MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Sunny, cool, 54°F (12°C) Tonight: Clear, cold, 33°F (l0C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, 56°F (l30C) Details, Page 2 Volume 116, umber 48 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, October 4, 1996 Co-cnrricular Redesign Team Prepares for Implementation By Shang-Un Chuang recognition for their groups, and use its efficient functions." NEWS EDITOR plan and register events, said The team's "report is thorough," The re-engineering co-curricular Anthony 1. Ives G, team captain. said Senior Vice President William redesign team has started planning Assistant Director of the Campus R. Dickson '56, who sits on the for the implementation of its final Activities Complex Ted E. Johnson, steering committee. The report recommendations on student group a m~mber of the team, said that the "addresses several of the issues that management after receiving team was trying to make the have long been recognized as 'need- approval for the plans last week changes take affect as quickly as ing fixing'." from the steering committee. possible "We are ... working on "The Steering Committee is very The co-curricular team, which is establishing temporary measures accepting, pleased, and excited part of the larger student services re- that would allow groups to register .about the report," Ives said. "The engineering. effort, analyzed how for simple events quicker," he said. implementation stage will hopefully student groups manage their "We don't want students to have to accounts, receive resources, obtain wait until the project is completed to RtH!ngineering, Page 20 '- I' Forum to Solicit Student Opinion On Writing Requirement Proposal By Venkatesh Satish members will try to speak to smaller students could satisfy the yearly CONTRiBUTING EDITOR groups of students, Perelman said: communication class requirement The Committee on the Writing "We are going to try to reach as by taking courses such as special- Requirement will host a forum later many students as we can," he said. ized writing classes, seminars, or THOMAS R. KARLo-THE TECH this month for students to ask ques- classes in their department that A glimpse of the last lunar eclipse of the millennium was cap- tions and express opinions about the Plan emphasizes communication tured last Thursday night. new proposal to revamp the current The proposed changes say that Forum, Page 21 • Phase I and Phase II system. The proposed changed mandate that students would have to take a "communication-intensive" each of their fOlJFyears/at" the Institute. Burst Water Pipe Damages East Campus Rooms ["Committee P.lans to Revamp Institute Writing Requirement," By Zareena Hussain There is currently no completion date set for Augustine said that the breaking of the water Sept. 20] STAFF REPORTER the work, but students hope that it will conclude pipe could not have been prevented "There are Students will get a chance to ask Students in ten East Campus rooms will quickly. some things we can't control. It's what we're members of the committee about the spend the next several days without water and Lex Nernzer '00, who lives on the 5th .of used to," she said. proposal at the meeting, which will without parts of their walls after a water pipe Walcott had his wall tom through last Friday. The construction this week caused confusion take place on Monday Oct. 21 from bursted in Walcott House early last week. He and other affected students were told to keep in the dormitory as different messages were sent 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in room to-250, The burst pipe caused major flooding in the area surrounding the hole clear of any and out by physical plant to house residents. said Undergraduate Association some of the lower-level rooms in Walcott, a all belongings. "It's annoying, I can't clean up," Physical plant needed to di connect the President Richard Y. Lee '97, who vertical column of rooms extending from the said Nemzer. water to the dormitory's east parallel in order to is helping.organize the event first to fifth floors of the East parallel of East Atreyee Gupta '99, the inhabitant of the . repair the plumbing. Water shutdowns were "I am very happy the committee Campus. room with the greatest damage, had her suitcas- .scheduled for Sept. 28 then Sept. 30th but were decided to solicit student input. ... I . Walcott is currently undergoing emergency es and two rugs completely soaked. So far, he then cancelled. was really impressed/' Lee said. repairs as crews from Physical Plant attempt to . has not been compensated for any damages. "I couldn't shower so I smelt bad" said . "Student input is absolutely patch the aging plumbing system. "Given the age of the building it would only Michael W. Baker 'DO, a dormitory resident. essential... Students will often At least one room on the second floor was have been a matter of time" said Bryson K. "We angered the Gods." commented Robert know tht?.problem better and have rendered uninhabitable due to water damage Kido '98, whose room suffered minor water E. Gruhl '97, another resident. different ways of approaching it," caused by the burst and the large access ports damage. East Campus residents think of all the dam- said Coordinator of the Writing drilled into the wall by the repair crews. One The break "was just a'result of old age," said ages as ordinary but needing to be acted upon Requirement Leslie C. Perelman. room adjacent to the flooded room and the two Donna M. Augustine '97, the president of East soon. After the forum, the committee rooms below were also affected. Campus. "It was a fluke." "We need some renovation." Augustine said. • Kerry and Clinton Benefit Show Sets Politics to Comedy and Music By Dan McGuire ing with a sort of low, thudding NEWS EDITOR music with lots of bass and no dis- What would Bill Clinton, Ted cemable tune as I entered. Members Kennedy, Whoppi Goldberg, and a host of music personalities be doing Kerry, Page 13 together? To endorse Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry last Saturday evening at the Fleet Center where several thousand people had gath- ered to witness the event of course. INSIDE What makes this worthy of a story is that two members of the crowd were members of the Tech's • Immerman looks dedicated press corps, myself and ahead to new Dean's photographer Gabor Csyani. We Office position. Page 10 had managed to obtain tickets from a kind M IT graduate student and were attending because we wanted • Panhel votes down to get the feeling of what it's like to motion to bring new be part of the media big time and to figure out exactly what happens sorority. Page 18 when democrats get funky. I attended on the general princi- • Medesky, Martin, and ple that it included two inherently Wood mixjazz and rock GABOR CSANYI-THE TECH entertaining parts, music and poli- President Clinton greets a supporter while Senator Kerry addresses the audience during Saturday's tics. I was not disappointed. in concert. Page 6 ~emocratic rally at the Fleet Center. The Fleet Center was reverberat- Page 2 HE TECH October 4, 1996 Poet Wms Literature obel Prize ,,-,,__a, e en LOS ANGELES TIMES WARSAW, POLA 0 Polish poet Wi lawa zymborska, a reclusive widow whose • • seductively simple ver e has captured the wit and wisdom of every- -.-_-.-.a c ea ons day life for the past half century, has won the 1996 obel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday in tockholm. By Tracy Wilkinson now I would like to see that the sub- Bosnia's Muslim-led government in Unas uming, shy and obsessively protective of her privacy, LOS ANGELES TIMES stance (of the document) is imple- Sarajevo, agreed to respect the sov- Szymbor ka had been considered a longshot for the pre tigious PARIS mented." ereignty and integrity of Bosnia- award, which wa presented to another poet, Irishman Seamus In a surprise move hailed as a The seven-point agreement was Herzergovina. Such recognition Heaney, last year. Although he is perhaps Poland's most famous critical step toward building peace the product of a day of talks undermines the Bosnian Serbs' female writer, zymborska is often over hadowed in Polish literary in the Balkans, the presidents of between the two men arranged by goals of splitting off the parts of circles by poets Zbigniew Herbert and Tadeusz Rozewicz, both of Serbia and Bosnia agreed Thursday Chirac. Expectations were low at Bosnia they control and uniting whom have been mentioned as obel contender . to open full diplomatic relations the start of the sessions because the them with Serbia. "She ha gone through a long evolution, and has reached maturi- between their two countries. two men have never had any rap- In exchange, Izetbegovic agreed ty," said renowned Poli h poet Czeslaw Milosz, a professor at the The bitter wartime enemies, port, and the brutal war that to respect the "continuity" of University of California, Berkeley, who won the obel prize in 1980. holding their first-ever bilateral Milosevic is widely believed to Serbian-led Yugoslavia. That bol- "Polish poetry in the 20th century has reached a strong international meeting, announced they would have masterminded is still too fresh sters the claim of the government in position on the European continent. zymborska represents it well." exchange ambassadors, permit their for many Bosnians. Belgrade that their state is the right- Szymborska reacted to news of her award with characteristic citizens to travel. to each other's Indeed, the presidents did not set ful successor to the old Yugoslavia, humility and humor.