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MIT’s The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Partly cloudy, 68°F (20°C) Tonight: Chance of rain, 41°F (5°C) Newspaper Wednesday: Afternoon showers, 60°F (16°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 125, Number 22 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, April 26, 2005 UA Senate Concert Causes Disputes, Still Entertains By Brian Loux forming Breathe and Baby off his Leadership STAFF REPORTER newest album Real Talk, in addition Despite a number of concerns to some songs off his earlier two regarding the tardiness of both fea- albums. Lloyd Banks spent much ture performers that occasionally more of his time dialoguing with the Bill Passed spilled over into disputes, the Spring crowd, but performed G-Unit hits Weekend Concert featuring such as Stunt 101 and Soldier. By Marissa Vogt Fabolous and Lloyd Banks was able The crowd filled approximately NEWS EDITOR to entertain and enthrall the modest- one-quarter of the Johnson Athletic The Undergraduate Association sized crowd this weekend. Center, including the seats. While Senate approved a bill last night to According to Chris Barber of final tallies of ticket sales have not establish and fund the Student Gov- Pretty Polly Productions, the event been completed, Spring Weekend ernment Leadership Conference Ini- planners for Spring Weekend, Committee Chair Cindy X. Yuan tiative. The bill will make available Fabolous was scheduled to perform ’06 said that an estimated 1,400 $20,000 for sponsoring UA atten- at 9:15 p.m. Friday night but did not tickets were sold for the concert. dance at national leadership confer- go onstage around 9:40 p.m. Lloyd This number is on par with the ences, $5,000 of which will come Banks was scheduled to perform at results from the concerts of the past from the UA Reserve Account and 10:40 p.m., but appeared onstage two years, though concerts three $15,000 of which is a donation from around 11:20 p.m., about ten min- years ago and earlier occasionally the Office of the Dean for Student utes before the anticipated closing attracted crowds as large as 3,000. Life and the Chancellor’s Office. time for the concert. UA Senator from Fraternities The crowd occasionally booed in Lateness, behavior causes stir John R. Velasco ’05 sponsored the disapproval as the waits between the The late arrival of Banks raised BRIAN HEMOND—THE TECH bill. He said the funds will be avail- acts sometimes stretched past half concerns, as it appeared unlikely Encouraging the audience to respond to his music, hip-hop artist able for a period of two years for an hour. Some people left before that the group would be able to Lloyd Banks holds his microphone in the air while the crowd echoes members of the UA to attend Banks appeared as midnight drew complete its contract to perform a his lyrics back during the annual Spring Weekend concert, held last national conferences, which can closer. 50 minute set. However, tardiness Friday, April 22, in Johnson Athletic Center. See photos, pages 8–9. cost up to $1,000 per person. Still, the frustrations of the was not the only issue to cause con- of G-Unit arrived after 11:00 p.m. ately let in, and this angered Banks Velasco attended such a confer- crowd seemed to melt away once cern backstage. with three girls the sources believed and his group to the point that they the two headliners appeared on According to sources close to the to be “underage.” According to the UA, Page 12 stage. Fabolous opened first, per- concert, Banks and other members sources, the girls were not immedi- Concert, Page 15 Newly Elected Undergraduate Association Senate Officers Nearly All Senior Segue Applicants Are Accepted and Representatives By Jenny Zhang offered to graduate students and the Dean for Student Life Larry G. Anthony E. Gray, project direc- Speaker NEWS EDITOR three students who were not assigned Benedict said that although Senior tor for the graduate assignment Andrew T. Lukmann ’07 Eighty-one juniors entered the to their original preferences. Segue will eventually be phased out, process, said that although the grad- Senior Segue housing lottery for the the schedule has not been deter- uate community understands that Vice Chair 2005–2006 school year, and 78 Timeline for phaseout uncertain mined. He said it would be run for the Senior Segue program is part of Ali S. Wyne ’08 were assigned graduate housing, The Senior Segue program, at least one more year, but beyond a broader goal “which helps to sup- said Denise A. Gray, assistant direc- which gives undergraduates the that, its existence is uncertain. port the Institute’s goals,” there is Representative to the tor for undergraduate housing. opportunity to live in graduate hous- The issue, Benedict said, is that the universal understanding that Coordinating Committee As in previous years, the numbers ing for their senior year and guaran- although Senior Segue participants graduate housing is for graduate stu- Andrew S. Clare ’08 of available rooms were determined tees them graduate housing the fol- have generally been very satisfied dents, and Senior Segue is going to before the lottery. All available Sid- lowing year, was first implemented with the experience, graduate stu- be phased out. Representative to the ney-Pacific and Warehouse slots in the 2002–2003 academic year. dents feel that it takes already limit- He said that graduate student Finance Board were filled, but many from Tang The original intention was to use it ed housing away from them. demand for MIT housing is higher Hans E. Anderson ’08 Residence Hall and Ashdown House as a temporary solution to crowding “Senior Segue is not going to be were not. These open rooms will be in the undergraduate dormitories. here forever,” he said. Senior Segue, Page 13 Philip Morrison MIT NEWS OFFICE MIT Institute Professor Emeritus Philip Morrison, a distinguished theoretical astrophysicist and interpreter of science and technology for the general public, died Friday, April 22, at his home. He was 89. A member of the Manhattan Project who went on to become a vocal critic of the nuclear arms race, Morrison was widely known for his research and professional contributions in quantum electrodynam- ics, nuclear theory, radiology, isotope geology, and, since the 1950s, in cosmic-ray origins and propagation, gamma-ray astronomy, and other topics in high-energy astrophysics and in cosmology. “The world has lost one of the major voices of social conscience in science. For more than 50 years, since his involvement in the develop- ment of the first atomic bomb, Philip Morrison has been a leading par- ticipant in the efforts to control and eliminate nuclear weapons,” said Charles Weiner, MIT Professor Emeritus of the History of Science. “He was a dear, dear person whose impact was not just on MIT, but on the world,” said Weiner, who has been working to document Morrison’s life through archival materials and oral-history interviews. A member of the MIT faculty since 1964, Morrison has held the rank of Institute Professor, the highest honor awarded by the MIT fac- ulty and administration, since 1973. The title is reserved for those who have demonstrated exceptional distinction by a combination of leader- ship, accomplishment, and service in the scholarly, educational, and general intellectual life of the Institute or wider community. OMARI STEPHENS—THE TECH He was among the first scientists (in 1959) to call upon the professional Nirav B. Shah G poses a question to Kevin A. McComber ’05, chair of the Student Advisory Com- community to begin a coordinated search for interstellar communications using mittee to the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons, about the committee’s a microwave search. His many publications and speeches, beyond research and preliminary report. Last Friday, McComber and Christopher A. Suarez ’06 discussed the report at the Experimental Study Group’s Friday lunch. Morrison, Page 10 SPORTS Comics MIT Hosts Coed Invitational World & Nation . 2 Opinion . 4 Page 16 Page 6 Page 2 THE TECH April 26, 2005 WORLD & NATION Oil Output is Main Topic as Bush Deadly Japanese Train Crash Meets with Saudi Leader By Richard W. Stevenson THE NEW YORK TIMES CRAWFORD, TEXAS. May Be Due to Excess Speed President Bush discussed the surge in oil prices with Crown By Norimitsu Onishi a train car and rushed her to a hospi- apartment buildings often stand sev- Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Monday, but focused on an exist- THE NEW YORK TIMES tal. eral feet away from railroad tracks, ing plan by the Saudis to increase their oil-pumping capability over TOKYO The condition of the driver of the the same way elevated subway the next decade rather than on any short-term efforts to bring prices The packed commuter train that train, which was carrying about 580 tracks and apartment buildings stand down immediately. crashed into an apartment building passengers, could not be confirmed. only several feet apart in certain The two leaders talked for three hours here at Bush’s ranch, trying in western Japan on Monday morn- Officials at West Japan Railway neighborhoods in New York City. to restore some normalcy to a relationship that has been tense since ing, killing at least 71 passengers Co., which operates the line, said at Trains usually run with such pre- the emergence of Saudi terrorists’ role in the Sept. 11 attacks. Bush and injuring well over 400 more, a news conference that they had yet cision that riders can plot complex and the crown prince discussed a variety of issues, including the may have been speeding to make up to determine the cause of the acci- itineraries on Web sites, secure in Arab-Israeli conflict, fighting terrorism, a trade deal, and Bush’s call for a brief delay, survivors said.