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The Weather Today: Clear, cool 75°F (24°C) Tonight: Clear, windy, 61°F (16°C) Tomorrow: Warmer, 80°F (26°C) Details, Page 2 02139 Friday, August 25, 1995 Ovenealous Crowd Mars Frosh Dinners By Daniel C. Stevenson for the welfare of their living groups EDITOR IN CHIEF and not for the freshmen," Her- A mob of upperclassmen eagerly schberg said. gathered to take freshmen out to dinner yesterday evening rushed Mob rushed out of Kresge Oval past Residence and Orientation The older students, from living Week workers and interrupted the groups, clubs, and activities, tradi- finale of Project Move Off Your tionally take the freshmen out for Assumptions before being con- the Thursday Night Dinners at the trolled with the help of the Campus conclusion of MOY A at 5:45 p.m. Police. This year, the upperclassmen "It totally ruined the finale," said gathered as usual on the Kresge Mark Herschberg '95, a RiO Com- Oval beginning at 5 p.m. Around mittee member who helped organize 5:30 p.m., as the freshmen moved MOYA, the freshman get-acquaint- from Briggs Field to the football ed program. "MOY A, which was field for the finale, the older stu- absolutely successful till then, failed dents saw them and thought they right at the end," he said. were moving toward the oval to go The overzealousness of the to the dinner, according to Gregory THOMAS R. KARLO-THE TECH upperclassmen to grab freshmen for 1. Miliotes '96, Interfraternity Coun- Campus Pollee officers on bicycles and In a -cruiser were needed to regain control after a crowd of their group's dinner trip "shows that 'upperclassmen gat~rlng'foi 'Thursday night dinners rushed forward prematurely. the interests of upperclassmen are Dinners, Page 11 _1'-, ,Conlif(j /-' Project MOYAPromotes Frosh Teamwork By stacey ~ BIa~ help introduce members to one -~Sel£cred.' NEWSEDlroR. another. Students played a game to '- As Residence and Orientation learn each other's names and also Week kicked off yesterday, fresh- played an animal call game, in men took to Briggs Field for Project which each freshman was blindfold- Move Off Your Assumptions. The ed and assigned an animal he or she ToSpeak program started four years ago to had to imitate while crawling on the give freshmen a relaxed atmosphere grass. in which to meet other freshmen and These were followed by trust AtKillian upperclassmen, said RiO Publicity exercises. Members of a group held 'and Personnel Manager John de out arms to catch a volunteer who By David D. Hsu Guzman. would fall backwards into their NEWS EDITOR "MOY A is a great way to get the arms. For the first time ever, a student, . freshmen and upperclassmen A series of problem-solving Catherine D. Conley, will deliver involved together," said Harold activities followed. One situation KiIJian Kic~-Off rush keynote Brown Jr., assistant professor of called Electric Fence involved a address. Conley replaces the speak- athletics and coach to MOY A simulation in which group mem- er for the three previous years, groups. "It's a good way to kind of bers cooperated to cross over a William Keirn. She will speak this get them relaxed by getting them to rope without touching it. Another afternoon to the Class of 1999. let their hair down a little bit," he called Blind Polygon required Conley's selection is a "new said. blindfolded group members to pull iimovation [in] having an under- Freshmen had mixed but mostly a cord loop into various different graduate speak to other undergradu- positive reactions to MOY A. "It's shapes. ates," said Ida G. Faber, undergrad- fun. It's a good way to get to know One puzzle asked members to uate academic affairs assistant and a few people," said Lucia Dreierova remove a can of water from the cen- adviser to the Residence and Orien- '99. ter of a circle without entering the tation Week Committee. "It's a start at meeting people. circle and without spilling the water, Last spring, the RiO Committee We shouldn't expect too much from with only the aid of a rope. opted for a student speaker. The it," said Athicha Muthitacharoen The activities also included a committee "was really looking for '99. debriefing session, during which .. an undergraduate address for and by group leaders asked freshmen how undergraduates," said Ida G. Faber, Trust games, problem solving they felt about the exercises and undergraduate academic affairs The format of the activity was answered some questions about RiO THOMAS R. KARLO-THE TECH assistant and advisor to the Resi- much the same as last year's, begin- in general. MIT mascot Tim Beaver got involved in Project MOYA yesterday, dence and Orientation Week Com- ning with calisthenics. The groups doing a "trust fall" with one of the groups of freshmen. More MOYA mittee. The keynote speaker follows then split up into clusters of 12 to MOYA, Page to photos are on pages 6-7. the RiO practice of students' coordi-' nating activities, she said. In the decision to drop Keirn, the committee felt it was "more relevant for an upperclass student to deliver President ;VestWelcomes Freshmen INSIDE the keynote speech," said Institute By Ramy A. Amaout think] the next four years will prepare you for the RiO Chair Sanjay K. Chugh '97. A EXECUTIVE EDITOR real world," he said. "It's time to get yourself out of student would better be able to President Charles M. Vest, incoming Dean for this preparation mind et. Real life begins today, right • Local banks offer vari- "address issues fre hmen might be Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs Ro - here at the In titute." feeling," he said. alind H. Williams, and Undergraduate Association Succe s in that tife - and in the wortd beyond ety of options. Page 10 President Came R. Muh '96 were on hand to wel- - will take teamwork, Vest told the audience of Will encourage exploration oome the freshmen to MIT at the annual freshman more than I, I00. "Leader hip and teamwork are • Despite effects, Water- In addition to providing an convocation yesterday. very clo ely interdependent - they feed on each undergraduate prospective, Conley The speakers - including Profi sor of Biology other/' he aid. Moreover, despite the "perceived world a flop. Page 8 hopes to show that students are Eric Lander as keynote - had motivational words tension between individual achievement and group "more than just brains; we might of introduction and advice for the Cia s of 1999. accompHshment" and the natural sense of competi- actually be articulate," she said. Above all they urged that tudents learn actively, tion in academia, modem organization deal with • On The Screen Page 8 While Conley will touch on the both from faculty and from each other, appreciate problem so compte that teamwork is e seotial he fears and apprehensions of fresh- their cultural diversity, and enjoy the intellectual said. men, "in general, I try to be pretty adventu.re they take part in here. Vest and the other urged the freshmen to take • Mudville reviews NL upbeat," she said. Vest began by impre ing on the freshmen that their real lives have definitely begun. "[You may Convocation, Page 10 Central. Page 9 Conley, Page 11 Page 2 THE TECH August 25, ~ WORLD & NATION Photojournalism Pioneer Alfred Eisenstaedt Dies at 96 China Releases Human WS ANGELES TIMES Alfred Eisenstaedt, a pioneer of modem photojournalism whose camera recorded many of the historic photograph of World War II Rights Activist Harry Wu including that ofa sailor kissing a nurse in ew York's Times Square to celebrate VJ-Day, has died. He was 96. By Maggie Farley jingo service quoted Wu as saying i Eisenstaedt, who lived in New York City, died late Wednesday of LOS ANGELES TIMES The White House also denied letter he had written to the court cardiac arrest while vacationing in Massachusetts, his friend William BEIJI G that Wu's release was part ofa deal. before his trial. Marks announced Thursday. Harry Wu, the Chinese-Ameri- Clinton administration officials, Some of the descriptions in that One of Life magazine's first four photographers, Eisenstaedt was can human rights activist, abruptly though, had known as early as last publicized confession - such as working for the magazine when he took the exuberant Times Square was ejected from China on Thurs- week that Wu was about to be put Wu saying he had impersonated a photo. It became a Life cover, a symbol of the end of the war, and a day, just hours after the Chinese had on trial in Wuhan; the U.S. Embassy policeman and illegaJJy filmed in defining moment in photojournalism. subjected him to a speedy trial and in Beijing had made arrangements labor camps for foreign documen- He was perhaps best known for his candid photograph of the sentenced him to 15 years in prison to have a consular officer present at taries - were strikingly similar to famous; Eisenstaedt seemed to have the talent to bring out the for stealing state secrets and spying. the proceeding. passages in Wu's memoirs about the es ence of the people he shot. To be asked by Life to allow Eisen- The Chinese decision to let Wu As well as pleasing the United 19 years he spent as a political pris- staedt to photograph you wa , in the 1940s and 1950s particularly, return to the United States - with- States, the Chinese regime's han- oner in the Chinese gulags and the crowning confirmation of one's value as a celebrity. out first serving prison time - dling of Wu's case was designed statements he has made in his cam- "You know," said Eisenstaedt a few years ago in the German should improve tense U.S.-China for domestic consumption: The ver- paign to expose them.