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By Frank Dabek Student Affairs Robert M. STAFF REPORTER Randolph, Director of Free pizza and a chance to meet Administration and Operations the deans from the Office of Stephen D. Immerman, and Undergraduate Education and Associate Dean for Residence and Student Affairs drew about 12 stu- Campus Activities Margaret A. dents to the second in a series of Jablonski. open meetings with students Students decided to attend the Tuesday evening. meeting for a variety of reasons. Students asked questions on top- Graduate Student Council ics ranging from the role deans play Housing and Community Affairs to licensing fees for class rings. In Committee Co-Chair Geoffery J. addition, the deans asked students Coram G was simply "interested in questions about the best way to seeing what's discussed" and want- improve communication with the ed to voice concerns about licensing student body. The next such meet-. fees for Graduate School class rings. ing will be Thursday, Dec. 12 in 26- He said, however, that though "a lot 110. of informati9n will be exchanged, The Dean's Office was repre- nothing will be accomplished" sented by Dean for Student Life Laura A. Montalvo '99 was Margaret R. Bates, Dean for interested in being on the dean's Proteu., played by Fernando L PadUla '99, attempts to rape Silvia, played by Jenny James Buhr Undergraduate Education Rosalind advisory committee. The advisory '98 In the Shakespeare Ensemble's production of Two Gentlemen of Vemna. H. Williams, Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Dean's Forum, Page 15
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By Kyle Young by the magazine are all considering By Jennifer Lane tant directorfor programs in the CAC. to take a more active role. STAFF REPORTER similar plans: NEWSEDI7VR The SCC ran the 24-Hour Coffee From discussions between the The Undergraduate Association Each year, U.S. News & World The Campus Activities Complex House and the SCC Gameroom. It SCC and CAC dating back to last Council proposed a resolution at its ~ Repo'rt publishes a ranking of Programming Board has risen to also organized the MIT College January, the Programming Board meeting Monday to urge adtpinistra- undergraduate c~l1eges. A wide. replace the Student Center Bowl and ran postering services as was born. It divided into five com- tors to boycott the U.S. News & variety of criteria is used 10 deter- Committee, which elected to cease weU as events like Strat's Rat, mittees each responsible for a differ- Wo.rld Report college ranking sys- mine the rankings, including many to exist at ~e end of last year ~id Battle of the Bands, Spring ent aspect of the Board's activities. tem. statistics obtairied from surveys of financial difficulties and dwindling Weekend, and comedy nights. There are currently ten students If the resolution passes, the UA individual colleges. MIT was student interest. Last year, SCC's membership on the Programming Board, and would urge administrators to with- ranked fifth in this year's survey. The board is striving to provide had dwindled to around 10 and all Rick G,esh, now graduate assistant hold the data used by' U.S. News & programs and activities that will but about five of those graduated, for programs of CAC, was hired World Report to determine its rank- Rankings considered. arbitrary bring students together and promote Walsh said. That fact - combined early this term to help the Board get ings. The proposed resolution will The bill concerning the rankings interaction between student groups with dwindling attendance at large off the ground, Walsh said. be up for a vote on Nov. 18 at the states that ''nwnerous investigations . and all members of the MIT 'com- events like Spring Weekend and cOlmcil'snext meeting. by major newspapers, including The munity, said Phillip 1. Walsh, direc- overwhelming administrative and Halloween Hauntings goes well President of the Class of 2000 New York Times, The Wall Street tor of the CAe. financial difficulties in running The first major Programming Sandra C. Sandoval '00 and UA "Hopefully, we can make things things like the C.offeehouse - Floor Leader Norris Vivatrat '99 u.S. News, Page 19 happen," said Ted E. Johnson, assis- caused the SCC to look to the CAC Programming Board, Page 17 first proposed the bill after '3 similar bill had been passed at Stanford University. Yale University, the school ranked first this year by U.S. Search Proceeds for New Chair of the Corporation News & World Report this year, is By Shang-lln Chuang suitable candidates," said Secretary in the process of passing a similar NEWSEDI7VR of the Corporation Kathryn A. resolution, said UA President A search is currently be~g con- Willmore, executive assistant to the Richard Y. Lee '97. ducted to replace Paul E. Gray '54, president. The schools ranked in the top six chairman of the MIT Corporation. The four-member search com- A candidate may be named to mittee will make a recommendation become the next chairman by early. to the 10-member executiv.e com- March. mittee, which, if it accepts the rec- Gray will retire by the end of ommendation, will then place it June, after serving as. an Institute before the 70-member full officer for 26 years. Gray has been Corporation board, Willmore said. an employee of the Institute for 39 A majority vote of the full board is .Dean's Oftlce turns to years_and has served in numerous required for the nomination to be communication. Page 7 positions ranging from teaching accepted assistant to dean of the School of The board meets four times a Clinton financial aid Engineering to president. year, on Commencement Day in "The chairman leads the corpo- June and on the first Fridays of plan would have mixed ration, whictt is a board of trustees October, December, and March. deem at Page 7 that has the legal and moral respon- "I think December is too early sibilities for everything that goes on and June is too late of a date for the in the Institute," Gray said. executive committee to recommend Backers brieftY halt A subcommittee of the executive a candidate," Gray said. "March is e-mail de~ Page 9 committee of the Corporation was probably goin,gto be the meeting in formed late last. spring to serve as which the recommendation is made the search committee for the new to the board" • Jens easily wins chairman of the Corporation. The search committee is headed DC contest. Page 10 "This search committee asked by Gerald W. Austen '51. The other for suggestions from all members of members are Edward E. David Jr. GZSU:8ael'os.:lI1f1UQlllll' the Corporation about the kinds of ScD '50, Judith C. Lewent SM '72, qualities one should seek in a chair, and Morris Tanenbawn. possibk .models for th;s position, and names of people wno might ~ Chalrinan, Page 18 .r, . t ecove ...... ~e
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LOS A GELES TIMES MOSCOW Thousands of Ru sians thronged through the streets of Mo cow to commemorate the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 with traditional red By John H. Harrl cial aid Reno may have effective- the president's debate preparation . flags and angry speeche , but Pre ident Boris . Yelt in, recovering THE WASHINGTON POST ly ensured her continued tenure by and currently erve as chairman of ~ from heart surgery, announced that Thur day's march will be the last WASHI GTO stating her wishes publicly. "A I peace talk among warring parties hurrah for the Communi t celebration. Pre ident Clinton said Thursday have aid all along, if the pre ident in orthern Ireland. From hi hospital bed, Yelt in is ued a decree announcing that he will con ider Republicans for top wanted me to stay, I would be hon- Also on the list is retiring U .. ov. 7 - popularly known a Revolution Day and, until the oviet jobs in his second administration, a ored to do so," Reno aid Thur day Sen. Sam unn, D-Ga. U. . collap e in 1991, the most important holiday on the Kremlin calendar bipartisan approach that he plans to at her weekly news conference. Ambassador adeleine K. Albright, - will be renamed the Day of Accord and Reconciliation. amplify Friday with a call for early Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich widely believed to be among the top It will till be a public holiday. But instead of glorifying the dicta- talks with Republican congressional in an interview Thursday publicly contenders for the job, in fact torship of the proletariat and the ri e to power of Soviet state founder leaders on the budget and campaign confirmed his widely anticipated belongs in the 'second tier" of like- V.1. Lenin, Yeltsin's pokesman aid the new holiday will commem- finance reform. departure. Still unofficial, but con- ly candidate , one Clinton adviser orate the victim of revolution, civil war and repression. At a news conference chedu1ed firmed by enior. administration offi- aid Thur day, a judgment con- The decree wa Yeltsin's fir t policy initiative after taking back for this afternoon, aides said Clinton cials, was a firm decision by firmed by two administration 'Offi- pre idential authority from Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin will accommodate himself to the Transportation Secretary Frederico cials. on Wednesday. Chernomyrdin stood in as president for 23 hours reality of continued divided govern- Pena to step down, a move that like- The State job could also provide _ while Yelt in had heart bypa surgery Tue day. ment by offering to meet oon with wise had been fore hadowed earlier an opportunity for Clinton to make 4 Yeltsin' decree changing the holiday was announced only after congressional leaders on two issue . this week. And in Tokyo Thursday, good on his pledge to look for about ro,ooo Communists, most of them elderly, had started their that last year were marked by sharp former Vice President Walter F. Republicans. en. Richard G. annual march in Moscow, holding red carnations, chanting slogans and incessant conflict between the Mondale said he was stepping down Lugar, R-Ind., and retiring Sen. and waving portraits of Lenin and dictator Josef Stalin. White Hou e and Capitol Hill. as U.S. ambassador to Japan. William S. Cohen, R-Maine, have ov. 7 remained a holiday even after the Soviet Union collapsed. As an unusually rapid exodus of Reich, a longtime Clinton friend been mentioned for the post, But the government has queasily avoided dwelling on its official title top appointees from his administra- since their days as fellow Rhodes although neither has yet emerged - the Anniver ary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. tion continues, Clinton Thursday scholars in the late 1960s, is eager publicly as a strong possibility. promised "to cast a wide net" for . to return to Boston with his family. Clinton said the need for biparti- their replacements and consider Pena, who some administration sanship is part of the message "the ASA Launches First in Series "Republicans and Democrats and aides said was eager to keep his job, American people sent us" in the independents alike." He made his is being nudged out of it in part election. "They like it when we try Of Spacecraft to Study Mars remarks at the official White House because of White House dissatisfac- to have principled compromise," THE WASHINGTON POST announcement of Secretary of State tion over his handling of the May Clinton said, "And they want us to CAPE CA AVERAL. FLA. Warren Christopher's decision to ValuJet crash in Florida, and what create a vital center ... that moves Moving away from expensive, complicated projects like the iJl- step down. turned out to be a too-hasty endorse- the country forward in an aggressive 4 fated Mars Observer probe, ASA launched the first in a series of Also, Clinton continued his ment of the airline's safety record. way, Republicans and Democrats economy class spacecraft toward Mars on Thursday in what amounts intense discussions about replacing Among the other Cabinet offi- and independents alike. And I will to a scientific assault on the Red Planet. Chief of Staff Leon E. Panetta, who cials whose departures are con- be looking ... across a broad span of Running one dar late because of threatening high-altitude winds, plans a return to California. Aides firmed but unan.nounced are American people to try to get the a $55 million Delta 2 rocket blasted off just after noon, boosting said Clinton would like to be able to Defense Secretary William J. Perry, best people to create that vital center ASA's $155 million Mars Global Surveyor away from Earth and announce today that former Deputy Commerce Secretary Mickey. and take this country into the 21 st onto a 10-month 435-million-mile voyage to Mars. Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles will Kantor, and Energy Secretary Hazel century." The spacecraft will reach Mars on Sept. 12, 1997, four years after take the job, but that the North R. O'Leary. Others considered like- -Clinton and aides have not ASA's $890 billion Mars Observer mission failed, and 15 years Carolina businessman has not ly to move on include Housing and repeated the 1992 refrain that the after the last surviving Viking Mars lander stopped transmitting from agreed to take it. Urban Development Secretary Cabinet "must look like America." the martian surface in ovember 1982. Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Henry Cisneros, and Education White House press secretary Over the next four months, the Surveyor will repeatedly dip into Ickes, a dark horse candidate him- Secretary Richard W. Rile . Michael M~Curry said the de- the martian atmosphere, using its two 'wing-like solar panels like self for the top job, reportedly wants Christopher has said he will stay emphasizing of that slogan does not speed brakes to bleed off energy. If it all works, the probe wiJl end up to stay at the White House for on the job until a successor is cho- mean Clinton is'.Iess committed to ~
in a circular two-hour orbit. . another year even)if h~ is not pro- sen and he completes his trip to the goal of diversitY.~ t ,t) It ~ Finally, in March 1998, the Surveyor's solid-state camera and moted, a prospect that leaves China and other Asian nations later The emphasis on bipartisanship other instruments will begin mapping the Red Planet over the course Bowles cool. this month. is a contrast from four years ago, of a 687 -day Martian year - about two Earth years. One option that may not be open Among the leading candidates when Clinton appointed only to Clinton is replacing Attorney for this job is former Senate Democrats to his Cabinet and relied General Janet Reno, an unpopular Majority Leader George 1. Mitchell, almost exclusively on what was Federal Grand Jury Indicts figure among some at the White who is close enough to' Clinton that .then the Democratic JIlajority in Former lllinois Representative House. Some administration offi- he played the role of Bob Dole in C~ngress to push his agenda. THE WASHINGTON POST CHICAGO Two days after what might have been his reelection to a third Absentee Vote Counts Will Not term, former representative Mel Reynolds (D-Ill.) and his wife Marisol were indicted by a federal grand jury here Thursday charges of defrauding several banks, misusing campaign funds, and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission. Affect GOP's Hold on Honse The 16-count indictment accused Reynolds of submitting false financial statements and loan applications to four Chicago-area banks By John E. Yang Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R), a leading years. to obtain $150,000 in personal loans, and of fraudulently obtaining a THE WASHINGTON POST cheerleader for the "Republican rev- Fox defeated Rep. Marjorie $279,000 mortgage for the purchase of a $310,000 house in a WASHINGTON olution," has over former state Margolies-Mezvinsky (D) in 1994 Chicago suburb. He was charged with misusing campaign contribu- Election officials in California Democratic chairman Steve Owens. after criticizing her for voting for tions from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union and Arizona on Thursday were Hayworth, the target of nearly $2 President Clinton's 1993 budget and withdrawing more than $15,000 in checks from campaign counting absentee and mail-in bal- million worth of labor-sponsored plan, which passed the House by a accounts for his personal use. Reynolds was also accused of directing lots that could be decisive in close negative television advertising, single vote. campaign workers to cash checks drawn on campaign accounts and races for the House. brushed aside suggestions the out- Massachusetts election officials return the cash to him. While the outcomes will not come could change. "It would take a will re-examine the ballots that gave Marisol Reynolds, 33, was charged in nine of the 16 counts, jeopardize the Republicans' hold on miracle," he said. Democrat John F. Tierney a 582- including allegations she forged the signature of a campaign commit- the House, they could oust two of its Provisional ballots are cast by vote victory over two-term Rep. tee official on letters in im attempt to understate the couple's debts most colorful and boisterous GOP voters whose addresses do not Peter G. Torkildsen (R). and oveu;tate their income while seeking the home mortgage loan. members. match voter -registration records or In Connecticut, Democratic chal- Rep. Robert K. Dornan, (R- who requested a mail-in ballot but lenger Charlotte Koskoff was con- Calif.), the ardently anti-abortion appeared at a polling place anyway. sidering whether to ask a judge to and anti-gay nine-term lawmaker, They are set aside to be verified and order a recount in her 1,587-vote. WEATHER had a 233-vote lead over counted separately. loss to Rep. Nancy L. Johnson (R), Democratic challenger Loretta Arizona law requires election chairman of the House ethics com- Sanchez, a financial adviser, with officials to cQ.unt all votes within 72 mittee. A recount would have been A Stoim with Gusto several thousand absentee ballots hours after the polls close, but offi- automatic if the margin had been By MarJa Blster and Gerard Roe yet to be counted. The tally may not cials in some of the district's eight one-half of 1 percent of the 227,165 STAFF METEOROLOGISTS be final until early next week. counties said they doubted. that votes cast. Koskoff campaign offi- There is a low pressure system to the north of the Great Lakes Dornan ran a long-shot cam- deadline would be met. cials were rechecking tallies in sev- with a strong cold front extending down through the eastern states. paign for the presidency this year Thousands of uncounted absen- eral towns Thursday to see if the Ahead of the cold front there will be scattered showers and very and was slow raising money for his tee ballots also could decide the fate margin could be narrowed enough strong winds. After the front passes through sometime on Saturday, House race. "Forget 'B-1 Bob,' " of the l6-term House career of Rep. to automatically trigger a recount. temperatures will drop rapidly. The start of next week will see some Dornan said early Wednesday George E. Brown Jr., D,-Calif., who Koskoff, who won only 31 per- of the coldest weather of the season so far. 'morning, referring to the nickname had a I, 150-vote lead over GOP cent of the. vote against Johnson in Friday: Variable cloudiness, light rain with showers likely that reflects his steadfast defense of challenger Linda M. Wilde, a 1994, criticized Johnson's handling throughout the day. Becoming very windy because of the strong the bomber. "I'm now 'Landslide California Superior Court judge. of the prolonged ethics investigation southerly flow. High wind advisory is in effect for the evening. High Doman.' " Some of those races probably of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 68°F (19°C). California law gives local elec- will be decided by recounts, which R-Ga. Tonight: Rain developing overnight, possiply heavy. Low 60°F tion officials 28 days to tabulate already have been ordered in two Not counting the two California (16°C). absentee ballots and make results other races. One is to begin Friday races that are too close to call and Saturday: Rain in the morning, diminishing towat:d the evening. final. in the Philadelphia-area district, two Texas races in which seats Maximum temperature will be.in the morning, around 55°F (l3°C). In Arizona's 6th District, where freshman Rep. Jon Fox (R) could change hands and will be Low in the 30s (around 3°C). Democratic officials are hopeful defeated Montgomery County decided Dec. 10, Democrats have Sunday: Cold! Partly cloudy. A chance of flurries to the west. several thousand uncounted mail-in Commissioner Joseph M. Hoeffel gained 9 seats, well short of the 19 High in the 40s (around 7-10°C). Low in the mid 20s (-5°C). and provisional ballots will erase (D) by 10 votes - the nar'rowest needed to regain control of the margin in any House electiqn in'12 the 590-vote lead tft;li fre.sh.m~n H,ouse';l f • 'rl ~l' N• ... '/ J J. i,- t ~J-:. " / Y1 ovember 8, 1996 WORLD & THE TECH Page 3
1WA eras Blamed on Mechanical Army Officers Charged with Rape, Harassment of Recruits Failure Pending Further Evidence WS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON By serge F. Kovaleski retrieve, as far as I am concerned report on the probable cause of the The military was hit by another major sexual harassment scandal THE WASHl aro POST this will be an airplane accident and July 17 disaster. official said. Thursday as the Army disclosed it has charged a captain and two WASH I GTO we will treat it as such." Loeb said. For now. safety investigators sergeants in connection with the rape or harassment of more than a In the strongest indication to These remarks are the clearest point to the fact that extensive met- dozen female recruits at a training base in Maryland. date that afety investigators believe public statements yet in the 16- allurgical analysis has so far found The incidents allegedly occurred at the Army Ordnance Center at ,mechanical failure caused the crash week-old inquiry indicating that no evidence consistent with a bomb Aberdeen Proving Ground. Md., which provides 16 weeks of basic of Trans World Airlines Flight 800. officials at the T B. the lead or missile explosion. such as pitting, training for some 3.500 newly enlisted soldiers at a time. a senior official says the govern- agency in the investigation. believe melting away or disintegration of Those charged include: ment will likely take that position if mechanical failure caused the nearly metal. At the same time. investiga- ' -Capt. Derrick Robertson. a company commander at the school, no evidence of a bomb or missile is empty fuel tank to blow and the tors 'have found damage patterns who is accused of rape, adultery. conduct unbecoming an officer and found in the dwindling amount of Paris-bound plane to smash into the around the center fuel tank that indi- improper fraternization with subordinates. unrecovered wreckage. Atlantic Ocean off Long Island. The cate a slower. less powerful blast -Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor. who is charged with The comments by Bernard S. 230 people on the jumbo jet were than that produced by an explosive rape, sodomy, adultery, obstruction of justice and improper frater- Loeb. director of aviation safety for killed. device. nization with subordinates. the ational Transportation Safety Officially. senior investigators James K. Kallstrom. the FBI -Staff Sgt. athaniel Beech. also a drill instructor, who is Board. come as salvage experts are have been saying that all three theo- assistant director who is heading the charged with disobeying an order, obstruction of justice and improper trawling the ocean floor for the ries for the disaster are "on the criminal probe into the crash. said a fraternization with subordinates. remaining.5 percent or so of debris board." decision on whether the plane was Army officials said Simpson has been jailed. while Robertson from the plane. In discussing the likelihood of brought down by a bomb or missile and Beech have been relieved of their duties pending disposition of Barring unforeseen evidence. he mechanical failure. the TSB also would be made jointly between the their cases. All three are said to be facing almost certain courts-mar- said in an interview. the NTSB will cautioned that the trawling opera- bureau and the NTSB. tial. likely take the official position that tion. which began Monday after Like his counterparts at the Under military law, a conviction on a charge of rape carries the the tragedy was caused by mechani- divers ended more than three TSB. Kallstrom said he was possibility of a life term. Until a few years ago, the maximum penalty cal malfunction and then focus months of salvage work. encouraged that the trawling opera- was death, but the U.S. Supreme Court ordered that changed. exclusively on what caused the cen- If not. the NTSB would handle tion has been recovering more ter fuel tank to explode before the the investigation as if the crash were wreckage that may help investiga- Boeing 747-100 crashed. an accident and would most likely tors get to "the endgame" in figuring "If we find no evidence of crimi- hold public hearings. as it does in out what caused the demise of Kemp's Future Political Plans Seem nal activity in anything else we other cases. before issuing a final Flight 800. Uncertain Right Now LOS ANGELES TIMES Senate Rebukes Administration's WASHINGTO Apparently. Jack Kemp still has a lot to say. He was back at the podium last night, talking the same talk. almost oblivious to the fact that the election had ended and the 1994 OK on Iran's Anus to Bosnia Republican ticket on which he was running for vice president had By James Risen Transfers said it is sending a 26- given the green light at a time he already lost. LOS ANGELES TIMES page letter to Attorney General was threatening to vet~ congression- In his concession speech Tuesday night. Kemp vowed to remain WASHINGTON Janet Reno detailing what it charges al efforts to lift the arms embargo. active in pushing the issues he cares about. Whether he might pursue The Clinton administration came are "potential criminal violations" Republican critics have also the White House himself four years from now is anybody's guess. "perilously close" to engaging in an by'senior administration officials charged that Clinton's policy need- Many GOP leaders believe Kemp did not hold his own in his unauthorized covert action when it stemming from the Iranian arms lessly gave Iran a "foothold" in nationally televised debate last month with Vice President Al Gore. secretly gave a green light to Iranian controversy. Those charges include Europe, increasing the terrorist Not only did Kemp strike some as unprepared, but he was criticized arms shipments to Bosnia in 1.994. a perjury, obstruction of Congress and threat to U.S. troops now on peace- by fellow Republicans for holding his punches in addressing ques- Senate committee said in a report conspiracy. keeping duty in the Balkans. tions about President Clinton's character. Thursday. The committee said it is asking Some Republicans on the intelli- Wayne Berman, Kemp's campaign manager, said he does not The bipartisan report conflicts Reno to appoint an independent gence committee concluded that the think Kemp himself knows exactly what lies ahead of him. "He's with the Clinton administration's -counsel to investigate whether crim- Clinton team did break the laws going to keep pushing the Republican Party toward the party of . claim that.its Iranian, firms initiative inal charges should. be brought, governing covert action, but com- Lincoln and away from the kind, of exclusionist extremism that it • qualified as "traditional diplomatic , fo~usiJ)g .on the actiorts a~d state- mittee chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, sometimes falls into," Berman said. "He has to decide whether he activity'! and was therefore free of ments of U.S. Ambassador to R-Pa., made it clear that he didn't wants to to do it in the inside or from the outside." the legal restrictions that were' Croatia Peter Galbraith and former push that view because he was eager placed on the secret intelligence U.S. Ambassador Charles Redman, for a report that could win bipartisan activities of the executive branch who was U.S. special envoy to the support. Instead, he noted that the AOL Posts Losses of $354 Million following the Iran-contra scandfll of Balkans in 1994. report "is a primer as to now per- THE WASHINGTON POST the 1980s. The excessive secrecy led to ilously close they came." WASHINGTON The panel. known as the Senate concerns among CIA officials', After the initial "no instructions" America Online Inc. Thursday reported a loss of $353.7 mil- Select Committee on Intelligence, including then CIA Director R. message was delivered, there were lion in the quarter that ended Sept. 30 as it implemented a new was investigating the administra- James Woolsey, that an unautho- other incidents in which U.S. offi- accounting method. The loss, caused largely by a one-time charge tion's decision i~ April 1994 to sig- rized covert action might be under- cials may have helped facilitate for past expenses, exceeded all the profits the company had ever nal to Croatia that the United States way behind their backs. Iranian arms shipments into Bosnia reported. would not object to the creation of At the time, President Clinton that the committee found troubling. AOL reported a quarterly loss of $10.3 million a year ago. an Iranian arms pipeline through agreed to have two U.S. diplomats One such incident occurred in In revenue. the company continued to grow, but its recent explo- Croatia to supply the beleaguered tell Croatian President Franjo September'1995, when the U.S. sent sive expansion appeared to be slowing. Revenue rose to $350 million Bosnian-Muslim government. Tudjman that they had "no instruc- personnel to Croatia to inspect long- in the latest quarter from $198 million during the same period a year A White House official respond- tions" when he asked how the range rockets bound for Bosnia. but earlier, an increase of 76.8 percent. During the quarter that ended ed to the report by saying, "we stand United States would respond to the once it was determined that the June 30. the company's revenue was up ]20.2 percent compared with behind our Bosnian policy, which Iranian arms shipments. rockets were not equipped with the quarter a year earlier. has brought peace to the region." When the secret policy was chemical warheads, American offi- The company said it experienced a surge in subscribership in Also Thursday. the House Select revealed this year, congressional cials did not object to allowing them October, after the quarter ended, adding 250,000 people in the United Subcommittee on Iranian Arms leaders were angry that Clinton had to continue on to Bosnia. States. Worldwide. AOL now claims about 6.9 million members. For the quarter, however. the company's subscriber rolls appeared to grow at a slower rate on an annual basis. The company said it 'Japan Re-elects Rytitaro Hashimoto . added 365,000 U.S. subscribers during July, August and September, . . compared with 7 I0,000 during the same period a year earlier. The July-September quarter was an improvement over the April-June one, To Second Tenn as Prime Minister. when the service added only 312,000 U.S. subscribers. By sonnl Efron. succeed in implementing his politi- leeway to pursue his conservative LOS ANGELES TIMES cal agenda as head of a minority defense agenda now that he is not so __ TOKYO government. tightly bound to a Socialist coalition Honda Plans to Sell Low-Pollution Ryutaro Hashimoto was elected The Liberal Democratic Party, or partner. to a second term as Japan's prime LDP, won 239 seats in the House of Hash.imoto's new Cabinet Car That Runs on Natural Gas minister Thursday and picked a new Representatives in last month's includes only two holdover mem- LOS ANGELES TIMES Cabinet composed mainly of old- elections, 12 seats short of a majori- bers, Foreign Minister Yukihiko DETROIT guard Liberal Democratic Party ty. Unable to form a coalition gov- Ikeda and Chief Cabinet Secretary Honda Motor Co. said Thursday it will begin selling a natural- warhorses. ernment, Hashimoto struck a loose Seiroku Kajiyama. The remaining gas-powered small car next fall that emits the lowest level of pollu- Breaking with tradition, alliance last month with his battered 18 ministries were neatly parceled tants of any vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine. Hashimoto also installed powerful former allies. the Social Democratic out among the LDP's four main fac- The company, which has made a name for itself in producing low- party veterans - including several Party and the New Party Harbinger. tions. The powerful intraparty clans pollution engines, said it would begin producing the Civic GX in the former Cabinet ministers - in the agreeing to work together toward are supposed to be withering away 1998 model year that begins next September. vital second:in-command ministry certain policy goals. as part of Japan's poHtical reform The vehicle, which has a 1.6-liter engine, will be built in East posts that are usually granted to lhat deal gave Hashimoto the process, but the factions have not Liberty, Ohio, on the same line used to make conventional Civics. It fresh political talent. ' votes he needed to win the prime disappeared yet. will cost about $19,500, or about $4,500 more than a comparably Observers saw Hashimoto's minister's post on the first ballot The difficult job of running the equipped Civic LX. strategy as trying to compensate for Thursday. Finance Ministry, which is slated to , Honda's entry into the natural-gas market in 1997 comes as the a weak political mandate with this Political analysts saw no major become the first agency to have its federal Energy Policy Act takes effect. The statute requires state gov- double layer of experienced party change in the U.S>Japan relation- powers pruned back by the new par- ernments and gas utilities to buy natural-gas vehicles for their fleets. loyalists, ministers he hopes will ship now that Hashimoto and liament, went to Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, The company said that the natural-gas vehicle, which has a range prove strong enough to escape cap- President Clinton have both been re- leader of one of the LDP's biggest of about 260 miles before refueling, will only be sold to commercial ture by the entrenched and wily elected. However, Hashimoto's sur- factions. users. Officials said the lack of adequate refueling stations makes bureaucrats who tend to wield the vival may pa~e the way for progress Mitsuzuka. 69, has held three retail sales difficult at this point. real power in Japan. on joint security issues. Washington previous Cabinet jobs, including Natural gas is seen as a good alternative to gasoline because it is Hashimoto has made ,reining in has had to deal with a merry-go- stints 'as foreign minister; now as cheaper and plentiful in North America. Also because it can be used the overw~elJirig ~qr ~uc. c~. l~»: r'BHP,eJ/ .f sl) I t-se .try9 l p~m~i~ l finance lIlinister he will inherit the in today's jnternal combustion engines with only a few modifications, priority for his second term:>_ .8 pn~ RIS s for 0 ethan. three ratlwa s" in 0 er 'of early I 256f.. natural gasis~e'en'as mdre1mlcticaf than battery power ca . d " '--:" ~..\ IJ1~, '> :110 'f'ti> n m' n E:. ~lov- - .~ question now is how well he wIn years. aShlmo 0 may nave J1} H 'ib ft1''l eb s: Page4 TH T cn
Letters 1b The Editor are not intere ting or convincing. able athletic facilities. Husain and Karlo Hu ain' column about informational My suggestion is that these writer get computing are not humorous or persua ive. I over the excitement of seeing their tippled, rite Lousy Columns don't even know what he i trying to say, and Wall Street Journal-style picture in The Tech Ch irm n I don't nonnally take the time to write let- because of this I don't want to read them. and write a column only if they can satisfy Daniel C. Steven on '97 ter to the editor, but now Ifeel obligated. The Karlo' columns are generally un ub tantiated the e criteria: Editor in Chief rea on? The Iou y columns that have been and uninformed. When he wrote that IT 1. What they are saying is not obvious, tacey E. stau '9 occupying the pages of The Tech in recent could better spend the 15 million Gate 2. They have detailed fact that are not i sues, written mostly by Thomas R. Karlo donated to Harvard, he didn't give worthwhile known to the public, Bu ine anager '97 and A. Arif Hu ain '97. pecific uses for the money. A new building 3. They can construct a persuasive argu- Chri tine Chan '98 I don't particularly enjoy being critical, but for computer science perhaps would have ment, or anaging Editor I thought that I hould let the editors know been a good example. 4. Their columns are genuinely original aul Blumenthal '98 that the e columns are not only completely - Who cares? How about a need that we can and humorous. E ecuti e Editor irrelevant to m_e(for the most part) but also all agree on, namely improving MIT's miser- Benjamin A. Ellis '97 Ander Hove G
NEWS STAFF Editors: hang-Lin Chuang '98, David D. E- ail Should ot Stifle Art of Writing Hsu '98, Jennifer Lane '98, Dan McGuire '99; ssociate Editors: Orli G. Column by Thomas R. Karlo people to communicate in one manner or E-mail transmits a particularly broad range Bahcall '99, Jean K. Lee '99, May K. CONTRlBUTING EDITOR another. But I do feel that we should be con- of communication styles. From the formal Tse '99; taff: Eva Moy G, Kyle Young G, The summer before my freshman year at cerned about how we treat e-mail messages structure of the written letter to the banter of a James M. Wahl '97, Christopher L. MIT, my family had dinner with one of my from friends and lovers. As a community, phone call to the terse information of a Falling '98, oemi Giszpenc '98, Brett dad's old friends. MIT needs to be aware that in the rush toward telegram, different people approach the medi- Altschul '99, hawdee Eshghi '99, Carina Three years later, I the casual, instantaneous dialogue of e-mail um with different styles. We need to be sensi- Fung '99, Fenny Lin '99, Eric Sit '99, can't remember most and Zephyr messages, we may be leaving tive to all these styles when reading and inter- Rochelle Tung '99, Frank Dabek '00, of what we talked some values behind. preting messages sent to us. When my dad Douglas E. Heimburger '00, Zareena about, but one part of A handwritten letter is a powerful thing. It sends me e-mail, it reads like he's paying by Hussain '00, Liz Krams '00, Dudley W. the discussion remains demands careful reading, and some reply. This the letter; others send me several page-long Lamming '00; eteorologists: Michael C. within the bounds of is because you can feel the care and effort the streams-of-consciousness. I value both equal- Morgan PhD '95, Gerard Roe G, Marek my foggy memory. We writer spent in composing, writing, and send- ' ly; both types of writers are extending them- Zebrowski. were talking about how ing the letter. When you read it, you can see selves to me, and they deserve a well-consid- at MIT the use of e- how the writer's hand became unsteady during ered, honest reply. . PRODUCTION STAFF Editors: Jen Peltz '98, Josh Bittker '99, mail was quickly some passages, how the writer rushed through The next time you pull down the menu on Jason C. Yang '99; As ociate Editor: replacing phone calls others, and how the person struggled with your mail program to send out a new message Russell S. Light '98; taff: Jimmy and regular mail as well. words at times. All of this is lost in e-mail, and or reply to a friend's letter, think about the Wong '97, Betty Chang '98, Larry It's one remark from that discussion that while that's not such a tragedy, the fact that opportunity you've been given to .keep in Chao '98, Sharon hen. '99, Binh pops up in my mind once in a while. My host people reading the message forget that fact can touch with the folks you care about. A hun- Truong '99, tephanie Yang '99, Brent that night wasn't what I would call a tradition- be. Too often do people negle'ct to reply to dred years ago people spent time laboriously Yen '99, Erica Pfister 'o~, Brian T. alist or a romantic - to describe him as an e-mail from friends, keep in touch with family, scribing letters longhand onto paper and sel}d- Sniffen '00, Billie Wang '00. ex-Manne and veteran, which he was, would and generally keep our connections fresh. ing-them by mail. Surely you can spend a few express his personality better. But when we Considering how easy it seems to send e-mail, extra moments to tell your friend how you're OPINION STAFF Editor: A. Arif Husain '97; Staff: David S. were talking about how soon people would this is particularly ironic. doing or ask how he is. Kelman '99. u e e-mail for everything, he pointed out that you would never write a' love letter bye-mail SPORTS STAFF or ask a girl out. And at that time, I had to Editor: Erik S. Balsley G; Staff: Darren agree. Castro G, David Berl '97, Jeremy Cohen '97, Martin Duke '97, Chris Lin '97, After years here at MIT, I have of course Jason Weintraub '97, Farhan Zaidi '98, realized that I was wrong in accepting this Chris Brocoum '00.
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Morgan is an equal opportunity employer . .J • THE TECH Page 7 e e~_ ~ ...ce. oc to Communications By David D. Hsu before any large change occur, will include budgets for all the divi- is to get the divisions to talk to each administrative boundaries and EWSEDITOR Williams said. sions as well as a mission statement other and to coordinate on common efforts are easier to coordinate. The Office of Undergraduate Getting the infrastructure in addressing short- and long-term issues, Williams said. Bates, the team captain of the Education and tudent Affairs, place involves each division within is ue . For example, the Office of HARL team, also said the reorgani- which expanded to include about 10 the Dean's Office getting ba ic Immerman and Richard L. zation has helped re-engineering. more offices last month, is in the organizatiohal and per onnel infor- Brewer, manager of administration The team can now concentrate on process of developing communica- mation, said Dean for tudent Life in the Dean's Office, will be writing details instead of worrying about tion within its new structure. Margaret R. Bates. the plan, Williams said. "In the Wngcr term, reporting lines. • The Dean's Office was reorga- At the same time, the divisions One motivation behind the reor- Many members of the Dean's nized by President Charle M. Ve t . are trying to get a common under- ganization was to improve office we want to look across Office, including Williams, Bates, • The changes involved shifting con- tanding of how to proceed w'th reporting lines. the office and see wh4t and Immerman, are involved with trol of everal office that were for- programs in the hort run, Bate Bate and Immerman are serving re-engineering, The reorganization merly managed by MIT' operations said. The office is evaluating if it a liai ons to the divi ion , Williams our commonalities makes it possible for re-engineering end over to the Dean's Office. has enough resource to pur ue its said. • These are interim liai on to work with the Dean's Office, These newly added offices include goals. roles, not fixed reporting'lines." are," Bate said. the Department of Housing and "We're in the process of under- Immerman is erving a a liaison H. It is still too early to talk about Food Services, the Campu standing what. .. the needs are going to the groups new to the Dean's ~ Rosalind staff changes, Immerman said. Activities Complex, the Regi trar's to be," said Director. of Office because of his established Williams Whatever further changes that do Office, the Bursar's Office, the Administration and Operations working experience with those divi- occur within the Dean's Office will Student Financial Aid Office, St ph en D. Immerman. Immerman sion , Bates said. Bates is the prima- occur in the same public manner Career Services and Preprofessional was moved into the Dean's Office ry liaison to offices originally irl the that re-engineering would produce, Advising, and several others. as part of the reorganization. Dean' Office. Residence and Campus 'Activities he said. In general, "it'll take a while but The division heads in the Dean's The primary goal is not to clarify has been asked to name people to RCA is "in sort of a holding pat- not a long while to see changes," Office are meeting every other reporting lines but rather to focus on work on projects that would cut tern," Jablonski said. RCA will • said Dean for Undergraduate week, Williams said. working communications, Bates across offices under the Dean's await the results of the HARL team Education Rosalind H. Williams, Part of what will come out of said. Office, said Associate Dean for which is looking at a structure to head of the Dean's Office. these meetings is a five-year plan "Ultimately, they're all reporting RCA Margaret A. Jablonski. merge HFS and RCA. The Dean's Office has to have for the Dean's Office due out in to me," Williams said. On common' issues, RCA will be "This is speculative on my part, the new infrastructure in place December, Williams said. This plan Part of the communications push working with .()~her other groups to but I would venture that we have submit a joint budget, Jablonski two solid years of sub tantial change said. ahead of us," Immerman said. Clinton's. Financial Aid Proposals Re-engineering better coordinated Transition has been smooth "In the longer term, we want to The transition to the expanded . look across the office and see what Dean's Office has progressed Would Hav~ Mixed.Impact on MIT our commonalities are," Williams smoothly. said. "There's always some confu- • By Zareena Hussain for the first two years of college as Hudson. "Much of that agenda in terms of sion," Williams said. But since the • STAFF REPORTER well as a $10,000 tax deduction The effect of a tax credit and tax change is determined by re-engi- new divisions were well managed, President Bill Clinton's re-elec- specifically targeted to help parents deduction would result in a neering initiatives already under- they have dealt well with the tion may have an important impact . pay for college tuition, decreased tax liability for families, way," Immerman said. changes. on the 'education of current and While many may have voted for Hudson said. Eligibility for aid, The housing and residential life The restructuring has given peo- future MIT students. Clinton for his commitment. to help: both federal and inst'itutional, is re-engineering team, the co-curricu- ple a greater level of certainty, "There's going to be a definite ing Americans finance education, determined by subtracting taxes lar team, and the financial and acad- Bates said. People no longer have to focus on education. Educational the details of how to finance these . paid from income. emic services transition team are all worry about where to report, and opportunity will expand more in the 'proposals have yet to be worked While families who do not cur- looking at processes common to they can instead think about how to future," said Areej Hassan '99, pres- out.. revtly receive need-based aid would several divisions within the Dean's work together more effectively. ident of the MIT College "There has been considerable bi- realize the full benefit of the'. tax Office, Williams said. It has been much easier to inter- Democrats, . partisan criticism of the proposals as savings, needy families would The reorganization of the Dean's act directly, Jablonski said. Some of Among Clinton's election year they now stand," said Director of Office speeds up re-engineering, the roadblocks to communication proposals were a $1,500 tax credit Student Financ~al Aid. Stapley G . Elections, Page 20 Williams said. 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Andronicus 77 British guns • 21 Distribute land 105 Mountain range 50 Consign to death 78 Loud blast of equally 51 ._••• Victor 106 Function trumpets 107 _.... the sky 24 BEGINNING OF 54 Soviet News Agency 79 Sale seekers ~A OGDEN NASH 55 Jack Nicholson 82 Ship part (infinitive form) .. ~ POEM movie 83 Danperous drug 111 Musical finale ~ 26 Was a candidate 60 Gives refuge 84 Leslie Caron movie 113 Diminutive suffix a: 27 Church projection 62 Dromedary 85 Attenders 114 MIDDLE OF (J 28 Wills 63 Advise 86 Mad _.•.• OGDEN NASH c( 29 Sum total (abbr.) 64 Spanish gold 88 Wal ks pompously POEM 30 Miss Korbut 65 Clothed 91 Dens 118 Science of flying 32 Sexual deviate 66 Those whom others 92 'Hip joint 119 Raised decorations 34 Boxing term emulate 93 Tiny unit of 120 Frame of mind 35 Faithful 68 Semite measure (plJ 121 END OF OGDEN 36 Poet .••... Aretino 69 ._... out (parachutes) 97 Abounds with NASH POEM 38 •._. souci 70 Child film star 98 Cstherin.e and Sir 122. 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NVNEX Prepaid Calling Cards (with FREEmovie tickets) are available at convenience stores near your campus. .Some restrictions apply. Tickets valid through ovember 1991 @ 1996 NYNEX Corporation ovember 8, 1996 THE TECH w radeHac er Briefly Halts E-Mail By Brett Altschul Although it is not impo sible, it STAFF REPORTER is extremely difficult to trace this Some MIT computer systems kind of attack, Coppeto aid. The came under attack last week, briefly difficulty stems partially from the Iting e-mail delivery. However, fact that the address each packet ogrammers from Information apparently come from is fake. Systems rapidly restored the sys- Moreover, the bogus addres is dif- tems' integrity. ferent on each individual packet, The attack was probably perpe- making it almost impossible to tell trated by less-than-top-grade hack- which packets are involved the the er , said Thomas 1. Coppeto '89, a attack. programmer for IS who worked on IS had heard about other institu- the problem. "The people doing this tions suffering attacks of this nature, just aren't that smart." but M1T has never been targeted by IS heard about this sort of attack a serious attack of this type before, occurring other places recently, Coppeto said. Coppeto said. "There has been "It took us a little while to real- source code published on the ize that this was the kina of thing Internet that sends packets to a we'd been hearing about," .achine and causes it to stop Coppeto said. "When we noticed accepting connections," he said. the problem and looked at the "In this case with the mail servers, there wasn't anything servers, they stopped accepting mail wrong with them, so people were connections," Coppeto said. "The wondering why they weren't work- mail servers were unable to process ing properly. Eventually, we fig- requests to deliver mail. Mail wasn't ured out that this was the kind of moving." attack that people had been talking The attack went on for about a about lately." week before being noticed, Coppeto Coppeto said that the problem said. "There was a little perfor- was solved easily once program- mance degradation here and there. It mers identified it. "We basically had got bad enough [last] Wednesday or to recompile the kernel operating Thursday for us to notice. ,.. system," Coppeto said. "From down • "One thing that confused us was time to up time, it was only about ~at they didn't attack the more four hours." famous machines, like mit.edu," he The system is fortified very well said. "The attacks were aimed now, Coppeto said. "The way it's against the more back-end set up now, the normal traffic has machines." more effect than one of these Attacks of the same type are still attacks, and there are various kernel occurring but without any further patches out there that provide even effect and on a smaller scale, better prote.ction." Coppeto said.-"After a while, the There will n<;>tbe any further people get bored and go pick on problems with mail if we are sub- somebody who isn't as protected as jected to more attacks like this one, we'are." he said. -. MIT is very fortunate to have Attack difficult to trace, easy to fix kernel source code on hand and pro- • The attack requires a slow but grammers capable of implementing constant stream of packets, about the -necessary repairs on duty, one each s.econd, he said. "With tens Coppeto said. "I really do feel sorry of thousands of packets floating for the sites that don't have access around, you can't just look at the to the sources for their operating big volume users when you're try- systems and can't install the patches ing to find the source of the on the fly because they might be attacks." down for days." The Council for the Arts at-Mil presents (ree tickets to: Twilight Anna 'Deveare Smith Sunday. November 17, 2:00pm, Colonial Theater, Boston Tickets must be ,reserved IN PERSONONlY In- E15-205 (Mil OIIice althe Ans) • A vaDd MIl student ID and a $5 deposit are required • Telephone reserva- lions Will HOTbe accepted Page 10 ovember 8, 199 ~ t' c...... ByUz Candidate campaign to be UMOC for a little more money," since this Jens received a trophy, which w a ( 35.44), Omri chw rz '97 STAFF REPORTER and receive votes in the form of year' goal w to bre the 1,000 paper bag with plastic eye pi ced ( 20.93), and Donald K. Gordon The week-long Uglie t pennie . The voting e place in mark. The amount raised was most- on a wooden pedestal. '00 ( 6.70). Manifestation On Campus contest Lobby 10, and whoever ha the ly b ed on the campaigning done The competition practically sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega mo t pennies wins. by the candidates, Pelavin aid. Jen in th b ge m rgin revolved around lens, who was out ended last Friday with a landslide This year the contest rai ed Even though the contest was not Jen won the conte t with to avenge I t year' 47-cent 108 to victory by last year's runner-up, 818.79, which will be donated to a succe sful as APO had hoped, 630.14. Douglas K. Wyatt G came a year-old jug of milk. Aguayo aid Steven E. Jens '97. the American Cancer ociety. The Pelavin aid that she wa "happy in second place with 1.43. In third on hi candidate heet that his rea- The conte t, which is run annual- total amount i down from last that the MIT community can put place was the new culptyre by the son for nmning for UMOC was tha ly by APO, a national coed ervice year's 913.64. their pennies to a good cause." Sloan School of Management with "someone's got to run against the fraternity, raises money for a charity Jill R. Pelavin '98, UMQC pro- The candidates received gift cer- $40.25, followed by Jay P. Muchnij len brothers." of the winner' choosing. ject chair, said that she was "hoping "tificate for participating(?), and '97 ( 31.43), Erne t D. Aguayo '97 "I am terribly disappoirited about coming in econd place," Wyatt said. "I thought it would be clear to everyone on campus how naturally ugly I was. But I guess being second ugliest is better than nothing." lens' campaign was a family effort. He got his hair styled at his si ter's college. His twin brother from Princeton University had the week off and spent the time campaigning. His mother called relatives and aske them to add money to his campaign. Jens' campaign centered around what he said made him stand out from the other candidates - his ''ugliness of the soul." His slogan was "Not Just Another Ugly Face." In the spirit of his slo- gan, Jens started off the week with a "bad hair day" day during which he offered to give passers-by bad hair cuts or pieces of his own hair. Later on in the week he played bad music and cooked bad food in order to show the ugly side ofhis personality. Jens' reason for nmning was tha the contest was "good excuse to make a fool of yourself and raise money' for charity." Pelavin said that the contest was not meant to be demeaning but1'ather fun. _ Pelavin not only expressed hope for raising more money next year, but said that it would be good "if more people can run as things on campus." She also said that groups could work together and run repre- Steven E. Jens '97 won this year's contest for the Ugliest Manifestation on Campus. senting one thing. Come Hear arc Andrees.sen ~I Listen to the 24-year-old -founder of Netscape discuss the future of the Internet. Thu, Nov 14, 4:00pm 5:30pm Room 26-100 The $1K Business Idea, Deadline is November 26th. Enter todayl http: /./web.mit .edu/SOk/www/ •..... I ovember 8, J 996 THE TECH Page 1J Graduate Stn ents Co pare otes at National Meeting • By Austin Frakt ferent disciplines from academIa to industry and vice ver a," Graduate Student Council Morfopolous said. President Constantine A. The AGPS deals with student Morfopolous G joined other gradu- issues like financial aid, graduate ate student leaders from across the student employment, health insur- nation at the 11th annual conference ance, international student affairs, for the ational Association of and income tax. The positions Graduate and Professional Students adopted at this year's conference in Santa Monica, Calif. from Oct. include: ' 24 to 27. Strong opposition to A record number of 80 universi- California's Proposition 209, a ref- ties were represented at the confer- .erendum to eliminate all affirmative ence, with about J 50 individuals action programs in the state, includ- participating. The NAGPS has 137 ing those that specifically benefit member graduate student associa- graduate and professional students. tions representing about 750,000 The proposition was passed by graduate and professional students. California voters on Tuesday. "The MIT GSC has attended the • A call to graduate schools to past three conferences including this implement policies designed to year's. In the future I anticipate our recruit and retain graduate students participation to con~inue and to from diverse populations. grow, especially since the 1998 con- • A vote to pursue the creation of ference is in Boston," Morfopolous an international graduate student said. association in cooperation with At the conference, graduate lead- , existing groups in other nations. ers compared notes on their respec- • Support of a National Day of tive institutions and graduate orga- Action'in February designed to Macintosh. More versatile than ever. nizations. "MIT's GSC is held in draw attention to the right of gradu- We don't know what you're thinking, That's why we make Macintosh high regard by our peers at other ate student employees to collective- comput$rs so versatile. With word processing, to help you express institutions, particularly for our IY,bargain. yourself. With cutting-edge multimedia, to help you create. And easy graduate orientation; which 'tie do • Confirmation that the first week without administrative financial of April will be the Fourth Annual Internet access, to help you explore. So how do you get started? Just support, and also for the successful GraduatelProfessional Appreciation visit your campus computer store today and pick up a Mac~ organization of our recent career . Week. fair," Morfopolous said. The NAGPS is a non-profit orga- Seminars on a variety of issues nization dedicated to improving the Leave your mark. that impact g~duate and profession- . quality of graduate and professional al students or graduate student asso- student life in the United States. Its ciations were also offered at the goal is to bring graduate and profes- ,.conference. This year's conference sional students together to assist - . included seminars in leadership them in self-governance and to rep- @/996Apple Compuler. Inc. All righls reserl'ed. Apple, Ihe Apple logo. 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MIL 3 offers a casual yet intense work environment in an MIT "spin-offll atmosphere. The entrepreneurial emphasis of the company supports career flexibility and excellent compensation. MIL 3 employees routinely work with communications technologies and systems of the future, conducting research and development with the world's fore!'"ost telecommunications organizations. Please visit our web page at http://www.mI13.com. MIL 3 Inc. MIL 3 will be interviewing at the Hyatt . Regency on November 13 and 14, 1996. ) To schedule an interview, please E-Mail 3400 Intemation~1 Drive, N.W. Lori Vetro at [email protected]. Demos Washington, D.C. 20008 Tel: (202) 364-4700 and food provided. Fax: (202) 364-6182 E-mail: [email protected] Page._------12 THE TECH November 8,1996 ------November 8, 1996 THE TECH Page 13 -- Ransorn--- why don't UJemake it a bounty? R T s By DavId V RodriIPMZ R nsom wants desperately to be about this bold Tom makes the counteroffer without consulting ,jATS EDITOR - movo; And it might have looked good on paper, b~ on RANSOM anyone else, and both Kate (Rene Russo) and Agent om and Kate Mullen are a happy, wealthy tlie screen it feels like a missing child story, which Hawkins beg him to take it back.. Hawkins says he has . couple living the good life until their son can~t void being a little depressing. Out of two bours, Directed by Ron Howard. . returned seven out of 10 missing children but would SeaJr is kidnapped. The ransom is $2 million a I e share is spent crying, hugging, and lip biting, Screenplay by Richard Price and "bet on those who pay the money." Kate doesn't want dollars, which. they agree to pay happily, but and though director Ron How~ does a ~ood jo~, to anger the kidnappe.rs, and, in fact, several of the kid- they soon learn the kidnappers never plan to return n . overboard or becommg too sentunental, It Alexander Ignon. nappers want to kill the boy for the trouble they have Sean alive. In a bold move, Tom (Mel Gibson) goes isn t lways fim to watch. Starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, caused them. on television to announce that the $2 miUion dollars F~rAgent Hawkins (Delroy Lindo) is assigned to Tom's counteroffer creates tension between man in ransom lDoney now stands as a bounty on the I recovr:r Sean. He's a needed presence because he is the Gary Sinise, and Delroy Lindo. and wife, but with faith in her man, Kate says, "He's heads of the kidnappers if anything happens calm1st of the blDlch, never crying and always avoid- Sony Cheri. always landed us on high ground." Not having access . to Sean. ing the hugging. to any money (she tried, but Tom told his employees not to give her any), she is forced to give in. Agent Hawkins begs Kate to change Tom's mind, but by this time she has changed her mind We know that Ransom really wants to be about the counteroffer because it doesn't need to be as hard as they make it. The problem: Why are paying the money and paying the bolDlty mutually exclusive? We're told from the beginning that the couple has far more money and could afford to pay many times the amount. Then Tom changes the $2 million from a ransom to!l bounty, declaring that the kid- nappers will never see a penny. Kate wants to pay the money. They could do both - pay the kidnappers $2 million, telling them a $2 miUion bounty win be on their heads if Sean is hurt. But this would be' too easy. No tough choices would need to be made. The kid- nappers would get the money and leave the eountry, the Mullens would get Sean, and there's be no reason for the kidnap- pers to make a last, desperate (but excit- (Far left) Tom Mullen (Mel GIbson) appears on television to announce that the ransom for his kidnapped son has been ctaaneed Into 8 bounty on the heads of the kid- ing) attempt to get some money out nappers. (Left) Tom runnIng through the streets of New York. (Center) Delroy Undo as FBI Agent Hawkins. (RICht) Gary S1n1seas police officer Jimmy Shaker. of Tom. THE s - BY THE TECH ARTS STAFF - ****:EIcellent ** The !\utt) I'rofc!osor ***:Good Eddie Mwphy plays Sherman Klump, **:Average an overweight but pleasant professor who *:Poor takes a drug to make himself thin, trans- forming himself into Buddy Love, hili *~** If... thinner, better looking, but totally obnox- If .. is one of the greatest movies from ious alter ego. As expected, Buddy goes the period of the late 1960s and early wild, trying to satisfy all his cravings and - Off Course Y Hugo 1970s, a time when a great movie came striking back at those who made fun of out nearly every week. It satirizes the him when he was fat. Although much of pomposity, cruelty, and stupidity of an the humor is crude, as when Sherman's fat- YOU StbUU> IT A WELt.. t "D. E. Shaw & Co. is the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street." - Fortune D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. is a small (around 350 employees and rapidly growing), highly capitalized (with equity capital of over 750 million dollars), very successful Wall Street firm specializing in various aspects of the intersection between technology and finance. 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Dean's Forum, from Page 1 ap{!.lyin this case, Bates aid. he said that she hoped that the funds ==~~a~;m~~~e committee is intended to be a raised by the fees would be avail- group of students that the Dean's able to fund class activities and that Office can continually tap for the fee will be absorbed and not INDMDUAL GMNG/YOLUNTEERING CAMPAIGN input. passed on to undergraduate stu- NEWSPAPER AD HO.IGY.II.1415-2 COle Others admitted simply coming dents. for the free pizza. Andrew J. Rhomberg G voiced concerns about the International Students a k about deans' roles Students Office's move to the Office After speaking infonnally with of Graduate Education. He ques- the deans over pizza, the students tioned the logic of the move and and deans broke into a discussion asked, "Where do we fall?" group. The first question posed to Williams called the move prag- matic and said, "The move to Graduate Education was a good thing. It links the ISO with people Thefirst question and a data system." .& Company, lne. posed to the deans There was also discussion con- cerning expanding the ISO from its McKinsey A OFFICES asked what exactly traditional role of dealing with' paperwork to include other services • Beijing.Taipei) the role of a dean was. like counseling. GREATER CH:i (Hong Kong • Shangh The same question ~eans seek ways to get more input had been asked at the The deans asked for student Invites ~ advice on the best way to "lower first deans' open the threshold of access to deans," as Immennan said. He proposed a ~Students & Pos~docs forum. central e-mail address as one way to "identify ourselves as a place d presentatton where students can get problems P hD the deans asked what exactly the solved." to atten a role of a dean was. The same ques- A student suggested a meeting tion had been asked at ,the first during Residence and Orientation November 11, 1996 deans' open forum. Week with the deans so that fresh- On Monday, Cambridge Bates called the Dean's Office a men could meet and understand the att Regency, "first aid station for the university." responsibilities of each dean. Other atteh Hy pM The focus of the office is the suggestions included advertising on 12 Noon- 2:00 "education of the whole student," MIT Cable and holding forums in . \ anagement Williams said. living groups. is an internatlona m ompanies an~ "What happens outside the cl'lSs- Immennan also asked the group M Kinsey & Company, ~~~'toP manag~men~~J ~ome deve\oplOg room has as much importance as if The Tech ':Vasa good vehicle f~r consulting f1r~ ttl~Oant:~~v~~stindustriaa\n~:~~~~~andopera?tohn~~ractivities . oaOlza t gv org . t yOUWI what happens inside," 'Immerman receiving infonnation. pub\ ICoro tters of stra e ",, is to acqualO tons about a es • said. Kimberly L. Miller '97 suggest- countries on ma of our presentatld~ answer your qu I Jablonski said that the office ed that a school-wide colloquium be The purpose hina practice an 0 . ctice shou\d . hsh should be proactive and help stu- held on the topic of community ser- in the Greater Cf m rGreater China p~a. both £ng career with O~\~;ested in i?i~ing °d speaking capablhty In dents "grow and develop as people" vice., She described an event'that Students In d'ino wntlng, an by asking "how do you... deal with would draw a large part of the \ete rea 0' t have comP 'n Chinese, 11 p\ease contac stress." school to Kresge Auditorium and and Mand an November , Randolph said that a dean's role then break up for small discussions d in ioining us on . is to "help [the faculty] do what at different living groups. \f yOUare intereste h i office by emat\ at . our shang a they can't do." 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Hopefully the Board Center for Halloween and adver- them more into contact with the will be able to solve that pr blem tised arious seasonal events, which Dean's Office, Walsh aid. and bring good student ideas to they hoped would "give a heartbeat The Board hop s to sponsor sev- fruition, he said. and life to the Student Center," eral events with Medlink on This space donated by The Tech Johnson said. Valentine's Day. Roughly 100 pumpkins were One incentive for groups to plan decorated, and 25 students left their joint events or to work through the pumpkins to be judged in a contest, Board is that "no one has enough Gresh said. . money to do anything" themselve , BECOME AN "To get students to just sit down Johnson said. and play and socialize that way is a AIR FORCE OffiCER. big step," Johnson said. Board will promote ~ocializing The Board also showed two Students identify closely with Take the first step to becoming a lead- alloween-theme movies during the their living groups but rarely get'. er in today's Air Force. Put your col- evening in Lobdell. While large together outside that, Johnson said. numbers of students flowed in and "There are too many compart- lege degree to work in the Air Force out of events all day, roughly 25 ments." Officer Training School. After complet- stayed through the movies, Gresh "The concept of a student union ing Officer Training School you can said. is to bring the community together," become acommissioned Air Force I Gresh said, and that is what the officer with: Board wants' to work with gr~ups Board will attempt to do. The Board hopes to be able to A big concern on undergradu- • great starting pay work with a'lot of student groups ates' minds seems to be time, Walsh • medical and dental care and encourage joint events, Gresh said. By sponsoring small events • 30 days vacation with pay per year said. that happen regularly - as opposed • management opportunities The Board was involved with the to large events that take excessive Lecture Series Committee earlier time and ettergy to plan and attend Discover how far a career in the Air this term to sponsor L$C's free - the Board hopes to get higher Force can take you and what it takes I' egistration Day movie, Rumble In attendance, Gresh said. to qualify. Call . the Bronx. . The Board, while focusing on The Board al~o exchanged pub- the Student Center, may plan licity' with the Concert Band and activities in Kresge Auditorium, AIR FORCE OPPORTUNITIES their Halloween Concert in Lobby Walker Memorial, outdoor areas, TOLL 'FREE 7. 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"A chainnan i usually a former Corporation, the chairman of the have no pre ent fonna1 affiliation This doe not exclude omeone "Involvement with the corporate pre ident, which mean that the per- Corporation, at the time of election, with the In titute," Willmore said. who i not currently a member of community or high-level govern- on ha a lot of experience raising hall be either a fonner pre ident, ince Ve t "i in the mid t of his the Corporation, Willmore said. If ment ervice could be another plu ," the recommended candida e is not funds for the Institute, which i one the retiring pre ident, or a member presidency, the ne t chair will not she aid. of the main re pon ibilities of the of the Corporation. be a Fonner or retiring president, but currently a member, he or he would first be elected a member, "I pent the first three to four then elected chair. year a chairman fini hing up a There were two uch instance fund-raising campaign I started ar in the pa t where a former presi- president," Gray said. "Chainnan i' dent wa not available to become not a job with major challenges like chairman, Gray said. • Vannevar those faced by the pre ident." Bush' 16 was a trustee when he assumed the position part-time at "The chainnan needs to be pre- 1957. David S. Saxon '41 had pared to take on the fund-raising served on the Corporation prior to task," Gray aid. "The Institute will being appointed as chairman at likely start another capital cam- 1983." paign, which the chairman will "What will happen this time? without doubt be involved in." Will the person be a member of the "The outgoing chairman is tradi- Corporation right now? Or will the tionally elected as an honorary person be a past member of the Corporation? It is unclear to me," chairman, but I don't want to jump Gray said. to any conclusions," Gray s~id., \ ~~ Fund rai ing, advising important ~ray to teach after retirement "The chairman can al 0 serve as Gray entered MIT as a freshman a confidential adviser of the presi- dent at the choice of the president," in 1950, and after completing gradu- Gray said. "I was particularly useful ate studies in electrical engineering, to [President Charles M. Vest] when he joined the faculty of that depart- he came to MIT and assumed the ment, Willmore said. "He has position seven years ago to help him served as chancellor, then president, gain knowledge of this place." and now chair of the MIT "A chairman needs to be some- Corporation. MIT has benefitted one knowledgeable about higher enormously from his talents and education, and it is arr additional w~sdom oyer the years." benefit to specifically understand this place," Gray said. "I am not retiring from th jJ The chairman needs to have the Institute; I will be continuing as the ability to command the confidence professor of electrical engineering and respect of the trustees, and computer science," Gray said. Willmore said. He or she needs to "I have done this, job for seven have experience in complex orga- years, spent 26 years as an officer of nizations, including experience the Institute, and I think that is long with boards of. director and enough," Gray said. "I want to have trustees. "Additionally, substantial expe- a few years to do other things, rience with academic institutions including teaching, which I have GABOR CSANYI-THE TECH would be a plus, but not essential, been doing, but I will not have the Paul E. Gray '54 so long as the prospect had a good pressure of being chairman." , r------~------.-....;.--..;.------1J/ qJje !Jie/if'!ftIie!Ttttttre: 'Iftl11SfJOrtlltion . Graduate Education Opportunities 'i~ Transporta~io,n Open House for. Undergrad'uates Graduate Programs in New England: Friday, November 15, 1996 (Master's and PhD Programs) , MIT Bush Room. (10-105) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9:00am Breakfast Goodies Harvard University 9:30am-12:00pm Presentations University of Massachusetts ) University of Connecticut 12:45pm Seminar by Anne Canby University of New Hampshire University of Rhode Island 2:00pm Demonstration of MITSIM' For information call 6171253-0753' Come see ~ MJrIsI!M tfemojeaturetf on ~ ft!mt pOf/e of ~ tJJoston gfo5e ~~~~~~~ L- ----:..... ~ _ __=_ _ _=~=::::.;::===:::.===__===_=::::;;;:=__=~===~~ ...... J_) THE TECH Page 19 30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize o The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program is currently accepting applications for it. 30,000 Student Prize to be awarded on February 11, 1997 to a MIT u.s. News graduating senior or.graduate student who displays a remarkable talent for invention and innovation. u.s. News, from Page 1 the Institute, Lee aid. Lee al 0 uggested that The Boston Globe Please call 253-3352 or send email to [email protected] - Journal, and The Chicago Tribune, may eventually interview MIT on for more information and for an application form. show that some college manipulate the prote t again t the college rank- Application Deadline: December 11, 1996. data to their advantage." The bill ing. I 0 said that the U.S. News & It is not clear that administrators World Report rankings are widely will comply with the propo aI, Lee read and influential even though the said. However, the VA must at leal t ran kings are "highly arbitrary and share it views on the ranking with subjective." the administrators, Lee said. Because "these rankings have Lee does not expect any immedi- influenced academic, institutional, ate impact on the rankings but feel and financial decisions of university that it is important for the VA to admini trations to the possible detri- publicize its objections. ment of student welfare," the bill proposes that the VA. officially "The excellence of our faculty denounce the U.S. News & World and students, our strong reputation, Pi Pi Report rankings. and our outstanding re ource base UM 0 R HAS 11, I F '10 U R ROO MMA 1 E 0 IE S NOH SAP A I R 0 During the open discussion, two lead MIT to rank extremely well," said President Charles M. Vest. "I - H I K"ERS, '10 U GEl A -4 .0 AN 0 A S~~EEl PA I R 0 F S HOE S • ajor points against the rankings ," ere raised - that the methods .believe that we are indeed in the used to determine the rankings are very top handful of universities, arbitrary and that the methods are but to split hairs and order this group in detail doe'sn't mean based on inaccurate data. much." "Statistic show that schools actually manil1ulate data," Sandoval "The metrics used and the sur- said. "There is nothing that we actu- vey of experts are all reasonable ally have the power to 'do ... We ones, but their use to declare want to urge administrators to with- detai.Jed, ordered ran kings of institu- hold information." tions is pretty meaningless," Vest said. "The fluctuations in the Bill also aims-to publicize issue ordered rankings from one year to The VA would demand that u.s. the next demonstrafes this." News reform both its rankings and Although V est noted that . s methods of ranking to eliminate "admissions appear to be positively the use of false data. impacted" by MIT's high ranking, If the resolution is passed, the he specifically said that he does not VA would send press releases to use the ranking to set goals for various administrative offices at MIT's improvement. Just because s~mething i~014 doesn't mean it i n't valuable. Outside and Backpacker Magazines Editor's choice, just $8 per toe: I can relate to that. Maybe that's \yhy I'm never in a 'YOU MUST HAVE AT LEAST 10 (TEN) TOES TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF !HIS GREAT DEAL,. SORRY NO FREAKS OR CLUMSY LUMBERJACKS_ rush with these old guys. Sanding out a dent here and there, restQring the gears ...soon I'll have all the time in the world Ski~t 860 Commonwealth Ave Boston, 731-6100 for them, just like they have for me. That's the beauty of -/ . :~.~.••• ,If'! r::Ieradyne is the right, place for people ~ U like Regan Mills. 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MIT GOP, Democrats spin results While you're Education was only one' of the issues that Democrats and Republicans debated this year. Now that the elections are over, MlT collecting College Democrats and Republicans are busy putting their spins on th:\ results. / Republicans maintained control seashells, of the House of Representatives, despite some losses, and increased their majority in the Senate. The presence of the GOP in Congress is a possible stumbling Your after-tax annuity block the president will have to overcome. "I think there js going to • be a lot of gridlock," Hassan said. But Clinton does have several initia- could be tives he will con'tinue to push, she said. In Massachusetts, Democ~at :I) fared better and swept all the collectfng Congressional races. Democratic Sen. John Kerry w~>n re-election to the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat, returns. defeating Republican Gov. William Weld. "I'm still in shock over John Kerry," Hassan said.,"I knew he'd And that's just what you 'want: an annuity that works harder than you do. pull out, but I didn't think he'd pull out ahead so quickly." TIAA's Teachers Pers6nal Annuity-' is specifically You also benefit from. Low initial investment require- The Weld-Kerry race was a sta- tistical dead heat going into election deSigned to provide tax-deferred growth potential to ments • The convenience of making regularly-sched- day, Hassan said. The victor was not people who are already contributing the maximum uled deposits to your account via Elect~onic Funds expected to be known until late into to before-tax retirement plans, or who currently have Transfers • No current" surrender charges • No-fee the night on Election Day. However, Kerry was already pro- after-tax money in taxable savings or investments. With transfers between Teachers Personal Annuity accounts* jected winner early in the evening. TlAA's long-term, after-tax savings annuity, you can • The flexibility of having no minimum withdrawal Although they were surprised t take advantage of the security of the Fixed Account, requirements at age 701/2 • The retirement expertise of that Weld lost in Massachusetts, the College Republicans are heartened the growth potential of the variable Stock Index Account, the largeSt pension system in the United States (based on by Republican senatorial victories in or a combination of the two accounts. assets under management). Arlcansas, Nebraska, New . . Hampshire, and Colorado, said 1EA.cHERs If you're looking fonyard to collecting seashells, now is the time to request a Michael Stanley '99, treasurer of the ~L . free information packet. Call 1 800 842-1924, Dept. 85K. Also, look for TlAA C011ege Republicans. 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