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The Weather Olde and ge Today: Wann, windy, 67°F (19° ) Tonight: 001, cloudy, 43°F (6°C) e paper Tomorrow: louding up, 50°F (10° ) Details, Page 2 Volume 118 umber 63 Cambridge 02139 Friday December 4 1998 oves e vestiga ·on of By Douglas E. Heimburger have about the night of Krueger's EDITOR I CHIEF death and the events leading up to it. MIT began taking steps to open The letters were sent before an investigation into the death of . Thanksgiving so that Fiji residents Scott S. Krueger '01 last week when could discuss it with their parents, it sent letters to fonner residents of Williams said. She added that stu- Phi Gamma Delta requesting all dents likely would discuss the mat- infonnation about the circumstances ter with their lawyers as well. leading to his death. The Institute is beginning with "We're trying to ascertain what the Commonwealth's statement of information is out there that can the case, which is the only publicly then let us detennine what kind of available information about the investigation we want to proceed case, Williams said. The document, with," said Dean of Students and prepared by Assistant District Undergraduate Education Rosalind Attorney Pamela Weschler, details H. Williams. the state's view of the incidents dur- After Krueger's death, Williams ing the fraternity's "Animal House announced that MIT would not start Night" that led to Krueger's death. an investigation until the end of any While MIT may discuss infor- criminal proceedings on the matter. mation with outside groups such as Fiji lost Institute recognition in the Boston Licensing Board, it is September under an agreement that not doing so at this point. prohibits it from applying for rein- "We have every interest in mov- statement until 2001. ing things along as quickly as we At the same time, Suffolk can," Williams said. A decision on GREG KUHNEN-THE TECH • County District Attorney Ralph C.. whether MIT will proceed with an Dr. Prentice (Fernando J. Palz G) and Mrs. Prentice (Jessica Un '99) engage In a heated brawl Martin II charged the unincorporat- investigation into Krueger's death over the doctor's questionable sexuality In What the Butler Saw. The MIT Theater Arts play runs ed association with one count of through Saturday In Kresge Little Theater. hazing and one count of manslaugh- RJI, Page 15 ter. Those charges were placed in default in October after the fra~erni- ty failed to appear at its arraign- Michael1hIpiano Elected as IFe President ment. All students that lived in Fiji in By Frank Dabek Wednesday's president's council will formally take office in within the group and in the larger October 1997, including freshmen NEWS EDITOR meeting, along with the rest of the February. Trupiano is a member of Institute community. Trupiano said arid those who have graduated, have Michael Trupiano '00 was council's nine officers. Lambda Chi Alpha. that the IFC has an important role to been asked to supply the Dean's elected the ~ew Interfraternity Trup~ano, who was elected During his tenure as president, play in the greater MIT community. Office with any information they Council president at its unanimously after Christopher R. Trupiano expects to focus on the Outgoing IFe president Duane Rezek '99 declined his nomination IFC's response to President Charles H. Dreger '99 said that, "I'm quite at the meeting, said that was he was M. Vest's decision to house all pleased with [tlie new officers.] excited about his new post and was freshmen on campus in 2001. Mike has been doing quite a bit of "looking forward to working with Within the IFC he hopes to increase work with the "IFC implementation the group and the administration in "IFC pride and unity" by "fostering the coming year." All those elected a sense of pride and community" IFC, Page 14 Campus Police Meet with Students At Burton-Connor for Social Event By Karen Robinson how the new alcohol policies are do not act as security guards, but STAFF REPORTER affecting policing. Officers said the actively serve and protect the MIT Last night, roughly 30 students changes are administrative, and community. gathered in the Burton-Conner din- police aren't doing anything differ- Baratta emphasized that MIT is ing room to enjoy pizza and meet ently. an unusually diverse place to campus police officers, including Campus police are all trained as work, and this directly affects how the new patrol operations captain, emergency medical technicians, and students and police interact. Some CP Paul Baratta. when called in a medical situation students from rural areas may con- Hopefully, this will "bring the this is their first duty. There are con- sider police firearms too authorita- campus pollee back into the com- fidentiality laws in medical situa- tive; some come from countries munity, more like a neighborhood tions, so often the officer does not where police are simply best cop," said Halston W. Taylor, immediately "go back to being a feared; some students just don't housemaster of Burton-Conner who cop." Officers mentioned that they like 'em. was responsible for organizing the should actually see students drink- Students affirmed that this ses- event. ing to act as police, but of course, sion makes CP's seem more like Anne P. Glavin, chief of Campus this, like all aspects of the jo.b, people "cheesy as that sounds" Police was scheduled to attend but varies with the situation. Jennifer L. Cooper '02 said she did not. The several officers who Baratta and other officers plead- trusts them more now. "You can were present at the event agreed that ed with students not to worry about walk through campus, you recog- meeting students in an informal punishment when calling for help nize them, say hi to them, they say environment is beneficial. " with possible alcohol poisoning, hi to you - it's good to know the Generally when officers and stu- emphasizing that staying alive is CP's." dents.meet the student is asking for more important. In response to a question about directions, is reporting a problem, or firearms, Baratta said that 99 per- has a complaint, explained officer Event weakens stereotypes cent of the people at MIT are basi- GREG KUHNEN-THE TECH Jan Popp. Informal meetings, there- Baratta also expressed concern cally good, law-abiding citizens. Dr. Rance (Jeremy Lueck '99) grins maniacally as he rants fore, serve as a good way for offi- that police are seen as thinking, "But that one percent, they'll hurt about pornography in What the Butler Saw. cers to get student input, he said. '''We're gonna get one tonight!,'" you." One reourring topic at the event - which is far from how they was alcohol: students wondered approach their job. Campus police Police, Page 13 Three university presidents earn Comics THE ARTS World & Nation 2 over $500,000 annually; Vest Assassins: The music of Opinion .4 ranks second in salary and bene- Sondheim comes to life in the Arts 6 fits at MIT. hands of a skillful cast. On The Town 8 TechCalendar 12 Page 13 Page 10 Page 6 Sports 16 ./ Page 2 December 4, 1998 THE WASHI GTON POST WASHlNGTO The Clinton administration scored a sizeable victory Thur day in it battle to limit the use of data-scrambling technology abroad By Richard A. Serrano obstructing justice in attempting to Hyde decision to scrap the fund- 4 when the United State and 32 other nation agreed to a frame- and Edwin Chen conceal his affair with Monica . raising inquiry. "It was obviously work that would restrict exports of sucl'\ technology from their WS ANGELES TIMES Lewinsky. just a bone that he was throwing to WASH GTO countries. "We will work with other com- his extremists in the committee." The agreement calls for governments to let companie include The House Judiciary Committee mittees of the House to get to the The White House is to present more complex scrambling, or "encryption," technology in the abruptly dropped plans on bottom of these lingering charges," its case on Tuesday, and Clinton's packaged software products they export than do current U.S. regu- Thursday to include campaign Hyde pledged. "We are far from lawyers have said that they may lations. As a result, U.S. industry spokesmen and privacy advo- financing in its impeachment atisfied that existing campaign call their own witnesses. The com- cates Thur day said that the administration' claim of benefit to inquiry with the panel' chairman finance laws have not been violat- mittee directed the White House the U.S. industry would not ring true until the U.S. policies are declarIng that there is "more than ed." Thursday to submit its witness list 100 ened. adequate" information in the He added that campaign fund Friday, adding tharthe Republican- Industry ha argued that such restrictions only hurt U.S. compa- Clinton-Lewin ky matter to merit a raising will be a "top oversight pri- led committee will determine nie and don't low terrorists, who could get the crambling technolo- continued push toward impeach- ority" in the new Congress that con- which witnesses are allowed to tes- gy from other countrie . Slowing use of encryption will hold up ment. venes in January. tify. development of Internet commerce, they ay, because customers want In addition, the Senate majority "In the meantime," he wrote, After the White House presenta- to know that such personal data such as credit card numbers can flow leader gave hi first indication that "we feel that there is more than ade- tion, lawyers for both sides of the over the network securely.