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Volume 122, Number 17 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, April 9, 2002 Mattapan Man Shot, Killed Near Campus

By Brian Loux bridge Police, said that the matter NEWSEDrrOR was still under investigation. Nineteen-year-old Mattapan resi- The employee said that the argu- dent Iran Gray was fatally shot out- ment continued, and one man pulled side the Rhythm and Spice bar and a gun. He then apparently approached nightclub on Massachusetts Avenue Gray, who sat in the driver's side in Cambridge at approximately 1:45 backseat of a car, and shot him in the a.m. Friday morning. throat. Witnesses say they heard The case is still being investigat- around five or six gunshots. "There ed by Cambridge Police ~nd State were first two shots, a pause, and then Police from Middlesex county, said more came very quickly," said the the Middlesex District Attorney's local employee. One stray bullet hit a office .. window. The assailant apparently The cause of the shooting remains fired the gun so close to Gray that he unclear. Robert D. Jones '86, presi- did not shoot out any car windows. dent of Rhythm and Spice, inter- viewed staff members on duty that Studen~ hear shots, see suspect night. Jones said "based on what we " Random Hall resident Jenna N. know, the event had nothing to do Matheny '05, who awoke to the with any activities in Rhythm and sounds outside Rhythm and Spice, r.~"l--C::~ ~ WAN YUSOF WAN MORSHlDl-THE TECH Spice." Jones said that 15 minutes saw the suspect run down Front Cambridge Pollee, with the help of MIT Campus Pollee, secured the scene of a shooting near Random prior to the shooting, there was a Street between the MIT Museum and Hall early Friday morning. Iran Gray, 19, of Mattapan was killed In the shooting. minor altercation inside the club, Cambridge Bicycle. "I initially allegedly over a woman. ''Employees thought they couldn't be gunshots," determined who started the fight and 'she said, "but then I saw 'a large Hack Attempt Thwarted By Theft ejected one of the two quarreling par- group in front of Rhythm and Spice ties," he said. In a press release issued and the car." later, Jones said that Gray was never The Cambridge Police arrived in Rhythm and Spice that night. first on the scene, with State Police Of Paw From MIT Beaver Costume Or; However, witnesses who were soon to follow, between 30 seconds also interviewed by Cambridge and two minutes after the shots, wit- By Dan Cho other MIT students brought the Harvard Square, said hack partici- Police placed Gray in the party eject- nesses. ~d. As the police arrived, one STAFF REPORTER Institute's beaver mascot costume to pant Erin Rhody '05, Dorai ed from the. bar. "I heard shouts and witneSs said Gray stumbled out of the MIT's mascot Tim the Beaver Harvard Square, where the paw was removed the hands and feet of the saw ~ larg~' gfoup that had just left car and laid down in the street. Soon lost a foot on Saint Patrick's Day stolen by an unknown male. beaver costume in order to climb the Rhythm and Spice," said a local after the police arrived, two patrol during a hack attempt gone awry. The incident took place after the John Harvard statue. He then com- employee. Officer Frank Pasquarello, Class of 2004 Ring Committee 2004 Ring Premier, when Dorai was menced a simulated sex act with public information officer for Cam- Shootlng,Page 17 member Amal Dorai '04.and several left with the care of the beaver cos- Harvard's seated likeness while the tume which had been rented from other students either supported the Campus Activities Complex. Dorai under the statue, took photos MITTops "I decided to have a little fun or sang the Engineer's Drinking with the costume before returning Song in front ofa crowd of about 15 it," Dorai said in an e-mail onlookers, Rhody said. U.S.News addressed to a number of living group mailing lists. Harvard student turns tables Dorai, dressed in the beaver suit, While the students were engaged traveled with a group of friends to in these activities, an unidentified Engineering Harvard Square, planning to take male grabbed one of the foot pieces photographs with the statue of John of the costume, which sat unguarded Harvard. Rankings Once the MIT students arrived at Beaver, Page 16 By Kevin R. Lang EDITOR IN CHIEF For all the time, energy, and KAT Takes Sidney-Pacific, money MIT spends trying to change the Institute - especially housing, dining, and construction - some AEPhi Declines Donn Offer things are better off being the same By jennifer DeBoer "It [the KAT section of Sidney- year after year. MIT topped U.S. STAFF REPORTER Pacific] should be similar to the News & World Report's annual rank- Members of the Kappa Alpha annex," said Anne M. Latham '02. ing of graduate engineering programs Theta sorority will move into the new for the 14th consecutive year, ranking . graduate student dormitory at Sidney AEPhi declines offer in Ashdown first in nearly every engineering spe- and Pacific Streets next fall. Before spring break, Alpha cialty .. In addition, Chancellor Phillip L. Epsilon Phi was seriously _consider- M.It bested'rival schools Stanford Clay PhD '75 announced that appli- ing moving some members into Ash- University and the University of Cali- cations are now being taken for down House. After discussion with fornia, Berkeley,'to take the. top spot,. juniors currently on campus to move Ashdown a~thorities, AEPhi decided with an overall score of 100 to the to graduate housing next year, in against it, AEPhi President Karen H. second-place tie score of91, based on. order to. help .alleviate crowding in Riesenburger '03 said .. .' . - the magazine's methodolo'gy. Among' ~dergraduate dormitories. "We were really 'interested in' the J 0 _engineering specialties in moving, but the qffer. didn;t mat~h wnich.MIT placed in the rankings, KAT relocates from Sig Ep annex our needs," Riesenburger said. , ~nT ranked first for Kappa Alpha Theta president "It would have been great to have aeronauticaVastronautical engineer- Sheila Viswanathan '04 said approxi- a common meeting place," she ing, chemical engineering, computer mately 25 sisters will be moving to added. "As it is we are constantly engineering, electrical engineering, Sidney-Pacific. Those who formerly reserving rooms around MIT." materials engineering, mechanical rented part of the Sigma Phi Epsilon "I think it happened because they engineering, and nuclear engineering. WAN YUSOF WAN MORSHID1-THE TECH annex will no longer live there. had never lived together as a' group "I think'for what they're worth , Allin Yang '02 perfonns Jazz and ballet during Dance Troupe's "There is the down side of being before and they were happy in their they refle.ct the,percept!on ,of the: Pulse for Campus Preview Weekend In Little Kresge last farther from dorm row, but there's individual dorms," said Ann Orlando, Thursday. More Dance Troupe photos, page 11. also the upside of living with a group , R~nklngs, Page 1~ of your friends," Viswanathan said. Crowding, Page 14

Institute Profess~r . Comics OPINION World & Nation 2 Phillip A SharP dis~'. Akshay Patil discusses the white Opinion 4 cusses the n~w board on his dorm room door. Events Calendar 8 McGovern InSt!tu~.; Arts 10 Sports 20 Page 17 Page 6 .. ~age 5 Page 2 THE TECH April 9, 2002 WORLD & NATION Palestinian Dies in Gun Battle Sharon VowsWest Bank Action At Church of the Nativity

LOS ANGELES TIMES BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK To Continue, Ignoring Demands The blood and fire of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict invaded hal- lowed ground Monday. By Tracy Wilkinson In Nablus, the West Bank's erupted during a gun battled Six days after the standoff at the Church of the Nativity began, LOS ANGELES TIMES largest city, fighting that had raged between Palestinians and Israeli sol- predawn gunplay at the besieged church left a Palestinian policeman JERUSALEM for four days began to subside Mon- diers. At the Vatican, Pope John dead and two Israeli soldiers wounded. A fire caused by the skirmish Israeli Prime Minister Ariel day. Scores of men - fighters and Paul II said violence in the Holy damaged a Catholic parish building in the religious compound, which Sharon, in his strongest defiance yet civilians - surrendered. Inside the Land had escalated to "unimagin- is believed to mark the birthplace of Jesus. of Washington, D.C., vowed Mon- bloodied Casbah, the old able and intolerable levels." And the psychological and public relations war here escalated, day to press ahead with a massive labyrinthine center of the city, In Jerusalem, Sharon went making the outlook increasingly ominous for almost 80 priests, military offensive in the West Bank. wounded lay dying at a mosque. before a special session of the Knes- monks and nuns inside who are either unwilling hostages, benevolent As if to underscore the point, Israeli In Jenin, by contrast, Israeli set, or Israeli Parliament, to lam- hosts or some uncomfortable combination of the two. combat helicopters pummeled a troops, armor and gunships continued baste Palestinian leader Yasser About the only thing Israelis and Palestinians agreed on Monday refugee camp and infantry took hun- to battle stiff resistance from lightly Arafat and announce he was taking was that the violence resulted in the standoff's first death within the dreds of Palestinians prisoner. armed Palestinian fighters hiding in a his government farther to the right compound itself. Sharon ignored demands from crowded refugee camp. Israeli and with the inclusion of three new But the Israeli military said Palestinian snipers shot two Israeli President Bush and other world Palestinian officials estimated at least right-wing ministers. border policemen deployed on a rooftop outside the compound, pro- leaders to end Israel's invasion of 100 Palestinians were killed in the Sharon dedicated most of his voking an exchange of gunshots and grenades that caused the fire. In Palestinian cities, and instead last couple of days in the Jenin camp. hourlong speech, in which he fre-

contrast, Palestinian leaders and some priests inside said Israelis expanded the deployment of tanks o On Monday, two Israeli soldiers were quently was heckled, to harsh criti- attempted a sneak attack over a rooftop, set off the blaze and left bul- throughout the West Bank country- killed and four wounded. cism of Arafat. He reiterated that he let holes inside the fourth-century Church of the Nativity. side. In a speech to his Parliament, Palestinian gunmen "seem to regards it as impossible to make Sharon suggested that far from have decided to fight to the last, to peace with Arafat, a position that withdrawal, Israel's occupation is make the battle as bloody as possi- deeply complicates this week's Traficant Case Goes to Jurors open-ended. ble," Israeli Brig. Gen. Eyal Shline diplomatic mission by U.S. Secre- LOS ANGELES TIMES But as pressure mounted, the said of the Jenin operation. He said tary of State Colin L. Powell. CLEVELAND Israeli army announced early Tues- several men feigned surrender, only He said he will not. call off the In the final minutes of his closing argument Monday, Rep. James A. day that it would begin pulling out to blow themselves up in suicide offensive "until the mission has Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, waved a roll of toilet paper in the air for the jury from two small cities, Tulkarm and attacks on soldiers. been accomplished, until Arafat's to see. Kalkilya, which had remained rela- At the Church of the Nativity in terrorist infrastructures are uproot- "I'll leave this here for you because this is all they have," said Trafi- tively quiet. The White House said Bethlehem, which tradition holds is ed" and until fugitives have been cant, who despite not having a law degree represented himself in his it was "a start." the birthplace of Jesus, a huge fIre arrested. trial on federal corruption charges. During the proceedings, Traficant had berated U.S. District Judge Lesley Wells for siding with the prose- cution and charged that she was making a mockery of the Constitution. The 10-count indictment of the nine-term congressman includes Bomb KiIIs Several in Apparent allegations that he made on-the-clock congressional staffers shovel horse manure on his farm, helped a convicted felon get federal con- tracts, filed false tax returns and forced one staffer to kick back half of Mghan Assassination Attempt his $2,500 monthly salary as a condition of employment. Throughout the 10-week trial and into his final remarks, Traficant, By David Zucchino warning that anyone supporting the wave of his hand. 60, attempted to argue what he called a "vendetta defense," his con- and Rone Tempest government risks death and that That evening, Zaman's offIcers tention that the government had been out to get him for 20 years. He LOS ANGELES TIMES "killing government officials is tried and failed to organize soldiers was warned repeatedly by Wells that he could not introduce his theory JALALABAD,AFGHA}USTAN legitimate." in ill-fitting uniforms into a coherent in court. In what appeared to be an assas- In an attempt to build crowds for formation during a dress rehearsal s ination attempt against Fahim, teachers emptied class- for the defense minister's visit. Afghanistan's defense minister, a rooms. Their poor training was evident in Andersen to Lay Off 7,000 fiery bomb exploded Monday in a The bombing came just (fays the-moments after the bomb explod- LOS ANGELES TIMES lunchtime market packed with flag- after the interim government round- ed, when attempts to turn around the Staggering from the damage done by its role in the collapse of waving schoolchildren dispatched to ed up about 300 members of the convoy of dignitaries produced grid- Enron Corp. and a subsequent criminal indictment, accounting firm greet the official. Hezb-i-Islami political party, most lock as victims lay bleeding and Andersen announced Monday that it will fire 7,000 workers, or 27 At least five people were killed, of them Pashtuns, on charges of dying. percent of its staff. including two children and a teen- plotting to overthrow the govern- Vehicles bumped back. and forth Andersen, the nation's fifth-largest accounting firm, said the staff age boy, and 64 people were ment. Hezb-i-Islami officials for several minutes before security reduction will conserve cash as it struggles to become a smaller, injured. The bomb missed the heavi- described the arrests as an anti- officials finally drove Fahim to a audit-focused firm. ly armed convoy of Defense Minis- Pashtun .campaIgn by ethhic Tajik military base outside Jalalabad. He

A criminal indictment last month 0 on an obstruction-of-justice ter Mohammed Qassim Fahim by ministers. About 160 people remain delivered a scheduled two-hour charge from the alleged destruction of Enron documents just 200 yards. in custody. speech on ethnic unity, then returned has crippled Andersen. The firm is fighting the indictment and the Tensions had been high in this The ethnic conflict added a new to the capital, Kabul, by helicopter a case is set for trial May 6. eastern provincial capital because of layer of fear and anxiety to a country clay earlier than planned .. In the meantime, Andersen has lost more than 140 of the large pub- opposition to a government crack- on edge because of armed factions "They killed civilians and stu- lic company clients that make up the bread and butter of its business. down on o~ium poppy cultivation jockeying for position ahead of a dents who were there in the spirit of The accounting firm served as both a consultant and auditor for and simmering hostility toward national assembly scheduled in June. happiness, and they made it into a Enron and has been linked to Enron's strategy of hiding billions of Fahim, an ethnic Tajik deeply In" an interview Sunday night, sad occasion," Fahim said. "The dollars of debt and hundreds of millions of dollars in losses in a series resented by Pashtuns who dominate Haji Mohammed Zaman, the attack was meant not only to kill of secretive partnerships. the region. In the last two nights, regional security chief, had dis- me. They wanted to' cause a disrup- unsigned posters have appeared, missed security concerns with a tion and send a message." WEATHER Situation for Noon Eastem Daylight n~, Tuesday, April 9, 2002 Springing FOlWard Into April By Greg Lawson ~~ .n~ ~ c3~ -,:.~ ~~ .~ .~ ....~ ..:v- ...." ....'" ....'V ...."". ~'j ~ STAFF METEOROLOGIST Though we have begun to receive some much-needed precipitation of late, Massachusetts officials are still suggesting voluntary water conserva- tion in the event that more severe drought conditions might set in - the winter's weather patterns proved to be anomalous and fickle, and no chances should be taken in regards to this season's patterns. But the outlook is not so bad as Boston has already received over an inch of rain this month (even a little snow), and today and tonight will make further contributions to the effort. A developing low pressure center is to our northwest, leaving us in its warm sector, the area between its cold front and warm front. Things have set up nicely to ensure a nice rest of the week. Today, the low's healthy southwesterly winds are bringing in wann, moist air spawned over the Gulf of Mexico. Today will feel like a day in mid-May, complete with warm temperatures, warm winds, and light rain. The precipitation will peter-out overnight as the low passes out over the Canadian Maritimes and a high pressure system builds into the region.

Extended Forecast Today: Overcast and rainy. Warm and humid. Strong southwesterly breeze. High of 69-F (2I-C). Tonight: Rain ending late. Wind slowing and shifting to northerly. Low of 50-F (1O"C). eather Systems Weather Fronts Precipitation Symbols OtherS Is Wednesday: Mostly clear. Light winds. High of 60"F (I6"C). Low of Snow Raia _Trough Fog 40-F (4"C). H HighPressure . - Showen - - 11nmdcntorm Thursday: Partly cloudy. High in the upper 50s F (14- to 16"C). Low in ...... -...... Warm Front V* V "R L Low Preuure Up 00 Haze the lower 40s F (5" to TC)...... Cold Front Modenle * Friday and beyond: More of the same until Saturday when the next Compiled by Mrr ~ Huniane Mek

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T «ia. 1"n"".J cHI rnyclfti ~r by C1tor/,s Ri¥rr PaJ,!u/uliS April 9, 2002 OPINION ... THE TECH Page 5 Fighting for Peace Leaving

losing sight of the bigger picture, which is amount of Palestinian Authority crackdowns, Khoon Tee Tan for a viable Palestinian state at peace with Israeli "targeted assassinations" and interna- A Marking Israel and vice versa. Achieving broad agree- tional condemnation will curtail the flow of Apportioning blame in the current Middle ment is important; if one cannot accept both terror if the people themselves continue to be East conflict is as thorny an issue as it is Israeli and Palestinian statehood, then the left in a hopeless situation. Akshay Patil hopelessly useless, all the more so when con- only option is one without the other - all- True, in negotiations as in many things, flicting one-sided views are espoused with out war. The fact is, broad agreement has the devil lies in the details. The thorniest People who complain that there is not little or no regard for the other side of the been reached before, only to be hijacked by issues which remain to be resolved are the enough communication within the student body story. By the time this issue goes to print, the extremist groups on both sides, resulting in political status of Jerusalem, the future of here at MIT have obviously never read the mes- situation may have improved slightly, but for more attacks on Israeli civilians, and unabat- Israeli settlements and the right of return of sage board hanging on the door of my room. now, intense fighting rages on in the West ed Israeli settlement activity in Palestinian Palestinian refugees. But today, there exist There we find the spirit of idea exchange alive Bank cities with no end in sight to the vio- territory. initiatives from within the region which and well, even flourishing if I may be so bold. lence. This should be a time for those with When the Oslo agreement was signed in could pave the way to a meaningful peace, On its white surface periodically appear mes- the luxury of distance from conflict to reflect 1993, it was widely initiatives to sages of all sorts of natures, promoting a flow of on the graveness of the situation and to seen as a sign to the which Palestini- information between me, my roommate, and attempt to soothe, not exacerbate, the ten- end of occupation and ans and Israelis those who decide to grace our board with their sions of those directly affected. At this stage, the beginning of a Achieving broad agreement is should give creative input. lamenting the historical incidents (some call peaceful solution to a serious thought. Yes, there's nothing more gratifying than to them accidents) which have played various long and bloody con- important; if one cannot aaept both The recently come back from a long day of classes to find roles in leading to the current Middle East flict. If such views Israeli and Palestinian statehood, then concluded Arab that someone has lovingly scribbled "UZ A situation, will do little in bringing peace to were held by two- Summit in HO" on your white board. Sometimes in a fit of the region. The past may offer some lessons thirds of the Palestin- the only option is all-out war. Broad Beirut offers a cultural enrichment, others will write "PUTO! but it is no excuse for ignoring the realities ian public then, today glimmer of Where are you?!" Yes, there is much to be of the present. expectations of a per- agreement has been reached before, hope: demand- learned from the message board. "Enough is enough," declared President manent settlement only to be hijacked by extremist ing an Israeli People also use the board as a way to George W. Bush last Thursday, in a powerful have dipped to a mere withdrawal express their artistic side. Creative drawings fre- speech that, among other things, outlined a 11 percent, if not groups on both sides. from occupied quently appear on our board, occasionally broad vision for peace in the region. "This lower. On the other Arab territories, graced with a variety of color, signifying that can be a time for hope, but it calls for leader- hand, the popularity a just solution the artist was unwilling to remain constrained ship, not for terror." He was critical ofYass- of Palestinian to the problem by the blue marker under our board and took it er Arafat, sounding the need for a consistent . Islamists and nationalist opposition groups of Palestinian refugees and the establishment upon him/herself to demonstrate a more diversi- approach at curbing. terrorists, while also has soared to 31 percent, surpassing the 30 of a sovereign and independent Palestinian fied range of color in their imaginative depic- demanding an immediate end to Ariel percent attained by Arafat's Fatah movement state, the Arab nations in return agree to sign tion. And in the spirit of community, others will Sharon's military incursions in the West and its allies (Shikaki, Foreign Affairs a peace agreement and to establish normal often add to the drawing, modifying it in such a Bank. Jan./Feb.2002). relationships with Israel. way to use the pre-existing image as a founda- It is time to understand and to acknowl- It is virtually impossible to control terror- Even if this initiative were to be followed tion for their creative message. Strangely edge that a military response to terrorism is ism and to curb terrorist activities under such through, there may be some further attacks enough, this often involves enlarging certain no substitute for a political solution or any deteriorating public perception of the peace by extremist groups and criticism from the aspects of human anatomy, but who am I to attempt to address the legitimate grievances process. A populace angry with harsh and hardliners of both sides, but the best way to question the validity of art? of Palestinians and Israelis. Nobody wants to humiliating treatment provides fertile recruit- discredit them, to remove their sources of Instead of drawings, however, others turn to live in fear of the next suicide bombing, but ment ground for terrorist organizations. support and to put in place the foundations of song lyrics in order to convey to me and my then again, nobody likes to see their homes Restoring faith in peace requires an end to a long-term solution, is by giving people roommate how they are feeling at the time. The demolished and be subjected to harsh living the current conflagration in the West Bank, . hope for a peaceful settlement, in the way eighth letter of the alphabet raised to the power conditions in refugee camps. No pregnant and the renewal of negotiations. Winning the that the Oslo accords did. Both sides need to of "izzo" was, for a time, a popular expression woman deserves to be denied the right to hearts and minds of the Palestinians is imper- signal to one another their seriousness and to appear on our board. What the mathematical medical attention by checkpoint guards. ative if peace for all is to have any hope. The commitment towards achieving peace; the significance of this expression is still eludes me, Grievances at this level lead to closed hearts hawks and hardliners will call it "appease- Israelis by halting settlement activities since no one seems particularly keen on defin- and closed minds, promoting the kind of ter- ment," but Israeli policing of Palestinian ter- throughout the West Bank and the Palestini- ing their variables. Of course, other meaningful ror tactics seen in the current conflict. ritory is as unacceptable as allowing the kind ans, by curbing terrorist organizations. In a messily complex conflict with so of situation to develop in which bigger pools Unless hope is restored, the alternative is many issues at play, it is all too easy to get of the dispossessed offer themselves to mili- perpetual turmoil in the Middle East, a tangled in clashe; over minute details, while tant groups that target Israeli civilians. No regional conflict with global implications. Creative drawingsJrequently appear on our board, and in the The 'Fair-rewards Policy' spirit of community, others will ciften add to the drawing, using . ~ And The Cost-shared Lunch the pre-existing image Guest Column pollution. The same pattern is broadly true for impregnable trust fund, immune from being as afoundation for their electricity, natural gas, water, timber, and for used for Congressional "pork." The trust fund creative message. David Gordon Wilson the mining of minerals and fuels. would be reduced to zero at the end of every We teach our students to look at all possi- month through rebates (via a negative income If a group of, say, 24 people of modest ble solutions to problems, includ~ng those at tax) allocated in equal amounts to every legal means have lunch together regularly but pay the ridiculous extremes, and to pick an opti- adult citizen in the country. lyrics such as Peter Gabriel's "Don't you know individually, they are lik~ly to choose some mum somewhere along the spectrum. One We could call this the "Fair-rewards Poli- you've got to shock the monkey" also grace our form of economy special, for instance an ridiculously extreme solution to the problem cy." Because energy use and, therefore, the board from time to time. egg-salad sandwich for $2.99. But if some- of energy shortages is rationing and regula- additional taxes paid, increase with wealth and The night before a major problem set is due, one suggests that, to save time, the waiter tion of everything, "as practiced by the former income, the hypothetical "average citizen" the message board often becomes a place of should put everything on one bill and then Soviet Union. We know that that doesn't would receive a rebate exactly equal to his or true learning, with traditional Greek letters and everyone pays an equal share, someone will work, there or here. The other extreme, not her energy taxes (assuming no change in his or strange math symbols being laboriously marked quickly fmd out that shelhe can order a dou- ridiculous but highly flawed, is a completely her consumption, and assuming that the costs in blue ink. Sometimes, interesting derivations ble-lobster for $26.99, free market. However, of the tax collection and distribution would be or circuits last a few days, menacing the occa- but the bill for each per- most technological small). Rich and high-income people would sional passerby with the firm assertion that yes, son increases by only a developments bring receive a rebate less than their energy taxes. we do go to MIT. This is of course until my dollar. The cost-shared Taxes on nonrenewable about benefits to the Poor people would, on the other hand, receive roommate (pronounced "Sloanie") erases it all. lunch is a bargain - users, and penalties or a rebate larger than their increased expendi- On rare occasions, friends even use our mes- until everyone else dis- energy could be made costs, so-called "exter- tures. They would get richer, and the tax sage board to leave factual messages. These covers the same truth, progressive and popular if nalities," to nonusers. would thus be progressive. Everyone, rich and range from polite messages reminding us that everyone has lobster, the The use of fossil fuels in poor, would have an incentive to reduce the we owe someone money to aggravated mes- cost-shared bill for each introduced properly. motor vehicles brings use of nonrenewable energy and to invest in sages reminding us we owe someone money. becomes $26.99, and about a host of externali- energy-saving measures. There would be a Every so often the flow of communication is people are asking each ties, including pollutant free-market boost for new-technology busi- reversed, and we leave messages for other pe0- other, "Why is eating out emissions, usage of finite ness, and employment would increase. Many ple on our board, such as "Don't come in, I'm suddenly so expensive, and why am I putting resources, accidental injury and death to non- government programs to develop better tech- naked," or "SHHHH!!! Akshay is asleep." Thus on weight?" drivers, increased defense costs to pay for nology could be phased out. Traffic jams our board acts as a portal of information' The more altruistic are then likely to learn "our" oil supplies, huge losses of time and a would decrease. It would become fashionable between us and the outside world. Friends even another lesson from the cost-shared lunch: that if great reduction in the quality of life for to walk short distances. Buses would run faster try to keep us up to date with late breaking news one person returns to having the egg-salad sand- nonusers, and so on. Some economists have and more frequently. Energy supply and such as "You suck," "I'm a monkey!" or ''Your wich, her/his bill is reduced by only a dollar. assessed just the quantifiable externalities as demand would come into balance. Welfare pen is dead" from time to time. This analogy applies very closely to our pre- beitig on average between $0.60 and $1.00 programs could be scaled back because every- And let us not forget that aesthetically pleas- sent situation. The incentives to wasteful activi- per mile driven for every U.S. vehicle. one, including the poor, would now have ing moment that comes from a freshly erased ty nationwide are greatly increased when the A simple energy tax to internalize these something approaching a guaranteed annual white board. A vast open canvas ready to come cost is shared among 280 million people, externalities would introduce other problems; income with no strings attached. alive. With a felt-tipped marker (and if it's not because the "increase in the bill" from one per- poor people in particular would suffer. This has The same principles could be applied to dry-erase, heaven help you when we find you) son's selfish actions is undetectable. Many of us been a major reason why proposals for higher shortages in other resources, including road in your hand you have the freedom to initiate. drive SUV s and trucks because we, as a nation, U.S. energy taxes (which would certainly space (congestion taxes would become feasi- Who knows what will happen when you mark have chosen (perhaps unwittingly) to share reduce demand efficiently) have been repeated- ble and popular), and to emissions (where the something on the board? Will people ignore it? much of the cost of providing the roads, the ly rejected: they would be "regressive." Such a economics justified taxes to reduce pollution). Will they respond to it? Will they add to it? The fuel, and of the cost of the defense establish- tax would also transfer enormous funds to the The fair-rewards policy would produce all possibilities are finite. ment needed to safeguard the sources of that government to be used, mostly, for unproduc- kinds of incentives favoring socially beneficial Ah yes, there's nothing like a message board fuel. We are sharing, also, the costs of the hos- tive purposes, and it would be inflationary. activities, and would put the United States far on your door to promote communication within tility of people who do not believe that we have However, taxes on nonrenewable energy ahead environmentally. We would have high the student body. An open forum to anonymously a right to be there to defend what seems to them could be made progressive and popular if employment and prosperity. We would no share one's feelings and emotions with those who to be a gluttonous and hedonistic way of life. As introduced properly. First, they would be longer need Middle East oil, and we could regularly read the board. A free channel of com- a result of these low perceived prices and the imposed on a gradually rising scale over a bring our troops back horne. Most of the irri- munication available for the artistic expression of consequent profligate consumption, the United period of months, perhaps years, so that indi- tants that produce militants would have gone. the MIT community. A medium for the exchange States uses about a quarter of the world's ener- viduals and businesses could plan ahead. Next, David Gordon Wilson is a senior lecturer of ideas be they philosophical or pornographic. gy, and produces about a quarter of the world's the proceeds of the taxes would be put into an in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Just whatever you do, don't steal our pen. The April 9, Tech 2002

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His perfor- amplify small ripples imprinted in matter and radiation in the early universe, and these fluctuations eventually mances present a mix of his own instrumental compositions, stories about the songs, his life and other mus- evolve into the observed web of cosmic structures. I will review this paradigm. I will also discuss recent ings, mixed in with an occasional song by Kottke, Fahey, Ed Gerhard, or the traditional or slide piece. His development in our understanding of the nonlinear clustering properties of galaxies and dark matter, and the masterful playing is complemented by his easy, down-to-earth, and genuine stage manner. Doughty was . implications for upcoming cosmic microwave background measurements. Free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: selected to perform at the Falcon Ridge Folk Music Festival Artists Showcase in 2001. He was also chosen Physics Department .. to perform at the 1999 Boston Folk Festival Coffeehouse Showcase. Doughty grew up in Roslindale, Mass. 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. - "Keeping Caring Caregivers: A Mld-Tenn Evaluation of a State Polley Initiative to and now lives in Wendell, MA in the house he built together with his wife, Laura. They have two cats and nine Support Workers and Nursing Facility Residents." Spring Seminar Series: Work Redesign. Free. Room: E51- hens. Doughty works part-time at MIT as administrative assistant to Prof. Donald Troxel, and as course sec- 057. Sponsor: MIT Workplace Center. " retary to EECS course 6.111. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Working Group on Support Staff Issues. 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Who owns the sky? Peter Barnes, founder of Working Assets, and author of "Who 12:10 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. - Physical Oceanography Sack Lunch Seminar. No seminar. Free. Room: 54-915. Owns the Sky?" Free. Room: E51-395. Sponsor: The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT. Sponsor: Physical Oceanography. 5:00 p.m. - Artist's Talk by Isaac Julien. 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This slide show presents a selection higher level of understanding of such systems, supplementing the myriad computational algorithms that of her slides from her latest visit to India. She weaves a compelling story around the slides that depict a come into play. Free. Room: RLE Conf. Room, Room 3&428. Sponsor: EECS. diversity of religious beliefs and rituals in the daily life of people in India. Free. Room: 4-231. Sponsor: Grad- 2:15 p.m. - A Common Multl-phase level Set Framework for Active Contours and Image Segmentation uate Student Council, Sangam. with Applications to Medical Image Analysis. An important problem in image processing is the segmenta- 7:00 p.m. - poetry Omit: Chartes Simic. Born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Simic arrived in America with tion/partition of an image representing a real scene into regions with sharp boundaries. In order to solve this his mother and brother when he was 16 to rejoin his father. Simic is the author of more than 60 books, and problem, D. Mumford and J. Shah proposed an energy, whose minimizers are "optimal" piecewise-smooth his work has won numerous prestigious awards, including: the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1990 for his book of approximations of the given image. The unknowns are the segmented image, and a set of curves, represent- prose-poems MThe World Doesn't End," Elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000, his ing the edges. A closely related problem is called active contours, where a curve is evolved to detect objects many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation; the MacArthur Foundation, and the and extract their boundaries. A common level set formulation for active contours and image segmentation National Endowment for the Arts. Since 1973 he has lived in New Hampshire, where he is Professor of Eng- will be presented. The speaker will introduce an active contour model, based segmentation, that can detect lish at the University of New Hampshire. Free. Room: Rm 6-120. Sponsor: Program in Writing and Humanistic contours with and without gradients. It will be shown how this model can be generalized to Mumford-Shah Studies. image segmentation, proposing a new and efficient multi-phase level set formulation. Problems of vacuum 8:00 p.m. - "Music for Decapods." The Ithaca College Woodwind Quintet performs music by Ugeti, Farkas, and overlap, naturally arising in computational multi-phase problems, have been overcome. Experimental Shifrin, Berio, and Husa.The Ithaca Wind Quintet is the resident faculty woodwind ensemble for The Ithaca results of object detection, shape extraction and segmentation of medical images will be presented. Free. College School of Music.Founded in 1963, the Ithaca Wind Quintet is one of the oldest woodwind quintets in Room: NE43-941. Sponsor: EECS, HST. the country. In addition to its regular series of concerts at Ithaca College, the ensemble tours throughout the 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - spouses&partners@mlt: Work and Family. Professor Jean Jackson, Anthropology, Northeast.!n 1993, the ensemble participated and performed at the Symposium for New Woodwind Quintet M will come to discuss "The Changing Economy of Family Life in America," and how it compares to family struc- Music"at the University of Georgia and gave the world premiere performance of Dana Wilson's "Mirrors at ture and economics in your home country. Childcare provided. Free. Room: W20-400. Sponsor: the National Rute Association Convention in Boston. In April of 1992, the Ithaca Wind Quintet participated in spouses&partners@mit. the world premiere of Karel Husa's chamber piece, "Cayuga Lake (Memories)" at Uncoln Center. In March of 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Aero Astro Freshmen Open House. This Course XVI event is open to freshmen 1992, the ensemble recorded its first compact disc. Pre-concert talk/demonstration by Evan Ziporyn at 7:15 exploring majors. There will be lab tours, demos of various student projects, door prizes, food, etc. Faculty p.m. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section. and students will be at hand to answer questions about Unified Engineering. Free. Room: Seamans Lab (33- 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - The Abortlon-Breast Cancer Unk: Hard Science, Hardly Known. Prof. Joel Brind 116). Sponsor: AeroAstro. will speak about research linking abortion and breast cancer. Free. Room: 4-270. Sponsor: Pro-Life, MIT. 4:00 p.m. - Annual Mlnta-Martln Lecture: AI Haggerty. 30th annual Minta-Martin Lecture: "Lean Engineer- 8:00 p.m. - Charlie and Algernon. Debut production by The Tech Players of the musical based on Daniel ing has Rnally Come of Age (Or, Why We Can't Ignore 80 percent of a Product's Cost Anymore!)" Speaker: Keyes' novel "Rowers for Algernon." Director: Jean Marie Barnwell; Vocal Director: Cemocan S. Yesil. This Allen C. Haggerty, Jerome C. Hunsaker Visiting Professor. Refreshments @ 4 p.m., Lecture at 4:30 p.m. musical grabs the audience's heart and takes them on an enchantingjoumey through the mind of Charlie Free. Room: 34-101. Sponsor: AeroAstro. Gordon. Charlie Gordon, a man with the mind of a child, Is given innovative surgery. His intelligence rapidly 4:00 p.m •• 5:00 p.m. - SMA HPCES Seminar. "Matrix operations of optimal order my means of the hierar- increases to genius level paralleling that of Algemon, a lab mouse, who has had the operation earlier. The chical matrix technique" by Wolfgang Hackbusch. Free. Room: MIT Rm 3-133. Sponsor: AeroAstro. interweaving of the fate of the mouse and the man and the love that grows between Charlie and his teacher, 4:00 p.m •• 5:00 p.m. - SMA HPCES Seminar. "Matrix operations of optimal order by means of the hierarchi- Alice Kinnian, make a most unusual, intelligent and romantic musical. First performed in London by Michael cal matrix technique." Free. Room: MIT Rm 3-133. Sponsor: Singapore-MIT Alliance/HPCES. Crawford. Free. Room: TBA. Sponsor: The Tech Players. 4:15 p.m •• 5:15 p.m. - Locally Unitary Groups and"Regular Polytopes. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 8:00 p.m. - 1.0:00 p.m. - IRLM Rim Seminar. Screening of an intemational movie accompanied by a discus- p.m. in Room 2-338. Free. Room: Room 2-338. Sponsor: Combinatorics Seminar. Department of Mathemat- sion about it. Free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: International Film Club. April 9, 2002 THE TECH Page 9

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PHOTOS BY WAN YUSOF WAN MORSlIlDI-THE TECH Dance Troupe put on its spring show, Pulse, In Little Kresge for Campus Preview Weekend last Thursday. (Above, clockwise from top) Catherine H. Chen '04, Christine Chang '04, Joanna J. Uang '04, and Helen Zhou '04; Elizabeth D. Rouse '02 (left) and Anna D. Bergren '05 In a synchronized chair dance; Cindy Gibbons paired with Daniel D. Lowrey '02 wtlUe Michelle Chang '04 paired with Alex Skorokhod '04 for the high-energy hliHIop and jazz opening dance. (Below, left to right) Vlkash Sodhani supports Kris Helenek In the P~pplng,tBreaking routine; Anna R. Kuperstein '05 (left) and Anna D. Bergren '05 perfonn a ballet piece. Page 12 THE TECH THE ARTS April 9, 2002 FILM REVIEW** PanicRoom Half Suspense, Half Camedy, Half Enjayahle

By Brian Loux mental clarity from some characters to get STAFF WRITER them out of jams and stop the movie from Written by David Koepp becoming too ludicrous. Both protagonists Directed by David Fincher and antagonists flip flop from a combination Starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest of the Keystone Kops and the Three Stooges Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam to a combination of Solid Snake and Rated R McGuyver when the plot deems it necessary. I still cannot comprehend how in one scene ne aspect of working with a simple Foster grasps at her cell phone underneath the story is that authors and directors bed like she has a flipper for an arm and then have an almost divine mandate to an hour later moves silently about the house O make it deeper. For example, Shake- laying traps and carrying a sledgehammer in speare took Hamlet, a common and trite story ninja fashion. While much of the foolishness about revenge, and reflected on the meaning and ingenuity is meant to giv~ insight into of life. Director David Fincher (Fight Club) some characters' psyches, the scenes often -UNIVERSAL RECORDS does something similar with Panic Room. play out as hilariously overboard. Jeremiah Freed perfonned at Bill's Bar in Boston on AprilS. The story is just about told in the trailer: Aside from their blunders, we learn little Meg Altman (Jodie Foster, Contact) and about these characters in the first half of the MUSIC REVIEW daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) purchase a script. This unfortunately establishes them as luxury apartment with an impregnable room one-dimensional, and the actors must fight to installed by the previous owner, who was show you they are not. It feels like we've seen more rich and paranoid than most in the the criminals before: inept leader and crybaby Jeremiah Freed neighborhood. Just as they move in, a trio of Junior {Jared Leto), maniac Raoul (Dwight angry thugs breaks into the house searching Yoakam) and blue-collar-tumed-thief-with-a- The Essence of Rock for the former owner's riches, and the pair heart-of-gold Burnham (Forest Whitaker, barricade themselves in the room. Unfortu- Ghost Dog). Even when we later learn that By Andrew Selbst imagine them writing songs that had to sound nately, the thieves are headed straight for that Sarah and Meg have more problems than just STAFF WRITER good without drums or bass, and working to room. Now the battle begins between the Alt- being trapped in their own house, it is hard to Jeremiah Freed make the voice and guitar complement each mans with their steel wall and (alas!) unin- empathize with them when all we know is that Universal Records other fully. While the other three instruments stalled security system and the driven thieves. they are Upper West Side elite. Released March 26, 2002 put everything together, most of the songs are The problem is that for the first half of the The movie finally picks up at the halfway centered around a powerful combination of the movie, Fincher decides to develop a comedy, point with an unexpected plot twist. From eremiah Freed's self-titled major label lead guitar and vocals that come out of a life- which doesn't really fit well with the story's then on, suspense lives up to expectations, debut is a nothing less than a celebration long friendship. / tension. The botched heist and dead security plot kinks are intriguing rather than comical, of all things rock. From melodically rich A fluid style of guitar dominates the album, system bring about such surges of stupidity and character enrichment lessens their one- J intros to emotional lyrics and singing, it with many of the songs centered around intri- that I was worried one of the characters was dimensionality. Whitaker really begins to has everything that a fan of the genre could ask cate melodic riffs with an occasional chord going to ask, "Dude, where's my car?" Equal- shine and almost becomes the male lead (if for. The album exhibits influences from all over thrown into the mix. Several songs, including ly inexplicable are the impressive moments of there really is one) as he begins to question the rock spectrum, includiDg many of the clas- one of the singles, "Again," begin with full gui- his motives for taking the assign- sic greats, such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, tar intros, which are often referred to again in ment and whether the promise of Aerosmith, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Many of.the the song. These intros are pleasant;'skillfully a better life justifies what has songs are quite different from each other, roam- , played, and illustrative of the breadth of the happened to the Altman family . . ing in opposite directions, yet unified by the. band's influences. In "Wait ForMe," between Though the last part of the drive and emotion behind the entire album. , the straightforWard drumbeat -and opening gui- thief saga is spectacular, the end- The band consists of five guys, al" around tar sound, the song could easily have continued ing leaves much to be desired. twenty years old, all having graduated from the into something <;m a John Mellencamp album. Since the supposedly impervious same high school in June, 2000. They came However, ''Eyes, Life, Change" contrasts stark- panic room proves to be susc~pti~ together in theirJ~phomore year o(high sch~l~) l~itQJ.f,~~~O!';~~:':'..'!i1h ...a}l_gpen~g..t!ta.t ble to attack, a director like to worked toward careers as musicians! Their I, must have Deeii mspired by "Foxy I:adyY • Hitchcock could have easily left frontman is Joe Smith, on vocals, and behind Nirvana's intention was to take music back you with the feeling that nowhere him are. Nick Goodale on lead guitar, Jake to the sixties, or more specifically, to the Beat- is perfectly safe from evil. Finch- Roche on rhythm, Matt Cosby on bass, and .les, while bringing a new feel to it. Jeremiah er decides to just end the story in Kerry Ryan on drums. Smith and Goodale grew Freed managed to accomplish a similar goal no particular fashion, only notify- up together, and met each of the others in very well. While there is no question that their ing the audience that it's time to school, joining together to form Jeremiah Freed. album is new rock, and distinctly their own, it is go home. While thrilling and fun The relationship between Smith and easy to tell that a great deal of their influences -SONYPlCTVRES for a while, Panic Room falls Goodale. comes through in their music. Before come from the era of classic rock. They bring a Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter Sarah short of its ultimate potential and the band was formed, it was just the two of new feel. to all of the old classics, appealing to (Kristen Stewart) cower in the panic room. is overall, forgettable. them singing and playing guitar. It's easy to rock lovers of different generations.

INTERVIEW Spin Doctors Chris Barron on bringing the band back together

By Devdoot Majumdar SfAFF WRITER t's kind of hard to picture that guy on MTV who preached. the famous "just go ahead now~ telling liis daugllter to go watch "Blues Clues" because Daddy's on Ithe Rhone. But then again, that was ten years ago, and this is the Chris Barron of today. The lead singer of the Spin Doctors took a few minutes to sit down and talk to The Tech from his home in New York. '

The Tech: Spin Doctors pretty much ce3sed to exist a few years back when you were unable to sing because of a para- lyzed voccil chord. How was tlie reliabilitation? " • Chris Barron: Well I did acupunture, acupressure, chi- nese. herbs, steroids _. you lcDow traditional Western medicine, psychotherapy, anything you can probably name. I have no idea what" worked. Basically, I had a fifty-fiftY chance of making it back.

IT: Did you just wake up one morning with a better voice? CB: It was a gradual process. I lost my voice about this time of year in '99 and it started coming back around October, and over the course of the next three or four months. At first, I started sounding like the Godfather. And it just got better and better - I recovered slowly. It's not a chronic condition. A para- lyzed vocal chord has a one in eight million chance of happening, so it was rare.

IT: And the band? Is. Spin Doctors back together for good or is this a temporary reunion? April 9, 2002 THE ARTS THE TECH Page 13 MUSIC REVIEW FILM REVlEW*1i:* Welcome to My Party Jf1tere Are. Rap Music With A Melody Dude,

By Allison lewis rough and twangy lead male voice, and two STAFF WRITER women crooning in sexually charged voices. Jules a1ii1Jim? Rusted Root It sounds like some drunken karaoke night at Welcome to My Party the hippest club on the strip, or long-haired ¥TuMama Tainhien Redefines the TeenMavie Island Records twenty-somethings rocking out in a bar. It Released April 9, 2002 sounds like foreplay. Rusted Root's songs combine several dif- OU mayor may not have heard of ferent styles: African, Latin, Blues, and rock, Rusted Root. They're an almost to name a few. Welcome to My Party fea- indescribable band that has devel- tures an electric guitar and computer sounds, Y oped a huge fan base of mostly col- in contrast to the acoustic sound of earlier lege kids. They've been compared to Dave albums. The band feels these additions make Matthews Band and described as indie, this album stand out from their others. Mike worldly, and organic. Comparisons aside, Glabicki takes the lead; his strong voice Rusted Root does its own thing. vibrates, sounds whiny at times, but mostly, Rusted Root's members are Mike Glabic- he just sounds sexy, in a lots-of-facial-hair ki (lead vocalist, guitarist, songwriter), Liz way. The rest of the band gels, grooves, and Berlin (vocalist, songwriter), Jim Donovan rocks, as their strong instruments snap (drummer, percussionist), Patrick Norman together like a puzzle. The end result is (guitarist, bassist), Jenn Wertz (vocalist, manic and filled with energy. African-influ- songwriter), and John Buynek (multi-instru- enced percussion gives it a characteristic, mentalist, vocalist). Their album When I hypnotic vibe. It's hip-hop for white people. Woke (1994) featured the hit song "Send Me Some songs sound like drugged-out par- On My Way," and went platinum in 1996. ties on deserted islands covered with Now they've teamed up with producer Jim islanders chanting and drumming Calypso Bottrell (Sheryl Crow, Shelby Lynne) to cre- beats, and some sound like a hayride through ate Welcome to My Party, an intricate and green country grass, on a wagon with awesome album. I'll admit it; I've developed squeaky wheels. "Blue Diamonds" is a love an addiction to it. ballad sung by Glabicki and Wertz, who say "Union 7," the first song on the album, it's their favorite song to perform live. It isn't has rock guitar, a Caribbean drum beat, a a delicate love song; instead, it's rough and honest, two strong and solid voices trying to overpower each other. But, like the rest of Welcome to My Party, this off-the-beaten- path technique makes "Blue Diamond" _ exquisite, beautiful, and crazy. Welcome to. My Party is' passionately uninhibited, percussive, and loosely. layered. The'words don?t always make sense, and, if they do, they're nothing new - just sex, drugs, and rock n' roll set to a vibe. But the words don't matter; the meaning is in the-: music. " ').' .. Welcome to'My Party is rap music with a melody. It's fresh and cool, and won't ever go out of style. You'll be hooked. You'll- keep liste~ing:~You:tl. wann'! put'onra hula~" r skirt and darice barefoot:')<:"!-, I,". :] . ,. I-

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Rankings, from Page 1 think the rankings could really differ- inence," Colbert said. "It says that we MIT ranked first for mathematics tems, productions/operations man- entiate between the top four or five are able to maintain programs, facul- (including a tie for first in the applied agement, and quantitative analysis. quality, the strength, the overall pre- schools with great accuracy. ty, staff, research resources that are math ranking). MIT tied for first with Other categories published in the eminence of our departments," said Still, he said that the consistency second to none." the California Institute of Technology 2003 edition were not newly ranked Dean for Graduate Students Isaac M. in the engineering rankings reflected in physics, taking first in the atom- this year. Colbert. "I'm delighted to see that we well on MIT's graduate programs. "It Sciencesalso earn top rankings ic/molecular/opticaVplasma physics continue to be so strong." reinforces that perception of our con- Top honors for the Institute con- specialty rankings. Rankings valuable for recruiting However, Colbert said he did not sistent strength and consistent preem- tinued into the science rankings, with Although MIT ranked first in While some at MIT have long computer engineering, U.S. News put questioned the validity of the maga- MIT into a four-way tie for first with zine's points-based ranking system Carnegie Mellon University, Stan- for both graduate and undergraduate ford, and Berkeley for computer sci- programs, the rankings are thought to ence. have value in attracting new stu- Professor Arthur C. Smith, gradu- dents. ate officer for electrical engineering "I think it's probably a very good and computer science, said his tool for attracting new students," said department was not terribly con- Graduate Student Council President cerned with the rankings, as long as Dilan A. Seneviratne. "Once students MIT stayed at or near the top. "We are in here, the rankings don't matter don't pay much attention, but if they that much." changed drastically we probably He said that nearly every factor in would," he said. "If we dropped to the rankings could be traced back to 20th, we would be concerned." the quality of MIT' s students and fac- "We don't ... agree with the crite- ulty, which helps to attract more top ria they use to do the rankings," students in the future. "One of the Smith said. main things that faculty are con- However, Smith said that Course cerned about is attracting top gradu- VI "can't be terribly dissatisfied" ate students," Seneviratne said. "For because the department's various the Institute ... to maintain those specialties are continually at or near rankings, they have to make sure they the top of the U.S. News charts. "The have a good in-flow of top-quality small differences in those numbers students. " don't matter much." Colbert agreed, saying, "I think Smith said the schools tied with this will really help with our recruit- MIT for computer science were wor- ment of the best and brightest stu- thy peers. "I think they do good dents around the world." research and for the most part good teaching, and they certainly attract Rankings based on experts, data good students," Smith said. The magazine said the rankings Colbert said he was not surprised are based on "expert opinion about by the other three top-ranked schools. program quality and statistical indica- "We educate a lot of the competi- tors that describe the strength of a tors," he said, noting that many facul- school's faculty, its research, and the ty at peer schools are MIT alumni. performance of students both as they Though rival schools ranked high- enter and leave." U.S; ,News said it er, MIT still fared well in other sci- interviewed thousands of faculty in ence rankings. MIT was ranked sec- determining the rankings, in addition ond for biology behind Harvard, and to performing its own data analysis. tied for second with CalTech for For the engineering rankings, for chemistry. example, the magazine rated graduate programs based on a formula which ' Sloan School ranked fourth includes faculty arid recruiter ratings The Sloan School of Management of program quality on a one to five ranked fourth. among business scale, mean GRE scores, acceptance schools, behind Stanford, Harvard, rate, faculty-to-student ratios, per- and Wharton. However, Sloan took centage of faculty in the National top marks for some of the more tech- Academy of Engineering, number of nical management disciplines, includ- PhDs awarded, and research expendi- ing management information sys- tures. Up to 100 Seniors May Move

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housemaster of Ashdown. "I don't think that was the prob- lem at all," Riesenburger said .. "Everyone was really excited about moving. The trouble was that there were no singles in Ashdown, and ... URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING @ MIT a lot of upperclassmen were looking forward to having singles." FRESHMAN OPEN HOUSE "We looked into moving into Sim- mons as a group, but that would have hov, do cities recover after trauma? how are planners so crucial? what issues do developing nations and communities f been really complicated," she added CC'P'~ -H'1el.'S 1'_.I!dmq and planninq coincide? what do city planners do? how can we bridge the economic divide? what i~ "Getting space together, transferring new members in, and things like that ~."~''1~'IS.-ii 'ph1c in 'stems'l "land ~.,'.:.-.p'. ~ ~enVlilt'- . olle would have made it difficult." ''1': :of • pul Hbande: nentalrl.i~it< nity pia! 1 h IIi~~ ", "I see this as an interim step to ,~ ;" , jt\ve1op lanning * * geo~h~ ~~;: 'maHor rbi having our own house," Latham of ~'. ~~ - e cities w can w€ gy to \ I' .::. ~iJ~~owth? pl< KAT said. "Just before Sigma Kappa tj ~1 c)Y';H~ms • urban studies • land use planning'" environmental planning It city design and develop got their house, they were housed in a What's it all about? Why major in Urban Planning? Meet professors and students over refreshments. grad dorm. This proves that we are willing to live together and we're ready to move to a house together." April 17th 3-5pm, Stella Room [7-337] Riesenburger said when the MIT chapter of AEPhi becomes older, it http://dusp.mit.edu could garner enough support from its national chapter for its own house.

MEng students guaranteed space As many as 100 rising seniors are expected to move as' well, Clay said. They will be divided between Ash- down, Tang Hall, Sidney-Pacific, and the Warehouse. They will be guaranteed housing for their first year of graduate school, avoiding both the difficult graduate housing lottery and expensive local rents. Apri19,2002 THE TECH Page 15

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attention all seniors attention all seniors attention all seniors RingComm Charged last chance! last chance! last chance! $650 for Losing Paw ATTENTION GRADUATING SENIORS Beaver, from Page I "I think the circumstances sur- rounding the loss of the shoe is on the ground. The man ran with the clearly an inappropriate use of the foot towards a nearby group of Har- mascot," said Walsh. "In the time POSITION AVAILABLE IN THE vard dormitories. None of the MIT we've had the mascot - about three students were able to stop the thief years - this is the first time that it's OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS or to get a good look at him. occurred." "I was too busy holding up the In addition to charging the Class beaver," Rhody said. "Basically we of 2004 Ring Committee $650 for had enough people there. We could the new paws, CAC and RingComm now accepting applications have stopped it." members will soon meet to discuss Dorai and several other MIT stu- whether the RingComm will be per- for the position of Admissions Counselor. dents ran in pursuit of the thief. mitted to rent the mascot for the "We just basically went into Ring Delivery event on May 5. each entry way and kind of popped our heads in and to see if we could Dorsi appeals to student charity This is a one-year full-time position beginning in July 2002. Duties include: see anyone who was laughing hys- Dorai sent an e-mail to several terically with a brown furry thing Institute mailing lists recounting the under his arm," Dorai said. theft and requesting donations to • evaluating applications and participating in admissions committee The students found no trace of help defray the cost of the stolen decisions the thief or the stolen paw. paw. The e-mail included several photos of the beaver-suited Dorai Greater disaster averted with the John Harvard statue. • traveling throughout the country for recruitment purposes In the meantime, Rhody and Dorai is attempting to raise the Teresa A. Fazio '02 remained $650 sum on his own, rather than behind to guard the remainder of using Ring Committee funds that • coordinating MIT student involvement in the reception area and the beaver suit, which Dorai had were earmarked for the Ring Deliv- removed and placed in its garment ery event. Campus Preview Weekend bag. Rhody and Fazio, wary of the "We'd rather give [the Ring drunken Saint Patrick's Day crowd Committee funds] to the class which was growing rowdier by the instead of just having it go through • conducting question and answer sessions minute, decided to leave the imme- us," said Douglas J. Quattrochi '04, diate area, Rhody said. Two male chair of the 2004 Ring Committee. Harvard students followed them "We're absolutely gong to pay Applications are available in the Admissions Office, 3-108, with Kirsten and repeatedly threatened to take though, so that's not an issue. I Derrickson and should be returned no later than Friday, April 12, 2002 the beaver suit from the two mean we or Amal." women. Donations are being collected "They were pretty standard Har- through Ring Committee members Applications can also be found online at: vard wankers," Fazio said. "We and via Paypal. Last night, Dorai http://we b.mit.edu/bu bblie/www /acsearch.html thought they were kidding at first." reported receiving $120 in dona- One of the Harvard students, tions, $100 of which came from a

however, made a lunge for the gar- single, anonymous source. I l..,. Note: This is for 2002 (January or June) MIT graduates. ment bag containing the costume. Fazio, a Marine ROTC candidate, Students unmoved said he grappled with the would-be In spite of Dorai's fund-raising attention all seniors attention all seniors attention all seniors thief, seizing the Harvard student's success thus far, reaction from many last chance! last chance! last chance! genitals. The stunned assailant students has been dismissive. Few broke free and fled into the night seem willing to contribute money Withhis partDer,Fazio said.' replace the paws...• "For something that stupid, I'm Hack proves expensive sorry," said Rossana Ivanovia '05. CAC staff were troubled to learn "I think $650 is a lot of money; of the paw's disappearance, said but I think it's his responsibility," Phil Walsh, director of the CAC. said Celia Macias.~04. Their main worry was that the suit "That's what they get for pranc- would be unavailable for Institute ing around Harvard in a beaver cos- SENIORS! events. tume," said Orlando Jaquez '05. "When you don't have the full Jaquez added, however, that "if its suit, it creates a bit of a problem for desperate enough, I'm willing.to It's time to elect your others who want to use the cos- give a dollar." tume," Walsh said. In spite of these reactions, Dorai alumni class officers who will The CAC was able to obtain a said he hopes that "maybe a few new set of paws from the costume's people would think it's kind of maker in about a week, avoiding funny and donate a few bucks to the represent the Class of 2002 between disruption of the mascot's appear- cause." th ance schedule. The price of the "Our egos were slightly bruised graduation and your 5 reunion! replacement paws was $650. by the fact that a Harvard student CAC staff were also concerned absconded with out paw," Dorai when they discovered how the said, "but overall I think a pretty beaver paw was lost. good time was had by alL"

Department of MIT FACILITIES CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION UPDATE NStar Transmission Line project Cable installation is scheduled to be finished during the week of April 8- 12. Activities at individual manholes along the route to complete splicing and pulling in of fiber optic cable will continue until the end of the month. Lane restrictions may cause traffic delays. Dreyfus Chemistry Building Dea Installation of finishes and mechanical, electrical, and piping materials is in progress on all floors. Moving of faculty into new lab spaces is ongoing. Some of the sections of the building will be sealed due to decontamination and asbestos removal. Accessibility to certain areas of 12p the east corridors will be restricted as work continues. Periodic noise may occur between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Zesiger Sports & Fitness C,enter Installation of tile wall finishes in showers and bathrooms continues. d your nomination to Rough plumbing is in progress. Installation of limestone/granite cladding on the first floor is in progress. Accesses to W34 and Kresge Auditorium Kispert at [email protected] may be congested as construction continues. Vassar St. Utilities or visit Sewer replacement work continues on Vassar St. from Building 42 heading west. Traffic flow and parking will be affected near the work zone. Drain construction is underway in front of Stata site. Truck and http://web. mit.edu/ alum/ connect/ classes/. machine movement may cause delays. The parking lot between Buildings 45 and 48 is closed to allow for utility construction for the Slata Center. This phase of construction will extend into June. Class elections will be held online May 1-16. Stata Center A new pedestrian walkway has been installed outside Building 57, which changes access to the Alumni Pool. Police detail will be on site when trucks are present at Stata loading area.

Sponsored by the MIT Alumni Association. For Information on MIT's building program, see http://web.mlt.edu/evolvlng This Information provided by the MIT Department of Facilities. April 9, 2002 THE TECH Page 17 Prefrosh, Residents of Random Hear Shots From Outside Bar Shooting, from Page 1 said. "It's an urban area, so anything urban area like Boston University and can happen. But it is definitely safe." Northeastern. " cars sped off towards Boston in "Massachusetts Avenue is heavily DiFava said he felt the campus search of the gunman, said Random trafficked throughout the day," said was "an extremely safe place," and Hall resident Jillian L. Dempsey '05. Nina J. Davis-Millis, Random Hall that he is proud to have pushed for MIT Campus Police arrived at housemaster. "Because of its visibili- more police presence on campus and I :51 a.m., according to the police ty, I feel safer here than in a more two additional traffic units that patrol incident log. CPs assisted in crowd isolated place. I felt more nervous the garages and lots of the MIT cam- control and blocked off the comer of walking down Memorial Drive pus. "I believe it will make people Landsdowne Street and Massachu- [when I lived in Westgate]." feel safer on campus," he said. setts Avenue to protect the integrity "Chief DiFava has done a great of the crime scene, said MIT Chief of Prefrosh shaken by shooting job," said Dean for Student Life Campus Police John DiFava. At this A number of the prospective Larry G. Benedict. "It has been the point, witnesses estimate at least a freshmen who learned of the incident great effort of our Campus's Police dozen patrol cars from MIT, Cam- were upset, and at least two prefrosh and the diligence of the student body bridge, and State Police were at the did not stay at Random Hall after- that makes this environment a safe scene. ward. Another asked that nobody dis- one." Dempsey said that at around 2:00, cuss the incident with her parents, Residents in some areas of cam- an ambulance from the Cambridge fearing they would not allow her to pus have always taken certain precau- Fire Department arrived. Shortly live in Random Hall. tions. "We encourage students to thereafter, 20 to 30 ~ustomers that "[Our prefrosh] was very nervous walk with a friend and use Safe Ride had exited Rhythm and Spice began about the incident when she returned whenever possible," Davis-Millis to quarrel on the sidewalk. "This fight to the house," Matheny s~id. "Her said. appeared to be between friends [of mother had her move to another "It is ultimately up to students to Gray] and people from the other' dorm. Though I'm not sure whether it maintain vigilance when wandering group," Pasquarello said. "It was a changed her thoughts about coming the streets of Boston and Cambridge push and shove incident and bottles to MIT, she definitely had second late at night," Benedict said. were thrown, but the police broke it thoughts about living in Random Most students tend to only have up very quickly." Hall." slight anxiety about their safety on JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH Almost immediately after the Very few, however, felt the inci- campus. "I try not to walk back too David Ngo '02 and The Toons perform the Michael Jackson fight was dispersed, a professional dent deterred them from selecting late at night, but at other times of the classic "Billie Jean" in Saturday's Campus Preview Weekend a ambulance arrived on the scene, MIT as their college. ''Near Arizona day I feel just fine," Dempsey said. "I cappella concert. The Toons were joined by the Logarhythms, Dempsey said. Witnesses said the State, my other choice, there has been would walk home just as fast if I Muses, Techiya, Resonance, Cross Products, and Chorallaries. ambulance stayed at the scene over stuff like that in the past," said lived elsewhere on campus." 10 minutes after placing Gray on a prospective freshman Sean Naber. stretcher. "It was pretty obvious that "While I've been on campus, I've . the man was already dead. There was always seen a police presence." Of no need to go to the hospital," one the freshmen interviewed, many witness said. ranked the surrounding environment Gray was taken to Massachusetts and security as important factors in General Hospital and soon pro- their' seIei::tion' process. "You can't nounced dead, according to the Dis- ignore any factor, but then you can't trict Attorney-' s office. In the morn- treat them as absolutes, either," said ing, the scene looked the same as any Jeremy B. Jacox. "That happens in other day, Dempsey' said. "It was any big city, and in comparison dead and silent. The only'thi'ng I [Cambridge] seems pretty calm." noticed was that you couldn't park on the street," she said. Students among victims in past , Pasquarello says that tile det~c: The issue iaises,.concem over: the tives have gathered "information that threat of violent crime on or near led up 'to the shooting" and had campus. In 1992, Yngve K. Raustein proinising ballistics information from - '94 was murdered by two local the stray bullet across the street. youths and in 1995, a Northeastern Thoti~ most dues tend to be found University student was shot (though in the first. six hours "of investigation, not killed) outside a party in Walker Pasquarello said, he was not worried Memorial. There have been at least about the case running ,dry. "'We have five other violent incidents that to check and recheck witnesses and occurred around on the MIT campus stories to figure out what happened," in the past 10 years.

he said. "It's an open campus, and you AARON D. Mill AUK-THE TECH may have spillage. It's always an Kevin Bong '05 and Cory R. Lorenz '03 grill up an assortment of meat during the East Campus MIT, area still seen as safe issue," DiFava said. "People must versus Senior House "Iron Chef' competition last Saturday •. The shooting came as a shock to always be conscious because it's an many area residents and employees of local businesses. While a shooting occurred in November 2000 across the street at the Cambridge Port Saloon, many still find the area as one of the safest around. "We must bear witness" "It is usually a safe area," said All Asia employee Patty Chen. "It is much better in comparison to others nearby that sell drugs on the comer." "I've been in Cambridge for 20 years, and it's a very safe area," Jones 'YOM HASHOAH Earn up to $900 I Month You can help people realize their dreams of starting a family by participating in our Anonymous Sperm Donor Program. HOLOCAUST To qualify,you must be between 19-39 years old, and enrolled in or graduated from a 4-year college. Donors will be compensated REMEMBRANCE DAY $75 for each acceptable donation. Contact California Cryobank's Cambridge facility at 617-497-8646 for more information, or visit us at: www.cryobank.com/donors No walk-ins please. APRIL 9, 2002

Solution to Crossword from page 7 1nformationa{ tJ)isy{ay and f}{ame 'Readtna 10 q{!M - 4 p~ Lobby 10 'Memoria ( Service 5 p~ _:..5:45 p~ cliafe{ Sponsored by MIT Hillel THE TECH April 9, 2002 Sharp Shares Plan For Research Center By Helana Kadyszewskl brain. STAFF REPORTER While part ofMIT, the McGovern At an informal information ses- Institute will have its own nine-mem- sion yesterday afternoon, Institute ber board of directors. Professor and Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp wveiled his vision as direc- Main! Albany chosen for facility tor of the McGovern Institute for The McGovern Institute will Brain Research. share 85,000 square feet of space Founded in February 2000 with a with the Center for Learning and $350 million donation by Lore Harp Memory, the Department of Brain McGovern and Patrick J. McGovern and Cognitive Sciences and the Mar- '60, the McGovern Institute will tinos Imaging Center in a new neuro- serve to concentrate MIT' s neuro- science complex to be built on MIT's science resources. campus at the comer of Albany and While the Institute has yet to Main Streets. The complex has been break ground for.its new facility, six designed to maximize collaboration of 16 research appointments have and is set to open at the end of 2004 been made in what Sharp anticipates at the earliest. Though the facility will be "a magnificent expansion of will serve mainly house the work- neuroscience research here at MIT." space for faculty researchers, Sharp The McGovern Institute's charter said "it will definitely be wdergrad- says it will be the new home to 16 friendly." leading research scientists and full- time MIT faculty members working Center to help bulld field in three interrelated areas: systems "Neuroscience at MIT has been a and computational neuroscience, strong department with a long tradi- imaging and cognitive neuroscience, tion. But as this frontier field contin- and genetic and cellular neuro- ues to expand we are finding that we science. are sub-critical in terms of the num- Professors of Brain and Cognitive ber of faculty researchers," Sharp Science Thomaso Poggio, Ann M. said. Sharp hopes that the McGovern Graybiel PhD '71, Emilio Bizzi and Institute will attract leading scientists Nancy Kanwisher '80 and Assistant who may benefit from the additional Professor James DiCarlo of MIT's funding. Department of Brain and Cognitive Constantine-Paton, who studies Sciences have all been appointed as the central nervous system at the cel- McGovern investigators. MIT's lular level, came to MIT from Yale Department of Biology is represented University, where she said little effort at the McGovern Institute by Profes- was made to bring the faculty togeth- sors Martha Constantine-Paton, H. er across a large specialized depart- Robert Horvitz '68, and Sharp, who ment. in 1993 received the Nobel Prize for "These days, no one person can his work in the field of genetic~. The be the expert, and standard fundi~g recruitment process for the remaining agencies will not fund you wtil you 10 spots continues. have proven what your research is The diversity of backgrounds of meant to prove," she said. Constan- the principal investigators reflects tine-Paton thinks that the McGov~ what Constantine-Paton described as Institute .will address both of these an "exciting collaborative approach" issues and encourage the research of =:IE to ~ comprehensive study of the young ideas. - . il.....,..,.1 .....

JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH Institute Professor and Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp speaks about the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. The new research laboratory for neuroscience, to be located at the comer of Albany and Main St~ts, Is scheduled to open by the end of 2004.

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http://web.mit.edu/alumlconnect/reunionslstudentjobs.html March 15,2002 SPORTS THE TECH Page 19 Long Jumper Gupta Qualifies for ECACs Track, from Page 20 Dominating the horizontal jumps were Gupta and Nyenke. Winning the On the infield, the javelin throw- long jump, Gupta qualified for the ers performed well. Finishing in sec- ECAC championship with her 16'4" ond was freshman Catherine H. leap. Returning in the triple jump, Koveal '05. Following, in a fourth Gupta finished in second, with anoth- through sixth place sweep, were er ECAC qualifying jump of . Kelly M. Johnson '05, Gilbert, and 35'3.25". Gupta was MIT's second Asa-Awuku. In the shot put circle, leading scorer of the meet, as she Imoukhuede returned for another contributed 18.75 points. Nyenke fin- spectacular throw. Imoukhuede fin- ished in sixth in the long jump and ished in second with a throw of fifth in the triple jump, narrowly 41'5.25", narrowly missing her own missing the New England Division varsity letter, but good enough to III qualifying mark by 1.25". qualify provisionally for the NCAA Gupta returned in the high jump championships. lmoukhuede was as MIT's sole scorer as she scissor also MIT's leading point scorer with kicked her way to a fifth place finish. a total contribution of 19 points. Asa- To finish the meet, MIT ran in the Awuku and Vigil also scored in the 4x400m and 4x800m relays. The shot put, taking fifth and sixth places 4x400m relay, composed of Kuo, respectively. Miller, Silberstein, and Nyenke, fin- In the pole'vault, Tweedie finished ished in second. The 4x800m also in second place with a vault of 10'6", finished in second, with Buckley, a height that qualifies her provisional- Espel, Perlmutter, and Lehman repre- ly for the NCAA championships. senting MIT.

DANBERSAK Audrey Wang '03 and Yin Chen '02 represent the Women's AARON D. MIHAliK-THE TECH Varsity pistOl team at last Saturday's Alumni match. Wang, Megan C. Daugherty '03 takes a cut during the softball game against Smith College on Friday. Chen, and Judit Pungor '04 recently took first place In the Mil dropped both games of the double header to Smith. Women's National Pistol Competition •

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SPORTS ~.. Women Fall Short.Against RPI ToTake2;ndin. Engineers' Cup , ,- Track Team N~owIY~MisSes 4th Straight Cup VictoIY,16~178

By Adeline Kuo STAFF WRITER This past Saturday, the MIT Women's Track and Field team competed in one of a series of four home meets against Rensselaer Polytech- nic Institute and Worcester Polytech- nic Institute in the T annual Engineers' Cup. Hoping to win for the fourth consecutive year, MIT (163) had to settle for a close second to RPI (178), while defeating WPI (74). Leading the meet off on the track were the 5K and 10K, run simultaneously. Distance star Martha W. Buckley '04 easily won the 5K in 18:21.64. Marissa L. Yates '03 and Jenna N. Matheny '05 rounded, out the scoring in the 5K with third and fourth places respectively. In the 10K, the MIT women took fourth through sixth places, with Patricia M. McAn- drew '03, Jessica E. Karnis '05, STANLEY HlJ--THE TECH and -Kathryn S. Wasserman '04 Inhan Kang '05 delivers a fastball in the first game of a double representing MIT. header against Wheaton University. MIT lost both games, Following the distance runs 13-3 and 5-0. was the 4xl00m relay. Leading off for MIT was veteran Adeline L. Kuo '02, who passed off to Nalini Gupta '05 in the lead. Gupta main- tained the lead, as she passed the baton smoothly off to Melanie A. Miller '04, who increased the lead. Anchoring for MIT was Meredith STANLEY HU-THE TECH N. Silberstein 'OS, who brought the Adeline Kuo '02, right, hands the baton to Nalina Gupta '05 In the baton across the finish line for the winning 4x100m relay (52.74 seconds) at the Engineer's Cup" RPI won the meet with 1.78 points, ahead of MIT's 163 and WPI's 74. win in 52.74 seconds. fourth, and fifth places respective- ing in third placewas Sarah K. MIT stays close through sprints ly. In the 400m intermediate hur- Perlmutter '02, the former record The other sprint events helped dles, Silberstein led the MIT holder in this event, as she too MIT stay neck and neck with RPI. In squad, as she finished in third. qualified for the New England the 100m dash, Kuo finish in third in Miller followed in fourth, while Division III Championships in- a a New England Division III qualify- Julie M. Pinkston '04 ran this race time of 12:45.66. ,Rounding out the ing time of 13.49. Gupta followed in for the first time ever and finished scoring for MIT was Stephanie A: fourth and Nyenke placed sixth out in fifth. Claussen '95, who finished in of the unseeded heat. The 200m dash fo~h. was a 2-5 sweep for MIT, with many Middle distances-put MIT on top ;-'4' • personal records attained. Finishing In the 800m run, MIT was only Imoukbuede win's throws. in second was Kuo in a time of able to pick up one point from a Down at the other end of Briggs 28.15. Following in third was sixth place finish-by rookie Alisa P. field,-the discus and hammer throw- Catherine A. Tweedie '04 with a per- Lehman '05. S'imilarly, in the ers~-scored crucial points for MIT. sonal record time of 29.72. Rookie 1500m run, the only scorer for MIT Indoor--and outQoor All-American Danielle .Gilbert '05 ran this race for was Mealani K.'.Nakamura'-'G who Princess'Imoukhuede '02 won both the first time ever and finished in finished in fifth-In ,a-personal eve~ts:'~Imoukhuede qualified for fourth. Colleen Horin '05 rounded record time of 5:20.19.: The 3000m the -EcAc championships in the out the scoring, as she finished in steeplechase provide4 MIT with discus~and tliej\iI-New England fifth and set a PRo The 400m dash five-point edge ,over ~I. Rookie championsliipsiin the hammer gave MIT nine more points, as distance star Julia ,C. Espel-~05 fin- ' throw. Akua'A.-,Asa-Awuku 'O~ Theresa M. Hung '02 and Lili X. ished in second, set the rookie finished in t~ird in-the hammer and Peng '05 crossed the finish line in record, broke the varsity record,- fourth in the discus. 'Adding more second and third places, respectively. qualified for the New England points to MIT's totaJ was Miquela MIT scored another eighteen Division III Championships, and C. Vigil '03, taking ~ixth places in points in both hurdle races. In the just missed the NCAA provisional - both events. ' 100m high hurdles, Nyenke, mark by 10 seconds as she crossed Miller, and Horin finished in third, the finish line in 12:10.39. Follow- Track, Page 19

~ Tuesday, April 9 t Women's Lacrosse vs. Endicott College, 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 10 Men's Tennis vs. Wheaton College, 3:30 p.m. Men's Lacrosse vs. UMass Dartmouth, 4:00 p.m. 't

Thursday, Aprilll DANBERSAK Baseball vs. WPI, 3:30 p.m. Kristin Brodie '03 busts through two opponents during Saturday's loss against Wheaton as Eliza. beth Ward '05 and Sarah Dalgh '03 look on.