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Volume 127, Number 47 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, October 19, 2007 $160 Million Raised Group Hosts Gambling Lecture In Campaign So Far ‘Bringing Down the House’ Author Is One of Three Speakers at Forum Campaign to Raise $500 Million in Total By Natasha Plotkin of the Campaign for Students, STAFF REPORTER “we’ve been meeting with alumni Since its launch in 2006, the in small groups trying to engage do- Campaign for Students has raised nors and generate enthusiasm for the $160 million out of the targeted $500 campaign,” Clay said. Presentations million over five years. have taken place in major centers of The $160 million raised so far alumni across the country, said Clay. puts the campaign “ahead of sched- There will be a public launch on ule,” said Chancellor Phillip L. Clay campus next fall. PhD ’75, and well along the way to “The approach is not to emphasize meeting the intermediate goal of a list of what we need money for, but $250 million by October 2008. rather to show the human face and the The $500 million would contrib- energy of the student body,” Clay said. ute to programs across the Institute, “We’re saying, invest in students.” with $200 million slated for under- The campaign is communicating this graduate financial aid and scholar- message by showcasing students in ships, $100 million each to graduate various media, including live presen- student fellowships, student life, and tations, a book on the campaign, and student learning, said Clay. a Web site (http://thehumanfactor.mit. The money will not be aimed edu/) highlighting individual students’ specifically at generating any major experiences at the Institute. new programs, but rather on support- Alumni may choose to donate to Alex H. Chan—The Tech ing current programs because “MIT specific causes within the campaign, Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and Busting Vegas, talks about his books is very good at coming up with new such as international programs or and how he became acquainted with the MIT Blackjack Team. Mezrich was one of three featured speak- ideas, but sometimes we don’t have student life, Dare said. They may ers at a Technology & Culture Forum at MIT lecture Wednesday, Oct. 17 in 10-250. money to support what’s already also direct their donations toward here,” said Campaign Director Ste- short-term spending that may fund, By Ryan Ko ence, Technology, and Society and his two best-selling books, Bring- phen A. Dare. for example, scholarships or athlet- STAFF REPORTER Maressa H. Orzack, founder of the ing Down the House and Busting Clay said that the primary source ics, or long-term spending through Approximately 75 people at- Computer Addiction Service and Vegas, in which he describes how of donations for the campaign will be investment in endowments. tended the Technology & Culture faculty at Harvard Medical School. two different groups of MIT stu- individual people, especially alumni, Faculty and staff across the In- Forum at MIT lecture, “Gambling: The forum aimed to discuss dents played lucratively profitable as opposed to corporations and foun- stitute are involved in the campaign. Face to Face or interface?” held “the culture of gaming in America blackjack. “I was always a horrible dations, which are the primary source MIT Corporation members have also Wednesday evening in 10-250. The and the way new technologies are gambler,” he said. However, af- of funding for other campaigns. The supported the campaign by hosting lecture featured bestselling author changing it,” according to the T&C ter meeting a few members of the other two major fundraising initia- events and donating money. “I think Ben Mezrich, famous for his novels Web site. team at the Crossroads Irish Pub in tives on campus now are for the MIT we’ll be very successful since we’ve about the MIT Blackjack Team. Mezrich started the forum by Boston, he decided to follow them Energy Initiative and the Center for gotten excellent support so far,” Clay Other speakers at the event were narrating how he became acquaint- to Vegas and wrote the books soon Cancer Research, according to Dare. said. “We have a chance to do better MIT Assistant Professor Nata- ed with the MIT Blackjack Team, During the initial “silent” phase than $500 million.” sha Schüll of the Program on Sci- then presented brief synopses of Gambling, Page  FutureBOSTON Project Invites Open Dialogue Regarding City By Jeff Guo attracting talent. But FutureBOS- site warns. “They’re more liv- creasingly mobile — and fickle opposed to telling the beehive what Staff Reporter TON, an urban development project able, more affordable, easier to get — FutureBOSTON targets the city’s to do,” Piper said. With world-class universities, in- and competition organized by MIT, around, and faster at getting things health care infrastructure, civic de- At the heart of FutureBOSTON novative young insists that the city can — and must done.” sign, and energy practices, areas are three online competitions de- companies, and — do better. Thomas J. Piper, FutureBOS- that Piper says are of chief concern veloping proposals for improving Feature a vibrant arts “Cities around the world are TON executive director and princi- to the modern city. Using an on- health, design, and sustainability in community, Boston is no slouch at catching up fast,” the project Web pal research scientist at MIT’s De- line social networking application the city. Participants will be men- partment of Urban Planning, said, written by researchers at MIT, the tored by experts in the field and “People are moving to cities like project will invite open dialogue winners chosen from each category Portland without a job [lined up]; between all Bostonians about the will further develop their ideas with people are moving to Boston to get city’s future, making public the sort the help of MIT’s Department of an education to move to Portland. of planning previously restricted to Urban Planning and Sloan School’s We want to keep them here.” closed committees of academics, Entrepreneurship Center. To keep Boston competitive politicians, and businesspeople. “Honest to God, it is a revolu- in an economy where talent is in- “We’re asking the beehive, as Boston, Page 11

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In Short News World & Nation    � 2 ¶ Drew Gilpin Faust was inaugurated as Harvard Pushing colleges to Opinion           � 4 University’s 28th and first woman president Oct. 12. limit credit offers to Andrew T. Lukmann—The Tech Arts  � 5 ¶ Sol LeWitt’s artwork in Bldg. 4 will be students  8 Eric Abruzzi, an MIT subcontractor, replaces wiring and equip- Comics / Fun Pages   �6 inaugurated in a dedication ceremony today ment damaged by a drain leak in Burton-Conner House. The BU unveils $1.8 billion from 4–6 p.m. leak knocked out both water and Internet service to the dormi- Sports           � 16 tory early this week. plan  10 ¶ Community Giving at MIT kicks off with a used book sale Monday in Lobby 10 and 10-105. Page  The Tech October 19, 2007 World & Nation Torre Declines Yankees’ Offer, Returning Opposition Leader Ends an Era of Success By Tyler Kepner The New York Times Met With Bombs in Pakistan It was the longest-running and most successful show in the Bronx in decades, running from 1996 through 2007 and stretching into October ev- By Carlotta Gall or more, who danced on the tops the celebration, thousands of support- ery season. By the end, it was playing to sold-out crowds almost nightly, and Salman Masood of buses and surged forward as she ers and workers from her party had and there were moments of magic that may never be repeated. The New York Times inched her way for hours through her lined Bhutto’s route, waving banners But the curtain fell on the Joe Torre Era on Thursday when Torre, who KARACHI, Pakistan home city. and surging forward for a glimpse of will someday enter the Hall of Fame for his work as the Yankees’ man- Two bombs exploded Thursday The strong outpouring provided the opposition leader as she inched her ager, rejected the team’s one-year contract offer to stay. The Yankees said just seconds apart and feet from a an emotional homecoming for Bhutto way through the streets. they would begin a search for a new manager. truck carrying the returning opposi- and political vindication of sorts for a Many danced on bus tops and Torre flew to Tampa, Fla., Thursday to meet with the team’s principal tion leader Benazir Bhutto, narrowly woman twice turned out of office as in the road. Bhutto waved as music owner, George Steinbrenner, after two days of organizational meetings missing her but killing scores of peo- prime minister, after being accused pumped out from loudspeakers. had ended with no announcement. The Yankees offered Torre $5 million, ple and bloodying a triumphal home- corruption and mismanagement. The crowd was overwhelmingly but he could have earned an additional $3 million — and a guaranteed coming after eight years in exile. It also demonstrated that Bhutto working class. Many young men said $8 million salary in 2009 — if he had led the Yankees to the World Series Various reports said 126 were killed remained a decisive political force in they were unemployed, but had trav- next season. and some 150 wounded, including ci- Pakistan, even after her long absence, eled hundreds of miles, paying their The salary would have kept Torre as the highest-paid manager in the vilians and party workers. In the initial and marked what supporters and op- own way, and camping out overnight majors, but the guaranteed portion would have represented a cut from his chaos, however, the Interior Ministry ponents alike agreed was a new politi- on the road to the airport to await her present salary, which averaged $6.4 million over the last three seasons. In could only confirm 70 deaths. cal chapter for the nation. arrival. each year of that contract, the Yankees lost in the first round of the playoffs. There were no claims of responsi- The bomb attack showed it to be a In the crowd, Raja Munir Ahmed, bility for the attack. treacherous one as well. 42, a real estate agent, said he had Bhutto, who had spent eight hours The explosions, caught on camera, come from Mirpur in a Pakistani-ad- Trying to Decipher the Justices on on the roof of the truck waving to gave off brilliant white flashes, and set ministered part of Kashmir. “It was supporters, had climbed inside the ar- two cars ablaze. Survivors stumbled a journey of 1,500 kilometers and all the State of the Death Penalty mored vehicle 10 minutes before the over bodies and debris in a haze of along we saw buses and cars carrying By Linda Greenhouse blasts occurred, just before midnight, smoke. It was not immediately clear if Peoples Party flags,” he said. “People The New York Times WASHINGTON said Rehman Malik, Bhutto’s security the explosions were caused by suicide want change. People want to get rid of Is there a death penalty moratorium now in place, and how would we adviser and close associate. bombers. inflation and unemployment.” know? She was immediately taken to Bi- Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party Then he shouted, “Long live Bhut- The Supreme Court has granted two stays of execution and refused lawal House, her home in Karachi, had fielded 2,000 of its own workers to!” and disappeared into the crowd. to vacate a third in the three weeks since it agreed to hear a challenge to ending her parade through the city to to form rings around their returning Such supporters were among the Kentucky’s use of lethal injection. the tomb of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, leader, guarding her with their num- majority of those killed and wounded. On Thursday, the Georgia Supreme Court became the latest state court the founder of Pakistan. bers and preventing any vehicles or But about 20 were also police and law to interpret the justices’ actions as a signal to suspend at least some execu- Bhutto’s arrival at 2 p.m. had people from approaching. enforcement officials, said Interior tions. It granted a stay to Jack Alderman, who had been scheduled to die drawn huge crowds, perhaps 200,000 Before the explosions sundered Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao. by lethal injection on Friday night for murdering his wife 33 years ago. The top criminal court in Texas, a state that accounts for 405 of the 1,099 executions carried out in this country since 1976, has indicated that it will permit no more executions until the Supreme Court rules, some- Presidential Veto Stands; Child time next spring. The Nevada Supreme Court this week postponed all executions in that state. The governor of Alabama gave one inmate a 45- day reprieve. The country’s most recent execution took place in Texas on Health Insurance Fails in House the night of Sept. 25, hours after the Supreme Court announced its review of the Kentucky case. By Robert Pear Iraq — a feat Democrats would never president’s objections. In the Senate, and Sheryl Gay Stolberg have imagined when they pushed Re- the bill was approved last month with The New York Times publicans out of power a year ago. He more than a two-thirds majority. Panel Reviews WASHINGTON has twisted Democrats into knots over The bill would have increased The House on Thursday upheld domestic surveillance, and forced spending on the State Children’s Eavesdropping Compromise President Bush’s veto of a bill to pro- them to rethink a resolution con- Health Insurance Program by $35 By Scott Shane vide health insurance to 10 million demning as genocide a century-old billion, bringing the total to $60 bil- and Eric Lichtblau children, but Democrats vowed to massacre of Armenians. lion over the next five years. It would The New York Times Washington send it back to him next month, with The outcome on Thursday, re- have provided coverage for nearly 4 The Senate Intelligence Committee met late Thursday to review pro- minor changes, in the belief that they minding Democrats of the limits of million uninsured children, while posed compromise legislation that would strengthen court oversight of could ultimately prevail. their power, came as Congress and continuing coverage for 6.6 million eavesdropping on Americans while granting telephone and Internet com- Despite a multimillion-dollar the president prepared to square off already on the rolls. panies legal immunity for their role in assisting government surveillance advertising campaign and intense over a dozen spending bills needed to After the House vote, Speaker programs since 2001. lobbying by children’s advocates, finance the government in the new fis- Nancy Pelosi of California said, “In Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the Democratic chairman, and supporters of the bill were unable to cal year. Bush has threatened to veto the next two weeks, we intend to Sen. Christopher S. Bond of Missouri, the Republican vice chairman, convert a single House Republican at least 10 of those measures, while send the president another bill that reached a tentative agreement Wednesday on the compromise measure. who voted against passage of the bill also holding the Democrats respon- provides health care for 10 million But some Democrats on the committee, including Sen. Russ Feingold last month. sible for not acting more quickly on children.” That goal, she said, is “not of Wisconsin, objected to the immunity and the fate of the proposal was For now, the insurance vote stands the bills, which were supposed to be negotiable.” uncertain. as the latest example of how Bush enacted by Sept. 30. Pelosi and her lieutenants later House Democrats have also raised questions about the compromise, can still get his way on Capitol Hill. In the vote on Thursday, the roll crossed the Capitol to discuss options which emerged after the Bush administration agreed to share documents Through artful use of veto threats and call was 273-156. That was 13 votes with the Senate majority leader, Harry related to the secret eavesdropping program with the Senate committee. his veto pen, Bush has fended off at- short of the two-thirds majority Reid, D-Nev., and Republican senators tempts to force a change of course in needed to pass the measure over the who had helped write the legislation. Weather October Never Felt So Good Situation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Friday, October 19, 2007 By John K. Williams 130°W 125°W 120°W 115°W 110°W 105°W 100°W 95°W 90°W 85°W 80°W 75°W 70°W 65°W 60°W Staff Meteorologist 40°N Just when you thought fall had arrived in the form of cool daytime temperatures and downright chilly nights, the thermostat is getting bumped up again. To recap, this month 1020 started off very much above normal, followed by a period of nearly normal highs and

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Contractors Injure Three Iraqis Nobel Winner Issues Apology For Comments About Blacks Protecting American Employees By Cornelia Dean The New York Times By Andrew E. Kramer bed in Kirkuk, said that after they Blackwater leave the country in the James D. Watson, who shared the 1962 Nobel prize for deciphering The New York Times fired, the security contractors pointed wake of the September shooting in the double-helix of DNA, apologized “unreservedly” on Thursday for BAGHDAD their guns at the car to discourage Nisour Square in Baghdad. The dis- comments reported this week suggesting that black people, overall, are A man lost his eye and two other those inside from climbing out. The pute threatens to undermine U.S. not as intelligent as whites. people were wounded when pri- guards then drove away without of- reconstruction efforts here, as civil- In an interview published Sunday in The Times of London, Wat- vate security contractors fired into a fering medical help, said the man, ian employees of the American gov- son is quoted as saying that while “there are many people of color crowded taxi as it approached their Zairak Nori Qadir, whose right eye ernment travel with private security who are very talented,” he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect convoy of sport utility vehicles in was hit by a bullet. rather than military protection. of Africa.” northern Iraq on Thursday. “They fired on us, and we never Also on Thursday, thousands of “All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence The incident came less than two threatened them,” Qadir said. “They Kurds marched in cities in northern is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really,” the news- weeks after a shooting by another shot us and didn’t let us release our- Iraq to protest a decision by Turkey’s paper quoted him as saying. company killed two women in a selves from the car until they escaped parliament to authorize military in- In a statement given to The Associated Press on Thursday, Watson taxicab here, and just over a month and left us covered in blood.” cursions against Kurdish separatist said, “I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as after guards with the private Ameri- “Those are savages and criminals rebel bases in Iraq, a threat that could having said. There is no scientific basis for such a belief.” can security company Blackwater and killers,” he said. introduce a new military dimension But his publicist, Kate Farquhar-Thomson, would not say whether USA killed 17 people in a Baghdad A man who answered the phone to the Iraq war in the country’s north. Watson believed he had been misquoted. “You have the statement,” she square. at Erinys’ Middle East headquarters About 12,000 people marched in said. “That’s it, I am afraid.” The shootings on Thursday took in Dubai referred questions to the the cities of Erbil and Dahok, call- Watson is in England to promote his new book, “Avoid Boring place when security guards working Corps of Engineers. In its statement, ing on the semiautonomous govern- People: Lessons From a Life in Science” (Knopf). In a statement, Paul for the British company Erinys Inter- the Army Corps said it would appoint ment in the Kurdish region to resist Bogaards, a spokesman for Knopf, said only that it was “understand- national were escorting employees of an officer to investigate the shooting. any Turkish military attacks. March- able that his comments have caused upset throughout the world.” the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “No further details are available at ers also expressed solidarity with on a highway east of Kirkuk. The this time,” the statement said. the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ guards said that a car approached “at The incident carried the potential Party, a group listed as a terrorist or- Japan Wrings Its Hands Over a high rate of speed,” according to a to inflame Iraqi opinion about the op- ganization by the United States and statement issued by the Corps of En- erations of private security contrac- many European countries. Sumo’s Latest Woes gineers. When efforts to warn it off tors who travel Iraq’s roads in heavily “We defend Kurdistan with our By Norimitsu Onishi failed, the contractors fired into the armed convoys but are immune from souls, and I won’t allow the Turkish The New York Times TOKYO vehicle, the statement said. Iraqi law. troops to stain our beloved land,” said The problems swirling through Japan’s ancient sport of sumo re- One of the occupants of the car, Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri Ka- Jara Rikani, a high school student at cently would seem to be random, unconnected events. who was interviewed from a hospital mal al-Maliki, has demanded that the march in Dahok. A coach was expelled from the sumo association this month for inflicting fatal injuries on a 17-year-old apprentice in a hazing inci- dent and may face criminal charges. One of the two grand champions, Asashoryu, has been suspended for claiming an injury and then being Deadly Staph Infections Prompt filmed playing soccer in his native Mongolia. He is also suspected of fixing matches with other wrestlers, including the other grand cham- pion, also Mongolian. Concern in American Classrooms When things seemingly could not get any worse, a woman tried to climb up into the elevated sumo ring last month during a match, a no- By Ian Urbina treated with other drugs. The infec- and hospitals, as has often been the go place for women, who are considered impure in sumo tradition. She The New York Times tion can be spread by sharing items, case in the past. broke free from a female security guard in the audience but was pulled SANDY SPRING, Md. like a towel or a piece of sports equip- Nicole Coffin, a spokeswoman at down by a sumo wrestler who prevented her from entering the sacred When the football players here at ment that has been used by an infected the centers, said that while the results ring and, in the eyes of traditionalists, defiling it. Sherwood High School were not get- person or through direct skin-to-skin of the study are striking, it is impor- While the problems may have looked disparate, however, they ting the message about washing their contact with an open wound. tant to realize that about 85 percent of were rooted in a quintessentially Japanese conflict between tradition uniforms and using only their own On Wednesday and Thursday, the infections reported from the bac- and modernity. Should sumo, whose popularity has long been declin- jerseys, the school nurse paid a sur- scores of schools were closed and teria were in health care settings. ing, change? The debate in Japan has taken on a heated, though pre- prise visit to the locker room. events were canceled in Virginia, “MRSA in the community is typi- dictable, course. Traditionalists have said any change would mean the She brought along a baseball bat. Ohio, Maryland, North Carolina and cally a mild skin infection that rarely death of sumo, while others have said that sumo will die if it fails to “Don’t make me use this,” the Connecticut as cleaning crews disin- becomes life-threatening,” she said, change. nurse, Jenny Jones, said, pointing out fected buses, lockers and classrooms. adding that even when it does become that seven players on the team had More closings are planned on Friday. more severe, the death rates for this already contracted a deadly drug- School officials in Virginia, New type of infection are low. Google’s Strong Quarter resistant strain of bacteria this year. Hampshire and Mississippi reported Here in Sandy Spring, students “Start washing your hands,” she said. student deaths within the past two seem to be getting the message that Widens Gap on Its Rivals “I mean it.” weeks from the bacteria, while offi- they need to take extra care. By Miguel Helft School officials around the coun- cials in at least four other states report- “I think they’re taking it seriously The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO try have been scrambling this week to ed cases of students being infected. now,” William Gregory, the principal The gap between Google and its rivals keeps getting larger. scrub locker rooms, reassure parents The federal report, written by doc- at Sherwood High School, said of The Internet search and advertising giant, whose shares have risen and impress upon students the impor- tors at the Centers for Disease Con- members of the football team. “She is more than $100 in the past month, said net income in the third quarter tance of good hygiene. The heightened trol and Prevention, found that nearly pretty emphatic,” he said pointing to surged 46 percent compared with the same period a year earlier. Sales alarm comes in response to a federal 19,000 people had died in the United Jones. “But the students are also see- rose 57 percent, topping Wall Street’s already bullish forecasts. report indicating that the bacteria, States in 2005 after an invasive MRSA ing the reports of deaths, and that has The results show that Google is growing roughly twice as fast as the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus infection. The study also suggested reminded them.” overall online advertising market, which itself is booming, and that it is aureus, or MRSA, are responsible for that such infections may be twice as He added that as he visits locker expanding far more quickly than any large Internet company. more deaths in the United States each common as previously thought. rooms now, the tell-tale stench is “It was a pretty good quarter,” said Douglas Anmuth, an analyst year than AIDS. This week, health officials began gone from athletes’ uniforms, and with Lehman Brothers. “The gap is widening as they continue to dra- MRSA is a strain of staph bacteria reporting a growing number of cases students are calling him and the nurse matically outperform competitors.” Earlier this week, Google’s rival that does not respond to penicillin or in schools, gyms and day-care cen- diligently when cuts do not seem to Yahoo said its revenues grew just 12 percent. related antibiotics, though it can be ters, and not just in nursing homes be healing. In a conference call with analysts, Google executives said the com- pany’s business was strong in the United States and overseas. “We are very pleased with such strong results in what is seasonally Nominee for Attorney General Faces one of our weaker quarters,” said Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive. “It is obvious to us that our model continues to work very well.” Google said its net income grew to $1.07 billion, or $3.38 a share, up from $733 million, or $2.36 a share, a year earlier. Net revenues Difficult Questions on Interrogations rose to $4.23 billion. Excluding commissions paid to advertising By Philip Shenon The tone of questioning was far The questioning by the Democrats partners, a widely followed measure of the company’s performance, The New York Times more aggressive than on the first day was tougher still regarding Mukasey’s revenues were $3.01 billion, about $70 million higher than analysts WASHINGTON of the hearings on Wednesday as Mu- views on presidential authority to or- expected. President Bush’s nominee for at- kasey, a retired federal judge, was der tough interrogation techniques on torney general, Michael B. Mukasey, challenged by Democrats who pressed terrorist suspects, including water- declined Thursday to say if he consid- him for his views on President Bush’s boarding, which was used by the CIA Head of Reconstruction Teams in ered harsh interrogation techniques disputed anti-terrorism policies. on some of those who were captured like waterboarding, which simulates In the case of the eavesdropping and held in the agency’s secret prisons Iraq Reports Little Progress drowning, to constitute torture or to be program, Mukasey suggested that the after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. By James Glanz illegal if used on terrorism suspects. president may have acted appropriate- “Is waterboarding constitutional?” The New York Times BAGHDAD On the second day of confirmation ly under his constitutional powers in Mukasey was asked by Sen. Sheldon Attempts by American-led reconstruction teams to forge political hearings before the Senate Judiciary ordering the warrantless surveillance Whitehouse, D-R.I., in one of Thurs- reconciliation, foster economic growth and build an effective police Committee, Mukasey went further without court approval even if federal day’s sharpest exchanges. force and court system in Iraq have failed to show significant progress than he had the day before in arguing law would appear to require a warrant. “I don’t know what is involved in in nearly every one of the nation’s provincial regions and in the capital, that the White House had constitution- “The president is not putting some- the technique,” Mukasey replied. “If a federal oversight agency reported on Thursday. al authority to act beyond the limits of body above the law; the president is waterboarding is torture, torture is not The report, by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq laws passed by Congress, especially putting somebody within the law,” constitutional.” Reconstruction, comes as the United States tries to take advantage of a when it came to questions of national said Mukasey, who seemed uncom- Whitehouse described Mukasey’s drop in overall violence to create a functioning government here. defense. fortable with the harsh tone, occasion- response as a “massive hedge,” since The release of the report was linked to testimony Thursday by the He suggested that both the admin- ally stumbling in his responses. “The the nominee refused to be drawn into special inspector general, Stuart W. Bowen Jr., before the Oversight istration’s so-called warrantless eaves- president doesn’t stand above the law. a conversation about whether water- and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Com- dropping program and its use of “en- But the law emphatically includes the boarding amounted to torture; many mittee. hanced” interrogation techniques for Constitution.” lawmakers from both parties, as well There are bright spots in the effort to put together a functioning terrorism suspects, including water- The remarks about the eavesdrop- as civil liberties and human rights nation, Bowen found: economic growth in the Kurdish north; tribal boarding, may be acceptable under the ping program drew criticism from the groups, have said that it is clearly a reconciliation in the western desert province of Anbar; and patchy Constitution even if they go beyond committee’s chairman, Sen. Patrick J. form of torture. The administration progress in the development of local governments. Beyond that, some what the law technically allows. Mu- Leahy, D-Vt., who told Mukasey that has suggested that it ended the prac- of the provinces are showing increasing ability to create plans, write kasey said the president’s authority as he was troubled by his answer, adding tice after protests from Capitol Hill contracts and carry out construction projects to rebuild Iraq’s physical commander in chief may allow him to “I see a loophole big enough to drive a and elsewhere, although it has never infrastructure, the report says. supersede laws written by Congress. truck through.” said so explicitly. Page  The Tech October 19, 2007 Opinion

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In the case of wanted to embrace with our movie, and it was by director and writer Wes Anderson. this movie, what’s in there is what we discov- very well suited for our movie. Much of the Friday, Oct. 19 The movie chronicles the emotional ered in India. So I want to share as many of sound of the movie comes from Ray’s music. Charles Bubeck and spiritual journey of three estranged the experiences that we encountered during our But also these Kinks songs — we had a se- Killian Hall (14W-111), Free T Hear a jazz musician from Washing- brothers reuniting in India. (For a review of the travels. I want those moments in there. quence in the beginning, middle, and end and film, see http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N45/ In general I feel like I would rather have a they were all connected — and it just sort of ton, D.C. — and you don’t even have to darjeeling.html.) movie we fill with ideas and then somebody revealed itself that these songs all from one re- take a bus. I had a chance to sit down with Anderson says at first they’re distracted. Well, then see it cord by the Kinks seemed to fit. And those are before the Boston screening of the film. The again. I feel like a movie can contain a lot. If it songs written by brothers so there were links Saturday, Oct. 20 following is an excerpt from that conversation. feels like there’s more detail than some people that we liked. Mainly, it was just when we put Del tha Funkee Homosapien * expect, it’s different. Everybody makes movies the music in those scenes, the scenes seemed Middle East (Downstairs), 18+, $22 The Tech: You, Roman Coppola, and Jason in a different way. I’d rather have it be as dense finish. Did you know he’s Ice Cube’s cousin? Schwartzman went to India before making the as it can be. TT: Your next movie is going to be an ad- And also a blue cartoon ghost in animat- movie to live the movie first. In the movie, It’s true that in the end most of the time goes aptation of the book The Fantastic Mr. Fox, ed band Gorillaz? Make sure to check Jason’s character reads verbatim from his own into the script and figuring out how your char- by Roald Dahl, and I was wondering why you out this far-from-mainstream MC, noted life. Did scenes from your own travels translate acters interact. And most time on the set goes chose to do that? for his excellent lyricism. themselves into the movies? WA: It’s just a book I’ve always loved, and Wes Anderson: They did. In fact, origi- I liked the idea of doing some stop motion Imperial Teen * nally, Jack wasn’t a writer. As we were work- animation. I started talking about it with Noah T.T. the Bear’s Place, 18+, $15 ing, that came into it, and I can’t imagine that In the case of this story, Baumbach [director of “Squid and the Whale”] They’re twice my age and playing that didn’t happen because we had decided we and we quickly figured out a way we could the script really came from the way past my bedtime. You might re- wanted to make this movie very very personal. make a script of it because it’s a very short member them from the soundtrack to For whatever reason, that appealed to us. We combination of Roman Coppola, book. There’s not that much material there so the semi-popular mid ’90s film “Jaw- were very conscious about trying to use our we had to expand it and we had to make up our breaker”; re-remember tonight at a own experiences as much as we could; in any Jason Schwartzman, and my own version and try to see if we could follow quarter past midnight. town we were asking the question we were points of view. And it couldn’t Roald Dahl’s lead and try to write a movie that always asking ourselves: what happens next? we hoped he would like. We were asking, what’s happened to you like exist any other way. TT: I read a lot about the fact that you make Monday, Oct. 22 this? What are the details of that? And we tried movies in a collective. I was wondering if you Art Brut to use that. feel like you have to do that for a movie. Or is Roxy, All Ages, $20 In the course of that, we ended up with this into the performance of the actors and how that how you enjoy making movies most? So what if they’re opening for the character who was doing what we were doing, we’re going to help them bring it to life and WA: I enjoy it. I enjoy working with my (less talented) Hold Steady? In my book which was taking things from his life and try- how they’re going to help us bring the story to friends. In the case of this story, the script re- this night is all about Art Brut, top of ing to make them into stories, and using that life. But I like to embrace the idea of filling the ally came from the combination of Roman the pops — British punk with an intel- process to get to the next point in his life. movie up with ideas. In the end if that means Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and my points ligent and snarky attitude that calls to TT: In your movies you have a lot of elabo- my movies share some similarities or someone of view. And it couldn’t exist any other way. mind a cleaned-up version of The Sex rate scenes. I was wondering if the scenes with can say he always does it that way, well that’s The movie has so much of Roman and Jason’s Pistols. the elaborate shots are the ones you enjoy OK. I don’t mind if my movies fit together as experience and so much of my experiences, it shooting the most or if you enjoy the smaller a body of work, follow some train of thought, would never be the same with a different col- Blind Melon more intimate scenes. and they develop more ideas through the course laboration. And I think that it was because we Harper’s Ferry, 18+, $12 WA: I think sometimes it’s fun to shoot a of the film. were close friends already that allowed us to do Blind Melon reunion tour minus complicated scene. But most of what is fun on TT: A couple of your movies have several something that was very personal. Shannon Hoon. If you lived through the the set, on the day that you’re actually doing it, songs by the same artist. Do you get into the On the set when you start a movie and it’s ’90s or have a taste for modern spins on is when the actors are great. In whatever way mood of one musician or do you find a piece a reunion and all these friends get together, classic rock, check out this show. that comes about, when the actors are surprising that fits more? there’s an energy on the set that you wouldn’t you with their performances — when suddenly WA: Part of what music can do is help the get in another circumstance. And I feel like that Wednesday, Oct. 24 there’s a mood on the set and you feel like wow movie form its identity and give it coherence or can find it’s way on screen. So it’s both what I Land of Talk something’s really happening here in front of cohesion. In the case of this, I think the sound enjoy and also what I think works for the kind T.T. the Bear’s Place, 18+, $8 our camera — that’s the thing that’s exciting. of the movie is really the music of Satijit Ray, of movies that I like to do. These guys opened for Menomena THEATER REVIEW last spring which just about makes them golden in our book (and your newspa- per). They play weird instruments and dress in cool outfits and you’ll want to A Close Shave With Murder be them. Oh, and Small Sins are playing that night, too, which could be another ‘Shear Madness’ a Boston Masterpiece reason to go. By Yiwei Zhang ing Nick Rossetti (Michael Fennimore). In the audience is encouraged to take the opportunity Shear Madness opening scene, Rossetti uncomfortably finds to talk with the different characters and question Saturday, Oct. 27 Charles Playhouse himself getting a haircut in the happily wander- them about events that occurred during the play. Big D and the Kids Table Boston, Mass. ing hands of Whitcomb. And if there was any The second half continues the reenactment of Roxy, All Ages, $15 http://www.shearmadness.com/ doubt left as to where the scene is set, DeMar- events except that now the audience is allowed You know you still secretly love ska. co’s thick Boston accent is unmistakable. to directly question the characters on stage. The Bring out the kid in you and celebrate s the longest running play in Ameri- The play can be confusing at first, because audience eventually puts to a vote who they Halloween early at this show. can theater history, “Shear Madness” the audience is unsure of whether the show has think is the murderer, and the play continues as is an outrageously funny, interactive begun or not (especially since the characters before while the audience sits back to discover Sunday, Oct. 28 “whodunit” murder-mystery whose conversations cannot be heard over the loud who the guilty party is in the surprise ending. A The Dead Trees topical humor and shameless innuendos leave music), but promptly at 8 p.m., Whitcomb Much of this play is held up by the good co- Middle East (Upstairs), 18+, the audience roaring with laughter. Though the “turns off the radio” and the play commences medic timing and strong improvisational skills $9adv/$10dos play is currently in its 27th year at the Charles in earnest. of the actors who bounce off each other and The Tech recently interviewed New- Playhouse, each performance is kept fresh with As the show begins (or continues), the audi- the audience to keep the play moving along. ton band The Craters, who play with this improvisation, an abundance of references to ence is introduced to the elderly Mrs. Schubert The acting is in fact so convincing and enjoy- band’s drummer. They’ve just come off current popular culture, and an excellent sense (Mary Klug), a wealthy and somewhat self-ab- able at times that you have to wonder how the tour with Albert Hammond, Jr., so wel- of humor. sorbed but charming woman who has an un- actors speak and act in real life. What results come them back to Boston at this end of The Charles Playhouse is set up with sev- fortunate habit of unknowingly making sexual is an exceedingly amusing play that keeps the October show. eral rows of seats and tables around three sides innuendos. We also meet Edward “Eddie” Law- audience on their toes, laughing for two hours of the stage and a bar along the back. The small rence (Paul Dunn), a shady antiques dealer, straight. I highly recommend “Shear Madness” — Jillian A. Berry and Sarah Dupuis size of the theater lends an intimate feeling, and Mike Thomas (Mike Dorval), a seemingly for those looking for a hilarious and entertain- perfect for audience interaction, and ensures ordinary customer. Banter filled with rapid-fire ing evening out in Boston. that everyone has a clear view of the stage. The jokes flies back and forth between all the actors play takes place in the “Shear Madness Uni- and pokes fun at both the actors on stage and sex Hair Styling Salon on 155 Newbury Street, various members of the audience, including a Boston.” Although the set looks more as if it group of giggling women in the corner whom is a scene from “Grease” in the ’70s than an Mike Thomas dubbed “the Golden Girls” for We get you the tickets. actual present-day Newbury St. hair salon, the the rest of the night. simplicity of the set is ideal since the play re- The play takes an interesting turn when Bar- lies heavily on the skill of the actors rather than bara DeMarco runs back into the salon crying You get us the review. on the use of the props. that the landlady, Isabel Czerny, a former con- Showing up early to the theater has its ad- cert pianist who lives upstairs, has been mur- vantages. The audience is treated to a series of dered. Mike Thomas and Nick Rossetti burst hit songs from the past couple of decades. Ten back into the salon with guns raised high in the minutes before the start of the show, characters air and announce that they are Boston police rts at begin moving on and off stage. Dancing around officers working undercover. To the surprise of A is Tony Whitcomb (played by Patrick Shea), both the audience and the characters on stage, events • movies • theater • concerts the stereotypical homosexual hairdresser who Detective Mike Thomas turns to the audience comes complete with a pink shirt, sashaying and informs them that they are responsible music • books • restaurants • interviews hips, and a tendency for overzealous use of hair for helping the detectives solve the murder by products on his customers. His assistant is red- pointing out any inaccuracies in each charac- headed Barbara DeMarco (Zillah Glory), whose ter’s story as they reenact the scenes that took ample cleavage and hot red lipstick make her place up until Isabel Czerny was murdered. [email protected] a favorite among the male customers, includ- Even during the 12-minute intermission, the October 19, 2007

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Page  The Tech October 19, 2007 Advocacy Group Pushes Colleges to Limit Credit Card Offers to Students By Charles Delafuente search Group, a consumer-advocacy encourage students to think about N.Y., said she warned her daugh- LowCards.com, which tracks cred- The New York Times organization, began a campaign that whether they need a card.” ter, Sara Lipshutz, who entered it-card rates. Andrew Shapransky, a fresh- urges colleges to restrict soliciting Kenneth J. Clayton, managing Swarthmore this semester, about With two or three cards from dif- man at Vassar, says that even if of students by such companies. director of the American Bankers the dangers of easy credit. “I don’t ferent banks, a student could be in credit cards are as common as pizza Ed Mierzwinski, director of the Association’s card policy council, think she has enough experience trouble quickly. Robert D. Manning, among college students, “I have no group’s consumer programs, said said only 25 percent of college stu- to know the ramifications of using author of “Credit Card Nation: The intention of getting one.” on-campus campaigns with gifts dents received their cards through a credit card and having to pay it Consequences of America’s Addic- Mr. Shapransky, 18, an aspiring may be more dangerous to students’ on-campus promotions. And he said back,” Ms. Sussman said, adding tion to Credit” and a professor at doctor from Webster, N.Y., is on a financial health than other ap- the percentage of student cardhold- that her daughter promised not to Rochester Institute of Technology, limited budget and knows he cannot proaches. There is a “tendency for ers who carried a balance rather get a card. said that in a study two years ago, pay the bills. But many find it hard impulse purchase of the card itself,” than paying their bills in full was But beyond issuing stern warn- he found that even students “from to resist the barrage of credit-card he said. no greater than the portion of other ings, there is nothing a parent can families with a strong emphasis on offers on campus. “If someone offers you a Frisbee cardholders who carry balances. do. An 18-year-old is legally an savings began to reflect behavior of Nationwide, colleges are com- or a T-shirt or says a campus club Still, parents may welcome the adult, explained Rod Griffin, a more-spendthrift peers” before they ing under new pressure to limit ag- is going to get $1 for every applica- campaign, especially those who fear spokesman for Experian, a major graduated. gressive marketing by credit-card tion, you might get a card you don’t that their children might damage credit bureau, so parents cannot Professor Elizabeth Warren, a companies to students. This month, need or don’t want,” he said. One of their credit ratings. prevent a company from offering bankruptcy law expert at Harvard the United States Public Interest Re- his group’s goals, he added, was “to Deborah Sussman, of New City, their child a credit card. Law, said, “Congress hasn’t put Credit bureaus, he said, are set even basic safety regulations in up to collect information only from place, so parents need to teach their lenders and court files. None, he kids basic survival skills.” said, would know what to do with a Representatives John J. Duncan letter that read, “Please be advised Jr., a Republican from Tennessee, that my son/daughter is a poor cred- and Louise M. Slaughter, a Demo- it risk who has no income and no crat from New York, reintroduced way to repay charges.” legislation in the House this month Credit-card companies like stu- to limit the amount of credit avail- dents “because they have parents able to a full-time student and bar who will probably pay off their lenders from giving students with debt if there is a problem,” even no income who already have a credit though parents generally have no card any additional ones. They have legal obligation to do so, said Bill unsuccessfully sponsored such leg- Hardekopf, the chief executive of islation for a decade. Compulsive Gambling And Internet Addiction Discussed at Lecture Gambling, from Page  and how the machines are set up to induce an anesthetic-like “zone” thereafter. to keep players gambling. “What Bringing Down the House has players are describing is a form of been adapted into a movie titled exiting the world, dropping out, and “21,” which is set for Spring 2008 escaping,” said Schüll, whose new release. However, Mezrich said book Machine Life: Control and that the film is “more like an MIT Compulsion in Las Vegas is set to kid trying to get laid instead of the be published by Princeton Univer- book I wrote.” sity Press next year. “Ben Mezrich’s story has a vis- Orzack concluded the forum ible cult status,” Xaq Z. 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© 2007 Carlos Ridruejo|Caridossa.com Page 10 The Tech October 19, 2007 BU Launches $1.8 Billion Plan to Expand Faculty By Linda K. Wertheimer tious program for the university since to add 100 more tenure-track and took the helm at BU after years of as the administration made extrava- The Boston Globe Robert A. Brown became president in tenured positions to its 488-member turmoil over leadership at the univer- gant purchases, including a $32 mil- Boston University officials out- 2005, and focuses more on improving faculty and for the business school sity. lion executive suite overlooking the lined an ambitious 10-year, $1.8 bil- the school’s academic reputation than to hire 20. The additions amount to It also is the first significant initia- Charles River. They shut down the lion strategic plan Thursday to add adding bricks and mortar to a cam- a 22 percent jump in faculty at both tive since former president John Sil- site when Brown was installed, and 150 professors, dramatically lower pus that is already expanding on both schools and will help cut the overall ber led a $1.4 billion plan to add dor- his plan to make the quality and pay the school’s student-faculty ratio, and sides of Commonwealth Avenue. student-to-faculty ratio from 14 to 1 mitories and improve facilities and of faculty a priority reinforces their pour money into salaries to allow BU Brown calls for the university’s to 9 to 1. began turning the former commuter view that times have changed since to vie for the nation’s top professors. largest school, the College and Grad- “It’s moving Boston University to school into a national research uni- the Silber era, said Carol Neidle, a The plan marks the most ambi- uate School of Arts and Sciences, be in that list of the elite, large, pri- versity. Silber led the school for 25 professor of linguistics who helped vate research universities of America, years until 1996 and had a reputation run the BU Watch site. an NYU, a Penn, a Northwestern,” for stirring fear among faculty. “With Bob Brown here as presi- Brown said in a telephone interview. Several professors praised dent and with a new dean of the arts “We’ll do it by investing in faculty, Brown’s plan and his approach in de- and sciences, I feel more encour- students, and programs.” veloping it. aged about this university than I have Brown’s goal is to raise BU’s na- “The process by which the strate- in the last 25 years that I have been tional profile and crack the top 30 in gic plan came about is unprecedented here,” said Neidle. Brown installed a years to come in the annual U.S. News at this institution,” said Jim Iffland, new dean of the school in July as part & World Report rankings, rather than a professor of Spanish literature at of many moves he has made. hovering around 60th among private, BU for 33 years. “President Brown Last school year, according to national research universities. … has consulted the entire university data from the American Associa- The plan incorporates the ideas community. President Brown is lead- tion of University Professors, BU’s of professors, students, trustees, and ing Boston University as opposed to average salary for full professors staff provided over the past year. The simply controlling it, which was what was $122,164, ninth among 11 other details, endorsed in several meet- John Silber used to do.” schools it identifies as peers: Colum- ings during the past months with BU The linchpin of Brown’s plan - bia, the University of Pennsylvania, trustees who helped set the goals, are adding faculty and raising salaries - New York University, Northwest- to be announced on the university mirrors an effort Northeastern began ern, Emory, Boston College, Tufts, Web site and delivered to faculty by three years ago, when it announced Syracuse, the University of South- e-mail. plans to hire 100 new professors ern California, George Washington, As part of an attempt to broaden over five years. Northeastern drew and Syracuse. BU ranked 11th out education options for students, BU fire from faculty members when it of 12 for the average salary paid to will add 30 university-wide faculty began eliminating some instructors, assistant professors, at $69,760. The positions for professors who special- who had practical experience in their average for full professors among the ize in more than one area and can fields, as it added new professors. dozen schools was $135,629, while it teach in multiple schools. Along with Brown has assured the BU faculty was $77,712 for assistant professors. money it already spends on cost-of- that the new hires will be additions, Brown would not say how high he living raises, BU will spend $25 mil- not replacements, said Julie Sandell, would boost salaries, saying he did lion each year on salary increases to chairwoman of the Faculty Council not want to tip off BU’s competitors. give the school a chance to compete and a medical school professor. She BU will also increase spending on with other private universities for top said Brown’s plan represents a major the College of Fine Arts. The school professors and raise more money for commitment to the faculty, with its will get more practice rooms and ren- financial aid. proposal to increase salary and add ovations to enhance its performance The university will pay for about positions. venues. Like other schools within 60 percent of the plan’s costs, which Professors have been pushing for BU, the College of Fine Arts will be- will rise each year until they reach years to raise BU’s salaries to help come more accessible to all students, $225 million a year in a decade, out with recruiting, but also to establish regardless of majors, as a part of the of its operating budget. It will rely on more equitable pay universitywide, universitywide plan. The arts school donations and its endowment for the she said. will start allowing students to minor rest. A group of professors who set in music, Brown said. It is the first major attempt to up a Web site to track administrative The emphasis on the arts school is stamp his mark on the school for spending five years ago had pointed wise, Sandell said. “That’s one little Brown, a former provost at MIT, who out how faculty salaries languished part that has potential to have a big impact,” she said. Solution to Sudoku Kyle Getz, a BU senior majoring from page 6 in history and social science, said he would have liked to see even more Our idea of a study break. emphasis in Brown’s plan on break- ing down the walls between schools. “There should be a little more unity in the college,” Getz said. “BU has small little colleges with lots of autonomy. It’s more like nations in the United Nations.” He liked the idea of adding more faculty members, but had a caveat: Make sure the recruited professors are equally skilled at teaching and research.

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News Briefs, Continued News Briefs, from Page  it troubling that the administration would take sides when there is a pending case … especially true when the administration limit its public response to situa- there are legal ramifications,” and that, in general, stu- tions such as that evoked by Star A. Simpson ’10 last dents increasingly felt the administration had become month. less supportive than it was in the past. (MIT released Professor Kenneth R. Manning introduced the a statement shortly after Simpson’s arrest, character- resolution, in which “the MIT faculty request that the izing her actions as “reckless.”) MIT administration refrain from making public state- Chancellor Phillip L. Clay PhD ’75 and Presi- ments that characterize … the behavior and motives dent Emeritus Paul E. Gray ’54 argued that MIT is of members of the MIT community whose actions expected to have some response to major events, and are the subject … of pending criminal investigation.” expressed concern that too rigid a resolution could be The goal of the resolution was “to foster mutual trust detrimental to MIT’s ability to comment in situations within the MIT community” and to avoid prejudicing where it would be necessary. the outcome of due process. Gray added that a single case did not form a “solid Professor Patrick H. Winston ’65, who co-spon- basis for making policy,” a view seconded by Profes- sored the resolution, emphasized in his comments that sor Sheila E. Widnall, who opposed the resolution. the resolution was not because of “any particular inci- The resolution was tabled for further discussion at dent, but rather how we see ourselves as a communi- the next faculty meeting; the issues raised may also ty” and “how we wish to be perceived by the world.” be discussed in a smaller forum by the Faculty Policy Undergraduate Association President Martin F. Committee. 664-4606Holmes ’08AD alsoEnv spoke,6x7 saying10/3/07 that students3:31 PM “found Page 1  —Rosa Cao

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Senior Day Showing, Wins 4-1 Up to Soccer, from Page 16 ute. Ludlum served up a terrific ball shared in the Senior Day festivities. SPERM DONORS off a corner attempt, which Theurer Ludlum finished the afternoon NEEDED $1100a month! Wellesley’s Jennie Krasker scor- headed past keeper Katie Martore to with four points, setting a new Insti- ing an unassisted goal in the 72nd mark her third multi-goal game of tute standard for points in a season. Healthy MEN in college or with a college degree wanted for our minute to slice the Engineers’ lead the year and Ludlum and Theurer’s With two matches left on the regular sperm donor program. in half. MIT defender Monique T. 14th connection. More importantly, slate, Ludlum has 47 points, topping Squiers ’11 made a nice play to pre- it gave the Engineers a 3-1 lead in the previous record of 45 set by Re- Minimal time commitment vent the ball from crossing the line, a match that should factor into the becca Hill in 1993. Help people fulfill their dreams of starting a family. but Krasker’s shot was too solid for NEWMAC Tournament seedings. Wellesley keeper Martore made Receive free health and genetic screenings. Squiers to clear. The lunging attempt Capping a tremendous effort, three saves in defeat, while Stepha- bounced off Squiers’ thigh and into Janine M. Hopmans ’08 made her nie V. Brenman ’09 stopped six shots APPLY ONLINE: the net for Krasker’s seventh score final regular-season home game ap- en route to the win. With the victory, of the season. pearance one to remember as she MIT improved to 7-1-0 this season in www.SPERMBANK .com Despite surrendering a goal, the followed up last Saturday’s hat trick the friendly confines of Steinbrenner MIT offense immediately rebounded. with her sixth goal of the season in Stadium. Out-shooting Wellesley by a margin the 90th minute. Karen M. Davie MIT returns to the field tomor- of 8-3 in the second half, MIT upped ’08, who was making her 37th career row in an away match against Smith its lead to two again in the 76th min- start in three years on defense, also at 1 p.m. Tech Volleyball Stretches Winning Streak to 22 in Straight-Set Victory Volleyball, from Page 16 a hitting miscue by the Blue to close Li led the way with a season-high out the game. 14 kills, while Amanda J. Morris ’08 Jennifer Li ’11 clinched the game. The early stages of the third game dished out 41 assists. Zhong finished Tech maintained a narrow lead were a back-and-forth affair, which with 15 digs and eight kills, as Rowe for a majority of the second game eventually resulted in a 12-9 advan- notched eight kills and four blocks. until Wellesley evened the score at tage for Wellesley. The Engineers Ellison paced the blocking corps 14. A kill by Katherine C. Rowe ’10 picked up five of the next six points with five stops to go along with sev- put the Engineers ahead for good, to regain the lead at 14-13. The Blue en kills, while Cleeland contributed though the Blue remained within immediately evened the contest, but six kills and four blocks. Buchanan striking distance. MIT extended its MIT maintained a three-point cush- collected 15 digs and three aces, and lead to four (22-18) following a hit ion that last occurred at 20-17. Catherine Melnikow ’10 picked up by Lindsay E. Hunting ’09 that just Wellesley posted the next three nine digs. made its way over the net. points to establish the third tie of the Murielle Dawdy and Tracy Wald- Wellesley captured the ensuing game. The Engineers answered with man each posted 12 kills as Emily point after its time-out, but MIT a hit by Rose Zhong ’08 and convert- Peters registered a match-high 23 quickly increased its advantage to six ed a defensive miscue by the Blue digs for the Blue. Victoria Peng also (25-19). With the score at 28-23 after to push their lead to two (22-20). A distributed 26 assists. a block by Katrina M. Ellison ’10, strike by Jessica Duff down the near MIT will compete in the Hall of the Blue used its final time-out of the sideline cut Wellesley’s deficit in half. Fame Tournament this weekend. To- game. Wellesley picked up back-to- MIT mounted an 8-3 run to close the day’s matches will be held at Mount back points, but it could not generate match, with three key hits from Li Holyoke College. Mount Holy- a late rally as MIT capitalized on a and a pair of aces by Carrie C. Bu- oke and Smith will host Saturday’s kill from Barden E. Cleeland ’10 and chanan ’08 powering the late surge. brackets. Page 16 The Tech October 19, 2007 Sports Undefeated Volleyball Women’s Soccer Beats Wellesley; Takes Down Wellesley; Ludlum Sets Record for Goals By James Kramer Best Season Since ’83 DAPER Staff Forward Amy S. Ludlum ’08 By Mindy Brauer MIT opened the match with five scored the 51st goal of her career DAPER staff unanswered points and later estab- to ignite the women’s soccer team In a battle of undefeated wom- lished a 10-4 advantage. The Blue to a 4-1 victory over en’s volleyball teams in the New slowly chipped away at the deficit, Wellesley College. Fit- England Women’s and Men’s Ath- eventually capturing a 16-14 lead tingly, Ludlum’s finish letic Conference, MIT behind strong serving from Lauren occurred on Senior emerged with a 30-28, Rasmussen. Following three ties and Day and marked the 30-25, 30-23 win over two lead changes, Wellesley went most career goals by a Wellesley College on ahead, 21-19, which prompted a player in the history of the men’s and Tuesday night. The time-out by the Engineers. Follow- women’s programs. victory lifted the Engi- ing the break, MIT rattled off three Ludlum’s historic feat stole the neers’ ledger to 26-1 overall and 7-0 straight points before a service error headlines against the Blue, but it in conference play and also extended evened the game at 22. was Jean E. “Liz” Theurer ’10 who their winning streak to 22 consecu- Another three-point spurt by the sparked MIT (10-4-0, 5-2-0) in a key tive matches. Engineers resulted in a time-out by New England Women’s and Men’s The current stretch ranks second the Blue. Wellesley narrowed the Athletic Conference battle. After set- in the program’s history as the Cardi- gap to one (25-24), but MIT coun- ting up the first score of the game in nal and Gray tallied 41 straight wins tered with a trio of points. The Blue the 17th minute, Theurer knocked during the 1983 season, eventually scored four of the next five points to home the eventual game-winner in falling in the title match of the NCAA once again narrow its margin to one the 53rd minute. For the 12th and Championship. Wellesley, previously (29-28). A time-out by the Engineers 13th times this season, Ludlum and winners of 14 straight games, saw its ended the momentum as a strike by Theurer assisted on each other’s record drop to 20-4 on the year and goals as MIT built a 2-0 lead. 6-1 in the NEWMAC. Volleyball, Page 15 The first half produced only four total shots, three by Wellesley (6-6- 2, 2-4-1), although neither team was able to generate a great chance af- ter Ludlum’s opening strike from 15 yards out on the left. The pace of the Andrea Robles—The Tech tilt picked up in the second half, with Jean E. “Liz” Theurer ’10 dribbles the ball past Loretta White of Wellesley College in the second half of Tuesday’s soccer game. Theu- Soccer, Page 15 rer scored two goals to lead the Engineers to a 4-1 victory.

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Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007 Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007 Pistol vs. Coast Guard Sailing, Oberg Trophy 9 a.m., Charles River 9 a.m., duPont Athletic Center Men’s Heavyweight Crew, Head of the Charles Sailing, Oberg Trophy 9 a.m., Charles River 9 a.m., Charles River Women’s Openweight Crew, Head of the Charles Women’s Lightweight Crew, Head of the Charles 9 a.m., Charles River 9 a.m., Charles River Men’s Swimming and Diving, Alumni Meet Women’s Openweight Crew, Head of the Charles William Yee—The Tech 10:30 a.m., Zesiger Center 9 a.m., Charles River Lindsay E. Hunting ’09 digs the ball in Tuesday’s volleyball game Women’s Swimming and Diving, Alumnae Meet Men’s Lightweight Crew, Head of the Charles against Wellesley College. The Engineers remain undefeated and 10:30 a.m., Zesiger Center 2:44 p.m., Charles River handed Wellesley their first loss after a 3-0 sweep.

along the Charles afford an excellent view of Emma M. Rosen ’11 and Jenny C. Dohlman Tech Runners Take On Crew Gears Up for the day’s races, though wise spectators have ’11 were also defeated 8-5. Rees registered the learned that the Weeks and Elliot bridge turns best singles outing with a 6-2, 6-1 loss, while Plansky Hills Head of the Charles often catalyze the most exciting moments of Kerry R. Weinberg ’10 and Rosen each fell by The Tech cross country teams competed The largest gathering of high school, club, the race. MIT will also have boats competing a score of 6-0, 6-2. Katherine M. Smyth ’10 well amid bright fall foliage at the Plansky In- collegiate, national, and international crew in the Men’s and Women’s Club Eights events lost 6-1, 6-0 in the final spot. vitational this past weekend, earning first and teams will take place on the Charles River this and the Men’s and Women’s Lightweight —Mindy Brauer, DAPER Staff second place in the men’s weekend, attracting over 7,500 athletes. After Eights events, to be held earlier on Sunday and women’s races, re- a seven-year absence from the Champion- afternoon. Sailing Finishes Second Sports spectively. ship Eights event, both the MIT openweight —Stephen Young, Team Member The female Engineers women and heavyweight men will compete competed against Wil- on Sunday afternoon against the best crews in at Captain Hurst Bowl Shorts liams College at the head the rowing world. This year, those elite teams Engineers Secure A-Division skipper John M. “Jack” Field of the four-kilometer competition. MIT led include the United States, German, and Span- ’08 and crew Julie C. Arsenault ’08 finished the race in a fast first mile, only to see Wil- ish national teams, world-qualifying Pennsyl- Second Place in in the top five in nine of 15 rounds, pac- liams catch up once athletes reached the hill- vania Athletic Club Rowing Assocation, and ing MIT sailing to a stunning second-place ier woods section of the cross country route. the London Rowing Club, as well as assorted NEWMAC finish out of 22 teams at the Captain Hurst The Tech women held on well to finish second Division I teams. In a battle of undefeated women’s tennis Bowl this past weekend. with 41 points. Last Saturday, MIT’s varsity crews trav- teams, Wellesley College emerged with a 6-3 With winds sweeping at 10–12 knots for Maria J. Monks ’10, who finished in third eled to New Hampshire for a pre-Charles win over MIT to claim the top seed for next much of Saturday, Field and Arsenault placed place, was the only Tech runner to finish tune-up. MIT rowers quickly established weekend’s New England Women’s and Men’s second in the sixth round, while securing a within a strong Williams pack. She was fol- their supremacy, winning the Men’s Open Athletic Conference Championship. The En- pair of earlier third-place marks during the lowed by Elizabeth M. Finn ’09, Jacqueline Eights, Open Fours, and Women’s Open gineers fell to 7-2 overall and 6-1 in league event hosted by Dartmouth College. M. Wentz ’10, and Elizabeth L. Labuz ’09. Eights events. Even after pushing well past play, while Wellesley improved to 8-1 on the Battling Sunday’s cold northerly breeze of Jennifer A. Doyle ’09 rounded out the Tech the leading crews in the first thousand meters year and 7-0 in the NEWMAC. 6–15 knots, Tech’s dynamic duo finished first scorers in 11th place. MIT will have another of the race, MIT’s heavyweight men refused MIT opened the day by winning two out of in the 13th race, while also slotting fourth in shot at the Williams women, who are ranked to shut down, finishing with a final margin three doubles matches. Anisa K. McCree ’10 the 11th round. within the top five teams in the nation, at the of 52 seconds over second-place finisher and Elizabeth A. Denys ’11 collaborated for The exceptionally strong outing was fit- National Collegiate Athletic Association re- University of Massachusetts in the Men’s an 8-2 victory in the No. 2 spot, while Karina ting for Tech’s long-standing talents, both of gional championship. Open Eights. The heavyweights also con- N. Pikhart ’09 and Melissa A. Diskin ’11 fell whom were recently named to the Inter-Col- The Tech men won the six-kilometer com- quered the Men’s Open Fours, winning by 8-3 in the No. 3 spot. The Engineers regained legiate Sailing Association All-Academic petition with 34 points to Williams’ 41 and a decisive margin of 67 seconds. The open- the lead following an 8-5 decision at No. 1 Team, honoring scholar athletes who have Tufts’ 81. Jacob J. Ruzevick ’09 recovered weight women and lightweight women also doubles that favored Leslie A. Hansen ’10 and excelled in the sport and in the classroom. from last week’s illness to lead the Engineers had strong performances in the Women’s Mariah N. Hoover ’08. Also faring remarkably well was Tech’s with a second-place finish. Jeremiah R. Co- Open Eights, earning gold and silver with Hansen, who was named the NEWMAC “B” team of skipper Brooks L. Reed ’09 and hen ’09 and Joseph D. Roy-Mayhew ’08 were the openweights edging out the lightweights Singles Player of the Week, captured Tech’s crew Elizabeth A. Hass ’10, who finished right behind, followed by several Tufts and by six seconds. final point of the day with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 win third overall, moving up four slots from Sat- Williams runners. Trevor B. Rundell ’09 and Building on the momentum they gained in the top singles slot. Hoover (6-0, 6-1), Yi urday. The duo’s score of 102 beat out event- Gihan S. Amarasiriwardena ’11 scored 12th in New Hampshire, the heavyweight men Wang ’09 (6-3, 6-1), and McCree (6-0, 6-1) winner Boston College’s lower group by five and 13th to round out the scoring places. should surprise some unsuspecting crews fell in straight sets. Denys (2-6, 6-4, 6-4) and points. The Engineers will take a break from rac- this weekend. The Men’s Championship Diskin (6-4, 2-6, 6-3) were able to force an Reed and Hass ranked in the top 10 in all ing this coming weekend in preparation for Eights will lead off at 4 p.m. Sunday, fol- extra set, but both fell in the third. but one of 15 rounds. the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic lowed immediately by the Women’s Cham- Wellesley found success in the exhibition MIT hosts the Oberg Trophy competition Conference Championships at Smith College. pionship Eights at 4:17 p.m. Starting at the matches as well. In doubles action, Wang and this weekend. —Elizabeth Finn, Team Member Boston University bridge, each of the bridges Jennifer A. Rees ’11 were edged out 9-8, and —Mike Stoller, DAPER Staff