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s The eather Olde and ge T day: Rainy, then clear, 46°F (S°C) T night: Clear, cold, 30°F (-1°C) e sp per Tomorrow: unny, 4 of (S°C) D tails, Page 2 e~- .....-_e By Orn G. Bahcall leader can get to ther and di u n w po ition, and I think I can bring ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR i ue of mutu lone rn. a lot of good idea to MIT." Katherine G. O'Dair, a istant O'Dair will pend her fir t week director of tudent activities at Tuft on the job attending the Leader- orum help r pre nt tudent . Univer ity, ha been elected a the hape conferen e. he hope to The final three candidate - new i tant dean for residence and pend the ummer getting oriented Rebecca A. havez, Jeanne M. campus activitie . O'Dair will to MIT' y tern and operation, Maguire, and O'Dair - were a ume her position on June 1. preparing for the next academic elected from an initial pool of 200. The dean's role i to be a a year and "meet[ing] a many peo- " ach ha lightly different "close adviser to the student in ple a I can," he aid. trength ,thing that make them helping them develop their organi- The po ition wa vacated when particularly suitable for the job," zations, particularly the government former A si tant Dean for R A aid Rhomberg. "I am very happy organizations," as well as maintain- usan D. Allen left to become dean that [O'Dair] will come; I think he ing and improving the financial of tudent at Roxbury ommunity will make a good RCA dean." structures, O'Dair said. College earlier thi year. Rhomberg felt that the forums She" truck me a omeone who were ucce sful both because mo t i very willing to take the initiative O'Dair r cei e fir t ta te of IT tudent opinion were repre ented to go out and attend tudent events," The student forum at which the and the candidates got an idea of said Andrew 1. Rhomberg G, a stu- three dean candidate were intro- what they will face at MIT, he said. dent member of the election com- duced "were very valuable I learned A sociate Dean for R A Mar- mittee. She "is very eager to see about some of the problems and garet A. Jablon ki, who made the what is happening on campus, and procedures that fru trated tudent ," final deci ion, "was very open in Ii - not someone who just tays in her she said. tening to what tudents were inter- office." Student expre sed the problem e ted in and what they had to ay," O'Dair received a bachelor' with how things run at MIT - not Rhomberg aid. degree in communication from in a negative or confrontational Jablonski" at down and talked Miami University in 1988 and a manner - but by presenting what to the tudent at meeting , [a ked] master's degree in education, stu- "was going on campus, and a ked what they expected of the po ition dent per onnel and counseling from how can you help u ." ... [and] en ured that whoever real- Northeastern University in 1991. When O'Dair que tioned tu- ly wanted to give a comment had She brings her experience from dents as to what thing at MIT work the opportunity to do so," he aid. Tufts University to her new job. well, she did not receive a direct "It would have been nice if more "One thing I have done at Tuft i to reply, "only a lot of pau ing." till, people had hown up," to the have informal lunche , talking about he i "ure that there are thing that forum , but it wa impo sible to run To u e: a number of topics, where students work well," and i intere ted in the forums any other way, can ju t come and talk about a hearing what the e i ue are. Rhomberg aid. add sipb pi ," h aid. O'Dair a) 0 met with a variety of R a u a lot of lib rty in xshower & Formal student leader hip train- admini trator in R A and around organizing the event and inviting ing is also high on her priority list. campu that she will be working the candidates on the behalf of the Students always come away from with next year. "I met a lot of inter- tudent . The tudent forum "ga e JIRI SCHINDLER-THE TECH these leadership program so much e ting people, it wa a very good an important me age to [the dean The newly installed shower In the Student Center Athena clus- more prepared to lead the groups, experience and 1 really look forward candidate) that we were given an ter comes with directions for use. O'Dair said. She would also like to to working with all of them." active po ition in the whole see forum at MIT where student "I am very excited about thi proce s," Rhomberg aid. MIT Team Places 3rd inPutnam Conference Focuses Contest Behind Harvard, Cornell On Computer Privacy •. By Orn G. Bahcall Mathematics Hartley Roger Jr. and consistent job that is key to earning By Fenny Un with tutorials, and consi ted of vari- ASSOCIATE NEWS .EDITOR Richard P. Stanley, who have been a place in the top five." ous workshops and panel . Harold MIT placed third in the 56th involved in the competition every The Putnam exam consists of The Sixth Conference on Com- Abel on, professor of electrical annual William Lowell Putnam year. two three-hour section each of six puters, Freedom, and Privacy held engineering and computer science, Mathematical Competition. The The top five teams receive cash question . A background of elemen- March 27-30 brought together over organized the conference. results for the Dec. 2 competition prizes. Awards are also given to the tary math, linear algebra, discrete 500 expert and advocate from The keynote peaker wa George were released March 22. teams' mathematics departments. math and number theory is recom- fields such a computer science, Metakide , director of re earch and The competition included more Each MIT team member will mended. Any undergraduate can public policy, and government to development for the European than 400 universities and colleges receive $300, and the MIT mathe- take the exam. di cu s how computer and informa- trategic Program for Re earch and from the United States and Cana- matics department will receive A seminar offered in the fall, tion technologie are affecting free- Development in Information Tech- da. 3,000. Mathematical Problem olving dom and privacy. nologie. Harvard and Cornell placed first The departmental award will be (18S34) serves as a useful prepara- Hosted jointly by MIT and the Metakide spoke about the four and second in the competition, u ed to support and promote tion and review, Rogers said. World Wide Web Consortium, the fundamental i ues in hi keynote respectively. undergraduate mathematics at Other MIT tudents who earned conference addressed four major addre . Concerning intellectual • Competing for MIT were Ruth MIT. high core were: Federico Ardila is ue : intellectual property, person- property law, he empha ized the A. Britto-Pacumio '96, Sergey M. "Profe or tanley and I are very '98, David Y. Jao '9 , Amit Khetan al privacy encryption, and the need to build from countrie ' cur- Joffe '96, and Thoma A. Weston happy about the achievement of '99, Eric H. Kuo '99, Adam W. determination to pre erve cultural rent intellectual property law, '96. Member of the team were MIT' 1995 team," Rogers said. diver ity in the online world. selected in advance by Professors of "They did the uniformly olid and Math, Page 12 The four-day conference began Privacy, Page 13 tudents is't D.C. over pring Break - To Teach By M. F. AI-Salem lie Service Center, which funded the trans- For the young pupil, the Ie sons were a portation; the MIT Alumni A ociation, which ucce s, ince the junior high student were T enty-five students pent their spring provided hou ing; and Teach for America, a eager to learn from college tudents not too • hort Thk . Page 11 break in Wa hington, non-profit national service or anization that much older than themselves, Cheng aid. The D t D.C. teaching under- assi ts pro pective teachers hands-on nature of the projects taught them the Police Log. PageLl r ea ure privileged tudents. The students were paired up and as igned to practical application of science, Cheng aid. The trip, organized by various junior high school in the District. The The junior high students looked up to their Boston Ballet opens Anthony J. Ive '96 ended up being a success- local teachers were eager to have the college college-aged teachers and many got their fir t ful learning experience both for the young student help out in the classroom and bring glimp e at the benefits of a college education. with Hot & Cool. Page 6 pupil and their temporary college-aged teach- projects and experiments which would in pire "We were the role'model ," said Ives, and "the ers. and excite their student, Ive said. kids were willing to learn" from us. • Grendel's caters to all The trip was was almo t exclusively Each pair of tudents planned their experi- "Many of the kids recognized us outside of planned by MlT students who were inspired to ments and Ie sons beforehand, Ives said.