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Volume 123, Number 35 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2004 Class New MIT Council Chapter Loses Two Of SAE Officers By Jeffrey Greenbaum Planned STAFF REPORTER By Jennifer Krishnan The 2004 class council NEWS AND FEATURES DIRECTOR announced the resignations of Class The MIT chapter of Sigma Secretary Rachana D. Oza ’04 and Alpha Epsilon fraternity may soon Social Chair Nadjia M. Yousif ’04 be rechartered. in an e-mail sent to the class of 2004 “We’ll be an active group con- on Saturday. tributing to MITcommunity as These resignations came only a early as mid-September,” said few months after President Alvin M. Matthew W. Adkisson ’05, one of Lin ’04 and Vice President Nikhil S. the 12 upperclassmen who have Gidwani ’04 were asked to resign expressed interest in “recolonizing” last spring because their campaign the chapter. platform was plagiarized. With the MIT’s SAE chapter was closed most recent resignations, the council in Jan. 2000, after an incident of is now left with only its treasurer underage drinking in one of their and publicity chairs. NATHAN COLLINS—THE TECH two houses. Yousif decided to leave her posi- Donald H. Wong ’07 demonstrates his talent with a bongo board Tuesday evening at a rush event “MIT revoked recognition from tion as social chair in order to run held in the Student Center. SAE at that time,” recommending for class of 2004 president. suspension for two years, said She had served as social chair David N. Rogers, assistant dean and her sophomore year and run for director for fraternities, sororities, president her junior year, but lost. Ex-Prof Loses in Court Lottery Will and independent living groups. Because she went to Paris this past By Jenny Zhang Van Putten, who began teaching “It’s been three years, and … spring, she decided to run for social ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR at MIT in 1996, says in the lawsuit there is an interest,” Rogers said. chair and not president because of The Middlesex Superior Court that MIT failed to “provide a fair Determine “There’s a group of 12 guys who the difficulty in campaigning from has denied former Assistant Profes- and/or objective evaluation of [Van have contacted the alumni board of abroad. sor of Mathematics Maurice H.P.M. Putten’s] credentials for promotion to Participation SAE. … We are [currently] in dis- “Had I been in Boston, I defi- van Putten’s motion for a prelimi- the position of Associate Professor.” cussions with an interest group.” nitely would have run for Presi- nary injunction to be rehired. After his appointment ended on dent,” Yousif said. However, she On July 30, the court ruled that June 30, 2003, he asked the court to In Concourse SAE shut down in 2000 said that she had faith in the system “there is no likelihood of success on reinstate him and extend his The Massachusetts Iota Tau that a qualified president would be the merits for the plaintiff, nor is he employment until a final decision in By Beckett W. Sterner chapter of SAE was established at elected. likely to suffer irreparable harm from the lawsuit. NEWS EDITOR MIT in 1892. When the seats of Lin and Gid- the denial of his request.” The suit named as defendants Freshmen have shown strong “SAE has been around for more wani became vacant, Yousif said Van Putten’s request to extend his MIT, Dean of Science Robert J. Sil- interest this year in alternatives to than 100 years,” Adkisson said. “It that she became worried about the employment was part of a July 2002 bey, Mathematics Professor Alar mainstream lecture courses, espe- has a legacy as one of the strongest state of the class council. lawsuit he has filed against the Insti- Toomre SB ’57, and Mathematics cially in Concourse, which will have houses at MIT.” “Class council politics became a tute, alleging that MIT’s tenure Department Head David A. Vogan to run a lottery for the first time in In September 1999, SAE came review process, which denied him many years, according to Concourse under fire after a 19-year-old Council, Page 12 tenure and a promotion, was unfair. van Putten, Page 8 Director Cheryl A. Butters. Wellesley College student was The greater interest was a sur- taken by ambulance to a hospital, prise, she said, since “we anticipat- allegedly after being served alcohol ed a low enrollment” this term. The at SAE. program can take about 60 students In the ensuing months, both of per term, but only about 30 students the fraternity’s Beacon St. houses had responded over the summer. were closed by the Boston Licens- “It turned around” in the last two ing Board, the chapter’s local alum- days, though, she said, with a total ni board expelled all of the then- of over 70 having signed up on upperclassmen from the fraternity, Monday, and about 100 after the and recognition from the Institute open house on Tuesday. was withdrawn. She said it was unclear why the Adkisson said the 1999 incident response had been so late or so strong. was “before the time of everybody Butters said that as a result of the sud- who’s involved” now. den interest in the program, a lottery “What happened in the past, hap- will have to be run for the first time in pened in the past. We’re looking many years. They hoped to have the forward to the future,” he said. results available last night, she said. “I don’t like to turn people Group seeking new philosophy away,” she said, “but it’s difficult Adkisson said they are recolo- enough putting on a program for nizing the SAE chapter at MIT 60” and if it is larger than that, the because “we didn’t find any frater- program loses its unity. nities whose philosophies matched ours.” Demand strong across the board “We want to build a chapter that NATHAN COLLINS—THE TECH The other learning communities, emphasizes common values and Mechanical Engineering Professor Alex Slocum entertains incoming freshman Ryan E. Pester ’07, such as the Experimental Studies brotherhood, not just a living Neera Jain ’06, and Joy Tang ’07 at a student-faculty dinner on Tuesday evening. Communities, Page 9 SAE, Page 8

MIT coaches Comics OPINION World & Nation ...... 2 preview Freshman Ruth Miller pines for Opinion ...... 4 upcoming her home in Dixie. Events Calendar ...... 6 season. Arts ...... 7 Sports ...... 12 Page 11 Page 6 Page 5 Page 2 THE TECH August 27, 2003 WORLD & NATION Army Creates Biotechnology Shuttle Report Raps NASA, Research Center THE NEW YORK TIMES LOS ANGELES Says Safety Culture ‘Broken’ Seeking to harness biotechnology in new ways, the U.S. Army is establishing a research institute at three universities to By John Schwartz they took appropriate steps, making that another accident will follow.” apply biology to the development of sensors, computers and and Matthew L. Wald three requests for outside assistance In a briefing here on Tuesday, materials. THE NEW YORK TIMES to get photos of the shuttle to assess board members said that they were The new center, the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, WASHINGTON the damage. A high-risk rescue mis- unanimously committed to the future will have its headquarters at the University of California at Santa NASA will lose more shuttles and sion might have been mounted, the of spaceflight. “None of us has come Barbara, with some of the work also to be done at the California more astronauts unless it transforms board said, if management had recog- to the conclusion that it is not worth Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- its “broken safety culture,” the board nized the severity of the problem and the risk and not worth the money,” gy. The initial grant is for up to $50 million over five years, the Army investigating the loss of the Columbia acted quickly. said John Logsdon, a member of the and the universities said. said in its final report on Tuesday. But instead, it countermanded the board and director of the Space Poli- The Army has long been involved in medical research involving The scathing 248-page report of engineers’ moves. The problem that cy Institute at George Washington biotechnology, including defense against biological warfare agents. the Columbia Accident Investigation doomed Columbia and its crew — University. But it wants to broaden the use of biotechnology to nonmedical Board said blunders and organiza- even after liftoff — was not a lack of But their report was far from areas. tional problems at NASA were just as technology or ability, the board con- enthusiastic about the prospects of “We feel that this coming century the big technologies will be important as the errant chunk of insu- cluded, but missed opportunities and resuming the shuttle program, which biotechnology, that biotechnology has the potential to transform how lating foam that blew a hole in the a lack of leadership and open-mind- exists primarily to carry astronauts we conduct our business probably as much as I.T. did in the past cen- spacecraft’s wing, setting in motion a edness in management. and equipment to the International tury,” said James J. Valdes, a scientific adviser for biotechnology at chain of events that ended with the The accident “was probably not Space Station. The board said the the Army, referring to information technology. Columbia’s destruction over Texas an anomalous, random event, but three remaining shuttles could fly during its return to earth on Feb. 1. rather likely rooted to some degree in again, but only after NASA carries The report describes a space agency NASA’s history and the human space out 15 recommendations, some very Ex-Shareholders Sue that had deluded itself over time into flight program’s culture,” the report challenging. And it said the two- downplaying the risks of space flight, said. decade-old fleet should be replaced as Polaroid Over Auditing with missed communications, com- On its opening page, the report soon as possible. THE BOSTON GLOBE placency and missteps that added up issued a somber warning: “In this President Bush and the NASA Former shareholders of Polaroid Corp. Tuesday filed a lawsuit to disaster. board’s opinion, unless the technical, administrator, Sean O’Keefe, both charging the company’s auditors and top financial executives — The report makes clear that engi- organizational, and cultural recom- vowed on Tuesday that the shuttle including former chairman Gary DiCamillo — with misleading neers within NASA had strong sense mendations made in this report are fleet would fly again. “Our journey investors by making the firm’s condition look better than it actually that Columbia might have been mor- implemented, little will have been into space will go on,” the president was in the months leading up to its bankruptcy in October 2001. tally wounded during liftoff and that accomplished to lessen the chance said. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, comes on the heels of a damaging report by a court-appointed examiner who said last week that Polaroid and the auditing firm, KPMG LLP of New York, engaged in improper accounting and failed to warn investors of Congressional Budget Forecast the company’s deteriorating finances. The suit is based in part on sworn testimony given by DiCamillo and other executives associated with Polaroid’s bankruptcy. Lawyers who filed the case sat in on depositions given by DiCamillo and oth- Very Bleak, Predicts Huge Debt ers over the past few months, as the court examiner, Perry M. Man- darino, conducted his investigation. By Edmund L. Andrews inaccurate. as their incomes rise with inflation. The suit’s allegations are similar to many of the findings in Man- THE NEW YORK TIMES But the new analysis is nonethe- That change, supported by Republi- darino’s report. Like the report, the lawsuit claims that Polaroid and WASHINGTON less based on fairly cautious cans and Democrats alike, would KPMG engaged in improper accounting transactions that improved Even if the economy rebounds assumptions. It assumes that eco- cost an additional $400 billion. the appearance of the company’s balance sheet, a measure of a firm’s strongly over the next few years, the nomic growth will surge next year Those adjustments alone would assets and liabilities. That enabled the company to meet lenders’ federal budget deficit could climb and remain solid for the rest of the add about $2.7 trillion to the deficit measures of financial health. for the rest of the decade if Congress decade. The biggest reason for over 10 years. If government spend- adopts proposals strongly supported potentially much higher deficits is ing continues to increase at anywhere by President Bush, the Congression- the added cost of legislation that near the rates of the past five years, Study Finds Zoloft Effective al Budget Office said on Tuesday. both the White House and the the deficit would surge far higher. Offering sharp contrast to recent Republican majority in Congress That would be in sharp contrast For Depressed Children White House projections, which had support. to the Bush administration’s out- THE NEW YORK TIMES said the budget deficit would hit That agenda includes making look. Last month, the White House Zoloft, a commonly prescribed antidepressant, is effective for $475 billion next year and decline almost all the tax cuts of the past Office of Management and Budget treating moderate to severe depression in children and adolescents, significantly after that, the new con- three years permanent, which con- projected that the deficit would peak researchers are reporting on Wednesday. gressional report warns that annual gressional analysts said would cost at $475 billion next year and decline The study, the largest to test one of the antidepressants known as deficits could rise rather than fall. $1.5 trillion over 10 years. It also to just $62 billion in 2008. selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, in children, found The nonpartisan office said the includes the cost of a major new pre- Democrats immediately pounced that 69 percent of the subjects who took the drug improved signifi- deficit would be $480 billion next scription drug program for senior on today’s report to charge that Bush cantly, compared with 59 percent of those who took a dummy pill, a year but could reach a cumulative citizens, supported by both parties, and his Republican congressional difference that some experts termed modest. total of $5.8 trillion by 2013. that would cost $400 billion. allies were leading the country into a In the report, which appears in the Journal of the American Med- Administration officials quickly And it includes the cost of over- fiscal catastrophe just as today’s ical Association, the researchers concluded that Zoloft, made by Pfiz- dismissed the Congressional projec- hauling the Alternative Minimum baby-boom generation begins to er, “is an effective and well-tolerated short-term treatment” for tions as too speculative to take seri- Tax, which under current law is approach retirement age and start depressed children and adolescents. ously, noting that long-term budget expected to force tens of millions of drawing heavily on Social Security projections have been notoriously taxpayers to pay much higher taxes and Medicare entitlements. WEATHER Summer and the City Situation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, August 27, 2003 By Robert Lindsay Korty STAFF METEOROLOGIST August can be a slow month. Heat drives politicians from Washington. Those on vacation rest at beaches, lakes, and rivers. On subways, on buses, and in apartments that are not air-conditioned, people swelter in sultry, stag- nant air. It’s a good month for sitting still and drinking iced tea. A year ago, there were nearly thirty days during which the high tempera- ture hit 90°F (32°C) in Boston. The heat peaked last summer at 101°F (38°C), the hottest day recorded since 1977. By contrast, this summer has been much nearer to normal. The heat did not disappear though. Across the Atlantic temperatures were stuck at exceedingly high levels for weeks. Lon- don recorded 100°F (38°C) for the first time in history. From France to Italy, Europe baked; temperatures near 40°C (104°F) were reported in Paris, Lisbon, and Munich. Weather patterns are slow to change in August as the steering currents weaken and retreat to higher latitudes.

Extended Forecast Today: Mostly sunny and mild. High 86°F (30°C). Tonight: Clear. Low 62°F (17°C). Thursday: Sunny and cooler. High 77°F (25°C). Low 60°F (16°C). Friday: Partly cloudy with a chance of evening showers or thunder- storms. Warmer, with a high of 88°F (31°C). August 27, 2003 WORLD & NATION THE TECH Page 3

Highly Enriched Uranium Traces Across The Country, Dean Tries To Keep Momentum Discovered in Iran by Inspectors THE NEW YORK TIMES Hopscotching the hustings this week with Howard Dean, the By Felicity Barringer have been no uranium enrichment Paris this week to discuss Iran, as underdog-turned-top dog who has surged toward the front of the THE NEW YORK TIMES activities in Iran involving nuclear well as the continuing standoff over Democratic presidential primary field, you would almost think there UNITED NATIONS material.” North Korea’s nuclear program. was an election coming up. International inspectors have The Iranians, the report said, Philip T. Reeker, a spokesman for Five months before the first ballot is cast and 15 months before found traces of highly enriched ura- explained that the trace particles the State Department, said, “We the last will be counted, Dean, the former governor of Vermont, spent nium at an Iranian facility, accord- found by inspectors at the Natanz have real concerns about this, and the past four days criss-crossing the country in a chartered jet as ing to a new confidential report dis- uranium enrichment plant had been it’s part of our broad dialogue with though in the heat of a head-to-head national campaign rather than in tributed on Tuesday. The traces on the equipment when it was pur- Russia on many things.” the nascent chapter of a longshot bid in a crowded field. He hit states could be an indication that Tehran chased from another country. The next meeting of the like Oregon that have little to do with nominations but could be cru- has already produced weapons- The report added that “Iran has agency’s board of governors is cial in a general election, and all-but ignored his Democratic rivals as grade nuclear materials. agreed to provide the agency with scheduled to begin Sept. 8. At their he roused rabid audiences against their Republican nemesis, George Iran denied producing nuclear all information about the centrifuge most recent meetings the members W. Bush. materials, said the report, by the components and other contaminated of the board decided to press Iran The staggering, seemingly spontaneous, crowds turning up to International Atomic Energy Asso- equipment it obtained from abroad, both to sign an additional protocol meet him — 10,000 in Seattle Sunday — are unheard of in these ciation, the conclusions of which including their origin and the loca- and to provide the inspectors with young days of the race, when most candidates concentrate on the were obtained by The New York tions where they have been stored additional information and access early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and would seem for- Times. The report added, “Addition- and used in Iran.” and allow them to test Tehran’s midable even in October 2004. al work is also required to enable John Bolton, the undersecretary claim that its program is a purely On Tuesday morning, the campaign took another audacious the agency to arrive at conclusions of state for arms control and interna- civilian effort to increase the coun- step, saying it would broadcast television advertisements in six about Iran’s statements that there tional security, was in Moscow and try’s energy capacity. new states beginning on Friday, and expected to raise $10.3 mil- lion during the three months ending Sept. 30 — more than any other Democrat in a similar period save for President Clinton in Investigators Determine Timeline 1995. Children In Back Seat Leads Of Events Leading Up to Blackout To Fewer Deaths, Study Says THE NEW YORK TIMES American Electric Reliability Coun- are not yet fully understood. THE NEW YORK TIMES Investigators of North America’s cil, the industry group charged with The reliability council, also WASHINGTON biggest blackout say they have nearly maintaining electricity flows that was called NERC, has assembled the Parents’ fear of the force of air bags is leading them to banish finished a precise portrait of the created after the blackout of 1965. record for its own investigation and their children from the front seats of cars, vans and SUVs, a step that event, composed of millions of bits of “It’s down to the second in terms for a task force created by the U.S. had the largely collateral benefit of reducing the number of child traf- data, that starts with scattered shut- of what happens, which transmis- Department of Energy and the Cana- fic fatalities by hundreds during the six-year period ended 2001, downs of generators and transmission sion paths opened, when areas dian Ministry of Natural Resources according to a new study. lines in Ohio and snowballs through became isolated,” he said. “It pro- to analyze the power failure. At a time when such fatalities among people as a whole were eight states and parts of Canada. vides a good understanding of how The findings so far will be dis- inching up, the study found, those among children 12 or younger fell The nearly second-by-second the power flows.” cussed on Wednesday by Spencer nearly 13 percent during that period, to 1,176 in 2001 from 1,346 in account of the 600-mile electrical He would not discuss details on Abraham, the secretary of energy, at 1996, when they reached a peak. Among the youngest children, storm track starts at 1 p.m. on Aug. Tuesday, but others involved in the the Princeton, N.J., headquarters of those less than 12 months old, the reduction was steepest, to 106 14 and runs through the three hours investigation said the timeline essen- the reliability council. from 178. that passed before local problems in tially matches independent analyses Benjamin said that utilities were The report’s author, James L. Nichols, former director of research the Midwest grew into a crisis that done recently by several grid experts still pulling together records from ear- at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said the total cost billions of dollars and darkened and utilities. These efforts show that lier in the morning of Aug. 14, with number of miles that American children traveled in vehicles during the homes of millions of people. a series of mechanical, electronic the goal of comprehending precisely the period studied was up, increasing their exposure to risk by 12 per- “We think we have the timeline and human barriers designed to what initial conditions existed around cent. Given this, he estimated the number of young lives saved in that nailed pretty well,” said Donald M. block exactly that day’s kind of cas- the electrical grid of wires and plants period at more than 1,700. Benjamin, vice president of the North cade utterly failed, for reasons that before there were any signs of trouble.

...and putting a new one up. Photo: Maryla Walters View of the brain and cognitive sciences project. Over the summer, the Department of Facilities continued work on several major projects around campus, including the brain and cognitive sciences project. A model for the way disciplines will intersect on the emerging scientific frontier, the project promises to become the world's leading center of brain research. For the most current information on campus construction, read The Tech or log on to web.mit.edu/evolving. Page 4 THE TECH August 27, 2003 OPINION Let Journalists Do Their Job in Iraq On Aug. 17, Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana was fatally when their colleagues are involved. Chairman shot by American troops. Dana and a group of journalists had Much like scientists who attempt to study their subjects Jyoti Tibrewala ’04 been given permission by U.S. troops guarding the prison without altering them, journalists attempt to distance themselves Editor in Chief where Saddam Hussein once kept from the events in order to prevent an unbiased, unchanged per- Christine R. Fry ’05 his enemies to film the compound spective for their audience. Just as it was a tragedy that health- Business Manager Editorial from a nearby bridge. The journal- care workers have died of SARS as they cared for their patients Ian Lai ’02 ists had finished their work on the and studied the disease, the death of a war reporter at the hands bridge, and were driving away when they saw American tanks of soldiers should be considered equally tragic. Managing Editor David Carpenter ’05 coming towards them. Dana stepped out of his car to film the The U.S. military should not take the complaints of the troops when the tanks fired on him. According to his driver, he press about this death lightly. Although the enemy often uses Executive Editor fell to the ground and was dead within a few minutes. The sol- guerrilla tactics to attack our troops, the military needs to take Eun J. Lee ’04 diers claim that the camera Dana was carrying strongly resem- a strong look at how its troops react to supposed civilian NEWS STAFF bled a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. threats. Members and the audience of the press alike should News and Features Director: Jennifer Krishnan The U.S. military has acknowledged the death as a tragedy demand that journalists be allowed to work without fear of ’04; News Editors: Keith J. Winstein G, Lauren E. LeBon ’06, Beckett W. Sterner ’06; Associate and has pledged to investigate the incident. The world’s media ambush from soldiers. If they can not, we should mourn not Editors: Kathy Lin ’06, Marissa Vogt ’06, Jenny outfits are still outraged at what they see as the careless and only for the loss of their lives, but also for the loss of truth and Zhang ’06; Staff: Nathan Collins G, Kevin R. unnecessary use of weapons in civilian situations, especially knowledge. Lang G, Naveen Sunkavally ’01, Jeffrey Green- baum ’04, Michael E. Rolish ’04, Jay K. Cameron ’05, Sam Hwang ’05, Jessica A Zaman ’05, Tiffany Kosolcharoen ’06, Lakshmi Nambiar ’06, Jennifer Wong ’06; Meteor- ologists: Samantha L. H. Hess G, Robert Lind- say Korty G, Greg Lawson G, Nikki Privé G, William Ramstrom G, Michael J. Ring G, Efren Gutierrez ’03.

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the county in poultry judging. I would doughnut, remember they are a Georgian high school played football against our cross Ruth Miller explain what poultry judging is, but that’s invention. Precious, sweet, sugary, light and town rivals, and all but three city/county my favorite story for people I’ve just met. delicate Georgian inventions. police/sheriff cars were parked at the stadi- As the newest arrivals to MIT, my fellow Parts of the “Dukes of Hazzard” television As far as sports go, ya’ll got it all wrong um. The stands were packed an hour before freshmen know what I’m talking about. Cul- show were filmed in Newton County, as up here. What self-respecting state would the game for a round of lewd comments. We ture shock is what happens when you’re well as a scene in “Remember the Titans.” share a football team with other states? This won, of course. pulled from a cozy environment to which As far as I know, whole communal New Speaking of wars, no one up here seems you’ve spent years acclimating, and are “Deliverance” was not England Patriots thing to understand the significance of the Ameri- thrust into a completely foreign situation. filmed in Newton sounds a little off to can Civil War. I was advised before I left Not only are we away from home, but many County. There will always be one thing me, but that’s pro ball home: “When they talk about the war, they of us are here from other parts of the country Back to culture Atlantans and Bostonians can and Atlanta has the don’t mean the one where we fought the and some from other parts of the world. For shock as promised. I Falcons, so I’ll end Yankees, they mean the one where we were entertainment purposes, I would like to think it’s obvious that agree on: Yankees suck. that discussion there. the Yankees.” Yankees, I’ve learned, don’t share my part of this culture shock. I am I’m going to say that A sport that fuels care about the Civil War, and I think I see from a very different part of the world: the people here talk funny, many a spirit in the why: it wasn’t fought in their backyards. Southern United States. so I’ll say some of ya’ll talk retahded. Not South is college football. I can’t put into There’s a sign in front of the Covington It might help if I first describe my home- just the pronunciation, but the vocabulary words how pissed I was that I arrived here Baskin’ Robbins marking General William town, just to offer some perspective. Cov- itself. In a restaurant down South, the dia- the day before college football season offi- Tecumseh Sherman’s infamous March to the ington, Georgia is about 30 miles east of logue would usually carry close to this: “I’ll cially kicked off. I’ll be three days into Sea. Atlanta (“The City Too Busy to Hate”), and have a coke.” “What kind?” “A Sprite.” 18.01 when the Georgia Bulldogs maul the Yeah, we’re last in SAT scores, and we the whole county has a population of about Coke is basically any carbonated beverage, Tigers over at Clemson. Going to a high have a principal who thinks MIT is in Mis- 60,000, though a third of those people except Pepsi. Why can’t you understand school or college football game in the South sissippi, as he takes the baseball team out of spilled out of Atlanta into the county in the that? is akin to marching into a war. Especially school to go fishing, but at least we’ve still last decade. Covington is overwhelmingly On the subject of food, I passed a true when playing a rival, and they’re all got southern hospitality even after some- conservative, predominantly Southern Bap- McDonald’s the other day that had lobster. rivals. You get to the stadium hours before body torched our state. But whatever our tist, and local politics are managed by the Lobster is about $21 dollars a pound back the game to tailgate, which is as ritualistic as differences, there will always be one thing “good ol’ boys.” I attended a high school home. I’d kill for a Zaxby’s club sandwich baptism, and some fans even go the extra Atlantans and Bostonians can agree on: surrounded by cow pastures, and I was heav- right now, but of course those are peculiar to mile to construct effigies to mutilate before Yankees suck. ily involved in 4-H. I placed seventh in the the other side of the Mason-Dixon line, so kickoff. And when kickoff happens, all hell Ruth Miller is a member of the Class of state of Georgia in land judging, and first in I’m cut off. If you ever try a Krispy Kreme breaks loose. Last year was the first time my 2007. Gay Rights, Individual Rights

vibrant, welcoming, active, and community- speaking first of his libertarian position that offered up by the religious right isn’t God’s Ken Nesmith oriented neighborhoods are those populated in his view, gays should more or less be able style. Gays aren’t looking for endorsement, primarily by homosexuals. to do what they wish, but then insisting that exception, or special rights. They’re looking I hope, for your sake, that you’re not gay. Fundamentalist Christian arguments gays should not be granted the right to marry to be afforded the same individual rights this Life for homosexuals is tougher than it is for against gay marriage weaken under mild because that “that’s not what’s best for soci- country affords all its citizens. straight people. At the broadest level, that scrutiny. If we first suspend skepticism ety.” That’s both a falsehood relative to gay Many seek to make this a states’ rights reality probably won’t change too much. In about making social arguments based on rights, and more generally, a baseless politi- issue. Questions of morality as governed via the same way that blacks testify that they obscure, incontextual biblical verses, we cal foundation that repudiates O’Reilly’s states’ rights are an interesting beast, based still face discrimination both subtle and overt then find that biblical references condemn- ostensible respect for individual rights; but upon an odd inconsistency. In the case of in daily life, gays cannot help but continue to ing homosexuality are not plentiful. Leviti- then, such moral inconsistency relative to gay rights, just as in that of abortion, many carry the burden of differentness from a soci- cus does refer to homosexuality as an abom- individual rights isn’t foreign to the other- say that states should each be able to craft ety heterosexual in majority. Certainly, how- ination, however, the divinely inspired wise reasonable O’Reilly. their own policies concerning a morally sen- ever, contemporary social standards are authors declare that eating ham sandwiches Government management of marriage sitive topic, so that the federal government much more tolerant of homosexuality than and wearing polyester are equally abom- ultimately makes this debate as complicated doesn’t unnecessarily impose its will on they have been in times past. In fact, homo- inable. The catchy sound bite “God created as it is. Nothing stops gays from freely defiant constituents. However, state policies sexuality is now widely considered down- Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” choosing to live together as if they were a on this issue take on the same form as feder- right stylish. Gay rights advocates now seek rhymes nicely, but probably isn’t such a firm married couple; the government, fortunately, al regulation, with the same effect: a majori- for homosexuals to be granted government basis for crafting social policy, no more than doesn’t have to grant them the right to live ty gets to impose its will upon a minority. If marriage licenses. That simple goal has are the rest of the tales in the Book of Gene- in the same house, share a car, and so forth, it’s wrong for the federal government to do induced a wide variety of very interesting sis. living a de facto married life. The troubles this, why is it okay if it happens at the state responses. Let’s consider a few of them. The Christian right also stands by a bland start when they seek to gain the rights and level? If the government is to rule on a The Catholic Church is not receptive to objection to homosexuality’s perversion of benefits that marriage confers upon straight moral issue, imposing the tyranny of the the idea of gay marriage. Pope John Paul II sexual faculties, noting that gays turn the couples, as these are benefits that the gov- majority state by state after losing the battle noted that Catholic lawmakers have a body away from its natural purpose solely ernment does indeed indirectly control. on the federal level is a slimy alternate route responsibility to resist the creation of gay for the sake of pleasure. Of course, eating a These include spousal benefits issued by to limiting individual rights and freedoms. marriage rights. This earned the Catholic Hostess cupcake does precisely the same employers, hospital visitation rights, and It would be helpful, in the course of this Church some undue criticism. The Pope’s thing. Few things could be less natural than taxation issues. debate and others request was ultimately nothing more than a the chemical Hostess cupcake, but no one A government- concerning homosex- reminder for lawmakers to make their objects to upsetting the natural order upon issued mar- Gays turn the body away from its uality in society, if beliefs manifest in their work. It is quite rea- every consumption thereof. In fact, the diets riage license we knew a bit more sonable to remind those who profess adher- of most Americans, overweight and Christ- would grant natural purpose solely for the sake of about the physiologi- ence to a creed to stick to it. Ultimately, ian in no small proportions, make a mockery gay couples the cal mechanisms of though, his appeal will not likely have a sig- of the idea of food as a source of nutritious same status as pleasure. Of course, eating a Hostess homosexuality. Some nificant impact on the outcome of the sustenance, and instead turn it into an unnat- straights rela- continue to insist debate. ural tool for pleasure. Any who chooses to tive to those cupcake does precisely the same thing. quite forcefully that The widest opposition has come from live by the arbitrary credo of the Natural issues. That is sexuality is simply a conservatives. They see this movement as a Order of things would do well not to con- the only consequence of formally allowing matter of choice; others suggest that it is no devastating maneuver in an ongoing assault sume dessert ever again, carry even a pound gay marriage; no one is seeking to force any more a matter of choice than brain cancer. on traditional values, as the evisceration of of weight more than needed, or for that mat- religious institution to compromise its tradi- The evidence simply isn’t conclusive. the fundamental building block of moral ter, go to bed too late, upsetting the natural tions and doctrines. That information is important for crafting society, the family. Quite simply, they fear sleep cycle. Really, it’s hard to find a legitimate rea- policies concerning teachers, priests, and change. While it’s tempting to lay their con- Politicians have been rather uninspiring son for the government to forcefully deny other highly visible community leaders. Rel- cerns parallel to those who fought racial throughout this debate. The Democratic gay couples those rights afforded to straight ative to the narrower question of gay mar- integration, it’s not quite appropriate, as response has been tragically muddled. couples. The official marital statues of a gay riage, the roots of homosexuality don’t mat- there are grains of truth in their argument Democratic leaders and the various candi- couple has absolutely no effect on me or any ter so much — this is a question of that legitimate their fears. We must, after all, dates for president have waffled terribly; other citizen. For what earthly purpose individual rights. While it’s a bit entertain- recognize that homosexuality does not really they speak of the sanctity of marriage, would we deny a happily entwined couple ing to watch bumbling neoconservative lead- represent an alternative state of normalcy — ostensibly indicating their opposition to gay the ability to visit each other on their hospi- ers and pundits fulminate about the evils of quite simply, if everyone was gay, we marriage, but then profess support for civil tal deathbed when the law limits such visits homosexuality and the need to defend the humans would have some continuity prob- unions, which lack clear definition. At this to spouses, or employer health benefits for American family, we need suffer their red- lems. However, given conservative criticism point, however, the democratic leadership is the same reason? For those who oppose gay faced hatefests for only so long. Though it’s of the breakdown of community values, the a bit irrelevant, so their wavering doesn’t marriage on religious grounds (sadly, many not certain, gay rights advocates do seem to irony is that homosexuals often do a far bet- hurt the cause of gay rights too much. of our political leaders among them), it may have a rather strong chance of success, and ter job of building the strength of communi- Republicans are predictably opposed. Fox be time for a little WWJD: how would Jesus it’s a good thing. We can’t morally continue ty, family, and neighborhood than do Newsman Bill O’Reilly also fails the consis- treat this maligned quarter of society? It’s to deny gays the right conferred by a mar- straight individuals. In many cities, the most tency test, but he does so more brazenly, pretty clear that the hatred and oppression riage license. August 27, 2003

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For others, you for new grad students, hosted by the MIT Libraries. free but ticketed. Room: 10- 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. – MIT New Online Stationery Ordering Demo and Graphic may be exploring yet another new frontier. Regardless of your thoughts about head- 500. Sponsor: GSC Orientation. MIT Libraries. Identity Introduction. In the first part of this Quick Start, you will learn how to use ing off to MIT, you will all have opportunities to explore your options, seek out new 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. – Graduate Christian Fellowship Bible Study. Come join us the new ECAT stationery ordering system to order official MIT business cards, letter- challenges, tackle new problems, research possibilities, and meet new people. for Bible study, prayer, and fellowship! We are currently studying the book of Acts. head and envelopes. With a few easy clicks, you can input your office information, Your first order of business-exploring Orientation 2003! Check Web site for details. Free. Room: 66-369. 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Sponsor: Tech Model Railroad 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. – Queer Women’s Lunch. Queer Women’s Lunch (For a shuttle service that brings them from the airport to MIT campus. We run and plan Club (TMRC). Women Only Please) Lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, or just plain the Institute’s official graduate student Orientation and coordinate a mentorship 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. – IFILM Film Seminar: Amarcord (Italy, 1974) by Fellini. friendly? Come and enjoy a casual lunch with other queer MIT women. Hang out, program to help new international students. If you are a new student we highly Screening of a movie followed by a discussion. Light refreshments provided. More have some great food, and meet some friendly new faces. Interested in more infor- encourage you to explore all of the information on these webpages, and we hope information (including movie titles) on our web site. Free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: mation about other lbgt programs, clubs and offerings? 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Groups over 15 people need to make special reservations. Campus tours start 7:00 a.m. – Class of 2007 Undergraduate Orientation. Check Orientation 2003 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. – Boston Investors Technical Analysis Fasttrack Group at the conclusion of the Admissions Information Session. The campus tour begins Web site for details. Sponsor: Academic Resource Center. Meeting of the Boston Investors Technical Analysis Fasttrack Group. Free. Room: in room 6-120. Free. 7:00 a.m. – Graduate Student Orientation. Check Web site for Details. Sponsor: E52-175. Sponsor: MIT User Groups. 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. – Campus Walking Tour. A tour providing useful and anec- Graduate Student Council. 6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. – TechLink Welcome Dinner Party. Networking dinner host- dotal information about your new campus. Free. Room: meet Lobby 10. Sponsor: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. – course catalogue distribution. Bring your MIT ID and pick ed by the TechLink club, to help new graduate students meet each other. 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Come join us play and printouts, saving results, and exporting report data to Excel. This course graduate Research Opportunities Program. UROP staff will present followed by a for Bible study, prayer, and fellowship! We are currently studying the book of Eph- does not cover building or manipulating report queries. Room: N42 Demo Center. question and answer session. Free. Room: 54-100. Sponsor: UROP. esians. Free. Room: W11-080. Sponsor: Graduate Christian Fellowship, GSC Fund- Sponsor: Information Systems. 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. – Admissions Office Information Session. Admissions ing Board. 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. – Campus Walking Tour. Free. Room: meet Lobby 10. Spon- Office Information Session is held in Building 1, first floor, in Room 1-190. This is a 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. – Coffee Hour. Food and drink - an Ashdown tradition. Free. sor: GSC Orientation. special location for this date and time only! Enter MIT at the main entrance, 77 Room: Hulsizer Room (W1). 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Solution, page 11 Crossword Puzzle Crossword August 27, 2003 THE TECH Page 7 ARTS Maynard James Keenan, and drummer Josh would start chit-chatting amongst themselves Freese remain, two new members have been and tease the audience. Maynard even told a inducted: one Jeordie White, formerly known joke: “What did the three-legged dog say as Twiggy Ramirez and formerly the bassist when he walked into the bar? ‘I’ve come here for Marilyn Manson; and one James Iha, for- to find the man who shot my paw.’” Boos and mer guitarist of the Smashing Pumpkins. cheers abounded. The audience could have APC is now a full-fledged super group with a lasted for at least another full set, but unfortu- sound to be reckoned with. nately no encore was performed. PETAR SIMICH—THE TECH Playing songs from both their debut and With my excellent seat and the fantastic upcoming albums, APC put on a spectacular sound quality, light display, all-star cast and show, performing their new short but sweet even better musicianship, A Perfect Circle single “Weak and Powerless,” their beautiful and Pigmy Love Circus at the BPC was a smash hit “3 Libras,” and aggressive rendi- show to remember. tions of “Judith” and “Magdale- na.” For the first two songs May- nard hid behind a curtain, his CONCERT REVIEW shadow pulsating with the music and the lights, and his powerful voice came through clearly, threatening to overpower all the A Perfect Performance instruments. James did well as the rhythm guitarist, adding some nifty effects, and he even broke When Prog Rock and Truck-Stop Rock Collide standards by occasionally using By Petar Simich it was no use as it was totally wreaking havoc his fingers to play, a rare event in STAFF WRITER on me. If it weren’t for those earplugs, I’d be rock music. These and Billy’s A Perfect Circle hearing the seashore for the rest of my life. commanding leads, Josh’s solid Pigmy Love Circus First up to bat was, much to my surprise, drumming — especially for a Berklee Performance Center Pigmy Love Circus. You might think that former punk rocker! — and Aug. 3, 2003 they are insignificant, but PLC has none other Jeordie’s excellent display of than the great Danny Carey on the drums, the technique all showed why APC have never worn earplugs to a rock con- Tool-mate of Maynard. Don’t expect them to is so unique: they are able to rip cert before. The entire point is to go to a be deep and introspective, though. They’ve you apart at one moment and show and get your ears blasted and screw got good old sludgy rock songs about crimi- then immediately soothe you the Iup all your listening skills for the next day nals, farmers fighting to keep their land from next. or so. Well, as much of a trendsetter I might the government, and swamp monsters. Singer The show was rather special, be, right before I departed for the show I Mike Savage helped complete the image by as this was a big-name band per- grabbed a pair of earplugs. I decided that wearing a beret, an IRA t-shirt, and a camou- forming in such an intimate set- after going to so many shows and playing a flage kilt whose authenticity was confirmed ting. Although the Berklee Per- lot of electric guitar, I should give my ears a when Savage twirled around and two female formance Center has about 1,200 break. audience members erupted in laughter. PLC seats, it was as if the band was It turns out that it was one of the wisest is one of those bands that you have to see live playing for each person there. decisions of my entire life (counterbalancing to fully appreciate; the performance amplifies Surprisingly, the lights of the the decision to ditch state school). I arrived at the music. With the way these guys looked entire theater were turned on my seat and realized that it was one of the you’d expect them to be a band that performs twice during the show and the best seats in the entire house. The only thing at truck stops. They’re pure Americana. audience could be seen raising other than the security guard that prevented After one of the quickest set changes in their arms, shouting praises at the PETAR SIMICH—THE TECH me from scampering onto the stage and giv- history, A Perfect Circle emerged bristling band, and swaying with the A Perfect Circle guitarist James Iha at the Berklee ing Maynard a big kiss was the bass amp. I with their new weaponry. While original music. Between songs, with the Performance Center. The band is currently on tour could kick the damn thing if I wanted to, but members guitarist Billy Howerdel, singer theater pitch black, the band promoting their upcoming album, “Thirteenth Step.”

FILM REVIEW ★★ Freaky Family Flip-Flop Flick Doesn’t Flop The Verdict on ‘Freaky Friday’ — Jamie Lee Curtis, You, Like, Totally Rock By Fred Choi The premise of Freaky Friday is the STAFF WRITER same as that of the 1972 novel by Mary Directed by Mark S. Waters Rodgers and the 1976 movie adaptation, Written by Heather Hach which starred a cute-as-a button Jodie Fos- Based on the novel by Mary Rodgers ter, fresh from her precocious turn in Taxi Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Driver. In all three, a mother and her willful Mark Harmon, Harold Gould adolescent daughter switch bodies for a day Rated PG and learn to literally “walk in the other’s shoes,” with predictably warm and fuzzy espite being a live-action film from results. that warhorse of all stodgy warhorses The remake, made no doubt due to the Walt Disney Studios, Freaky Friday, success of Lohan’s role in Disney’s 1998 Dstarring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lind- remake of The Parent Trap, contemporizes say Lohan, is a feel-good comedy that’s hip the setting and the characters appropriately. enough that you won’t feel too embarrassed Here Curtis plays Tess, a rather staid single if you show up in the theater with someone mother raising a family while juggling cell other than your mom. phones and PDAs, and Lohan as her daugh- ter, Annabell, who whines, sulks, and moans over an older boy, and plays in a rock band. Like, are teenage girls like RON BATZDORFF—WALT DISNEY PICTURES the most annoying thing ever Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis magically switch bodies for a day in Freaky or what? Not to worry — Friday. despite Annabell’s trivial daily crises and the obligatory supporting characters, including Tess’s chip- job in the relatively straightforward role of hokey ending, the movie munk-faced son Harry (Ryan Malgarini) and Annabell playing Tess, Jamie Lee Curtis is a throws in enough fun Annabell’s motorcycle-riding love interest few years off in her portrayal of Tess as moments, especially in the Jake (Chad Murray), add some of the Annabell, acting more like a 12-year-old scenes with Curtis as movie’s most hilarious moments. Keep an than a 15-year-old. Annabell, to keep you watch- eye out for Harry’s increasingly baffled Still, she manages to inject enough raw ing to the end. expression in the scene when he first enthusiasm and energy into the sometimes Although some scenes are encounters his switched mother and sister clever script that, with the help of the rest of a bit predictable and too many and the scene in the coffeehouse in which a the cast, makes this a viable mainstream of the jokes were wasted completely confused Jake finds himself alternative to the majority of summer’s because they were included in falling for the mom of the girl he liked. painfully dull selections. the previews, the film does a Viewers who nice job of exploiting the grew up listening humor in the confusion of the to Michael Jack- personality switch, as in son or the Back- Annabell’s reaction to being street Boys in Tess’s body (“I’m like the instead of Elvis crypt keeper!”) and Tess’s or Frank Sinatra reaction to being in may recognize Annabell’s body (“You that Heather Wireless LAN Cards $30 Wireless Routers $50 pierced your navel?! … Well, Hach doesn’t when you get your body back, quite get the http://www.CrescentOak.com it’s grounded!”). teen’s slang RON BATZDORFF—WALT DISNEY PICTURES Tess’s impending wedding right. Similarly, Wireless Networking at Half the Price Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and daughter Annabell (Lindsay and Annabell’s band audition although Lohan Lohan) rock at the House of Blues in Freaky Friday. adds needed suspense, while does a competent Page 8 THE TECH August 27, 2003 IFC Requirements Must Be Met for SAE Chapter SAE from Page 1 It will probably be 12 to 24 months before the interest group space,” he said. becomes a fully chartered and rec- Of the 12 sophomores and ognized fraternity. juniors in the group, six were for- merly affiliated with Delta Tau IFC recognition has stages Delta fraternity. In order to gain recognition from “We were living at Delta Tau the IFC, a group must first submit a Delta, and we moved out,” petition, which must include a state- Adkisson said. ment of purpose, a constitution, and A representative of Delta Tau a pledge of no hazing. Delta declined to comment. Upon a vote by the IFC Presi- dent’s Council, the group can Recognition sought on many levels become an associate member of the In order to be recognized as a IFC for a period of no less than a fraternity at MIT, the chapter must year. As associate members, they win approval from MIT, the Inter- can participate in IFC functions, fraternity Council, and the national such as rush, but they do not hold a fraternity. vote in the Presidents’s Council. The group recolonizing SAE has After that, the fraternity can, already gained the support of the after another vote, become a proba- alumni corporation for the old MIT tionary member for a period of no chapter. Alumni Corporation Presi- less than one academic term. After AMY WU—THE TECH dent William C. Noz ’57 said they another vote, the chapter can be a A hack transforms Simmons Hall into a fake MBTA subway stop. were communicating with the full member of the IFC. national organization and are “try- As soon as SAE gets a petition ing to make sure that all of the right approved by the President’s Coun- steps are taken to [recolonize] prop- cil, the group can begin to rush. erly.” “We’re not actively participating Van Putten’s Teaching Criticized “We have high hopes that this in rush [right now], but we’re selec- van Putten, from Page 1 edge, and he never changed his MIT defends termination will happen smoothly and success- tively recruiting,” Adkisson said, [teaching] approach.” fully,” Noz said. “We’re tied into it meaning that if someone expresses Jr. PhD ’76. However, van Putten said in his MIT opposed van Putten’s pretty strongly.” interest, the students working to Van Putten, Vogan, and Toomre affidavit that he had “never been motion for preliminary injunction, Rogers said MIT will work recolonize the chapter are willing to declined to comment. Silbey could informed … that [evaluation results] saying that van Putten’s position was closely with the IFC to evaluate speak with them about their work. not be reached for comment. had any bearing on promotional terminated before he filed a motion SAE’s petition. He said in order to Adkisson said that the group is prospects for professors.” to remain assistant professor. be recognized, SAE will have to planning to participate in spring Van Putten cites lack of feedback Van Putten also defended his “Had the plaintiff been con- demonstrate that there is an interest rush, and has already been In court papers, van Putten said teaching, noting in his affidavit that cerned that he would suffer in and a need for the new chapter — approached by a few freshmen who that he “was not informed by … any the passing rate in his applied math- irreparable harm upon termination the need and the interest “can be were sons of old SAE members. MIT official or faculty member at ematics courses was above 94 per- … he should have moved for one and the same” — and that the As for a getting a house, “we MIT that my teaching results were cent and that the graduate course he injunctive relief … before his chapter will “add to the campus.” have the resources to buy a house, considered inadequate.” taught, General Relativity and Grav- employment terminated,” the defen- The group will have to answer and we’re in the market for a Vogan’s letter from January itational Radiation (18.996), was dants said. the question, “What is it that SAE house,” but it will probably take 12 2002 cited negative student feed- under consideration for publication MIT also said in court docu- can offer that another fraternity to 18 months, Adkisson said. He back as one of the reasons for deny- as a textbook. ments that “as early as September can’t?” Rogers said. said when the old SAE houses were ing van Putten’s promotion. Van Putten also mentioned in his 2001, the [Applied Mathematics “On college campuses across the sold the money was put into a trust Mary E. Ross ’03, one of van affidavit his March 2002 publication Committee] gently encouraged the country, fraternities are expanding, fund, and that money could be Putten’s 18.02A students during about gravitational waves in the sci- plaintiff to seek other employment.” and it’s not necessarily a given that tapped to purchase a new house. IAP 2000, said, “Everyone was entific journal Science as an indica- The lawsuit is not scheduled to they’ll be successful,” he said. unhappy to the best of my knowl- tion of his strengths in research. go to trial until 2005. MIT Ranked Fourth

MIT Computing Help Desk For 2004 by US News By Marissa Vogt on school reputation, but that they We’re Hiring Student Consultants ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR do not strongly influence admis- MIT finished fourth overall in sions. this year’s US News & World “They’re just trying to sell mag- Report college rankings, and first azines,” Jones said. “Admissions is If you are: for undergraduate engineering pro- all about the match, the right school • a logical problem solver • seeking relevant work experience grams. Harvard and Princeton tied for the right kid. • patient, friendly, motivated to help for first place, and Yale ranked “All those ranking systems aren't • eager to learn in a team setting third. really true, they don’t actually help • good at explaining technical topics • seeking a starting rate of $12.50/hr Once again, MIT took the top anybody know whether one school spot for aeronautical and astronauti- is the right school for their child,” cal, chemical, computer, electrical, she said. Come meet us at our information session: mechanical, and nuclear engineer- President Charles M. Vest also ing. said that he believes “students The Sloan School of Manage- should seek the college or university ment was ranked second for under- that fits their best interests, needs MIT Computing Help Desk graduate business programs again and ambitions, rather than which behind the University of Pennsylva- school ranks the highest.” nia Wharton School. However, MIT “The information assembled in Info Session was ranked first for management the tables of the U.S. News and information systems, World Report rankings has some Thursday, September 4th, 2003 production/operations management, value and interest, but the hair quantitative analysis, and supply splitting of the detailed ranking chain management/logistics. isn't very meaningful,” Vest said. 5:15 - 6:45 pm Last year’s rankings also placed “Of course it is good to know that MIT in fourth place, but tied with these factors, including what our N42 Demo Center Duke, Stanford, Caltech, and the peers think of us, clearly place us University of Pennsylvania. in the top handful of leading uni- 211 Mass Ave, across from NECCO/Novartis versities.” Ranks have little influence Dean of Admissions Marilee Variety of criteria used for ranks Jones said that her reaction to the The criteria for the overall col- Attendance at the session is required for all rankings is “neutral.” lege rankings are based on peer “It’s unclear what it really assessments (25 percent), retention applicants. Candidates should also submit a means, just because it’s all rather (20 percent), faculty resources (20 silly if you look at the algorithm percent), student selectivity (15 per- resume by noon on September 4th to: they use,” Jones said. cent), financial resources (10 per- [email protected] “It’s always the same five sus- cent), graduation rate performance pects … There are a group of (5 percent), and alumni giving rate schools, whether one is better than (5 percent). another from year to year is simply The engineering and business not true,” said Jones. rankings are based solely on surveys Jones said that she believes the completed by deans and senior fac- rankings do indeed have an impact ulty. http://web.mit.edu/helpdesk/hiring.html Smile! August 27, 2003 THE TECH Page 9 Ask SIPB

STUDENT INFORMATION PROCESSING BOARD with a group of friends, just come up with a name, and make you are encouraged to participate as well by helping others. Want to learn more about Zephyr? Need to figure out if sure you and your friends are subscribed to that class. It is customary to use the instance name to specify the someone is logged in and communicate with them quickly? In To temporarily subscribe to a Zephyr class for just your subject, e.g.: this column, part 5 of 6 of our introductory orientation current Athena session, type: athena% zwrite -c help -i motorcycles columns, we cover the basics of using Zephyr. athena% zctl sub class_name \* \* To subscribe to a Zephyr class for current and future Question: What are personal Zephyr classes and what are Question: What is Zephyr? Athena sessions, type: they used for? Answer: Zephyr is a powerful, built-in instant messaging athena% zctl add class_name \* \* Answer: Personal Zephyr classes can be used for a variety system for Athena. While originally designed to notify users To temporarily unsubscribe from a Zephyr class, type: of things, including just rambling and other random topics. In of official information, it has since expanded in its purpose, athena% zctl unsub class_name \* \* general, users choose the class based on their usernames, and allowing users to communicate quickly and easily. To unsubscribe from a Zephyr class for current and future friends subscribe to these classes. Athena sessions, type: For example, if the user named sipbtest wanted to communi- Question: How can I find out if one of my friends is athena% zctl del class_name \* \* cate with a group of his friends, he could send zephyrs to class logged in? To subscribe to or unsubscribe from a Zephyr instance, sipbtest, and ask his friends to subscribe to class sipbtest. Answer: You can use the zlocate command to deter- you should use class MESSAGE, and the name of the mine whether someone is logged in, such as: instance in place of the first \*. For example, to subscribe to Question: I don’t like this interface. What other ways of athena% zlocate username white-magic: receiving zephyrs are available? This will bring up a list of hostnames of Athena machines athena% zctl add MESSAGE white-magic \* Answer: “Owl” as an easy-to-use text-mode Zephyr client. that person is logged into currently. If you get a message that The class MESSAGE is a pub- Owl is in the ktools locker and can says “Hidden or not logged in,” this can mean several things. licly-known class that anyone can Orientation Ask be run like this: First, it can mean that person is not logged into an Athena subscribe to. Therefore messages sent SIPB Columns athena% add ktools athena% owl machine. It can also mean that, for some reason, that person to an instance within class MES- Friday: Computing Help and has decided to hide himself or that the person has turned off SAGE are visible to anyone sub- The most important command to Resources his ability to receive zephyr messages. Note that if you try to scribed to the overall class. know in owl is ‘h’, which brings up zlocate a username that does not exist, you will still Sunday: Connecting to the the online help. Here is quick summa- receive the Hidden or not logged in message. Question: How do I send a Network ry of the other commonly used keys: Athena cluster computer hostnames are based on the zephyr to a class or an instance? :move up building and room number of the cluster. For example, if zlo- Answer: To send a zephyr to an Monday: Using Athena and Unix and down between zephyrgrams. cating a friend shows that he is logged into w20-575-67 and instance: Tuesday: Mail and Mailing Lists : scroll around m66-080-1, that means that he is logged into a computer in athena% zwrite -i instan- within long zephyrgrams room 575 in building W20 (Student Center) and a computer cename Today: Zephyr z: send a zephyrgram (you can use in the basement cluster (room 080) of building 66. This changes the instance you are Tomorrow: Kerberos and AFS -C, -c and -i just as with zwrite) sending to from PERSONAL to r: reply to current zephyrgram Question: How can I make use of a .anyone file and znol? instancename, and by default sends to the class MESSAGE. d: mark current zephyrgram for deletion Answer: The .anyone file is a buddy list. By creating a text For example, zwrite -i help would send a zephyrgram x: delete marked zephyrgrams file named .anyone in your home directory with a list of Athena to the instance help, and anyone who had subscribed to the l: show list of online users (equivalent of znol) usernames (one on each line), you can easily see which of them help instance would receive the zephyrgram. :q : quit owl is logged in. To see who on your .anyone file is logged in: To send a zephyr to a class: athena% xzul & athena% zwrite -c classname If you are interested in learning more about owl, check out For a more informative, non-refreshing display: This sends a zephyrgram to class classname instead of the owl webpage: http://web.mit.edu/ktools/www/owl.html. athena% znol class MESSAGE. By default, it will send to the instance You can also use owl-beta, currently version 2.0.7, which After issuing znol, you will receive zephyrgrams (mes- PERSONAL within class classname. To send a zephyr to an has some advanced features, including the ability to log into sages) when people in your .anyone file log in or log out, if they instance within a class: AOL Instant Messenger. Though other programs, such as have set their exposure appropriately. If you wish for this to hap- athena% zwrite -c classname -i instancename gaim in the IM locker provide more familiar interfaces for pen automatically upon logging in, add the text “znol” to the end Capitalization does not matter in the names of Zephyr using AIM, owl-beta can provide one convenient interface for of the .startup.X and/or .startup.tty files in your home directory. classes and instances. For example, zwrite -i white- both instant message protocols. Keep in mind, though, that (You may have to create the files if they don’t exist already.) magic is the same as zwrite -i WHITE-MAGIC. this is a beta version, and may contain bugs. To run owl-beta: Also note that people will often refer to zephyr classes athena% add ktools Question: How do I send a personal zephyr? and instances by -c and -i respectively. For example, “-c help athena% owl-beta Answer: To send a zephyr to other users: -i food” would refer to zephyr instance food within the In order to log into AIM, first type “:” This should bring athena% zwrite username1 username2 user- zephyr class help. up a prompt at the bottom of your owl-beta window. Type name3 aimlogin yourscreename and owl-beta should prompt where username1, username2, and username3 are the Question: What useful zephyr classes and instances are you for your password. In order to add a buddy to your buddy usernames of the intended recipients. You can add as many there? list (on both the AIM server and your session), use addbud- (or as few) usernames as you want to the zwrite command. Answer: For notifications of events affecting the network, dy aim samplescreenname, and to delete a buddy from If you zephyr multiple people, and you wish to add a CC line you can subscribe to -i network. This is not an officially your buddy list, use delbuddy aim samplescreenname. to inform them who you are zephyring: supported channel, however, meaning that information is not To send an instant message to someone, you follow almost athena% zwrite -C username1 username2 always sent here, and this is not a guaranteed way to contact the exact same procedure as sending a Zephyr: type “a”, and Keep in mind that command line options for zwrite are the network group. then enter the screenname of that person. case-sensitive, so -C is not the same as -c. As mentioned in Friday’s column, http://web.mit.edu/3- DOWN provides information about both scheduled and Question: Where can I learn more about zephyr? Question: What are Zephyr classes and instances and how unscheduled network and service outages. To receive updates Answer: For more information about Zephyr, you can pick do I subscribe to or unsubscribe from them? every time the information on 3-DOWN changes, you can up a paper version of Inessential Zephyr at the SIPB office in Answer: Zephyr classes and instances allow groups of subscribe to -c 3down. W20-557, or read the online version at people to have conversations via Zephyr. Zephyr classes are If you’d like to get zephyr notification when you receive http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/doc/izephyr/html/. You slightly more private than instances, since you must know the new mail, you can subscribe to -c mail. If you have Spa- can also refer to the OLC Stock Answers at name of a Zephyr class to be able to subscribe to it. Zephyr mAssassin set up, as described in the March 14, 2003 col- http://web.mit.edu/answers/zephyr/. classes have sub-channels within them called instances. umn, you can subscribe to -c mail -i inbox to receive (Although the terms “class” and “instance” come from notification only for non-spam messages. To ask us a question, send e-mail to [email protected]. We’ll object-oriented computer programming, their meanings are Finally, for help on any topic you can think of, you can try to answer you quickly, and we might address your ques- different in the context of Zephyr.) subscribe to -c help and send zephyrs there with your ques- tion in our next column. Copies of each column and pointers A Zephyr class exists as long as at least one person is sub- tions. Other people who have also chosen to subscribe to -c to additional information will be posted on our website: scribed to it, so if you want to use a new Zephyr class to talk help may then respond. If you know the answer to a question, http://www.mit.edu/~asksipb/ Freshmen Show More Interest in Programs Communities, from Page 1 their spring trip to the Amazon last year. Group, Terrascope, and the Media Arts and Sciences Special Freshman Students seek flexibility in classes Year Program have also been seeing One possible reason for the strong interest this year. strong interest in the programs, Alexander H. Slocum SB ’82, Slocum said, is how modern tech- director for ESG, said that 70 to 80 nology puts the “focus on customiz- freshmen had expressed an interest ing everything in the max.” When although the program only has 50 he was in ESG, he said, it gave him slots available. “a chance to do my own stuff.” Director for the MAS program Sanjukta Pal ’07 said that she V. Michael Bove, Jr. ’83 said that had signed up for Concourse they had 34 students sign up this because “it offers a lot of the cours- year, “more than we’ve ever had es I wanted to take” and would before.” The program began five make her more comfortable with the years ago and typically had about 25 material. She said that she thought students, he said. “it would be a good thing to take … Kip V. Hodges PhD ’82, co-direc- at least for the first semester.” tor for Terrascope, said that they Sarah S. Wu ’06, who was in were “happy” with their enrollment Concourse last year, said that the so far, and had met their target of 30 program provided her with smaller, to 40 students. He said that the pro- more intimate classes. gram would have to stay small even “All your classmates have the PETER RUSSO—THE TECH with a lot of student interest as some same classes so you get to know Steven K. Kannan ’06 (left) and Kevin E. Stolt ’06 (right) talk to Bereket S. Kifle ’07 about Concourse events were limited in size, such as them better,” Wu said. at the program’s open house Tuesday. Page 10 THE TECH August 27, 2003 Wednesday, August 27 excercise/weight room, multimedia center, and even our very own 01:00 olympic size pool!!! You can even take a dip in it if you like. 01:00 — Senior Haus — French 20:18 — Senior Haus — people smoke a lot. So do we. More oh...mommy... free cigarettes. 01:44 — Senior Haus — Make every bedroom window an instant 21:00 fire escape! Jump out your window 21:00 — Senior Haus — Watermel- while we set your room in flames! on Man Screening - If you’re consid- ering living at Senior Haus, this, 02:00 shirt… just a little...you’re really take the Lambda Sigma Delta Purity uh, film will give you a feel for the Haus culture, back before Senior 02:00 — Baker House — On Tues- 10:00 pretty, you know? Test. 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We don’t hate, nor discrimi- manent room, meet your new dorm- 03:00 *bounce*bounce*bounce* hmm let’s count in binary! 1 10 11 100 nate, so tell all your friends to mates, and see the man who *real- 03:00 — EAsT camPUS — Watch 101 101 110 111 17:00 come and enjoy what we like to ly* runs things in this dorm. us build a 60 foot tower in the 21:11 — EAsT camPUS — The Rev- *bounce*bounce*bounce* mmmm- 17:15 — Senior Haus — Stop it call home. courtyard. Then, practice your fire- erend Prez still does not live here. mm.... purple ketchup and liquid now, you little bitch! You...I’ll MAKE 19:00 — Dormitory Council — Per- fighting skills as we douse it in We win. nitrogen.... 1000 1010 ... how you stop...I’ll do it!...mommy taught manent Residence Hall Assign- gasoline and then torch it. 21:32 — Senior Haus — Add some come they let us have entries today me how... ments. Check your e-mail for your mystery to your life. Find out what’s but not last Friday? 17:16 — Senior Haus — The tree is permanent dorm assignment and 04:00 for dinner. displeased. You’re running out of report to the front desk of your new 04:00 — Senior Haus — Lesbian 21:37 — Senior Haus — Word on 11:00 time to give blood, come ride the home for further instructions on In- Bed Death. You’ll find out. the street is that Jack the Ripper is 11:57 — Baker House — Oh no. lifeswing of doom. House RUSH! 04:41 — Senior Haus — “I’m here back in town. Oh no. Oh no! Oh YEAH! Baker. 17:41 — Senior Haus — Swim in 19:10 — Senior Haus — Make your to do one of two things, kick ass our pool. Yes, really. We will be own Bonsai Kitten with the one and and chew bubble gum. And I’m all only Dr Michael Wong Chang. Learn 22:00 12:00 playing with water all evening, out of bubble gum.” by doing, all the techniques 22:00 — EAsT camPUS — You’ll 12:00 — Senior Haus — Everyone because the safety office won’t let required to create a shaped cat rue the day you didn’t move to EC. want the Chalk. Come on and get us play with fire anymore. Irene 05:00 from “scratch”. Find out the secrets Rue the day!!! your Chalk. Chalk! From Whamo! says “nudity is encouraged.” 05:00 — EAsT camPUS — Call of intubation, medication, oxygenat- 22:01 — Senior Haus — Seriously, 12:00 — Bexxxley — It’s spunk!!! Bexley’s Rush Chair at (617) 306- ed food slurry and the importance I was walking down Newbury St. and Protein can be fun. The stains, the 18:00 3179 for a tour of Bexley Hall. of good cramming technique. some homeless guy came up to me stickyness, the smooth, creamy tex- 18:25 — Senior Haus — “You 05:08 — Baker House — Baker 19:15 — EAsT camPUS — If you and started yelling about Jack the ture, come take in, or squirt out, mean you’ll put down your rock, and Social is the... Bomb Diggity. Or so are one of the top ten percent of Ripper. the full experience. (Vegetarian I’ll put down my sword, and we’ll try it seems. your freshman class sharp enough 22:03 — Senior Haus — Maybe options also available) to kill each other like civilized peo- 05:22 — Random Hall — I don’t to get into Fred Dorm, leave your because I was wearing a t-shirt say- 12:01 — Senior Haus — Hey, ple?” think I’ve complained about the room for Fred Desk for reassign- ing that Jack the Ripper is back in kid...have you seen my puppy dog? character limit in a few days. Any- ment. town. He’s really cute and fluffy. Would how, it sucks. Greatly. 275 is a 19:00 19:30 — Dormitory Council — In- 22:15 — Baker House — Baker you help me look for him? ... I have small number. I mean, 17 is so 19:00 — Simmons Hall — Crepe House RUSH Begins. Report to the satisfies. some candy in my car... much cooler. It’s round and fuzzy Bake! Come join us for scrump- front desk of your permanent dormi- tious thin pancakes in the 6th and tangy and shiny and I think the tory to find out more details on how 23:00 13:00 floor lounge of Simmons. We’ll rush chairs are nearing the end of to choose what floor/entryway you 23:10 — Senior Haus — Oh you 13:02 — Senior Haus — You know, have everything from chocolate to their proverbial ropes, but will be living on within your new think you’re hardcore? Not after the kid, you have really pretty baked apple crepes all for your home. Ross Lippert Memorial Alumni Story eyes...anyone ever tell you that? eating pleasure! Be sure to visit 07:00 19:30 — EAsT camPUS — Muy Hour. 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August 27, 2003 SPORTS THE TECH Page 11 MIT Coaches Anticipate Exciting Upcoming Season As a new incoming class crowds the ference’s strangle hold on the higher Sport: Men’s football home game Thursday, Sept. 4 vs. Tufts, Babson and all NEWMAC Infinite, upperclassmen move back in, positions (not to mention having Head Coach: Dwight Smith Gordon College 6:00 p.m. games and Reg Day approaches, the cam- some individuals try to make a run at Assistant Coaches: Comments: Our entire starting team pus prepares for another academic realistically earning a trip to the Offensive coordinator — Dick Yule Sport:Men’s cross country and most of the reserves return for year. Athletic teams, hard at work NCAA meet). Defensive coordinator — Chris Head Coach: Halston Taylor the 2004 season. We lost the league individually over the summer, are Comments: House Last Season’s Record: 3–0 championship 0–1 each of the past gathering to prepare for the upcom- Shooting for an undefeated regu- Last Season’s Record: 4–5 New Last Season’s Awards: NEWMAC two Falls. We are aiming to win it ing seasons. Coaches for this fall’s lar season record. Tech Cross Coun- England Football Con- Tech sports forecasted their teams’ try’s motto is “Have fun and try your ference performances this year. best” which should once again pro- Last Season’s Awards: vide for a happy, healthy, and Keith V. Battocchi G — Sport: Women’s cross country rewarding experience. Staying injury New England Scholar Head Coach: Paul Slovenski free is always foremost in the coach- Athlete Award; first Assistant Coach: Harold B. Hatch ing staff’s training plan and a vital team All-New England Last Season’s Record: 5–2–1 key to this squad’s success. selection; seven other Last Season’s Awards: Luckily, the Engineers did not All-Conference selec- MVP — Martha W. Buckley ’04 graduate any of the top seven varsity tions. Rookie of the Season — Valerie Y. racers from a year ago, so the pro- Returning Stars: Kuo ’06 gram’s march toward excellence con- Offense — Philip M. Most Improved — Alisa P. Lehman tinues on without a speed bump. Plus, Deutsch ’04, running ’05 to help further accelerate the sport’s back; David J. Ostlund Promising Rookies: Enthusiastic progress, the recruited rookies appear and Ryan J. Lanphere group yet to be proven on the course. to be everything they advertised. ’06, fullbacks; Spencer Top 10 Returning Stars: Captain This, along with the number of veter- M. Cross ’05, Keith G. Katie R. Huffman ’04, Captain ans who have returned in the best Reed ’04, Justin Nelson Martha W. Buckley ’04, Julia C. shape of their lives, makes the future ’04, Matthew J. Krueger Espel ’05, Veronica A. Andrews ’05, of Tech look super. ’05, and Benjamin F. Betsy R. Eames ’06, Jen A. Gaugler Povlich ’05, offensive ’05, Kelly Kuo ’06, Jen J. DeBoer Sport: Coed sailing line; Michael C. Patrick DMITRY PORTNYAGIN—THE TECH ’05, Jordan E. Wirfs-Brock ’06, Head Coaches: Mike Kalin and ’05, tight end; Matt R. Courtney Rothrock ’06 (left) and Ai-Ris Yonekura ’05 of the MIT women’s soccer Nancy J. Benedetti ’05 Fran Charles Ramirez ’06, kicker and team scrimmage on Briggs Field Tuesday evening. The women’s team is one of Big Meets This Season: Last Season’s Record: Fourth best punter. many teams that begins practice this week. All-Division New England — hope in New England, 11th best in country Defense — Dan Relihan to place in the top half of the 50 com- at Division I level ’04, Kevin M. Yurkerwich ’06, Mark Conference Champions, Ben this year and have a very successful peting schools. Promising Rookies: Cha Ling A. Jury ’04, and Brennan P. Sherry Schmeckpeper — All-American. season. NEWMACs — looking to win the O'Connell ’07 from Winchester, ’06, defensive line; Phillip T. Promising Rookies: Sam Berberian conference championship meet that Mass. Zakielarz ’05, Michael J. Harvey ’04, ’07, Kevin Brulois ’07 Sport:Men’s varsity heavyweight Wellesley edged MIT out of last year. Returning Stars: J.M. Modissette Michael A. Terry ’04, linebackers; Returning Stars: Ben A. Schmeck- crew National Regional Qualifier (New ’05, Dan A. Bercovici ’04, Libby N. Mark D. Boudreau ’05 and David A. peper ’05 Head Coach: Gordon Hamilton England Division III race) — goal of Wayman ’04, Emma R. Bassein ’06 Blau ’06, defensive backs. Big Meets This Season: NEWMAC Assistant Coaches: Dan Perkins, top 10 finish as a team, which would Big Meets This Season: Professor Rookies — Adam C. Love ’07, quar- Championship, New England freshman coach be the first time in program’s history. Schell Trophy on Nov. 1–2, Sloop terback; David W. Shearer ’04, Championship, NCAA Division III Returning Stars: Very strong group This would, more importantly, signi- New Englands on Oct. 11–12. defensiveback; James N. Pacella ’07 qualifier and championship of sophomores fy a break of the rival NESCAC con- and Robert A. Nix ’07, offensive line; Comments: We hope to be one of Big Meets This Season: Head of the Clayton J. Williams ’07 and Cody L. the four teams to qualify for nationals Charles, Eastern Sprints, and Edwards ’07, defensive line; Alexan- from the New England region, but National Championships der T. Karnal ’07, linebacker; Paul A. with the strength of our region and Comments: The varsity heavyweight Montgomery ’07, receiver. the youth of our team, it will be a crew is looking to continue to build great challenge. off the core of strong sophomores Sport: Women’s field hockey who will be returning this year and Head Coach: Cheryl Silva Sport: Men’s Soccer add the experienced freshmen who Assistant Coach: Sue Thibodeau Head Coach: Walter Alessi will be Last Season’s Record: 5–12 Assistant Coach: Gary Brown joining the Varsity. Our main goals Last Season’s Awards: Deanna Last Season’s Record: 10–7–1 will be for victories over Columbia, Lentz ’06 — All Conference Last Season’s Awards: Georgetown, Syracuse, Boston Col- Promising Rookies: Anna Ayuso 1st team All-league — Rory E. Foster lege, and Williams. ’07, Sharon Prange ’07, Atiyah Hasan ’04, Nicholas R. Nestle ’04 ’07, Meghan Roberts ’07, Arielle B. 2nd Team All-League — J. Dan Grif- Sport: Women’s Tennis Tambini ’07, Silvana D. Arevalo ’07 fith ’05, E. Walter Song ’06, Jose R. Head Coach: Carol Matsuzaki ’95 Returning Stars: Tara Sainath ’04, Torradas ’05 Assistant Coaches: Brett Pellock Lauren Tsai ’04, co-captains; Tiffany League Rookie of the Year — Song ’01, Kat Pick A. Kanaga ’04, goalkeeper; Mandy Promising Rookies: Too early to Last Season’s Record: 13–4 Smith ’04, defense; Cheryl A. Texin tell. Returning Stars: Larisa M. Egloff DMITRY PORTNYAGIN—THE TECH ’06, defense; Margaret H. Gentile Returning Stars: All of the above ’04, Caroline Tien ’04, Shima Rayej R. Morgan Mills ’05, goalie of the men’s varsity soccer team, made ’06, Noelle Kanaga ’06, Deanna plus Doug L. Allaire ’04, Robert ’04, Jaclyn E. Cichon ’05 a save Tuesday evening on Briggs Field. Many teams begin practice Lentz ’06, attack. Pilawa ’05 Big Meets This Season: Wellesley, this week. Big Meets This Season: Opening Big Meets This Season: Wheaton, Babson.

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By Phil Janowicz homers and 20 RBIs. The most impressive part about COLUMNIST Hafner’s performance was his hitting for the cycle 2nd Place at Finals Maybe the typical late season woes left with the last week, joining Eric “Ouch, It” Byrnes and Brad humidity. Facing a tough schedule stretch, the Sox Wilkerson as the only players to hit for the cycle this By Lori Eich boy Edmund M. Chou G, the team found a way to sweep the old men into the sea. Cred- season. TEAM CAPTAIN fought through the weather to win it most of this to outstanding pitching and hitting by Honorable Mention: Brad “Pink Eye” Wilkerson sMITe, the Women’s Ultimate the game 15–12. J. Lily Huang ’06 the Sox, but also place some of the blame on the of the Montreal Expos. Trailing 2–0 to the Giants in team, placed second at the College and Christina R. Keenan ’03 each Mariners. Despite doing quite well so far this year, the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded, two National Championships in Austin, had two blocks, and Taylor Seattle seems to have run into a road block. Many outs, and a full count, Wilkerson launched the payoff TX, from May 23–25, ending their Frances Schildgen G had two lay- sports analysts have proposed reasons for this skid pitch from Giants closer Tim Worrell to downtown season in a close match against out goals. Julia Van Meter Cline G and have even predicted it. Montreal. A walk-off grand slam from Wilkerson Stanford in the finals. threw two break marks and two Some say that the Mariners’ arms are tired. Over seemed to have jump-started the Expos recently, hucks for a total of four goals. the past 15 games, Seattle starters have lasted helping to keep them in the playoff hunt. sMITe dominates pool play Semifinals put sMITe against beyond the sixth inning only twice. Unfortunately, Pitching: Bronson “Mr. Perfect” Arroyo of the The weekend began on May 23 Brown. MIT dominated the first both of those times, inconsistent Freddy Garcia did Boston Red Sox. Coming over from the Pirates orga- with pool play against Arizona, half with a score of 8–1, eventually so. Because of the shaky starters, the bullpen has nization, Arroyo has been perfect for the Sox. Earlier Wisconsin, and Penn State. Seeded taking the game 15–6. Eulalia S. been forced to pitch several innings each game, this month, Arroyo pitched only the fourth perfect fifth in the tournament overall, Massague ’04 had two sky blocks causing the relievers to give up several runs as of game in the history of the International League for sMITe’s first game was against and caught one goal, and late. the PawSox — the AAA affiliate of the Red Sox. In 16th-seeded Arizona. MIT quickly Genevieve G. Ricart ’06 caught Also, the first-to-second-to-first double play has his first game with the Red Sox, Arroyo notched his took the match 15–2. This game two goals. Lori A. Eich ’03 had misfired three times in the last week, costing the first career save, pitching the last three innings showed outstanding performances two blocks and caught a blade in Mariners seven runs. On these double plays, the first against Seattle on Monday. Boston can expect good by Elizabeth S. Kim G, who had the end zone. baseman fields the ball, fires it to the shortstop who things from you. two blocks and caught one goal, then throws the ball to the pitcher covering first base. Honorable Mention: Jeff “Chicken Noodle” Sup- and Darlene Ferranti ’06 with three sMITe starts out strong in finals On the first of these miscues in Toronto last pan of the Boston Red Sox. Thankfully, Suppan has blocks. Facing Stanford in the finals on Wednesday, John Olerud fielded the ball cleanly shown his worth by turning in a quality start for the The next game on Friday pitted May 25, sMITe stepped up to the and accurately threw the ball to shortstop Rey Sox. Now, the Sox rotation looks sharp, with Suppan sMITe against Wisconsin. In the challenge and quickly took the first Sanchez. Sanchez then hurried the throw to pitcher pitching the make-up interleague game in Philly. first half, sMITe came out strong point with a goal thrown by Gil Meche at first, and Eric Hinske was safe at first Grady Little altered the rotation to allow Suppan, a with intense defensive playing by Angela Tong ’05. April R. Lehman following Sanchez’s throw in the dirt. Vernon Wells lifetime .266 hitter, to pitch and hit at Philadelphia. Shuang You ’05, shutting down G was a powerhouse on both then made the Mariners pay with a home run on the Utility: Brian “Purse Hero” Anderson of the her offender’s every attempt to get defense and offense, with six next pitch. Kansas City Royals. After having pitched brilliantly open and forcing several turnovers blocks and four goals. With the The second of these miscues occurred the next and consistently for the Indians all season, Anderson by Wisconsin. sMITe took the help of strong handling by Nancy night with the bases loaded with one out and the has been acquired by the Royals for their playoff game 15–7, with the help of Kath- Y. Sun ’04, Dobson, and Cline, Mariners leading 5–3. Carlos Delgado pulled the push. Although the Indians and Anderson wanted to leen Rubritz ’04, who threw one sMITe took the first half 8–7. ball to Olerud’s right to start the possible inning- stay together for their rebuilding process, he has goal and caught two more. MIT continued to lead in the ending double play. Olerud made a clean throw to pitched his way into a pennant race. The depleted In the final game of pool play, second half, but with Stanford second, and Sanchez made a throw a little off the Royals pitching staff desperately needs starters, and sMITe faced Penn State. Meryl R. close behind. Kathy Dobson ’03 mark to first base. Normally this wouldn’t have Anderson fits the mold. del Rosario ’05 kicked off the point blocked Stanford’s best been a problem, but Armando “Lardo” Benitez Honorable Mention: David Riske “Business” of game with a huge layout block, thrower, then took off downfield couldn’t get to the bag in time to catch the throw the Cleveland Indians. Recently named the new clos- which was picked up by Christine for a huck from Sun. Dobson from Sanchez. The Blue Jays took the lead and won er of the Indians, Riske has been perfect in save B. Dobson ’03 and thrown to Yele- punched it into the end zone to the game. opportunities as of late. With a WHIP below one this na Gorlina ’06 for the first goal. Tong to make the score 12–9. The third time was at Fenway on Saturday after- year, Riske has been just what the Indians needed in sMITe took the game 15–7, win- Stanford came back with a four noon. Trot Nixon once again pulled the ball to late-inning pitching situations. ning their pool and earning a first point run to take the lead 13–12. Olerud’s right. Olerud fired the ball to Mark Boner of the Week: David “Big Daddy” Ortiz of round bye for Saturday’s champi- sMITe was getting overheated and McLemore at short who then promptly threw the ball the Boston Red Sox. Having homered in three onship bracket play. exhausted but still fought through away, allowing David Ortiz to score. straight games, Ortiz has joined five other Red Sox to score another point and tie the Pitching and defense are the most important parts in the 20 homer club this season. Ortiz has been on UCSD and Brown eliminated game. Stanford came back with the of a winning team, and recently Seattle has been fire and even recorded his first triple of the season. Saturday’s play began with a next two points to win 15–13. anything but good. After sliding head first into third, Ortiz came up all tough quarterfinals match against sMITe ended their season second smiles because of his accomplishment. I know UCSD. The Texas heat was swel- place in the nation, beating last Jano Awards: you’re quite pleased at your accomplishment. tering, and with the help of Water- year’s third place finish. Hitting: Travis “Half and” Hafner of the Cleve- Honorable Mention: Armando “Retire!” Benitez land Indians. Since his most recent call-up three of the Seattle Mariners. Leave. Go. Get out of here. weeks ago, Hafner has been batting .318 with six Let the door hit you on the way out. Think Happy Thoughts Oza Graduates Early, Resigns from Council Council, from Page 1 scale as the regularly scheduled order direct - NO middlemen! 2007 [council] and UA Senate joke” and is getting an unfair repu- election … and that we run the tation, Yousif said. election pretty much the same way In particular, Yousif said that as the original election on the she was concerned that the council spring,” Bisker said. had not seemed to have been tak- Oza said, “I think that people ing much action during the past are seeing this as a chance to really few months. get involved.” She said that she intends on Yousif said that she hopes that This space donated by The Tech having Vanessa Pena ’04 as her people run for all of the vacant running mate, and that the two positions because “this is the would like the council to consider biggest year where the council hosting events throughout the year, matters.” such as free Kaplan events or monthly career panels that would Oza decides to graduate early focus on a different industry each Oza announced her resignation month. to the council because she decided to graduate a year early. Election planned for this fall She said that she had originally Solomon M. Bisker ’06, chair intended on staying at MIT this of the UA Election Commission, year to work on her Master’s of said that the commission has Engineering degree. However, she agreed, at the request of the UA said that she “decided to defer that and the 2004 class council, to run admission to gain some more an election for the vacant class working experience before coming council seats this fall. back to school.” Although the class constitution Thus, her resignation is unrelat- does not specify who runs special ed to the other resignations or to elections for vacant offices, Bisker the position itself. said that “we agreed to handle the “I simply will not be a regis- election because we understand the tered MIT student this semester,” importance of getting the offices Oza said. filled as quickly and fairly as pos- Oza said planning for the sible and because we’re the group Career Fair seemed like it has been who can best run an election as going very well in spite of the res- close to the original election as ignations of Lin and Gidwani EUN J. LEE—THE TECH possible.” because aside from the council’s Ashlie M. Brown ’07 rides a giant see-saw with Nick J. Maietta ’07 at East Campus’s Red Sector “Our only terms were that we funding, it is a completely differ- A party Monday. run the election on the same time ent set of people.