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MIT's The Weather Ol,dest and Largest Today: Partly sunny, 74°F (23°C) Tonight: Partly cloudy, 54°F (I 4°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Cloudy, 73°F (23°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 122"Number 30 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Wednesday, August 7, 2002 Simmons Student EMT SemceBegins on Campus To Open By Maria Wang For several years, .the MIT 4, police have worn two hats, acting v as both emergency' ,medical techni- Aug~t16 cians and law enforcers. Students By Eric J. Cholankeril are in the process of replacing the SENIOR EDITOR . MIT police as EMTs and proyiding Simmons, Hall will open on emergency medical service to the schedule for the fall, with the first MIT community. residents to move in on Aug. 16. The Student Emergency Med- "We will make it," said Jonathan ical Services Group has trained 63 A.4fIimmel, project director for volunteer'students as EMTs. More Simmons Hall construction. The than a dozen other students were first phase of construction on the trained elsewhere and have joined dormitory, which encompasses the MIT's student EMT program. Start- entrance and the second through ing this summer, student EMTs lOth floors, will be complete by' the have been handling evening shifts, ._ time residents begin moving in. and the MIT Police have been tak- Light safety work and finish ing day shifts. Stud~nt EMTs ..work is proceeding this week,' and respond to calls in 'an ambulance, furniture is being moved into the which is run by the MIT ambulance building, Himmel said. residential service, from Thursday "We'll be able to start moving in' through Sunday in two shifts, from - by the end of,next week," said Sim- 6 p.m, to midnight and from mid- DANIEL BERSAK-THE TECH • mons Hall President Vikash Gilja night to,6 a.m. Director of Ambulance O'perations Nicolas A. Wyhs '05 shows a trauma bag In an ambulance to other '03.' "This summer we have be~n student EMTs (L to R) Annemarle N. Sheets '03, Laura J. Nasutl '04, Sarah Smith '04, and Jessica A. "The elevators will all be opera- working jointly with the [MIT] Nicholson '03. Student EMTs are expected to completely take over campus emergency medical ser- tional," Himmel said. Residents will Police. We respond to calls as a vices by Fall 2003. be able to access the east elevatot:S team. They have been sharing' their from the first floor. The central and experiences with us," said SEMSG call for one shift per week, which the process of deciding how to deal alert and leave class when called." west elevators will be accessible President Michael R. Folkert, G. constitutes a six to eight hour time with students being in class and Folkert said. from the second floor, via a monu~ During the school year, each commitment. The organizers of the handling day calls. "In other mental stairWay from the first floor. stude~t EMJ: i~ expected to be on student EMT program are still in schools, students have a vibrating EMTs, Page 13 LaUndry machines will be avail- able for fall residents in various locations on the second through tenthfloo.rs. "The first of many Sodexho Takes Charge of Dining, Reactions Vary laundry locations will be operational next week, with the others to fol- By Vicky Hsu tomer service. It will take time~ but company and !he employees to , "The new managers do more low," said Himmel.- STAFEREPORTER '_ it is important, and the' employees move along the learning curve," stuff," said Melika Timothy, a Himmel said that workers were One new dining option has .will get it." . said Director ,of Campus Dining Sodexho employee who previously being paid overtime to ensure that already arrived on campus, with "Sodexho takes a f60d safety Richard D. Berlin III. "Recruiting worked for Aramark. "They help the first phase of construction would three more to arrive in the next sev- training program ... extremely sen- efforts are going well. There are with things going on upstairs." beTmished;Qn time. "We're trying eral months.' , ously," said Dan Eusebio, District some very talented people coming "The managers under Aramark to anticipate ~verything," he said. Community dining, excludin'g Manager for Sodexho. "There has on board." would come to the dining halls, look "There may be some interesting faculty receptions, is the 'charge of been a considerable amount of train- "The employees are great folks around, and go back to their offices moments, as with every. new build- the Sodexho company, which took ing to date, and there will be more to work with, there certainly have to sit around until the end of the ing!' over Lobdell, Walker, and campus during the month of August. All the been no troubles," Eusebio said. day," she said. Himmel declined to discuss satellite locations from Aramark in. - managers .are certified in it, and all ."We did hire all, former Aramark "The benefits, treatment of whether spending on the project had -July. the employees will be certified ... employees that wanted to work for employees, flow of customers, gone over budget, saying, "[the "Customer service is our compa- within six months." us, and look forward to working working environment, and worker's Institute has] funded the project as ny's main priority. We are not only with them in the years to come." morale are all pretty much the same necessary to get it done." in the food industry, but also in the Workers .have mixed views . Himmel also said that a night hospitality industry," said Paula Many of the workers .under Ara- security guard had been posted at Lima, service manager for Sodex- mark stayed to work. at MIT under the construction site after it was dis.- ho's satellite cafes. Sodexho .. Rudiger W. Dornbusch covered that people 'had been wan- "We are still training the "One of the great things about .. dering around the site. employees, most of whom are union making the transition over the sum- Rudiger W. Dornbusch, Ford workers who worked under Ara- mer is that there is a chance for the Professor of International Econom- Graduate dorm nearly complete mark," Lima.said, "Aramark did not ics, died of cancer at his home in Michael K. Owu '86, project train thei~ personnel well in cus- Dining, Page 14 W~ D.C., 9n July 25. He director for construction ~f the grad- was 60 years old. ' uate student dorinitory at Sidney Dornbusch was an internation- - and Pacific Streets, said that con- ally- renowned macroeconomist struction of the other new dormitory who made fundamental contribu- opening this fall is '~99 percent com~ tions to economic science and to plete." Owu said that the only work international e'conomic policy remaining wason "punchlist items," design. A member of the MIT fac- such as patching and paint work. ulty since 1975, he held joint Owu said that construction had appointments in,the Department of gone "very smoothly" and that the Economics and the Sloan School . project did not go over budget. He of Management. declined to disclose. a figure for the He was widely acclaimed for budget. _ his work on the theory of exchange MIT NEWS OFFICE Graduate. student residents will rate determination and international economic Policy. begin moving into Sidney/Pacific on Aug. 23 .. Dornbusch serverd as adviser to many Dornbusch served as"thesis adviser for more than 125 doctoral Simmons construction to continue students, training many of today's leading international economic The second phase of construc- policy scholars and practitioners over his 27 years on the MIT facul- tion on Simmons Hall, which , WENDY GU-THE TECH ~ ty. His students have taught at prestigiou~ universities and held high- includes the basement and most of Construction workers prepare the space previously occupied by Toscanlnl's Ice Cream for Arrow Stre~t Crepes. Arrow Street Crepes Dornbusch, Page 13 Simmons, Page 16 Is scheduled to open by late September. A Princeton University dean used Comics . OPINION private ~ormation to access Ken Nesmith discusses the ques- World & Nation .' 2 Yale's admissions Website. tionable future of privacy in the Opinion - 4 United States. Events Calendar 9 Arts :: 10' . Page 16 Page 6 Page 5 Page 2 THE TECH August 7, 2002 WORLD & NATION u.s. to Move Consular Office State Dept. Suggests Dropping From East Jerusalem TIlE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON Charges Against Exxoll Mobil The United States plans to move its consular office, which handles immigrant and non-immigrant visas and services to American citi- By Sor:mi Efron American nonprofit group, on In'May, U.S. District Judge zens, out of Arab East Jerusalem "to a more secure spot," the State LOS ANGELES TIMES behalf of 11 Indonesian villagers in Louis P. Oberdoifer in Washington Department deputy spokesman Phillip Reeker announced Tuesday. WASHINGTON the separatist province of Aceh. asked the State Department to com- Anticipating that the move could be interpreted by Palestinians as The ,State Department has asked The villagers allege .that the ment on whether allowing the case giving increasing support to Israel, Reeker told reporters the decision a federal court to dismiss a hwpan Indonesian military units that pro- to go forward would harm U.S. "is solely intended to address significant security concerns, which rights lawsuit by Indonesian vil- vide security for the plant that. interests. On July' 29, State Depart- we've been looking at for some time" and has come up now because lagers against Exxon Mobil, saying 'Exxon Mobil operates in a joint ment legal adviser William H. Taft "the security of our people overseas has to be a top priority." a trial could harm U.S.

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