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Volume 119, Number 20 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, April 15, 1999 Zhu Speaks to Kresge Audience ..' On Sino-American Relationship " By Kevin R. Lang noting that the total U.S. deficit with are more than $30 billion apart. ASSOCIA TE NEWS EDITOR all nations was less than $200 bil- "I'm not trying to comment on On the final day of his six-city lion last year. While this figure may which number is the more accu- U.S. tour, Premier Zhu Rongji of the seem large, Zhu said, it amounts to rate," Zhu said. Zhu discussed a People's Republic of China dis- less than two percent of the U. S. Stanford University study which cussed trade relations and education- Gross National Product. "This is found that both nations use incon- al cooperation between the United very common in many countries," sistent methods regarding shipping States and China before a full-capac- Zhu said, speaking with simultane- and insurance on imports and ity Kresge Auditorium audience, ous English translation. "This is not exports, and that neither accounts Wednesday. such a serious problem." for value added in Hong Kong to Much of Zhu's address focused Chinese products. The actual U.S. M on Sino-American trade relations, Trade deficit values inconsistent trade deficit is most likely around notably the substantial U.S. trade Zhu also noted that U.S. and $36 billion, Zhu said. deficit. Zhu downplayed the issue, Chinese figures regarding the deficit Zhu attributed the deficit less to prohibitive trade regulations than to changes in the U.S. manufacturing scene over the past few decades. Chinese exports to the United States j. Secretary of Energy are primarily labor-intensive con- sumer goods which are no longer produced elsewhere, Zhu said. "This Tours Bates Lab type of import has absolutely no competition in the U.S. market," Zhu said. "These consumer goods - you wouldn't be able to find any- one to manufacture them in the United States." As labor costs increased in other nations, Zhu said, manufacturing shifted to China. Thus, while the U.S. trade deficit with China increased, it decreased proportion- GARRY R. MASKALY-TIIE TECII Chinese Premier Zhu RongJl addressed a packed Kresge Auditorium Zhu, Page 16 on Wednesday, wrapping up his nlne-day visit to the United States. LCSAnnounces New Building, Project The time capsule, designed by Gehry is designing the Gates By Jennifer Chung Frank O. Gehry, architect for the Building. The internal layout of the and May K. Tse Stata Center, will be opened in time building has not yet been deter- STAFF REPORTERS for the 70th anniversary of LCS in mined. The MIT Laboratory for 2033 - unless the cryptographic Computer Science celebrated its puzzle associated with it and LCS, Page 17 35th anniversary this week in a designed by Associate SIIAO-FEI MOY-THE TECH three-day celebration that culminat- LCS Director Ronald L. u.s. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson expresses his support ed Tuesday with the announcements Rivest is solved in less for Bates Laboratory In a visit to the facility Tuesday. of a $20 million donation and a than the 35 years the major new project. solution is designed to By Shao-Fel Moy Microsoft CEO Bill Gates pre- take. The capsule con- SPORTS EDITOR sented the donation on behalf of tains reference to such United States Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson offered his himself and his wife Melinda for the innovations as Project support to the researchers and employees of the MIT Bates Linear William H. Gates III Foundation. Athena, RSA Public-Key Accelerator Center in Middleton, Mass. during his visit Tuesday. The donation will be used to create Cryptography, x- This marks the first ever appearance by an energy secretary to Bates a new "home of LCS", to be named Windows, and Zork, the Lab. the William H. Gates building and earliest interactive PC Richardson's visit began with a meeting with ten researchers from to be part of the Stata Center for game. across the country representing Bates. During the meeting, the Computer, Information and researchers expressed their appreciation for the Energy Secretary's Intelligence Sciences. New Gates building work in amending the budget which originally had Bates heading for With the research project, The Gates Building a "cold shutdown" at the end of the year. Each of the ten representa- dubbed Oxygen, LCS plans to cre- will be situated where tives stressed the importance of Bates in the research they have done ate and use the support of existing Building 20 used to and will continue to do at the facilities. research to better tackle such issues stand, "in the middle of Bates Lab, which is operated by the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear as speech recognition and better campus, where LCS Science for the Department of Energy, is a national user facility and worldwide communication, belongs," said President has been a center for world-class experiments in nuclear physics for enabling technology to truly become Charles M. Vest. 25 years. Over 200 physicists from 52 institutions are actively utiliz- more user-friendly. "MIT is entering the in'g the Bates' facilities; about 120 Ph.D. students have been educat- Other events during the festivi- greatest change since the ed and trained at the lab. ties included the sealing of the LCS post-World War II era," In President Bill Clinton's fiscal year 2000 budget released on Time Capsule of Innovations and Vest said. "LCS is at the ANNIE S. CliO/-TilE TECH February 1, 1999, Bates' allocation would have been reduced from keynote speeches by Gates and heart of all of this." In presentations by LCS graduate students, Principal Research Scientist Tim As with the rest of the Michael Bosse G Introduces Argus, a city ", Richardson, Page 29 Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Stata complex, architect scanning device which captures Images Wide Web. from its surroundings to create 3-D models.

..' .'.-"f"--" --.J!.., Protesters and '., .. '~.,."~;~.,- ...... ~ ","', '-. ~.~ . Comics MIT administrators meet with World & Nation 2 supporters ': .. students to discuss graduate Opinion .4 ~ ",' "". ~J alike greet housing issues. r Arts 6 t'"'". .. ~. , ~~, I: ..'f -.>,. t _, ". ,- .; , ,p' VI" , Chinese On The Town 11 , ~,' Premier. Police Log 22 ~ Page16 Page 12 Page 19 Sports 32 P~age "'°2" ...1... 'I"UIi ~ 1I.• )t II "" WORLD & NATION Study Finds Controversial Cancer Lawmakers Express Worries Treatment Yields No Clear Benefit TilE U:-lSIfINGTON PUST A controversial treatment for breast cancer advocated by many Over U.S. Balkan Campaign ~I patients and questioned by many insurance companies opposed to paying for it appears to be no better than conventional therapy for the By Bradley Graham officials to work out details of an NATO attacks should have hit hard- disease, according to the results of the first large studies testing it. and Guy Gugliotta emergency spending proposal that er from the first day and expressed The treatment involves giving near-lethal doses of chemotherapy TIlE WASIfINGTON POST some said will be close to $6 billion disbelief that the administration had drugs and then "rescuing" patients with transplants of bone marrow WASHINGTON through Sept. 30. not started planning for a ground to restore their immune systems. Although rare compared to other In grave exchanges notable for Senate Republican leaders hope war in Kosovo. "Limited actions breast cancer treatments, this one has become a major rallying point their lack of partisan polemics, Congress will pass the emergency beget limited results," said the sena- -!- for advocacy groups and critics of the newfound power of health Congress and the Clinton adminis- proposal by the end of next week, tor, who is seeking the Republican insurance companies to determine what constitutes appropriate care. tration Thursday began testing each and House Speaker Dennis Hastert presidential nomination. He and In five studies whose preliminary results were unveiled Thursday, other's resolve in escalating what (R-Ill.) promised a full-scale debate others pressed for a commitment for ... women getting the treatment showed no clear benefit when compared both sides agreed could be a pro- on the future in Kosovo. Thursday's at least the start of detailed planning to women receiving more standard doses of cancer-killing drugs. longed, expensive and potentially hearings marked the administra- for ground forces While few people expected the studies would settle the issue, the deadly intervention in the Balkans. tion's first public appearances in But Cohen and Shelton opposed results were intensely anticipated by cancer patients, physicians, For hours in Senate and House Congress to detailing the course of the idea. They voiced concern that .\!, advocacy groups and insurance executives. Results will be presented hearings, Secretary of State the war since the bombing cam- any move to consider a ground at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology next Madeleine Albright, Defense paign began March 24. option could stir divisive debate in month. Secretary William Cohen and Gen. "We are involved in a limited and the United States and Europe, \. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the political war of incremental gradual- undercutting political support even Joint Chiefs of Staff, listened to ism," complained Sen. Pat Roberts for the air campaign. Shelton said Many Algerian Voters Stay Home worried lawmakers voice their anxi- (R-Kan.) at an Armed Services NATO military commanders had THE WASIfINGTON POST eties about the current air war over Committee session, echoing the frus- been specifically ordered by the "\0 ALGIERS, ALGERIA Yugoslavia and their misgivings trations of many members about the alliance's political body, the North Algerian voters stayed home in droves Thursday as lone presiden- about what the future may hold. course of the battle so far. "It's what Atlantic Council, not to draw up tial candidate Abdelaziz Bouteflika coasted toward what one Algiers It was clear that neither party has I call the immaculate coercion. It's plans for ground forces, although he newspaper headline called "victory by default." reached a consensus about whether called casualty avoidance." added that alliance planners were ,,' Algeria's first presidential election in four years lay in tatters fol- to send U.S. ground troops to drive Cohen acknowledged that the updating an "assessment" done last lowing Wednesday's last-minute decision by all six of Bouteflika's Serb forces from the ethnic United States would have done summer on the rough number of opponents to end their candidacies. Albanian enclave of Kosovo. It was "things differently" in managing the troops it would take to seize Kosovo ~ Just days ago, the election had been seen both here and abroad as equally clear, however, that many fight if not for the need to maintain or all of Yugoslavia by force. a promising democratic opening in the authoritarian North African lawmakers are growing hawkish unanimous support within the 19- The Pentagon leaders urged law- state - and a possible turning point in the bloody civil war between about the need to win NATO's war member NATO alliance. But he makers to be patient with the air Islamic militants and government security forces that has killed an in the Balkans. recaJled there was no political sup- campaign, which they said would .. estimated 75,000 people since 1992. Winning will be expensive, how- port in the United States for acting intensify. Shelton told the senators The six candidates quit the race charging fraud by the military- ever, and top congressional appro- unilaterally. that "in the next few days," attacks backed government of outgoing President Liamine Zeroual. They priators huddled with administration Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said would be carried out." accused the government of ballot-stuffing and other irregularities designed to plump Bouteflika's totals enough to preclude a runoff election he couldn't be sure of winning. German Chancellor Schroeder FCC Requires Phone Companies to Clarify Monthly Billing Statements LOS ANGEl.ES TIMES Works for Russian Cooperation · WASHINGTON By Carol J. Williams The appointment of his forces from Kosovo. Moving to unravel phone bills that have confused and - some and Maura Reynolds Chernomyrdin, who enjoyed cordial "Only in this order would it be critics say - misled consumers for decades, federal regulators on LOS ANGELES TIMES ties with Western leaders during his possible for NATO to suspend mili- Thursday issued rules requiring telephone companies to clarify their BERLIN five years as prime minister, sig- tary measures and open the way for monthly charges. The adoption of so-caJled "Truth-in-Billing" rules Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder naled a change in strategy by a political solution," Schroeder reit- by the Federal Communications Commission is aimed at helping con- appeared Thursday to have won Russia, and Chernomyrdin con- erated Thursday in a speech to par- ., sumers spot fraudulent charges. Russia's cooperation in the search firmed the new tone Thursday by liament in Bonn. With long-distance carriers battling for customers, and with the for peace in the Balkans, with swiftly embracing Schroeder's pro- German Foreign Minister rise of calling cards and other services submitted directly to carriers Moscow's newly appointed envoy posal. Joschka Fischer, chief architect of for collection rather than customers, there has been an explosion of in the Yugoslav crisis signaling "The initiative put forward by the plan that sources in his office }\- complaints about charges for phone services that were never ordered. interest in a German peace proposal. Germany is worth supporting," say was drawn up in consultation The FCC said it received about 30,000 such consumer complaints last Schroeder's plan seeks to mend Chernomyrdin said after meeting with NATO allies, also clarified that year. Another 60,000 telephone subscribers contacted the FCC last fences - gingerly - with Russia with the German ambassador to Milosevic would have to pull out its ,. year with questions about their phone bills. without weakening NATO terms for Russia. "The idea of stopping hostil- troops from Kosovo "in a verifiable The consumer uproar over having long-distance service switched an end to airstrikes, which Russia ities for 24 hours and taking this manner" for NATO to consider a or being charged for an unrequested service has focused new atten- has vehemently opposed. Schroeder time to find points of agreement ... I halt to the bombing, which began tion on how poorly organized phone bills have remained for con- said his government is already in think all of this deserves attention." March 24. sumers, while competition has forced phone companies to give busi- close contact with Russian leaders Schroeder has made clear that The six-point German proposal nesses their bills in formats - ranging from elaborate printouts to and hopes for a visit "very soon" by the proposed suspension of met with little enthusiasm in CD-ROMs or computer floppy disks. Moscow's special ambassador for airstrikes could start only after Washington and at NATO head- I Yugoslavia, Viktor S. Yugoslav President Slobodan quarters in Brussels, Belgium, when ~1 Chernomyrdin. Milosevic had begun withdrawing it was unveiled Wednesday. I

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A Day Later, NATO Admits to Reno Calls for Improved Relations .1 Between Police, Citizens

LOS ANGELES TIMES Bombing of a Civilian Vehicle WASHINGTON By John-Thor Dahlburg infrared sensors. He made repeated occur? How did NATO's account of In her strongest and most emotional language to date on the sub- and Joel Havemann passes over it. Then he let loose a the accidental bombing of a single ject, Attorney General Janet Reno on Thursday decried the worsening LOS ANGELES TIMES 1,000-pound laser-guided bomb. vehicle on a dirt road square with tensions across the United States between police and many of the , ~ \ BRUSSELS, BELGIUM He hit a civilian vehicle, NATO the video shown on Yugoslav tele- people they are charged with protecting, and she urged a redoubled From 15,000 feet, the U.S. Air admitted Thursday, a day after the vision of many bodies and wrecked effort to confront the problem. Force pilot looked down from his F- attack. tractors and trucks on a long stretch "For too many people, especially in minority communities, the /J 16 cockpit on the struggling The U.S. fighter pilot also set off of paved road? NATO officials trust that is so essential to effective policing does not exist because columns of refugees and the flaming the most serious crisis of confidence shrugged and promised more residents believe that police have used excessive force, that law desolation that blotted the Kosovo in NATO's three-week-old air war answers Friday. enforcement is too aggressive, that law enforcement is biased, disre- landscape ~ the very definition of to stop Yugoslav President "What the Serbs are showing is spectful and unfair," Reno said in a speech to the National Press Club. ; "ethnic cleansing." Slobodan Milosevic's apparent not what we are saying," said Col. The sharp words from Reno, the nation's highest-ranking law- At the end of a string of burning campaign of driving all the 1.8 mil- Konrad Freytag, a NATO military enforcement officer and a longtime supporter of local police, came on villages and houses, the pilot said lion ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. spokesman. the same day that thousands of New York City demonstrators protest- later, he spotted what he'thought NATO scrambled Thursday to Around 1 p.m. Wednesday, the ed high-profile police attacks on two immigrants. While the timing ~. were three military trucks. "I'm explain what had gone wrong - pilot told his debriefers, he lingered was a coincidence, Justice Department officials said the rising ten- convinced now that's-the (Yugoslav providing reporters with a tape of over the town of Djakovica, where sions in New York helped trigger Reno's call-to-action on the issue army and police) forces working' the unidentified pilot's debriefing he spotted what he thought was a of police conduct. " their way down ... and they're was part of that effort - but its convoy of ethnic Albanians driven Reno said her heart goes out to the family of New Yorker preparing to set this next house on account raised as many questions as from their homes by the Serbs and Amadou DiaIlo, an unarmed man shot 19 times by officers as he , fire." it answered. clogging the road to the west of the stood in the doorway of his apartment building one February evening. He verified his target with Exactly where did the attack town. - But Reno warned that the problem was broader than Diallo's killing. Astronomers Discover A Second Pinochet Extradition Proceedings Move Fonvard LOS ANGELES TIMES Multi.Planet System ,in Milky Way CURACAUTIN. CHILE • By Kathy Sawyer in San Francisco by two indepen- writers are right to depict their char- Imagine him as the defendant on the first day of trial: Gen . THE WASHINGTON POST dent teams from four institutions acters hopping from planet to planet Augusto Pinochet, senator-for-life and former dictator of Chile, Elated astronomers Thursday who confirmed each other's conclu- throughout the galaxy, "like a bum- accused of the torture-murder of Marcos Quezada Yanez, a 17-year- announced the discovery of the first sions using different equipment. ble bee going from daisy to daisy," old student, in this melancholy rural town., ,- Imulti-planet system ever found The discovery "implies that said Geoffrey Marcy, who led Although Britain's interior minister decided Thursday to permit . around a normal star other than our planets can form more easily than Fischer's team. extradition proceedings to go forward, the vagaries of law and fate own, moving civilization a step we ever imagined, and that our "We are witnessing, I think, the have already determined that Pinochet will not be tried for the most • closer to its.ancient quest for kin- Milky Way is teeming with plane- emergence of a new era of human notorious crimes of his 17-year regime: car-bomb assassinations by dred havens where life might have tary systems;" said astronomer exploration," Marcy said. The new- his spies in foreign capitals, massacres in his concentration camps. arisen. Debr~ Fischer of San Francisco found solar system, following a A judicial panel of Britain's House of Lords ruled last month that The signal of three orbiting State University, a member of one trend set by the single stars dete<;:ted Pinochet faces extradition to Spain only for offenses covered by an ...'worlds e~erged from 11 years of discovery team. ' around sunlike stars in recent years, international law against torture ratified in 1988, the year before he telescope observations of the star "This is the one we've all been exhibits orbital oddities and other stepped down. The Law Lords eliminated all charges except two Upsilon Andromedae, which is waiting for," said Stephen Maran, a unexpected properties that raise alleging conspiracy to torture and a third based on the death June 24, , bright enough to se~.with the naked spokesman for the American "profound questions" about where 1989, of Quezada, a pro-democracy activist, in a police lockup here. eye and is located a relatively close Astronomical Society. we fit in, he said, and whether our It is poetic justice,' Pinochet's foes say, that he could be brought 44 light years (about 264 trillion "Astronomers' hearts are in their solar system may be "the result of down by an obscure crime committed at a time when he had agreed miles) from Earth in the dir~ction of throats." some cosmic quirk of nature." The to relinquish power and in a place in the verdant, slow-moving south .. the constellation Andromeda. The The discovery provides the "first new solar system does not appear of Chile that had largely avoided state terror. findings were announced Thursday .clear evidence" that science fiction hospitable to life.

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- - - - .. - - - - ., .. '" - .. - - -- .. Page 4 THE TECH April 16, .1999 OPINION Letters To The Editor Being Cautious any contentious issue, it is important that each Omnifield for all official uses has created side understands the views of the other. a major disruptance to the intramural soft- With China Otherwise, there is the possibility that any ball season. conflict of ideas may escalate into hostility Those of us who have played intramural, 'I Chairman I am writing in response to the article by and violence. varsity, and club games on the turf have all Josh Sittker '99 Jonathan Richmond PhD '91 ["Questioning Tzu-Mainn Chen '99 known for a .long time that the turf would Editor in Chief the Premier," Apri I 13]. While I certainly need to be replaced sooner rather than later. ' Zareena Hussain '00 agree that China has several human rights Surely the Athletic Department and the MIT Business ManaJ$er issues that the government should address, I The Real administration must have known this as Joey DieckhansOO strongly disagree with the tone that Richmond well. The Athletic Department's approach uses. to repairing the turf, however, only seemed .... l\'lanaging Editor China is an emerging superpower, and to Enemies of China to postpone the inevitable, forcing the clo- Ryan Ochylski '0 I treat it with the disrespect implicit in Qiutao Wang G and Xiaobo Li G should sure of the Omnifield at an inopportune Executive Editor Richmond's article is not only impolite; it be ashamed of themselves. In their response to moment. Douglas E. Heimburger '00 may be dangerous. Fostering an atmosphere Kris Schnee '02 ["A Warm Welcome for Athletics are an important part of the qual- of hostility between the United States and. Premier Zhu," April 13], they label him a ity of life at MIT, but field space for games NEWS Sf IFF China will not accomplish anything besides xenophobe for daring to criticize the -like softball, ultimate, and football is in Editors: Frank Dabek '00, Susan creating an environment in which b01h coun- Communist mainland Chinese government.' extremely short supply. Briggs Field has '",. Buchman '01, Jennifer Chung '01, Krista tries may find it difficult to conduct negotia- What is xenophobic about criticizing a gov- never been in great shape either. I cannot L. Niece '0 I; Associate Editors: Rima tions in the future. The events of the past few ernment that engages in widespread repres- overstate the importance .of athletics to the Amaout '02, Sanjay Basu '02, Neena S. years, such as the Chinese test-firing of a mis- sion of independeI.1t speech by way of coer- well-being of the student body at MIT;' on a I. Kadaba '02, Kristen Landino '02, Kevin R. sile over Taiwan, make it clear that the United cion, violence, and murder? On the contrary, campus where many students might consider Lang '02, Karen E. Robinson '02; Staff: States will have to handle China with careful strong opposition to Premier Zhu and the gov- Starcraft to be a sport, we should be encour- Eric Sit '99, Erik Snowberg '99, Anna K. diplomacy, not angry rhetoric. emment that he is a part of is a powerful mes- aged to be more physically active. Yet the Benefiel '00, Adam Brown '00, Dudley In order to solve our differences with sage of support for the citizens of mainland opposite seems to. be true here; those of us ... Lamming '00, Katie Jeffreys '0 I, Laura McGrath Moulton '0 I, Jane Yoo '0 I, China, it is important that the United States China. Who are the real enemies of the mil- who do want. to play team sports are ofte~ Gitrada Arjara '02, Steve Hoberman '02, make an effort to understand why the Chinese lions of citizens under mainland China's rule? frustrated by a lack offield space. - _ Alex lanculescu '02, Payal Kohli '02, Priya government takes the stances that it does. For Are they the people who criticize coercion The lack of field space on campus, and Prahalad '02, Michael M. Torrice '02; example, my understanding is that China and violence or people like Wang and Li who the resulting disruption to varsity and intra- " Meteorologists: Michael C. Morgan PhD '95, views Taiwan much as the North viewed the support and comfort the oppressors of Chinese mural sports, is yet another testament to the Greg Lawson G, Bill Ramstrom G, Gerard South during the Civil War - as a rebellious citizens? administration's confused priorities and lack Roe G, Chris E. Forest, Marek Zebrowski. territory that needed to be reclaimed in order David S. Kelman '99 of concern for qualit.y-of-life issues at MIT ~ to preserve the integrity of the country. when not under medIa pressure. That a new PRO/JUCTlO.v STAFF This view of Taiwan is not one with which undergraduate dorm can be built when there Editor: Brett Altschul '99; Associate I necessarily agree; however, it is one that the is already enough hOll:sing on campus for all Editors: Ian Lai '02, Agnes Borszeki; Staff: United States needs to comprehend in order to Focus on undergraduates who want it, while there or Erica S. Pfister '00. create a successful dialogue between coun- isn't enough field space for existing intra- OPISIO,V STAFF tries. AtWetics Needed' murals, is unexplainable. Editors: Michael J. Ring '01, Naveen In general, I believe that in order to resolve The recent closure of the turf Bill Schneider G Sunkavally '0 I; Columnists: Julia C. \.. Lipman '99, Eric J. Plosky '99, Elaine Y. Wan '01, Veena Thomas '02, Kris Schnee '02; Staff: Wesley T. Chan '00, Dawen Choy '00, Seth Bisen-Hersh '01, Andrew J. Kim '01.

SPORTS STAFF Editor: Shao-Fei Moy '98 . . ~ ARTS STAFF Editors: Joel M. Rosenberg '99, Satwiksai Seshasai '0 I; Associate Editors: Vladimir V. Zelevinsky '95, Bence P. Olveczky G; Staff: Daniel Metz G, Steven R. L. Millman G, Roy Rodenstein G, Teresa Huang '97, David V. Rodriguez '97, Mark Huang '99, Kate Samrandvedhya '00, Francisco Delatorre '0 I, Fred Choi '02, Daniel J. Katz. SAY " PI/O TOGRA PI/Y STAFF Editors: Gregory F. Kuhnen '00, Rebecca 'IT . Loh '01, Annie S. Choi; Associate Editors: Garry R. Maskaly '00, Karlene Rosera '00, AIN'T Ajai Bharadwaj '0 I; Staff: Rich Fletcher G, Aaron Isaksen G, Wan Yusof Wan SO. Morshidi G, Thomas E. Murphy G, Michelle Povinelli G, Arifur Rahman G, T. Luke Young G, Krzysztof Gajos '99, ',- Connie C. Lu '00, Chun Hua Zheng '00, Ying Lee '0 I, Rebecca Hitchcock '02, Angela Piau '02, Yi Xie '02, Lucy Yang '02, Miodrag CirkoviC.

FEA TVRES STAFF Cartoonists: Jessica Wu '99, Jennifer Dimase '01, Xixi D'Moon '01; Staff: J. Shawdee Eshghi '99, Jean K. Lee '99, Andrew J. Maywah '99 Aaron D. Mihalik '02.

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I r ' •• ,._ • r t , _ • \ ~." r .. _ .. :'~ r "I ..., , •• Il t ... " r .. ,. ' .... '" OPINION "TilE tEcH Page ~5 Let the MIT's Willing Accomplices ;I ing three "recent successful events," one of way that rush impressions are generally super- Joel~.ltosenberg which was the Alpha Phi invite-only, ego-feed- ficial, but only worse now because there's no Rush Begin ing Crush Party - a real community builder. substance behind the fa.;ade. And soon MIT At the Democracy Teach-Ins, Mike Albert Corresponding to the start of CPW, the won't even be able to use the houses in this '69 told how he first became politicized. He ILTFP (I Love This F---ing Place) campaign exploitative way because there will be no Veena Thomas learned after being initiated to Alpha Epsilon organized a "Tool-In" last Thursday, at which incentive for houses to woo prefrosh to cam- Pi that they wiretapped the phones during rush 75 people showed up to multitask homework pus if they'll have a whole year to woo fresh- Last weekend was the best in recent mem- to get better info on the freshmen, and that he and protest by tooling outside President men to their houses. If the administration con- ory. Not coincidentally, it was also Campus had been the "victim" of such practices. At Charles M. Vest's office. Vest had the audaci- tinues ignoring the wants of students while Preview Weekend. A tremendous amount of the time he learned of this he had invested too ty to claim "in my view we have actually patronizingly saying "you should've come to /, work went into planning this weekend to much to care about this violation of his rights. rather dramatically increased our outreach to that meeting," how many people are going to ensure that all the little prefroshlings would It wasn't until his sophomore rush that the students on issues," citing many open meet- keep lying about how great this place is? Why have a great time and choose to come here. magnitude of the transgression sank in, and he ings and "a year of very active debate" about would you encourage someone to waste their ~ CPW is a good time for all, even those who then proceeded to wait outside AEPi warning alcohol policies. The Tool-In showed students college experience here? already study here. entering freshmen about the house's shady are so pressed for time they have to do work At the Tool-In Chancellor Lawrence S. Actually, let me clarify something. For practices. Half the house wanted to kill him, even while protesting. The orange ribbon Bacow '72 refuted the claim that the Institute those who didn't notice, this past weekend and the other half wanted to not only let him campaign itself is a "no-time-commitment changes "according to media coverage and p' was not CPW, it was rush. How else can you live but keep him in' the house. One point of way" of demonstrating. legal standing," but also said, "The outside explain the proliferation of fraternity letters on this story is how indoctrination can make you On Friday, to check out the current state of world lumps everyone together. We can't Friday, and the abundance of frat parties over accepting of just about anything. Another partying, I went over to Delta Tau Delta, and change that, that's reality." The question is, the weekend? Even the dorms joined in. The point is how once you become a maverick, the indeed it seemed like an incredible replica of why should we give a shit about the outside ,', excuse was that potential freshmen should be powers that be either want to appease you or parties of yesteryear. Upon entering my glass- world? What do they know about how differ- aware of their living options.' Although the eliminate you. But one of the most interesting es fogged up; the dance floor was packed; the ent all of MIT's living groups are, dorms st.udents hadn't decided to matriculate yet, points for MIT is how incredibly dirty rush is. stairs were streaming with people; everybody included? What do they know of the workload . why did 1 feel like it was RIO? Because 1 had This past weekend was Campus Preview seemed to be having fun - good clean fun. I we endure? Why has MIT done almost noth- that much fun. Weekend. It used to be Women and Minorities ran into a friend and asked him what he ing outside of the Infinite Buffet to build com- The day the prefrosh arrived, 1 was struck Weekend, but MIT now has decided to put on thought of the party. Like myself, he missed munity, instead choosing to inject the compet- by both the beautiful weather and change in the pony show for all prospective students. All the not-so-clean fun, and cut the conversation itive nature of rush to pre-frosh weekend? ;, • the atmosphere. Walking back from class, 1 last week I heard complaints from friends in short to go keep tabs on his prefrosh, since Ask yourself how many of next year's encountered one dorm and one frat playing houses about the cleaning -and preparation they after all, my friend wasn't from Delts, and this freshmen, sophomores, and juniors will know dance music. Far from a nuisance, it enlivened had to do for CPW, since it's essentially spring was enemy rush territory. My friend wasn't the freedom with responsibility that used to be the campus. Although it was Thursday, 1 prac- rush. I heard a rumor that professors had been enjoying the party, and neither was I. So who given to undergraduates here. Ask yourself tically danced back to my room, feeling' lucky told to ease up on work for the week. And was this party for? whether this place is so perfect that it needs no to be a carefree college studen~. when The Tech wouldn't allow the MIT places a large burden on the houses improvement. Ask yourself how you would My prefrosh also provided we)come Interfraternity Council to publish propaganda by expanding prefro.sh weekend to include feel if you left here last weekend convinced to lY • change. Her high school innocence suddenly as a news article, the IFC took out a full-page guys. The houses treat the weekend like come here based on what you were shown. threw my weary college mentality into harsh news-style advertisement, telling how "parties spring rush and compete trying to impress Bacow said, "Circumstances can change." silhouette. When 1 casually mentioned some- . are returning to the way things used to be," cit- prefrosh. The impression is false, the same It's time to change the circumstances. thing about how a friend might sleep in • through her first class my prefrosh looked shocked. "How can she do that?" "Well, it's easy," 1 replied, ''you just sleep Historical Perspective and Commencement " ' through your first class and go to your second times? Well, probably. Even more than gradu- Gray remarked on the campus culture wars class." Julia C" Lipman ates at other schools, MIT graduates need to dividing academia in 1995. And in 1996, Al "But don't you need to go to your first understand their work in a sociopolitical con- Gore talked about a "schism between science class?" asked the innocent high school stu- Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99: text. Technology with no regard to public pol- and the rest of society," something we would • dent. Hmm. Yes, you need to go to your first Keep some historical perspective. If I icy can be very destructive. Yet we seem to be do well to think about with regards to this class. There was no way 1 could justify this could only offer you one tip for the future, this moving away from such an understanding. year's commencement. Politicians are natural one. What had happened? Why did the would be it. The long-term benefits of histori- For example, Technology Review, a magazine choices because of their speechmaking and thought of someone skipping her first class no cal perspective have be~n proven by generals once devoted to examining scientific issues in history-making ability, but they are by no .. ;longer bother me? 1 must have entered MIT and world leaders. Sadly, MIT doesn't seem relation to public policy, has become a Wired means the only people who can discuss cultur- ,mUCh as she did, wide-eyed and-innocent. In to see it that way, as evidenced by this year's clone in looks and, in the words of one reader, al issues with intelligence and gravity, as Gray ,the words of Soul Asylum, "How on earth did choice of commencement speaker. "a cheerleader for innovation" in content. The and David Ho, who discussed research fund- . , 11 get so jaded?" The choice of a commencement speaker choice of "Click and Clack" is one more indi- ing and immigration, show. However, making We made quite a pair, her, the fresh-faced makes a statement. This year, the statement is cation that we're losing perspective. or a~alyzin'g history in some way makes a high scho.ol student, and me, the hardened, that MIT is sick of politics, that its students But politicians don't really understand tech- speaker much better at discussing it. I cynical one. 1 tried to keep her entertained, just want to be entertained and remain oblivi- nology, right? I mean, is that a blink tag I see on Last year might have been a good year for -....'and it didn't take much. She loved just being ous to world affairs. The selection of brothers Jesse Helms' home page? Why should we have "Click and Clack" if there ever was one. With at college and doing everything. All the pre- Thomas L. Magliozzi '58 and Raymond F. a Commencement speaker who has no idea much of the country on Monica overload and frosh received an incredible list of weekend Magliozzi '72, also known as "Click and what we do at MIT? Actually, there are many few substantial history-making events in the activities. There were two plays, the MIT Clack" of National Public Radio's Car Talk, political ~gures whose grasp of scientific issues news other than impeachment, the history- t. Ballroom Dance Team competition, more par- was explained by pointing out that many goes beyond the rudimentary. An excellent engaging aspects may have been less impor- ties than 1 could count. And Alan Lightman, seniors specifically said they didn't want any choice for commencement speaker would have tant to a Commencement speech than at other who wrote one of my absolute favorite books, politicians. While that's a perfectly under- been the statesmenlike Senator Patrick Leahy of times. But these are serious times we are ....Einstein's Dreams, was going to give a talk. 1 standable post-Lewinsky reaction, it's an atti- Vermont, whose E-Privacy Act would bring entering into. Kosovo and the Y2K problem felt lucky to be a student here. Why can't 1 tude that the administration should be trying about encryption legislation reform, and who have created a very somber mood at the end have this much fun every weekend? to change, not encouraging. was active in opposing the Communications of this millennium. Instead of choosing a After looking at the list of activities, we Of course, the MagliozZi brothers -sometimes Decency Act. Or how about Jimmy Carter, who graduation speaker to reflect this mood, MIT .; decided to have dinner in Boston and then use the topic of cars as a vehicle (get it?) for has not only been a voice for human rights but has decided to tune out the outside world . .party. Coming home from dinner, we decided social commentary. Ray Magliozzi has a history also done graduate work in nuclear physics? No Commencement address, by itself, is that it was too cold to attend a roof deck party. of volunteer work in community organizing and It's often important for a Commencement going to change dramatically the way that ..: But when we passed by a frat, once again 1 education. But anyone who listens to Car Talk address to engage in some manner with the MIT students think about science and public was seduced by the booming dance beat. We knows that it's mostly, well, talk about cars. It's history that's being made that year. Recent policy, or anything else. But a agreed to change into warmer clothes and then about whether that '87 Dodge Ram is going to Commencement addresses at MIT have been Commencement in which the major issues of go to the party. 1 changed in my room as my make it to Alaska, or whether SUYs are taking successful in this regard. President Carlos the day are discussed would send a message to .' prefrosh and another prefrosh friend waited in over our roads. It's funny, knowledgeable talk Salinas of Mexico discussed the North MIT students that these issues are important, the lounge. But when 1 went to get them, 1 about cars, but talk about cars nonetheless. American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. In that they can't be written off as "just humani- found them fast asleep. It was 12:30. After So would some stuffy politician be a better 1989, Senator Paul Tsongas reflected on ties." By not holding such a Commencement, watching them, my giggles woke them up. choice than these wild and crazy MIT grads Tiananmen Square and the end of the Cold MIT sends the opposite message. But trust me ,. Claiming she was not tired at all, my prefrosh who know what it's like to take 8.01 four War. University of Chicago president Hanna on the historical perspective. ,came with me to the party. It should have been your typical roof deck • frat party, but something about it awed me. Dr. D.eath and the Law Perhaps it was because 1 could see the dome someone to help them. If they can find some- speak or even nod, then obviously there can on one side and the Boston skyline on the Kris Schnee one like Kevorkian who is willing to perform be no consent without a signed living will other. Or maybe it was because everyone was the procedure - and many doctors would stating the conditions under which they wish '" . being social and meeting new people. On Tuesday, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sen- refuse, since euthanasia clearly violates the to die. What if a patient's family wants their Something was bringing people together, tenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for second- Hippocratic Oath, well-meant or not - then ailing relative to stop suffering, but no wishes resulting in an amazing party. As 1 looked at degree murder. A jury found him guilty of there is nothing fundamentally wrong with have been expressed by the patient personal- the skyline, suddenly I was a prefrosh again, killing Thomas Youk, who was dying from someone else pulling the switch to cause a ly? In that case, it's not suicide. But we do • , awed by the thought that I could be a college Lou Gehrig's disease. While Kevorkian's con- patient's death. need to think about the definition of life itself, student in Boston. viction may be a setback for the cause of One of the objec'tions raised against the to rewrite euthanasia policy intelligently. Is a The reality of beil1g that student hit hard legalizing assisted suicide, the jury is to be concept of legalizing euthanasia is the fear person with an irrevocably destroyed brain ., the next day when I realized I had three prob- commended for its adherence to the law. In that "Dr. Death," like the serial killer his foes still alive, for instance? Should the informed lem sets due Monday. My prefrosh incredu- what may be Kevorkian's final case, he video- make him out to be, will seek out vulnerable consent rule apply in cases where, in a sense, lously asked me if I was doing homework. I taped Youk's death and had it broadcast to people and execute them for his own pleasure. the patient is already dead? was. "But it's a Saturday!" Somehow a week- millions of Americ~ns on 60 Minutes. In this But as long as euthanasia is handled with an Kevorkian has succeeded in making end of parties didn't prepare her for the fact way, he once again brought his cause into the ounce of common sense, this horror will not America think about an important medical that we actually do work here. I tried to national spotlight, forcing us to think about be a problem. Once again, "informed consent" issue, but the jury was completely justified in explain this to her. "But can't you just do your the difficult issue of euthanasia. is a good legal rule. If a patient clearly convicting him. He broke one of the most • ' homework on Sunday?" Three problem sets in What should we do with a terminally ill expresses a wish to die, after witnesses find important laws of our society - by the pre- one day? I don't think so. I gave her the patient? The answer is simple in many cases: him or her sane and conscious, then it should sent definition, what he did was murder, and it excuse that I was going on a dorm cruise. I whatever that patient wants! Our Declaration be legal for someone to pull the plug; in all carries a severe penalty. The jury did its job, didn't want to burst her bubble. Let her of Independence declares that all people have other cases it should not be. If the murder ignoring the media furor and political argu- •. remain an untroubled high school student an inalienable right to life, and to do with their laws are changed in this way, people who ment around the trial, and upheld the law. while she still can. lives as they see fit. If this is so, then why is wish to die will die, and those who wish to Kevorkian's act of civil disobedience went I can't go back to the life of a high school there not an equally inviolable right for any- live will live. Anyone performing euthanasia as such acts usually do - the protester got student, but prefrosh weekend gave me a one to choose to end their life, which no one without consent will still be a murderer, sub- attention and paid dearly for it. While some ~. glimpse into my past and a chance to regress, else has a right to control? By extension, ter- ject to prosecution. people may respect his cause or even view if only for a little while. But if that is what it minally ill people who are unable to die by Most of the gray cases are fairly easy to him as a hero, he is, at least for now, a mut; ltakes-to-relive. that-feeling,-1et-the.rush..hegin_. ....tb eir ..o.wn-band- ar.e-:iustifi ed .in.. call ing-fol:-_ -teSQwe_lf-a...pets011_is..render.ed..unab 1e-td 1.der.e~...whate.veLhis,intention II: f P'age 6 THElECIT April 16; 1999 THE ARTS MOVIE REVIEW with lots of threats, sex, and an anything-goes of songs from The Sound of Music, which gid- occasionally it thrills, and the rest of the time it policy on innuendo. For all the thrashing, dily accompany Sandra whether she is plot- doesn't know what it's doing. There is even a though, there is little momentum. Some ting murders or asleep. "I don't trust anyone bit of violent gunplay thrown in, perhaps meant Goodbye, scenes are painfully ridiculous, as one where over 10 who listens to The Sound of Music, " to be cathartic, but it is neither funny nor scary Sandra meets Ben at a church, slips a diskette Sgt. Pompano remarks with amusing insight. nor much of anything other than random. It into a computer under the organ, and orgiasti- As long as the plot commits to farce, the would work great in an episode of South Park, cally makes love to Ben to the tune of Bach, movie marches along merrily. After a murder, but it's very out of place in this movie .. 1.\ Lover the two hiding behind the organ as a choir characters protest "We're entitled to that Overall, Goodbye, Lover is an interesting below marvels at Ben's playing. It's not that money!! We did all the work!" and resort to experiment in mixing genres. Some parts it has such scenes cannot be funny - Hot Shots is serial murder as a cover-up for a single murder. down cold, such as crisp interior shots from \' Comedy with delusions one of several counterexamples - but here Execution is muddled, unfortunately. A victim cinematographer Dante Spinotti (L.A. By Roy Rodensteln they just feel too scripted. of the serial murder scheme seems to look like Confidential). Others, like acting, fall along the STAFF REPORTER Enter Ellen. As cynical Sgt. Rita Pompano, the intended target, but apparently the dead same fault lines as the film's tone. Along with Directed by Roland Joffe DeGeneres is just the breath of fresh air the person is someone else. This is not a purposeful Mary-Louise Parker as a droll, manipulative ;.. Written by Ron Peer. Joel Cohen. Alec Sokolow movie needs. Though a few of her lines bomb, trick, though, it's just sloppy editing. secretary, DeGeneres, Arquette and Johnson With Patricia Arquette. Dermot Mulroney. she hits regularly enough to keep things at a On the plus side, Vincent Pallo livens things are charmingly jocund, while Mulroney and Ellen DeGeneres. Mary-Louise Parker. Don nice chuckle level. There' are a few brilliant up a bit as a hired killer. But is his playing pin- others tasked with the thriller-heavy roles are Johnson bits between her and the goofy officer she ball supposed to be charming, amusing, or just dull. In the end I wasn't sure who was sup- works with and torments. She seems to be frightening? The same questions go for his beat- posed to be "so good at being so bad" or how hat do you get when you cross a playing the role usually earmarked for ing of an unidentified prisoner. Walking the line much sense the plot made. The irony of Sandra spoof with the genre it's spoofing? Whoopi Goldberg, and does so with aplomb. between thriller and farce is tough, and this carrying the collection plate around for a priest, ',. Probably something like Goodbye. Another wonderful touch is the recurrent use movie is all over the map. Sometimes it amuses, though, was worth holding onto. W Lover. Director Roland Joffe, who started his career with the acclaimed The Killing Fields and has proceeded with mixed critical success (he directed the The Scarlet Letter, for example), continues to experiment here with a mixture of film noir and Fatal Instinct-style genre-busting. Patricia Arquette is Sandra Dunmore, who mayor may not be the person to whom the film's tagline "No one's ever been so good at ..' being so bad" refers. Sandra works in real- estate, and is sleeping with Ben Dunmore (Don Johnson) - her husband's brother - in all the houses she has access to. She has no qualms about taking advantage of each house's resources, whether clothing or furni- ture, to set up a kinky extravaganza for Ben . .~ Unfortunately, this amusing comedic set-up is only used once. Soon, Ben starts worrying about what if his brother Jake (Dermot Mulroney) were to \.-. discover their affair, and Sandra notes "Lots of things can happen. Maybe you should make them happen." At this junction the movie employs its spoof mode, as Ben finds the idea of killing his brother preposterous. The movie soon switches into scheming and double- crossing, with some triple- and probably quadruple-crossing thrown in. Yes, the term "double indemnity" is heard, but only once.

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CONCERT REVIEW ered the keyboards with breathtaking profi- described as being "very polished." The other, songs were actually very enjoyable .. ciency. Not only did Wolf perfectly back possibly titled "Birmingham," is a deeply Although most aspects of the show were Ani's vocals, but she also impressed the audi- affecting interweaving of three separate but close to perfect, there were some that were far Ani DiFranco ence with her playing on melodica, ljammond related accounts, one concerning the bombing from ideal. Even longtime fans found that Organ, and electric keyboard. And somehow of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, another after the first four songs most of the rest lost Julie was able to make the accordion - an - the shooting of an abortion doctor in his their individuality, as songs tended to bleed A realfolk singer instrument that some people have nightmares home in Buffalo, and the third - Ani's own into each other. This was because of their sim- By Fred Choi about - rock in a very cool way, on such experience of having an abortion. One of ilar sound and rhythm, a problem that would STAFF REPORTER tunes as "Little Plastic Castle" and "Angry Ani's greatest strengths is her ability to tackle have been remedied by including more con- 4. o say that Ani DiFranco is a bit of an Anymore." When Ani wasn't in the spotlight controversial political material and communi- trasting songs, such as "Fuel." In addition, anomaly among modern rock musi- jumping up and down with her guitar and cate it in a serious and beautiful way, and the there were definite problems with the sound, y cians would be a gross understate- delivering her potent lyrics with force, she song was a perfect example of this. Another especially with Ani's vocal mic. Many. of her ment. Along with being undisputably was wandering around the stage physically strength that Ani displayed during the evening words were unintelligible, although one could the most successful musician on an indepen- interacting with the other members of the was her ability to juxtapose the serious with solve this problem by sitting or standing next dent record label, as evidenced by two band. The friendly and at the same time the downright silly. This became apparent at to one of the numerous audience members Grammy nominations, as well as the albums respectful relationship the people onstage had several different times during the show, for who insisted on singing along to every song. that have appeared on Billboard's music with one another was a wonderful and unique example when she eulogized The Muppet For old fans, Ani's performance in ~. charts, and sold out concerts worldwide, Ani aspect of the show. Show as a spoken introduction to "'Tis of Providence was a chance to hear some gor- further sets herself apart from other rock The majority of the songs performed were Thee," a song concerning the inequities within geous new songs, new versions of old songs, musicians by touring almost constantly. A relatively new material from Ani's two most the criminal justice system in America. 'great versions of newer songs;and Ani's '. self-described folksinger, Ani tours not only recent albums, Up Up Up Up Up Up and Along with the great music and lyrics, the amusing and sometimes enlightening chatter. because she loves it and because she feels that Little Plastic Castle. Of these the highlights lights were also excellent, especially on the For new fans, it was a chance to have the fun the immediacy of live performance better rep- included the funky, energized "Jukebox" and first song, "Virtue," when they perfectly com- and unique experience of seeing Ani's songs resents her songs, but also because she the heartbreakingly beautiful, "'Tis of thee," plemented the structure and some of the really come alive onstage and to see how believes that it is an important aspect of being two of the best tracks off of the new album. nuances of the song. In addition, the opening much fun and how stirring Ani is to see live. a folksinger - to relate to "the folk." New versions of older songs, such as "Cradle act, Drums with Tuba: was a unique group For both groups, it was a completely memo- And relate she did to the audience, which and All" and "Pulse" were also very welcome featuring drums, guitar, and, yes, tuba, that rable concert, as we saw Ani shrink the size of incidentally was largely female at the and thoroughly enjoyable. However, two of managed to make the audience reject their ini- the stadium down to the size of an intimate '-, Providence Civic Center last Saturday night. the very best songs of the night were by far tial disbelief at a tuba being a valid rock room in a way that very few people can, and Ani is known for having a easy rapport with the two unreleased songs; according to Ani, instrument and appreciate the instrumental relate to "the folk," giving us all something to her audience, and it was conveyed not only one of them had only been performed the songs they performed. The group proved to be think about and to enjoy - like a truly great \_" through the incredible virtuosity and energy night before, and which she. humorously more than just a novelty act, as some of their folksinger. with which she performed her songs, but also through the comments she made between MOVIE REVIEW Throughout the movie, Ben races against time songs. The hour-and-a-half 20-song set was and his own emotions to make it to the wed- ~, full of variety and amply displayed Ani's ding. The ungodly number of coincidental prowess in both music and lyrics. The songs Forces of Nature "accidents" he encounters further compounds ranged from intimate ballads to energized his inner struggle. The more time he spends funk to opinionated poetry, interspersed with It blow you away with Sarah, the more unwieldy she gets, and Ani's characteristic intelligence and silliness. won~ the stronger his feelings for her. The audience The concert was only the second of Ani's By Vanessa Yen book jacket writer from New York CitY, trav- is forced into a state of confusion as to why North American tour, whimsically called eling to Savannah, GA, for his wedding with Ben would jeopardize his marriage to the ,~ "George," although she has already toured Written by Marc Lawrence Bridget (News Radio's Maura Tierney.) As attractive and classy Bridget for the despicable Australia and Europe earlier this year. Directed by Bronwen Hughes Ben boards the plane with his flying jitters, he Sarah, who he has known for only several days. This time around Ani was backed by a new With Ben AJJieck, Sandra Bullock, David meets Sarah (Sandra Bullock), a recklessly There is very little comedy, even less " drummer, Darren Hahn. Although longtime Strickland, Blythe Danner, Joe Don Baker, outgoing young. woman wh'o appeals to his romance, and absolutely no realism offered in drummer and goofball Andy Stochanksy was Steve Zahn and Meredith Scott Lynn adventurous side. this film. Each scene is set up to resemble a missed, Darren did an amazing job of integrat- - Just before takeoff, the plane skids off the natural progression of two people falling in ing his sound with Ani's and the rest of the orces of Nature is a pretty lame excuse runway. In the ensuing scramble for a rental car love, but the situations are just too outra- , , band, especially considering that he's only for a romantic comedy. Despite recruit- Ben bumps into Sarah, and ends up road trip- geously unbelievable to work. The only bright been playing with them for a few months. ing such talent as Ben Affleck and ping with her down the East Coast. In a ridicu- point in the whole movie is a bunch of inter- Jason Mercer, who has been touring with Ani F Sandra Bullock, director Bronwen lous chain of events similar to those found in esting thunderstorm special effects. But unless. since 1997, played bass and joined in on some Hughes is unable to create a coherent and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Ben's life you are a die-hard Sandra Bullock or Ben background vocals, as did Julie Wolf, who has engaging movie. takes a 180 degree turn as, his passion for Affleck fan, this movie is not worth your $8 been around since last yt.:ar and who also c

. ON CAMPUS cleverly constructed. It consisted of a couple of notes arranged in a witty variety. Finally, the master ended with a section of jhala, using ;Ali Akbar Khan and Swapan Chauduri the chikari strings to produce a "sparkling" sound, as it is described in Sanskrit, that ancient language that describes much of the . A powerjul display ofIndian virtuousity mystery surrounding this art. By Amrlta Ghosh After a brief intermission, the master took STAFF REPORTER to his instrument yet again, performing a light Presented by MITHAS in cooperation with' classical piece. This time, he undertook the ,,\ Sangam' rag Pilu-Baruwa, a more intimate, romantic piece, and a bewitching minor-sounding rag. very once in a while, the MIT commu- A short alap consisted of a "conversation" ,, nity is lucky enough to host an artist between the sarod and tabla. While Khansahib who masters his art to perfection. Last plucked out the rhythmic and melodic varia- Sunday, that master was Ousted Ali tions, Chauduri repeated them in amazing E sonority, amazing in accuracy as well as in the Akbar Khan, a worthy representative of North ; Indian classical music. performers' ability to perform them with If India can be called the supreme land of grace and perfection. culture and expression, then northern Indian The guru went on to a composition in slow music might be thought of as the essence of 14 beat and then a jhaptal in medium 10 beat that cultural expression. During a perfor- cycles, both of which dazzled the audience mance, the artist improvises the music right in with perfection. During this section, he played front of the audience. His genius is exposed a ragmala, meaning a necklace strung with .'. for all the world to see without any tainting or snippets of all different rags. He even incorpo- impurity. It is the purest art form of all. rated the theme of "Greensleeves" and Bach's Everything that flows out of the musician's "Bourree"! . hands is his own expression, happening right A touching moment ended the concert,

r there and then for everyone to see. with Khansahib playing a highly inventive

"Ousted" means genius, guru - and, '@ composition by his father, fast and in tintal Khansahib is the guru (or teacher) of MIT's again. The late "Baba" Allauddin Khan was Winner of Innumerable awards in India and the United States, All Akbar Khan has " very own George Ruckert, who with Khan's not only Ali Akbar's father and teacher, he spent his life playing, recording, composing, and educating audiences worldwide. son accompanied the sarodist on tanpura. was also mentor to many of India's greatest Ruckert is an' MIT Professor, in the Arts, and musicians and instrumentalists. his. specialty, not surprisingly, is Northern drums. He brought out the sheer splendor in all with his extemporaneously composed What makes Indian classical music so dif- • Indian music. the ever-fluctuating rhythm, while emphasiz- melodies. ferent from western music is its foundation in The sarod and tanpura are Indian stringed ing the many treble and bass pitches in the Without the tabla, the rhythm is complete- a different modal system. The difference in instruments, plucked to achieve a metallic, percussion itself, in a way that only. a master- ly floating, just as the early beginning of a pitches are based on quarter-tone steps instead • ,echoing sound. The sarod has several large, fully-skilled tab list can do with ease. peaceful meditation, with the artists sliding of the Western semi-tone steps. Does this , long strings for resonating melodies and other Ousted Ali Akbar's genius is clearly rec- fingers playing the melody. Those who wit- mean that there are twice as many pitches and thin, smaller strings which are' plucked for ognized by the Indian American community. nessed that deep alap said it was soulful, double fullness in Indian music compared to high, chiining accompaniment. The tanpuras, The diamond-studded affair was attended by • heart-felt, and traditional. Khansahib's style is Western? Some might say that Khansahib's .- on the other hand, have a total of foUr strings many of Boston area's heavy-hitters, major pristine, the notes enchanting in their depth. concert would suggests this. But in the end it tuned to the raga - or key - of the piece. business leaders, and. powerful Indian entre- The delivery was even-handed, and very per- is for the listener to decide who is the master, They are played continuously throughout to preneurs, as well as by the Indian communi- sonal. Chaudhuri later said that "Only he can just as it is for the beholder to decide what is help the .other instruments stay in tune. ties from both MIT and Harvard University. do that." most beautiful. •Chauduri, accompanied Khansahib on the During the evenIng of the concert, Kresge After this he went on to play an amazing Among the members of the audience were tabla, a pair of beautifully resonating Indian looked as grand as the artists who played in it. jor, a section with fast rhythm without tabla. some very important Indian music leaders Behind Khansahib were a set of beautifully This is done by plucking the strings simulta- from the Boston area. They were the guests of MUSIC REVIEW colored lights, muted, yet stunning. neously in a rapid succession of chords. Still Robert Freeman and President Charles M. The concert started with a brief introduc- 'using lots of sliding notes, the inaster adeptly Vest, who held a reception in their honor: tion in the deep voice of Khansahib himself. plucked out the energetic rhythm as easily as The event was also highly attended by stu- He declared that his first piece would be in he played the iridescent melody. The main dents as well as many members of the surround- 10 Lit Iman Kalyan. Then his magic began. portions of the piece were two gats. One was ing Cambridge and Boston community. The He started with a radiant alap, an ~troduc-: in slow tintal, a rhythm cycle of 16 beats easi- 1200 seats in the Kresge Auditorium had been Jmt anothergrmeric tory phase, thought of as a conversation, slow- ly counted with the fingers. While this was sold out several days prior to the performance. ly increasing, in ornamentation. The first tones more rhythmically intricate and accompanied Waiting lists emerged for everything from audi- " rock- allYum ~ of the Alap reached out as-sunlit fingers .by tabla, he worked his way up to a faster ence members to ushers and volunteers . By Daniel J. Katz towards the audience. We were indeed the medium-tempo beat. George Ruckert and Nini Ansari con- STAFF REPORTER dawn and Khansahib, the sun, enlightening us The second gat, this time in fast tintal, was tributed to the reporting of this story. .... ReciPe for a one-hit wonder: Start with . Eve 6/Harvey Danger style power pop that's already been done to death. Turn the guitars way up and turn the creativi- ,. ty way down. What you're left with is, a weak collection of songs that are listenable, but bland. This particular collection is from a band called Lit, and it's called A Place In The Sun (RCA) . ... The aforementioned one hit on the album is "My Own Worst Enemy", which is currently reigning at number one on the Billboard

p. Modern Rock Airplay chart .. Lyrically, it pre- sents a light-hearted story about the morning after a drunken rage ("I can't remember what I said or what you threw at'me ...") and musically, .' it uses a wicked and bouncy guitar riff (and uses it liberally.) Last week, in State of the Airwaves, I noted that this is a great song • becaUse of its simplicity and short duration. But / an entire album of the same material becomes tiresome quickly, especially since most of the . other tracks lack the catchiness of the single. ~. Almost every song on the disc utilizes the same format: verses skipping along until an overdramatic chorus takes over, then slowing down as harmony is laid in. This might be • effective if it wasn't done on every single track. Plus, in each of the songs the choruses 3'cuPs ftoUi "', are overused to the point where after two min- " 2C1JRS sugar "'" utes, you're ready for the next one. (And wait- • 6 tabi~s cOCoa , ing for it is no picnic.) 2,t~ns baking soda One of the better efforts on the album is I teaspoon salt . the'fifth track, "No Big Thing", a surprisingly 3/4 cup vegetable oil

•J scorching punk rock tune with a lot of energy. 2 tablesPOQn vinegar Other bearable moments include the slightly 2 te4Spoon vanilla catchy title track, and "Zip-Lock," 'which 2 c~ cold water starts out as memorable before becoming Frosting: ., amloying after a few listens. The most impres- One pound (one box) c~nfectioner's sugar . sive thing on the album is the band's dead-on 1/4 teaspoon salt imitation of Everclear on "Miserable". 1/3 cup (2/3 stick) margarine, room temperature Unfortunately, I doubt it was intentional... 1/4 cup thin liquid Lit are currently on the road with Eve 6 1-2 teaspoons flavoring, optional (usually vanilla extract) (they roll into the WCBN River Rave at Great some drops of coloring, optional Quice of crushed berries works Woods on May 30) having been the opening . well) • . act for Silverchair for two months. They'll To prepare ttie cake, mix the dry ingredients. Add the wet ingre- then be joining selected dates of the punk-ori- dients. Stir until smooth. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes:-Makes ented Warped Tour. Maybe the exposure to two layers of a two-layer 9-inch or 8-inch round cake, or one small •. the punk rockers at Warped will help Lit sheet cake. When cool, frost it. develop the fast-paced sound that drives their While the cake is baking, prepare the frosting. Mix the sugar, best material. But for now, on their tour with salt, and m~garine in a very clean bowl. Add the liquid. Beat until Eve 6, the band can only hope to steal more smooth, adding more liquid if necessary. Use immediately and - . tired musical cliches, and at this rate, "My rapidly: spread over a cooled cake with a rubber spatula or blunt Own Worst Enemy" will be the last you hear knife. Decorate the cake quickly, before the Jrosting hardens. from them for quite a while. ,:fU(Jll ( vII 1.1IJ.i - Jt) ~ \)<'1 ... Iii, ..,.1 •• h::ll ]":"1 J.;[:I.;, UI t -j. f I;;J Rage-8 1'~ TECH pAKTS April 16, 1999 MOVIE REVIEW Cookie's Fortune Sweet Southern Lullaby By Roy Rodensteln in his cell: young Emma Duvall (Liv Tyler), STAFF REPORTER who confesses to enough crimes to warrant Direcied by Robert Altman most-wanted criminal status in the little town, Written by Anne Rapp is also grudgingly allowed to hang around in "'I With Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, jail and keep him company. Camille herself is Charles S. Dutton. a woman hilariously disconnected from the world. Like Beverly Sutphin in John Waters' omecoming. That's what Cookie's Serial Mom, Camille simply has no concept of \' Fortune feels like to a Robert Altman- right and Wrong, probably does not even know ",:atcher. Though Altman has aptly that such concepts exist, and this freedom H commanded genres from a black-com- allows for some. great broad comedy. ;.,. edy war film (M*A *S*H) to a ravishing Cursing at Cookie's body, stealing from, thnller (The Player), this small story shows the dead, and terrorizing her mousy sister the director not just in full control but at ease. Cora (Julianne Moore); are all in a day's Altman's latest is no cookie-cutter murder work for Camille; not that she's actually any" mystery. For one thing, there is no mystery- good at covering up a crime. Her zeal for but that doesn't blunt the movie's wit in the plotting flows easily from real-life deaths to least. For another, even when Willis Richland the stage, where she directs the town's ver- '(, (Charles S. Dutton), an innocent black man, is sion of ."Salome, by Oscar Wilde and thrown in jail for the alleged murder of Camille Dixon." Camille is, in short, a Cookie Orcutt (Patricia Neal), a rich elderly quick-witted numbskull. In reverse, Cora is white woman, the audience rests easy. Maybe slow-witted, but she catches on with a !.. it has something to do with the police lieu- vengeance. tenant keeping the cell door open and playing The usually juicy ensemble Altman has at scrabble with the accused, dressed down to his disposal this time includes old standbys what might only leniently be called civilian like Ned Beatty as the loyal lieutenant and ." clothes. "How can you be so sure he's inno- new starlets like Chris O'Donnell and Liv cent?" the lieutenant is asked. "Because I've Tyler as a sweetly frisky couple: he 'is the v~ry fished with him," he replies. novice cop, Jason Brown, and she is the town ,. Cookie's Fortune has a lot of fun with the stray, Emma Duvall. When Emma jumps into . genre. The innocent, Willis Richland, is jail to comfort Willis, the young lovers are shown wandering drunkenly around town and kept apart. Well, they would be" if -the cell

handling guns in front of old Cookie, but this door weren't open and the nook behind the ~i set-up is intentionally misleading. Cookie and pop machine weren't invitingly deserted. Willis are the best of friends, and when she is Courtney B. Vance, 'on the other hand, heads found dead the next day, it's only through the murder investigation with full seriousness Camille Dixon's (Glepn Close) spite that as investigator Otis Tucker, even in the face Willis becomes a murder suspect. The police of come-ons by both fellow officers and wit- Robert Altman directs his most recent film Cookie's Fortune. lieutenant is not the only person to join Willis nesses during questioning. Meanwhile, soft~ spoken Willis sits in jail, protesting his inno- ~, cence by day, smiling in cozy self-assurance MUSIC REVIEW by night. Lesser roles, such as the folks at the local bar, also pack a punch. The dialogue is regularly smart in Anne ' Rapp's first screenplay. The movie benefits from her experie'nce as script supervisor in ,such films as Lawrence Kasdan's The Accidental Tourist and David Mamet's Things Change. The real bonus, though, is Altman's treatment of each scene as a small treasure. Some, such as a delectable sequeJnc~, .. involving a boy, an Easter-:egg hunt, and a murder weapon, could be dropped right into Monty Python. Others, like Lyle Lovett's squali.d catfish salesman fixing up an aban~ doned train car for Emma to live in, are refreshingly different. Twilight Zone or Family Circus, Altman's sense for variations on the bizarre keeps things rolling. The final scene may be t90 far out for some to buy, resting as it is solely on spunk provided by Close and Altman .•. As out-and-out enjoyable as the movie is, its few problems stand out distractingly. Though Patricia Neal's performance. as Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt is affecting, its tone is just too~different from the rest of the movie, and the complete lack of characterization of her dead husband Buck makes her longing ...~ for him an artifact. It's likely the filmmakers knowingly jeopardized consistency in reach- ing for some emotional depth. Another unfofhmate aspect is'the movie's neat tying up of ends at its 'conclusion with several ran- dom surprises. The town's t,ender cohesive- ness was magical enough without such manipulation. These flaws are unsavory drops in a small film that's a refreshing glass of sweet iced tea.

',I, CONCERT REVIEW spent set break looking around at the crowd momentary lapses of sound. I was right in front and funky poetry scrawled on the walls. A of several professional-quality tape recorders, as friend returned from the bar as the second set proliferate these kinds of shows, so there will be moe. was starting, and as one of moe. (not sure moe. tapes out there (probably not heavily trad- ~ . who) started telling a story, my friend also ed) that speak ill of moe .. started telling a story about a drunk girl at the These guys are trying to be Phish when Lowercase and with a period does rwt a band make bar who asked the Barbie-esque bartender for Phish isn't being Phish, and taking advantage ...' By Joel Rosenberg time back about an hour, and during the show a "full" beer, since her 12-ounce plastic cup of the people who really just want to see ARTSEDITVR one of the speakers caught fire. After the extin- wasn't topped off. The bartender gave the girl Phish. Perhaps that's harsh, but kids get April 9, 1999 guisher filled the room with a white haze, moe. a look, went to the box of empty bottles, took jacked for dollars from the really good bands, A va/on Ba//room came back with Jimi's "Fire," altered to "Let one out and examined it, and dumped the lin- and don't need the imitators jacking them too. 1: drnmz > St. Augustine, Time Again. Spine me stand next to your speaker fire." I was will- gering drop into the girl's cup. My friend then After overcharging, moe. played longer than Of A Dog, Spaz Medicine. Meat ing to give them another shot. paid a ridiculous $5.75 for a drink. _ they have the skills to keep interesting, which

2: Timmy Tucker, llead* > Moth, Time Ed Three friends wanted to go see the show, Figuring I'd ask someone for moe.'s story was listened to out of financial obligation. I I' E: Buster which started at 7p.m. ("In by 7, out by 10" after the show, or get it off their web site ,or There are plenty of "jam bands" more worthy * With "Mexico" tease. the publicist had told me), but one was late something, I just started listening to the music. of your time and money. getting home, and we ended up not getting After about an hour of repetitive jamming inter- I never did get that story, and the s'etlist, ot a call last week from moe.'s publi- there until around 8. I went in through the rupted by annoying vocals, we were all bored. which I got from http://www.moelinks.com.is cist asking me to cover the show at guest list door, while my friends paid for their Following the encore (2.5 hours of playing gets above, though to me it just sounded like one Avalon last Friday. When I requested tickets-$15. Looking at the press release they you an encore), one of moe. (not sure who) long song: On the way home I noticed that iny G the complementary "plus one" on con- faxed to me in March, the advance and door announced that there were tickets available for over-21 wristband said "Party smart." I felt cert tickets, he told me he couldn't do it, but ticket prices are the same: TBA. Apparently the Saturday night show at Hammerstein in stupid for partying expensively, which doesn't that tickets would only be $10. I figured I'd go the publicist wasn't the final announcer. New York City, and invited us down. Opening seem like it's going to let up. If you shell out and split the cost with a friend. I had seen moe. Avalon was packed, which is really a lot of the next night were Banyan, featuring Stephen $150 for Woodstock '99, you might have a before at the Paradise and hadn't been all that people. We got into moe.'s groove, but only Perkins from Jane's Addiction and Rob chance to see moe., since moelinks reports impressed, But that was the night the Paradise for a few minutes, since we had missed most Wasserman from Rat Dog. "They'll probably they'll be playing. Maybe their publicist can be better than moe. " I said during one of those get me in. got a new sound ~y,~~;~J,wNc.h-.l~~~~~,t~~,S,~~ ~f~tjh.~,fi.~~t.~~\,,I}~se!,:e.d'i j,u.qp~~\~,n~~,,~n~ t • .I )f. J 1. ~lJ ~ l l_ J • '", Co .. fr..; 1 . \. J.l J. '- J." t j, '." ,~' Jf .J...,l!" IUt' ,.:.-:.1» ,Je; l \\"\\.\\-1 ht"\'J'''',-\'-' April 16, 1999 THE TECH Page 9

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KRZYSZTOF GAJOS-TIIE TECH Hero (Anand Sarwate '01) and Senex (Matt Brown '02) each question the other's ,~- relationship with the new "maid."

ON CAMPUS "AFunny, Thing Happened "On the Way to the Forum A Comedy TOnight By Vladimir Zelevnsky and more out of hand at every turn of the plot. Stephen Peters '92 swallows a potion to make him appear dead. ,•• ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR Pseudolus covers his tracks with perpetual Presented by the Musical Theater Guild lies, making things increasingly more compli- Directed by Sheridan Zabel cated and funny with each step. Soon, all of genuine or realistic emotion. The result ranges the show, Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, ~, With Stephen Peters '92, Seth Bisen-Hersh . the city is involved in the crazy plot, from the from merely amusing to truly hilarious. It's and Larry Gelbart, but director Sheridan Zabel 'OJ, Anand Sarwate 'OJ, Jessica Hine/ '02, courtesans next door to the hapless Hysterium also very impressively mounted, with lots of deserves applause as well. He transforms the Matt Brown '02, Irene Wilson '98, Bruce to the valiant Roman general Miles Gloriosus physical action, some of it downright amazing. amusing literary material into a hilarious com- Applegate '94, Ryan Caveney '96, Jra (Bruce Applegate). Miles is hopelessly infatu- The slapstick and pratfalls look effortless and ~dy. The song "Everybody Ought to Have a \'~..Gerhardt '99, Yamini Jagannath 'OJ Sara Jo ated with himself; and this love is requited easy, a sure sign of long and painful rehearsals. Maid" is decently written, but in Zabel's pro- EJice 'OJ; Stephanie Sharo '99, Welkin Pope and has no adversaries. Since the production aims at nothing more duction it gefs a simple and elegant twist, '00, Teresa Raine '98, Stacy 0 'Connor '00, Th~ plot is ingenious, and the MTG produc- (and nothing less) than telling a humorous becoming funnier every minute. ~ Corey Gerritsen '02 Aaron Moronez '99 tion goes squarely for the plot. It's assuredly story, it's a great relief that the production can But when it comes to the music, the pro- Kevin C~oi 'OJ, and John van der Meer '72 paced, with every single tWist being clear both hold the attention of the audience for all of its duction is lacking. The singing is fine with in its origins and consequences. Every actor two and a half hours. Irene Wilson's assured and skillful voice 'ni glad that I'm not a professional art works ilirectly for the audience, with very little . Most of the credit goes to the creators of being the sta'nd-out achievement. It's the ~ critic. If I were one, and I saw something orchestra which is problematic. like the latest Musical Theater Guild pro- I saw the show on the opening night, and Iduction, A Funny Thing Happened on the the weakness could be chalked down to little Wav td'the Forum, 1 would have to froWn, and rehearsal time. But to tell the truth, the orches- si~rt"i' soph~sticated elaboration on why 'this tra in Forum is decidedly unimpressive, with production doesn't work. I would mention neither the solo parts nor the ensemble work that the production lacks a cohesive style, that being very musical. It's not a good sign when .... the tempo is Uneven, and that there is very lit- the audience laughs during the overture, espe- tle internalized acting to be seen, with the cast cially since it isn't meant to be funny. It comes pretending rather than acting. as a big disappointment, especially after the The great thing is that nothing of the above excellent orchestra work in MTG's last pro- r matters. The opening song proclaims the duction, She Loves Me. show's only ambition - to be funny. And At least the orchestra is hidden behind the funny it is; wildly so, completely sweeping set, so the music doesn't interfere much with aside most of the serious-minded objections. the singing, and it's only during the purely The story, 'taking place in Ancient Rome, instrumental portions of the score that it gets is set in motion when a middle-aged couple, distracting. Senex (Matt Brown) and Domina (Irene It would be curious to see Forum with .., Wilson), leave for vacation. It is left to their some genuine acting. What if Pseudolus' love slave-in-chief Hysterium (Seth-Bisen Hersh) , for freedom, Hero and Philia's love for each to take care of the household while their only other, and Miles' love for himself would be son Hero (Anand Sawarte) is in charge of implicit as well as explicit? Then there might •' their other slave, Pseudolus (Steve Peters). be some more authentic feeling to Forum . The thing is that Pseudo Ius wants' to be free But just by being simply and consistently - and he is willing' to do anything to further funny MTG's production is an impressive .' his aim. That includes obtaining the affections achievement indeed. There was a 1966 movie of Philia (Jessica Hinel), the girl next door, for . version of this very musical, directed by Hero. The problem is that the house next door Richard Le'ster and with Zero Mostel as is a house of courtesans, owned by gregarious Pseudolus. This movie is elaborate, frenzied, ~. Marcus Lycus (Ryan Caveney), and Philia, incoherent, and in general tries much too hard being a virgin, would cost a pretty penny. Or, to please. The MTG production is, on virtual- instead of the money, some devious plotting. ly every level, better. Thus the old rule that KRZYSZTOF GAJOS-THE TECH So Pseudolus rushes headfirst into intrigue MTG productions of Sondheim shows are Pseudolus (Stephen Peters '92) bargains with Miles (Bruce Applegate '94) while • and manipulations, with things getting more enjoyable still holds. Hysterlum (Seth Blsen-Hersh '01) feigns death. ,MOVIE REVIEW what we have now is a 1992 Hong-Kong ,twins, who get accidentally separated at birth. manages not only to escape with her dignity 'lot ;. action comedy, dubbed and dusted up. The One of them grows up to become a car intact, but also to invest the rest of Twin picture is, unfortunately, a mess. Twin mechanic and a kung-fu aficionado. Another Dragons with some authenticity. Dragons is perhaps the weakest Jackie Chan becomes a famous classical musician. Of All of this is exacerbated by the usually TwinDragons film released stateside; largely unexciting and course, soon they cross paths, and keep cross- atrocious dubbing to the spotty edi!ing to the t , uninvolving, and the feeling is that we're ing, and crossing, and crossing. Their girl- sad fact that the film is seven years old and One Chan Tho Many scraping very close to the bottom of the friends mix therri up! The gangsters mix them the images start to look a bit worn-out and proverbial barrel. up! The musician has to participate in a car dirty. •I_By Vladimir Zelevlnsky One of the reasons for this is that Twin chase, and the car mechanic has to conduct A few things in Twin Dragons work, so ASSOCIA TE ARTS EDITOR Dragons is not an action comedy. Chan is the orchestra! it's not a total loss. The way the film puts two Directed by Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam enti!ely in his element when he unleashes Throughout all this, the audience has to Jackies into a frame is usually highly accom- With Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li spectacular stunts and martial arts sequences, suffer through a particularly laborious series plished and inventive; in some shots, it's clear Chi, Teddy Robin Kwan performing feats seemingly impossible for of gags, each thrown at the screen not because we're witnessing a special effect, but mostly the human body. In this, Chan demonstrates it rightfully belongs there because of the plot it's seamless and the interactions feel very here's nothing quite as dangerous as himself to be a true heir of silent screen or the characters; no, all of it is done only to natural. The art direction is aces, with every success, especially in Hollywood, comedians, and his self-effacing persona is elicit a chuckle. More often than not, this setting having its own feel, from the glass- where every inspired work is followed not very far from that of Buster Keaton. In a fails, causing more embarrassment than enjoy- decorated club to the rusty mise-en-sc,ene of a Twith insipid imitations (Die Hard fill- word, Chan doesn't need to be funny to be ment. shipyard to the car factory. in-the-blank). The studios won't stop at any- funny - he already is, and at his best it's Most of it simply makes no sense, from the It's during the car factory finale - or, to thing to make a quick buck; and this probably impossible not to laugh out loud at the sheer ultra-artificial screenplay to the impossible be more precise, the second half of it - that explains the theatrical release of Twin joy and exuberance at which he dazzles the coincidences to the weird telepathic link the things finally go right: the last battle is Dragons. After the phenomenal success of audience. between the twins to the extremely annoying classic Chan, with superb physical timing and Rush Hour, Jackie Chan suddenly became a Very little of this is to be found in Twin antics of supporting players to the fact that grace. But by this time this is not quite enough hot property - strangely enough, since his Dragons, because this film is primarily a very little we see makes any sense whatsoev- to save the movie. Jackie Chan is funnier earlier USA-released films (Supercop, comedy ~ a silly slapstick comedy of inis- er. Only the radiant Maggie Cheung, playing a when he doesn't try to be funny, and in Twin Operation Condor) are vastly superior. So taken identity. You see, there are these two largely thankless part of one of the girlfriends, Dragons he tries a bit too hard. Page 10 THE TECH .THE ARTs April 16;'1999

the Green Line to Arlington, and experience seafood like never cultural renaissance," and probably a lot of Guiness. Other fes- before. tival artists include Elvis Costello, Hootie & The Blowfish, Scoop Shawn Mullins, and Sixpence None the Richer. Visit the Culture on a budget Festival website at http://www.guinessfleadh.com for details. By Teresa Huang The summer scene in the theater district is starting to shape STAFF REPORTER up, with big names like Chicago, Titanic, and Rent coming to It was a glass slipper ... coop is back! Didja miss it? For the uninitiated, Boston. If you're lacking the dough for tickets, keep an eye on Hands down, the ultimate chick flick of the year js Ever 'S the listings at BOSTIX, a local service that offers half-price After, starring Drew Barrymore and Anjelica Huston, now Scoop is your weekly guide to the latest and greatest happenings around the town, on screen, and online. tickets for same day theater performances. Visit their booths in available on video: This Cinderella interpretation features the Read this column, swear off Athena for a day, and Harvard Square, Copley Square, or Faneuil Hall, or check list- most feminist-minded cinder girl to date as well as the most - have some fun this weekend. There's more to life than XSL ings online at boston. sidewalk. com. Recent half-price offer- amusing royal family. The equal parts romance and adventure process mg. ings included tickets for Ragtime, Bille Man GrollP, and shows will leave you laughing, sighing, and cheering as at the A.RT. and Huntington Theater. Drew/Cinderella finds her way to true love. Seafood with a tropical twist Why shouldn't seafood be fun? The Legal "C" Bar, located Which state has the lowest highest point? Marathon Monday on the first floor of the Park Plaza Hotel, is owned and operated For those of you mourning the fact that Moxy Fruvous Patriots' Day is ,one of the best perks of going to college by Legal Sea Foods, though you couldn't tell from looking won't be playing La Sala next month, rest assured that they'll in Massachusetts. It's a rare day off that your Yale friends around the place. Colorful lights, surf boards, and flower leis still perform in the Cambridge area this spring. Catch Moxy ,don't get. Don't spend it at the library! Get outside and decorate this unique restaurant, which serves top quality seafood Fruvous at the House of Blues in Harvard Square on Mond3y, watch the 103rd Boston Marathon in downtown Bosto'n. Call with a Carribean twist. Start with the coconut shrimp with May 3rd & Tuesday, May 4th. Tickets are available through up your fraternity friends on Commonwealth Ave and invite orange-ginger sauce or the crab and avocado quesadillas, but Ticketmaster or from the House of Blues box office by calling yourself over. Track your running friends on the Boston be sure to leave room for the "Pan Do" Mixed Fish Fillets with (6 I 7) 49 I-2'100. Athletic Association Web site at www.baa.org. Walk around ,", creole ratatouille and West Indies hot sauce or Zailda's Still not enough Moxy? See them again on Saturday, June Kenmore Square and pick up some PowerBar samples. Brazilian Style Red Snapper Fillet. The "C" Bar even has 19, when they appear in the Guiness Fleadh Festival at Suffolk Enjoy! ' Jamaican Jerked Bluefish. Who could ask for anything more, Downs in Boston. Showcasing the best in Irish and American Have a scoop to share? Email me at [email protected] to' really? The Legal "C" Bar will close its doors forever in May, music, this all-day concert event will feature four performing and join me here next week for more recommendations on what so put on that new Hawaiian print shirt, grab some friends, take stages, an Irish Village that will offer "reflections of the Celtic to do on the weekend. Same Tech time, same Tech channel. o N THE 5 c- R EE N - BY THE TECH ARTS STAFF - The fol/owing movies are playing this weekend at ern lullaby of a thriller. The little depth here seems God Said "Ha!" <***) of most deliciously deadpan acting in recent memo- ',' local theaters. The Tech suggests using forced, but for sheer homey fun, look to the Cookie. A single extended monologue by Julia Sweeney, ry, add highly imaginative and inventive usage of http://www.boston.comfor a complete listing of -RR formerly know as Pat on Saturday Night Live, it is a wide screen format - and get Rushmore, which is times and locations, Cruel Intentions <**> story of one year of her life when everything seems just about the least conventional and yet solidly A millennial remake of Dangerous Liaisons. to be going wrong in the worst possible way. And enjoyable movie to come out recently. -VZ ' locales for her affair with her husband's brother. Got , ' music, dialogue, and cinematography makes this together to make for a powerful experience. - Roy Thrill Ride , A remarkable visual achievement, this story comedy a must-see. - FD I <**'/z) Rodenstein One third exhilarating, taking the audience on about one of the greatest rulers of England ever is The Matrix <*.**'/z) the wild rides through the worlds created solely by , Alaska <***V2) told by withholding the epic scope and concentrat- A wildly imaginative ride. The plot is nicely the artists' imagination and state-of- the-art technol- '. \ On the surface, a classic OmniMax nature- ing on the essential details. The great cast, head- complex, the visuals and the special effects are out ogy. One third innocuous, with rather bland "educa- themed documentary, replete with grandiose nature lined by Cate Blanchett in a commanding titular of this world. As the computer hacker Neo (Keanu tional" footage of rollercoasters and motion simula- shots and panoramic views of mountain ranges from performance and ably supported by Geoffrey Rush Reeves) dashes through a succession of interlocked tors. One third nauseating, with the impressive , the helicopter. Underneath - an involving story, as her chief assistant, works extra hard to create dreams in the quest to find true reality, the film computer-generating effects being artless and trying \ ,,: using the turn of the seasons as an underlying plot- vivid characters from the rather overwritten and launches into a full-throttle mode of inventive to conceal the fact that there's precious little sub- line and carefully observed animals as central char- overplotted screenplay. The finale, with ethereal action sequences. By combining the cyberpunk stance beneath the flashy surface. -VZ acters. Unexpectedly, it's also downright hilarious, music by Mozart, is stunning. - VZ ethos with the anime style, The Matrix breathes new bursting with more humor than any other movie Twin Dragons <**) Forces of Nature <*'/z) life into the genre of sci-fi action films. - VZ currently in release. -Vladimir Zelevinsky A 1992 Hong-Kong comedy with Jackie Chan • < Forces of Nature is a pretty lame excuse for a The Mod Squad <**) playing separated at birth twins: a martial-arts Analyze This <**> romantic comedy. Despite recruiting such talent as With a game cast and plenty of that 70's sensi- skilled car mechanic and a classical musician. A lot A sorry sit-cornish excuse for a comedy, with Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock, director Bronwen bility, down to the camera bouncing in synch with of embarrassing and tiresome slapstick ensue, with f.'. Billy Crystal engaging in so much tiresome shtick Hughes is unable to create a coherent and engaging the cheesy sound effects, The Mod Squad achieves almost everyone trying to be funny and' ending up as a burned-out shrink, analyzing an overstressed movie. There is very little comedy, even less its objective quite well. The only problem is that rather annoying. It's only during the final sequence mafia boss played by Robert De Niro. Not enough romance, and absolutely no realism offered in this plot and characters lifted straight from the small that Twin Dragons gets close to the classical Chao humor, not enough story, and more than enough film. Unless you are a die-hard Sandra Bullock or screen donit fill the big screen. Explosions and mixture of physical grace and comic timing. For, ' gratuitous violence. However, De Niro, in a rare Ben Affleck fan, this movie is not worth your $8 abandoned warehouses are the name of the game, most of the time, this movie trieS- entirely too hard comedic appearance, almost makes this movie and two hours. - Vanessa Yen with maybe a crooked cop thrown in for good mea- worth watching. - VZ to be funny. - VZ Go sure. With Giovanni Ribisi stealing every scene he's <**Vz) Waking Ned Devine <***l/z) Cookie's Fortune <***'/z) Pulp Fiction Lite, no fat and no calories. It's in, which is fortunately practi~lly the whole movie, Charming comedy about a small town's quest " • Cookie's Fortune finds Altman self-assured, lively, wild, frantic, bright, and thoroughly engag- The Mod Squad may be right up your alley. Just for wealth. Nearly 7 million pounds is at stake in relaxed and having fun, and his customary great ing. It's also totally inconsequential and largely don't go in expecting any kind of plot or character the Irish national lottery, and the sleepy village of ensemble in similar spirits. Catfish enchiladas, Wild unmemorable. Following a bunch of young development that you wouldn't see in fU1 episode of Tully More pulls together to outwit the officials Turkey, and gun-cleaning are the bonds between Californians trying to get some cash, do and deal a 70's TV show. - RR after the winner, one of the town's inhabitants, dies. Willis (Charles S. Dutton), an innocent man sus- some drugs, score money and sex in Las Vegas, and Rushmore <***Vz) at the shock of being rich. Standing in their way are pected of murdering Cookie (Patricia Neal), and the generally experience the rush of Ijfe, Go charts A breath - or, rather, make it blast - of fresh individual greed and fear of legal retribution, among sleepy town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. Glenn three separate stories. Each of these stories is excit- air. This is an offbeat comedy~ an offbeat buddy others. Close is the mastermind behind the madness, with ing, clever, and unexpected. But there's no empathy film, an offbeat romance, and an offbeat revenge Overall, it is a wholly enjoyable, hilarious, and I ~ Julianne Moore, Ned Beatty, Liv Tyler, and Chris in them, and the characters don't seem to have story. Or none of these things. Mix up some wildly wonderfully written film. One of the best of 1998. O'Donnell holding nothing back in this nutty south- gained anything from their experience. - VZ varying comic elements, combine them with some -FD

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Decorative Arts Walks" begin at 12:30 p.m.; -European Painting Popular Music and Decorative Arts Walks" begin at 2:30 p.m.; Introductory Avalon tours are also offered Sat. at 11 Next: 423-NEXT. a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Apr. 20: Eve 6 (rescheduled from Permanent Gallery Installations: 2/24). $12. "Late Gothic Gallery," featuring a Apr. 22: RZA. restored 15th-century stained Apr. 23: Wilco + Vie Chestnutt. glass window from Hampton $15 .. I Court, 14th- and 15th-century stone, alabaster, and poly- ., The Orpheum Theatre chrome wood sculptures from Ticketmaster: 931-2000. France and the Netherlands; Apr. 18: Neil Young. $50-150. "Mummy Mask Gallery," a newly Apr. 22: 1999 Kahlua Boston renovated Egyptian gallery, fea- Music Awards. $12, $22, $32 tures primitive masks dating I j and $50. from as far back as 2500 B.C.; Apr. 26: Around the World Notis "European Decorative Arts from Sfakianakis. $25-65. A vveekly guide to th-e arts in Boston 1950 to the Present"; "John May 3: The Cranberries. $26. Singer Sargent: Studies for MFA ,.; May 4, 5: Sheryl Crow + Apri I 16 - 23 and Boston Public Library Semisonic. Sold out. Murals. " May 15: Blondie. $31, $38.50. Compiled by Fred Choi and Joel M. Rosenberg Gallery lectures are free with May 16: Hole. $26. ' museum admission. Thurs. 11: Send submissions to [email protected] or by Interdepartmental mall to "On The Town, " The Tech, W20-483. at 11 a.m., "Baroque Decorative Berklee Performance Center Arts," presented by Joyce Geary Ticketmaster: 931-2000 Volk. Sat.: at noon, "17th- Fell Swoop. $8 adv., $10.00 May 8: Jonatha Brooke. $20. Century Dutch Painting," present- d.o.s. ed by Amy Daughenbaugh. Sun.: Apr. 30: Bogmen. $8. Reet Center at 2 p.m., "A Valentine for May 6: Caedmon's Call. $14 Ticketmaster: 931-2000. Lupercalia: Lovers in Art," pre- adv., $16 d.o.s. Jun 14: Shania Twain. Sold out. sented by Henry Augustine Tate. May 7: Robbie Williams. $10 Wed.: at 6 p.m .. "Maritime adv., $12 d.o.s. Worcester Centrum Centre America," presented by Guy Ticketmaster: 931-2000. Jordan. Axis Apr. 9: Marilyn Manson + NEXT: 423-NEXT. Nashville Pussy. $29.50. Apr. 16: Bindlestiff Family Museum of Science May 15: Bill Gaither & Friends. Circus. Science Park, Boston, (723- $24.50, $17.50. ,; , Apr. 20. The Creatures. $15. 2500), Daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.- Tweeter Center for the 5 p.m. Admission free with MIT Performing Arts (Great Woods) 10, otherwise $9, $7 for children Ticketmaster: 931-2000. 3-14 and seniors. May 28: Lenny Kravitz + The Black Crowes + Everlast + Cree Jazz Music The Museum features the the- Summer. $39.50 pavilion, ater of electricity (with indoor Regattabar $25.00 lawn. thunder-and-lightning shows Tickets: 661-5000. May 30: WBCN River Rave. daily) and more than 600 hands- Details t.b.a. on WBCN. $29.00. Apr. 13: Steve Lacy Trio. $14. on exhibits. Ongoing: "Discovery Jun. 5: Kiss Concert. Details Apr. 16-18: Ron Carter Quartet & Center"; "Investigate! A See-For- t.b.a. on KISS. Richie Hart Trio. $14 Sun., $16 Yourself Exhibit"; "Science in the Jun. 4: Natalie Merchant. Fri., $18 Sat. Park: Playing with Forces and ;. Jun. 11: Charlie Daniels Band + Motion"; "Seeing Is Deceiving." Marshall Tucker Band + Molly Sculler's Ongoing: "Everest: Roof of the Hatchet. $29:50, $25 pavilion, Tickets: 562-4111. World"; "Living on the Edge." $15 lawn. On sale 4/18 at noon. Ticketmaster: 931-2000 Through May 9: "Cats! Wild to Jun. 12: John Mellencamp + Son Apr.16-17: George Shearing Mild." Quintet. $28. Volt. $46 pavilion, $29.50 lawn. Admission to Omni. laser, and Apr. 21: Harvie Swartz & Eye Jun. 20: Journey + Foreigner. planetarium shows is $7.50, Contact. $12. $35. On sale 4/18 at noon. $5.50 for children and seniors. Apr. 22: Humberto Ramirez. Jun. 23, 24: J. Geils Band. Now showing: "Laser Depeche $14. $39.50 pavilion, $25 lawn. RICHARD FELDMAN Mode," Sun., 8 p.m.; "Laser Apr.23: Nelson Rangell. $18. Jun. 26: Allman Brothers Band. Blue Man Group, the Off-Broadway sensation appearing at The Charles Playhouse. Offspring," Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m.; $40.50, $30.50 pavilion, Apr.29 - May 2: Bobby Short. "Laser Rush," Sun., 9:15; $~5.~0 lawn. $28 Thurs. and Sun., $32 Fri. The Who's Tommy children under 5. Half-price "Laser Beastie Boys,' Thurs.- Jun. 29: Nickelodeon's All That and Sat. Boston Pops This return of the Tony-winning admission on Sun. from 3-5 Sat., 9:15 p.m.; "Laser Floyd's Tour with 98 Degrees + Monica May 4: Opening Night at Pops. multimedia production of the p.m. Tours daily of -Walk Wall," Fri.-Sat., 10:30 p.m.; + 3rd Storee + No Authority + - BankBoston Celebrity Series $50,$75.$130,$175 1969 rock opera by the Who's Through Computer 2000," a "Friday Night Stargazing," Fri., Aaron Carter. Tickets: 266-1200. ,May 5-7: - Keith Lockhart, IPete Townsend (w!th b09k by working two-story model of a PC. 8:30 p.m.; "Welcome to the coJul~ ",9: Torri . Petty_.& The Performances at,Symphony Hall, Conductor. Aiyanq Ninomiya, vil>- Townsend and director Des The world's only computer muse- , Universe," daily; "Quest for (' Heartbreakers: $47~50 pavilion~n .301tt"" Massachusetts Ave., 'Iin. Tanglewood Festival Chorus, .McAnuff) is billed as a celebra- um; features a collection of vin- Contact: Are We Alone?" daily. ' $26 lawn. Boston uniess otherw'ise noted. John Oliver, conductor. tion of the 30th anniversary of tag~ computers and robots with Jul. 12, 13: Phish. $27.50. On Apr. 18. Preservation Hall Jazz Glazounov, Violin Concerto. 'the release of the original album. over 150 hands-on exhibits illus- 'sale 5/23 at noon. Band. From New Orleans. Flaherty and Ahrens, 'With "Set in Britain between the end trating the evolution, use, and Jul. 22: Bob Dylan + Paul Simon. Program will be chosen at the Voices Raised'. $17-33. ot"World War II and the late impact of computers. Featured Jul 24, 25: 'N Sync + Five + concer and announced frm the 1960s, Tommy chronicles the exhibits include: "The Hacker's stage. $25-$42. adventures of young Tommy Garage, - a recreation of a '70s Other Events Jordan Knight. Sold out. Jul., 31: Steve Miller Band + Apr. 28. America in Rhythm & Walker,- who survives sexual hacker's garage with such items 7th Annual Boston Internatonal George Thorogood and the Tune: The Ellington Tribute fea- abuse and autism to become a as an Apple I and Pong; "The Festival of Women's Cinema Destroyers. $32.50 pavilion, turing The Lincoln Center Jazz Dance pinball wizard. Worth Gardner is Networked Planet: Traveling the $23.50 lawn. Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. at the helm, with musical direc- Information Highway: an elec- Through Apr. 19 at the Brattle Aug. 20: Allman Brothers Band. Annual event, this year featuring Tap and Flamenco Jam and tion by Scot Woolley; the show tronic tour of the Internet; Theatre, in Harvard Square, $40.50, $30.50 pavilion, the music of Ellington lead by Showcase features a -cast of 20 Broadway "Robots and Other Smart Cambridge (876-6838). $25.50 lawn. Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Apr. 17, The Dance Complex, talents and an on-stage orches- Machines," an interactive exhibi- Featuring a wide variety of films, Aug. 28: WKLB's Country Music Wynton Marsalis. $30-$4!? 536 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, tra. At the Colonial Theatre, 106 tion of artificial intelligence and including the U.S. debuts of Festival featuring Alabama. (547-9363),8 pm, Tickets $5. Boylston Street, Boston (931- robots; "Tools & Toys: The films directed by Indian director $29.50 pavilion, $19.50 lawn. 2787), April 13 through 25. Amazing Personal Computer"; Deepa Mehta anq Belgian direc- Sep. 2, 3: Jimmy Buffett and the Alvin Alley American Dance Curtain is at 8 p.m. Tuesday "People and Computers: tor Patrice Toye; the Academy Coral Reefer Band. $52, $40.50 Theater through Saturday and at 7:30 Milestones of a Revolution," Award-nominated Regret to pavilion, $27 lawn. Sold out. Classical Music Apr. 20-25. Under the direction p.m. on Sunday, with 2 p.m. explores a number of ways com- Inform, Barbara Sonneborn's por- Sep. 11: $39.50 pavilion, of Judith Jamison. part of the matinees on Saturday and puters impact everyday life. In trait of the lasting devastation of $29.50 lawn. Boston Symphony Orchestra BankBoston Celebrity Series. At Sunday. Tix $26 to $70. the Smart Machines Theater a the Vietnam War as seent Foxboro Stadium Tickets: 266-1492. Tuesdays, The Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont multi-media show features through the eyes of both Ticketmaster: 931-2000 Thursdays, Saturdays, 8 P.M.; St., Boston. Tickets (800) 447- Boston Theater Marathon NASA's Mars Rover, R2-D2, American and Vietnamese May 29: Dave Matthews Band + Fridays, 1:30 P.M. $23-$71; 4700, $35-$55 (Sat. matinne, The Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Shakey, Sea Rover, and other women; films from Iran, Santana + The Roots. Sold out. rush seats $7.50 day of concert, $20-$40.) supported by a grant from the BU robots. Through Nov. 30: Germany, and France: documen- May 30: Dave Matthews Band + on sale Fridays from 9 a.m., Humanities Foundation, spon- "Wizards and Their Wonders: taries; and sneak preview t. Santana + The Roots. $35.50. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 Champions on Ice sors the first annual Boston Portraits in Computing.- screenings of international fea- p.m .. Free tickets for MIT stu- Apr. 18 at 2 pm, 7 pm, at the Theater Marathon, to take place Ongoing: "Virtual FishTank." tures including Lisanne Skyler's The Middle East dents Tuesday evenings and Fleet Center. This year includes just one day before the one with Getting to Know You, starring Ticketmaster: 931-2000. Friday afternoons, call 638-9478 Michelle Kwan, Brian Boitano, all the runners. The BTM will Isabella Stewart Gardner Heather Matarazzo, Michael Apr. 16: Actual Proof. $7. for availability .. Todd Eldredge, and more. offer 10 continuous hours of the- Museum Weston, and Bebe Neuwirth, Apr. 16: Sparklehorse. $8. Apr: 16-17: Bernard Haitink, Tickets are $35, $50, $65. ater consisting of 40 new 10- 280 The Fenway, Boston. (566- based on short stories from Apr. 17: Mary Lou Lord. $8. Conductor. Maria Joao Pires, Tickets through Ticketmaster: minute plays written by 40 area 1401), Tues.-Sun. 11 a.m.-5 Joyce Carol Oats. Apr. 17: Rockett Band. $8 adv., piano. Mozart, Symphony No. 931-2000. playwrights and produced by 40 p.m. Admission $10. $7 for $10 day of.- 35, Piano Concerto No.9, local theater companies. seniors, $5 for students with 10 An Act of Conscience Serenade No. 10 for thirteen Participating playwrights include ($3 on Wed.), free for children Apr. 18: Mercury Rev. $10. Lord of the Dance Apr. 16, 7:30. A showing of a Alan Brody, Laura Harrington, under 18. . Apr. 18: John Fahey. $7. winds. Sold out. June 3, at 8pm, 4 at 8pm, 5 at documentary about Randy Kehler David Mamet. At the Boston The museum, built in the style of Apr. 19: Rubbertellie 2tet. $6, Apr. 22-24, 27: Seiji Ozawa, 2pm and 8pm, The Wang and Betsy Corner of Colrain, Playwrights' Theatre, 949 a 15th-century Venetian palace, $5 students. Conductor. Williams, world pre- Theatre. Tickets $66, $46, $36, Massachusetts, whose refusal to Commonwealth Avenue, Boston houses more than 2500 art Apr. 19: Deadbolt. $7. miere of a new work. Strauss, $26 with $61 as the top price pay their federal income taxes (353-5443), April 18. Hours are objects, with emphasis on Italian Apr. 20: Jupiter Coyote and 'Death and Transfiguration'. for 2 p.m. Tickets from Tele- as a protest against war and mil- from noon to 10 p.m .. with a Renaissance and 17th-century Heavy Metal Horns. $8. Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra. charge, 1-800-447-7400, or itary spending resukted in the party to follow. All-day pass $15 Dutch works. Among the high- Apr. 20: Trans Am. $8. Sold out. Wang Theatre box office. seizure of their home by the IRS. in advance; $20 day of perfor- lights are works by Rembrandt, Apr. 21: Compulsive Gamblers. At the Harvard-Epworth United mance. All net proceeds. to bene- Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, and t' ) $7. BankBoston Celebrity Series Methodist Church, 1555 Mass. fit the Theatre Community Whistler. Guided tours given Apr. 23, 24: Middle East NeMO Tickets: 266-1200. ave., Cambridge. 02138, 354- Benevolent Fund, which provides Fridays at 2:30 p.m. '99 Music Showcase: Various Performances at Symphony Hall, 0837. A discussion will follow. emergency medical funds to Through April 25: "Josiah music groups. $7 for upstairs 301 Massachusetts Ave., Theater Suggested contributions: $5, $3 Boston theater artists (additional McElheney: The Story of Glass." shows, $8 for downstairs, $20 Boston unless otherwise noted. students. wristbands available at the door. Apr. 18: Mozarteum Orchestra of Blue Man Group contributions accepted). Apr. 29: Dick Dale. $12. Salzburg. Hubert Soudant, con- Charles Playhouse, 74 Museum of Rne Arts A Tribute to Henry Hampton May 1: Babaloo. $8. ductor. Till Fellner, piano. Warrenton Street, Boston, indefi- 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. May 9: WBCN Rock 'n' Roll Katharine Goeldner, mezzo- nitely. Curtain is at 8 p.m. on (267-9300), Mon.-Tues., 10 Apr. 18, 2-5 pm at the John F. Rumble - Local Band competi- soprano. Mozart, Symphony No. Wednesday and Thursday, at 7 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Wed., 10 Kennedy Library and Museum, tion. $7. 29, Piano Concerto K. 503, and 10 p.m. on Friday and Exhibits a.m.-9:45 p.m.; Thurs.-Fri., 10 Columbia Point, Boston. An Concert Arias, Symphony No. 36. Saturday, and at 3 and 6 p.m. a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 10 examination of th'e work of Emmy Paradise Rock Club $30-$48. on Sunday. Tickets $35 to $45. The Spin Wave Series, by David a.m.-5:45 p.m. West Wing open award-winning documentary film Next: 423-NEXT .. Apr. 21: Murray Perahia, piano. Call 426-6912 for tickets and Kupferman Thurs.-Fri. until 9:45 p.m. maker Henry Hampton and Apr. 16: Latin Playboys. $15. Bach, English Suite No.5. information on how to see the Exhibition at the' Newton Free Admission free with MIT 10, oth- Blackside, Inc., the production Apr. 23: Citizen King. $5. Beethoven, Sonatas Nos. 6 and show for free by ushering. Library Gallery, 330 Homer St., erwise $10, $8 for students and company he founded. Will fea- Apr. 24: Chapter in Verse - CD 14. Schubert, Sonata, D. 958. Newton Centre, MA 02459 (552- seniors, children under 17 free; ture a distinguished panel of for- Release Show + Sara Wheeler. $35-$50. Shear Madness 7145), throuh April 29. Artist;s $2 after 5 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., free mer and current Blackside pro- $8. Apr. 25: Evelyn Glennie, percus- Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Reception April 17, 2-4 pm. Wed. after 4 p.m .. duction staff and the screening Apr. 25: Unwritten Law + Spring sion. Works by Psathas, Albeniz, Warrenton Street, Boston (426- Mon .-Fri.: introductory walks and sicussion of short segments Heeled Jack + Blue Meanies. $8 Masson, Volans and more. 5225), indefinitely. Curtain is at Computer Museum \ through all collections begin at of films he worked on. For more adv., $10.00 d.o.s. NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 300 Congress St., Boston. (423- 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; information, call 929-4523. For Apr. 28: Pat McGee Band + Gainsborough St., Boston. at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. on 6758 or 426-2800), Daily, 10 "Asian, Egyptian, and Classical reservations, call 929-4571. Fighting Gravity. $10. Tickets, call 482-6661. .$35- Saturday, and at 3 and 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Ad.mission $7, $5 Walks" begin at 11:30 a.m.; Free, with reception following. Apr. 29: Jiggle the Handle + One $42. p.m. on Sunday. Tickets $~0-34. for students and seniors, free for "~erican Painting and The April Tech 16,1999

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TechCalendar appears in each issue of The Tech and features events for members of the MIT community. The ~, Tech makes no guarantees as to the accuracy of this information, and The Tech shall not be held liable fo~ any loss- es, including, but not limited to, damages resulting from attendance of an event. TechCalendar Contact information for all events is available from the TechCalendar web page. Visit and add events to TechCalendar online at http://teclH:alendar.mit.edu Friday's Events Wednesday's Events 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Winning Interview Techniques. Learn interview tech-' 11:00 a.m. - Optical Networking. Alistair Glass, Lucent Technologies, Bell. niques that will win you job offers. Room 8-205. Sponsor: OCSPA. Laboratories. EECS /RLE - Optics & Quantum Electronics Seminar Series. 11:00 .-. 3:00 p.m. - Time-Frequency Analysis by Harmonic Wavelets. Professor David E. am, Room 34-Grier'Room B. Newland, Engineering Dept., Cambridge University, U.K. Mechanical Engineering .' Spring Seminar Series. Refreshments to follow in Miller Room, 1-114. Room 3- 3:30 p.m. - Lecture on Science Policy Issue~. ProfeSSional Development Senes. }' 270. Ashdown House, Hulsizer. 4:00 p.m. - Rare Gases: Implications for Mantle Sources and Processes In 4:00 p.m. - From complete genome sequences to regulatory network measures Generating Oceanic Basalts. Dr. Mark Kurz, Woods Hole Oceanographic and models. Prof. George M. Church, Department of Genetics, Harvard University ~, Institution. EAPS Department Lecture Series. Refreshments, 3:30 pm, Ida Green Medical School. Problems and Methods in Bioinformatics. Room 56-114. Lounge. Room 54-915 ... '00 _12'15 _ MITA I CI b Sh I 7'00 R . K h' 54-56 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Medical School Essay Writing. The goal of,thls workshop IS to 7. p.m .. a.m. n me u ow ng .. uroUni ens In .... , .. ' .. (subtitled); 8:50 Kimagure Orange Road Special showing (subtitled); 11:30 faCIlitate personal statement wntlng process and hopefully make I~bearable, If not Kodomo no Omocha 14-15 (subtitled); Feel free to come at any time. E51-345. enjoyable. Room 4-149. Sponsor: OCSPA. Sponsor: Anime Club, MIT. 4:15 p.m. - A q-analogue of Mahler Expansions. Dr. Keith Conrad, Ohio State -)t. 7:00 p.m. - Clerks. Starring Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Lisa University. Room 2-338. Spoonhauer, and Kevin Smith as Silent Bob. 103 minutes, rated R. Admission 5'00 Ad d M I P rf R It I' Ch' I t h R h '99 I 2.50. 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.. p.m. - vance us c e ormance, ec a. r s op er 0 rs , c ar-

~ S h M B h Inet. Advanced Music Performance Recital: Christopher Rohrs '99, clarinet. Killian l. 7:3O p.m. - Horse reathers. tarring t e arx rot ers. Cosponsored by the - DeFlorez Funds. 68 minutes, no MPAA rating. Admission 2.50. 10-250. Sponsor: Hall. LSC. 7:00 p.m. - Comp~exltles Surrounding the Implementation of the Death Penalty. 8:00 p.m. - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Musical Theatre Prof. Daniel Kemp, MIT Professor of Chemistry. Room 4-231. Sponsor: Amnesty ,~ Guild's production of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical. Admission $9, International. $8 MIT faculty/staff/sr citizens/non-MIT students, $6 MIT students. Kresge Little 8:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Chorus Concert. William Cutter, director. Kresge Theater. Auditorium. 8:00 p.m. - Yeomen of the Guard. MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players production. Admission $9, $8 for MIT community, $7 for other students/children, $6 for MIT/Wellesley students. Sala de Puerto Rico. Thursday,'s Events 8:00 p.m. - The Food Chain. Theater Arts workshop production of play by Nicky 12:00 p.m. - Regulation of Glial Development through Ligand- and Voltage-Gated Silver. Kresge Rehearsal Rm B. Ion Channels. Dr. Vittorio Gallo, Section Chief, NIH/NICHD. Room E25-461. 9:00 p.m. - Potluck Performance Art Party. AKA show+tell. Bring video, poetry, Sponsor: Wurtman Lab. slides, anything to read, show, perform and/or consume. Admission 4.00. N52- 12:00 p.m. - MIT Chapel Concert. John Tyson, recorders; Miyuki Tsurutani, 115. Sponsor: Office of the Arts. ' recorder and harpsichord; Douglas Frendlich, lute. Early 17th century sonatas, 10:00 p.m. - Clerks. Starring Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, ~,/ Lisa Spoonhauer, and Kevin Smith as Silent Bob. 103 minutes, rated R. Admission improvisations an'd dances. Chapel., ' 2.50. 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. 4:00 p.m. - Seasonal/Interannual prediction with general circulation models. Jeff Anderson, GFDL. MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars. Room 54-915. (', Saturday's Events 4:00 p.m. - Seiling to the Newsvendors. Mar1YLariviere, Assistant Professor at 9:30 a.m. - Sailing Regattas. Sailing Team regattas held at local venues. MIT, BU, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.'Room E40-298. Sponsor: Operations Harvard. Cheer on the Sailing Team or just enjoy a spring day by the river. MIT-51, Research Center .. Sailing Pavilion. Sponsor: MIT Nautical Association. 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. - The Medical School Application Process.' Learn about the fun- 10:30 a.m. - Influence, Power and Intentionality at MIT. Jeremy D. Sher, John S. Hollywood and Jake H. Parrott, Student Resource Service Managers. Patriot's Day damental process of applying to medical schooL Room 1-145. Sponsor: OCSPA.- .... ~eekend Training Blowout. This weekend's training blowout covers topics from 4:15 p.m. - Gamma Ray Bursts and Their Afterglows. Bohdan Paczynski, I both Student Resource Service Training and Project Management. Includes an all- Princeton University. Physics Colloquium. Room 10-250. new special topic- Design of Complex Processes. Room 4-145. 7:00 p.m. - Media and Imagination - Readings In Science Fiction. Lois McMaster 1:30 p.m. - Crash Course on the MIT Administration/Negotiation and . , ~ Bujold, Melissa Scott. S'ponsored by Media in Transition Project with Lecture ' Communication Skills. John S. Hollywood and Jeremy D. Sher, Student Resource Service Managers. Room 4-145. , Series Committee. Room 10-250. 2:00 - 8:00 p.m. - Rhythm of the Youth. A Community Se'rvice Dance Explosion 8:00 p.m. - Yeomen of ~he Guard. ~IT Gilbert and Sullivan Players production. featuring capoeira, breakdancing, west african dance, hip hop, drumming, step- Admission $9, $8 for MIT community, $(' for other students/children, $6 for ping, and gumboot. Focus is on the youth but all are welcome to see the exhibi- MIT/Wellesley student~. Sala de Puerto Rico. tions. Johnson Athletic Center. Sponsor: Groove Phi Groove S.F.1. 8:00 p.m. - For Colored Girls Who. Consider Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enu,f.... , 7:00 p.m. - The Siege. Starring Denzel Washington, Anette Bening, and Bruce Dramashop produ~tion of ~horeopoem by Ntozake Shange directed by Assistant Willis. 115 minutes, rated R, with DTS Digital Sound. Admission 2.50. 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. Professor Thomas DeFrantZ. Admission $8, $6 w/student 10. Kresge Little 8:00 p.m. - The Food Chain. Theater Arts workshop production of play by Nicky Theater. Silver. Kresge Rehearsal Rm B. 8:00 p.m. - Yeomen of the Guard. MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players production. Next Friday's Events c. Admission $9, $8 for MIT community, $7 for other students/children, $6 for 9:00 a.m. - War & Technology During the Old Regime. Two-day Conference: Fri., MIT/Wellesley students. Sala de Puerto Rico. Apr. 23, 9:00-Noon, Gunpowder & Warfare; 2:00-5:00, Archaeology & Architecture; 8:00 p.m. - MITCAN Concert. Performance by MIl's African Music Ensemble. Sat. April 24, 9:00-Noon, The View from Military History; 2:00; Roundtable James Makubuya, director. Wong Aud., Tang Center .. Discussion. E56-100. Sponsor: Dibner Institute. 10:00 p.m. - The Siege. Starring Denzel Washington, Anette Bening, and Bruce Willis. 115 minutes, rated R, with DTS Digital Sound. Admission 2.50. 26-100. 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Finding a Place to Start: Step One In the Caree; Sponsor: LSC. Planning Process. This workshop helps you identify your skills, interests, and val- 1--. ues to better direct your career and life. Room 8-205. Sponsor: OCSPA. Sunday's Events 12:00 p.m. - 4th International Design Thlnkln~ Research Symposium. Two day I' I 12:00 p.m. - Crash Course In Project Management. John ~~Hollywood, Vice symposium. Sponsor: Department of Architecture. President, Institute Foundation of MIT. Room 4-145. 4:00 p.m. - Flow Induced by Steady Air Venting and Air Sparglng. Chiang.C. Mei, 2:00 p.m. - Yeomen of the Guard. MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players production. Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering~ Room 1-350. Sponsor:Engineering ...~.. Admission $9, $8 for MIT community, $7 for other students/children, $6 for MIT/Wellesley students. Sala de Puerto Rico. & Environmental Mechanics Group. 2:30 p.m. - Special Topics: Organizational Learning and Complex Processes. 4:00 p.m. - Analyses of Rocks and Solis at the Mars Pathfinder landing Site. Jake H. Parrott and John S. Hollywood, Institute Foundation of MIT. Room 4-145. Professor Harry Y. McSween, Jr., UniverSity of Tennessee. EAPS Department 7:00 p.m. - Clerks. Starring Brian O'Halloran, )eff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Lisa Lecture Series. Refreshments, 3:30 pm, Ida Green Lounge. Room 54-915. Spoonhauer, and Kevin Smith as Silent Bob. 103 minutes, rated R. Adrl)ission 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. - The Medical School Application Process. Learn about the fun- 2.50. 26-100. Sponsor: LSC. , \ damental process of applying to medical sc~ool. Room 4-145. Sponsor: OCSPA. 10:00 p.m. - The Siege. Starring Denzel Washington, Anette Bening, and Bruce Willis. 115 minutes, rated R, with DTS Digital Sound. Admission 2.50. 26-100. 4:15 p.m. - Formulas In the Schubert Calculus. Dr. Arun Ram, Princeton Sponsor: LSC.. University. Combinatorics Seminar. Room 2-338. ,. 8:00 p.m. - Yeomen of the Guard. Mil Gilbert and Sullivan Players production. Tuesday's Events Admission $9, $8 for MIT community, $7 for other students/children, $6 for 4:30 p.m. - Applications of Fluid Mechanics In <;Irculatlng fluidized Beds. Dr. MIT/Wellesley students. Sala de Puerto Rico. " Alan Pfeffer, ABB. Gas Turbine Seminar Series. Room 31-161. 8:00 p.m., - Ensemble Intercontemporaln Concert. David Robertson, conductor. 6:00 p.m. - Stephen R. Covey, bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kreuzspiel; Igor Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale Suite; lannis Effe - - - -e People. 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The close proximity of conflict- Rongji outnumbered protesters in ly weapon, namely a flagpole, Chinese students clubs from several Dingli Chen said that protesters ing viewpoints led to tensions which the crowds lining Massachusetts according to Pasquarello. other Boston-area universities were were "not taking full advantage of sometimes erupted into violence. Avenue and Memorial Drive prior Roth said that much of the vio- also present at the rally. his visit," by not engaging in dialog Liwi Chen said that the anti-Zhu to his address on Wednesday. MIT lence began after an altercation over Bexley Hall resident Dingli with the premier and by aggravating forces had the "right to share their ,~ Campus Police estimated' that 4,000 a loudspeaker set up by pro-Zhu Chen '99, also supported Zhu. She tensions. "Peace right now is the voice but [it is] also our right to to people were present at the demon- forces. said that he "has a lot of intelligent most important thing," she said. share our voice." strations. thoughts" and can "offer insight" Nearby Liwi Chen on Memorial N godup characterized the Zhu The protesters represented caus- Chinese student clubs mobilize into China. Chen answered concerns Drive, Ngodup Sangpo, a native supporters as the children of "high es ranging from Tibetan indepen- Liwi Chen, a Harvard student, about human rights by saying that Tibetan, was protesting to "raise class officials" in China. Allen dence to stopping technology trans- Harrison, who was protesting along- fer to Ch ina. Three arrests and side Ngodup said that the supporters several minor altercations marred "don't seem to remember the otherwise peaceful protests Tiananmen square." which were overseen by State, Park Violence erupted briefly when Commission, County, MBTA and protesters marched towards ,< MIT Campus Police. Memorial Drive. When they were Many protesters wore "Free detained by barriers the protesters Tibet" shirts and shouted slogans tore down pro-China signs and such as "shame on China" and burned Chinese flags. At another ..." "Tibet for Tibetans." Pro-Zhu forces point during the morning, pro- carried Chinese and American flags. Chinese forces and protesters traded slogans across Amherst drive. Arrests mar demonstrations Frank Pasquarello of the Diverse viewpoints represented Cambridge Police said that three While many protesters were arrests were made. Kim Meston and devoted to the cause of an indepen- + Deja Meston were arrested for dis- dent Tibet and a fully independent orderly conduct. According to Taiwan, more marginal viewpoints Pasquarello, the Mestons were were also present. ~> pushing and shoving in the crowds. Jerry Hallaren, a representative Rick Roth, who was protesting of Lyndon H. Larouche, called for with Amnesty International, said an United States economic alliance that Meston had been arrested by with China and a break from the ... Cambridge Police before 9 a.m. International Monetary Fund and Roth said that the Mestons had been currency speculation. Hallaren cited behaving peaceably and didn't pro- T. LUKE YOUNG-THE TECH Indonesia's currency crisis and voke their arrest. "A lot of us were Protesters and supporters packed Massachusetts Avenue on Wednesday In anticipation of Premier Zhu dropping Mexican food production 0:. actually talking to the other side," Rongjl's visit to Mil. as the results of the International Monetary Fund system. You "can't eat computer chips," Hallaren said. ';", "Food is going to be a rare com- Zhu Defends U.S. Trade Deficit With China modity" if the current system con- tinues, he said. Zhu, from Page I stage of development for U .S.- and Cognitive Sciences Mary C. restrained behavior. Bailyn recog- Doug Wagner protested technol- ,- China relations," Zhu said. Potter, who co-chaired the recent nized the conflicting opinions regard- ogy transfer to China. "We have a ately to other nations. Institute committee investigating ing such issues as Taiwan, Tibet, and major problem with technology Zhu discussed a study he conduct- Zhu evades human rights issues gender discrimination in the school human rights, but encour~ged transfer," he said. Wagner said that ed in 1987 while he was Executive Zhu expressed his willingness of science. Potter asked how China respectful trea~ent of the Premier. the transfer rocket technology to Vice Minister of the State Economic to discuss controversial issues with was assuring equal use of female Before Zhu arrived, Professor China has "already compromised Commission. Zhu looked into athletic U.S. leaders, including human talent and ability. Edward S.. Steinfeld of the 'Sloan our ability to defend ()urself." " shoe exports to the United States rights, Tiananmen Square, the "I am very much in favor of School of Management spoke about ... Wagner's brother 'Ken .told other~ I. from Nike, Reebok, and Adidas, Dalai Lama, and Kosovo. "I am equality between men and women," current Sino-American relations. protesters, "Welcome to America' among other companies, and found willing to come here and talk about despite the contrary Chinese tradi- Steinfeld noted that Zhu' s visit was now why don't you go back." Doug that shoes costing $20 to make were some of these issues," Zhu said. "I tion of a male-dominated society, . especially appropriate since he is Wagner ,described him as sold for $120 in the United States. want to come tell you what the real Zhu said. He cited State Councilor dean of the Tsinghua University "feisty." , ,~ Only two dollars of that money actu- picture is." However, Zhu declined Madame Wu Yi, who accompanied business school, a sister school with Other forms of demonstration ally went to Chinese workers and to discuss these issues at MIT after him on his U.S. tour, as an example Sloan. However, regarding such included flags hung from Ashdown managers, Zhu said. Much of the they were repeatedly brought up on of gender equity in China's govern- issues as espionage and human House windows and a car which ~. total cost went to the U.S. and other each of his U.S. stops in Los ment. Referring to the WTO talks, rights, "I think, at least on the sur- drove up and down Massachusetts nations where raw materials and Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and Zhu said that "in this round of nego- face, these are not particularly Avenue blaring the Chinese components were produced. New York. tiations, she was the Premier, and I heady times," Steinfeld said. "These national anthem from loudspeak- Despite his defense of the cur- After concluding his address, was the Vice Premier." As he fin- problems are different from the er~ 4 rent deficit situation, Zhu said that Zhu took questions from the audi- ished his comments, Zhu joked that problems China faced in the past." "China will do its best to improve ence in Kresge. The first audience "at home, I am totally an obedient China's main economic issue today, Zhu gives speech at Park Plaza this trade balance." member, Edward Wang G, acted as servant of my wife." Steinfeld said, is managing and gov- Following his address at MIT, representative for Xu Jin, the daugh- erning a complex market economy. Zhu traveled to the Park Plaza Hotel .~. Zhu wants WTO membership ter of political prisoner Xu Wenli. Audience welcomes Zhu A chief goal, Steinfeld said, in Boston to meet with Zhu also discussed some of the He questioned the premier when Xu Zhu arrived via motorcade remains membership in the W orId Massachusetts Governor Paul major concessions China has made Wenli, a Beijing democracy activist around II :00 a.m., and was escorted Trade Organization. "China has Cellucci as well as numerous local (. to secure admission to the World jailed for the past 12 years, would into Kresge by President Charles M. reversed the situation and made business leaders over lunch. Trade Organization. WTO mem- be released from prison. Zhu Vest, who discussed the lack of concessions that few if any experts His speech touched on global bership would help promote mar- responded by joking that frequent Sino-American relations during the had expected," Steinfeld said. "The economic issues and made clear ket competition and improve discussions about human rights dur- Cold War, and the progress made concessions China is making are Zhu's desire to increase U.S. busi- -. China's national economy, accord- ing his U.S. trip had given him blis- since then. "Leaders of China and painful." ness investment in China. ing to Zhu. He also thought that ters on his mouth. However, he the United States have torn away Both protesters and supporters "without China's participation, the added, "we acknowledge that we many of the barriers that once sepa- Visit merits high security trailed Zhu to Boston and demon- WTO will not be representative still have shortcomings" regarding rated us," Vest said. Security personnel for the strated outside the Park Plaza Hotel I~ enough." human rights. Zhu finished by say- A large group of students from address included MIT, Cambridge, during his speech. Zhu argued that the U.S. should ing that the public forum was "not Tsinghua University cheered Zhu's and State police, Middlesex County Many of those present in front implement the free trade it advo- the time or place for me to go into frequent references to the universi- sheriffs, and members of the Secret of the 77 Massachusetts Avenue r: cates elsewhere when dealing with details." ty, from which Zhu himself graduat- Service. The Stratton Student entrance to MIT in the morning China, calling the restrictions The second question came from ed with an electrical engineering Center, athletic buildings, and marched over the Harvard Bridge to placed on exports to China too an alumnus of Tsinghua University degree in 1951. Zhu mentioned that Amherst Alley were completely Park Plaza at 12:30 p.m., continu- strict. He cited examples including who asked about China's develop- while he studied there, Tsinghua shut down for Zhu' s address, with ing to chant cries of protest or wel- \ ~ satellite and computer technology ment in the areas of science, tech- was known as the "MIT of China". access to some dorms limited to come. that the United States would not nology, and education. "The invest- Tsinghua used photocopied versions Memorial Drive. A sharpshooter Boston Police closed off the allow to be exported, arguing that ment we have put into this effort has of texts from MIT, Zhu said, but was also spotted on the roof of the streets surrounding Park Plaza as (.' such limitations hurt China's eco- been unprecedented in its scope and "whether they were pirated copies Johnson Athletic Center. Zhu's motorcade entered the area nomic growth. size," Zhu responded. "Basic educa- or not I do not know." The issue of In order to access to Kresge, and demonstrators began to line the In trade negotiations with tion is a very important component Chinese firms pirating U.S.-made people were required to endure streets. President Clinton last week, restric- of this." software was brought up during repeated checks of photo identifi- "We want to let the city of tions were lifted on wheat and citrus Zhu commented on China's lack Zhu's visit. cation, a pass through a metal Boston know that we do not support fruits, among other U.S. exports. of managers, accountants, and secu- Zhu said that he has always detector, and searches of all bags. China's occupation of Tibet. Human "But ladies and gentlemen, can the rities experts, noting that he would wanted to study at MIT, but he did Despite the generally high security, rights in Tibet is more important Chinese people only live on citrus like to see MIT help in training not want to ask for an honorary general audience ticket numbers than United States business inter- t,. and wheat?" Zhu asked. China high-level managers through the degree. "I don't want to be accused were not checked with lottery lists. ests," said Yiu Tak, a Tibetan immi- wants U.S. trade to improve the Sloan School. One of the day's of making a political contribution," Some students reportedly pur- grant. quality of life, Zhu said. more humorous moments came Zhu said, referring to the allegations chased their tickets from students Numbers of supporters equaled ~' At the close of his address, Zhu when Zhu mentioned that that President Clinton took cam- who received tickets through the those of protesters at the event. In assured the U.S. of China's good Tsinghua's accounting school is paign donations from Chinese intel- lottery. total, about 1,000 people showed up intentions and friendly relations. looking for a dean, and members of ligence officials. Zhu said that he In addition, a large police pres- outside the Park Plaza Hotel for "China is your trustworthy friend, " the MIT community were invited to regretted missing MIT the last time ence was required to control the Zhu's speech . ., r Zhu said. "China will never be a apply for the job. "I promise I will he was in the Boston area for a 1984 thousands of pro- and anti-China "Premier Zhu is a good leader. threat to the United States." Zhu pay what you are paid here," Zhu address at Harvard. protesters on Massachusetts Avenue He has served China well. We want cited the history of Sino-American said in English. Chair of the Faculty Lotte Bailyn and Memorial Drive. to show our support, and welcome J! relations since President Nixon as a The third and final question opened the morning's event by Karen E. Robinson contributed him to the United States," said one sign of progress. "This marks a new came from MIT Professor of Brain appealing to the audience for to the reporting of this story. Chinese nationalist.

';J April 16, 1999 THE TECH Page 17 Gates is the Proud Benefactor of New LeS Building tJ LCS, from Page 1 mented, "We're still shoveling but it's not painful because our shovels "I feel very privileged to be able are stamped 'high-tech. '" He said to contribute in this way," Gates that technology still needs to be ... said. "It's great to be here ... I hope improved in this respect. "Every the facility gets done as soon as pos- time I hear the words 'ease of use' I sible." get physically violent... It should be Gates said that he decided to truly easy to use regardless of donate to LCS because the laborato- graphics, text, etc." ry has demonstrated in the past that The third goal of Oxygen is to it is a center of important research. increase connections among the The gift "is one I'm particularly world's entire population. "When we prouq of because I know the group say 'we,' we should mean the people here will be one of the very few of the world. We of the industrially I groups that has the power to make wealthy world are largely connected; -I these breakthroughs, and so [the gift that's only 1.5 to 2 percent of the is] just very fitting based on the world's population that is intercon- track record and the things to nected," Dertouzos said.

r come," Gates explained. The Oxygen research project "The horizons ahead of us are will be broken down into four core really the most interesting ones of technologies and four user technolo- all," Gates said. "The synergy gies. The four core technologies j between the educational environ- include the Handy21, a portable uni- ment. .. and the commercial sector versal device, as well as its space is part of reason why great progress s analog, the Envir021. ,,' has been made," he said. The user-centered Handy21 will "I feel privileged to have the combine the functionality of a cellu-

chance to contribute to this next GABOR CSANH TIlE TECH lar phone with other devices such as phase," Gates said. LCS will "have Microsoft founder Bill Gates expands on his vision for the future of software at the official klck-off the beeper and handheld computer. ; a wonderful facility where some for LCS's Oxygen pr~gram, which alms to lay the grounds for such ambitious applications as telep- The Envir021 will be space-cen- fantastic breakthroughs are going to resence, and comprehensive sensing. tered and will be connected to sen- be made which are going to have a sors and actuators to control things very positive impact." proceeds are going to the Free Defense Advanced Research Projects and go into cyberspace," Dertouzos in a specific room, for example, the "We're absolutely delighted," Software Foundation, which is Agency, and will be in collaboration said. "When the industrial revolu- room temperature. said LCS Director Michael L. known for its open source philoso- with the Artificial Intelligence tion came, we didn't go into The other two core technologies Dertouzos PhD '64. phy, making the source code for Laboratory, the sister lab of LCS. 'Motorspace.' They came into our include N21, the network that ••" In honor of Gates' visit on programs freely available. At other "This is my vision for the 21 st lives and absorbed themselves into Oxygen devices will run on, and a Tuesday, several students set up a organizations, such as Microsoft, century," Dertouzos said. "People our lives ... to serve our ancient spoken-dialog software that will table near the presentations in such source code would be consid- should be able to do more by doing needs." allow users to interface without a Kresge Auditorium selling slices of ered closely-guarded secrets. less." A second goal is to have keyboard to the devices. ,t-, "open source pie" from "Krotus There are three goals to Oxygen. increased human productivity and The four user technologies Baking Co., Ltd." for $.98 until they LCS unveils Oxygen "First, we should bring the technol- increased ease of use. Making an encompass knowledge-access, were asked to move. the reference In conjunction with looking back ogy of information into our lives ... analogy to the model of "shoveling" automation, collaboration, and cus- ..' was to a Belgium incident last year, over the past 35 years, LCS also We're not going to leave our lives to get things done, Dertouzos com- tomization technologies. when pranksters hit Gates in the used the occasion to announce the face with three pies. In addition to launch of Oxygen, a five-year, $40 pie, customers were given copies of million research project. ,. "pie code" written in Scheme. All The project is sponsored by the

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Sponsored by SAVE (in case you couldn't tell) April 16, 1999 THE TECH Page 21 ,. Orientation '98 Survey Findiitgs Released inReport By Erik Snowberg dent living groups. At the same 1998. or "very difficult" rose from 35 per- er for men since "men have a wider STAFF REPORTER time, freshmen indicated that they Freshmen also felt that they had cent to 42 percent. array of choices which can cause In an effort to get feedback about had more information about resi- more information than indicated in Both men and women indicated considerable confusion." how changes in freshmen orienta- dences this year than last year. previous years. The percentage of an increased difficulty in making an The report also said that "having .... tions during the past few years are In 1998, 87 percent of freshmen freshmen who indicated that they appropriate housing decision. Male all freshmen live on campus in 2001 affecting student life, Associate reported that they visited FSILGs had "sufficient" or "very sufficient" freshmen generally had a more diffi- should greatly ameliorate [confu- Dean of Students Alberta G. Lipson and 66 percent indicated that they information rose from 57 percent to cult decision. Men who chose to sion] since freshman men will only released a report summarizing the gave serious consideration to living 60 percent. At the same time the live in FSILGs showed the greatest have to choose among ten residence experiences of the Class of 2002 in a FSILG. These figures were 90 number of freshman who labeled increase. The report suggested that during Orientation '98. .percent and 64 percent in 1997, their residence decision "difficult" the housing decision might be hard- Survey, Page 25 The teport was based on the respectively. There was also a slight 1998 Orientation Survey given to increase in the number of men who freshmen on Registration Day. The participated in rush. The figures for 1998 Orientation Survey Report visiting and considering residence details the attendance patterns and halls showed a similar trend. attitudes of incoming freshmen In both 1997 and 1998, two- toward the 'different Orientation thirds of the students who partici- activities. The report found that pated in rush received a bid from there was no net change in the par- their favored FSILG. In 1998, the ticipation of freshmen in rush and number of students who received the academic part of Orientation their first choices in the residence was improved by changes to its lottery increased to 86 percent from ..i structure. 71 percent. in 1997. "It is possible The survey was completed by 75 the Residence Midway gave more percent of freshmen, compared to a visibility to smaller residence halls .' 54 percent response rate in 1997. which may have been overlooked in The report compared the data from the past in favor of larger, more the 1998 survey to previous survey~ popular residences," the report said. wherever possible. J Frosh more informed this year Focus on Resi~ence Decision The survey also attempted to A substantial part of the survey ascertain the amount of time and dealt with the process of residence information students had to make a ~. selection. The report found that residence decision. The percentage there was very little change in the of freshmen who replied that they level of participation in rush or the had a "sufficient" or "very suffi-

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The following incidents were reported to the Campus Police between March 25 and NWIO, report of homeless person attempting entry, same assisted to shelter. April 7. Information is compiled from the Campus Police's weekly crime summary and from dispatcher logs. The report does not include alarms, general service calls, or inci- Apr 1:Kappa Sigma, malicious damage to a window; Student Center', suspicious dents not reported to the dispatcher. activity, person refused to leave restroom; Bldg. N52, suspicious activity; Bldg. E23, Mar 25:Bldg. W59, suspicious activity; Bldg. 10, unauthorized use of ATM card; threats by a former boyfriend, assisted individual in obtaining a restraining order; Student Center reading room, checkbook stolen; MacGregor, malicious damage; DuPont, Walker, wallet removed from backpack $240 cash and $200 travelers checks stolen; wallet stolen from locker room $30 cash; Bldg. E25, suspicious activity; Vassar St., assist Bldg. 16, pocketbook stolen later recovered in Bldg. 36 minus $65 cash; Bldg. E25, keys Cambridge Police with a motor vehicle accident. stolen; Bldg. E23, debit card stolen sometime since March and several purchases made on same; Memorial Dr. assist State Police with Boston University ROTC unit having a drill; Mar 26:Bldg. W20 Athena, suspicious activity; Bldg. NW 17, homeless persons, same Bldg. 13, report of juveniles on skate boards, advised same to move along; rear of Bldg. left area for shelter; Sloan Lot, report of a sink hole; Bldg. 9, malicious damage in mens' NW 12, s~spicious person issued trespass warning; Student Center, three individuals room; Bldg. W31, report of annoying phone calls; Pacific Lot, emergency telephone call, issued trespass warnings. person left area prior to CPs arrival. Apr 2 :Bldg. E 18, step ladder stolen, unknow~ value; Baker House, backpack stolen Mar 27:Main St. and Windsor, assist Cambridge Police with a motor vehicle accident containing text books and a calculator $300; Bldg. 12, table stolen $20; pika, $130 with- with injuries; Cambridge Police contact MIT PoliCe concerning a report of a man with a drawn from x-press check account; Bldg. E52, homeless person in lobby; MIT female weapon heading to MIT; DuPont, three individuals issued trespass warnings; Memorial officer assist Cambridge Police at their station, with a female prisoner; Albany Street; Dr. assist State Police, report of dogs locked in vehicle. two juveniles were arrested for tagging.

Mar 28:Kresge Lot, person loading a computer into vehicle, same checked out okay; Apr 3:Student Center, officers observed juveniles looking over bikes, individuals had New House, notify student to call home; Bldg. 18, report of suspicious person, same gone be previously issued trespass warnings. All youths fled when the noticed they were being ,', upon CP's arrival. observed by CPs, two Cambridge juveniles arrested for trespassing and other related charges, three others fled; Bldg. 4, report of suspicious activity; Bldg. E53, suspicious Mar 29: Baker, report of laptop computer left in trunk of taxi now stolen $3,000; noises, 5 individuals stopped. Memorial Dr. assist State Police with motor vehicle accident; Vassar St. assist Cambridge Police with motor vehicle accident with injuries; Bldg. 2, Paul Carter of 133 St., Apr 4:Bldg. W59, malicious damage to a window; Westgate, report of a' missing per- Cambridge, and Richard Spoontz of 26 Malden St., Watertown, arrested for trespassing; . son, individual returned home shortly thereafter; Alpha Delta Phi, side view mirror Bldg. 37, backpack stolen, later recovered minus a calculator $70; Bldg. 34, bike stolen stolen from vehicl~, unknown value; emergency phone hang-up call, area checked, no $300; DuPont bike rack, bike stolen $250; Albany St. and Mass. Ave., transport homeless cause found; Bldg. 54, suspicious activity; Memorial Dr. assist State Police with con- person to shelter; Amherst Alley, two individuals stopped for suspicious activity, both struction barrels strewn into roadway. issued trespass warnings one was taken into custody for an outstanding warrant. Apr 5:McCormick, report of smoke in hallway, fire caused by lit candle left unattend- Mar 30:Bldg. 10, James Briggs of 7 Newtowne Court, Cambridge, arrested for tres- ed on a pile of papers and the room unoccupied; East Garage, vehicle broken into and passing; Student Ctr. Theodore Bell of 3 Bigelow St., Cambridge, arrested for trespass- radio stolen, unknown value. ing; Bldg. NE43, graffiti; 33 Mass. Ave. bike rack, $343; Mass. Ave. assist Cambridge Police with a road rage incident; Albany St. assist Cambridge Police with a fight between Apr 6:McCormick, annoying phone calls; Student Center, baCKpack stolen unknown homeless persons; Student Center reading room, report of checkbook stolen; Bldg. 3, value; Bldg. 4, VCR stolen $250; Bldg. 7, alert students observed Maria Cora attempting. complainant reports being shoved by person; Memorial Dr. assist State Police with minor to leave the area with victims stolen CD player. Several students held the suspect until motor vehicle accident; Bldg. 9, suspicious activity; Bldg. 54, bike stolen from rack Campus Police arrived and placed her under arrest for l"iuceny, disorderly person and $300; Student Center, two individuals issued a trespass warnings; Bldg. E23, suspicious other related charges; Bldg. 68, past larceny of compact discs $60; Bldg. 68, vending activity. machine broken into .• -.-

Mar 31 :Ashdown, suspicious activity; Bldg. 16, report of chemical spill; Student Apr 7 :Bldg. 20, hack; Bldg. E52, suspicious activity; Bldg. 1, suspicious activity; Center reading room, cell phone stolen $250; Burton, breaking and entering to a storage Bldg. NE43, harassing e-mail; Bldg. 9, person reports witnessing hit and run damage to room; Bldg. 18, bicycle stolen, unknown value; Lobby 7, larceny of newspapers; Boston, vehicle; Bldg. E40, laptop computer-stolen unknown value; Bldg. 56, wallet stolen $35; Sigma Nu, report of homeless person in rear of building, Boston EMS notified; Bldg. 33 Mass. Ave. bike rack, $295 bike stolen.

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MIT sabre Championships. will play the first ranked team from America defenseman at the being held the weekend of April fencers Brian Bower '99 and The Edina, Williams College on May 1. University of Massachusetts, has 24th in Dijon, France. She is ranked Evangelos Efstathiou '00, are Sport M inn. native is coached the Engineers for the past second in the Under-20 National ranked 33rd and 64th respectively. the only Division Sailing 25 seasons, and has been active on standings and sixth in the senior. Bower and Efstathiou will fence the Shorts II I female gym- MIT's sailing teams continue to an administrative level on a region- Only three Americans were selected individual event as well as a tear:n nast in the coun- perform well in the national rank- al basis throughout his MIT tenure. to represent the United States. This event with a third fencer from l try to qualify for the event which ings. The co-ed team has climbed to In 1998 Alessi was the Pilgrim is the first year of World Brandeis. will be held in New I-Iaven. Conn., 14th place in the country, while the League Coach of the Year. A Championship competi tion for Last year, Purcell took sixth April 15-17. Ellefson qualified in women's team holds on to the sev- native of Newton, Mass., Alessi women's sabre. place, while Bower placed 20th the all-around. enth spot in those rankings. curr~ntly resides in Millis, Mass .. Purcell and three other MIT and Backes 26th. Fencers who The induction ceremony will be fencers are fencing at the U.S. place in the Top 48 receive points Lacrosse Other awards held at the Newton Marriott on Fencing Nationals in South Bend, that are used the calculate National MIT lacrosse players have fared Walter Alessi, MIT's men's June II. Indiana this weekend. All rankings. very well lately. For the week end- ing April 4. attackman Gene Pyo. a se n ior from McLean. Va .. was named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference MIT Hosts Open Ballroom Dance Competition (NEWMAC) Player of the Week following a week in which he By Catherine Sanders advanced Viennese waltz and third in the quickstep. Wariyapola and scored 12 goals and added seven IF.I.\I.\/I:'.\IHf.R Kheifets won seventh place in the advanced tango and sixth in the assists. Additionally. Matt Van The 1999 MIT Open Ballroom dance competition, one of the largest advanced waltz, while Yedil Workeneh '98 and Isin Dalkilic '99 placed I'lome '02 and Eli Weinberg were collegiate competitions in New England with nearly 500 competitors eighth in this event, plus placed seventh in advanced Viennese waltz, honored. Van Horne was the NEW- from over 30 different schools, was held this past weekend in DuPont and fifth in advanced foxtrot. In the newcomer category, in which eligi- MAC Rookie of the Week. The Gymnasium. Schools as far away as the University of Maryland and bility is restricted to dancers with only a few months dance experience, attackman from Liverpool. N. Y .. Pennsylvania State University and schools right next door such as Steve Santoso G and Felice Sun G placed third in the waltz. Michael also netted a dozen goals and dished Harvard University and Northeastern University attended. The MIT ball- Otero and Marta Lipinski G won fourth place in the open international out five assists. Weinberg. a native room dance team, which has now grown to over 80 members, has hosted foxtrot and sixth in the open international tango and Viennese. of Needham, Mass .. was honored as this 'event for three consecutive years. On Sunday, in the American style events, Maesto and Yu won first the Eastern College Athletic The event's trademark is that it offers all 19 competitive ballroom place in the beginner American bolero. Berdnikov and Raskhodnikova Conference Division III Men's dances at three levels of won second 'in the rumba of Lacrosse Rook ie of the Week. A dance experience; no other this category. Liteplo and midfielder. Weinberg registered 15 collegiate competition in the Wong won first place in the points and collected 33 groundballs New England area does this. beginner mambo and second in three games. for the week ending The two-day event ran place in the beginner bolero. April II. women's player Maddy from 8 a.m. to approximately Mohammed Zaman and Burke was the NEWMAC Player of 7 p.m., and was action- Lauren Bradford '02 won fifth place in beginner bolero, the week. In a 2-1 week for the packed with dance events . \ Engineers. Burke tallied 15 goals such as samba, cha-cha, jive, fourth place in beginner and assisted on five others. Burke is swing. waltz, foxtrot, and swing, and sixth place in the a senior attack person from Acton. tango. Highlights of the beginner mambo. Liteplo and Mass. weekend that generated the Wong won fifth place in most school spirit were the beginner swing. Jeremy Baseball team matches. during which Zucker ,and Michelle In NEWMAC baseball, MIT's members of ballroom dance Goldhaber won third place in Zach Jenkins '0 I of Pensacola, Fla., teams combine their scores to the beginner rumba, fifth in has bee n n a m e d the NEW I\1A C see which team performs best cha-cha and fourth in mambo Pitcher of the Week for the week overall. The MIT beginners of the same category as well ending April 4. Jenkins hurled t\\/O (those who have joined the as winning the overall begin- complete game conference victories team within the past year) ner American rhythm trophy. with a 5-1 win against Worcester won first place in the begin- In the advanced category, Polytechnic Institute and a 4-2 vic- ner team match, edging out Wariyapola and Kheifets won tory o\'er league leading Wheaton Harvard and eight other fifth place in the bolero. In College. schools that entered this the newcomer category, event. Santoso and Sun won seventh \\' ater Polo The Engineers performed place in the swing. The M IT water polo team has extremely well, winning Wariyapola and Kheifets won recently been honored by the numerous ribbons on both sixth place in the open cha- American Water Polo Coaches days of the competition. On chao Posner and Freedman Association as the team with the Saturday morning, MIT swept won the overall open rhythm third highest academic grade point the beginner international trophy, placing first in the average in the nation. The paso doble, winning five of bolero and mambo, and sec- Engineer's 3.38/4.0 GPA trailed the six places in the event; the ond in the cha-cha and swing. only St. Francis College (3.51) and first place winners were Sam In the American smooth Harvard University (3.43). Nine dif- Sopiee G and Carly Klein '00. events, the Schieles placed ferent individuals from MIT were William Liteplo G and second in the beginner foxtrot named to the team. In the Margaret Wong '02 placed and fifth in the beginner Outstanding (3.71-4.0/4.0) category second in the beginner inter- Viennese. Liteplo and Lin were Stefan Bewley '0 I, from national samba and paso. placed sixth in beginner waltz Atacasdero. Calif.; and juniors Jorg Tony Maesto G and Sally Yu and third in beginner foxtrot. Schlovin from Wolfsburg, '00 won second place in the Ben Sun G and Maria ) ., Gernlany. and Larry Aller of Santa beginner rumba. Boris Minkoff won seventh in the Barbara. Calif. On the Superior Berdnikov G and Sofya beginner waltz. Jeeva (3.41-3,70) squad were Wesley Raskhodnikova G won third Munasinghe and Kenia Chao '00 from Beijing. China, in the paso doble, while Ben Franco won sixth place in the Andover. Mass. native Nicholas Sun G and Sherry Jenq '02 beginner foxtrot. Captain Vantzelfde '01, Milos Komarcevic placed fifth and Bernt Schiele Eugene Bae G and Stephanie '99 from Belograd, Yugoslavia, and and Silke Schiele placed sixth. Shaw G won second place in Adrian Gomez '99 from San Diego, Pubudu Wariyapola G and the. advanced American waltz

Calif. The Excellent (3.2-3.4) cate- Viktoria Kheifets '00 won GREG KUIINEN-TIIE TECH and Viennese waltz, while gory included Benjamin Chun '00 third place in the advanced Sam Soplee G leads Carly R. Klein '00 In the foxtrot during the MIT Open Sopiee and Yanfeng Lim G from Vacaville, Calif.. and Aditya international rumba and the Ballroom Dance Competition held In DuPont Saturday. The couple took first won second in the advanced Prabhaker of Cerritos, Calif. paso doble; and Mark place In the beginner competition. tango and foxtrot and placed Herschberg '95 and Tammy seventh in the advanced Tennis Yap '99, placed fourth in the advanced paso doble. Feng Li and Wendy waltz. Bae and Shaw won third and fourth in advanced tango and foxtrot The MIT men's tennis doubles Luo won sixth place in the advanced samba. In the open level, the most respectively. Wariyapola and Kheifets placed fifth in the advanced team of Eric Chen '00 of Topeka, challenging competitive level in which dancers choreograph their own Viennese waltz. In the open American events, Posner and Deirdre Kan., and Ben Cooke '00 of routines, Michael Posner and Reena Freedman won second place in the Pierotti took second place in the waltz and third place in the tango, fox- Washington. D.C., are currently the samba and paso doble, third in the jive, and fifth in the cha-cha. trot, and Viennese waltz. Wariyapola and Kheifets placed fourth in the third ranked doubles team in the In the international standard events, Berdnikov and Raskhodnikova open waltz, fifth in the tango, and fifth in the foxtrot. Workeneh and East in the latest Intercollegiate won first place while the Schieles placed seventh in the beginner waltz Dalkilic won sixth place in the foxtrot. Webster and Tsien won fifth in Tennis Association Division III and won second place in the beginner tango. Liteplo and Lin won third the Viennese waltz. Jung Yueh '95 and Laurie Hurwitz won the open in the beginner tango and quickstep; they also placed seventh in the American smooth overall trophy. Although Jung now competes for the beginner foxtrot. Sopiee and Klein won the beginner foxtrot and begin- Northeastern University team, everyone on the MIT Ballroom Dance _ ner tango and placed eight in the advanced waltz. Cheolku Kang and Team was especially excited and cheered for him and his partner over The Tech Jaeock Yoon were the clear favorites in the advanced international stan- their big win, as he is a former captain of the MIT team. dard category, winning first place in the waltz and tango and second in Bae said, "It was a huge success; the MIT ballroom dance team and News Hotline the Viennese waltz and foxtrot. Stephen Gildea and Phyllis Kristal won MIT should be proud. MIT as a whole, especially the MIT athletics fifth in the waltz of this category, third in the tango, and fifth in the department and the MIT dining services, was extremely supportive and 253-1541 quickstep. Seth Webster G and Christine Tsien G won fourth in the really aided in making this event a success." , April' Hi.' 1'999' ,.. _}Women'sPistol Plares Eighth Lady Engineers Play .In Intercollegiate Championship [~!~ghat Midl!:/:!bury By Gina Yip and Pietro Russo placed fifth in the nation. In first sion fire and 30 shots of due] fire. TEAM CAPTAIN ]n the "8" singles flight, Nisha Tl:.'AMMEMBERS place was U.S. Air Force Academy MlT did not qualify as a team, but Last weekend, the women's ten- Singh '00 faced William Smith in ~ The MIT pistol team placed first with a score of 2040; in second was Ho qualified as an individual. She nis team travelled to Vermont to the first round. Singh fell in three in the women's air pistol event and University of Utah with a 2022; and shot a 5] 6, placing ] 3th in the play in the annual Middlebury sets 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 after battling in eighth overall in the nation at 19th in third place was U.S. Naval nation. College Invitational Tennis the wind for over 2 hours. Also in Annua] Pistol Intercollegiate Academy with a 20]2. On the final day, open air pistol Tournament. The tournament con- the "8" singles flight, Yi-Ning ~ Championships hosted by the Women's air (40 shots with a (60 shots) was shot in the morning. sisted of three singles flights (com- Cheng '02 received a bye in the first Nationa] Rifle Association. It was .] 77 caliber air pistol) was in the Ho shot a 550, ranking ]2th in the bining first/second, third/fourth, and round, but lost to Nazareth, 6-], held in At]anta, Ga., at the Tom afternoon. Ho shot a 358 and came nation. The air team also included fifth/sixth singles in each). 6-0. Lowe Shooting Grounds, the site of in sixth place, Hattie Gruneisen '00 Russo shooting a 536, Ickes shoot- In singles, Kelly Koske]in '02 Singh and Cheng put their sin- "the 1996 Olympic shooting compe- shot a 355 and came in 8th, and ing a 530, and Gruneisen shooting a advanced all the way to the semifi- g]es disappointments aside and titions. From March 23-27, the team Me]issa Miao '02 shot a 344. The 510. MIT placed eighth in open air na]s on Sunday. Seeded second, she advanced all the way to the finals in competed in five events: free pistol, team won the event by two points with a score of 2126. Army and received a bye in the first round. the flight "8" doubles. After receiv- It women's air pistol, standard pistol, over University of Utah, making Navy were tied for first with 2205, The windy conditions affected her ing a first round-bye, they got by women's sport pistol, and open air MlT the winner two years in a row and Navy won the tiebreaker (deter- game, as she struggled to a 3-6, Monctlair State College 8-6, in the pistol. for this event. mined by the last 10 shots of each 6-1, 6-4 victory in the 2nd round quarterfinals, and crushed St. The first event was free pistol, in On the next morning, standard team member). University of Utah against Nazareth College. However, Lawrence 8-2 in the semifinals. :Iwhich shooters use a pistol with a pistol was fired. The standard pistol placed third with a 2190. MIT came she found her rhythm just in time as They couldn't quite pull off the six inch barrel and a hair trigger. is a semi-automatic .22 caliber gun. in eighth place overall with a score she crushed Connecticut College upset of host Middlebury in the The 50m range for this event was Out of the 60 shots fired, 20 are of 6069. The aggregate score is the 6-1, 6-2 in the quarters. She faced final, as they lost 8-3. semi-outdoors. The weather was slow fire (5 shots in 150 seconds), sum of free, standard, and open air the fourth seed from Middlebury in In the "C" singles flight, Leela ,.cold and rainy that morning causing 20 are timed fire (5 shots in 20 sec- pistol scores. Army placed first by the semifinals, and lost a close one, Ramnath '02 advanced to the sec- shooters to misfire as a result of onds) and 20 are rapid fire (5 shots one point over Navy, with a score of 7-5, 6-2. In the same flight, Jessica ond round after beating a St. having numb fingers. Scores are out in 10 seconds). Russo shot a 523, 6304. Ho was named to the AlI- Hall '02 also received a first round Lawrence player 6-3, 6-3. She lost 10f 600 points (60 shots, 10 points ranking 13th in the nation. The team American team for air pistol for a bye, but then had the misfortune to to Connecticut College. Divya Bhat max each). Pietro Russo G scored a also included Ang shooting a 495, second consecutive year. draw the top seed from Colby '02 lost in the first round to 509, his personal best for that event, Brian Romo '00 shooting a 489, and The Melarango Trophy that was College in the second round. Vermont, 6-0, 6-4. The two teamed and placed ninth in the nation. Eko Lisuwandi '01 shooting a 459 funded by MIT pistol alumni was However, she battled her opponent together in the "C" flight doubles, )Tracey Ho '99 placed 14th with a for a total score of 1966 and ninth presented at the awards ceremony. It for every point, and lost a hard- where they lost in the first round to 505. Joe Foley G placed 22nd with place. will soon become the national tro- fought 6-4,6-3 decision. William Smith 8-5. They also lost a 484. Cheewee Ang '01 placed Women's sport was in the after- phy for women's air individual In doubles, Koskelin and Hall two consolation rounds, 8-4 to ~23rd with a 479. Nathan Ickes '01 noon. This event uses the same champion. The trophy was named to cruised in the first two rounds. They Nazareth and 9-7 to Cortland. placed 27th with a 474. The free gun as standard, but the course of honor Pat Melarango, who was the defeated William Smith College 8-2 The team travels to Williams . team scored a total of 1977 and fire consists of 30 shots of preci- MIT pistol coach for 19 years. in the first round, and St. Lawrence College on Friday for their next University 8-1 in the quarterfinals. match. They will then compete in However, they faced a much the New England Showcase at -Freshman Engineers Score 14Runs, tougher Hamilton College opponent Wellesley College this coming in the semifinals, losing a close weekend. '~CrewStill Destroy Albertus Magnus Baseball, from Page 32 the Savannah College of Art and Design. The formidable Bees nents' bats, and Brian Furgala '02 scratched their way to an early 4-0 -Undefeated appeared virtual~y unhittable in lead, but the MIT offense came to Crew, from Page 32 relief. Short relief specialist C.J. life late and rallied to cut the deficit AroundlhW~rld Albrecht '00 came in to mow down to one run. Sadly, they were unable

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SPORTS .0 Varsity Heavyweight Edges Out Williams By Karl Richter Keiper '99 moved into the three- TEAM CAPTAIN seat of the varsity from the junior MIT's varsity heavyweight crew varsity boat. The rest of the team has regained momentum and confi- consisted of Bob Broderick '99 dence after defeating Williams (cox), Karl Richter '99 (stroke), College on April lOin Worcester, Christopher Penny '01, Mike Perry MA. The freshmen also won easily, '99, Daniel Parker '99, Damon improving their record to 3-0 this McMillan '00, Solar Olugebefola spring, while the junior varsity just '99, and Eugene Weinstein '00 missed Williams in a close contest. (bow). At 45 strokes per minute off the Racing more aggressively and start, the varsity squad found them- with better rhythm than they had selves half a length up on Williams demonstrated in New York, the MING-TAI HUH-THE TECH within the first 20 strokes of the race Engineers were able to move out on Pascal Rettig '01 fires a shot to score against the Massachusetts Maritime Academy Buccaneers on a windy Lake Quinsigamond. Williams decisively at several Wednesday in Steinbrenner Stadium. MIT triumphed 13-8 to Improve their record ~1. Apparently, Coach Gordon points during the race. Williams Hamilton's attention to starting mustered a valiant response by surg- drills during the week's practice ing back each time, but MIT was remedied the lethargic attempts able to hold them and control the which had plagued the favored MIT race from the lead. MIT covered the MIT Shaky in Seven Game Stretch t!'l varsity off-the-line in last week- 2000 meter course in 5:53.6 to end's season-opening loss to Williams' 5:56.6. By Ahren lembke-Windier week beginning April 5. A grueling pitched brilliantly for eight innings, Columbia University. The varsity Connecticut College (6:03.4) and TEAM MEMBER schedule had them playing seven and Kevin McKenney ,00 added a may also have found some speed The MIT baseball team experi- games in six days, and pitted them home run and went 3-4 as the game .,. with a lineup change, as well, as Jeb Crew, Page 31 enced its share of ups and downs, as against some stiff competition. came down to the wire. the season went into full swing the The week began with a matchup Unfortunately, the gritty Babson against the Wentworth Institute of squad pushed across four runs in the '(\ r' Technology. Jeff Colton '02 pitched ninth and stole the victory 6-2. admirably in his starting debut, but However, redemption arrived on the Engineers performed hideously Wednesday as Albertus Magnus in the field. The team committed College cruised into town and took ..." eleven errors in allowing eleven quite a beating. Dave Piho '00 and unearned runs in the 12-4 defeat. captain Joel Morales '99 both A different and more focused homered in the 14 run offensive. team showed up on Tuesday for a Tyler Pope '99 held down the OppO_/i" game against traditional conference rival Babson. Jeff Billing '01 Baseball, Page 31 J~7

MING-TAI HUH-THE TECH Third baseman Anna Cherubln '99 prevents a Wheaton College runner from stealing third in Tuesday's game on Briggs Field. Despite her efforts, MIT lost 8-0.

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