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PDF of This Issue Welcome, Class of 2010! MIT’s The Weather Today: Rainy, 75°F (24°C) Oldest and Largest Tonight: Mostly cloudy, 61°F (16°C) Tomorrow: Rainy, 70°F (21°C) Newspaper Details, Page 2 Volume 126, Number 31 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Monday, August 28, 2006 Students Embark On Institute ‘Road Trip’ Hockfield Welcomes Freshmen on Killian By Ji Qi administered on campus years ago, As summer winds down, new and the physics faculty chose to re- students from all over the country turn to that model this year. The re- and the world are beginning to ar- sults of the diagnostic will be used rive on campus for an event-filled to suggest student placement in the orientation. three versions of the required Me- The theme of this year’s under- chanics class. graduate orientation is “Road Trip.” This year, 17 Freshman Pre-ori- Freshman Orientation t-shirts depict entation Programs (FPOPs) provid- the steps to getting an MIT educa- ed opportunities to explore different tion as stops on the road of life, and activities before orientation began, theme related activities include last including four new programs: ar- Saturday’s showing of the movie chitecture, biking, electrical engi- “Road Trip” in Kresge Auditorium neering, and literature. Nearly 500 and Tuesday’s Boston “T” Party freshmen arrived early to participate along the Stata Center’s Student in FPOPs this year, Norman said. Street. The freshmen who participated Freshmen Orientation 2006 in the four outdoor pre-orientation kicked off yesterday morning with programs — sailing, kayaking, hik- OMARI STEPHENS—THE TECH the President’s Convocation held ing, and biking — are eligible to re- Manuel A. Esquivel Echeverria ’10, Isabel P. Mattos ’10, Alexandre S. Oliveira ’10, Lawrence L. at Killian Court. President Susan ceive physical education credit for Chan ’10, and Monica M. Hu ’10 (left to right) respond to the command “Left hand on freshman” Hockfield, Chancellor Phillip L. their participation, a difference from during MEGAtwister, held in the East Campus Talbot lounge last night at 8:08 p.m. Clay PhD ’75, and Dean for Student previous years. The Outward Bound Life Larry G. Benedict, all decked Program and Carrie S. Moore, di- in ceremonial robes, gave speeches. rector of physical education, were “MIT is not simply high school consulted to “ensure that the pro- REX Introduces Frosh to Dorms on steroids,” Hockfield said dur- grams met the standard and criteria ing her Benjamin Franklin-inspired to earn PE credit,” Norman said. Events End When the Housing Adjustment Lottery Closes Tomorrow speech. It is a “uniquely intense en- Also for the first time, parents By Harsha Wasalathanthri ing freshmen. Activities, including Most REX events are clustered vironment”. have been able to meet their child’s With exams, problem sets, and everything from free food events around two main days, yesterday There are several key differences orientation leader. Parents and ori- essays aplenty in the coming fall, to hair-dying to lessons in basic and today, with freshmen given the between this year’s orientation and entation leaders had an opportunity where they live at MIT is an impor- electronics assembly to medieval entirety of those days to explore those of past years. to interact yesterday morning before tant decision that incoming fresh- warfare, end on Tuesday with the their dormitories, Hopp said. This is Upperclassmen may remem- the President’s Convocation, Nor- men have to make. Residential Ex- closing of the Housing Adjustment similar to the way REX was struc- ber having the math diagnostic for man said. ploration (REX) is giving freshmen Lottery at 6:30 p.m. tured last year. In years prior, REX physics placement sent to them over Eliana Aude, mother of Diana P. the opportunity to explore the 11 REX is also “a time for freshmen was limited to a few hours each the summer, but this year’s fresh- Aude ’10, felt that the President’s undergraduate dormitories. to meet other freshmen and upper- day. men are taking it on campus. Convocation was “very inspiring.” REX events kicked off Friday classmen who will help them through This year, “the main change is According to associate dean of She said she felt MIT is a “great with almost every dormitory orga- their first year,” REX Chair Sarah C. Academic Resources and Program- nizing activities to welcome incom- Hopp ’08 said in an e-mail. REX, Page 12 ming Julie B. Norman, the test was Orientation, Page 13 Dean for Student Life Gives Mentor Program Gives International Advice, Support to Students Student Orientation a Personal Touch By Angeline Wang riety of the non-academic support By Valery K. Brobbey From as early as June, mentors in mentors start contacting their stu- NEWS EDITOR services on campus. That ranges from STAFF REPORTER the IFMP began exchanging e-mails dents and beginning some kind of The Tech: What is your role in the Housing and Dining to Student Life Staff reporter Valery K. Brobbey is with incoming freshmen. “I think in Institute? Programs (SLP), Residence Life Pro- an international student from Ghana some ways, orientation begins when International, Page 12 grams, Student Support Services, and and was a mentor in this year’s Inter- Larry Benedict: My title is Dean DAPER [Department of Athletics, national Fresh- for Student Life, and I oversee a va- Physical Education, and Recreation] Reporter’s man Mentor which includes athletics, recreation, Program. and intramurals. I oversee the campus Notebook A relatively In Short chaplains, the Office of Student Con- unknown pro- duct and Mediation, and the Student gram has left a smile of satisfaction ¶ This Wednesday, Aug. 30, is the Activities Office. Then, within SLP, in on the faces of many freshmen this deadline to register to vote in the addition to student activities, there is year. This year, 92 freshmen from Massachusetts state primaries. Ac- the Public Service Center. It is a large over 50 different foreign countries cording to the Cambridge Election organization. We have almost 400 arrived on campus to begin their four Commission webpage, voters can staff, and our primary goal is to help years of undergraduate study at MIT. register, mail or fill out a registra- students in all those various areas. We While these students had to attend all tion card at the Cambridge Elec- provide services for all students, un- the mandatory sessions of this year’s tion Commission Office. Voters dergraduate and graduate. International Student Orientation, can register as Republican, Demo- most of them also attended the other cratic, Unenrolled, or another po- TT: What services or support does optional — and generally more fun litical designation, but only voters your office offer for students, specifi- — events. registered as Republican, Demo- cally freshmen? International Student Orientation cratic, or Unenrolled can vote in a is entwined with the International Republican or Democratic primary, LB: We try to let students know, Freshman Mentor Program (IFMP), according to the MassVOTE web- freshmen especially, of the resources founded in 1997 by Kate Baty ’05, site. The primaries will be held on available to them for any kind of help the then organizer of the Host to VALERY K. BROBBEY—THE TECH Tuesday, Sept. 19th. they might need. As you look at the International Students Program and International students have breakfast on Wednesday, August 23, the The Massachusetts general Paulette Schwartz who is still active- final day of International Orientation, in the Lipschitz Courtyard in elections will be held on Tuesday, Benedict, Page 16 ly involved in the IFMP. building 14. Nov. 7. The deadline to register to vote in the general elections is Wednesday, Oct. 18. For more information on voter NEWS NEWS World & Nation . 2 registration, go to http://www. Orientation Photo Essay . .Page 11 Housing Lottery . .Page 17 Opinion . 4 massvote.org/Voter_Info.htm and http://www.cambridgema.gov/dep- Grocery Story Guide . .Page 14 Saferide, Northwest Shuttle, Arts . 5 tann.cfm?story_id=693 Fun. 6 Advocate Ranks Gay-Friendly Tech Shuttle Schedules . .Page 17 Campus Life . 8 Send news information and tips to Colleges; MIT Named. .Page 15 Daily Confusion . .Page 18 [email protected]. Sports . 18 Page 2 THE TECH August 28, 2006 WORLD & NATION Red Cross Ferry Evacuates 161 Baghdad Newspaper Building In Sri Lanka as Supplies Fade By Shimali Senanayake THE NEW YORK TIMES COLOMBO, SRI LANKA Assaulted by Suicide Bomber A ferry for the International Committee of Red Cross evacuated 161 people, mostly citizens of other countries, trapped in heavy fight- By Paul Von Zielbauer sault rifles grew suspicious of the newspaper this month where the edi- ing in northern Jaffna peninsula on Sunday, as aid workers warned of a THE NEW YORK TIMES vehicle after it had been cleared to tors were to sign a “pledge of honor” dwindling supply of food, water and medicine in the area. BAGHDAD, IRAQ enter the newspaper’s parking lot, al- to respect the government’s recon- Jaffna, the strategic peninsula that the separatist Liberation Tigers of A suicide car bomber attacked Mishaal said in an interview. Before ciliation efforts and to avoid printing Tamil Eelam claim as the ethnic Tamil homeland, has been cut off by air, Iraq’s largest newspaper on Sunday, the bomber could be killed, he blew up or broadcasting inflammatory state- land and sea from the rest of the country for three weeks as the worst fight- detonating his vehicle inside its for- his vehicle, sending at least two parked ments or violent images. ing since a February 2002 cease-fire has raged between rebels and govern- tified compound in downtown Bagh- cars through the building’s wall. “This is an attack against all Iraqi ment forces.
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