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Volume 117, umber 23 Cambrid e, Massachusetts 02139 Zue Trium ant. 2. 70 Design Co test By Frank Dabek expect to get so far." ASSOCIATE 'EWS EDITOR After the competition, a visibly After two days of rigorous com- relieved Professor of Mechanical petition, Timothy S. Zue '99 was Engineering Alexander H. Slocum victorious in "Pas the Puck," this '82, who taught 2.007, said "Ahh ." year's annual 2.70 design contest. J need a cigarette." He also said this Sawyer B. Fuller '99 finished in year' crop of robots were "techno- second place. gasmic:' "I really didn't think I'd win," Zue said. There were a "lot of better Contestant battle for low core of designs" in the competition, he The "Pass the Puck" competition added. Zue spent three to four hours marked a change from previous a day in the lab constructing his years' contests with the goal being machine in the weeks prior to the to attain the lowest point total. competition. Keith J. Breinlinger a, a 2.007 Zoo attributed his win to his sim- teaching assistant, was integral in ple but robust design as well as hav- the design of the contest, which pit- ing an opportunity to practice driving, ted two robots against each other in he said. Zue's machine was a robot a contest to get rid of as many balls with a large bwnper emblazoned with as possible in 30 seconds. the name of his machine, "Fuzz The roughly rectangular playing Bwnper." Design and Manufacture I field was separated into two halves (2.007), the class that accompanies by a steep barrier, and a short ledge the contest, was a "great class," and sat at each end of the table. Thirty- he had a Ugreat time," he said six balls sat on the two ledges, and Fuller placed second with an 23 were on the top of the barrier, an intricate robpt which threw balls area scored neutrally. There were across the court. While he knew that also eight pucks sitting on each side complex robots usually are not as The machines were powered for 30 successful as ones with simpler seconds. designs, he said, "What the hell, I'll Players gained a point for every do something fun." Sawyer was ball on their side of the court and WNG PIfAN-THE TECH "quite happy" with the results of the. Timothy S. Zue '99 celebrates after winning the 2.70 "Pass the Puck" ...... competition. competition, he said. "I didn't 2.70, Page 15 Online Preregi3tration Crab Apple 1rees Move to Killian By Dan McGuire would look a lot different without property owners willing to sell NEWS EDITOR the trees." mature trees yielded nothing, Ready/or FaU Term . The unseasonal April blizzard So this morning at 8 a.m., two though. Moving the trees from E53 closed the Institute flattened vegeta- large crab apple trees from outside was "the only option [that would By DougI. E. Heimburger be more accessible than the old tion around campus. Among the of Building E53, which houses the allow MIT to get] these trees ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Athena':based system because any casualties were the two grand, old Dewey Library, will make their replaced before Commencement." MIT's .electronic Student computer running Netscape crab apple trees that graced the sides way a few hundred yards to the Information System, long limited to Navigator 3.0 can access it. of Killian Court. . west, where they will put down new Tree transport is troublesome use only in Athena Clusters, is being Also, the new preregistration will The trees had to be cut down roots in Killian Court. A third tree MIT contracted the tree removal , ) replaced by a new, more flexible be easier for students than the older after they were damaged beyond near E53 will move in front of out to another company, Magnuson World Wide Web-based system. As Web-based system, said Mary R. repair during the storm. Building 35, where another tree was said. "We're not really equipped to of now, students can preregister for Callahan, assistant registrar for facili- The loss of those trees altered lost. do" the tree removal, he said. In fall term classes over the Web. ties and scheduling. WebSIS allowed the appearance of Killian Court, and Physical Plant pursued other addition, "We don't have the man- The preregistration process, the Registar's Office to extend the would have set the stage for an odd options before taking the trees from power to do that sort of thing, espe- which started yesterday, is only part deadline for preregistration to May Commencement. "These trees skirt E53, Magnuson said. "No nursery cially at this time of year," when the of the new WebSIS system. By May 31 since information no longer has to each side of the Commencement would have trees that large." campus is being groomed for 12, biographical, financial, and- be transcribed from paper. stage," said Norman H. Magnuson However, "sometimes people Commencement. grade information will also be avail- The new system appears to be Jr., the route supervisor for grounds will sell trees that they have on their able at the site, which is located at popular with students. By 11 a.m. services on east campus. "The stage property," he said. A search for Trees, Page 13 http://student.mit.edu. yesterday, 73 students had preregis- As the new Web-based system tered with the new system, Callahan comes up to speed, the current said. Six students registered within Athena-based SIS will be discontin- five minutes of the system's opening. ued because both systems cannot be The enhancements to WebSIS simultitneously updated, said Jagruti planned for mid-May will give the S. Patel '97, who leads the student system additional flexibility. access team of student services re- engineering. The new system should Preregistration, Page 12 Dilbert's Here In the grand and humorous tradition of ,'Nerds," "Firehose Tavern," "Jim's Journal," and other comics of years past, The Tech is proud to annOlDlce the arrival in these pages of a strip you all know and love: Scott Adams' "Dogbert." For those who haven't heard, "Dogbert" chronicles the antic mis- adventures of an ambitious, lovable pup bent on world' domination. We're sor- ry; we couldn't ditch his nerdy owner. See GABOR CSANYI-THE TECH page 7. AprIl'. blizzard destroyed two crab apple trees In Killian Court. their stumps will be replaced today with trees from Building E53.
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They promi ed a 10 fr e hour ... to un th Internet," a joy •• ride on the information uperhighway," or a fr e trial ... at no risk." But the feder 1 governm nt ay orne con umer got a rude ur- E ection pri e when the fre ride on everal omputer online ervice nded. By William D. onta bano deputy prime mini ter, aid that departing Chancellor of the Regulator Thur day aid merica Online, Compu erve, and LOS A GELES TIMES what i critical for the Exchequer. Prodigy gave con umer inadequate warning that they could incur LO DO Con ervative in the aftermath i to Turnout wa encouraged by a automatic monthly ch rge by igning up for free tri I offer . Promi ing a ju t and dynamic find a way to regroup and .. , fight pectacular pring day when cau- The Federal Trade Commi ion I 0 alleged that the three ervice new Britain, political modernizer back." Mo t commentators expect a tion again t the IRA were violated con umer protection law by making unauthorized with- Tony Blair on Thur day led hi quick and nasty succe ion battle replaced by warnings again t over- drawal from ub criber ' bank accounts. . restructured Labor Party toward an among Con ervatives to replace expo ure to the un. By midafter- AOL, Compu erve and Prodigy agreed to settle the government's pparent land lide election victory Major a party leader. noon on the hottest day of the year, complaint by promi ing not to commit uch offen e in the future. In of hi toric proportion . The BBC projected 45 percent of election-day London had tempera- the ettlement, they neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing. Blair and hi newly middle-of- the vote for Labor, 3] percent for tures in the mid-70 under a cloud- AOL and Prodigy aid they already had made the changes the et- the-road party eemed poi ed Friday the Con ervatives, or Tories a they less ky. tJement pre cribe. to deal ruling Conservative under are called, and 17 percent for the Labor' la t victory came in Compu erve is ued a statement saying it "has done nothing Prime Minister John Major their third-party Liberal Democrats under 1974, when Blair was a shaggy- wrong" but will take "extra step reque ted by the flC." wor t defeat in more than a century. Paddy A hdown. In the last election haired, rock-mu ic-singing law stu- flC official aid many consumers incurred unexpected charges From the in tant the polls clo ed in 1992, the Conservative won 42 dent at college. ot since Lord as a re ult of the violations, but they were unable to measure the co t. Thur day night, the question was percent and 336 seat to Labor' 34 Liverpool, who was 42 when he Under the law, the alleged violation carry no monetary penaltie , not whether Labor had won, but by percent and 271 seats. took office in 1812, ha Britain had though fine could be a e ed for any failure to comply with ettle- how much. The answer: by the The publicly funded BBC pro- a leader as young as Blair. Major ment . The ettlement wouldn't become binding until a 60-day pub- bu hel. One early-reporting jected a Labor majority of 150 to was 47 when he became prime min- lic comment period end and the commi ion ratifie them. Birmingham district fell to Labor ] 71 seats this time around. The ister in 1990. for the first time in Briti h hi tory. commercially funded independent Thursday's election was presi- Voting went smoothly as the ITV network projected a 159-seat dential in the sense that it was sim- e es at Born · g 1Iial Iri h Republican Army tayed off Labor majority, and the atellite TV plified in saturation coverage to a the phone after causing repeated channel Sky ews estimated J 50. showdown between Major and De cribe an gry c e.gh major di ruptions through tele- Labor went into the election Blair. But in fact the two never LOS A GELES TIMES phoned bomb threats in recent needing a 4.5 percent vote swing to faced off on any ballot. DE VER weeks. There were some minor win the parliamentary majority that Each appeared only on the bal- A cou in, a friend from hi teen-age year , a fellow gun dealer - alarms in London and orne major is essential to govern the world's lots in the constituencies they repre- they and others took the witness tand Thur day and de cribed the ones in Belfast, where police attrib- oldest democracy. As returns sent in Parliament - Blair in transformation of Timothy J. McVeigh from an average kid in up tate uted them to Protestant terrorists. mounted, it seemed as if a swing to Sedgefield near the Scottish border, ew York to a young man angry at hi government and desperate to Television network exit poJls Labor would at least double that. Major in Huntingdon an hour north purcha e key components for a bomb. echoed what opinion samplers have When a constituency in northern of London. Both appeared to win But none of the half a dozen witne ses said McVeigh actually been predicting for months. Labor Sunderland, the first to declare, was handily. obtained bomb material from them - a development that left gov- was nearly 20 percent more popular won by the Labor candidate with Another American-like feature ernment prosecutors able to only suggest McVeigh's alleged inten- than the Conservatives, according to 27,174 votes to the Conservative's of the campaign was the absence of tion to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma the polls. 4,606, jubilant Laborites sensed it visceral differences between the t 0 City. Blair, 43, whose victory would was their game. parties. That was a big change fi r a The witnes es talked about McVeigh's hatred for FBI agents after make him the youngest prime min- Labor icon Neil Kinnock, defeat- country where over the decades the 1993 government raid on a religious compound at Waco, Texas, i ter this century, has every prospect ed by Major five years ago, called Tories vs. Labor have been Us vs. and they detailed a series of phone calls he made in search of detona- of leading Britain into the new mil- the result "sensational ... We're in Them, Right vs. Left shootouts. tion cord and racing fuel oil in the months before the bombing of the lennium. He would have a mam- for a spectacular evening." And there was plenty of mud- Murrah building. moth majority in the House of "If there had been more focus on slinging this time, but overall the Gregory Pfaff, a dealer McVeigh met on the gun show circuit, Commons - far more votes than he the economy and less on sleaze we atmosphere journeyed down the recalled how the former Army hero telephoned him in the hopes of would need to serve the full five- might have done better. Now we middle of the political road. The purchasing detonation cord for an explosive. "He needed it bad," year term. must compose ourselves, lose with six-week campaign was long by Pfaff said. Michael Heseltine, the outgoing dignity," said Kenneth Clarke, the British standards .. He said McVeigh also once told him he was stockpiling weapons. "He said he had some things buried in the woods," Pfaff said. "In case he ever needed them, he knew where they were and nobody el e did." Judge Prevents Punishment FBI Again Downplays Sabotage Of Doctors Who PresCribe Pot In Crash of 1WA Flight 800 By Marla La Ganga Other boosters of medical mari- could not recommend it as outlined NEWSDAY and Eric Bailey juana called Smith's decision a in Proposition 215. In his strongest statement yet down playing sabotage as the cause LOS ANGELES TIMES repudiation of the Clinton adminis- The judge said Wedne~day that of the crash of TWA Flight 800, the FBI's chief investigator said SAN FRANCISCO tration's efforts to undercut the government's policy was '<411 Wednesday "the mechanical explanation is looking more likely." Saying the Clinton administra- Proposition 215. unclear and the statements remained James Kallstrom said while he is still not dismissing the possibili- tion has sent mixed signals on med- "Today's ruling is a huge victory "ambiguous and conflicting." ty that a bomb or missile downed the Boeing 747 last July 17, "there ical marijuana, a judge blocked the for the rights of physicians and "When faced with the fickle iter- was no evidence" in all the pieces that have been recovered that any- federal government Wednesday patiehts, a!1d for the authority of ations of the government's policy, thing but an accident had caused the fatal explosion "and we have from carrying out threats to punish voters to make important policy physicians have been forced to sup- recovered a lot of the pieces." California doctors who recommend decisions," said Dave Fratello, a press speech," Smith said in her He has said recently the two sabotage scenarios could be ruled out the drug to patients. spokesman for Americans for decision. within 60 or 90 days. He said, however, that the bureau has not set U.S. District Judge Fern Smith Medical Rights, which pushed the She also said "the government's any date for an FBI pullout of the investigation. issued a preliminary injunction bar- November ballot measure. "The fear that frank dialogue between The FBI and the ational Transportation Safety Board confirmed ring retaliation against physicians Clinton administration must now physicians and patients about med- Wednesday that dredging operations ceased Tuesday at midnight, a who endorse the therapeutic use of accept the will of the people." ical marijuana might foster drug move that makes it unlikely that investigators would find what they marijuana, which was legalized by Smith's order applie~ to doctors use" doesn't justify putting call a "eureka piece" of wreckage that would furnish evidence of a last ovemper's Proposition 215, who recommend marijuana for restraints on a doctor's privilege to cause to the crash, which killed all 230 people on board. but remains illegal under federal patients with AIDS or the HIV virus talk frankly with a patient. law. that causes the disease, cancer, glau- Doctors and patients' said But the judge said she would coma, and seizures or muscle Smith's decision brought some clar- "draw the line at criminal conduct," spasms associated with a chronic, ity to a fuzzy issue. But the edges WEATHER such as a physician aiding or con- debilitating condition. are stiIJ a bit blurred. spiring to help a patient obtain or While the federal government Under Smith's decision, any May Sun, May Rain cultivate marijuana. And though contends pot has no proven thera- effort by the physician to help a Proposition 215 allows doctors to peutic value, boosters of medical patient get pot could put them in By Marek Zebrowski recommend pot for any illness they marijuana say it can help relieve jeopardy...... STAFF METEOROLOGIST deem fit, Smith limited her ruling to pain, stimulate the appetite and "What's not protected is helping ... As the cold front clears the coast early Friday and the attendant only four specific illness, including combat the wasting effects of the patient get the marijuana," said low pressure system continues towards the Maritimes, a high pressure .AIDS and cancer. chemotherapy. Graham Boyd, the San Francisco cell will settle in overhead, assuring a pleasant spring afternoon. Unless overturned by a higher The lawsuit was filed after attorney pressing the lawsuit. "A However, another storm system, charging out of the Plains will con- court, the injunction will remain in McCaffrey's December announce- physician should not take a tele- tinue on a similar track, approaching our area with showers by late effect until the lawsuit is decided at ment that doctors who recommend phone call from a marijuana buyers' Saturday. Once again, scattered rains and a cold front wiJJ sweep trial. I pot would face the loss of their club and should not fill out a form through, with clearing skies for later on Sunday. This second system The doctors' and patients who authority to prescribe most medi- from a buyers' club." will usher in a somewhat cooler air, arriving on a broad northwesterly filed the class-action lawsuit against cines, be excluded from Medicare That aspect of the ruling drew flow and also bring us nice weather for the early part of next week. the federal governmel)t heralded and potentially face criminal prose- complaints from some. "It's a total- Today: Becoming partly to mostly sunny with fresh westerly Smith's ruling, saying it helps to cution. ly deC}d-end game if we can recom- breezes. High 68°F (20°C). ease fears that mounted after federal Although there have been only mend marijuana but people aren't Tonight: Mostly clear and cool. Diminishing winds. Low 43°F drug czar Barry McCaffrey and isolated episodes of drug agents able to access marijuana," said Dr. (6°C). other administration officials threat- contacting doctors, physicians said Steve O'Brien, of Berkeley's East Saturday: Increasing clouds with showers approaching from the ened a crack down. the administration policy had a Bay AIDS Center. west late in the day. Afternoon highs near 60°F (15°C) with some "I feel a heck of a lot better chilling effect on their ability to talk But the judge's decision did give onshore winds shifting to southwest and increasing t.owards dark. today," said Dr. Virginia Cafaro, with patients about the drug. California doctors unrestricted free- Saturday night: Showers likely. Windy. Low near 46°F (8°C) medical director of a large AIDS U.S. officials in February dom to discuss and recommend the Sunday outlook: Morning clouds and leftover showers departing, practice in San Francisco. "I can go attempted to clarify their position in drug without fear of repercussions, with a partly sunny afternoon. Cooler, with highs near 60°F (15°C), back to practicing medicine without a letter to medical leaders stressing Boyd said. Doctors should take "a lows near 40°F (5°C). the idea that the government will be that doctors could discuss the use of large degree of comfort from the -in the room." pot as medicine with patients, but judge's ruling," he added. ay 2) 1997 WORLD & THE TECH Page 3
Millions Watch Ellen's Coming Out LOS ANGELES TIMES • HOLLYWOOD ve "Ellen" came out of the clo et and packed much of America into the living room, a Wedne day's one-hour episode rode a staggering By Thomas W. Uppman Hou e n tional ecurity advi r Regular Angolan troop al 0 publicity wave to a national audience of more than 36 million people. THE WASHI Gro POST amuel R. andy" Berger id at a have ma ed in the Angolan enclave Tho e results exceeded even the most optimi tic estimates as to WASH I GTO meeting.Thur day. 'I don't know 'if of Cabinda, north of Zaire' narrow the program' p rformance, besting viewing levels for television's Troop from Angola equipped that' fea ible or not." we tern neck, but U. . official aid mo t-watched program, "Seinfeld," which is seen by 30.6 million with armored vehicles and heavy The U. . amba ador to the they could not confirm reports that viewer in an a erage week. artillery have joined Zairian rebel United tion, Bill Richard on, the e troop have cro ed into Zaire. Viewing better than doubled the average "Ellen" audience this force pushing steadily toward wa in Luanda, Angola, Thur day The Angolan want to get rid of eason (13.7 million), delivering the how' highest rating ever and Kin hasa in what appear to be the night, still trying to arrange a me t- - Mobutu becau e for years he sup- the biggest for any ABC entertainment program in more than three final drive to un eat Pre ident ing between Mobutu and Kabila ported Angolan rebel leader Jonas year. Mobutu e e Seko, U .. officials that would lead to an orderly tran - a imbi. "They want to ee Mobutu ABC Entertainment Pre ident Jamie Tarse said in a statement at)d report from Z'aire said fer of power. Witb troop in Zaire go, but they are al 0 interested in Thursday that the network is "extremely pleased" by the ratings, Thur day. and a stake in the outcome, Angola how he goes" because large- cale adding that it' "even more sati fying '" knowing that American The accelerating rebel advance has become a. key player whose violence could pill over and di - viewer embraced the show's creativity." - the Reuter news agency said restraint will be required if blood- rupt their country, a U .. official Breaking down the audience demographically, the lion's share of government troop fled the river shed is to be minimized, U. . offi- said. viewer fell tn the 18-34 and 18-49 age brackets that sponsors use to town of Kenge, only 150 miles east cial aid. . . Kabila aid again Thur day that determine ad rates. Con iderably smaller percentages of teens and of the capital - has led to a widely Several thousand former Zairian the only purpose of a meeting with children tuned in. . . shared a sessment that Mobutu' s paramilitary policemen and their Mobutu would be to et the terms DeGenere wa honored Wedne day at Creative Artists Agency, fall from power is imminent, the sons from the province of Shaba, for Mobutu's departure. Mobutu ha which represents her. Ca t members Joely Fisher and Clea Lewis U.S. officials said. As a result, the formerly Katanga, who have been agreed to the meeting but it was not joined a crowd of about 500 at a Manhattan nightclub to watch the focus of diplomatic efforts is now living in Angola for many years, are clear Thursday night when it would show and rai e money for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against on minimizing the bloodshed when advancing through south-central • be held, if at all, U.. officials said. Defamation . the forces of rebel leader Laurent Zaire toward the capital, several Mobutu, weakened by prostate can- Kabila enter Kinshasa. sources said. These forces wore cer, failed to show up Thur day for "At this stage the objective Angolan army uniforms and had a flight to Pointe Noire, a port in Republicans Set to Support would be to arrange a cessation of Angolan equipment including neighboring Congo where he was hostilities,~ Mobutu stepping down armored personnel carriers and expected to board a South African Rest~ring Benefits to Immigrants and some kind of arrangement that long-range cannons, reports from naval vessel for he meeting with LOS ANGELES TIMES would lead to elections," White the region said. Kabila. WASHI GTO Faced with a powerful backlash from immigrants and their advo- cates, Republican lawmakers are on the brink of proposing a plan to :Advocates Sign Global Agreement re tore some of the benefit taken away from legal immigrants by last year's welfa~e reform law. . As the White Hou e and congressional leaders hammer out the final details of a balanced budget package, Republicans are set to rec- On Internet Domain Name Policy ommend softening the impact of welfare reform on the 500,000 legal By Karen Kaplan the Net in search of fame or fortune. a'round the world and is not con- immigrants due to lose disability payment as early as this August. j LOS ANGELES TIMES Since 1993, Network Solutions vinced that Image Online has a While intensive negotiations continued, congressional source Dignitaries from the Internet Inc. of Herndon, Va., has adminis- legitimate claim. . said Republicans have agreed to propose spending roughly $10 bil- community signed an international tered the registration of Internet Although the international ad lion over five year to continue disability benefits to most legal immi- agreement in Geneva Thursday domain names under contract from hoc committee has cleared its first grant noncitizens who were in the country and receiving disability designed to bring a degree 'of self- the National Science Foundation. legal challeng-e, more daunting payments when the welfare bill was igned on Aug. 22, 1996. governance to the global computer But many worry that demand for obstacles remain. Several important Sources say the turnabout came after GOP members were put on network .. But advocates of the plan Web addresses with the ",com" suf- players, including key Internet ser- the defensive 'over the issue by Democrats and, perhaps most damag- had little time to celebrate before fix will soon surpass the remaining vice providers, the United States ing, by some the nation's most prominent Republican governors. And they had to defend the accord in a supply. The Geneva p.lan will create and the European Commission, it followed an intensive campaign by immigrant groups to publicize Los Angeles County' courtroom. seven new categories of domain have yet to endorse the plan. the often heart-rending stories of frail, elderly and disabled nonciti- ,The agreement, a memorandum names that end in suffixes such as Earlier in the week, Secretary of zens who would lose their only means of support under the 1996 wel- of understanding, was devised by ".firm," ".store," ".info" and ",web" State Madeline Albright said the fare bill. A.ccording to published reports, the bill has driven some the Internet Society, the Internet and empower 28 new companies to U.S. government "has concerns" elderly immigrants to suicide and prompted nursing homes nation- Assigned Numbers Authority - join Network Solutions in the about the committee's authority to wide to turn away noncitizens regardless of their circumstances. which is operated by the University domain name registration business. implement the plan. The United of Southern California's Chris Ambler, president of a San States is still studying the matter Information Sciences Institute - Luis Obispo, Calif., Web site design ' and has decided to remain neutral Pentagon Plans to Close Bases the United Nations' International firm, asked Los Angeles Superior on the proposal for now, she said. LOS ANGELES TIMES T~lecommunications Union and Court Judge Alan B. Habner to Private companies have criti- WASHINGTO other organizations that help admin- issue a temporary restraining order cized the plan for not doing enough Desperate for money to pay for new weapons, the Pentagon is ister the loosely governed global that would have prevented the - to promote competition for domain poised to push for another round of military base closings, a proposal computer network. Several major agreement from taking effect. He name registration. The 28 new play- likely to spark fierce resistance from states still reeling from closings compani~s - including MCI said his company, Image Online ers wi 11 be chosen in a lottery initi~ted two years ago. Communications,' Digital' Design, had previously reserved the administered by consulting firm Defense Secretary William S. Cohen, has declared the Defense ,V Equipment Corp., UUNet right to assign Web addresses that Arthur Andersen and will have to Departm~nt still has too much overhead for the size of its forces. As a Technologies and France Telecom end in ".web~' and therefore stands pay a $20,000 fee if chosen. result, he may call for' further cuts in a major review on Pentagon - have voiced support for the plan. to lose business if the Geneva plan It's not clear that objectors to the functions due in two weeks. Closing additional domestic bases "is The agreement aims to increase gains wide acceptance, plan could stop it from going for- essential to reducing unnecessary defense expenses," Cohen said in a the Inte'met's capacity for domain But Habner, who describes him- ward. However, the plan's success report submitted this week to the White House and Congress. names - the online version of self as "technically challenged," depends on its widespread accep- To begln a new round of closings, Congress would have to pa s a addresses or telephone numbers - declined Thursday to put the agree- tance. For example, a disgruntled law setting up a commission to select bases for elimination. Such a to accommodate the miHions of ment on hold. He said he is reluctant ISP could block access to Web sites commission would consider the views of the public and probably companies, organiz~tions and indi- to have a California trial court derail ending in one of the new suffixes, would not complete its work until at least 1999. viduals that have been flocking to the efforts of Internet experts although none have threatened this. Part of the pressure for more closings is generated by concerns among military leaders that they can no longer delay new weapons spending, as they have done for much of this decade. With military Contractor's Arrest for Espionage'. budgets likely to remain at about $250 billion, plus inflation, for the next five years, additional money for new weapons has to come from somewhere. ConfuSes'SeoUl~ARterican Relations , The military chiefs would prefer to take the savings from bases than from troops, defense analysts note. By Kevin Sullivan AWACS "wouldn't even be a major U.S. officials here said Ratcliffe THE WASHINGTON POST part of their business here." has spent 18 years working for TOKYO ~ The.case is also unusual because Litton in East Asia and currently is Time Warner Ends Interactive TV U.S. officials in Seoul said Washington and Seoul are close based in the Bangkok office of THE WASHINGTON POST Thursday th,ey were puzzled over military allIes, sharing a wide range Litton Guidance and Controls Time Warner Inc.'s interactive television experiment in Orlando the case of an American business- of military intelligence and equip- Systems. will be unplugged at the end of the year, putting a halt to the most man arrested on espionage charges ment. Officials fro~ the South Korean ambitious effort to allow consumers to shop, order movies, and bank f ' by South Korea. In a development reported by the military and the Agency for through their TVs. Donald Ratcliffe, 62: an execu- Associated Press, from Seoul, South National Security Planning, the In the end, the gold-plated system proved too expensive to make a tive of a subsidiary of defense con- Korea's defense ministry announced domestic intelligence service, were viable business, analysts believe. Customers were charged just $3.95 tractor Litton Industries Inc., was Thursday that its general in charge questioning Ratcliffe at an undis- a month for use of a computerized box on their TV sets that cost the arrested Wednesday and charged of procuring weapons, Maj. Gen. closed location Thursday. company thousands of dollars each. with obtaining classit:ied military ,Lee Poong Kil, has lost his job for Some U.S, officials have said Time Warner won't say how much it spent on the three-year pro- documents related to South Korea's failing to prevent the leaking of that the government's military pur- ject, but analyst Gary Arlen of Arlen Communications Inc. in pla~s to purc/hase Airbornel,W~J]ling information. - chasing plans might not necessarily Bethesda, Md., estimates the price tag at $700 million. Using high- and Control System (AW AQ:S) Seoul's plans to spend billions of be cbssified information in the speed cables to 4,000 homes, the system allowed customers to choose planes: doll,ars in the n~xt few' years to beef United States. But that is what the movies or news when they wanted them, order p~zza, stamps, or retail,. "There doesn't seem to be any up its aircraft, missiledefi nse sys- South Korean government has goods, and play TV games with neighbors. , reason why he would be interested tems and other military hardware 'charged Ratcliffe with obtaining, The company said the Orlando trial should be viewed as a in that;" said a U:S. official. He said are commonly known. American and he could face the death penalty research and development exercise, rather than a market failure. The Litton has a "near monopoly" on military contractors do a lucrative if convicted of espionage. project, it says, provided valuable data showing that consumers, after sales of navigational control and business in' South Korea and stand South Korean media reports all, will pay for at least some types of interactive TV. guidance systems for South Korean to benefit from Seoul's increased have said that security officials will "It was never intended to be a cost-effective, deployable model," military aircraft. military spending. question Ratcliffe about whether he said company spokeswoman Tammy Lindsay. "We didn't know what ,"If they're enjoy~ng that kind of A Litton spokesman said the handed over any ~ilitary secrets to consumers would pay for this. We do now." a' good business climate in South company was not aware of any ille- the U.S. government. U.S. officials Time Warner will convert its Orlando customers to Internet access Korea, you wouldn't think they gal activity by Ratcliffe, a retired deny that the U.S, government was in June as a market test using the same boxes before removing the would need classified documents," military officer who has worked for involved in any espionage laid to devices at year's end. the official said, noting that Litton for 20 years. Ratcliffe. Page 4
1b TheEditor offended people, who have only the force of again in the evening. I am by no mean alone; The Tech their conviction , to try and establi h a partic- e pecially on the colder and wetter day , the ew ha rea h d me that The Tech ha ular ae thetic and to call all el e racist. bu is full to overflowing from the mas es of received a letter igned by everal organiza- Per onally, I find the letter to be analogous to MIT fraternity, sorority, and ILG re idents hairman tion - among them Gay, Le bian , the ort of call for cen or hip by people who trying to get to clas wann and dry. DanieJ C. teven on '97 Bi exual , Tran gender, nd Friend at IT wi h to boycott anything that talk openly The ub idized T pa ses that MIT provides ditor in hier - that criticize The Tech for publishing about homosexuality because it i offen ive to make excellent economic en e for me and David D. H u '9 material hara ing to minoritie including family values. many other off-campu residents. It seems gay. What i the intended outcome here? I that what Zaidi hould be advocating is ubsi- Bu ine anager I am orry to hear that some people are would prefer an outcome where people dized T pa se for cro s-registered on-campus AngeJa Y. Liao '9 offended. But I cannot remain ilent and let become more ensitized to their action and student. However, a an FSILG re ident who anaging ditor the po ition expre ed in that letter be mi tak- learn to Ii ten to more ides of a di cus ion. I benefit from free afe Ride service, paid for Jo h Bittker '99 en for mine. I am a GAMIT alum, an out-of- do not want to ee the outcome where people by the tuition of all MIT students, I per onally the-closet gay employee, and a white man feel they cannot expre s themselve for fear of would not object to subsidized passes for all E ecuti editor who had a long term relation hip with a black being beaten up, whether that expression is MIT-affiliated per ons. Thoma R. Karlo '97 man~ With thi e perience, I do not pre ume holding hands with a member of the ame sex Somehow, I do not believe that ~he MIT's to say what is raci t. I only ay what does and publicly or drawing pictures of rhinoceros- administration sees dormitory residents as NEWS STAFF doe not offend me personally. shaped superheroes. econd-class members of the MIT communi- Editors: Venkate h atish '98, Dan If the letter truly repre ents the po ition of William D. Cattey '83 ty. More likely, the rules of the Parking and McGuire '99; sociate Editor: Brett GAMIT, then it serves more to show that I Senior Analyst Programmer Transportation Office are the product of a Altschul '99, Jean K, Lee '99, May K, mu t distance my elf from that organization Infonnation System bureaucracy that is (like many bureaucracies) Tse '99, Frank Dabek '00, Dougla E. Heimburger '00, Zareena Hu ain '00; and the fights it executive choo e to pick. It not entirely in touch with reality. 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The Tech can be Entire contents 0 1997 The Tech. Printed on recycled puper by Muss Web Printing Co. are due by 4:30 p.m. two days before the date of publication. found on the World Wide Web at http://the-tech.mit.edu. OP THE TECH Page 5 t ac cc__-.....__gThe Tech of ac• s Are Unfounded Column by Martin Duke A i n American tudent had pretty mu h the engineering, which represent IT's primary they could all be violently bigoted. But am I SPORTS OLU 1ST ame need a anyone el e. I gu you learn mi ion. alone in failing to detect one shred of evi- I should begin by aying that I have, something ne every day. Mo t intere ting of all i the continuing dence that the newspaper itself has a racist from time to time, ubmitted a port articl The prote ter I 0 rgue for an ethnic attacks again t The Tech it elf, e pecially the agenda? to The Tech. J don't really know the taff at tudi program and a multicultural center. attacks on "Rhino Man," the comic drawn by All the groups that signed the letter have all, but I am neverthele appalled by the hile many may take an attitude of why Zachary Emig '9 . After making the ridicu- declined to comment further in The Tech. anti-Tech protest la t Friday. ince organiz- not?" it i preci ely that kind of thinking lous a ertion that the cartoon i racist simply How very convenient for them to avoid any er Joaquin S. Terrones '97 made some pretty that ha h Iped cause tuition to skyrocket at becau e it ha an Asian villain, the attackers discus ion in what is the most relevant and serious accu ation and some pretty weep- campu e acro the nation. More cour e ignored repeated offers to debate the i sue widely read publication on campus. It is not ing proposals, I think we should take a eri- Il1ean more profes or , more taff,.more publicly, failed to respond publicly to Emig's surprising when you consider the flimsiness of ou look at them. Let me addres the point administration, and more money. urely this clear rea oning, and then - most irresponsi- most of their accusations. one by one, as outlined in the Tue day's alone is not the cause, but the incremental bly of all - continued their groundless What I find most amusing is the trumped- Tech. .. addition of academic programs that diverge attacks. up sense of moral indignation the protesters First, Terrones comment that The Tech' from the mi sion of the In titute clearly Terrones says that 'it takes very little to have, as if the lack of an ethnic studies pro- humor is "indicative of-a growing atmo phere play a part. rile people up against people of color." I don't gram and a comic strip about a talking rhino of intolerance on campus." Growing atmos- And to what gain? There are a variety of know about you, but my W ASP friends were attempts to oppress them, rather than a here? Has there been some increase in hate cultural optLon in the rich diversity of the always think about joining the Ku Klux Klan simple allocation of financial priorities and a crimes and racial incidents between student Bo ton area. tudents can cross-enroll after reading "Rhino Man." Emig is clearly an guy innocently trying to entertain us, respec- in the past, say, four years? I'm half-Asian Harvard University to take advantctge of innocent by tander and convenient target for tively. myself (sadly, one must be a minority to have their ethnic studies programs. Additionally, I whatever larger agenda these people may I can afford to be amused; I'm a graduat- credibility when discu sing this, it seems) and don't see how such a program at MIT would have. ing senior. If you're going to be here longer have a number of minority friends, yet I have create an atmosphere of racial tolerance, a The protesters' letter to The Tech accuses and don't want every group that uses hyper- not detected any upsurge (or even a most budding racists probably will not take the newspaper of perpetuating the "stereo- bole and strong-arm tactics to succeed, stand detectable, constant level) of bigotry among any ethnic studies courses. Surely there is types used to oppress us daily" and up now. Write letters. If you are a member of students. value in ethnic studies, but we all under- announces their boycott until they "see a one of the groups that signed the letter and Terrones also calls for an Asian American stood when we agreed to come here that to substantive change in [their] attitudes you disagree with your leadership, speak out. administrator to address the needs of Asian some extent the quality of most humanities towards people of color." ow, I don't know It's the least you can do to make this a better American students. Funny, I always thought would suffer for the sake of science and anyone on the editorial staff; for all I know, place. Project B'read's This Sunday, May4 Registration: 7-9 a.m. Walk or Hunger at Boston Common Feedfng people. Nou.rishing Hope.
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Bill Paxton No more days of 'Hf!JJJ aren ~you Chet?'
By Jonathan Utt Bokky meets up with a yOlmg STAFF REPORTER trav lIer named Pat (Wahlberg) n just a hort pan of time, Bill Paxton has and an older traveller named transformed from a moderately succe fu1 Double D (Jame Gammon). supporting actor to one of Holly ood' Together they pull off a host of leading men. For many years, he as con- small-time carn, but the action idered a cult favorite in orne circles for his take off when, in the spirit of all role as big brother Chet in Weird Science and great con-men movie , they as Private Hudson in Aliens. In 1994, his decide to pull off "the big one," a career took off with hi hilarious role in the cam to end all earn. The pace ummer hit True Lies, and the next year build up to a hocking climax brought Apollo 13. Last summer, hi career when their plan goes awry. skyrocketed when he starred in the mammoth Paxton de cribe how he man- blockbuster Twister, which gro sed over 700 aged to find himself producing a million worldwide. The trend is sure to con- movie, omething he has wanted tinue with this swnmer's epic film Titanic, in to do for a long time. "I knew which he plays an important character. critically they were going to paint As much as he is an accompli hed actor, a bull's eye on me when Twister Paxton is no stranger to the art of filmmaking. came out So I thought, what' the As a teenager he made short film with hi best thing I can do right now for friends, and in 1973, at the age of 18, he my elf and my friends? It was to moved to Hollywood to find a career in the go make this movie. And because movie indu try. He recently took a big tep of Twister, I was in a position to forward by producing hi first major motion get five million dollars backing to picture, Traveller. go and make Traveller." Inspired by such clas ics as Peter ''To take it a step further, I was Bogdanovich's Paper Moon and David on the set of Twister, and I was Mamel's House of Games, Traveller tells the getting to know this cinematographer, Jack Paxton is especially proud of the high pro- future? "I've had a great career up until now, story of an Irish con man (Paxton) and his Green, and he's the guy who shoots all of duction values of Traveller, despite the low and I'm trying to kind of take the reigns. protege (Mark Wahlberg), members of a Clint Eastwood's movies. I th'ought I had died budget. "When you start out as a filmmaker, Unfortunately, I've seen so many actors who nomadic group of grifters and con artists and gone to heaven because Clint has been a you do parodies, because you can't really reach a certain prominence, and then they do a caJled ''travellers.'' huge role model of mine, as an actor, a direc- compete on a studio level. That's part of the couple of films that don't get accepted by the "I've always loved movies about con men. tor, and a produ~er. So I said to Jack (I knew reason I wanted to produce this film ,-,- by public or are critically panned and the next I think con men are as American as apple he was dying to direct a movie), 'I got a little having Jack Green, I knew that I would visu- thing you know, they're out the door. It's real- pie," says Paxton. And travellers really exist script, Jack. Would you mind reading it?' So ally have a studio look. Then I took it a step ly sad, and you kind of 'have to project your- '- in this country, as well. "They say it's ea ier he read it and said 'This is great,' and I said, further - we got int~ post production, and I self; you've got.to guide your own career. In to infiltrate the mafia than this particular 'I'll tell you what. If you shoot it, then you wanted the sound quality to be as good as a the old days the studios guided your career. group of people. There are three factions of can direct it as your debut film. '" , studio film." Now it's all up to you. Guys like Tom Hanks them, and there are several families: the Irish With a script, a director, and a budget in Paxton pulls out a' copy of the Traveller and Tom Cruise are superstars not only travelJers, the English travellers, and the hand, Paxton's next job as producer was to soundtrack to show it off. It contains 18 songs because they are incredibly gifte{j performers, Scottish travellers." cast all of the roles. He ended up finding great by 13 artists, all of the songs re-recorded but because they're also really great strate- Paxton's character, an Irish traveller chemistry with "Marky" Mark Wahlberg and especially for the movie. One of the more gists. It's really a question of playing the named Bokky, finds himself at a crossroads in E.R.'s Juliana Margulies for the two other memorable ones from the film is Randy game right and finding the next great project." his life. ''The character is really a Gothic char- main characters. (Wahlberg had impressed Travis' cover of "King of the Road," which Paxton should have no trouble finding fur- acter. He's carrying around the baggage of a him with strong performances in "The plays during the opening sequence. "I wanted ther success both in front of and behind the dead wife and a child that died in childbirth. Basketban Diaries" and "Fear".) He also cast the feeling of driving across the country and camera. Traveller opened to great reviews last He meets this woman he rips off, and she has his long-time acting coach Vincent Chase for ,the south with an the hooky-tonks and road- week and was the highest grossing limited- a daughter, and he falls for her. He realizes one of the more memorable roles, the Gypsy houses and motels and trucks. This soundtrack release picture in the country. It starts its run this might be his chance for redemption - to boss who i~ involved in the elaborate final con is like a homecooked meal." in Boston today at the Nickelodeon and start again." of the film. So what does Paxton see for himself in the Harvard Square.
o CAMPUS Dramashaps daring, actor-created.look at sex and identity DOW AND DIRTY: YAKI G IT ALL each piece having been sion, not offend people, and it succeeds in OFF created within the being daring but not tasteless. M1T Dramashop group. Each character Cotto-Escalera has directed several profes- Directed by Brenda Cotto-Escalera in the strip show has a sional theater productions in a similar style, May 2-3 at 8 p.m. particular issue they including Motherlands, a collective piece Kresge Lit/Ie Theater explore in their own about sexual and cultural identities produced Starring Aomawa L. Baker '97, Katherine E. manner. The issues the by Boston's Theatre Offensive. Her style Hardacre '99, Nicole J. Homan '00, Joseph characters deal with are involves "empowering the actors to be the N. Kaye '99, Rachel Perry, S. Toby Segaran not just contained with- creators of the whole process. It's empower- '00, Andrea H. Zengion '99. in the production, but ing everyone, so the actors have to be rather are universal and researchers, they have to be writers plus per- free of the time frame formers and weave everything together." ' By Teresa Huang of the strip show. The The actors push at the boun~ between STAFF REPORTER actors explore issues of a~dience and actor from the beginning with own and Dirty: Taking It All Off is a sexuality through the their powerful entrance into the theater, collective theater piece that explores space and through their depicting their transformation from MIT stu- sex and sexuality. The script, charac- characters. The perfor- dent to actor. The cast members of Down and ters, and design were created entirely mances were skilled Dirty were fortunate to have this opportunity by the cast and director through improvisation and powerful. Perry to work with Cotto-Escalera and her impro- and collaboration. The production is fresh and was tremendously ver- visational directing style. Zengion, who different, pushing the boundaries of traditional satile and alive on stage plays Gwen, strip. er and mother of two, theater and presenting a new experience for as Fantasia. Each of the said, "I think that the thing that I was most MIT audiences. strippers were comfort- pleased with in this whole process was that Director Brenda Cotto-Escalera, an assis- able in their dialogue as a designer you have a great opportunity to tant professor in music and theater arts, and interactions with' be creative and create in a production, but as (/. describes Down and Dirty as "a collection of each other. Baker - as an actor you have a character you're usually , pieces based on stories that were told by the Cassie, a stripper' who given in a script .... With this we started cast, by the designers, and by myself." The values control over her with nothing and we created characters, a main space in which the actors chose to body - was especially plot, and everything, and ... it's like a child explore these issues is the backstage of a strip natural in her role and now. We made it, and it carne from us and it show. Seven MIT students make up the cast: good in relatin'g her is us." Cassie (Aomawa L. Baker '97), Jenny feelings to the audience Baker agreed, "A lot of times with a tradi- (Katherine E. Hardacre '99), Luke (Joseph N. in a humorous yet tional play that's been done you have all these Kaye '99), and Gwen '(Andrea H. Zengion frightening flashback. guidelines where you can't go that far from '99) are strippers, each with their own com- Also notable was a what the character 'should be,' but we were plex lives and memories. Jack (S. Toby scene involving able to really mold our characters ourselves Segaran '00) is a bouncer for the strip club Jenny's father appear- :.AJJ and be in charge of what we felt, bow far we and Amy (Nicole 1. Homan '00) is the daugh- ance at the club one Rachel Perry plays the role of Fantasia the Fuck Fairy. She wanted to go with the character." ter of the club's owner. Overlooking these night and how Jenny offered assorted sweets and condoms before the show. Humorous at one moment, sad at another, characters and sometimes interacting with faces her past with him. and incredibly paSsionate and moving at the them is Fantasia the Fuck Fairy, a quasi-myth- At the center of the production, of course, to shock some audience members, but their next, Down' and Dirty covers a variety of ical and bizarre character played with terrific is sex, and the cast members of Down and intensity and fearless approach to issues of emotions, energies, frustrations, and sexual humor by Rachel Perry. Dirty are bold and straightforward with their sexuality is admirable and professional. issues. A brave production, Down and Dirty is As the characters interact with each other, own bodies and with their dealings with each Though a lot of their material is over the top, pure creation and an important step toward they depart into their memories and fantasies, other. The subject matter of their work is sure it's meant to incite serious thought and discus- expanding traditional notions of theater. THE TECH Page 7
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Film docu- Admission: $3; non-MIT students, Christopher Hc>gwoodconducts the menting the October 1962 con- seniors, and under 12, $1; MIT Handel and Haydn Society period frontation with the Soviet Union. students, free. Information: 253- orchestra in this program that ThroughJune 1. 4444. marks the 200th birthday of Franz Aght Against Segregation. A film What's So Funny About Science? Schubert and the deaths of on events leading up to JFK's Cartoons of Sidney Harris offer a Johannes Brahms and Felix national address'on civil rights. hilarious look at unexpected and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. This con- Son of Ireland. Portrays Kennedy's incongruous moments in science. cert gives aUdiences a unique visit to his ancestral home. ThroughMay 31. opportunity to hear the music of ThroughJune 1. Maps from the Age of Atlases. these three nineteenth-century Rare maps from the Museum's Romantic composers. The program WJtMs Hart Nautical Collections illuminate includes Mendelssohn, Overtureto Museum of Science, SCiencePark, the golden age of cartography. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. Cambridge. Through April 30. ThroughMay 4. 21; SChubert, Symphony No. 5 in Admission: $7.50; seniors and Gestural Engineering: The B flat, 0485; Brahms, Serenade ages ~14, $5.50 (Tues., bargain Sculpture of Arthur Ganson. No. 1in 0, Op. 11. nights for all shows 7 p.m. and Ganson's kinetic sculptures exude later, $5; seniors and ages ~14, the wit of their creator, a self- MwIc.... from Matfboro $3). Information: 723-2500. Film described cross between a Isabella Stwart Gardner Museum, follows the life cycles and travels mechanical engineer arid a chore- 2 Palace Rd., Boston. May 4, 1:30 of blue, humpback, and right ographer. Ongoing. p.m. Admission: adults, $15; whales from Argentinato Alaska. Lightfor.est: The Holographic senior citizens, $11; college stu- Rainforest. Large-scale hologram dents, $9; ages 12-17, $7; ages exhibit by Betsy Connors. Ongoing. 5-11 $4;. members $5. Information: 734-1359. Naomi Continued on next page Katz and Scott St. John, violins. ectures Ellen dePasQuaJe and Steven Tenenbom, violas. Paul Watkins, carl Anthony . Mike Myers in cello. Mary Nessinger, mezzo- John F. Kennedy library and Austin Powers: soprano. Program includes Museum, Columbia Point, Boston. International Man of Boccherini, String 'Quartet in G May 6, 5:30 p.m. Admission: free. Major, Op. 60, No.5; Respighi, "'II Information: 929-4571. Anthony is Mystery, opening Tramonto. for Mezzo-Sopranoand the author of As We Remember today tU:ross Boston. String Quartet; Dvorak, String Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quintet in E-flatMajor, Op. 97. in the Works of Family and Friends. The public image of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is misleading. Behind the myths, careful biographers find a substan- Popular tive, yet irreverently humorous, woman who felt uncomfortable in the 'publiC eye. She was, writers conclude, an extremely intelligent Music human being who adored her fami- ly, relished her privacy, possessed Claudio RIWIJZZI Quintet exquisite taste and effortless Cafll Teatro, 405 Shawmut Ave., style, and pursued her interests Boston. May 2, 8 p.m. Admission: with passion. Carl Anthony is also $10. Information: 927-1715. the author ot First Ladies: The Nationally acclaimed guitarist and Saga of Presidential Wives and composer ClaudIO Ragazzi offers their Power, 1789-1990. His story- an evening of New Tango, a new blend of South American Jazz and a refreshing new voice in Latin' Jazz. Ongoing Theater Rent Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., Boston. Through May 23. Tues.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.; matinees, Sat.-Sun., 2 p.m. Admission: $25-$67.50. Information: (800)447-7400. Musical based on Puccini's 1896 opera La Boheme. From previous page plasma sculptures by Center for National Heritage presents a major 11. Admiss on: adUlts, $15; senior dents, $4: ages 6-12. $2; under Cambridge. Through April 30: Advanced Visual Studies alumnus exhibition of ative American paint- citizens, $11; college students, 6. free. Information: 929-4523. Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., Holography. The exhibition Bill Pat1 One FIne Day May 2, 7 and 10 p.m. Room 26-100. In this romantic comedy. two divorced parents, a struggling architect (Michele Pfeiffer) and a hard-driving political colum- nist (George Clooney), are forced to help each other care for their kids during a hectic day and unexpect- edly find themselves falling in love. Midnight Cowboy May 2, 7:30 p.m. Room 1(}250. Directed by John Schlezinger. Starring John Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Brenda Vaccaro. Hayseed (John Voight) comes to New York City, becomes a stud, and develops an unusual friendship with seedy Ratso Rizzo (Hoffman). The steamiest side of New York City is the backdrop for a compelling, keen-eyed character study of the meaning of friendship. Winner of three Oscars for best picture, best director, and best screenplay. Beavis and Butthead 00 America May 3, 7 and 10 p.m. Room 26-100. The misfits from the MTV cartoon series bring their low-grade IQs, obnoxious commentaries, and amusing antics to the big screen. The story follows the duo as they hit the highway in search of their stolen TV. Mike judge directs, co-scripts, stars as the lead voices, and cre- ates the lead music. Out for Laughs Kresge Auditorium, 84 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. May 17, 8 p.m. Admission: $14.50; $16.50 at the door. Information: 524-0415. A wild night of women's comedy. The fifth annual comedy night benefit for Sojourner will feature emcee Kathy Najimy and comedians Bertice Berry. Michele Balan, and Tina D'Elia. George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer In One Rne Day, showing Friday at LSC. Cambridge. May 3, 8 p.m .. Admission: free. and Theater Arts James Makubuya. director. MIl's lecturer in music and theater arts, is directing the ~nformation: 253-9800. Lecturer of Music and newest world music ensemble performs traditional Dramashop spring production. This production has Music Theater Arts John Corley. director. Program includes music. song, and dance from East and South Africa, been created by the actors during the rehearsal process. See story, page 6. MIT Concert Choir anti MIT Symphony Orchest,;t John Bavicchi, Suite No.3, Op. 60; Edward Madden, featUring African lyres, fiddles, harps, thumb pianos, Kresge Auditorium, 84 Massachusetts Ave., The Eve of Saint Agnes; Gregory Tucker. Centennial log xylophones, and drums. Love's LJgIrt In Right Cambridge. May 2, 8 p.m. Admission: $2; $5 at the Overture. 31 Ames St., Room 66-110. May 1-3, 8 p.m. door. Information: 253-9800. Lecturer of Music and Anlme Admission: $5, $3 with MIT 10. Information: 695- Theater Arts William C. Cutter, director. Program Two-plano Student recital 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 6-120. May 2, 7 p.m. 1964. Black Theatre Guild production of play by includes Britten, Cantata Academica; Purcell, Come Kresge Auditorium, 84 Massachusetts Ave., Admission: free. Featuring Escaflowne 13-14 (25 Charles Michael Moore. A comedy about a man who Ye Sons of Art; Vaughan Williams, Serenade to Cambridge. May 6, 8 p.m. Admission: free. minutes each, subtitled); Fam and Iri (30 minutes leaves his girlfriend and goes home. finding love with Information: 253-9800. Four-hands recital. Music. A'ldrea Ehrenreich, soprano; Patricia Thom, each, subtitled); Good Morning Althea (52 minutes, his boss' wife. mezzo-soprano; Paul Flight. Gary Crichlow, coun- SUbtitled); Handsome Girl (36 minutes. SUbtitled). AMP Student Recital tertenor, Matthew DiBattista, tenor; Thomas Jones, Chrl.tmas on Mars Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Dr., Cambridge. May 7, 5 bass. Walker Memorial, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 50- p.m. Admission: free. Information: 253-9800. 201. May 2, 3; 8 p.m. Admission: free. Information: Andrew R. Newberg '97, piano. Program includes Prabha Marathe, Kathak Dance 253-2877. Student Workshop MIT student Charles P. Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Dr., Cambridge. May 2, 8 Mozart, Sonata, K. 533 and Rondo, K. 494; Chopin, Theatre Armesto '97 directs Harry Kondolean's play p.m. Admission: $15, $12, $10, $2 with MIT 10. Barcarolle in Fsharp Major, Op. 60; Ravel. Mirroirs. .Christmas on Mars.. It is a hilarious comedy about Information: 258-7971. Puna's graceful disciple of Down and DIrty: Taking It All Off four dysfunctional people struggling to find love from the great Birju Maharaj. MIT's African Performance Ensemble Dramashop production. Kresge Auditorium's Little each other. Themes of loneliness. love, sexual frus- Kresge Auditorium, 84 Massachusetts Ave., Theater, 84 Massachusetts Ave .• Cambridge:May 2, tration, and a regrettable childhood are brought MIT Concert Band Cambridge. May 8, 8 p.m. Admission: free. 3; 8 p.m. Admission: $7; $5 for students with MIT about through absurdist dialogue and relentless and Kresge AUditorium. 84 Massachusetts Ave., Information: 253-9800. Assistant Professor in Music 10. Information: 253-2908. Brenda Cotto-Escalera, unexpected events. May 2, 1997 THE TECH Page II ATIC Lab Combats The Tech News Hotline: 253-1541 m• ew ace By Zareena H n den who come in to try the equip- ASSOCIATE NEWS EDrroR ment on a hort-term basis. MIT's Adaptive Technology for Students who feel they may need Information and Computation lab to aece th erviee of th ATIC urrendered its pace in room 11- lab can call or e-mail the lab to set 112 to the Student Service Center up an appointment in order to get an renovation project, but in return it understanding of the problem and to wiUbe getting new, visible pace in ee a demonstration of the equip- 3-123, the office currently holding ment. the pilot Student Services Center. n 0 The lab will move to the new TIC. resource for RSI sufferen location from its temporary space in In addition to serving students ine Essential Principles for 12-150 sometime during August, with learning and physical disabili- Growing Your BuSiness on the I "aid Kathleen Cahill, Information ties, the ATIC lab also helps stu- Systems consultant and director of dents who may suffer from RSI. World wide WefJ the ATIC lab. RSI is a class of injuries to the The ATIC lab is designed to muscles, tendons, and nerves that Newsweek's former editor and serve students and faculty members results from chronic overuse or mis- with disabilities like repetitive strain use. Repetitive actions, especially reporter, Evan Schwartz, injury, visual impairment, ~earni~g small rapid movements like typing, shows how using traditional disabilities, as well as other physical poor working posture, strenuous and mental disabilities. movements, and working without business approaches on the The lab is open 24 hours a day taking regular breaks may cause Web can backfire. Discover for students and staff. "A lot of peo- RSI. how to capture the only ple with disabilities can't use the Over a three-month period from normal computer setup; we are there January to March, the ATIC lab bad scarce commodity on this to provide alternative access," 17 new people come in with RSI- information-based terrain: Cahill said. related problems, Cabill said. RSI is a growing problem on the attention of the people ATIC addresses needs of disabled campus. In 1996, the number of spending time there. The lab came to MIT in 1992, an RSI-related cases that the MIT outgrowth of the work by Medical Center dealt with increased Information Systems Consultant M. 20 percent, said Dr. David V. Susan Jones, who worked as a com- Diamond, who sees most of ~IT's puter consultant at Oberlin College. RSI patie~ts. ' She saw the need at the Insti~te for a computer lab to address the needs Precaution prevent injury of students with disabilities, Cahill Most people who suffer from said. RSI can get better if they follow a The lab centralizes technological few guidelines, Diamond said. aids for the disablea, offering a host Posture, an ergonomic working 'of specially designed computers and environment, and "pacing" can all input devices to offer alternative prevent repetitive stress injuries. ways of interacting with computers. Pacing involves taking "micro- The lab contains two Athena work- 'breaks" as frequently. as every 10 stations, two personal computers, minutes, to stretch and relax the and four Macintosh computers, muscles of the neck and shoulder. Cahill said. Specialized keyboards, Students should not try -to work trackballs, voice recognition soft- through the pain, nor is taking med- wcp-e,screen reading software, mag- ication or wearing braces necessari- nification, scanners, and. Braille ly a good idea, Diamond said printing are among the interfaces Working through the pain some- available. times helps strengthen weak mus- There are currently 20 students 'cles, but in RSI the pain is produced ------~CCIDP who regularly access the services of by a lack of endurance, not a lack of \1 I I the ATIC lab as well as many stu- muscle strength. At Amgen, research is our focus, but people are out inspiration. Which is .why individual contributions are valued. D~versity is respected. And at Amgen, your knowledge. and skills bring unique rewards. Not -only will your work serve critical advances in healthcare, but you'll discover unlimited poten- tial for achievement. With over 17 years of award-winning discovery behind us, Amgen emerges today as the world's leading biotechnology company. 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'79, who implemented the certifi- Transcript request forms and stu- cate technology. m dent address withholding forms, The user can choose to encrypt among others, will al 0 be available the downloaded certificate with a online, where student can print " et cape pa word." "Thi pa s- them. Enhancements, however, may word i never tored anywhere, ---_.•._--_._.....,...... ,.;;- make printing unnecessary. including on the Web browser 17-APR-97 "Eventually, some forms will be where you use it," Schiller aid lIlttDue: $100.00 submitted" electronically, Patel said The IS proce for downloading the industry-standard certificates MiJdRa.. Pa lit: $100.00 Regi tration integrate lotteri currently only works with etscape Paymellt D Date: 15-MAY-97 The new Web-based preregi tra- 3.0 or higher. "We are working on Previe1lS BaJaBce: $100.00 tion system provides feedback to support for (Microsoft] Internet users if there is a scheduling con- Explorer, but it isn't ready yet," .----'--_._------flict, Callahan aid. But "it's up to Schiller said. the student to make an informed The digital certificate technology New Charges and Chats: "--"'1 .• -.. decision" on whether to schedule is more advanced than most other "'-"-0'. _._.i;;; "-" r~~t-.I _.._-- D~~~ti;..; - . conflicting classes. school' student information sys- . r . . . . In addition, students who wish to tern, aid Associate Manager of 17-APR-97 I Spring Term 1996.1997 100.00 Multi Plan enter classes offered at the Sloan Student Information Services _..- ._-r_.._- ._--_. -_.---t---- .f _. _. -"-'- - ..--- .••- .....-.-- •.---- ...-- .• ---- •..-- ..••. School of Management or other lot- JoAnne Stevenson. ; ~~~A~~-.~7..J. ~~~~.r.ye.~..l?~~~.l.~~?....L ~~.????..L :.~~~.~~.~~~~~..~~~.~~..~~~.~.~~ . tery classes will enter the class lot- tery on the Web. The Humanities, L encryption protect data Mess~es: ~.. . .." . . - - .. . _ -... . . Arts, and Social Sciences In addition to using personal !You will pre-register for F an term and can review your financla1 and ac ademic ree ords on the web using 'WebSIS Distribution lottery still mu t be certificates, the new WebSIS sys- Ibeginning May 1. For more infOt'lllation, go to http://student.mit.~du at tl-.J.ebeginning of May. entered separately because it has not tem uses the Secure Sockets Layer yet moved to the Web, although protocol to protect all data transmit- such an interface is planned. ted to or from the server, Callahan Students will be able to ~hange said. their preregistration information on Export versions of etscape, Previous New r" New ;'L'~:;-'" r N;;...... ~&t;~;d i Past .r Alnowd (' Mum.1DIl the WebS IS system until mid- such as the default version on Ba1aJLce Crediis I Charges I Fee : Ba1aJIce, FUJU1s Due! Due PaymeJlt August, Callahan said. Still, "we Athena, use 40-bit security. In 100.00 ----0.00-- ,0.00. 100.00 want [students] to ~e the May pre- January, a graduate student at the -~-~lOO~OO-;-100m :"0.00--1' '100.00"-- ;-1001;0 .------"": registration seriously," because many University of California at Berkeley _-..._-.-.,_.--...-~----_.__ classes change their times when they broke a 40-bit key in under four discover that students have schedul- hours as part of a challenge issued ing conflicts, Callahan said. The fall by RSA Data Security, Inc. term schedules will be continually U.S.-only versions of etscape COURTESY OF S1TJDENT SERVICES RE.ENfllNEERlNG updated at http://registrar.mit.edu. incorporate 128-bit security, The We~ Student Information System, available at http://student.mlt.edu, will eventually allow Schiller said. Athena users should System uses digital certificates students to access their account balances with the Bursar's Office by May 12. A pr&-release version Is use the 'netscape-US' command to shown here. Online preregistration started yesterday via the World Wide Web. Personal digital certifi- In order to protect the security invoke the stronger program. cates and secure Socket Layer encryption protect student Information. Wanfto view and update your student information withou~ always running arol:Jndcampus? Now you can, on ... 'UdSIS • Pre-registerOn~line • View Financial Records, • View Academic .Record • Update Student Addre.sses • # • View Biographic Record • Download Forms • And more, starting in May, on: http://student.mit.edu ay 2, 1997 TO TECH Page 13 ---~g• Trees, from Page I the Department of Political ien e. HEALTH EXPO '97: I pa them e ery morning a I In preparation for the move, come in .... They're ju t part of holes have been dug around the you, and' you mi s them when tree near E53, and the root y tern they're gone." LIVE LONG AND PROSPER were trimmed. The contractors 'ha ...... ~ . : Campus Activities Complex : • • • PRESENTS • • • : P.u.b.l.i.c.i.t.y : • • • STARRING • :• Student Activities and Department~• : • • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Coming Soon.;. Tuesday, May 6th ~~ 1M Fall Ter:m--1997 a#e'e Activi~ies ~dw-ay: Promoti?nal Spaces reserved for Lobby 7'Drop Poster space, Lobby 10 Booths I Infinite Corridor..Panels Student Cent~r Tables * Student Center Balco~y poster spaces for September only. You may pick up and drop off applications at the Campus Activities Complex, W20-500. Tel: 253-3913. Page 14 ay 2,1997- . '>, -0 V') ::J C -f ::J -:r 0- (1) Do) '< ...(,1') rot n 0\ -:r "'0 3 -:r ... ",....0 0 ~ N. 0 0 (1) I "'0 ~ Do) 00 ;::+ w • PARDlSSABETl 3 The Class of 1997 dances the night away at the SenIor Ball held at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel (1) ::J last Friday. r+ D~romceo Off 'Cou'rs.e' O. KEY! ( I ay 2, ]997 THE TECH Page 15 Audience Vote Allows VISiting Student to P~cipate 2.70, from Page I Other strategie , howe er, in olved pete. early everyone agreed to 2.001 ''made me glad I came to the competition included "security" mo ing ball off the double- alue allow the tudent to compete. MIT," Evan aid. officer who held back the crowd three for every puck. They receiv d ledg or pu hing the ball off the "Everybody aid, 'Let' do what's with Super Soakers, and Professor 10 points if there wa a robot on barrier onto the opponent' ide of right and delete the rule ,n, locum horallarie perform at 2.70 of Mechanical Engineering Woodie their ide of the court at the end of the court. aid. The econd night of competition C. Flowers PhD '73, who made a the competition. If a machine plit orne more unu ual de ign , However, locum noted that it began with a "2.70 rap" and the tra- dramatic appearance as a "bio-place- into pieces, more than half of the howe er, used grappling hook, was an MIT mechanical engineering ditional appearance of the bo," an inert robot, in the final match ma s of the machine was required to walked along the wall of the court tud nt who wa victorious. When Chorallarie who p rformed MIT's of the qualifying round and later dur- cros to the other ide if the 10 or launched ball or even them- the vi iting tudent 10 t, the crowd drinking ong. Other highlight of ing a break: in the final competition. point were to be avoided. In addi- selve acro s the court. The wall- erupted into cheer of 'MIT, MIT." tion, the ledges on each end of the crawler wa the mo t unusual and Feelings on the competition court doubled the value of anything impre sive" machine at thi compe- among tudents were mixed. placed on them. tition, locum aid. Kenneth I. Pettigrew '99 aid that Contestant were given identical the work was insane. You bum out kits of parts with electronic and i iting tudent in final eight and realize you have to work on ~pneumatic devices to construct a A complication aro e during thi other clas e , too." device that would score the lea t year's competition when a vi iting Annabel Flor '99 who e trate- amount of points. Last year's win- foreign student was one of the final gy "i for [the machine] to work," ner, Sami . Busch '98, advised par- eight remaining student . By conte t aid 2.007 was a cia I looked for- ticipants to "stay calm" during the rules, only students actually ward to the mo t before I took it and 30-second competition. enrolled in 2.007 may be the final the mo t happy that it's over." The most common strategy was eight player of the competition. Robin C. 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But in the throughout the game with two By Eva oy and Inan Haq well controlled ... even though he ished their sea on with a difficult fifth, the Clar bat came alive and more hit and errorle defen e in made a few unforced errors in the 10 to Clark Univer ity in the emi- knotted th core at four. center field. Ali Merchant G triumphed in the beginning," aid Chri Van finals of the ew England Women ith the game tied at the end of In the fifth, Mowry punched a 1997 State "A" as achu etts Schalkwyk PhD '96, a squash play- Eight conference tournament. regulation play, an eighth inning double into deep left field to drive oftball qua h Championship, held er watching the finals. Their conference final record of began with the International Tie- Davis in from third ba e, increasing la t unday at the Concord-Acton With Davis controlling the pace 5-9 was a va t improvement over Breaker Rule. Thi rule grant the lead to 2-0. The rest of the Squash Club. Merchant, who was in the second and third games, last year, when the team had only each team a runner on econd base inning went quickly, de pite one run seeded second in the tournament, Merchant was forced to play a two wins. The team's trong sea on at the beginning of each extra collected by Smith in the bottom took five game to defeat Robert defen ive game. Merchant jump play carried into the Clark match inning. Clark wa able to capitalize half. Davi (9-6,8-10,2-9,9-1,9-2). to an early lead in the fourth game, but wa not enough to secure a vic- on this advantage and score the In the ixth inning, MIT added a Merchant advanced to the finals and Davis seemed to essentially tory in extra-inning play. game winning run, to win the much needed in urance run when by easily winning the quarterfinals concede the game. The team jumped to an early 2-0 game 5-4. Cherubin scored from third on a on April 21 and the semifinals on "It was clear that in the last two lead in the first inning behind the passed ball. Smith added another Saturday. The strong audience of games, Ali became very relaxed, strong offen ive play of Sherry Team enges earlier mith 10 run in th bottom of the seventh, over 30 people cheered on both and his selection of shots [worked] owry '9 and Kri ty toke '99. Before making the semifinal, and they threatened more. players at Sunday's final. very well," Van Schalkwyk said. In Clark was able to an wer back IT had to beat one of the best MIT did not give in, and record- 'In the fir t game, I caught him the fifth game, Merchant unleashed in the bottom of the first with one teams in the league, mith College, ed the final out to end the eventh by surprise, and ba ically I won his "Dingpo" shot, hitting the ball run, but IT did not quit as they in order to advance. After a 1-010 and another MIT - mith one-run becau e of that. In the second game harder and volleying to his advan- extended their lead to 4-1 in the to Smith during the regular eason, game, with a score of 3-2; thi time he was getting back in the rallies," tage, to win the game and the cham- second inning with the powerful the team was fired up to meet them with MIT a the victors. A strong Merchant said. The first game was pionship. bats of Anna Cherubin '99 and in post eason play. hitting display was also put on by characterized by long rallies from Merchant is currently a doctorate Katie Barron '00. Again IT jumped to an early third ba em an Cherubin who went the back court. student in the Department of Through the next three innings, lead by coring a ingle run in the three for four with two doubles. "Hi hots were cleaner and very Aeronautics and Astronautics. ~T~LK? Women's Track Finishes Third in NEW 8 Meet By Eugenia Hahn The 4 x 100 meter relay team TEAM MEMBER came in third, ahead of Mount On Saturday, the women's varsi- Holyoke and WPI. But more impor- J ~~~;~ ty track and field team completed tantly, the combined efforts their regular season with a third- Chen, Eugenia Hahn '97, Renee -x;-8800- place finish at the New England Bowen '00, and Natalie Smith '00 Women's Eight Championship meet allowed them to break a school This space donated by The Tech at Mount Holyoke College. record with a time of 53.27 seconds...... •...... •...... - Smith College won the meet Other stellar performances with 189 points, followed by included solid finishes in the 1,500 . Wheaton College with 185 points . meters by Janis Eisenberg '98, . MIT came in third with a total of Michelle Hardiman '00, and Debbie . 119 points, ahead of Mount Won '00 with times of 5:04.46, : A Quickstation is a workstation What can you do at a Quickstation? Holyoke College's 103 and 5:08.45, and 5: 12.85 respectively. : with a timer. Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Eisenberg, Hardiman, and Won fin- . • Do use Quickstations for quick tasks: 13. ished within 10 seconds of each . This gives the Engineers a final . Think checking e-mail, sending a document to a other and placed second, fourth, and . of Quickstations as the Athena equiva- record of 8-4, their best season ever . lentsofAlMs. Quickstation sessions are iden- printer, or looking up information. fifth. . with a record number of athletes - In the 3,000 meters, Eisenberg . tical to regular Athena session, except that qualifying for New, 'England . • Don't use Quickstations for any set of tasks and Won scored 16 points with first- Division III and Eastern Collegiate . countdown messages are displayed regu- and third-place finishes. Eisenberg . that together take longer than ten minutes: Athletic Conference championship . larly, and, after ten minutes, warning mes- ran her season best with a time of . surfing the web, making significant meets. . iO:47.75. In her second attempt at . sages are displayed repeatedly until you log The 1997 NEW 8 Track and . changes to a document, or starting a new the event, Won qualified for the . out. Everything else is regular Athena: you Field Championship meet was a . project. For these, use a regular worksta- Division III meet with an improved . login and out as usual, all your files are memorable meet with four confer- . tion in an Athena cluster. time of II: 18.05, a rime that was 65 ence meet records falling. For MIT, available as usual, and all the Athena capa- seconds faster than her first attempt this was another meet that continued bilities are at your disposal. In field events, noteworthy per- .' Speed up your login. Customize the successful trend of breaking school records. formances included the second- and a quick session. School records were broken in fourth-place finishes in the high the 200-meter dash, 800-meter run, jump by Jill Eich '99 and Chen. Use the $ATHENA_QUICK environment javelin, and the 4 x 100 meter relay. Eich tied the current record of 5 feet variable in your dotfiles to specify which Breaking her old record of 28.44 I inch. Both Chen and Eich quali- fied for the Division III meet as well of your customizations to run and which seconds in the 200, Elaine Chen '99 as the ECAC championship meet. to ignore. To use this variable, include finished with a time of 27.58. Leah Nichols '00 established a With a throw of 107 feet II syntax such as the following in the appro- new varsity and freshman record in inches in the hammer, Elizondo priate dotfile(s). For most users, this is the 800 with a time of 2 minutes earned the opportunity to compete .startup.X and .environment. Remember, 28.57 seconds. This performance in the Division III meet. adding lockers and starting up applica- also enables Nichols to advance to This weekend, the women's track and field team will compete at tions on login takes time. the NE Division III meet. In winning the javelin, Jennifer the New England Division III cham- Elizondo '99 threw a personal best pionship meet at Tufts University. It if ($?ATHENA_QUICK) then and knocked down an old record set will be an opportunity for the team i commands for quicks tat ion only . . in 1992. With a distance of 109 feet to achieve more personal bests as Where are the Quickstcitions? else . 1 inch, Elizondo qualified for the 'well as a chance to break some # commands for normal athena login . Division III and ECAC meets. more records in a competitive field . Quickstation are planned for many campus endif . sites. 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