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MIT Team. Garners. Seventh. Place ROTC Reinsumnce In Attnual Putnam Math Contest. Policy Gets Approval By May K. Tse 10 or 12 years," said Professor of test was ranked for individual By zareena Hussain Defense "don't ask, don't tell" ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Mathematics Hartley Rogers Jr., the prizes. Teams are ranked based on ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR enacted in 1993 prevents an openly MIT placed seventh iJi the 57th team adviser. Rogers also runs the scores of three students colleges The Committee on gay person from participating fully annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Problem Solving designate before the test begins, Undergraduate Admissions and in ROTC. The resulting discrimina- Mathematical Competition held in (18S34), a math seminar which although more than three people Financial Aid recently approved a tion conflicts with MIT's policy of December, according to results helps students practice for the com- from each school may paiticipate. measure that would compensate non-discrimination. released over the weekend petition. Duke University captured top ROTC students who lose scholar- "In its present structure, an open- "Although the MIT team of three The test was taken by 2,407 stu- honors, .followed by Princeton ships because of their sexual orien- ly declared homo exual would have students didn't do as' wen as last dents from 408 colleges and univer- University, Harvard University, tation by providing supplemental to be excluded from parts of the year's third place, the individuals as sities across North America and Institute loans that would later be program," said ROTC Oversight ) a whole did better than they have' in Canada. Each student who took the Putnam, Page 19 forgiven. Committee Chair William B. This move represents the first Watson, an associate professor of and only fully-implemented action history. taken by the ROTC implementation Under the reinsurance policy, team, which is responsible for real- ROTC students whose federal izing the recommendations of the scholarships are taken away because ROtC task force approved in a fac- . of their sexual orientation may ulty resolution last April. apply for need-based financial aid to The resolution calJed for a modi- help replace the lost scholarship. fied ROTC plan that would be open Since the money offered in an to an MIT students, regardless of ROTC scholarship often exceeds a sexual orientation, in keeping with student's need as detennined by the MIT's policy on non-discrimination. As it stanUs, the Department of ROTC, Page 22 •

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THOMAS R. KARLO-THE TECH Daylight-saving time Rreftghters wearing protective suits work to contain a chemical spill on Massachusetts Avenue begins Sunday. Don't yesterday. evening. The street was closed to trafftc during the evening rush hour because of the forget to set your clocks accident. one hour forward at 2 a.m. Page .

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Two senior White Hou e aides were acting out compas ion when they tried to line up lucrative employment for ebster L. Hubbell By Barton Cellman by U. . uthoritie ince his arre tat to accept bu arzook, Jordan after his resignation from the Ju tice Department, Pre ident Clinton THE WASHINGTON POST ew York' Kennedy airport in July will look into it and and try to help." said Thursday. JERUSALEM 1995, et a 60-day clock in motion Part of I rael's reluctance to try Independent counsel Kenneth W. tarr is inve tigating whether Israel gave up it bid for extradi- by abandoning his objection to him, officials said, temmed from money paid to Hubbell after he left Justice was intended to buy his tion of a enior Hamas leader from extradition earlier this year. anxiety that it could not e tablish it silence in the Whitewater investigation. the United States Thursday, citing etanyahu and the Clinton adminis- charge. The White House this week acknowledged that in 1994 two of the same concern over "security tration raced the deadline - next Israel submitted more than 900 Clinton's closest aides made calls to business contact, encouraging and the prevention ,of terrorist Monday - to find a face- aving page of legal brien in upport of it them to hire Hubbell, who in March of that year announced his resig~ attacks" that in pired the initial retreat. extradition reque t, and U.S. nation as associate attorney .general and nine months later pleaded request nearly two year ago. According to Russ Bergeron, District Judge Kevin Duffy found guilty to bilking nearly $500,000 from his clients and former partner The Israeli decision to drop a spoke man for the Immigration and probable cause to try Abu Marzook at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm. longstanding request for custody of aturalization Service, Abu on charges that he helped plan and The aides were Thomas F. McLarty and Erskine B. Bowles, now the Hamas figure, Mousa Abu Marzook, who had lived for several finance 10 attacks that killed 47 Clinton's chief of staff. Clinton said Thursday he saw nothing Marzook, left his fate in the hands years in Falls Church, Va., was people and wounded 148. Many improper in what Bowles and McLarty did. of the Clinton administration. taken into custody as an "excludable accused terrorists in Israel are tried "They were people who were genuinely concerned that there was Expulsion seemed possible - and alien" even though he is a legal per- in closed military proceedings under a man who was out of work, who had four children," Clinton said. Abu Marzook predicted he will be manent resident of the United States laws that do not require the govern- "And as I understand it they were trying to help him for no other rea- sent to Jordan - but Attorney with a green card. He was charged ment to provide defendants with son than just out of human compassion." Genenl1 Janet Reno said in with exclud~bility under a statute access to the witnesses or the evi- Repeating an assertion offered earlier this week by other White Washington that Marzook will that applies to any "alien who has dence against them. 'Many others are House officials, Clinton said Bowles and McLarty had no way of remain in a U.S. jail for the time engaged in a terrorist activity" or is held without charge in renewab1e knowing how serious the allegations were against Hubbell, who later being and "we are reviewing all our considered likely by U.S. authorities six-month periods of "administra- went to prison for 18 months. options." to do so after entering the United tive detention." With Israeli-Palestinian talks States. Irit Kahan, director of the Israeli 0 unraveling and daily clashes sug- He was turned over to the U.S. Justice Ministry's international tudy s Day C e ge ting a return to something like Mar.shals Service when Israel department, said in a brief interview the Palestinian uprising of 1987- requested his extradition and now Thursday that neither legal route ToC · dDeveo ,e 93, Israel's army and secret-ser- will be remanded to INS custody so was available in Abu Marzook's THE WASHINGTON POST vice chiefs had warned Prime exclusion proceedings against him case. WASHI GTON Minister Benjamin Netanyahu '76 can resume, Bergeron said. Where Hamas political figures reached As a group, children in day care learn to think and talk just as well that Abu Marzook's arrival could he is sent will be up to an immigra- Thursday congratulated Israel on its as those cared for by their mothers, a long-term national study has touch off a major escalation of vio- tion judge. It could be the last coun- choice and continued to imply that found. lence in the deteriorating political try he left on his way to the United Abu Marzook's interrogation and The study, being released Friday by the ational Institute of Child climate. States, his country of birth, his trial would have resulted in further • Health and Human Development, did find, however, that the quality "There is no doubt that Abu country of nationality, or any coun- bloodshed. of care matters: Children whose caregivers respond and speak fre- Marzook deserves to spend many try willing to accept him. . "Israel could. not have known quently to them perform better on thinking and language tests than years in jail until the end of his In an interview with Reuter news what would be the reaction, either those in settings where they have less verbal interaction. life," Defense Minister Yitzhak agency, Abu Marzook sa}d .he from the Palestinian people or The first phase of research, released a year ago, concluded that Mordechai told reporters in believes the United States, Israel from other Arabs and Muslims," day care of itself did not harm children's emotional attachment to Washington. "On the other hand we and Jordan have struck a deal for his said Ibrahim Ghosheh, the their mothers. are ware of the dangers and the expulsion to Jordan - the country Amman-based spokesman for When it came to intellectual skills, it was clear that the number of significance of the project called that forced him to leave in 1995 at Hamas. "The case of Dr. Abu hours in care did not have an effect, but quality of care did. Abu Marzook." Israel's request. The Jordanian Marzook is a famous case. "One very important take-home message '" is that children in Israel's hand on the extradition prime minister, Abdel Salam Majali, Everyone is following him, every- child care are not doing any worse than children not in child care" on . request was forced by an American said in Washington that if the one is admiring him, and the cognitive and language skills, said Sarah Friedman, coordinator of legal deadline. Abu Marzook, held Clinton administration asks Jordan Israelis took this into account." the study.

Despite Authorization, DoD Fails FCC OKs Plan. to Introduce. To Pay Vietnamese Commandos LOS ANGELES TIMES Digital TV in December 1998 The Pentagon has failed to pay restitution to a group of Vietnamese commandos who were left behind in prison camps at the By Jube Shiver Jr. lier pledge to launch digital service immense problem for some broad- end of the war, despite legislation authorizing it to do so. and Michael A. Hlltzlk at 23 of their owned-and-operated casters, said Bob Weirather, director Congress approved the legislation last year to compensate a group LOS ANGELES TIMES stations in the top 10 markets with- of TV products for Harris' broad- WASHINGTON of about 280 former commandos who had taken part in U.S. spy mis- in I 8 months.' The rest of the net- cast division. In congested and con- __ sions during the Vietnam War. Federal regulators on Thursday work-owned stations in those mar- tentious areas like New York City, The former commandos were captured in the 1960s and left gave' formal approval to a plan kets must go digital within 24 he said, the logistics for overhauling behind at the war's end, when most other prisoners of war were freed. awarding' new licenses to owners of months. transmission are so troublesome that Secret documents released last year at the request of the Los U.S. television stations so they can FCC Chairman Reed Hundt said broadcasters may have to shut down .J Angeles Times showed that the U.S. government had sometimes bring razor-sharp images, CD-quali- Thursday that by Christmas 1999, their analog signals for part of the ~ declared the men dead, even though government agencies had intelli- ty sound and an array of new ser- about 53 percent of U.S. households day in order to install new digital I gence reports that they were alive and being held in North vices to American viewers begin- will be receiving at least three digi- to~ers. Vietnamese camps or prisons. ning in December 1998. tal stations. "It's likely that there will be "this conduct is criminal," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. The decision by th Federal Because the digital signal can be some delay in som'e places" in the By a unanimous vote, the Senate authorized the Pentagon to pay Communications Commission electronically compressed, allowing changeover in equipJ;l1ent, he said. the men $40,000 each for the time they spent in prison. But Pentagon clears the way for the" most impor- more data to be transmitted along The FC~'s decision to giv'e spokesman Susan Hansen said the Defense Department believed it tant innovation in U.S. broadcasting the comparable bandwidth of the away the digital licenses rather han could not pay the men, because the language in the bill was unclea~. since the introduction of color TV in radio spectrum, broadcasters will be placing them up for auction is high- "We need to ask Congress to clarify the language," Hansen said. the late 1950s. . able to fit three to five channels on ly controversial because FCC offi- "We want to move forward." But it also sets the stage for an airwaves that now accommodate cials have estimated that an auction pic battle between traditional TV only one. could bring from $20 billion to $70 set manufacturers like'Sony Corp. The digital signal can also pro- billion in bids. and Zenith Electronics Corp. and vide distortion-free pictures and The giveaway was opposed by WEATHER the computer industry for domi- sound rivaling movies shown in the- Hundt, Sen. John M<;Cain, R-Ariz., nance of the huge consumer elec- aters, as well as data such as that chairman of a subcommittee over- tronic marketplace. transmitted today among computers seeing the 'telecommunications Sp$g M~ltdown It also raises questions over wired to the Internet. industry, and such public-interest whether the broadcasters are receiy- That capability would allow groups as Common Cause. They By Marek Zebrowski ing what the public-interest group . broadcasters of sporting events, say, observed, among other things, that STAFF METEOROLOGIST Common Cause calls a "$70 billion to deliver a stream of team or player the FCC rules require broadcasters A cold front passing through early on Friday will bring a few corporate welfare bonanza." statistics for viewers to call up dur- to provide at least one free digital clouds and usher in somewhat cooler airma s for the weekend. As the And it means that many of the ing a contest. ' channel over the air but allows them high pressure system crests overhead on Saturday, lighter winds will nation's' 280 million TV set owners One question is whether broad- to use the rest of their expanded turn onshore in coastal locations - a sure sign of spring. Meanwhile, will have to scrap those in favor of casters will use the greater capacity channel capacity for other fee-based a large and potent cyclone in Southern Plains will advance slowly more costly digital televisions or to create a vaster wasteland. Hundt, services, such as subscription TV northward toward the Great Lakes, bringing lots of inclement weath-. buy special converters in order to for one, has publicly called for and data services. er, followed by substantial temperature drops in its wake for the cen- receive the new signals. imposing higher public-service stan- Support'ers of the giveaway tral sections of the country. As this storm approaches ew England, Digital TV sets are expected to dards on digital broadcasters. argue that it is necessary to subsi- we may expect rainy and colder weather to begin early next week. cost from $2,000 to $5,000 when As for technical and financial diz~ the cost of analog-to-digital Today: Partly to mostly sunny, breezy, and mild. High 56°F (BOC). they first appear on the market. issues, broadcasters say that some conversion and to' preserve today's Tonight: Clear and chilly, with diminishing winds. Low 36°F (2 Although their prices will probably equipment needed for digital broad- system of free, advertiser-supported °C) il) town, slightly below freezing outside the metropolitan area. drop sharply, they are likely to casting has not yet even been over-the-air TV. Saturday: Sunny and pleasant with light afternoon seabreezes remain hundreds of dollars more designed. Conversion to digital for- "I do not agree with those who developing. Midday high of 52°.F (11 °C) may drop down a few costly than today's conventional mat could cost $1 million to $3 mil- say this is a free giveaway. to broad- notches near the coast. analog sets. Converter boxes may lion per station, according to Harris casters," said Commissioner Sunday: Fair with slowly increasing high clouds throughout the cost only $100 per set, however. Corp., the leading manufacturer of Rachelle Chong. "This is a technol- day. Chance of rain after dark. Morning lows near 4°F (4°C); after- The most immediate effect of digital equipment. ogy transfer. You just can't shut off noon highs 55-60 OF(13-15 °C). the FCC decision is to hold the The logistics of converting to analog TV" and start digital broad- major broadcast networks to an ear- digital technology could pose an casting. . • Kohl to Seek Unprecedented Fifth Term as German Chancellor LOS ANGELES TIMES BERLIN

By Toni Locy tion's Housing and Urban of the probe died in early April Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced Thursday that he will seek an THE WASHI GTON POST Development D partment. 1996. That bring the cost of inde- unprecedented fifth term when Germans go to the polls next year, WASHI GTO Starr's e pense also are more pendent coun eI Daniel . Pear on's cutting short a popular gues ing game about whether Europe's most Independent counsels investigat- than twice that of his neare t com- inve tigation of former Commerce senior head of government would run again - and intensifying a ing President Clinton, the fir t lady petitor, independent coun el Donald ecretary Ronald H. Brown to more serious debate about whether Kohl will still have the dynamism and other administration officials C. maltz, who i inve tigating for- $2,682,538. 0 one was indicted in to push through tough reforms that Europe's biggest economy needs. have spent nearly 36 million in two mer Agriculture Secretary Mike Pear on's probe, parts of which Kohl revealed his plans for a fifth candidacy near the end of a years, logging their most expen ive Espy's acceptance of gift. maltz were referred to the Ju tice half-hour se sion in which he broke little new ground on the subject ix-month period yet by spending spent 2,826,010 in the ix-month Department for further investiga- foremost in German minds these days: jobs. Official unemployment more than 10 million from April period, according to the GAO tion. heee is 12.8 percent and rising every month, the highest percentage through September 1996, according report. Since he began his probe in The investigation into the search since the Great Depression. to the mo t recent figures compiled September 1994, Smaltz has spent of then-candidate Bill Clinton's Many analysts worry that a sizable percentage of these jobless are i by the General Accounting Office. 8,672,212. passport files during the 1992 cam- long-term unemployed - people who will never find work unless The GAO report provides further The costs outlined in the GAO paign has cost 2,864,356. there are radical changes in Germany's generous pay structures, evidence that Whitewater indepen- report include travel, o~dinary office Under the law, targets who are social benefits and working conditions. dent counsel Kenneth W. Starr is expen es, salarie of attorneys hired not indicted can recover their legal Kohl said he decided to seek another term after more than 15 carving out a place in special-prose- by the independent counsels and the fees. Those costs are not included in years because of the "difficult international developments" Germany cutor history with his spending. In cost of borrowing investigators from the GAO repo s. is facing. He cited the eastward expansion of ATO, and the creation the six-month period ending Sept. such agencies as the FBI, Internal Since 1978, when the indepen- of a common currency for the European Union, scheduled for 1999. 30, 1996, he spent $5,049,625, Revenue Service, and Customs dent counsel authority was created ot surprisingly, opposition politicians jumped Thursday at the bringing h' total to $22,298,708. Service. . by Congress, t~ere have been 17 new chance Kohl was giving them to criticize his handling of the His investigation began in August Taxpayer' forked over independent counsels. Counting economy and predict that he would lose next year's election. 1994, but is approaching the cost of $1,345,767 in the six-month period GAO's latest figures, taxpayers "Highly decent," said the left-of-center Greens' Juegen Tritten, of a longer-running probe into for another independent-counsel have paid $125,741,312 for operat- Kohl's announcement. "Now people will have the chance to call to favoritism in the Reagan administra- investigation, even though the target ing and investigatory costs. account the person responsible for the highest unemployment since 1933, and vote him out of office." Mississippi Suit Against Tobacco Babbitt Calls on DuPont To Drop Plans For Strip Mine Industry Gets Five-Week Delay THE WASHINGTON POST By Myron Levin ments and witnesses to attorneys months. OKEFENOKEE SWAMP. GA. LOS ANGELES TIMES general who have sued the tobacco Industry lawyers had argued Coming to the al1igator-infested swamp inhabited by the cartoon The trial of Mississippi's land- industry in return for being dis- that they needed an additional four possum Pogo, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said Thursday he has mark lawsuit against the tobacco missed from the suits. months' to take the depositions of met the enemy and it is DuPont. industry was moved Thursday from With a long delay, Moore would the state's expert witnesses. They Babbitt flew over the site of a proposed DuPont strip mine, and June 2 to July 7, as the judge reject- have lost the distinction of being the also cited the March 20 settlement declared the plan "not compatible" with the neighboring ecosystem. ed a tobacco industry request for a first attorney generai to bring a with Liggett, and the extra time Babbitt called on the chemical giant to make a "grand public ges- delay of at least four months. Medicaid suit to trial. The Florida required to review thousands of ture by simply withdrawing" its plan to extract titanium oxide from Chancery Court Judge William and Texas Medicaid cases are' pages of Liggett documents and to the edge of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Myers, ruling in Pascagoula, scheduled for trial in August and examine Liggett executives and Babbitt urged DuPont to avoid an expensive and protracted regu- agreed to a five-week delay oyer September, respectively. Twenty scientists who may testify for the latory battle by "looking elsewhere" for titanium, which he said is in objections from Mississippi other states have also sued the state. plentiful supply at many less environmentally sensitive places. Attorney General Mike Moore, industry in hopes of recouping Joseph Colingo, an attorney for "Titanium is a common mineral," Babbitt told a supportive a sem- who sued the industry to recover health care-expenditures. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., said blage 'of environmentalists and local residents, "while the hundreds of millions of dollars in "We feel good about it," Moore the state .also had dragged its feet Okefenokee is a very uncommon swamp." • Medicaid funds spent to treat indi- said, referring to the five-week in providing medical records of 20 The swamp, covered with lush vegetation including cypress and gent patients with smoking-related delay. Medicaid patients deemed to repre- pine trees, annually attracts 400,000 visitors, half of whom camp ailments. • "~t holds their feet t9 the fire, and sent thousands of smokers whose overnight on wooden platforms that they reach by canoe. But Moore said he expected we'll be first up in July," he said. health-care costs Mississippi is Babbitt's biggest stick is the Fish and Wildlife Service, an Interior some delay following a recent out- Myers also ruled that each side seeking to. recoup. A spokesman agency that could stall the permit process by declaring the mine a of-court settlement with cigarette will be limited to a maximum of 40 for Moore denied the state has threat to endange'red species that grow in the swamp. maker Liggett Group, Inc~ - which expert witnesses in the trial, which delayed turning over the informa- agreed to provide internal docu- is expected to last about three tion. un for Office! t----~...... I I-~---::::'--::..------,,"~ II ---~---~~ Gradu~te dent Council 1/ .' . /~! 0 ' inations

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~ \'""z mation at www.mit.edulactivitieslgsc or by contacting the current officers at [email protected]. TheE itor Equating selective mating and cloning on a To condemn the cientific community as Ban on uman Clo moral level mayor may not be valid, but it is "stupid re earchers" who hould have pUt' a a moot point because electively breeding rea onable fight" against the human cloning I fo he Be t human is an idea that repulses mo t people. ban is to misunder tand them. Many cientists Chairman In hi .column, A. Arif Hu ain '97 ["Critic Arguing for the potential positive benefits believe that the ban is reasonable and we Daniel C. teven on '97 of Cloning Can't Accept Change," arch 21] of human cloning, Hu ain writes, "Cloning hould proceed with caution. Editor in Chief argue that President Clinton's deci ion to ban may allow us to weed out genetic disea e, There are genuine ethical concerns David D. H u '98 re earch on human cloning is a case of unin- enhance de irable traits, even deliver made-to- involved with the potential for human cloning. formed governmental meddling and obstruc- order progeny." orne of these ideas are pre- Currently, people have not come up with any Bu ine anager tion of cientific re earch. Husain believes cisely what bother many people. During compelling reason to pur ue human cloning Angela Y. Liao '98 that fear of human cloning are founded in World War II, the azis implemented a pro- that would override these ethical concerns about using human clones. Hu ain writes, "I anaging Editor ignorance and an archaic fear of new develop- gram of eugenics with the aim of eliminating ments in cience. Upon more careful evalua- "undesirables" from the human gene pool. hope that the leaders in our community of sci- 10 h Bittker '99 tion of the i ue, however, a different picture etting ethic aside, from a purely biological ence are stable enough to trust themselves E ecuti e Editor emerges. point of view, when you begin to artificially with risky re earch." Does he have enough Thoma R. Karlo '97 Husain sugge ts that electively mating manipulate the gene pool by cloning, -you may trust to let them to decide for themselves two animals is no worse than selectively lower diversity and place the population at an whether such risky research is i~herently NEWS STAFF cloning one of them. The issue at hand con- increased risk for death on a large scale worthwhile? Editors: Venkatesh atish '98, Dan c rns not animal cloning but people cloning. because of enviro'nmental changes. Michael Y. Shao '97 McGuire '99; ssociate Editor : Brett AI! chul '99, Jean K. Lee '99, May K. Tse '99, Frank Dabek '00, Douglas E. Heimburger '00, Zareena Hussain '00; a ee s U nat ral Demise taff: Eva Moy G, Kyle Young G, James c M. Wahl '97, Christopher L. Falling '98, Column by Timothy Klayman Since we were on a tennis court, we there. was already well-trod and not very suit- oemi Gi zpenc '98, Orli G. Bahcall '99, TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR thought it would be appropriate to build two able for building any large objects. The Shawdee Eshghi '99, Carina Fung '99, Monday, March 31, 1997, started out as a snowmen opposing each other in a mock obelisk at least lasted longer than my snow- Fenny Lin '99, Eric it '99, tuart big disappointment. After the surprisingly match, although 1can't imagine trying to chase man, but it too was gone as I walked out of Jackson '00, Liz Krams 'DO, Dudley W. warm weather of the previous Friday, it just after a ball in snow that 1 could barely walk East Campus on Wednesday, long before it Lamming '00; eteorologi ts: Michael C. didn't seem right that we should have a cold, through. With my two friends happily going to should have melted. Morgan PhD '95, Gerard Roe G, Marek Zebrowski. slushy rain after the beginning of spring. work on their snowperson, 1 waded over to the The fact that m snowman met an untime- However, with predictions of snow on the far side of the court to work on mine. ly demise didn't really disturb me that much, PRODUCTION STAFF news, it looked like we had a chance of hav- I had never had a serious opportunity to He was doomed from the start, destined for a Editor : Saul Blumenthal '98, Rus ell S. ing a white April Fool's Day. build a ~nowman before. In the few years that brief life span of at most a couple of days. Light '98, Ja on C. Yang '99; taff: Jimmy I tayed up Monday night with two of my we.'ve been lucky enough to get snow in What did disturb me is that someone could Wong '97, Belly Chang '98, Larry friends watching the weather on TV and see- Georgia, we've only had a scant few inches, walk by a snowman and think, "Hey, I feel Chao '98, Mok ha Ranasinghe '99, haron ing the snow pile up on the ledge outside our hardly enough for a few snowballs. like tearing that down!" for what might be no Shen '99, Binh Truong '99, tephanie windows. We called x3-S OW periodically Fortunately, it wasn't too hard to get the hang reason at all. Yang '99, Brent Yen '99, Erica Pfister 'DO, to find out if MIl: would be' up and running of rolling and packing the snow so that it I am smart enough that I would know not to Brian T. Sniffen '00, Billie Wang '00. for April 1, but 1 gave up and went to sleep at could be stacked up into a vaguely humanoid leave any of my possessions lying out in pub-

OPINION STAFF about 4 a.m., fully expecting that things would figure. Vague memories of my days as a lic, for fear of their being solen, but I never Editor: Stacey E. Blau '98; taff: Anders be operating as normal in the morning. sophomore civil engineering major went would have thought that an unfinished snow- Hove G, A. Arif Husain '97, David . Actually, I didn't find out that MIT was through my head. I man, worth no more than the water from which Kelman '99. closed until about I p.m. 1 am a final-term After a good 20 minutes of rolling and it is formed, would be vulnerable to attack in senior taking a light load, so I didn't have any packing t had a five-foot-tall, but headless, the open. SPORTS STAFF Tuesday classes to be canceled, but it still felt snowman. My friends had gone from building You may think I .am strange in showing so Editor: Erik . Balsley G; taff: Hana good to hear that the lnstitute was closed by a snowman to a more-or-less "anatomically much concern for a snowman, and yes, I'll Ohkawa G, Martin Duke :97, Chris Lin '97, Jason Weintraub '97, Chris Brocoum '00. the snow. correct" snowwoman. I was ready to top mine agree that I am often strange, but not for that Maybe the recent blizzard wa n't as bad as off, but the lack of sensation in my hands and reason. You may think I am naive for not real- ARTS STAFF the big one in 1978, but it was still a lot of legs suggested that it was time for a break. izing that this is the,way the world works, but Editor: David V. Rodriguez '97; taff: snow for someone who has lived in Georgia After a short trip inside and some hot I won't agree with you there. . Thomas Chen G, Jonathan Lilt G, Teresa for the past 17 years. With two feet of snow chocolate, we were ready to go back out to I'll probably never build another snowman, Esser '95, Brian Hoffman '97, Teresa on the ground, it reminded me of the winter finish off our snowmen. However,.we didn't since I'm going to be leaving for what I hope Huang '97, Kamal Swamidoss '97, Rob from my freshman year, which, if I remember even make it all the way to the tennis courts will be a warmer climate soon, one where Wagner '97, Hur Koser '98, Yaron correctly, had the highest snowfall for the before we noticed that our figures had been there won't be a chance of so much snow. But Koren '99, Daniel Ramirez '99, Joel M. Rosenberg '99, Stephen Brophy. entire winter ever in Boston. desecrated. Apparently, one or more people if I do, I'll remember to finish it before I leave, Since this year's snowfall had been pretty had come by and wreaked havoc upon our so he can at least die with a head. PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF pathetic up until Tuesday, I was despairing of sculptures, fatally wounding the snowwoman Timothy K Layman is a senior majoring in Editors: Gabor Csanyi G, Indranath ever seeing a decent amount of snow again and totally demolishing my snoWman. mathematics. All he is taking this term is a Neogy '98; taff: Rich Fletcher G, Alkan before 1 left MIT. 1 decided that 1 shouldn't We relocated to McDermott Court, where I six-unit seminar. He spends the rest of his Kabakcioglu G, Jonathan Li G, Gabriele waste the day inside, so 1 bundled up in layers built a snow obelisk with another friend, but it time eating and catching up on the sleep he Migliorini G, Arifur Rahman G, Jiri and went out into the whiteness with two of ended up being fairly small since the snow missed over the past three-and-a-halfyears. chindler G, Helen Lin '97, Tiffany my friends (one of whom was notorious for a Lin '97, Christine Chan '98, Adriane column about snow she wrote for The Tech Chapman '98, Ahmed Ait-Ghezala '99, three years ago). ' David Tarin '99, Ian Chan '00, Gregory F. We ran into a 10-foot-tall snowman out- Kuhnen '00, Rita H. Lin '00. side of the East Campus desk. Obviously FEATURES STAFF some other stud.ents had been more eager to Hugo M. Ayala G, Zachary Emig '98, take advantage of their free time to build Jessica Wu '99, Pawan Sinha. sculptures. The courtyard in the middle of

BUSINESS STAFF East Campus was actually littered with peo- dvertising anager: Cristian A. ple's efforts, and most of the good building Gonzalez '99; Associate dvertising snow was taken, so we were forced to go in anager: Jennifer Koo '00; Operations search of unclaimed territory. anager: Pamela Shade '98; taff: Jessica It didn't take us long to notice that the ten- Maia '98, Terri A. Wilson '99, Joey nis courts next to Walker Memorial were still Dieckhans '00. untouched. There was plenty of fresh, virgin snow ready waiting for us, TECHNOLOGY STAFF Director: Timothy KLayman '97; We started out with some basic snow ssociate Director: Christina Chu '98; angels and a couple of snowballs, and we Staff: )fung Lu '97, Laurie M. Leong '00. even considered building a snow fort, even though there was no one around us to fight. In EDITORS AT LARGE the end we decided to follow the time-hon- Contributing Editors: Shang-Lin ored tradition of building our own snowmen. Chuang '98, Jennifer Lane '98; enior Editor: Ramy A. Arnaout '97.

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The Tech can be Entire contents C 1997 The Teeh, Printed on recyci.:d paper by Mass Web Printing ClI. are due by 4:30 p.m. two days before the date of publication. foUnd on the World Wide Web at http://the-tech.mit,edu. a e ag ight in Kil ian Guest column by Chr' topher D. Cilley decided it would be be t to call Campus enough to allow me to explain the situation. Chief of Police Anne P. Glavin and Senior Police to si t us and help avoid any injuri- Ju t then some tudents reported the trouble- Vice President William R. Dickson '56 I originally intended to write this piece 30 ou in ident. Christopher (I don't remember maker was hassling tudents just inside the imploring them to attend to the matter. Their days ago. Right after an incident with the hi la t name) caUed the CPs on the emer- Building 4 entrance. He and another officer responses indicated they had se~n the com- Campu Police, I wa ready to whip off an gency phone near th entrance to Building 4. dealt with that situation and released the plaint and were disturbed by it but said I angry letter to The Tech. After a day of reflec- This was about 15 minute after th apparent- young man, hopefully satisfied themselves he would need to wait the 30 days to learn of its tion, however, I realized that it wo.uld be only ly (obviously) drunk troublemaker showed up. wouldn't cause anymore trouble. Sgt. Roger disposition (as indicated on the cover page of fair to let the system run its course. Or not. The CP arrived promptly (about three min- and another officer suggested we go through the complaint form). The following i the text of a formal com- ute) with two cars driving up to where we the CP or Dean's Office if we want to hold a About three weeks later, I received a plaint I filed with Campu Police during the were. similarly' large" event in the future but phone call from the Campus Police lieu- early morning hours of aturday, March I: I had 110 opportunity to explain any of the allowed u to continue with the admonishment tenant investigating my complaint. He want- above to th officer who arrived fir t. Hi first to be careful. ed to know if there was anything I wanted La t Friday (Feb. 2 I) with the warming words were to the effect of "Get out of here, I can hone tly say theit the overwhelming to add to my statement. I said no. He then weather, Bexl y residents held a late night what are you doing?" De pite calm, rea oned con en us among u was that Officer Joseph went on to explain that, while it is not an Capture the Flag" (tag, not tackle) game in attempt to explain the ituation (including the Fratto (I was told his name after I began writ-' excuse for the behavior of the officers, the Killian Court. fact the troublemaker had 30 econds previ- ing this omplaint) behaved in an incredibly officers were probably on edge because just Leading up to tonight, a friendly challenge ou ly entered Building 4), the officer eem- di courteous and belligerent manner. He made before coming to Killian Court, they had was is ued to re ident of Senior Hou e for a ingly ignored us. He repeated his demand for no attempt to addre s the ituation for which done a sweep' of the tudent Center to clear game, again late at night (starting about mid- us to go back to our dorm and get out." I he was summoned but instead tried to intimi- people out after an incident with "a minority night) at Killian. About 50 people total politely asked for his name, to which he date all of us into going home. He as unwiH- sorority." howed' up (to my knowledge, all residents of responded, • I don't have to tell you anything ing to give his name upon a polite request. Is Thirty days have come and gone with no Bexley Hall, Senior House, or a few student - get out of here." that CP policy? He just showed up and kicked word to me or any effort made by the Campus hanger -on). At about I a.m., two individuals He made no attempt to verify that we were apart an otherwi e fun and harmless game Police to address what happened. The cover showed up who none of us knew. This MIT students. He said if I had questions, I among MIT students. sheet to the complaint form states "MIT became apparent when one of the young men could call the sergeant. I went to the emer- I'm left with the feeling that calling the Campus Police prides itself with the courte- began desperately trying to pick a fight. He gency phone and did just that. Other choice CPs left u with more trouble than good and ous, professional manner with which it ser- started out on the Bexley 'half of the court- quotes from this officer include, "The court is the inking feeling that 50 more students have vices the MIT community." As one professor yard. 0 one gave him provocation, despite closed," ''I'm going to call the wagon and learned that Ie on about the Campus Police. I to whom I related this story put it, the CPs are his harsh words and pushing. start locking people up," and "Don't tell me am both angered and addened. I look forward constantly telling us what a dangerous urban Finding no one willing to fight back, h~ how to do my job." to the resolution of this incident. Finally, I environment we live in on campu , and that is proceeded to the other side, repeating his per- While I wa at the phone, I know some of find it almost as disturbing that the other offi- true. But it doesn't seem the most useful tactic formance. A number of people tried to diffuse the other people (probably all at once) tried to cers present seemed more than willing to let for them to treat us like the very people they the situation, including me and another gradu- reas'on with him. He got into his vehicle and Fratto conduct thing as he did. are protecting u from. ate resident tutor from Bexley. drove a short distance away just as Sgt. Christopher D. Cilley G is a graduate resi- Despite numerous requests to leave, we yviHiam Rogers arrived. Sgt. Rogers was kind After filing the report, I sent e-mail to both dent tutor in Bexley Hall.

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By Joel Rosenberg and Factory Showroom, and fini h off lots of STAFF REPORTER T BG collection that tart with Flood t's a tory of two guy who met in junior (including my own). high, became friend while working on The first ong on the fir t di c, "Everything their high school paper, and started writ- Right i Wrong Again," put you right into the ing and playing song together. It' the Giant mood, e pecially with the nice tempo tory of two guy who formed a band without change and quick pickup at the end. "Don't a band, thanks to homemade taped rhythm Let's tart," with the funkin' drum track tracks, later the magic of cheesy drum behind the di torted electric guitar is a great machines, four-track , and eventually an throwback to the beginnings of sequenced answering machine. It's a story of Johns. music. ' Hide Away Folk Family" i one of John Flansburgh and John Linnell took. the the few songs in existence to combine a name They Might Be Giant from a film star- Rawhide-type theme with an accordion and a ring George C. cott as a paranoiac who Casio-sounding bass-line. James Bond would thinks he's herlock Holme and Joanne be proud of the intro to "Youth Culture Killed Woodward as his p ychiatrist Dr. Wat on. My Dog," and "Kiss Me, on Of God" (alter- "We wanted a name that was nate version) is about outward-looking and para- as blasphemous as noid," explains Linnell. The TMBG gets (but is title i fitting. only as offensive as They've sold over two mil- I Jesus Christ Super- lion records with their unmis- Y star). takably quirky sound and The bonus tracks inane/funny/strange/obscure include "Critic Intro," lyrics. With ix album, a a: tape used to intro- whole bunch of single and duce the band (and do eps, and a B-side compilation a sound check) at John Unnell (left) and John Ransburgh of They Might Be Giants. to their name, they've recorded some of their early quite a bit. Their big break 13£ shows, and is a TMBG comes. "Don't Let's Start" (demo ver- and you need to be a die-hard TMBG fan came with their "brand new Twilight Zone-like sion) is definitely a Casio special. (although if you have more than one of the record for 1990/They Might intro which uses a "Ana g" starts off disc two and also kicks early albums, you're probably already a die- Be Giants' brand new album" bunch of sound bites off Lincoln, setting the stage for the second hard). It's a cool compilation, and the fact that Flood (that's from the intro from music reviewers half. With standard upbeat Giants bridge and it's on two discs makes it that much more track). It included many of like "If you hear only straight ahead rockin' 4/4, it's hard to no! bob portable. The liner notes have some cool his- what are now their most one song this year, your head. "The World's Address" is a Latin tory of the songs, and lyrics to them all. They famous songs like "Birdhouse in Your Soul," there's something terribly wrong with you." tune that is more upbeat than the lyrics imply: did a nice job. "Particle Man," and certainly their most "Fake Out in Buenos Aires" is a weird kind of "The world's address/A place that's worn/A But wait - there's more! Not only have famous song, the remake of the 1950s Four rubato flamenco song that, like so many other sad pun that reflects a sadder mess." More we been lucky enough to get Factory Lads' "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)," which songs, makes little to no sense, and "Greek close to home is the line, "Call the men of sci- Showroom recently released (October 1996 garnered them an MTV breakthrough award. , #3" (Linnell claims to be one-eighth Hellenic) ence and let them hear this song/Tell them on Elektra) which is a really g~od album Before Flood came two other albums, their has what one Greek native calls "crappy" pro- Albert Einstein and Copernicus were wrong." (much better than John Henry, the first with- sel f-entitled debut and their second offering, nunciation. "I'm Def' sounds like "Was (Not In TMBG's defense, they sing an extremely band attempt), but now TMBG is playing Linco/n. Mostly four-track creations with a Was )," and is probably as close to techno as technical song "Mammal on Apollo 18" and Avalon on Landsdowl'\.e on Saturday night. Moog synthesizer, an old drum kit, Music have an informative sin- Tickets are $15, available through Minus One-type karaoke recordings, and baby gle, "Why Does the Sun Ticketmaster at 931-2000, and while it might drum machines, a bunch of the tunes were Shine?" seem a bit pricey, if you have any interest in tested out on a TMBG creation that lives on "Hey, Mr. OJ, I the Giants this is not a show to be missed! today - Dial-A-Song. Always a free call to Thought You Said We They've been adding band members to their Brooklyn, always bu y. Call (718) 387-6962 Had a Deal" is a cynical live show since after the Flood tour (1990), and the message will be one of their tunes. It look at radio these days and as part of the release of Then, th~y're made them start writing songs with clear voic- and how hard -it would be doing the first half of the show old-school es and simple instrumentation (the only things to buy the number one style, with just the Johns on stage with a that sounded acceptable on an answering song, and the whole thing tape track behind them and a bunch of props machine), and if the caller didn't like it, they ends with schoolchildren on stage. hung up. singling "Particle Man" The second half brings out the band and These early albums have been largely with the generic third- tackles some of-the more recent stuff. Boston overlooked, and have now been collected and grade music teacher is the only city other than Chicago to get this re-released on a two-CD compilation called accompanying on the show, and it should be reaJly cool. It's age 18 Then: The Earlier Years on Restless Records. piano. and over, doors at 6 p.m., show at 7 p.m., and In addition to the first two album, the B-side The whole set is there are stiJl tickets left. collection Miscellaneous T and /9 bonus around $24 right now. Is Well, there you have it. A plot of intrigue, tracks (Dial-A-Song songs that too many peo- it worth it? If you have love, power, money, greed, and bad George C. ple hung up on?) round out the box-set. The none (maybe one?) of the Scott movies. Check out They Might Be songs are a nice contrast to the band-backed early albums, then it defi- Giants. They fiJl a very valuable, if off-beat, offerings on the last two albums John Henry nitely is. More than that, niche in one's musical knowledge.

USIC REVIEW Hall theme. The title track, "Unsupervised, I Hit My Head," more Giants-related music, but it's not to be overlooked if dqesn't depart much from the Giants either - upbeat, catchy, you faU into this category, nor is the Hello Club (to join call and fun. But "HeUo HeUo" (influenced by what, I wonder) 1-800-HELL0-4 I). Flansburgh is, after all, an "independent has a reaJly light feel which reminds me of some Euro kind thinker with heightened .creativity, strong entrepreneurial The Solo John of sound. Dr. Kildaire has some ska in it with a small impulses and poor speHing habits" and is always looking to Mexican feel (the lyrics are definitely Flansburgh). add one more person to the group that ke,eps his projects Mono Puff: Unsupervised "So Long, Mockingbird" is actually a ballad, and going. . "Don't I Have the By Joel Rosenberg Right?" features ancy STAFF REPORTER Lynn Howell and ou'd think that keeping busy with They Might Be sounds like a country Giants would be enough for John Flansburgh. Not song, completely so Flansburgh also runs the HeJlo Recording Club, a incongruous to the rest subscription-only record company thar:releases 10 of the album, (which I CD singles by different bands a year, each one mad.e exclu- suppose is a very sively for Hello. Freedy Johnston, Soul Coughing, Andy Giantesque thing to Partridge, and John Linnell (of TMBG also, coincidentally) do). It .comes back with have been Hello artists. In addition, Flansburgh's solo Hello "To Serve Mankind" the Band did an EP, and it evolved into Mono Puff. which features synthe- Flansburgh explains: "The name comes from an experi- sized choral vocals on ence I had at the John Coltrane Church in San Francisco. melody, as well as There was a little girl there with a single puff of hair in a per- some bongo, and fin- fect circle on top of her head, and I thought if it had a name it ishes off the half-hour would be called a monopuff." Same quirky John. plus disc with" ixon's Anyway, in June I996, Mono Puff put out an album on the One," a pleasant Rykodisc, Unsupervised, with a career objective "to spread acoustic guitar intro- sunshine into the world." It's easy to pick out the TMBG duced off-the-shelf-pop influence on the tunes, but there is a certain something, a cer- tune praising ixon, as tainje ne sais quoi if you will, that separates it. only these guys can. • The first track, "Guitar Was the Case," sports distorted It's not mainstream guitars over a machinesque drum track (though this time it's and is probably best for an actual person) and a melody reminiscent of the Kids in the people looking to get The aint can't escape formulaic production' film, although mo t of them have E SAINT the me qua i-Europe n accent. Written by Jonathan Hensleigh The opening hit tart off ome- Directed by Phillip Noyce what promi ing a Templar neak tarring Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, and his way into a rally in 0 cow for Rade erbe Ru ian billionaire and pre iden- tial-hopeful Ivan Tretiak, and then proceeds to break into Tretiak's vault to teal some kind of he Saint i the late t attempt by microchip. However, you realize Paramount to bring a famou 1960s that it i going to be another one of spy show on the big screen, in this those insult-your-inteJligence case the 1962-68 British television flick when Templar e capes the series of the ame name starring Roger clutches of the bad guys by jump- Moore. (Their other recent attempt being last ing off the roof of a 20-story summer's hugely successful Mission: building, landing unhanned on the Impossible.) bed of a convenient truck. Val Kilmer revives the 1960s television series character of Simon Tlmpleton In The Saint. Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue are mild- Tretiak, impres ed with this ly entertaining as the mysterious agent mysteriou thiefs ingenuity, proceeds to con- The job, of course, is to steal the secretly them, so to speak. Simon Templar and Dr. Emma Russell, tact him through secret messages on the discovered formula for cold fusion from a The fun begins here, as Templar and Dr. respectively, but their efforts are futile in the Internet in an extended World Wide Web beautiful and young female scientist. Dr. Russell both fall prey to the sinister plans of face of The Saint's corny plot and atrocious browsjng sequence complete with the gratu- Emma Russell is smart enough to discover the Tretiak. In a game of cat and mou e, they are screenplay. Creating a successful movie itous Apple Powerbook. (Deja vu, anyone?) secret to cold fusion but apparently not smart chased through the streets, tunnels, rivers, and franchise for this series is likely an impossi- We learn that Templar is eager to take up one enough to remember the equations off the top just about every other part of Moscow. The ble mission and will probably self-destruct last job and retire from his business a's soon of her head, so she is forced to carry the equa- action culminates in Tretiak's attempt to after one film. as his bank account balance reaches $50 mil- tions around on small slips of paper stuffed become the president of .Russia over the first- Templa is a high-tech thief with a pen- lion. Just a few million short of 50, he then into her bra. This proves convenient for ever demo of a cold fusion device (which chant for disguise. In fact, Templar assumes cuts a deal with Tretiak to pull off a job for Templar, although I'll leave it to your imagi- over 11 different personas throughout the $3 million. nation to figure out how he gets his hand on The Saint, Page 8

FILM REVIEW First Contact:proof the Enterprise still has some gas in it

STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT "Number One" Jonathan Frakes, the movie sion in which humans made first contact with The Borg are easily the most sinister and Directed by Jonathan Frakes presents fresh ideas and a new conflict alien life. While an away team led by threatening force the Federation has ever Written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon . between the ever peaceful Federation of Commander William Riker (Jonathan encountered. They are connected as one Braga. Planets and the Borg, a man-machine race Frakes), Lieutenant Commander Geordi being, and have the power to adapt to any Starring Patr(ck Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, determined to assimilate other races into LaForge (LeVar Burton), and Counselor weap'on used against them, making them the James Cromwell, Alfre Woodard, Alice Krige. their collective. Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) beams down to most popular and complex adversary in Star Showing Saturday at LSC First Contact doesn't waste any time get- Earth to make sure the mission is completed, Trek history. While the original Star Trek 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 10 p.m. in 26-100 ting right into the action. After a pectacular- the crew of the Enterprise-E deal with prob- series held some degree of anti-machine sen- Iy rendered opening segment recalling lems of their own, namely Borg attempts to timent, Star Trek: The Next Generation By Teresa Huang Captain Jean-Luc Picard's abduction and assimilate their ship. So much for the reflected a new attitude toward increased STAFF REPORTER assimilation by the Borg, the movie opens to Enterprise- E. interaction with ship computers and the

~ J lar Trek: First Contact is an excit-' . find the entire Federation at battle with sever- The action in this movie was great. Even inclusion of Data (Brent Spiner), a constant ing and intelligent film free of al Borg ships. The U.S.S. Enterprise-E, led by though there weren't any huge space explosions reminder of the happy coexistence of man cheesy one-liners that provides fur- Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart), pursues an or chases, the close encounters with the Borg and machine. The Borg were introduced to ther evidence that the "even/odd escaping Borg ship, traveling back in time to were frightening and suspenseful. The special challenge this notion by representing what rule" still applies to Star Trek movies. (Ask the 21 st century, where they learn the Borg effects were excellent, too, thankfully with no a Trekker if you don't know it.) Directed by plan to sabotage and prevent the space mis- long, drawn-out inspection of the new ship. Star Trek, Page 8 H

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BOOscri • Ie ected Feuding morefi om the actors? promised land JUlU~"Llgn Directed by Bille August Written by Bille August, based on the novel by Noproblem elma Lagerlof Starring Maria Bonnevie, Uif Friberg, Lena Endre, Pernilla August, Sven-Bertil Taube, THE DEV L'S 0 Reine Brynolftson, Olympia Dukakis, Max Directed by Alan Pakula von Sydow Written by Kevin Jarre, David Aaron Cohen, and Vincent Patrick Starring Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Ruben Blades, and Treat Williams erusalem is a gorgeous and fascinating By Teresa Huang film that proves the adage: Life is what happens to you as you're making other STAFF REPORTER In The Devll's Own, police officer Tom O'Meara (Harrl on Ford) takes In Rory Devaney plans. Set in tum-of-the-century Sweden he Devil's Own is an emotional look at (Brad Pitt) thinking he Is a refuge from Ireland, but oon learns hat he's a terrorist In and Palestine, Jeruasalem traces the lives of the two sides 0 justice an rebellion. the United States looking to purchase Stinger missiles. This quiet suspense drama contains Ingmar (Ulf Friberg) and Gertrud (Maria trong character' performances by ionate, and tender with each other and with Diaz, played by Ruben Blades (The Color of Bonnevie) as they sort out complicated ques- Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt as two men their guest. For the first time in his life, Night). The leading men seem like they tions of love, faith, and filial duty. who e personal and profe ional beliefs are at Devaney see what his life could be without should be complete opposites, but they find a Friberg is stellar in his role as Ingmar odds with each other and them elves. constant war, and feels tom between his com- camaraderie and bond that i so strong, not Ingrnarsson, the first-born son of a clan that The action takes place in ew York City mitment to the beliefs which dictate his haz- even Devaney's lies can destroy it. has ruled a small Swedish parish for ages. in 1992. Brad Pitt plays Frankie McGuire, an ardou life tyle and the affection and hospi- Though this film has been criticized for Cheated out of his rightful inheritance by a angry rebel in the Irish Republican Army tality he receives from the O'Meara family. being too character-driven and not violent jealous brother-in-law, Ingmar-leaves Ilis whose ho tility is driven by the memory from When O'Meara's family is threatened by his enough, I believe that's what makes it a fresh fiancee, Gertrud, and goes off to work at the his childhood of seeing his father gunned presence, the truth emerges and Tom and original movie. Devoid of exploding cars family's distant sawmill. While he labors at down by a ma ked terrori t. As he grow up, O'Meara is faced with a conflict between his or bombs, the action is close en

WIJMH Museum of Science, Science Park, Cambridge. Through April 30. Admission: $7.50; seniors and ages 3-14, $5.50 (Tues., bargain nights for all shows 7 p.m. and later, $5; seniors and ages 3-14, $3). Information: 72:> 2500. Film follows the life cycles and travels of blue, humpback, and right whales from Argentinato Alaska. Ongoing Theater mAlice: An Improt' TabloId OdysHy • Actors Workshop,40 Boylston St., Boston. Through April 12, 8 p.m. Admission: $10 if reserved in advance;$12 at door; $2 discount for students. Information: 887- 2336. A foray into the surreal world of tabloid media, mAlice combines improvised scenes, music, Video, and drawing as Alice negotiates the wonderworld where personal tragedy has been repack- aged as popularentertainment.

Rent Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., Boston. Through April 27. Tues.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.; matinees, Sat.-Sun., 2 p.m. Admission: $25-$67.50.

Renee Zelleweger plays Dorothy, a loyal secretary to sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) In Jerry Maguire, showing Friday at LSC. Continued on next page

FILM REVIEW Thegood old days really weren't so easy

INVENTING THE ABBOrr5 Earp) play the Abbott Directed by Pat 0 'Connor daughters, each with their Written by Ken Hixon own personality, problems, Starring Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy and desires. Alice (Joanna Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Going) is the good daughter Joanna Going, Will Patton, Kathy Baker who listens to her father, even when he forces an By Teresa Huang unhappy marriage on her. STAFF REPORTER Eleanor (Jennifer Connelly) etin the 1950s, Inventing the Abbotts is the bad one who manipu- tells the stofY of three emotional years lates Jacey's attraction to her in the lives of five teenagers in the to break out of her con- Ssmall town of Haley, Ill. For each of strained, cookie-cutter them, their days are filled with ice cream, fist • lifestyle. Pam (Liv Tyler) is fights, and heartache as their paths cross and the- youngest sister, whose their lives are woven together. relationship with Doug Holt The story is told in Wonder Years style is constantly upset by the through the eyes of Doug Holt, played by • chaos around her. Joaquin Phoenix (To Die for). The youngest All five actors turn out of the two Holt brothers, Doug gets caught up fantastic performances in Joanna Going, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Joaquin Pheonlx, ... Uv Tyler star In Inventing the Abbotts. in his brother lacey's obsession to gain con- this tale of love and revenge. trol over the rich and beautiful daughters of The chemistry between the youngest charac- screen, acting older than they are in a believ- affairs of the parents affect their children's the aftluent Lloyd Abbott, the town million- . ters, Pam and Doug is the best in the film. His able way. lives in a time when "Elvis is hot, gas is cheap, aire played by Will Patton (Fled, The Client). bumbling yet sensitive manner complements Kathy Baker is suited to her role of school and sex is ... imaginable." Films set in the lacey Holt, played with brute rage by Billy her down-to-earth innocence perfectly. The teacher and mother to Doug and Jacey Holt. 1950s usually try to remind you how simple Crudup (Sleepers), blames his family's pover- scene involving their first kiss is superbly Her quiet devotion to her emotional children life was back then, but Inventing the Abbotts ty on an unresolved matter regarding a prod- done. and ber late husband are admirable. Will actually shows you how simple it wasn't. uct patent owned by Lloyd Abbott which Their romance is sincere and simply can- PattQn's perfonnance as the rich Lloyd Abbott This absorbing drama about young love, Jacey believes is rightfully his late father's, not be broken by the transgressions of is also filled with complexities and heart. sexuality, and integrity is excellently cast and and in revenge he seeks to infiltrate the Abbott Crudup's character. Joanna Going is effective- Inventing the Abbotts deals with many dif- well acted. The interactions are effective, the family through the daughters. ly delicate in appearance as the weak daugh- ferent themes, including the conflicting desires tensions are high, and the ending is heart- Liv Tyler (Stealing Beauty, That Thing ter, while Jennifer ConneJly plays the mis- of rich and poor people to be in someone warming. Sure to be the sleeper hit of the sea- You Do!), Jennifer Connelly (Mulholland chievous. daughter very well. All the actors else's shoes (though not each others' shoes), son, Inventing the Abbotts is the spring's best Falls, Labyrinth), and Joanna Going (Wyatt give skilled performances as teenagers on young love and how fragile it is, and how the date movie so far.

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research In a variety of disciplines and students, $4; ages 3-13, $3; Continued from page 9 at MIT and other institutions. Sat. 9 a.m.-noon, free. Information: 495-3045. Information: (800)447-7400. The Race to the Moon Musical based on Puccini's 1896 The Museum at the John F. In Id Fott Indep ndence: An opera La Boheme. • Kennedy library. Off Morrissey Arc NO/ogk. VI w of IIIta'Y Boulevard, Dorchester. Through June 1: Fri.-Thurs., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Commonwealth Museum, 220 Admission: $6; seniors and stu- Morrissey Blvd., Dorchester. dents, $4: ages 6-12, $2; under Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat., 9 Exhibit 6, free. Information: 929-4523. a.m.-3 p.m. Admission: free. Exhibit on America's pioneering Information: 727-9268. MITMuseum space exploration. 265 Massachusetts Ave., The Pyramid. and the phlme: Cambridge. Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 m of F1iJe Am 100 Ye.r. of American p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. ArchlteokCY lit GlzB Admission: $3; no~MIT students, Mon.-Tues., 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Semitic Museum, Harvard seniors, and under 12, $1; MIT Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-9:45 p.m.; University, 6 Divinity Ave., students, free. Information: 253- Sat.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Cambridge. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 4444. Admission: $10; seniors and col- p.m.; Sun., 1-4 p.m. Admission: What's So Funny About SCience? lege students, $8: ages 17 and free. Information: 495-4631. Cartoons of Sidney Harris offer a under, free; Wed. after 4 p.m., vol- Collection of photos and artifacts. hilarious look at unexpected and untary contribution; Thurs.-Fri., Ongoing. incongruous moments in science. after 5 p.m., $2 discount. Through May 31. Information: 267-9300. w EtWIMHI Aqutlflum Maps from the Age of Atlases. The Art of John Biggers: View from central Wharf, Boston. Mon.-Fri., Rare maps from the Museum's the Upper Room. Exhibit of the 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat.-5un. and holi- Hart Nautical Collections illumi- black artist's drawings, prints, days, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Admission: nate the golden age of cartogr~ paintings, and sculptures. ages 12 and up, $9.50; seniors, phy. Through May 4. Through April 20. $8.50; ages 3-11, $5; under 3, Gestural Engineering: The Beyond the Screen: Chinese free. Information: 973-5200. Sculpture of Arthur Ganson. Furniture of the 16th and 17th The Otter Limits. Construction Ganson's kinetic sculptures Centuries. The exhibit aims not relocation of aquarium's colony of exude the wit of their creator, a only to explore the beauty of harbor seals and sea otters to a self-described cross between a Chinese art forms, but also to new, enlarged habitat behind the mechanical engineer and a chore- carry the viewer Into the physical aquarium. ographer. Ongoing. surroundings of their time. Ponds: The Earth's Eyes. Self- Lightforest: The Holographic Through May 18. guided tour of freshwater habitats. Rainforest. Large-scale hologram This is the Modern World: Go With the Row. Problems and exhibit by Betsy Connors. Furnishings of the 20th Century. solutions for Boston Harbor. Ongoing. The exhibit relates the look of Giant OCean Tank. 187,OQO.gallon Holography. The exhibition objects intended for everyday use coral reef tank. explores the holographic universe to the creative vision of the artist- Rivers of Americas: Amazon and from its inception in the late maker or designer, and the Connecticut. 1940s through its artistic and demands of technology, function, technical evolution and highlights cost. and the needs and desires Old Stste Museum works by the world's foremost HOUM of the potential buyer or user. State and Washington Streets, holograptlers. Ongoing. Through September. Boston. Mon.-Sun., 9:30 a.m.-5 Math in 3D. Morton C. Bradley's p.m. Admission: $3; seniors and mathematical sculptures inspire Bott/celll's Witness: Changing stUdents, $2; children, $1.50. inventors ot all ages to create Style In a Cllangtng FIotenC6 Information: 72(}3290. their own structures in the adja- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Trophies and Treasures: Two cent Mathspace activity center. EndellIon String Qu.,et 280 The Fenway, Boston. Through Centuries of Luxury at Shreve, Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. April 6, 4 p.m; April 12, 8 p.m. Admission: Ongoing. 84 April 6: Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m.-5 Crump and Low. Through July 31. free. Information: 253-2906. Andrew Watkinson, first violin; Ralph de Souza, second"'\liolin; Garfield MIT Hall of Hacks. Chronicling p.m. Admission: $9; seniors, $7; When the Boys Came Marching MIl's rich hacking tradition, this Jackson, viola; David Waterman, cello. Program includes Haydn, Op. 54, No.3; B.ritten, Quartet #1 in college students with 10, $5; ages Home. Everyday life in post-World exhibition features historic pho- D; Schumann, .Quartet in A minor. 12-17, $3; under 12, free. War II Boston. Through August. tographs and a collection of arti- Information: 566-1401. Works by facts. OngOing. Sandro Botticelli, one of the most Museum of Our National Heritage Light Sculptures. Vivid interactive influential artists of the Italian 33 Marrett Rd., lexington. plasma sculptures by Center for Renaissance. AdVanced Visual Studies alumnus Mon.-5at., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Sun., On Campus Bill Parker. Ongoing. noon-5 p.m. Admission: free. USS Constitution Museum information: 861-6559. MITChapel 5etIes Haft NautlcaI GaIIe'Y Navy Yard, Charlestown. Col/ecting the Southwest: The MIT Chapel, 84 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge. April 10, noon. Admission: free. Information: 253- 55 Massachusetts Ave., Mon.-Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Harvey Family Legacy. The Harvey 9800. Brazilian and Spanish Mllsic for guitar and soprano.Jay Rosenberg, guitar, percussion, voice; Cambridge. Mon.-Sun., 9 a.m.-8 Admission: $4; seniors, $3; ages Company was instrumental in June Howe, soprano. p.m. Admission: free. Information: 6-16, $2; under6,rree; under 16 opening the southwest to 'com- 253-4444. when unaccompanied by an adult, mercial tourism at the turn of the Architecture Lecture sene. century. Premiere examples of Ships for Victory: American free. Information: 426-1812. 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 1(}250, Cambridge. April 8, 6:30 p.m. Admission: free. Information: native American weavings and Shipbuilding's Finest Hour. Old Ironsides in War and Peace. 253-7791. "The Impact of Digital Technology on Space and Place- talk by Mict1a Bandini, Georgia Retrospective celebrating USS paintings are found in two exhibi- Historic photographs and artifacts the Institute of Technology. ' explore the shipbuilding programs Constitution's upcoming 200th tions. Through sept. 14. of World War II, the vital and birthday. Includes artifacts such as Over There: The Yankee Division MaftlnH~Translt PoeftY et "'IT: WlIIIBm Corbett unprecedented contribution of the sea bag and possessions of an in World War I. The story of the Bartos Theater, 20 Ames St., Cambridge. April 8, 8 p.m. Admission: free. Information: 253-6475. women to these programs, and 1812 crew member, hands-on activ- 26th "Yankee. Division is dram~ Poet William Corbett reads from his newly published memoir, Furthering My Education, published by MIl's pivotal role in the shipbuild- ities, and photographs. Ongoing. tized through military artifacts, loland Press (1997), followed by a book signing. ing effort. Ongoing. Strengthening Old Ironsides. Color documentary photographs, and Ship Models. Rare models illus- photographs documenting the memorabilia frdm the homefront. M".k Iff the Coffeehouse trate the evolution of ship design four-year rehabilitation and Through June 22. from the 16th to 20th centuries. restorations of the ship. Ongoing. 24-Hour Coffee House, Student Center, 84 'Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. April 8, 8 p.m. Ongoing. Capturing Old Ironsides on Original Visions: Shifting the Admission: free. Information: 253-7972. Mortal Wombat (rock). Canvas. Works by artist Cheslie Paradigm, Women's Art 1970- On the Sul1ace of Things: I~ 0' Andrea. Ongoing. 1996 BUthorstlmlt Resdlng 5etIft In Science and Engineering by Boston College Museum of Art, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 54-100. April 10, 5:30 p.m. Admission: free. Information: 253-5249. Felke Franke/. Uvlng with An,. and the SCience 140 Commonwealth Ave., Paul Krugman will discuss his book Pop Internationalism. Co-sponsored by MIT Humanities and Compton Gallery, 77 of E.O. WlIMJn Chestnut Hill. Through May 18. Dewey libraries and The MIT Press Bookstore. Signed copies of the book will be available for pur- Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. Harvard Museums of Cultural and Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat.- chase. Feb. 14-June 27: Mon.-Sun., 9 Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Sun., noon-5 p.m. Admission: a.m.-8 p.m. Admission: free. Cambridge. Through April 30: free. Information: 552-8100. Colored GI". with PeM: WrttJng by Women of Color Information: 253-4444. Stunning Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., Exhibit includes paintings, pho- Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Dr., Cambridge. Admission: free. Information: 253-5683. Reading by photographs communicate recent 1-5 p.m. Admission: $5; seniors tographs and sculptures. Shirley Geok-Lin limo Will read from her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces. Presented by MIT Women's Studies, Mil Office of the Arts, MIT Humanities Library and the Committee on Campus Race Relations at MIT, in collaboration with Wellesley College.

\ Llltln AmerfcM CIBukaI GultM Concert: Pablo Ortlz Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Dr., Cambridge. April 12, 8 p.m. Admission: free. Information: 437-7300. Sponsored by MIT Club latIno and the MIT Council for the Arts. Pablo Ortiz will be the featured per- former. He completed his guitar studies at the Real Conservatorio Superior in Madrid, Spain. Ortiz finalized his degree with Demetrio Ballesteros, a student of Andrlls Segovia. Ortiz has performed in important concert halls and theaters in Europe, North America, and South America. Currently, he is a Professor of Music at the Universidad Nacional, in Heredia, Costa Rica.

Lecture Series Committee 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. Admission: $2. Information: 258-8881.

Jerry MlWUlre April 4, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., Room 26-100. Jerry MagUire (Tom Cruise) is a cutthroat sports agent whose sudden act of conscience costs him his job, his clients, and his fiancee. He then has to put his life back together with only one client, a 1ootl>all pJayer with a serious attitude problem (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and one employee, a secretary who falls for him ..

The WIld Bunch April 4, 7:30 p.m., Room 1(}250. Directed by Sam Peckinpcih. Starring William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernet Borgnine, Emilio Femandez. In Texas in 1914, Pike Bisho (Holden) an(} his gang rob a railroad office unaware that Deke Thomton (Ryan), Bishop's ex-partner, is now on the payroll of the railroad and has set an ambush for them. Their excape from the ambush takes them to Mexico, where events take the most unexpected tum. Peckinpah's portraYal of the decay of the values presented by more conventional Westems is exhilarating.

Star Trek: Flm ContBct April 5, 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 10 p.m., Room 26-100. In the latest of the Star Trek movies, the crew of the Enterprise must face their most dangerous enemy, the Borg. After 'a failed attack, the Borg travel back in time In an attempt to stop the. defining moment of the federation. Starring Patrick Stewart, Jona~an Frakes, Brent Splner, and the rest of the TNG crew.

Double Team, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman, opens today across Boston.

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I iszpenc provided by the Edgerton Center. but it is also true that mo t of the STAFF REPORTER They al 0 played the "face lab," a kids won't. ow, that was a pretty "How does a radio work?" game that di play the principle of bitter pill for me to wallow." "What make a plant grow?" inheritance and genetic . Th ixth- Huang, in helping a ixth-grader "If I drin vinegar and baking gra rs were paired off into couple , revi e her autobiography, learned oda, will I blow up?" with the "moms" and "dad " flip- that her mother had died from using Who better to answer the e que - ping coinSto produce "children." drugs but that he wants to go to tions than coUege and make a life for he elf, P t MIT stu- Experi nc ent eO be aid. r ea ure dents? Last At the end of the day, MIT stu- One kindergartner even a ked, week, three dents would return to their hotel and "Could I take you home to be my groups went to inner-city public discus their experience with each dad?" Su aid. schools in ewark, .1., the Bronx, other, and this proved to be a valu- and Baltimore to help the vohmteer able part of learning and having fim, rogram bro dened views program, Teach for America, as part Ives aid. Beyond community service, the of the Public Service Center Throughout the week, volunteers program was also an opportunity for Alternative pring Break. al 0 met with people in Teach for MIT students to be exposed to "It went great. '" The teachers America, a practice which "worked things they would not generally were really supportive, the tudents well, and I wi hed we had more of encounter, Ives said. "We get kind enjoyed it, and MIT tudents had a that," said Andy W. Su '97. of isolated in our ivory tower." great time," aid Anthony J. Ives G, "We learned a lot about the state Because people from all across who has organized the trip for the of the public schools, which is not campus participated, students had a past two years. a bad as you might think. But it rare opportunity to meet each other The groups undertook weeks of takes an amazing amount of effort and work with various organizations preparation that included a cra h to teach 30 kids, and it would make like the PSC and the Alwnni Office, course on teaching from Brian T. a big difference if there were more Ives said. White '85, a technical in tructor in resources and teachers, if society All sorts of reasons motivated the Department of Biology. During placed more of a priority on teach- the participants. Many were fresh- the week, pairs of students intro- ing," Ives said men, with few other options and a duced sixth-graders to electronics Su and his partner,. Shan S. willingness to try something fun and A' combatant lets a snowball fly as another winds up during and genetics. Huang '00, were deeply affected by interesting, Ives said. Many were one of the many kirml hes on Briggs Re d Tue day after- The children as embled and kept the lives of the students in their also interested in the oppo~ty to noon. their own quiz boards, a simple cir- classrooms, Su said. "The truth is, do public service. cuit gadget whose materials were many of the kids can make it in life, Su remembered that a similar service had been done for him in third grade and middle school. and that he knew how much energy and excitement older students could bring to kids, Su said. Ives has had fun seeing others learn what he learned in his years of helping in, Cambridge public schools, he said. But "I would like to see it grow," he said Ives will not run the. program any longer since he is graduating this year, but he thinks that in the future, the program may include volunteering in homeless shelters and AIDS wards. Discover Ocean Engineering! "People could be doing all dif- ferent types of service," Ives said. Even this year, a group this year participated in lIabitat for Humanity in Maryland. In addition to sponsorship by the PSC. the groups received fmancial support from the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. .

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GSC, from Page 12 the organization " funded by the G C are cultural organizatio , h Ii t objective for the organization. aid. 'It' nice to have th bit of a The urvey will also encourage tu- feeling of home." dent to help the GSC resolve the "I think that the po ition of tr a- i ue they raise, he aid. urer i where 1 can learn a lot ... Anyone would tell you that and it matches my intere t ," we'd like more people," Coram Bugnion said. he came to the trea- said. "There are a lot of people who urer' po iti n through her work on are doing more work than they the G C's budget priorities commit- hould be. Any hour that you spend tee, which was charged with decid- in an extracurricular activity is an ing how to allocate revenue generat- hour that's taken away from ed by a recent career fair. research." "The GSC i Ie s about a plat- ew council f ce tough i ue fonn that I or another candidate will Outgoing president MorfopouIos

bring forward, it's more ofa resource said that the new officers will inherit GABOR CSANYJ-THE TECH that people can come to:' Coram a difficult task. The GSC must "rep- A snowman In the making In front of a fraternity house on Bay State Road. said. The GSC should help them resent all of the interests in the grad- resolve the issue by pointing out the uate student body," he said. "Within appropriate administrators and help the graduate student body there are students find others who are also many different voices. concerned about that problem. Representing them in one voice is a Coram said that while the ad hoc very different job." committees ~ould tackle issues that The new officers will also tackle PASSOVER come up, the GSC itself would stay issues which have plagued the GSC its present course. "The GSC will for some time. "Many of the i ues continue to serve its traditional mis- simply do not change over the .11111~~ sion: the officers will continue to years," he said interact with the admini tration, the One of the most important is ,a Hrr standing committees will continue "the issue of equity between their missions, the representatives resources between graduate and will continue to convey information undergraduate student, n from and graduate student input," he Morfopoulos said. oting that the 'F~~ Tflft~ said in his campaign statement Office of Undergraduate Education Monday, April 21 ,6:00 p.m. Thursday, April 24, 5-6:30 p.m. Much of Coram's previous expe- and Student Affairs is considering MIT.Hillel, W11 Main Dining Room MIT Hillel, W11 Small Dining Room rience comes from his work with the changing its na~e to remove the $18. students; $25. non-students $11.50 stUdents; $13.00 non-students GSC housing and community affairs "undergraduate," he said that "even A traditio(lal participatory sed~r committee, where worked on the if that's just a name, I think that it's grocery shuttle. "I helped develop it a significant step." ~~ from a service that ran only twice "The graduate students are the Friday, April 25, 7:00 p.m. on Saturdays with around 40 riders, majority on campus, and some time HMMH~ W11 Main Dining Room to on.e that runs four times on in the next century, the graduate stu- Monday, April 21 $14.50 students; $18.00 non-students Saturday and (until recently) three dents will be a majority of living Tuesday, April 22 times on Tuesday, and serves well alumni:' Morfopoulos said MIT faculty and staff welcome over 100 people per week," h~ said "The Institute' favors the under- H~~ in his campaign platform. grads in many ways .... It's blatant- students to their home seders. Sund~y, pril27, 7:00 p.m. ly obvious in some areas. The very Contact Hillel by April 17. t VP to increase involvement fact that we don't have a full-time W11 Main Dining Room Eugene Bae ,G, the uncontested "dean of the graduate school '" just $14.50 stUdents; $18.00 non-students candidate for the vice presidency of goes to show you that there's a lack the GSC, said one of his primary of emphasis on graduate students:' R~~'P~~1 . responsibilities would be to increase Morfopoulos said. All Passover mealsr~l;--lservation and paymentby Friday,April 11. Contact MIT Hillel, 253-2982. Payable with MIT meal cards or cash/checks at the Hillel office or at the number of graduate students ~ The perennial issue of housing, Hillel booth In Lobby 10 on Thursday; April 10. involved in the GSC, he said. however, seems to be improving. Much of this would come from Morfopoulos approved of the han- old fashioned boosterism, Bae said. dling of the proposed graduate dor- HIT H~lltl ,Isthe sponsor of the above events. "We need to concentrate more mitory at Sidney and Pacific streets, For additional information contact us at 253-2982 or . efforts on pure and simple publicity, he said. In "a lot of the planning, letting graduate students know that graduate students had a voice. I Hillel Is located In the Mil Religious Activities An food served at Hillel Is kosher for PassovGf. The MIT Hillel kitchens are under the supervision the GSC is there and involved," he think that the GSC has voiced its Building, Bldg. W", at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Amherst Street In Cambridge. of the Vaad HaRabbonlm of Massachusetts. said. concerns, and I think it's starting to However, Bae said that it was be heard." important to demystify the some- times arcane MIT committee names. "If you leave it in terms of names and titles, it creates nothing of inter- est, but if you convert it to topics such as parking fees ... or on-cam- pus and off-campus housing, or to food services" one can generate a lot of interest in MIT and GSC com- mittees, he said One of the best ways that a vice president could help the GSC was to increase the level of participation in GSC ano Institute committees. The goal is to "help the committees do what they are already doing better," he said . Committees are not new to Bae. "I got involved through the academ- ic policy and ptojects committee, which by its area of responsibility does a lot of things that are related to Institute committees," he said 7 _~ Bugnion to help decide funding The job of treasurer is a vital one for the GSC, said candidate Veronique Bugnion' G. "It's a big responsIbility, because there's a lot of money that needs to be dealt with," she said. The treasurer "keeps an essential activity of the OSC going" by managing the outlay of funds to student activities. The position is also something of. a tight-rope walk, she said. "Because the graduate student body is a very diverse body .... We need to make sure that that money needs to be distributed fairly," she said. In addition, "as a foreigner I can represent the third or so members of the graduate student body who" IPS were born abroad. "A third or so of

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tudent enjoy break now incapacitate tate While students were able to stay The effects of this blizzard were at home, employees designated a felt far beyond MIT. As late a "e ential" reported for work on Wedne day, 200,000 people in the Tue day, ice said. E sential per- region were without electricity. sonnel include the snow clearing Thousands more were without heat. teams, some network con ultants, In addition, three death were and some staff in the medical blamed on the stonn as well as sev- department. eral fires. Administrators, however, stayed The low performance of road at home. "I can't think ... who on clearing crews drew fire from the administrative group would be .Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, and considered essential:~ Rice said. the closing of some MBTA line Students enjoyed the break from made morning commute even more classes. hectic. Among studying and working, . Inland, the situation was even John Kymi sis '98 said he built a worse. In western Ma sachusetts, snowman in Briggs Field. The activ- over three feet of snow fell as a ity "definitely was the most fun" of re ult of the storm.

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Wa hington Univer ity, the California In titute of Technology, nd the University of Chicago. Harvard had the most top indi- viduals with six tudent in the highest 25. Five MIT students were in thi group, and Duke had three of the pots. "However, Duke's top three individuals were al 0 their three team members," Rogers said. A total of 71 students from MIT took the test. Federico Ardila '98 placed eventh, winning a 500 prize, and Adam W. Meyerson '97 I THOMAS R. KARLa-THE TECH placed 15th, earning a 250 prize. With a break from classes on Tuesday, students focused their energy on using the easily packed snow on Briggs Field for building or throwing. Pramod . Achar '97, Amit Khetan '99, and Constantin Chiscanu '00 also placed in the top 25, and Aleksey Zinger '97 made honorable mention.

Median score was two out of 120 The exam took place in two three-hour, six-question sessions. Each question was worth 10 points, Graduate Student Council for a maximum of 120 points, Rogers said. "This year, if you ~~ored 55 or more, you were in the op 25 students." The median score was two out of 120, which shows h0'Y tough the Save" 35% exam was, Rogers said. ''Those who got two points got a little partial credit but not a whole question During Jostens Ring Days right." . ''This test lasts for six hours - a grueling exam. It tests problem solving ability and how well you write your proofs. Very little partial credit is awarded," said Eric H. Kuo '99, who represented MIT in tl!e team portion, along with Ardila and Meyerson. "Deciding which prob- lems to work on and writing up solutions were the hard part. None ( of"the questions are simple." "With these types of problems, the hardest part is to get started. Once you make one intuitive leap, the solution often comes out, but this might be after a long time .of , taring at the problem and getting nowhere," Khetan said. ''The questions are very challeng- ing in that you're not just tested on your knowledge of math but on how to be creative with that knowledge. The questions usually don'! require much knowledge, they require ~ge- nuit)' with limited tools," Ardila said

Team experienced in test taking A number of the students who participated in. the exam took Rogers' seminar and looked at prac- tice tests. Many have also participat- ed in other math competitions. "I have competed in math contests & since I was in 7th grade. The .Putnam Thesday, AprilBth Wednesday, April 9th • l1am - Spm adds to that long list," Kuo said. "The Putnam is a lot like the MIT Coop • Kendall Square U.S.A. Math Olympiad test that I took in high school. They are both proof-based, extremely challenging exams," Khetan said ; "It's hard to prepare for it since JOSTE you don't really know what's going to be on the test ... I think one of the most important things is not to stress too much about it, just go there and do the best you can," Ardila said.

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.8:30 am Welcome Energy Strategy in the Far East Dean Robert A. Brown Professor Shunsuke Kondo, University of Tokyo Professor MUjid S. Kazim1 The Challenge. of Controlled Fusion 8:45 am (Session #1): Nuclear Medical Technology Professor Ian Hutchinson, MIT Chair. Professor yacquelyn Yanch Panel Members: 3;00 pm BREAK . Boron Neutron Capture 11lerapyfor cancer Professor Otto Harlfng, MIT 4:~0 pm (Session #4) Nuclear systems ReUablllty and Management Chair, Professor Michael Golay Functional Imaging of the Brain Panel Members: Dr. Bruce Rosen, Director, Clinical NMR Laboratory, ~GH Improving the Per:formance of Nuclear Power Plants Dr. Zack Pate, President & CEO. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations . A New Radiotherapy Device: From Concept to Market Dr. Peter Oettinger, Chief Operating Officer, Photoelectron Corp. Managing Nuclear Wastes Dr'. Andrew Kadak, President & CEO, Yankee Atomic Electric Co. 10;15 am . BREAK

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Radiological Imaging of Materials April 8. 1997 Laboratory Tours: Dr. Richard Lanza, MIT Plasma Science Fusion Center 9:00 - 10:30 am Magnetic Separationfor Commission Control (Meet in NWI7-218) and Environmental Cleanup ..- Dr. Ilhan Olmez, MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory 10:30 - 12:00 pm (Meet at ~12 Recf;ption Desk) Multfscale Materials Prediction Professor Sidney 'y1p, MIT For further tnfonnaUon contact: Department of Nuclear Engineertng. 253-3801

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By Rog r eros y MIT gymna t to win or share the A Qciation ational Academic SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR award. quad for the 1996 eason. eniors The women' gymna tic team Fir t-ye r tudent Lee Knight Ellen Hang '97, Katherine returned from the recent ational '00 was named AlJrAmerica in the Merrilee '97, and Laura Walker Collegiate Gymnastic A ociation all-around competition. She cored '97, along with junior tephanie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~!!!!!!!!!!~ Champion hip 35.575 of a po ible 40 points in the aifert '98, and An hu inha'9 C!'YlOrts with a seventh- four vents. each qualified th team. OF place fini hand Rocchio and Tasi Chiarenza '97, O~ ~rts three athlete were each named to the CGA oftball pitcher throw no-hitter 01 W eaming individual national AU-Academic team. oftball pitcher Amber Crabbe ----- honors. '00 began her collegiate career in Sheila Rocchio '97 was co-win- F' eld hockey players honored style by pitching a no-hitter against ner of the Senior Athl te of the Five IT athlete were named to Bab on College. Only one walk ul- Year Award. Rocchio i the tbird the ational Field Hockey Coaches lied an otherwise perfect game.

thlete e cel nationally Myong-Sin Yi '99 earned AII- PC America status at the recent ational Rifle As ociation Pistol ational Championship in Colorado Spring . rid t pril4 .Baseball v . .Babson College, 3 p.m. In recent CAA champion hips, marksman Thomas Schady '97, turda pril5 placed 16th in rifle. Women's Crew vs. Amherst College, 80 ton Colleg , and Tufts In fencing, David aumann '97, University fini hed 19th in the foil competi- en's Lacrosse v . Babson College, 1 p.m tion and junior Meredith Rising Women' Lacros e v . Wellesley College, 1 p.m. '98, earned a 20th place finish in Softball vs. Mount Holyoke College, 11 a.m. epee. Women's Tenni v . Amherst College, 10:30 a.m. Crew coach coaches national team omen' Tennis v . V College, 2 p.m. Men's Outdoor Track and Field in the Engineer' Cup, 1 p.m. Director of Crew Stu Schroill '86 JENNIFER LANE-THE TE 'H was recently selected as coach of the Comet Hal&-8opp, the brightest comet this century, is visible cia, pril6 1997 U.S. Maccabiah Rowing Te throughout April in the sky a few hours after sunset. Lightweight Crew vs. United States ilitary A y,9:30am; The team will compete in the 15t )\ Quadrennial Games this July in Israel. .

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