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IT's The eather Olde and Large t Today: Cloudy, mild, 45°F (70C) Tonight: Mostly cloudy, 35°F (2°C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, 46°F (SoC) Details, Page 2 Volume 121, umber 15 Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, April 3, 2001 IT Admits 1,632 Applicants For Freshman Class of 2005 By Eun J. lee characteristic of MIT students." offers relative to our need-based ASSOCIATE FEATURES EDITOR An estimated 750 admitted stu- peers," Jones said. The recent admittance of the dents will attend Campus Preview Outreach programs for incoming incoming class of 2005 is a harbin- Weekend, which begins Thursday freshmen include overnight trips with ger of a new generation of nerds and is open to all admitted students. student hosts for anyone who wants who will make MIT proud. "CPW is a key enrollment to visit the campus. Also, applicants Only 16 percent of the 10,511 event," said Jones. "MIT students are contacted throughout the year by students who applied to be part of always make the best recruiters." students and alumni in their region the fall 2001 freshman class, or At 1,000 students, the target size who can answer questions for them. 1,632 students, were admitted. for the class of 2005 is the same as Underrepresented minority stu- The newest MIT students-to-be the target for last year. This year, dents (including American Indians, come f om a wide range of geo- fewer applicants were admitted in Black, Mexican, and Puerto Rican graphic and ethnic backgrounds. hopes that new improvements in Americans) are invited to visit MIT "We look for the best students of financial aid packages will increase in the fall. our kind in the world. Some are intel- the yield of matriculants. "We have tried to be conserva- lectuals, some are doers, but all have . "This year's changes in financial tive in the number of admitted stu- expressed self-initiative in their own aid should help us a lot because dents. We don't want too many so ways," said Marilee Jones, Dean of over the years we had gotten less that we can prevent overcrowding," Admissions. "Self-initiative is a key competitive in our financial aid said Bette Johnson, Associate Director of Admissions. "The wait 15% list will be an instrument to fine B Top Home States tune this process." ~ .gE 12% Of Admitted Students Early action numbers stay steady en Five hundred eighty-eight stu- en ca C3 9% s ~ E 6% SEPHIR HAMILTON-THE TECH ~ fo Studen s cross Massachusetts Avenue at the newly re- ca opened crosswalk in front of Building 7 yesterday afternoon. 3% -cP= This weekend, Massachusetts Avenue will be closed to e vehicular traffic between Albany and Vassar Streets as t. crews remove the railroad tracks to install a water main. 0% Wolpert Discusses Iihrary System Clifford G. Shull With Undergraduate Association Professor Emeritus Clifford G. Shull, a obel By Shankar Mukherji ty of MIT's tight space situation. comfortable and varied study space, Prize winner in physics in ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR "We must work within pro- more online full-text resources, and 1994, passed away Satur- Ann J. Wolpert, MIT's Director foundly constrained facilities and ... more books," among other things. day after a short illness. He of Libraries, gave a comprehensive with projects such as the Stata Cen- "The survey showed that MIT was 85 years old report regarding the status of the ter, the construction pipeline is students are fairly sophisticated con- ....hull wa the kind of Institute's library system at the full," said Wolpert. sumers of library services," Wolpert person that made you Undergraduate Association Council Still, according to Wolpert, said. think, 'if everybody in the meeting last night. efforts are underway to respond to As a short-term response to the world were like this, it Wolpert is currently serving her students' needs. student body's expressed needs, would be a much easier fifth year as the head administrator Wolpert highlighted the results Wolpert said that the library system place to get along in, a of the university's libraries. of a survey distributed to the student plans "to install a 24-hour study much nicer place," said In her presentation, Wolpert out- body. space in Building 14 by the 2002 Shull's former advisee, lined the need to balance the desires Wolpert said that "students asked Anthony C. Nunes '64. of the student body against the reali- for longer [library operating] hours, UA, Page 13 Shull "was a wonderful colleague with a wry sense of humor," said Dean for Research 1. David Litster. Bands Selected for Spring Weekend hun is perhaps be t known as the co-recipient MIT NEffS OFFICE The Roots, Blues Traveller Chosen for Show Based on Results of Online Survey of the 1994 obel Prize in Professor Emeritus Clifford G. Shull, physi s, along with Pro- co-reeiplent of the :1994 Nobel Prize By A.S. Wang Graduate Student Council. music preferences of over 800 MIT fessor Bertram S. Brock- in physics, died Saturday, March In addition to the star-studded students, the Spring Weekend house of McMaster Uni- 3:1. He was 85. The Johnson Athletic Center will concert line-up, Spring Weekend Committee has put together a show versity in Canada, for his play host to the famous pop band will include new activities such as that is consistent with what MIT pioneering re earch into thermal neutron scattering. Blues Traveller and the hip-hop the "Odyssey Ball" and the revival students requested: hip-hop and hull went to Oak Ridge ational Laboratory in 1946, where he band The Roots on Friday, April 27. of some old traditions, such as the rock music. and the late Ernest Wollan developed ways to use neutrons produced The concert is the main event of "Mr. MIT" pageant. "We have been able to put by nuclear reactors to gain information about the position of hydro- MIT's Spring Weekend. Spring Weekend is bound to together a truly diverse show that gen in organic molecules. "He went to Oak Ridge immediately after "It is essentially a double bill," attract "a much larger audience and best fits MIT students' preferences," the war and literally tarted the field of neutron diffraction," or send- aid Sonia Garg '02, Spring Concert hopes to bring together the entire said Spring Weekend Concert Co- ing neutrons into matter, unes aid. co-chair. MIT campus," said Satwiksai chair CliffH. Hodges '02. tudying neutron scattering shows a pects of molecular tmcture, This year's Spring Weekend Seshasai '01, chair of the 2001 The concert is going to open such as hydrogen bonding in a protein, that X-ray cannot show, activities are made possible by a Spring Weekend Committee. with Pru, a female hip-hop vocalist unes aid. "It was very fundamental work that paved the way for a dramatic increase in funding com- who travels with The Roots. After- number of other obel Prize winners in which the data was based on pared to previous years. Most of this Bands reflect student preferences wards, both Blues Traveller and the funding has been provided by the Using an on-line poll released Obituary, Page 15 Undergraduate Association and in December that surveyed the Spring Weekend, Page 16 Dr. David Comics ARTS World & Nation 2 Baltimore The MIT Symphony Orche tra per- Opinion 4 delivered the formed works from Bartok, Hin- Arts 7 2001 Hughes demith, Copland, and Ravel. lecture. Events Calendar .12 ports 24 Page 22 Page 9 Page 7 Page 2 001 LD& B dget u Reflect of .C..........inuon Vi ·0 Bus Asks China for Access THE WA3HINGTON POST s President Bush prepares to reveal the fine print of hi vision of government in his fir t budget, his administration ha decided to cur- tail - or redefine - policies that were hallmarks of the Clinton To Crew embers of Plane years. They include efforts to low nuclear proliferation, coordinate health care for the uninsured and put more police on the treets. By Henry Chu president issued firm but nonthreat- Seeming to make the same point, The $1.9 trillion spending plan the president is to i sue in a week and James Gerstenzang ening statements. His senior aide Tang said that "the merican side also will pare recent government initiative to con erve energy, spur LOS ANGELES nMES remained in the hadow, offering has explained time and again to our economic development in poor communities and train doctors at BEIJING no sugge tion that the admini tra- ambas ador that this incident will children's hospitals. Tho e and other budgetary details have been Two dozen crew members of a tion ha moved to cri is footing. not influence the general interest gleaned in recent days by congre sional taff member, advocacy downed merican py plane were "Our prioritie are the prompt between China and the United groups and other budget-watchers and were confirmed by admini - held incommunicado in China Tues- and safe return of the crew, and the tate ." tration sources. day morning a Pre ident Bu h return of the aircraft without further The row represents the gravest While Bush's aides have been reticent to discus the budget pub- demanded that U. S. official be damaging or tampering," the pre i- te t to U.S.-Chinese relations in two licly, they have concluded that they can trim a variety of programs given prompt access to them and dent said. 'The fir t step hould be year since A TO's mistaken that they consider ineffective or duplicative - or that have received that their airplane be returned "with- immediate access by our embas y bombing of the Chinese Embassy in generous increases in the recent past.