we got to the World Bank Bush Federal Prison." dom." develop a sense of what a house is to fall recruitment period. Yardley building, we stopped. I'm not We surmised that the police And as some of the people who like during the semester. believes that freshmen living in dor- entirely sure whether we stopped were trying to prevent us from join- marched along with us chanted, mitories will become envious of the because of the police blocking the ing the other rally. After lots of "that is what a police state looks IFe members satisfied with result IFC members who participate in road, or whether the plan was actu- phone calls on the part of the like." IFC President Rory P. Pheiffer campus-wide IFC events prior to ally to stop there. At any rate, most lawyers in the group and threats of '02 was pleased by the candidates rush, and that this will help to inter- of us had plans to head to the other an injunction, the cops agreed to who turned out for this election. "I est them in rush activities. think that all seven candidates were The IFC is currently accepting great," he said. Pheiffer hopes that applications from greek affiliates Areyou1B? all will remain involved in next who wish to join the Greek Week year's recruitment activities. committee or one of several other Pheiffer believes that Yardley committees. Are you a United States Citizen? understands what concerns to News. Photography R"st. to Vote. Features. Arts • Opinion If's Your Righf. Comics. Sports. Science If's Your Civic Duty. Prolln.ion This space donated by The Tech vue maKe-£hem look good.

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3 Cambridge Center • Kendall Square • Cambridge • 617.499.3200 • www.thecoop.com October 2001 THE E H Page 17 Berlin Guarantees We could be getting paid for this space. Better Food Service You could sell it. Meal Plan, from Page I ampus Dining i currently working to bring tar Market in as a vendor Director of ampu Dining which accept the MIT ard. This Richard D. Berlin III poke about would mean that tudents would be the various complaints that students Work for able to use the meal card at tar have ent to him bye-mail. One of Market to purcha e food for what the e complaint dealt with the lack Berlin termed " elf-cooking." of tudent input when the initial din- Berlin also di cu ed orne of ijj ing propo al were drawn up. the points that would be written Berlin accepted responsibility into the contract made with any for the problem. "I take culpability food service provider. Under the on that, Berlin said. current proposal, student would be able to review the menus of var- FSILGs Against Mandatory Plan ious dining halls, making them Fraternities, sororities, and inde- accountable for less than satisfac- pendent living groups could poten- tory service. This measure is tially uffer from the installation of meant to prevent dining providers a mandatory meal plan. Many hous- from taking advantage of the fact es serve dinner on most week nights that students would be forced to [email protected] during semester. patronize their facilities on a regu- "Such an atmosphere is not com- lar basis. monplace in the residence halls as it Berlin said that improvements on BLOODDO ORS is in the FSILG community:' said the proposal will come about only PT ORRE T IFC President Rory P. Pheiffer '02. through "diligence on the part of our EEDED If there is a mandatory meal plan office and students giving us feed- Biotech company is seeking Entire floor of duplex house for freshmen, Pheiffer fears that back." donors for small quantities of in mid-Camb on quiet side st. freshmen members of FSILGs will blood for research purposes off Broadway. 5 rm + kit & be reluctant to eat dinners at their Vest Discusses Goals at DormCon respective houses because they have The issue of mandatory dining only. No diagnostic test to be Jacuzzi ba wasbJdryer all already paid for meals on campus. was also brought up in a DormCon SPRJ G BREAK PARTY!! performed. new inside, oak fir , "Eventually in such a system the meeting on Tuesday, which was Indulge in FREE Travel, Drinks, Food, and Parties with the Beat DJ', and Up to $100 paid per visit. pkg, porch yard, huge new members will lose their ties to attended by President Charles M. celebrities in Cancun, Jamaica, Call 617-354-8100 x221 or torage 1975 the FSILG they joined and eventual- Vest- The main goal of this meeting Mazatlan, and the Bahamas. Go to email: [email protected] ly decide not to move into the house was to discuss the long-range resi- StudentCity.com, call ]·800·293·1443 (617) 2708466 to find out more. their sophomore year or even quit dential goals of the Institute and to the FSILG entirely," Pheiffer said. listen to student concerns. Pheiffer has already met with For obvious reasons, however, Campus Activities Complex Direc- the discussion centered around the tor Phillip J. Walsh, and the IFC meal plan controversy. Students Visit the President's Council will invite the emphasized that trust in the dining Campus Dining Review Board to system must be built before a real their next meeting to discuss the change can occur. meal plan. "Give us confidence that we will "The IFC plans to work hard to be able to eat good food at a good ~IT make sure that our member's needs price," one student demanded. are met in any sort of new meal Vest sympathized with students plan," Pheiffer said. who have complained about the new dining proposals. "I did not like the MIT Card Possible for Star way this was .rolled out and done," ~ukkah* Berlin said that the Office of Vest said.

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Bab on, emphati ally into the goal. Clark ran ed seventh in ew England wa dumfounded as they went JVins Bates Tourney, wa protecting a e on .th only from ictory to defeat in just over one 10 . one minute. Retains 'IlJp Ranking The Engineer led Morri on punctuated the win throughout the con- with a' last minute goa] from Grif- In New England Area te t. From the fir t fin' feed through the middle. By Paul Dill hi tle it e .dent Yang had fi e ave for MIT a ,TEAMCOACH that IT had the they gained their si th victory of MIT remained the number one advantage a they mo ed the ball the ea on with a 4-2 defeat of the olleyball team in ew England around the chasing Bab on players. Cougar. after they won all four matches this In hirley Chan' '02 fir t game weekend, beating till season after a pre- ea on scrim- Tech fall to pringfield Bowdoin College, mage injury, Chan made good u e IT dropped a game 3-1 on Bridgewater State of her first few minute on the game aturday to pringfield College, College Bates Col- field. elli A. Griffin '03 pushed a the fourth ranked team in ew lege and Tufts Uni- pa through the Babson defen e England. IT traveled to Spring- ver ity on their way that han pursued relentle ly, and "field to take on the host Pride, and to winning the twelve team Bates finished with pure hu tIe. both teams were undefeated in the College Tournament. lthough IT dominated play, conference. Earlier in the week, MIT also the Engineer held only a one-goal The match was a battle of SCOT- shut out conference foes WPI and lead at halftime. That lead ould ing opportunities, and it began in Wheaton College to go 6-0 for the quickly widen though as defender quite promi ing fashion for the week. heila E. aroglou '03 cored her Engineer. Team high scorer Grif- fir t collegiate goal for the Engi- fin connected on a corner kick in Engineers win Bates tournament neer in the opening fi e minute the econd minute of play to put The Engineers started the week of the econd half, with a header MIT ahead 1-0. by defeating Bowdoin College 3-0 off of a arah K. Perlmutter '02 BRiAN HEMO D-THE TECH Although MIT led play for the (30-14, 30-21, 30-20). The team corner kick. Shirley Chan '04 traps the ball in yesterday's &-1 win over Curry Col· next 25 minutes, pringfield's dan- was led by the serving of Kelly A. Bab on an wered this goa] lege. Chan scored one of the Engineers' five goals, bringing MIT's gerous counterattacks produced Martens '03 and Barbara J. Schultze three minute later with a goal of record to 8-2. one goal for the Pride. The goal '02. Both Martens and Schultze' had their own, putting Bab on in close came from a corner kick and seven aces during the match. triking distance. Though Babson minute of the game. ranked Babson College 3-1 to evened the score. Samantha K. Brenner '04 also came began to put pre ure on the IT andace . Wil on 04 beat two improve to a 5-1 record. During the final 15 minutes of off the bench to add seven assists to goal, onnie Yang '03 hot down defender and then the goalkeeper the. first half, the game evened out the effort. a number of Bab on's chance and with ten minute left for orne MIT defeats Clark Cougars entirely, and both teams saw top umber eight ranked Bridgewa- racked up ten aves on the day, added insurance for the ictory. Earlier in the week, ,MIT faced scoring opportunities turned away ter State College put up a fight, tak- with six coming in the fmal twenty IT went away and defeated the Clark Cougars in a make-up by either outstanding defender or ing the first game 33-31, but MIT game. La t season, Clark tole two goalkeeper play. The score at half- bounced back behind 16 kills from close games from an aggressive time was 1-1. Amy W. Mok '02 and five aces IT team, and though it appeared The second half the game con- from Linda M. Yu '02. MIT took Clark might try the 'same trick this tinued to ebb and flow back and the next three games to win the year, MIT' perseverance paid off in forth on the pitch. Springfield match 3-1 (31-33,30-19,30-18,30- an Engineer victory. cashed in on a header off of anoth- 25). Although MIT had many oppor- er comer kick in the 61st minute. The semi-final match saw MIT tunities to score early on, their only Though MIT would still have a take on the ho ts, number seven- goal in the first half came from the number of chances to score, they ranked Bates College. Although powerful throw-in by midfielder could not tie the game, and grew challenged, MIT controlled the Monica F. Morrison '04 and subse- increasingly more frustrated. match, winning 3-0 (30-26, 30-28, quent header by Griffin. Springfield showed composure 30-18). Martens led the team with Despite strong play and a half- down the stretch, and scored a 16 kills, while Lauren E. Frick '03 time lead for the Engineers, Clark sealing goal in the final fifteen had four kills with no errors for a came out feisty and determined in, minutes, taking advantage of some .800 hitting percentage. the second half. Although MIT con- defensive confusion. The finals saw a rematch with tinued to move the ball adeptly, MIT 'never regained composure number six ranked Tufts University, Clark's aggressive play coupled in the final tretch and walked who MIT had beaten last weekend with a MIT team complacent with away taking a 3-1 loss. in the semi-finals of the Amherst their first half performance allowed Despite the loss and the three College Tournament. It turned out Clark to score two goals. goals the Engineers allowed, mid- to be deja vu all over again as the MIT found themselves in the all dle defenders Rebecca E. Clinton Engineers again won 3-0 (30-22, too familiar circumstance with '03 and Saroglou stepped up and 30-14,30-18) to take the champi- Clark: MIT '.¥a outplaying Clark, made numerous defensive stops of onship trophy. Christina Almod- yet MIT trailed in the score, 2-1. a dangerous Springfield attack. ovar '02 dished out 37 assists while The Beavers remained composed, Goalkeeper Yang recorded 11 ydia M. Clayton '04 added 12 and continued a methodical and per- saves despite having a hard colli- kills. Almodovar was named to the si tent attack that turned particularly ion with a Springfield player early All-Tournament team. dangerous with about eight and a half in the first half. This was the third straight tour- minute to go in the match. Candace MIT falls to 6-2 overall and 2-1 nament that MIT has won this sea- . Wilson '04 was fed a through ball, in the ew England Women' and son, and they hope to win their and worked hard to beat the defender. Men's Athletic Conference after fourth straight as they head to the Wilson was able to keep control and the Springfield loss. MIT's next Eastern Connecticut State Universi- shot a rocket past the Clark goalkeep- match is at home again Saturday, ty tournament this weekend where er for the tying goal. October 6, at 10:30 a.m. they are defending champions. Men's Water Polo Shines in California Wins Four of Six Games While Competing in Tournament By Roger F. Crosley Augu tana College in Illinois. The Engineers fin- DALTO CHENG-THE TECH DIRECTOR OF SPORTS 1 FORMATION ished only 34 points out of third place, while com- Larisa M. Egloff '04 lunges for the ball during a doubles match • The MIT women's volleyball team continues to peting without their number two runner, who was against Tufts University. Egloff won her match 8-2, but MIT roll adding the Bates Invitational Tournament recovering from injury. Daniel R. Feldman '02 was lost overall. Championship to its resume. The Engineer, current- the top finisher for the Engineers, placing sixth. ly ranked number one in ew • The cross country Engineer women captured the England Division III and 20th Mini- EWMAC Meet held at Franklin Park. Martha Sports nationally in Division ill, are 18- W. Buckley' 04 and Julia C. Espel ' 05 led the way for . 1 and have won 16 consecutive MIT with third and fourth place finishes respectively. UPCOMING HOME EVENTS Shorts matches. At the Bates Tourna- • MIT men's tennis player Jeffrey P. Augustyn '03 ment, MIT won four matches, reached the semi-finals of the Intercollegiate Tennis dropping only one game. Christina Almodovar '02, Association ew England Division III Champi- MIT s etter, was named to the All-tournament team. onship last weekend before falling to the number • A weekend trip to a tournament in California one seed and eventual champion Josh Lefkowitz aturday, October 6 solidified MIT's status as one of the top Division from Williams College, III men water polo teams in the country. The • Defensive back Brian D. Hoying '03 received Women soccer . mith 10:30 a.m. Engineers are currently ranked fourth and won two honors for his play in MIT's recent football Football vs. Bridgewater tate, 1:30 p.m. four of the ix games they played in the tourna- game against UMass Dartmouth. Hoying was named Tue day October 9 ment. James C. Brady '03 was the leading scorer in the MIT most valuable player in the game for the the tourney for the Engineers, with 12 goal . Brady Chancellor's Cup in which he made 10 tackles (nine Women occer v . Wheaton, 4:00 p.m. al 0 made 18 teals . solo) and intercepted a pass in the end zone. In addi- • In cro s country, the MIT men placed seventh tion Hoying was named to the ew England Foot- at the national championship preview meet at ball Conference Weekly Honor Roll.