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Cambridge, "Massachusetts 02139 Thursday, August 29, 2002 MIT Used Comic Art for Grant Proposal Freshmen By Dan Coo STAFF REPORTER In competing for its $50 million Apathetic mmotecimology research grant from the U.S. Army last winter, MIT used an allegedly pirated comic book About image without crediting the original artists. A cartoon image.used in MIT's proposal and subsequent publicity Hall Rush efforts appears to be copied from illustrations in Radix, 'a comic boo~ By Christine R. Fry created by two brothers in Montre~ . NEWS EDITOR who recently decried MIT's actions In-house rush occurred in most publicly. MIT dormitories Wednesday , The image in question depicts l;Ul evening. armor-clad female soldier' holding' In-house rush began soon after two weapons. The figure's,equipment the results of .the residence hall and stance are almost identical to the adjustment lottery were released at 7 character on a cover of Radix. The . p.m. Freshmen in the dormitories city-scape ,background of MIT's were given the opportuni ty to , image .also bears a striking resem- explore each floor of the dormitory blance to those found m Radix. The to which they were assigned. The image 'distributed by' MIT was later freshmen were then asked to rank widely-circulated in national newspa~ their preferences. pers and other media when MIT was Many haJls at East Campus, Mac- awarded the $50 million grant last Gregor House, and Burton-Conner served food, gave hall tours, and had March to create the Institute for Sol- . HORIZON COMICS dier Nanotechnology. A cartoon Image.Mll distributed with a proposal for a $50 million grant from the U.S. Army (left) is sim- several members available to discuss Ray Lai, who created Radix with Ilar to Im~ges from Radix (right), a comic produced by Ray and Ben Lal., the various benefits of living on their his brother, Ben, said"he began to floors . . receive phone calls in April from fans The image was credited to an "H .. and' direCtor-of the new lab, told the illustration was based on his descrip- informing him that his work was Thomas" in MIT news releases: . Web site CNET.com in a March tions of the proposed new technolo- Freshmen apathetic about rush being used to accompany news.arti-' Edwin L. Thomas, a professor in interview that. the. image ~as drawn Some residents of dormitories cles ~ut MIT's new I:Csearchgrant. Materials Scien~e and .Engineering .by his daughter. He also said that the Comic, Page 10 participating in in-house rush noticed that many freshmen were apathetic about their housing choices. .First Floor Student Center Renovations Ongoing "A lot of fres~en don't seem to By Eun J. Lee A new lounge will be locate~ in will strengthen the social interac- game room currently resides. be wanting to leave even their _FEA_TU_'RE_S_E_D_"'_O_R the current lobby, complete with tions that take place on this floor;" Walsh said that -The Source, an rooms," Co-Floor Chair of Burton The first floor of the Student furniture, carpeting, and new light- said Phillip J. Walsh, director of the information and ticket sales booth Four, Daniel R. Garcia '04, said. He Center will be getting a facelift,in ing. Plans are being made to move Campus Activities Complex. "This for the MIT community, will be is a "little worried" about this apathy. the coming weeks. the game room from its.home in the will become a location where peo- taken out of the Student Center Garcia noted, however, that Notable changes are already basement to the Transitions lounge, pIe can come and just hang out." , because it is seldomly used. "there's at least interest in hall rush." .apparentm the newly-painted color refurbished with new games like Other c,hanges include a new The CAC Advisory Board decid- "I feel like.[in-house rush] is scheme, but more' drastic changes pool and table tennis. Latino cultural center that will move are on the way. "We're hoping' that the chan~es in to the basenient space where the Renovations, Page 11 In-house Rush, Page 11 Still Know Your Calculus? Try The Tech's 18.01 Test By Brian Loux efit of two years of MIT education, - NEWS EDITOR should be able to fare considerably Upperclassmen always enjoy weJl on a basic calculus exam. taking freshmen naivete for outright I opted to take the 18.0 I (Calcu- stupidity. Is it an accurate descrip- lus) test instead of the 8.02 (Elec- , tion? tricity and Magnetism) test because presumably all scientists and engi- While Rer.orter's:J:' many neers use basic calculus on a fairly h a v e .regular basis. Notebook already I wanted to be entirely unpre------mas - pared for the test as well, an attempt .tered and passed the courses fresh- to make the exam a random test of men have yet to be taught, have we an MIT student's abilities. Thus I actually retained our knowledge chose not to study for the test and from the past? got set for only five hours of sleep. When the opportunity to pit myself against the freshmen arose, I I'm a fresbman, really eagerly decided to find out. I realized going in that I had Yesterday morning, some mem- everything to lose. My own dignity, AARON D. MIHALIK-THE TECH bers of the Class of 2006 awoke at the reputation of The Tech, Envi- SI~dhartha Sen '03 (left), Mlng-Fal Fong '05 and Jorge B. Bravo '05 perfonn a sketch during a 8:00 a.m. - probably the last time ronmental Engineers, the lacrosse Tech Theater rehearsal on Wednesday. In this sketch, Bravo talks 5en Into playing 'You Get for the next nine months - to take team, Next House, the Freshman

SI~hed.' <, " •• the 18.01 advanced standing exam. I . figured that I, a junior with the ben- Test, Page 7'

Nothing is Comics OPINION taboo for- Jyoti Tibrewala discusses the World & Nation 2

comic Mar- teaching of creationism in public Opinion '0 •••••••••• 4 garet Cho. schools. .Events Calendar 6, Arts : 8 Page 8 Page 6 Page 5 Page 2 THE TECH August 29, 2002 WORLD & NATION Muslim Group May Be Targeting Six Men Indicted On Charges U.S. Embassy

THE 1I:4SJIINGTON POST BEInNG Of Terrorist Activity The U.S. Embassy in Beijing said Wednesday there is evidence that an obscure Muslim organization fighting Chinese rule in the By Douglas Farah men lived was a videotape "that. Ujaama and others traveled in Octo-' western province of Xinjiang has been planning a terrorist strike and Tom Jackman appears to depict surveillance" of ber, 1999 from Seattle to Bly, where against the U.S. Embassy in Kyrgyzstan. TIlE WASII/NGroN POST U.S. 'landmarks, including Disney- they took firearms practice. After The allegation, aimed at the East Turkestan Islamic Movement Authorities in two cities land and the MOM Orand hotel in visiting the property, Ujaama faxed (ETIM), marked the first time the United States or China has accused Wednesday charged a total of six Las Vegas. Several of the men have a proposal to Abu Harnza ai-Masri, a Uighur rebel group of plotting to attack Americans. Added to other men with conspiring to support been in custody ever since, but a militant Muslim cleric in London, U.S. statements blaming the movement for more than 200 terrorist international terrorism, calling one , authorities Wednesday alleged the describing the location's benefits, acts in China, it suggested the Bush administration has accepted the group in the Detroit area a "sleeper extent of the plot for the first time. including its availability as a safe- Chinese government's assertion that it is fighting radical Muslim ter- operational combat cell" of radical An FBI spokeswoman said that h'ouse location and suitability for rorists in Xinjiang. Muslims that was helping to plot the indictment represents the first weapons storage, the indictment Human rights groups have accused China of exaggerating the ter- attacks in the United States, Turkey time that anyone has been publicly alleges. rorist threat to justify a crackdown on dissent among the region's 8 and Jordan. accused of being part of an active Ujaama is also accUsed of design- million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking ethnic group that practices a mod- In an indictment of five Detroit "sleeper cell" in the Umted States. ing web sites for al-Masri advocating erate form of Islam. men handed up by a federal grand Authorities have made several violent jihad. against America. Al- On Monday, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage jury, prosecutors alleged that four other arrests, since the Sept. 11 Masri has been foimally designated a announced that ETIM had been added to a State Department list of suspects "operated as a covert attacks of people Jhey accuse of terrorist by the U.S. government and terrorist groups, free?:ing its assets in the United States and fulfilling a underground support unit for terror- cooperating with terror groups, linked to such incidents as the bomb- long-standing request by the Chinese government. He said the group ist attacks." The cell, part of an including American citizen Jose . ing of the USS Cole in Yemen, "committed acts of violence against unarmed civilians without any organization affiliated with al- Padilla, who they allege'was part of which killed 17 American sailors in regard for who was hurt." Qaeda, was responsible for procur- a plot to detonate a radioactive an attack that the U.s.. government ing false passports, Social Security bomb in the United States. But the blames on al-Qaeda. But al Masri ' numbers and other documents so Detroit indictment describes some has not been charged. Al-Qaeda Drawing Fresh Funds their "brothers" could enter the , of the most extensive efforts to date The two,:,count indictment SPECIAL TO TIlE WASJIINGroN POST , United States. , in the United States to aid the al- alleges Ujaama provided ~'training; UNITED NA nONS The indictment says the men Qaeda network. facilities, computer services, safe- A global campaign to block al-Qaeda's access to money has were specifically tasked with buying In an unrelated indictment hand- houses' and persoJlilel" to al-Qaeda stalled, enabling the terrorist network to obtain a fresh infusion of weapons and finding security breach- ed up Wednesday in Seattle, prose- as part ofa conspiracy. , tens of millions of dollars and putting' it in position to finance future es at Detroit Metropolitan Airport to cutors charged 36-year-old James Ujaama, a' Denver native who is attacks, according to a draft U.N. report. "directly access airlines." Two of the , Ujaama with attempting to set up an being held in Alexandria, Va., as a In the months immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks, the suspects worked in the kitchen of an al-Qaeda training camp at a farm in material witness, issued a statement United States and other U.N. members moved to shut down al- airline catering firm at the airport Bly, Ore., where he and others' Tuesday night saying he is "inno- Qaeda's financial network, freezing more than $112 million in assets during the sununer of 200 I. hoped to prepare future terrorists for . cent of any wrongdoing and .. ; fully belonging to suspected members and supporters of the organization. Seized in a Sept. 17 raid on the "global violent jihad." prepared to face my accusers and But only $10 million in additional funds have been blocked oyer Detroit apartment where three of the Accordin~ to the indictment, defend mys,elfin a court of law." the past eight months, according to the 43-page draft report, which was written by a U.N. panel responsible for monitoring enforcement of an arms, travel and ,financial embargo against al-Qaeda and its associates. Washington~Baltimo~eOlympic AI-Qaeda continues to draw on funds from the personal inheri- tance of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born dissident who heads the network, as well as investments and money diverted or embezzled from charitable organizations, according to the draft report. Bid Eliminated .By Comnrl.ttee By Johanna Neuman , nica1 bid with the decision not to The committee will announce its . t I- 4 Westerfield Penalty Phase Begins LOS ANGELES TIMES " move us for:ward," said Dan Knise, ,finat'selection _~nNov:'3. }', "~', WASHINGTON I.os ANGELES TIMES one of the torch carriers for Wash- ' Officially, the U.S. committee SAN DIEGO The U.S. Olympic Committee ington's six-year, $10 million, 'said oruy that the narrowing of the A fonner niece testified Wednesday that, when she was 7 years has rejected Washington, D.C.'s bid , Olympic campaign. "We alway's field was a conserlsiis choice. Unoffi- old, David Westerfield stuck his finger in her mouth while she was to host the 2012 Olympics because; knew that Washington had a unique , cially, according to leader's of the sleeping and began "playing with my teeth." Washington organizers of the effort position, pro and con. But we.>were , W ashingtQn- Baltimore team, there The testimony came on the first day of the penalty portion of say, the European-dominated Inter- somewhat blindsided at the end by was sentiment <;lmong committee Westerfield's trial for kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle national Olympic Committee would this amorphous sense that Washing- members that offering W~shington van Dam. not smile on an application from a ton might not be the right place." as the U.S. choice migl}t ffiflame the Under state law, a jury in a penalty trial can consider prior mis- city planning an unpopular war In making its decision Tuesday,' anti-Anierican bias, of Eur<;>peaJ:lSdis- conduct by the defendant, even if it did not result in a criminal charge against Iraq. the U.S. Olympic Committee elimi- 'trustful of Bush's drumbeating for or investigation. Once again, it seems, the foreign nated bids from Houston and the oUsting Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The young woman was called by the prosecution in an attempt to policy of the federal city has torpe- Washington-Baltimore region, leav- Some Washington observers were show that Westerfield had a tendency toward making improper doed the well-meaning, painstaking ing alive the hopes of San Francisco not surprised that the city - with its advances on underage girls. Deputy District Attorney Jeff Dusek told efforts of Washington to act like a and New York to be the U.S. choice- diverse neighborhoods, its cultur~l jurors in Superior Court that Westerfield deserves to be executed. normal town. to host the 2012 event. Even at that, wealth, its international flavor and its The witness, now 19, who was identified only as Jenny Lynn, said Through the civic smiles, it was the U.S. choice faces stiff opposi- ' economic vibrancy - was once she had bitten Westerfield to get him to stop, but that she had not hard to hide the disappointment. tipn from several Europeal! cities - again confused with the governmen- shouted or called for her parents, who were do~stairs at a party. "It's difficult to reconcile the 'among them Paris, ,Rome and tal policies of the "other" Washing- fact that we had such a strong tec~- Moscow. ton" the' s~at of federal power. WEATHER Relief from the Heat Coming Soon Situation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Thursday, August 29, 2002 ~~ r;,~.n~

" By Robert Korty G 400N STAFF REPORTER For those either spending their first week in New England or returning~ from a summer away, the weather could not have been more welcoming: it has been seasonable and refreshing all week. Just two weeks ago, the tem- perature at Logan airport reached 101°F (38°C), the highest recorded in 3S0N Boston in 25 years. It has hit or surpassed 90°F (32°C) in the city, 25 days this year, just four days shy of the record. In fact, over the past 12 months only in May and June was the monthly mean temperature below the 30-year

average. It has been a very warm year. 3QON With hot and dry weather for much of the summer, drought conditions have worsened over the eastern United States, reaching particularly severe levels in parts of the Southeast. This week, a low pressure system cut off from the main mid-latitude steering current produced c'opious amounts of 2S0N rain in the Southeast. The precipitation moved slowly northeast yesterday, and the probability of rain in southern New England will be high for the remainder of the week.

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Today: Cloudy with rain developing. High 68°F (20°C). Tonight: Rain. Low 58°F (l4°C). Weather Systems Weather Fronts Precipitation Symbols Other S mbols Friday: Showers early, then partial clearing. High nOF (22°C). Snow Rain _ Trough Fog Saturday: Partly cloudy with showers Saturday night. High 71°F H High Preosure - - Showen - VV* Thundenlorm (22°C); low 60°F (16°C)...... Warm Front IR' L Low Pressure Ughl CO Hll1.e ...... Cold Fronl * Modctatc Compiled by MIT ~ Hurricane: ** Meteorology Staff ...... Slalionary Fronl Heavy . '" .. and'TMTuh August 29,2002 'WORLD & NATION THE TECH Page 3

Former WorldCom Executives Tax Package Meant to Boost GOP THE WASlIlNGTON POST WASHINGTON Indicted For Securities Fraud The White Ho.use plans to.push fo.rward with a package o.f tax cuts fo.r investo.rs, but administratio.n o.fficials have made it clear to. co.n- By Carrie Johnson' he and ano.ther Wo.r1dCo.mexecutive said in an interview that his client cerned co.nservative eco.no.mists that the measures are designed more and Jonathan Krim were paraded in handcuffs befo.re will plead no.t guilty to.the charges. to. help Republicans in the fall electio.ns than to. pass Co.ngress this THE WASHINGTON POST televisio.n cameras in New Yo.rk as "We are diligently preparing his year. A federal grand jury in New part o.f a Bush administratio.n crack- defense," Nathan said. "We co.ntin- Wo.rsening federal deficit fo.recasts released Tuesday by the Co.n- Yo.rk Wednesday indicted two. fo.r- do.wn o.nco.rpo.rate malfeasance. The . ue to. lo.o.k fo.rward to. o.ur day in gressio.nal Budget Office have made lawmakers in bo.th parties skepti- mer Wo.rldCo.m. Inc. executives o.n co.operatio.n by o.ther Wo.rldCo.m Co.urt and we ho.pe by the time this cal abo.ut mo.re tax cuts. Treasury and White Ho.use tax experts met 'securities fraud charges while three o.fficials is likely. to. increase the case co.mes to. trial the media frenzy Wednesday to.hash o.utthe package, but progress stalled o.ver the Co.sts. o.ther o.fficials at the teleco.mmunica- pressure o.n Sullivan, experts said. fanned by po.liticians has calmed The package almo.st certainly will include a provisio.n to. raise the. tio.ns giant indicated that they are "The charges filed to.day reflect do.wn." amo.unt o.f sto.ck Io.sses that can be deducted fro.m inco.me taxes each prepared to. admit wro.ngdo.ing and' o.ur co.mmitment to. pursue. fraud Wo.rldCo.m has jo.ined Enro.n year, said co.ngressio.nal aides familiar with the nego.tiatio.ns. Also. C90.perate with pro.secuto.rs in the cases bo.th up ~nd do.wn the co.rpo.- Co.rp. 'as a symbo.l o.f the impro.per under co.nsideratio.n are reducing the tax rates o.n capital gains and fast-paced investigatio.n. rate ladder," James Co.mey, U.S. accounting so.me co.mpanies used to. sto.ck dividends; raising the limit fo.r co.ntributio.ns to. retirement Sco.tt Sullivan, Wo.rldCo.m's atto.rney fo.r the So.uthern District o.f deceive investo.rs during the sto.ck acco.unts; and bo.o.sting the age at which retirees must begin withdraw- o.netime chief financial o.fficer, and New Yo.rk, said in a prepared state- market bubble o.fthe late t990s. ing funds fro.m Individual Retirement Acco.unts from 70 and a half to. Bufo.rd'Yates Jr., the co.mpaJ.1Y's ~ent Wednesday. "We will pro.se- . Wo.rldCo.m is the parent co.mpa- 75 . 'directo.r o.f gen~ral, acco.~nting,. cute the CFOs and co.ntro.llers who. . ny o.f Arlingto.n, Va., lo.ng distance Bo.th liberal and co.nservative eco.no.mists have raised co.ncerns "falsely ..and ,fJaudulel)tly" j~duced give the o.rders 'fro.m"the top to. co.m- pho.ne firryl MCt and UUNet, the abo.ut the propo.sals' sho.rt-term eco.no.mic impacts and the precedent . the c~njp,ariy~s.~xpenses'in '~{leffo.rt , tftit white' c.~llar .crimes. But we will Ashburn, Va., 'Internet service' they might set for go.vernment interventio.n in the sto.ck market. But to. inflate eaqiings by $,5 b"illi<;>n,,also. pro.se.cute co.rpo.rate o.fficials at provider that carries a big chunk o.f acco.rding to. participants, Lindsey indicated he had no. illusio.ns that acco.rdIng tq)he fi~~(lo.nriarcrimi- .: all leve~s who. Ialo.wingly carry out the wo.rld's Internet traffic. the tax cuts wo.uld pass in the limited time Co.ngress has left befo.re nal charges stemming from the criminal schemes which defraud the Wo.r1dCo.m filed fo.r bankruptcy the mid-term electio.ns. nation's largest"ever barikruptcy. investing public." protectio.n in July after disclo.sing it Instead, participants said, the White Ho.use wo.uld be giving GOP Sullivan and Yates also. made Yates was a senio.r Wo.rldCo.m had falsely bo.o.ked $3.9 billio.n in candidates an answer to. Demo.crats who. blame the president's party false statements abo.ut Wo.rldCo.m's finance o.fficial who. left the co.mpa- expenses over the past five quarters . fo.rthis summer's dramatic sto.ck slide. .finances .infilings with the Securi- ny recently. His atto.rney, David Earlier this mo.nth, the co.mpany ties and Exchange Co.mmissio.n, the Schertler, said he has no.t had a repo.rted that it had mishandled $3.8 seven-co.unt indictment charged. chance to. review the indictment billio.n mo.re, in the fo.rm o.f reserve Nonprofit Groups Seek Exemption The. indictment o.f Sullivan ,was carefully and co.uld no.t co.mment. acco.unts designed to. cushio.n it foreshado.wed early thismo.nth ~hen Sullivan's lawyer, ,Irvin Nathan, fro.m Io.sses. From Campaign Finance Law LOS ANGEl.ES TIMES WASHINGTON Charges Filed Against Moroccan Two. no.npro.fit o.rganizatio.ns urged federal regulators Wednesday to. exempt charities and fo.undatio.ns fro.m provisio.ns o.f the new cam- paign-finance law that restrict televisio.n advertisements prio.r to.,an electio.n. ' Connected With Terrorist Attacks The plea fro.m the Sierra Club Fo.undatio.n and the Alliance fo.r By Carol J. Williams , No.vember 2000 and that "large pho.to.s taken at the wedding o.f Justice came as the Federal Electio.n Co.mmissio.n began debating the LOS ANGELES TIMES sums o.f mo.ney were regularly ano.ther suspect, Said Bahaji, who. is law's effo.rts to. rein in bro.adcast ads, funded by unregulated do.na- BERLIN transferred into. this acco.unt. ... no.w a fugitive. tio.ns to.special-interest gro.ups, that attack Dr promo.te po.litical candi- Federal pro.secuto.rs filed criininal' According to. o.ur info.rmatio.n, these Mo.tass~deq, an electrical engi- dates. charges Wednesday against the o.nly , funds were used to. help m~mbers o.f n~ering student, attended the same Under the law, the unregulated do.natio.ns- kno.wn as so.ft mo.ney suspect in their custo.dy linked.to. the the terro.rist gro.up." Hamburg Technical Univers'ity - may. no.t be used to.pay fo.r ads that mentio.n a candidate fo.r federal Hamburg. terro.rist ~ell accused, o.f The payments were made to. sup- department where Atta and Shehhi o.ffice 30 days befo.re a primary electio.n Dr 60 days befo.re a general carrying o.utthe Sept. 11 attacks. _ po.rt the plo.tters during their stay in were' students. His apartment was electio.n. Mo.unir EI Mo.tassadeq, a 28- t~-e United States fo.r flight training, . just a few blacks .fro.m the Marien- The autho.rs o.f the law designed these provisio.ns to. crack do.wn year-DId Mo.ro.ccan, will face trial investigato.rs said .. strasse hango.ut where the elabo.rate o.n so.-called. "sham issue ads" that are o.ften used to. influence elec- "because o.f his participatio.n in the Atta, a 33-year~old Egyptian, is planning fo.r the terro.r strikes is tio.ns. They' feared that the proliferatio.n o.f such ads wo.uld defeat the terro.r attacks," the offi~e o.f federal believed to. have pilo.ted the believed to. have taken place under main po.int o.f the law, which was to. pro.hibit natio.nal parties and fed- .hijacl\ed Bgein'g 767 that;cra,shed , Atta's supervisio.n: ' eral candidates fro.m co.llecting so.ft mo.ney. '. pro.secuto.r Kay Nehm-announced in 1 a statement that ciid not ~pecify the . int.o. the no.rth to.wer of the Wo.rld Internatio.nal arrest warrants But the law allo.ws the FEC to. create exceptio.ns, to. the pre-eJec- charges. Nehm scheduled a news Trade Center in New Yo.rk o.n Sept. have been issued by Nehm's o.ffice tio.n advertising rule. And so. the two. no.npro.fitgroups argued, in writ- co.nference ,fo.rThursday to. disclo.se /11. Sixteen,minutes later, ano.ther fo.rthree other suspect~d co.llabo.ra- ten testimo.ny, that the co.mmissio.n sho.uld cut a break fo.rpublic char- deta~ls. 767 rammed .the so.uth to.wer. She- ,'to.rs fro.m the Hamburg cell: Bahaji, ities and private fo.undatio.ns in the interest o.f free speech. , Mo.tassadeq was, a frequent yisi- hhi, 23, o.f,the United Arab Emi- 27, a German citizen o.r'Mo.ro.ccan 'to.r to. the Hamburg apartment o.f rates, was believed to. have been at . descent; Ramsi Binalshibh, ~O; o.f hijackers Mo.hamed Atta and Mar- the co.ntro.ls. Yeinen; and Zakariya Essabar, 25, .Fuel Source Discovered in Sugar wan al Shehhi, and., his name Ano.ther. Hamburg associate, o.f Mo.ro.cco.. They are all wanted NEWSDAY appeared last fall o.n a U.S. list o.f Ziad Jarrah, 26, o.f Lebano.n,.died- fo.r alleged suppo.rt to. the suicide Clean-burning hydrogen can pro.bably be squeezed from a co.m- 370 peo.ple Dr asso.ciations suspected abaard' United' Airlines Flight 93, pilo.ts. ino.n sugar, gluco.se, perhaps at reaso.nable Co.st,scientists in Wisco.n- o.f assisting terro.rists. He was arrest- which' crashed in rural Pennsylvania Autho.rities are still investigating sin anno.unced Wednesday. ed No.v. 28 after investigato.rs dis- after passengers apparently sto.rmed whether Motassadeq's two. years o.f If so., it wo.uld be po.ssible to. get large amo.unts o.f a clean, energy- co.vered he had a' po.wer o.f atto.rney the co.ckpit. wo.rk as a janito.r at Hamburg's air- rich fuel fro.m waste plant pro.ducts, such as to.ns o.f lefto.ver sugar o.ver a ba~ account held by Shehhi , In interviews befo.re his arrest, po.rt might have given ~im access to. cane, weeds and wo.o.d, and even fro.m such animal bypro.ducts as .and had been a Witness to. Atta' s laSt Mo.tassad,eq denied any role in the secure are.as Dr means o.f creating cheese whey, they said. w,ill and testament - a do.cument attacks and insisted that he knew the false identificatio.ns. German media Based on experiments using metal catalysts and sugars, chemical ,replete with extremist religious suspects only fro.m o.ccasio.nal repo.rted last fall that po.lice sweeps engineers James Dumesic, Randy Co.rtwright and Rupali Davda expressio.ns and parano.id co.mments. enco.unters in Hamburg at the al- o.f suspected terro.rist hide-o.uts in repo.rted o.n their findings in Thursday's issue o.f the science jo.urnal - In a statement at the time o.f Quds mo.sque they all fre.quented. o.ther areas o.f the co.untry turned up Nature. Mo.tassadeq~s arrest, Nehm's o.ffic'e But so.urces invo.lved in the investi- airline unifo.rms and'security badges "If we're using a cheap eno.ugh waste stream" to. make the glu- said the suspect managed the bank gatio.n,say the Moro.ccan is pictured that might have helped terro.rists co.se, Dumesic said, "then I think we co.uld be co.mpetitive" with acco.unt fo.r Shehhi fro.m May to. With the Sept: It._figures in 1999 gain access to.planes. o.ther energy so.urces. But if the gluco.s~ .had to. be bo.ught fro.m the fo.o.dindustry, "that wo.uld be to.o.expensive." Acco.rding to.Esteban Cho.rnet and Stefan Czernik, at the Natio.nal .Al~aeda Members Fled To Kurdish Renewable Energy Labo.rato.ry in Go.lden, Co.lo., "bio.fuels" such as gluco.se derived fro.m plant waste "are beco.ming a viable co.mpo.nent o.fto.mo.rro.w's energy mix." They wro.te inNature that "crops such as sugar cane, as well as switchgrass and hybrid po.pl

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jobs that are all part-time, they still have no bridge, and in all the buildings that MIT Stephanie W. Wang health insurance if their children should hap- owns, from Technology Square to Universi- County pen to become ill. ty Park, the janitors who maintain them are It's easy to take Boston and Cambridge You may suspect that this situation exists also covered under this master contract. for granted once one has been at MIT for a due to some economic sense or industry So ask yourselves: does it make any Decision while becaus~ we always expect it to be norm or special constraints that I have con- sense that, while the janitors who work at there when((ver we want to eat decent food, veniently neglected to mention. However, I, . MIT can earn $15/hour and have benefits buy used books or CDs, or explore one of ask you: what economic sense is there in' such as health insurance, the janitors work- Creationism Should be the countless options these cities have to national building owners, such as Equity ing part-time in a building owned by MIT offer. By the same token, we never expect Office, Metlife, arid Boston Properties to down the street are making only $10/hour Taught as a Social Scierue the halls and c1as~rooms, of MIT to be any pay higher wages in cities where rent is sig- with no health insurance? MIT has a respon- different each time we head to class. How- ,nificantly lower? I ask you: are 'Boston jani- sibility not only as an academic institution, ever, try to imagine the- cities or our campus tors being paid the industry norm when jani- but also as a building owner in this case, to Jyoti R. Tibrewala without janitors cleaning them every single tors can earn $11.96 in Philadelphia, $12:20 uphold basic workers' rights to a decent day, often at hours in Chicago, $15.25 in standard of living. MIT collects ever- The Cobb County school district in Georgia when we have already ------San Francisco and up increasing tuitions from its students and recently adopted a policy requiring biblical gone throug-h a few to $17.45 in New constantly asks for donations from alumni interpretations of the origins of life to be REM cycles.' , MIT has ,a responsibility York? for "the evolving campus," the research pro- stressed in schools as much as the theory of It's easy to forget " 1 d One has' to wonder jects, and the expansions into Cambridge. evolution. This policy passed amid uproar from about their hard work not_,on.y as an am emic' , .r if landlords such as What about the more than one hundred jani- many that this was a backdoor route to having when they ha,:e nev:r~ '~~';;'.~insiitutionbut.also ' Equity Office Proper- tors working on campus who are under the public schools endorse religion. let us down WIth thelf " ties, the largest one, master contract? Why are they not treated All the separation':of-church-and-state 'dedicatio~'land have . as. a buil~ing oumer in this case, and Boston Properties equally to the direct employees of MIT? Is fanatics can calm down. Religion is already maintained a c1,e~l] ~> "h ld' b " k" h guarantee full-tim'e MIT's endowment so low that it is simply taught in schools in social studies classes. In environ'men"t in' which "to Up 0 aslCwor, ers, ng ts work and health not feasible financially? It is time for MIT to world history, the basic tenets of the major reli- , \Y~ can study, _wo'rk, to a decent standard of living. insurance to janitors recognize that the janitors who clean our gions in the world areas studied are introduced thInk, and - play. ,' . in other cities' but not campus and MIT -owned buildings are just as to students. The unit on Southeast Asia Unfortunately, the in 'Boston simply integral to the MIT comrri~nity as any stu- includes some basic information about Bud- building owners, of because they ,have dent or member of the faculty or staff. dhism and Hinduism, for example. Likewise, I Which MIT is a 'prominent one, and cleaning' been able to get away with the greed thus The good news in this dismal situation is can recall learning about Catholicism and other contractors in the Boston area have let the' far. After all, according to the SEIU, imple- that janitors under the master contract, western religions to a degree in my tenth grade janitors down with low wages, a lack of menting all the demands proposed by' the whi

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2) No, I can't do that one. . take the derivative of that and the Frosh Bravely Face Need some (Incorrect) critical value will be the maximum 3a, b) Fuck, I don't care. That's x value. Plug that ba,?k into the paper? too much work. (Incorrect) original equation. (Correct) First MIT Math Test These questions were modified 4) Differentiate each segment 2. Man. Well, since you can't from ones that were given on and place them together? That' have a zero denominator ... wait Test, -fr,?mPage 1 extreme amount of duress, but none . Wednesday morning's 18.01 (Cal- takes too long. (Incorrect) , (friend tries to steer him in the right of them showed the slightest bit of culus) advanced standing exam. 5a) Sin of 5x plus pi times - direction). Nuts, I don't know. OH Urban Program, and most impor- quivering. I conimend the freshmen Participants' answers are direct no, divided by five. And a negative MAN! It's a little disheartening tantly the respect of Nora for the job they did and hope that quotes made while writing out or sign. No! Cosine! I eventually got that something so obvious isn't rec- Buchanan, who taught me this stuff their nerves stay for the rest of verbally explaining the problem. it! (partial credit) ognizable after so short a time. back in my senior year of high their years. To protect the dignity of some par- . 5b) Oh man. (Question changed (Incorrect) school. I f~lt confident when I finished ticipants in this survey, the inter- to identify the method needed) 3a) Chain rule. Simple. (Cor- After a long string of personal the test. Botching three of 15 ques- viewed were able to classify them- What method? I don't know that. rect) -, foolish mishaps, such as locking , tions still gives me around an 80 selves,in any way they chose, (Question changed to what term 3b) Quotient rule. I remember myself out of my dorm room, going percent, so that's still-above pass- though they had to provide their would be needed for substitution) that one. Denominator derivative to the wrong test room, and forget- ing. And I'm on pass/fail, right? year. Questions are weighted even- What term? OH! u! That would be times the numerator minus the " ting a pencil, I finally got into 10- ly, with sub-questions given 10 x3 + 2. (partial credit) opposite of'that ... over the 250 half an hour late. I was nervous How smart is you? percent apiece. Arithmetic errors Total: 10% denominator squared. (Correct) that today wasn't going to be the As a researcher, I felt a tad were given half credit. The real 4) Yeah, it's basically the chain day to test my intelligence. unsatisfied from the test. How help- 18.01 test required students to Junior, Next House rule and you have to factor out a For full effect, I wore my South ful is just one person's experience? receive a grade of 70 percent or 1) Draw the parabola ' .. ok, dy/dx term each time and'you're Lakes High School Seniors shirt -to So recalling some of the problems higher to pass out of the class. then write a function f{x) ... g(x) , ok. (Correct) make my fre~hman appearance all that I just faced, I wrote up The For a challenge for the readers, which would be th~ function 5a) Hmm, pretty much the the more convincing. The overseer Tech's own calculus quiz and took it answers are not listed, though solu- squared '" ok give me some paper. reverse chain rule. Is it indefinite? eagerly accepted my apology abo!lt to the streets. tions and. solution methods can be (Draws a positive parabola) Damn Then add a constant. (Correct) tardiness (I didn't even have to use, i was actually also' hoping to discerned from the responses. you. (Draws a negative parabola) 5b) That's just substitution. u my excuse about being at a manda- find a mathematics professor and Hell, the hard part is writing the would be 'x:3 + 2 and we get rid of tory event) and let me sit in the grade h~m really harshly, but with 1) Find the maximum possible function here. (Incorrect) the numerator through duo (Cor- fourth row. I felt pleased to appear classes a week away, it was a area of a rectangle that could fit in 2) That's the cosine of pi, so rect) so young. Miraculously, th~ gradu- tougher job than I expected. Getting the space betWeen the x-axis and that's negative one. (Correct) Total: 80% ate student who asked to see my .students to take a math test was no the parabola -2r + 8. 3a) Oh, these are evil. (Writes ID Card did not notice that .it picnic, either. I frequently heard the 2) No paper needed. What is, answer) This is a chain rule prob- Junior, McCormick expired in 2004 and not 2006. phrase "I'm no math major!" as I the value of the 'limit as R lem. (Correct) 1) Easy. You plot the tWo on Thus I was able to finish .the test walked around campus. "I don't approaches zero of (sin(pi + R) - 3b) Well, I only mow the prod- the X- Y coordinate system. and without incident. want to d

think back to what implicit differ- oiled int~grating mac~m~ a very -. over. (Correct). of parabola then. Well, you would use differentiation is! I think I'd try to Ieritiationinearit~ but of courstto no rusty one. Others had lost ~heir bat- I~' 2) (Correct) . a set of p~etric equations and graph the function to get it's tan- avail. teries completely. .~. ' 3a, b) (Correct) then take the' derivative of each . gent line. (Incorrect) By this time, the really smart While polling was entertaining, 4) (Correct) (Incorrect)'. _ 5a) Wow. This would have people were turning in their I wasn't really able to' draw any Sa, b) (Correct, 'though {hey 2. Let's see ... that's one ... been pretty easy freshmen year. papers: There is nothing more conclusions about retention or complained that it was adifftcult shoot! Cosine of pi is negative! Je'ez. Junior's not that old. Ahh, detrimental to a~test-taker than . class intelligence from the test. All problem.) (Arithmetic error) . nega~ve cosine! (Arithmetic error) someone clomping to the front of I can say is I felt a lot better when Total:.100% (rest cut short due to other time . 5b) OK, tell the 'freshmen to the room and handing/in his or her I was no longer in the hot seat and commitments) write down as much as they can paper, reminding you that you became the 18.01 sage (because I Sophomore, Female, Asian and confuse the graders and get must be stupid for not yet finish- had memorized the answers). I also 1) OK, for-this you have to take Junior East Campus partial credit. (Incorrect) . ing. I kept telling myself that I felt like I was doing a public ser- the Reimann or Rye-man sum" . 1. Ok, the area of the rectangle Total: 20% arrived late and wasn't even taking vice, as many people made a vow either that or you take .the integral will be two times x times the the test for credit, but I 'couldn't to brush up on their math skills for of the parabola. No? (Incorrect) parabola's y value in terms ofx. So Compiled by Brian Loux keep focuse.d. Stupid smart fresh- next term. -- men. What impressed me the most was the confidence that freshmen seemed to display during their tests. Here they were for their first real MIT test in an intimidating lecture halt' and already under an 8ESI'PRICES0" rED' 800KS WWW.QUANTUMaOOKS.COM

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RESTAURANT REVIEW lose the fascination with their overrated pies. dollars, you'll get a sizeable bimh mi sandwich. For fancy pizza, go to Emma's (Kendall) or Pronounced "bagne-mee," where "bagne" is Figs (Beacon Hill & Charlestown). For real like the French pronunciation of "champagne," GoodSwill Hunting pizza, get thee to Santarpio's in East Boston. this is one of the few miraculous results of colo- nialism: a Vietnamese sandwich that combines I salivate just thinking about the goat curry tangy pickled carrots and cucumbers with a rich Eating and Drinking in Boston and Beyond or the stewed oxtail at Rhythm & Spice. Get it pork pate and slices of ham and other lunch- By Winnie Yang On one-side ofFilene's in Downtown Cross- with roti instead of rice and beans. And don't meats, all on a crusty, buttery, slightly toasted STAFF WRITER ing, there's a take-away counter that dishes out forget the fried plantains (I usually prefer the French baguettine (or mini-baguette). There are First published last year, this recently updated chacareros, the delectable Chilean sandwich of green kind). a multitude of versions, each with different fill- guide is specially dedicated to the Class of grilled meat (I prefer the steak to the chicken), ings, but this is the standard. 2006. avocado spread, sundry fresh vegetables, and Best breakfast, part I: potato pancakes and sauteed green beans '(that would be the Chilean banana-stuffed challah French toast at Zaftigs Best Indian: Tanjore (Harvard Square) and here are some that eat to. live - and part, apparently), all on a large fluffy roll made Delicatessen (Brookline). Everyone seems to Punjabi Dhaba (Inman Square). , then there are those of us that live to in-house daily. offer a version of challah French toast, but none 'eat. Being notorious for a food obses- do it like the fat lady. Decent borscht as well. There's also the konna from Bombay Cafe Tsion some might consider extreme, I Octopus salad at Atasca (Kendall Square). (Back Bay/Symphony). Be sure to specify "as am frequently mistaken for a food snob. Quite Briny and tender, this is one tasty cephalopod. Best breakfast, part II: Belgian waffle at hot as your grandma makes it." Probably best to the contrary, in' fact; I am the least picky eater I Neighborhood Bakery and Cafe (Union Square, stick to delivery here. know. I'll eat just about anything - as long as The Jimmy Carter at The Wrap: a peanut Somerville). Comes with the most delicious 'it's good. Unfortunately, there are those that butter,- banana, and ice cream smoothie. Friend- bowl of Cream of Wheat you'll ever taste. The egg tart at Ho Yuen Bakery (China- would inteIject here, protesting that one can't ly, just like,our former president. town) has a tender, flaky crust and a silky cus- possibly eat well all the time, that one simply Lemon and sugar crepes at Le Gamin (South tard filling with just a hint of sweetness. Yum. can't afford to. Such people ,simply confuse Best all-around high-end restaurant: Radius. , End). The butter and sugar ones are also excel- Good Food With its very distant relative'- and i've hung out in the "kitchen for several months lent. Less French ambience than in years past, Roti canai and kangkung belacan at Penang only by marriage - Fancy Food, .or. with the and seen fIrst-hand their relentless pursuit of but still a charming place. Good for a first date. (Chinatown or Harvard). The first is an addic- completely unrelated and often total stranger, perfection in all aspects of the dining experi- Mr. Crepe (Davis Square) is cheaper and less tive, chewy fried bread, accompanied by a curry Expensive Food. While I am not ~verse to ence.' The '~ttention to detail is mind-boggling. charming, but a fierce contender. dipping sauce, while the other is sauteed greens ordering the pan-seared flank of wildebeest ,with If you ever eat a salad there, note how' beautiful (water convolvulus) dosed with the distinctive, osetra'caviar-fennel pollen gelee' and blood , each leaf of lettuce is. Somewhere back in the Butternut squash soup at Salts (Kendall). pungent Malaysian shrimp sauce. orange foam~ sometimes there's nothing better bowels of the place, there's someone who None better. than E~y Cheese on Wheat 'fh!ns. , hunched over enough greens to sustain all the Mango juice with lychee at the Chinatown ,rabbits in Australia and painstakingly selected N6 at Rod Dee II (Fenway): pan-fried rice Eatery. The counter here is bedecked with signs As a foodie, I often go to great lengths to only those that are flawless and blemish-free . . noodles that are all greasy goodness. I'm also a listing dozens of flavors of smoothies, juices . fmd a good, meal and I .devote an inordinate . Yeah, I did that for four hours once. Needless to big fan of the golden triangles here. and teas, some of which come with those amount of time and attention to what I eat (see say, you better finish that salad. gummy - yet strangely appealing - marble- my Web page for proof). Knowing this, many The ffi!Ouzia at Argana (East Cambridge) is sized tapioca balls. If you go for the more well- people often come to me for suggestions -and Mashawna soup -at The Helmapd (East one of'the be~t braised lamb dishes in the city known pearl milk tea, the extra-wide straws recommendations, and nothing pleases me more Cambridge). Hearty and spicy, this is perfect on (Second only to Amanda Lydon's much- serve particularly well for launching the balls at , than sharing my discoveries with others: That' a bitterly cold New England day. lamented gigot a sept heures at Metro. She's unsuspec~g passers-by. is, one of the few things possibly better tha,n since left for bigger and better things, taking her , eating is telling . proud and:'vocal memb~ers of the. "burnt myself or spilling half the, - - caramel" camp as well, but I remain steadfast. contents onto my lap, but they keep m_ecoming back #17 (small) ~d #31 (With beef and the flat to this little hole-in-the-wall. rice noodles) at Pho Pasteur (Harv~d Square '. The oyster pancakes, though location) .. ' ~ . -not lik~'my mom's, are not to be missed. Eggplant with Wang's Fast Food, (Old Magoun Square, basil i~ q~te tasty as well. , Somerville)- has the best dumplings around (but still don't 'hold a candle to my mo~'s, ~tch). The II P~o panini at. II Stick to the ''Northel11 Speci<\lties" ,section in 'Panino Express (North End), themenu"and you can't go wrong. The sauteed like the Darwin's Story, pea pod stems- are also excellent. They've g~t combines the holy trinity of ,my glowiIig review plastered aJI over the prosciutto, fresh mozzarella premises (not that that influences me ''in any and tomatoes, but stuffs gen- way,-mind you). erous amounts of everything into a foot-long crusty Italian . 'The country-style pad thai at Brown Sugar \ loaf slathered with a fruity Cafe (Fenway) is peerless in this town. Khao' and robust extra virgin olive Re~o ..... 'Sam (Brookline) is another worthY Thai estab- oil.' lishment, an.d their miang kum is a-heady and Sea-vices addicting combination of shrimp, coconut, and The - Superburrito at pe~uts that you roll up'in spinach leaves. Anna's Taqueria: Apparent- MIT Chapel ~.ly, some journalist for The Friday.Sept. 6 6:30 pm C~ocolate chip scone at the MIT Coffee- New York Times took the house. foUr-hour ChinatoWn shuttle Saturday. Sept. 7 10:30 am ,from Manhattan to Boston The honey l?3.rbecuechicken sub with a slice and back solely for one of of cheese and the BLr on wheat with'mayo at these buiritos. I personally Co....s.e..vative LaVerqe's. Or do 'yo~lf a favor and skip the find that completely ridicu- ~sandwich, run t~ the dab' -aisle straighta'Yay lous, but only b'ecause it's Se..vic:es , and get yourself a riice big tub of KozY Shack hard to believe that there are Original Rice Pud~g. ' . ;. no'better burritos to be found' - Mezzanine Lounge, ,in New York City. It is pret- TheStory, at Darwin's (Harvard Square). A ty damn good, ~ough. And Stud~nt Center definitive sandwich best eaten perched on a cheap. Friday,Sept. 6 6: 15 pm stool at the butcher-block tables. Or in a win- dow seat in the newly fmished pastry/coffee Creme bnl1ee at blu ,Saturday,Sept.7 8:45am & 6:30pm section next door.' The Mount Auburn with (Downtown Crossing). ' & swiss comes in at a close second. Darwin's also Sunday, Sept 8 8:45 am 5 pm carries Kozy Shack Original Rice Pudding. Hiroshimayaki at Kiyoshi (Brookline): the proprietor's The, foie gras and warm chocolate pudding version of that tasty Osakan F:.re~ at Clio (Back Bay). Both velvety and rich. Both specialty, okonomiyaki. The revelatory. " . menu claims these pan-fried Rosh noodles are "healthy," but HaShanah The Miracle of Science does a mean veggie somehow, the shiny slick Mo ..e burger. Best doused with both the-Inner Beauty coating on the noodles under Dinne' .. Papaya Mustard and Real Hot Sauce and that generous drizzli'ng of Hol~day washed down 'Yith a Magic Hat No.9. mayonnaise leaves me think- Open to all students ing otherwise. The chicken with reservation Meals , Best sushi, hands-down: Oishii skin and chicken bone yaki- Sponsored by: R 0 s h H as h a n a (Charlestown). Maybe twice the size of my tori are also 'not to be missed. Friday, Sept. 6 Lunches & Second dorm room senior year and sometimes a two- hour wait, but totally worth the trip. Skip the Bertucci's rolls. HIT Hillel 8:00 pm Dinner usual bQring maki and try one of the .special~. Bldg WII Reserve by Sept. 4 noon, Reserve with Hillel 617.253.2912 ... by The sushi chefs credentials are no less-than a Speaking of Bertucci's, < h i I I e Irs v.p @ m j t . e d u > Sept. 6 noon. stint at New York;s famed No~u. ; do yourself a' favor now and Page 10 THE TECH August 29, 2002

AARON D. M/IlAUK-TIIE TECH Joseph-C. Stark '03 hands out a Institute brown-bagged IBC root beer in front of Kresge Auditorium on. Wednesday afternoon. Although the east side housemasters came Stops to an agreement with Larry G. Benedict, Dean for Student Life, and Robert P. Redwine, Dean to,r Spread Undergraduate Education, that the students could protest as long as they didn't e~er and dis- rupt the event, Barbara Baker, Of Image the Associate Dean for Student Life Programs, Elizabeth C. Comic, from Page. I Young, the Assistant Dean of New Student Programs, and gies.to her. Michael W~ Foley, Assoc'iate Edwin Thol!las could not be Director of Opera.tlons of the reached for comment. CAC, removed the group because another group had the space Artists confront Institute reserVed. Stark and others were . Upon learning of the alleged removed from the Kresge _area• . infringement, the Lai brothers con- The "Tech Theater" was perfonn- . ,splted.an a~Ol'pey, who se,J;ttaletter to ing in Kresge at the time. ¥IT'requesting that it cease and desist all reproduction onhe cartoon, Though MIT stopped distributing the image, the Institute denied that its use Here's the of the image infringed' on the rights of the comic creators .. "Neither MIT's limited use, nor the sub~equent ~ews reports,. had any DEAL! , effect upon the potential market for or value of the image," wrote an Back to Class savings at the MIl Coop attorney representing MIT ina response to the Lai brothers' request. Ylkes Outdoor products The letter also stated that MIT's use rolled Cap & T combo of the. image was legally protected Varsity Backpack because the image was used for non- 24.98 profit purposes. 19.98 Lai, however, said that his comic Yikes! book's repu!ation was negatively Jansport aff~cted by MIT's.actions .. rolled .T shirt . "We're trying to sell something as . MIT Hoodie fantasy; and MIT's using the image saying this is real," Ray Lai said. 14.99 Lai also said that several coniic 24.99 .readers have mistakenly accused him . of copying the image from MIT. MIT imorinted planner 3.69 Scott Farmelant, a sPokesman for 500 sht. multi purpose DOper 4.99 H9rizon Comics, the publisher of Roaring SPrings Notebooks Radix, said that the comic book has 1 subj .89 /2 subj 1.39/3 subj 2.09 ceased publication -since April 4 DOCkHi-liters 2.19 because of ,"clouded issues of oWner- American HeritoQe ship" arising from MIT's use of the hardcover College Dictionary ~ now 14.99 soldier image.' . ANDREW WOOL "It's really.sad. These guys spent Men-iam - Webster Water polo continues to practice in the Alumni Pool this seven years developing this comic paperback dictionary 4.99 / thesaurus 3.99 week. The first home match will be on Wednesday, Sept. 25 book," Farmelant said. "They're 3 Cambridge Ctr. at 7 p.m. versus Brown University. The match will be held in afraid -the same thing could happen _ @ the Kendall Sq. T the new Zesiger Center pool. again." • t: 617-499-3200 e: [email protected] At this time, neither the Lai broth- ers nor_Horizon'Comics are planning - any legal action against MIT.Lai told, The Tech yesterday that he would like an apology, public credit from MIT for ~e illustration, and a promise that _MIT would never use his work again without giving proper credit - "As an artist, your work is. who you are," Lai said ilia press release from Horizon Comics. "Everybody 2006 Mixer knows you don't put your name on somebody else's work. If I went to MIT and did that, I would be thrown out of school." Friday, August 30th Cartoon did not help proposal Yesterday afternoon, MIT issued : ' astatem~nt saying that "MIT strongly supports the rights of creators and 9:00 PM to Midnight MIT regrets the use of an image that was apparently derived from another source." MIT also said again that it did not.violate copyright law and that its nanotechnology grant' was award- MIT-Wellesley Class of 2006 Mixer ed on the technical merits of MIT's propo~l. A spokeswoman from the Army confirmed that the grimt decision was based on the substance of the propos- Student Center, 2nd Floor' al.

MIT beat out Cornell, Caltech The U.S. Army awarded MIT the $50 million grant to develop new Live Jazz, Free Desserts and Refreshments materials-to equip the soldiers of the future. Severytl universi.ties including Cornell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- Questions? [email protected]. tute, and the California Institute of Technology competed for the Army grant. The nanotechnology institute http://web .mit.edul clubz will focus on technologies that could ,one day' allow its users to a!>sorb bul- let impacts without harm, make 20 -' foot high leaps, and become inVisible, among ~ther things. Sponsored by Z Radix was first conceived by Ray. .and Ben Lai in 1995 and published its first issue in December 200 1. The fic- tional characters in Radix possess abilities Similar to those envisioned for soldiers. August 29, 2002 THE TECH Page 11 Transitions to House Apathy OfFrosh Upsets Students MacGregor. He believes that the ori- most dormitories almost immediate- entation and residence guides distrib- ly after the lottery results were uted to freshmen "just didn't stress" announced. In-house room assign- .Games, .Pool Tables ::o::'~:::::::'::1:00 '04, how the dorm and in-house rush ments were made overnight so that Renovations, from Page I floor is now,". said Tatin Misra G. Burton-Co'nner rooming co-coordi- processes work. He said that fresh- freshmen could begin moving by 10 ------nator. men didn't realize that upperclass- a.m. on Thursday. In some previous ed upon the changes after a Strate- New Latino lounge first of its kind Brent P. Buddensee '03, a partici- men in each dorm were willing to years, dormitories were given an gic Review and Physical Space The new Latino cultural center pant in First West of East Campus' help the freshmen move their extra day for in-house rush. Assessment, released last January, will be the first of its kind on cam- rush, had similar sentiments. "It's a belongings if they wished to switch "Everything's hyper-condensed," reported the unwelcoming entrance 'pus. Suggested plans for the new little slower than previous years," dormitories. said Alan Lee G, a graduate resident and lack of sufficient lounge space facility include office and meeting Buddensee said. "We need to redefine exactly tutor for First West of East Campus. in the Student Center as a critical space for stu.dent groups, an Athena Residents of MacGregor also 'what [rush] is," Bronder said. "I wish it was two days long," issue facing the M1T community. cluster, a media library, and lounge noted a reluctance of freshmen to said Uriel P. Klieger '04, a resident "This was our attempt to follow space. move from th~ir current location. Freshmen give reasons for apathy of Second East of East Campus. the suggestions of the study," .Walsh "The ~eed,Jor a gathering place Heidi, L. Davidz G, a graduate resi- Some freshmen agreed that their MacGregor and Burton-Conner said. "It really will help to rejuve- for Latino students has been present dent tutor for MacGregor's H~Entry, classmates were not engaged in dorm , residents said that their in-house rush nate this area." for a good while." said Kateri A. believes that this reluctance is hurt- and in-house rush. schedules are exactly the same as ,- Garcia '03. "A lot of hard work and ing the residents 'of the dorm. "I "There is an apathy," said previous years. Both dormitories Game room gets license hearing research [from former and current think it's upsetting to the upper- Clarence Lee '06, a freshman explor- have always held in-house rush in M1T is currently applying for a students] has been done to get this 'classmen," Davidz said. ing MacGregor. one evening. Cambridge license to move thefar.':- ' M. Carl Mahler '04, a resident of Freshmen "will move if they have "I don't notice," Garcia said game roo~ into Transitions Lounge. The new office wi.n 4ave a part- MacGregor's G-Entry, didn't want to to,'? Lee said, referring to freshmen about the in-house rush time frame. , Th.~ nearing "for the request will time adviser for Latino students. jump to conclusions. "There's a lot who are unhappy with their housing take place on Sept. 3 before'the Students from the Office of Minori- of people who want to stay where , situation. Dormitories maintain individuality <;:ampridge License Comniission, ty Education will also work to main- they are. I wouldn't -call it apathy," W. Iris Tang '06, a resident of Dorm residents are concerned and no changes to ,rransitions can tain the community atmosphere. Mahler said. 'Burton-Conner, said that she wished about losing the individuality of their be made to the room before this AII.Latino student groups will that she had the option of room respective dormitories and halls as a time. Painting of the first floor, how- have access to the facilities. Upperclassmen explain apathy squatting. "It was a lot of hassle" result of freshmen apathy. ever, is almost completed. ' "I think a central place for Lati- Mahler said that, there wasri't packing and unpacking, she said. "We're trying hard to keep the ','Before deciding on the new no groups will be really helpful in such a perception of apathy in past personality [of Conner Three]," said color scheme, .we consulted thirty to bringing the community together," years, "because [all freshmen] were Time for in-house rush shortened Cyndi V. Vongvanith '03, a resident , forty people in the Student Center said, ClubMex President Raymundo expected to move." , There were varying impressions of Conner Three. and asked what they thou~t of it," Arroy'!ve G. "In the past years "The fundamental problem [with in the dormitories regarding'the "I think East Campus is extreme Walsh said. "The wh'ole reason we've been trying to get MIT aware rush] is lack of communication," said , amount of time available for in- enough [to maintain its personality]," we're making these changes is so of the relatively important Latino Tyler J. Bronder '93, president of house rush. In-house rush began at Klieger said. people will use the first floor. We community on campus." don't want to shut them out or have Although the organizations La them not like it." Union Chicaria' por Aztlan and the Students who use the Student 'Society for Hispanic Professional Center on a regular basishaye mixed ' Engineers both' currently have office feelings about the 'new changes .. 'spac'e inside Walker Memorial" they "I think that a new lounge on the ~ ,are looking to relocate to the new first floor will be nice because pea- cultUral center. pie will, be more likelyJo stop there '~We're doing a lot of fundrais- than they used to/' said Andrea _ ing now and trying to reach out to , Noronha '03 ... past al~i," Gar~ia said. "We're "I don't really see the need for hoping to have' the .cultural center the firSt floor lounge. I IQcethe amor- completed by 'the. end of this phous struc'tuie of the way the first ~emester." .

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