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MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Partly cloudy, mild, 60°F (15°C) Tonight: Showers likely, 50°F (lO°C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Cloudy, mild, 65°F (l8°C) Details, Page 2 c Volume 116, Number 19 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, April 19, 1996 Faculty.OKs ROTC ProPQsal Revisions By Stacey E. Blau recommended that a .member of the NEWS EDITOR dean's office serve on any such The faculty voted to approve an inquiry, but the revised recommen- amended version of the ROTC task dation suggests that a dean's office force's final proposal at Wednes- representative instead counsel the day's meeting. student to assist with any disrup- The faculty also discussed a tion the student may experience measure that would alter MIT's pre- because of the inquiry. sent policy on incomplete grading The new plan outlines what the and nominated Professor of Man- task force expects from the Depart- agement Lotte Bailyn as the next ment of Defense, both in term of faculty chair. compliance with the new recom- Professor of Management mendations and in overall progress Stephen C. Graves, chair of the task towards ending its current policy, force, presented several revisions to which discriminates against gays. the task force plan, which was The task force will report back to announced before the faculty at last the faculty annually, and expects month's meeting. The proposal now acceptable progress by 1998, calls for a modified ROTC program, The revisions also aim to explain a change from what the task force that MIT's continuing "constructive originally billed as a model program. engagement" with ROTC - keep- The idea is to better align ROTC ing the program on campus - is with the values of MIT. The group important so that MIT can maintain decided to change the name from leverage in the debate over the "model" to "modified" because the DoD's policy on gays, Graves said. program still discriminates against gay students, Graves said. Faculty express qualified support The task force also amended its Professor of Philosophy Ralph N. suggestions for the inquiry process, Wedgwood said that the amended INDRANATH NEOGY-THE TECH should an ROTC student come proposal is "a considerable improve- Toshiyuki Hino G runs for daylight to score as MIT beat. UNH rugby match 33-0 on Saturday. under investigation fOI:homosexual conduct. Originally, the task force ROTC, Page 6 r Soul Coughing to Play TenReceive Washington Internships •0 'S. ' By Carina Fung "ence Charles Stewart III, who is intersection of science/engineering ' g'I~el7'"end STAFF REPORTER responsible for the overall guidance with public policy," Ste~art said. n pnn ,,\:I .I.\: Ten students have been chosen of the program, and Department of The program also alms to help , to take part in the MIT Washington Political Science Administrative students understand that many polio! By Varon Koren clubs, as well as here in Boston at Internship Program this summer. Assistant Tobie F. Weiner, the pro- cy makers actually have no back- STAFF REPORTER the Paradise," Sarvis said. The program aims to foster stu- gram's administrator. ground in the fields they regulate, The small-time funk band Soul The concert will take place at dents' technical interests in public The students participated in three Stewart said. Coughing will kic,k Qiif Spring Walker Memorial. Tickets will be $7 policy through a two-month summer days of seminars on nuclear' waste "In the long run, we would like Weekend this year with ~n indoor in advance and $10 at the door for internship. clean-up, telecommunications poli- to be part of the solution that concert on Friday, May 3. MIT students, ana $10 in advance The students - Laura L. cy, communications law, and global changes this fact, so that more tech- Past Spring Concerts have fea- and $12 at the door for oth~r mem- DePaoli '97, Tara L. Fernando '97, warming, Weiner said. nically sophisticated people go into tured better known college-rock bers of the MIT community. David J.D. Hully '97, Phoebe J. The Institute's Technology and policy-making in technical areas," favorites, including They Might Be Soul Coughing has released one Lam '97, Eugene Lee '98, Angela Policy Program hosted a reception Stewart said. Giants, Belly, and Sonic Youth' last album so far, 1994's Ruby Vroom, Y. Liao '98, Rosemary for th~nterns-at the Capitol build- Last year, the program matched year. Sarvis said. The band also has a McNaughton '97, Jacob 1. Seid '97, ing, to which political science students with organizations like the It "Soul Coughing is a dynamic and song on the new X-Files soundtrack Mayukh V. Sukhatme '97, and Ben- department and TPP alumni and American Electronics Association, fantastic l.ive band. They-are kind of a album. son P. Yang '96 - spent spring current TPP students were also the American Association for the jazz-funk-rap-beatnik type of band," According to Matt H. Gold, a break in .Washington, D.C. inter- invited to attend. Advancement of Science, the Amer- said Student Center Committee mem- Newbury Comics employee, Soul viewing with potential summer ican Enterprise Institute, the Her- ber Sarah Sarvis, who is in charge of Coughing plans to release a second employers. Students explore public policy Itage Foundation, the Climate Insti- organizing the annual SSC event. album, Irresistible Bliss, on May 14. They were accompanied on their "The purpose of the program is tute, and the M IT Washington Soul Coughing has "played to four-day, all expenses-paid trip by to encourage technically sophisticat- packed ... crowds in New York Coughing, Page 6 Associate Professor of Political Sci- ed MIT students to explore the Internship, Page 6 Molina Reflects on Prize-winning Research By Orn G. Bahcall work on man's impact on the envi- in deodorants would cause such a ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR ronment. global problem ... ~o Ik~t recheck- If MIT faculty have traditionally Molina shared the prize with two ing the data." ~~~~~~~!!! e nj oy e d oth~r environmental scientists, F. By showing for. the first time that D t much suc- Sherwood Rowland at the UniverSI- industrial activity adversely affected .L' ea Ure c~ss in win- ty of California at Irvine and Paul the atmosphere, he made a clear ning Nobel Crutzen at the Max Planck Institute cas,e for discussion of the issue Prizes; 12 current faculty members for Chemistry in Mainz; Germany globally. This helped to develop the have won the award. for finding that chlorofluorocarbons public's "consciousness of the But when Professor of Earth, contribute to the depletion of the health [and tlte finite size] of the Atmospheric and Planetary Science ozone layer. That discovery has led planet," he said. Mario ~olina shared the Nobel to an international environmental However, Molina and Rowland's Prize In Chemistry last year, it treaty, which, by the end of this initial discovery came in the 1970s, marked the first time the Swedish year, will have banned the produc- a decade before the environmental Academy has awarded the prize for tion of industrial chemicals respon- movement reached prominence, and sible for ozone depletion. so the consequences of ozone deple- tion were not initially obvious to the Disc0'Yery was far from expected public. The problem was just too • Molina recalls the first day that esoteric at the time, Molina said. -INSIDE he came to understand the harmful ."The ozone layer and ultraviolet . nature of the compounds he was radiation was just not something • Dahl's Peach treats in ' studying. "I looked at the numbers people new about." .and calculations and realized sud- "Since we had uncovered a Disney style. Page 12 denly that there was a problem of potentially serious problem for global proportions," he said in an which there was no precedent," and interview this week. since there was no established orga- • Utopia features great His initial reaction was that he nization through which to advocate leads amidst a mediocre had made a mistake. "I was not real- change, Molina realized that he and INDRANATH NEOGY-THE TECH ly ready for a discovery of these his colleagues would have to go Naomi S. Korn '97 and Jamie H. Rosenblum '96 honor the vic- supporting cast. Page 12 global proportions. It did not make tims of the Holocaust in Lobby 7 Tuesday. sense to me that the chemicals used Molina, Page 9 i •• , Page 2 THE TECH April 19, 1996 WORLD & AT ON . Bosnian Armies Are Demobilizing s~ae • Artillery Blasts Camp LOS ANGELES TIMES SARAJEVO Bo nia's annies were working Thursday to meet the final military deadline in .the Dayton peace agreement, warehousing their tanks and Where Civilians Took Refuge mis ile and sending their soldier to barrack or home. As many as 150,000 Mu lim, Croatian and Serbian soldiers were By John Lancaster mu t end. U.S. officials announced mates. The guerrilla rocket attacks being demobilized - half the number of troops who waged war dur- THE WASHINGTON POST Secretary of State Warren Christo- have injured about 50 Israelis, but ing the past four years - and heavy weapon were being stored at BEIRlIT. LEBA 0 pher will travel to the Middle East no one has been killed in Israel. ~ 600 site around the country. ' Israeli artillery shells, fired in on Saturday, breaking off from Israeli officials expressed regr~t "It means, in essence, that the war is over," said British Maj. retaliation for a rocket barrage, Clinton's traveling party in Russia. for Thursday's shelling but'blamed imon Haselock, the spoke man for ATO's peace implementation .

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