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Other (Issue Is MIT’s The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Scattered showers, 50°F (10°C) Tonight: Showers, 37°F (3°C) Newspaper Wednesday: Showers end, 55°F (12°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 125, Number 19 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Caltech Pranks CPW; MIT Hackers Reply Qualcomm By Hanhan Wang CEO to Sixteen California Institute of Technology students pulled several hacks on the MIT campus during Campus Preview Weekend, instigat- Speak to ing a friendly inter-institute rivalry. Among other things, the hackers handed out T-shirts promoting Cal- Graduates tech to prospective freshmen and covered “Massachusetts” on the 77 By Jenny Zhang Massachusetts Avenue stonework NEWS EDITOR with a banner that read “that other,” Irwin M. Jacobs ScD ’59 will be so that it read “That Other Institute the speaker at this year’s Com- of Technology.” MIT hackers mencement, according to an MIT responded to some of the mischief News Office with hacks of their own. For exam- press release. ple, they altered the banner to say Jacobs is the “The Only,” making the stonework co-founder, read “The Only Institute of Tech- chairman, and nology.” CEO of QUAL- “We have these two completely COMM Inc., different traditions that are so simi- which “is now lar. We tried to bring them togeth- the largest satel- er,” said one of the Caltech students lite-based com- involved, who wished to remain mercial mobile MIT NEWS OFFICE anonymous. GRANT JORDAN—THE TECH system for the transportation industry,” Caltech president and former A banner hangs over 77 Massachusetts Avenue on Saturday, proclaiming MIT to be “the only” Institute according to the company’s Web site, MIT Institute Professor David Balti- of Technology. The banner was put up by hackers from the California Institute of Technology and origi- which also says QUALCOMM was a nally read “that other” before MIT students removed, altered, and rehung the banner with its new mes- pioneer with the use of Code Division Pranks, Page 14 sage. Multiple Access (CDMA) technology for wireless and data products. Many MIT students use the Qual- Eastgate Heating System Update Annoys Residents comm product Eudora, an e-mail client that can be downloaded from By Marissa Vogt several meetings between residents independent engineering firm was the ECA was forbidden by MIT to the MIT Information Services NEWS EDITOR and administrators, and residents brought in to assess the current heat- inform all of the residents of the &Technology software page. Construction will begin this circulated a petition requesting that ing system. plan. Jacobs was a member of the MIT weekend for installation of a new their concerns be addressed. Nilsson said that the Housing “Somewhere along the line, electrical engineering faculty from heating system for the Eastgate The construction was originally Office then brought a construction there was a miscommunication 1959–1966, according to the press Apartments, a graduate residence planned to begin last weekend and proposal to the Department of Facil- about who was telling who what,” release. for married students. end mid-August, said Alicia Hunt, ities and began informing residents Hunt said. “We assumed they were Jacobs and his wife Joan have The installation of the new sys- assistant director for graduate hous- of the heating system replacement updating the residents all along.” actively supported science and math- tem will require the residents, ing. It was delayed a week to allow plans four to six months ago. The ematics education through large con- including families with small chil- for the incorporation of resident announcements came via e-mails Heating units moved to closets tributions to the University of Cali- dren, to each evacuate their apart- feedback. sent to the entire house, Nilsson Singleton said that residents fornia at San Diego and San Diego ments for nearly 10 hours per day said. expressed concern about the size, State University, in addition to other for four days. Heating system failing since 2004 However, Eastgate resident Gre- appearance, and proposed place- institutions, according to the press Several residents voiced techni- The renovations have been nec- gory R. Singleton G said that with ment of the heating units. Several release. cal and logistical concerns after essary since last winter, said Direc- the exception of the Eastgate Com- students whose research involves Jacobs will step down and hand plans for the installation were tor of Housing Karen A. Nilsson. munity Association officers, resi- heating systems also questioned the over the CEO position to his son, revealed approximately six weeks After severe flooding ruined several dents were not notified of the plans Paul, on July 1, but remain involved ago. The plans were altered after apartments in January of 2004, an until mid-March. Singleton said that Eastgate, Page 10 with Qualcomm as its chairman. Fewer Management Minor Applicants Than Expected By Kathy Lin in bidding for management classes EDITOR IN CHIEF this semester. Despite predictions of 200 to 300 applicants, only 81 students Numbers do not meet expectation applied for the 100 available slots Sloan had not been sure how in the new minor in management many students would apply for the program, said Professor Thomas minor and had worried that many A. Kochan, chair of the Faculty more students might be interested Committee on the Management than the program can support Minor. financially, Meldman said. Because the program has capac- Enrollment estimates were ity for 100 students, it will contin- based loosely on three surveys over ue to accept applications on a first- the past twelve years, and the come, first-serve basis until either 200–300 number was a “worst-case there are 100 students enrolled in scenario,” Meldman said. The most the minor, or until April 20, recent survey was taken five years whichever comes first, said Profes- ago. sor Jeffrey A. Meldman, the direc- The program “will find its tor of undergraduate programs at appropriate steady state,” but what the Sloan School of Management. that steady state will be is uncer- The April 20 deadline is a result tain, Kochan said. He anticipates STEPHANIE LEE—THE TECH of deadlines for the Sloan lottery; if having a better idea in a year or Paul B. Hill, Information Services & Technology senior project manager, holds the Big Screw, open slots remain after April 20, two as the minor is implemented awarded to him by Brian J. Pepper ’08 for winning the Big Screw contest. See page 12 for story. students can still enroll in the minor, but would not have priority Sloan Minor, Page 8 NEWS Comics THIS WEEK IN THE TECH MIT, Quanta Computer Team Up On March 1, the “Athena World & Nation . 2 To Define the Future of Computing Insecurity Squad” collected and Opinion . 4 Page 12 published 620 Athena passwords. Campus Life . 5 ASA Elects New Officers On Friday, we’ll say who it was. Sports . .16 Page 12 Page 6 Page 2 THE TECH April 12, 2005 WORLD & NATION Military Raid in Baghdad At Hearing, Bolton Pledges Captures 65, Officials Say By Robert F. Worth THE NEW YORK TIMES BAGHDAD, IRAQ ‘Close Partnership’ With U.N. Hundreds of Iraqi troops and commandos backed by U.S. soldiers swept through central and southern Baghdad early Monday morning, By Steven R. Weisman choice for the job. Department official who clashed capturing at least 65 suspected insurgents in one of the largest raids in THE NEW YORK TIMES Chafee will not make a final with Bolton in 2002 on Cuba, is to the capital since the fall of Saddam Hussein, military officials said. WASHINGTON decision until he hears testimony on testify Tuesday. Several hours later, at midday, an American contractor who was John R. Bolton, rebutting attacks Tuesday about disputes with other Bolton sought to turn his criti- working on a reconstruction project was kidnapped in the Baghdad from Democrats on his fitness to officials over how Bolton dealt with cism of the United Nations to his area, U.S. Embassy officials here said. serve as ambassador to the United intelligence matters, a spokesman advantage, saying his views made The raid, which began at 3 a.m. and lasted more than six hours, Nations, pledged Monday to bring for the senator said Monday him the right person to help restore disrupted three insurgent networks, U.S. military officials said. They about a “close partnership” with the evening. credibility to the organization and said those captured included men suspected of assassinations, world organization and denied ever Bolton, an outspoken conserva- make it more effective. beheadings, kidnappings and attacks on Iraqi and U.S. forces. trying to get anyone dismissed for tive who has served since 2001 as “If confirmed, I look forward to One group was planning attacks on the new National Assembly, disagreeing with him on intelli- undersecretary of state for arms working closely with this commit- said Maj. Gen. Mudher Moula Aboud, an Iraqi army commander. gence matters. control and international security, tee to forge a stronger relationship In the raid, more than 500 Iraqi soldiers and police officers cor- In his confirmation hearing, calmly defended criticizing the between the United States and the doned off areas in some of Baghdad’s most dangerous and crime-rid- Bolton appeared to have reassured United Nations and tangling with United Nations, which depends crit- den areas, searching from house to house in more than 90 locations the one doubting Republican with intelligence officials over how to ically on American leadership,” with U.S. troops playing a supporting role, U.S. military officials his answers and bolstered his describe Cuba’s suspected biologi- Bolton said. “Such leadership, in said. One of the men captured was reported to have been injured.
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