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MlT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Rainy, windy, 54°F (12°C) Tonight: Clearing, 47°F (8°C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Coo], crisp, 64°F (18°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 120, Number 45 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, September 26, 2000 Cambridge Freshmen Criticizes Choose teo Officers Council is Concemed Class of 2004 Elects Over Dorm Traffic Kim as President By Shankar Mukherji STAFF REPORTER By Jennifer Krishnan The Cambridge City Council STAFF REPORTER met last night with MIT and Har- The Class of 2004 elected vard officials to discuss plans for Patrick Y. Kim '04 as their new future development. president in last week's class coun- City councillors were concerned cil elections. with MIT's expansion into the neigh- Joining Kim as newly elected borhood of Cambridgeport and into officers are Vice President Matthew the eastern part of Cambridge. The G. Richards '04, Secretary Kather- Council was particularly worried ine L. Garrison '04, and Treasurer about the impact of new housing pro- Reuben L. Cummings '04. Vanessa jects designed to bring all freshmen Pena '04 and Stephen V. Samouhos PEDRO L ARRECHEA-THE TECH and 50 percent ofthe graduate stu- '04 will serve as Social Chairs, and Chancellor Lawrence S. Bacow '72 points out MIT's propertieS on a campus map at a Cambridge C.ity dent population into campus housing. Nancy L. Keuss '04, Maxwell E. Council tneeting last night. Bacow and Sarah E. Gallop, co-director of govemment and community rela- Planck '04, and Kristin D. Smith tions, answered questions about MIT's plans for development In Cambridge as part of a roundtable dis- Council requests master plans '04 will serve as Publicity Chairs. cussion. Th~ council 'requested so-called 33 percent of the class voted in "master plans" from Harvard and Cambridgeport residents believe by "candidly [raising] prices for which will house 350 undergradu- the election, which was open for MIT, which would detail plans for . that the new graduate residences on parking on campus ... and increas- ates, ten graduate resident tutors and voting for more than three days. The each university's future expansion. Albany Street and the comer of Sid- ing subsidies for public transit." five faculty members, concerns candidates for Secretary and Public- Stanford University, which has pro- ney and Pacific streets will disrupt Furthermore, he said that filling many neighborhood residents. ity Chairs ran unopposed. vided a detailed ten-year expansion . the traffic patterns of surrounding the new housing "will not be a prob- "We'd like you to build new hous- Seven out of nine of the new plan, was frequently used as an communities. Residents also wor- lem as currently we have a huge ing," said Councillor Michael A. officers participated in pre-orienta- example: ried that students will not live in the excess demand [for campus hous- Sullivan, " [but] just not here." tion programs. Garrison, Pena, "In your ideal we'd like to know new dormitories if cheaper housing ing]." Keuss, Planck, and Smith all partici- where you're headed," said Coun- is available off campus. '. Several members-of the. Council Council considers lost taxes pated in the F an Leadership cillor Henrietta Davis. To date, nei- Chancellor Lawrence S. Bacow • raised' questIons abo rut the loc~tion Another issue of concern to the Program, d Richards attended the ther Harvard'nor Ml .hasp{esented ''12 said that MIT intends to re~uce . of the' new \lIldergraduate -donmtory such a plan. traffic within the new developments on Vassar Street. The building, City Council, Page 32 Elections, Page 25 Kerry;Speaks at Development Forum By Naveen Sunkavally opment Forum, a day-long series of Institute has a very long-standing Irwin W. Sizer . and Brian Loux . events open to anyone with an inter- commitment to the environment," STAFF REPORTERS . est in the environment, set out to he said, citing MIT's recycling and Irwin W. Sizer, a former dean of the graduate In a keynote address to' a forum further the development of the sur- purchasing programs. school and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, on sustainable development held at rounding region in compliance with In addition, Bacow said, "Ten died at his home in Bedford, Ma. on September MIT, Massachusetts Senator -John the J>rinciples of sustainable -devel- percent of MIT's research is devot- 11. He was 90 years old. Kerry made a strong plea to bring opment. ed to the environment." Born in Bridgewater, Ma., Sizer received his environmental issues to the fore- MIT Chancellor Lawrence S. undergraduate degree at Brown University in front of politics and to reform the Bacow '72, the first speaker at the Kerry blasts current politics 1931. After receiving his doctorate at Rutgers American education system. forum, highlighted MIT's environ- Kerry began his speech with an University in 1957, Sizer returned to Massachu- The Regio~al Sustain3ble Devel- ' mental accomplishments: "The attack on the current political and setts for a sixty year career at MIT. media climate. "Money in American . While at MIT, he held several important acad- politics is destroying our ability to MIT NEWS OFFICE emic positions. He became the chairman of the make smart decisions," he said. Professor Irwin department of biology in 1957 and dean of the Pointing to the current coverage of Sizer graduate school in 1967. A strong proponent of the presidential elections, Kerry said diversity, Sizer worked during his tenure as a dean to improve the the media is more interested in titil- number of women and minorities at the institute. lating its audience rather than cover- Sizer also worked extensively to create collaborative academic pro- ing substantive issues. grams with other other Massachusetts universities. In 1974, he co- In addition to political and media- founded the Whitaker College at MIT with MIT alumnus Uncas related problems, Kerry also said the Whitaker '23 and Harvard Medical School professor George Thorn. good economy has seduced people This program offers joint doctorate programs with the Harvard, Tufts, into taking the environment for grant- and Boston University Medical Schools. ed. Kerry acknowledged that Ameri- Sizer also had a strong commitment to MIT's own research and ca has made significant .gains since academic programs. Under his leadership, work in molecular biology the 1970s on the environment, but he at MIT gained worldwide recognition. In 1996, he and his late wife reminded his audience that the proper endowed the Helen and Irwin Sizer Career Development Professorship yardstick to measure environmental at MIT. progress is not how much has been Sizer received several academic distinctions during his long acade- accomplished since the 1970s but mic career. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and how much more still needs to be Sciences, and received an honorary doctorate of science from Brown accomplished. University. "The environment was a voting He also had strong research connections outside of the MIT com- issue in the 1970s. It's not a voting munity. He served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health BOB SUMNER-THE TECH issue anymore," he said. for several years, w~ both a trustee and governor of Rutgers Universi- The .MIT Campus Crusade for Cthulhu held "ritual and feed" a ty, was a trustee of the Boston Museum of Science. He also served as a Friday night In thfit senior Haus courtyard. The nee-pagan Kerry comes out against vouchers consultant to the Ford Foundation and Johnson & Johnson and was a group provides an altematlve for students who are not Inter- In order to raise awareness of board member of Boston Federal Savings Bank. ested In mainstream religious groups. Forum, Page 35 MBTAbuilds Comics The Tech presents its new Sci- Silver Line, ence section, a review of this World & Nation 2 expands bus past month's biggest break- Opinion 4 service. throughs. Science 6 Arts 7 Feature- 15 Page 28 Page 18 Page 6 Page 2 eptember 26, 2000 D& est Tells osevic to Step THE WASHINGTO POST SPRINGFIELD, OHIO own After Opposition Wm As part of his daily attack on the Al Gore, Republican vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney hit Gore where the GOP ticket has By Keith B. Richburg President Slobodan Milosevic seemed based mainly on Western been feeling some heat lately: the oil industry. THE WASHlNGTON POST declare himself the winner." leaders' concerted desire to be rid of Cheney summoned reporters Monday to accuse Gore of a "con- PARIS From Brighton, England, British the man they contend helped plunge flict of interest" for supporting an extension of a moratorium on roy- Western powers proclaimed an Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said: the Balkans into three wars, prompt- alties U.S. oil companies would have to pay to drill for natural gas in opposition victory Monday in "All the reliable evidence we have ing the first intervention by North the Gulf of Mexico when the Gore family trust has holdings in Occi- Yugoslavia's Sunday elections and suggests the people voted Milosevic Atlantic Treaty Organization in a dental Petroleum Corp. pressed President Slobodan Milose- out by a massive majority." He foreign conflict. He called on the vice president to either recuse himself from vic to accept his defeat by opposi- added, "Today, Milosevic is a beat- The aim of the chorus of state- administration energy policy or divest the family trust of the hold- tion candidateVojislav Kostunica. en, broken-backed president." ments seems to be to create a cli- ings, valued at about $500,000. Cheney said it was "inappropriate for Although ballot counting is still State Department spokesman mate in which it becomes more dif- Gore to advocate a position that is clearly linked to Occidental Petro- .

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