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L.--- Ji_'()te_To_da_y~__ ~_I. IT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Increasing cloud, 56°F (13°C) Tonight: Cloudy, rainy, 45°F (70C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, 54°F (12°C) Details, Page 2 umber 56 Cambridge, Massachusett 02139 Tuesday, ovember 5, 1996 MIT Apathy Prevails This Political Season By Zareena Hussain took a different view as to why voter STAFF REPORTER interest has been so low. "I think In preparation for today's interest i low because people know national and local elections, several there's no significant difference student groups have been campaign- between Tweedlebill and ing,"registering voters, and distribut- Tweedlebob. One makes an empty ing campaign literature. tax cut promise and the other passes The emphasis for these groups on that formality." this election season has been less on President Charles M. Vest voting for a'specific person or party offered his views on election issues and more on encouraging students and voting, although he would not to make an educated decision and say who he was voting for in any vote. races. But in spite of this year's impor- "As citizens, we s'hould each tant elections - both national and vote for those candidates which we local - the overall presence of believe present the best plan for a ADRIANE CHAPMAN-THE TECH • political activity on campus has strong future," Vest said. "In assess- Young E. Kim '98, playing Valentine in the Shakespeare Ensemble's production of Two Gentlemen been relatively low. ing candidates, I would look for a of Verona, threatens to'klll Proteus, played by Fernando L..Padilla '99. "We haven't done much on cam- pus due to lack of manpower and Elections, Page 17 lack of funding to attract member- ship. We had 'a poor turnout at our only" general meeting this year," said William R. Schneider '98, CEO Will Be Revived MIT College Republicans secretary. BenjaminM. Another stumbling block for the Republicans has been President For Fall Term 1997 Clinton's commanding lead in the polls: By Venkatesh Satlsh cult [to put the guide together] HammondG "Dote is hard to support given CONTRIBUTING EDITOR because the positions will all be that he has such a slim chance of After experiencing some trouble paid, and the work will take place Benjamin M. Hammond G, a third-year graduate student in the winning the election," Schneider over the past year, the Course during" Independent Activities joint Harvard-MIT Div'sion of Health Sciences and Technology pro- said. Evaluation Guide is being revived Period, Lee said. gram, died on last Monday in his Boston home. He was 29. Voter interest pas been low as this semester so that reviews of this Three students have already It is clear that Hammond died of a heart attack, said Robert M. well. term's classes will be ready for fall agreed to take on"the job of editing. Randolph, senior associate dean for student affairs. "We are trying to combat the 1997. Each one will be paid a stipend of "It all happened very suddenly and unexpectedly," said apathy," said Monisha M. Merchant Last semester, the CEG did not $1,000 to work through lAP, Lee .Hammond's academic adviser Kenneth . Stevens ScD '52, profes- '99, co-president of the MIT collect course evaluation data, so said. sor of electrical engineering and computer science. Hammond "was College Democrats. "The average there will not be a guide to help stu- very bright, popular, very good academically and also in his citizen doesn't see how [the"elec- dents choose classes for spring Guide requires a lot of work research," Stevens said. tion] affects their day-to-day lives." 1997. One of the problems the guide Born in Milwaukee, Hammond graduated from Harvard Another reason for voter apathy In order to ensure that the guide encountered in receI}t years is that University in 1989 and worked for Kierkegaard and Associates, an has been the emphasis on local elec- would continue, leaders of the CEG, "it became a burden on students, acoustics consulting firm based in Chicago, for five years before tions as a result of the seemingly a committee of the Undergraduate and the faculty weren't being coop- entering graduate school. • inevitable victory for Clinton. Association, met with administra- erative," said Federico Bernal '97, At a memorial service held last Friday, family members and Most students at MIT are regis- tors last term" to discuss the prob- former editor in chief of the CEG. friends reminisced and remembered Hammond as an active contribu- tered elsewhere and therefore will lems with putting out the guide. "The most time-consuming work tor to the community. not vote in local elections, said As a result, two teams that will would have been near the end of the Hammond was an active member of the speech and hearing divi- Steve V. Jens '97, chairman of the look into short-term and long-term semester, when the school work sion o(HST, where he organized speakers for various events the College Republicans. solutions were formed, and classes kicks in," Bernal said. department held, and did much of his research at the Massachusetts "I like Dole, but Dole's going to will definitely be evaluated this fall, This burden will no longer be as Eye and Ear Infirmary through the HST program. lose. He'll be crushed in said U A President Richard Y. Lee much of a problem becaust: there A musician and a songwriter, Hammond was under contract with Massachusetts," Jens said. '97. a record label in New York City and served as a teaching assistant in Libertarian Scott D. Schneider '00 "I don't think it will be that diffi- CEG, Page 11 an acoustics class. In addition, he helped to design the new Seiji Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood. "He was an outstanding student," Randolph said. "In fact, his department is considering renaming [a] lab in honor of Hammond." Hammond had battled heart problems ever since he was a child. He is survived by his parents, Michael P. and Anne L. Hammond, '. and a brother, Thomas M. Hammond of Bedford Hills, ew York. A funeral Mass was held ye terday in ew York. Hammond's burial will take place in Bedford Hills. Dean's Office Hosts ' Student Meetings INSIDE Today at 6 p.m. there will be an open hou e ho ted by • Entrepreneurs pre- the Dean's Office on the first pare for this year's $50K floor of the ReI igious Activities Center.' The meet- competition. Page 6 ing is an opportunity for stu- dent to meet deans from the • APO revives Spring Dean's Office, a k them Carnival to bring groups questions, and share their concern about the In titute. together. Page 9 There will be a second meeting on Thur day at 5 p.m. • Chairman of the in the Religious Activitie Corporation Paul E. RITA H. UN-THE TE 11 Center for tho e interested in Gray reflects on MIT's The" acclaimed Boston Saxophone Quartet performed last Thursday as part of the MIT Chapel serving on the De.an' s Office's Concert series. student advisory council. endowment. Page 25 , t.'. __--..--ates pe ast Days THE WASHI GTO POST WASH I GTO Carn aign On'the Road For the econd time in three day , aU. F-16 jet fighter fired a mi ile at an Iraqi air de~ n e site Monday after the ite' radar appeared to be targeting the jet, the Pentagon aid. Clinton Camp igns Despite the Strain, Reacting cautiou Iy, Defen e ecretary William 1. Perry expre ed orne uncertainty about whether the jet really wa threatened, acknowl- edging the po sibility it detection equipment may have given a fal e Heavily Throughout Dole Presses Ahead reading. The Pentagon ha been unable to ub tantiate a aturday report by another F-16 pilot that radar trom an Iraqi anti-aircraft battery had tracked hi plane, prompting him to hoot ami ile as well. ew England During Through Last Day The Iraqi government ha in i ted it gunner have not been aim- ing at U.. aircraft, which are enforcing a five-year-old ban on Jraqi military flight over outhem Iraq. Baghdad' Foreign (ini try Last Campaign Day Of Campaign Tour i ued a tatement yesterday labeling the U.. report of threatening action "ba ele "and accu ing the U.. government of fabricating the By John F. Harris By Blaine Harden account a "a mean of election propaganda, m rlcan tyle." THE WASHINGTON POST THE WASHI GTON POST Perry aid he had no word yet on the damage, if any, cau ed by LEX I GTO , KY. ALAMOGORDO, .M. the U .. mi ile fired aturday and onday, adding that both Bill Clinton Monday raced through the last of hun- With his campaign drawing to a fitful close and his 41 epi odes remain under inve tigation. dred of day he ha spent in a lifetime running for pre - voice eroding into an exhausted croak, Bob Dole ident, touching downjn five states to offer a rapid-fire pressed on into his fourth near-sleepless day of skitter- -recitation of hi rea ons for re-election. ing around America, trying to revive his electoral for- California Judge Lets Fraud Suit On the final day of the 1996 campaign Clinton tunes by ceaseless movement and force of will. turned at time, toward history, comparing his mission to The Republican nominee 'kept himself going by Against Tobacco Firms Go Forward that of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, and drinking "Throat Coat" medicinal tea, by making excep- LOS A GELES TIMES a serting: "At every point of great change in the history tionally short speeches and by trumpeting bits of good A uperior Court judge in California ha permitted a ma sive of this nation, someone has to step up and say, we're news, such as one aberrant weekend poll that found the fraud uit again t the major tobacco companies and the Council for going to meet this challenge and we're going to go for- election too close to call.