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Volume 121 umber 27 Cambridge, 02139 Friday, June 8, 2001 Over 2,000 to Graduate in Killian Today Clay To ASN.sGoldin to Speak at Commencement Replace By Maria Wang cal speech format. "You could call STAFF REPORTER it Seussical," he added. Bacow There are 2,122 of them. Following his speech, Tseng They've done thou ands of prob- will present the Senior Gift to lem sets, defended hundreds of the- President Charle M. Vest. This ses, and pulled many an all-nighter. year's enior Gift is the tudent Associate Proiost Today, they will receive 1,064 Life Scholarship, which will bene- bachelor's degrees and 1,305 fit visionary undergraduates whose Named Chancellor advanced degrees before an ideas greatly impact student life. By Naveen Sunkavally expected audience of 8,000. NEWSEDlTOR Commencement exercises will Ticket shortage leads to scalping President Charles M. Vest feature guest speaker Daniel S. The four tickets allocated to announced on Tuesday that Associ- Goldin, Administrator of the each graduate are not enough for ate Provost Phillip M. Clay PhD '75 National Aeronautics and Space some and superfluous for others. will replace Lawrence S. Bacow '72 Administration. Goldin is credited Some students have posted flyers as the new chancellor of MIT. with reviving NASA during the and sent e-mails to mailing lists Clay's appointment is effective July post-Cold War era and was a key advertising the sale of these tick- 1, when Bacow leaves to become figure in developing the interna- ets; prices have been as high as president of Tufts University. tional space station. $150. There have also been con- As chancellor, Clay said his goal Under Goldin's administration, tests and auctions in the past for will be to "create a caring and affec- the money and time needed to con- Commencement tickets. tive community" while continuing struct spacecraft have decreased A message posted on the Com- the implementation of the many dramatically while the number of mencement webpage indicates that projects started under Bacow, and missions launched per year has the Commencement Committee carrying out the recommendations quadrupled. "believes that selling of Com- of the Task Force on Student Life Goldin's speech will be fol- mencement tickets violates the and Learning. lowed by a salute to MIT from out- spirit of this celebration of acade- In particular, Clay said he wants going Graduate Student Council mic achievement, and in many to expand his own vision to gradu- President Soulaymane Kachani and cases violates MIT regulations." MJODRAG CIRKOVIC-THE TECH ate students, who often spend long a speech by Class of 2001 Presi- "This policy has been in place Jelena Srebric receives her doctoral hood from the Building Technology hours in lab and are more isolated dent Erick N. Tseng. Tseng said Program (Department 0 r hitecture). Chancellor Lawrence S. Bacow his speech would not have a typi- Commencement, Page 24 '72 presented the hoods in the Johnson Athletic Center Thursday. Clay, Page 24 ATO to Face CLC Regarding Spring 16 Members of KAT toLive Weekend Altercation with The Roots By Jennifer Krishnan tioned by the Interfraternity Coun- by the CLC is unwarranted." In Sig Ep Annex This Thar ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR cil. IFC sanctions include a ban on By Jeffrey Greenbaum Alpha Tau Omega will once again large events until spring 2002 and a CLC responsible for safety appear before the Cambridge License ban on any events with alcohol until "The CLC is responsible for the Sixteen Kappa Alpha Theta sisters will be living in the Sigma Phi Commission on June 19, this time fa112002. safety and well-being of the build- Epsilon annex this coming year. regarding the altercation between the "The action taken [by the IFC] ing and the people in it," said CLC The sisters will occupy three of the five floors of the house, located fraternity and the hip-hop band The so far is certainly adequate" pun- Executive Officer Richard V. at 515 Beacon Street. ig Ep brothers will continue to have full access Roots during SpringWeekend. ishment, said ATO President Erik to the facilities. ATO has already been sane- M. Glover '02. "Any further action ATO, Page 26 Under the agreement, members of KAT must rent the rooms from Sig Ep individually;no chapter funds may be used, no KAT lettersmay be displayedoutside, and the house may not ho t sororityfunctions.
Sig Ep till want annex acces The Zeta Mu chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta, established at MIT in 1990 has been trying to obtain a house for its chapter for the past few years. KAT President Rose G. Radin '02 decided to inquire about the Sig Ep annex this February. Sigma Phi Epsilon' Alumni Corporation controlsthe annex. "We [Sig Ep] have rented out some of the rooms in the annex for the past two and a half years ... [but] brothers have always had the annex [door's] combination, whether to live there or to access its weight room," said SigmaPhi EpsilonHouse Manager Mark B. Velsko '02. While Sig Ep Alumni CorporationPresident Eddie Chin thinks that "helping [KAT] run its ownplace is good for the community,"he decid- ed not to sell the annex to KAT, based on the recommendations of his fraternity's active member . "Brothers would like to continue living in the annex and using its weight room," Chin said. In fact, brothers are excitedthat the weight room is under renovation,he said. Chin and active members of Sig Ep agreed to rent 11 rooms that comprise the upper three floorsof the annex to KAT sisters, leavingthe lower two floors for Sig Ep brothers. KAT tenants will have the combi- nation for entrance only for the annex, not for Sig Ep' s main house. Each room will have its own extemallock and key. KAT tenants will be JAMES CAMP-THE TECH able to acces all of the annex's facilities:the weight room, the kitchen, Killian Court, seen here from the speaker's podium, has been transformed from a casual gathering spot to a multi-thousand-seat outdoor auditorium for today's Commencement exercises. KAT, Page 26
The women' Comics OPINIO World & ation 2 ultimate Jason H. Wasfy urges graduates Opinion 4 team com- to u e their MIT education in a Arts 9 petes at socially responsible way. ationals, On the Town .13 Events Calendar 20 Page 28 Page 15 Page 5 Page 2 June 2001 WORLD & ATIO .. Agr ...... "'...'-...... of D.K. Electorate Gives Labor BEIJING China and the United tate have wrapped up an agreement on the return of a .. spy plane tuck for more than two months on south- Party, Blair Landslide Wm ern Hainan i land, bringing to an end one of the wor t confrontation to bedevil the two countrie in recent years. Byl.R. Reid the campaign that he will move left it i 'ab olutely crucial" for him to Chine e Foreign ini try pokesman un Yuxi told reporter THE WASHlNGTO POST from thi point on." 0 radical, have a good working relationship Thur day that negotiation had concluded on di mantling the U .. La DO reforming government ha ever with the new U. .pre ident. avy EP-3 and sending it home. Four technicians from the United Briti h voters ga e Prime nus- done it all in the first term," he told While other European leader State have pent the past week in the Chine e capital ha hing out the ter Tony Blair a re ounding re-elec- the voter ." e will go much fur- have openly disagreed with Bush on detail of how to disassemble and transport the damaged 80-million tion victory Thursday, exit poll ther." uch is ues a national missile aircraft. projected, handing Blair a powerful That hift hould produce con- defen e, the Kyoto climate-change The agreement lay to re t the outstanding is ue in the diplomatic mandate for the ' radical change" he iderably higher pending on the agreement and American u e of the tandoffbetween Beijing and Washington, D.C., that en ued when the ha promi ed in the nation' antique nation s decrepit school , ho pitals de th penalty, Blair has kept a EP-3 and a Chine e fighter jet collided in the air Apr. 1 off the south- class structure and the crumbling and fran it terminal . Blair' aides diplomatic silence on the e is ue ern Chine e coast. The American craft made an emergency landing on public infra tructure. al 0 say he will mount a frontal - doing so deliberately, his aides Hainan, where its 24-member crew wa detained for 11 day. The Televi ion network projections attack on lingering ba tion of say, to keep the bridge between pilot of the Chinese fighter was lost at sea and d elared dead. issued ju t after the poll clo ed ocial privilege - particularly on London and Washington in a good " hina and the nited tates have basically olved the matter of indicated that Blair and hi center- pre tigious univer itie uch as state of repair. the plane, both the crew and the aircraft; un said adding that, 'We left Labor Party will take over 45 Oxford and Cambridge, where the The liberal mood of the elec- hope bilateral relation can come back to the normal track." percent of the vote, a land lid by admissions proce s i still heavily torate was also reflected in a record- Briti h standard, nd slightly high- tilted toward elite private high high vote for Britain' third-largest er than the margin Labor won in the chools. party, the Liberal Democrats, who ...... ssian Reduce ent nce last national election four year ago. Labor s big victory i a clear ran to the left of Blair on a platform The chief opposition, the Con- affirmation of the center-left trend caIJing for higher taxes and bigger For Imprisoned • • den servative , were getting an anemic in European governments - a trend government. THE WASHl oro POST 30 percent or so, exit polls showed, that wa interrupted briefly by Sil- Blair's performance during the MOSCOW a r ult that likely means the axe for vio Berlusconi' s narrow victory in campaign makes it hard to predict A Russian court on Thur day reduced the drug sentence of Amer- the party's embattled leader, Italy last month. When George W. whether he will try to take Britain ican student John Tobin to a year in prison in a case that has drawn William Hague. Bush makes his first presidential into the European single currency. the interest of high-level U.S. officials concerned that the Fulbright Blair rode to victory and a solid visit to Europe next week, two- The new euro will replace marks, scholar was targeted as part ofRu sia' fixation with espionage. majority in parliament on a tide of thirds of the 18 leader he will meet liras, francs and other currencies in Tobin, 24, who goes by the nickname Jack and a studying at economic good new - the lowest will be leftists of one degree or 12 European countries on Jan. 1. Voronezh tate University about 300 miles outh of oscow, was unemployment, inflation and mort- another. Currency traders around the world, originally given a 37-month prison term for charges stemming from gage rates in a generation - and a Still, the Labor win here should assuming that Blair will lead Britain po se sing a tiny amount of marijuana. The Russian ecurity service fairly centri t first term in which he pose no problem for Bush. Blair has to adopt the euro, sent the British publicly branded Tobin a U. . spy in training, although it brought no convinced a once- keptical public defined Britain as a "bridge nation" pound tumbling to its lowest level charges connected to espionage. that the Labor Party could be trusted linking the European Union with the against the dollar in 15 years this Tobin, a Connecticut native, has said he was set up and pro ecut- with power. But he indicated during United States. Accordingly, he says week. ed becau e he rebuffed a reque t to become a Rus ian agent. He ha already spent four month behind bars, but his lawyer said he hopes he might be freed later this month as part of a broader amnesty pro- gram. President Signs Tax Cut Bill Senate this week derailed Republi- could accomplish. Extinction of Large Mammals Passage of 10-Year, can hopes of swift passage of the Bush proposed a $1.6 trillion rest of Bush' agenda, including plan to Congress earlier this year, Linked 0 Humans 1.35 Trillion Plan another major tax cut focused on and the final bill's smaller tally, a EWSDAY businesses and corporate interests. compromise to win over some as extinctions of large animals in Australia and orth America A Victory for Bush Bush had asked that powerful lobby Democrats, still covers the key parts thousands of years before the advent of industrialized societies may By Craig Gordon to wait in line until he could win his of his original plan. It calls for a be linked to overhunting or environmental destruction by expanding EWSDAY 1.35 trillion, decade-long tax cut. reduction in marginal rates, repeal human populations, according to two independent studies to be pub- WA HlNGTON Bush is likely to get at least one of the estate tax, a doubling of the lished Friday in the journal cience. Pre ident Bush signed into law more celebratory signing ceremony, $500 child credit and relief for the Richard Roberts, an Australian researcher, and his collaborators Thursday the biggest tax cut in a for an education bill that has broad so-called marriage penalty affecting used two methods to determine the burial dates for giant marsupials generation and promised most bipartisan support but is hung up on about 20 million families. and other animals at all known site throughout Australia and the American families tax rebate checks Democratic calls for greater fund- The plan's most visible feature is island of ew Guinea once connected to the continent by a land that would come in time to cover ing. After that, Democrats have the tax rebate checks - up to $600 bridge. From a statistical analysis of the latest burial date for rela- back-to-school bill this fall. said, they will pivot from Bush's for married couples, $300 for single tively complete fo sil , the scientists dated the extinctions to about Bush hailed the signature legisla- legislative wish list to their own, taxpayers - slated to be mailed to 46,400 year ago, give or take 5,000 years, which is after the arrival tion of his young pre idency as "the including a patients' bill of rights, a 95 million American taxpayers of humans on Australia. Roberts said that date rules out the pos ibili- first major achievement of a new minimum wage hike and prescrip- starting the week of July 23. ty that the animals perished in hyper-arid conditions during the peak era, an era of steady cooperation" in tion drug benefits as part of Grumbling arose in some unlike- of the last global ice age. the nation s capital. Medicare - issues that were never ly quarters Thursday, as conserva- In a separate tudy, University of California, Santa Barbara, But Bush's hope for more high on Bush's agenda. tives said many of the cuts they most research biologist John Alroy used a computer simulation to correctly accomplishments to come now con- Still, Bush can take credit for favor, such as changing the marriage predict the extinction or survival of 32 animals in prehistoric orth fronts a new Democratic majority in pushing through a sweeping tax cut penalty and eliminating the estate America. the Senate eager to press its own that, as he delights in telling people, tax, take so long to kick in that they agenda. The historic shift in the many analysts did not think he fear they might never happen. WEATHER Wear Sunscreen Situation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Friday, June 8,2001
By Bill Ramstrom STAFF METEOROLOGiST Skies will be mostly sunny for today's commencement exercises in Kil- lian Court, as several disturbances pass offshore a few hundred mile to our south. A steady west-to-east flow at upper levels of the atmosphere is keep- ing a large area of cloudiness and rain over the outheast from advancing further northward. Earlier in the week, models uggested that this weather would dampen the festivities today, but more recent runs confine all of the rain to the south of the ason-Dixon line. The largest area of rain is associated with the rem- nant of Tropical torm Allison, which is slowly dissipating over eastern Texas. The fair weather will continue through the weekend, thanks to a large high pre ure system that is building eastward from the idwest. The days will be more and more unny, so that by unday there should be clear skies. High temperature will be in the upper 70 each day, with overnight lows in the mid to upper 50 .
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LOS ANGELES TIMES Execution Slated for Monday WASHI GTO By lois Romano terrorism. of FBI documents that should have As Congress moved Friday to extend sanctions on Iran, a blue-rib- THE WASHINGTO POST In announcing their client's been turned over to the defense bon panel of former top U.S. policymakers called for ending the eco- DE VER wi hes, cVeigh' grim-faced before McVeigh' 1997 trial. The nomic embargoes that have characterized tensions between the Unit- Oklahoma City bomber Timothy attorneys said McVeigh did not lawyer said he made no effort to ed States and the Islamic republic for more than two decades. McVeigh Thursday abandoned legal want the "uncertainty' of waiting persuade McVeigh to appeal to the Lifting sanctions almost certainly would have the widest impact efforts to stave off hi execution and for a Supreme Court decision during U.S. upreme Court. on Iran's rich energy industry - and the United States' growing began preparing to die after a feder- what could be his last two day of "His demeanor wa extremely appetite. Iran is OPEC's econd-Iargest oil exporter and the site of the al appellate court denied his emer- life. calm. I think that his resolve was world's second-largest gas reserves. But it also needs major invest- gency plea for a delay. "He had prepared himself to die clear," said igh. ment to maintain current production and develop new fields. Barring unfore een develop- prior to his initial execution date of In December, McVeigh, 33, "Iran has an important role to play in meeting growing U.S. and ments, McVeigh will be put to death May 16," said attorney Rob igh abandoned all his appeals, request- worldwide energy demands," says the panel brought together by the by chemical injection Monday Jr., "and now again, he wants to ing a prompt execution date. In Feb- Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan network of leaders in foreign policy. morning in a newly-built death make the final preparations neces- ruary he let pass a deadline to Rather than punishing either domestic or foreign companies that chamber at the federal penitentiary ary to be ready to die on Monday." request clemency from President invest in Iran's energy sector, the United States should be encourag- in Terre Haute, Ind., for the April igh said he spoke to McVeigh Bush. But he sought to reopen the ing contacts and development "so that Iran can reach its fuU capaci- 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. shortly after the 10th U.S. Circuit case after the discovery of the new ty," the panel's report adds. Murrah federal building. Court of Appeals rejected FBI documents, which are mostly The panel, made up of top officials from the ixon, Ford, Carter, The blast, which killed 168 peo- McVeigh's latest effort to postpone transcripts of witness interviews Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, supports a policy shift ple and injured hundreds more, is the execution because of the recent conducted during the 1995 investi- because of increasing global needs, economic realities, policies of the nation's worst act of domestic discovery of more than 4,400 pages gation. allies and Iran s changing political environment. Judge Rejects Bid Fonner Argentine Leader Menem To Stop WWII emorial THE WASHINGTON POST To Face Anns Smuggling Charges A federal judge refused Thursday to stop federal officials from awarding a contract to build the World War II memorial on the Mall, By Sebastian Rotella or former, to be arrested under a trate Jorge Urso, according to a and his comments raised serious questions about the future of a law- LOS ANGELES TIMES democratic government. defense lawyer. Menem was placed suit that challenges the project's design and location. BUENOS AIRES Upon arriving to face question- under house arrest because of his Shortly after the ruling by U .. District Judge Henry Kennedy, the Former Argentine President Car- ing by an investigative magistrate, age, according to the lawyer. A American Battle Monuments Commission announced that it had los Menem, a flamboyant political the short, dapper son of Syrian helicopter transported Menem to a awarded a $56 million construction contract and that preparations boss who presided over a decade of immigrants struggled up the court- suburban estate that will serve as a would go forward on building the memorial at the Rainbow Pool. economic transformation and scan- house steps through a mob of pho- gilded jail surrounded by riot Opponents of the proposed memorial site had asked Kennedy to dals, was arrested Thursday on tographers and police. He held police. issue a temporary restraining order that would prevent the signing charges of masterminding an inter- hands with his wife, a 35-year-old The judge's decision was of a contract for at least 10 days. They said they wanted to maintain national arms-trafficking scheme former Miss Universe whom he expected. In recent weeks he the status quo while legal issues are debated. Government lawyers, while president. married in a hasty ceremony last jailed Menem's former defense meanwhile, countered that there was no need for action now Authorities took Menem into month, and put on a brave front minister, a former army chief and because no work will be done at the 7.4-acre site until July 5, at the custody shortly after he entered a despite the widespread sense that other former aides in the earliest. courthouse Thursday morning to his arrest was imminent. labyrinthine case. Kennedy declined to take emergency action, saying the oppo- testify about his role in the alleged "1 trust in the justice system," onetheless, the spectacular fall nents had failed to show they would suffer serious harm if the con- smuggling of 6.5 tons of arms and said a weary-faced Menem. "I'm of Menem, an internationally known tract is awarded. He also said they failed to demonstrate a 'sub- ammunition to Croatia and Ecuador very calm." power broker who counts former stantial likelihood' that they would prevail in the case, adding that between 1991 and 1995. Once inside, Menem professed President George Bush among his it appears Congress has removed the matter from the court's juris- Menem, 70, became the first innocence and declined to answer friends, brought Argentina to a stop diction. elected Argentine president, current questions posed by federal magis- Thursday.
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Grim on Didn t diffi ult to u e, but rather of a live human while we're at it, one person from each cour e hairm n being. Furthermore, when we think of 6.001 at MIT. Even ourse 19. Anyone want to ign my petition? Jordan Rubin '02 De erve Bo e A ard we do not recall a human being e er teaching it, except for the out tanding T and recita- ditor in hie We would like to express our outrage at tion instructors, who were more deserving of Amal Dorai '04 ichael J. Ring '01 the awarding of the Bo e A ward for E eel- uch an award than the in entor of a far from Bu ine nag r lence in Teaching to Profe or Eric L. Grim- perfect computer sy tern. Huanne T. Thomas 02 on [' wards Ceremony Honors tudents, Phone System anaging ditor Faculty," ay 15]. It seems a not unreason- Levente Jakab '03 Eric 1. Cholankeril '02 able as umption that one who is an out tand- Katie Todd '03 ing teacher puts a lot of effort and attention eeds Some Work eeuti editor into the act of teaching. However, in the pa t On a recent aturday morning (May 19), I Dana Levine '02 two terms, Profe or Grimson has given only wanted to fmd out if the Copy Centers were ElY. 'FEATURES STAFF a handful of lectures in 6.001, none of which Offen ive' Offensi e open. I phoned 617-253-1000 (directory assis- Director: Rima Arnaout '02; ew ditor: were during the Fall 2000 term. As a religious free- peech advocate, I find tance) and got this me sage: "The offices are aveen unkavally '01, Matthew Palmer '03; The replacement for actual lectures has Liora Zion' "Tun with Clip Art' Offensive currently clo ed ... please ay the name of the ociate ditor: Meli a . Cain '04, ancy been the online "virtual lecture" system that to Jews" [ ay 11] to be insulting, although department." I said, 'Copy Technology." I got L. Keus '04 Jennifer Kri hnan 04 Eun Lee 6.001 ha been playing with for the past few I'm ure he did not mean it that way. the response, "You will be transferred to Facul- '04, Brian Loux '04, hankar Mukherji '04; terms. We feel that the ystem i nowhere May I sugge t that if you want to con- ty Payroll. If this is not correct ... " So Irepeat- tff: Daniel C. te en on G, Frank Dabek '00, nearly pectacular enough to merit its creator tribute to an atmosphere of open di course on ed "Copy Technology" and got the response anjay Ba u '02, Ke in R. Lang '02, Efren receiving an award - a teaching award, no campus, you avoid publishing pieces that do 'You will be transferred to 253 OW ... " So Gutierrez '03, lice . ang '03, Diana . le s. It is the omewhat tragic implication of no more than to attempt to uppre s an oppos- I dialed again and the response was, "Biology Cheng '04, Vicky H u '04, Pey-Hua Hwang '04, this teaching award that MIT has become an ing point of view without adding any valuable Administrative Office." I then repeated "Copy onali Mukherjee '04, Pallavi are h '04 Rubi in titution which considers automated teach- (or at least amusing) insight of their own. Technology" and got a response I did not Rajban hi '04, W .. Wang '04, Jennifer Young understand, 0 I let it go through. The ring was '04; eteorologi t : Veronique Bugnion G, ing to be the most outstanding method. Chris Laas '01 answered with "Please leave a message after Rob Korty G, Peter Huybers G, Greg Law on G, The 6.001 ystem is at best a resource or the beep." So I dialed again and got the Bill Ram trom G. an experiment, po ibly worthy of a re earch award on condition of its ab olute success. response "You will be transferred to the Copy PRODUCTlO STAFF However, it i not even an absolute success- Technology Center ... " Aha, success! So I let Editors: atwiksai e hasai '01, Gayani Tillek- New Seal Idea the call go through. The ring was answered eratne '03, Joel Corbo '04, Joy For ythe '04' ask anyone who has taken 6.001 the pa t two with the message, "This is Mike. I will be out sociate Editors: hefali Oza '04 Tao Yue '04; terms if the system has had all the pitfalls I too have an idea for a new MIT seal taff: Mary Obelnicki '9 , Ryan Ochylski '01, ironed out yet. It has not. Therefore, it is a ["Petition Asks for Female on MIT Seal," of the office Friday and Monday." Ian Lai '02, Anju Kanumalla 03, Vimal work in progress be t categorized as an exper- May 15]. I think it should have a man and a I have never had this difficulty with a live Bhalodia '04, Andy Leiserson '04, Andrew iment - not the overly successful and praise- woman. It should also have a white person, a operator. If the MIT telephone system people Mamo '04, Eric Tung '04. worthy teaching device that the award to Pro- black person, an Asian, and an Indian. And a think that what they have is an improvement, fes or Grim on eems to indicate. straight, a gay, a lesbian, and a bisexual per- that's bad. OPl JON STAFF Editor: Kris chnee '02, Mike Hall '03; 0- When we hear the word "teacher," we son. And a tall person. And a short person. Robert Assaly ciate Editor: Veena Thomas '02, Jyoti Tibre- think not of a computer system that is often And a fat person. And a skinny person. And Research Affiliate wala '04; Columni t : Philip Burrowes '04, Roy Esaki '04, Ken esmith '04; t ff: Basil Engwegbara G, Matthew L. 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I first set foot on the MIT campus as a prospective student in the fall of 1996. My girlfriend and I took the T over from her donn at Boston University to attend an information session on a Sunday afternoon. After navigat- ing our way from the Kendall SquarelMIT T stop (which, of course, deposits you nowhere near the center of either Kendall Square or MIT), I realized I had left the room number for the information session at home. We had a half hour to figure it out and no one to ask: the Infinite Corridor was deserted. o we made our way to the Johnson barbecue pits and sat under the apple trees. We even ate one of the apples that had fallen to the ground. (It wasn't half bad I swear.) itting there restored my courage and I decided to earch for the room. Reasoning that the ses ion would be held at the center of campus and pulling the num- OUf Last Blank Wall ber 2 from the recesses of my memory, I walked as if led by magic to ... 10-250. It ever, share with those classes their history of non-profit service groups. Go ahead and take was the right room, and as we settled in, I Jason H. Wasfy engaging important problems. The struggles that well-paying job in banking in ew York thought, maybe I am smart enough to get into of generations past, which allow us to cele- if you'd like. After all, the entire world always MIT. Trees that drop fresh fruit into your lap, In the Building 10 lobby under MIT's brate today, bestow upon us a solemn debt has profited from advances driven by our mar- rooms you can find your own way to: this is great dome, there's only one blank wall left. that compels us to put our skills, education, ket economy. If you do opt for one of these the place for me. Etched into the brown stone of other walls in and potential to work for the greater good. fine jobs in the financial industry, though, just And now, as they say, for the rest of the that lobby are long lists of the names of MIT We have begun to pay down this debt. remember to conduct business in a socially story. That quality of finding your own way at graduates who died for the United States in We have worked hard to get here - and I'm responsible way. MIT turned out to be a mixed blessing. I loved the wars of the past century. Those walls that not just talking about problem sets. MIT is Though not engaged in war, we still have (and still love) the idea of choosing where you we've scurried by so many times over the past an institution that encourages upward mobili- big problems to tackle. In our lifetimes, oil four years stand as a memorial both of sol- ty, and some of us have endured great adver- wells will run dry and we'll have to find new diers' sacrifices and of the adversity that their sity in moving from bad high schools and sources of energy. The structure of American generations faced. poverty to attend college here. But no matter families is continuing to erode. Our trans- But as someone of the last class The names of today's graduates will likely how challenging this journey has been for portation infrastructure needs expansion and to have seen the old MIT; never appear on that last blank wall for the modernization. As biomedical technology same reasons. We're at peace now. It's a new progresses, we'll have to quickly develop for good and for bad) let me world order, the politicians say. Our attention Because of our experiences and new rules of ethics and public policy. Infec- these days focuses more on developments in tious diseases like AIDS and tuberculosis are point out: the apple trees are biotechnology and on the daily close of the our abilities) MIT graduates can ravaging the developing world. And for the gone no~ chopped down Nasdaq than any menacing threats from the first time since the end of the Cold War, Soviet Union or from Nazi Germany. Our solve great problems that many America's leaders are talking about the vul- to make way for the new athletics generation of MIT graduates will never fear a others simply can't. Our potential nerability of our cities to nuclear missiles. military draft. Instead, we have high-paying The formidable and diverse challenges ahead center. MIT wants to spare its jobs waiting for us. for serving our society reiriforces call out for bright, well-prepared MIT stu- students the isolation and We're looking forward to those jobs and dents to take them on. bright futures because of the sacrifices and the our deep responsibility to serve. And as we accept our duty to undertake corifusion of the past) but it hard work of the generations that came before these great tasks, we start to repay the debt. us. Our parents led the civil rights movement On this day that we celebrate our achieve- must also be careful to still let and suffered through Vietnam, and our grand- anyone of us, we each carry this debt ments, we should also remember our individ- parents faced down Hitler and reaffirmed the because we each profit from the enormous ual commitments to our nation and to our them find their own ways American ideal of free markets and free peo- potential both of the intellectual standards world. Let's cover our blank wall with a to the special moments that ple, as they pulled our nation out of the Great that the Institute requires and of the lessons range of names - of men and women, of Depression. MIT graduates went on to devel- inherent in an MIT undergraduate education. every race and ethnic background, straight make being here worthwhile. op radar in the 1940s, when our military need- Because of our experiences and our abilities, and gay alike, whose deeds sustain the ed it most. Those accomplishments testify to MIT graduates can solve great problems that accomplishments of past generations. If we the historical commitment of MIT graduates many others simply can't. Our potential for do that, I'm sure that Charles John Weschler want to live - the fact that the uncool, the dif- to great causes. serving our society reinforces our deep - just one of the many fallen soldiers with ferent, the loners can create their own safe Our graduating class is far more diverse, responsibility to serve. names on a Building 10 wall - would think havens - but found I was utterly unprepared to both in tenus of backgrounds and skills, than That responsibility shouldn't restrict grad- that his ultimate sacrifice so many years ago take advantage of that choice as a first-semester many of those past classes. We should, how- uates to careers in research, government, or was worth it. freshman. I cherished my new independence, not to mention the sheer intellectual thrill of the place, but grappled with loneliness in this big, modem campus that offered precious few cozy Learning Beyond MIT spaces for bewildered new students. And then, of cour e, there was the specter better place to learn? Have race relations ing job even though we would have taken the of death. The first event that the entire class of Michael Borucke improved since we were freshmen? Have we more enjoyable, lower-paying job given dif- 2001 collectively remembers (aside from created an environment that will lessen the ferent circumstances. Debt rearranges priori- being soaked to the skin during what had to be Four years just went by in a heartbeat. occurrence of rape on campus? Has our class ties often, I would guess, to the detriment of the rainiest RIO ever) was the death of Scott Yesterday we were in Killian taking our class pushed for a community without fear for both the graduate and potentially the world. I can't Krueger. Other deaths followed at terribly reg- picture. Today, we sit in the court ready to gay and straight students? Have we come to think of too many non-profit organizations ular intervals: some in our class, some in oth- receive a most expensive piece of paper. I understand and respect the role MIT janitors, that can compete with consulting firms in ers; deaths by accident, by illness and by sui- can't help but reflect a little on the education electricians, groundskeepers, librarians, salaries. Making an MIT education free to stu- cide. I've heard it said that statistically there we've just received. administrative staff, cooks and others have dents would not only erase the pressure of are no more deaths at MIT than elsewhere, but There is a quote on the second floor of the had in allowing us our education? debt but would also ensure that the most deep down I don't believe that, and on some Student Center. It reads in part: This is not to imply that students have not qualified students - regardless of class - level I think we're all grateful just to be mak- "As a great Educational Institution, we responded to significant problems on their attend. ing it out alive, literally and figuratively. shall fall short of our mission if we fail to own. On the contrary, extra-curricular activi- It has been said that MIT produces people These issues aren't news to anyone. They inspire in our students a concern for things of ties such as Habitat for Humanity, United who will run the world. There's definitely didn't stop me from spending four wonderful the spirit as well as the mind. By precept and Trauma Relief, Project HEALTH and other some truth to this. Course XIV, XV, and year here. And of course the administration example, we must convey to them a respect show a deep concern on the part of students XVIII graduates will be bank executives sit- and the student are talking constantly these for moral values ... " (Julius Stratton, 1959.) for their community and the world. ting on the Federal Reserve Board, controlling days about fixing MIT's problems. We hear This of course, begs the question: Has MIT My point is that MIT has done little insti- interest rates and global economies. Course all the time about building community, about inspired spiritual concern and moral values in tutionally to give its students a proper context VII graduates will be at the forefront of student facilities, about improved support sys- you? Has it even tried? Has your MIT educa- for their skills. Personally, there have been biotechnology and medicine. Course VI grad- terns and a better rush. I respect these efforts tion given you an accurate picture of the four classes I have taken which discussed uates will control how society communicates and consider them important to MIT's growth world's problems? Did your classes show how real-world problems in any depth. But these (smaller and smaller cellular phones). In gen- as an institution. your skills could be used to approach these were classes I had to search for. s most stu- eral, all MIT grads will have a great deal of But as someone of the last class to have problems? How many conversations about dents who attend MIT are mathematically influence on society if simply because of our seen the old MIT, for good and for bad, let me national unemployment or civil wars or crime inclined, non-technical classes such as these esteemed educational background. point out: the apple trees are gone now, have your classes inspired? As a graduate, do will continue to have a limited effect on the o to the graduates, I urge you to remain chopped down to make way for the new ath- you now have an idea of how global financial student body. As a possible response MIT human: Continue to listen to the part of you letics center. MIT wants to spare its students institutions run the world economies? I just could have required fre hman classes on that thinks genocide, war, disease and tarva- the brutal isolation and confusion of the past, don t believe that MIT has instilled in its stu- ethics, on global and national politics. This tion are wrong and should be eliminated. The but it must also be careful to still let them find dents a knowledge of the world sufficient to could do a great deal to open students' mind . part of you that believes that democracy and their own ways to the special moments that respond to these and other que tions. As for today's graduates, most of us have a equality are ideas that should endure, the part make being here worthwhile. A hard blow to I think this problem is reflected in what tiny reminder of MIT; namely, our debt. It' that understands how corporate interests and the head hurts - and if it's too hard it can kill we've done while at MIT. By our actions, easy to see how this might affect our future government behavior are not always as demo- - but where would we be without the apple have we made this institution a fundamentally decisions. Maybe we choose the higher-pay- cratic and egalitarian as claimed. that hit good old Isaac ewton's head? Page 6 OP o June 8 2001
• • Mind torming the Two Cultures been expo ed to it at an early age, and I hadn't criticism. Joel Ro enberg learned anything even do e to what Papert The olution now ugge ted wa educa- agic imagined! Iwa one of the kids in the boo - tion. nd that' what I found interesting. La t summer I read two books that signifi- but my teachers hadn t read the book! nd Reflecting on my own education, I di covered cantly changed my per pective on learning: none of my friends from all over the country that while I had gotten comparable doses of B ck eymour Papert's ' indstorms," and C.P. knew LOGO as anything more than a program Engli h/hi tory and math/ cience in high now' 'The Two ulture." for making pretty pictures. It was trange to chool and earlier, there was never any Having worked at the IT edia Lab, I think of my elf as part of a failed, or at least attempt to integrate them and they were never Eric 1. Plo ky knew that the 'LEGO indstorms Robotics unfinj hed, experiment. presented in term of a bigger picture. And Invention y tern," a computer-programmable I read 'The Two Culture ' a few wee ince I had been a technical undergrad at MIT Graduates, forget those dot-com get-rich- ver ion of the building blo k toy developed after "Mindstorms.' Ba ed on his 1959 Rede and a 'liberal' grad student at Columbia, I quick schemes. As the asdaq keeps tub- with the Lab, wa named after Papert's book. Lecture at Cambridge University, now out- knew that at each chool the other" culture bornly reminding us, this is 2001, and Ian I also knew that the book had omething to do lines the growing cha m between "the two wa e entially omitted. I became intrigued as Greenspan and Co. have finally picked up all with LOGO, the computer program with the culture " of "literary intellectuals" and cien- to whether education can mend the division it that ew Economy trash we left at the curb. "turtle' that I was taught to draw pictures with ti t (which include engineer). now earned eems to create. Fortunately, just a the wonderful world of on an pple Ile in elementary ------Why even bother bridging the two cul- dollars was growing too hideou to contem- chool. But I had never really ture ? On one level I share Snow's concern plate, politics is getting exciting again. ow's heard anyone talk about the Reflecting on my own education) that the world's problems won't be solved if the chance for you all to quickly get hip to the book it elf. 0 I read it. And I the two ides can't intelligently talk to each latest conversational fashions! After all, when was astounded. I discovered that uJhile I had gotten comparable other. nd I used to think that meant, as everyone's talking about the Beltway, an LOGO I learned, i not Snow did that non-scientists needed to "get errant comment on the price of Ci co could be about drawing pictures. or do es of English/history and math/science with the program." But on another level, I deadly. (Eyes will flick uncertainly over mar- is it about computer pro- in high chool and earlier, there was never any now think much would be gained if each tinis and cosmopolitans until someone says, gramming, though that is ide better understood what it lacks that the awkwardly, "How about those ox?") superficially its interface. attempt to integrate them) and they were never other ha . The Federal Reserve is out; the White LOGO, it turns out, is meant For non-scientists, that means getting a House is in. ot since the days of Danforth to give kids an environment presented in terms of a biggerpicture. better feel for process. If non-scientists Quayle has it been so much fun keeping track in which to learn how to debugged their learning process, perhaps of Washington gobble and gossip. Our beloved think procedurally. 'Draw- fewer of them would write off science as W. 's latest performance had him (Yale '6 ) ing" i just the feedback that indicates a PhD in physics at Cambridge, went on to "hard," and would instead look at their soberly informing graduating C-Ievel Yalie whether the procedures are behaving as become a somewhat successful novelist, and understanding as incomplete yet always that "you too can be president." Excellent expected, and allow kids to then "debug" was a science adviser to the British govern- improving. Funny, since that's how scientists news, no doubt, for Mr. trategery's Bulldog their thinking. If the turtle doesn't do what ment during World War II. 0 he had run in look at it. If non-scientists then tried seeing daughter Barbara, pre umably not under too you want, think about breaking the problem everal elite circles by the time he made his the processes in their own subjects, perhaps much pressure to study - leaving plenty of into maIler chunks to isolate where the observation that the "literary intellectuals" there would be additional benefits. History problem is. If you can't visualize what the (who represented ociety-at-Iarge through might be more useful if taught as a process turtle i doing, imagine yourself in the tur- arti tic reflection) knew virtually nothing of - a constantly evolving story - instead of Fortunately, just as the wondeful tle's place and experience what the turtle is science, and the same for scientists of litera- just a collection of facts. The same might be experiencing. ture (and thus society-at-large). true of politics and literature. Newton stood world of dollars was growing too Papert's powerful idea is to apply now's main concern was that the bright- on the shoulders of giants; where are the "debugging' to all area of learning so that est minds of the day had no common ground shoulders of non-scientists? hideous to contemplate) politics is "right or wrong" is transformed into a con- for communication. His lecture, though, was Such a shift in perspective might be all it getting exciting again. tinuous proce of improvement. The goal is largely pro-science, and he didn't hide his takes to get scientists interested in these sub- to debug your learning process in general so belief that while scientists might be better jects, and add much needed breadth to their that you'll never fear learning anything in people if they read more literature, it was the understanding of the world. Then, when time to get busted for underage boozing, along particular. Break the problem into pieces. non-scientists who had to get with the pro- everything is thought of as a process, where with twin Jenna, in a very un-Chelsea-like way. Change your per pective to grasp the situa- gram if the world's problems were going to nothing is static, the whole world becomes This is compelling stuff. tion. I didn't really learn the e concepts until get solved (by science, of course). His bias an experiment. All that's left to do is hypoth- There' always fun-filled excitement com- I was a student at MIT. was exemplified by the line, "If the scien- esize where things should go - in politics, ing out of the Bush administration. Just for And that's what astounded me: Here was a tists have the future in their bones, then the in literature, in science - and then run the one, the energy situation is becoming increas- book from 1980, describing a potentially pow- traditional culture responds by wishing the test. And that, I believe, should be the goal: a ingly entertaining. California fumbles for erful tool for "learning about learning," a tool future did not exist." The lecture, not sur- continuous process of improvement, of an its candles, and a gallon can of gas runs up that I was familiar with from having actually prisingly, received both strong praise and undivided culture. 3.00 ountain, our steadfast leaders, urging us to remain calm, assure us that conservation is for issies.' ot the basis for sound policy," claims Death-Defying Dick Cheney;' ot the AIDS, Our Growing Problem American way!" exclaim spinmeister Ari Fleischer. Coming soon, an oil-drilling plat- form near you! Worldwide EjJOrt)not Invocations ifMorality, Needed to Stop Scourge Congress's ratings are going up too. when it infected the homosexual population didn't see evidence of the same train of Thanks to nutty Vermonter Jim Jeffords, the Christen M. Gray in America. In 1985, did a gay man deserve thought in every newspaper I read. ex-GOP Senate is now under Democratic con- to die a miserable, early death because he There are drugs, cheaply made drugs, trol, setting the stage for Battleground: Belt- In the last century, some of the greatest chose a different lifestyle? May he be the available that, had the mothers had them dur- way. If you liked Gladiator, get ready for W. health care breakthroughs in history have been most loving and gentle man in the world, ing their pregnancies, could have prevented and Tom Daschle to go at it. Tax cuts, educa- made. Scientists have discovered antibiotics, many Bible-banging Christian fundamental- many of the children from ever getting AIDS. tion and Social Security reform, "faith-based" thus relieving the world of a variety of dis- ists would cry out, "Yes! He was wicked and Other antiretroviral drugs are available to claptrappery - all that's missing are the roar eases. With the general manufacture and use deserved the curse God cast upon him!" The treat the disease in the suffering; at least, of the crowd and the hot-dog vendors. Will of vaccines in treating mea les, smallpox, and more temperate people who make up the available to those who will pay the prices there be more sudden defections? Will stal- polio, we are relieved of many more maladies. majority of our nation just wouldn't care. Of demanded by the drug companies. However, wart 98-year-old Strom Thurmond, relieved of The world even united to eradicate smallpox course, there was always the poor, unfortu- to the poverty-stricken families of Africa this those grueling president pro tern duties, sur- entirely. Yet, in spite of these grand accom- nate hemophiliac who got the disease. But is an impossible dream. vive his term? Why watch The West Wing plishments, we are currently facing a new epi- some righteous must fall in doing God's In a market driven by vanity drugs and when you can just keep C- pan on in the demic, and we are deeply, as a world commu- work, isn't that right? Like the Inquisition, such things as Viagra, these companies background? nity, entrenched in it. right? would have relatively little to lose offering And you wanted to talk about tech startups. Our new enemy is AIDS. AIDS, of course, Today, in Africa, the innocence of the low-cost, generic drugs to these nations. All Defense and foreign policy are big news. i the the disease caused by the Human most afflicted is more the payrolls would Jet-setting Colin Powell is trying to untangle Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus is blatant. Men, forced by still be filled, the the Middle East before everybody there is spread through blood and sexual contact. Cur- circumstances created bottom line would killed. Europe is peeved that we've thumbed rently one in nine people carry HIV in South by Europeans, work far The scientific and world still show an our nose at the environment. China is mad Africa. There are 800,000 orphans whose par- away from their fami- communities offered no help immense profit, but about spy planes, diplomatic skulduggery, as ents died of AIDS in South Africa. Many of lies. While away, they maybe the owner well as just about everything else. And let us these deserted children are dying of the dis- associate themselves when AIDS first reared its ugly was thinking of not forget that these days there are two Star ease themselves. with prostitutes and buying a new yacht Wars Episode Twos in the works: George I am not going to continue to detail the sta- city-girlfriends. Many head in the African population. ... ? Lucas's, for which no one can wait, and tistics and woes. They only get worse. I am become infected with I think at some Defense ecretary Darth Rumsfeld' s, which simply going to ask, why is this happening? A AID . This is an easier or did anyone seem to be level the CEOs everybody except Pentagon propellerheads disturbing conversation not too long ago case in which to con- particularly concerned when it must be telling seems to hate. brought me to my conclusion. demn the diseased; themselves that And protestors, of all things, are making A friend, who would probably prefer to however, to quote a injected the homosexual they are just doing headlines once again. In a demonstrative remain anonymous to MIT's liberal campus, book these same con- their job, turning a mood over the past couple of years, Angry said to me that' AIDS is a disease of morali- demners tend to put a population in America. profit. But do they Young Radicals have blasted globalization, ty." This friend went further to defend this lot of stock in, "Let he realize the huge decried genetically modified food, and, just up statement by saying that those who get AIDS who is without sin cast blind spot that has the street, bewailed the plight of $6-an-hour deserve it; this is just an instance of God smit- the first stone." America certainly as a I formed over their eyes? Do they avoid janitors. Lefty icon Ralph ader, having com- ing the wicked. whole isn't any more moral a nation. What if watching news because the faces of dying pleted phase one of his get-out-the-vote effort eedless to say, I was disturbed at the our last president had gotten AIDS? little children would haunt them in their by delivering the 2000 election to W., has ignorance and utter indifference in this state- It gets worse. When these men return sleep? moved on to phase two, Green seed-planting. ment. I believe that there are a great number home, they infect their wives. The mothers I am actually inclined to agree with my ctivism is growing faster than the Dow; of people who believe this logic and prefer to infect the children while conceiving them. friend about one thing. This truly is a disease cities hosting trade summits, beware. stay ignorant of the true ituation so that they The parents die. Sickly children are left of morality, but the sin does not belong to Where does all of this leave you, the fresh- may rest easier at night knowing they are behind, and it is they who suffer the most. The the afflicted. The guilt and responsibility ly-minted graduates? Well equipped for small good people and, therefore, this is not their ab olute innocents. The baby didn't get the belongs to those who would stand by and talk, hopefully - there are lots of martinis problem. The plain truth is, of course, that bad disease because their parents were any more say, "It's not my problem." The sinners are and cosmopolitan out there, and even the things happen to good people, and ometimes moral or immoral than a typical American the Bible-banging preachers who would mo t firmly business-minded among you is the worst things happen to the mo t innocent family. They got it because nobody who knew preach mercy and condemn the innocent. It's going to need to have some nappy political of all. enough to stop it cared. the people who claim that a free marketplace patter ready if only to convince the venture The scientific and world communities You see, I could let my friend's comment for health care is more important than a capitali t. 0 put down that diploma, stop offered no help when AID first reared its roll off my shoulders and tell myself that it's child's life. The worst of it is, AID is our writing that bu ine s plan, and pic up a ugly head in the frican population. or did just that one person they just don't know. I problem now, and growing. Because we newspaper. That's where the action is. anyone seem to be particularly concerned could believe that this was the minority if I would not stop it. June 8,2001 THE TECH Page 7 Class of 2005 Statistically Similar o Previous lass Incoming Freshmen Hail from 46 States and 57 Foreign ations· Yield lightly Lower Than Last Year s By Jennifer Young STAFF REPORTER The Class of 2005 by Ethnicity The Class of 2005 by Gender We all did it. We built our resumes. Wre tled Puerto with application . Wrote essays. Native Rican (21) Interviewed. Waited anxiously for American (25) \ Other (7) acceptance letters. Received one Spanish ~ from MIT. Decided to come here. American (31) And now, we will be joined at the end of the summer by a group of people who did the same thing: the class of2005. African American (63) Big fish bit the big pond Female (42%) What's the common denomina- tor among incoming freshmen? "They take your breath away," said Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones. "They are strong, brave stu- dents who aren't afraid of a chal- lenge. "We look for people with pas- sion - self-initiated, self-motivat- ing individuals who get stoked up Asian American (300) about something. We seek the peo- ple whose success comes from their own drive." High school valedictorians make Total- 1039 up 41 percent of the class of 2005. SOURCE: ADMISSIONS OFFICE SOURCE: ADMISSIONS OFFICE Another 49 percent were ranked within the top five percent of their Of the 10,495 applicants to MIT, to major in Course VI (Electrical 57 foreign nations will send 9.1 per- place and the kind of students we class. 1,709 were admitted, and 1,039, or Engineering and Computer Science). cent of MIT's freshman class - a have." The mean SAT verbal score for 58 percent of the admittees, have total of 94 students - next year. At the same time, the office care- the class is 711, and the mean math decided to come here. That percent- Moderate geographic variety exists Canada, China, India, Kenya, and fully analyzes the responses they score is a 755. The class of 2004 had age is down only one percent from The top four home states for the the United Kingdom provided the receive regarding the reasons for a mean verbal score that was two last year's yield. incoming class are California (12.3 most enrollees. choosing other schools. points higher, and a mean mathemat- The proportion of women in percent), Massachusetts (10.7 per- One major possibility for a stu- ics score that was two points lower. both last year's and this year's cent), ew York (10.1 percent), and Decision reasons under study dent choosing to enroll elsewhere is "A common trend we noticed incoming freshman classes holds Texas (7.1 percent). However, these The "why" behind a student's the cost of an MIT education. "We was a diversity of activities within steady at 42 percent. Interestingly, states also produced the most appli- choice whether he or she chooses to had [some concerns] about the role individual applications, which 48 percent of the admitted freshman cations, with 1381, 902, 618, and attend MIT or a different school that financial aid would play this reflects the challenges of applying class is female, reflecting that the 660 applicants respectively. next fall is being carefully examined year," Johnson said. "We've low- to college today," said Associate lower percentage of incoming This year, students were admit- by the admissions office. ered the self-help part of fmancial Director of Admissions Elizabeth S. women is more a result of their ted from every state in the United The Office of Admissions is aid, but several of our competitors Johnson. choice than the Institute's. States except Mississippi. However, largely satisfied with the numbers have done the same thing. Another unchanged statistic no one from Alaska, Arkansas, they have seen. "For an institute of "People may have been enticed Class makeup cbanges very little shouldn't surprise anyone: Twenty- Idaho, and North Dakota chose to technology, we have no peers in the by merit awards from many differ- Statistically, the class of 2005 four percent of both the classes of enroll in the fall. admissions business," said Jones. ent schools, and that could be a fac- looks a lot like the class of 2004. 2004 and 2005 indicated an intention From Argentina to Zimbabwe, "That's a testament to the kind of tor" too, she added.
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Orientation 200 I will feature ternity Council after the incident. two new programs, a diver ity pro- ATO will also go before the Cam- Pheiffer predict ucce ul ru h gram and a rape awarene presen- bridge Licen e Commission later Pheiffer expect a slightly more tation and discussion. thi month on charges related to ucce sful rush than u ual this year. The diversity program i co- the altercation. The number of tudents who pledge ponsored by the Campu Commit- IFC Pre ident Rory P. Pheiffer "will be similar to that of two years tee on Race Relation and the 02 said ATO should not be vi ibly ago, when F ILG were anticipat- Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. The involved with any program before ing [what used to be the] 200 I deci- rape awarene program will fea- August 30, to avoid any advan- sion' Pheiffer said. When the dead- ture a speech by Katie Koe tner, tage or disadvantage to the fra- line to hou e all freshmen on followed by small discussion ternity during ru h. campus was pushed back to 2002, groups. fraternities ororities and indepen- ATO President Eric M. Program feature rape .ctim dent living groups felt le s pressure Glover '02 said his fraternity will The peaker for the rape aware- for a stellar rush, so they didn't playa "very active role in the ness program Katie Koestner, was work as hard, he added. planning and follow through [of a victim of date rape during her Pheiffer aid that he thinks peo- the diversity program].' He fir t year of college at William ple will tend to run rush very care- intends for the program to addre and Mary. he went on to found fully this year to avoid accruing directly the issues of prejudice and Campu Outreach erv ices, an penalties for the 2002 rush. discrimination 0 that tudents are organization that promotes sexual JAMES CAMP-THE TECH aware of the ramifications of their violence awareness on middle Re idence-ba ed advising e pand In the face of heavy rain, a handful of dedicated demonstra- actions. school, high school, and colJege Residence-based advising will be tors gathered under the shelter of Trinity Church in Copley In April, everal ATO members campuse . Today, he speaks fre- implemented in German House, as Plaza. Scouting for All and the New England Coalition for shouted racial remarks at a female quently about her experience and well as among half of the incoming Inclusive Scouting sponsored the rained-out rally. singer traveling with the band The leads di cussions about rape and freshmen in ext House, this year. Roots, sparking an altercation on sexual violence. Many wonder how the larger student ATO's roofdeck. The forum to be coalition of student groups base and the involvement of males and individuals, including top our in this program will affect rush. Cross ord ilence and the ocial Justice Coop- "This is our first opportunity to City Considers Moving erative, have been working for the observe males [involved with So ution past two years to have this new pro- RBA]," orman aid. However, he gram included in the orientation expects a 'non- ignificant impact on Poll Center to Kresge from page 20 schedule. the fraternities." Jennifer A. Erwin '02 and Radha Pheiffer said the IFC plans to By Michael J. Ring suggestions for an on-campus ANTSIAREIFSTOPS-f--'-- EDITOR IN CHIEF BAR E BEN U TOP I A K. Iyengar '02, who were active in have a meeting with RBA partici- polling place into its redistricting. S PIN A'F T NET TED the movement for a rape awarenes pants to make them aware of the Residents of several west cam- Shulman said that the election -f--- COL D S TOR AGE program, were surprised but pleased different options available to them. pus dormitories may soon enjoy a commission was very receptive to ALL.PER IWI NKLES with the admini trators ' choice of Deciding to take part in RBA is not shorter walk to their polling place. the idea of moving the Precinct 2-2 MIS EA.MaN 0 v A peakers. They had received little binding this year, allowing RBA The Cambridge Election Com- polling place on campus. "They I...... RITE SSP 0 KEN communication about the Institute' participants the option of participat- mission has proposed that voters want to increase voter turnout, too," BLUNTER FOALING plans before Koestner was confirmed. ing in rush and pledging an FSILG. residing in Ward 2, Precinct 2 cast he said. RIP E~S I BY l- Dean of Academic Resources Administrators hope that during ballots in Kresge Auditorium MIT students comprise more AM 0 S GEL. 0 S CAR and Programming Julie B. orman the festivities of rush, the residences instead of the current polling place, than half the population of the SENT I MENTAL.ACE S 0 MER SAULT S aid the administration was looking participating in RBA will conduct the Lafayette Square firehouse. The precinct. for new Orientation programs and their own special activities, like precinct includes Edgerton House, "We were able in the new re- APP IALL I~ ~~ I P LOT ROILED ATE TONE the coalition's "timing was just tours of Boston or get-to-know-you Bexley Hall, Macgregor House, precincting process to incorporate \ T E. N E' T S :II1 0 WED right." The 600 signature gathered events with the upperclassmen. ew House, Next House, Tang [Shulman's] suggestions," said Hall, and Westgate residences. The Teresa Neighbor, director of the Simmons Hall and NW30 resi- election commission. "It is largely dences under construction also fall due to his bringing it up" that the within the precinct. changes were made, she continued. "It will be easier for students to Shulman added that Kresge was vote if they can do so in a place they a more attractive polling location walk by every day," said former than the firehouse to the commis- Undergraduate Association Presi- sion as Kresge offers better access dent Peter A. Shulman '01, who for the disabled. spearheaded the drive to move the polling station to Kresge. Random voters face longer walk Congratulations to the Class of 2001 Residents of Ward 2, Precinct 3, While West Campus voters which includes the other on-campus would enjoy a significantly shorter residences, already vote in Kresge. walk to their polling place under the on your graduation. Election Commission's plan, some Low turnout spurs location change MIT students may have to travel The impetus for moving Precinct further than before to cast a ballot. e come to the Alumni Association! 2-2's polling station to an on-campus Residents of Random Hall, who location came last fall, when groups currently vote at the Salvation Army sponsoring voter registration drives building on Massachusetts Avenue, surmised less interest in voting would instead vote at Saint Your class officers will be working with us to support your class. among residents of far west campus. Bartholomew's Church on Harvard "During the fall voter registra- Street under the new plan. Saint president Vice President tion drives, we noticed that the peo- Bartholomew's is about a half-mile ple from westernmost campus walk from the dormitory, while the Damien Brosnan Katharyn Jeffreys seemed less interested in voting," Salvation Army building is less than Shulman said. He added that the a quarter mile up the street from Secretary Treasurer long distance between the west Random. Julia Parsons Caroline Hon campus residences and the Lafayette Residents of Alpha Delta Phi, Square firehouse was identified as a the Women's Independent Living potential cause for the condition. Group, and Zeta Psi would also vote Executive Cornm!ttee The firehouse is 15-20 minute walk at Saint Bartholomew's. from far west campus dormitories. The boundaries of the on-cam- Smita Aiyar, Jennifer Berk, Ajai Bharadwaj, Frederick Huang, 500 Y. Kim, Precinct 2-2 has experienced pus precincts would undergo minor Annie Kuo, David Lee, Melahn Parker, Zhelinrentice Scott, Ritu Sharma among the lowest turnout rates in the change. Burton-Conner, Alpha Tau and Erick Tseng city. According to the Cambridge Omega, Kappa Sigma, Delta Election Commission, only 17 per- Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Epsilon, cent of Precinct 2-2 residents on the and No.6 Club would move from- city's active and inactive voters list Precinct 2-3 to Precinct 2-2, but Before you leave... cast ballots in the 1999 municipal would retain a Kresge polling loca- election, giving the precinct the third tion under the plan. • Sign up for Email Forwarding for Life lowest turnout rate in the city. By comparison 22 percent of voters in ew precincts effective in 2002 • Change your mailing address Precinct 2-3, and 33 percent of voters The potential changes to MIT's • Learn more about how to get involved as an alumnus/a citywide cast ballots in that election. voting precincts are part of an In last fall's general election, effort to reduce the number of only 45 percent of voters in Precinct precincts citywide from 42 to 33. ...visit http://web.mit.edulalum/ 2-2 named on the active and inac- The election commission will tive rolls cast ballots, making the determine the final boundaries for precinct one of only two in the city the new precincts, based on the with below 50 percent turnout. By population data from the 2000 contrast, 52 percent of voters in Census, by June 22. The new Precinct 2-3, and 64 percent of vot- precincts and the relocation of ers citywide cast ballots. Precinct 2-2's polling place to Kresge would take effect begin- City commission supports change ning in the fall of 2002. The Cambridge Election Com- 'We expect to see lots of MIT mission incorporated Sbulman''s students voting now," said Neighbor. June ,2001 THE ARTS FILM REVIEW**}{ their conveyed emotions and feelings. They rendering very well the chaos and the agony don't eem seriously involved either in war of tho e depicted moments. fighting or in romance. The soundtrack also plays a major role in imilarly, Kate Beckinsale's performance this production. A simple yet effective Harbored to Death lack brilliance and emotion and we can hard- theme accompanies the dramatic moments, ly feel the emotional truggles of her charac- whereas the battle scenes have no music in Pearl Harbor' V?SUallyAstounding, Lacking Emotion ter. Alec Baldwin may be more convincing the background, highlighting the infernal but he has only a few lines in this movie. noise of the roaring airplanes, shootings and By Bogdan Fedeles leaves promising to return, but soon word hits evertheles , the special effects of Pearl explosions. STAFF WRiTER that Rafe s plane has been shot down in battle. Harbor make up for most of its weaker part . Pearl Harbor has all the ingredients that a Directed by Michael Bay tricken with grief Evelyn eventually The hundreds of Japanese planes that fill up great movie needs, and still, somehow, the Written by Randall Wallace finds relief in the arms of Danny, who falls for the kies, approaching their unsuspecting tar- pieces don't fuse together in the most fortu- Starring Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate her almost too fa 1. Unexpectedly, Rafe finds gets make a strong impact on the audience. nate way. The outcome is a bearable movie Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Alec Bald- his way back, but only to start the typical love The rain of bullets and bombs that follow is for its abominable length (over three hours), win triangle. Soon after that, the stupendous visually astonishing. The inking battleships featuring demanding special effects, but con- RatedPG-13 Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor occurs, forc- are depicted with intensity and the rotating veying little emotion from its almost artifi- ing the United States to enter the war. The viewpoints of these scenes are impre sive. cial love story. evertheless, it may be enter- he late t movie from producer Jerry romantic puzzle will eventually come to an During the war scenes, the cameras move taining enough to merit a low-expectation Bruckheimer (Con Air, Armaged- end after the surprise counterattack command- either very fast, or in a blurry slow motion, viewing. don) Pearl Harbor is an epic love ed by the General T story which takes place at the dawn Doolittle (Alec of World War II. Although sometimes unbal- Baldwin) over anced, the plot captivates the audience Japan. through its forceful cinematographic render- Given the sim- ing. Employing astounding visual effects, the plicity of the story, recreation of the attack at Pearl Harbor is it was perhaps cal- very intense and credible, making the audi- culated that the ence feel the agony of the war. The romance, emotional impact however, is less credible and the characters would be made by don't seem to stand out very well. everthe- the Japanese attack less, the movie overall is an amazing produc- itself. However, tion that can be both inspiring and entertain- even though the war ing. scenes are extremely Although the producers' intention of pre- realistic and well senting a great historical event is admirable, . shot, the audience the outcome certainly would have trouble gar- never really has a nering an audience interested enough in histo- chance to know or ry. So, a love story is almost artificially see most of the vic- thrown in to make the movie more appealing tims. The horrors of but unfortunately bringing it too close to a the war are present- commercial recipe. Even though the movie ed, but not through focuses on the romance, the audience doesn't the viewpoint of any see the characters in the context of the war, particular character. perhaps because of cliche scenes and uncon- This movie is not vincing acting. acted poorly, but the In the center of the story, there are two acting is definitely young and talented pilots, Rafe McCawley not refined. Ben (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hart- Affleck and Josh nett), who share a brotherly bond and a pas- Hartnett perfectly fit sion for flying. Rafe falls in love with a beau- the mold of the tiful Navy nurse named Evelyn Johnson (Kate sexy, tough guy-type ANDREW COOPER Beckinsale) just before he volunteers for fight- of characters, but American pilots Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett) dodge bullets and bombs in ing in England in the Eagles Squadron. He they lack depth in Jerry Bruckheimer's shallow Pearl Harbor.
car chases will carry the entire movie all by themselves. And what is the point to filming the first scene out of focus and drifting about? It's as if Sena tried to make his film look Stale as 'Sword~h' like a home video shot with a professional camera. Soon he will issue a press statement In the Grand Tradition of 'Battlefield Earth, ' Travolta Sinks Again that reads "I confess; I gave my 98-year-old grandmother an enormous, expensive studio By Sandra M. Chung and Joy M. Forsythe (Texas) and pining away for your daughter ta), anyway? (2) Who is Ginger and why is camera that I didn't bother to teach her to use, STAFF WRITERS since your ex-wife's divorce lawyer managed she with him? (3) When do the world's two and told her to film the first 15 minutes of my Directed by Dominic Sena to pin an indefinite restraining order on you. It greatest computer hackers find time to main- movie. She tried really hard but her arthritis Written by Skip Woods looks like you're going to spend the rest of tain fashionable wardrobes, even suntans, and doesn't let her hold it straight and her Starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, and your life driving golf balls at oil rigs. washboard abs? And (4) why and how do pro- cataracts make her misjudge the focus." Then Halle Berry That is, until Ginger (Halle Berry) sashays ducers and studios keep pouring money into everyone will laugh and a reporter will say, RatedR into your trailer and offers you a huge chunk more bad Travolta movies like Swordfish? "We knew the whole movie was a joke! How of cash in exchange for your illegal services. Apparently Travolta has made the produc- much did it really cost you, anyway?" our name is Stanley Jobson. This is All you have to do is pass her boss's test, that tion of expensive, bad movies a family busi- Most filmmakers assign someone to main- your life: A few years ago you were is, you must hack into the Department of ness. A look at the credits reveals many Tra- tain continuity - i.e., someone who makes making waves as the second best Defense in less than a minute with a gun to voltalings among the extras. In retrospect he sure the hero doesn't magically switch guns or Yhacker in the world (as rated by Hack- your head and a girl named Helga giving you ought to have been an extra, too, as he turns in hair color while the camera rests for a split er Magazine). Then you were caught and you a blow job. Do you pass? No. Do you get the a third-rate performance as Gabriel. He sports econd on a co-star. Apparently the producers had to rot in prison while your evil porn star job anyway? Of course. a dye job from hell and a shallow puddle of of this film didn't bother to hire a continuity ex-wife turned your daughter into a fashion And then you spend the rest of the movie obsessive evil, a far cry from his performance man. While fleeing from the FBI, Jobson rolls victim with a cell phone. Now you're paroled trying to find the answers to these questions: in Face/Off. several hundred yards down a steep, dusty but living in a trailer in the middle of nowhere (1) who exactly is this boss guy (John Travol- Halle Berry's presence is gratuitous; the precipice, with two agents in hot pursuit. At only thing she brings to the the bottom of the hill all three men are com- movie is sheer sex appeal. pletely free of dust and dishevelment except Jackman takes his role as for a few rips the wardrobe director put in seriou ly as he possibly can their otherwise spotlessly clean and well- even though he is sorely ironed blazers. miscast as Jobson. He does- The technical adviser was also on holiday. n't miss a beat with hi I'm not anywhere near as computer literate as cliche lines but occasionally the majority of people on campus, but I could- he looks as if he can't pos- n't resist cracking up when Berry and Travol- sibly fathom how he got ta started throwing around technical terminol- himself into this mess of a ogy relating to encryption, or when the word movie. "algorithm" showed up plainly misspelled on The script is so remark- Job on's multi-display supercomputer. The ably devoid of character screensaver-like animation of the computer development that the actors "decrypting" the security codes is highly have virtually nothing to amusing. work with; no amount of I spent the entire time laughing at how acting talent could rescue ridiculous the movie was and how ridiculous the nonsense that is this the audience was. The audience was probably movie. at least 0 percent male; someone shouted a This is director ena ' s testosterone-crazed comment every 15 min- second major directing job; utes or so. Halle Berry s many exposures and he recycles the filming loca- phallic reference to ball bearings certainly tions and bad camera angles didn't help anything. from Gone in Sixty II in all, Swordfish reeks of sexually frus- Seconds. Sena makes the trated aggressive nerd angst. Were it well- age-old action movie direc- directed and well-written, it could pass it elf tor's error: a sume the off as campy and outrageous - a movie does expen ive digital effects, not have to be believable or even take itself ANDREW COOPER numerous uper- low seriously to be good - but it has so many John Travolta lets bullets fly in Warner Bros. Picture's latest action-espionage thriller Swordfish. explosions, and impossible gaping holes it flounders (no pun intended). Jun 2001
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EATER EVEW sensibility of Jonathan Larson. Out of context, that was wrong!/So wrong!" the book songs and ballads show themselves Despite its successes, however, the record- to be surprisingly melodic, as in the rousing ing does have its flaws and reveals weakness- "Hold Me, Bat Boy," the first act's perfectly es in the score. The recording makes the repe- Bat Boy. TheMusical paced finale, 'Comfort and Joy," the tender tition of some melodies more obvious and the "A Home For You," and the love duet "Inside counterpoint in the duets tends to be a little HoldMe BatBoy Your Heart." too predictable. The orchestrations, even with The lyrics remain surprisingly effective the aid of extra musicians for the recording, By Fred Choi includes the superb Deven Mayas the title even after multiple listenings. O'Keefe's generally sound thin and canned. Although ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR character, infu e the production with a Rent- lyrics often display an Ogden ash-like sense the recording captures the quirkiness of the Bat Boy: The Musical like energy. The actors thoroughly enjoy of humor as in "Children, Children," during show while effectively hinting at the plethora Directed by Scott Schwartz themselves in the madcap doubling of charac- which the spirit of the forest croons to two of visual and non-musical comedic moments, Written by Key the Farley and Brian Flem- ters (in often gender-bending roles). Under the lovers: "The Earth's asleep, time to wake it/If the cast, despite its noble attempts, fails to ming direction of cott chwartz, the visual gag you have clothing, forsake it/We want you fully suggest the explosive excitement of the Music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and the taging of the show become as indis- breathless, and naked," and in the opening live performance. Union Square Theater pensable as the material, especially in its number during which the cast claims, "They Enjoy the CD, but for the full experience, 100 East 1 th Street, New York City inclusion of endless references (some perhaps stripped him of his dignity/They beat him like check out the show, currently running indefi- Tickets $55-$35 unintentionally) to musicals as wide and var- a gong/And he was kicked repeatedly/And nitely in ew York. Rush tickets available two hours before each ied as Julie Taymor's production of The Lion show King, The Who's Tommy, Jonathan Larson's Rent, tephen Sondheirn's Into the Woods and hile Broadway is bu y obsessing Sweeney Todd, and countless Disney animated over the phenomenon that is The musicals. Producers and struggling with its The cast recording of the show, released W slew of high-budget flops and this past week, 10 es a significant amount of unoriginal adaptations, off-Broadway con- the power of the stage version, including some tinues to provide new, clever, and high-quality of the show's most entertaining performances, alternatives. The off-Broadway hit of this sea- such a May's Bat Boy, Trent Armand son is Bat Boy, a high-energy tragicomedy Kendall's Reverend Hightower, and Kathy that is certainly the first cult show of the new Brier's performance as a bad-ass boy and a century. It provides a fresh spin on the musi- fluffy mayores . On disc Kaitlin Hopkin's and cal, a struggling art form which in recent Kerry Butler's Mrs. Parker and helley Parker years has felt tatic and stale. are completely on target, with Butler combin- The musical, which opened in late March ing the sweetness of her experience as Epo- of this year, is based on a recurring character nine in Les Miserables to the production with in the Weekly World News, an infamous edgy TV -chick teenage angst. The two play supermarket tabloid. Bat Boy, half-boy, half- off each other with a catchy spontaneity and bat, is found in a cave in West Virginia near a their duet "Three Bedroom House" is one of small hick town and adopted by the family of the disc's many highlights. a local veterinarian, Dr. Parker. The show Even without the staging O'Keefe's score concerns the creature and the Parkers' efforts till stands strongly on its own. It is refreshing to integrate Bat Boy, whom they rename to fully appreciate O'Keefe's well-written Edgar, into their home and their town. songs, which are often obscured during per- Although the premi e of the show is irn- formance by the audience's riotous laughter. ple and faintly familiar, the show's creators O'Keefe shares Alan Menken's keen ear for (written by Keythe Farley and Brian Flem- pastiche, and his catchy core, though often ming, music and lyric by Laurence O'Keefe) tied a little too closely to it ource, is always make the how a must- ee by stuffing it with effective. The ong breezily flow their way outrageou small-town characters, witty dia- through rap, folk ballad hoe down, go pel, logue and songs, a ho t of tabloid-worthy plot and pop idiom, and O'Keefe killfully com- twi t, nd a concentrated, feigned erious- bine the pa tiche with the off-the-wall, ne . The entirely top-notch ca t, which raunchy humor of" onty Python and the rock June 8 2001 THE ARTS THE T CH Page 11 FILM REVIEW* 'Moulin Rouge' Stands Out as a Technicolor Fantasy Director Luhrmann s ewest Doesn ~Lack in Substance What it Revolutionizes in the Art of Dazzle
By Fred Choi dow, which actually dates back to Rouge. 11of these are manifested in the form with "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR Luhrmann' production of La Boheme for the of the greasy Duke (Ricbard Roxburgh) who, ongs also function as dialogue and help build Directed by Baz Luhrmann ydney Opera Hou e. nother is the green believing that atine loves him, is funding a scenes. The riotously funny razzle dazzle Written by Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce absinthe which the bohemian drink, which complete renovation of the Moulin Rouge and treatment of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" sur- Starring icole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, recalls the hallucinogens taken by Romeo and a new show. faces in a scene in which Zidler, tbe owner of John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard hi friend.) However, like a director who From the fir t moments of the film it is the Moulin Rouge (Jim Broadbent), hurriedly Roxburgh knows that he i working on hi final film, clear that economy or subtlety have no place gives an excuse for Satine's failure to meet Rated PG-13 Luhrmann indulge himself to an extreme in Luhrmann and Pearce s world. The presen- the Duke as demanded. level and packs Moulin Rouge with so many The use of these songs is clever and wild- he plot of of the new film Moulin punches, especially in the first half hour, that ly creative, and oftentimes surprisingly Rouge i something like Shakespeare it is difficult not to feel a little bruised. effective, such as Christian's first profession in Love meets La Boheme, but the feel The movie's opens with a completely Andfor those wondering of love in the form of Elton John's "Your T of the film itself includes the dizzying- bewildering swirl of images in which we they Song" and the tango-fled version of the ly fast-paced editing of an MTV music video, meet our hero Christian (wonderfully 'can sing?" The answer Police's "Roxanne." In context, tbe use of the garish glamour of Strictly Ballroom, the played by Ewan cGregor), a writer who is an emphatic yes. these modem songs becomes more than just melodrama of Bollywood, the society of La escapes the world of the bourgeoisie to pur- a gimmick or a nostalgic effect, and hearing Traviata, and the stark colors of Toulouse- sue a new life. Christian falls into the com- these pop love songs sung as true expres- Lautrec's painting. pany of a group of "bohemians" (the most sions of love is refreshing. They leads us to The clear mastermind behind all of it is memorable of which are John Leguizamo as tation i highly stylized and scenes tend to be reexamine the emotion behind the familiar director Baz Luhrmann, who also shares writ- Toulouse-Lautrec and Jacek Koman as 'The familiar "type ," such as the Victorian farcical songs. ing credits with Craig Pearce. The duo was arcoleptic Argentinian") and agrees to join scene in which an illicit lover i hidden and Although the supporting characters gener- also responsible for the hilariously offbeat their production, fancifully entitled, " pee- hurriedly concocted excuses grow progres- ally lack depth and stick to their "type," the Strictly Ballroom (1992) and their popular and tacular Spectacular." sively ridiculous as more and more people development of Christian and Satine is gener- oftentimes clever 1996 modernization of The bohemians' scheming and a fortuitous contribute. Despite the familiarity, these ally believable. The stylized form and the out- Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It is unsur- case of mistaken identities culminates in a scenes are entertaining as Luhrmann and rageous humor rarely allow the audience to prising that Luhrmann views Moulin Rouge as raunchy and farcical meeting of Christian and Pearce shape the material into memorable, get too close to the lovers. Yet McGregor and the last in a trilogy of movies he calls his "red Satine (the irresistibly lovely icole Kidman), over-the-top moments witb their characteristic Kidman's fine acting within the familiar story, curtain" movies. the star of the Moulin Rouge and a top-priced wit. as with the skillful use of the pop love songs, For anyone familiar with his previous two courtesan, and the beginning of their secret The film's most intriguing concept i its causes us to reexamine the emotions behind films, half the fun is spotting the elements in romance. The remainder of the film follows use of anachronistic songs. The opening scene the story. And for those wondering "can they Moulin Rouge which have been borrowed the conflicts between the true love of Christ- at the Moulin Rouge features a catchy remake sing?" Tbe answer is an emphatic yes. And from his other works (the most obvious being ian and Satine and Satine's illness, her desire of "Lady Marmalade" and icole Kidman's for that Moulin Rouge is a Technicolor fanta- the "L'amour" sign outside Christian's win- to be a real actress, and her duty to the Moulin performance of "Material Girl" juxtaposed sy worth seeing. VIDEO GAME REVIEW TheES$enlial Vegetarian Start Your Rollers! Final Farewell Kirby: Mixing Old with New By Chad Serrant have to annoyingly restart the game at every By Katie Jeffreys STAFF WRITER turn. STAFF WRITER Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble (Nintendo) This isn't as easy as the games you'll find his is it: the last Essential Vegetarian column I will be writing. In my columns I Rated E for Everyone in the realm of 3-D, and that's a good thing. . ..•. .•...·....havecov..e.redev.eIYthing.fto.m t.~enu.....tritionalatl.d e,.nVironmenta.l.reasons for being $29.99 Instead of just wowing you with good graph- vegetarian to how to survive in Europe as a vegetarian. At one point I spent a ics, Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble will force you to Tweek trying out veganism, recognizing the difficulty of that lifestyle in college. his game brings back memories. It think. If you go too fast, you'H make careless My work has brought me in contact with Aramark management, the lawyer suing reminds me of the old days when it errors and faU off the edge. But eacb stage is McDonald:s on behalf of vegetarians, and countless MIT community members who was just you, the end of the stage, and timed (yes, a timer that sbouldn't be there due e-mail or approach me. Ta lot of retries. But there are two major to story! Go Ninja Gaiden!) so you can't just The most frequent question I get is "Why are you a vegetarian?" Usually I respond differences. For one thing, it's on a Game Boy sit there. Kirby gets mad when he runs out of simply, 4'I4on't like meat." However there are so many more reasons to be vegetarian Color. For another, there's a motion sensor time. that I have discovered .since making the switch nearly six years ago. I don't think that device! Do you know what this means? The graphics are great, as far as Game Boy by sharing this knowledge in this column I have converted anyone into a vegetarian, This game is rad to the max! games go. Everything is bright, cheery, and but it is my hope that the vegetarians (and non-veggies) who read this column are a lit- In this Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble, our round recognizable. There is a lot of animation as tle more.informedand arleast entertained enough to not fall asleep in 8.01 lecture pink hero Kirby has to recover all of the lost well (it's amazing bow many frames it takes While doing so. stars from his home planet, Popstar. Kirby acts to rotate Kirby once.) The checkered floor 'Sadly~:Justas I am about to graduate, a new vegetarian food delivery service opens as a ball in tbis game, and the game has an look common in every Kirby game is here illB()~~ori ..~he compan)\calledJ'o Life! l'laturalFood Corporation, prepares a differ- overhead camera angle. The motion sensor too, so it's fun to see that they kept tbe Kirby ...ent-menu each' day,e-mail~ itJo customers, and then delivers the food at a requested device can detect how far you have tilted your tbeme intact. time. The g.eneralm~ge,(of the company is a Harvard student, cross-registered at Game Boy. This means you can tilt your Game The game also shows closeups of his face MIT~~heinformednie ofllie service and 1decided togive it a try. Most of the food is Boy slightly forward, and Kirby will roll down- in between stages. His various facial expres- in fact vegan, and the company is very honest with Hie ingredients it uses. I ordered a hill. If you point it at the floor, Kirby takes a sions range from happy to intrigued, and that sampling of many of the dishes they offered and was impressed. It is not gourmet but nose dive. You can also tilt him to the side and was fun to see (albeit a bit scary). is: a convenient, economJc way of getting vegetarian food> comparable to the food he'll move there. If you quickly "pop" the Many people don't listen to Game Boy's trucks. Game Boy towards you, Kirby will jump. sounds, but I'm happy HAL laboratories ,'The appetizer of th~ day was a croquette, which was rather boring and very greasy. I The real fun of the game is that Kirby is set didn't skimp on the music. The music is chose the potato salad, which could have benefited from a little more spice. Next up was in stages where careful aim and timing is happy and cheerful yet encouraging as usual penne in a creamy spinach sauce, which was probably the best entree I tried. Each day required. There are several areas, for example, in Kirby's lands. Kirby also has several syn- several rice dishes are offered, and I chose butternut squash as the rice accompaniment. where Kirby has to move in a circular motion to thesized voices in the game, from his univer- Both were quite tasty, but would not constitute a meal, I also ordered a side dish of the hit several switcbes in a limited amount of time sal "Hiiii!" to the strange grumble he makes stuffed zucchini, which were filled with vegetables and grain and topped with marinara so he can reach a platform that will catapult him whenever he loses a life (don't forget the sauce. This dish was the biggest surprise. I thought I wouJdn't really care for it, but it was over a bed of spikes. There are other stages sound of his yell whenever he falls off a really quite tasty, and the consistency was not at all tough or chewy. But wait there's where Kirby has to move over several small clift). more'. I ordered a veggie burger with guacamole, which at press time I hadn't gotten islands, and you have to time his jumps proper- Irecommend this game to everyone who has around to eating. And for dessert, there was apricot and strawberry flan. I am usually not ly. This is the meat of the game. It will undoubt- a Game Boy Color. It makes good use out of its a bigflan fan, but these little mounds of wobbly goo were really very good. For some rea- edly remind old-school gamers of when games new motion sensor device wbile it forces the son the apricot one became a little runny) but it was still a very mild flavor that suited the weren't about flashy graphics or cool 3-D mod- gamer to use old school-style guerrilla tactics to di~. • . els; they were about failing time and time again survive. Resurrect the old NES game fanatic The best part about the meal? All the food I ordered cost only $20. So far the food has until you had so much skill you could beat the you used to be, or just abuse the new motion consisted oftwo dinners and four snacks and it is maybe half consumed. To Life! can be game in ten minutes with your eyes closed and device. It will be one of the greatest experiences reached at (617) 416-0696 or at
By Fred Choi ing, and artistic horts thi year's entries are ing other i ue. very close e ond i Des- fe ti al' only non-documentary must-see. ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR generally les memorable be au e they often tiny's Children (by Kevin O'Keefe, which Plane/Out. com 's Second Annual Film Festival rely on a ingle gimmic replace fla hy cine- focuses on a gay man in Canada nd hi Drama: Live. of the Pharaoh Presented by PlanetOut.com, atomfilm.com, matic tric for ub tance, or borrow too 1 -year long struggle to adopt children. By Jonathan ald Miller Lite, and Paper agazine heavily from conventional 'straight" cinema. lthough the documentaries tend to run httpr/movieawards.planetout. com The short that ucceed are the one that avoid longer than the other hort films all five are Unlike last year' generally entertaining the common trap of queer cinema, uch a worth eeing. finalists this year' drama and comedy films are ust in time for ational Pride onth and gratuitous sex or nudity or fixating on the almo t all disappointing. The dramas in general Boston's Gay Pride Wee (which will coming out proces , and fully incorporate the nimation: Piki and Poko Adventure in tend toward the melodramatic, and although include the march through Boston this queer experience without merely sub tituting tarLand Baby Steps (by Geoffrey auffts) feature aturday at noon starting in Copley queer characters into an otherwi e trite tory. Bark E ert and Da .d utler thy Bate as a homophobic adoption agency quare), comes PlanetOut.com's second annu- Below are my picks for the top shorts in head, the only really well-done drama is Lives al Online Queer hort Film Festival (plan- each of the five categories. Log in and ee if Piki and Poko Adventures in StarLand easi- of the Pharaohs (by Jonathan Wald). The film etOut.com is a leading Internet media compa- you agree - half the fun of the film fest i ly blows away the other competition (including revolves around scenes at Passover dinners, and ny for the gay, lesbian, bi exual, and reading what others have to say. the fairly entertaining The Rape of Ganymede, it perceptively traces a Jewish ~ oman's confu- transgender community). Out of almost 200 by Dustin Woehrmann and Tom Whitman, a sion when a friend from college visits and caus- submissions, 26 finalists have been selected in Document hort which features a queer reinterpretation of es her to que tion her previou ly complacent five categories (drama comedy, animation, B aleh oom kh and Porter Gal Greek mythology and pokes fun at Di ney's family life. It is beautifully done and moving. experimental, and documentary). selected Hercules). For the festival, the short features jury will choose a winner from each of the The do umentary category is definitely the the first three episodes of the online eries Corned : Hi I'm Steve five categories who will receive 1,000, as strongest of the five categorie of the festival. (apparently now in its 26th epi ode). Piki and B Robert Kennedy well as a Grand Prize winner who will receive Each of the five documentaries examine a Poko is by far the most well-designed and 10,000. Audience Awards will also be given different subject, and, unlike last year's festi- addictive of the web cartoons I have seen so Although 50 Ways (by Angela Robinson) to films based on the results of online votes val, which consisted of unoriginal coming-of- far. The cartoon concerns two Japanese school is quite well-done and Trigger Happy (by throughout the month of June cast at age storie , this year's documentarie feature girls, one a cheerleader (Piki) and the other a Laurie chmidt) is amusing even despite its
VIDEO GAME REVIEW 'Oracle of Seasons' Links Latest, But Still So Good By Chad Serrant favorite is the "Blue Holy Ring," which nulli- STAFF WRITER fies fireball attacks, so I can swim in peace. Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Nintendo) Another feature is the rides on which Link Rated E for Everybody goes. Link gets to ride a kangaroo, a lizard, $34.99 and a flying bear. Link eventually gets a flute that allows him to summon one of them. ype: it's one of those words I don't There's just something about riding a flying like. Usually, the more you hype a bear that works in this game. game, the worse it becomes. The Link also gets a collection of weapons that Zelda series is a well-known series allows him to travel further and fight better. and has been the recipient of tremendous hype Link's boomerang lets him stun enemies from as of late. But ... dang it, The Legend of far away. Roc's feather, one of my favorite Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, uncannily rivals the items, lets Link jump over small pits. The great hype with a great game to match. slingshot makes its first appearance on the Oracle of Seasons and its twin sister, Ora- Game Boy Color, and it allows Link to shoot cle of Ages, are the two latest games to hit the enemies from afar. The magnetic gloves are Game Boy Color. intendo is good at making really fun because Link can attract and repel Zelda game playable. They are also good at magnetic objects, or he can drag his own body WE DYGU-THETECH using the same basic gameplay formula, but towards them. The IT Symphony Orchestra premiered works by student composers Bogdan I. making it varied enough so you aren't bored The dungeons are just the way I like them: Fedeles '02, Mark S. Ethier '01, Sam H. Thibautt G, Anand D. Sarwate '01, of playing it. long and tough. You have a fair amount of David M. Foxe '03, and Che King leo '01 during a concert held Tuesday, May Oracle of Seasons starts with the hero, freedom to roam around the dungeon, so you 15. Link, entering the new and unfamiliar world don't have a feeling of being cramped. The of Holodrum. He meets Din, a mysterious dungeons have a lot of puzzles to keep you woman who forces him to dance with her (for entertained, too. The dungeons are blended all of hi fighting skills, he is still a very shy well so you aren't simply button mashing, but guy). Link's other problem is that evil forces you're not getting frustrated while tackling The Fannie and John spring up out of nowhere and screw up the and endless wave of puzzles. world he is in. Right on cue the general of The graphics are above average for the Z 0 TIO Darkness, Onox, enters and captures Din. She Game Boy Color, but it still has a tile pattern Takes great pleasure in announcing its Fall 2001 Fellow hip is actually the Oracle of Seasons, and without on all of its surfaces (then again, the game is awards. her guidance, the seasons are thrown out of huge, and this is a Game Boy Color). The order. This will eventually destroy the world, sound is okay, but varied (as if you'll care ... ). . Daniel dkin so Link has no choice but to go on a journey You won't even notice the windmill music and kick some butt. from Oracle of Time (it's there, Ipromise you.) Graduating in Computer Science People who have played other Zelda As a cheap marketing ploy, you won't fin- from a achu ett In titute of Technology games will find the game to be very familiar. ish the game once you beat the final boss in and You must travel through the overworld to . Oracle of Seasons! Instead, you will get a r. Garry a kal reach the eight dungeons that you must con- password that lets you continue your quest in quer to save the world. Each dungeon has Oracle of Ages. You get new bonuses, secrets, Graduate tudent in aterial cience and Engineering locked doors, monsters, new weapons, and the and bosses to fmd and discover. This forces from Ma achusetts In titute of Technology occasional boss to defeat. When you do this, you to buy both games if you want everything. you are rewarded with more life and some But dang it! I'll fall for their trap. Oracle are two of21 Hertz Foundation Fellows cho en from a field of hints on the next dungeon. Between dungeons, of Seasons is so good I'm going to buy Oracle you are talking to people, getting money, of Ages anyway. But who would ever think of 570 applicants to receive a five year, 200 000 Graduate using your equipment, and exploring new creating two games and forcing you to buy Fellow hip award in the applied phy ical ciences. The Hertz areas. Everything nicely intertwines together both to get the whole experience? Gotta catch Foundation would like to extend its congratulation to in a cornucopia of happine s, and there is 'em all! enough variety that you won't get bored of it. a achu etts In titute of Technology for attracting the e Oracle of Seasons adds everal gimmicks Fellow to their undergraduate and graduate program . and bonuses to keep things fre h and avoid redundancy. Throughout the game, you can ee www.hertzfoundation.org for more detail find rings that give you mall bonuses. The rings ma e life a lot more convenient. y June 8, 2001 THE H Page 13 as far back as 2500 B.C.; ..European Decorative Arts from 1950 to the Present"; Club "John Singer Sargent: Stud- ies for MFA and Boston Pub- Axis lic Library Murals." 13 Lansdowne St., 617- 262-2437 Gallery lectures are free with museum admission. Sundays: See Avalon below. Mondays: Static. Gay, casu- Museum of Science al dress. $5, 18+. Science Park, Boston. (723- Thursdays: Chrome/Skybar. 2~00), Daily, 9 a.m ..~ p.m.; Progressive house, soul, Frr., 9 a.m.-9 p.rn.: Sat.- dlsc0j, dress code. $10, Sun., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admis- 19+; ~8, 21+. sion free with MIT 10, other- Fridays: Spin Cycle. Progres- wise $9, $7 for children srve house, 80s. $12, 3-14 and seniors. 19+; $10, 21+. The Museum features the Avalon theater of electricity (with 15 Lansdowne St., 617- indoor thunder-and-lightning 262-2424 shows daily) and more than A vveekly guide to "the arts in Boston 600 hands-on exhibits. Sundays: Gay Night (with On~oing: "Discovery Cen- Axis on long weekends). June 8 - 15 ter ; "Investigate! A See-For- Featuring hardcore house Yourself Exhibit"; "Science and techno. $10, 21+. Compiled by Fred Choi in the Park: Pla~ing with Thursdays: International Forces and Motion ; "Seeing Night. Eurohouse. $10, Send SUbmissions to [email protected] or by Interdepartmental mall to "On The Town, " The Tech, W20483. Is Deceiving." 19+. Fridays: Avaland. House. Ongoing: "Friday Night $15,19+. Jun. 16-17: Dave Matthews Stargazing," Fri., 8:30 p.m.; Saturdays: Downtown. Mod- Band...... "Wefcome to the Universe," ern house, club classics, daily; "Quest for Contact: and Top 40 hits. $15, The Middle East Are We Alone?" daily. Admis- 21+. sion to Omni, laser, and Central Square, 354-8238 planetarium shows is $7.50, Circle Ticketmaster: 931-2000. $5.50 for children and Every Tuesday, 9 p. m .-1 seniors. a.m. A small but energy- Jun. 8: The Faint. filled place to hear local [JJs Jun. 9: Lyres. spin a range of Jun. 10: Stan Stricklands techno/trance. "No age Trance Dance Experience. Other restrictions, no dress code. Jun. 10: Clientele. At the VFW, 371 Summer Jun. 12: Shannon Wright The Divine Comedy of Fed- St, Somerville (take the Red Clairvoyants. erico Fellini Line to Davis Square). $5, Jun. 13: Lloyd Cole. Through Jun. 29: The Har- $1 before 9:30. Jun. 13: Lot Six Pilot To vard FTlmArchive presents a Gunner. selection of fifteen films by Karma Club Jun. 14: Luna. the man they called il mae- 9 Lansdowne St., 617-421- Jun. 14: Uz Jsme Doma. stro, comprising some of 9595 the most compelling and Orpheum Theatre original visions of the late Sundays: "Current dance 1 Hamilton PI., Boston, twentieth century. The festi- favorites" by guest DJs. 617 -679-0810 val includes screenings of: Cover varies. Ticketmaster: 931-2000 8 1/2, Nights of cebirie. Tuesdays: Phatt Tuesdays. Juliet of the Spirits, and With Bill's bar, modern Jun. 9: Lil Bow Wow. Fellini Satyricon. Call 617- dance music. $10. 495-4700 for more info. or Wednesdays: STP. Gay- Tsongas Arena visit «www.tierv ertu- friendly, house. $15, 21+. LoweTI,MA marchive. ore> for a com- Thursdays: Groove Factor. Ticketmaster: 931-2000. plete schedule. House. Fridays: Pure. Drum and Jun. 22:Green Day. All festival films will be bass, guest OJ. $15, 19+. screened at Harvard Film Saturdays: Elements of Life. Tweeter Center for the Per- Archive, located at the lower International House. $15. forming Arts (Great level of the Carpenter Cen- Woods) ter for the Visual Arts, 24 Man Ray 885 South Main St., Mans- Quincy St. Cambridge. Tick- 21 Brookline St., Cam- field, MA 02048 ets $7, $5 stud e nt s , bridge, 617-864-0400 Ticketmaster: 931-2000 seniors. Tickets may be pur- chased at the Harvard Box Wednesdays: Curses. Goth. Jun. 11: The Black Crowes Office, located at: Holyoke Appropriate dress and Oasis. Center Arcade, 1350 Mass- required. $5, 19+; $3, Jun. 16: Lynyrd Skynyrd. achusetts Ave., Cambridge, 21+. Jun. 21: Jam'n 94.5 Sum- Mass. For ticketing info. call Thursdays: Campus. Popular mer Jam with Jay-Z, 'Lil 617-496-2222 or ITY: 617- tunes + House. Gay, casu- Bow Wow, & Ja Rule. COURTESY MSO 495-1642. al dress. $10, 19+; $7, Jun. 22: The Allman Broth- The Black Crowes (above) co-headline with Oasis in the Tour of Brotherly Love on 21+. ers Band. Reinventing the Canvas Frid ays: Fantasy Factory Jul. 25: Bon Jovi. Monday at the Tweeter Center. (First and third Friday of Aug. 8: Ozzfest 2001. on Broadway as a compos- An elegant, luxurious, sensi- (566-1401), Tues.-Sun. 11 Through Jun. 30: Gallery FX, the month. Features kinky a space devoted entirely to fetishes and industrial er/lyricist in 1955. The tive monarch, "too favor- a.m.-5 p.m. Admission $10 untimely death of its produc- able" to his enemies and ($11 on weekends), $7 for student artists, presents music.) Hell Night (every the work of 13 artists. second Friday. 19+. er halted its production and oblivious to his people's suf- seniors, $5 for students Jazz Music although songs turned up fering, Richard is ultimately with to ($3 on Wed.), free "Embracing new perceptions Includes Goth music.) offered by non-traditional Ooze (the last Friday of occasionally in tributes and stripped of wealth, power, for children under 18. The Regattabar reviews, the show didn't kingdom and sense of self. museum, built in the style of expression, the artists will the month.) $10, 21+. Concertix: 876-7777 create sound from written reduced prices for those receive its long-awaited New Robert Woodruff stages this a 15th-century Venetian 1 Bennett St., Cambridge York debut until January 18, most lyrical and psychologi- palace, houses more than words, dance from air vibra- wearing fetish gear. 02138, 617-662-5000 tions, and man i pu late Saturdays: Liquid. 2000. The show remains cally complex of Shake- 2,500 art objects, with largely intact with only minor speare's history plays. emphasis on Italian Renais- images of the world at large Disco/house + New Wave. Jun. 8: Gary Burton. to fit their own palette." $15, 19+; $10,21+. revisions (as Sondheim Directed by Robert Woodruff. sance and 17th-century Jun. 8: Makoto Ozone. pointed out in an interview Tickets $59-$25. To reserve Dutch works. Among the This group show will chal- Jun. 16: Ronnie Earl. with The New York Times: tickets or for more informa- highlights are works by Rem- lenge your sensibility about Jun. 28: Luciana Souza. "There are some things that tion call 617-547-8300 or brandt, Botticelli, Raphael, art and performance togeth- embarrass me so much in visit
the floor ere ting rhythmic pat- terns. In order to m e u h a dance effecti e the dancers needed to be perfectly ynchronized ... e 'erfec 'Escape and they were. Combining jazz and ballet, Haix- Dance Troupe Deli err. ensa iona 1J ~ngConcert ia Lin and ilin Yang choreo- graphed their dance, 'Protection" to By Bess Rouse e erci e ideo to a whole n w level. the en ual mu ic of a i e arah Funderburk tO u ed music by ttack. In elegant dres e , the Spring 2001 Concert: Escape Moby for her dance The nfaithful." ith dancers moved seamle ly from one Presented by Dance Troupe the theme of prayer, the piece featured tep to the next, tipping forward La Sala de Puerto Rico dancer clutching their hand to their che t with their leg rai ed behind them, Friday, May 18- Sunday, May 20 while swaying in circular motion a they bending backward with the leg kneeled in profile. paced throughout the e tended to the front, and inter- he "Go uelin" started even before dance thi motion was repeated later a the weaving their arms with one anoth- the hou e light dimmed - ignaling dancer tood and at the end in three different er. the beginning of thi term's Dance levels - kneeling, lunging, and tanding. In a similar style Carol Cheung Troupe show Escape. nyone who In one of the other piece , Rebecca truly captured the music of Elliot has ever attended or performed in a Dance Lipon '03 used the influence of ballroom mith in her untitled piece. The Troupe concert i familiar with these enthu i- dance to create omething unique to the con- emotion of the movement varied astic call from the audience. Occa ionally cert in " eeking Fulfillment." The dance was from being happy and lmo t hope- someone be ides uelin Chen '03 is ingled compo ed of two couples with entirely differ- ful, to ad and passive. Evidently out, such as Yee Lam '01 or the' cCormick ent entiments. One was pas ionate and play- inspired by the work of Paul Taylor girls," but "Go uelin" or "Sue-Lin-Chen" ful (Lipon and Garrett Peavy '04), the other the women in the dance wore seems to have become a general call of up- erene and re erved (Haixia Lin G and Fer- blui h-gray dre es in the tyle of port and excitement. nando Padillo). Both did strikingly complicat- country hou ewives. At a certain In "Arise," one of the fir t pieces of the ed turns and difficult lifts - one of the men point, the light turned red and the performance, the 13 dancers pulsed to the lifted his partner in a press over his head, she dancers eemed almost otherworld- electronic music of Brainbug. any of the rolled down his body, and he caught her ju t ly. The piece ends in a sort of duet move were mechanical and reminiscent of before he hit the ground, for example. in which Ailin Yang '02 and Fer- MlNG-TAI HUH-THE TECH old-school techno. Midway through the dance, Beginning with blue potlight circling the nando Padillo slipped past each a strobe light flashed and the dancers stripped stage, Connie Tao '04 and Janet Lai's '04 other and off stage-emphasizing the mu ic s the piece and judging by the cheers, the re t off their tank tops revealing total pandex-col- dance "Rods and Cones" ga e a new interpre- theme of a love missed. of the audience must have been as well. ored sports bras and tight bJack pants. The tation of the music of Blue an Group. imi- Cheung' econd dance in the show, Almost in response to their naughty repu- choreographers, Katrina Lust '03 and Lyci Jar to the performer in Blue an Group the 'Mis ed Di tance" to the mu ic of Barenaked tation, the funk and hip-hop pieces presented Hillman '03, seemed to take the stereotypical dancer clapped and lapped their bodie and Ladies, was equally strong. I was drawn into the dancers as strong, dominant women, and not scantily clad sex objects. The women in "Show e Watcha Got," choreographed by iu-Li Khoe, wore cargo pants and tank tops as they strutted and danced with attitude. The two men, though smooth, were dominated by the group of women. In "What Up Fool!" the dancers wore long sleeve shirts under short sleeved ones and Bjork-ish pigtail buns in the hair. The dance, choreographed by Judi Ramsical, consisted of strong, sharp movements to the music of Gin- uwine. 0.£ the six hip-hop styled pieces, "Whoop!" was the most flirtatious. However, Emily Le, the choreographer, did keep with the general trend of strong women and cos- tumed her dancers in army camouflage, with bare midriffs of course. One of the most impressive parts of Dance Troupe in general, is the high quality of these hip-hop pieces. The majority of the dancers look strong and confident in their abilities, and the dances consistently appear well rehearsed and together. Also, even though some choreo- graphers and dancers are regulars on the Dance Troupe stage, new choreographers and dancers also seem to regularly turn up. MIT appears to an extraordinarily high number of talented hip-hop dancers, and the audience is certainly thankful for it. Even though the show ran the weekend before final exams, Dance Troupe drew large crowds - evidently providing the perfect Escape from MING-TAI HUH-THE TECH studying. BlackTG: Unfinished Women Cry in a No Man's Land While a Bird Dies in A Gilded Cage
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On May 17 and 18, Kresge Lit- tle Theater was home to the Black Theater Guild's latest production, a play by Aishah Rahman and directed by Thomas DeFrantz, MIT Assis- tant Professor of Music and Theater Arts.
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Friday, June 8 and Academia to nurture the next generation in computational mechanics. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering Dept. 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Summer Physical Education Registration. Fee varies depending on course. Room: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Web and Software Accessibility Quick Start. Learn about MIT's accessibility poli- W32-125. Sponsor: Physical Education. cies for software and web pages. We will discuss applying the principles of universal design to both web 10:00 a.m. - IT Commencement. free. Killian Court. pages and software to make them more accessible to users with disabilities. This session will show examples 6:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. - IT Shakespeare Ensemble Reunion. Dinner and scenes with fellow Shakespeare of accessible and inaccessible design and cover HTML coding and tools that can help make your site or appli- Ensemble members. $70. University Park Hotel at MIT, The Taylor Room. Sponsor: Association of MIT Alumni cation ADA-compliant. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. & Alumnae. 12:10 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - "Mixing and Circulation in the Deep Brazil Basin." free. Room: 54-915. Sponsor: Tech Reunions. Over 2,500 alumni and guests are expected to gather to celebrate Tech Reunions, including Physical Oceanography. the 5th to the 70th reunion classes and other alumni returning to visit their old stomping grounds. Fee varies. 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Rollerhockey. Pickup rollerhockey. See the URL for directions and more information. Sponsor: Association of MIT Alumni & Alumnae. free. Kennedy Elementary School, Cambridge. Sponsor: Pickup Rollerhockey Group. 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. -Image and Meaning Registration and Reception. Sponsor: EECS. Saturday, June 9 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Renaissance Dancing. There are many forms of Renaissance Dancing that we prac- tice - from Italian balli to courtly pavans to English country. We dance them all with flair and fun. Dress is 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Summer Physical Education Registration. Fee varies depending on course. Room: common street clothing. 0 experience necessary; instruction is provided. free. Room: 31-161. Sponsor: Soci- W32-125. Sponsor: Physical Education. ety for Creative Anachronism. Tech Reunions. Over 2,500 alumni and guests are expected to gather to celebrate Tech Reunions, including the 5th to the 70th reunion classes and other alumni returning to visit their old stomping grounds. Fee varies. Thursday, June .14 Sponsor: Association of MIT Alumni & Alumnae. 8:30 a.m. - Image and Meaning Conference. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: EECS.
Sunday f June .10 9:00 a.m. - First MIT Conference on Computational Ruid and Solid Mechanics. To bring together Industry and Academia to nurture the next generation in computational mechanics. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Summer Physical Education Registration. Fee varies depending on course. Room: Dept. W32-125. Sponsor: Physical Education. 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Excel Quick Start. This course presents an overview of Excel's basic functions, as Tech Reunions. Over 2,500 alumni and guests are expected to gather to celebrate Tech Reunions, including well as some of its more powerful features and capabilities. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Informa- the 5th to the 70th reunion classes and other alumni returning to visit their old stomping grounds. Fee varies. tion Systems. Sponsor: Association of MIT Alumni & Alumnae. 6:00 p.rn. - 8:00 p.m. - RoJlerhockey. Pickup rollerhockey. See the URL for directions and more information. free. Room: Kennedy Elementary School, Cambridge. Sponsor: Pickup Rollerhockey Group. onday, June 11 8:30 p.m. - Science as Spectacle. David Goodstein, Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Caltech, will host "Science as Spectacle". It will include presentations of film footage from televi- 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Summer Physical Education Registration. Fee varies depending on course. Room: sion science programs that attempt to demonstrate complex scientific phenomena, and presentations show- W32-125. Sponsor: Physical Education. ing how science was used to produce special effects in several films. "Science as Spectacle" is part of the 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - TSM (ADS ) Backup Software Quick Start. Learn how to download, install and MIT conference, "Image and Meaning: Envisioning and Communicating Science and Technology." free. Room: configure TSM, formerly ADSM, for backing up your files to a secure server over the network. Discuss your Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: EECS. TSM questions with technical staff. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - RolJerhockey. Pickup rollerhockey. See the URL for directions and more information. free. Friday, June 15 Kennedy Elementary School, Cambridge. Sponsor: Pickup Rollerhockey Group. 9:00 a.m. - First MIT Conference on Computational Auid and Solid Mechanics. To bring together Industry Tuesday, June 12 and Academia to nurture the next generation in computational mechanics. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering Dept. 9:00 a.m. - First IT Conference on ComputationaJ Auid and Sord echanics. To bring together Industry and 9:00 a.m. - Image and Meaning Conference. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: EECS. Academia to nurture the next generation in computational mechanics. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering Dept. 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Windows 2000 Quick Start. This session demonstrates the new features and 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Summer Physical Education Registration. Fee varies depending on course. Room: functionalities of Windows 2000 for the desktop user. Tour Start Menu enhancements; compare differ- W32-125. Sponsor: Physical Education. ences between the new My Network Places and previous Network Neighborhood; meet the Active Desktop, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Learn Chado - The Way of Tea. Experience over 400 years of history and culture at Power Management, and Windows Update. See how many Control Panel functions have been consolidated, a Japanese tea ceremony. Mrs. Kyoko Wada will share the "nappiness of the tea ceremony" with you. Drop in where NT profiles and Administrative Tools now reside, and how to set up a printer. We will explain why anytime between 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. $3 for students, $5 for others. McCormick Hall. Sponsor: spouses&part- Active Directories are not currently allowed at MIT and make some recommendations for operating in this ners@mit, MIT Women's League. new environment. (System administration not covered.) free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Informa- 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Dreamweaver 3.0 Quick Start. Dreamweaver 3.0 is a powerful tool for creating and tion Systems. managing complex web sites. This Quick Start introduces users to the Dreamweaver interface and gives a 8:00 p.m. - Images in science that have changed the way we see ourselves. Four visionaries in science and brief overview of web publishing practices at MIT. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Sys- the communication arts mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, writer Susan Sontag, naturalist E.O. Wilson, and tems. writer Alan Lightman - will gather in an evening of discussion focusing on the power of scientific images, and how these images have changed the way humanity sees itself. This special event is one component of the Wednesday, June 13 upcoming MIT conference/Image and Meaning: Envisioning and Communicating Science and Technology." The conference and accompanying exhibition, held June 13-16, 2001, address the way images may be used 9:00 a.m. - Arst MIT Conference on ComputationaJ Auid and Solid Mechanics. To bring together Industry to communicate scientific information among scientists and to the general public. free. Sponsor: EECS. June 8 2001 THE TECH Page 21
ROSHAN BALlGA-THE TECH
Above: MIT students honored the late Douglas Adams, author of such books as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and Last Chance to See, with this banner, complete with the always- handy towel, on May 17.
Right: May 21 saw a giant Magic Pi Ball atop the Green Building - accord- ing to the ball, "Outlook hazy, try again." The transcendental and mysti- cal billiards ball quickly fell apart and was removed for safety reasons. Below: A "48 units" weight, as in the normal courseload of the average MIT student, was placed atop MIT May 22. Apparently the Great Dome cracked under the weight; it is not yet known whether MIT students have cracked under their loads.
JORDAN RUBlN-THE TECH June ,2001 emes• oOOn enior C ass, SWE, GSC Agree o Kruege Case n all Career Fair Contract by the family of cott By aney Keuss will hold one corporate pon ored organization had each organized Krueger 01. Krueger died in 19 7 and Jennifer Krishnan event. Last year the WE ha a ban- their own fair each year. Becau e The uffolk uperior Court after overindulging in alcohol dur- ASSOCIATE EWS EDITORS quet, but neither the G nor the o the repetition many companies denied a motion by the national ing a pledge event at IT' Fiji Three tudent group will once cla of 200 1 had its own cent. became reluctant to participate in organization of Phi Gamma Delta to chapter. again jointly organize the Fall While plan are not yet et in any of the three. In respon e the dismi s a wrongful death suit filed Ju tice Linda E. Gile wrote in Career Fair slated for eptember tone, Dalai aid the enior cla Office of Career ervice and Pre- her ay 18 deci ion that Fiji 17-21. event would mo t likely be a ca ino profe sional dvising initiated the ational failed to prove that it wa The 2001 fair will mark the third night. joint career fair. free from liability for Krueger' con- year that the ociety of Women Both floor of John on thletic The 1999 fair aw significant dition while he erved as a pledge at Engineers the Graduate tudent Center ha e been reserved for the dis ent between its organizing its IT chapter. Fiji ational had Council, and the enior cla Career Fair. During la t year's fair, group. Problems arose in the fair's claimed that it only had ' ocial ho t" now the clas of 2002 - have col- orne companie were placed in internal organization a the three responsibility under as achusetts laborated on the event. Johnson, while others were placed student groups disputed over the law, which would have released it The contributing tudent organi- in Rockwell Cage. Becau e there allocation of work and the plitting from liability for Krueger volun- zations recently agreed on a revised was "not a big flow over to Rock- of revenue. tary decision to con ume alcohol. contract for the event under which well ... a lot of companies felt they "That year the groups involved The Kruegers ucce fully countered each group select two members to were hafted, Dalai aid. "Compa- had a hard time working together," Fiji ational's claim by convincing make up an organizer group, nie are paying a lot of money to Dalai said, adding that after that Gile that Fiji ational' need to according to WE Co-President attend the Career Fair ... It' our fair, there was talk of abandoning recruit pledge and Krueger' need Jennifer L. Clarke '03. These mem- responsibility to be attentive to their the idea of a joint fair completely. for housing could have combined to ber will coordinate all of the detail needs." "Thi year, we have a more create a coercive environment for for the Career Fair and solicit the Unlike last year Career Fair, healthy collaboration and a more Krueger, which would have obligat- help of their re pective organiza- which wa divided into a day for cooperative atmosphere for the actu- n ancer ed Fiji ational to look out for hi tions to provide volunteers for the graduate tudent and a day for al Career Fair Committee," Dalai • well-being. event. undergraduates thi year's fair will said. hile the Kruegers did not Clarke said the agreement have no uch separations. Dalai The 1999 Career Fair drew cree mq specifically allege coercion, Giles between the three groups allows for hope this will increase the diversity more than 270 companies and wrote, "inference from the alleged a greater resource pool and more of companies in attendance on both some 3,000 MIT students seeking fact could support such a conclu- organizational time than could any days. permanent and summer employ- ion." of the three organization could pro- Additionally, the Class of 2002 ment. The 2000 fair featured 375 Giles al 0 denied motions to di - vide alone. has formed its own Career Fair sub- companies from such sectors as by appointment only mi s by other defendant , including The collaboration is the be t committee, a group of seniors "who biotechnology, investment banking the house corporation, the now-di - way to have a large, well-organized will be involved in all the planning and consulting, start-ups, high- MIT MedicaV lexing on banded IT chapter, former house and successful Career Fair for the stages for Career Week and Fair," tech, and aeronautics. onprofit Friday, June 15, 2001 president Jonathan P. Loflin '9 students 'Clarke said. Dalai said. Usually the organiza- organizations also traditionally noon-4pm former pledge trainer Charle tions involved send volunteers participate in the fairs. Dalai optimi tic about cbange appointments: 781/ 981-7080 H. Y 00 '98, and Kevin E. cDon- whenever needed, but there are no Clarke said that the planning for ald '00, Krueger's "big brother." Class of 2002 President Sudeb clearly defined roles, which leads to the upcoming Career Fair is ahead accountability problems, according of last year's schedule and running MITMedicaV cambridge Last eptember the Krueger C. Dalai '02 de cribed this year's agreed to a 6 million settlement contract as "largely an extension of to Dalai. smoothly. Wednesday, June 20, 2001 with MIT for the Institute s role in last year's contract," with a few He also aid that he thinks hav- "Our goal is to have this be the noon-4pm their son's death. added safeguards to a sure the suc- ing a committee composed of stu- most successful Career Fair yet," appointments: 617/258-5363 cess and productivity of Career dents in various majors such as biol- she said. Week and the Career Fair. ogy and political science will help The Class of 2002 will receive "The Class of 2002 pushed pret- add to the diversity of types of com- 42 percent of the proceeds from the ty hard to ensure some fairness that panies who attend the fair. Career Fair, which is their main we didn't see last year," Dalai said. source of income. The GSC and This year's contract provides Joint fair in its third year SWE will receive 36 and 22 percent [email protected] that each of the collaborating groups Prior to the 1999 fair, the three respectively.
The Third Annual MIT Soan eBusiness TM Awards Co grat ates he 200 Win ers
eBusiness of the Year: Enron, (www.enron.com) ePerson of the Year: Shawn Fanning Best Supporting Actor Award: RSA Security, (www.rsasecurity.com) Business Transformation Award: 7-11 Japan (www.sej.co.jp) Disruptive Technology Award: Napster (www.napster.com) Global Reach Awards: okia, (www.nokia.com) ookie of the Year Award: Vindigo (www.vindigo.com) Socia Responsibility Award: CitySoft (www.citysoft.com) IT Student Choice Award: apster (www.napster.com)
In addition to congratualting all of the 200 I winners, the MIT Sloan eBusiness Awards would also like to thank the 900+ people that attended the eBA ceremony on April 23rd in Kresge Auditorium. Their support helped make the eBAs MIT's largest and most exciting 100% student-run event. see you next year!!
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The Interfraternity Council would like to congratulate all of the members of the Class of 2001 on a job well done.
We would like to offer special recognition to the many members of the FSILG community who have been recognized for their outstanding contri butions, both during this past year and the past four years. These members include:
Stefan K. Bewley, 01 - Recipient of the Howard W. Johnson Award
Damien A. Brosnan, 01 - Recipient of the Karl Taylor Compton Prize
Sonja J. Ellefson,01 - Recipient of the Betsy Schumacker Award
Rebecca M. Grochow,01 - Recipient of the William L. Stewart, Jr. and the Frederick Gardiner Fassett, Jr. Awards
Edward A. Keehr,01 - Recipient of the Admiral Edward L. Cochrane Award
Erica Lee,01 - Recipient of the Priscilla King Gray Award
Rory P. Pheiffer,02 - Recipient of the Harold J. Pettegrove Award
Morgan Royce-Tolland,01 - Recipient of the Laya W. Weisner Award
Russell Spieler,01 - Recipient of the Frederick Gardiner Fassett, Jr. Award
Alpha Epsilon Phi Soroity - IFC Chapter of the Year and the Kenneth R. Wadleigh Faculty Relations Award
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity - James R. Killian Jr. Community Service Award
Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity - D. Reid Weedon Jr. Alumni/ae Relations Award
Theta Chi Fraternity - Order of Omega New Member Education Award
ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FSILG COMMUNITY THAT HAVE REPRESENTED THEMSELVES AND THE ENTIRE IFC WITH ALL OF THEIR HARD WORK ON AND OFF CAMPUS!
CLASS OF 2001, YOU WILL BE MISSED, BUT YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE NOT SOON TO BE FORGOTTEN Page 24 Jun 2001 Ticket Shortage Leads to Scalping Commencement, from Page 1
for many year," aid Commence- ment Committee hairman W. Eric L. Grim on PhD 80.' Every year we get a large number of com- plaints from students and parent who get insulted that other students are holding [the tickets] hostage, e sentially. Last year it was partic- ularly out of hand. A fair number of student not attending got tick- ets, then went to sell them." The ale of Commencement ticket violates MIT regulations and in many cases Massachusetts
'ATHA COUINS--THE TECH law, Grim on said. "The tickets " e as friends can make a bogdifference" by supporting rape survivors, says Rebecca Butler, a Boston area survivor. Butler spoke have 'Property of MIT' printed on before a cro d of about 50 IT students ay 17 as part of Stop Our Silence's Take Back the Night Rally. After she spoke, Butler them, so student are not entitled joined students in a candlehght vigil and listened as anonymous survivors' stories were read aloud. to resell them," he added. "If they post on MIT networks, it's an abuse of MIT facilities." Grimson went on to note that to Improve Campus Race "our message is not trying to Relations enforce policy. This [Commence- Clay, from Page 1 MIT needs to enhance for graduate gy i to figure out how to give our orth Carolina at Chapel Hill for ment] is an opportunity for cele- students the ame things it focuses support so everyone can act on their his undergraduate education during bration." from the community than under- on for undergraduates Clay said. convictions." That way, people in the 1960s. As a student activist, he Other students not interested in graduates. 'Any student isolation is groups who have objections to ques- was part of a group that successfully monetary gain share their tickets. a problem," Clay aid. ork on race relation tionable behavior will have the sued the governor. Clay said that in One student requested an essay of He added that as a graduate tu- Clay also said he want to strength to voice their opinions. the ummer of 1967, he was 250 words from anyone wanting dent in the Department of Urban improve campus race relation Clay also co-chairs the Council inspired by former Congressman extra tickets, which would be given tudies and Planning, he spent most among the faculty, staff, and stu- on Faculty Diver ity, with Professor and former pre ident of the ational to the student with the best reasons. of the time in isolation from the rest dents. An incident at Alpha Tau of Biology ancy H. Hopkins and 'tudent Association Allard K. "Trading tickets is better," said of the community. 'I lived in my Omega this past spring with the hip- Provost Robert A. Brown. "We Lowenstein in his campaign to pre- Darlene M. Staines '01. "It's good department with about a half-dozen hop band The Roots and the publi- have not made as much progress as vent President Lyndon Johnson [that] the Commencement Com- friends," Clay said, adding that he cation of humor issue The Toke by we should have in diversifying the from seeking re-election. mittee is trying to discourage tick- was 'not at aU involved in campus members of The Tech have made faculty," he said. ow at MIT, Clay said he does- et selling." activities. " race a community issue this term. n't seek to "recreate the '60s, but if Peter A. Shulman '01 agreed, As more and more students "Race is the most toxic subject Clay s background a student has a passion, I want to saying that the sale of tickets decide to pursue master's degrees, in America," Clay said. "Our strate- Clay went to the University of make it possible so that they don't "makes Commencement become a have to go too far." privilege that money can buy." In 1969, Clay was drafted and served two years in Vietnam before Graduates feel varied emotions becoming a graduate student at "I think the seniors will remem- MIT. He has been a member of the ber the rain," Tseng said. "Almost faculty since 1975, and is widely all our major events had rain: the known for his work on the process freshman picture, Killian Kick- of urban gentrification and low-cost Off, which was held in Johnson rental housing. instead, [and] the Ring Cruise." From 1980-1984 he served as Staines said graduating is Assistant Director of the MIT-Har- "unreal, exciting, and kinda scary, vard Joint Center for Urban Stud- but well-earned." Staines will pur- SE ORS! ies, and from 1992-1994, he sue a PhD at Chicago after spend- served as head of the Department ing the summer working at a of Urban Studies and Planning. He biotechnology company. was appointed Associate Provost "It's bittersweet," Tseng said. T K YOU FOR SUPPORTI G in 1994. "There are friends we're probably never gonna see again." After Clay open to student input graduating, Tseng will go to work THE SE lOR GIFT! Clay said that he is open to hear- for a strategic consulting firm, but ing student opinions on issues. not until he spends the summer "There is no barrier to talking to backpacking in Europe. me; you don't need to explain why Shulman said he didn't feel the ith 0 er 360/0 of the class participating, you need to see me." typical separation anxiety. "I'm "I hope I would be invited to fra- just changing modes," he said. e have broken he participation record of 29% ternity houses [for] dinner, and I Shulman will be participating in an hope students would speak their MIT doctoral program in History estab ished by the class of 1987! mind," Clay said. and Social Study of Science and Clay said his general approach Technology. as chancellor will be to let processes For those unable to procure run for a while before making deci- tickets, Commencement exercises f,#tt t§ ·~t:@mtH: sions. "I will probably ask more will be broadcasted on closed-cir- l~i~~~~ questions than give pronounce- cuit television in various rooms in ments," he said. Buildings 1, 2 and 4; 10-250, 16-160,26-100,34-101,56-114, .: •.:f.:.:.. :r:.:.:~:•...:~...:;~.. ::..:,~ .... :I.:.':,..,..... With regards to the Cambridge f:.i..:~... !...:::ri....:...:..::::.:..:.::...:.:..:~:.~".:~..:~....:...':~I:'!.:...::...:! I (;1 : <.. 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spaciou apartment with REWARD of 1,000 for any large bedroom to computer printouts from the your elf. Great location. IB 650 computer at T during Contact Baruch Feldman 1958-19620 Call (323) 665-1384. [email protected] 864- 6585 June 2001 THE TECH Page 25 Biomedical Company First inAnnual $50K Contest By Eric J. Cholankeril preneur a ing tough deci ions to it. Lead organizer Elad B. Gil G such as his own. "It allows us more the mart ure finalist team, found MA 'AGING EDITOR make a decision and mo e on! said of the finali t We have a visibility," Ahn said, but "every- that the competition itself was help- ng tro~ Medica a biomedical Jermoluk went on to tre s per- strong representation of all the one's tighter with their money." ful, 'Having to answer all of the compan! which plans to manufa ture e erance, noting, Lots of ntrepre- diversity at MIT.' judges' questions" enabled his com- ~thetIc bone to be used in surg- n ur failed a lot 0 time at a lot of There were fewer 'dot- om" enture capitali t e entrant pany to form a clear business plan erres, won the 12th annual IT different thing before they got the entran thi year, but' tho e compa- Max Michael, competition and be better prepared to obtain 50K Entrepreneurship Competition. one that hit." nies ne er did well anyway," Gil spon or and EO of the venture funding, he said. The runners-up were PantaRei, aid. Overall the number of entries capital firm KnowledgeCube, Ahn aid that Angstrom Medica which produces optimization oft- Participation down one-third i down 3 percent from last year s attended the award ceremony to has been "getting a lot of interest" ware for the energy indu try, and Of the 135 entrant into thi 206 competitors. learn about the finalists." e are from venture capital firms since Iptyx an organic material company year's competition 36 were chosen Ahn say that the recent down- looking for a oftware company," they won the 50K competition. involved in the creation of specialty as semi-finalists, and the field as turn in the economy has had mixed aid icha I . Their next step is to incorporate dyes for liquid cry tal displays. later narrowed down to even final- effects on biotechnology companies Brian W. Chu G, a member of officially. Angstrom Medica was elected from among seven finalist teams, and recei ed a total of 30,000 in prize money. The two runners-up each received a prize of 10,000. Teams entering the competition must have at lea t one member who is currently a student at MIT.
ynthetic bone for surgical u e Angstrom Medica is developing a nanocrystalline synthetic bone material that would replace the steel crews now u ed in fracture recon- struction surgery. The product will also be used in treating spinal injuries and in plastic surgery. "Our synthetic bone, in certain cases, is as strong as steel," said team leader and inventor Edward S. Ahn. Ahn, a graduate student in chemical engineering, defended his PhD thesis on the same day his team won the competition. Ahn said that he thinks a final version of the product would be approved by the Food and Drug Administration and be available on the market within three or four years.
Jermoluk de-emphasizes decisions Tom Jermoluk, former chairman of Excite@Home, delivered the keynote address for the event, pro- viding advice for rising entrepre- neurs. "Ninety percent of decisions ERIC 1. CHOLANKERIL-THE TECH don't actually matter," Jermoluk Edward S. Ahn G, Sudhir Borgonha G, and Darren D. Obrigkeit G (left to right) react as their company, Angstrom Medica, wins this year's told the audience. He advised entre- MIT $50K competition.
http://gsc.mit.edu Graduate Student Council (!on9~atuta1£1-1ln1-ti1ut£and ~tud£nt §~oup c/fwa~d ~inn£~1- Graduate Student Counell Teaching Awards Emek Basker, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Prof. Paul R. Carlile, School of Management Prof. John Fernandez, School of Architecture and Planning Omar Kahn, School of Architecture and Planning Brian Stoll and Chen Wang, School of Engineering
Best Example of Teamwork Community Building Award Goodwin Medal by an Organization Ashdown House Christopher Gouldstone I-Party Philanthropy Award Wiesner Award Best-Planned Event Karyshma Laurel P. Smith Hacklink Living Service Award Schnitzer Prize Leadership Award Graduate Student Volunteer Corps Marin K. Clark Sauri Gudlavelleti Changhuei Yang Community Event Award Program of the Year Award Graduate Students Division of Compton Prize Chinese Students and Scholars Health Science and Technology Soulaymane Kachani Association Stewart Awards Legacy Award Paul Njoroge Edgerton House Shunmugavelu Sokka June 2001 IFC Dec ares Fraternity Dry until 2002 ATO, from Page 1 holding an unregi tered event nd Racial con ern addre ed ficient "Pheiffer aid. The IF i allowing underage drinking to occur. the be t governing body to deal with cali. The hearing ill be a di ci- s puni hment for holding an To deal ith the racial i ues both di ciplining and educating plinary bearing to inve tigate the unregistered event, TO will not be head-on the IF ha required TO tho e in 01 ed with this and mo t alleged racial remar made, the allowed to host any large events to organize a ympo ium on race other incidents ari ing in the IF en uing ltercation and the sup- until pring 2002. large event i relation within two week of the community. po ed pre ence of alcohol on the one where more gue t than broth- arrival of fre hmen on campu . Dean for rodent Life Larry G. roof. er are pre ent. IFC Pre ident Rory P. Pheiffer Benedict upheld the IF ruling, Glover said it eemed the CLC In re pon e to the alcohol vio- '02 aid that 'much more w s done deciding not to impose any further hearing was "racially motivated." lation, the IFC ha declared TO a by TO and T to handle thi por- puni hment on TO. Instead, he The complaint li ted on the ity dry hou e until fall 2002. 0 alco- tion of the violation" citing en i- will monitor the fraternity' progres of Cambridge' web ite make no hol will be allowed on the premi - tivity training for the hou e thi with re pect to the IFC ruling. mention of alcohol, citing instead 'a e at any time until then. fter coming fall, TO internal anctions Both Benedict and repre enta- complaint by IT Police that ... their pri ileges are renewed, the on any brother that houted from the tives of the IF plan to attend the racial slur were made by individu- fraternity will remain on probation roof deck on the afternoon of pril CL hearing. al on the rooftop of A TO which for one year. 27, the u pen ion of two brother Glover said the IF had 'done a cau ed a fight." The renewal of TO' alcohol by the local and national fraternity, good job of coupling [ trictIy puni- cali aid that if a racial lUI had privileges i contingent upon 100 and participation in event that tive] sanctions with educational J\fIT. a detrimental effect on omeone s percent of new members and three- temmed from the pring Weekend opportunities." ld t and Larg t health and afety, LC sanction fourth of all members attending an incident, uch a the peak Out rally Glover hopes the CLC "will would be appropriate. alcohol education seminar and a and a community forum. J1 of realize that trictly punitive punish- r "e paper The LC may al 0 take into con- legal liability eminar. onnally the e are mea ure taken indepen- ment and sanctions can only go so sideration IT's overall attitude fratemitie mu t end three-fourth dentIy by the fraternity and upport- far ... If you're looking to [promote toward minorities, cali said. of all new member to the alcohol ed by the Institute when appropriate. growth], you're going to have to u e education eminar, and two-thirds educational mea ure ." o until fall 2002 of all member must have attended Pheiffer a anction are enough The national TO fraternity is ATO admitted to violating three it at orne point. Tbe legal liability "We [the IFC] believe that all of conducting its own investigation of ES ections of the IF ri k management seminar i usually only required for the actions taken collectively by the events that took place on the policy as charged at an IF E ecu- specified house officer. ATO, the IFC, and IT to di ci- roofdeck on April 27, Glover said. tive Review on ay 16. The fraterni- The fraternity must al 0 partici- pline TO and educate both the The local chapter will follow what- ty had been charged with amaging pate a tively on the ampu leo- house and the entire MIT communi- ever cour e of action the national FEATURES the reputation of the IFC community, hol dvi ory Board. ty a a result of this incident are suf- fraternity recommends.
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GRApHics NATHAN COLJJN~THE TECH Former U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson spoke at the John F. Kennedy Library in honor of a new exhibit about Kennedy'S Alliance for Progress and U.S.-Latin American relations. The exhibit opened May 26. TECH oloqy KAT Sisters Relocate BusiNESS KAT, from Page 1 seeing each other in on-campus f>tfYS'CA~ fDl:JCAliON rooms," Radin said. However, she and the laundry room. hopes that ' there will be a little bit of "The annex will still be and an attitude shift due to the tenants and Sl:J,M,MfJt 2001 f>JtOGJtA,MI remain the Sigma Phi Epsilon that it will be nicer to get together in annex," said Chin. the house rather than in a public area. "Theta [sisters] will be using it as "Hopefully that sentiment will an apartment," Velsko explained. spread throughout the chapter, and sisters will be more excited about get- \l.egistration period Radin, KAT enthu ia tic ting a house," he added When Radin announced to her Radin is also excited about the chapter last month that sisters could potential change in inter-Greek rela- from ~une 4 - 11--.. move into the Sig Ep annex for the tionships. Based on her observations upcoming school year, she did not of other sorority members who fmd filling the II rooms a difficult already live in Boston, "having 1--00 • task because of the large number of Thetas in Boston will make us closer sisters in her chapter. While "people with Boston fraternity members already bad their dorm assignments because ofthe proximity," she said. in the 1'. e. OffiGe, for next year, the annex would give sisters another living option" Radin Que t for KAT house continues '3~-'~'j. said. Each sister had to sign an indi- Kappa Alpha Theta House Corpo- vidual lease for the 12 months. ration Board President Alicia L. for more info. The 16 isters who will occupy Allen '94 sees a promising future in see our ~eb-site at Sig Ep annex rooms range from the the quest for a K.A T house. "MIT president to sisters not in office and really supports the idea of women's Fourth Floor, ~eb.mit.edu/ath\etic.s'" ~",/ph1sed.htm\ from juniors to fre hmen. housing," Allen said. "McCormick is "People are excited to see what always over-subscribed.' living with other si ters means for A few years ago, when Sigma Student Center their involvement in the sorority," Alpha Epsilon was disbanded, KAT Radin said. howed interest in acquiring the AE • • Radin said that she believes the house. However, it was too expensive (617)2jJ ..lf41 experience of so many sisters Jiving for the orority. together will park a greater enthusi- For now the members are looking asm among her sisters towards forward to having "their own house," • • Or contact PEOffice: 253-4291 acquiring a chapter house. Allen aid. KAT i meanwhile look- [email protected] Presently, KAT is a non-residen- ing for other option that Twill tial sorority, so "sisters are used to help sub idize. Jun ,2001 Wm over WISconsin Highlight for Team Ultimate, from Page 2 from niver ity of IHinoi to play for 13th place. The e women knew deep to an open player in the endzone their constants and imaginary num- and took the half. bers. MIT was unrelenting in the ec- Both ide played a long game. ond half. Receiver cuts by Eich, un continued her forehand Ra ala, and rookie Jen J. Yu '02 prowes while Rubritz, Zheng, aided the flow of the MIT di c up the Eich, Rasala, and both Dob ons field. For one point, Chrissy Dob on made key cu deep and in. Rogue found her si ter cutting deep and caught on to MIT' play, though threw a forehand that ended up tay- and set a cup zone on the next ing in the air longer than she intend- point. Instead of playing the usual ed. Kathy kept with the di c and three handler against a three-per- skyed three Brown defenders for a son cup, MIT dropped one player to goal. On defense, senior Chun-hua the popper po ition. Rasala and Zheng was instrumental in creating Chrissy Dobson were able to cut to Brown turnovers as her speed and the open pace as handlers un and agility allowed her to beat her Brown Hsu forced the cup from ide to counterpart to the disc. These efforts side. Hsu made a pass through the were not enough, however, as the cup to Dobson, who found Rasala MIT women fell to Brown 15-6. cutting to the middle of the field for In the second game of the day, a quick pas . Rasala put up a beau- MIT faced the Seaweed from C- tiful forehead to wing Wilczek who Wilmington. To paraphrase some completed to Kathy Dob on in the MIT women the game was not the endzone. Despite Fanta tic plays friendliest of the tournament. MIT like thi one, MIT was unable to lost this contest as well, falling victim overcome Rogue and lost the to high wind and Seaweed's quick match. offense. Despite the atmosphere, MIT In defeating Swarthmore, the played clean and cool-headed and team wrote Institute history by even improved their level of play. being the first women's ultimate MIT feIl15-5. team to upset a higher eed in the In stark contrast to the second national tournament. Along with game, the last game of the day saw the Runners-Up Spirit Award, MIT MIT against the Spirit Award win- took home 14th place. ners from Swarthmore, the IOth-seed- It is clear the team has come a ed Warmothers. Having suffered two long way this year. The four veter- losses in the same pool, both teams an players, Kathy Dobson, Hsu, saw this match as the go-to game to Hsiung, and Smith, along with advance to the championship bracket. coaches Sarvis and Warren, were And each played like the champi- faced in the fall with the challeng- onship was on the line. ing task of recruiting new players Thanks to scouting reports, MIT, and then teaching them to play the runners-up for the Spirit Award, ultimate, a sport not found at was able to key in on the two Swarth- many high school campuses. The more players who essentially made practice schedule, less intense than the Swathmore offense run. Rasala, one of a varsity sport, and fun Kathy Dobson, and Chrissy Dobson practices drew enough players for took turns containing receiver Jenny the spring season in time to Hoedeman while Smith taught yet achieve a squad size comparable another lesson in defensive tactics as to teams from other schools. The she denied Wannother star and the current team is a mix of former 2001 Callahan Award recipient Lind- soccer, volleyball, and basketball say Goldsmith. players, and even musicians and The MIT offense relied heavily players who had never played a once again on the big throws of competitive sport in their lives. Wilczek, Sun, Hsu, Hsiung, and To be sure, the success of the Crockett. Early in the second half, team next season will rely heavily MIT's Rubritz skyed for a Crockett on how successful the team is in pass over two Swarthmore defenders. recruiting new players. Hsiung She immediately threw a dump pass adds, "We welcome all players, to Hsiung, MIT's Spirit winner, who beginners and experienced, to join found Hsu open on a swing pass. Hsu us for a successfu12002 season." completed the play to an open Eich in the MIT endzone, evening the score at 8. Swarthmore took the next point, but MIT came back as Sun connected to Rasala cutting deep. The teams traded points until l ls, when Swarth- more started pulling away. The inten- sity of the game never let up until MIT was handed its third loss of the day at the hands of Swarthmore, 15-12.
Team finishes in 14th place MIT hoped to continue playing the way they finished against olunteers needed to in truct free Swarthmore in the consolation bracket the next day. The first team SAT and college prep program to low- they faced on Sunday was the Uni- versity of Wisconsin. Fighting for the right to play for 13th place, MIT income students in Bo ton thi summer. defeated Wisconsin, thanks in part to strong play by Crockett as a deep deep defender. Perhaps the most dif- ficult time of the game for the appar- ently liberal-arts majors came when Commitment: they had to pick up women to defend for their person-to-person defense. 1-2 evenings per week July 2-Augu t 20 MIT players sporting numbers such as infinity, i2, h-bar, epsilon naught, and the root of -1 were identified as "double zero," "I-two," "h," "E- Contad: zero' and "negative one" by their Wisconsin counterparts. Kathy Jo kjo@fa .harvard.edu Crockett was crucial in denying Wisconsin a long game. Wong aided her team's efforts with a strong defensive performance, laying out for a D-block and forcing her player to throw the disc away on numerous occasions. MIT took the game 15-8 and ensured finishing the tournament at a higher ranking. The MIT women faced the Rogue June 8 001 SPORTS omen's Ultimate Places 14th
By Chrissy Dobson T' defen ive trategy to a zone- Key tone ward, led her team's TEAMM£MBER and-one, in whi h the team played a effort as she committed no tumo ers Thirty-two of the top college ulti- tandard zone defen e hile one the entire game. mate teams in the country de cended player would mar iddlebury' be t Highlight of the econd half upon Rogers Field in De ens over player whenever . iddlebury had in luded Wilczek connecting a beau- emorial Day Wee end to take p e ion 0 the dis . tiful forehand hue to an open Lori their laim to the UP ational The smart play and tenaciou . Eich '03 in the endzone in the Championship title. defense of . ee L. mith G eem- middle of the econd half to put MIT Despite being eeded 15th (out of ingly ingle-handedly shut down ahead 12-11. In the next point H u 16 women' teams), the young MIT .ddlebury' offense and turned the pulled out her trademark hammer team making only its second appear- game around. The trio of Kathy L. throw and placed the di c perfectly in ance at the national tournament, put Dobson '03 and rookie Kathleen the back of the endzone to receiver forth an extremely strong howing in Rubritz '04 and ancy Y. hrissy B. Dobson 03. The score the competition, leaving many fans un 04 were equally vital to MIT' wa 13-11 and IT never looked optimi tic about the team's succes in turnaround a they blocked almo t back before defeating Middlebury future easons. every di c that iddlebury tried 15-13. The MIT team, fielding ten roo - advancing downfield. ie and only four returning player , Forcing tu.rnover , MIT made a Team pla inten el in 10 e reached the national le el of play steady comeback. The play of the In the first game of pool play in aft r a olid performance at the ew half came a handler and fir t-year the national tournament, MIT faced England Regional tournament, which player Cordy E. Crockett G picked up ew England region foe Di co Infer- was held thi year at Yale Univer ity the disc on a Middlebury turn. Roo - no from Brown, which was seeded on May 5-6. Entering the tournament ie April P. Ra ala G, seeing that ixth. fter a short warmup, the game a the third-best team, IT s Crockett would be forced to throw was underway and MIT, refusing omen' ultimate team beat out 12 backhand by a misguided and unsus- Brown breakside passe , stayed with others to qualify for the national tour- pecting iddlebury defen e, cut to Brown for the beginning of the half. nament along with the omen from the deep left comer of the endzone in Two points before half Kathy Dob- Tufts and Brown. anticipation of a Croc ett backhand son caught a un pass just outside of huck. Crockett delivered, and after the endzone. Dobson broke her mark- defeat .ddlebury to qualif Rasala's grab above two Middlebury er and connected to Alison H.W ong IT oppo ed iddlebury, the defenders, MIT led at the the half, '03, who had beaten her defender and fifth seed, in a qualifying game that 8-7. was cutting to the front comer of the proved to be an exciting contest. The MIT kept the intensity on in the endzone. Wong made a signature teams traded the fir t few points of second half thanks in large part to one-handed catch to cut Brown's lead the game, but oon MIT found itself the team's skilled handlers in Mira E. to 7-3. Brown made the next point down 6-3. IT coache James P. Wilczek '03 Crystal Hsu '01 captain look easy, though. Taking a lesson ROSHA BALIGA-THE TECH arvis G and Tes a C. Warren G Pei-Lin Hsiung G, Crockett, and Sun. from the MIT offense Brown hucked athy L. Dobson '03 nags a hotly contes ed disc during the MIT- mindful a national berth was slipping H iung, the go-to woman on a play 'sconsin ultimate game at ationals. MIT c ushed Wisconsin 15-8. away called a timeout to change reset and the recipient of the team's Ultimate, Page 27