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Thefts hit architecture Colombian eader to studios speak at graduation By Andrea Lamberti This Stereo equipment, cameras and By Annabelle Boyd of formidable challenge." was in- drafting tools were among the Colombian President Virgilio unprecedented resolution the Insti- items stolen from the Level I ar- Barco '43 will be the speaker at tended to demonstrate of Barco's efforts chitecture studios over the MIT's 124th commencement on tute's support down Colombia's drug Thanfksgiving weekend, accord- Monday, June 4. to shut I the assassination ing to Sgt. D)avid Carlson of the Barco, who was elected to the traffickers after presidential can- Campus Police's Special Services. Colombian presidency as the can- of Liberal Party in August. The robbers broke into stu- didate of the Liberal Party in didate Carlos Gallan a cold-blooded dents' lockers and stole eqluip- hIay 1986, has recently gained in- Implementing assassination, civilian ment ranging from cameras val- ternational attention for his de- policy of threats and bribes of ued at $250-$350 to cheap clared war against drug traffick- bombings, officials, the Medel- drafting supplies. ers in Colombia, and his staunch government drug Cali drug cartels have ex- The incident is presently "un- refusal to negotiate with lin and pressure on the der investigation," according to kingpins. erted tremendous and proud Barco government, in an attempt Campus Police Chief Anne P. "We are delighted as our to gain recognition as legitimate Glavin. Police had an initial sus- to have President Barco MIT players in the Colombian power pect, but are now pursuing a new commencement speaker," said. The Medellin cartel has lead, Glavin said. President Paul E. Gray '54 structure. as a most successful; Medellin's Sixty-two items were reported "His dedication and strength been court system has been stolen during the long weekend. national leader bring honor both criminal to MIT. He to a virtual standstill and The thieves apparently used to his native land and brought to the bet- curfews have been imposed crowbars to pry open the lockers. has committed himself country through throughout the city. The Thanksgiving thefts were terment of his of out- While many Colombian politi- the latest of a rash of thefts' in more than three decades which including the mayor of the studios. standing public service in cians - he has combined political activity Medellin and the Speaker of the Office Stereo equipment targeted Photo courtesy MIT News oitlook." House of Representatives - have Barco '43 with a humanistic Colombian President Virgilio an undergradu- urged the government to open "If anybody had anything tak- Barco received civil engineering talks with the drug kingpins, en, it was stereo stuf," com- ate degree in and pursued Barco has repeatedly refused to mented Anne Sammis '91, a Lev- from MIT in 1943, Branmmer is appointed in economics do so. Instead, he has declared el I student. Sammis lost graduate studies the early 19507s. measures that allow drug traf- approximately $85 worth of here in member of the MIT Corpo- fickers to be summarily extradit- equipment, including a walkman headvof PlhyFsICaI Plant A from 1970 to 1980, Barco ed to the United States for trial. and headphones. By. Re~uven "M. Lerner He also said that he has been ration has also served on several Insti- At the end of August, he ordered The wealth of equipment accu- ~H. E - rammer, Physical involved in the discussions over a committees in the the military to confiscate the as- by the thieves included Plahit's associate director for op- possible new postering policy, tute visiting mulated of Ecnoomics, Po- sets of-promfinew. drug traffickers valued- as., .hastbeen -namne.lbhye- -adding that he ",would-- like to Departmnkiets. more walkmans, some eratios, and Civil Erkgi- m a pubWg-dialay of go-wemment porta- Pilanvt director, by Seuidr Vice; find something that is workable litical Science,, high'as $250, and several cai Center for ability t~o combat the drug Williamh R...,Dickson for- everyone." neering and- in the ble stereos -valued from -$100- President Studi.i -4 intment Will take The appointme'nt concludes In' fiohal $150. '54. The appo' Also, Barco has maintained Jan. L. four months of searching for a A collection of approximately, effect on Cited for leadership that the drug problem is not about 20 com- Branimer, who served as direc- successor to Paul F. Barrett, who 100 cassette tapes, In October, the MIT Corpora- merely a supply-side phenPm'e- at $300 two tor of Housing and Food Services announced his retirement in Au- pact discs valued tisn adopted a resolution saluting non. Citing drug users in the cameras from 1972 through 1987, said gust. Barrett had been head of tennis rackets, and two Barco "for his courageous leader- United States as partially respon- were also yesterday that "there are lots of Physical Plant since June 1980. worth $250-$300 each ship of Colombia during a time I (Please turn to page 2) stolen. things to be done" with Physical (Please turn to page 19) LM I------119 -- ---.------P- -e - Vince Bandy G. a Level I stu- Plant. He added that he plans to dent, said that of the 17 people in 'spend a lot of time" with people his studio, at least 14 have had who have worked for Physical something stolen. Of the thefts Plant longer than he has, in or- i occurring throughout the term, der to get a better idea of the "just about everybody" in the department's needs. graduate studio 'had something Dickson, in a telephone inter- stolen on one of those occa- view yesterday, called Brammer sions," he said. "a real proven administrator" Bandy organized a list of all and an "excellent communica- the stolen goods for the Depart- tor." While Brammer's appoint- ment of Architecture "to docu- ment will not mean any major ment the incident," he said. This changes in Institute policy, the was necessary to make the Insti- promotion "will be good for the tute aware of the security situa- [Physical] Plant and the whole tion, and because the large scale MIT community," Dickson said. of the thefts was "not the case of Brammer said that "it is very Dust] one student not locking the difficult to say' how his appoint- locker door," he said. ment would affect students, since i "The facility does not allow the dormitory system is not un- for security - that corridor is der the control of Physical Plant. just such a freeway," Bandy said, He did note that Physical Plant Tech referring to the openness of the had "upgraded some of the class- Kristine AuYeung/The area. After the thefts, he is "not rooms" this past summer, and Members of Phi Delta Theta made wooden helicopters and racing cars on Saturday, to to improve Boston and Cambridge for Christmas. really afraid to work there [in the added that he plans be distributed to hospitalized children in II WE - I - - (Please turn to page 2) them. Y4 rCI·P·II - - -- - _ A_ 8 Cray-2 supercomputer proves to b2e powerful tool, but is under-utilized fluid isting MIT system, allowing users search project. He is developing a advanced computational By Joan Abbott time needed for~ one computa- the supercomputer calcu- model of wind and wave motion mechanics. "I plan to use MIT users have had access to a tional cycle, is 4.1 nanoseconds to perform lations from their workstations in bodies of water. Trials of his Cray-2 as more than a number Cray-2 supercomputer facility - one of the fastest periods while using Athena printers and model, which took seven hours cruncher," he said. "The students July, but notas many have available. to program algorithms since plotters. or longer on a Microvax II, now can learn utilized it as had been expected. The cost to users is $140 per of UNIICOS, the Cray-2 operating takes two or three minutes on the necessary to run on this type "It can handle many more clients central-processing unit hour. system, may be familiar to Athe- Cray-2, he said. computer." than it currently does," said There is no minimum amount-of an account on the may na users since it is a Cray version While the Cray-2 is intended Getting Edward M. Andrews, the facili- computer time that users is relatively simple. Re- hour can be of UNIX. Pascal, Fortran, and C primarily for research, it can also Cray-2 ty's administrative officer. purchase - one projects can obtain a as 100 compilers are available on the be used for coursework. Cray Re- search Cray Research Inc. provides a bought just as. easily Cray-2 account ifi about 24 hours beginners todgain system along with CAL, the Cray search donated 2000 hours of substantial amount of funding hours, allowing by-submitting a request-form, a Cray-2 without a assembler. In addition, members computing time during the first for the program in the form of access to the brief description of the project, financial investment. of the MIT community may re- year to be used for course-related yearly research grants for wort- huge initial and-a requisition for the cost of The cost of using the Cray-2 is quest that additional, software be activities. At this tme, the Cray-2 done on supercomputers. purchased for the Cray-2 by sub- 'is not being used widely in under- Jthe comnputer time. Cdurse pro- With four central processors relatively low because it is being mitting requests to the MIT graduate coursework. jeets require a short proposal, an and 256 million 64-bit words of used simply. as 'a computational of the number of on the existing supercomputing facility. Michael B. Giles, assistant pro- assessment random access memory, the Cray-2 server,_ dependent that the course will re- than as a full- O Tetsu Hara, a graduate student fessor of aeronautics and astro- hours provides high speed computa- system, rather administrative work supercomputer. The in civil engineering, recently in- nautics, plans to use the Cray-2 quire, and tions at relatively low cost. The functioning for individual students who will Cray-2 is integrated into the ex- corporated the Cray-2 into his re- next term in a graduate course in supercomputer clock period, the be using the machines. ·, T* -* ,e -·
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(Continued from page 1) the Colombian Senate and House c of Representatives, and was both of creativity. sible for the violence spawned by m Minister of Agriculture the drug trade in Colombia, and Min- ister of Public Works. From 1969 Barco has met with President to 1974 he was executive director The purpose of education is to develop basic thinking skills and George Bush and the presidents of the International Bank for Re- to obtain a basis of knowledge in our chosen field. This provides of Peru and Bolivia in an effort construction the foundation for problem solving abilities across a range of to coordinate anti-drug policies. and Development (World Bank) for Colombia, disciplines. Barco has held a number of Bra- zil, Ecuador, the Philippines prominent posts throughout his and However, development of better solutions to challenging the Dominican Republic. career in Colombian politics. He problems requires dimensions beyond basic thinking skills and In 1952, while studying served as ambassador to the eco- knowledge of the field; it requires creativity in conception and nomics at MIT, Barco was United States from 1977 to 1980, award- in approach. ed a master's degree and ambassador to the United in social sci- ences from Boston The ability to be 'creative" is often regarded with a sense of Kingdom from 1961 to 1962. University. He He is a member of the Colombian mystery and apprehension. Sometimes it is considered the was mayor of Bogota, Colom- Society of Civil Engineers exclusive purview of artists or others with the "right" aptitudes. bia's capital and largest city, from and a former president of the Of the 1966 to 1969. He has served in Colombi- many studies of creativity there is one common an Society of Economists. conclusion: if we give creativity enough attention, we get better at it. This suggests that I creativity is a challenge like any other, a "problem" to be solved. It also suggests that, as with any other challenge, our attitude towards it, our desire-for a solution, and our belief in the intrinsic'Worth of the task are the most important ingredients for success The principal obstacle to achieving creative breakthroughs is a premature conclusion that a better solution is not possible. For a "creative" solution is by definition one that is different from those that have preceded it and one that often runs counter to accepted knowledge. To overcome this obstacle we need to add to our basic thinking skills and technical foundation the following elements of attitude: 1. A strong desire for a creative breakthrough. 2. Confidence in our ability. 3. An expectation that many false starts may be necessary. 4. Sufficient immersion in the problem to engage all our faculties. 5. A willingness to pursue solutions until a breakthrough is achieved. 6. Analysis of each attempt to aid in the development of insight. In those cases where a task appears routine, we may also need to intentionally "spark" the creative process. We do this simply by asking how the task can be done better, for "better" implies a different approach, which in turn requires creativity. There are, of course, other considerations. Especially important are the environment within which we work and the caliber of our associates. As with every other part of the problem solving process, interaction with capable associates can be an important catalyst. I'AK However, most important is the awareness that the foundations Lerothodi-Lapula LeeuwlThe Tech for creativity rest inward with our attitudes. This includes a Ayida Mthembu, assistant'dean for student affairs, recognition that superior creativity is something we must tells traditional African stories as part of Kwanzaa, an intensely desire and that success does not come without effort African-American celebration of their cultural heritage. i and many false starts. I - I -a -rrau dl I I I a s g _I-- a , During our education, we usually are faced with solving I problems that have two characteristics: 1) we know that a Architecture studios soluticn exists; 2) we know that the solutions can be obtained i with the techniques under study. When we begin work, these I conditions do not hold, and yet we face the challenge of finding robbed over long break solutions. If we are aware of the foundations of creativity during our education we can better prepare ourselves for this (Continuedfrom page 1) Leon B. Groisser '48, executive challenge. studio], but -I'm afraid to leave officer of the Department of Ar- my things there." chitecture, said that the depart- ment Concern about security is "investigating the possi- Note: Each year the Bose Foundation sponsors a one year bility of alarming some of the- fellowship for a first year graduate student in electrical Other students are more con- doors" along the fourth-floor engineering. Please see your faculty advisor for more cerned about working there corridor of Building 5. information or write Rhonda Long, Bose. Foundation, The alone, though. Varisara Gerjaru- Twenty-seven items overall Mountain, Framingham, MA 01701-9168. sak G. whose wallet was stolen were reported stolen during the early in the semester, said "I semester before the Thanksgiving Deadline for application is February 16, 1990. don't feel very comfortable about break-in. Approximately 20-25 working here at night anymore students have had their belong- - if there's someone here it's ings taken throughout the okay." semester. _ e. _a ZL--PI ''I The Building 5 studios are al- Carlson said that since ways unlocked. Students keep Thanksgiving "there were a few tools and belongings in lockers or more items missing, but they -Foundation I- - .- Wountain, Framingham, on -their desks. haveP since been recovered." I ------I' MA 01701-9168 ------ __ __ J pI
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~D1 id~Pd a ~ Israeli scanner detects cancer Indians remember Bhopal disaster
Israeli doctors unveiled Sunday a laser scanner they say In Bhopal, India, police arrested about 800 people Sun-- can detect certain types of cancer by examining a blood day when they tried to hold a protest inside the vacant Bush briefs NATO allies on summit sample. Experts hope the technology will eventually elimi- Union Carbide plant. It was five years ago Sunday that After a post-summit briefing for NATO leaders in nate the need for surgical tests for some kinds of cancer. the plant leaked deadly gas that killed more than 3500 Brussels, President Bush yesterday restated United States people. support for the reunification of East and West Germany, but added that it must proceed at its own pace. The Presi- dent's national security adviser said the NATO allies were _~IP~t~P~P~ Reposr calls hospitals unsafe particularly interested in the reunification issue. At an unprecedented joint news conference following _: L:Ia M _ A published report is blasting United States hospitals last weekend's Malta summit, Bush and Soviet President for failing to meet quality standards for surgery, blood Mikhail Gorbachev expressed hopes that a treaty on long- S & L regulator resigns transfusions, and treatment in coronary and intensive care range nuclear missiles will be ready in time for next year's units. Appearing in the Chicago Tribune, the report says The government's chief savings and loan regulator says more than a third of the hospitals fail to meet those stan- summit. That get-together will be held in the United he is being made the scapegoat for the problems of the States in June. dards, and it says more than 40 percent of hospitals entire industry. M. Danny Wall announced his resignation surveyed were cited for safety violations. Upon arriving home, Gorbachev reported to his nation yesterday. He has been under fire for his handling of the on his meetings with Bush, saying on Soviet television costliest S & L_ bailout ever. Wall accused the House that the dialogue surpassed his expectations, and that the Banking Committee of resorting to "corruption of truth" Citrus growers fret over weather men "created good preconditions for reaching concrete in an effort to force him out - though Wall said he has A chill wind from the north has Florida citrus growers results." Upon arriving in BrusseIs,' BuSh noted recent done nothing wrong. keeping watch over their trees. Forecasters said yesterday events in Eastern Europe, saying, "we stand at the cross- that temperatures are expected to drop to near zero in the roads of history on a way to Europe, whole and free." Clergy protest Salvadoraan aid Sunshine State before warming up later this week. The Arctic air freezing Florida is part of a weather system that Warsaw Pact sides with Prague A protest against United States aid to El Salvador end- has buried parts of Maine and the Great Lakes under ed with the arrest of more than 100 people yesterday in heavy snow. Five of the seven Warsaw Pact nations yesterday repudi- New York. Police said the protesters-including nuns ated their invasion-of Czechoslovakia 21 years ago. In a and clergy members - blockaded a federal building. Sal- statement carried by Soviet media, leaders -of the Soviet vadoran troops have raided several churches in renewed Court to decide on pollution Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and East Germany fighting with leftist rebels, and some blame government The Supreme Court said yesterday that it will decide said using their troops to crush the "Prague Spring" re- forces for the recent killings of six Jesuit priests. whether the government's power to fine air polluters is form movement was an unjustified action with long-term limited by the government's own delays in setting clear-air negative consequences. Warsaw- Pact leaders are in Mos- guidelines. The justices will hear an appeal by General cow for a report on this weekend's superpower summit. Greenpeace may sue the Navy Motors, which faces fines of up to $25,000 a day for At the same time, Czechoslovakia's reform movement Greenpeace said yesterday that it is seriously consider- violating air-quality standards at a Massachusetts plant. pressed- ahead with its demand for democracy. More than ing legal charges against the Navy. The anti-nuclear group 150,000 protesters filled Prague's central square yesterday,- charges the Navy violated international law when it broke sending the one-day-old Communist-dominated govern- up a protest yesterday off the Florida coast. A Green- Triple transplant patient stable ment an ultimatum - a new government by Sunday, or peace ship and two high-speed rafts tried unsuccessfully A 26-year-old woman remains in critical condition at a another nationwide strike. A general strike last month to block the test launch of a Trident Two missile. The Pittsburgh Hospital after receiving a new heart, liver, and forced the government to make historic concessions to the Navy fought back, ramming the ship and puncturing kidney in an operation doctors are calling the first of its opposition. pontoons on the rafts. The missile test was completed kind. The procedure began Saturday evening and ended successfully. late Sunday afternoon. At a news-conference yesterday morning, doctors said they would try to begin weaning Aquino strikes against-relbels'- Cindy Martin off a respirator. Philippine' President Corazon LAquino's- goverriment- .Dis:overyreturns to Florida, moved against rebel holdouts yesterday in the fifth day of The Space Shuttle Discovery is back in Florida. It was Toyota recalls Lexus LS-400) a military insurrection. As Monday dawned in Manila, flown to Eglin Air Force Base from California atop a 747 Recall notices will be in the mail today to owners of all rebel snipers in skyscrapers continued to fire on govern- jet - and could be back at the Kennedy Space Center as Lexus LS-400 cars. Toyota said yesterday that it is recall- ment soldiers. At least 70 people are believed to have been early as tomorrow morning. The Discovery recently orbit- ing the luxury cars to fix a sticky cruise control mecha- killed so far. ed the planet on a classified military mission. Its next mis- nism and replace a stoplight cover. A Lexus spokesman Officials said they expected about 400 rebel troops at sion is scheduled for hMarch, when the crew will release said the company has received just one complaint about an air base south of Manila to have surrendered by yester- the Hubble Space Telescope. each problem, but neither involved accidents or injuries. day. Philippine officials have accused the rebels of freeing 18 people charged in the 1983 murder of Aquino's Where no man has gone husband. Women lawyers feel harassed One American trapped in a hotel in Mlanila's financial A survey released Sunday indicates many women law- before . . . North Carolina? district said Sunday that she can see the fighting going on yers in large firms experience sexual harassment on the There may someday be a place for Star Trek fans to around her. Barbara Julich, a businesswoman from New job and feel they have fewer chances than do men for top live in some ways like Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and the York, spoke from the hotel in a telephone interview. She assignments. Sixty percent of the women who responded rest of the starship Enferprise gang. Some Trekkies are said that when she called the United States embassy, offi- to the survey in the Nafional Law Journal say they have advertising a planned community in North Carolina cials there told her there are so many Americans in experienced unwanted sexual attention, and 64 percent which would be based on the moral code of Starfleet. Manila that they cannot help. said they think men have better opportunities for manage- ment positions. Reunificatson call dominates East German protest There were more calls for German reunification yester- day, as tens of thousands of people rallied-in Leipzig. It Ed Nelson's December Almanac was the third straight week that calls for one Germany dominated pro-democracy protests in the East German As the sun makes its annual trek toward the city. Nazi medical data raises controversy, Tropic of Capricorn, the temperatures in the The protests followed the ascent of a 25-membe'r panel Northern Hemisphere drop sharply. -DPecember is There have recently been suggestions that doctors study the month that many messy wintertime weather of reformers to the government on Sunday, following the Nazi medical data compiled during ruthless and brutal resignation of Communist Party leader Egon Krenz and situations overspread the country. human experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The winter solstice arrives on the 21st at 4:22 his entire government earlier that day. The unprecedented Testimony against the idea was heard yesterday at Boston action stripped power from Krenz less than six weeks af- EST. University during a conference on Nazi doctors and paral- The new moon is on the 27th. ter he replaced hard-liner Erich Honecker. West German lels in modern medicine. Venus reaches greatest brilliancy, overshadowing leaders hailed the resignations as a "dramatic Eva Mozes Kor used her personal experience to voice development." even Jurpiter, and rises around sunset. her outrage. Kor is a Hungarian Jew who was subjected The average high temperature is 39.3°F (4.1 °C). to the experiments of Josef Mengele along with her identi- The average low temperature is 26.6°F (-3°C). cal twin sister. Kor and her sister were one of 1800 sets of The normal precipitation for the month is 4.5 twins who spent ten months in Auschwitz-BBirkenau. Dur- inches (11.4 cm). ing that time, they spent six days a week enduring genetic On average there are 11 days of measurable experimentation. precipitation . She said the treatments included injections of sub- stances of which she still is uncertain. She also said she Fortunately, our weather is running closer to this donated a kidney to her twin sister because her kidneys normal situation. Winds will be weaker as tempera- deteriorated over the years as a result of the near-deadly tures moderate during the next couple of days. No injections. Kor currently heads up a group called Candles big storms are likely, either. -Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments. Tuesday afternoon: Mostly- sunny and not as windy, ~^-· II~I"esIP11-111Death penalty opponents delay bill with northwest winds at 10-15 mph (16-24 kph). _ Ei"" State Senate opponents of reinstatement of the death High temperatures will be near freezing. lows near penalty gained ground yesterday as they try to kill the Tesday night: Increasing cloudiness with measuretfor this legislative session. Senate President Wil- 20 °F (-7 'C). >,likum>3*ger gaveled the measure through to a third read- Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a chance of - I~ .1 ,. I, . · : lifg-last week. A motion to reconsider was filed yesterday. flurries. High 35-40°F (2-4QC). That~puts off any further action until the Senate's next Thursday: Sunny, with highs of 40°F (4QC3. Foreast by Roberta Dck, - _ -~~~~uululmumni-ASALLW-.· - formal, session. And death penalty opponent Paul Herold =__ of ,QlicY said he will offer 10 amendments to the bill to .- r ar s "All'- of us are- -Iamides -- 1t-IVh: -I-- -somnffe bv- Reliven- M. -leer;r.-~- ---- I further delaye consideration. )Oa ._e~~~~~-- I _EE= PAGE 4 The Tech TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 19 I _ __ 1r BrmaaiisrI00------· ------OaPllalal = Compassion in the age of AIDS Column by Adam Braff HIS BEST FRIEND -A GAY ONE"' and "JEAN The old adage that close only counts in horse- DulBOIS/HE DIED IN HIS _50th- YEAR." Each shoes and hand grenades has, like most rules, been panel was a different color, lending symbolic Proximity has overturned in these years of AIDS. support to Hussein's description of an epidemic that proven to be the only way to convince people of the horror the disease has spread. Friday's observance affects everyone. of World AIDDS Day took me back four years to the Peculiar~ly, all the names on the panels seemed to first time I was formally educated about the HIV belong to men. I say "peculiarly" because the por- virus, in high school. trayal of women as AIDS victims would bring the We, the students, watched a videotape of Rae disease a great deal closer to the heterosexual male Dawn Chong pleading that RAIDS is hard to get." community. The dark photograph of Alison Gertz No argument there - by 1985, only a few dozen this year in Esquire touched me more than any people had died that way in our county. We listened other image of the epidemic. She contracted AIDS to the gym teacher read a few dry paragraphs off a through a single encounter with a bisexual man, xeroxed sheet, and treated that lecture the way we and now travels around the country to show Ameri- did those regarding drunk driving and marijuana. cans that the epidemric is no longer restricted to men That is, we blew it off. At least drunk driving and or homosexuals. We all have heard these words, yet marijuana were immediate.'AIlDS was, as the cliche it takes a concrete imag~e for us to inlternlalize them. I goes, somebody else's problem. What's more, the This, to me, is the strength of the NAMES Project. attitude was one of desperation, as if the world was trying to find a way to stop the unstoppable. Times have changed, and AIDS education has "'People would look at changed as well. Undertakings like the NAMES F LB L aE LQI BG CRIW · m cilRl a) IB i 5 h- -~~ "~ R ·P · ·L* an. srs i Pama w a a Project are not about science and abstract suffer- the quilt and the video and Ii0 ing, but emphasize the people, living and dead, who start crying," Hussein I are affected by the epidemic. The Project takes the form of an 11,000-panel quilt, part.of which was saidg "becauseo it was all so displayed in Lobby 7 on World AIDS Day. close to them, how young I spoke with Imtiyaz Hussein '91, a member of AIDS Response at MIT, about the project and its some of them were.' manifestation here. Volume 109, Number 55 Tuesday, December 5, 1989 "We tried to get as many people as possible from different departments to speak [in Lobby 71 to You may recall that on Friday a cold snap began Chairman ...... Marie E. V. Coppola '90 show that it is a disease which affects everyone," he which lasted through the weekend. It was not warm Editor in Chief ...... Nira;S. Desai '90 said. He stood behind a table on which rested fact in Lobby 7. As the quilts trembled in the breeze, a Business Manager ...... Genevieve C. Sparagna '90 sheets about ARMIT, World AIDS Day, and the .man spoke from the videotape beneath themn. The Managing Editor ...... Peter E. Dunn G NAMES Project. Next to him a videotape showed monitor showed his face and his name. "Michael" the origins of the enormous quilt which has come to was talking about his future. News Editors ...... Annabelle Boyd '90 quilt right Linda D'Angelo '90 symbolize the warmth of those people of rare "My family anid I are working on my Irene C. KUO '90 compassion who have dedicated their time to AIDS now so I can have a hand in it- we're going to Prabhat Mehta '91 education and support. make it a family project," he said. Opinion Editor ...... Michael Gojer '90 Just after 3 pm, a cro~wd of students emerged Sports Editor ...... Shawn Mastrian '91 from the Infinite Corridor, zipping up in prepara- Arts Editor ...... D)ebby Levinson '91 We all have heard that the tion for the cold. A dozen or so stopped when they Photography Editors ...... Lisette W. M. Lambrpgts '90 heard Michael's voice, and turned to watch the Kristine AuYeung '91 epi'demic can affect anvone, tape. Another Michael, the general manager of the Contributing Editors ...... Jonathan Richmond G reading a list of victims' Michael Franklin '88 yet itla ke's a concrete NHAMES Project, was Ezra Peisach '89 names as a camera panned across the massive quilt. Advertising Ma nager ...... Lois Eaton '92 image for us to internalize Each name echoed throughout the lobby. this. The image, to mne is It struck me then that we were mnaking progress. NEWS STAFF Even if we can't find a culre, I thought, we can Associate News Editors: Andrea Lamberti '91, Gaurav Rewari the strength of the NAMES climhb out of our apathy in order to comfort the liv- '91, Reuven M. Lerner '92; Staff: Neil J. Ross G. Anita Hsiung Project. ing, to create our own symbols, to disseminate '90, Miguel Cantillo '91, Seth Gordon '91, Adnan Lawai '91, knowledge faster than disease. The will to reform, I David Rothstein '91, Aileen Lee '92, Dawn Nolt '92, Amy J. also realized, dies quickly. .It is imperative that Ravin '92, Joanna Stone '92, Brian Rosenberg '93, Michael '"Today people would gather every time we would '93; Meteorologists: Robert X. Black AIDS projects appear in a different form every Schlamp '93, Cliff Schmidt show it," Hussein said. "People would look at the G. Robert J. Conzemius G. Michael C. Morgan G. week, that they not Come to townl on Friday and quilt and the video and start crying, because it was leave town on Saturdlay, that the heterosexual PRODUCTION STAFF all so close to them, how young some of them action by pictures of Associate Night Editors: Daniel A. Sidney G, Kristine J. Cordelia community be shocked into were." He pointed to part of a quilt suspended high Ali Gertz and other symbols which are too close to '91, David Maltz '93; Staff: Richard P. Basch '90, David E. Bori- in the corner of the lobby.' "This one was 28 years son '91, Lawrence H. Kaye '91, David J. Chen '92, Sheeyun home. old when he died. Often college students don't real- Park '92, Jonathon Weiss '93. to say to the ize their friends can die, since the incubation period I asked H-usseinl if he had anything press. "Write this,-' he said. "Elven though it was OPIfVION STAFF is SO lIong." Columnist: Adamn Braff '91; Illustrators: Pawan Sincha G, Kai F. cold in Lobby 7, the activities of the day brought Chianlg '92 . I looked at the panel he had pointed out. It said warmth." "EDDIE KING/1960-1988/B1UDDY, HERO, AIDS SPORTS STAFF EDUCATION.' Other panels had equally poignant G, Harold A. Stern '87, Anh Thu Vo '89, Adam Braff, a junior in the School of Humanities Michael J. Garrison MAN MOURNS Emil Dabora '91. messages: '"FRED/A STRAIGHT and Social Sciences, is a columnist for The Tech. ARTS STAFF Associate Arts Editor: David Stern '91; Staff:- Frank. Gillett G, Mark Roberts G, Julian West G, V. Michael Bove '83, Manaven- dra 1<. Thakur '87, Michelle P. Perry '89, Peter Parnassa '90, Paige Parsons '90), Paula Cuccurullo '91, Alfred Asrmendariz '92, Sande Cheny '92, Alejandro Solis '92. - PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF Associate Photography Editor: Lerothodi-Lapula Leeu~w ' 92, Sean D:oaugherty '93; Staff: William Chu G, Frank Espinosa G, Michael D. Grossberg G:, Andy Silber G, Ken Church '90, Mark D:. Virtue '90, Sarath Krishnaswamy '91, Georgina A. Maldon- ado '91, M~auricio Roman '91, Marc Wisnujdel '91, Douglas D. Keller '93, Wey Lead '93, Matthew Warren '93, Jeremy Yung '93 D:arkroom Manager: Ken Chu'rch '90. FEATURES STAFF Christopher R. D:oerr. '89, David J. Kim '91, Taro Ohkawa '91, Chris Ml. Montgomery '93. 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