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By Jennifer DeBoer • STAFF REPORTER "Three ... two ... one ... GOOO!" shouts a boisterous, sus- pendered M.C. "Spank that monkey weeeeeee," he calls to the contestant who fervent- ly jerks her controls back and forth, swinging the PV~ pipe as the points on the massive s~reen add up. Opposite her, another bespecta- cled driver launches his quick little machine into a scoring bin and sits By Jennifer DeBoer back. and Brian Loux "No!" she shouts and the boy Winner predicted early on STAFF REPORTERS laughs and raises his hands in victory. "Martin Jonikas. That guy's going Representatives from the Associ- Next to him, a green beaver waves to win. He's the winner," says specta- ation of Student Activities, Dormito- his hands as his eyes shine an LED tor Darien B. Crane '03. Crane, who ry Council, Graduate Student Coun- red. predicted the soon-to-be winner cil, Undergraduate Administration, The quarter-final round of the before Wednesday's finals even The Tech, Technique, and Alpha Phi annual 2.007 contest has been decid- began, knows Jonikas from his Uni- Omega met Sunday to formulate a ed. fied Engineering class', which Jonikas list of requirements for the new MIT took last year as a freshman. banking system that will forcibly Yearly contest challenges students The quarter-finals, which now replace outside bank accounts cur- Every year since 1970, students in have just finished, saw Martin C. rently operated by student groups. 2.007 have walked into class on the Jonikas '04 achieve the first (and last) The groups hope to gain more first day and been presented with a six-digit score, with over 110,000 feedback and organize their requests challenge - to create a machine that, points . before speaking with the Student under strict guidelines, will outper- "I was very confident about my Finances Office of Residential Life form everyone else's in the class. machine," Jonikas said. "I tested it AMY WONG-THE TECH and Student Life Programs and the • _ Professor Alexander H. Slocum '82 presents the 2.007 trophy to Treasurer's Office. Other student Tuesday's and Wednesday's matches about thirty times." were. the culmination of a semester Early on, 2.007 host and lecturer winner Martin C. Jonikas '04. groups are working either indepen- spent designing, building, and testing Professor Alexander H. Slocum '82 dently or with ASA to voice their these ten-pout)d re~ote-controlled "figured either Martin" or one other He sings and shouts at the audience Slocum shouts. Another round elimi- opinions to RLSLP. macliiD€t .. ~ . ~ ' classmate would win. with the voice of an auctioneer, nates another hopeful hunk of metal. All groups agreed that improved ~isxe~i con~""Schwing," .. encouraging them to accompany his One of his graduate students, online access, quicker turn-around redeffiied ..llie playing-field by allow- Spo~~Qrs contribute pnzes strange machine sound effects. Sean J. Montgomery, lines up the time for transactions, and extended ing two distinct meth&ts of ~oring. ~~; ~~This.course is about tradition," "More power Mr. Scott! I can't do business hours were necessary to Stud~~tS-;~ere asked,~o:push 'stieet- :Sl~cum'announces to the audience. it Captain. I lost my battery. Time!" 2.007, Page 20 match the flexibility of outside bank ~~ ..... - .... .: accounts. Students also called for clearer accQW1tstatements, a..written Anzolini Leaving MITSO- agreement ensuring freedom and full control over accounts for student groups, and a yearly review process For NEe on Sabbatical in which students can give feedback to accounting management. By Jeremy Baskin Anzolini is to spend the bulk of "We're not yet sure how many ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR his paid leave from MIT at the New services they can actually provide," Tomorrow, the MIT Symphony England Conservatory of Music as said GSC President Sanith Wijens- Orchestra will play its final concert the director of the orchestral pro- inghe. "Whether or not they will be of the season. Such an occasion gram. able to give us the services they would not promise by the date they've set Timing is everything Feature usually be depends on how seriously they take ______an espe- In music, timing is everything; the job they have." cially -newsworthy event, but this no famous conductors can afford to concert will mark the last perfor- have bad timing on the podium. Yet, Accounts move prompts meeting mance that music director Dante off the stage, it seems like Anzoli- The announcement of the change Anzolini will give with the ensem- ni's timing is somewhat askew. An was made by MIT Treasurer Allan ble .before taking a year-long sab- • batical. . Anzollnl, Page 16 Accounts, Page 15 Edward Cohen Edward Cohen, composer, performer and senior Last year; a 60~h birthday concert was held at lecturer in music, died at the age of 61 on April 27, MIT in Cohen's honor. The Killian Hall concert following a long illness. drew students and faculty from MIT and Brandeis Trained in classical music, Cohen was inspired as well as local musicians and critics. Cohen attend- .by Jazz and committed to composing to new music. ed in a wheelchair due to his illness. He composed pieces for everything from solo Richard Buell reviewed the concert for the . instTuments to orchestras, in addition to two operas. Boston Globe. "Forgive the stereotype, but universi- . His most recent opera, "The Bridal Night," pre- ty professors aren't supposed to compose music like miered .in January and was performed by the Col- this," he said. "The piano quartet was a continuation lage-New Music Ensemble in Boston. of Shostakovich's music; the piano sonata, a big- "He was a great musician and a wonderful scaled vigorous. enterprise." teacher," said Professor of Music Ellen Harris, JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH director of the music and theater arts section at MIT. MIT career spanned 25 years Microprocessor Control Lab (6.115) Professor Steven B. Leeb Cohen began teaching at MIT in 1977. Students holds the Big Screw. Leeb won the annual Alpha Phi Omega Cohen lauded for compositions and faculty cited both his generosity and seriousness Institute Screw Competition, which raised $1997.71 for the Cohen received many awards and commissions of purpose when working with Cohen. Dawn Perl- Pine.Street Inn. Leeb collected over $800 in donations, beat- for his works, from the Massachusetts Council for ner '0 I recalled one occasion where Cohen com- ing President Charles M. Vest In second place with over $300 the Arts, the MIT Council for the Arts, Tanglewood posed on demand. "I'll never forget the time Profes- In donations and Chancellor Phillip M. Clay PhD '75 in third Music Center and Brandeis University. His clarinet with over $200 in donations. quintet was released on the CRI label. Cohen, Page 19
The Senior Segue missed its tar- Comics NEWS get, but will still reduce crowding. Lost brass rats are found, and an World & Nation 2 MIT professor wins a National Opinion ~ 4 Medal of Science. On the Screen 7 Events Calendar 12 Page 13 Page 8 Page 14 Page 2 THE TECH May 10,2002 WORLD & NATION Mailbox Bomb Suspect Plotted Israeli Attack on Gaza S1rip To Make a 'Smiley Face'
l.OS ANGEl.ES TIMES LAS VEGAS Likely After Suicide Bombing Accused pipe bomber Luke J. Helder may have had a strategy in his selection of mailboxes, if his remarks to a sheriffs deputy shortly By Mary Curtius was a member of the militant move- West Bank operation, occupying after his arrest are to be taken seriously. l.OS ANGELES TIMES ment Hamas and came from Gaza .. some for several weeks, but stayed Helder said his choice of targets, when plotted on a map, would GAZACITY But a spokesman for the Islamic out of Palestinian-controlled areas of depict a "smiley face," the ubiquitous symbol of happiness popular- Israeli tanks and troops moved organization said he did not know Gaza. ized during the 1970s. close to the Gaza Strip on Thursday, who carried out the attack. The strip is the stronghold of Helder, who is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court Friday and state-run media said an attack "I don't know who did it, but we Islamic militant organizations that in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was arrested Tuesday on a northern Nevada was irnrninent in retaliation for a sui- expect that angry Palestinians will do have carried out suicide bombings, freeway after his father alerted the FBI that his son might have plant- cide bombing Tuesday that killed 15 more such attacks," said Ismail abu but Palestinian attackers sent from ed the pipe bombs found in mailboxes in five states. Israelis. Shanab in an interview with the Los here rarely penetrate the heavily Six of the bombs exploded, each one causing an injury, none life- Gazans sent their children to Angeles Times. Ramas issued no patrolled fence that separates Gaza threatening. school and went to work, but also formal claim of responsibility for the from Israel. Last month, security Helder admitted to planting 18 bombs, 10 of which were not set to laid in stores of food, fearing the sort attack. officials argued that Gaza was rela- detonate, according to FBI agents. Another six bombs were discov- of siege on their towns, villages and Abu Shanab mildly criticized the tively contained and that the army ered in his vehicle. When stopped, Helder held a shotgun to his head refugee camps that the Israeli army bombing, which he called "this act of would pay too high a price in casual- before throwing it out his car's window and surrendering. imposed in the West Bank during the resistance," noting that "maybe this ties if it mounted a massive ground invasion launched March 29. The is a critical time and maybe it is bet- operation. army issued call-ups to an unknown ter not to do it at this time." Hamas But those constraints appear to Enron Auditors Warned number of reserve soldiers, normally has carried out more suicide attacks have been swept away by the Rishon a sign that a large-scale operation is on Israelis than any other Palestinian bombing, the deadliest attack by About Accounting in the offing. group since fighting erupted in Sep- Palestinians since the army's West LOS ANGEl.ES TIMES After nightfall, street traffic in tember 2000. There have been a total Bank operation. HOUSTON Gaza City was light, but restaurants of about 60 attacks, many of them in Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon An Arthur Andersen partner testified Wednesday that he was were open. At a popular beach hotel, the heart of Israeli cities. Peres said the coming operation warned about Enron Corp.'s accounting methods by Enron Vice Pres- groups of men gathered to smoke The organization says it wants to would be "functional, not territorial," ident Sherron S. Watkins, and that he relayed those concerns to his water pipes and argue politics on a destroy the 1993 Oslo peace accords a "pinpointed" targeting of militant firm's Enron team. - balcony overlooking the sea. between Israel and the Palestinians groups rather than an occupation of Andersen partner James Hecker told a federal jury here that he "What are we supposed to do, and to eliminate the Jewish state. But territory. received the call from Watkins, a former colleague at Andersen, Aug. head for the bunkers?" shrugged it does not want to be blamed for But a worried Palestinian Author- 20. Hecker said Watkins confided her increasing uncertainty over the Ziad abu Amer, a Gazan representa- triggering either Israel's knockout ity, desperate to stave off another propriety of Enron's methods of accounting for off-the-books part- tive to the Palestinian legislature. blow to the already weakened Pales- crippling blow to its infrastructure, nerships managed by her supervisor, Enron chief financial officer Israeli security sources believe tinian Authority or the expulsion of arrested 16 Hamas members in Gaza Andrew S. Fastow: that the man who blew himself up Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. after Arafat condemned the Rishon Hecker was not involved with the Enron audit but said he relayed Tuesday night at a snooker club in The army swept iilto six of the bombing in a televised Arabic state- Watkins' concerns to several Andersen partners in the Houston office the Israeli town of Rishon Le Zion West Banks eight major cities in the ment as a terrorist act. who were. Hecker, the first Andersen executive to testify in the trial, took the stand as prosecutors sought to prove that Andersen feared a Securities and Exchange Commission probe of Enron and shredded documents Parade Attack Near Chechnya to obstruct the inquiry. A conviction on the obstruction charge could prompt the SEC to prohibit Andersen from auditing public compa- nies, dealing a devastating blow to the 89-year-old firm. Kills 36, Including 13 Children CIA Fired Missile inAttempt to Kill By Sharon LaFraniere Authorities said the bomb packed the fact that it occurred on Victory THE WASHINGTON POST 6 to 1"1pounds of TNt, metal balls, Day, when Russians celebrate the Factional Leader with Al-Qaida TIes MOSCOW plates and screws and was probably defeat of Nazi Germany 57 years TliE II'ASfflNGTON POST Thirty-six people, including 13 remote-controlled. ago. Nearly six decades after the The CIA fired a missile from an unmanned Predator aircraft over children, died Thursday morning It was the worst such attack in war's end, the holiday is still one of Afghanistan Monday in an unsuccessful attempt to kill a factional when a bomb ripped through a mili- Russia since Sept. 13, 1999, when the most revered dates on the Russ- leader who's vowed to attack U.S. service personnel and oust the tary parade in a town near the explosives hidden in sugar sacks in a jan calendar. interim Afghan government of Hamid Karzai, according to adminis- volatile region of Chechnya, in Moscow apartment building killed Putin, who apparently learned of tration sources. southwest Russia. Local authorities 119 people. the attack as he watched thousands The targeting of a meeting of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his top said more than ISO people were President Vladimir Putin blamed of elite Russian troops march aides outside Kabul was based on information he was plotting attacks injured. the bombing on "scum who hold through Red Square this morning, against Americans, officials said. Black smoke billowed down the nothing sacred." said Russia would treat its new Hekmatyar is a Pashtun who as leader of a hard-line Islamic party, main street of Kaspiisk, a Caspian Officials in Kaspiisk suggested enemy as it did the Nazis and Islamist Hezb-e-Islami, has frequently changed loyalties over the past Sea port of 12,000, after the blast the obvious suspects were Islamic recalled the Soviet Union's World 20 years. Anti-Americanism has been one of his few long-lasting tore a hole in the sidewalk just as a militants from neighboring Chech- War ITslogan: "Kill the viper." positions, sources said. U.S. officials and Afghanistan's interim lead- military band marched by en route to nya, roughly 100 miles west. "Today is the most cherished hol- ership allege Hekmatyar has ties to al-Qaida. a wreath-laying ceremony at the Chechen separatists, aided by bands iday for our people. Even on such a The CIA missile strike against Hekmatyar represented an escala- local cemetery. Video footage of foreign fighters, stage regular day, bandits without any emotion are tion in a confrontation that's been brewing for the past two months showed children darting between the attacks against the Russian military killing innocent people, including between the United States and Hekmatyar. rows of band members, pretending to there. children," he told a crowd gathered march with them. That suspicion was bolstered by near the Kremlin for the celebration. WEATHER The Right Coast Situation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Friday, May 10, 2002 _~ ~..n~ t:)~ o~ ~~ ..c'!.~ .~ .~ ,:r ",'J; ,v "'-.;",--,,~ ","'-~'5 ~ By Robert Korty ., STAFF .HETEOROLOGIST The comedian Lewis Black once quipped that the best job in the world is to be the weatherperson in San Diego. Having just returned from a confer- ence there, I see his point; the five day forecast called for sunshine and mild weather all week. In truth, though, forecasting weather on the west coast can be a difficult job. While we in New England benefit from a continent full of weather observations to our west, scant data are available from the Pacific Ocean either to meteorologists or to the weather models that forecast the
evolution of the atmospheric flow. Weather models generally forecast sys- 3Q.N tems over the eastern United States well a few days ahead of their develop- ment, though local shifts in wind, such as a sea breeze, still complicate the forecast, especiaJJy during spring. A front pushed offshore last night, sweeping the cloudy weather of yes- terday out to sea. Today will be sunny, warm, and windy as a tight pressure gradient will keep westerly winds strong through this evening. Saturday will be pleasant also, but a weak area of low pressure will bring the threat of rain back to southern New England on Sunday.
Extended Forecast Today: Mostly sunny and warm. High n.F (22.C). West winds IS mph. Tonight: Clear, low 44.F (TC). Weather Systems Weather Fronts Precipitation Symbols Saturday: Mostly sunny, high 68.F (20.C). Snow Rain _ Trough - I'og Saturday night: Cloudy with rain showers. Low 40.F (4.C). H High Pres..ure . - Showers - Thunderslorm Sunday: Cloudy and cool with scattered showers. High 55"F (12.C)...... -.. Warm Front "V* "V 1\ Light L Low """-wre ex> Hal": Cold front ...... & .... Moderate * Compiled by MlT ~ Hurricane ** Meteorology Staff ...... Slationary Fronl Heavy *** and Th~ T~ch ( (I I I I ( , ' May 10,2002 WORLD & NATION THE TECH Page 3
Governor of Maryland Orders Senators Clear Way to Grant Bush Fast-Track Trade Authority
LOS ANGELES TIME-'S Moratorium on Death Penalty WASHINGTON By Henry Weinstein last meal. absolutely sure the process is fair Democratic and Republican negotiators announced Thursday that LOS ANGELES TIMES Legislation to impose a death- and just." Glendening added that they had cleared obstacles to Senate passage of a bill granting Presi- Maryland Gov. Parris Glenden- penalty moratorium is now pending he would "stay all other cases that dent Bush greater authority to negotiate international trade agree- ing on Thursday declared a morato- in nine other states. In addition, 72 come before me until the comple- ments. rium on executions in the state, cities, from San Francisco to tion of the study - an examination Central to the agreement is a package of expanded benefits - pending completion and review of Nashville, Tenn., have passed reso- of 6,000 criminal cases where pros- including a 70 percent federal health insurance subsidy - for quali- a study on whether there has been lutions supporting execution mora- ecutors could have sought the death fied workers who lose jobs in domestic industries hurt by foreign racial bias in how the death penalty toriums. penalty - and its reviews by the competition. has been applied there. Glendening ordered the morato- Legislature. " Republicans also agreed to roughly double the number of workers Glendening, a Democrat, said rium as he granted a stay of execu- Glendening reiterated his gener- eligible for the program known as "trade adjustment assistance." he expected the moratorium to last tion to a man who was scheduled to al support for the death penalty, Overall, the worker-aid provisions would cost $10 billion to $12 bil- for about a year. be killed by lethal injection next saying that "there are certain lion over 10 years. Maryland is 'now the second of week for murdering a woman at a crimes so brutal and so vile that In exchange for those Gap concessions, Democratic negotiators the 38 states with capital punish- Catonsville shopping mall in 1991. they call for society to impose the agreed to drop demands for a costly federal subsidy of retirement ment laws to ip1pose a moratorium, The governor said he was grant- ultimate punishment." However, benefits for steelworkers and certain restrictions on Mexican trucking following the lead of Illinois Gov. ing Wesley E. Baker a stay because the governor emphasized, "reason- on the United States. George Ryan, who halted execu- the state-funded study by the Uni- able questions have been raised in The accord was reached by Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Charles .tions in 2000, after 13 death row versity of Maryland is expected to Maryland and across the country E. Grassley, R-Iowa, Phil Gramm, R-Texas, and John B. Breaux, D- inmates had been exonerated there, be completed in September and about the application of the death La., and had the blessing of the Senate majority and minority leaders. including one who had ordered his there's a "critical need to be penalty." Senators also said the White House was pleased with the progress. "We have an agreement," Baucus told reporters. He called the worker-assistance provisions "a huge improvement over current law." New System for Tracking Students Students' History Knowledge Lacking, Test Finds Only Months Away From INS Use THE WASHINGTON POST By Cheryl W. Thompson up with (students), and obviously the eral government can take to keep WASHINGTON THE WASHINGTON POST schools were not cooperating. But closer tabs on international students Nearly six in 10 of the nation's high school seniors lack even a WASHINGTON the bulk of the problem was the sys- studying in the United States," said basic knowledge of American history, a finding virtually unchanged A new system that will allow the tem itself was antiquated," a Justice Terry Hartle, senior vice president of from seven years earlier, according to results released Thursday from Immigration and Naturalization Ser- Department official said Thursday. the American Council on Education, a widely respected national test. vice to track approximately 1 mil- "You can't push a million students which represents 1,800 public and The results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress lion foreign students will be up and through a paper system and expect private colleges and universities. (NAEP), often referred to as the nation's report card, were more running in the next several months, to get accuracy." A 1996 immigration reform law encouraging for fourth- and eighth-graders, who showed modest Justice Department sources said The system is designed to pro- required the INS to upgrade the gains in their knowledge of U.S. history. But even with their Thursday. \ vide up-to-date information on non- system by which it keeps track of improvement, just 67 percent of fourth-graders and 64 percent of The start-up of the Internet-based immigrant foreign students, such as the 1 million foreign students eighth-graders demonstrated basic knowledge of U.S. history. Mean- system, after years of criticism from name changes and new dropouts, an studying in the United States at any while, fewer than one in five students in both grades were deemed lawmakers of the INS's antiquated official said. Each school will have time. The system must be in place proficient in the subject. tracl~ing methods, is seen by officials 24 hours to input changes. by January. The exam, administered last year to a nationally representative as'a significant step toward monitor- Schools now maintain paper Pressure to get the system up and sample of 29,000 students, found that many students knew neither the ing foreign studentS and beefing up records on foreign students; the running has increased since the Sept. basic facts of American history nor understood their importance. the country's anti-terror safeguards. records are not kept in a centralloca- 11 terrorist attacks on New York and "What this report card is telling us is that too many of our public The system is scheduled to be opera- tion and are not provided to the INS 'Washington. Hani Hanjour, one of school children are still struggling in this critical core subject area," tional by July 1. unless the agency r~quests them. the 19 hijackers, used a student visa said Education Secretary Roderick Paige. The INS was "supposed to keep "It is the single best step the fed- to enter the United States.
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Guest Column it would make clear what I think the vast state for Israel, only to have to back down majority of Israelis believe: it has no interest upon being confronted with the evidence. He Dan Tortorice Alan M. Dershowitz in retaining the territories for any reason other also tried to dispute the fact that he had than protection from attack." authorized an essay he had written in In one of last week's odder news items, the Who is Noam Chomsky and why is he Chomsky rejected my proposal out of defense of Robert Faurisson to be used as Smithsonian's National Zoo refused a request to seeking to compel universities to divest from hand. He characterized it as a mere return to the forward to Faurisson's book about Holo- release the medical records of Ryma, a giraffe corporations that have ties to Israel? I have the "colonialist status quo." Only the disman- caust denial, but again had to back down. that recently died. What made this refusal so known Noam Chomsky for more than thirty tling of the colonialist Jewish state would sat- Chomsky took the position that he had no bizarre was one of the justifications: the zoo years. I have debated him on numerous occa- isfy the PLO, and only the creation of a secu- interest in "revisionist" literature before director said. releasing the records would violate sions, and I have written extensively about his lar, binational Palestine in "all of Palestine" Faurisson had written the book. When con- the giraffe's right to privacy and intrude into the zealous anti-Zionism and his flirtations with would satisfy Chomsky. fronted by Robert Nozick, a distinguished zookeeper-patient relationship. This reasoning neo-Nazi revisionism and Holocaust denial. I My next encounter with Chomsky revolved philosophy professor who recalled dis- seemS absurd. If releasing medical records vio- was not surprised there- cussing revisionist literature with him well lates animals' privacy rights, how does putting fore to learn that he is the before the Faurisson book, Chomsky first them in a giant cage so hum_ans can stare at inspiration behind the berated Nozick for disclosing a private con- them and say, "Wow mommy, that giraffe has foolish and immoral cam- There is no intellectually or morally defensible versation and then he shoved him contemp- such a long rieck," or, "Mommy, I think that paign for divestiture. tuously in front of numerous witnesses. hyena is killing the other hyena," not violate I first debated Chom- casefor singling out IsraelJor divestiture, and This then is the man who is leading the their right to privacy? How does having a Web sky in 1973, several ~ampaign for divesture against Israel. He is cam in their cages - you can view the zoo's weeks after the Yom Kip- I challenge Chomsky to debate me on the joined in this ignoble effort by some who two pandas and its elephant Shanti on the zoo's pur War. Chomsky's pro- morality oj this seledive attack against an would take the money now invested in the Web site - not violate their privacy rights? posal at that time was Mideast's only democracy and have it sent to But I'm not writing to argue whether ani- consistent with the PLO American ally that is defending itself- and the Iraq, Libya, Syria, Cuba, the Palestinian mals have privacy rights. I'm writing to correct party line. He wanted to Authority, and others who support and abolish the state of Israel, world - against terrorism that targets dvilians. finance terrorism. He is also joined' by a mot- and to substitute a "secu- ley assortment of knee-jerk anti-Zionists, lar, binational state," rabid Anti-Americans, radical leftists (the If releasing medical records based on the model of Spartacist League), people with little knowl- violates animals' privacy rights, binational "brotherhood" that then prevailed around his writing an introduction to a book by edge of the history of the Arab-Israeli dis- in Lebanon. Chomsky repeatedly pointed to an anti-Semite named Robert Faurisson who pute, and even some of Chomsky's former houl does putting them in a Lebanon, where Christians and Musli!lls denied that the Holocaust took place, that students who now teach in Israel. "lived side by side," sharing power in peace Hitler's gas chambers existed, that the diary of There is no intellectually or morally defen- giant Ccigeso humans can stare and harmony. This was just a few years before Anne Frank was authentic, and that there were sible case for singling out Israel for divesti- Lebanon imploded in fratricidal disaster. death camps in Nazi occupied Europe. He ture, and I challenge Chomsky to debate me at them not violate their rights? This is what I said about Chomsky's hare- claimed that the "massive lie" about genocide on the morality of this selective attack against brained scheme in our 1973 debate: "Putting was a deliberate concoction initiated by an American ally that is defending itself - aside the motivations behind such a proposal "American Zionists" "and that "the Jews" and the world - against terrorism that targets an error in society's understanding of why when it is made by the Palestinian organiza- were responsible for World War II. Chomsky civilians. Universities invest in a wide array of humans have rights. It seems that people are tions, why do not conside,rations of self-deter- described these and other conclusions as "find- companies that have operations in countries content with John Stuart Mill's argument, from mination and community control favor two ings" and said that they were based on "exten:- that systematically violate the human rights of Utilitarianism, when they consider what gives a separate states: one Jewish and one Arab? sive historical research." He also wrote that "I millions of people. Nor are these countries human being rights. They contend that human Isn't it better for people of common back- see no anti-Semitic implication in the denial of defending themselves against those who suffering is bad, and our rights come from the ground to control their own life, culture, and the existence in gas chambers or even in the would destroy them and target their civilians. fact that violating those rights make humans destiny (if they so choose), than to bring denial of the Holocaust." He said he saw "no Yet this petition focused only on the Jewish suffer. This reasoning leads some to be wary of together in an artificial way people who have hint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's State, to the exclusion of all others, including eating animals. They argue that animals too shown no ability to live united in peace. I con- , work," including his claim that "the Jews" those which, by any reasonable standard, are suffer and therefore also should have rights. fess to not understanding the logic of the pro- were responsible for World War II. He wrote among the worst violators of human rights. Despite the intuitive nature of this argument, posal, even assuming its goo~ will." an introduction to one of Faurisson's book This is bigotry pure and simple, and those it has clear shortcomings. Take the example of My counterproposal.was;that .~'Israel which was used to market his anti-Semitic lies. , ~ho signed the petition should be ashamed of an individual who is unable to feel pain. Imag- ~hould declare, in principle, its willingness to In a subs-;qu~nt debate at the Har~ard themselves and shamed by others. ine he has no family or friends, so his death give up the captured territories in return for a Medical School, Chomsky initially denied Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frank- would not cause the suffering of anyone. In fact, firm assurance of lasting peace. By doing so, having advocated a Lebanon-style binational furter Professor of Law at Harvard University. maybe it would make his next door neighbor a bit happier. Would we be violating his rights if we killed him? I imagine any conscionable indi- vidual would say yes. Even though he is a Oh, Rats! ' human incapable of suffering, he still has rights. This makes me want to look beyond human suf- lAck if Community, at Ring Delivery Dis~ppointed More,Than lAck if an Actual Ring fering as the source of human rights. Now at this point one may object that we in pairs or small groups, and took those one for being angry and seeing them as a should look at a broader definition of suffering. An4rew C. Thomas 'groups from line to line like rats in a maze. legitimate target for mudslinging if they vol- Maybe the person isn't capable of physical suf- Ironically, the biggest bonding activity unteered for the job. fering, but clearly he will be happier alive than Since I have the misfortune of having a throughout this has been attacking the ring These socia:! problems still come from a dead, so we can't really kill him. But this argu- last name beginning with a letter between "P" committee. Many have taken the opportu- lack of a sense, of 'community. ment has a flaw. How do we know someone is and "Z," like much of the rest of the Class of nity to vent their frustrations over the deba- Painful experiences are the main happier alive then dead? At times people have 2004 I was unable to don my brass rat on Sun- cle to the nearest possible scapegoats. way that any kind of bonding, hap- believed they would be happier dead than alive. day evening. I could not yet wear this proud ' However, it's not like this is the pens on campus, and it's usual- Since we don't know what death really is, a symbol of the Institute like many of my fellow first major upset that the sopho- ly on a smaller scale - Aero- theory of rights based on individual happiness classmates. I could not thrust ~my hand up in more student bO,dy has Astro's Unified and Biology's would seem to be on shaky ground. the air with others and make the Captain Plan- seen to this point over 7.02 Infro Lab are both well Now let's think about another example. et reference I had been holding back for so the ring. The, now-past known for it. But the lack 'Imagine we have our person who can't suffer, long in anticipation of that day. And I could- incident over the gen- of group social activity a puppy, and that German guy from Die Hard. n't go home and spend an inordinate amount der of the ring mascots gave plen- doesn't help either. The German guy tells you he will detonate a of time in front of freshmen making little ty of room to cloud the issue While the ring deliv- bomb in a subway unless you either (A) kill adjustments to and admirations of my new with political haze. Accusa- ery had advertised the non-suffering man or (B) torture the hunk of gold. tions of misogyny, dancing, 'it wasn't puppy. What should you choose to do? Hope- That isn't to say that I didn't enjoy favoritism and (I use the term able to happen in the ,fully you will choose to torture the puppy. But myself at the event. For many of us it was a loosely) corruption flew about freely. atmosphere of the museum. this isn't the solution that minimizes suffer- much needed break from work in a hectic However, the incident did motivate a good Monte Carlo Nights, the first 2004 class for- ing. (I imagine a puppy suffers when 'you tor- time of year. It was also a chance, for me at deal of discussion among the student body. ' mal, was postponed and deformalized. The ture it, though I have not actually done so least, to genuinely catch up with friends I Does the Ring Committee deserve to be . lack of a great event like the Odyssey Ball myself.) The bottom line is, rights do not hadn't seen in a long tarred an9 feathered for this year only hurts,community spirit, mean- come from the ability to experience pleasure time, rather than simply the problems we've seen ing that the only class-wide bonding opportu- and pain. Something else gives us our rights. / waving' hello in the Infi- so far? I have no real nities are these' overblown spats about milder What is that something? I would like to nite. However, there was Ironically, the biggest Class right to complain, since issues that can usually be resolyed simply by suggest that this something is our capacity to plenty to be unhappy like much of the class I waiting, resulting in a general increase in ten- be moral. Unlike animals we are capable of about as well, including oj 2004 bondi,!g activity didn't volunteer my time sion all around. One can only. assume that this understanding right ilnd wrong and choosing a non-alcoholic cash bar or sanity to the commit- is what has led to people's lack of pride in to do one or the other. . - ridiculous, consider- throughout this has been tee. It wasn't 'their fault our class as a whole, and though I can only If we believe that a human's choosing to do ing that the food was free attacking the Ring that my ring didn't make theorize, in others aboye and below as well. good, is good, then it is good for us to enable and the drinks ludicrous- it to the Science Muse- On Tuesday the class was notified that the others to do good. And what must we give peo- ly overpriced - and a Committee. Does the Ring um - some of us won- ' rings had been located and were being rush ple for them to be able to do what is good? general sense of disorder dered if Jostens would delivered, hopefully making appearances on They need life; dead people can't do anything, in lineups and gather- Committee deserve to be be stupid enough to label fingers everywhere by Friday. If I'd thought never mind do good. They need freedom; peo- ings. But what struck me tarred and Jeathere4for the the delivery with the about it in advance, I might have had my rat ple who can't choose can not choose to do most was 'the lack of words "gold," "rings," sized so that it could fit, as Akshay Patil sug- good. They need education, to know what one community. problems we've seen soJar? or even "Jostens," any of gests, upon my middle finger. ["A Boy and should do. We have the moral obligation to The ring delivery, like which would encourage His Rat," May 7] It would certainly make an provide these things to others. And these oblig- the premiere before it, an act of theft. However, appropriate statement, since anger seems to ations are the origin of what we call rights. was promoted as a class it is fair to suggest that be the best bonding force our student body This is why we should not automatically bonding activity. This, of course, assumes we ' one of the troubles with taking responsibility has at this time. But I've seen enough bad extend the rights of humans to animals. They had any real cohesion to start with. Because for the design, premiere and delivery of the blood for one year. The sun is shining, the are not moral creatures and we do not have the event was mostly a collection of lines - class ring is, simply, the responsibility. While semester is almost over, and here at the the same obligations to them'that we have for Omnimax movie tickets, rings, food and, I applaud the efforts of the entire RingComm halfway point in my undergraduate career, towards our fellow man. Now don't suggest inevitably, complaints - there was little in handling both the routine and unexpected I'd rather bond with my classmates by play- we all go out and kick dogs; I'd be a villain to opportunity for any meaningful large-scale events of the entire ordeal - on a volunteer ing a nice friendly game of softball than by do so. What I'm suggesting is that humans are , physical gathering. People ended up sticking basis, no less - I cannot honestly blame any- arguing balls and strikes. unique beings and should be treated as such. Page 6 THE TECH OPINION May 10,2002 Are the Ivies at Risk? Propaganda as they become transformed by the cleansing dents to other cultures and social realities to -At The Basil Enwegbara forces on campus. Participating in numerous enhance their leanling experience. In fact, campus student associations is one of the when students each bring their analytical per- There is today a growing debate about the media that help students discover their talents. specti ves into the classroom and share their Teach-In future of education - that is, whether dis- This way, the school plays the role of a fami- multiple perspectives in a group interactive tance education will replace current residen- Iy, a community, where everyone has session, the group environment can trigger tial learning. The debate has become so immense opportunities to interact freely, and new patterns of understanding built on the Guest Column intense that it is drawing the attention of presi- openly question the things they believe are the foundation of shared emotions and individual Joshua Furman dents of some of the leading centers of learn- ills of the society, as well as support issues perspective. ing like MIT. Recently, President Vest made that appeal to a better society. It is mostly Also, as the educators, faculty and admin- his own thoughts public. In one of the classes istrators frequently interact with the student, To all the members of the MIT and Harvard I participated in recently, distance education not only do they easily become mentors to the communities calling for divestment from Israel: was also one of the dominating arguments. student but also they tend to use their privi- While it is refreshing to see the beginning of And this was driven by my nonresidential If it is tnle that education leged positions to continuously help the stu- a dialogue between people with opposing views classmates, participating from NASA and dent redefine his or her identity. Students also on the Arab-Israeli conflict, it often times'seems Ford Motor Company. The argument could is a civilizingJorce that go through new processes of identity negotia- that true discussion is sorely lacking. I am refer- not even be avoided in the MIT class of tion with their professors, administrators, and ring particularly to the May 6 teach-in at MIT. Rebecca Henderson, a leading expert in tech- could be used to build and peers. This process of negotiating identity can The Web site
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Conference features over 100 scholars and artists sor: Logarhythms, MIT. covering a wide range of issues related to globalization and convergence of media. Film, TV,jour- 8:00 p.m. - "sing forevermore." Anne Rhodes (senior office assistant, Architecture) in a solo nalism, the Internet and more are covered from a variety of international perspectives. Free- reg- voice recital of classical, jau and experimental music of the 20th Century. Works by Olivier Mes- ister at http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2. Room: All conference events take place in E51 except for siaen, David Foxe '03 (MIT Course IV), Klokie Grossfeld, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, Bart tele-journeys exhibit in List Visual Arts Center. Sponsor: Office of the Arts, Communications Howard, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Milton Babbit and John Cage. Funded in part by Forum, Comparative Media Studies. This conference is sponsored by the MIT Program in Compar- the Council for the Arts at MIT. Possible funding by the MIT Department of Architecture (pending). ative Media Studies in cooperation with List Visual Arts Center and support from the Office of the Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Council for the Arts at MIT. Arts and MIT Communications Forum. 8:00 p.m. - The Dining Room. MIT Community Players production of play by MIT Professor Emeri- 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Mechanical Engineering Seminar. "MEMS System Research: Water-Pow- tus A.R. Gurney. Directed by Megan Bell. $10, $8 other students, MIT faculty/staff/senior citi- ered Bio Assay, Micro Wankel Engines and Disk Drive Actuators.~ Free. Room: 3-133. Sponsor: zens, $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: MIT Community Players. ME Seminar Series. 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Nanocomposites. The Warren K. Lewis Lecture in Chemical Engineering- Sunday, May 12 Part of the Chemical Engineering Departments 2002 Spring Seminar Series. Free. Room: 66- 110. Sponsor: Chemical Engineering. 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Media In Transition 2: globalization and convergence. International con- 4:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. The Chamber Music Society, coordi- ference at MIT runs three days, May 10-12. Conference features over 100 scholars and artists nated by Professor Marcus Thompson. is comprised of students selected by audition to study covering a wide range of issues related to globalization and convergence of media. Film, TV,jour- and perform chamber music literature. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts nalism, the Internet and more are covered from a variety of intemational perspectives. free - reg- Section. ister at conference Web site at http://cms.mit.edu/comf/mit2. Room: all conference events 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Insight or Invention? The need for collaboration in the development of take place in E51 except for tele-journeys exhibit in list Visual Arts Center. Sponsor: Office of the high technology. Inaugural Charles L. Miller Annual Lecture. Free. Room: 6-120. Sponsor: Engi- Arts, Communications Forum, Comparative Media Studies. This conference is sponsored by the neering Systems Division, Civil and Environmental Engineering. Cambridge-MIT Institute. MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies in cooperation with List Visual Arts Center and sup- 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - PSFCSeminar. Edge Turbulence Imaging in Alcator C-Mod and NSTX. port from the Office of the Arts and MIT.Communications Forum. Free. Room: NW17-218. Sponsor: Plasma Science and Fusion Center. 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Hillel's Mother's Day BBQ. Bring your Mom -or your friends - and cele- 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Integrating Faith and Work. Prof. Ron Ballinger (Nuclear Engineering & brate mother's day with a FREEBBQ! Free. Room: Kresge BBQ Pits. Sponsor: Hillel, MIT. Materials Science) will speak about the relationship between our faith and the work that we do. 2:00 p.m. - The Dining Room. MIT Community Players production of play by MIT Professor Emeri- We will also have a worship time and go out to dinner afterwards. Free. Room: Student Center, tus A.R. Gurney. Directed by Megan Bell. $10, $8 other students, MIT faculty/staff/senior citi- Twenty Chimneys. Sponsor: Graduate Christian Fellowship. zens, $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: MIT Community Players. 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Boston Celtics Playoff Party. Whether you've never seen a game before 5:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. The Chamber Music Society, coordi- or are a huge fan, come watch the playoff on our big TV. Enjoy FREEsnacks and desserts. Meet nated by Professor Marcus Thompson, is comprised of students selected by audition to study new people from MIT and Wellesley. Free. Room: Student Center, First Roor. Sponsor: ClubZ. and perform chamber music literature. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts 7:00 p.m. - MIT Anime Club Weekly Screening. "Porco Rosso~ and TBA. Most screenings are Section. subtitled in English. The MIT Anime Club is a non-profit MIT student organization dedicated to 7:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. The Chamber Music Society, coordi- increasing the awareness of Japanese animation (anime) on campus. Free. Room: Rm 6-120. nated by Professor Marcus Thompson, is comprised of students selected by audition to study Sponsor: MIT Anime Club. and perform chamber music literature. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts 7:00 p.m. - "Mediacracy" in the Americas: The News Media & the Legitimacy of Governments. Section. How was the 2000 US presidential election decided in Florida? Danny Schechter (who has worked at CNN, ABC, WBCN, WGBH, and now runs mediachannel.org) will show his new docu- Monday, May 13 mentary film "Counting on Democracy,~ about the role played by the news media on Election Day and in the recounts that followed. He will also discuss the peculiar behavior of US and Venezue- 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - New Approaches In Neuroscience Symposium. The McGovern Institute lan news media during the recent coup in Caracas. Free. Room: MIT 3-133. Sponsor: MIT West- for Brain Research at MIT is sponsoring a two-day Symposium entitled "New Approaches in Neu- ern Hemisphere Project. roscience~, featuring 16 distinguished speakers from the U.S. and Europe. The symposium takes 8:00 p.m. - The Dining Room. MIT Community Players production of play by MIT Professor Emeri- place May 13-14 and is open to the scientific community. Admission is Free. The four sessions tus A.R. Gurney. Directed by Megan Bell. $10, $8 other students, MIT faculty/staff/senior citi- are: Novel Avenues for Electrophysiology, Genes in Neuroscience, Imaging the Brain: Beyond zens, $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: MIT Community Players. BOLDand Neural Stem Cells and Repair. Free. Room: Wong Auditorium, Bldg. E51. Sponsor: 8:00 p.m. - Resonance of MIT Spring Concert. MIT's newest secular, coed a cappella group McGovern Inst. with guest group: The Dartmouth Subtleties. Free. Room: Rm 54-100. Sponsor: Resonance of 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - TSM (ADSM) Backup Software Quick Start. Leam how to download, MIT A Capella Group. install, and configure TSM (formerly ADSM), a program for backing up your files to a secure server 8:00 p.m. - Playwrights-in-Performance. 3 original student-written plays directed by Associate over the network. Discuss your TSM questions with technical staff. Room: N42 Demo. Sponsor: Provost for the Arts Alan Brody. "A Day in the Life of Brian~ by senior Dan Tortorice (economics), Information Systems.• "M.L." by senior Carolyn Chen (architecture), "Homecoming~ by David Ngo. Free. Room: Kresge 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Working Group Recycling Committee Meeting. Committee Meeting of Rehearsal Rm B. Sponsor: Theater Arts Section. Working Group Recycling (WGR)task force. Open to all interested faculty, staff and students who 8:00 p.m. - "The Musical World of Joe Lovano." (MIT American Music Series-March 2-May would like to help improve recycling at MIT. Free. Room: Adler Conference Room 39-327. Spon- 10). MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director with Special guest, Blue Note sor: Working Group on Support Staff Issues. Recording Artist, Joe Lovano. A world-renowned jau saxophonist and recording artist, Joe Lovano 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Web Publishing Overview. A prerequisite for the Web Publishing: Basics is one of the most versatile jazz musicians working today. Mr. Lovano will be featured alone, in a course, this three-hour lecture/demonstration session gives an overview of the electronic pub- duo playing for the first time with special guest pianist Ran Blake (chair, Contemporary Improvisa- lishing process as it works at MIT, focusing on: how to code files using HTML tags (HTML, the tion; Associate Chair of Improvisation, New England Conservatory of Music), in a trio, sax sextet HyperText Markup Language, is the standard for publishing on the web) how to upload files to the (world premiere piece by MIT Lecturer Mark Harvey), in a nonet, and finally with the entire MIT Athena system for delivery through MIT's primary web server, web.mit.edu. Special attention is Festival Jazz Ensemble. Music to be performed includes Lovano's own compositions such as paid to issues affecting web sites at MIT (MITnet rules of use, Athena file conventions, special "Flights of Fancy" and "Sanctuary Park~, new nonet arrangements of Tadd Dameron's music by services available on web.mit.edu, etc.). Room: N42 Demo. Sponsor: Information Systems. Willie Smith, "Sue's Changes~ by Charles Mingus, and others. Special Guest: pianist Ran Blake 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Adobe Systems Design/Publishing Solutions - Free Seminar. Mike Rich- 7:15pm-pre-concert talk by Lovano. $5 at the door. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Music man from Adobe's New York City office will take attendees on a 2-hour tour of the new OS X Pho- and Theater Arts Section. toshop 7 with tie-ins to Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat. Also with Mike will be Kevin McGrath with Adobe Systems - Education Sales Group. Door Prizes: Several cool Adobe products and Saturday, May U other stuff! Free. Room: 3-270. Enter through 77 Mass. Ave. Sponsor: Information Systems. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - "Inflnlte-dimenslonal bundles and differential forms." Free. Room: 4- 9:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. - Media in Transition 2: globalization and convergence. International con- 159. Sponsor: Differential Geometry Seminar. Department of Mathematics. ference at MIT runs three days, May 10-12. Conference features over 100 scholars and artists 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - 2002 AWARDS CONVOCATION.MIT Awards Convocation. Reception will covering a wide range of issues related to globalization and convergence of media. Film, TV,jour- follow ceremony. Free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Residential Life and Student Life Programs. nalism, the Internet and more are covered from a variety of intemational perspectives. Free- reg- 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Mechanics Seminar: "Inducekharge Electro-osmosls: Theory and ister at conference Web site at http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2. Room: Wong Auditorium, E51. Microfluldic Applications." [Joint work with Todd Squires (Department of Physics, Harvard Univer- Sponsor: Communications Forum, Comparative Media Studies. This conference is sponsored by sity).] Refreshments will be served. Room: 5-234. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering Dept. the MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies in cooperation with List Visual Arts Center and 5:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. The Chamber Music Society, coordi- support from the Office of the Arts and MIT Communications Forum. nated by Professor Marcus Thompson, is comprised of students selected by audition to study U:OO a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Tele-journeys panel discussion. Panel with participating artists. Pre- and perform chamber music literature. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts sented by the List Visual Arts Center as part of its tele-journeys exhibition (see May 2-July 7) in Section. / conjunction with "Media-in-Transition: Globalization and Convergence" organized by MIT's Com- 5:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. - The Resilient City Colloquium: Trauma, Recovery and Remembrance. parative Media Studies Program. Free. Room: Wong Auditorium (MIT Tang Center Bldg E51). MIl's Resilient City project was conceived in response to the terrorist attacks that destroyed New Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center. York's World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The colloquium will examine critically how cities in 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Opening Reception- Tele-Journeys: Artists from the Rijksakamedle the past have endured traumatic episodes, and prevailed to establish new order out of chaos van Beeldende Kunsten. Organized by MIT Professor and internationally recognized artist and devastation. Weekly lecture series. Free. Room: Room 10-485. Sponsor: Department of Joan Jonas and List Visual Arts Center Director Jane Farver. Artists include: Carlos Amorales, Urban Studies and Planning. Mark Bain, Yael Bartana, Michael Blum, Runa Islam, Jill Magid, Sebastian Diaz Morales, 7:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. The Chamber Music Society, coordi- Fiona Tan and others. Jonas has followed the careers of these artists since they trained Rijk- nated by Professor Marcus Thompson, is comprised of students selected by audition to study sakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, where she also teaches. The Rijk- and perform chamber music literature. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts sakadamie, a global think tank and laboratory for the culture of the new millennium, has a Section. long tradition as a global art program for the world's most promising professional artists. 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - New Thoughts on Interpreting "Copenhagen". Symposium in associ- There, they join in discussion, generating new visions for the future of world culture, while ation with the play "Copenhagen~ in Boston Colonial Theatre, May 7-May 19. Panel discus- bringing with them the specifities of their countries of origin. Jonas is interested in these sion about Michael Frayn's award winning play. Moderated by Prof Alan Brody, MIT Associate artists who are from different parts of the world, because, she says, their work, "although Provost for the Arts. Each panelist will speak individually, then among themselves, followed made in a western European context, addresses issues of identity and gender in an art world by Q&A with audience. Participants: Laszlo Tisza, MIT Professor of Physics, Emeritus ("Per- that is now global at the same time that it is local. So I find it very interesting that young sonal Reminiscences of Bohr and Heisenberg") Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics, Emeri- artists working with different languages simultaneously are using information that has sifted tus, Harvard ("What We Learn from the Newly Released Bohr Documents") Jochen Heisen- down through past 35 years involving performance art, conceptual art, and all forms of berg, Professor of Physics, University of New Hampshire ("Two Heisenbergs, Frayn's and My media. ~ Exhibit on view May 2-June 30. Free. Room: List Visual Arts Center (E15). Sponsor: Father") Mariette Hartley, actor who portrays Margrethe Bohr in the play Hank Stratton, actor List Visual Arts Center. who portrays Werner Heisenberg in the play. Free. Room: Wong A~ditorium. (E51). Sponsor: 8:00 p.m. - U:OO p.m. - Patrol. Shoot your friends! Travel to strange, new classrooms; meet Office of the Arts. Goethe-Institut. interesting, unusual people; and kill them. A team game of shoot-em-up; guns provided. Free. 8:30 p.m. -10:00 p.m. - Sigma XI Lecture. "Computational Capacity of the Universe." Free. Room: Building 36, First Floor. Sponsor: Assassins' Guild, MIT. Room: Sala de Puerto Rico. Sponsor: Ceramics/Materials Science. May 10,2002 THE TECH Page 13 Segue Misses Target, But Crowds Reduced By Richa Maheshwari unclear how large of a problem it STAFF REPORTER will be. As of now, the number of Although the Senior Segue uncrowded spaces that are available attracted only slightly more than is approximately 2,950, while the half the number of students MIT number of spaces that are needed is had hoped for, overcrowding in still unclear. undergraduate dorms will nonethe- "[The number of spaces needed] less be reduced next year. depends on the size of the freshman "The worst crowding situations class, the number of people return- will be gone next year, such as ing from leaves of absence, junior using the MacGregor lounges as year abroad, depledging current rooms, and using the New House freshman to whom we have guaran- doubles as quads," said Dormitory teed spots, and also special consid- Council President Matthew S. Cain erations for medical and counseling '02. "The singles at [East Campus] support," Vallay said. "It is not clear will still be used as doubles, but this how many spaces we need." has been the case for a while, and it Vallay said that spaces in the will still be an improvement." graduate dorms Ashdown House "We have been able to fix the and Sidney-Pacific are still avail- crowding situation in the worst able, and Senior Segue applications ERIKA BROWN-THE TECH crowds on campus," said Manager will be considered if they come in. Turkish national chess champion Tamer Karatekin '04 opens round three of last weekend's MIT of Undergraduate Residential Ser- "We are still working on some Open Collegiate Championship against reigning U.S. Women's champion Ellna Groberman '04. vices Denise A. Vallay. She said other contingency plans to free up a Karatekin took home top honors from the tournament with 3.5 points out of a possible four. that MIT's crowding situation few more beds here and there," said would still improve despite the low Dean for Student Life Larry G. numbers for the Senior Segue. Only Benedict. 88 undergraduates will move into Graduate Student Council Presi- graduate housing next year, includ- dent Sanith Wijesinghe said that ing sisters from Kappa Alpha Theta crowding will still be a problem who are moving into Sidney-Pacific, next year, despite the progress Vallay said. made thus far. "Reductions in "Even though it looks like we undergraduate enrollment and/or have taken only 88 people out of the more on campus housing options system, that translates into improve- are required before overcrowding ment in the lives in many more peo- ceases to be a problem completely," ple - the people who were crowd- he said. ed, and the people people who they However, despite the lower- were crowded with," Vallay said. than-expected numbers for under- "We feel we have made a tremen- graduates moving to graduate hous- dous start and have come a long ing, Wijesinghe said there would way towards solving the overcrowd- still be a negative impact on gradu- ing problem." ate students. "Clearly, taking more beds away from graduate students is No further plans announced going to be detrimental," he said. 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said. exact same situation," she said. "We under- Her research involves the neurophysiol- Brass Rats Found RingComm Chair Douglas J. Quattrochi stand that they're very angry and upset. I ogy of the basal ganglia, regions of the The missing brass rats which were not '04 said in an e-mail to the class that no would be, too." brain which control movement and cogni- delivered to students with last names begin- compensation would be received for the Mawjee said that some members of the tion. Problems with the basal ganglia have ning with the letters "P" through "Z" at the shipping error by FedEx. committee had received what she called been connected to Parkinson's and Hunting- ring delivery event were found Tuesday. Mawjee said RingComm was trying to "hate mail." ton's Disease, as well as neuropsychiatric Class of 2004 Ring Committee member determine if some form of compensation "Someone wrote [the committee] an e- disorders such as Tourette's Syndrome, Maxwell E. Planck '04 said in an e-mail could be obtained, but that the group was mail saying that we were the products of a obsessive-compulsive disorder, major message to the class that primarily focused on making sure all rings failed abortion," she said. depression and addiction. the 224 rings were are delivered. "We're trying to figure out if -Kevin R. Lang "It is an enormous privilege to be able to shipped Tuesday. something can be done," she said. study the brain, and my goal is to help solve News RingComm Vice Chair Mawjee said that FedEx could not problems related to neurological and cogni- Nadya Mawjee '04 said explain the shipping error, but that Josten's Graybiel Wms National tive function," Graybiel told the MIT News Bri~fs that most of the rings had was seeking compensation for the delivery Office. already been shipped as of problem. "Josten's is planning to sue Medal of Science Graybiel graduated from Harvard Uni- yesterday, and some students had already FedEx," she said, noting that FedEx admit- Ann M. Graybiel, the Walter A. Rosen- versity in 1964, then received her masters in received them. Some students have not yet ted their negligence in delivering the rings blith Professor of Neuroscience and investi- biology from Tufts University in 1966 and given Josten's address information, she by letting an unauthorized person sign for gator at MIT's new McGovern Institute for her PhD in psychology and brain science said. the package. Brain Research, won a 200 I National Medal from MIT in 1971. She began teaching at Miriam L. Sorell '04 received her ring "They don't know who this guy was at of Science, the White House announced MIT in 1971. yesterday afternoon, much to her surprise. all," Mawjee said. "Some random guy had yesterday. Graybiel joins 24 present and past mem- "I didn't even believe that we'd get them the rings." The prize is the highest science and bers of the MIT faculty in receiving the tomorrow," she said. Sorell said she was Mawjee said that the committee had technology award given by the U.S. Four- National Medal of Science. The most recent annoyed that she travelled all the way to the heard many complaints from disgruntled teen National Medals of Science and five winners were Institute Professor Emeritus Museum of Science, only to find her ring students, and that "a lot of people are tend- National Medals of Technology were Robert M. Solow and Professor Kenneth N. was not there. ing to blame the committee." awarded by President George W. Bush this Steven of electrical engineering and com- "I find it hard to figure out where to "I think it's difficult to explain to people year. Graybiel was the only woman medal- puter science in 1999. place the blame in this situation," Sorell how this is our ring, too, and we were in the ist. -Kevin R. Lang
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FRIDAY, MAY 17th 8PM IN 10-250 FREE! May 10,2002 THE TECH Page 15 Student Groups Draft Responses to Accounts. Plan Accounts, from Page I tory of substandard accounting prac- Otero G, last year's GSC president, to be sure that there is enough time ter addr,essedto RLSLP according to tices. "It's upsetting that students said that the GSC's main concern for student groups adjust to whatev- Cain. They hope that other student S. Bufferd to several student group don't show up to financial services was retaining the ability to write er changes the administrators want organizations will attach their signa- leaders last Tuesday. Bufferd asked treasurer trainings, but they should," . checks. "Supervising that ability to make," Yoon said. "It seems they tures to the letter. "We are working student leaders to inform the student she said. would solve the problem the admin- are adamant about changing it ... so on.a unified response," said Lecture population, but the move was met Student Finances Associate Lau- istration wants to solve, and we are the ASA is looking out for the best Series Committee Chairman Roger with much dissension. rie Ward said she was hoping to very eager to work with the admin- interest of its constituents." A. Ford '02. "LSC will greatly be "The DormCon president just install consistent training for trea- istration," he said. Wijesinghe had a different agen- atTectedby this, as well as other stu- started screaming at that point," said surers, and will work this summer to "A lot of the concern is that first da. "First, we are trying to see if the dent groups and dorms. Most student VA Financial Board member Arthur update the system. "We really need of all student government and repre- date can be shifted further back. groups think it is a bad idea and feel G. Fitzmaurice '03. to simplify ~herules. It's pretty sim- sentatives were not part of the for- [We need] a more gradual change MIT must have a more concrete "I mentioned on Tuesday that if ple; we're just a bank,"'she said. mulative process of this change," than this," he said. plan." Ford hopes the response will they don't match the banks' offers, "Now we need to get the rules out in Wijesinghe said. "This is a continu- Saenz Otero also said that the be ready by next week. there will be a black market," said a clear format." ation of the same trend we've seen GSC is considering alternatives to "I'm not sure if we're going to ASA President Jennifer S. Yoon this past semester, and we have to the internalization of all bank send our requests as a separate let- '03. "They realize this fact and that Leaders concerI!ed about changes' tackle this as a systematic problem. accounts, but said the organization ter," Yoon said. "I think [other stu- the plan is almost infeasible to do Since a formal announcement to Institute committees are one way to first wanted to speak with the dent groups and the ASA] are on the before July 2002. This may mean all ASA student leaders Friday have more of a say, but lots of administration. same page here and we do not want that the idea gets pushed back morning, many student groups have issues don't go through these com- Members of the RLSLP office students to be left out of important another year to compensate for shown great concern about the mittees. We have to find out what have heard preliminary requests decisions like this ... We will speak time." potential damage that.internalization level of administration the process from students and "we intend to be to Heider.soon." An investigative committee, could bring. starts. If its just a single person, very responsive," Ward said. "It's At the most .recent meeting, headed by Managing Director ofthe "Student groups count on there's no way to be part of the not going to be easy, but we are DormConvoted that keeping the out- Treasurer's Office William A. resources outside banks can give setup." going to make it easier." side bank accounts would be most Heitin, said it had "discovered ille- that MIT can't," Fitzmaurice said. RLSLP has already acted to ideal. "We like the control and the gitimate activities occurring through "For a theater group I was involved Meeting congeals plan of action improve services since the original flexibility and ease of access they outside accounts of several student in, we took the money from our At the meeting Sunday, students meeting with student organizations otTer,"Cain said. Many dormitories groups; these included both embez- . ticket sales straight to a night agreed to gather more input and last week. Ward said that the office such as Baker House have external zlement and fraud charges currently deposit box. LSC operates similarly, reactions from students: The ASA is can now accept deposits and make accountsas well as internalones. undergoing criminal investigations," since they can't really wait until continuing to do so presently. printed statements available. Seale addressed the UA on the according to an e-mail sent by the Monday morning to deposit such a "What we've seen is there are a state of the matter after being sworn ASA executive board. large amount of money." lot of students that want their voice Groups also act individually in Monday night. "The only thing I At the meeting last Tuesday, ,UA President Josiah D. Seale heard," Yoon said. "We've received There have been several infor- could really say' is that the issue is Heitin referenced tne 'case of .funds '03 a'greed. "Not being able to do much feedback from representa- mal meetings between representa- still up in the air," he said. S~ale missing from The Tech's outside' thi~ means some student groups tives." tives of student groups and various advised students make their voice bank accounts. "They mentioned won't be able to survive. We both "The GSC.is in the same posi- administrators discussing individual heard through comments to ASA or The'Tech was one of the most. have the same goal because nobody tion," Sa~nz Otero said. "We also concerns. For example, representa- Finboard. recent and the most severe [cases]," . wants our money to be embezzled, want to hear from them. I know that tives from the ASA and UA spoke said DormCon President Matthew but there are many ways to go about ... this is not a closed case at all for to Dean for Student Life Larry G. S. Cain '02. this and.! can't support removing the GSc." Benedict and Heitin, and incoming Associate Dean for Student Life outside bank accounts until these "I think there's nothing truly set- DormCon President Grace R. Programs Barbara A. Baker said things are in place." tled down because the list that the Kessenich spoke with administra- FRIENDS that :manyproblems occurred when Also. among the list of expecta- ASA has received is huge," Saenz tors from RLSLP. outside accounts were reallowed in tions was the possibility of earning Otero said. "We have to compile the "No one group has real control DON'T LET 1996. "This was not prompted by' interest, a benefit not currently list of 'must happens' and truly fig- over the process, Cain said. "We are . Just one incident," she said. Heiten offered to bank accounts within ure out the real ones." all working.together." FRIENDS land other investigative committee MIT. 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At NEG, like at moted to associate professor of spend the year in a similar full-time Institute Professor of Music John H. no Mahler symphonies and no other conservatories, instrumental music, and a comprehensive tenure position at another school. Harbison, Ludovic Morlot, and major 20th century works, a la teachers want their students to focus review is slated to commence within Though Anzolini has been David Alan Miller. Stravinsky's Firebird or Bartok's on learning solo repertoire. As a a couple of years. engaged at NEC for a one-year con- Morlot is a young and promising Concerto for Orchestra. The major result, students tend to regard their In spite of a contractual obliga- tract, the nature of that job is not maestro who has affiliations with work on each program falls within orchestral activities as a chore. tion that forces Anzolini to take a one" of tenure-track; the contract is the Boston Symphony Orchestra the standard canon: two works by "MIT students don't have a lot paid leave of absence next year or simply renewed on a yearly or bi- and the Tanglewood Festival. Brahms, one each by Schumann and of spare time to practice," says else forfeit his sabbatical outright, yearly basis. His predecessor at Miller, the music director of the Beethoven. In a word, the signature Director of the Concerts Office' some members of the music faculty NEC has resigned and has no inten- Albany Symphony Orchestra, has of MITSO's upcoming season is Clarise Snyder; "but their hearts and have privately expressed concerns tions of returning to the post of appeared as guest conductor with distinctly non-Anzolini in character, minds are.in it, and that makes all about the timing of Anzolini's leave director of the orchestral program. many of the nation's most presti- as he has tended to focus on 20th the difference." Snyder, who man- of absence relative to his upcoming gious orchestras, including those in century masterpieces, Mahler, and ages all of the on-campus concerts, tenure review. Though professional The face of MITSO for 2002-2003 Chicago, Philadelphia, and New other late romantics. knows Anzolini well. activities outside MIT constitute a In Anzolini' s absence, the day- York. significant portion of the tenure to-day logistics of the orchestra will A quick glance at each of next Beyond 2003: an uncertain future MITSO players 'are brilliant' committee's decision - these out- be taken over by Director of the season's four programs yields inter- All of this information leads to Furthermore, Anzolini has a speculation about Anzolini's future great deal. of pride for MITSO, at MIT. There are no ambiguities which he unequivocally asserts is about the fact that MIT is not a superior to all other Boston-area music school, whereas NEC is one college orchestras. "Could any of of the most prestigious music them have played Ives' 4th Sym- THE KENDALL schools in the region. Upon first phony as we did? No." He bubbles glance, 'one might ask what kind of over with pride when he speaks of an 1893 firehouse, a 2002 hotel musician would not jump at the the members ofMITSO. opportunity to direct an orchestral "They are intelligent. They are program involving four orchestras brilliant, and they use this," Anzoli- 350 Main Street and music students instead of two ni said, pointing to his head. Cambridge, MA 02142 extracurricular ensembles (MITSO The respect and admiration is and the MIT Chamber Orchestra) reciprocated, .as Anzolini is popular at a science and technology insti- amongst his troops in MITSO. He where staying is different tute. elicits nothing but praise. from Sny- The choice is not so simple. MIT der, who, as an alum ofNEC and an tel 617-577-1300 offers a tenure-track faculty posi- employee of MIl': has been on both fax 617-577-1377 tion, whereas there is no chance for sides of the fence. "I think' he has tenure as' director of the orchestral the potential to create something hIt n://w\v\v.kendallhotel.com program at NEC. As well, an NEC wonderful at NEC," says Snyder. employee familiar with the situation Of course, he already has done SPECIAL COMMENCEMENT PACKAGES noted that MIT has a less invasive so in a mere four years at MIT. central administration than NEC, MITSO will perform Sanchez- which affords Anzolini a great deal Gutierrez's Afterlight, Penderecki's more autonomy, including the " Viola Concerto, and Mahler's First opportunity to go on tours. Symphony tomorrow night at 8 p.m: Most importantly, MITSO con- in Kresge Auditorium. Tickets ,ar~ sists 'of players who - despite an $3 at the door.
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2.007: Ingenuity Equals Sunrival 2.007, from Page I decades. Professor Ernesto E. Blanco, who Slocum calls his inspiration for becoming a mechanical engineer, is honored prizes donated by Microsoft, one of the contest's corporate between rounds with an MIT clock similar to that given to sponsors. Students will receive a t-shirt if they make it to the winner. quarter-finals, and, if they are lucky enough to reach the final four, an XBox and several games. Prelims determine the best of the best "Tuesday was just to weed out the machines that should- Different methods face off n't be here," said Henry Hilton '04, the third place finisher. Because of the way the contest was designed, students Tuesday's competition marked the beginning of the fast- were tom between two scoring methods - swinging the pen- paced single elimination tournament. dulum or putting weights in the bin. "It was kind of intense; do or die," Hilton said. "If you do the sensitivity analysis, it actually turns out that After Tuesday, the location of the control podium was scoring potential of putting weight in the bin is ten times changed, causing some anxiety among the competitors. more than that of the pendulum," Slocum explains. "When I came in today, I was worried because they Some machines scale the slippery PYC pipe, clamp on, changed the location ," Jonikas said. and spin. Others, arms flying, whack the pendulum back and Fortunately for his machine, Jonikas rewired "Bomb forth. Some try to impair their opponent by throwing fences Totin' Mama" to make the change easy to handle. across the table. 10nikas' machine clamped its sharp-toothed jaws to the side of the scoring bin and pushed the scale down, Contest precursor to IDC sending his score into astronomical figures. And then there The top four finishers, as well as two other competitors, are the suicide machines, who, with a running start, throw the will be given the opportunity to participate in the Internation- full weight of their machines into the bin. al Design Contest (IDC), the brainchild of MIT and the "If I were to design a machine, I would have tried to max- Tokyo Institute of Technology. imize the scoring with both methods, but I definitely would Students from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, have concentrated on the weight, and I would have done Brazil, Japan, and MIT will gather in Cambridge in early something similar to Martin's design," Slocum says. August. For two weeks, they will work in mixed groups on a contest similar to 2.007. Spectators get into contest "It's going to be awesome," Jonikas said, a permanent Amidst competing cheers of "Har-vard!" and "M-I- T!" grin stretching his face. teams 56 and 74 face off - individual competitors are allowed to have an assistant driver. After an intense forty-five Final round seconds, the Harvard team is eliminated. Two are left. Others, machines in hand, have left or Kids with signs touting their status as future retired to the spectator seats. Aaron 1. Parness '04 steps forth MIT geeks scream as the camera pans in their direc- to challenge Jonikas. The much anticipated final competitors tion. College-age spectators sport signs with the set up their machines one last time. names of their friends and their contraptions. Still "Ready .~. Steady ... And .... " older spectators watch the contest quietly; some They're off. Quickly the two race to the other's starting have sat in Johnson watching 2.007 each year for point to stop the swinging pendulums. Their points have stopped climbing. Now what? They reach an impasse as each blocks the other. The seconds go by, neither one blinking. Both contestants' main scoring strategies had been thwarted. With only a few seconds to go, Jonikas turns away and drives to his own scoring bin, toppling over a load of balls and preparing to unleash his "lethal press." Parness scrambles to follow suit, but it is too late. Time is up. This is not obvi- ous to Jonikas, who is still intent on driving the scoring pit downward. A knowing pat on the back from a friend tells the warrior he has won. Grabbing Jonikas around the waist, Slocum throws him over his shoulder and swings him around. "It's tradition," Slocum says.
Post-contest reflection revealing "It felt great," Jonikas says. "As long as the other machine didn't impair mine, I was pretty confident of myself. Some of them put up a good fight." "I was detmitely worried in the last round. I thought some of the other machines had a chance." "Martin was kind of scared of me," says Hilton, the third place finisher. "There was a small possibility that I could have beaten him." , Jonikas spent "lots and lots and lots of time" on his machine. "It's unfair to the people who have lives," his friend adds. (Clockwise from bottom left) (1).~ Alexander H. Slocum canies "I enjoyed it, though. It's an opportunity to be creative, Martin C. Jonikas '04 011 his shoulders in the traditional ¥ictoIy run. (2) and I love to build things." Two robots are lanlted in the u-shapeel pit between the pendulums. Many robots had troultle crossing the steep lip 011 either side of the The aftermath cuneo (3) Jonikas signs a ball used' during the competition for fan The pendulums are being disassembled. The judges tables Michael Tylko. (4) Balls spin onto the field after a machine gives the are abandoned and most of the caution tape on the floor is pendulum a particularly good whack. Placing weight (including the pulled up. Teaching assistants and judges walk through the bals, hockey pucks, and the machines ~) into bins on the field stands, collecting garbage. was another way that robots could score points.; (5) -'The Box"- and Jonikas remains to speak with reporters while the other another robot struggle to get past each other. Though good sportsman- finalists pack up their machines. Jonikas approaches Slocum, ship was encouraged, ...., 'IIUII coIisions could not be II¥OidecI ... who is conducting the clean-up process. "Thanks a lot Professor Slocum. Your class was amaz- added to the excitement of the gaMe. (6) SaRI R. Sarc:ia '04 c..ruIy attaches his I"OItot of II. .. _ this ,.... pIaJinc field. ing," Jonikas says, shaking Slocum's hand as the tables are to one two ..... taken apart. Swin&Inc the ...... _ cUing the 45 second roand was one of the ..,. "I'm just the catalyst. You guys are the fuel," Slocum that robots could score points. f says. ~ by"" Beruk MIlAmy W"..