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Volume 123, Number 44 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 DonnitDries Discuss In-House Dining Plans Faculty By Waseem S. Daher opening. Dorms consider dining possibility 1bReview MacGregor House and McCormick Hall are discussing "We've been looking into reopening in-house dining halls that reopening the McCormick dining were closed ten years ago because hall for about four or five years," GIRs MIT's dining contractor could not said Professor Charles Stewart III, make money off of them. the McCormick housemaster. By Beckett W. Sterner The idea is receiving serious "The McCormick dining hall NEWS EDITOR consideration by the dormitories was a great place to go to ten years MIT will launch a review of the and MIT administrators led by ago, and we'd like to bring that undergraduate General Institute Larry G. Benedict, the dean for stu- back," Stewart said. Requirements to consider the effects dent life. Last spring, McCormick's dining of changes that have occurred in the "We're exploring what it would committee investigated the issue by student body. take from an engineering stand- administering a survey to In the next month, MIT Presi- point," said Richard D. Berlin III, McCormick residents "to try to dent Charles M. Vest said he will the director of campus dining. ascertain what people's dining appoint a task force responsible for McCormick and MacGregor din- habits were [and] what kind of reevaluating the GIRs, including the ing would likely be patterned after options they were interested in," he common science requirements for existing models in Simmons, Baker, said. all freshmen, such as Physics I and Next House, where students "We've gotten some good feed- (8.01). make a mandatory down payment of back," Stewart said. Dean for Undergraduate Educa- $200 at the beginning of the year McCormick currently offers an tion Robert P. Redwine said at the and are reimbursed during the year optional'all-you-can-eat buffet-style Sept. 17 faculty meeting that the SYLVIA YANG-THE TECH with a SOpercent discount on meals, dinner on Wednesdays to its resi- reasons for conducting the review Marla E. Tanner '04 and Dan A. Nunes '04 serve themselves from Berlin said. dents for $6.50 per meal. included a broadening and diversifi- the weekly buffet at McConnlck Dining. East Campus is unlikely to have While MacGregor is also investi- cation of the student body over the a dining hall in the near future gating the possibility of reopening often stop by the store for a small Yee K. Wong '07, a McCormick past decades, a desire to introduce because it does not have the appro- its dining facility, this would not snack such as a candy bar or a soda, resident, said that she would defi- more hands on experiences, and a priate facilities, Berlin said. replace its store, Campus Conve- especially late at night. nitely participate in a new dissatisfaction with the Institute Currently, the main dining hall nience. McCormick dining program. Laboratory requirement. for East Campus is Walker Dining, "[The store] has a different role Students have mixed reactions However, while residential din- "I've heard no discussion up to which will be relocated to the Stata than a dining hall ... it fills an Residents have different views ing halls are convenient for some now that we have a system that is Center when it opens. Benedict has important niche," Berlin said. He about the possibility of having a predicted a March or April 2004 said the distinction is that students meal plan. Dining, Page 12 GIRs, Page \4 DaYt.WleShuttle to Start in December
By GlreeJa V. Ranade The shuttle will run from The shuttle will run every half December through April, except for hour, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., said MIT transportation will offer a the January Independent Activities David N. Rogers, the director of fra- Boston Winter Shuttle this year to Period, said Lawrence R. Brotti, the ternities, sororities, and independent bring students back and forth across operations manager of the MIT the Charles River during the day. Parking and Transportation Office. Shuttle, Page 19 OCWPosts 500th Class Rranco Modigliani Institute Professor Emeritus Franco odigliani passed away in By Beckett W. Sterner sleep on Friday. He was 85. • NEWS EDITOR In 1985, he and his student Richard Brumberg received the obel Yesterday, the OpenCourse Ware Memorial Prize in Economic Science for his life-cycle hypothesis project published course materials which he developed at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now in its SOOth MIT class, at Carnegie Mellon University. Modigliani and Bromberg disagreed with http://ocw.mit.edu. previous theories that people saved money only if they were rich, or in The project offers syllabi, lecture othet words, if they had money available to save. Modigliani argued notes, homework assignments, and the opposite, and theorized that people save early on in their lives and exams in MIT classes for free on the become wealthier as a result. Then, in old age, they spend the wealth Web, and has received 115 million that they have accumulated. hits from across the nation and other With Merton H. Miller, he also showed that heavy debt by itself countries since it first opened in does not affect a corporation's value, and disproved a previous spring 2001, said Jon P. Potts, the hypothesis that too much debt would ruin a company because the com- OCW communications manager. pany would not be able to repay it. Potts said that the goal is to have ''He was the greatest living macroeconomist,' Professor Emeritus 1,800 courses available by 2007. He Paul A. Samuelson told The Boston Globe. '"'He could have gotten a said that MIT has approximately 0001 Prize for severaJ different subjects." . 2,000 total courses right now, but "Franco was a giant among economists and played a deci ive role that approximately 200 of them are in the intellectual development of corporate finance," Dean Richard not easily transferred online because Schmalensee '65 of the Sloan School of Management said in a state- they are held in the form of discus- ment. "His legendary enthusiasm and intensity never flagged. He sion sections. inspired generations of students and colleagues with his passion for OCW has so far been funded by using economics to benefit society. ' two $5.5-million grants from the Modigliani was a member of the ational Academy of Sciences JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH . William and Flora Hewlett Founda- and the American Academy of Art and Sciences. Jonathan A. Goler G asks to be allowed to hang a flag outside tion and the Andrew W. Mellon He joined MIT in 1960 as a visiting professor. He taught at MIT his donnltory window at the Undergraduate Association Sen- Foundation, and $2 million from for 28 years until his retirement in 1988. He continued to teach a ate meeting Monday night. Housing Director Karen A. Nilsson, MIT, Potts said. course each spring, according to the Times. who threatened Goler with eviction until he brought his flag "That will carry us until the end He is survived by his wife two sons, four grandchildren, and three Inside, looked on. The Senate heard presentations from each of this calender year," he said. great-grandchildren, the ews Office said in a statement. MIT is plan- side and will discuss the Issue at next week's meeting. OCW is currently applying for a ning a memorial service. second round of funding, he said.
The Tech Comics SPORTS --- World & Nation 2 interviews The Tech's sports department Opinion 4 Margaret o knows exactly who will win the Arts 7 Cho. first-round baseball playoffs. Events Calendar .10 Don't bother watching; just flip to Sports 24 Page 7 Page 8 Page 23 Page 2 eptember 30, 2003 LD& 95% Of ass. S dents Pass CAS Secret CIAAgent ot Named THE BaSTa GLOBE After everal attempts, about 95 percent of Ma achu etts high school student in the clas of 2003 have cleared th MC gradua- tion requirement, according to results relea ed Monday by elated By Karl Rove, W House Says tate education leaders. early 57,000 students from last year's enior cla have passed By Eric Uchtblau be a potential conflict of interest ning to cast a more skeptical eye on the MCA test, leaving about 3,300 students still struggling to get and Richard W. Stevenson for Attorney General John Ashcroft the administration's use of intelli- over the bar, the Department of Education announced. Minority, pe- THE 'EWYORKTIMES to oversee an investigation that gence to make its ca e against Iraq. cial-education, and limited-Engli h students all gained ground on could have immense political In an interim assessment made pub- their white and regular-education counterparts, passing in far greater The White House on Monday implications for Bush, McClellan lic over the weekend, the senior numbers than on their first attempt two years ago. dismissed as "ridiculous" the sug- aid that there were "a lot of career Republican and senior Democrat on The class of 2003 was the first to pass the 10th-grade English and gestion that Karl Rove, senior advis- professionals" at the Justice the House Intelligence Committee math sections of the Massachusetts Comprehensive As essment Sy - er to Pre ident Bu h, had illegally Department and that "they're the said there were "too many uncertain- tern exam, known as one of the nation's toughest standardized te t . di clo ed the identity of an under- ones that, if something like this ties" in the intelligence underlying Just 68 percent of students in the cla spas ed it on their first try in cover CIA officer, as the FBI opened happened, should look into it." the National Intelligence Estimate May 2001. an investigation into the case. The growing furor underscored used by the administration to justify ow, after five retests, a renewed emphasis in high school on At the same time, the White the Bush administration's continued the war. test-taking kills, 3Ild school days crammed with extra English and House rejected growing calls from political vulnerability on the issue of The White House sought on math course , the cumulative 95-percent pass rate far exceeds state Democrats for the appointment of a whether it exaggerated the threat Monday to head off the calls for a Education Commissioner David P. Dri colI's original predictions. special out ide counsel to determine from Iraq before the war. The devel- special counsel as numerous Democ- whether someone in the administra- opments also raised questions about ratic lawmakers and presidential tion had disclosed the officer's iden- the relationship between the White candidates said they doubted that th BU Said To m Bid tity in an effort at punishment for House and George J. Tenet, the Justice Department could investigate criticism of its Iraqi intelligence by director of central intelligence. without at least the appearance of a For Bioterror Defense Lab the officer's husband. It was the CIA's general counsel conflict of interest. TilE BaSTa GLOBE Asked if there was a need for an who asked the Justice Department to One Democratic presidential can- Federal health officials are expected to announce Tuesday that independent counsel, Scott McClel- open an inquiry into the July news- didate, Sen. Joseph 1. Lieberman of Boston University Medical Center has won a hard-fought national lan, the White House spokesman, paper column, by the syndicated Connecticut, said the situation was competition to build and run a high-security bioterror defense labora- said, "At thi point, I think the writer Robert Novak, that named an reason enough to revive the indepen- tory in the heart of the South End, a project with the promise of gen- Department of Justice would be the undercover CIA agent. dent counsel law, which Congress erating 1.6 billion in research grants, according to sources knowl- appropriate one to look into a matter The firestorm over the leak allowed to die in 1999 after wide- edgeable about the selection. like this." comes at a time when even some spread concern over Kenneth W. The facility, known as a Biosafety Level 4 lab, would be a cor- Pressed on whether there would Republicans in Congress are begin- Starr's Whitewater investigation. nerstone in the Bush administration's expanding campaign to pre- pare for potential acts of bioterrorism, housing hundreds of scien- tists as they hunt for vaccines and treatments against the deadliest germs and viru es known to mankind, including anthrax, plague, FCC Will Enforce Telemarketer and smallpox. The lab would be unlike anything Boston's medical community has ever seen, with extraordinary measures taken to assure that lethal agents cannot escape. At the nation's three operational Level 4 Do-not-call List, Chainnan Says research centers, armed guards prowl checkpoints, labyrinths of hall- ways make quick escape impossible, and scientists in laboratory By Matt Rlchtel issue an emergency stay, allowing the said. "And given a choice, Americans space suits manipulate mechanical hands to work with deadly com- with Richard W. Stevenson agency to move forward for now. prefer not to receive random sales pounds. THE NEW YORK TIMES Even as the push to regulate tele- pitches at all hours of the day." The chairman of the Federal marketing became entangled in legal While noting that the registry is Communications Commission said fights, politicians remained steadfast under legal challenges, Bush said that Prosecutors Look To Give Court Monday that the agency would in their intent to deliver relief to mil- the "conclusion of the American peo- enforce restriction on unwanted tele- lions of Americans tired of answering ple and the legislative branch and the Clear Choice In Moussaoui Case phone solicitations that were sched- telemarketing calls. executive branch is beyond question." THE NEW YORK TIMES uled to take effect Wednesday. In a White House ceremony Mon- But Congress' clarification of WASHINGTO The announcement came after day, President Bush signed a law giv- trade commission's authority on the Bush administration officials said Monday that federal prosecutors two federal court rulings last week ing the Federal Trade Commission registry does not answer all the legal had decided not to object to a motion to dismiss the indictment of preventing the Federal Trade Com- explicit authority to enforce the do- _questions. Last Thursday, Judge Zacarias Moussaoui because they wanted to present an appeals court mission - the agency that has been not-calllist. That law was passed with Edward W. Nottingham of the U.S. with a blunt choice: Reinstate the charges or acknowledge that civil- taking the lead on the issue - from near unanimous approval by Congress District Court in Denver ruled that ian courts cannot prosecute a terror suspect like Moussaoui. enforcing a national do-not-calilist. last week after a federal judge in the trade commission's regulations The trial judge, Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. District Court ''The FCC will enforce its do-not- Oklahoma ruled that Congress had violated the free speech rights of tele- in Alexandria, Va., is expected to rule this week on a defense call rules against telemarketers that not given authority to the trade com- marketers. Monday he denied a motion to dismiss the indictment of Moussaoui, the only person have obtained the do-not-call list mission to administer such a list. request to stay the judgment; the charged in a U.S. court with conspiring in the terror attacks on Sept. from the FTC, beginning Wednes- Bush generally supports reducing agency has filed an appeal. 11,2001. day," Michael K. Powell, the FCC regulation of business. But in this The jurisdictional confusion is in Brinkema has suggested she may dismiss the case because of the chainnan, said. case, political strategists said, public part the result of having both the government's refusal to obey her order to make captured Qaida pris- Some 50 million Americans have opinion in favor of limiting telemar- trade commission and the FCC joint- oners available to testify for the defense. Court-appointed lawyers for signed up for the list since July. keters' calls is so strong that Bush ly promulgating do-not-call rules. • Moussaoui have argued, and the judge has agreed, that the prisoners Under the law, telemarketers who had little choice but to support the Because the trade commission has may be able to offer testimony showing he had no part in the conspir- call numbers on the list can be fined legislation. been the lead agency, it has collected acy. up to $11,000 for each violation. "While many good people work the names of consumers who wish to But the Justice Department has said the government cannot pro- Monday, the telemarketing indus- in the telemarketing industry, the have their phone numbers blocked, duce captured Qaida witnesses, even those who may have helped try asked the Supreme Court to block public is understandably losing and has established a procedure for direct Moussaoui' s actions, because of the possible public disclosure the FCC from enforcing the new reg- patience with these unwanted phone providing those numbers to telemar- of classified information. Prosecutors have argued that because the ulations, but the court declined to calls, unwanted intrusions," Bush keters. witnesses are held overseas as enemy combatants, Moussaoui has no right to question them.
WEATHER Iraqi Group To Report Deadlock By Vlkram M. Khade
Yesterday the National Hurricane Center issued advisories on On Method to Draft Constitution tropical storms Kate and Juan. Kate was located near 28.8°N and By Patrick E. Tyler but impossible to achieve. tarn, insists that a national census be 37.6°W at midday. This storm is expected to move northeast. The THE NEW YORK TIMES In interviews, members of the organized to affirm the Shiites' major- estimated minimum central pressure was 991 roB with maximum sus- BAGHDAD, IRAQ committee said that religious and eth- ity of 60 percent to 65 percent of the tained winds of 70 mph with gusts up to 85 mph. Tomorrow the cen- As the Iraqi Governing Council nic differences were to blame for population, followed by an election ter of Kate is expected to be near 31.6°N and 36.8°W. (MIT is at presses for a more rapid end to the their deadlock. Neither the occupa- for the constitutional assembly. 42.36"N and 71.09°W.) American occupation and a transfer tion powers nor the United Nations, The committee voted 24-0 on The center of Juan passed over the southern coast of Nova Scotia of sovereignty to Iraqis, a new dis- whose presence here has been sharply Sept. 8 to endorse this proposal, but a west of Halifax Sunday night, with the highest reported winds being pute over who will control the draft- reduced after two bomb attacks on its number of members said they had 62 mph. The Category 1 hurricane (the weakest possible) was down- ing of an Iraqi constitution is bringing Baghdad headquarters, have tried, the grave reservations and were quietly graded to a tropical storm shortly after making landfall in the Halifax to the surface deep divisions among committee members said, to over- pushing for some alternative. area around midnight. Juan drenched Prince Edward Island, uproot- Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. come old suspicions between Sunnis Even if procedures can be agreed ing trees and cutting power lines. Incidentally, yesterday was election A 25-member committee of Iraqi and Shiites that one group will try to on, it could take a year or more to day on the island. officials, who have been deliberating dominate the other. draft a constitution, some committee A tropical disturbance associated with a large-surface low-pres- for two months to recommend a pro- One member said the exercise had members predict. sure system was centered over the northern Yucatan peninsula and cedure for drafting the constitution, in effect become a device to defer a "We need time," said Fuad Mas- was drifting slowly north-northwest. This could produce a tropical said they were deadlocked. complex political negotiation that is souID, a Kurdish leader who is chair- depression when the low emerges into the Gulf of Mexico. This sys- Their report, expected on Tues- crucial to defusing any potential for man of the committee. ''This is why a tem is likely to produce locally heavy rainfall over the next couple of day, is likely to send the complex civil conflict. The report is expected census is so important. We must days. questions of who should draft a new to bring the issue out into the open. reach agreement of all the members Extended Forecast founding document back to the Gov- At the core of the dispute is of the Iraqi mosaic." Today: Mostly sunny. High near 64°F (18°C). erning Council and the occupation whether to hold elections for a consti- He also said the process would Tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows near 48°F (9°C). authorities. Last week, Secretary of tutional assembly, a step that some likely need the help of the United Tomorrow: Cloudy with few showers. High near 62°F (17°C). State Colin L. Powell challenged members fear would allow Shiites to Nations or a prominent international Thursday: Partly cloudy with chance of showers. High near 61°F Iraqis to complete a new constitution dominate the process. leader to ensure that each major eth- • (16°C) and low near 430f (6°C). within six months, but committee The top Shiite religious leader, nic and religious group believes that members said that goal would be all Grand Ayatollah Ali Hussein al-Sis- its rights have been protected. eptember 30, 2003 WORLD & ATION THE TECH Page 3 Uninsured Swell to 15 Percent States Fail To Meet By Robert Pear percent in 2001 and 63.6 percent in care policy at the U.S. Chamber of No-Smoking Goals For Women THE NEW YORK TIMES 2000. The number of people with Commerce, aid the increase was WA HI GTO employer-sponsored coverage fell alarming and predicted it would THE NEW YORK TIMES The number of people without last year by 1.3 million, to 175.3 continue this year. Tobacco-related diseases are still the leading cause of pre- health insurance hot up last year by mj]]ion, even as the total population "Workplace coverage is becom- ventable death in women, and most states are not meeting the 2.4 million, the largest increa e in a grew by 3.9 million. ing unaffordable for many employers nation's goals to discourage women from smoking, according to a decade, raising the total to 43.6 mil- Tommy G. Thompson, the ecre- and employees," Sullivan said. report being released on Tuesday by the National Women's Law lion, as health co ts soared and many tary of health and human services, On Friday, the Censu Bureau Center and Oregon Health and Science University. workers lost coverage provided by said the numbers showed that "the reported that poverty rose in 2002 for Thirty-nine states earned a failing grade when judged by a list of employers, the Cen us Bureau report- nation must do more" to help the the second consecutive year. The criteria from the Department of Health and Human Services and on edMonday. uninsured. Thomp on said that Con- poverty rate generally declines when the strength of their tobacco control policies. The nation overall The increase brought the propor- gress should provide tax credits for the economy expands, but there is no also earned a failing grade. tion of people who were uninsured the purchase of private insurance. guarantee that the number of unin- "Where we are in the United States is pretty appalling," said to 15.2 percent, from 14.6 percent in But no action is imminent. Con- sured will also decline. Dr. Michelle Berlin, an author of the study with Oregon Health 2001. The figure remained lower gress is preoccupied with efforts to The number of uninsured and Science's Center for Women's Health. "The link between than the recent peak of 16.3 percent help a large, politically potent group increased each year from 1987 to smoking and lung cancer is one of the strongest we know of. Yet in 1998. that already has insurance, the elder- 1998, even when the economy was more women are dying from lung cancer each year than they are A continued erosion of employer- ly, by adding drug benefits to booming. Small businesses accounted from breast cancer." sponsored coverage was the main Medicare. for many of the new jobs then, and "This reminds us that we have a long way to go with regard to reason for the latest increase, the Ronald F. Pollack, executive such businesses are far less likely to tobacco use among women," said Dr. Corinne Husten, chief of epi- bureau said. Public programs, espe- director of Families USA, a liberal- provide insurance. demiology at the office on smoking and health at the Centers for cially Medicaid, covered more people leaning consumer group, said: "It's Health policy experts said the Disease Control and Prevention. "It reinforces the need for compre- and cushioned the loss of employer- hard to grasp the magnitude of the number of uninsured was likely to hensive state tobacco control programs." sponsored health insurance but "not .number of uninsured. It exceeds the rise this year because the job market enough to offset the decline in private aggregate population of24 states." remains weak and many states have coverage," the report said. The number of full-time workers cut back their Medicaid programs. Blair Faces Fight The proportion of Americans without health insurance rose by The unemployment rate was higher with insurance from employers 897,000 last year, to 19.9 million. in 2002 than in 2001 and has climbed To Salvage His Government declined to 61.3 percent, from 62.6 Kate Sullivan, director of health a bit further this year. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOURNEMOUTH.E GLAND Early in his tenure, Prime Minister Tony Blair faced an explo- sive charge that his government did a political favor in return for a Officials Concerned About SARS $1.5 million party donation. He went on television and said, "I think that most people who have dealt with me think that I am a pretty straight sort of guy." Infections by Lab Contamination Just like that, the crisis was over. On Monday, his Labor Party, sullen and rebellious, meets in this THE NEW YORK TIMES standards for the second-highest fatally, months after epidemiolo- Channel resort for its annual conference, and trust is no longer so In their vigil for a possible security laboratory, known as a gists had rid the world of smal1pox. easy to come by. Blair is fighting for his political life. return of SARS, health officials BSL-3 facility. But some equip- No additional spread occurred, "'Trust me' will only remind a skeptical nation of the last time have focused mainly on finding ment they used did not meet securi- preserving the disease's eradica- they did," said Jonathan Freedland, a columnist at The Guardian, where the virus hides in nature. ty standards. tion. But the scientist in charge of referring to the British government's attempt to justify the war in But the case of severe acute The findings underscore that a the laboratory committed suicide. Iraq by saying Saddam Hussein had unconventional weapons. respiratory syndrome in a 27-year- laboratory can be a hazardous place Now, many laboratories around Only six years ago, Blair won a landslide election, the leader of old doctoral student in Singapore for workers and potential1y for the the world have stored thousands of a party rebranded as "New Labor." has shown an equally important public unless the staff members are SARS specimens in freezers, ready But New Labor's origin-al stated purpose was to reform the risk - escape of the virus from a disciplined and trained to prevent to be thawed as needed. The WHO creaking British welfare state, and polls show that voters are even laboratory . accidental infection. has cautioned China and other more disenchanted with Blair's performance at home than with his The case adds to thousands of Although the Singapore student countries that accidents may occur actions abroad. other infections accidentally did not transmit the virus to other in laboratories where there is little acquired in a laboratory over the people, and no infection is known experience with dangerous infec- years. to have resulteq from the problem tious agents. u.s. Charges Islamic Leader Who Last week, a World Health in Hong Kong, experts view these Also, as! maby 'governments Organization committee that inves- incidents as a wake-up cal1. have increased spending to counter Met Bush tigated the case concluded that the They point to gaps that exist in the threat of emerging diseases and THE NEW YORK TIMES student most likely became infected putting biosafety standards into bioterrorism, many laboratories ALEXANDRIA. VA. in August through contamination in practice, even in high-tech coun- have hired more people. But some A prominent Islamic leader who has met with President Bush a laboratory where he worked on tries and prestigious universities. of them may have insufficient train- and been an aggressive defender of militant Middle East causes was another virus. For example, Yale has experi- ing in dealing with such agents. charged on Monday in connection with possible terrorist financing. "Inappropriate laboratory stan- enced two accidents. In 1969, a Biosafety experts say many lab- The leader, Abdurahman Alamoudi of Falls Church, Va., was dards and a cross-contamination of laboratory worker who helped dis- oratory workers must change their detained on Sunday at Dulles International Airport in Virginia after West Nile virus samples with cover the Lassa fever virus at Yale attitudes toward safety. a flight from London. SARS coronavirus in the laboratory died of an accidental infection. In Some workers do not practice Federal prosecutors said Alamoudi had been arrested for making led to the infection of the doctoral 1994, another Yale researcher sur- what they were taught in biosafety illegal trips to Libya and for accepting money from the Libyan gov- student," the committee reported. vived infection with the Sabia courses. For some scientists, the ernment. In a separate incident that virus, a cause of hemorrhagic experts say, doing the research is Alamoudi, a naturalized American citizen, was born in Eritrea occurred after the Singapore case fever. more important than doing the and moved to the United States from Yemen in 1979. He is a for- was detected, the Chinese Universi- A notorious accident occurred in research safely. . mer executive director of the American Muslim Council and is the ty of Hong Kong halted work on 1979 when the smallpox virus Laboratories can be likened to president of the American Muslim Foundation. Those advocacy growing the SARS virus, officials escaped from a laboratory at the kitchens. Failure to clean dishes groups are based in Alexandria, Va., and Washington. said last week. University of Birmingham in Eng- properly can cause an outbreak of Last year, the American Muslim Foundation was among about University workers followed the land. It infected two people, one food-borne disease. two dozen Muslim groups, most in Northern Virginia, that were raided by customs agents looking for evidence of terrorist financ- ing. Two Boston Companies: 1 Hot, 1 Cold, Alamoudi recently said he was the first person authorized by the Pentagon to nominate candidates to be Muslim chaplains. That process is now being re-evaluated because of the arrest of a ~t inTwo Very Different Outromes Muslim chaplain, on suspicion of spying, at the prison for militants and suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Alamoudi By Royd Norris which traced its history back to 1862 officials of technology companies in stopped certifying chaplains several years ago. THE NEW YORK TIMES but was viewed as a stodgy company on hot offerings to gain their favor for They were the two most notable in a boring industry, raised $1.7 bil- future offerings. initial public offerings of January lion in the offering. It was the biggest According to the NASD charges, In COurt,ACLU Challenges 2000. One was cold, and one was of the month, but the price soon fell. which are pending, Quattrone sought very hot. Now the underwriter of the On Sunday, the cold stock, John the 724 Solutions underwriting with a Music Industry for BC Student hot offering is on trial, and buyers of Hancock, announced that it had "pitch book" promising that the THE NEW YORK TIMES the cold one are counting their prof- agreed to be acquired by Manulife, a firm's analyst, Marc A. Cabi, would Stepping up its involvement in the legal conflict over file shar- its. Canadian insurance company, in an "pound the table" and be the ing, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a motion to stop Together, the tales of the two all-stock transaction that values Han- "strongest advocate" for the compa- attempts by the music industry to get the name of a Boston College companies reinforce the eternal truth cock at roughly twice the price at ny, which had hopes of establishing student who is accused of being a large-scale file trader. that the things investors crave the which it went public in 2000. its technology in mobile networking. In court papers that were filed on Friday and will be announced most can turn out to be the least On Monday, jury selection began Cabi did strongly recommend the on Monday, the group said that Boston College should not be worth owning - and vice versa. In in New York for the trial of Frank P. shares, and they were an instant hit. forced to reveal the identity of the student. an unusual symmetry, buyers of the Quattrone, who as the head of the When the company filed to go public, The civil liberties group argued that the constitutional rights of cold offering have made 99 percent technology team at Credit Suisse it mentioned a price range of $11 to its client, referred to as Jane Doe, would be violated if her college, while purchasers of the hot one have First Boston was responsible for $13 a share. But the offering was which was also her Internet service provider, were forced to reveal lost 99 percent. underwriting the 724 Solutions offer- priced at $26 and leaped to almost her name. The hot offering was 724 Solu- ing. Quattrone is accused of tel1ing $72 the first day. On March 9, as the The industry subpoena "seeks to strip Jane Doe of her funda- tions, an Internet company that was his assistants to destroy documents Internet fever peaked, the shares trad- mental right to anonymity," according to the group's court filings. long on buzz but had never made after an investigation of initial public ed as high as $240. The industry subpoena is one of many recently filed under the money. Its lifetime revenues came to offering abuses had been begun by Last year, Credit Suisse First Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a law that gives copyright hold- $1.3 million. It went public on Jan. securities regulators. Boston agreed to pay $100 million to ers broad powers to get the names of suspected infringers from 27, the first offering of the new year The federal trial does not directly settle charges by the Securities and Internet service providers. from Credit Suisse First Boston, involve any offerings, but the Nation- Exchange Commission and NASD But the civil liberties suit claims that the subpoenas, which can whose technology team had scored al Association of Securities Dealers, a that it had forced some buyers of hot be issued with little judicial oversight or involvement, go beyond the biggest gains of any underwriter regulatory organization, has accused initial public offerings from April even what the law allows. of new issues in 1999. Within weeks Quattrone of violating its rules in 1999 through Jnne 2000 to share their The group also claims that the law itself is unconstitutional, it was up 800 percent. seeking underwriting business from profits with the firm through such because it does not provide for the judicial review of requests or The cold offering went public a companies including 724 Solutions. methods as charging excess commis- notification of the target of the investigation. day earlier. John Hancock Financial, The NASD said Quattrone let sions on other ttades. Page 4 THE TECH eptember 30, 2003 OPINION
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Many criticize FEATURES STAFF nations where the U.S. has helped to build the U.S. for spending half to a third of what Editor: Brian Loux '04; ssociate Editor: Change? freedom: Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Iraq, the EU spends in aid as a percent of GDP, but Ricaro e Roque '06; Columni ts: Bruce Wu G, Afghanistan and so on. this neglects private aid sent with missionar- Akshay Patil '04, Michael Short '05; Cartoon- I dispute some of the assertions and impli- Against the second are data from the 2002 ies, NGOs, etc. According to the Hudson ists: Jason Burns G, Kailas Narendran '01, Bao- cations made by Basil Enwegbara in "Why NSF Indicators on Science and Engineering. Institute, private aid is three times Federal aid. Yi Chang '02, Jumaane Jeffries '02, Lara Kirk- America Must Change" [Sept. 23]. He claims In 1999 the U.S. spent more in R&D than all It also neglects America's unique military ham '03, Alison Wong '03, Sean Liu '04, (1) that the U.S. has in most cases obstructed other G- 7 countries combined, and recent role. According the Department of Defense's Jennifer Peng 'OS, ancy Phan 'OS, Josie Sung democracy and capitalism in other nations, (2) trends suggest that difference will grow even Stars and Stripes, the U.S. spends $12 billion 'OS, Qian Wang '05. it must lead the world in R&D investment (as wider. Among G-8 nations, the U.S. spends a a year maintaining its forces in South Korea BUSINESS STAFF if it did not already) to be great, (3) that it acts larger percentage of its GDP on R&D than all protecting freedom there. I do not know how dvertising Manager: Aye Moab '05; taff: only in its interests and does not present an but Japan. muc_h the U.S. spends in its many other William Li '06, Victoria Fan '06, Lauren Leung image of "an America that cares about the rest Against the third I offer a few recent deployments, like sanctions enforcement in '07, Donald H. Wong '07. of the world." examples: the U.S. led the campaign to help Iraq, but it is no doubt many times more. TECHNOLOGY STAFF Against the first, there is the example of Muslims in Kosovo, where its interests were Mr. Enwegbara has a bold vision for what Director: Roshan Baliga '03; taff: Frank South Korea, which is now a free and prosper- neither obvious nor compelling; the U.S. will America must become. It is a vision, I believe, Dabek G, Kevin Atkinson '02, Daniel Leeds '05. ous nation, for which most older Koreans who spend much rebuilding Iraq, more than is that America largely already is. 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I suppose it makes sense: if you're will- Schwarzenegger, one of the many candidates other hand, is not as sensible and passed, this ing to kill the caribou, what do a couple dead trying to replace Gray Davis as governor of spring, a provision to allow drilling in the manatees and fish mean? Many coastal areas To Eastern California, has, on numerous occasions, touted refuge. are not off limits to drilling, and putting this the Hummer - which gets around ten to So, if you were a Republican, and on the provision in the bill would open many of these twelve miles per gallon - even as he claims to present conference ------sites to exploitation. The be an environmentally-friendly candidate. committee, and you reason that adding this Europe Mr. Schwarzenegger has zealously publi- weren't sharing any The Republicans, however, provision would be such cized his intention to retrofit one of his six power, and you had an underhanded move is Hummers with hydrogen-powered fuel cells. two versions of the bill are not content to destroy because, unlike the Arc- Daniel Barclay Less publicized, however, are the dirty tricks - one that allowed tic National Wildlife that Republicans in Congress are playing in drilling and one that the arctic wildlife refuge; Refuge, where at least The American military is currently reposi- order to ensure that all the other red-blooded, did not - and you had they're also hell-bent on the House voted to tioning its forces around the globe. Shifting Hummer-owning Americans out there can a predisposition to approve drilling, neither bases within South Korea, removing them afford gas to fill up their behemoths. being a litterbug, what putting a provision in the the House nor the Sen- from Saudi Arabia, and reducing their number Right now, the House and Senate are negoti- would you do? Proba- ate have approved at home make manifest sense to accommodate ating an energy bill. Each house has already bly put some language bill that would allow more increases in offshore changing global conditions. But one proposed passed its own bill, and now those two versions into the bill that allows offshore drilling on both drilling. In fact, the mat- move attracts more controversy: transferring must be reconciled. When the committee drilling in the protected ter was not even brought troops based in Germany to Eastern Europe. charged with this task successfully fuses the land. And, friends, coasts. to a vote in the Senate. While this plan is logical from a macroscopic two bills, each house votes on the joint legisla- that's what is happen- Clearly Senator Pete perspective, pragmatic considerations call its tion. If this verSion passes, the bill goes to the ing right now. Oil and Domenici, R- .M., the feasibility into question. president to be signed. Usually when a bill, gas companies (the same half-baked people chair of the conference committee, and his Advocates emphasize the long-term strate- especially one of this importance, goes to a con- who cooked-up Cheney's original energy plan) party cronies are okay with ignoring the wills gic advantages. In a post-Cold War, post-Sep- ference committee, the group assigned to recon- are going to be allowed to explore the wildlife of elected legislators, and by extension, the tember 11 environment, security threats are cile differences is a bipartisan group of legisla- refuge if they confine production plants to American public. Although this type of poli- most likely to emerge from the Middle East tors and designated aides. For this bill, however, 2,000 acres. ticking happens all the time, the significance and its environs. Relegated to staging areas, the Republicans are relegating Democrats to the Two thousand acres doesn't sound like that of this bill and the blatant disregard for stan- European bases should lend themselves to sidelines, and only talking among themselves. much when we're talking about a nineteen mil- dard procedures make this case especially rapid response. Small, light bases in proxi- This method clearly subverts the democratic lion acre refuge, but let's keep in mind that egregious. Luckily, Massachusetts has two mate Eastern Europe seem to fit this criterion process, but it's a dangerous move on more than nowhere does it say these 2,000 acres need to be senators who are committed to protecting the - and would cost less to maintain, given the ideological grounds. Republicans on the confer- contiguous. We can probably ruin most of the environment and pushing for sustainable ener- lower cost of living and reduced need for sup- ence committee are trying to sneak two impor- protected area just by spacing production facili- gy options. Kerry has filibustered to protect port of dependents. Furthermore, they would tant provisions into the joint bill that would ties reasonably far apart. More importantly, the refuge in the past, and Democratic leader help stabilize local countries, akin to the post- result in environmental destruction. however, is the fact that oil production doesn't Tom Daschle has indicated that there will be World War II role they played in Western The first backhanded provision is one to just involve a hole in the ground at one specific another filibuster should the Arctic National Europe. allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife site. They'll have to set up a system of pipes to Wildlife Refuge provision be included in the Also worthy of note are the potential polit- Refuge. There's been a lot of talk since Bush get any oil out and roads to get the equipment in. bill. Students on this campus who would sup- ical benefits. Germany opposed recent U.S. was installed about opening up this pristine 19- Any amount of drilling in the refuge will cause port such an action should contact senators policy in Iraq, and yanking its bases could million acre refuge in Alaska; thanks to fore- irreparable damage to its pristine ecosystem. from their home states to encourage them to conceivably discourage such behavior in the sight on the part of Democrats in the Senate, The Republicans, however, are not content sustain a filibuster. future. Switching to the more receptive gov- ernments of Eastern Europe would reward them for their support, assuage any civil-mili- tary tensions, and reduce the risk of noncoop- Votive Offering: How to Have Your eration in times of conflict. It might also ease political pressure on Turkey, which would no longer be the sole source of ground basing Election Cake and Eat It Too capability in the region. The strategic arguments against the move (where a voter selects one choice, and the continues until someone has a majority. are quite weak - Germany is far removed David Strozzi choice with the m st votes )Vins). Many vol' g Instant runoffi :voting eliminates the spoiler from global hot spots, and American troops systems lack these drawbacks, and we should effect provided all but two candidates have will have to leave sooner or later. But should When Californians vote in the recall election, consider using them instead. For example, the weak support. However, a candidate who they leave now? Various obstacles indicate they will be confronted with 135 candidates. system I prefer is the Condorcet Method. Here, would beat two other candidates in pairwise otherwise, foremost the generally poor infra- Voting could prove harder than an 18.03 exam. each voter ranks as many choices as they want races can lose an instant runoff election. One structure of Eastern Europe. Mediocre trans- Should a Republican vote for Schwarzenegger to. The candidates are paired up and the rank- way this happens is if the "centrist" has the portation and communication links could or McClintock? Running can be even more dan- ings of the candidates are compared. This is fewest first-place preferences, but many sec- hinder theater coordination, supply chains, gerous: why are dozens of sure losers running? done for every possible combination of candi- ond-place preferences from supporters of each and the all-important rapid response capabili- Who will "cost" whom the election? Similar dis- dates. If someone wins all her pairwise com- "extremist." Either an extremist wins, or sup- ty. Also, many of the bases slated for use are cussions happen in many elections, most notably parisons, she is shown to be preferred over porters of one extremist rank the centrist first derelict Soviet facilities in need of signifi- the 2000 Presidential race. In particular, Ralph every other candidate (the "Condorcet win- so he makes it to the second round (and beats cant renovation - this costs money, which Nader and those who voted for him were ner"), and she is elected. As a result, there is the other extremist). Either the spoiler effect would no longer be available in subsidies accused of costing Gore the election. no spoiler effect: I could express my strong or strategic voting occurs. Notice that I dis- from the Germans and is in short supply As a Nader voter, I do not take these support for Nader and still take part in the con- cuss "preferences" and not "votes" precisely among the less affluent Eastern European charges lightly. If Nader had not run, Gore test between Bush and Gore. because voters are forced to use strategy and nations. would have won the election. One can specu- Alas, there isn't always a Condorcet win- not vote their sincere preferences. These factors may combine to depress late about what would have happened in 1992 ner. This means the voters prefer A over B, B Approval voting approaches Condorcet's morale, as most soldiers would not appreciate if Perot hadn't run, and over C, and C results in a simpler way. Each voter approves leaving the cushy bases of Germany for a similarly for many over A. This (without ranking) as many choices as she more rugged life away from their families. other races. The out- Ralph Nader and those who requires three wants, and the candidate with the most While Eastern Europe's lower cost of living come of these elections candidates to approvals wins. This is almost always a Con- expenses may seem attractive, they bespeak changes if additional votedfor him were accused of have substantial dorcet winner (if one exists). There is no an important problem - lower living condi- losing candidates run. support, and there spoiler effect to speak of. The downside is tions, period. In many elections, a costing Gorethe election.As a are various meth- voters have to choose when to stop approving So what's the verdict? In the short term, third candidate pro- do take ods to resolve this candidates. A simple rule, which is close to an redeployment seems dubious. As a practical duces a "spoiler effect." Nader voter,I not these "cycle" and optimal strategy, is to approve your favorite matter, Eastern European bases are unlikely to Voting for someone charges lightly. choose a winner. front-runner and every candidate you prefer fulfill their primary rationale of significantly besides a front-runner Condorcet does over him. This assumes you can reliably iden- faster response anytime soon. Even if they do, does not affect who not produce this tify front-runners, which only happens when that will not be of much help for extended wins. Third-party candidates are charged with cycle, but merely reveals it, since it really there are strong historical precedents or accu- operations such as Iraq. "taking votes away" from the front-runner clos- exists in the electorate's opinions. rate and stable polling data. But long-term interests must ultimately be er to their positions and costing him the elec- The alternative system with the most Our voting system "cost" Gore the 2000 paramount. Germany is no longer a geostrate- tion. Would-be third-party supporters realize momentum in the U.S., and currently used in election. It is also why we have only two sig- gic location, and excepting Ramstein its bases this and bide their sincere preference by choos- Australia and Ireland, is instant runoff voting. nificant parties. Other systems have been stud- have outlived their expediency. Eastern ing a front-runner - the "lesser of two evils." As in Condorcet, a voter ranks her choices. If ied and used elsewhere that remove the spoil- Europe offers an alternative. While infrastruc- These aspects of plurality voting are why we someone has a majority of the first-place er effect and enhance the democratic process. ture is in bad shape now, it will only improve have a two and not multi-party system. Plurali- votes, she wins. If not, the candidate with the We should adopt one of them here. as the region develops. Even if redeployment ty voting leading to two-party systems can be fewest first-place votes is eliminated from the An excellent introduction to voting systems is currently unwarranted, that will change in seen in many countries, prompting political sci- ballots. Each voter's rankings are renumbered and voting reform is http://www.wikipedia.org/ the near future - with the cost function trend- entists to dub this trend "Duverger's Law." to reflect this (e.g., if they ranked the eliminat- wikiN otin&-system. ing downwards and the benefits more or less These problems are a damning indictment ed candidate first, their second choice David Strozzi is a graduate student in the constant, at some point the two will intersect. ~ot of third parties but of plurality voting becomes their first choice, and so on). This Department of Physics. American troops will move to Eastern Europe eventually. Military planners might as well press ahead at the first opening, which the recon- Do you hove something to soy? struction of Iraq provides. If they can pre- pare the Eastern European bases for occu- pancy before troops return from the Middle East, that will create a golden opportunity to carry out the transfer without having to We can't hear you. overcome the inertia of a stationary force. And needless to say, soldiers will react more favorably to their new quarters if the recent Write opinion for The Tech! basis for comparison is not Germany, but Iraq. [email protected] Western Europe has hosted American x3-/54/,W20-483 troops for the past half-century. Now it's the East's turn. Do You See Tiny Power Components ... OrA Opportunity? If you're like us, you see both. Tyco Electronics is looking for qualified graduates who have the brains to perform and the drive to change today's technology. 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Come listen to Jeffrey Birnbaum, Managing Director and Global Head of Enterprise Computing for Morgan Stanley. Information Technology Division INFORMATION SESSION Wednesday, October 1, 2003 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Room 35-225 Refreshments 'will be served. Visit and apply online at: morganstanley.comjcareersjrecruiting ~ MorganStanley Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to workforce diversity. (M/F/OM @ 2003 Morgan Stanley eptember 30, 2003 THE TECH Page 7 ARTS ClASSICAL REVIEW mae toso. Maybe it was the unusually large melting voice of contralto Catherine Denley, number of people who attended the concert who sang the poem Urlicht in the fourth move- (upwards of three quarters of the hall was ment, couldn't have come too soon. Both her filled), or simply the cavernous space that is and soprano Carolyn Foulkes, who joined in A Resurrection of Sorts Kresge Auditorium. the final movement, captured the emotional Or perhaps it was simply a matter of timid- element that had been lacking up to that point. Cambridge University Orchestra Performs Mahler ity on the part of the players, a timidity that When they sang the duet near the end of was unfortunately emulated by the violins the piece, I was reminded of why composers By Jeremy Baskin we there to look or to listen? In any case, we later on and the ever drifting horn section tend to give their sweetest melodies to the ARTS EDITOR were treated to the latest manifestation of the throughout the evening. voice. You wouldn't want a bad reed to get in Cambridge University Musical Society multifaceted exchange program between MlT The piece contains five movements, the the way of God's words. Orchestra and Chorus and Cambridge University. Last year, MlTSO outer two of which are, well, Mahlerian in And speaking of divine emotion, how did Stephen Cleo bury, conductor traveled to Cambridge, England, to perfonn, size, with the middle three being of a more the performance fare as a whole? The Resur- Carolyn Foulkes, soprano among other pieces, Mahler's Symphony o. I modest size and scope. It is in the inner move- rection symphony is a difficult one to pull off Catherine Denley, contralto (Titan), and the favor was returned on Saturday ments where the performance showed bursts in a unified way. Composed over a six-year Kresge Auditorium with a concert featuring the Cambridge Univer- of inspiration. period, it starts out like a tone poem and ends Sept. 27, 8 p.m. sity Musical Society Chorus and Orchestra in The second movement, a minuet and trio, like an oratorio, with marches and scherzos in Mahler's Symphony No.2 (Resurrection). Mahler-style, -featured a sublime pizzicato the middle. ne should always be a bit wary of a So much for cultural exchange. What if the section, which came as a surprise, given that One has to summon not only all of ones concert whose advertisements focus American college orchestra had performed the strings fell apart more than once in other humanly abilities but also the full gamut of so heavily on the dignitaries in the Gershwin and Copland in the original Cam- parts of the evening when the bows were on emotions, mortal and otherwise. This perfor- Oaudience as opposed to the supposedly bridge last year and the British college orches- the strings. mance may have started out flat, but it ended superlative product on stage. Surely, one tra had brought Britten and Holst to the new Except for a slightly impatient but amply unified, with a strong chorus, made up of hopes, there will be more to the concert than world? Instead, both orchestras beat their talented principal, the clarinet section shone in members from Cambridge University, MIT, seeing President Vest with his eyes firmly proverbial chests with the symphonies of the third movement, a scherzo, though one did Harvard, and the Tanglewood Festival Cho- fixed on the woodwinds or the vice-chancellor Mahler, those quintessentially masculine cre- get the sense that the orchestra was conduct- rus, supporting the orchestra. of Cambridge University staring intently at ations. ing the conductor at times. That, however, On Saturday night, Jesus wasn't quite res- the organist. The first musical impression of the evening isn't always a bad thing. urrected, but a performance, which by 8:25 There was a healthy crowd in attendance at was how dry the cellos sounded in the open- Like most Mahler symphonies, the Resur- p.m. I had written off for dead, came to life Kresge Auditorium on Saturday night, but were ing bars of the first movement, Allegro rection has choral and solo vocal parts, and the before it was all over. INTERVIEW Not CooAverage Comedian Margaret CIw Talks Abaut Sex, Clothes, and U1tat She'd Do as Governor of California By Jessica O. Young NBC series, All-American Girl. Or perhaps comedian raised in California, Cho is very Cho's Web site, http://www.margaretcho.com. you read her book or took in her movies I'm interested in politics. She said that if she were The site, chock full of helpful and fun infor- argaret Cho is not running for gov- The One That I Want and Notorious c.H.O. elected governor of California, she would mation, also features Cho's Web log. The ernor of California and she is not But however much you think you know about make "a very, very strong effort to see that the blog, updated frequently, is hilarious. And being sued by the RIAA. But Mar- Margaret Cho, you've got a lot to learn. amendments that ban same sex marriages do though she does not associate herself closely garet Cho, one of the funniest Cho is about to release a rap CD, on which not get passed," and "would also put a stop with a religion, Cho writes daily as a spiritual M offering. Cho advises that we "pace our time comedians of our time, is coming to MlT this she adopts the character of a pediatrician sign at the end of [her] block." She believes in Friday, October 3. named emcee M.C. But unlike 50 Cent or P. equality for everybody, more money for edu- on Earth with something creative." You may know Cho from her short-lived Diddy, Cho is doing this one for the children. cation and health care, and a focus on the And if you want to know even more about The CD - an future. All this from the woman who proudly Cho, head over to http://www.imdb.com. effort to educate wears MC Hammer pants, though she admits where there are two people asking for Cho's kids about health that, "they're not flattering to anybody." hand in marriage. Sorry guys - Cho hadn't - features sun - . Actually, Cho came oat with her own even noticed. "1 never research myself online, such as "Manic clothing line. In a joint venture with designer never ever." Cho spends a lot of time online, Depression" and Ava Stander, Cho, via the Internet, introduces but mostly on eBay, writing, or e-mailing. "I "I want FTD's, us to her line: High Class Cho. Available at do a lot of research on different things that 1 not STD's." Cho http://www.highclasscho.com. the line fea- like to write about." Sounds like she'll fit in says she raps "in tures "high end quality for low end pricing." pretty well here. the style of really Cho does indeed wear her own clothing, and Cho went to nursing school for six months, hardcore gangsta chances are good that she'll be modeling but by the end she dropped out, because she rap about the food some of it on October 3 during her show. "couldn't deal. We got the oldest cadavers pyramid, the dan- Cho is known for being one of today's ever. They were handed down from the 'good' gers of smoking, raunchiest comedians. She explains why, medical schools. Yet no matter what they osteoporosis, and "The generation that my parents are of is very teach you in school, laughter is the best medi- more." But don't puritanical .... They just kind of ignore that cine. Story telling is very healing. When 1 can worry 50, Cho women have sexuality at all, or consider it laugh at something, I'm free of it." And Cho claims to be an very dangerous. Therein lies a weird reactive is indeed so funny, that sometimes she has to awful rapper. thing in me that makes me want to be even 'augh at her own jokes. Cho, currently more lewd, or outrageous, because it is a Cho may not be running for governor of on her Revolution direct assault on the way I was raised. And it California - unlike everybody else - but Tour, is stopping works." she will definitely be showing MIT all that by MIT on her Cho jokes about everything from experi- she's got to offer this Friday. Do yourself a way. She will talk menting in college to experimenting after col- favor and go. about the world lege. And she won't tone anything down for Margaret Cho will be performing at Kres- MARGARET eHo and politics, the MIT community, either: "I don't edit any- ge Auditorium on Friday at 8 p.m. Tickets are Comic Margaret Coo will shock the Mil community on Friday night among other thing, ever. I never have." $5 for students, and detailed information is with her unconventional brand of humor. things. As a If you have a spare moment, check out available at http://web.mit.edu/fall. RESTAURANT REVIEW TheReal Seafood Place for Locals You could be If Yau're Sick of Legal and Low on Cash, Try Village Fish the next By Ruby Lam other seafood restaurants. change. It was delicious, but it would be even The best way to start at Village Fish is at better if the crab had been cleaned more prop- Roger Ebert! Village Fish their raw bar. Half a dozen of littlenecks, half erly and had had the inedible parts removed 22 Harvard Ave., Brookline, Mass. a dozen of cherrystones, and half a dozen of before cooking. (617) 566-3474 oysters is always the way to go. They are all On the fish menu, you can find a wide Lunch: Mon.-Fri., 11:30-2:30 freshly chucked and you can still smell the variety of fish to choose from: swordfish, Dinner: Mon., 4:30-9:30; Tue.-Thu., freshness from the sea on each of them when shrimp, lobster, monkfish, salmon, bluefish, 4:30-10; Fri.-Sat., 4:30-11 they are served. trout, etc. In addition to the raw bar, the fried cala- Many special items were written on the any of my out-of-town friends mari is another great starter on the menu. chalkboard as well. Grilled or broiled, all always ask me, "Where is the best They are crisp and freshly fried and go very these fish entrees come with salad or pasta. I place to have seafood in Boston? Is well with lemon juice and cocktai) sauce. You am a big fan of flaky fish, so I like to order MBoston the seafood capital of the also get a very nice portion for the price you scrod. Scrod is so flaky that it can only be United States?" I am not so sure, but many pay. These starters go best with a nicely broiled, and can't be grilled. I am a bit dis- think so. I wish I could give them more rec- chilled beer and there is a wide variety of appointed that they don't have Chilean ommendations than just telling them to go to beer, draft and bottle, from which you can seabass, though I do understand that many Flex your Legal Sea Foods. choose on the list. When we were done with restaurants have already banned Chilean I like Legal Sea Foods, but going there too the starters, we were already half full. seabass from their menu because of extinc- often could break the bank. For the locals who For entrees, the diavlo is their signature tion threats. thumbs. ,, dine on a budget, I think Village Fish in dish. Diavlo is a linguini dish topped with The dessert menu is a little weak, so we Brookline is probably the best. spicy red sauce, and it comes with lobster (for went to LA Burdicks for hot chocolate Freshness is ~ey. 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Yue Comments? E-mail [email protected] MIT School of Engineering Solutions on page 20 Page 10 The Tech September 30, 2003 Events Calendar appears in each issue of The Tech and features events for members of the MIT community. The Tech makes no guarantees as to the accuracy of this information, and The Tech shall not be held liable for any loss- es, including, but not limited to, damages resulting from attendance of an event. E e sCae a Contact information for all events is available from the Events Calendar web page. Visit and add events to Events Calendar online at htfp:/ /events.mlt.edu Tuesday, september 30 MIT students free; other students $3; non-students $5. Room: Building 13 Dancing Early Teaching at 8:00 p.m., followed by teaching and requests until 10:00 a.m. - Admissions Infonnatlon session. Groups over 15 people Lobby. Sponsor: Folk Dance Club. Music for Robin. 11:00 p.m. Beginners are always welcome. Family dancing usually occurs need to make special reservations. Free. Room: Admissions Reception Cen- 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - LIVEmuslc@theEAR: Chimp Simple. Sting goes from 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. each week. Great for kids of ALL ages! To confirm ter, (Building 10, Room 10-100). Sponsor: Information Center. crazy and kidnaps Johnny Cash and Eddie Van Halen, trying to make a run family dancing for a given week, and for up-to-date announcements about 10:00 a.m. - 11 :00 a.m. - MITIWHOI Joint Program Coffee-Donut-Bagel for the Canadian border. But little does he know that Frank Black is hiding in each week's dance, see our Yahoo Group. Free for MIT students; donations Hour. An opportunity for MIT and WHO I based students to interact on the the trunk, wearing a pair of thick black glasses stolen from Weezer and hold- welcome. Room: Lobby 13. Sponsor: Folk Dance Club. days when Joint Program classes are held in Woods Hole, Tuesdays and ing between his teeth a capo that he found while trespassing backstage at a 8:30 p.m. - Bachelor In Paradise (1961). Directed by Jack Amold. 109 min. Thursdays throughout the semester. Room: Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti. Matchbox 20 show. When the surviving members of The Four Tops are flown Free. Room: 3-133. Sponsor: History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture tution Student Center, 3rd Floor, Clark Laboratory South. Sponsor: WHOt Stu- in to do hostage negotiation, the resulting explosion is sampled and eventual- and Art. dent Organization. GSC, EGSAC. ly appears on yet another posthumous Notorious B.I.G. album, produced by 9:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. - Swing Dancing. Beginners welcome, no partner 10:45 a.m. - Campus Tour. Student-led campus tours are approximately 90 Fatboy Slim. Welcome to the Chimp Simple experience. Must be over 21. necessary. Free. Room: Student Center 2nd floor. Sponsor: Lindy Hop Soci- minutes long and provide a general overview of the main campus. Please Proper ID required. Free. Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: The Thirsty ety, GSC Funding Board. note that campus tours do not visit laboratories, living groups or buildings Ear Pub. Thursday, October 2 under construction. Groups over 15 people need to make special reserva- Wednesday, October 1 tions. Campus tours start at the conclusion of the Admissions Informations 10:00 a.m. - Admissions Information session. Free. Room: Admissions 10:00 a.m. - Admissions Infonnatlon Session. Free. Room: Admissions Reception Center. Sponsor: Information Center. Session. Free. Room: Lobby 7. Sponsor: Information Center. Reception Center. Sponsor: Information Center. 12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - BrloQuery 6 Quick Start. This quick start intro- 10:45 a.m. - Campus Tour. Free. Room: Lobby 7. Sponsor: Information 10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m. - MITIWHOI Joint Program Coffee-Donut-Bagel duces you to the MIT Data Warehouse Web site and how to get authorized to Center. Hour. Room: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Student Center, 3rd access data. Pointers to instructions for downloading and installing BrioQuery 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Faculty Workshop "Managing the faculty's role Floor, Clark Laboratory South. Sponsor: WHO I Student Organization. GSC, will be given. You'll take a tour of the BrioQuery 6 environment and tools. In startups." Faculty discuss the challenges in determining their position in a EGSAC. You'll learn how to download and run an MIT standard report. BrioQuery ver- startup as it relates to their academic and entrepreurial roles. Panelists are 10:45 a.m. - campus Tour. Free. Room: Lobby 7. Sponsor: Information four successful faculty entrepreneurs, some of which left MIT and others that sion 6 features will be compare..i to version 5.5 and changes in the new ver- Center. sion will be highlighted. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Sys- have balanced their dual roles. Free. Room: TBD. Sponsor: Deshpande Cen- 11 :00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - High Holiday Infonnatlon Table. Information avail- tems. ter for Technological Innovation. able about High Holiday services and meals at MIT. Room: Sloan Lobby. 12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m. - Anlme and Fandom: What 'Otakuology' tells us 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Government of Singapore Investment Corpora- Sponsor: Graduate Hillel, Hillel, MIT. tion (GIC) On-Campus Presentation. You should not miss this event if you about Japan and the Culture of 'Qtaku'. The self-proclaimed "Otaking", Mr. 12:00 p.m. - MIT Chapel Concert. Baroque music from Bayreuth. The • are interested in potential summer intemship or full time employment opportu- Toshio Okada is synonymous with Japanese animation and anime fandom. music of Kleinknecht. Na'ama Lion, baroque flute; Julia McKenzie and Laura nities with GIC. They recruit investment professionals on an "as needed" Okada cofounded the Gainax Studio and was a lecturer at Tokyo University Gulley, violins; Sarah Freiberg, cello; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord. 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An interdisciplinary MIT faculty group studied the future of 12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Real Estate and the Polnlcal Process. Brian W. Reception Center. Sponsor: Information Center. Blaesser, Robinson & Cole, Mr. John M. Ingram, Vice Chairman - Mills Corpo- nuclear power because it is an important option for meeting electricity needs • 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Winning Interview Techniques. Leam how to pre- without emitting carbon dioxide. The economics, safety, waste management, ration, William H. McCabe - New England Development, and Terry Szold- pare effectively for an interview and practice with your peers. All workshops and nonproliferation challenges of enabling a possible global mid-century MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Free. Room: W31-301. require pre-registration. 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Sponsor: MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars. Room: Center for Theoretical Physics-Building 6-third floor seminar room. lifestyles, etc. Lots of interesting topics and discussions will be a good start for 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - CEE Graduate Students meet with CEE Dept. Sponsor: Laboratory for Nuclear.Science. your English leaming. Feel free to come and have wonderful discussions with Head. Meeting for CEE graduate students with Prof. Patrick Jaillet, CEE 2:45 p.m. - Campus Tour. Free. Room: Lobby 7 (Main Entrance Lobby at 77 our native English teachers. Refreshments will be served. Free. Room: 5-134. Department Head, for a presentation and discussion on the strategic direction Massachusetts Ave). Sponsor: Information Center. Sponsor: Chinese Student and Scholar Association, Graduate Student Coun- for the department, the changes under way, and what it means for CEE grad- cil. MIT CSSA & GSC. 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - spouses&partners@mlt weekly meeting: Share uate students. Free. 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In feminized regimes, poor women are imagined and valorized as key Center for Theoretical Physics - Bldg. 6, third floor seminar room. Sponsor: ing, and the hidden job market. All workshops require pre-registration. Regis- agents of development and leaders of their communities. In medieval ter for workshops at http://web.mit.edulcareerlwww/serviceslworkshops.html Laboratory for Nuclear Science. regimes, the city is carved up into competing zones of sovereignty with civil 4:30 p.m. - Emile Bustanl Middle seminar. "Unpopular Muslim-World and choose Calendar of Workshops. Free. Sponsor: Career Services Office. East society groups, be they homeowner associations or religious fundamentalist Governments: Can Washington Live With (Or Without) Them?" Free. Room: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - LBGT Issues Group Meeting. The Issues Group is a groups, establishing de facto rule. What do such processes mean for rights, E51-095. 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Sponsor: Ibgt@mit. brenner Stadium. 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. -Invariants and Covarlants of the Justice. 5:00 p.m. -1st Student Mural Project Deadline. All submissions must be Symmetric Group, A Noncommutatlve Version. Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Weekly Grad Student Bible Study for Absolute original 2-dimensional creations. Winning design will be reproduced as a high in Room 2-349. Free. Room: Room 2-338. Sponsor: Combinatorics Seminar. Beginners. Weekly informal Bible study for grad students; refreshments pro- quality wall-sized print 7' x 8-10' to be displayed in E15 for one year. All sub- Department of Mathematics. vided; Igbtwelcome. Free. Room: Wll-007. Sponsor: Lutheran-Episcopal missions are to be handed in to Michele Oshima (E15-205) by 5 p.m. Free. 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. - General Council Meeting. Room: GSC Office, Walk- Ministry. Room: E15-205. Sponsor: Office of the Arts Special Programs. er Memorial (Bldg. 50) Room 220. 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MIT Sloan BioPharma Business Club. work, build 50k or independent founders' teams, and more; stay for our mit 6- 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Wednesday Night Dinner. Weekly dinner. Share a 6:03 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Weekly meetings. Regular meeting of the core group credit seminar sem.095 on tech start-ups (sem.089 in fall term). Free. Room: meal with a friend. For McCormick residents and friends on the guest list. at Muddy Charles. Free. Room: Muddy Charles. Sponsor: Techlink. 56-114. Sponsor: Entrepreneurs Club. $6.50. Sponsor: McCormick Hall. 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - "The Insider Guide to Landing a Job In Man- 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - "Alecestls" Auditions. MIT Community Players pro- 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Start up Clinic. Through our Start-up Clinics, atten- agement ConSUlting:' Informal perspective on working at managament duction of play by Euripides, translated and adapted by Ted Hughes. Directed dees discover how to present a plan to potential investors. 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Sponsor: Graduate Christian Fel- 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Origami Paper Folding. From sea-life to colorful, E52, 6th Floor. Sponsor: MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, Inc. lowship, GSC Funding Board. geometric structures for shows, we fold it all. Come fold paper with us at our 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Martha Buskirk: "Object Lessons:' Martha Buskirk, 7:30 p.m. - Natyanjall - An Evening of Indian Classical Dance. $5 MIT, bi-monthly, low-key origami sessions. Often one of our more advanced mem- Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism at Montserrat College of Art, $7 non-MIT. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Natya. bers begins with a short talk about folding theory/research or presents an will discuss issues raised in her recently published book "The Contingent 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Chess Club Meeting. A prominent player of the club original model. Our membership consists of many beginners as well as some Object of Contemporary Art" Free. Room: Bartos Theater. 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Intellectual Property. 8:00 p.m. - Greek Comedy Tour. Outrageously funny comedy from Steve who will teach you anything you need to know. Free. Room: 4-144. Sponsor: Free. Room: 54-100. Sponsor: MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Hofstetter and Josh Jacobs. Proceeds to benefit Magen David Adom. $5 stu- Origamit. 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - AAII sector Analysis Group. Meeting of the Mil dents, $8 non-students. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Alpha Epsilon Pi. 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Farewell Dinner for CMI MIT Exchange Students. , Sector Analysis Group. Free. Room: E51-376. Sponsor: MIT User Groups. 8:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. -IFILM Film seminar. Free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: Free. Room: Wl1 - Religious Services Center. Sponsor: Cambridge-MIT Insti- 7:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. - TMRC Build Time. These are our normal meeting Intemational Film Club, GSC Funding Board. tute (CMI) Undergraduate Exchange Office. times, when we build the layout! Free. Room: N52-118. Sponsor: Tech Model 8:30 p.m. -10:00 p.m. - Underwater Hockey. Free. Room: Z-Pool. Sponsor: 7:00 p.m. - Varsity Women's Volleyball vs. WPI. Free. Room: Rockwell Railroad Club. Scuba ClUb, GSC Funding Board. Scuba Club, Undergraduate Association. Cage. 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. -IALM Film seminar. Screening of a movie followed 9:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. - Coffee Hour. Food and drink - an Ashdown tradi- 7:30 p.m. -"A Midsummer Nights Dream." Cambridge University American by a discussion. Light refreshments provided. Free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: tion. Free. Room: Hulsizer Room (Wl). Sponsor: Ashdown House. Stage Tour. $8, $6 students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Music International Film Club, GSC Funding Board. 9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. - Night out at the Burren. Outing to the Burren in and Theater Arts Section. 8:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. - Weekly Wednesdays. Free wings and an assort- Davis Square. Free. Room: The Burren. Sponsor: Hibemian Society. 8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. - Contra Dance for All. Equinox Gala Live Music ment of vegetables, sponsored by various departments, residences and affini- 10:00 p.m. - 11 :59 p.m. - Movie Night. Movie and food - free for all!! Room: Dance with a partner (we'll provide) and a group to jazzy live music. All ty groups, are provided in the Muddy Charles Pub for graduate students to Big TV Room (Wl). Sponsor: Ashdown House. dances taught; all skill levels welcome. Contra Dance is a traditional American enjoy while catching up with friends and making making new ones. Students 11 :59 p.m. - Campus Disc Golf. Do you like tossing a disc? Do you enjoy form of folk dancing, directed by a caller and accompanied by exciting live can also enjoy the cheap beverages (including many non-alcoholic options), friendly competition? Or if you're just up for midnight antics, then come on out! music. It uses easy-to-Ieam walking steps. You dance with a partner, chang- Red Sox on the DirecTV, and (new) wireless internet access. Free. Room: Meet outside the Student Center on the front steps, and don't forget to bring a ing partners each dance, in a line of couples called a 'set' and interacting with The Muddy Charles Pub. disc! Don't hesitate to come, newcomers are always welcomed - We meet your partner and all the other couples in a big group-theoretic pattern. A caller 8:00 p.m. -12:00 a.m. - Boston Underground Film Festival. Film Festi- every Thursday at midnight. Questions, contact Daniel Turek, first explains each dance in a 'walk-through' and then continues to prompt you val. $9.00/$6.00 for seniors and students. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: MIT AV. [email protected]. Bring your own disc! Room: Student Genter steps. Spon- during the dance. Light refreshments are served at the break halfway through. 8:00 p.m. - 11 :00 p.m. -Israeli Folk Dancing (participatory). 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[email protected], 301.405.7553, www.apsia.org RSVP by September 30 to Jackie Gaston at 3-5615 [email protected] • to use p. ity photography equipment? • Join the Photography Department at The Tech • No experience necessary • We'll teach you how to shoot Film & Digital Capabilities Take Assignments for News / Concerts / Sports / Plays (and get in for free) Photo Meetings, Sundays at 6pm [email protected] Page 12 THE TECH eptember 30, 2003 Mandatory Payment likely in Dining Plan Dining, from Page 1 time, 0 that di counts earned back would be approximately equal to the students, others already have an original down payment. alternative. 'I cook my own din- ner," aid MacGregor resident Cyn- o construction timeline exi ts thia D. Walker '07. "It's cheaper, Currently, there is no e timate and it's better for me." for when McCormick and MacGre- he aid that she would probably gor dining facilities would be opera- continue to cook for herself even if tional. Once the logi tics of the din- the dining hall were opened at Mac- ing hall are worked out, and if they Gregor. are indeed possible, the facilities The fact that some tudent do need to be brought up-to-date. not prefer to eat at their residence "That's one of the things that dining halls uggest that a manda- needs to be thought about, because tory down payment, such a the we haven't even gotten to the point 200 Residential Dining Discount of coming up with an actual physi- Program at Baker, ext, and Sim- cal plan to redo [McCormick's] din- We have a unique opportu- mons, is necessary to keep dining ing hall," Stewart said. "My own maybe a teacher, a mechanic, ounds interesting to you, halls afloat. desire is to have something avail- nity for someone very special. or a recent college graduate. maybe you're the person we're "I think [the payment system] is able next fall, but we'll have to see A chance to spend two We need someone tojoin looking for. A Peace Corps working to some extent," Berlin ifthat's possible." years in another country. To live over 5,000 people already volunteer. Find out. Call us at said. "Participation is better with and work in another culture. To working in 60 developing coun- this implementation." East Campus still lacks dining learn a new language and acquire tries around the world. To help (Collect) 617-565-5555 x598 He said that Simmons, with its Despite the possible growth of new skills. people live better lives. mandatory $200 payment for resi- West Campus dining, East Campus The person we're looking Weneed someone special. dents, made more profits than Baker is not likely to see any new dining for might be a farmer, a for- PeaceCorps. and ext because the mandatory halls in the near future, because it And we ask a lot. But only be- pre-payments coupled with 50 per- does not have the facilities to sup- ester, or a retired nurse. Or cause so much is needed. Ifthis The toughest job)W1J au 1cM. cent discounts acted as an incentive port a residential dining program. for students to eat in the dining hall. Walker Dining in the past served At Baker and Next House, the dinner, but was closed because it payment is only mandatory for only received about 60 people a freshmen. night and was not generating Berlin said that he hoped that the enough revenue, Berlin said. This space donated by The Tech rates could also be adjusted over "There is recognition on our part that East Campus needs some things. We plan to ... determine how [Pritchett Grill] should change to support the East Campus commu- PhDs ... nity," Berlin said. The lack of adequate dining facilities is something that some stu- dents at East Campus have com- What will you be doing plained about. "It's really irritating because there's no dining in East Campus," said Robert E. Langford '07, an East after graduation? Campus resident. "The Pritchett Grill is not so great. 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MIT is required to take 12 units of Redwine said that there clas es designated as Institute labo- remained 'a trong consen us on the Talk of engineering GIR class ratories. existence of a core," but that "less Profe sor Jerome H. Milgram Redwine aid that research jobs may be more" in the area of ,61 said at the faculty meeting that through the Undergraduate required cia se . he was " urprised" that there was Research Opportunities Program Redwine said that MIT is open "no thought given to how to intro- have in part "taken the place" of the to the pos ibility of implementing duce what engineering is" to fresh- lab requirement. an alternative to the GIRs, although men. "It's probably telling us the orig- no plans currently exist. He said that perhaps students inal goal of lab requirements may In an e-mail, Vest wrote that the could have the option of biology or have been unrealistic," he said. outcome of the review "could be an "Introduction to Engineering" The Electrical Engineering and revolution, evolution or reaffrrma- course as one of their requirements. Computer Science department tion." Many freshmen, he said, do not head, John V. Guttag, said that the More information, like the appreciate how essential the math department was ''pretty happy" with timetable for the task force's work, and physics GIRs are to engineer- the current lab offerings. is expected to be announced when ing, but "might have a lot more 'MIT ought to have a lab V est gives his charge to the task interest ... if they knew how well" requirement," he said. force. those courses fit in with engineering Guttag said that Laboratory in subjects. Software Engineering (6.170), Effect of greater diversity nnclear "It seems to me almost obvious which is a required course for com- 'There is no question that the we should have it," he said, but "it's puter science majors but is not an breadth of interest of our students very hard for me to find what can Institute laboratory, lets students ... have changed enormously during afford" to be cut in the GIRs to choose and design their own pro- the last two or three decades," Vest make space. jects. wrote. "We should acknowledge Marc A. Kastner, the physics and understand this." Lab requirement being qnestioned department head, said that a physics Redwine said that "very bright Redwine said that he has hardly project lab was offered for many students these days tend to have a ever heard of a faculty member years, but that fewer and fewer stu- lot of interests" and can make who's satisfied with the Institute dents were taking it. He said that the stronger connections between class- Lab requirement. department would continue to es in different fields. The requirement was originally require 8.13 and 8.14, Experimental However, he said, the effects are "meant to be something where the Physics I and n, even if the Institute z "not totally clear," and would take student had a significant place in lab requirement were lifted. At DC Energy, we will be: • Developing, testing, and implementing investment strategies • Assessing risk-return trade-offs in a real-time environment • Evaluating new energy market entry opportunities . . . and making investments. We are seeking PhDs with exceptional problem We have solving abilities, excellent communication Computers. skills, and a desire to develop creative solutions to business problems. You are probably "I Course 6 Join The Tech Informational Presentation Thursday, October 2nd 7:00 P.M., The Cambridge Marriott Dean L. 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Dearfield Street and Bay tate Road, "Most of the people who live on Commonwealth Ave. in front of across the river have bus passes, Sigma Kappa and Alpha Chi Omega, which are really cheap," Yandell and the intersection of Beacon Street said. and Hereford Street, Rogers said. A monthly bus pass costs $9.50. Ortiz is confident that the Boston SafeRide mini-bus to be used Winter Shuttle will be prompt. "It One of the existing SafeRide may be possible to track the shuttles mini-buses will be used as the online using the GPS; we do have Boston Winter Shuttle, said John M. the capabilities," he said. McDonald the assistant director of A student project funded by the enterprise services. The bus fits 22 MIT -Microsoft iCampus alliance people, he said. added Global Positioning System About 1,400 students live in receivers and radios to MIT shuttles FSILGs, said Laura Martin of the earlier this year. The shuttles can be FSILG Office. Out of the 37 FSILGs, tracked at http://shuttletrackmit.edu. 26 are across the river, and the bus Rogers says the route will be will probably be useful to 24 of evaluated as the program proceeds. them, Martin said. "Our goal is to make it less than In total, the project will cost about thirty minutes," he said. $30,000. The funding will come from "We are really not sure about the the FSILG Office, Rogers said. demand," Ortiz said. "We will have to see what it will be like eventually." Positive response expect~d The transportation sub-commit- The shuttle "has been something she said. "1 myself probably would not be dent House would use it. tee of the Graduate Student Council people have wanted for a long "More and more people will get using the shuttle as much, since 1 is also working with the administra- time," said Christine M. 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September 30, 2003 SPORTS THE TECH Page 23 The Tech's Predictio :Yankees, Sox, Braves, and Marlins be another odd-numbered year where the Braves can just By Phil Janowicz pummel the Astro in the playoffs so they can move right SPORTS EDrrOR Finally, the playoffs are here. Boy was I excited a wee along to the NL championship series. After all they have The falling of the leaves and the sharing of equal amounts of ago, when it seemed like every team in the ational done it pretty much throughout the last decade. But, osa sunlight acro s the globe signal playoff baseball. For tho e of League would ha e a chance to make the post eason. and the Cub would not to that, and the result is going you who have been Jiving under a rock or in a cluster the past £l l Betwe n the tro , Cub to be the be t fIrst round match-up of the playoffs. The week all the rioting is for the Red Sox's l-IO Umn Dodgers, ~arlins, and Phillies, .1 Cub have pitching, pitching, and more pitching. They will clinching the Wild Card. It was quite fit- was expecting some hug compli- start Keny Wood, Carlos zambrano and then Mark Prior. Column ting that the Red Sox clinched their cated playoff before the playoff: . But the Marlins swept Boy, do the Braves have their hands tied there. playoff berth at Fenway on Fan Appre- the PhiJlies, and the Cub won their game again t the This Cub seem like the Braves of the past, bringing in ciation ight. Reds and Pirates to dispel all the potential drama. ell, a lots of good pitching. The consolation to the Braves is that After their laughter of the Orioles, the Red Sox stoaned out whole ne drama will start today, when the playoffs open. they've done quite poorly when they've brought nothing of the dugout when Mendoza struck out the last batter and cele- Some things never change, like the Yankees and Braves. but pitching. ore, the Cubs have that osa guy, but one brated. Owner John Henry decided that the champagne showers But some thing just seem out of place, like the Cubs player out of nine isn't going to hurt the Atlanta pitching shouldn't be kept to the players and bought enough for the Red and the Marlins. It's been a crazy season, and Ihope it' an all that much. Sox to spray on the fans behind the dugout. ever crazier postseason. But no matter what the playoffs The Braves, on the other hand are an offensive jugger- To start the celebration, Kevin Millar grabbed the micro- bring, it's October; it's baseball; and it's time to watch and naut for once. Their first six or seven hitters are all great phone and thanked the over two million fans who graced Fen- enjoy. Sorry 6.002, I've got other plans this week. and can all go long. Javy Lopez will catch all the games, way this year. Millar said that this celebration is just as much even Maddux's. The weirdest thing about thi serie i that for the fans as it is for the players themselve . Millar th told American League: Yaokees!fwins neither Greg Maddux nor Tom Glavine will pitch in games the fans and players that in the postsea on, they need to "cow- I don't anticipate any surprises from this eries. The one and two of the series. Man, the times have changed. boy up." Yankees are just too offensively talented. Look at their Pick: Braves in 5 David Ortiz then went over to Millar and started singing lineup; Idon't really see any holes. Whom can you casual- "Born in the U A" with Millar and a teenage Millar on the Jum- ly pitch to? From Alfonso Soriano, to Derek Jeter, to Jorge ational League: GiantslMarlins botron. As the fans were still cheering wildly, Tim Wakefield Posada, to Nick Johnson, you really can't play around all Well, come to think of it, this match-up won't be 0 grabbed a bottle of champagne and sprayed it all over the eason- that much with them. Of course, the big man in the middle, bad. Outside of Barry Bonds, there's nobody spectacular in ticket holders behind the dugout so they could "taste the sweet Jason Giambi, can go deep at anytime, anywhere. the Giants lineup. That week when Barry was gone, the victory along with us." 0 other team that I can think of is as in The Yankees' pitching isn't too shabby either. Mike Giants just sat there and died offensively. They don't have tune with their fans as this year's Red ox. Mussina, 17-8 with a 3.40 ERA, has had a great season that much pitching either, outside of Jason Schmidt, who This edition contains the divisional series playoff predictions, and is ranked fourth in strikeouts. Roger Clemens, despite does sport a 17-5 record with a league best ERA of 2.34. and this Friday's edition will feature year-end awards. the fiasco about getting his 300th win earlier in the season, PODSOnhas been okay, but not outstanding. has put quite a campaign together. He is 17-9 with an Good thing is that the Marlins don't have that much of American League: Yankeesffwins ERA of 3.91. Andy Pettitte has been exceptional as well, an offense. Mike Lowell bas cooled off substantially and The Twins have MVP hopeful Shannon Stewart and good going 21-8 with an ERA of4.02. they are now offensively led by Juan Pierre and Luis pitching in Johan Santana, but that's about it. Sure, their bullpen Those three pitchers alone should do a lot of damage to Castillo. The Marlins have the slight edge in pitching, as is one of the better of the playoff teams, but it's hard to hold a • the Twins' lineup that features a slew of good, but not they can throw Brad Penny, Dontrelle Willis, and Mark non-existent lead. exceptional bi~rs, including Torii Hunter and Jacque Redman at the Giants. I may be still the only one in the Pick:: As much as it pains me to say thi Yankees in 4. Jones. The Twins' pitching is also relatively weak, as they world who doesn't believe the D- Train is here to stay, but are starting Johan Santana, 12-3 with a 3.07 ERA in the he has played decently in his last few starts. They may just American League: Red ox/A's first game against the Yaokees. Overall, 1think the Twins have enough juice in this department here to knock off the With an offense as unbeatable as the ox, how can they lose? have nothing to lose, but they will lose all that. Too Giants. Throw in a dash of Pedro and a pinch of Wakefield, and you've young? Too inexP!'rienced? Whatever it may be, the Yan- I think with the way the Marlins have been playing got the best team in baseball. kees are just too good. recently, if they continue with the momentum they've Unfortunately for the Mulderless A's not having an offense Pick: Yankees to sweep the Twins gathered, the Wild Card Express will steamroll it's way despite Billy Beane' superior pitching will leave the A's at through San Francisco. Well, maybe more of a slow roll. home after the AL Divisional Series. AlBerico League: A'slRed Sox Pick: Marlins in 5 Pick: Sox in 4. Definitely an interesting series. To say that it's the pitching of Oakland against the ational League: CubslBraves hitting of the Red Sox really isn't fair The Cubs win! Cubs win! Holy Red Sox, in a shortened series, ,can p0ten- cow, the Cubs are in the play- tially throw Pedro out there twice. And if offs! Wait, they have to face the Pedro pitdles like Pedro. daat houJd be two Braves.Oh. easy games. He does lead the AL with an Pick: Braves in 5. ERA of 2.22, !Iter all. The question is ational League: Giants/Mar- whether or not Derek Lowe and Tim Wake- fieldean hold up. TDey''ve played relatively lins "well~ or else they would not be in the ~lay- Back in the playoffs since offs ri~t now, but can they survive lltlder their error-induced World Series •playo1f pressure? , victory in 1997, the Marlins The A's, who dido't start with an effective have a strong team. They can run " offense, have picked it up lately. They also on anyone and strike out every- f~ ~ Zitb and .Tim Hudson, two of one else. Dontrelle "Whatchu the best yoUng pitchers in the game. Can Talkin 'Bout" Willis has been those two contain the likes ofNomar, Manny, shaky as of late, but his tune-up Bill Mueller and David Ortiz? If they can, on Sunday looked good. Look tbl:n !he A's reailly have a shot. Otherwise~ for the Marlins to surprise many, . Bostoh will walk away with the series. All in including the Giants, who will be too busy collecting their • 'it all, the series is going to be close, even if elChriodividuW same might not be.' Social Security checks to notice. Pick: Boston wins in S Pick: Marlins in 4. DAN BERSAK-THE TECH Overall, these will be orne . NadiMI Leape: BravealCubs Botton Sox reIIev.- R8mIro Mendoza ..... the mound amid cheers celebnltlng Boston'. good playoffs. Maybe we will ~ ~the AtJanta Braves. Man, they must 14-3 YIctory OYer tile 8IIItImore 0II0Ies. The Red Sox'. win secured tile wildcard position In the have Sox/Cubs after all. Just as bate the CubS right now. It was supposed to Amedcan a..a- pIaJoIfs. long as no Yankees are there. Best 36-hole Tournament Sinoo '98 for MIT Golfers By Robert Batten errant shots. Speaking of errant TEAM MEMBER shots, Robert D. Batten '06 and Two weekends ago, the MIT golf Lucas A. Ruprecht '04 had their fair team competed in the Dartmouth share of wayward balls for the week- Invitational at Hanover Country end as the hilly terrain caught up Club in Hanover, N.H. MIT topped with them. Ruprecht contributed Division I schools including Sacred Saturday with an 86 while Batten Heart University, Boston University, contributed Sunday with an 85. and the University of New Hamp- Gray said, "We are really proud shire. MIT was two shots behind of how we played this weekend con- Providence College. Yale University sidering the difficulty of the course, won the tournament with a total of the speed of the greens, how poorly 585. we played here last year. It's intimi- In a field of 19 schools, MIT was dating playing the top 20 or so golf the only non-Division I team com- teams in New England at such a peting. The Engineers improved by demanding course, but we showed 54 strokes over last year's perfor- we belong." mance in the same tournament, MIT golf proved that its recent shooting a two-day total of 651, success is not just one good week- RENER. CHEN MIT's best 36-hole tournament end. Last week at Bowdoin, MIT Diana K. Sterk '06 dribbles past a Bridgewater State opponent' during last Thursday's women's score since at least 1998. Golf had 18-hole rounds of 324 and soccer game. Sterk scored the single goal to propel the Engineers to a 1-0 victory. The sophomore class showed its 336, in addition to Dartmouth's 326 strength this weekend as Matthew D. and 325. To put it in perspective, Smith '06 shot a career low 76-79 to MIT's lowest 18-hole round all last place tied for 41st. William J. Burke year was 332. Tech Golf competes Play a sport? WI'112 for 'lJIe 18M! '06 played solid golf as usual with against another strong field next [email protected] 79-81, and Thomas L. Gray '06 weekend at Amherst, Mass., in the played well, 85-80, despite a few Toski Invitational. Page 24 THE TECH September 30 2003 SPORTS MIT Soccer Remains Beavers Fall to 2-1; Worcester Undefeated After Win State Has Too Much Firepower By Tom Kllpatrfck lead. and 10, and later a l2-yard comple- Over 'WIleaton CoUene1 'U TEAM MEMBER After the proceeding kickoff, tion to Marcus Carson '07. After By Aaron Parness ous ball was cleared over the end The MIT football team entered Worcester showed their offensive reaching the Worcester 10-yard line, TEAM MEMBER line by co-captain Rory E. Foster Saturday's matchup against power by driving 71 yards in nine a pass on 2nd and 6 fell incomplete The MIT men's soccer team beat '04. On the ensuing comer kick, a Worce ter State with a 2-0 record plays, tying the game at seven. For in the end zone. A running play got the Wheaton College Lyons 4-2 on Wheaton attacker leapt into the air and high expectation . They knew most of the day the Lancers used a stuffed on third down, and MIT Saturday at Wheaton to remain and smashed a header into the upper Worcester's offensive machine shotgun formation with three wide opted for the field goal. Ramirez undefeated this season. The win comer of the net, reducing MIT's would be tough to handle, but in the receiver and one running back. was good on the 30-yard attempt improved the team' record to lead to one. end it was the toughness of the Their no-huddle sets kept the heat bringing the score to 27-16. 4-0-1. Wheaton has been the The action-packed first half tired Lancer defense that kept the on the Beaver defense. That was the end of the scoring team's biggest rival on the soccer both teams on the hot day, but there Beavers out of the game. Worcester MIT actually held the lead once for the Beavers though, and pitch for the last four years, which was still another 45 minutes to play. won 41-16. more in the first quarter. With 6:36 Worcester tacked on two more made the victory espevially sweet Impressively, MIT was able to The Lancer trio of quarterback remaining, quarterback Adam Love touchdowns making it 41-16. for the ix seniors on the team. come out with even more intensity Cean Oksanish, tailback Greg '07 marched the team 39 yards for a The Worcester State defensive Before the match, your Engineers in the econd half, hustling to balls Wood, and receiver Lavon Cuyler 13-7 lead. Ostlund ran it in from the linemen and linebackers deserve were ranked 10th in ew England with a playoff-like desire. After 15 entered the contest as three of the Worcester seven-yard line for the credit for stopping MIT's running while Wheaton College was ranked minutes of hard battle, Tech's other top skill players in the ew England score. The big play of the drive was game. The Beavers did a better job second in ew England and 12th in co-captain, icholas R. estle '04, Football Conference. All three a 21-yard pass to flanker Paul Mont- pass-blocking, but the Lancers were the nation. created ju t enough room to shoot played well, as Oksanish threw for gomery '07, wide open on a short still able to bat down several passes MIT started the game very from the top right of the Wheaton 220 yards and two touchdowns; crossing route. and get two sacks. pumped up and had a great scoring goal box. Wood ran for 167 yards and three The second quarter was all On the defensive side, MIT opportunity within the first minute The curving right-footed shot touchdowns; and Cuyler had seven Worcester State, as they scored played hard but was just asked to do on a throw-in into the box. Wheaton slipped past the Wheaton Goalkeep- receptions for 88 yards. three touchdowns. However, down too much. Zakielarz had another big quickly countered and had several er and boosted MIT's lead to 3-1. The MIT offense, on the other 14-13, the Beavers had an opportu- day, leading the team with 10.5 fantastic opportunities thwarted by Energized by the goal and by the hand, never really got going. Tail- nity to retake the lead after a fake tackles, and defensive end Kevin the goal-line saves of the hard work- fresh legs of two substitutes, MIT back David J. Ostlund '04, coming punt in which Terence S. Kamal '07 Yurkerwich '06 had 6.5. Defensive ing MIT defen e. went on the attack again. Torradas off a big week against Mass Mar- connected with David Ostlund for a backs David Blau '06, David Shear- It was not until a substitution received a ball on the right wing and itime, only rushed for 40 yards, and 28-yard pass. The play took MlT to er '04, Tanis Fidelholtz '04, and twenty minutes into the game, that with a quick fake left the Wheaton Tom Kilpatrick 'OS, who entered the the Worcester 37-yard line, but the Mark Boudreau '05 combined for MIT would score the first goal of defender looking to the middle of game as the NEFC's leading receiv- drive ended a few plays later with 21 tackles, reflecting the number of the match. Joseramon Torradas '05 the field. Torradas laced a low cross er, was held to only 50 yards on an interception. completed passes and running plays came in as a striker and had an in front of two rushing MlT attack- three catches. It added up to 179 that broke into the secondary. immediate impact on the game. A ers and several back-pedaling yards of total offense for the Beavers start second half strong One bright spot on the day was good crossing ball off the foot of Wheaton defenders. The ball made Beavers. MIT started the third quarter the kicking of Ramirez, who aver- Douglas L. Allaire '04 eluded two it to the far side of the goal, and down 27-13 and kicked the ball off aged 39 yards over seven punts, Wheaton defenders and found Tor- Allaire took no time in top-shelfing Harvey gets things started to the Lancers. After allowing including a 57-yard bomb in the radas on the far side of the goal. the ball. Things started on a high note Worcester to return the ball to the second quarter. With the opposing goalkeeper Wheaton was finally able to when Phillip T. Zakielarz '05 forced 44-yard line, the Beavers got a big MIT (2-1) must regroup this charging, Torradas swiftly tucked beat junior goalkeeper, R. Morgan a fumble on Worcester's second defensive stop and forced a punt. week in preparation for a tough road the ball just inside the left post from Mills, with a rocket into the comer play, and Mike Harvey '04 picked it MIT then put together a nice trip to Curry (4-0). They will likely twelve yards out. The bench explod- of the goal, closing the gap to 4-2. up and ran 72 yards for a touch- drive, going 75 yards downfield. A be without tight end Cody Patrick ed in celebration as MIT took a 1-0 Tech soccer was too aggressive and down. R. Matt Ramirez '06 added big play was a 23-yard pass to Tom 'OS, who injured his ankle against lead. too determined to let the home the extra point to give MlT a 7-0 Kilpatrick early in the drive on 3rd Worcester State. ot more than a minute later, a team favorite get any closer, "through ball" found Torradas in though. scoring position for a second time. After the game, long-time coach The wily triker squirmed between Walter Alessi praised the team's UPCOMING HOME EVENTS two Wheaton defenders and manu- intensity and effort, calling the factured another goal, this one with game a true team win with incredi- Tuesday, Sept. 30 Thursday, Oct. 2 his left foot. The momentum swung ble bench support. The win will hardily in the favor of MIT, silenc- surely boost MlT's reputation, and 4 p.m., Men's soccer, Gordon 4 p.m., Women's tennis, Tufts ing the large Wheaton crowd. Tech looks to carry the momentum 7 p.m., Women's volleyball, WPI 4 p.m., Men's soccer, Colby-Sawyer The Wheaton players' heads of this win into the rest of the sea- 6 p.m., Women's field hockey, UMass- hung low, but they were not going son. The team mentality seems to be Wednesday, Oct. 1 Dartmouth to concede the game. With six min- a universal belief that MIT soccer 4 p.m., Women's soccer, Simmons utes left before halftime, a danger- belongs at the top of the rankings. Women's Tennis Gets 4 in a Row By Caroline Tien 2, 4, and 5, respectively. Junior Next on the agenda were Clark TEAM MEMBER Jaclyn E. Cichon lost her first set and Springfield. Past encounters MIT women's tennis entered its 6-2, and was down 0-3 in the sec- with Clark proved that the team was fall season with a slow start, but ond, but fought through many long not threatening and this year was no notched four huge wins in a row to points to win six consecutive games different. The Lady Engineers easi- come to its current solid record of and the set. However, while the final ly swept through their matches los- 4-2. While barely into their fourth number three singles victory ulti- ing only nine out of the 36 total week of play, they already have six mately went to Babson, Cichon games played that day. While matches under their belt fended off many break and match Springfield was slightly tougher, This year's team is relatively points to lose by merely one point in MIT still dominated, emerging young with four newcomers (Emily the third set. again with a final score of 9-0. Chen '07, Alex E. Coso '07, Joan- ot easily disheartened, howev- Last Tuesday, the ladies faced na L. MacKay '07, and Jennifer A. er, MIT confidently headed into its long time rival Wellesley College. Hipp '04) and four sophomores on next match against Smith. The prior Despite the fast and unpredictable the team. However, so far the team week of intense doubles practice Wellesley indoor courts, MIT has proven that they have the con- paid off as MIT emerged from dou- edged past to win four singles fidence, poise, and toughness to bles victorious at 3-0. The doubles matches and two doubles matches, compete with the best of them. teams of Rayej/Konowich, with a final score of 6-3. Doubles The Engineers started their sea- Tien/Cichon, Hipp/Pai, and Elaine started out intensely with passing son with a close 4-5 loss against a Ni '06/MacKay all won decisively, shots, close calls, and aces on every revamped Wheaton College team losing merely 10 games out of the side. Rayej/Konowich lost 8-1, but earlier in September. While they 32 total games played. . both Tien/Cichon and Pai/Hipp gave their best effort, it just was not While singles was much stormed their way to the net to win enough to break the tie at 4-4. tougher, the Lady Engineers 8-5 and 8-1, respectively. STANLEY HU-THE TECH A week later the Lady Engineers pulled through. Rayej won her In singles action, Rayej played Jln Hee Kim of South Korea gets kicked In the face by Solvelg encountered Babson College in a three-set match 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. with a combination of power and Gulbrandsen of Norway during the first RFA Women's World tough, down-to-the-Iast-point Tien had a similarly tough match, finesse to win 6-1, 6-4. One court Cup 2003 game In Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium In match. Though again losing 4-5, the winning 6-4, 6-4. While Cichon over, Tien was having difficulty Foxboro. Norway defeated South Korea 7-1, advancing to the team competed much better than and Chen set up solid attacks putting away points and lost in a next round against the United States on Wednesday. they did a week prior and fought against their hard-hitting oppo- close 7-6, 1-6, 6-3 match. Cichon hard for every point. nents, they lost at three and four, also had a tough time putting away The match started slowly with respectively. Hipp swept through the crucial games to lose 6-1, 7-5. MIT going into singles down 0-3. her first set easily, with a win of However, Hipp, Pai, and Konowich Fighting off an injured shoulder, Jill 6-1. The second set proved to be stepped up to the competition to L. Konowich '06 lost 6-2, 6-4 at much harder though, as she rallied lose merely six out of their cumula- number six singles to bring the offensively to a win of 7-5. Pai tive 36 games played at four, five, match score to 0-4. However, MIT also had a tough match, but her and six, respectively. came storming back, with Shima focus and consistent shots came ext week, the Engineers will Rayej '04, Caroline Tien '04, Emily through to give her a close win of host Brandeis and Tufts on Chen '07 and Jen A. Hipp '04 6-4, 6-4, while Konowich and i Wednesday and Thursday, respec- notching hard-fought victories at I, breezed through to victory. tively.