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.1 ~_a_~_'Py_~_a_Iln_w_~_e_n_! _ MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Sunny, 68°F (20°C) Tonight: Clear, 49°F (9°C) Newspaper .• ~ .. Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, 80°F (27°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 123, Number 53 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, October 31, 2003 Expenses Star Market To Consider Accepting Card By Kathy Un Ai , ASSOCIA TE NEWS EDITOR DiJlicult Star Market has received a proposal from MIT Enterprise Services Iti'l • to accept TechCash via the MIT ForGradJ; card. In addition, a local restaurant is now accepting TechCash, and By GlreeJa Ranade another will be accepting it in the near future. Despite efforts by the MIT University Park Star Market administration to buffer the effects Manager Marty O'Halloran said that of a 60 percent health insurance he is aware that a proposal was sub- ======== hike and mitted by MIT, but only recently • began working at Star Market and Analysis ~~~~,~d~ has not had a chance to look at it. uate stu- Passport restaurant, located at dents continue to feel the pinch. the Sidney-Pacific graduate resi- "Extra costs are all piling up," dence, has been accepting TechCash said Stefan D'Heedene G. "My rent for about eight months now, said went up by about $50 per month. Restaurant Manager Gregory Seri- For my finances I felt it necessary to no. Polcari's, a new restaurant in have a summer job and freelance Tech Square, is planning on accept- after hours," he said. ing the MIT card soon. Graduate student rents increased by an average of 6 percent this year. Option benefits students, Star However, rent for some apartments Reuben L. Cummings '04, RENECIiEN-TIfE TECII increased by much more because of Undergraduate Association dining Jay Wu '07 pays for his groceries during his weekly Shopping trip to Star Market. Star Is considering a a realignment in rent based on the committee chair, said that additional proposal to allow students to use TechCash to make purchases. quality of facilities. The realign- food vendors accepting TechCash is ment, while neutral overall, caused good for students since "there will their card." students who didn't go there before a'Halloran declined to comment a sharp jump in rents in several dor- be additional locations where they The advantage for vendors, might go there now, or students who about the MIT proposal to Star Mar- mitories. can go to,''' and "because some stu- Cummings said, "is that it will do go there might go there more "Food is really expensive," said dents don't pay for the money on widen their customer base because often." Star, Page 17 Anand Rajagopal G. Costs have "gotten a little bit better from last year, but it's still very expensive ... Money which you could spend having fun and partying has gone By Tongyan Un Alpha Phi Omega's week-long said Oliver E. Kosut '04, the down" compared to before, he STAFF REPORTER charity fundraising contest featured UMOC project chair. Last year, said. Random Hall's nine-year-old seven candidates and raised a total UMOC raised $1222.43 for the Moreover, in the current budget . milk took first place in this year's of $379.41, which will be donated Leukemia and Lymphoma Society . crunch at MIT, it looks like costs Ugliest Manifestation on Campus to the Greater Boston Food Bank. He thought that the amount of will only continue to rise compared contest with a total of $136.48 The amount of money raised this to income . raised. year decreased from previous years, UMOC, Page 8 "Given the financial situation By Waseem S. Daher • MIT is in, I can't expect that there will be any dramatic increases in In response to an inquiry by The stipend levels this year," said Dean Tech, MIT has reaffirmed its policy for Graduate Students Isaac M. Col- of providing a copy of a student's bert. "We are looking at every non-confidential records when aspect for how we can make it pos- requested by that student. sible for students to live and survive "Students may read anything in at MIT," he said. their file that they have not waived MIT cannot do much for married their rights to see," said Dean of graduate students, Colbert said, Admissions Marilee Jones. since stipend increases only cover This means that students can the costs for the student, and not his access their admissions scores and or her family. application reader comments, pro- ,/ vided that they are still present in Health premium rise a surprise their admissions files. Last year, "no one expected that Detailed admissions records the health insurance premium would such as reader comments are increase as much as it did," Colbert destroyed at the end of freshman said. year, simply because of a lack of He said that one critical factor in physical storage space for them. the rise in premiums was that MIT However, all numerical scores are health insurance serves a relatively archived electronically, and avail- small population, as opposed to able for viewing upon student other heath insurance programs that request. serve tens of thousands of people, but still have a lot of the same fixed Contents of admissions file costs. The admissions file contains In addition, MIT Medical had DAN BERSAK-TIIE TECH Parts I and 2 of the MIT admissions been running a surplus in its budget "The failing leaves drift by my window. The autumn leaves of red and gold. I see your lips, the application, letters of recommenda- for several years and five years ago summer kisses, those sunburned hands I used to hold. Since you went away, the days grow long. tion from two teachers and high decided to increase services. The And soon I'll hear old winter's song. But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves school guidance counselor, a high start to fall." Lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Grad, Page 9 Records, Page 15 A second Comics OPINION ~.~, World & Nation 2 MITblind Jeff Roberts explains why stu- Opinion 4 date runs dents should pay attention to II Features 6 afoul. MIT's changing campus. 1 .. Events Calendar .14 • ~. Sports 20 ~. ',., Page 6 Page 11 Page 5 Page 2 THE TECH October 31, 2003 WORLD & NATION • Web Site Recovers Edited Portions White House Says Bush Tax Of Justice Report TilE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON Cuts Caused Economic Surge An internal report that harshly criticized the Justice Department's diversity efforts was edited so heavily when it was posted on the By Richard W. Stevenson president said earlier at a fund-raiser political vulnerabilities. department's Web site two weeks ago that half of its 186 pages, TilE NEW YORK TIMES here for his campaign. "But we will One, they said, is that the upturn including the summary, were blacked out. COLUMBUS. OHIO not stop until there are jobs aplenty in economic activity has not yet The censored passages, electronically recovered by a self- The White House claimed credit for those looking for work." translated into new jobs to offset described "information archaeologist" in Tucson, Ariz., portrayed the on Thursday for the surge in eco- Continued success, he said, those lost since Bush took office. department's record on diversity as seriously flawed, specifically in nomic growth, saying the tax cuts required enactment of the rest of his Depending on what measure is used, the hiring, promotion and retention of minority lawyers. championed by President Bush had agenda, including making permanent the economy has shed between 2.6 The unedited report, completed in June 2002 by the consulting helped the nation overcome reces- elements of his tax cuts that will oth- million and more than 3 million jobs firm KPMG, found that minority employees at the department, which sion and the economic effects of the erwise expire in coming years and since '.January 2001. is responsible for enforcing the country's civil rights laws, perceive terrorist attacks, two wars and" cor- passing energy legislation pending in The other, Democrats said, is that their own workplace as biased and unfair. porate scandals. Congress that would promote more the surge in growth was the result of Among the censored findings: "The department does face signifi- The news that the economy had domestic oil and gas production. an unsustainable tax-cutting binge cant dive~sity issues. Whites and minorities, as well as men and expanded in the third quarter at a In a shot at the nine Democratic that mostly benefited the wealthy women perceive differences in many aspects of the work climate. For 7.2 percent annual rate - the best presidential contenders, all of whom and drove the budget deficit to levels example, minorities are significantly more likely than whites to cite performance since 1984 - gave have called for rolling back some or that will bedevil the nation decades. stereotyping, harassment and racial tension as characteristics of the Bush and his party a compelling all of his tax cuts, Bush suggested Persistent large deficits, Democrats work climate. Many of these differences are also present between piece of evidence to back their that their approach would derail the said, could undermine the expansion men and women, although to a lesser extent." assertions that they have put the recovery just as it is gathering down the road by forcing interest nation back on the road to prosperi- steam. rates higher and limiting the nation's ty a year before Election Day. "Just as the economy is coming ability to address long-range prob- North Korea Ready to Resume "The tax relief we passed is around, some over in Washington lems like the mounting imbalances working," Bush said to whoops of say now is the time to raise taxes," in Social Security and Medicare.

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