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Volume 121, Number 52 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, October 19 2001 MIT Alumnus 1bRun Chomsky Discusses Terrorism rorism" to a packed 26-100, as well outside the U. ., raising que tions as 3 full over-flow rooms. about what the origins of the crime For City Council Spot ~F7n7:~:::::SSOToam A, Chomsky's talk last night were and what policy option the focused on the September 11 disas- Unite tates has. Maior Issues Include H.ousing, MBTA.Service - Chomsky delivered a critical analy- '1J - sis of America's "War Against Ter- ter and its implications within and He expressed his astoni hment at By Christine R. Fry during his undergraduate years that the reaction of people in U. . and STAFF REPOR7ER he became aware of the city council. Europe over the situation in MIT alumnus Steven Jens '98 However, Jens said that it was Afghani tan. "Seven to eight mil- will be among the candidates run- probably not his classroom educa- lion people are on the urge of star- ning for a seat on the Cambridge tion that prepared him for a political vation in Afghanistan now," he said, City Council career. "I learned about the city "but there ha been no reaction to next month, [politics] while I was at MIT," but the stopping of food delivery true Jens, who not in the classroom, Jens said. through Pakistan since the bomb- earned a degree ing have tarted. in mathematics, City issues have campus impact "Thi is a ilent genocide" he decided to As the price of housing in Cam- continued, but what is more dis- declare his can- bridge has risen drastically over the turbing is that even in a society of didacy for city past few years, affordable housing elite, which we are part of, this i councillor when has become a major concern for considered normal." Steven Jens '98 he noticed a both city residents and students. He called the eptember 11 dis- shortage of candidates who held Some blame MIT and Harvard for aster "a historic event," not because views similar to his on issues. such buying ~aluable land to expand their of its scale but becau e of the nature as property rights, schools, and campuses and real estate portfolios. of the event itself. "This i the first parking regulation. Steve Iskovitz, the council can- time since 1814 where a national Seven of the nine current city didate endorsed by the MIT Greens, territory of United tates is being councillors are running for reelec- said that areas around university attacked," he said. "The guns have tion. There are also 12 others run- campuses should be zoned such that always been directed the other ning for a- seat on the council, - the universities can't buy up the way." Referring to military attacks by including Jens. land to expand their campuses. AMY WONG As a student -at MIT, Jens was Instead, the land could be used for Institute Professor Noam A. Chomsky speaks about the implications the United tates on icaragua, he active in the Undergraduate Associ- of the "War Against Terrorism" during his lecture yesterday evening ation and in local politics. It was City Council, Page lO in room 26-100. - Chomsky, Page 13 MIT Debaters Take First,at Harvard By Jennifer DeBoer semifinal rounds, respectively. In sists of Debate Club President Explaining the Biology both cases, "MIT Flippant" Philippe C. Larochelle '03 and Raj Patrick 1. Nichols '03 and Adam (Unikowsky and Nichols) won by a Krishnan '02", "broke" to quarterfi- G. Unikowsky '03 edged out 141 unanimous decision of the judges, nal rounds. Nichols said that this is Behind Bioterrorism other teams at the Harvard Debate 3-0 in the quarterfinal round and 5-0 the first time in recent memory that ByBrtanLoux Tournament to eam the first place m semifinal round. MIT has broken at the Harvard ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR trophy, MIT's best finish ever. Before the final rounds, there are Tournament. Recent threats and rumors of bioterrorism on American institu- "I was still in shock that we got five rounds of debating to narrow tions have set many members of the public and the media on edge. that far," Unikowsky said. To reach down the field. In these rounds, MIT Flippant fares well as government Still, even with all the focus, most are left with burning questions the tournament's finals, held on Flippant won four out of five, In each of the final three rounds, about the "mysterious white powder" people October 6, the team had to over- falling only to a Yale novice team. MIT played the role of the govern- have found on envelopes, and what scien- come Princeton University's A and With such a performance, MIT Flip- Science tists are doing about it. B teams in the quarterfinal and pant, as well as MIT A, which con- Debate, Page 11 After the events of the past week, it may appear that even our own college campus is Feature susceptible to such an attack. But scientists are saying that even the worst case scenarios may not be all that men- acing. Still, the readiness of the nation to respond to such an attack remains in question,
'What is anthrax? The powders of anthrax, known in the scientific community as Bacillus Anthracis, behaves very much like any other bacterial conta- gen. "Anthrax is a disease of intoxication, where the organism is inhaled, ingested, or is inserted under the skin" said Michael Starnbach, an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School. "It enter the body as dormant spores, and then germinates into bacteria and begins replicating once inside the body." The bacterium secretes three distinct proteins which cooperate to kill the host oiganism and aid in replication. The first protein is clas- sified as "Protective Antigen, , or PA. Though not harmful in itself, P A binds to cellular membranes to serve as the delivery molecule for the other two deadly proteins known as "Lethal Factor" (LF) and "Edema Factor" (EF). Once able to enter the cell via PA, LF will dis- rupt cellular activity and result in cell death. In the meanwhile, EF is left to disrupt the the cell's ion flow, resulting in an accumulation of fluid in between cells, known as edema. "The activity of these toxins
JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH is the majority of the disease itself," said Stambach. The MIT Environmental Health and Safety Team carries a bag of hazardous materials up the stairs Like many other bacterial diseases there is a vaccine for anthrax of Building 8 on Wfdnesday. A description of the contents of the bag was not released, and no explanation was given for the evacuation of the third floor of Building 8. Bioterrorlsm, Page 11
THE ARTS Comics OPINION World & ation 2 Serendipity is mindless, feel- Matt Craighead and Dan Tor- Opinion 4 good mush. torice offer opposing opinions on Arts 6 the best way deal with the reces- Events Calendar 9 sion. Sports 16 Page 6 Page 7 Page 5 WORLD & NATION Pentagon TellsTroops u.s. Special Forces Begin War o Expec Exte ded ta W On Terrorism inAfghanistan Troop deployed in the war against terrori m hould expect to be away from home longer than military per onnel have at any time By Thomas E. Ricks in southern Afghanistan i de igned aircraft ' cannot really do ufficient si e World War II, senior Pentagon official are cautioning ervice- and Vernon loeb to e pand an ongoing ClA ffort in damage; They can't crawl around men and women tationed around the world. THE WASHINGTO POST th region to encourage ethnic Pa h- on the ground and find people. ' In a radio address broadcast ednesday night on military net- tun leaders to break away from the Joining Rumsfeld at the rostrum works, Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chief: of taff, U. . pecial force have begun Taliban militia, a enior defen e ir Force Gen. Richard Myer , aid the Pentagon i likely to di card the per onnel rotation chedule the ground phase of America' war official aid. hairman of the Joint Chiefs of used in peacetime that limit the time troop are eparated from their against terrorism in fghani tan But another official aid addi- taff, added: 'Weare prepared to families. operating in small numbers in tional special force ar likely to be u e the full pectrnm of our military While a tran cript of the radio addre wa not made a ailable, a southern Afghani tan in upport of deployed oon and could take on capabilities. That' not just bomber: defense official said yers told troop , e're going to do every- the lA' exi ting effort in the Tal- other mi sion uch as reconai - or carrier-ba ed aircraft; that' other thing we can to manage thi thing, but we're in a brand-ne ituation, iban heartland, defense official said 'sance target designation for aircraft a sets a well." so buckle your chin trap . ' Thur day. and on rare occasion , direct yers concluded with a direct The rotation schedule wa adopted in the early 1970s - when the Their pre ence on the battlefield attacks on Taliban or terrorist lead- appeal to all U. . military forces military was having trouble retaining it recruit - a a way of mak- comes amid growing indications ers. and the American people. "I firmly ing life in the armed forces more palatable. It limit the time that that the war' inten ity i about to Di clo ure of the new pecial believe that this is the most impor- rmy, avy, ir Force and arine per onnel cu tomaril are increa e dramatically after 11 days forces mi ion came on a day when tant task that the U.S. military has deployed to about ix months. Longer deployment require pecial of U. . and British airs trikes that a number of prominent official been handed since the Second orders from a four- tar general. Pentagon official ay have pum- commented on the inevitability of World War" aid Myers, a fighter r meled the defense of Afghanistan' ground groups. pilot who flew 600 combat hours ruling Taliban militia. peaking in London British over Vietnam. "And what's at stake our Emb Bombers The number of U. . per onnel Prime Minister Tony Blair said "the here is no less than our freedom to on the ground i just a handful now next few weeks will be the most exist as an American people. ... So Get Life rthout Parole and i unlikely to ever resemble the testing time but we are on track to to every soldier, sailor, airmen, EWSDAY large number of conventional forces achieve the goals we set out." He Marine, and Coast Guardsmen, and EWYORK as embled in the Persian Gulf War a added: "I don't think we have ever DOD civilian, and our allies and Under a blanket of unprecedented ecurity and ju t blocks away decade ago defense officials said. contemplated this being done by air friends, I say, 'Let's stay ready, let's from the moldering wreckage of the orld Trade Center four mem- But their presence marks a turning power alone." stay focused.''' ber of Osama bin Laden's terror army were ent to pri on for the re t point in only the econd week of the Defense Secretary Donald As Myers and Rumsfeld hinted of their lives after being convicted of conspiring with him in a world- conflict, heightening the risk to U.S. Rumsfeld, briefing reporters at the at the impending ground war, EC- wide plot to attack Americans. forces and underscoring the serious- Pentagon, declined to comment on 130 "Commando Solo" psychologi- The conspiracy culminated in the bombings of the U. .Embassies ness of the Bush administration's the presence of special forces in cal operations aircraft filled the air- in airobi, Kenya and Dar es alaam Tanzania on Sept. 7 199 . commitment to prosecuting its war Afghanistan "until we have an waves of Afghanistan with Tho e attack ripped through the buildings, killing 224 people against terrorism. activity that is significant and instructions to civilians to follow including 12 Americans. Thousands of others were also injured. The new special, forces mission noticeable." Rumsfeld noted that when U.S. troops arrive. All four received the ame life terms without parole and ordered to pay a total of 33 million in re titution to the individual victims as well as the United tate. Thi is time not for eloquence but for justice," U. ,District Taliban Opposition Plans Action Court Judge Leonard and aid after hearing from five of the victims pre ent in court. "Even were I tempted to engage in rhetoric I certain- ramparts, Zaman instructed his verge on Kabul, the Afghan capital, ly could not match the eloquence and the poignancy of the witnesses Rebel Commanders commanders to go to Afghanistan from the north and west, the Taliban we ve ju t heard. and persuade Talibanfighters to still has space for strategic retreat to Gather To Overthrow give up their posts or face the wrath the south unless a Pashtun resis- of a renewed and re-armed opposi- tance force can be raised to meet it. Airlines Begin to Show Taliban Government tion backed by U.S. firepower. The local commanders at the By Rone Tempest "We will ask the Taliban to sur- meeting Thursday were from two Evidence of Financial Strain LOS ANGELES TIMES render political power;If they don't, eastern Afghan provinces, Nan- PESHA WAR, PAKlST A LOS A GELES TIMES we will go after them," Zaman said. garhar and Konar, but more such outhwest Airlines, Alaska Air Group Inc. and United Parcel Ser- In a heavily guarded, walled His commanders made a wish meetings of commanders from other vice Inc., providing the first major evidence of the financial effect of compound here, Haji Mohammed list of what they wanted for the job: provinces are expected in coming the ept. 11 terrorist attacks on the air-transportation system, Thurs- Zaman presided Thursday over a rocket launchers, surface-to-surface days as opposition leaders rush to day posted sharp declines in their third-quarter profits compared with war council of 100 black-bearded missiles, long-range cannons, crates assemble a post- Taliban ruling a year earlier. Pashtun commanders who may hold of assault rifles and lots of cash. council under the banner of exiled But the financial damage will look much worse when the other the key to the future of Afghanistan. The extraordinary meeting 87-year-old Afghan monarch major airlines announce their third-quarter results in the coming day . Expelled from his Pakistani base Thursday morning in this dusty Mohammad Zaber Shah. Tho e result are expected to show enormous losses for uch major in 1997 because of his activities frontier city represented an early Key to the success of the effort carrier as AMR Corp.'s American Airlines and UAL Corp.'s United against Afghanistan's Taliban milestone in the U.S.-backed is the recruitment of anti- Taliban Airline. regime, Zaman has spent the past attempt to construct a viable alterna- and moderate Taliban Pashtuns, the The U .. airline industry overall is expected to lose 7 billion to four years as a political refugee in tive to theTaliban in the important largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. $10 billion for 2001, owing to an unprecedented two-day shutdown France. On Thursday, Zaman was Pashtun-dominated borderland, The task is complicated by a four- of civilian air travel after the attacks and a subsequent plunge in pas- back in Peshawar at the invitation of where the fundamentalist regime year Pakistani policy supporting the senger traffic and reduced freight shipments. But even before Sept. the same Pakistani government that still enjoys its strongest support. Taliban that was reversed under 11 mo t carrier were facing a dismal third quarter. kicked him out. As the Northern Alliance and U.S. pressure after the Sept. 11 As armed sentries patrolled the Iranian-backed fighting units con- attacks on America. WEATHER Situation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Friday, October 19, 2001 Seasonable Fall Weather ,~ ,,
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THE WASHINGTON POST Pull Out of Power Sharing Pacts CAIRO, EGYPT By Michael Dobbs et up in the wake of the 199 Good giving up their weapons. A in the Health authorities in Kenya said a letter mailed from Atlanta to a and Adi Bloom Friday peace accord marks a et- past, however rumors of progre s in man in the capital airobi tested positive for anthrax, the first such THE WASHINGTO POST back to British efforts to return the ba k tage negotiation ha e ca e confirmed beyond .. border since the ept. 11 terrorist LO DO orthem Ireland to self-rule. It fol- alternated with reports of deadlock. attacks on ew York and Washington. orthern Ireland Protestant lowed Trimble' own resignation as Trimble held private talks with The letter, containing white powder and everal small bits of politician announced Thursday orthern Ireland's first minister in inn Fein leader Gerry Adams earli- cloth wa po tmarked ept. 8 and delivered Oct. 9 to the man, who they were pulling out of a power- July because of an earlier deadlock er Thursday, but both sides were opened it two day later. A culture test by the state-run Kenya Med- sharing arrangement with Catholics on decommissioning. tight-lipped about" their discus ions. ical Research Institute on Wednesday came back positive for anthrax to protest the failure of the Irish Trimble said that all three Ulster Sinn Fein earlier said that it was spores, health minister am Ongeri told a news conference Thursday. Republican Army para-military Unionist ministers were withdraw- working with both the British and "He saw the letter, he saw the powder and he looked at it and he movement to surrender its weapons. ing from the orthern Ireland exec- Irish governments and the Ulster reported it,' Ongeri said of the recipient, who he declined to identify Political analysts interpreted the utive, or government, along with Unionists to end the stalemate in the by name or occupation. The man and four members of his family are announcement as a tactical move two ministers representing the allied peace process. undergoing tests for exposure to the pathogen. designed to put pressure on the IRA Democratic Unionist Party. Under the Good Friday agree- Authorities did not identify the man or his family and offered no to start disarming. But it could lead Under constitutional arrange- ment, all parliamentary groups in explanation as to why anthrax might have been ent to them or by to the suspen ion of orthern Ire- ments accepted by all sides, the orthern Ireland are required to whom. There was no evidence other than time and similarity to link land's three-year-old experiment in British government now has seven hand in all their weapons as part of the mailing to anthrax cases in the United State. self-government and the reimposi- days to decide whether to order the power-sharing agreement Kenya is a close ally of the United tates. In 1998, a bomb tion of direct rule from London. fresh elections in the province or to between republicans and loyalists. exploded at the U.S. Embassy in airobi, killing 213 people. The "It is well past time for Republi- suspend the orthern Irel and A spokesman for the Ulster Union- Kenyan government cooperated closely in extraditing suspects asso- cans to act," said David Trimble, Assembly for an indefmite period. ist Party, Philip Robinson, said that ciated with Osama bin Laden to the United tates for trial. leader of the pro-British Ulster Intensive negotiations are likely "not one bullet not one gun not one Unionist Party, referring to protract- over the next week in an attempt to ounce of Semtex," the plastic explo- ed negotiations with'Ik.A leaders on find a compromise. sive, has been handed over by the Arctic Drilling Dispute Escalated "decommissioning" of weapons. "It Leaders of Sinn Fein, the IRA's IRA as a result of the agreement. is up to them and no one else." political wing, which favors union Under the rules for power-sharing By Discrepancy in Testimony Thursday's decision- by the with the Irish Republic, have hinted in the assembly, the orthern Ireland THE WASHINGTON POST WA HI GTO Ulster Unionists to pull their minis- during the past few days that they government cannot formally meet ters out of the coalition government are moving toward an agreement on without unionist ministers present. When a Senate committee asked Interior ecretary Gale orton questions about caribou in the Arctic ational Wildlife Refuge she ought an wers from the agency in her department that runs the Palestinian Leaders Reject Israeli refuge, But when orton formally replied to the committee, she left out the agency's scientific data that suggested caribou could be affected by oil drilling, while including its data that supported her case for Demands to .Extradite Assassins exploration in the refuge, documents show. orton also added data By Lee Hockstader "We reject the Israeli ultima- official, "is to apply moderate force that was just wrong, stating that caribou calving has been concentrat- THE WASHINGTON POST tum," said Palestinian Information on the Palestinians and send the ed outside the proposed drilling area in 1"1 of the last 18 years, when RAMALLAH,wtSTBANK Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo. "This Americans to pressure them, hoping in fact the opposite is true. Yasser Arafat' s Palestinian ultimatum is Israeli blackmail, not they'll get the message and it'll not The Arctic refuge was already the first issue to pierce the biparti- Authority Thursday rejected an ulti- an attempt to seek a solution to the be necessary to do anything really san consensus that prevailed on Capitol Hill since last month's terror- matum by Israel to hand over the present crisis." serious. So it's a game of chicken in ist attacks, with drilling proponents pushing for a vote on national assassins of an Israeli cabinet minis- Meanwhile, in Jordan, veteran away." security grounds and opponents arguing for delay. orton's behind- ter. Threatening a major attack, PFLP militant Leila Khaled said the Thursday evening, a well-known the-scenes rebuff to the Fish and Wildlife Service - which is the Israeli tanks roared into the outskirts group would try to assassinate more Palestinian armed militant and two Interior Department's front-line environmental agency, but is not yet of three Palestinian cities, killing Israeli politicians, with Sharon at compatriots were killed by an staffed by any Bush administration political appointees - is likely to three Palestinians. the top of the list. The Palestinians explosion in a jeep carrying them in heighten tensions over the nation's most disputed patch of tundra. On the heels of the assassination said they had ''uncovered'' an Israeli Bethlehem. The militant, Atef of Tourism Minister Rehavam plot to assassinate Arafat; the Abayat, was on Israel's most-want- Zeevi, the Israeli newspaper Maariv Israelis dismissed the allegation as ed list, and Palestinians said he had UCLA Surgeons Successfully quoted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon nonsense. been assassinated by Israeli agents as telling his cabinet: "Arafat has As the day progressed, the tempo in a booby-trapped car. Implant Artificial Heart seven days to impose absolute quiet of violence intensified. At dawn Abayat's death touched off LOS ANGELES TIMES LOSA GELES in the (palestinian) territories. If not Sharon ordered Israeli tanks and extremely heavy gun battles Thurs- we'll go to war against him." armored vehicles into Palestinian- day night between Palestinian gun- University of California, Los Angeles surgeons successfully Another Israeli daily, Yedioth controlled parts of Ramallah and men who opened fire from the town implanted a self-contained artificial heart in a patient Wednesday, Ahronoth, quoted Sharon as saying, Jenin in the West Bank, triggering of Beit Jala and Israeli troops in the marking only the fourth time it has been done and the first time in the "As far as I'm concerned, the era of firefights that left three Palestinians Jewish neighborhood of Gilo on West. Arafat is over." dead, including a 12-year-old Jerusalem's southern fringe - the Dr. Hillel Laks, who headed the surgical team, said Thur day that Arafat ordered the arrest of at schoolgirl. first fighting there in almost two the 11th-hour procedure "went exceptionally well and the artificial least three political leaders of the In Ramallah, just north of months. Palestinians also fired a heart is functioning beautifully." Popular Front for the Liberation of Jerusalem, the tanks rolled to within mortar shell toward Gilo. The patient, a man in his 70s, was said to be resting comfortably. Palestine (PFLP), the militant group a half mile of Arafat's main head- Sharon, who put Israeli troops in The medical center did not release any other details about the patient. that took responsibility for assassi- quarters there, and Israeli forces Beit Jala for two days in late Abiomed Inc., which manufactures the heart, has been criticized nating Zeevi, an extreme nationalist. declared a round-the-clock curfew August, had vowed tore-occupy the for withholding information about earlier patients who underwent the But Palestinian officials said there for Palestinians in areas of the West town if Palestinians resumed firing implant operation until well after their surgeries were completed. But was no question of extraditing the Bank under their control. In the from there. the company has responded by saying that its actions were meant to leaders or anyone else to Israel, afternoon, Israeli tanks entered a Also Thursday, one Jewish set- protect the privacy of the patients' families and to avoid distracting
including the suspected killers if third Palestinian city in the West tler was killed and three others the physicians from their work. 0 they are caught, and Israel said the Bank, Nablus. injured in two separate ambushes Surgeons at Jewi h Hospital in Louisville, Ky., implanted the arrest orders were insufficient. Sharon's strategy, said an Israeli near Jericho and Qalqilya. device - the AbioCor artificial heart - for the first time July 2 in Robert Tools, 59, who was near death from heart disease. They repeated the procedure Sept. 14 on Tom Christerson, 70, who was Postal Worker, Dan Rather's Assistam also near death. A team from St. Luke's Epi copal Hospital in Houston performed the third procedure Sept. 28 on a man who has so far been described Become Most 'Recent Anthrax Victims only as "desperately ill." All three patients are doing well on the arti- ficial heart, according to Edward E. Berger, a vice pre ident of Abio- By John Lancaster said they are investigating several Thursday afternoon, results were in med Inc., of Danvers, Mass. and Hel~n Dewar other possible cases of anthrax for 878 tests, all of them negative,
THE WASHINGTON POST 0 linked to ew York and Florida. officials said. The Centers for Dis- A New Jersey postal worker and In Washington, where the House ease Control and Prevention advi ed Swift Officially Announces an assistant to CBS News anchor and three Senate office buildings that no further medical screening is Dan Rather have contracted the skin have been closed since Wednesday required for those who were outside Candidacy for Governor in 2002 form of anthrax, bringing to six the afternoon, officials announced with the so-called expo UTe zone near LOS ANGELES TiMES 80 TO number of people known to have evident relief that the number of Daschle s office. been infected by the bacterium in a people who show evidence of expo- "I'm very upbeat, very opti- Surprising no one, Acting Gov. ane M. Swift declared Thursday series of bioterrorist attacks, federal sure to anthrax, which does not mistic," Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., the that she will be a candidate for the state's top office in 2002. health authorities aid Thursday. mean they will fall ill, has not Senate's only physician, told Swift, 36 has occupied the coveted corner office of the gold- The news came as congressional increased from the 31 congressional reporters at an afternoon briefing domed statehouse since April, when fellow Republican Paul Cellucci leaders and the Bush administration and law enforcement personnel who with federal health officials. "People left the governorship to become U.S. ambassador to Canada. after several days of confusion and had previously been identified. are working together in a harmo- After several missteps as lieutenant governor, Swift, in late-term mixed messages launched a broad They said, however, that anyone nious, almost symphonic way." pregnancy took office with low approval ratings and widespread campaign to contain public anxiety who spent time Monday on the fifth But containing the anthrax scare skepticism about her ability to do the job. In the ensuing months, she about the mysterious anthrax-conta- or sixth floor of the Hart Building's proved easier said than done amid a has delivered twin girls - making her the first governor in U.S. his- minated letters sent to media outlets southea t quadrant, near Daschle's spate of new reports, mo t of them tory to give birth while in office - and has gained public confidence in ew York and apparentJy Florida fifth-floor office, should take the false alarms and hoaxes, but aJl of and popularity. as well as the Capitol office of Sen- antibiotic Cipro for the next two them taken seriou ly in the new cli- Swift has assumed a high profile since the Sept. 11 terrorist ate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, months as a precaution. mate of vigilance. attacks. The two planes that hit ew Yor ' World Trade Center D-S.D. Since the anthrax was discovered The story took an international originated at Boston' Logan International Airport, vaulting Swift Thursday night a second New Monday, about 3,000 people, some tum Thursday when health authori- and her tate into a worldwide spotlight. Jersey postal worker also was of whom were nowhere near the ties in Kenya di cIo ed that a letter Swift announced her candidacy Thursday after a send-off ceremo- reported to show symptoms of skin Hart building that .day, have lined mailed from tlanta to a private ny for 100 ational Guard troops headed to Fort Dix, .J. anthrax which would bring the total up for nasal swabs that can deter- home in airobi te ted positive for " he said all along she would be letting folks know her intentions number of known infections to mine the presence of anthrax pore anthrax the first confirmed foreign ometime in late winter,' aide arab agazine said. seven. Federal health officials also though not actual infection. A of case ince the ept. 11 attacks. Page 4 THE TECH October 19 200 1 OPINION
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Gave Peace a Chance harder when the one person who wants to hurt before we can relax and Jive our lives without I have seen many peace rallies planned and all the others is armed. being threatened. Otherwise the terrorists can occurring in the area recently. People are And yes, perhaps he has his reasons. continue to hurt us, without fear of retribution. anager: Rachel John on '02; angry over U.S. bombing in Afghanistan. Maybe he feels threatened by how the others anager: Ja mine Richard '02; However, I am worried by these people's are staring at him, feels as if they are waiting Dawn PerIner '01 '03, idea that we can just stand aside and make to laugh at him when he picks his nose. Per- peaceful gestures, and everything will be bet- haps he is feeling lonely and dejected because ter. The problem is, this won't work. the other 99 people are ignoring him. It does- Good 'Tools' Imagine 100 people in a room, 99 of n't matter, the point is, if the other 99 people Though I often disagree with what you whom are peaceful. The remaining one, if he. want peace, they're going to have to eliminate write, I greatly appreciated "A Generation Of wishes to cause violence, will succeed in hurt- the one violent person in the room somehow. Tools" [Oct. 16] - premises, arguments, con- ing the other 99 people unless they fight back. I want peace as much as the peace raIliers clusion - the whole article. Bravo! But fighting back means sacrificing their do. But I understand that we must sometimes peaceful demeanor for a little while. It's even fight and eliminate those who wish to hurt us, Aram Harrow G
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take money from one per on and gi e it to art Craighead another. There may be a small effect if the To Recessions per on ta ed is richer than the person receiv- The battle between the Keynesian and the ing the tran fer payment, but the multiplier is those expectations do not pan out? Firms are supply-sider ha returned with a vengeance. essentially wiped out. In the second ca e, Dan Tortorice stuck with too much investment, they have T.he economic ituation is not in di pute: an printing money merely causes inflation, and too many computer and machines and already slumping economy took a big hit on is equivalent to a wealth tax, so the analysis We are about to experience the United these firms no longer want to invest. In other eptember 11. Billions of dollars of wealth is the same. Finally, borrowing not only. tate in a recession. Mo t readers of thi words, there is a shortfall in busine invest- vanished in just a few hours. umerous com- involves a cash transfer and falls through by article have never really experienced an ment demand. This is the second cau e of a panie have announced layoffs with total job the same analy is, but creates an additional American recession, since during the last recession. And the coming recession will be losses in the hundreds of thousands. Previ- government debt to be paid by taxation, Print- one in 1991, most of us were too young to caused by a combination of this and the pre- ously flat economic growth will undoubtedly ing money to payoff a debt is a certain recipe notice. vious reason. slip into recession. for hyperinflation. Since this is the first recession we will The nice thing about knowing the cause Many have asked what kind of economic Now, even if this policy did boost con- really live through, it may be a bit scary. But of omething is that one can then fmd a cure. policy the government should undertake to help sumption, it would not create wealth. Goods not to worry, recessions are temporary mat- And there are three specific cures that will out. To these people, I would first point out that must be produced before they can be con- ters and soon we will be looking back on help lift the United States out of recession. this question rests on a false premise: the idea sumed. What is produced but not consumed is this one. This is why I can confidently say we will be that the government should engage in econom- called savings; when consumption exceeds There are two ways of thinking about looking back on the recession soon enough. ic policy at all. But surely, we can at least production, savings are depleted. The problem how the economy generates output. The first The first cure is for the government to examine the proposals and see what is reason- is that wealth is being measured in terms of is the black-box way. The economy has print money. Make more dollars and put able and what is nonsensical. (In all fairness, money ,not in terms of goods. Imagine that resources, machines, people, land etc., and them into the economy. This may seem neither side speaks WIth one voice, but there everyone suddenly had twice as much money. you put those resources in a box and out strange, after all. If you just doubled the .are some definite trends and common 'ideas.) Businesses would double their prices, and pops a bunch of goods and services. This amount of money in the economy overnight, The Keynesians suggest that our econo- nothing would have changed. Money alone is view of the economy doesn't allow for shouldn't things just become twice as expen- my's basic problem is lack of demand; there- not a measure ,of wealth; money is only valu- recessions. If you put the same amount of sive and shouldn't everything go back to fore, they urge increased government spend- able because it can buy things. Giving people things into the box you should get the same normal? The answer is yes, eventually. ing on infrastructure, be it roads or schools or more money 10 consume will not increase pur- amount' out. In order to understand reces- Remember that it takes a bit of time for reconstruction of damaged areas, another tax chasing power; it will merely increase prices. sions, one must look at the economy in a prices to adjust; this means that the govern- rebate (this time targeted largely to the poor), The mindlessness of deficit spending is second way, and real- ment can create higher unemployment benefits (for the poor), best illustrated by a classic example: the gov- ize that sometimes income in the short and cuts in payroll taxes, which affect mostly ernment that pays people to dig ditches and consumers won't term by printing the poor and middle-class. The essential fill them back up. This gets money moving want everything that Says Law implied that money. When people things the government needs to do, according around in the economy, but obviously, it cre- comes out of the box. have more money, to Keynesian economists, are borrow money ates no wealth; in fact, it wastes productive When this happens, recessions did not happen} they pend more. and spend it. Whatever we do, they demand, energy. A real-world example is Japan's businesses produce When people spend we must not reduce taxes on the rich, who experience in the 1990s. Japan didn't exactly less, and they put less but it died with the Great more, busine ses want already got a tax cut earlier this year; the rich dig ditches and fill them back up, but it did go stuff into the box. to make more come won't spend that money anyhow. on an orgy of deficit spending for public When there are fewer Depression and the works out of the black box. The supply-siders see a different problem: works projects, and has nothing to show for it people put in the box, of John Maynard Keynes. So resources are put a recession caused by slumping business but a recession and a massive national debt. we have more unem- back into the box, gen- investment. Therefore, they suggest, we must Once we recognize that consumption can- ployment. And when erating more income, boost the incentives to save and invest. They not create wealth, the rest falls into place eas- they put less stuff in which sustains the want to allow businesses to expense their ily. If a government wishes to promote the the box, less comes out, and we have less increased demand, getting the economy back investments more quickly, accelerate the pre- creation of wealth, it. must promote produc- output. That's a recession. on its way. viously enacted tax rate cuts, repeal the corpo- tion; not consumption. Production can only Originally, economists didn't believe To cure the lack of business investment rate alternative minimum tax (which hits espe- be increased in three ways: more labor, more that this could happen. They argued that in the government can reduce interest rates. cially hard during recessions), and reduce capital, and better technology. making the stuff that went into the box, This happens as a consequence of printing capital gains taxes. These actions will increase Labor is largely fixed in any industrialized enough income had to be generated to buy money. When the government increases the the amount of capital available for investment economy with low population growth, but what came out of the box. This idea, called amount of money in the economy, people's and the rates of return on investments. capital and technology can grow without Say's Law, implied that recessions did not behavior needs to be modified in order for The Keynesians' ideas about spending rely, limit. Capital is investment; investment is happen. Say's Law died with the Great these people to want to spend that money on a concept known as the "multiplier," If you savings; and savings is past production that Depression when John Maynard Keynes, the and not save it. For that to happen, it must ~give someone $100, they'll spend some frac- was not consumed. To increase the capital founder of macroeconomics, pointed O"Gtthat become less valuable. to save; that is to say, tion of it; say they spend $80 and save $20. stock, we must therefore encourage invest- there is no reason that consumers will want the interest rate on your savings must fall. Then the person who receives the $80 will in ment. Technology is also linked to capital and what comes out of the box. The only way to When that happens, banks charge less for turn spend $64, and so on. The total spending investment. It is only through investment in get them to want to buy it is if prices loans, businesses can invest more cheaply, that results from this $100 gift is, in fact, research that technology will ever improve. decrease to the point that consumer demand and they begin to invest more. In investing, $400. In this case, the multiplier is four; its So, insofar as the creation of wealth goes, rises again. But he noted, and many empiri- these businesses begin to employ some of actual value depends on the economic variable the supply-siders are invariably in the right. cal studies have confirmed, that for whatev- these unused resource and the economy known as the marginal propensity to consume: Wealth is production, and production requires er reason, prices are slow to adjust. Until gets going again. the fraction of the gift spent each time. investment. The supply-siders don't have a prices adjust, some of what could come out The last thing the government can do is By this theory, to boost consumption, and short-term fix for the current situation, true. of the box, won't, because people just don't to force people to spend. ot by use of thus the economy, the government should But theirs is the only solution that can work, want to consume it. This is the first cause of force, per se, but by taxing them, taking spend more and give money to the poor and because they recognize in the words of one of a recession, a shortfall in consumption. their money, and then spending on public middle class. Keynesians point to a fact not in the great presidents of the 20th century, an There's a second cause, which is similar, works projects, transfers to the disadvan- dispute, that the marginal propensity to con- ardent supply-sider, that "If weIook to the but worth considering separately because it taged, and the like. This will get resources sume drops with income, and conclude that answer as to why for so many years we deals with businesses. Businesses invest a going again, and get our economy back on government spending is beneficial. achieved so much, prospered as no other peo- lot, and that contributes to output. But these track. So if you are worried about the com- This analysis fails on several levels. It ple on Earth, it was because here in this land decisions are made on expectations. A con- ing recession, don't be: Our government has completely ignores where the money came we unleashed the energy and individual sulting firm invests in computers, hoping the tools to fix it, and seem to be using from. Governments obtain money in three- genius of man to a greater extent than has that they will improve its business and make them. It'll be tough, but soon our economy ways: taxing, printing, and borrowing. Taxes ever been done before." money in the future. What happens when will be growing again, Classic or Recycled? ly recycled animations, with Sealab: 2021's lionaire? The show Emeril is perhaps the Saturday morning fare has been surround- Philip Burrowes entire premise revolving around dubbing a most egregious example of non-news televi- ed by crass commercialism for the past two show from 1972. Even commercials are inces- sion feeding upon itself. Chef Lagasse stars decades, so it would be nothing exceptional Blind Date recently added a "Hall of tuous, filled with ads for parent company on The Joey Bishop Show (now there's a to reveal any insidious relationships therein. Shame" segment to their new episodes which AOL Time Warner. switch), except that he retains his Food et- Once ABC starts turning the family hour into showcases "classic" scenes from old dates. , Maybe you don't think highly of animation work shows while on his sitcom. With all due a giant ad, it is a major change for the worse. With its daily, yet emitic, schedule - WCVB in general, and are not surprised that it would respect to Emeril, the day when the highest- Aside from the foreign imports of Million- not only switches the show's time, but will share quality standards with a show hosted by rated network is drawing from the ranks of aire and Whose Line is it Anyway?, ABC's often push it back to accommodate ABC pro- a Talk Soup reject. cooking shows is a sad prime time schedule seems the most original grams. As most people won't get to see all Well, you close-mind- day indeed. of all the networks. Does Michael Eisner shows, this seems' like a good idea. However, ed twit, take a look at Although ABC is a want to avoid seeming too megalomaniacal even casual viewers will realize that the show prime-time networks. Last weekends airino 0+The distant third among by keeping Mickey Mouse and Co. out of the has only been on since 1999, so these nominal UPN's schedule reads ~ J The Big Three - a far picture? Frankly, how long can the network classics are actually chosen from a relatively like USA's will a Emperor's New Groove was cry from their WWII keep holding back its own franchises while small selection. Not only is it an obviously decade down the road. status ahead of Rupert Murdoch gains from his own brand of cheap attempt (from an admittedly cheap Tuesdays' USA shows buttressed by discussions of Snow Churchill and Stalin - animation? Would that really be a bad thing? show) to fill time with old content, but it's (Buffy, Roswell) are Ulhite and the Seven Dwarfs} it integrates parent Perhaps rehashing old hits (or misses) is giv- actually not distinct from the "new." both WB castoffs, the company resources in ing people just what they've proved they Such poorly executed content-incest would lowest of the low. ostensibly on its historical imoaa the very manner most wanted. If for every dozen Afier-M*A *S*Hes be ignorable if it were relegated to late night Enterprise on Wednes- T disturbing to critics of there's a Frasier, isn't the viewing public syndication, but it has become frightfully days reveals the net- but in reality highlighting the conglomerates. The better off than if it had no Kel ey Grammer prevalent. Cartoon etwork, while never work's Paramount I ,,{ h Wonderful World of whatsoever? expected to fill its schedule with new produc- roots. Only Mondays re ease C!J t e movie on DVD. Disney not only brings As the the fiftieth anniversary of I Love tions, has gone out of its way to repackage old seem at all original, specific films out of Lucy passes them by they should be careful programs in a novel way. Adult Swim, its and even its leadoff Anaheim to the nation, to remember the spiraling decline in quality of weekly three-hour block of "mature" car- (Hughleys) was cut from ABC. but also acts as a promotional tool for other Ms. Ball's subsequent projects. Leaving cre- toons, contains one hour of original Turner Let's not kick a network when it's down, projects. Last weekend s airing of The Emper- ativity and originality aside, even if it is a Broadcasting material sandwiched between though. NBC has been winning the Nielsen or's New Groove was buttressed by discus- matter solely of entertaining the masse , it is two hours of shows originally aired elsewhere race for the eason to date but its strategy is sions of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, obvious that the same ideas cannot entertain (Cowboy Bebop, Home Movies). Those origi- on par with UP's. Sunday feature Law and ostensibly' on its historical impact but in reality indefinitely. Any production resting on the nal programs are often a mixed bag of repeats Order: Criminal Intent, part of a franchise. It highlighting the release of the movie on DVD. shoulders of its predecessor will rely increas- and the occasional new show (The Brak Show is preceded by The WeakestLink which is not Similar synergy was exercised for the release ingly on its name over its content. Should that Space Ghost: Coast to Coast). Whatever time only imported from Britain but is essentially of Lady and the Tramp 11 where ABC actually name itself be of questionable value, the end is left consists of three shows containing high- an attempt to counter Who Wants to be A Mil- showed the original film. product will be all the more unpleasant. o tober 19,2001 THE ARTS FILM REVIEW Serendipity Great Title Bad ovie
By Amy Meadows could ju t live like that night they m 1. Both talent but from talent' mi use. STAFF WRiTER character lie to their fiancee and manipulate I gues ed the ending from about the fir t ({ ou can prevent colon cancer. Directed by Peter Chelsom. their be t friend in order to ha e a bot at five minute of the movie; it i certainly not a Written by Mark Klein finding the oth r. In Hie real world they challenging conclusion to draw. Although the even beat it." . tarring John Cusack, Kate Beckinsdale, would have to grow up and face reality at ending v a entirely predictable the rest of the • HI It DH eLI • Jeremy Piven, and Molly 'hannon. ome point. In tead the haracters are dri en movie could have been inno ative or at least Rated PG-13. to are elfi h and shortsighted ends to ay the witty but it fall in the rut of the wen-traveled MAKE THE TI~lE T() GET least. Life i imply much too short for the route. Serendipity is mindless, feel-good A TEST THAT C()CLD erendipity means a fortunate coin i": cenario here. mush' even the names of the lead characters, den e uch as when Jon (John The movie continually emphasized the Jon and Sara, are bland. SAVE Y(JUR LIFE usack) and ara ate Beckin dale) theme of fate and chance, and I, for one, do It is a rare distinction indeed to say that meet 0 er glove at Bloomingdale' . not enjoy a movie clobbering me over the head this romantic comedy is almost entirely joy- 01 n cancer i the and 1 ading S However the ne t hour of the movie named with the point. It wa tes my time and it wastes less. The few moments of genuine comedy are cancer kill r and ev ryone ed 50 after the encounter is anything but a lucky the time of tho e who in ested their talent in provided by Jeremy Piven (PCa. Ellen). An nd ld r i at risk. or th n chance; in fact, I found it a rather unfortunate the movie. Cusack showed that he was capable obituary writer for the New York Times, he 50,0 ° Am rican ill die rom coinciden e that I happened to be watching of a romantic lead in Grosse Pointe Blank, but gives a hilarious toast to Jon and his fiancee, c Ion cancer nd 1 1 6 0 ne Serendipity. in this he is tremendously under-utilized. and provides enthusiastic support for all of In the first 20 minutes, Jon and ara meet, We barely learn more about his character Jon's half-cocked ideas, even flying all night case ill be i gnosed thi e r. fall in love, and - due to a twi t of fate - than we knew from the outset: he has a girl- to San Francisco. Molly Shannon, as Sara's Talk to your doctor about getting tested. are eparated. Those 20 minutes could have friend and he likes Sara. Cusack certainly has best friend, is a cynical, realistic owner of a been an entire movie in itself and maybe a come a long way from his bit part in Sixteen new-age store. She provides a needed balance SPO ORED BY THE TI L better movie than the entirety of this one. The Candles, but I am not sure whether this was to the movie, questioning and criticizing her COLORECTAL CA CER re t of Serendipity consists of a flurry of near positive or negative progress. Although Beck- best friend's actions. ROD DTABLE encounters with one another and failed insdale has not had much of an opportunity to Serendipity fails to put forth a compelling attempts to reconcile themselves with the past thoroughly showcase her abilities, but argument for its existence, and it shows. The .... ~~" ATIO A l FOR MORE 1 FOR- and the present. throughout the movie, she gives some small plot buckles under the weight of forced coin- MATIO "' CALL THE lorectal Even though Sara is a psychologist, the glimmers of hope that she could do more. cidences and contrived acting. The theme of .ancer AMERJCA CA CER two protagonists are very maladjusted people. Instead of being whimsical, frivolous, or dra- coincidence, the twists of fate stitching the ""'-~ROU DTABLE SOC1ETY On the verge of committing to marriage, they matic, as her character suggests, she is an leads together and rending them apart, the T 1-800-ACS-2345 both search high and low for the other, won- accessory, like the knock-off Prada wallet she search for a soul mate have elsewhere been Thi pace donated by The Tech. dering what their life would be like if they carries. Serendipity does not fail from lack of funnier, better, and more compelling.
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Friday, October 19 Room: Bartos Theater. Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center. 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Patrol. Shoot your friends! Travel to strange, new classrooms; 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - FamIly Weekend 2001. Please join us for Family Weekend and witness, firsthand, the envi- meet interesting, unusual people; ronment in which your student is living and learning and get a taste of what MIT is like when the campus is in full and kill them. A team game of shoot-em-up; guns provided .. free. Room: Building 36, First Roor. Sponsor: Assas- swing .. Room: MIT. Sponsor: Parents Association. sins' Guild, MIT. 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Orientation to'Computing at MIT. This seminar provides basic, non-technical information 8:00 p.m. - MIT Symphony Orchestra. Dante Anzolini, music director. Britten's Simple Symphony; Gandini's E about the MIT computing environment. . free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. Sara; Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin. $3 at the door. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - FORt Seminar. free. Sponsor: AeroAstro. section. 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Test Stress Workshop. Preparing for and taking exams can be overwhelming. Learn how to tum test stress into test confidence with these preparation techniques .. free. Room: W2D-491. Sponsor: Learning Sunday,October21 Strategies. 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Advances in the Control of Complex Chemical Systems. Department of Chemical Engi- 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - family Weekend 2001. Please join us for Family Weekend and witness, firsthand, the envi- neering, University of Illinois, Urbana. free. Room: 66-110. Sponsor: Chemical Engineering. ronment in which your student is living and learning and get a taste of what MIT is like when the campus is in full 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Mechanical EngIneering Seminar. "Multi-SCalar Imaging in Turbulent Aames". free. Room: swing .. Room: MIT. Sponsor: Parents Association. 3-133. Sponsor: ME Seminar series. 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - MIT Swapfest. Buy/Sell/Swap All Things High Tech. $5. Room: Albany St. Garage. Spon- 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Catalan paths and Quasi-Symmetrlc Functions. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM sor: MIT Radio Society. in Room 2-349. free. Room: Room 2-338. Sponsor: Combinatorics seminar. Department of Mathematics. 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Yes Yoko Onor First' major US retrospective of works by Yoko Ono, one of the early partici- 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.rn. - Ge~ Electric R&D In India. A presentation by Dr. Jean Heuschen, Vice President and pants in the international Ruvus movement. This exhibition surveys her career from the 1960s to the present with Director of General Electric's R&D center in Bangalore, India .. free. Sponsor: MIT India Program. films, videos, artist's books, installations and instructional pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hen- 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - GE Talk. The largest such establishment in India, the JFWTC fosters projects ranging from dricks for the Japan Society Gallery .. free. Room: List Visual Arts Center (E15). Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center. polymer chemistry to mechanical engineering design to information technology. This is the biggest research com- 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Ballroom Dancing Workshops. Beginner ballroom dance steps will be taught. There will mitment by any American firm in India .. free. Room: E51-151 (Tang Bldg.). Sponsor: MIT Japan Program. also be a new focus on developing techniques as well. Open to everyone. No experiences necessary. No partners 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m . .,...Yes Yoko Ono Opening Reception. First major US retrospective of works by Yoko Ono, one required .. Visit our website for pricings, Room: Visit our website for venues. Sponsor: Ballroom Dance Club. of the early participants in the international Ruvus movement. This exhibition surveys her career from the 1960s to 3:00 p.m. - Unda TIllery and the Cultural Heritage Choir. San Francisco composer, singer, musicologist and Gram- the present with films, videos, artist's books, installations and instructional pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroe my-nominee Linda Tillery and the all-women a cappella ensemble, Cultural Heritage Choir, perform African-American and Jon Hendricks for the Japan Society Gallery .. free. Room: List Visual Arts Center (E15). Sponsor: Ust Visual roots music - ranging from slave songs to contemporary African American vocal music and jazz - for the whole Arts Center. family. Music includes field hollers, moans, shouts, playsongs and folk spirituals, performed with sticks, stones 6:00 p.m. - 7:30p.m. - How to Have a Daily Quiet TIme. lou Soiles will talk about how to have a daily quite time. The and tapping feet for accompaniment.. $15, $5 MIT students. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: President's talk will be followed by dinner .. free. Room: West Lounge, Student Center. Sponsor: Graduate Christian Fellowship. Office; Associate Provost for the Arts; Women's Studies Program; Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Tech- 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Falun Gong Exercise workshop. The Falun Gong exercise is an easy and effective way to nology and Medicine; Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity Program Office. relieve stress and improve physical and mental health. Millions of people in over 40 countries practice these 5 sets of gentle movements .. free. Room: 1-242. Sponsor: Falun Dafa Club .. Monday, October 22 7:00 p.m. - MIT Anlme Club Weekly Screening. Trigun; Dual! (eps 7-8); feature TBA. Most screenings are subtitled in English. Japanese animation is a unique visual arttorm for all ages .. free. Room: Rm 6-120. Sponsor: MIT Anime 12:00 p.m. - Arts Coiloquium. All MIT faculty and arts staff are invited to hear Bill Aming, curator of the List Visual Club. Arts Center, speak on his work at 12noon. Lunch will be served; reservations required. For more information, con- 8:00 p.m. - Family Weekend Concert: An Evening of Humorous Music. MIT Wind Ensemble, Festival Jazz Ensem- tact Laura Moses by Oct 17. One in a series of arts colloquia organized by Associate Provost for the Arts Alan ble (Frederick Harris, music director) and the MIT Chamber Chorus (William Cutter, music director) perform music Brody. by PDQ Bach, Ives' Variations on "America": Jacob's "Old Wine in New Bottles"; Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No.7; . free. Sponsor: Associate Provost for the Arts. Percussion and Brass Ensemble pieces, and also jazz works by Parker and Monk. free. Room: Kresge Auditorium. 12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - WINPartners. he WinPartners is a group of Windows workstation users and administra- Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section. tors who have banded together to support each other in the use of Windows. WinPartners share their experiences, 9:00 p.m. - Potluck Perfonnance Art Party. AKA show+tell. Bring video, poetry slides, anything to read, show, ask and answer questions, solve problems, discuss hot topics, and wam each other of pitfalls. Any Windows user perform and/or consume. If you bring something to perform or consume, you get in for free .. $4 donation request- at any level of expertise and experience is welcome to join the group and attend meetings .. free. Room: N42 ed for selected charity. Room: N52-115. Sponsor: MIT Electronic Research SOCiety. Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - "Spin Manifolds, Einstein metrics, and Differential Topoiogy.". ote the starting time has Saturday, October 20 changed for this day's Seminar .. free. Room: MIT Room 2-143. Sponsor: Differential Geometry Seminar. Depart- ment of Mathematics. 9:00 a.rn. - 5:00 p.m. - Family Weekend 2001. Please join us for Family Weekend and witness, firsthand, the envi- 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - STS Coiloquium. "Hydrology as Myth and Science: The American Experience". free. Room: ronment in which your student is living and learning and get a taste of what MIT is like when the campus is in full E51-o95. Sponsor: STS. swing .. Room: MIT. Sponsor: Parents Association. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - EECS Coiloquium Series. Distance Learning: Past, Present and Futures. free. Room: 34- 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Yes Yoko Onor First major US retrospective of works by Yoko Ono, one of the early partici- 401 (Edgerton Hall). Sponsor: EECS. pants in the international Ruvus movement. This exhibition surveys her career from the 1960s to the present with 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Continuum Seminar Series: Seminar moved to November 19. Room: seminar date films, videos, artist's books, installations and instructional pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hen- changed. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering Dept.. dricks for the Japan Society Gallery .. free ..ROOf!!: List Visual Arts Center (E15). Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Test·Taking Strategies. learn the mechanics of taking tests at MIT, including how to pre- 1:00 p.m. - Reid Hockey vs. Wellesiey. free. Room: Barry Turf Field. Sponsor: Department of Athletics. pare for tests and how to approach specific types of problems .. free. Room: Talbot Lounge, East Campus. Sponsor: 1:00 p.m. - Men's Soccer vs. Clark. free. Room: Steinbrenner. Sponsor: Department of Athletics. Leaming Strategies. 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.rn. - Lecture with Yoko Ono-SOLD OUT. The artist talks about Yes Yoko Ono, her first major 8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. - Monday Night Football at the Ear. Watching football at the Ear makes Dennis Miller a lit- US retrospective. Yoko Ono is one of the early participants in the international Ruvus movement. tle more tolerable. The Thirsty Ear Pub.is located in the Ashdown House basement. Enter through the courtyard. This exhibition surveys her career from the 1960s to the present with films, videos, artist's books, installations Hours: Monday: 8 pm .. -12 a.m., Tuesday - Thursday: 7 p.m. - 1 a.m., Friday: 4 p.m.·l a.m. Must be over 21. and instructional pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hendricks for the Japan Society Gallery .. free. Proper 10 required. Free. Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: The Thirsty Ear Pub. H October 19 2001 Low Cost Housing At Issue city Council, from Page 1
affordable residential neighbor- hoods. Cambridge is a desirable place to live" Iskovitz said. "The city hasn t really done anything to pre- vent the [housing] crisis." Jens, on the other hand, disagrees with changing the zoning laws. "Cambridge is Cambridge because of MIT and Harvard," he said. Instead Jens believes that the main cause of the shortage of affordable housing is the influx of people who want to live in Cambridge. "J think. housing prices could be eased if we allowed development," Jens said. "Expanding the supply would allow things to be more affordable." In addition to City Councillor elections, the Community Preserva- tion Act, a measure to develop affordable housing in the city, will be on Cambridge voters' ballots next month. Many candidates hope that the Community Preservation AcJ, if passed, will help alleviate the Cam- -bridge housing crunch. Council incumbent Henrietta Davis said that the act would provide $5 million in state funding to develop affordable housing in Cambridge. The money would also be used to preserve open spaces and historical buildings. "We need to support CPA because that could give us $5 mil- lion from the state," Davis said. An issue which is also on several candidates' platforms is the expan- sion of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority system in Cambridge. The MBTA is a state- funded agency governed bya board consisting of representatives from the areas served by the MBTA, including Cambridge. Iskovitz said Cambridge should add more of its own local routes 'to the system. He also encourages Cam- bridge citizens to use cars less for environmental and health reasons. "All over the city, you get the .feeling that Cambridge is for dri- vers," Iskovitz said. Jens would like to see more MBT A service in Cambridge as well. He 'thinks that the subway, which currently closes at midnight, should close after bars and clubs shut down on weekends. Other relevant issues include lowering the voting age in Cam- bridge to 16, making Memorial Drive safer for pedestrians, and expanding the system of bike lanes. "Students should vote because all these specific issues are impor- tant to our lives," said David J. Strozzi G, a member of the MIT Greens. "Democracy had to be fought for because it is not automat- ic or inherent." The Cambridge City Council consists of nine elected officials, who elect a mayor from among themselves. The main duties of the mayor include presiding over city council meetings and acting as the chairperson of the school commit- tee. The council also appoints the city manager, who handles the daily operations of the city.
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Bioterrorism, from Page 1 duction but is not at liberty to ment of Defense to create a ensor explain the reasons used and meth- network which could detect any which induces the reation of anti- ods employed for the accelerated form of biochemical agent. Griffith bodie against the anthrax toxin. program. was unable to comment on the mat- The va cine is an injection of large ter. amounts of PA, which the body then Large cale attack implausible Modem day biological weapons learn to treat as a foreign invader, While anthrax has grown a repu- have severe limitations, which developing the proper antibody tation for being as the world's worst comes as a great relief to all. "The against PA. These antibodies alter threat since the atom bomb, scien- only substantial thing that [biologi- PA such that it wi 1 no longer be tists would argue otherwise. cal agents] will be able to do is able to bind the cell membrane, sub- Anthrax is not con- unnecessarily
J£ 'lFER DEBOER sequently blocking the path for the tagious, which scare the popu- Adam G. Unikowsky '03 (L) and Patrick J.Nichols '03 placed first in fatal proteins. eliminates the po - lace," aid the Harvard University Debate Tournament on October 5-6. sibility of sec- chauer. accine readiness in question ondary casualties. An antibody sounds simple It also does not kill Anthrax' u e enough to create, right? fief all, instantly allowing To some sci- Victory Unexpected they've been made for everything the infected to be entists, anthrax from the common cold to treated and aved. is not seen as Debate, from Page 1 rounds, as they ran out of prepared Alzheimer's Disease. Unfortunately, Also, development just a threat, but cases after the quarterfinal round. there are a limited number of of an anthra instead may be a ment in the debate, whose style "We had talked about the ideas for anthrax vaccines in existence for aerosol that could tool. Specifically emulates that of the British Parlia- the last two cases a little bit, but many reasons. Foremost, 'the infect a large num- Starnbach, in ment. As government, the team puts most of the planning was done in demand has been quite low outside ber of people has conjunction with forth the topic to be debated and has the' fifteen minutes before the the military since now," said David never been effec- his colleague R. the burden of proof. Unikowsky round," Unikowsky said. Schauer, an assistant professor of tive. "A much John Colli r at said that this is often seen as a dis- "You become really proficient at Bioengineering at MIT. more technologi- Harvard Medical advantage. . impromptu speaking," Nichols said. However, he said that vaccines cally advanced ter- chool, has fur- Before an audience of 200, MIT Nichols never debated before can't be produced by just any lab. rorist group in thered the sci- Flippant presented a case in the final coming to college, and Unikowsky "While they are gearing up produc- Japan attempted to ence of round which asked whether or not a only had one year of experience tion efforts now, there won't be develop an anthrax immunology newly formed religion would benefit prior to joining MIT's team. many groups able to produce a safe aerosol and use it in a subway, but with their research on anthrax's from having a leader. Going in to the tournament, vaccine. There aren't good systems there were no fatalities," Schauer method of transmission. "We are Although 12 of the 13 judges expectations were not quite as high to test the efficacy of the vaccine, said. interested in using anthrax as deliv- voted for Nichols and Unikowsky as the final results. "We really had which most likely would have to be The inherent problems with ery system because of the unique- over Stanford University's Team A, no chance of winning," Unikowsky done in animals and requires great effectiveness might make Anthrax a ness with' which P A can deliver Unikowsky and Nichols knew that said. "Our goal was to be in the top safety." bad choice for a weapon. However, components inside the cell," said they had won before they received fifteen." The vaccine is produced by only it is a terrorist favorite due to the Stambach. ''The challenge [in medi- the verdict. "The audience cheered a MIT Flippant was not the only one company, called Bioport, which ease with which it can be produced. cine] is not to get the vaccine pro- lot louder for our points than for MIT showing in the final rounds. has not been able ------"It's quite easy to tein into the body but getting it into theirs, so we basically knew during Krishnan and Larochelle finished to produce the grow Bacillus the cell so. it can stimulate Memory the round that we had won," 7th overall and MIT had four of the amount of vac- Thefirst protein, "Pro- Anthracis," said T cells which can be activated upon Unikowsky said. top ten individual speaker scores cine for which Schauer. "Some- actual exposure to the disease." "It was great to pick up the tro- (individual scores awarded during they were con- tective Antigen, "is not one could proba- Some scientists have experimented phy," said Nichols, "especially since debates to each competitor). tracted. Being the ha iful' 'ts If, but bly grow it in with other methods to ensure that we weren't one of the well recog- Larochelle finished fourth, Nichols sole contractor rrn 'in'i e , their garage if the proteins enter the cell, but have nized teams going into the tourna- eighth, Krishnan ninth, and since 1998, they serves as the delivery they wanted, come across high safety risks. Col- ment." Unikowsky tenth. had failed to meet while growing a lier and Starnbach, however, have Neither Nichols or Unikowsky Federal Drug moleculefor two dead- contagious strain combined proteins from anthrax Team has unusual background felt pressure to perform. "Before we Administration lyproteins, knoum like smallpox is a with proteins from other viruses 'and "The vast majority of our com- weren't really looked on as one of (FDA) standards much more diffi- bacteria against which they wish to petitors are pre-law and we're all the top schools," Nichols said. twice in previous as "LethalFactor" and cult task '" so immunize. computer science or physics "We've improved a lot in the past years due to poor there really is a The PA protein guarantees that majors," Nichols said. "It's gratify- few years." documentation. ''E',JUf51/lA1I ~ roo rr;ractor..l " catch-22 for these proteins will enter the cyto- ing for us to know that even though While they have bioterrorists." pla m and induce memory T cells we're not. studying constitutional Victory boosts national standing been spurred by Over the past to create antibodies. "We do not law we can still be competitive." As a result of their victory, MIT the government there has not yet few weeks there have been specula- work with the anthrax bacteria itself In the American Parliamentary Flippant was ranked as the number been a date set for a third presenta- tions as to how many anthrax spores ... we are working with fragments Debate Association's biggest tour- one team in the nation last week. tion to the FDA. could kill a person, though there is of D A housed in E. Coli," said nament of the year, MIT was the Because they did not attend tourna- no scientific evidence to back up Starnbach discussing the proce- only technical school in the entire ments this past weekend, they are Smallpox also concern any of these claims. "For obvious dure' safety. The team has already field, which includes all of the Ivy now number three. Last year, MIT Smallpox has been dubbed the reasons," said Starnbach, "there pr.oduced results with a vaccine League, as well as top west coast A, which consisted of Amit Roy' 01 second largest bioterror concern have been no against Liste- schools such as Stanford and some- and Krishnan, placed tenth. today. The Center for Disease Con- tests on how ria Monocyto- times schools from Canada. "The Because the Harvard tournament trol signed a contract with Acambis anthrax Thevaccine isproduced genes, a bacte- fact that MIT, the lone technical is so big, some see it as a projection in late September to recreate a 40 affects ria that causes school, is able to perform against , of nationals. "It's about as big a million dose stockpile of the small- humans, so by only one company, meningitis. people who do this as their major is tournament as things get," Nichols pox vaccine. During the 1970s, these specula- They are' also very impressive," Larochelle said. said. "It will be the same field at organizations successfully "eradi- tions are not called Bioport, which has attempting to A further disadvantage arises nationals." cated" the disease, though strains based on any develop an from the nature of the cases. Upcoming tournaments that the were left in laboratories around the data." not been able toproduce the HIV vaccine Nichols said that scientific cases are team will attend include Columbia, world, which concerns many W h i 1 e amount of vaccine for with the same never run because their subject is Brown, and Brandeis. These tourna- experts. there will method. This usually too specific. "We're usually ments, though not quite as large, The United States had scheduled always be a which they were contracted. vaccine deliv- competing on their turf," he said. will be worth the same number of to destroy all of its remaining strains threat that a ery technique points for national standing, and of smallpox in the near future, recombinant is licensed by Flippant forced to-think on feet will include many of the same top though that may change. Lyndsay strain of a disease will be used as a Avant Immunotherapeutics, who In two of the final three rounds, competitors who attended the Har- Wright, spokeswoman for Acambis, weapon, Linda G. Griffith, an asso- are working with Harvard Medical the cases put forth by MIT were vard tournament. "Hopefully they said that the company has accelerat- ciate professor of Bioengineering at to develop the technology commer- invented just minutes before the won't want revenge," Nichols said. ed their program for vaccine pro- MIT, has worked with the Depart- cially.
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Must sa Over 21. Proper 10 Required. II The Thirsty Ear Pub is available for private parties. located in Ashdown House basement Ask for details at the bar, or send email to [email protected] Enter through courtyard Page 12 THE TE H October 19 2001 Vest Announces New T' u ten 0 POt gr n Security Task Force Task Force To Assess Risks Faced by MIT
By Shirali Pandya tigating the vehicular acces of the campus, and implementing security In re pon e to the terrorist measures for protection. Some pro- Are you interested in starting a UROP? attacks of September 11 President cedures are already in place, such as Charles M. Vest announced the for- increased checking of permits in mation of a new Task Force on parking lots. Fire lanes, which are Campus Security. often used for shortcuts through In a press release issued on campus, will be blocked off, and Do you feel that you lack the skills or time to October 9, Vest said that the task bollards, jersey barriers, and gates force would "assist us in setting pol- with card access will be installed at become involved in a project? icy and planning for heightened other key points. Curry hopes that security and safety for the immedi- with these precautions, MIT will be ate and longer-term future." "less open to those we might want The task force, chaired by Exec- to stop and check." utive Vice President John R. Curry, Want to learn more'aboutUROP andqainsome will look at the potential risks that Redwine affirms privacy policy' • the Institute faces, assess these Another major issue at this time . valuable lab experience? risks, and develop a priority list for is that of privacy and the release of how to deal with them. Its focuses will be the physical safety of people at MIT and the flow information. If you answered yes to any of these questions, then UROP's IAPResearch Mentor Program may be for you. An initial report, outlining the Executive Vu:ePresi- Any undergraduate who has never participated in a UROP is eligible to apply; however, preference is major issues at hand and suggesting dent John R. Curry granted to freshmen applicants. safety measures, will be presented to Vest by mid-November, accord- said that MIT may be Since the inception of the lAP Research Mentor Program (lRMP) in 1993, undergraduates whom lack ing to his press release. research experience (pre-UROPers) are linked with upper-class experienced UROPers (Research Mentors) "the most permeable Group uses several strategies to work on a part-time basis throughout the month of January. Students are matched according to their The task force has adopted a campus" he has seen. interests and desired research area. three-prong approach for campus security. One subcommittee, head- Why pre~UROP? Experience. As a pre-UROPer you will satisfy safety requirements and gain practical ed by Vice President and Dean for information. Redwine's committee hands-on experience in an area of interest, while learning important lab skills and techniques. The Research J. David Litster, is look- is focusing on "how MIT will program also affords the opportunity to make connections with an upperclassman, MIT faculty, graduate ing at biological, chemical, and respond to requests for information students, research staff, etc. This may be your chance to see what it is like to be a member of a research nuclear hazards. Director of Public about students, faculty, staff and Safety Anne P. Glavin is in charge others in our community, by law team. Pre-UROPers are not eligible for payor credit during lAP, but are given priority for direct funding of the subcommittee overseeing enforcement and other government from the UROP office if/when invited to join a UROP project. access and openness of the cam- agencies or the media." pus, and Robert P. Redwine, Dean "We affirm that [the Institute's On-line applications are available at http://web.mit.edu/urop/preuropapp.html. For more information or addi- for Undergraduate Education, privacy policies] are as right today tional applications for your friends, please see the Research Mentor Program page located on-line at chairs the subcommittee about as they were in the past," Redwine http://web.mit.edu/urop/mentor.html or contact Melissa Martin at x3-3002 or
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MARISSA L. YATES-THE TECH from Wellesley two weeks ago. "Let's not even make it close," Kathleen R. Huffman '04 (center) leads Margaret F. Nervegna G (right) and Crystal A. Russell '03 (left) Julia C. Espel '05 came in sec- Slovenski said to his team. "We're in All-New England Cross Country Championships this Saturday. The MIT women ran in solid packs, ond for MIT with a time of 19:50, hoping to claw our way past those with less than 80 seconds separating the top seven women at the end of the 5 kilometer race. MIT 105th place overall. Veronica A. who-have done it to us in other con- placed in the top ten Division III schools. Andrews '05 and Lynn K. Kamimo- ference championships." Volleyball Ranks 20th Lacrosse Club Wms Tournament By Lorien Paulson Kadyszewski. "This will be a big Paulson '02 and Theresa Cheng. By Roger F. Crosley TEAM MEAfBER year for us if we realize this poten- This tournament marked the first DIRECTOR OF SPORTS lNFORMATlO The MIT Women's Lacrosse tial." official competition of the year for • The MIT women"s volleyball team recently won its fourth consec- club went undefeated in five The club, which was formed by the student-run team. The program' utive tournament by sweeping through the Eastern Connecticut State games to win the First Annual MIT Varsity Women's Lacrosse looks forward to continuing their University Crabtree Invitational MIT defeated Lasell College, PIy- Columbus Day Tour- players to prepare for the upcoming recent success, both this fall and in
~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mouth State College, Endicott College, Babson Col- nament at Brandeis spring season, is led by Lorien M. the spring season. Soorts lege, and the host school in straight sets. Christina University. O'.,y AJmodovar'~ MIT"s setter, was named the tour- Despite a lack of (YJa ~n nameut ~ valuable player, and was also selected any extra players for OllAIl ~U) the New England Women's & Men's Athletic C0n- substitutions, MIT ference Player of tile Week. Barbara J. Schultze '02 easily swept Brandeis University, was named to the All- Toumament team. MIT is cmrently the top tanked Northeastern University, and the Division ill team in New England, and is ranked 20th in the nation in University of Rhode Island in the Division ill out of 395 volleyball playing schools. first round of Sunday's tournament, • The MIT women's cross country team recently captured the defeating them 11-1, 7-2, and 6-2, Wellesley Invitational for the first time since 1993. Leading the way respectively. In the semifinal for the Engineers was Martha W. Buckley '04, who placed second round, number one seed MIT faced overall in the meet. For her effort, Buckley was named the NEWMAC off against number fOUTBrandeis. Runner of the Week. Buckley covered the 3.2 mile course in 19:32, Stepping their game up a notch, only two seconds behind the winning runner. Both the MIT women's MIT kept Brandeis scoreless this team and the MIT men's team are ranked first in the NEWMAC. The time and took the match with a men's team was the third Division ill finisher at the recent All-New score of 12-0. England Championships. The Engineers placed 12th overall in the 42 In the finals, MIT played number team field, led by Daniel R. Feldman '02 who finished ninth covering two seed Rhode Island and the game the 5.1 mile course in 24:57. Feldman was the top finisher from a non- wa tied 4-4 after the 25 minute reg- Division Icollege. ulation game. In sudden death over- • MIT s Kelli A. Griffin '03 was named the NEWMAC Co-Player time, URI gained the first posses- of the Week in women's soccer for the week ending October 7. Griffin sion. However the MIT defense had 13 points during the week leading MIT to three wins in three was impenetrable, thanks to a coor- games. The team currently boasts its best record since 1993. dinated effort led by Rachel Knipe • The MIT golf team finished third at the recent NEWMAC G and Helana M. Kadyszewski '03. championship at Holden Hills Country Club. MIT's Robert R. Desoe The ball traded possessions '02 was named to the NEWMAC All-Conference team by virtue of several times, but finally ended up his fifth place :finish among all participants. with the MIT attackers. While dri- • In water polo, MIT was unable to defend the Eastern Division m ving in for a goal, Debbie Cheng championship, falling to Johns Hopkins University 10-14 in the finals of '04 was fouled by a URI defender. this year's tournament Five Engineers were named to the All-touma- Cheng was given a free shot from ment team. First team selections for MIT were James C. Brady '03 and the center of the 8 meter are, and Peter D. Vanbuskirk '04. Named to the second team were David D. fired a quick bounce shot to the Lohrey 'OS and Daniel F. Morris '02, while Devon C. Charlton '04 was left side of the goal to give MIT an honorable mention pick. the win. Tournament goals were scored by Debbie Cheng, Theresa Cheng '02, Stephanie 1. Hsu '04, Paulson, Christine Lin '04, Deborah M. Rothman G, Jennifer M. Fiumara UPCOMING HOME EVENTS 02, Lynn Matthews G, Kathryn S. Auw 'OS, and Maria C. Schriver Saturday, October 20 '05. MIT scored a total of 40 goals MARISSA L. YATES-THE TECH en' Soccervs. Clark, 1:00 p.m. and only allowed nine goals into Albert S. Uu '03 approaches the finish of the men's 8«IIome- Field Hockey vs. Wellesley, 1:00 p.m. their own net, thanks to goalie Joyce ter race at the AII-New England Cross Country Ch-..pIonshlps C. Ho '03. this past saturday. Daniel R. Feldman '02 led the team with a Thursday, October 25 "The Brandeis tournament only 9th place finish, while MIT captured 12th out of 42 teams en's Soccer vs. Gordon College, 3:00 p.m .. proves the potential of MIT's from Divisions I, II, and III. women's lacrosse program" said