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I I II President Vest Promises Institute Will Appeal I Decision Concludes I By Brian Rosenberg Attorneys at the Justice cd price-fixing and were therefore I EDITOR IN CHIEF _ Department in Washington, D.C., detrimental to competition. The i I MIT violated the Sherman could not be reached for comlment. Overlap meetings "interfered with i Thee Year Investiation Antitrust Act by cooperating with Ivy Vest said this summer's passage the natural functioning of the market- i 1 By Reuven M. Lemer League schools to set need-based of a federal law specifically allowing place by eliminating students' ability NEWS EDITOR financial aid levels, a United States colleges to discuss principles for to consider price differences when I MIT's battle with the Department of Justice began nearly three District Court judge ruled yesterday. determining financial aid as long as choosing a school," he wrote. years ago, when the government began an investigation into allega- In the 49-page decision, Judge they do not discuss individual stu- Though both sides made substan- tions that the 23 members of the Overlap Group had broken the law Louis C. Bechtle refuted MIT's argu- dents "adds to my confidence in the tial efforts to demonstrate the eco- by sharing financial aid data every spring. ments that the Sherman Act did not wisdom of our stance." The law con- nomic impact of the Overlap Group's Overlap Group members -the eight Ivy League schools, the 12 apply to the financial aid meetings tains a provision which exempted lit- decisions on MIT and on prospective Great Lakes College Association schools, eight women's colleges, held by what is known as the Overlap igation pending at the time of its pas- students, Bechtle dismissed these and MIT -said they would cooperate fully with investigators, who Group. He held that the Overlap sage, including the Overlap case. concerns as "not germane to the reso- at the time remained silent about their eventual goals. Group's aid decisions constituted Vest added that MIT had received lution of this case." At MIT, administrators compiled and submitted information on price-fixing and were therefore ille- support hundreds of colleges and MIT argued during the case that tuition, faculty and administrative salaries, and student financial aid. gal, whether or not they raised prices other educational organizations, and the Overlap meetings allowed mem- James J. Culliton, vice president for financial operations, called the for students or increased revenues for said that a few alumni classes had ber universities to offer need-blind collection effort "a very, very large burden." MIT. asked Mbat their donations be put admission to students and enhanced The investigation, which focused on whether the schools had MIT plans to appeal the decision, toward the cost of the case. competition among them in curricula determined financial aid and tuition rates as a group, was thought at President Charles M. Vest announced The Institute faces no fines or and other areas. The group also the time to be the largest probe ever conducted by the Justice yesterday. Vest said MIT will "fight penalties if its appeal is defeated, enhanced competition among stu- Department. very hard to win this case," though Vest said, but could be forced to pay dents for limited enrollment opportu- From the beginning, Overlap members freely admitted that they he said it was too early to discuss some of the government's court nities, MIT said. had negotiated financial aid packages for individual students at their specific legal strategies for the costs. Bechtle ruled that these consider- annual spring meetings. Each school would independently calculate appeal. In an interview last night, he ations were irrelevant, saying that I the amount each student's family could afford to pay. These figures said "I am proud of the Institute for 'Pure sophistry' "4every institution, with or without being willing to stand up in a visible In the case, MIT asserted that its Overlap, is free to embrace indepen- Overlap, Page 7 way ... for important principles." distribution of financial aid is not dently any admission and financial commerce but a charitable activity by aid policy it wishes." He noted that I A a non-profit corporation, and thus schools could maintain need-blind should not be subject to antitrust leg- admissions without Overlap if they Fr-sh Dor-I-Crowding at 80% islation. Bechtle called this argument were willing to restructure their bud- "pure sophistry," saying that "few getary priorities. By Garlen C. Leung Campus, his first choice. Louise aspects of higher education... are Bechtle wrote that the issue is NIGHTEDITOR Wells '96 was "happy" to get Baker more commercial than the price whether "the elimination of competi- andd Karen Kaplan 'Unofficiall House, her first choice, but she was charged to students." tion itself can be justified by non- EXECUTIVE EDITOR one of many freshmen who com- Bechtle went on to say that the economic designs," and said that it After two hocusing lotteries, the plained that the lines at each stage Overlap Group's meetings constitut- cannot. housing office has announced that at of the housing process were too least 80 percent of freshmen living long. _ Ic-a L · ·-Is · I - I -· I I I - - L in dormnitories will be crowded, the Some students had to wait an highest percentage of crowds in wem~y 1991 1.992 hour or more to register their dormi- recent memory. -Baker 92 118 tory preferences on computers "This figure may go higher," .1Bexley 26 26 because of a lack of terminals, said Elliot S. Levitt '89, staff assis- I Burtor>Conner 120 116 Levitt said. tant for Residence and Campus Other freshmen were unsatisfied Activities. He suggested that the East Campus 123 1(01 with their assignments and are I that the Office of the Dean for MacGregor 69 1198 -1I searching for ways to move to other I Undergraduate Education and McCormick 65 52 dormitories. Alice S. Wang '96 was I Student Affairs underestimated the New Hlouse 71 64 speechless when she found out that extent of crowding in dorms. tRandom 32 24 she had been assigned to Senior A room is considered crowded if Senior House 51 ' 45 House after her top seven dormitory two students are assigned to what is 500 Memomall 87 10Q2 choices were denied. i usually a large single, or if three are I assigned to a large double. Crowded "It bothers me that we spent so students pay less for their room than the excessive overcrowding is that much time looking around at all the I dorms, and then you end up getting II they would for normal accommoda- "fraternity rush has been slightly tions. behind thus far." one you didn't even list," she said. i The situation was exacerbated "That really hurts." i this year because the number of Most students satisfied Wang said her roommate's I transfer students who applied for Changes in the lottery system father drove to MIT from New York I 1 housing was double what the hous- resulted in 97.5 percent of freshmen to complain about the housing t ing office expected, according to getting one of their top three dormi- assignment, but to no avail. Now the I Levitt. "Of course, we had to guar- tory assignments, Levitt said. "So two plan to use posters to find stu- i I antee housing for the extra 20 or so far, we've been rather successful." dents who want to trade housing transfers who applied," said Levitt. Jack Fu '96 said he was "ecstat- assignments and move to Senior Another reason Levitt cited for ic" that he was assigned to East House. F~reshmen Pass Math Freshmen Take Diagno~stic Exam By Eva Moy Bty Eva Moy ASSOCMrE NEWWEDIrO.R ASSOCIA TE NEWS ED17OR About three-fourths of the 1,131 freshmen who took Forty-one percent of the approximately 1060 stu- the Pre-Calculus Math Diagnostic had adequate perfor- dents who took the Freshman Essay Evaluation last mance or satisfactory performnance with weaknesses in Friday received a passing grade, according to Leslie C. , one area, according to Margaret S. Enders, assistant Perelman, coordinator for the Writing Requirement. dean of curriculum support. The results will be used to The essays are good indicators of writing ability, aid freshmen and their advisors during registration. said Perelman. "The scoring was really precise," he MICHAELJ. FMNKLIN-THE TECH "The idea here is to offer a test, the results of which added, referring to the many changes to the reading and MIT Chess Club sets up chess boards at the Activities do not show on a student record, and therefore can only grading systems. Midway Tuesday night, as over 100 student groups Intro- serve as a benefit to the students," said Sy D. Friedman Under the new grading system, two percent of the duced themselves to Interested freshmen.

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Harvard Scholar Detained, Calfoni Bdge ~iss nd Expelled by Chinese Police LOS ANGELES TIMES BEIJING Chinese police detained Harvard scholar Ross Terrill shortly after midnight Wednesday, then expelled him to Hong Kong for his By Lou Cannon years. Local governments will lose after moderate Republican Minority Tong. involvement with the dissident former student leader Shen THE WASHIANGTON POST $1.3 billion in state aid, which prob- Leader Kenneth Maddy warned that Shen, the first exiled pro-democracy leader to return to China SACRAM ENO, CALIF. ably will translate into cutbacks in it would be vetoed by Wilson and since the 1989 crackdown on that year's Tiananmcil Square protests, The fiscal crisis that brought police and fire protection at a time prolong the legislative session. was detained in Beijing early Tuesday, a few hours before he planned California state government to its when crime rates and fire dangers The spending package signed by to speak at a news conference. He was apparently still in police cus- knees finally ended yesterday when are increasing. Some county med- Wilson was similar to the one the tody late Wednesday evening, along with two other dissidents weary legislators surrendered to ical-trauma centers already have Assembly rejected June 30 when the detained with him, Qi Dafeng and Qian Liyun. Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and closed. Library and park hours have crisis began. Democratic Assembly Shen, 24, is a graduate student at Boston University and chairman passed the stringent school-finance been reduced in many communities. Speaker Willie L. Brown Jr. agreed of the U.S.-based Democracy for China Fund. Qi is a student leader measure he had demanded. While Wilson successfully to end the holdout when it became imprisoned for 20 months for his role in the from Tianjin who was By the time a tired but smiling resisted new tax increases, the bud- apparent that Wilson would not protests, and Qian is the wife of exiled student leader Xiong 1989 Wilson signed the $57.6 billion bud- get contains some $700 million in back down and Democratic legisla- Yan, who now is in the United States. get bill at 1:45 a.m., California had higher fees and charges that tors began complaining that they Tom Shen's mother, Li Yixian, 5 1, said that she visited police offices entered its 64th day without a bud- Republican Assembly member could face defeat in new, court- to see her son. McClintock, a conservative foe of Tuesday in an attempt get and had issued $3.4 billion in apportioned districts unless they the governor, called "tax increases "I told them that I had the right to see Shen Tong, and that they IOU's to meet its payrolls. passed a budget. Although the virtual capitulation by another name." had the duty to tell me why he was being held," Li said. "The police In agreeing to what Assembly refused to let me see Shen Tong, to tell me where by the Democratic-control led The likelihood of voter resent- ignored me. They member John Burton, a Democrat, he was being held or to answer any of my questions." Legislature to Wilson's insistence ment over these cuts and the grim called "a mutally negotiated surren- two Paris-based on deep cuts in government services economic conditions in California, Authorities Tuesday expelled to Hong Kong der," Brown won one concession detained with the three Chinese. was a victory for the governor, state now in its worst economic downturn French journalists who were from Wilson -an agreement that Christopher Nick, a writer for the magazine Acluel, and free-lancer officials warned that California since the Depression, triggered an funds allocated to education would Pascal Giret had traveled with Shen after his arrival in China about a could face a repeat of the crisis next outpouring of frustration Tuesday not be cut further even if the econo- month ago. year and have fewer resources to night in the Assembly, where liberal my declines. Terrill, a well-known author of books on China who is a research deal with it. Democrats and conservative But Brown was forced to accept fellow at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard State Finance Director Tom Republicans took turns castigating a so-called "poison pill" that would University, is a friend of Shen and adviser to the Democracy for Hayes said California has lost Wilson. suspend a state constitutional China Fund. He came to Beijing at Shen's request, he said. After 750,000 jobs since August 1990 "There is a point where you have education the Shen was detained, Terrill gave reporters copies of the statement while needing to create at least to give the terrorist what he asks requirement giving Shen had intended to make at his planned news conference. 500,000 new jobs just to keep even for," said Assembly member first call on government revenues in with population growth. Hayes said Delaine Eastin, a Democrat, lament- the event a court overturns the loan that unless there is an unexpectedly ing legislative compliance with provision of the budget bill. Gay Ma~gazines Consider Ouig sharp upturn in the economy the Wilson's demand that $1 billion of Unlike many of his colleagues state will again face a multi-billion- the $24 billion allocated to schools who denounced Wilson, Brown Gay-Bashing Republicans dollar shortfall in 1993 but, with this year be treated as a loan to be spoke in favor of the compromise he programs already pared so heavily, repaid from future revenues. NEIYSDA4 Y had accepted in private conversa- I it will be difficult to find additional On the other side of the aisle, tions with the governor. He noted In an election battle where the words "family values" have cuts. former Assembly Minority Leader that the state had been forced to sus- become the ammunition of choice, two gay-oriented magazines are While the budget delay caused Ross Johnson, a Republican, considering exposing some key Republican officials as homosexuals. pend the guarantee giving education what Wilsoni called "inexcusable denounced Wilson for allegedly first call on state revenues aft'er the Prompted by what they say is ugly gay-bashing by Republicans, conservative principles pain and suffering" for elderly and betraying 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The Advocate and QW have named in the last two weeks three when he pushed an $8 billion tax disabled Californians whose health "There is the same kind of Republicans as gay: a conservative Southern congressman, a long- and nursing-home services were increase through the Legislature last potential disaster if we don't pro- time speech writer and the son of a conservative activist. interrupted, it did not inconvenience year and for "mean" behavior in duce a budget," Brown s-aid. But depending on the tone of Republican campaign, they might most Californians. cutting services this year. The public approval of Wilson only have just begun, QW editor Maer Roshan said Tuesday, con- The results of the actual budget, Liberals and conservatives tending that the magazine was sitting on "eight or nine names" of on the other hand, will be felt by teamed up in an attempt to rebuke during the crisis has fallen to 20 officials they believed were homosexual, all of which were "people in most of the state's 31 million peo- Wilson with a bill that would have percent and to 7 percent for the policy-making areas. ple. Community-college fees will forced cuts of $92 million in the Legislature. Brown has said most "If this continues, the gay-bashing, in the next few weeks, we'll double and university fees increase executive bureaucracy and put the incumbent legislators will survive start with people who are most noxious and work our way down: peo- significantly, causing a projected money into grants for low-income public disapproval of the institution', ple both in the administration and also elected officials," Roshan said., drop in enrollment of 200,000. university students, whici Wiave but Republican strategists say they QW, a weekly New York-based magazine, has "outed" high-pro- Welfare grants, among the high- been sharply reduced in the new have their best chance in three file Republicans in each of the last two issues in response, Roshan est in the nation, will be cut 5.8 per- budget. The measure passed the decades to win control of the said, to a strong tone against homosexual rights at the Republican cent and cannot be raised for four Assembly but died in the Senate Assembly. convention two weeks ago. And in an editorial in QW's Sept. 6 issue, the magazine says that "We too, like a certain senator who tyrannized Americans almost 40 years ago, have a list. ... If we are driven by this war to go public, to Cheney Defends Rebuilding name names, we will." Of Flonda Air Force Aas The congressman has publicly denied that he is homosexual. The speech writer and activist's son have refused comment. Advocate editor Jeff Yarbrough took a more cautious approach. said he felt uncomfortable using the contentious practice of "out- He By Mlelissa Healy him when he does something." rebuilding. last-resort tactic for times of '&politi- ing," and that he regarded it as a LOS ANGELES TIMES But in what may foreshadow a necessity." The magazine nevertheless circulated pre-publication Pentagon officials said that some cal WASHINGTON political fight over the plan, some story, an extensive piece entitled: of the rebuilding of the base could copies this week of its next cover Secretary of Defense Dick lawmakers are already challenging "The Outing of a Family Values Congressman." begin using existing military con- Cheney on Wednesday conceded the administration's arguments. struction funds but that Congress "We're aware of other elected national officials," Yarbrough said. that the proposed rebuilding of Rep. Thomas H. Andrews, D- would be asked to approve addition- "There are elected officials out there who are actively engaging in Homestead Air Force Base in hurri- Maine, a member of the House al funds to complete the base. negative voting records who are gay and lesbian. Those are the peo- cane-struck southern Florida is not Armed Services Committee, says Military officials have said that such ple we are investigating." based on strictly military grounds. that he will call for a review of the an effort would cost hundreds of The practice of exposing people's sexual preferences has been one But he fired back at critics who president's decision. Under an earli- millions of dollars. of the most controversial issues dividing the gay press. Several, President Bush's deci- er round of base closures, Andrews' charged that Pentagon officials have said that including the Advocate, have taken strong positions in the past sion is the result of election-year state is to lose Loring Air Force the base, which houses unlits of F-4 against "outing," saying that the kind of witch hunt it provokes runs politics. Base and, like many lawmakers, and F-16 fighter jets, is an important counter to gay organizations' fight for sexual privacy. Cheney, who regularly chides Andrews has been stung by the I-1 staging area for the surveillance of i lawmakers for using-the Pentagon's politically painful process. both legitimate trade and illegal nar- budget to fund local "jobs pro- "We've just been through the cotics trafficking in the Caribbean. grams,"' said Wednesday that base-closure process designed to Its position near the Florida coast Homestead presents "a unique cir- take politics out of the decision- also makes it a valuable training cumstance" in which defense funds making. Now, nine weeks before area for low-level flying. should be used to reassure the election, the president goes Floridians of the federal govern- down there to Florida and makes a Annual paychecks issued at the Damap wevuather Ahead ment's commitment to help rebuild mockery of the process," said installation bring $152 million to the area, making it a major econom- By Michael Morgan their area. Andrewvs. ic force there. The president's STAFF ,;JETEOROLOGIST "These people badly need to "The decision of what to do with have their communities restored and a military base should be based on announcement comes as Pentagon Rain and rain showers will be arriving from the west this after- re-established and. in this particular the defense needs of the country and officials contemplate the closure of noon. The heaviest rain will fall to our west and north. Clearing will case, having Homestead Air Force the best value to tile taxpayers. dozens of U.S. bases later this year begin by midday Friday after a cold front crosses the area. Base there has been sort of the Military bases should not be jobs in an effort to save money. In the showers arriving late. Winds south Today: Clouding up with rain anchor in that part of the state," programs or disaster-relief pro- round of base closures that ended in at IO mph (I16 kph). High 75°F (24°C). Chency said. grams." 1990, Homestead was considered on Tonight: Cloudy and mild with rain and rain showers. Low 65°F "I think his (Bush's) decisions Other lawmakers, however, a short list of prospective closures, (18'C). Winds south at 10-15rmph (16-24 kph). ought to be evaluated on their merits remained open to the proposal. Sen. but in the end was kept open. Tomorrow: Clearing by afternoon. Winds shifting to the north- and without always having this Sam Nunn, D-Ga., on Wednesday "We're ecstatic about it but sur- west at 7-15 mph (I11-24 kph). High 79°F (26°C). Low 60'F (16'C). charge that somehow this is politi- toured southern Florida, including prised and taken aback," Homlestead Saturday: Mostly sunny. High 75-80°F (25°C). Low 60'F cally involved. You can't have it the destroyed air base, with Gov. City Manager Alex Muxo said of (I6°C). both ways. You can't criticize him Lawton Chiles and declined to say the president's decision to rebuild for doing nothing and then criticize how he would stand on the proposed Homestead. I -- I- JI September 3, 1992 WORLD & NATION THE TECH Page 3

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By Amy Wallace Angelenos' felt such despair about sion. ties available to them. While the provides a first-ever opportunity to LOS ANGELES TIMES their city that "there was little The poll consisted of interviews responses of Asians, Latinos and compare public opinion on race and LOS ANGELES room," said the survey, "to further with 1,869 Los Angeles County res- whites, were unchanged by the ver- ethnic relations before and after an Sharply contradictingg the popu- shift opinion in a negative direc- idents selected at random. dicts, the responses of blacks -and explosive event. lar assumption that the 1992 riots tion." Before the riots and after, 70 Approximately half were inter- particularly of upper-income blacks were a "wake-up call'I" for Los percent or more of respondents in viewed before the riots and half - indicated a "strong and uniform The survey found that negative Angeles, a University of 'California, each ethnic group felt that Los afterward. rise in black alienation from stereotyping is fairly common, espe- Los Angeles, survey has; found that Angeles had become a worse place The survey results, while over- American social institutions." cially with regard to perceptions of the cataclysmic events off this spring to live during the last five years. whelmingly stable, noted a few sig- -Confidence in the police blacks and, to a lesser degree, did very little to alter resiMients' atti- "We often tend to assume that nificant shifts in opinion after April declined among whites. Thirteen Latinos. On the average, 45.1 per- tudes about economic, eff,,hnic, politi- people's basic assumptions are 29, when the verdicts were percent of white respondents cent of non-blacks rated blacks as cal and social life. affected by events this dramatic and announced. Among them: expressed "not much" confidence in lower in intelligence, 63.4 percent In a wide-ranging teleephone poll costly," said Larry Bobo, a UCLA -Asked if they would favor liv- the police before the riots, as com- rated blacks as more likely to prefer conducted before the ver(rdicts in the sociology professor and the princi- ing in a neighborhood where half pared to 20.5 percent afterwards. In living on welfare and 48.5 percent Rodney G. King beating case, then pal author of the annual study, their neighbors were of a different contrast, the views of Asians, blacks rated blacks more likely to be hard repeated immediate]~ly after, called the Los Angeles County ethnic group, many more whites and Latinos remained the same. to get along with. researchers found the ri(iots did not Social Survey. "But unfortunately, it said yes after the riots than had Before and after the riots, 56 per- measurably change resi(,dents' per- doesn't appear that a lot of basic before. Among Asians, blacks and cent of blacks expressed "not much" On the average, 44.6 percent of ceptions about the qualit,ty of life in assumptions were moved very far." Latinos, there was no significant confidence in the police, as com- non-Latinos rated Latinos as less Los Angeles County. Coi)nfidence in That bodes poorly, Bobo said, change. pared to 3 1.1 percent of Latinos and intelligent, 52.2 percent rated them local government remai,incd tepid. for the future of Los Angeles. -Blacks became more alienat- 26.3 percent of Asians. as more likely to prefer being wel- Fear of crime -alreadyI high -got Though the survey stops short of ed. Several questions sought to mea- In releasing the survey for publi- fare dependent and 34.5 percent no higher. predicting another riot, Bobo said its sure how ethnic groups feel about cation Thursday, UCLA researchers rated them as more likely to be diffi- Even before the ciNvil unrest, findings support no other conclu- the social and economic opportuni- touted it as a historic document that cult to get along with. Issue of Clinton's DraftLietam Record Flares Up Again By Bill McAllister conducted a vigorous campaign to In Little Rock, campaign aides reserve slot for Clinton, but he secured his position in the Indiana and Charles Babington get 'Clinton enlisted in a Hot said later that Clinton was surprised acknowledged he was friend of National Guard during the war, said THE WASHINGTON POST Springs, Ark., naval reserve unit by the accounts that his late unlcle, Raymond Clinton and was that the issue showed a fundamental Bill Clinton's draft status -an rather than have his nephew face an automobile dealer, had tried to impressed by the chance to enlist difference between his military issue the Arkansas governor had induction. Until that account was get him in the Navy. "He doesn't someone with a college education. record and that of Clinton. "I chose hoped to put to rest last week - published, Clinton's only known know anything about it," said "We would have done that for any- to serve in the Indiana National flared anew Wednesday with encounter with military recruiters George Stephanopoulus, Clinton one else who walked in the door," Guard. Bill Clinton chose not to Republicans charging that the was his short-lived agreement to communications director. Betsey he said. serve," the vice president said. "I Democratic presidential nominee join an Army ROTC unit at the Wright, another Clinton aide who Republicans charged that the answered all the questions that the had failed to fully explain how he University of Arkansas. He never has researched the governor's years uncle's efforts illustrated how media put to me in 1988. 1 answered had avoided military service during attended the university and backed as a Rhodes scholar in England, said Clinton had failed in his avowed every single last one of them. Bill effort to "set straight" the record of the Vietnam War. out of the agreement after he drew a she had found "nothing to indicate Clinton is going to have to answer he had any knowledge of it." how he had avoided military service Campaigning in Kansas City, number in a draft lottery that made those questions, too." Trice Ellis Jr., the now-retired during the war. "Serious witnesses Vice President Quayle charged that his induction unlikely. Sen. Al Gore Jr. (D-Tenn.), Campaigning in Maryland reserve officer who found a slot for now say that Bill Clinton did Clinton "hlas a credibility problem" Clinton's running mate who served over the issue. "He is going to have Wednesday, Clinton declined to Clinton in his unit, said in an inter- receive 'favorable treatment' " in the Army in Vietnam, disputed to come clean with the American address the issue, saying he had view Wednesday he had attemnpted charged Dominic DiFrancesco, for- Quayle's charges, saying that people and answer the questions," fully discussed his draft status in a to raise the matter with Clinton mer national commander of the C:linton's speech to the Legion had Quayle told reporters. speech last week to the American recently, telling him "I don't know American Legion, in a statement His comments were prompted by Legion. "I already answered that. I if you know anything about this." released by the Blsb-~Quayle cam- "pretty well dealt with" the draft a Los Angeles Times story that have- nothing further to say," Clinton did not respond, Ellis said. paign in Washington. issue. The new account "should not Raymond Clinton, a now-deccascd Clinton said before an appearance in Ellis said that he did nothing Quayle, who in 1988 underwent affect Clinton's credibility," Gore uncle of the Arkansas governor, had Montgomery County. improper in attempting to find a extensive questioning about how he told reporters in Denver. - I-'-- ''

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lWIN PEAKS: RRE WALK WH ME -Wash., to investigate. There they discover a She is more than just the homecoming queen too, since an angel appears to absolve her in a Written by DavidLynch and Robert Engels. series of strange clues - a missing ring, a rebelling against society's constraints; she is a final scene as hokey as the one in Blue Velvet. Directed by David Lynch. missing trailer, and the letter "T" lodged cocaine addict, accomplice to murder, prosti- Though having watched "Twin Peaks" is StarringSheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, under the body's left ring fingernail. The film tute, and incest victim. Ultimately, one feels not a requirement to understand Laura's pain, Ray Wise, and Kyle MacLachlan then cuts to Philadelphia, where Special sorry for Laura, and obviously Lynch does, it is a requirement to understand anything else Nowplaying at Loews Janus. Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle about the film. I have seen every MacLachlan) is explaining a episode, and I still had to rely on By Deborah A. Levlnson dream he has had to his boss, other fans to remind me of the role COnRtIBUTING EDIMOR Gordon Cole (David Lynch) and David Bowie's character plays in the W atching Twin Peaks: Fire Walk fellow agent Albert-Rosenfeld. tangled "Twin Peaks" web. Only With Me reminded me what a sick, (Miguel Ferrer). The dream devoted series watchers will remem- sick man David Lynch is. Who involves the murder of a beautiful, ber that Mrs. Tremond and her eerie, else could look at a quaint, pretty blond, sexually active high-school magician grandson were neighbors to town in Washington state and see not the girl -"half the high-school girls_ Howard Smith, the keeper of Laura's potential for beauty, but the -potential for evil, in America," as Albert says -but_ diary, or that the dead body that mys- decadence, and mayhem? Cooper insists that the dream will_ teriously appears in Laura's bed (and When ABC canceled Twin Peaks, Lynch come true. _ talks to her) is Annie Blackburn, Dale was forced to wrap up two seasons' worth of Now cut to one year later in_ Cooper's girlfriend, who may lie complicated questions in one two-hour Twin Peaks, where the beautiful,_ trapped or murdered in the dreaded episode. The result - an improbable ending blond, sexually active high-school_ Black Lodge. Confused yet? Don't and a muddy pool of mysticism - created girl Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is_ worry, you will be, right after the more questions than it answered, and so leading a clandestine, dissolute_ early scene where Gordon Cole uses a Lynch turned to film to placate his loyal fans. life of prostitution and drug abuse._ dancer to discuss the investigation Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me does clear Tormented by rapist and all-_ into Teresa Banks' death - in pan- things up a bit, but not enough. You have to around horror Bob (Frank Silva),_ tomime. wonder, given the obviously twisted nature of Laura is slowly falling apart. Her_ If you enjoyed the television Lynch's thoughts, if anyone else but he knows life teems with the supernatural,_ series, by all means, grab a cup of what's going on. from a picture that opens the gate-_ coffee and a slice of cherry pie, and Twin Peaks is an astonishing movie in way to a dream to the aforemen-_ settle down for the two and a quarter terms of visuals, characterization, and plot. Its tioned missing ring that suddenly_ hours that is Twin Peaks: Fire Walk fatal flaw is that despite the astonishing visu- turns up in her hand._ With Me. If you don't know what the als, characterization, and plot, it will be utterly Since Laura only appeared in_ dancing dwarf, One-Eyed Jack's, or incomprehensible to anyone who has not seen other characters' flashbacks on the_ Ronette Pulaski have to do with the at least 75 percent of the television series. television series, "Twin Peaks"_ story, just remember before you pay The film opens in the aftennath of the mur- never gave much of an idea of her_ $6.75: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With der of Teresa Banks, one year before Laura personality. However, she is the_ Me is beautiful to watch, and the plot Palmer's death. Two FBI agents, Chester film's primary character, anid_ is riveting, but only the true David Desmond (Chris Isaak) and Sam Stanley Lynch and Lee give us a fulll pi -_ Lynch fan will find something to (Kiefer Sutherland), head to Deer Meadow, ture of Laura's schizophrenic life. Laulra PaliImer (Sheryl Lee) In Twin Peaks: Fire Walk Withh Me. enjoy. hopes for new audience with solo effortd PAUL WELLER move to break up at the height of their include a number of former Style Council The self-titled album consists of twelve Paul Weller. popularity to form his new band, the Style musicians, however, including longtime col- songs recorded during and since the breakup Go! Discs America. Council, with keyboardist in laborator , the talented drummer of ; one, "Round and 1983. This gave him the opportunity to exper- of acid jazz group the Jazz Renegades. Round," was first heard in a much different By Paula Cuccurullo iment more with the American and Northern Together they have put together a sound version on the UK House album Free Your (UK) soul sound he favored for his own lis- which marks a turn towards the guitar Feelings by Slam/Slam (fronted by Weller's W ay back in everyone's favorite tening pleasure. The Council stayed together rock/ploppof the Jam but with the jazz/funk wife Dee C. Lee). The lyrics are more intro- decade, the Seventies, something for over seven years, almost as long as the sensibilities of the Council intact. spective than on much of Weller's previous interesting happened on the British Jam; in the UK, they were never as popular as In concert on July 25 in New York City, work, dealing with his past, his present, and music scene. One pub band made Weller's first band, but they were beloved by the band was focused and having an excellent his fears and hopes for the future. Listeners up of three teenagers wore sharp black suits, fans of jazz, funk, and pop, alike. time. They played songs from all three periods familiar with his previous work will be sur- carried vintage guitars, and played angry The only thing Weller's two bands seemed of Weller's career, performing most of the prised at the complete absence of overt politi- songs about what it was like to be young in to have in common was their inability to make new songs for the first time ever in America. cal statements on the album. Instead he has London at that time. They were lumped a lasting impression on the music scenc in the The songs are less jazzy than those of the taken a more personal approach to putting together with the bands of the Punk move- United States, which is a shame considering Style Council and take more of an influence forth his philosophy of life, and it works. ment but were actually more devoted to the the heights of popularity they reached in his frorn rock bands of 1960s Britain (Blind Faith, Hopefully it will appeal to both sets of his Mod ideals of the Who and the Small Faces. own country, the rest of Europe, and particu- the Beatles), but are far from being strictly fans and new converts as well. By the time of their breakup, the Jam had larly Japan. It seemed as if tie rest of the mod like early Jam work. The live versions Look for the release of the album on Go! become the most popular band in Britain world found something important that most of were not as polished as those on the album but Discs America/Polygram on October 6, after (spawning a New Mod movemcnt), and their this country didn't. But some hope remains, benefited from that roughness and the good the release of the first single in late singer/guitarist/songwritcr, Paul Weller, had because almost two decades after he first humor of the musicians. Weller himself was September. Weller and his band will be play- been proclaimed the spokesman for his gener- played in a pub outside of London, Paul in rare form, thrashing about with his guitar ing in America after an extensive tour of ation. Weller has a new album and a tour poised to and enjoying audience singalongs; he seemed Britain, hoping to appear in the Greater But Weller had wanted to move on to a win this country over to his side. surprised at how much of the audience knew Boston area sometime in November or different sound, and thus made the daring This time, he is on his own. His band does the words to the older songs! December. ------I- --

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Overlap, from Page 1 promised, among other things, "that that allows students of modest they will no longer collude or con- means to have the kind of education were adjusted at the meeting in spire on financial aid." The schools that we offer." order tomake the packages from also agreed "not to discuss or agree each school similar or identical. on future tuition or faculty salary In June, the Justice Department This would allow students to choose increases," although the issues of made its case against the Institute at a university without regard to its tuition and faculty salaries were not a two-week trial held at the Federal cost, the schools said. mentioned in the suit. District Court in Philadelphia. Court But the Justice Department dis- observers predicted at the trial's agreed, and last year accused the Throughout this process, MIT conclusion that a decision would Ivy League Overlap schools and adamantly insisted it had not broken probably come in September. Soon MIT of price-fixing in a federal law- any laws. Provost Mark S. Wrighton after Judge Louis C. Bechtle's 49- suit. All of the Ivy League schools said, "Our interest all along has page decision was handed down decided not to contest the suit, and been providing the maximum yesterday morning, MIT announced signed a consent form in which they amount of financial aid ... in a way plans to appeal.

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President Charles M. Vest 25 Percent ofFrshmen Must Retakre Math Exmm Math, from Page I the cutoff of the second exam are PhD '76, professor of mathematics, strongly urged to take Calculus I who will teach Calculus 1 (18.01) (18.01) and Physics I (8.01L), a this fall. new, slower-paced version of 8.01, "To pass the first test, a student Friedman said. had to earn more than 70 points [out Students will also be encouraged

I I of 100] total and more than 17 to attend review sessions, study DOUGLAS D. KELLER- THE TECH points [out of 25] on at least three of review modules, and pass a tutored Freshman cluster around adviser Hartley Rogets on Kresge Oval yesterday morning before the the four parts," Friedman said. exam on the diagnostic materials, Adviser/Advisee picnic. This year marks the first time some freshmen will participate in resl- This year, freshmen took longer, Friedman said. Students can take the dence-based advising in addition to freshman adviser seminars. on average, to complete the test, test as many times as necessary, but Enders said. "They took it more they should pass by Sept. 18, he seriously, I think." added. Frosh Receive Results of Essay Test "On the whole, students did bet- Although scoring above the cut- ter than last year?" Enders said. She off on the math diagnostic is not Writing, from Page 1 recommended grade are urged to and next year we'll expand the num- added that she felt most students mandatory, a passing score earns the register for a writing class first term. ber of cenditionials,?!"Pdreltaifasaid.- were reassured by the results- first I100 points out of the total I I 00 tests were graded as "conditional A conditional mechanical rating Students who have not yet taken The diagnostic tested algebra, points of 18.01, according to mechanical," and-4.7 percent were was given for writing which is gen- the exam will be tested on Nov. 5. geometry and analytic geometry, Friedman. "conditional sentence structure." erally good but has problems with trigohonletry, and exponentials, log- Students who score below the These students must attend.a-work- .punctuation or subject-verb agree- ESL exam also offered .arithms and complex numbers. cutoff and do not take 18.01 should shop or a tutoring session to convert ment, for example, Perelman said. In addition to the FEE, interna- Questions were graded with partial try to attend the review sessions. their scores into passing grades. Students can pass Phase I after indi- tional and bilingual students had the credit awarded. "It's going to be a problem if this A "not acceptable" grade was vidual tutorial sessions at the writ- option of taking an English as a material isn't passed," Friedman given to 36.5 percent of the fresh- ing center with Perelman, he said. Second Language test, according to What happens next? said. men essays, and an additional 15.8 A conditional sentence structure Associate Professor of Foreign Freshmen who did poorly last "I was pleased with the results percent were judged "not accept- grade indicates prose that is awk- Languages and Literature Suzanne Friday will take a similar test on from this first diagnostic. ... The able/writing subject recommended," ward or difficult to understand, he Flynn. Registration Day, according to results were better than I expected," according to Perelman. said. These students need to attend a The exam is used to determine Enders. Those who still score below Friedman said. Students receiving a not accept- two-hour workshop teaching "tech- whether to "recommend that they able rating must either submit a niques for writing more effective take a class in ESL," she said. paper to the writing requirement prose," he added. The exam has three parts -the office or take a writing subject that Each of the essays was read by FEE, listening comprehension, and fulfills Phase 1, Perelman said. two readers, who are professional a grammar component, Flynn said. These include Expository Writing writers teaching at MIT and other The results are evaluated indepen- a (21.730), Writing and Experience area schools. The mean of the nor- dently from those of the writing (21.731), Introduction to Technical malized scores was 70 out of 100, requirement. Communication (21.732), and with a standard deviation of 10. A The "response was good this Expository Writing I and II for faculty committee decided that year," she said, citing that 142 stu- Undergraduates. English as a scores of 72 or higher would pass dents took the exam voluntarily. She Second Language (21 .3 33 and and chose to grant a few conditional added that although statistics are not 21.334). passes, Perelman said. yet available, the results are close to Freshmen with a writing subject "I hope the experiment succeeds, that of previous years. m I`------I-r - - - · - -- -· m m .,4 P -,R, - -

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