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's The Weather Olde and Largest Today: Partly sunny, 54°F (12°C) Tonight: Clear, calm, 40°F (4°C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Mo tly sunnY,.58°F (14°C) Details, Page 2 tndent Ce fer Alarm orces. Evacuation By Stacey E. Blau space on the the fifth floor of the EDITOR IN CHIEF Student Center, said William G. A false fire alarm in the Student McCue, senior communications Center forced the evacuation of console operator in Physical Plant. about 250 people for about 30 min- The water came in through a venti- utes yesterday afternoon. lation fan that takes in air from the Alarms sounded and lights outside. flashed throughout the Student The amount of water that made Center at 3: 10 p.m. and were soon its way in was minimal and caused followed by the outpouring of hun- no damage, McCue said. "It only dreds of people from the Student takes a drop" to set ofT the alarm, he Center onto the outside plaza, where said. "It is sensitive." Campus Police officers and Physical Electricians from Physical Plant Plant workers stood blocking off worked to replace the detector, front entrances. which was ruined by even the small Tbe cause of the false alarm amount of water that got into it, was rain water that got into a smoke detector in a mechanical Evacuation, Page 25 GABOR CSANYI-THE TECH Daniel T. langdale, assistant dean for recruitment In the office of graduate education, a bicycle commuter himself, explains the details of an electric bicycle to students on Wednesday In Lobby 1 as part of the commuter transportation fair. UA CouncllHolds First Meeting, On es Plans for Coming Year By Ian Chan UA Vice President Dedric A. Carter "something tangible" for MIT stu- STAFF REPORTER '98 also spoke about many of the dents, to present students' opinions With a vision to improve student general and specific goals they have before the administration, and to life, the U.ndergraduate' Association for the year and summarized proce- take risks this year to work toward Council held its first meeting dural matters to orient new council making improvements in a number Monday night. representatives. of areas. Afthe meeting, the council voted The U A has a lot of "room for The UA "will not be just sitting to approve the fall Finance Board improvement," Lee said. In his state around and worrying about getting funding appeals allocations. UA of the UA address, Lee outlined his into trouble," Lee said. Lee said that President Richard Y. Lee '97 and three major goals: to produce is committed to make UA a proac- tive organization and to "earn back the UA's credibility." Kingston ~haresNew WorkFifth Book of Peace Lee presented the Social Committee, the Committee on By Zareena Hussain and writer of the Woman Warrior Educational Policy, and the Course STAFF REPORTER and many other literary works, read Evaluation Guide Committee to the "Maxine Hong Kingston first excerpts from her work in progress, council. The committees will be and foremost tries to cultivate hon- Fifth Book of Peace. working on projects like arranging esty and mindfulness in herself and In addition to being a writer and musical perfonnances in the Student in others. She takes responsibility professor, Kingston has sought Center, revi ving the Course for being a catalyst and a conduit through her writing to better under- Evalu.ation Guide, publishing a for what is most true about human stand the idea and practice of nonvi- weekly list of weekend parties and life," said Ruth Perry, professor of olence. Monday night Kingston events, improving Safe Ride, and literature, as she introduced the included a packed lecture hall in organizing class competitions. fam~d writer to an eagerly awaiting that personal quest. Other projects underway include audience in 10-250 Monday night. a voter registration drive in the The overall impression of those Kingston speaks of destruction Student Center held this week and a who attended the presentation was One issue Kingston highlighted much the same. was destruction in war. In one UA, Page 24 "She's an amazing, amazing per- excerpt she read, she compared the son," said Emily B. Cooper '99. destruction to the aftennath of a fire, During an evening reading enti- much like the wild fires in tIed" Another Book of Peace," California. She used the destfuction Kingston, a professor at the she could understand from the fire DE University of California at Berkeley to understand the destruction in the Persian Gulf War and all wars. Her description of the destruc- • Medical Congres; club tion was so powerful that one Streets Closed woman in the audience who had looks to focus on health experienced the California wild fires There will be no parking care PO~~ Page 13 around Berkeley herself felt com- on Memorial Drive between pelled to personally thank Kingston the Reed Overpass and Ames during the question and answer ses- • Ig Nobel ceremony Street eastbound this Monday sion later in the evening. honors 10 hilarious because of the running of the "We were experiencing the writ- I Tufts Road Race, which OK ing process with her," said Alarice achievements. Page 15 begins at noon. There also C. Huang '00. will be no entry or exit from As part of her visit to MIT, Audry Street, Danforth • Short 'lakes. Page 18 Kingston also visited two MIT Street, Endicott Street, or classes, one in short fiction and the Fowler Street. All of the other in playwriting. She offered her • Comics. Page 20 ZAREENA HUSSEIN-THE TECH above locations will be advice to students about the writing closed to traffic with wooden Maxine Hong Kingston signs a Woman Warrior poster for Lei process. • Shear Ma.d:ru?ss still a Wang '00 (left) as Amalia Miller '99 (center) looks on. Kingston traffic barriers. Amherst Students from high schools in read from her work-in-progress A Fifth Book of Peace on Monday Alley will be open to traffic. success. Page 8 evening in 10-250. .. ,'---------------' Kingston, Page 26 October 11; 19 '6 C a LOS ANGELES TIMES EWYORK Worries hareholders overwh Imingly approved Time Warner Inc.' 7.5 billion acqui ition of Turner Broadc ting y tern Inc. Thur day in a By Stanley elsler celebrating clo er relations betwe n Cuban events at the Center for deal that vault Time Warner ahead of Walt Di ney Co. a the LOS ANGELES TIMES the church and state there. International Policy, said: "The world's large t entertainment company. WASHI GTO "If the pope i going to Cuba and fact that the pope would go to The marriage combine orne of the be t known entertainment Evidence is mounting that Pope the visit i being controlled, we are Cuba would be an important sug- brands in the world: Time Warner' cable ystem , HBO cable chan- John Paul II pl.an a vi it in 1997 to not happy about it," said ino ka gestion that Cuba is ready for rein- nel, the Warner Bro . movie studio, the Time Inc. magazine, includ- Cuba, an act that could give interna- Perez, foundation spokeswoman in sertion into the international com- ing Time, People and Sports IJIustrated, with Turner's Cable ew tional legitimacy to a nation that the Miami. he q'uoted her ' ources in munity." etwork, Cartoon etwork, Hanna Barbera cartoon studio, Turner U. government wants to isolate. the island close to the church" as The fanfare over the trip, Smith CIa sic Movies, ew Line and Ca tIe Rock and ew Line movie stu- A enior Vatican diplomat, eporting that the regime would try said, i unlikely to change the U.S. dios, and the Atlanta Brave and Atlanta Hawk pro ports teams. Monsignor Jean-Loui Tauran, is to prevent any large outdoor mas e policy of isolation, which is pow- "The long march of Time i now complete," Time Warner cheduled to arrive in Havana in late by the pope and insist on setting up ered by the Cuban exile community Chairman Gerald M. Levin told hareholder in the Time & Life October. 0 official reason for the a photo of the pope shaking the and influential conservative con- Building at Thur day morning's special meeting to vote on the deal. Tauran trip has been announced but hand of Castro. gressmen. "I'm not sure anything After more than a year of work on the complex transaction, Levin both Vatican and U.S. sources have "This pope has been a very would have an effect on U.S. poli- said that he and his executive corps would now focus on operating confirmed that discus ion of a prob- effective and vocal critic of commu- cy," Smith said. "But I think the the company. able papal visit will be the main nism," Perez said. "He fought com- papal visit would make it more diffi- item on Tauran's agenda. munism in his native land of cult for the administration to argue It has been an open secret for Poland. When he went to South the logic of its policy." Congress Passes Bill to oA..-_ ........orize years that the pope believed the time Africa during apartheid, he did not A visit also likely would feature had come to break the international kiss the ground. When he went to a papal condemnation of the U.S. Construction of · g orial isolation of Cuba and the Castro Sandinista Nicaragua, he scolded economic boycott of Cuba. On a THE WASHINGTON POST regime - now that tensions the priest Ernesto Cardenal (a mem- 'plane trip from Rome to New York WASHI GTO between the church and the island ber of the Sandinista government).