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Volume 118, umber 16 02139 Friday, April 3, 1995 Prefrosh Arrive for Preview Weekend By Frank Dabek be "very informational for prefrosh NEWS EDITOR and parents." Romero said that the The coming of spring heralds office has been careful to ensure the return of flowers, warmth, "more information [and] less rush" birdsongs, and prefrosh. at the fair. Independent living Approximately 415 admitted groups will be restricted to two women and underrepresented representatives at their table at any minority students will be attending one time. Dormitories may send this year's Campus Preview four representatives. Living groups Weekend, which runs from may have one handout and one sign Saturday to Tuesday, an all-time on display. high according to CPW Kai-yuh E. Hsiao '99, Dormcon coordinator and Assistant Directl)r rush chair said that he was sure that of Admissions Yvonne M. Romero some dormitories would send '93. Women make up three representatives. "If all goes well, quarters of those attending the we'll be represented," he said. weekend. Hsiao said that the fair was a This year's CPW features positive addition to CPW because, several new' events such as a "It's never too early to start residence fair to inform prefrosh thinking about where you would about possible living options, as want to live." well as a choice of majors Following the fair, pre-freshmen presentation to allow admitted will choose whic~, if any, living RiCH FLETCHER-THE TECH students to view the range of groups they would like their contact Janice Chen G watches the action from a momentary position of repose In Le Pope People, a academic possibilities at MIT. ' information released to. The groups tight, fast moving number from Dance Troupe's Spring Concert Signatures. This semester's con- This year may also be the last will use that information to contact cert, featuring twenty-four separate dance numbers, will be playing in La Sala de Puerto Rico at 8 year that the event focuses on those admitted students later. p.m. on Friday, at 4 and 8 p.m. on Saturday, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. women. and underrepresented minority students. Romero said Preview, Page 17 that the Admissions Office is "anticipating that next year will be an all-admit weekend." Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones also said that the office hopes to Gale's Death Prompts Questions on Scientology provide a weekend for all admitted By Jennifer Chung reasons. And amidst the rumors straining to Since the beginnings of Scientology, rooted students. ASSOCIATE NEWS ED/TOR , explain why Gale killed himself lies the theory in the late L. Ron Hubbard's 1950 book ThI;eeweeks ago t<:>day,PhilipC. Gale '98 that the Church of Scientology, an organization Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Residence, majors fairs planned died when he fell from a classroom window on which has met with controversy in the past, Health, the beliefs of the Church and the orga- The residence fair planned for the fifteenth floor of Building 54. His death left was somehow related. nization itself have caused debate. Monday afternoon,.is a significant many questions unanswered. However, people close to Gale, including According to text by Hubbard, whose works new addition to CPW this year. "It seemed liked so deliberate a suicide," his mother Marie Gale, have vehemently form the codes and creeds of Scientologist Romero said that the purpose of the said Matthew S. Munsey '99, who came across denied that Scientology played any part in belief, "We seek only evolution to higher states fair is to "let prefrosh see the the scene on his way home on March 13. "It Philip Gale's deGision. of being for the individual and for society." diversity" of living options available really disturbed me. I felt like he was trying to "Whoever is stirring this up is attempting to Critics "think it's mostly bunk," said atMIT. send a message." create strife in Philip's name when none exist- She also said that the fair would Munsey, like others, is still searching for ed," said Marie Gale. Gale, Page 2I focus on information. The event will u~ UAVPHopefuls Discuss Views, Platforms inModerated Discussion By Eric Sit '99 engaged in questionable Sandoval said. STAFF REPORTER campaigning. Also, a new program, entitled Last night, three pairs of The debate opened with each "Integrationby Parts",wouldincludea Undergraduate Association team explaining their platform. seriesof eventsdesignedto "bridgethe candidates for president and vice Oppold and Jennifer A. Kelly '99 differentgroupson campus,"shesaid president met in the Student Center said that they planned to expand Eric H. Prebys '99, whose for the first moderated debate of the Safe Ride to operate all day. Also, UAVP running mate Andrew W. 1998 UA Elections. Although there academic free time should also be Sparks '99 was absent, emphasized have been organized "meet the extended by one hour to run from 5 excitement as the driving force of candidate" discussions held in the p.m. to 8 p.m., Oppold said. their platform. The UA should past, this was the first debate Finally, the UA should attempt . promote more parties and large between the teams. to improve the social scene by social events to bring fun back to The elections for UAP and trying to get everyone together with the MIT campus, Prebys said. UAVP will be held electronically more social activities, he said. To demonstrate excitement, from April 4-8. The VA judicial UAP candidate Sandra C. Prebys drank a jar of Volcano YlNG LEE-THE TECH review board nullified the results of Sandoval '00 and UAVP candidate sauce, a type of hot sauce, during Ole M. Nielsen '00 plays selections from the works of Bach, the previous election, held from June Kim '99 plan to introduce a the debate. "The key to tom?ITowis Beglarlan, and Frank In Killian Hall Monday evening. March 6 to March 10, after ruling speaker series for students. "An that UAP candidate Paul T. Oppold education is more than class," Debate, Page 23

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THE WASH! GTO POST MOSCOW e After Jones Decision Pre ident Bori Yeltsin yielded ye terday to parliamentary leader President Clinton and the and agreed to po tpone a vote on hi nominee for prime minister, By Doyle McManus and media, painting tarr a a political Democrats to fi)] in the pace with Sergei Kiriyenko, until after a "round-table" di cu ion next week Jonathan Peterson parti an and making the mo t of the LOS ANGELES TIMES Jone ca e' udden demi e. their own agenda... and we with political leaders, including Communi t who aid they will vote WASHI GTO On paper, U.S. District Court [Republican ] have to come back again t Kiriyenko. White House aides eized on the Judge Susan Webber Wright did not with our agenda." Yelt in backtracked - ix day after demanding a quick vote - di mis al of Paula Jone ' lawsuit on exonerate Clinton of charge that he to avoid a confrontation with p'arliament, aide and analy t aid. At a Public opinion analysts said Thursday and ought to turn it into a made a crude exual advance to meeting with legi lative leader 60 mile outside of Mo cow, Yelt in Clinton has gained public upport broader Ie on: It' time for the Jones in a Little Rock, Ark., hotel during the past two month , when offered to Ii ten to th ir suggestions for new cabinet members. other inve tigations of Pre ident room in 1991. Wright merely found charges of sexual misconduct have Yeltsin, 67, met yesterday with Yegor Stroyev, 61, head of the Clinton to end a well. that the incident, if true, would not dominated the news, in part because Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, and Gennady , tarr hould ... wrap this up con titute sexual as ault or sexual he has insisted that he is devoting Seleznev, 51, peaker of the lower hou e, the tate Duma, at the Ru quickly," pre idential counselor harassment. his attention to issue of greater guest lodge northwe t of Moscow. Critic in parliament have aid But on the nation' airwaves, Rahm Emanuel said, referring to importance. Kiriyenko, 35, i too inexperienced to be Yelt in' second-in-com- independent counsel Kenneth W. White House aides turned that rela- mand. IfYelt in dies or i incapacitated, Kiriyenko would temporari- Starr's probe into po sible perjury. tively narrow legal judgment into a A poll conducted last weekend by the Pew Research Center for ly become pre ident of Ru ia. "Why are we having an inve tiga- much broader a sertion: that the the People & the Press, for exam- If the Duma reject Yeltsin' nominee three time, he can di - tion on a parallel matter after the president has been "vindicated," not ple, found public approval of solve the parliament and call new elections. Voting on the prime min- case has been di m i edT' only in the Jones case but, by impli- Clinton's performance at a strong iter i one of the major prerogatives of the parliament; the 1993 con- "This rai es the level of ques- cation, on a whole range of charge . 65 percent. More important, po)]- titution created a uper-pre idential ystem putting mo t power in tions about Ken Starr's inve tiga- The stepped-up offensive ster Andrew Kohut said, Clinton's the hand of Yelt in. Duma leader have been playing hard to get tion," echoed Ann Lewis, the White again t Starr was only part of a larg- popularity appears to be carrying since Yelt in fir t announced the nomination of Kiriyenko. House communications director. "Is er White House strategy to make the it a question of merit, or is it fueled most of Wright's ruling. over to Democrats in Congress. by partisan opposition to the presi- After he returns Friday from a "He's got scandal coattails!" Israe on High Alert After Funeral dent?" 12-day trip to Africa, Clinton plans Kohut said. Starr, who has been inve tigat- a whirlwind of public activity focus- At the same time, the allega- for Hamas Bomb aker Sharif ing charges ranging from possible ing on his favorite domestic priori- tions have taken a serious toll on fraud in Arkansas land deals to pos- ties - jobs, education, crime, LOS ANGELES TIMES Clinton's credibility and public JERUSALEM ible perjury by a former White Social Security, health care and esteem as a person. Asked what House intern who allegedly had a tobacco legislation - to press the they believe Clinton's presidency I rael should have been breathing a sigh of relief at the death of it sexual relationship with Clinton, message that he has devoted himself will be remembered for, 56 percent o. I fugitive, top Hamas bomb maker Mohiedin Sharif. In tead, replied Thursday that he does not to key national issues while his of the public repl ied "scandals"; Israeli security forces were battening down the hatches Thursday in intend to quit. opponents have wallowed in the only 14 percent cited his manage- the face of the militant Islamic group's vows of revenge. But White House officials said controversy. ment of the. economy. As 10,000 angry Palestinians turned out in the We t Bank town the prosecutor was not the immedi- Democrats and Republicans said Republicans in Congress, grant- of AI Birah to bury Sharifs scorched body, Israeli officials worked ate target of their invective. Instead, the dismissal of the Jones lawsuit, ing Clinton his popularity, have overtime trying to persuade the Palestinian leadership that their secu- they said, they are eeking to influ- which had appeared likely to domi- acknowledged that their interest in rity forces had nothing to do with the death. ence voters - many of whom have nate the news for several months, impeaching the president - never Israeli troops clashed with stone-throwing Palestinian youths at a rallied around Clinton in his time of could open the way to more national high to begin with - has ebbed Jewish settlement on the outskirt of AI Birah, firing rubber bullets, legal troubles - and, through them, debate on other issues. even further with the ruling in Little tear gas and live ammunition to break up the crowd, while police set the Congress that will consider "The biggest impact is that it Rock. up highway roadblocks in Israel and sent reinforcements to markets, Starr's findings. should make it easier for us to talk "Unless there is an open-and- shopping malls and bus stops. "This is a democracy, and the to the American people about issues shut case, the kind which would Speculation continued about who was responsible for the assassi- most important court is still the pub- important to their lives in an age of result in a' resignation, as happened nation, or whether it even wa an assassination. But amid the funeral lic," Lewis said. scarce news holes," Lewis said. .. with President Nixon; I do not think chants to "Hit Tel Aviv" and the banners declaring "Glory to the In a well-organized phalanx "It wi)] create a news vacuum," bristling with newly drafted talking said Rep. David M. McIntosh, R- there ought be an impeachment pro- Martyrs," the answer seemed irrelevant. points, the president's official Ind., a leading conservative. "It ceeding," said Sen. Arlen Specter Sharifs body was found next to an exploded Fiat Uno in an defenders fanned out across the creates an opportunity for (R-Pa). industrial area of the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday buf'was not formally identified until Wednesday. Israeli explosives experts who viewed the site insist that it was a bomb factory and that Sharif died in a working accident. But a Palestinian pathologist has said that French Court. Gives Papon 10 , . Sharif died of bullet wounds to the chest everal hours before the explosion. Officials say the investigation is still open.

Years for World~ War n Crimes IRS Urges Delay in Some Overhaul By John-Thor Dahlburg erated of actual responsibility in the Papon in the actual deaths of LOS ANGELES TIMES deaths of deportees, there was great deportees. In deliberations that Provisions for Year 2000 Problems BORDEAUX. FRA CE relief and satisfaction that the jury took 19 hours, judges and jurors THE WASHINGTON POST For Maurice-David Matisson, a pronounced him guilty. evidently decided the defendant WASHI GTON soft-spoken Jewish veteran of the "I think now we are going to could have known nothing of the The Internal Revenue Service, worried about the time it will take French Resistance, the quest for jus- finally be able to .live our grief," vast machine assembled by Nazi to fix Year 2000 computer problems, has asked the Senate Finance tice for eight family mem~ers who said Matisson, 72, a bald, bespecta- Germany that killed 12 million Committee to delay several provisions of its bill overhauling agency perished in World War II took 17 cled psychoanalyst who attended people, including 6 million operations. long, often frustrating years but bore every sessio'n of the trial since it European Jews. fruit at 9: I2 Thursday morning. opened in October. "Now we can The restructuring bill would ease some tax penalttes and give tax- But according to historians, After a trial instigated because think about our dead in a serene payers important new rights in disputes with the agency. But the pro- more Jews in France were arrested of the legal complaints filed by way." posed legislative changes also would require the IRS to rewrite pro- by French police than by the Matisson and aggrieved families. of The conviction of Papon - the grams for its computer systems, a task that would interfere with the Germans. Gerard Boulanger, a other victims, Maurice Papon, 87, a former No. 2 official in the agency's timetable for year 2000 repairs. lawyer who in December 1981 filed mid-level functionary in the Bordeaux prefecture, or regional Internal Revenue Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti, in a letter the first complaint on Matisson's wartime puppet state of Vichy, was government - marked the first Tuesday to Senate Finance Chairman William V. Roth Jr. (R-Del.) found guilty of having served as an time a functionary of the Vichy behalf, said the jury's decision suggested that the effective dates for several provisions be put off accomplice in "crimes against state was brought to account "means the exact role of Vichy has generally from the expected date of enactment, probably later this humanity" and sentenced to 10 specifically for the wartime French not been recognized. " year, until Jan. 31, 2000, and July 31, 2000. years in prison. leaders' collaboration or con- Government pr:osecutors had The date problem stems from how many computer systems use a The punctilious civil servant, nivance in Nazi policies of anti- sought a prison sentence twice the two-digit dating system that assumes 1 and 9 are the first two digits the court ruled, had helped to orga- Semitism. length of that ultimately given of the year. nize and implement some of the After the Liberation, Papon Papon. Without specialized reprogramming, the systems will recognize "arbitrary" arrests and detentions of went on to serve as prefect of Paris Papon, who spent two nights in "00" not as 2000 but 1900, which could cause computers to stop 1,560 Jews in the Bordeaux area. police and then as a Cabinet minis- jail at the start of the trial but was working or to start generating erroneous data. These were the first steps for the ter in 1978-8 I. released Oct. lOon orders of Jews in a sorrowful journey by rail Pale and raptly' attentive, Papon Presiding Judge Jean-Louis cattle cars to a holding camp in listened to the verdict as he sat in Castagnede, returned home northern France and near-certain the defendant's box and laughed bit- Thursday to the greater Paris area death in the concentration camps of terly when he heard it included a and may never see the inside of a the Third Reich. 10-year ban on voting and running WEATHER cell again. The appeals process .Some of the unwilling passen- for elective office and the revoca- could take years, legal experts pre- gers were children, some only a tion of his red ribbon of the Legion dicted, and Papon might die before Partly Perfect year old; others were aged and of Honor. it is complete. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE infirm. Eight were the members of Chief defense counsel Jean- Today: Partly sunny. High 55°F (J3°C) to 60°F (16°C). Matisson's family, all of whom died Marc Varaut, who "Said his client Papon was specificany found Tonight: Clear. Low 35°F (2° C) to 40°F (4°C). at Auschwitz. had tried to protect Jews and others guilty of being an accomplice in Tomorrow: Partly sunny. High around 45°F (7°C). In a moving scene, family mem- in France against the occupying arrests and detentions involving Sunday: Fair. Low 25°F (-4°C) to 35°F (2°C). High 45°F (7°C) bers, some sobbing, kissed an.d Nazis, denounced the verdict as four rail convoys of Jewish depor- to 55°F (13°C). embraced each other and their "condemnable" and said he would tees between July 1942 and Monday: Fair. Low 25°F (-4°C) to 35°F (2°C). High 45°F (7°C) lawyers in a han outside the court- appeal the decision. January 1944. In an equal number to 55°F (13°C). room after the verdict was read. After meeting throughout the of trains for which documents Tuesday: Fair. Low around 35°F (2°C). High around 55°F Though there were objections night, the court disappointed many proving his involvement were (13°C). that the 10-year sentence was too family members of victims, includ- scanty or nonexistent, he was light and that Papon had been exon- ing Matisson, by not implicating declared not guilty. Consenratives Pressure Senate GOP t Leaders to Support Larger Tax Cut entencing hearing and warned up with the appropriate penalty. enate Republican leader on Thursday agreed to support major ichol that whil he i leaning With the judge expected to en- tax cut in the range of 60 billion to $80 billion over five years, Terry ichol ha finally begun toward giving him life in pri on tence ichol sometime in May, yielding to pre sure from conservatives in their party who demanded to peak, yet it appear he ha a lot with no parole, he might hand down federal pro ecutor have asked for far more than the 30 billion allowed in a enate budget plan. more explaining to do. ichol, the a lighter punishment if ichol were the maximum: life and no parole. They al 0 agreed to join with House Republicans in making the convicted co-conspira or with to provide in ight into how he and ichol ' lawyers have sugge ted a elimination of the o-called marriage tax penalty a top priority this Timothy J. McVeigh in the McVeigh pulled off the wor t ter- little as the time he already has year and to pur ue other tax measures as part of a large budget pack- Oklahoma City bombing, recently rorist attack in U.. hi tory. served ince urrendering two days age that will be voted late thi spring. sent a 16-page letter to the federal "If the defendant. .. comes for- after the bombing. The under tanding came a the Senate worked late into the night judge in Denver who will decide ward with answer or information To that end, the defen e filed the to complete a 1.7 trillion fiscal 1999 balanced budget plan before an whether he will ever be allowed to leading to answers," the judge said, batch of letter with the court, hop- April rece s and marked an important victory for the conservatives, walk out of prison a free man. "it would be omething that the ing to personalize ichol and tres led by Sens. John D. Ashcroft (R-Mo.) and Rod Grams (R-Minn.) in The letter, along with 28 notes court could consider in imposing that McVeigh is the more evil of the their fight for increased tax cuts in an era of looming surpluses. from ichol' relatives, friends, sentence." two. The commitment to larger tax cuts could spark an election-year teachers and former employers, Together, ichols and McVeigh It may be foolhardy for ichols conflict between Congress and President Clinton, who proposed $24 sought to show him as a loving fam- as embled an ammonium nitrate and to tell the judge anything more, billion of tax cuts through 2003. Some Republicans believe such a ily man, a hard-working, hy, per- fuel oil bomb. On April 1'9, 1995, given that state pro ecutors in fight would energize their conservative base, despite polls showing haps clum y fellow who had the with the bomb packed in barrels Oklahoma hope to try him on bomb- that many Americans are conflicted about the need for additional tax mi fortune of being used by stacked in the back of a rented ing-related charges and sentence cuts. McVeigh, an old Army pal. Ryder truck, McVeigh delivered it him to death. Anything ichols "I'm a very private person," to the front of the Alfred P. Murrah might tell Matsch could be used wrote ichols, once a farmer in Federal Building. The blast killed against him in sJate court. Teenage Smoking Rates Rise by a Michigan and Kansas. "All I've 168 people and injured more than But in any case, should he be ever wanted was to live a quiet 500. allowed to go home, ichols Third, a New Study Reports peaceful life where no one bothers McVeigh was convicted and promised: "I would begin my blue- THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON me and I don't bother others." sentenced to death last June. berry crop ... The nearly three year But no sooner had U.S. District In a second, separate trial, in prison has made me truly realize De pite a national debate on reducing youth smoking, American Judge Richard P. Matsch reviewed Nichols was acquitted of first- how precious my freedom is. 1 ure- teenagers continue to light up in increasing numbers, according to the letters than the judge was telling degree murder, but found guilty of Iy will not take it for granted again new government figures. Nichols that ifhe truly hopes to ever conspiring with McVeigh to plan and I'll do my best to instill that in Overall, smoking rate among high school students rose by nearly win his freedom, he better start talk- and prepare for the bombing. But my children ... " a third between 1991 and 1997, creeping up from 27.5 percent to 36.4 ing about matters more substantial because the jury in January could "I miss so much the clear blue percent, according to the new report from the federal Centers for than his desire to raise blueberries not reach a consensus on how he sky, the soft white clouds, the fresh Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. and make pinatas for children's should be punished - which elimi- clean air, the green grass and trees, More than half of white 'male high schoolers - 51.5 percent - birthday parties. nated the prospect of the death the sounds of the birds and ani- and more than a third of white female students - 40.8 percent - Last week, Matsch held a pre- penalty - it fell to Matsch to come mals ... " he said. reported smoking a cigarette in the previous month in 1997, the latest year the survey of 16,000 students in grades 9 through 12 was con- ducted. The sharpest and most troubling rise occurred among African- .Doctor Seeks Patent for Process American students, whose smoking increased by 80 percent during the same period - rising from 12.6 percent to 22.7 percent. The increase narrowed a long-standing gap between black and white Merging Human and Animal DNA teenagers and reversed what had been a consistent decline in smoking among African-American students. By Rick Weiss Patents are not allowed on Center' for Biomedical Ethics at THE WASHINGTON POST human beings, but patent-law Case Western Reserve University. A New York scientist has quietly experts 'said there is nothing in U.S. "If we put one human gene in an Couple Re-Examined in Home applied Jor a patent on a method for patent code that would preclude animal, or two or three, some people making c;reatures tha~ ar~ pc,lrt . someone from winning a.patent on a may get nervous but you're c1e,arly , Deaths of Eight B~bies human and part animal \n a p~lculat- . parti,ally human creature. Already, not making a person yet. But when THE WASHINGTON POST PHILADELPHIA ed move designed to reignite debate the patent office has awarded sever- you talk about a hefty 'percentage of about the morality of patenting life al patents on animals with minor the cells being human... this really There was something suspicious about a couple in Philadelphia forms and engineering human human cqmponents - including is problematic. Then' you have to whose 10 babies had all died, eight at home for no obvious reason. beings. laboratory mice engineered with ask these very hard questions about Questions about the deaths of Marie and Arthur Noe's children were The scientist, Stuart A. Newman, human cancer genes or human what it means to be human." raised by a Philadelphia doctor 35 years ago at an international meet- a cellular biologist at New York immune-system cells. The patent office's policy of not ing on unexplained crib deaths, but the inquiry had gone cold until Medical College in Valhalla, said he Even if the patent is not awarded granting patents on human beings ~ this week as the Philadelphia district attorney's office announced it has not created such creatures and to Newman, several experts agreed, based on the 13th Amendment to has reopened an investigation into the oe deaths, which date from never intends to. Indeed, he said, the ploy could achieve its primary the Constitution, which blocks slav- 1949 to 1968. although the hybrids could be goal of forcing a national debate ery. But the office has never been The Philqde/phia Daily News quoted unnamed police sources extremely useful in medical about the commercialization of life faced with the question of "how Thursday saying Marie Noe confessed last week to murdering five of research, his goal is to stop the tech- in an era when genes, cells, tissues human" an animal would have to be her 10 children by using a pillow. Other sources said Noe, 69, has nology from being used by anyone and organs are being shuttled before it was deemed worthy of that made a statement to police about the deaths, but that it falls short of - and to force the U.S. Patent and increasingly across species barriers protection. being a confession. Trademark Office and the courts to and blurring the distinctions The patent application was filed Marie and Arthur Noe were at home yesterday in their small row- re-examine this country's 18-year between humans and non-human Dec. 18, but its existence was made house in a suburban Philadelphia neighborhood. Their lawyer has history of allowing patents on living animals. public for the first time in yester- asked them not to talk to the press. In a letter of complaint to the dis- creatures, which he considers uneth- "It is a classic slippery slope," day's issue of the scientific journal trict attorney's office, he said neither of his clients is in good health. ical and immoral. said Thomas 'Murray, director of the Nature.

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Fund Allocation ;Angst ational eparate Funding Board for Graduates and Undergraduates are Inequitable Endowment ground. angam is proud to receive active in a eemingly ad-hoc manner. ot a ingle Gue t Column participation at our event from both under- rea onable ju tification for thi inequitable Devabhaktuni rikri hna graduate and graduate in nearly equal di tribution of fund ha been brought to my For mut numbers. tudent group like Sangam bring attention. Tue day's headline announcing major the MIT community together, and serve to The consequences of this unfair distribu- Guest Column increa e in next year' tudent activitie fo ter interaction and friend hip between tion are being felt by many groups. For budget to 300,000 i welcome new undergraduate and graduate tudent . example, the angam Bhangra Team' par- Elaine Y. Wan ["Provo t Grant 300K in Fund for Student De pite of the nature of angam, the UA ticipation in the Bhangra Blowout Activitie ext Year", March 31]. This gen- and G C in i t that Sangam' UA and GSC Competition in Wa hington, D.C. was only aked on stage and covered with melted erou mea ure on the part of Provo t Joel funding propo als mu t be for distinct events. partially funded through the UA. The team chocolate, artist Karen Finley performed a Mo es de erve applau e from all tudents angam's allocation from the UA for pring included an equal number of graduate and dramatization of the plight of women. Did you and tudent group at MIT. The quality of 98 fell far hort of the what was required to undergraduate students, but the GSC denied know that your tax money helped sponsor this student life at MIT will certainly be given a fund Sangam's activitie , including the annu- funding for the trip. It is revealing to view performance? Aren't you proud? A bit of the major boo t, if the e new resource are allo- al cultural how in April. The culture show the rea oning behind the GSC's decision, hard-earned money that you made from work- cated re ponsibly. has come to be regarded a a campus in titu- quoted from the official communication ing house desk, cleaning black boards, analyz- The Undergraduate As ociation and the tion (this year it is co-sponsored with SAAS from the GSC funding board to Sangam: ing Western blots, or typing algorithms went Graduate Student Council serve a the exclu- and Paksmit). The culture show is performed "Your appeal to the GSC Funding Board to to fund the confection coating of a woman. sive conduits through which these funds are and produced with the effort of hundred of obtain funding during the spring term wa . In 1990, the ational Endowment of the allocated. My group, angam, is a group of undergraduate and graduate students, and denied. Since the UA received 32,000 of Arts denied funding to Ms. Finley and three students, graduate and the Provost's $40,000 and the other artIsts. becauseI EA hold s grants to a undergraduate, who love to GSC only $8,000, the GSC "general tandard of decency." The four bring the culture and expe- funding board has explicitly artist brought the case to two lower courts in rience of India to MIT. I stated that it will not fund any California, arguing against the decency provi- can describe the problems event supported by the sion and the government's control over the Sangam has had in get- Provost's fund through the freedom of speech. The Californian courts ting allocations, and UA. We are therefore ruled in favor of the artist . This ruling paral- these problems unable to allocate any leled another challenge to the decenc;y provi- expose. certain funds for this event." sion after a huge public outcry over the inadequacies of the The third major EA's subsidy of homoerotic images by UA and GSC fund- issue is the respon ive- Robert Mapplethorpe and an Andres Serrano ing policies. ness and responsibility photograph of a crucifix dipped in urine. Resolving these prob- of the funding boards. Can the government set standards to filter lems will go a long Sangam's Spring 98 what art it will financially support? Should art way toward allocation, for that is considered indecent to many ta'5payers ensuring that instance, has been be subsidized by federal grants through the the $300,000 cut in half in EA? is spent in a \.. from last semes- In July, the Supreme Court will rule on way that ter's alloca- just this question. The justices claim they will reflects tion, despite not make any moral or artistic judgement but the needs much larger will decide if the artists rejected by the EA of stu- funding were unfairly excluded from federal funding. dents. needs this I support all artists in their crusade to First, there are major problems with the attended by over a thousand people from all semester. As a re ult, Sangam was forced to express their views, opinions, feelings and distinction between undergradu~te groups sections of the MIT community. By cutting scale back the events it sponsors, and impul es via any shape or form. But it is nec- and graduate student groups for funding pur- our funding allocation and not allowing us to Sangam had to seek institute funding else- essary for us, taxpayers, to take on the burden poses: The UA and GSC are here to legiH- apply to both funding boards for the same where for the cultural show. The UA did not of funding art we do not find tasteful? I would mately represent the specific and special event, the UA and GSC exhibited a lack sen- provide justifications for these abrupt be deeply dissatisfied if the government used interests of undergraduates and graduate stu- sitivity for this special funding need. They changes in funding patterns, nor did our money to fund the production of what is dents on campus. However, the existence of forced us to search for funding elsewhere on Sangam's UA contact representative respond deemed by society as lewd and indecent art. I separate funding boards for undergraduates campus. If it hadn't been for the generous to our requests for consultation during the am not an expert in art, but I do understand and graduate students appears to have little grants we unexpectedly received from the funding application process. that there is a line between expressive art rational basis. The two funding boards only MIT Council for the Arts and the Campus If the VA and GSC wish to be seen as forms and revolting images. serve to further propagate the division of Committee on Race Relations, our funding responsive to student needs, they should rec- The EA was created to keep traditional undergraduates and graduates students. for the cultural show would have remained ognize that the funding boards have a art form alive. Its grants make possible amaz- Additionally, the two boards seems to lack- woefully inadequate. responsibility to actually meet the funding ing exhibits like the 1995 Vermeer exhibit in ing sensitivity for the funding needs of stu- The second major problem is the Provost's needs of the student groups, instead of trying Washington. Every year, two billion dollars dent groups like Sangam which strive to failure to ensure that the funds are allocated to abdicate their responsibility and deepen are allocated to the NEA to build and preserve serve the undergraduate and graduate com- fairly. In the best interests of students, the the divide among undergraduates and gradu- vital national culture. Many conservatives on munities alike. Provost releases funds intended to support our ate students. The UA and GSC must earn and Capitol Hill have argued that major federal By any measure, Sangam is among the activities. But the Provost must also try to restore the trust that is placed in their fund- spending cutbacks mean the arts should be most active student organizations on campus ensure that these funds are distributed equi- ing boards with regards to allocation of supported privately, not with tax money. (number of events, level of student partici- tably among student groups by taking into Institute funds. In light of the increased fund- On the other hand, Hollywood stars like pation, etc.). Sangam serves undergraduates, account the needs and demographics of the ing for next year, perhaps we ought to re- Alec Baldwin have led a campaign to preserve . graduate students, post-doctoral students, student population. . think how institute money is allocated to stu- federal funding and advocate the goals of faculty, and staff. Every year, Sangam's This year's Provost's special allocation of dent groups. NEA. Supporters of his campaign argue that concerts, talks, lAp classes, sports, and $40,000 to student activities, of which only Devabhaktuni Srikrishna. a graduate stu- the government should take and continue the social events consistently evoke participa- $8,000 went to graduate student activities, dent in Course VI, is the president of lead to ensure that we and our children will tion from hundreds of students of all back- exempli~es how funds are being distributed Sangam. maintain "cultural intelligence, heightened sensitivity and our deepened collective sense of humanity." However, the internal decisions made by the EA do not necessarily benefit Campus Delude Weekend diverse groups of artists. For instance, the Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra, Diversity a.tMIT Can Only Improve Through Inclusion) Not Separation clearly not very diverse groups, are fairly well endowed compared to other art groups because of how affirmative actio~ is failing to achieve action; it is trying to make improvements. But they are well-connected with the NEA. Zareena Hussain the combined goals of diversity while lifting it is apparent that in addressing issues of So why should we care about how artists .the subset of traditionally under-represented . inequality it is makil)g a superficial attempt. do their art? Because it is our tax money being In 1996, after public and acrimonious and marginalized groups: There'are simply not enough concrete steps discussed here. debate, California voters .approved Pro- 'When I came to campus preview weekend .being taken. Those like Baldwin who protest against the. position 209. This flew law required the state two years ago, 1 didn't mind the esteem-boost- Beyond the elf-esteem boost women and decency provision expect Americans to sup- to bar the consideration of rac~, sex or ethnici- ing rhetoric. The repeated cries of "you didn't minorities receive, there is little substance. The port the NEA without having any say in its ty in the public sector. . get in her by mistake," and "you are all excel- separation between men and women, minority monetary distribution. They claim that federal The fallout of that decision is now most lent" were expected; I would have been sur- and non-minority continues. Division defines funding "disseminates culture throughout the clearly demonstrated at California's public prised to not hear them. the Orientation experience and extends into country." But the history of any government universities. Most notably, the percentage of But there is a disturbing side to the exis- one's freshman year and even, if one so choos- choices for the arts is not a very good one. under-represented minority students admitted tence of Campus Preview Weekend. The fact es, the rest of one's years at MIT. The research world is mostly funded today to the University of California at Berkeley that half of the admitted class was not invited In addition, women and minorities are by the government. The National Institute of Qropped by more than ten percent from a year to Campus Preview Weekend should in itself assured that there will be strong academic and Health disburses billions of dollars in grants to ago, when Proposition 209 had yet to be be enough evidence. Instead of achieving other support during their years at MIT. These research teams they feel are doing ground- approved. goals of diversity and mtegration, the week-. assurances often don't pan out. This is partial- breaking research. Special review groups read To some, this result is vindication; to oth- end sends a message to admitted women and ly because of the general under-staffing and hundreds of proposals and decide how federal ers, it is disturbing. It should make us all minority students that they must be sheltered underfunding of support resources such as funding should be spent on various sciences. pause and reflect upon the impact of affirma- from those not who are not within certain Counseling and Support Services and academ- Why should art be an exception? Similar tive action in our own lives. groups. It allows students to close themselves ic advising. But it is also because of a lack of groups' can be formed to review artwork. Despite the controversy in California, the off from a significant portion of their future understanding that admitting a woman or Although the history of government controlled question about whether affirmative action society, if only for a weekend. under-represented minority is simply not operations is bleak; 1 feel that the trend can be should exist at MIT has been answered, at What is worse, it say that division is enough to battle inequality. More mu t be altered. If any private organization or founda- least for now, by the long-standing commit- acceptable and almost desired if one is a done to create programs and networks of sup- tion can choose who to support for art funding, ment of the administration to affirmative woman or under-represented minority. port, not just free-standing offices scattered in the NEA should be able to do so also. action. The statement that there are inequali- Especially problematical are events listed as places where those who need them can never In his State of the Union address, President ties within society that must be rectified has "for minorities only." How can such policies find them. Clinton reaffinned his decision to fund art: been accepted, and affirmative action has of exclusion result in a society that is aIJ- Instead of making the hard sell, filled "Our economy is measured in numbers and become an accepted way to rectify them. inclusive? with its superficial rhetoric, MIT must try statistics, and it is very important. But the The most noticeable manifestation of affir- It would be simplistic to say that MIT is hard to give students an optimistic but more enduring worth of our nation lies in our shared mative action at MIT is upon us now: Campus playing a numbers game when it comes to the realistic view of the Institute. Armed with values and our soaring spirit." The next time Preview Weekend. This event is a testament admission of women and minorities and their that picture, the groups of students that tradi- you visit the MFA, try to analyze whether you to the progress that has been made in the poli- viewed role at the Institute. The Institute is tionally haven't come here wiJI be able to would want your tax money spent on the tics of inclusion. However, it is also indicative not simply paying lip service to affinnative succeed. paintings you see. A •ce ove -Aprice you may not want topay By Bence Olveczky ideologie , culture, and basic human The main di tinction between Hollywood you are fond of your creation and would like in tinct. Call Freud for advice. He'll let you and independent cinema (be ide the produc- to compare it to Israeli born director Boaz he pre s relea e for the late t Miramax know that the Hollywood diva should be sex- ers al 0 directing and acting) is the ending. Yakin's version, then I ugge t you rush to the offering tell u the following: "From ually repre ed. You achieve thi by placing You can retain the indie-feel of your movie by cinema (if market force rule, I predict it acclaimed writer/director Soaz Yakin her in an arranged marriage with a ye hiva adding a tablespoon of mi ery to the other- won't be playing very long). If what you ha (Fresh) come A Price Above Rubies, (Jewi h chool) teacher who e ambition i to wise joyful finale: let regret of her ride into seems more like a cliche-ridden, outdated, an the pas ionate, provocative tale of a young become a holy man and for whom an unbut- freedom surface in the liberated leading lady irritatingly boring film on the overworked woman who di cover - and mu t come to toned collar i a sexually explicit tatement and, while you're at it, add some more sorrow subject of exually deprived women rebelling grip with - her own sexuality and individu- bordering on the outrageou . by giving the orthodox father cu tody of their against repressive cultural norms (recall The ality." Make sure your Freudian creation goe child. Finito. Basta. Piano), then you could do worse than to hun Unfortunately the film does not have the through the degrading experience of being Congratulations! You now have your own the film in favor of that problem set you have adverti ed effect. In tead of being "pa ionate corned by her very family before you let her private version of A Price Above Rubies. If been putting off 0 long. and provocative," the film, who e biblical title and the film reach their ~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~ et a woman's worth to her hu band, come re pective climaxes. acro s a a pretentiou and predictable exer- After all of the uffer- ci e in p eudo-p ychology. Rather than bore ing you have had your you with the detail of this cinematic failure, I lead character go will make an hone t attempt at interactive film through, redemption reviewing. 0 get ready for the do-it-your elf would eem ko her. If version of A Price above Rubies. you are generous (and I Fir t take your favorite Woody Allen know you are), you let movie, or if you don't have one, take the one her be sexually ati- that made you least angry. ow crank up the fied by a virile out ider Jewi h a pect of the film to orthodox, and - a Puerto-Rican trip it of it humor. It hurt, but do it anyway. Catholic who al 0 hap- Throw Woody out of the picture and make pens to be an arti tic everybody in it erious, piou and one-dimen- geniu , for example. sional. Great. ow that What do you have? You're left with ew your protagonist ha York, a exually deprived main character, and battled the dark had- a lot of Jewi h stereotypes - not enough to ow of her past and make a blockbuster, I'm afraid. emerged as a liberated To make thing a little better, throw in a woman, you are very fre h Hollywood star, Renee ZeJlweger (who clo e to a happy end- played against Tom Cruise in Jerry McGuire), ing. The Puerto Rican and make her rebel against all the piety and ex machine/geniu and boringness that you have filled your film with. the post-orthodox Add a little bit of culture clash; orthodox ver- Jewish stunner are sus not- o-orthodox will do just fine. And about to ride into the whatever you do, don't forget the cultural unset when you real- cliches: the greedy Jewish jewelry store ize that this is a pro- owner, the suffering Jew, and the hypocritical duction by Miramax- Jew. the self-proclaimed Did you leave anything out? Of course you champion of indepen- Renee Zellweger and Glenn Fitzgerald star in Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubles. did: 'sex. But remember - what you want is a dent cinema (owned by serious film about the painful clash between Disney).

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Who are the Arts Scholars? A communi~ of MIT undergraduate artists, from all diSCiplines

Who should app~? Students who are committed to work in one or more diSciplines in the arts and who wish for more interaction with fellow student & faculry artists

What is the program? The program is structured around informal month~ dinners accompanied by presentations or excursions. Presentations may be given by faculry members, artists in residence, fellow students or Boston-area artists.

When does the program start? The full 1998-99 program will begin in September 1998.

Students may app!y to the program by completing and submitting an application form that includes a brief ess~ describing the student's involvement in the arts, and hislher interest in participating in the Arts Scholars Program. . Also reQuired are:

• 2 letters of recommendation - one from an MIT faculry member familiar with the applicant's artistic work • Supporting material: portfolio, writing samples. audio tapes. etc. • Interview with two selection committee members

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Doumbia and his West noon-8 p.m. African Drum Ensemble. Through Mar. 22: Francesc Torres, "The Repository of Absent Resh" The Olpheum Theatre and "The Fury of the Saints;" Hamilton Place, Boston. Tickets: Wendy Jacob with Temple 423-NEXT. Information: 679- Grandin, "The Squeeze Chair 0810. Project." Apr. 3: Steve Miller Band. $36, $26. Apr. 24: Medeski. Martin, and Rhode Island School of Des/KiJ Wood and DJ Logic 224 Benefit 5t., Providenete. RI. May 5, 6: Bonnie Raitt and Keb Museum of Art. 401-454-6502, Mo. $36, $26. Wednesday through Thursday 'and Saturday through Sunday, 10 The Roxy a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.-8 279 Tremont Street, Boston. p.m. Admission $2, $1 for Tickets: 931-2000. Information: seniors. 281-6946. Through Apr. 5: "Working the Apr. 5: Reverend Horton Heat, Stone: Process and Progress of Face to Face, and The Mighty Blue Lithography. " Kings. $16.50. Through Apr. 19: works by Apr. 10: Spring Funk Fest. featur- Geoffrey Beene. ing Liquid Soul and Brooklyn Funk Through Apr. 26: "Artistic Essentials. $20 advance, $23 Expressions from the Human door. Spirit: Selections from the Nancy Apr. 14: Funk Music Festival, fea- Sayles Day Collection of Modern turing Maco Parker, Fishbone, and Latin.American Art. " t Five Fingers of Funk. $25. Anon Rubin (left), M.P., Jason Beebout, Sergie Loobkoff, and James Brogan of Samlam will play at the Ongoing: "Color and Form: 20th Century American Paintings from Paradise Rock Club Middle East April 8. the Permanent Collection." 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. children under 17 are free; $2 Woods-Gerry Gallery, 62 Prospect Tickets: 423-NEXT. Information: Concerto No. 2 (world premiere; highly quotable lyrics, and Arthur Street, Boston. 426-0320, through April 4. Curtain is at 8 after 5 p.m. Thursday through St. Monday through Saturday, 10 562-8800. commissioned by the BSO); Sullivan's hummable tunes. p.m. Thursday through Saturday Friday. free Wednesday after 4 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday, 2-5 p.m. Apr. 3: Percy Hill and The View. Dvorak, Symphony NO.7. Seiji p.m. Monday through Friday, free Through Feb. 15: "Sculpture Apr. 4: Babaloo and John Browns Ozawa, conductor, Peter Serkin, Amarelo and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets: $15; $12 for seniors and stu- with MIT ID. Department Exhibition. " Army. piano. Theatre-Studio, Inc., 750 8th dents. Introductory walks through all col- Apr. 7, 8: Leftover Salmon. Apr. 8-11: J.S. Bach, est. Avenue, Suite 200 (near 46th St), lections begin at 10:30 a.m. and Apr. 11: Marc Cohn. Matthew" Passion; Seiji Ozawa, New York, NY. (212) 719-0500. Kate Caffrey helms an ensemble 1:30 p.m.; "Asian, Egyptian, and Apr. 13: Mono. conductor, John Mark Ainsley, Apr. 4, 18 at 8 p.m .• Apr. 5, 19, staging of Jane Wagner's play in Classical Walks" begin at 11:30 Apr. 16: Slipknot. tenor, Wolfgang Holzmair, bari- May 3 at 2 p.m., May 2 at 5 p.m. the original production of which a.m.; "American Painting and Apr. 17: Superdrag, Apple in tone, Christiane Oelze, soprano, $12. Lily Tomlin played all the parts, MIT Arts Decorative Arts Walks" begin at- Stereo, and Tuscadero. Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto, A play by Paulo A. Pereira '95, from Trudy the Bag Lady, giving Apr. 3: Yamada-Ryu Sokyoku, 12:30 p.m.; "European Painting Apr. 18: Chapter in Verse and Ben Kurt Streit, tenor. David Wilson- directed by Charles Armesto '97. her extraterrestrial companions an Japanese classical chamber and Decorative Arts Walks" begin Swift Band. Johnson, bass.baritone, Amarelo tells the tale of introduction to earth, to unem. music for voice, koto, and at 2:30 p.m.; Introductory tours Apr. 23: Formula and Radio and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Conceicao, a passionate woman ployed aerobics addict Chrissy to shakuhachi and the Eurasia are also offered Sat. at 11 a.m. Professor and Mission. Oliver, conductor, Boys of from the Portuguese Azores angry young performance artist Ensemble, Turkish classical Apr. 29: The Slip and Dr. Didge. Performing Artists at Lincoln Islands who struggles to achieve Agnus Angst to earnest Lynn, and 1:30 p.m. music, performed on traditional May 2: Robin Trower. School, Johanna Hill Simpson, her dreams through the unexpect- whose feminist journey is a play in Ongoing exhibitions: "Beyond the instruments. 7 p.m Killian Hall. artistic director. ed joys and sorrows of her life. In itself. Screen: Chinese Furniture of the Free. 16th and 17th Centuries"; "The The Middle East this play about hope, loss, and Apr. 4: Annual meeting of the New 472 Massachusetts Avenue, holding on to one's roots, we see Art of Africa, Oceana, and the England .Chapter of the Society for Cambridge. Information: 497- her story unfold magically as we Ancient Americas." Ethnomusicology. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 0576. sail through time from Through Apr. 12: "America Killian Hall. Admission: $15 at Apr. 3: The Fall, Bush Tetras, and Jazz Music Conceicao's life in Sao Miguel, Dance Draws." the door. Information: (860) 465- Botswanas. Regattabar Azores, to New Bedford, 5187. . Charles Hotel, Harvard Square, Massachusetts. Alvin Alley American Dance Computer Museum Apr. 4: The Charlie Hunter Apr .. 4: MITCAN, MIl's East Cambridge. 661-5000. Theatre 300 Congress St., Boston. 423- Quartet, Galactica, and Pound for African Ensemble, James Apr. 3, 4: The Mike Stern Quartet. Blue Man Group' April 14 through 19 at the Wang 6758 or 426-2800, Tues ..Sun., Pound. Makubuya. Director, presents tra- Apr. Brasilerinho. Center. Call 482-6661 for informa- 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission $7, $5 Apr. 5: The Elevator Drops and 7: Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton ditional music and dance of Apr. 8: The Lello Molinari Quartet. tion. for students and seniors, free for Godboy. Street. Boston. 426-6912. Playing Uganda and KINIWE. Tufts Apr. 9, 10: The Johnny Griffin children under 5. Ha"-price admis- Apr. 6: The Promise Ring and indefinitely. Curtain is at 8 p.m. University'S West African sion on Sunday from 3-5 p.m. Jimmy Eat World. Quartet. on Wednesday and Thursday, at 7 Ensemble, David locke. Director, Tours daily of "Walk Through Apr. 8: Samiam Apr. 11: The Hilton Ruiz Quartet. and 10 p.m. on Friday and presents traditional music and Computer 2000," a working two- Apr. 9: Aaron Flynn, 3 Percent, Saturday, and at 3 and 6 p.m. on dance of the Ewe and Dagbamba story model of a PC. Museum fea- . and Cottonmouth. Scul/er's Sunday. There are additional per- Exhi~i~ people of Ghana. 7 p.m., Wong formances at 4 p.m. on February tures a collection of vintage com- Apr. 10: Bim Skala Bim and Big D 400 Soldiers Field Road. Boston. Auditorium. Free. Tickets: 931-2000. Information: 20 and 21. Tickets $35 to $45. Museum of Science puters and robots with over 150 and the Kids Table. AlJr. 4: South Asian Cultural Show, 562-4111. It would be difficult and unfair to Science Park, Boston. 723-2500, hands.on exhibits illustrating the Apr. 11: TR3 (featuring Tim sponsored by SMS and Sangam. Apr. 3, 4: Gil Scott-Heron and The catalogue fully the antics of the Daily. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 9 evolution, use, and impact of com- Reynolds), Agents of Good Roots, Featuring dance. music, drama Amnesia Express. Drama Desk Award-winning trio of a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday through puters. Featured exhibits include and SameAsYou. and other performing arts from the Apr. 5: Fairport Convention. cobalt.painted bald pates who Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission "The Hacker's Garage," a recre- Apr. 14: Superchunk. countries of India, Pakistan, Apr. 8: Ravi Coltrane Quartet. have settled into long runs Off $9, $7 for children 3-14 and ation of a '70s hacker's garage Apr. 16: Third Eye Blind. Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Apr. 9-11: Ray Brown Trio and Broadway and at the Charles seniors. Free with Mil ID. with such items as an Apple I and 7 p.m., Kresge Auditorium. Marlena Shaw. Playhouse. They begin their Admission to Omni, laser, and Pong: "The Networked Planet: Great Woods Admission: $4, students free. Apr. 15: AI/-Star Tribute to Art delightful and deafening evening planetarium shows is $7.50. Traveling the Information Tickets: 423-NEXT or 423-6000. Information: x5-8611. Jun. 3, 5: James Taylor. $36 pavil. Blakey featuring Terrence of anti.performance art beating $5.50 for children and seniors. Highway: an electronic tour f the Apr. 4: Trichur Ramachandran, ion, $20 lawn. Blanchard, Benny Golson, Curtis drums that are also deep buckets The Museum features the theater Internet; "Robots and Other Smart Carnatic vocalist, with G. Jun. 21: WKLB Boston Country Fuller, Geoff Keezer, Peter of primary paint. so that sprays of of electricity and more than 600 Machines," an interactive eXhibi- Chandramauli, violin, Festival, featuring Randy TraVis', Washington, and Lewis Nash. color jump from the instruments hands.on exhibits. Ongoing: tion of artificial intelligence and Umayalpuram Mahalingam. mri. Joe Diffie, Martina McBride, Lee Apr. 16: The Bruce Katz Band. like breaking surf, and end by "Discovery Center," "Investigate! robots, and "Tools & Toys: The dangam. This distinguished Roy Parnell, and Jo Dee Messina. Apr. 17: liVingston Taylor. engulfing the spectatorship in tan- A See-For-Yourself Exhibit," Amazing Personal Computer"; South Indian singer combines a $28.50 pavilion, $18.50 lawn. Apr. 18, 19: Chuck Mangione. gles of toilet paper. "Welcome to the Universe." "People and Computers: which prodigious technique with a grace- Jul. 18: Metallica, Days of the Through Apr. 26: "Balancing Milestones of a Revolution," ful and atmospheric presentation. New, and Jerry Cantrell. $43 pavil. Oscar Wilde: Diversions and Acts." explores a number of ways com- 4 p.m.,Room 6-120. Free. ion, $31 lawn. • Del/ghts Through May 3: "Living on the puters impact everyday life. • Information: x8-7971. Copley Theatre, 505 Boylston Edge." Feb. 18, at 7 p.m.: Through May 31: "Wizards and Harborllghts Pavilion Theater Street (corner of Clarendon), "Reminiscences: McKinley- their Wonders: Portraits in Apr. 6: AMP Student Recital. Petra S. Chong '99, horn; Jaemin Rhee, Tickets: 423-NEXT or 423-6000. Boston. 266-7262, through April Matterhorn-Everest, ~ lecture by Computing." Aud. 26: Vince Gill. $38.50 and Iolanthe 5. Curtain is at 8 p.m. Wednesday Bradford Washburn. piano; Jo Marie G.' Sison '01, vio- $28.50. Harvard.Radcliffe Gilbert and through Saturday. with 3 p.m. Now showing in the theaters: Isabella Stewart Gardner lin. WorKs of Glazunov. Sullivan Players. Agassiz Theater, matinees on Saturday and "Laser Space Odyssey: Friday Museum Beethoven and Brahms. 5 p.m., Radcliffe Yard, Harvard. Apr. 3-5 Sunday. Tickets: $29.50 to through Sunday, 5:30 p.m. "laser 280 The Fenway, Boston. 566- Killian Hall. Free. and 9-11. Opening night black tie $38.50. Grateful Dead," Sunday, 8 p.m.; 1401. 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The play is set in 1899 objects, with emphasis on Italian Nimmer '00 will be the featured 266-1492. 266-1200. Tuesdays, Directed by Vladimir Zelevinsky G. in a dilapidated Paris opera hall Museum of Rne Arts Renaissance and 17th-century soloist in Michael Colgrass's Thursdays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Music directed by David which Wilde impoverished, dis- 465 Huntington Ave .• Boston. Dutch works. Among the highlights Concerto for Timpani. Other music Fridays. 1:30 p.m. $23-$71; rush Lyczkowski. graced, and living in exile, follow- 267-9300, Monday through are works by Rembrandt, by Copland, Grieg, Husa, and seats $7.50 day of concert, on A tale of a lovelorn sheperd, his ing his prfson stint for sodomy Tuesday, 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Botticelti. Raphael, Titian, and Prokofieff. 8 p.m.. Kresge sale Fridays from 9 a.m., fairy mother, her magical sisters, has rented for a lecture in pursuit Wednesday, 10 a.m.-9:45 p.m.; Whistler. Guided tours given Auditorium. 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"One of comment. not ones that you re olve for all additional attention in the report: to ay 'we halt not' until there's a the advantages of the way that the The new policy ets out general time - the policy doe n t need to , Faculty mu t a certain from the rea onable alternative." sy terns are being de igned is that guidelines for when and how infor- change, but how that policy is tudents if any directory information evertheless, "the convenience you can build these rules into it. The mation about tudent, uch a implemented need constant atten- has been suppre sed, and receive of sending thing via e-mail various roles that they fill will addres es, grades, and financial tion," aid Profe sor of Urban permis ion from each tudent to shouldn't over hadow the ecurity equate them to various levels of information, may be acce ed and Studie and Planning Joseph po t directory information and pho- issue," he said. acces ;' Samuels said. distributed. Ferreira Jr., who chairs the tographs." "I wouldn't want to be chair of The new document retain the Committee on Privacy. "There are some students who Trial will happen' late pring the Committee on Privacy at a num- focus of the original policy, but suppress directory information," The plan as it stands gives a ber of other places ... because soon- updates it to reflect technological Class lists get limited distribution Samuels aid. "We' have document- broad outline of MIT' goals. er or later they're going to have a changes. "MIT's philosophy One of the biggest change in the ed cases where class information, An wers to specific questions, uch problem and their systems will be remain the same, very .much new policy is that it recommends directory information, was po ted to a who should be given what type of developed to a point where there grounded in privacy," said Special that personal information, such as the web when it shouldn't have access to MIT's Student will be no easy fix," Ferreira said. Assistant to the Associate Provost class lists, not be made available been. People who were harassed by Information Services database, will "There are some aspects ... like the Helen W. Samuels, who helped online without additional safe- stalkers were again harassed by come later. site certificates and personal certifi- draft the policy with Associate guards. In addition, it recommends stalkers," she said. After the comment period ends ~ates" that other universities are not Provost Phillip L. Clay PhD '75. that sensitive information, such as "If you have suppressed infor- for the policy document, a commit- exploiting. They are presenting "The thing ~hat gets more clearly performance reports and grades, not mation [from being published in the tee will put together a Ii t of sugges- WebSIS-like data "without jumping recognized ... and more fully devel- be sent out through unencrypted student directory] you should be tions on how to di tribute student into secure mode;' he aid. oped is that access can be granted to electronic mail. able to tell a faculty member 'you information, both in the .cla s web The proposed policy can be MIT officials on a need-to-know "Whi Ie most course related can put up my e-mail address, but pages and in the Student found at . "In the pre-technology world ... be public (syllabus, reading list, said. "It will be the implementation Comments can be e-mailed to all of the information about you was as ignments etc.), communication Another new proposal i to documents that say 'an adviser [email protected]. bound into a volume housed in a with students as well as the work require that sensitive information, vault in the Registrar's office," prepared by the students for the such as performance reports and' Samuels said. "The Registrar con- class ... are regarded as student grades, not be sent via electronic trolled access to that document.". information," states the policy. mail without encryption. Did you just see that? Technology, however, has made "Therefore, the following three "The people in [Information that information much easier to categories of information must be Systems] said that this is definitely Call The Tech news hotline: access and increased the number of restricted to use by the staff and stu- doable," Samuels said. 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"I had an upbeat conversation; never played a frequent role in our tile," ewman said. There exists parents, who were unaware of hi Gale did come from a family who Philip made it clear to me that he conversations," she said. . "the perception that ... they're a involvement with the Church, ' were had been active member of the wa n't a practicing Scientologist," Gale's family members also deceptive organization," added completely shocked." Covarrubia Church of Scientology; his mother aid Joseph Mallia, the Herald denied any link. "I am a member of ewman. "I think it's an organiza- had been planning to join the Sea used to be the national spoke per on reporter who wrote the series. "I the Church of Scientology and have tion that tries to manipulate the Org, but not 0 quickly. for the Citizens Commis ion on would consider it very straight. I been since well before Philip was minds of its members." Covarrubias's parent made Human Rights, a group affiliated don't really know what to ayabout born," Marie Gale said. "Several The Church responds by saying plans to vi it him immediately, with Scientology. Gale also attend- that post." year ago Philip decided that that "millions of Scientologists from while his brothers at PLP contacted ed The Delphian School, an educa- Scientology was not for him - nor literally all walks of life have attest- ex-Scientologists to speak with him. tional institution which uses works Friend see no link to death was any other religion. 1 honored ed to the positive benefits received Before his parents arrived in by Hubbard as the basis of its teach- People close to Gale assert that his decision and he honored mine from their religion." Boston, however, two Scientologists ing philosophy. Scientology did not playa role in and the difference in our choices '~Scientology makes people spiri- "came to help me pack," Early speculation about Gale's Gale's death. was never an issue in our relation- tually free and enables them to think Covarrubias said. The brothers dis- death was prompted by the fact that Eric Hu '98, a good friend of ship," she said. for themselves," it adds. covered the Scientologists and March 13 is L. Ron Hubbard day, Gale's and his roommate at Phi "I don't know of any indication There have also been questions Covarrubias packing and confronted the birthday of the founder of Sigma Kappa during their freshman that Scientology had anything to do about the organization's tax exempt them. "They were blocking the Scientology. year, said that Gale's suicide was with it," said Robert M. Randolph, status, and the Church is currently doorway in the room," recalled "Suicide may have been a way to unrelated to Scientology. Senior Associate Dean of waging a battle with the German Covarrubias. "They weren't going escape from Scientology," "Phil had given up Scientology Undergraduate Education and government about whether the to let me leave." Covarrubias's par- Covarrubias said. by the time I started rooming with Student Affairs. . Church is a religion or a cult. ents later arrived on the scene, and "There were plenty of other him," Hu said. "It wasn't on his "While 1 am a Scientologist, I The Church responded by noting he went home with his parents and things he was thinking about at the mind when he died ... [becau e] it am a mother," said Marie Gale, that it has been judged a religion took a year off from MIT. time," Munsey disagreed. "The fact was a struggle he already overcame. "and my son, whom 1 loved and both by the Internal Revenue "I would consider [Scientology] that he chose that day to jump is not He had decided against it." respected and, more than anything, Service arid by the U.S. Courts: "In something to be wary of," necessarily significant; he would. Hu said that none of the strug- wanted to be able to achieve his 1993, the United States Court of Covarrubias said. "They're pretty have seen the connection with L. gles in Gale's life were related to goals in life - whatever they were Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit good. You have to be persistent in Ron Hubbard day, but wouldn't Scientology. "His struggles at the and wherever they took him - is noted, after reviewing every deci- order to get away ... your life is have cared." time of death had more to do with gone." sion on record in the U.S. and find- channeled where they want you to In a post to a Usenet newsgroup, the possibilities of his life," Hu said. Though Philip Gale might have ing none that had ever concluded go. You lose autonomy." Marie Gale suggested that Philip "I'm certain that his decision to left behind some parting thoughts, that Scientology was anything but a When Covarrubias recently Gale's death might have been end his life had little, if anything, to he also left behind a puzzle which religion, that 'no genuine factual learned that Gale had ties to because of attacks on the religion he do with Scientology," said Christine may never be fully solved. issues exist to dispute [that Scientology is] a bona fide religion. ",

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