MlT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Sunny, humid, 80°F (29°C) Tonight: Cloudy,700F (24°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Partly sunny, 83°F (28°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 115, Number 29 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Wednesday, July 26, 1995 Budget Can't be Cut, Sleek Solar Car Cruises Vest Tells Press Club To Victory in9-Day Race By Eva Moy standard of excellence 10 years STAFF REPORTER from now?'Ifthe nation is to be pre- By DanIel C. Stevenson The race generally traced along 55 mph back Proposed federal budget cuts eminent a decade hence, if we re EDll'OIIN CHIt#" roads, said driver Ooro ramai G. The MIT car gen- could affect not only university edu- not only to compete but lead, then At speeds sometimes exceeding 60 mph, the MIT eraHy traveled at the speed limit, but did receive cation and research, but' industry we must sustain these unique Amer- Solar Electric Vehicle Team's car raced to victory some time penalties for driving too fast )0' the rare and the competitiveness of the Unit- ican institutions." last montb in Sunrayce '95, a 1,I50-mile solar car 65 mph zones, the car reached speed of 62-63 mph, ed States, President Charles M. Vest "Congressional hearings and race from Indiana to Colorado. The MIT car, named Tarnai said. The MIT ear's average speed was 37.23 warned in a July 18 address to the media exposes ... have tarnished the Manta for its flat, sleek shape, beat out 37 collegiate mph. National Press Club. image of universities," Vest said. competitors from around North America in the 9~day The team is composed of about 2~ student&, with "In the curre~t debate, many And while "most of the real issues race. a.core group of about 6 or 7, Chi,en said. Other mem- seem unwilling or unable to retain, have long since been addressed... a Mania finisHed with a time pf 33:37: 11, Nst bers include Matthew . Condell '95, George J. let alone enhance, our national residue of misunderstanding and under 19 minutes ahead of the second place finisher, Delagrammatikas )95, Eric L. Gravengaard '96" excellence in science and advanced cynicism remains." a University of Minnesota car. The result was the education," Vest said to an audience Academia is not the only group Closest in the race's ltistory'. that included Presidential Science that would like that sentiment Adviser John Gibbons and fonner reversed, Vest said. The public is in Secretary of Energy Admiral James fact on universities' side: Citing Watkins. "Instead of pursuing our recent poll data, Vest said that near- endless opportunities, we are in dan- ly 70 percent of the American pub- ger of drifting toward mediocrity," lic thinks it is very important for the Vest said. government to support research, 90 "We live in an age in which percent want the country to main- knowledge holds the key to our tain its position as a leader in med- security, welfare and standard' of ical research, and 73 percent are living, an age in which technologi- willing to pay higher taxes to sup- cal leadership will detennine who port more medical research. wins the next round of global com- petition. .. and the jobs and profits Bills could hurt MIT that come from it ... an age in which Vest's speech comes as Con- events move so rapidly that almost gress discusses deep cuts in research 80 percent of the computer indus- funding. If passed, cuts set forth in try's revenue from products that did 13 or so spending bills now under not even exist tWo years ago," Vest debate "would unravel bedrock edu- said. cation, health, and environmental "The cornerstone of our era-t~e programs," President Clinton said in information era-is education," yesterday's Boston Globe. Most of Vest continued. "Today, America's the bills are still at the committee system of higher education and stage in both houses, and must be research is the best in the world. Period. But will it be the world's Vest, Page 11 Laboratory Accident Injures Grad Student By Saul Blumenthal teams responded to the scene. Fol- ASSOCIATE NIGHT EDITOR lowing standard procedure, the fire A graduate student was cut in the alann was sounded and the building face last Tuesday when a flask over- was ordered cleared. About 200 heated and shattered in a chemistry people were evacuated, according to laboratory, prompting an evacuation The Boston Globe. "We have a of Building 18. responsibility to act on what we Shuang Qiao G was distilling 1- hear, to activate our full response Trimethylsilylethyne in a chemical system," said Chief of Campus hood at around 11:00 a.m. when the Police Anne P. Glavin. People were small flask she was using overheat- allowed to return to the building at ed and shattered in front of her. 11:47 a.m. Other students in the fourth-floor Qiao, who was wearing protec- laboratory responded by dialing the tive glasses at the time of the acci- Campus Police emergency line. dent, was taken to the Medical They reported the incident as an Department, treated for a cut on her explosion. cheek, and released. No-one else The Cambridge Fire and Police Departments and M IT emergency Accident, Page 11 Thomas D. Cabot George ~ Panteleyev G INSIDE Thomas Dudley Cabot, the longest serving member of the MIT George P. Panteleyev G, a graduate student in the MIT -Woods Corporation, died June 8 at his home in Weston. A member emeritus of Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography and the Corporation who was first appointed as a tenn member in 1946, Oceanographic Engineering, was lost overboard June 8 during a • Hanks, crew aim for Cabot regularly attended meetings of the trustees until shortly before research trip on the Ob River in Siberia. He is presumed dead. new heights inApollo his death and marched in last year's Commencement procession. Details of the accident were sketchy and unclear, according to a Cabot was director emeritus of the petrochemical manufacturer WHOI announcement. According to information from Russia, the acci- 13. Page 6 Cabot Corp., and still went to ~is office fairly regularly. dent occurred in the early morning hours, a few days after the start of Cabot received his bachelor's degree in engineering from Harvard the cruise. The ship searched for Panteleyev for about five hours. A • P~ delivers in 1919. He took several courses at MIT when it was locat~ on Boyl- preliminary investigation was conducted by local officials in the charm, morals. Page 6 ston Street. His father, Oodfrey Lowell Cabot, attended MIT for one remote region. year in 1877-78 and graduated from Harvard with a degree in chem- Panteleyev was serving as chief scientist on the cruise, which was istry in 1881. He also served many years on the MIT Corporation start- collecting data to asse s radioactive contamination in the Ob River sys- • New zords grace face ing in 1930. Cabot's son, Louis W. Cabot, is also a life member of the tem, which empties into the Arctic Ocean. ofPmJ)cr Rangers Corporation and also a Harvard graduate. A similar cruise was conducted by Panteleyev and Stephen Smith of Thomas Cabot was born in Cambridge into one ~f Boston's oldest WHOI's Marine Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, with movie. Page 7 families on May I, 1897, the son of Godfrey and Maria Moors Cabot. Russian collaborators, in the summer of 1994. On graduation from college, he entered his father's business in West Born in Moscow in 1966. Panteleyev entered the MIT-WHOI Joint • First Night lacks the Graduate Program in June 1991. He and his wife Natalia Y. Befiakova cabot, Page 11 G, also a WHOI student, lived in Westgate. magic. Page 7 Page 2 THE TECH July26,199'- WORLD & NATION Bosnian Serbs March Into Deserted Enclave of Zepa Bomb Explodes in Paris LOS ANGELES TIMES SARAJEVO. BOS IA-HERZEGOVI A The Bosnian Serb army pushed ahead Tuesday in its takeover of a Station; Kills 4, Injures 60 second United ations-designated "safe area," marching into the town of Zepa but finding its streets and homes almost deserted, U. By William Drozdlak Within minutes of the blast, Inte- Remy-Ies-Chevreuse. He said the' officials said. THE WASHINGTON POST rior Minister Jean-Louis Debre timing of the explosion - at 5:30 . Muslim women, their children and government soldiers, fearing PARIS ordered heightened security in the p.m., the peak of rush hour - sug- Bosnian Serb atrocities, fled in advance of their enemies' troops' A powerful explosion ripped city, at its two major airports and at gested the attackers sought to cause arrival and sought refuge in the surrounding caves and forests. The through a crowded commuter train other possible terrorist targets the maximum number of casualties. Bosnian Serbs' capture of Zepa follows by exactly two weeks the fall at a busy underground station near throughout the country, including In his first two months as presi- of Srebrenica, another U.N.-protected enclave where conquering otre Dame Cathedral Tuesday, border crossings and transportation dent, Chirac has made several con- Serbs expelled more than 30,000 Muslims in the single largest inci- killing at least four people and injur- facilities. ' troversial foreign policy decisions dent of "ethnic cleansing" in the 39-month Bosnian war. ing about 60 others what Prime There was no immediate claim that have provoked criticism abroad. Written off by the United Nations and the West, Zepa had resisted Minister Alain Juppe described as a of responsibility for the bombing, He has ordered French U.N.