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PDF of This Issue MIT's The Weather Olde and Largest Today: Partly cloudy, 40°F (4°C) Tonight: Cloudy, snow, 26°F (-3°C) ew paper Tomorrow: now, rain, 40°F (4°C) Details, Page 2 Students Take Over New Donn Planning By Dana Levine the founder s group will graduate EDITOR IN CHIEF this year, and will never have a Planning for immons Hall chance to live in immons. entered a new pha e thi week, with McCant likened the tudents the official dissolution of the moving into immons to 'people Founder's Group on Friday and yes- who buy a house that i n't fini hed terday's first meeting of a tudent- yet .,. Deci ions about how they led Simmons Steering Committee. want to et up their governing body, Founder's Group member Jef- interact with [the Dormitory Coun- frey C. Roberts '02 said that cil], the house fellow program ... although "the Founder' Group ha all those decisions are going to be done a pretty good job in laying made by students." down the philosophy for the com- The Founder's Group was a munity ( immons)," the steering committee of faculty members, tu- committee will be a "government dent , and admini trator who pro- that's more representative of the vided input into the de ign of the people who are going to live there." dorm and helped to formulate initial , The steering committee, formed house policy. by student members of the Founder' Group, will allow future Committee bas many tasks residents of Simmons Hall to set up Membership in the steering com- JENNIFER KRISHNAN-THE TECH mittee will be open to all students, a house government, select graduate This Baker House room was designed as a triple, but it currently holds five beds and other furniture. but will require a commitment to resident tutors, and to advertise the Crowding has meant bunk beds and small spaces for many MIT dormitory residents. dormitory to incoming freshmen actively attend meetings and to and current undergraduates. The move into Simmons when it opens steering committee will exist until next fall. The committee will consist Graduate Rooms Could Be Used the dormitory opens next fall and of five subgroups: GRTs and Visit- the official house government takes ing Scholars, House Governance, over. Facilities Oversight, Publicity, and Founder's Group members Ross Dining. To Alleviate Undergrad Crowding E. Benson '03 and Vikash Gilja '03 The most immediate task will WIll co-chair the new group, pro- fall to the publicity subgroup, which By Aora M. Amwayi hall rooms to accommodate them." were no good or bad options; each viding a bridge between the will advertise Simmons Hall to Dean for Undergraduate Educa- option had it own problems and founder's group and the undergrad- upperclassmen as well as next Despite the additional housing tion Robert P. Redwine supported repercussions that needed to be uates who will move into the dormi- year's freshmen. Simmons Hall will that Simmons Hall will provide next the report's assertion that one of the taken into account before deciding tory. Roberts, who will begin gradu- attempt to attract 125 freshmen and year, Chancellor Phillip L. Clay best solutions so far may be to on which one would be most viable. ate studies in the fall and may apply 75 members of each other class, the PhD '75 has recommended that house undergraduates in graduate " othing definite has been to be a Graduate Resident Tutor, same proportion that other dormito- graduate student housing be used 'to housing. Other ideas include reduc- decided upon and the discussion is will not participate in the steering ries will have. alleviate MIT's undergraduate dor- ing class size, purchasing more still going on with the Chancellor," committee's activities. Gilja, a member of the publicity mitory crowding problem. housing, or continuing to crowd. Colbert said. He aid the main pur- Professor of History and future subgroup and head of MIT's Inter- Clay's report, e-mailed to admin- However, Clay stated in the report, pose of the report was to spread Simmons Hall housemaster Anne E. active Introduction to the Institute istrators and student leaders late last "Considering all options, I am information and gain feedback. McCants said that the steering com- (B) CD-ROM project, said that the week, discussed the current state of presently inclined to recommend mittee was created in order to subgroup will be able to advertise crowding on campus, including that we use a fraction of the housing Hundred affected b crowding "transfer student leadership to stu- the committee's work and ideas. causes and potential solutions. Clay intended for graduate tudents ... " Although the number of crowded dents who will actually live there." explained that "currently we have to address the crowding problem. Several of the student members of Simmons, Page 19 140 more undergraduate students However, Dean for Graduate Clay, Page 12 than 'we have uncrowded resident Students Isaac . Colbert aid there Jindong Zhou IFC JudComm Lightens Jindong Zhou a second-year doctoral student in ments for his thesis," Zbang said. "He was upposed "the Department of Physics, died last week. He was to stay there for a couple of years." Ruling Against Chi Phi 27 years old. Zhou s friends contacted the police on Thursday "He was a very nice guy," said Bin Zhang G, a January 10, after not seeing him for two days. He By Kevin R. Lang mi said. "Rush is just one part of the member of Zhou's lab group. "He was really quiet was found in dead in his room. The initial police NEWS EDITOR year, it's one part of our fraternity's ... he always showed his passion in a few words." report said he appeared to have died of natural caus- More than three months after the activities; we're much bigger than Yuan Xiao G, another colleague, described him es, but the exact cause of death is not yet known. close of rush, the Chi Phi fraternity ju t rush as a fraternity." as "a quiet guy ... but he was. .. , brilliant" An online memorial for Zhou has been et up at has finally settled their appeal with "He was also very warm-hearted," said Feng <http://earthsci.mit.eduljindong>. Over 80 people the Interfraternity Council over fall Earlier re elution attempt failed Xiong G, who also worked with Zhou, "He "liked to have already signed the gue t book. rush violations. Before thi final appeal, the IFC help other people .... Even though he was very busy Zhou i survived by his father, Tonghong Zhou: Following an appeal hearing and Chi Phi attempted to reach an with his own work, he always re ponded immediate- .his mother, Shunhua Wang; and his younger brother, before the IFC Judicial Committee agreement by working within the ly to other people's requests." Jincheng Zhou. on Monday, Dec. 10, Chi Phi must executive committee and the judi- Zhou frequently played badminton and also still pay a 1500 fine, but the frater- cial committee. However, no agree- enjoyed swimming, Xiong said. "He liked to be nity is now allowed to contact fresh- ment could be reached by the two around friends," Xiong said. men over the summer. "That was sides. "We were never able to get Xiao said Zhou also enjoyed classical music. huge for us," said ina Kevin aze- people on the ame page' said Rory Zhou earned his Bachelor's degree from the mi '03, Chi Phi's assi tant ru h P. Pheiffer '02 last term's IFC pres- Department of Modem Physics at the University of chair at the time. ident. Science and Technology of China in 1997, and his However, Chi Phi till cannot Pheiffer was not directly Master's from the same department in 2000. He mail their rush book over the sum- involved in the final appeal, but he came to MIT in the fall of ZOOO to work on his doc- mer, but the fraternity can give the aid that he tried to act as a "calm- torate. book to freshmen once they arrive ing force" between the two sides. Zhou was a student under Professor William on campus in the fall. In addition, "We were trying to make everybody Bertozzi in MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science. Chi Phi till cannot host any events happy, but that's really not po i- He bad been working at the Thomas Jefferson until ru h begins in fa112002. ble, 'Pheiffer aid. National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in While Chi Phi did not overturn David B. Gottlieb '04 a member Newport News, Virginia since June 2001. COURTESY THE CHJNESE STUDENT AND SCHOLAR ASSOClATIO much of the previou IFC ruling, of the IFC review board, chaired the "He was sent by our group ... to do some experi- Jlndong Zhou azemi was atisfied nonetheless. "We're ju t happy it's over," aze- Chi Phi, Page 15 Additional Comics OPINIO changes are Dan Tortorice criticize the World & ation 2 in store for Senate s handling of Pre ident Opinion 4 Lobby 7. Bu h' economic timulus bill. Arts 6 Events Calendar 9 Page 13 Page 8 Page 5 Page 2 January 16 002 ORLD& ATION FI u.S. Taliban Fighter Spared rial LO ANGELES THIES Death Penalty in Indictment Federal safety investigator said Tue day they ha e di co ered internal damage in the tail fin of the merican irlines jet that By Dan Eggen ing a bloody upri ing at an fghan attorney Tue day Walker' parent, crashed la t ovember in ew York, but further te ting is needed to and Brooke • asters prison compound hortly after inter- arilyn Walker and Frank Lindh, determine if it occurred before or after the accident.
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