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Commaittee Citees Facu~lty Concern 1850 TO~GRADUATEE OvernStudents' Performancesace AT COMMEN~rENCEEN SAY~ZS DIVERESITY MUUST BE MAINTAINED3Elt (]By Irene C. Kuo) (]By Andrew L. Fish) Approxrimately 1850 senior andII graduate students will Citing concerns about declining student per- receiveI an estimated 2000 formaznce, a faculty committee has asked the Ad- degreesI at MJIT's 123rd missions Office to place greater weight on commencementI exercises in grades and standardized test scores in mathe- MKillian Court today. Former US Sen. Paul1 Tson- matics and science when evaluating applicants. ,gasI (D-MA), the recently- appointed41 chairman of the Students proptest two weeks- ago against prop~osed changes~ein Projecgt Inrterphasae (Tech photo byIbLerothodi-Lapnla Leeuwenw'92). The Comnmittee on Under- This perception was brought state Board of Regents of graduate Admissions and Fi,- into focus in a report prepared by Professor Anthony P. nancial Aid said that appli- I cants' "non-acadermic French last year. French found .activities, talents, and personal that over the past 20 years the qualit~ies sho~uld be considered freshman class has had a pro- FORII\? SEAS mostly as a means of di~stin- gressively smallaer fraction of studednts with math~t and. sci- guishing among individuals of Admmiistrators amdann~s~ Stude~Bnts Agrsee enace achievemlent test anid SATT com parablte academic ability."' scores between 750-800-. Thee On New Fall Prograra, Project P~kXL A~fter a yea~r-long study of the MVIT admissions process, CUAFA -report retvealed that SOME~B.CONCERNSMEM-AIN~S ~E~h~B~g~ CUTAFA found -that the-Adamis- when applicants were grouped ~ait~i ~k~iar~laiair~ii ~nen i i~b~f~ ~r, CA 'or, blase~e
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i r I adminlistraiion has dropped plafiA -to, make Pro- - f RAL----] -BA--,GK ject Inlterphhdse a comb5ined summer~~f and-fall- edu--- I I I cational programn. Instead, Internphase will con- REIJIG STZVI T tinule as an eight-week summner programm for disadvantaged students, whil~ie a new program, I Hurndreds Gathaer to Support III dubbed Project XL, will be established to help i Pro-Democracy Movement~IPe~t first-term freshmen succeed acaedemically .I DENOUNC~~E CHINES~~E GOVERNMENT[E g~lP I The arrangement was (By NirajBaS. IDesati) w~iorked out at a MZIay 23 mneet- I ing between Dean for Student Hundreds of people -fathered outside the MdIT Affairs Shirley Mhf.MdcBay, fac- Student Center yesterday to express their I ulty members, and student representatives. The students solidarity with Beijing students whose pro- proposed the creation of Pr·o--- democracy movement wa's brutally suppressed Part of Review of ject XL at the meeting as an by Chinese troops over the weekend. Technologyr Transfer~ alternative to the administra-b tion's planned changes in Pro- test was very emotional and j'ect Interphase. After some Yesterday 9s demonstration, (ByrAndrew L. Fish) modification, the proposal was organiz;ed by the Greater Bos- was often punctuated -by chants, in both English and accepted by the administration ton branchl of the United Asso- A congressional~subtcommit- and faculty. ciation of Chinese Students in Chinese, from the crowd. "L~ong live di~mocracy," tee is investigating the prac- The meeting came fo~ur'days the United States, drew stu- ticesS of MIPT's Industrial ]Liai- after 50 studenats conducte~d a dents from' a large number of "George ]Bush, speak out" and "Deng Miaoping, go to hell" son Program as part of a demonstration on the steps of area universities as well as review of technology transfers I 77 Mb~assachusetts A#venue to from members of -the Chinese- were some of the slogans they used. D~eng is Ch~inar's senior of federzally-fanded. research to voice their opposition to the American eommunitS;. Among private industry. changes_ in Interphase. the speakers were Sen. John leader and was an instrutmen-- Clharge Military IPmpact tal figure behind Sunday's The inquiry is being conduact- Projlect Interphase, which is Kerry (D-MA) -and Boston targeted at unnderrepresentedl Committee Head Mayr~For Raymond Flynn. crackdown. ed by the House Subcommraittee Ineffctive Lteadership (Conltinued on page 19) minority students, will this The one-and-a-half hour pro- I I - -- L--- ------summmer include intensive (By Linda D'Ang~elo)) (Continued on page 16)
Almost three years after its INSIDE' ~formatiibn, the Mil~itary IMP-act~ II on Campias Research Commit- SuwnIPEstrich adkdrazes Wellesley tee's inability to produce a- fi- Commeancemenet. Pagee 2. nal. report has led its twyo stu- I Yrto fcjnzs at A ffA focus on dent memabers to- relea'sd their I Armenian gLenocide. Page 10. own "Chronology of MIT's MEI- Tech~niqure '89 providesTn adequate I glimptpse of MIT life. Pagaie 11. I OperaI Company of Boaon offers jpowerful Bo2~~~Pme. Page 13. t PPwductio~n of$Idoamen~-o makes for exhilaratingevenirog. Page I4. Boaston' area Chimese students -protested Meterday against the Singhose Wn~s natsiona dewthlonoI .srh~sesso~ of their fellow studa~ents in BeBing (Tbech photo by' fig~~ ~Y~a~lle.'·-:'~~ dleltoienPFr g ~ II ------_.:. _:PAGE 2 The Tech MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1989 1. '. , . ':! .,
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These factors "will make it hard .,E By Robert E. Malchman changing the rules for everyone to sit -ack and do nothing," | A n14 ·Critics Choie:: .- "Many of' the women in ... who has passed through them," concluded. ':= your generation have hesitated to she declared. Keohane a Mb -EVER EX "STEP SYSTEMS Estrich recalled how she had become feminists, thinking you College President Nannerl 0. ·s been raped a day and a half be- ,"'The EVEREX Step 386/20is the fastest . needed no labels and no help," Keohane W '61 charged the grad- ,., fore her commencement and dis- iI Hz Machine PC Wodd has ever-tested. . said Harvard Law School Profes- uates not to retire selfishly to cussed the effects of violence _ PC World, December 1988 sor Susan Estrich W'74 at Welles- their own pleasures, letting the against women. "I cannot tell ley College on Friday. "You will world go by. you why black teenagers in New discover, I fear and hope, that Keohane told the graduates not- isiC > Great prics...Profesional Solution...And Supprt because they "owe" York would abuse and beat a jog- e you no longer have that luxury." to contribute ARenaissance computing, Inc. E ger,-or why white teenagers in The Computer Professionals . Wellesley graduated 511 seniors it to somebody - they have paid _ New.Jersey would sexually abuse at its 1 l Ith Commencement enough to get where they are - 929 Massachusetts Avenue - girl they had I _P Exercises. and not because it will make a mentally impaired CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139 with all their Although women have made them happy - improving the gone to school FREE PARKING (617) 491-0910 lives." gains, there is still much to do to world entails risks, losses and hu- Despite all the dangers and all improve the lots of women and Imiliations. The graduates will im- the precautions women should _ ~E prove the world, Keohane said, ------ - men, Estrich said. "For years, --- · -- "because the world so desperately (Please turn to page 18) I _ -- _---_ -- = -- men have left crying children to .- _ _p~ to travel on as- needs your help." go to work, or In signment. Today, women are free XThe College has trained the she said. to do the same." graduates to be leaders, :e "imbued "We have done better at open- Wellesley women are _ ing the doors for you than at twith. a sense- of divine guilt." E r -,, IOlk-DI II I ---h - -- C _
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*,x;s~lr; Soviet gas explosion kills hundreds Lawmakers urge end A local official reports at least 400 people were injured to US aid to China wnen -a gas plpeline exploded early yesterday in the Ural Liberal and conservative lawmakers have joined forces Ayatollah Khomeini dies Mountains. The official Soviet news agency indicated that to demand an end to US military aid to the Chinese gov- at 86 many people ernament. A died in the blast that also wrecked two pas- New York Democrat Stephen Solarz, chairman 40-day mourning period is underway in Iran, follow senger trains; of a ing the death of the Ayatollah at least 800 people mae still missing. At the House foreign affairs subcommittee, said that con- Khomeini. Iran's officia site of the the disaster, tinued news agency 750 miles southeast of Moscow, US aid is 'politically unacceptable and morally un- said the 86-year-old Khomeini passed awa) President Mikhail Gorbachev thinkable," Saturday night in Tehran, blamed the accident on neg- and that if Bush doesn't take a stronger stand eleven days after intestinal sur. ligence, but did not against China, gery. No funeral elaborate. Moscow legislator Boris "Congress will do it for him.' The United plans have been announced, but the news Yeltsin said the victims include States agency did say Khomeini's many vacationing families -has sold more that $748 million in arms to China in body was taken to a mortuary who were returning the last during the 'night, after I- home on the trains. Yeltsin said a decade. Appearing with Solarz on CBS, Sen. Jes- being washed and shrouded in national day of se Helms accordance with Islamic tradition'.- mourning was declared. (R-NC) said the Chinese military needs to 'S understand there will be a "harsh reaction." Iran's head of state, President Ali Khamenei, has been named as Khomeini's interim successor. Tehran Radio re- - M - ported yesterday afternoon that the decision was made by the assembly of experts formed in the Islamic Revolution's early days to handle the issue of succession. Medical waste fotund Some Khomeini opponents are predicting that Iran- will Medical waste has turned up on Cape Cod beaches for experience major changes now that Khomeini is dead. Thousands -protest thei second consecutive summer, according to coastal offi- Rebel leader Massoud Rajavi said Iran's fundamentalist at Seabrook cialsI on Martha's Vineyard who came upon syringes while As engineers readied the Seabrook power station government will not survive without Khomeini's stern for its cleaningI up an oil spill. Already this summer, medical first nuclear reaction I leadership. Rajavi said a "new era" of freedom for-Iran's yesterday, several thousand anti- waste has been found along Carson Beach in Dorchester, nuclear demonstrators massed outside the New people has begun. Hamp- iin Warren, Rhode- Island, and on Staten Island, New A former IUJS hostage said the death of the shire Plant; approximately 650 people were arrested. The York. authoritar- protesters ian Ayatollah-marks the end of a "nightmare." Barry Ro- blocked gates and scaled fences in the largest sen was among US embassy workers held captive by radi- demonstration at the plant in the last 11 years. Before Bulger fears effects of budget cuts marching cal Iranian students for more than a year starting in on the-plant, however, nuclear activists formed State Senate President William Bulger said he is con- November 1979. Rosen said many Iranians have died be-- a large circle in honor of the Chinese killed this weekend cernedI about the human impact of state budget cuts and cause of Khomeini, and said Khomeini has "caused a lot when troops crushed the student protest in Beijing. State theirI catastrophic effects on the three thousand state of pain all over the world.,, Police Captain Sheldon Sullivan said 100 state troopers workersI who would lose their jobs. The Senate Ways and and 54 officers from Seabrook and the neighboring com- MeansI Committee has proposed cutting $280 million be- Poland holds munities were deployed in the demonstration area. Forty cause of the state's financial crisis and the House has al- free elections members of New Hampshire Air National Guard security- Poles cast ballots yesterday in the freest elections in Iready deleted $600 million. The cuts are an effort to avoid unit were also standing by at Pease Air Force Base about Ithe proposed tax increase suggested by Goov. Michael Du- Eastern Europe in, 40 years. Many voted after years of 15 miles away, at the request of Gov. Judd Gregg. boycotting elections run by the Comm'unist Party. Solidar- Ikakis and the Senate' is expected to start debating the ity leader Lech Walesa said the elections were "a chance IMeasures onr Tuesday. The Ways and Means plan calls for to make this the country of our dreams." Polish 'election Boston walks for AtIDS merging of the Metropolitan District Commission with other agencies and for floating $674 million officials said that they would not have an' official election Eighteen thousand people gathered at the Boston Com- dollars in bonds to pay off -the Medicaid count until Wednesday or. Thursday. . -mon yesterday and then marched for approximately six debt. miles through the city in the fourth annual Walk for Aids. The event raised more than $1.5 -million to support AIDS research and help people suffering from the disease. Sur- --_.7 . ., - ; . ~ I - 1 - 11 I~ Mm geon General C. Everett Koop, an outspoken supporter of efforts to combat AIDS, was presented with an award be.-l fore the walk began. Liberals once warned that Ko op's- 3 Dodgers and Astros play a, corImb;ned conservative views on abortion and homosexuality,;woW.id-, prejudice his handling of the AIDS crisis but, instead, :'.- :eak high pressure will slide across New England D 35 innings of baseball in twog amses Koop has angered his traditional supporters by calling for today providing spectacular outdoor weather. A low Between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, the a frank public education campaign and by advocating use psroure center, approaching from the southwests Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers combined for of condoms. will bring back cloudy, humid, showery weather on 35 innings of baseball, the equivalent of nearly four regu- / Tuesday. lation games in less than 24 hours. Sunday's game wen. to Houston, 7-6, on pitcher Mike Scott's sacrifice fly in the Dukakis admits Monday: Warm and dry. Mostly sunny skies will last of the 13th;. the game lasted 4 hours and 17 minutes. mistakes become increasingly cloudy during the Gov. Michael On Saturday night the Astros outlasted the Dodgers,-5-4, S. Dukakis said yesterday that he went afternoon. Winds northwest 5-10 mph, coming through a rough in 22 innings over a period of seven hours, 14 minutes, time after his election loss to George onshore during the late morning and early Bush.' In a television the longest National League night game ever. interview with Boston station WBZ, afternoon as a sea breeze develops. Highs Dukakis accepted blame for the dispiriting loss and said - around 78 °F (26 °C), before dropping to the that he regretted not trying harder to counter negative at- upper 60's and low 70's by midafternoon. French Open produces tacks by the Bush campaign. He said he obviously mis- Monday night: Increasing clouds, becoming more pair of upsets gauged the public mood and how effective the attacks humid. Winds southeast 10-15 mph, low 60'F Ewould be. Dukakis then turned to the state Sunday's actions at the French Open produced upsets budget and (16 °C). admitted that his administration had overestimated state for two seeded players. Miami teenager MIary Joe Fernan- Tuesday: Cloudy, warm, and humid with rain and revenues, leading to a budget crisis. However, he called I dez gained the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4 win -over Ar- rain showers arriving; High 68-74'F (20-23°C), I his Republican critics hypocrites because they voted last gentina's Gabriela Sabatini, who has lost five of eight ca- low 62-F (17-C). reer decisions to Fernandez. In men's upsets number-five fall to override his budget veto and increase state spend- Wednesday and Thursday: Variably cloudy with ing. This television interview and Dukakis' speech Andre Agassi lost 7-6, 7-6, 6-3, 6-2 to fe~low American on Sat- scattered showers. High 78-84°F (26-29C), low urday to the Jim Courier. Steffi Graf of West Germany and three Democratic Issues Convention may have 60-65-OF (1 6l8°C). marked a turning point: Dukakis tried to show emotion, Spaniards, Manuela Maleeva, Arantxa Sanchez, and Con- Forecast by Michael C. Morgan accept a measure of blame and turn around the political chita Martinez had fourth-round victories, as did West a ---, s_ ar--=- -- --u -r = ---- --·I -P· · r a i momentum against him. Germany's Boris Becker, Sweden's Stefan Edberg, and Compiled by Linda D'Angelo Argentina's Alberto Mancini. and Irene C. Kuo
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-- - 1 MacVicar anplauds debate on educational - --- -r · I reform The issues and values under- debate about the General Insti- cult challenge of being a respect- girding MIT's deliberations on its tute Requirements in Science and ed news source for a community undergraduate educational pro- about the first year academic ex- of widely diverme viewss, and the gram are significant and funda- perience to applaud both the bal- student body has worked in good mental. They arouse passion and ance and steadiness of rhe Tech's faith to influence outcomes. This frequently give off as much heat reporting on these proceedings kind of faculty-student partner- as light at certain moments. In and the civility and quality of ship is crucially important to the course of these deliberations, student expressions of their per- what excellence we can aspire to now four years old, perspective sonal positions. achieve. I hereby'award everyone and courtesy sometimes can be Throughout the first four years a (Neew) Pass! unwelcome casualties. of an expected decade of educa- Margaret L. A. MacVicar '65 I write in the afterglow of five tional program consideration, Chair, Committee on the months of intense Institute-wide The Tech has attempted the diffi- Undergraduate Program Vivarin ad reinforced sense of panic over final exams I While understanding the need mous pressures and workloads, ence. I think it was a mLake to for expanding revenue through but there are also support struc- highlight an image of high pres- the sale of advertising, I also tures set up to tutor over time, sure isolation, especially at term's think that a student newspaper's advise periodically, review expec- end. - I - - --- - _-- L -·I III- -I I - Ib-I IrlC -- BI-uI _ __ _ business staff should weigh the tations or, in other words, hu- Kim Wainmwright impact of a potentially stressful manize and smooth the experi- UndergraduatePhysics Ojffce ad. I am referring to the Vivarin ad in the May 18 issue of The Tech, which was headlined with the crisp admonition that "It AO. ;:,&,1· _ e,h took Galileo 16 years to master the universe. You have one Volure 10a, Number 27 Monday, June 5, 1989 night." With final exams ; = 9th~~~~~~~fte 'i~hmrnmr...... just days affect to+1itmg;<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~J~;-Swr'dm Marie E. V. Coppola '90 away at the time, it behooved us =,~mr in m d ...... Niraj S. Desai '90 all, whether susimss we were giving, tak- :·umI:~·~" fir, A are ----... Genevieve C. Sparagna '90 ing or administering g them, to ...... Peter E. Dunn G treat the challenge with Exad ERor ...... a quite Andrew L. Fish '89 sanity and not a threatening .,.MtSieer~ - &mi*dfkoudt,},et.4_0C ~s 4 d~e93Ato' 'tdkrsedscr- fren- ~~~iiiti,~~iiBo Age DEITIch Ci~lA;adB?C zy. The Vivarin ad reinforced, at .Ef'resTs ...... Annabelle Boyd '90 A__~~~as~'~~i Linda D'Angelo '90 the very least, a sense of panic, cuhA.m r Ph*A Irene C. Kuo '90 and more often, I would guess, a *'''' ""' '' %a Prabhat Mehta '91 sense of doom and futility. It also .itietteBrLlado 02. NAtM Eaotr ...... e...... Josh Hartmann '92 suggested that chemicals and Axkiilon Editor ...... Michae....Michael Gojer '90 cramming were the way to go. Sports Edrits ...... MichaelJ.,Garrison G Yes, at MIT there are enor- Harold A. Stern G Amt Editors ...... Christopher J. Andrews '88 1 Debby Levinson '91 Deutch statements on fraudd;ase;e Contradictory Photonaphy Edh ...... Lisette W. M.. Lambregts '90 (Editor's note: The Tech re- fellow alleged that original lab the same issue of Tarch Talk). Kristine AuYeung '91 ceived a copy of this open letter notebook IConk ng Editors ...... data did not support a The May 17 issue of Tech Talk ...... V. Michael Bove G addressed to MIT Provost John research paper that was Mark Kantrowitz '89 published_ cayries a s gmentqeta you.deivered M. DIeutch '61.) by MIT researchers based upon under oath at the May 9 hearing Ezra Peisach '89 Dear Sir: Kyle G. Peltonen '89 representations of those same of this committee. In that state- Mark D. Virtue '90 In the May 3 issue of Tech data. ment you write "at the conclu- Advertising M anager ...... Lois Eaton '92 Talk you addressed.the MIT In your May 3 statement, you sion of the MIT] review, I con- Senior Editor ...... Jonathan Richmond G community with a statement in- i write that "although no formal curred in the judgment that forming the us of the then upcoming charge of fraud was made, MIT issues raised did not imply mis- t- hearings of NEWS STAFF the Subcommittee on reviewed that paper, following its conduct and that the review did Associate News Editors: Seth Gordon '91, Gaurav Oversight Rewari '91, and Investigations of normal procedures - including not require a report to the NIH." David Rothstein '91, Reuven M. Lerner '92, Joanna Stone '92; the US House of Representatives informing and working with the This sworn statement is consis- Senior Writers: Mathews M. Cherian G, David P. Hamilton G; Committee on Energy and Com- Staff: Sanjay Manandhar federal sponsors of the research." tent with the NIH version of '89, Anuradha Vedanthamrn '89, Anita merce. As you know, this com- Hsiung '90, Miguel Cantillo '91, Adnan Lawai A reader of this statement might events, viz. MIT did not inform '91, Tzielan Lee mittee has undertaken a '92, Dawn Nolt '92, Amy J. Ravin '92, Casimir Wierzynski review of reasonably conclude that the them of this case. '92, the manner in which research Paula Maute; Meteorologists: Robert X. Black G, Robert J. in- MIT response in this case was to It would seem that your two Conzemius stitutions handle allegations G, Michael C. Morgan G. of inform the NIH [National Insti- statements are in contradiction scientific misconduct. The May 4 tutes of Health] sponsors in ac- and that a clarification to SPORTS STAFF and May 9 hearings were focused the Associate Sports Editor: Shawn Mastrian '91; Staff: cordance with the MIT guidelines MIT community Marcia upon the MIT response might be appro- Smith '89, Anh Thu Vo '89, Paul McKenzie '90, Manish Bapna to a case on academic misconduct (which priate. '91, Adam Braff '91, Emil Dabora '91, Kevin T. 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The MIT Commission on Industrial crease exponentially over the next '10 salary costs as overhead on research Coming out of a 40-year period of fan- Productivity culminated two. years of study years. grants, 80 percent of salary costs comes tastic growth, MIT is also quite decentral- recently by calling for widespread changes The following chart shows MIT's total from tuition revenue and endowment in- ized. By consolidating duplicated facilities, in the way American companies operate. operating expenses, research revenue, tu- come. In fact, 75 percent of the annual tu- MIT can realize considerable savings. For The commission based its report on de- ition revenue, and the deficit between op- ition increase can be attributed to example, there are more than two dozen tailed examinations of a number of key in- erating expenses and research revenue over increases in salaries. offices at MIT whose sole purpose is to dustries, ,but, ironically, it missed one of the past 40 years. Over the next 5-10 years, So if MIT wants to maintain both com- produce publications. As a result, MIT the largest sectors of the US economy: however, the research revenue curve will petitive salaries and a diverse student has no uniform publication style, and of- education. flatten out, showing little or no increase in body, it will have to cut expenses - fices which deal with the publications, In addition to being an educational in- revenues because of decreased government dramatically and immediately. such as the MIT Libraries, have to collect stitution, MIT is also a business, and as research spending. If MIT's management Band-Aid measures can help only for so them from 24 separate locations. If MIT such it will be facing a critical shortage of does nothing to curb increasing costs, the long. For example, by buying houses for were to create a centralized publications money in the next decade. deficit will increase to $120 million per each of the three sororities, MIT could office, staffed with the best people, and "What!" you exclaim, "with a $1 billion year by the year 2000. Of course, MIT house 200 additional students in the Insti- provided with state-of-the-art facilities, endowment and a soon to be completed could "always" meet costs by raising tute housing system without needing addi- not only would publication quality im- capital campaign, MIT needs yet more tuition to $28,000 per year. tional facilities. This represents an increase prove, MIT would save at least $500,000 a funds?" Traditionally, MIT has always had two in net income of about $3 million, enough year in salaries and benefits. Similar sav- Strange as it minay seem, unless MIT's competing goals: increasing faculty and to close the current deficit gap. ings can be realized in each of MIT's management takes steps now to control staff salaries vs. keeping tuition from ris- But unless MIT makes real changes in administrative systems. spending and enhance revenues, the deficit ing too fast. Since the federal government the way it budgets and spends money, a $3 One would think that MIT, a world between expenses and revenues will in- allows MIT to count only 20 percent of million increase will last only one year. leader in technology and management, -·--·----a --·e _ Isl - The MIT accounting system lacks any no- would have the best administrative systems r tion of fiscal controls. MIT offices and de- to boot. But as any MIT student who has MIT Income and Expenses 1947-present partments receive money for their budget- had to deal with various MIT administra- 1000000 - ed expenses as a lump sum, which they tive offices has realized, this just isn't so. may then spend any way they please. A Why? Because MIT has a rule preventing a- Total Op. Ex. common trick, for example, is to keep a MIT faculty from consulting for MIT, 800000 ---- _ Research Rev. , secretarial or administrative position un- even for free. Obviously this rule is needed -- Exp. - Res. Rev. filled, and to spend the money budgeted to prevent a conflict of interest, yet it also for salaries on other items. Since MIT prevents MIT from benefiting from some ' a0 0 Tuition Rev. _ . doesn't have any mechanism for reconcil- of the most capable advisors. go -9IE@ d ing budgeted expenses against actual In conclusion, if MIT were to take a 600000 ' E, _- spending, spending can grow without look at its operations from the point of bounds. view of a major business - after all, MIT As such, MIT budgets are meaningless, earns close to a billion dollars a year - o 2400000. and have no predictive value. Financial of- many of its financial problems could be ficers for departments have no need to be quickly identified and solved. For this rea- o200000- conscious of spending, because MIT is a son, I hope that MIT's next president is cash cow. If you ever need anything from someone from outside MIT, who has had your department, ask for it-in June. MIT's extensive experience managing large fiscal year runs from July 1 through June corporations. 1940 1 950 1 960 1970 1 980 1990 30, and non-fund accounts are zeroed at Source: MIT Treasurers Reports, 1947-1988 the end of June. Departments with money Mark Kantrowitz, a contributing editor Institute Archives left over go into a spending frenzy during of The Tech, is graduating with an SB in June. Mathematics and an SB in Linguistics and --L- p, 4 e as -- L 11 01 Il - lb -- Philosophy. Film shares the fantasy view of wvorld that Reagan sold to Amnerica Column by MIanavendra K. Thakur very much in tune with the mood of many stand on the front porch as they admire makes Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan was a point of including a scene where Americans nationwide. The film's story is the country view. A white picket fence and Costner's wife singlehandedly stops the lo- many things, and he was called many an equally simplistic story and reassuring green lawn completes the Norman cal PTA from banning "obscene" literary names by many different people during his fantasy that has proved to be popular at Rockwell image. books from the school library. Very short- eight years as president. But more than the box office with many Americans Both Reagan and the film used images ly afterwards, they decide to build the anything else, Reagan was an actor. His nationwide. similar to these (remember the "Morning baseball field. extraordinary charisma and personal pop- Reagan told Americans that he could in America" commercials?) to manipulate The faith which allows them to gloss ularity resulted, at least in part, from his raise defense spending, cut taxes, and bal- their audienices and tug at their over the economic risks of their decision is experience as an actor. That is why it is ance the budget at the same time. The $1 heartstrings. completely at odds with the hardnosed re- especially fitting, and even ironic, that trillion added to the national debt by Rea- Another parallel involves how both Rea- bellious attitudes they demonstrated earlier four months after his leaving office, the gan proved this to be pure fantasy, of gan and the film offer a comforting re- - but it is entirely consistent-with the re- best way to understand Reagan's success course, but the point is that Reagan drew demption for events that scarred the versal of political attitudes that had to story with the American public is to expe- on his personal appeal to make American psyche. Reagan was the first take place in order for many Reagan Dem- rience it first-hand in the form of a Holly- Americans believe in this pure fantasy. In the film, president to explicitly pay tribute to the ocrats to rationalize their newly-found wood film. That film is the recently Costner's character is so thoroughly sold American presence in Vietnam. The film conservative views. Consequently, the film released Field of Dreams. on the fantastic idea of building a baseball similarly pays tribute to the baseball play- both soothes and lays to rest any nagging The film is about a 1960s activist turned field in the middle of a corn field in Iowa ers who were involved in the Chicago doubts that neo-conservatives might still Iowa farmer, played by Kevin Costner, that he "Black Sox" game-fixing scandal of 1919. have about their reversal. As one might ex- who follows spends all his life savings and the advice of a mysterious mortgages his farm. His wife (played by Compare Field of Dreams's attitude to- pect, this only adds to the film's popular- voice that tells him to build a baseball Amy Madigan) unhesitatingly follows ward the scandal with that of John Sayle's ity. field in the middle of his cornfield. The along, telling him that "If you think you recent Eig!if Men Out, and it becomes This soothing effect is very subtle, be- film has become popular with American ought to build it, then I think you should clear that the healing and reconciliation cause it is plain that the filmmakers did audiences because it offers a charming build it." offered by both Reagan and Field of not set out to make a political statement fantasy that tugs at the heart and because Reagan offered an exceedingly simplistic Dreams necessarily involves an element of or to explore the reasons for Reagan's viewers leave the theater with a warm, view of the world. forgetting the darker moments of the past, popularity. (They probably are neither fuzzy glow The Russians were bad, inside them. In short, it's a Americans were good, and being Ameri- or at least to present them in as positive a willing nor able to make such a film.) "feel good' movie. Reagan's popularity can meant believing in motherhood, apple light as possible. Nevertheless, it is clear that strong paral- was based on virtually the same things: his pie, God, and country. The film offers a There is one further parallel that is per- lels exist between ability the Field of Dreams and to charm his audiences with his lik- similar version of Americana: at one point haps the most subtle. Reagan drew much the essential Reagan message: the fantasy able, affable personality. He was, in short, a character points behind Costner. while of his support from those who came of the film peddles is precisely the same fan- a "feel good" president - especially after talking about attaining the American age in the 1960s and early 1970s (the so- tasy that Reagan sold the American public Jimmy Carter. Dream. Costner turns around, and the called "neo-conservatives" and, to a lesser in 1980 and 1984. 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Back to Ararat is a highly informative, BACK TO ARARAT densely packed, and well-constructed doc- Directed by Pea Holmquist with umentary about the Armenian massacre Goran Gunner, Jim Downing, Suzanne and various Armenian communities Khardalian, and Goran Gundr. around the world today. With Raffy, Ani, Garabed Hovakimian, Made by Swedish director Pea Holm- and a 92-year old grandmother. quist, the film includes footage from Ar- menian communities in New York, Los The films will play June 8-9 Angeles, Boston, Beirut, Lyon (France), at the Museum of Fine Arts. and Soviet Armenia. Perhaps most impor- tantly, the filmmakers also traveled By MANAVENDRA K. THAKUR through Turkey to- photograph Mt. Ararat and to interview the sole remaining Arme- N ONE OF THE WORST crimes against nian humanity of the 20th century, 1.5 family in "a small village in Anatolia, million Armenians were brutally somewhere in Old Armenia." There, the killed and an entire people were filmmakers found a 92-year-old grand- forced to leave their land. Two films play- mother who recounts her memories while ing later this week at the Museum of Fine warning the filmmakers that "If the police Arts focus attention on the long-neglected hear you, they'll take you away. Be wise!" 1915 genocide and its aftermath. It is clear that the primary purpose of Komitas is a reserved meditation on the Komitas (Samvel Ovasapian) broods in a crumbling monastery in Don the documentary is to give recognition and troubled life of the Armenian monk Sogh- Askarian's film Komitas. expression to a terrible tragedy, which few omon Soghomonian, known as Komitas, streams of water begin to flow down the long tracking shots, extended takes, and people outside the Armenian community who was an internationally known com- wall - which literally crumbles and dis- nonlinear construction evoke memories of know or care about. The film succeeds ad- the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, mirably at fulfilling this task, and because poser and expert on Armenian folk music. solves before the camera's unblinking while rA> Komitas was devastated by the horrors of gaze. Hidden in a compartment behind the Askarian's use of brilliant colors and strik- Back to Ararat is probably the first (and the 1915 massacre and spent the rest of his wall is a ancient-looking scroll and a long- ing imagery recall the supercharged imagi- perhaps the only) major documentary to years in various mental institutions. necked pitcher filled with a bright blue nation that fueled Sergei Paradjanov's re- address the events of 1915, the film is The film does not recreate his life or tell liquid. In another sequence, the camera cent Ashik-Kerib. To be compared with historically important as well. his life story in any conventional sense. explores a dark room strewn with broken two of the greatest Soviet film directors of It is clear that both Komitas and Back Rather, writer-director Don Askarian vir- musical instruments and related parapher- the last quarter century is an extraordinary to Ararat represent a major step forward tually eliminates all dialogue to present a nalia. Komitas cowers in the darkest cor- achievement. Askarian's accomplishment in terms of making the world aware of the series of meticulously crafted images that ner while a swarm of bees buzz around the becomes even more incredible when one Armenian genocide. One is a highly poetic are haunting and beautiful in a grotesque, room. realizes that this is his first full-length and artistic, the other solid and informa- lamenting, and symbolic way. In one se- As these examples show, Askarian's feature film. tive. Ideally, these two films should be quence, Askarian's camera enters a mon- mise-en-scene always strives to recreate Because Komitas is a sober and poetic seen at least a week or two apart, but even astery and focuses on religious icons paint- Komitas' psychological state, and for the meditation on the life of a tragic figure so, the Museum of Fine Arts is to be ed on a cracked plaster wall. A minute or most part, he is highly successful. As sev- and a tragic moment in history, the film heartily congratulated for bringing this two after rain begins falling outside, eral critics have pointed out, the film's obviously does not function as a conven- excellent double bill to Boston. #BB~BP~