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Vote Today MlT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Clear, 56°F (13°C) Tonight: Mostly clear, 40°F (4°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, 60°F (l6°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 120, Number 56 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, November 7, 2000 Next House Pranks Result in Sanctions By Adam T. Gamer resources and discipline. Incidents of vandalism and Party was scene of vandalism alcohol abuse rocked Next House Trouble began on the night of last week over Halloween, leaving Friday, October 27, when an unreg- residents of Third East barred from istered party occurred at the Third having parties until June 10, 2001. East wing at which alcohol was The residents of the floor, which served. That night, party-goers was the site of much of the vandal- broke a window in the main lounge, ism, must also pay fines of $35 and ripped a soap dispenser in one of the face the possibility of being moved bathrooms out of the wall, and off the floor in the event of future sprayed shaving cream in several incidents. bathrooms. "Third East is on probation so Some party-goers rewired an ele- that if any incidences of vandalism vator, causing it to go to the fourth or alcohol occur, all Third East res- floor when the second floor button idents will be required to move off was pressed and vice versa. Five PEDRO L. ARRECHEA-THE TECH the floor, and some may be chairs were also destroyed. "An The Harvard band Fink Fank Funk plays In Lobdell during Friday night's Battle of the Bands, host- required to leave MIT housing," upholstered chair was thrown up on ed by Habitat for Humanity. See story, page 16. said Carol Orme-Johnson, assistant so badly that it had to be thrown dean for student complaint Sanctions, Page 25 Rules Grad Students May Fonn Unions .~-w ". • " .IhMatthew Palmer sion, which originated from com- effect on graduate students in uni- Graduate Student Council Presi- ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR plaints by graduate students at New versities everywhere," said NLRB dent Soulaymane Kachani said that The National Labor Relations York University, are already being spokeswoman Sandra Dunbar. "We graduate relations with the Institute Board ruled unanimously last Tues- felt. At the University of Massachu- could see unions being formed are strong and that he did not expect day that graduate students working setts at Boston last week, graduate rather quickly." a student union to be created in the as teaching and research assistants students voted to be represented by The same rush to organize has near future. By Melissa Cain at private universities have the right the Graduate Employees Organiza- not been felt at MIT. It is unclear "The jury is still out. It's not STAFF REPORTER to organize into unions, with full tion, a subdivision of the United whether this sentiment will continue something that we can foresee," said Last night the Undergraduate collective bargaining rights. Auto Workers. or if students will take advantage of Association Council allocated The shock waves from this deci- "This could have a substantial the ruling sometime in the future. Unions, Page 17 $1,750 towards the creation of a new publication, the Institute Forum. The publication will be run Ugly As Can by students and will also receive Be: Random matching funds from the Office of the Dean for Student Life for a total Milk Claims UMOe Crown grant of $3,500. The Institute Forum will "pro- By Pey-Hua Hwang ners received $5 gift certificates to vide an in-depth analysis of issues - STAFF WRITER Toscanini's. All of the money raised relevant to the MIT community Yesterday's presentation of the (a total of $407.23) went to the through publications and forums awards for the Ugliest Manifestation charity of choice of the winner, between students and administra- on Campus was a small but which was the Greater Boston Food tors,", according to its statement of nonetheless suspenseful event. Of Bank. pwpose. the nine people who came to the Matthew S. Cain '02, president The Institute Forum is scheduled fifth floor Student Center Lounge of Random Hall, came to represent to be published twice a term, begin- for the ceremony, four were there to the milk and receive his reward of a ning with one this term. present awards. The contest is spon- trophy which looked like a disfig- The bill was generally well sored by the service fraternity Alpha ured head. He said that the milk had received by the UA Council. Allison Phi Omega. run every year for the last six years L. Neizmik '02, chair of the UA David A. Lipsky '03, a UMOC and that it had become a tradition. Publications Committee, said that project chair, began the ceremony' "This is its second victory," he said. existing publications on campus with the irreverent announcement, The milk also won the second year "can't handle issues in depth" "Welcome to the UMOC 2000 that it ran. because of the style of their report- thingie." His introduction reflected Cain added, "We are grateful to ing. With a circulation comparable the laid back feeling of the entire be able help the cause of the Greater to that of The Tech this publication event. Boston Food Bank and help people could have a huge impact," Neizmik Lipsky and co-chair Ray L. out this holiday season." said. Speth '03 next moved on to the The Greater Boston Food Bank The UA Council approved the awards: was unfortunately unable to send a funding allocation on the condition Random Hall Milk came out on representative because the that the group is able to get recogni- top. Second place with $60.53 were approaching Thanksgiving holiday tion by the Association of Student the East Campus and Random Hall is keeping all of its small staffbusy. Activities. renovations; The Tech came in third In other business, UA President with $50.09; the temporary offices UMOC based in tradition Peter A. Shulman '01 announced near the Dot came in fourth with Lipsky also discussed the history that one-of the things that the UA $42.61, and an Athena cluster at 4 of the UMOC competition. In the JACQUELINE YEN-THE TECH a.m. came in fifth with $33.01. Matthew Cain '02, representing Random Hall Milk, this year's "UglI- UA, Page 25 The second and third place win- UMOC, Page 25 est Manifestation on Campus," proudly displays the UMOC trophy. FEATURES Comics The Tech will not publish an TwoMIT students will compete issue this Friday due to the Vet- World & Nation 2 on ABC's"WhoWants to be a Mil- erans' Day Holiday. Publication Opinion 4 lionaire?" will resume next Tuesday. Arts 7 On The Town 12 Page 13 Page 18 Features 13 Page 2 T ovember 7, 2000 .Y.Senate THE WASH} GTON POST , t e efine E YORK It has been the most expensive Senate race in history - and one of the most bizarre. Tuesday, the voters of ew York will decide arty oundaries whether Hillary Rodham Clinton will be their next senator, or just another suburban transplant with an out-of-work husband. By Ronald Brownstein tic" message have converged on messages, although they have The first lady has campaigned relentlessly throughout her adopted LOS ANGELES TIMES some intriguing points - with both, moved in opposite directions. state for 16 months, acculturating many ew Yorkers to her once- WASHINGTO for instance, urging greater competi- Gore hasn't decisively broken unfathomable celebrity candidacy through sheer repetition. She has Al Gore and George W. Bush tion for public schools and more with Clinton's "New Democratic" often sounded like any other Democratic congressional candidate - arrive at the finish line Tuesday in a reliance on states and religiously agenda. But in several subtle touting the prosperity achieved under the Clinton administration, presidential race that began by based charities to deliver social ser- respects, the vice president has tilted promising prescription drugs to seniors, attacking her opponent, Rep. promising to reconfigure the historic vices. the Democratic Party back toward Rick Lazio (R-N.Y.) as aewt Gingrich clone - while refusing to lines of debate between the two par- On the other, the two candidates the message and priorities that pre- discuss her husband's impeachment or his administration's contro- ties, but has ended mostly by recon- have revived old disputes about the dated the president. versies. firming them. role of government and the balance Gore has defended all of Clin- Still, this is no ordinary race, and not only because no first lady Although Bush on many issues between taxes and spending that ton's signature New Democratic has ever tried to join the Senate, much less the same Senate that tried has sought to move the Republican might have been lifted from any reforms - such as balancing the and acquitted her husband. The race will inevitably be judged as a Party toward the center, he has campaign over the past half century. budget, paying down the national referendum on her husband's presidency, albeit one in a heavily spent the last several weeks mostly "It's the rhetoric of 1976 or 1960 debt, reducing the size of the federal Democratic state that he easily carried twice himself. denouncing Gore as a servant of big almost," says Bill Kristol, publisher work force and imposing time limits government - the argument GOP of The Weekly Standard, a conserv- on welfare recipients. nominees have wielded against ative magazine. "In that respect, I But, strikingly, Gore hasn't pro- Supreme Court to Detennine Democrats without pause since the don't think it tells us about the poli- posed any comparably ambitious New Deal.